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In an attempt to deepen public knowledge of World Refugee Day, the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees hosted a series films about refugees Tuesday evening in the Palestinian…
Israeli soldiers deported on Tuesday detainee Rasmi Subaih, 24, from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, to Gaza after detaining him in the Negev Administrative Detention Facility without trial for…
Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, was killed and two other…
Palestinians may not pass a statehood referendum called by Mahmoud Abbas as they see the vote as a symbol of the power struggle between the Palestinian president and the Hamas…
An Israeli investigation aired on the Israeli Television, Channel 10, revealed that fragments of an Israeli artillery shell were found in the body of one of the residents injured at…
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published a report showing a statistical overview about demographic status of Palestinian refugees totaled according to UNRWA records 4,255,120 till 31st of March…
The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected two challenges to the route of the West Bank annexation Wall in and around the occupied east Jerusalem, allowing construction to proceed as planned…
The leadership of Hamas and Fateh in the West Bank sent a letter Monday to colleagues in the Gaza Strip urging them to reach a national agreement as soon as…
The Prisoner Supporters Society released a statement Sunday indicating that the Israeli Prison Administration is barring visits to the Palestinian political detainee Ibrahim Hamid, member of the Al Aqsa Brigades,…
A senior official at the Preventive Security force in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that gunmen attacked on Sunday at dawn with shells and…
Sunday, an Israeli military court sentenced Israeli a Lieutenant Colonel, identified as Omar Al-Hayeb to 15 years in prison, after he was “found guilty” of spying for the Lebanon based…
Senior Fateh and Hamas officials met on Sunday and reached an agreement on the division of the Palestinian Security Forces. Senior Fateh leader, Mohammad Dahlan, head of the Security Services…
The Israeli military claimed that weapon trafficking into Gaza through the Gaza-Egypt borders have significantly increased in recent days while the Palestinian Authority has done nothing to prevent it. …
Under-cover units of the Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and fired randomly at residents houses, Saturday morning. Troops stormed the old city, and several other neighborhoods,…
Ahmad Zeidann, 26, was arrested when Israeli troops invaded the village of Ramain east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Saturday at dawn. Several army vehicles stormed the village,…
Israeli forces stormed and attacked the shepherds’ huts in hilds located east of the West Bank city of Tubas, Saturday morning. Several army jeeps stormed the area and sealed it,…
Saturday morning, Israeli army troops invaded, on Sunday, the village of Kharabtha Al Misbah, west of the West Bank city of Rammallah, and arrested five residents. Troops invaded the village,…
The Israeli armed forces have invaded the village of Al Aqaba, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, and conducted military searches of homes, local sources reported. Scores of…
Israewli troops arrested Sa’ed Al Shriteh, 21, during an invasion and seach campaign to the residents’ homes in Yatta village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday. Soldiers…
At least three residents were injured in several army attacks in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby villages of Sa’er and Al Shioukh, on Saturday. The three…
The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, claimed responsibility for firing at Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint near Tiaseer village, south of the West…
The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, claimed responsibility for firing at Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint near Tiaseer village, south of the West…
Friday and Saturday, Israeli soldiers started bulldozing farmlands belonging to Palestinian families from Sabastia village, near Nablus, in an operation that aims to expand the nearby Shavei Shomron Settlement. Resident…
The EU Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner will visit Palestinian Territories next week for talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. She will also meet with the Israeli Prime…
Friday at night, the Israeli air-force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle carrying members of the Islamic Jihad; two fighters were killed and one was seriously injured, Palestinian security and…
Friday, dozens of residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the annexation…
Holy Land Trust, a non-profit organization based in Bethlehem, celebrated the conclusion of their training program entitled “The Role of Public Action in Conflict Resolution” Thursday in Jenin. The program…
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza released its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories. The report revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 28 Palestinians, including…
A group of right wing Israeli settlers and some of their supporters gathered on Friday and organized a festival on a stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank city of…
Scores of right-wing Jewish settlers from Ramat Yashai settlement post, a settlement that overlooks the West Bank city of Hebron, have burned olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents of the…
Unknown gunmen attacked the Municipality building in the West Bank city of Nablus, damaged and burnt the information desk, Friday afternoon. The masked gunmen forced the employees and the residents…
Dozens of American citizens, members of a Peaceful Jewish organizations, protested on Thursday evening in front of Caterpillar headquarters in Chicago, in the United States, and demanded the company to…
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Leaders of the European Union endorsed on Friday a plan to channel aid payments to the Palestinian health, social services and facilities sectors such as heating and sanitations, while maintaining…
Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed resistance wing of the Fateh movement, stormed the Tulkarem headquarters of the Legislative Council late Thursday night. Once inside, the members opened…
Head of the Israeli Betenu extreme right wing party in Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, said during a visit to the Israeli Negev town of Sderot that Israel must level the houses…
Dr. Ghassan Bannoura, a doctor at Al Hussein Hospital (The Governmental Hospital) in Beit Jala, spoke recently of a patient named Mustafa Ahmaro, two and a half, from Hebron who…
Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday at dawn, and clashed with dozens of residents, one soldier was mildly injured during the clashes. Israeli sources reported…
An inquiry conducted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that there has been a huge rise in the number of houses destroyed by the Israeli army in the process…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Attile, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested one resident Friday at dawn. Mohamed Doka, 28, was arrested when troops…
A group of resistance fighters from Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, have attacked the Palestinian legislative council offices in the West Bank city of Tulkarem late…
Thursday. thousands of residents of Shfa-Amr Arabic town in Israel protested against arresting seven residents the Israeli police claims that they killed the settler-soldier Eden Natan-Zada who staged on board…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, instructed the Israel army on Thursday to conclude preparations for the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank within two weeks. The first…
An Israeli military source reported on Thursday that soldiers arrested three Palestinians who to attempted to abduct two settler teen girls at the Rechalim Junction, near the West Bank city…
Thursday evening, three Palestinian fighters of the Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli military fire near the Kissufim military crossing in the central Gaza Strip. Army source claimed that the…
When a fighter dies who is lost? When a young man ends his life strapped to a bomb who is left behind? And where do the new generations find a…
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The Center for the Defense of the Individual and Palestinian residents won approval, on Thursday morning, for their petition filed before The High Court of Justice. The High Court ordered…
General Secretary of Hadash Movement Israel, member of Knesset, Mohammad Barakeh, on Thursday called on the Israeli President Moshe Katsav to absolve seven Shfa-Arm residents suspected of killing a Jewish…
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Biet Al Rish near the West Bank city of Hebron, arrested one resident and turned two houses into military posts on Thursday. Soldiers…
The World Health Organization (WHO) called for urgent action to avert a humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories. WHO reported that the health sector in occupied Palestinian is currently…
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Hani Ad Doghmah from the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza strip Thursday afternoon. Several masked men driving a white civilian car stopped Hani Ad…
The Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to construct houses, a huge parking lot, Mall and a hotel in what is known as the…
The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Dora south of the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested four residents there onThursday. Troops stormed the village and searched scores…
The Israeli army arrested Mohamed Abd Al Rahamn Doka, age 28, in a predawn invasion to the village of Attil, north of the West Bank City of Tulkarem, Thursday. Soldiers…
The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kofer Harres, north of the West Bank city of Salfit, and searched residents houses Thursday morning. Troops stormed the village from several…
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and the Askar refugee camp on Thursday morning, arresting five residents. The army stormed the Askar refugee camp, searching residents…
Beit Ayn settlers are being supported by the Israeli military, police, and secret service in their campaign to seize land owned by a Palestinian family near Hebron. While the settlers…
The head of Israel’s paramilitary Border Police, Benzi Sau, has been promoted to a senior position in the Public Security Ministry in defiance of the findings of a state inquiry…
Israel’s Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, has ordered his department to hurriedly draft the country’s first immigration law to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. He said a Basic Law was needed within…
Israel’s Transportation Ministry declared on Wednesday said it intends to install temporary X-ray scanning machines in the Kiryat Shmona airport. The move comes, according to the ministry, in an effort…
Five months after Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian Lawyer, the Israeli Salem Military Court sentences him on for eleven consecutive months, the Palestine News Network reported. The lawyer, Dirar Moneer…
Israel Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, claimed during his meeting with the French President, Jacques Chirac, in France, that he will be seeking a peace deal with the Palestinians based on…
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, said on Wednesday that the issue of the Palestinian refugees can only be solved by establishing a Palestinian State. “The two-state solution means an…
Wednesday, Health care workers demonstrated in the Gaza Strip against Israeli forces’ systematic attacks against them. Israeli forces routinely contravene the Fourth Geneva Convention by preventing ambulances from reaching the…
Ma’an News Agency has learned from private sources that a suggestion is being studied by the various Palestinian factions to cancel the referendum ordered by presidential decree and instead choose…
Israel’s official denial of responsibility for the Gaza beach deaths and injuries was strongly challenged by a former Pentagon battle damage expert who has surveyed the scene of the beach…
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In an interview published in Al-Hayat, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan regarded the army’s version of the events as "strange." The army’s investigation team examining the incident…
Palestinian security sources in the Rafah crossing border between Egypt and south of Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that the Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr. Mahmoud Al Zahhar returned from a two…
Palestinian security sources in the Rafah crossing border between Egypt and south of Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that the Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr Mahmoud Al Zahhar returned from a two…
Paul Larudee, an American nonviolent peace activist, has been denied entry to Palestine by the Israeli authorities and is being held in detention at Ben Gurion Airport, sources at the…
The Israeli army released wild pigs and poisonous snakes onto farm land belonging to Jama’en village near the West Bank city of Salfit, Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said that they saw an…
Palestinian Authority employees stormed the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) headquarters in Ramallah while the MP’s were in session,on Wednesday at noon.The demonstrators entered the hall while the PLC was in…
Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli detention center of Qadomem east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem have announced a hunger strike in protest to their conditions in the detention…
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
Israeli army intensifies its portable military checkpoints north of Salit and at the entrances of the nearby villages of, Hares ,Kefel Hares and Qarawet Bani Hassan. Local eyewitnesses in…
The Israeli army invaded Aida refugee camp to the north of the west Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby village of Al Duha and arrested five residents early wednesday…
The Israeli army confiscated one of the homes of Taque’ village south east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday and turned it into a military watch tower Khalid Hameeda, head of…
Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers assaulted a resident and his son from the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning. The man and his son sustained bruises on all over…
Israeli army continues its invasions into the Palestinian territories Wednesday morning as Israeli troops invaded the West Bank village of Biet Wazen, west of Nablus. Three residents were arrested. Eyewitnesses…
One Hamas operative was killed and a Palestinian security official was injured in clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip erupted Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources reported. …
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared that national dialogue will be resumed for a week, in bid to reach an agreement over the national conciliation document presented by the Palestinian prisoners…
In a press conference with his Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, and army General Ma’er Khalefy, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz claimed that the Israeli army was not responsible for…
Tuesday after midnight, undercover units of the Israeli army infiltrated into the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, and assassinated leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in…
After an Israeli air-strike killed 11 Palestinians, including eight civilians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel is trying to wipe the Palestinians out by its continuous attacks against…
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Mustafa Al Azmouty, said that the conditions at Salem Israeli detention camp, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, are sharply deteriorating,…
Tuesday night, Israeli troops invaded Tiqua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with dozens of residents; at least two residents were injured. Soldiers fired rubber-coated…
Tuesday at dawn, the Israeli police arrested six residents of the Arab town of Shfa-Amr suspected on involvement in the killing of a Jewish terrorist after he killed four people…
One hour before the Israeli air force carried two strikes in Gaza killing eleven residents, including two children and three medics, Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said that Israel will…
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air force fired two missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in a crowded street killing eleven residents, including two school children. Army…
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Called ‘rockets’ by the Israeli, International and Arab media as well, a more serious look is needed to see what Qassam projectiles actually are, and the actual damage that they…
Recently, the US cancelled talks in which ministers had been expected to approve urgent measures leading to the payment of Palestinian salaries, including those of the security forces, frozen after…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that will never agree to pull out of all of the occupied West Bank, and claimed that the borders that existed before occupied…
An Israeli military court extended Administrative Detention of several young Palestinians formn the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. Under thjis military order, Palestinians are subject to a renewable detention without…
The Israeli army troops have arrested one resident and settlers attacked and injured five farmers and burned their crops in Yata village south of the West Bank city of Hebron,…
Palestinian resistance fighters from Al Aqsa martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah have ambushed Israeli military vehicles in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday morning. The Brigades confirmed…