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Fire and smoke rose up from the main roadway in front of Al Quds Open University in Beit Sahour as part of a protest in which the students burned tires…

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air force fired two missile at a Palestinian vehicle in a crowded street killing nine residents, including two school children. Ar…

The Israeli army air force jetfighter fired several missiles at a car in Salah Al Den Street in Gaza city Tuesday afternoon, killing nine and injuring 20. According to medical…

With burning tyres and stones,the students of the Quads Open University in the West Bank city of Beit Sahour protested on Tuesday afternoon, at their university’s decision to be placed…

The Israeli army has arrested Ahmad Yassen, 17, from Aida refugee in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday at dawn. Troops stormed the Refugee camp and searched several houses…

Unknown gunmen have burned the Palestinian Legislative Council offices in the West Bank city of Salfit Tuesday morning. According to eyewitnesses, more than ten masked gunmen stormed the office building,…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and clashed with local Palestinian resistance fighters Tuesday at dawn. According to local residents, troops and armored vehicles stormed the…

Two more Nablus residents were arrested Tuesday at dawn as the Israeli soldiers continue their military campaign in the West Bank city. Soldiers stormed the residents’ houses in several parts…

The Israeli army arrested three residents during a predawn invasion to the West Bank city of Tulkarem Tuesday. Infantry troops and army vehicles stormed the city as soldiers fired live…

A Palestinian security source in Ramallah reported Monday night that Fateh members stormed government, parliament buildings in Ramallah and set ablaze the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister, and Hamas leader,…

The ongoing clashes between members of Fateh’s Preventive Security force and the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed the life of a deaf resident; fifteen other residents…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it has increased it budget for its operations in the region for the Palestinian people. In a press release issued Monday…

During his meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, British Prime Minister Tony Blair refrained on Monday from endorsing the convergence plan, and called for the resumption of the peace…

Senior Israeli lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi (Kadima party), said on Monday that the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya does not have immunity in spite of the fact that he was elected…

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The Israeli army invaded Ithna and Yata villages near the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested three residents. Hamza Al Hitawi, 23, an officer at the Palestinian Authority National…

A Palestinian security source reported on Monday that a member of the Executive Force, that belongs to the Ministry of Interior, was shot an killed by unknown gunmen in Rafah,…

Systembolaget, the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly, received complaints for having labeled its two kosher wines from the Golan Heights as coming from "Israel." The public argued that this was incorrect…

The Lebanese daily A-Safeer reported on Monday that the Lebanese intelligence service has uncovered a spy network working for Israel since 1990. The spy network network, according to the report, was exposed…

The number of residents of the occupied Palestinian territories classified as poor more than doubled in the first quarter of 2006, and by one measure more than 70% of the…

The Palestinian Parliament is set to discuss Monday the legality of a Presidential decree issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he calls for a public referendum over the…

The Israeli government announced recently that it would restrict the right of Palestinian citizens who hold foreign passports, in addition to their required Israeli-issued ID and Palestinian passports, to live…

The Israeli army bulldozers started digging a three meters deep trench along the Yabod-Araba village road near the West Bank city of Jenin Monday. According to the local residents, this…

An Israeli air force jetfighter fired two missiles at a Palestinian car that was traveling on Khalil Al Wazir near Al Nasser neighborhood in Gaza city Monday morning. Medical sources…

The Israeli army has installed several portable checkpoints to the south of the West Bank city of Tubass and the nearby village entrance of Tamon, on Monday morning. Troops stopped…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and clashed with the local resistance fighters defending the city during the early dawn hours Monday. A massive army force…

Israeli army troops arrested Monier Al Omor, 27, from the village of Toqua east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem at dawn Monday. Al Omor was arrested when army…

The Israeli army bulldozers leveled one house in Tourah village west of the West Bank city of Jenin Monday morning. An army bulldozer and more than 20 army vehicles stormed…

The assignment the editors at Al Quds Educational television gave their reporter seemed simple: Go out and assess the public’s reaction to the suggestion by President Mahmoud Abbas to hold…

The Israeli army is preparing to invade the Gaza Strip and conduct a large scale military operation as Israeli Minister of Defense Amir Peretz said Israelis will toughen their response…

Sunday after midnight, Israeli soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Jenin, and exchanged fire with resistance fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military…

A meeting between the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas and the Minister of Interior, Sa’id  Siyam, ended Sunday evening without an agreement on the referendum, though both leaders agreed to hold…

A statistical report documenting the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people asserted that Israeli occupation forces killed ten Palestinians and injured 59 others in one week throughout the different Palestinian…

Sunday evening, an Israeli fighter-jet targeted a Palestinian vehicle driving in Al Nasser neighborhood, west of Gaza city, two residents were moderately injured. Local source reported that the vehicle was…

Israeli authorities have denied a re-entry visa to an American mother and wife who has lived in the West Bank for thirty years, leading Palestinian-American groups to challenge what they…

An extremist settler opened random fire on Sunday at a group of Palestinian workers, the south of the West Bank city of Hebron, seriously wounding one of them and taking…

Two Palestinian fighters were killed after the Israeli air force fired missile at a resistance group in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, three other fighters…

Three Palestinians were killed on Sunday in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.  The three belong to Al-Qassam brigade, Hamas’ armed wing, as Israeli gun shelled the strip, Palestinian…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses jointly reported that an Israeli force of eight military patrols invaded Bethlehem since the pre-dawn hours, and invaded Beit Jala and northern Bethlehem near Aida…

At the height of the second intifada, in October 2002, I was one of those who called publicly upon the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to dissolve itself. At the time,…

This week, the "birthright israel" program, which provides free ten-day trips to Israel for Jewish youth, is celebrating its 100,000th participant since the tour group’s founding.  But Sierra, a 26-year-old…

Dana Olmert, the daughter of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, participated in left-wing protest against Friday’s Gaza beach military strike, outside the house of Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of…

Hours after announcing that he would hold a referendum on the Palestinian ‘National Unity’ document, President Mahmoud Abbas received Prime Minister Ismael Haniyya to discuss the possibility of avoiding a…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received on Saturday at night at the Presidential headquarters in  Gaza, the child Huda Ghalia who lost on Friday seven members of her family in an…

Saturday. gunmen opened fire at convoy of Raheed Abu Shbak, head of the Preventive Security force in the Gaza Strip, loyal to Fateh movement, as he attended the funeral of…

In a press conference in Ramallah, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, announced on Saturday that the general referendum on statehood, and proposal implicitly recognizing Israel, will be conducted on July 26.…

A Palestinian Preventative Security officer was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Gaza City, on Saturday. Bassem Qotob died instantly after suffered several rounds of live ammunition in his…

Israeli military bulldozers uprooted on Saturday morning dozens of olive treas that belong to the sons of Mahmoud Hussein Al Sheikh, from Snieria village, south of the West Bank city…

Israeli army bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees in farmlands that belong to residents of Sniria village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Saturday morning. Army bulldozers…

Israeli troops have arrested one resident from Askar refugee camp, to the east of the West Bank city of Nablus, after invading the city, Saturday morning. Dozens of military vehicles…

The Israeli army has installed two portable checkpoints in Al Far’a area, south of the West Bank city of Tubass, Saturday morning. By istalling the two checkpoints, the main road…

Four Palestinian civilians of one family were wounded when a shell landed on their house in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, Palestinian medical sources…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Saturday as a day to mourn the ten Palestinian civilians, including three children, killed in Gaza Strip when Israeli gun-boats shelled the beach in…

Sarurday morning, Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Tubas and chased dozens of school children. Soldiers invaded the city and started to provoke the youth and the children,…

Israeli soldiers  invaded the West Bank city of Jenin, and its refugee camp, and arrested one resident at a nearby military checkpoint, Saturday morning. Troops and army jeeps stormed the…

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After the Israeli army shelled the Gaza beach killing 10 civilians, including two infants aged 6 months  and 18 months, and injuring forty other residents, army spokesperson “apologizes” and says…

Five Palestinian residents, including one child, from Doura village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron were injured during an Israeli military invasion to the village, late on Friday…

Hundreds of Palestinian residents, Israel and International peace activists protested on Friday against Israel’s annexation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and expressed their support and…

Friday evening, Israeli air force and Navy gunships fired missiles at the Gaza Beach in Al Soudaniyya area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least ten…

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Palestinian sources in Gaza reported, on Thursday afternoon, that three Palestinians were killed, one injured, after an Israeli air craft fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle driving near Al…

Israeli settlers from Gosh Atzion Settlement to the southwest of Bethlehem tore through the streets of Bethlehem area villages Friday. The settlers were protesting their inability to use more of…

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, an opponent of all kinds of attacks on civilians and a persistent voice for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, wrote: ‘We have to understand – not justify –…

In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the nearby villages which maintained good neighbourly relations…

The following are excerpts of an interview Aljazeera.net had with the Palestinian prime minister recently. Aljazeera.net: Is a Palestinian civil war inevitable? Ismail Haniya: Inter-Palestinian fighting is a red line…

At about 10am on Saturday morning 2,500 members of the new Fateh security force in Jenin gathered in different parts of the city to march towards the center of town…

The Israeli army heavy artillery shelled east and north areas of the Gaza strip, Friday morning, a Palestinian source reported. The shelling targeted residential areas in Al Shagai’a area, Beit…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident, Friday morning. Several army vehicles and troops invaded the city, shot live rounds and sound bombs…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Siliat Al Harthiya near the city of Jenin, in the northwestern area of the West Bank and arrested one resident there, Friday morning.…

Responding to a Palestinian initiated global campaign, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, recently overwhelmingly approved a resolution that will make them an active partner in the campaign…

Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air-force fired one missile, on Friday at dawn, at an area close to the American School, north of Gaza city, causing damage…

Palestinian Authority officials said on Thursday at night that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, will hold a referendum on a statehood proposal on July 31. The officials, close to Abbas, added…

Palestinian Authority officials said on Thursday at night that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, will hold a referendum on a statehood proposal on July 31. The officials, close to Abbas, added…

Israeli sources reported on Thursday that an Israeli Air Force missile dud was discovered Thursday morning in Kibbutz Nahal Oz near Gaza. Army suspects that a malfunction in the aircraft…

Palestinian medical and security sources reported on Thursday evening that Israeli army assassinated Jamal Abu Samahdana, general leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), General Supervisor of the Palestinian Authority’s…

The Israeli authorities sent notices, on Thursday, to the three members of the same family informing them that they intend to demolish their homes south of Bethlehem. The order is…

An Israeli undercover army unit invaded Askar refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday morning. The unit was followed by several army jeeps and APCs, soldiers…

One resident injured from Sorif town west of the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by right wing Israeli settlers, on Thursday. Mohamed Ighnimat, was injured when a…

The Israeli army arrested one resident from the village of Ithna near the West Bank city of Hebron, on Thursday The man whose name remains unknown was driving his car…

The Israeli army has invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and Balata and Ein Al Ma’e refugee camps in the city, Thursday morning. Troops stormed the city and the…

Israeli forces have beaten and arrested one resident from the West Bank city of Hebron,  this Thursday morning. Yahya Mohtasib, 24, was attacked and arrested when troops invaded his family…

Thursday morning at dawn Israeli forces once again raided the southern West Bank city of Hebron, taking seven Palestinians to unknown locations.   Israeli forces began Thursday morning’s invasion with…

Israeli civil administration officers and soldiers invaded the village of Al Khader south of the west Bank city of Bethlehem and handed out military orders to demolish several houses there,…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that Sweden has started to note that wines produced in the Golan Heights originate in "Israel, occupied Syrian land". Winery sources in Israel considered this…

The Israeli army troops have arrested one resident from Balata Al Balad village east of the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday at dawn. Troops stormed the village and searched…

The Israeli army arrested one resident from the West Bank city of Tulkarem refugee camp, Thursday at dawn. Ossama Al Jurmy, 22, was arrested when an the Israeli army  invaded…

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Kofer Ra’e and Fahma west of the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday morning. In Fahma, army jeeps entered the village from several…

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Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported on Wednesday evening that Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian security officers near the “security fence” located east on the borders between Israel and east…

The Hamas and Fateh leadership completed their meetings in Egypt today, and agreed to activate what they refer to as the “Commission of Inquiry.” The agreement was reached in light…

During a speech delivered Wednesday to the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, Turkish President, Amhed Necdet Sezer called on the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to renew negotiations with the Palestinian…

An Israeli police source reported on Wednesday that two youth settlers traveling near Alon Shvot settlement, in the Gush Atzion settlement Bloc in the West Bank, were stabbed and were…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that a panel appointed by the Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peetz, decided that Israel will fund the treatment of a 3-year-old Palestinian girl…

An Israeli military source reported that troops arrested on Wednesday two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah suspected on killing a settler woman and her teenage son in…

The Israeli army is continuing it’s siege Wednesday on several villages west of the West Bank city of Salfit. Troops closed the checkpoint at the entrances of Al Zawia, Rafat,…

An Israeli military source reported that troops arrested on Wednesday two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah suspected on killing a settler woman and her teenage son in…

Israeli air force jet fighters launched several missiles into the northern Gaza strip Wednesday at dawn. The shelling targeted residential areas in the town of Beit lahia, causing damage to…

The Israeli army injured two youth during an invasion to the West Bank city of Tubass late Tuesday night. Troops stormed the village and shot live round and sound bombs…

Two members of the newly formed security forces were injured due to clashes between the force and unknown gunmen, in the Gaza strip, Wednesday morning The clash lasted for more…