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Palestinian fighters clashed, on Monday at midday, with an Israeli force at the Northern Gaza Strip borders with Israel.The al-Nasser Salah al-din Brigades said, in a press release sent to…

Israeli settlers organization announced, Monday, a plan by the Israeli controlled Jerusalem Municipality to construct 550 new settlers homes in Jerusalem’s east city.According to Ahmed Lebn, a researcher specializing in…

Five Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, in morning invasions. The attacks targeted a number of West Bank communities.The Israeli army radio announced that all were moved…

One Palestinian youth sustained moderate wounds in Hebron City, southern West Bank, as scores suffered tear gas inhalation during clashes that broke between local residents and Israeli soldiersThe demonstration began…

Right-wing Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Nablus, breaking several windshields and wounding a Palestinian doctor on Sunday.According to local news sources, the incident took place on the…

Israeli troops fired tear gas and concussion grenades on Sunday midday at a Mass held by residents of Beit Sahour, a city neighboring Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/feb2010/dsc_0151.jpg…

In his recent testimony to the UK Committee investigating the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that Israeli officials influenced and participated in the decision by the US…

Israeli soldiers shot and wounded on Saturday morning two Palestinian workers near a military roadblock east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Medical sources reported…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Saturday morning that three residents were wounded when the Israeli Air Force bombarded an area close to the Kissufim Israeli military camp…

At Bil’in and Nil’in villages central West Bank Israeli troops used tear gas and sound bombs to suppress anti-wall protests. Today, the people of Bil’in, a small Palestinian village in…

Israeli Forces aggressively dispersed a peaceful demonstration of Palestinians protesting the construction of the Israeli apartheid wall through their land at Al Ma’sara village near Bethlehem city on Friday afternoon.…

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According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights’ Weekly Report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian Territories, during the week of February 10 – 17, 2010, Israeli…

Palestinian sources reported Thursday that nine physicians, including a professor in medicine, arrived in the central West Bank city of Ramallah to perform delicate surgeries. Omar al-Nasr, head of the…

Palestinian sources reported, Thursday, that a fighter died at hospital in Berlin, Germany from wounds suffered during an attack targeting Alon Moreh settlement near the northern West Bank city of…

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Eleven Palestinian civilians were detained, on Thursday, by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting West Bank communities.Local sources reported home searches and detentions in the cities of Nablus and Jenin,…

Israeli tanks and a number of bulldozers leveled, on Thursday, two Palestinian homes and uprooted farm lands at central Gaza Strip.The Bin-Sa’ed family, which owns the lands and the two…

A Bedouin youth was killed, on Wednesday at night, and another youth was seriously wounded during a scuffle that took place between Bedouins and a group of Russian Jews in…

A senior Egyptian security source reported, on Thursday, evening that the Egyptian Border Police located, and confiscated, 3.5 Tons of explosives near the border area in Rafah. The explosives were…

Egyptian media sources reported that Cairo informed the authorities in Libya that it objects to the participation of the Hamas movement in the upcoming Arab Summit March 27 in Tripoli.…

The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reported that the Israeli authorities started new excavations under the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The foundation stated that most of…

A group of fundamentalist settlers attacked a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Wednesday, causing concussion and bruises that required hospitalization.Local sources reported that the…

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday afternoon, the village of Kufr Ad Deek, near the central West Bank city of Salfit, and broke into its local council building.At least ten military vehicles…

Dr. Mohammad Awad, secretary-general of the Council of Ministers at the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, stated that the promised Arab and international aid donations, allocated for rebuilding the Gaza Strip,…

Abu Obaida, spokesperson of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, vowed retaliation for the assassination of Mahmoud al-Madbouh, who was killed in Dubai, and said that the response…

An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an ‘existential threat’ to Israel and…

Israeli sources reported Wednesday that a border-guard officer and an Israeli soldier were lightly wounded on Wednesday after a group of young Jewish settlers from the Yitzhar settlement, in the…

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The Israeli military handed out on Wednesday demolition orders against homes in the village of Al Khader near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. One the homes are located…

Eleven Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops on Wednesday during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources said that five of those kidnapped were taken during…

A Palestinian child was injured on Wednesday when Israeli settlers attacked her at the old city part of Hebron, southern West Bank. Medical sources said that the child sustained moderate…

Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, stated Wednesday that his government would release 20 Fateh political prisoners as a gesture of good will towards the…

The ongoing investigation conducted by the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the assassination of Hamas leader, Mahmoud Al Madbouh, revealed that Israeli agents used European passports, while…

Egyptian security sources reported Wednesday that two African immigrants were wounded by Egyptian border policemen, and three others were detained during two attempts to infiltrate into Israel seeking work.The men…

After a recent speech to a Zionist conference in Tel Aviv extolling the importance of building ‘heritage sites’ and other projects connecting Jews around the world to the Zionist program,…

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Two Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers, while other troops conducted a drill in the West Bank on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources, the two men were taken by…

On Tuesday, Palestinian Marshal Court in Nablus city, southern West Bank, sentenced a Palestinian Journalist to 18 months in jail. Tarik Abu Zaid, aged 37, was charged with working for…

Three Palestinians were reported injured and detained by Israeli troops on Tuesday at the northern Gaza Strip town of Biet Lahyia. A number of Israeli tanks stormed the evacuated settlement…

A group of Arab parliamentarians managed to cross into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a visit of solidarity with the Palestinian people living in the besieged, war-torn, and devastated…

The police department in Dubai released on Monday significant details regarding the cell that carried out the assassination of Qassam Brigades leader, Mahmoud Al Madbouh at a hotel in the…

In a visit to the Arab Gulf state of Qatar Monday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US has not backed down on demanding that Israel end…

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Twelve Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Monday, during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.Local sources reported invasions in the cities of Nablus, were seven people…

The Israeli police forces, along with Israeli soldiers, stormed a number of Palestinian neighborhoods, on Monday, to enforce resident to bay taxes.At Shu’fat camp for Palestinian refugees near Jerusalem’s old…

Palestinian and British sources confirmed that a British documentary director was arrested by the Hamas controlled security forces after he arrived at a Gaza court to testify in a law…

The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) reported that 26 Arab Parliamentarians from different countries will visit, Monday, to express solidarity with the residents of the war-torn & impoverished region. The…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday evening that a Palestinian child suffered moderate wounds after the Israeli army bombarded a number of homes in the Juhr…

Dr. Rafiq Husseini, a top aide to president Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, stated at a Sunday evening press conference in Ramallah, that the “sex tape scandal” against him was dubbed,…

Fadel Abu Hayyin, head of the Psychological Program at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that more than 100.000 Palestinian children in Gaza are suffering from different psychological…

Visiting Cairo, member of the Political Bureau of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Jamil Majdalawi, held a series of meetings with Egyptian leaders to ease…

A group of Palestinian fighters survived on Saturday at night an Israeli assassination attempt targeting them in Al Zeitoun neighborhood, south east of Gaza City. Two residents were wounded in…

Arab member of Knesset, Ahmad Tibi, slammed the statements of Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, who called for swapping areas inhibited by the Arab population in Israel with settlements.…

The Energy Authority in the Gaza Strip reported Saturday that Gaza’s sole power plant will case functioning in a matter of hours due to the ongoing Israeli blockade, preventing basic…

The Arab Physicians Union’s Committee of Relief and Emergency in Egypt stated Saturday that a convoy filled with medical aid, estimated by 2.5 Million USD, made it into the besieged…

U.S. Secretary-of State, Hilary Clinton, stated Friday that U.S. Middle East Peace Envoy, George Mitchell, and Middle East Envoy, Tony Blair, will intensify their efforts to ensure the resumption of…

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that a Palestinian man, 41, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday evening in…

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A journalist and a villager were injured by Israeli fire when troops attacked the weekly anti-wall protest at the village of Bil’in, central West Bank. As has been the case…

A Palestinian teen and an Israeli supporter were detained by Israeli soldiers during an anti-wall protest at the village of Nil’in near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The…

Israeli soldiers attacked anti-wall protesters on Friday near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem using tear gas and sound bombs. This Friday, villagers from al Ma’ssara along with international…

Following the beginning of construction of a new watchtower at the site of the former military base, this week, residents of Beit Sahour and international volunteers gathered at the surrounding…

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army bombarded on Friday morning an area east of the Al Maghazi refugee camp, in the central district of the Gaza Strip. The sources…

Head of the Palestinian President’s Office in Jerusalem, Dr. Rafiq Husseini, will be participating in the “All In The Open” program at the Palestinian TV to talk about the details…

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights’ Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, during the week of 04 – 10 February 2010, 7…

The ‘Stolen Beauty’ campaign has declared a small victory, after Costco stores agreed to stop carrying Dead Sea Salt from the Ahava corporation.AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories is an Israeli cosmetics…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that President Mahmoud Abbas instructed head of the Negotiations Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization to act on the release of a sick detainee…

Israeli Ynet news reported Thursday that Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is planning to investigate a video tape showing the Palestinian Authority’s head of bureau trying to solicit sexual relations, the…

A medical aid convoy sent by the Arabs Physicians Union managed to enter the Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon via the Rafah Border Terminal between Gaza and Egypt. The convoy…

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Israeli military bulldozers demolished five water cisterns and three farming huts owned by farmers from Ithna village, southern West Bank, on Thursday. The soldiers also confiscated water pumps and electricity…

On Thursday, Israeli troops ordered the family of Muhammad al Khatib, to leave their home in al Khiljan village, north in the West Bank. Al Khatib was detained by the…

Four Palestinian civilians were detained on Thursday by the Israeli military during invasions targeting the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources said that troops stormed down town Bethlehem…

This morning, Thursday, February 11th, a group of residents from the town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, arrived at the former military base, Osh Grab, to discover that excavation of…

The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, reported on Thursday morning, that one of its fighters was killed in Gaza City during what the group described as…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday that a Palestinian resident was killed, while another resident was wounded, after the army bombarded Juhr Al Deek area, east of Gaza city. Palestinian…

Palestinian medical sources reported that two sisters, aged 13 and 5, were wounded when the Israeli army bombarded Juhr Ed Deek area, east of al-Boreij refugee camp, in the central…

Undercover forces of the Israeli army violently attacked a 17-year-old youth in Abu Dis town, in East Jerusalem, and broke his leg. The youth was transferred to an Israeli hospital…

Israeli Ynet News reported, Wednesday, that a Palestinian man from the southern West bank city of Hebron was sentenced to three years for sending a fax to Israeli Prime Minister,…

Palestinian reporters, either working for local or international agencies, were repeatedly subjected to attacks by the Israeli army, but recently such attacks witnessed a sharp increase leading to injuries, damage…

The Israeli army invaded al Khiljan village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and detained six members of the Al Khatib family. This invasion came after Mahmoud al…

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Two Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli troops, on Wednesday, during house search targeting the city of Hebron and nearby town.Local sources said that two young men were taken by…

Members of the town of Beit Sahour, along with members of the international community, protested at the site of former military base Osh Grab, on Wednesday, against work carried out…

An Israeli soldier was reported to have been stabbed & killed, on Wednesday at midday, when he was attacked by a Palestinian man in northern West Bank. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/feb2010/armed_israeli_setters_near_hebron__photo_by_michael_ramallah_1.jpg 300 0)…

Israeli troops fired tear gas at Palestinian famers and their international and Israeli supporters, on Wednesday, at the town of Yatta southern West Bank. The villagers along with their supporters…

The Egyptian security forces detonated, on Tuesday, a tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.Local sources reported that the Egyptian security forces…

Local sources have reported that an 18-year old teenager from the Palestinian village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, was shot by an Israeli security guard from the settlement of Har…

The Israeli air force fired, on Tuesday evening, several missiles at the Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported…

A group of 15-25 Arab Parliamentarians are expected to visit the Gaza Strip in the middle of this month to express support to the Palestinian people living under siege in…

The Israeli General Security Agency, Shabak, informed the guards of Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, that they will not be allowed to talk to him in Russian and should only…

Senior Palestinian sources reported, Tuesday, that the Israeli government retracted its full pardon previously issued to a Palestinian fighter from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and decided downgrade…

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Tensions continued, on Tuesday, at the Shu’fat refugee camp, East Jerusalem, following yesterday’s clashes and arrests, Ma’an News Agency reported.Hostilities flared between a group of children and the border guards…

Israeli tanks stationed at the borders of the central part of the Gaza Strip opened fire at farm lands on Tuesday, at midday.Local sources reported that the fire targeted farm…

A delegation of farmers from Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip, will be joined by international supporters from the International Solidarity Movement, Tuesday, in a demonstration inspired by the non-violent…

The Israeli military detained 16 Palestinian civilians during invasions targeting West Bank communities, late Monday night and Tuesday at dawn.The Israeli army radio announced that all those detained today were…

Dr. Nabil Shaath, a Member of Fatah’s Central Committee, stated that the Hamas government in Gaza will be releasing Fatah political prisoners in the coming days, and will also re-open…