Hamas: “We Received Israel’s Response On Swap-deal”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated Wednesday that it received the Israeli response to the prisoner-swap deal through the German mediator, and added that its leaders would study the Israeli response…
Israel, Turkey, Reach Drone Purchase Deal
The Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) reported Tuesday that it reached a deal with Israel to purchase 10 “Heron” drones TAI General Manager, Muharrem Dörtkaşl, said that the deal is expected…
ARIJ Report On Increased Israeli Violations Against Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ), reported that the Israeli occupation increased its violations against the Palestinians and in Jerusalem by forcing them out of their homes, internally displacing…
Israel Hands Out Demolition Orders To Palestinians In The Jordan Valley
On Tuesday, Israeli troops handed out demolition orders targeting buildings belonging to Palestinian farmers from different areas in the Jordan valley. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/israeli_troops_in_the_west_bank_photo_by_ghassan_bannoura_2008_2.jpg 300 0) File – Soldier taking aim at…
Report: Israel’s proposal to exile certain prisoners in swap deal is ‘acceptable’ to Hamas
According to a report in Israeli media sourced only from anonymous Israeli government sources, the Palestinian government led by the Hamas party may accept a plan by the Israeli government…
Netanyahu Reluctant on Swap Deal
Netanyahu, worked hard to foil a prisoner-swap deal with the Hamas movement in Gaza and insisted to increase the number of detainees Israel demands to deport in case they were…
Abbas: “No New Intifada As Long As Am in Power”
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Tuesday that there will be no new Palestinian Intifada (uprising) as long as he is in power, but also warned that the current “calm” will…
Palestine Today 122209
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The Israeli military kidnaps nine civilians from the West Bank
Israeli troops kidnapped on Tuesday nine Palestinian civilians during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. The Israeli army radio announced that all those kidnapped men were…
P.A Security Arrests Local Official Shortly After Court Ordered His Release
Local sources in the southern West Bank City of Hebron reported on Monday evening that the Palestinian Security Forces arrested a member of Sair Town Council moments after the District…
Palestinians In Gaza Protest Egypt’s Border Wall
Thousands of Palestinians protested on Monday at the Salah Ed Deen Gate area, near the border with Egypt, against the Iron Wall Egypt is installing with American support and supervision…
Egyptian Officials Say They Will Not Allow Gaza Freedom March To Cross Border
The 1,360 peace activists from around the world currently on their way to Egypt will find the border to the Gaza Strip closed to them, say Egyptian officials. The Gaza…
Coordinator Of Stop The Wall Campaign Imprisoned By Israel
Jamal Juma’, coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign, is in an Israeli jail – the latest in Israel’s attempt to silence Palestinian non violent resistance. Israeli security first summoned…
Israeli Ministers Meeting Ends With No Agreement On Shalit Deal
Israeli Sources reported Monday that Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, held a meeting with Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, Ministers Dani Yaalon, Dan Meridor, Benni Begin and Eli YIshai, and Israeli Army…
Israeli Government Admits To Harvesting Organs From Dead Palestinians
The Israeli government has admitted that the practice of organ harvesting did occur in the 1990s, after a recording surfaced in which Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the chief pathologist of the…
Sheikh Salah Banned From Jerusalem
The head of the so-called Home Front Command of the Israeli Military, Gen, Yari Golan, decided on Monday to ban Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the…
Israeli Soldier Killed During Training
Israeli sources reported Monday that a soldier of the Golani Brigade was shot in the head and died of his wounds during a training accident at a military base in…
Palestine Today 122109
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PLFP: Hamas Is Stalling National Unity Deal
Abed Al Raheem Malouh, general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, blamed the Hamas Movement for stalling an agreement on National reconciliation. The leftist leader added…
The Israeli Military Kidnaps Five Civilians From Southern West Bank
Five Palestinian civilians were kidnapped on Monday by Israeli troops during military invasions targeting the southern West Bank city of Hebron and nearby villages. Muntasser Braghith, 19 years old, and…
PA Economy Minister: Palestinians Spend Half A Billion Dollars A Year On Israeli Settlement Products
Hassan Abu Libdeh, the Palestinian Minister of the Economy with the Fateh-led de facto government in the West Bank, told a meeting of the Nablus Chamber of Commerce Sunday that,…
Israeli Army Invades Northern Gaza
Local sources report that twenty Israeli armored military vehicles, accompanied by Apache helicopters, invaded the al-Ghoul area in northern Gaza early Monday morning.Residents also reported Israeli shelling in the town…
Israeli Soldiers, Officers, Leak Memo On Plan To Enforce Settlement Freeze
Israeli sources reported Sunday that a number of Israeli soldiers and officers, who live in West Bank settlements, leaked army plans to enforce the temporary freeze of settlement construction in…
PM Fayyad starts Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem district
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, toured the Bethlehem district , southern West Bank, on Sunday, marking the start of Christmas celebrations. In the town of Beit Jala, Fayyad was…
Army invades Bil’in
Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday at night the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and broke into two homes. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/bilin1.jpg 300 0) http://www.bilin-ffj.org/ Israeli soldiers…
Settlers, Palestinian Farmers Clash Near Hebron
A group of fundamentalist settlers clashed on Saturday with Palestinian farmers near the illegal settlement outpost of Mitzpe Asael, in the southern Hebron Hillls. Local sources reported that two Israeli…
Obama Grants Israel $2.775 Billion In Security Aid
United States President, Barack Obama, signed the Foreign Aid Budget Law of 2010 which includes granting $2.775 Billion in security aid to the state of Israel. This budget is the…
Mk Tibi: “Israel Illegally Took Skin Patches, Corneas To Implant Them In Wounded Troops”
Dr. Ahmad Tibi, deputy speaker of the Knesset, head of the United Arab Bloc for Change, stated that the Abu Kabeer forensic center removed in the 90’s patches of skin…
Turkey Gives Rapturous Welcome To Gaza Aid Convoy
The Viva Palestina convoy, carrying aid from London to the besieged population of Gaza, has received an overwhelming welcome from Turkey on its drive through the country.Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister,…
This Week in Palestine -Week 51 2009
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Dozens Suffered Tear Gas Inhalation In The Bil’in Weekly Protest
The villagers of Bil’in in the central West Bank staged on Friday their weekly protest against the Israeli wall built on their land. Last Friday the demonstration organized by the…
Policemen From Bethlehem Will Be In Charge Of Security During Christmas
Unlike previous years, the Palestinian Authority decided that all policemen and security personnel who would be deployed in Bethlehem during Christmas will be from the Bethlehem district.Usually the Palestinian Authority…
The Shepherds Field Readies For Christmas
The city of Beit Sahour, known as the Shepherds Field where, according to the Bible, the angel appeared to the Shepherded and asked them to follow the star to Bethlehem,…
Egyptian Soldier Killed By Smugglers Fire
Egyptian sources reported that a border-guard Egyptian policeman was shot and killed on Thursday evening during armed clashes with armed drug smugglers along the Egyptian-Israeli border.A senior Egyptian security official…
Lieberman: “Large-scale Settlement Activities After Freeze Ends”
Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stated Thursday that the government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will resume its settlement activities on a large scale directly after the 10-month freeze ends.…
PCHR Weekly Report: 1 Palestinian killed, 4 wounded, mosque burned by settlers this week
In the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 10- 15 Dec 2009, a Palestinian civilian…
UN Envoy: “Settlement Slowdown, Is Not Settlement Freeze”
United Nations Middle East Envoy, Robert Sery, informed the Security Council that Israel’s partial slowdown of settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories is only a slow down not a…
Prisoner Exchange Deal Stalled As Israel Refuses To Include Hamas Leaders
Last week’s hopeful talk of a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians has grown into increasing frustration this week as the negotiators failed to reach a compromise agreement.Today, the…
Palestine Today 121709
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Israel Allows Food And Fuel Into The Gaza Strip
The Israeli military allowed on Thursday food and fuel supplies to enter the besieged Gaza Strip. According to local sources the army allowed 90 trucks of food into the coastal…
The Israeli Army Removes A Military Checkpoint In The Northern West Bank
The Israeli army removed on Thursday morning a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Witnesses told local media that soldiers removed the concrete blocks and the…
Jerusalem: Scores Injured, Others Arrested As Israeli Police Attack A Palestinian Festival
The Israeli police attacked on Thursday midday a festival organized by Palestinians in Jerusalem old city. The festival was organized by the Palestinians Authority to mark the end of the…
“Let’s Boycott Britain”, MK’s Say
39 fundamentalist members of Knesset signed a petition calling for boycotting goods and services from the United Kingdom as a response to a recent non-binding decision asking merchants and importers…
Olmert’s Plan Excluded Jerusalem, Offered Limited ‘Land Swap’
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, published the “map for a permanent solution with the Palestinians” that was previously proposed by the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to the Palestinian President,…
UK Apologizes To Livni
Less than 48 hours after the British Foreign Minister, David Miliband, apologized for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, and the current head of the opposition in Israel, Tzipi Livni, British…
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Emphasizes “Right” Of Israelis To Live In Settlements
In a talk to the Zionist Organization of America on Sunday, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon told the crowd that Jews should be able to live anywhere in what…
Sentence Of Israeli Refusenik Extended
An 18-year old Israeli woman has received a fourth extension of a prison sentence for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military.Or Ben-David is one of the students who signed…
Israeli High Court Upholds Ban On Family Visits To Prisoners
Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip who had appealed to the Israeli High Court to be allowed to visit their family members held in Israeli detention camps faced disappointment on…
Palestine Today 121609
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UK Seeks Law Changes As Brown Welcomes Livni In Britain
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told on Wednesday Israel’s opposition leader Tzipi Livni that she is always welcome in UK. During a phone call Brown voiced his rejection of an…
PLO Central Committee Extends Abbas, PLC terms
The central committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization extended on Wednesday President Mahmoud Abbas and the Legislative Council terms. At the meeting today in the central West Bank city of…
The Israeli Military Kidnaps Nine Civilians From The West Bank
Nine Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli troops on Wednesday during morning invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities. Local sources reported invasions and house-to house searches in the…
Abu Zeid Confirms Egypt Installing Wall Along Gaza Border
Commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), Karen Abu Zeid, confirmed reports stating that Egypt is installing an iron barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip, and…
OCHA: “Palestinians Prevented From Building On 44% Of West Bank Lands”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA) reported that Israel is preventing Palestinians from building on 44% of West Bank lands…
Settler Wounded In Clashes With Palestinians Near Nablus
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday morning that a fundamental Israeli settler was mildly wounded during clashes with local residents of Qaryut village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The…
Mashal: “Israel Responsible For Shalit Deal Delay”
Khalid Mashal, head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement in Syria, stated that Israel is responsible for the delay in achieving a prisoner-swap deal with the Hamas movement.…
I’m Sorry But We Blew Up Your Laptop (welcome To Israel)
I was sitting on the deck overlooking the Red Sea. Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old) had completed around two hours of questioning and searching me.…
France To Grant The P.A 200 M Euros
Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyadh Al Maliky, and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, signed on Tuesday an agreement in which France agrees to donate 200 Million Euros to support Palestinian development…
Palestine Today 121509
Click here to downloas MP3 file Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Three men were found dead…
The Israeli Military Kidnaps 15 Palestinians From The West Bank
The Israeli military kidnapped 15 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.The Israeli army radio announced that all kidnapped 15 men who…
Patient Died In Gaza, Death Toll Due To The Siege Reaches 366
A Palestinian patient died on Tuesday after he was prevented by the Israeli military to leave the Gaza Strip for medical care. Walied Madi, 38 years old, had Tuberculosis. Palestinian…
Three Found Dead Inside A Tunnel In The Gaza Strip
Three Palestinian civilians were found dead on Tuesday afternoon inside a tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.Palestinian sources reported that the Egyptian military have located the three men, who…
Three Palestinians Missing Under Collapsed Tunnel
Egyptian security sources reported Tuesday morning that three Palestinians went missing when a border tunnel collapsed on them in an area close to the Rafah border terminal, in the southern…
Former Israeli FM Tzipi Livni Will Be Arrested If Enters UK
Arab and Israeli media sources reported Monday that a British court has issued an arrest warrant against former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating last winter’s…
Ashkenazi: “Hamas Could Violate Calm in Gaza At Any Moment”
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, stated that the clam along the border with the Gaza Strip is temporary and that the Hamas movement and other resistance groups could…
Palestinian Man Prevented By Jewish Municipality From Building On His Own Land
Aadel Suad, a Palestinian resident of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, has been prevented for twelve years from building on his own land, and continues to live…
Obama Asks Lebanese Counterpart To Crack On Weapons Bound To Hezbollah
United States President, Barack Obama, told his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Suleiman, that Lebanon must act to crack down on weapons bound to the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party, adding that it is…
Report: “Excavations Ongoing At The Al Aqsa Mosque Area”
The Aqsa foundation for Waqf and Heritage has revealed large scale Israeli excavations being executed in the area adjacent to the southern wall of Al-Aqsa mosque, the area is also…
Palestine Today 121409
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Soldiers Kidnap Two Children In Northern Gaza
Israeli soldiers invaded the Industrial Area located near the Erez Crossing, west of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and kidnapped two children. One of them…
Soldiers beat young man in Al-Khalil Market
At 12:30 p.m. on 26 November 2009, Paulette Schroeder and Johann Funk responded to street vendor’s report that Israeli soldiers had beaten a young Palestinian man as he made his…
Egypt Uncovers Tunnel Meant For Smuggling Vehicles Into Gaza
Egyptian security sources reported Sunday that the Egyptian Border Police located a border tunnel meant for smuggling vehicles into the Gaza Strip. The sources told Reuters that the entrance of…
Palestinian Christian leaders call Israeli occupation ‘a sin against God’
A group of Palestinian Christian leaders released a document on Friday calling on Christians around the world to join them in calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of…
Palestinian Killed In Israeli Shelling of Central Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man was killed when the army shelled an area east of Al Boreij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. The sources…
21 Israeli peace activists arrested in East Jerusalem protest
In a rowdy march Friday afternoon, dozens of Israeli peace activists marched in solidarity with Palestinian residents who have been forced from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East…
Haniyya: “Palestine Is Palestine, From The River To The Sea”
Palestinian Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated Friday that Palestine is and will always be the same to the Palestinians, from the river to…
European Union Expresses Concern over Israeli Settlement Grants
The European Union expressed concern Friday about the Israeli Prime Minister’s plans to grant credits to some West Bank settlers.The EU is consulting its partners in the Middle East about…
Rabbi Froman: “Burning Yassuf Mosque, Blasphemy”
Rabbi Menachem Froman stated Friday that torching of the mosque in Yasuf Palestinian village is a blasphemy and an act that does not represent Judaism as it is an insult…
Three Siege-busting Tunnels Uncovered
Egyptian security sources reported that a tunnel was located inside a home of an Egyptian smuggler in the Salah Ed Deen border area, while two more tunnels were uncovered nearby.…
Flourishing Palestinian Sex Trade Exposed In New Report
Young Palestinian women are being forced to into prostitution in brothels, escort services, and private apartments in Ramallah and Jerusalem, including areas inhabited by Jews, according to a report released…
This Week in Palestine – Week 50, 2009
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Nine wounded in Ni’lin’s weekly nonviolent protest
At least nine Palestinians were wounded in the weekly nonviolent protest in the village of N’ilin on Friday. Residents of Nil’in together with intentional peace activists marched after the Friday…
Dozens Wounded In Bil’in’s Anti-wall Nonviolent Protest
Dozens of Palestinians were treated for gas inhalation during a nonviolent protest against the wall in the village of Bil’in near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.Villagers along with…
Likud MK: “Settlement Construction to Continue Regardless of Freeze”
Israeli Minister of the Likud Party, Benny Begin, stated that constructions in Israeli settlements will resume regardless of the temporary settlement freeze decision, and added that the 10-month freeze of…
Betawy: “Burning Salfit Mosque, Part Of Ongoing Attacks”
Palestinian Legislator, Sheikh Hamed Betawy, said that the Friday at dawn torching of the Great Mosque in Salfit is not the first or the last attack carried out by fundamentalist…
PCHR Weekly Report: One Palestinian wounded, 36 abducted by Israeli forces this week
According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, during the week of 03- 09 Dec 2009, one Palestinian…
UK Urges Businesses TO Label Settlement Products
The British government issued a statement urging businesses around the country to place clear labels on products made in Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank so that consumers engaged…
Settlers Torch a Mosque Near Salfit
A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers burnt on Friday at dawn large sections of the “Great Mosque” in Yasuf village, near the central West Bank city of Salfit. The settlers…
Once Again, High Court Affirms No Visitations For Gaza Detainees
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved a military decision to continue disallowing families of Palestinian detainees from Gaza, from visiting their detained loved ones. The decision was made late…
P.A Security Forces Arrest Son Of Detained Legislator
Palestinian Security Forces arrested Thursday No’man Salhab, 20, the son of legislator Dr. Azzam Slahab, who is currently imprisoned by Israel. Eyewitnesses reported that members of the Palestinian Preventive Security…
Palestine Today 121009
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Islamic Party Slams P.A For Sponsoring Miss Palestine In The West Bank
The “Liberation Party” voiced sharp criticism of the Palestinian Authority (P.A) for sponsoring “Palestine Beauty Pageant” Contest in the West Bank city of Ramallah. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/dec2009/miss_palestine.jpg 300 0) File; Miss Palestine…
Israeli Police Kidnaps 214 Palestinian Workers in Israel
The Israeli Police and the so-called Border Guards carried out a comprehensive campaign targeting Palestinian workers who ‘illegally’ entered Israel seeking work to provide food for their families, and kidnapped…
Hamas: “We Are Waiting Israel’s Response On Shalit Deal”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated Thursday that it waiting Israel’s response on Shalit deal and that Israel can decide whether the prisoner of war returns home by the beginning on…
Dweik Calls On EU Parliamentarians To Launch International Campaign Against The Siege
Head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, called on European Parliamentarians to hold an international campaign against the illegal Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and to support…
Seven Palestinians Ordered Out Of Jerusalem For 45 Days
The Israeli Authorities decided to expel seven Palestinians, from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, out of the city for 45 days. The Israeli Police arrested the seven Palestinians following…
Jewish Terrorist Stands Trial In Jerusalem
The Jerusalem District Court initiated on Wednesday the trial of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, after official charges of two murders, five attempted murders, weapons violations, arson and incitement to commit…
Army Claims Foiling Jerusalem Bombing
The Israeli army claimed it arrested on Wednesday a Palestinian youth carrying explosives while heading to Jerusalem to carry out a bombing.Israeli sources reported that the twenty-year old Palestinian youth…
Bethlehem University Student Not Allowed To Complete Her Study
The Israeli High Court of ‘Justice’ decided on Wednesday to prevent Bethlehem University student from the Gaza Strip from completing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration after accusing her of…