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The international development agency, Oxfam International released results of a survey conducted in Palestine, highlighting “how the suspension of Western aid and Israel’s refusal to transfer money owed to the…

Commissioner of the European Union’s external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, reiterated the EU commitment to support the Palestinian government on basis of the Quartet’s principles. Waldner’s remarks came during a press…

Israeli military sources claimed on Saturday that soldiers arrested a Syrian resident who crossed into the Golan Heights on Friday. According to the sources, the man is suffering from serious…

Israeli security sources claimed that Hamas is providing the Islamic Jihad with homemade shells to fire them from the Gaza Strip into Israeli areas, and that Hamas is encouraging the…

A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees revealed that Israeli troops kidnapped nearly 600 women since the beginning of the Intifada in September 28, 2000; 128…

The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported on Friday that soldiers broke into the house of Houriyya Al Saidaly, in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of…

The Palestinian center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published on Thursday its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the Palestinian occupied territories in the period between April 5…

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In the weekly non-violent protest on Friday against the illegal annexation wall in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 16 protesters were injured including three…

A non violent demonstration against the illegal Israeli separation wall took place in the village of Juret Al sham’a near the southern the West Bank city of Bethlehem. International and…

United Nations Secreatry General,Ban Ki-Moon, pressed Thursday for the release of BBC reporter, Alan Jhonston, who has been abducted in Gaza over the past month. Ki-Moon voiced deep concern over…

Egyptian president, Husni Mubarak, stated Thursday that ‘no one can amend the Arab peace initiative or even remove the clause that affirms Palestinians’ right to return’. Mubarak, whose country was…

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The Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Thursday that the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced three Israelis to 13-years in prison after convicting them of driving a Palestinian suicide bomber. …

Israeli army stormed on Thursday a local Palestinian society building in the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarem and broke into several Palestinian-owned houses. No further details were reported. Israeli army attacks…

Russian Secretary of National Security Igor Ivanov extended on Thursday an official invitation to the Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr. Ziad Abu Amr to visit Russia, as soon as possible.Russian Secretary…

In a joint press release, the IMEMC received a copy of which, the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades of PLFP and the Shuhada Al-Aqsa brigades of Fatah, claimed responsibility for wounding…

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Israeli forces abducted five Palestinian civilians from several parts of the West Bank on Thursday morning. In Jenin refugee camp near Jenin city in the northern part of the West…

Two Palestinian men were killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Palestinian…

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem and searched homes in the eastern and the western side of the city on Thursday morning. Soldiers also attacked and…

One Palestinian man was killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Medical…

The Israeli army attacked and searched the offices of the Palestinian legislative council members in the southern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday morning. A massive Israeli force surrounded…

Mohamed Shehada, top Palestinian wanted resistance fighter for the Israeli army did not hesitate to come out from his hiding place to join a group of Palestinian journalists who organized…

“I have been kidnapped from home and I have been elected in free and fair elections, This court is not entitled to charge me with anything,” Dr. Omar Abdel Razik,…

Israeli forces destroyed the home of the Zaqout family in southeast Nablus after an eight-hour stand off started Wednesday afternoon. Israeli army bulldozers damaged much of it during a failed…

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Four Palestinian residents were reportedly injured Wednesday during family clashes in both the Gaza Strip cities of Gaza and Rafah, Palestinian medical sources said. Witnesses said that three passersby were…

Israeli soldiers, stationed at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem, detained Usaid Atta, 21, from Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem on Wednesday afternoon.Atta was on his way back from work…

Five years have elapsed since the battle and massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The memories and scars live on in the northern West Bank where a mother is still searching…

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Israeli forces invading the northern West Bank city of Nablus beseiged a building in the city center on Wednesday afternoon. Soldiers using loudspeakers are calling at resistance fighter, the army…

The Israeli army abducted a Palestinian university teacher while crossing Attara military checkpoint near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday afternoon. Fawaz Ikmil, 47, who works as…

The Israeli government gave settlers, on Wednesday, 30 days to voluntarily leave a Palestinian building they occupied in the southern West Bank city of Hebron three weeks ago. Following which…

Palestine permanent observer at the United Nations, Mansour Mansour, warned Tuesday of continued Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people, saying such actions contravene with peace and help further feul tension…

An Israeli army bulldozer surrounded on Wednesday midday a Palestinian house located in the village of Kufer Qalil south of the city of Nablus in the northern part of the…

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday midday, only five hours after the first invasion that took place today’s morning. Troops and jeeps entered the…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Nahalen east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the Dohaisha refugee camp in the city and abducted two civilians on…

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday midday, only five hours after the first invasion that took place today’s morning.

Any money aid that is channeled to the Palestinian Authority without being properly processed and monitored by the relative bodies of the PA is dirty money, a Hamas official said…

One Palestinian Authority security officer died on Wednesday morning of wounds he sustained on Tuesday evening in Khan Younis city in he southern part of the Gaza strip. Tahssen Al…

Israeli forces attacked and searched homes in several parts of the southern West Bank city of Hebron and lidnapped four civilians including two Palestinian Authority, officials, on Wednesday morning.Israeli forces…

Israeli troops stationed at the military checkpoint located at the entrance of Qabatiya town south of Jenin city in the northern part of the West Bank, abducted a Palestinian student…

The Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus attacked and searched residents homes then abducted seven civilians on Wednesday morning. The Israeli army invaded the northern West…

Living in the Northern Mountain, overlooking the center of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and most of its neighborhoods, the family of detainee Sa’id Al Ataba, are still…

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli troops stationed at hundreds of roadblocks in the occupied territories barred dozens of pregnant women from crossing the checkpoints…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Tuesday at night that the Bush Administration authorized the Congress to send $59 million to bolster the Palestinian Security Forces loyal to the Palestinian…

Israeli sources reported on Tuesday at night that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is “disappointed” by the list of detainees that the Palestinian demand to be freed in a…

Israeli military sources reported on Tuesday that one settler was moderately injured in a drive by shooting attack that took place near Kidumum Israeli settlement , near the northern west…

Israeli gunboats heavily fired on Monday Palestinian fishing boats, while on board on northern Gaza shores. Palestinian media sources said that the Israeli naval forces opened their heavy fire on…

Fatah, a major Palestinian faction, said Monday that Israel has withheld corps of 150 Palestinians in what it termed ‘ numbers graveyards’, calling for pressuring Israel to hand them over…

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Israeli forces invaded Kufer Ein village to the north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah and abducted on man on Tuesday morning. Troops and army vehicles surrounded and…

One Palestinian man died on Tuesday of wounds he sustained on Monday during internal clashes in Khan Younis city in the southern part of the Gaza strip. Abd Al Razik…

A would-be suicide bomber drove to Tel Aviv but for unknown reasons returned to his hometown of Qalqilya in the West Bank, without carrying out the attack. The bomb then…

The Israeli army attacked and searched Palestinian homes in various parts of the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning. Soldiers forced families outsied, then searched and ransacked…

Fears of destabilization fill the Nablus streets today after internal clashes resumed at dawn. Six people were injured when fighting erupted between members of one of the Fateh wings and…

Azzam Al Ahmad, the Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister, on Tuesday described European positions on the Palestinian government of national unity as 'mixed'. He stressed that the government and the presidency…

Israeli troops impeded the movement of Palestinian civilians between the two cities of Jenin and Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank on Tuesday morning. Without warning, Israeli…

Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian man from Tamoun village near the northern West Bank city of Tubass on Tuesday. Israeli troops stopped the man at a military checkpoints north of…

Detainee Samar Sbeih is one of several female detainees who gave birth in Israeli prisons and remained imprisoned with their children. She was taken prisoner three months after her wedding,…

Recently, a website affiliated with Hamas published a list of names of some detainees that Hamas is requesting to be freed as part of a prisoner-swap deal between Israel and…

Monday commemorates the massacre in Deir Yassin Village, one of numerous conducted during the ethnic cleansing campaign enforced in order to establish the state of Israel. Thirty-three massacres are officially…

Official Egyptian sources reported on Monday that Egyptian border-guards arrested one Palestinian who allegedly crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt through one of two tunnels that were recently dug…

Four Palestinians were injured in Nablus on Monday evening when Palestinian security personnel stopped a car for inspection. Local sources said that a fierce gun battle broke out after gunmen,…

Palestinian medical sources reported Monday that three Palestinian civilians have been killed and one was injured during a clan feud in Khan Younis city, in the southern Gaza Strip. The…

Spokesperson of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, Sami Mosha’sha’, warned yesterday that the UNRWA may stop providing services to the Palestinian refugees unless an emergency…

Israeli sources claim that Bishra will resign from the Israeli Knesset. Arab sources in Israel dismiss claims of Bishara's intention to resign. Sholamit Aloni, former MK and HUman Rights activists…

Informed Palestinian sources reported that the Prisoners’ Swap deal, through which Israel will release a number of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad…

The Secretary General of the Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf , Abdelrahman El’atiya, condemned Sunday the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which have resulted…

Israeli soldiers manning a military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin attacked a Palestinian medic on Sunday evening. Palestinian sources said that Firas Haj Ahmad, a local ambulance…

Tens of thousands of Palestinian, Arab and international Christians made their way Sunday to the occupied holy city of Jerusalem to mark the major Christian occasion of Easter festival, which…

Manal Ghanem, a 32 year-old woman, was eventually released on Sunday after having served almost 4 years in an Israeli jail. In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, where Mrs.…

Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti called Sunday on the international community to pressure the Israeli authorities to consider absorbing 7,000 Palestinian refugees, currently residing in Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Turkey and…

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmad Abuelgheit, called Sunday for broader publicity of the Arab peace initiative, which the Arab states re-endorsed in March. The peace proposal, first drafted in 2002, calls…

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron shot and wounded Sunday a Palestinian boy after two soldiers were stabbed near the Haram Al Ibrahimi mosque, also the site…

The Israeli Daily Ma’areev published Sunday a list of names of the would-be released Palestinian prisoners in the framework of a likely Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap deal. Ma’areev named 11 leading…

Palestinian media sources said that a Palestinian resident of the northern Gaza Strip was shot and moderately wounded early on Sunday during an armed clash. The man identified as Khaled…

Israeli soldiers, manning checkpoints in the Tubas town in the West Bank, blocked Sunday morning movement of Palestinian vehicles while driving to the Alghour area. Witnesses said that the Israeli…

A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) revealed that Israeli troops shot and killed 860 Palestinian children since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000.…

Palestinian political detainees in Gilboa’ and Shatta Israeli prisons complained that they are deprived from medical attention and treatment, and stated that several detainees are in immediate need for hospitalization.The…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Saturday at night, that unknown gunmen abducted a Gaza-born Arab resident of Israel after he visited relatives in the Gaza Strip. Haaretz added that…

The department of national and international relations at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a special report on Saturday, documenting the Israeli army attacks on the Palestinian people during March2007.…

Palestinian officials said Saturday that the captured Israeli soldier Gil’ad Shalit, who has been held in Gaza since last June, by resistance groups involving Hamas, could be released if Israel…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas emphasized Saturday the need to stop ‘aimless’ homemade rockets fire into nearby Israeli towns in northern Gaza Strip in light of recent heightened Israeli deadly attacks…

Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, announced Saturday the death of a local resident due to wounds he sustained three years ago during an Israeli army invasion…

Before dawn on Saturday Israeli forces invaded the northwestern West Bank city encircled by the Wall. Qalqilia residents come and go to the rest of the West Bank through a…

Palestinian Authority cabinet, in a special session, discussed Saturday a security plan presented by Palestinian interior minister, Hani Qawasmi, in a bid to enforce law and order in the unruly…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed Friday his readiness to restart negotiations with Israel, whether publicly or secretly, hoping this would, as soon as possible, lead to peace. In an interview…

Palestinian medida sources said that the Israeli army shot to death a Palestinian resistance fighter and injured another in northern Gaza Strip, just close to the Jabalya refugee camp. The…

Leader of Al-Aqsa Brigade in Jenin, Zakaria Zbeidi survived an assassination attempt by Israeli troops who invaded the city in the early hours of Saturday morning.Clashes erupted between the resistance…

Friday, unknown gunmen ambushed a Fateh official, and a top union leader, as he drove his vehicle, with his family, in the Gaza Strip; the official was moderately injured.The gunmen…