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Around 200 hundred people, including international and Israeli activists joined together in Bil'in village near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank for the weekly demonstration against the illegal…

Palestinian residents of the West Bank reported on Friday that the Israeli troops stationed at the checkpoints which separate West Bank cities from each other, have tightened searches and inspections…

On Friday morning raids in various parts of the West Bank, Israeli forces abducted five Palestinian men, according to local sources.  One was abducted from the village of Beit Oniah,…

Pakistan announced Tuesday its intention to build a wall of landmines and security fencing along its disputed 2,500km-long border with Afghanistan, in order to curb the flow of militants between…

A group of Palestinian fighters fired one home made Qassam shell at the town of Asqalan North West Israeli on Friday midday. Al Qudes Brigades the armed wing of the…

Israeli sources reported on Friday that the Israeli government will not release any Palestinian detainees being help in Israeli detention camps during the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha. Israeli…

Israeli media sources reported that two Israeli border police officers were injured near the illegal Israeli wall surrounding the northern West Bank city of Ramallah Friday morning.  Apparently the two…

The Israeli army abducted two Palestinian men during pre dawn invasions in villages around the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. Mohamed Khamis, 60, from in the Al…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Thursday that it cannot stand idle as Israel continues its settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, adding that the new approval of…

In the month of December alone, 90 new Israeli trailers were placed on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank.  The trailers are the first stage of expanding existing Israeli…

Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Egypt transferred to Palestinian Authority security forces, under the direct control of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Fateh party, large amounts of weapons…

The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (B’TSELEM), reported Thursday that the year 2006 saw an obvious deterioration of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 28th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.41MB|| time:4m495s Israeli activists blocked the central…

Palestinian Minister of Planning, Samir Abu Aisha, stated on Thursday that he is willing to meet with his Israeli counterpart Abraham Hertzishon, to discuss financial issues with him. In an…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that 140 residents suffering from heart problems and cancer were allowed through the Rafah border crossing on their way to Egyptian hospitals…

There are 28 Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli Ramle Prison Hospital. But they are not receiving medical treatment. Thousands of Palestinians go without the basic necessities of health care…

The Rafah Border Crossing, in southern Gaza Strip connecting Gaza to Egypt, was shut down by European monitors on Thursday midday after Palestinian Prime Minister Isma'el Haniyeh passed through the…

Residents of the northern Jordan Valley in the West Bank are living in state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces overtake more land. The Wall is being built on…

Israeli forces detained scores of Palestinians in a waiting hall at the Karameh "Allenby" crossing located at the West Bank – Jordanian border for a long period of time without…

Israeli activists blocked central downtown of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with razor wire from the illegal Wall on Thursday afternoon. The activists stretched the razor wire across Basel…

Palestinian security forces under the command of President Mahmoud Abbas, known as the presidential guards, working in the Gaza Strip received 2000 machineguns, twenty thousand gun chargers and one million…

In a televised interview with the Aljazeera Channle’s show ‘Without Frontiers”, Naeyf Hawatma, senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), revealed that Israelis and a number of Hamas officials…

Egyptian President Husni Mubarak stressed that a fair solution to the Palestinian question would lead to stability in the Middle East. In a speech to the Arab League yesterday, delivered…

Israeli media sources reported that two Palestinian prisoners managed to escape on Thursday morning from the Israeli Katziot detention camp located in the Nigev desert in northern Israeli. One of…

The Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, which is the only way in or out of the Strip, was reopened on Thursday morning from both sides. Palestinian Sources…

Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that an unknown armed group fired rounds of live ammunition at a member of Hamas near Borqeen village, west of Jenin in the northern part…

The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank to house Israeli settlers who moved out of settlements in the…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday December 27th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.81MB|| time:5m15s The Israeli army abducts 17…

Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, said during an interview with the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, that it is possible to hold peace talks with the Palestinians even if there was…

As the civil war in Iraq increases, sparked by the three-year U.S. military occupation of that country, Palestinian refugees that had been living in Iraq are fleeing in increasing numbers,…

Twenty Israeli military vehicles stormed Umm Salamuna Village south of Bethlehem to protect four military bulldozers. The bulldozers were massive and there to bulldoze Palestinian land for Wall construction. What…

Two international volunteers working with International Solidarity Movement teams in the West Bank city of Hebron were detained by the Israeli army for more than four hours on Wednesday afternoon.…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday authorized the Israeli army to resume a policy of targeted assassinations against what he called 'rocket-launching cells' of Palestinian resistance fighters.  Although he…

Today, about 40 British Jews will arrive in Israel, bringing the number of British Jewish émigrés this year up to 700, according to the Jewish Agency, a group responsible for…

The Israeli army bulldozers demolished one Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…

The Israeli army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has abducted at least 17 Palestinian men from several parts of the West Bank in pre dawn invasions on Wednesday morning. In the…

Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that president Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Egypt for  talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosny Mubarak. The visit came as the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya,…

Israeli sources reported on Tuesday evening that two Israeli youth were injured, one seriously, after Palestinian fighters fired homemade shells into the Israeli Negev town of Sderot.     The two…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday December 26th 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.95MB|| time:5m24s One Palestinian farmer injured by…

On Tuesday Morning unknown gunmen detonated a bomb in  the Madhoun trading company based in the town of Beit Lahyia in the northern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that the gunmen…

Palestinians from Um Salamunah village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, nonviolently tried to block Israeli army bulldozers from destroying  their lands on Tuesday afternoon. Residents reported that…

The Israeli army attacked a medical center and abducted two Palestinian men and Israeli settlers destroyed Palestinian farm lands in three separate attacks in the southern West Bank city of…

On Tuesday morning the Israeli army invaded several cities, villages and refugee camps across the West Bank and abducted six Palestinian men Troops invaded Al Khader village south of Bethlehem…

A Palestinian farmer was shot and injured by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday morning. Palestinian medical sources in the town reported…

At least 2000 Palestinians and Internationals joined the Candle Light procession in the town of Beit Sahour on Christmas Day to light a candle for the End of Violence, Unity…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday at night that Israeli soldiers took prisoner ten residents including a senior fighter of the popular Resistance Committees in Qabatia town, near Jenin in…

Palestinian sources reported on Monday that the Israeli Prison authorities deported a Palestinian detainee from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, to the Gaza Strip. The detainee,…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Monday that Israel will negotiate with Syria over a peaceful settlement to the conflict if it cuts its ties with Iran. The statements…

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, claimed on Monday during his security cabinet session that he will instruct the army to remove 59 out of 400 checkpoints installed by the army…

During a session for Israel’s “security Cabinet” on Sunday, several Israeli ministers warned that Israeli would carry a large military offensive in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian fighters continue to…

Shoppers crowded the market place in Nablus Monday for Eid Al Adha. The Muslim holiday was called for 30 December this year and people in the streets said they were…

Latin Patriarch of the Holy Lands, Michel Sabbah, reached Bethlehem on Christmas Eve day, the most celebratory time that the West Bank city sees all year. Thousands of people crowded…

Head of the Israeli Security Agency, Shabak, Yuval Diskin, said during a cabinet session on Sunday that if Palestinian general elections are to be held today, the chances of the…

The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote Saturday on a bill that condemns all forms of violence against journalists in areas of armed conflict, calling for the respect…

The Israeli army tightened military measures on Sunday in different areas of the West Bank, ahead of the Muslim holiday Aladha Eid and the Christian holiday Christmas. In Tulkarem city,…

The United Nations General Assembly endorsed unanimously Wednesday a resolution that acknowledges the Palestinian people’s permanent sovereignty over the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) including the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and…

Local scouting troops paraded through Nativity Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, playing drums and bagpipes to a crowd of a few thousand Palestinian and international…

Local boyscout groups paraded through Nativity Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, playing drums and bagpipes to a crowd of a few thousand Palestinian and international…

The Israeli army erected several military checkpoints around the northern West Bank city of Tubas on Sunday morning. Residents said that soldiers stopped and searched them for several hours at…

A group of Palestinian resistance fighters fired two home made Qassam shells at the northern Israeli city of Sederot on Sunday morning. The Al Qudes brigade, the armed wing of…

Palestinian Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas, said that the Friday meeting between the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, did not achieve any positive results. Hamas…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, met on Saturday at Olmert’s residence in Jerusalem and agreed that Israel would transfer $100 million of Tax revenue…

The special committee formed by the Fateh and Hamas movements met in Gaza on Friday evening and confirmed that all Palestinian factions, especially Fateh and Hamas, are committed to end…

Leaving Bethlehem this morning after a three-day pilgrimage, the UK's church leaders pledged themselves to continue to be a "voice for the voiceless" on behalf of the beleaguered people of…

Even the dead cannot cross through this gate installed in the Annexation Wall section leading to Barta'a village, south-west of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. As…

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that the truce and temporal borders offer, proposed by Hamas movement, are considered as means of deception to the Palestinian people. Hamas renewed…

Thirty village councils in Bethlehem voiced an appeal to all Palestinian factions in order to stop the internal clashes and solidify the ceasefire between the armed groups, especially Fateh and…

When President Abbas announced he would commence early elections, some say he was breaking the law. Palestinian Minister of Justice and Professor of Constitutional Law at An Najah University, Dr.…

Two Nation survey: America vs Bethlehem. Most Americans believe Bethlehem is an Israeli town inhabited by a mixture of Jews and Muslims, a pre-Christmas survey of US perceptions of the…

The Israeli military court of Salem, north of the West Bank, sentenced on Saturday a Palestinian detainee to 21 years in military detention camps. Mohamed Taha, 23, was sentenced based…

Unknown gunmen opened fire on Saturday morning at a Palestinian Authority Security Forces official in Rafah city south of the Gaza strip, critically wounding him and injuring his bodyguard. Major…

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, approved the original route of the Annexation Wall that will surround Maali Adumim settlement by annexing more Palestinian lands and placing them inside the settlement’s…

Palestinian sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Friday afternoon that Fateh and Hamas gunmen engaged in renewed armed clashes in the city. The…

Palestinian sources reported that Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said that his movement, Hamas, is willing to start new talks on a national unity government, based on Palestinian requirements and…

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Today, like the past 2 years, the demonstrations in Be'lin started after Friday prayers with participants including residents of the village, Internationals and Israeli activists participating.  This week there was…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians, including one child, were killed, and twelve,…

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered outside the Parliament Building in Gaza to protest the ongoing violence and infighting which was initiated after President Abbas called for new Presidential and Parliamentary elections. …

Palestinian Lawyer Shadi Younis reports that the sanitary conditions and the state of detention for Palestinian political prisoners in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons is deteriorating.   Shadi Younis was…

The Israeli army invaded several parts of the West Bank on Friday morning, attacked residents' homes, and abducted 24 residents. In the northern part of the West Bank, an army…

Hundreds of Palestinians are lining up at the Rafah Crossing to make their way to the Holy City of Mecca for the Hajj (Islamic Religious Pilgrimage).  Today was the first…

Mohammad Ata Al Jirjawi, 35, died on Friday at dawn of wounds sustained Thursday night when unknown gunmen opened fire at Hamas activists in Gaza City Center.   Medical sources…

{mosimage}Yesterday, while I was walking the streets of Bethlehem and Beit Sahour, I was struck by the gleaming white buildings on a hill parallel to the city that is the…

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, Tulkarem refugee camp and a nearby village on Friday morning. Troops and army vehicles stormed the area and attacked, searched…

Palestinian sources reported that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, have agreed to hold a meeting next Monday after Christmas celebrations.   The Maan News…

As Christmas approaches, Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, remains surrounded by the Israeli Annexation Wall, and strangled by Israeli checkpoints and expanding settlements.   This year, Bethlehem is challenging…

The United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, unanimously endorsed a resolution that acknowledges the Palestinian people’s permanent sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) including the Gaza Strip, West Bank and…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 21st 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.3MB|| time:4m32s   A Gaza fisherman died…

A Palestinian home made shell landed on Thursday morning on a Palestinian house wounding three Palestinians including a pregnant woman in the northern Gaza strip. The shell landed on a…

Nasser Abd Al Qader, a Palestinian worker who has been detained by the Israeli authorities for working in Israel without permission, was not allowed to attend the funeral of his…

In the early hours, Thursday morning, the Israeli Army invaded an Islamic Charitable Organization in the town of Beit Sahour, just outside Bethlehem.  This is the fourth time that the…

  A fisherman died on Thursday morning due to wounds he sustained earlier this month when Israeli navel gun boats opened fire at a group of fishermen near the Rafah…

A large Israeli force invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem in the early hours of Thursday morning and arrested one resident from the Deheisha refugee camp, Palestinian security sources…

After the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, decided to hold early legislative and presidential elections as a way to break the international embargo imposed on the Palestinians, Hamas and Fateh officials…

After the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, decided to hold early legislative and presidential elections as a way to break the international embargo imposed on the Palestinians, Hamas and Fateh officials…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that an Israeli war-jet fired a missile at a group of fighters in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries…

Al Manar TV, run by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah party, reported that the party is in possession of documents that state that a Portuguese military plane carrying eleven passengers, who remained…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published a report entitled "Crossings Agreement – Another Year of Suffering", in which the center conducted a study on the effects…