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Israel has been accused of placing a number of landmines in its invasion of southern Lebanon this summer, in addition to leaving behind one million unexploded cluster bomblets.  The accusation…

The International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP) will be launched in Ramallah on Tuesday, December 7, shifting Palestinian artists from dream to reality, a press release by the administration of…

Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, criticized during a meeting to the Knesset Foreign and Security Committee the decision making process that led to the declaration of ceasefire with…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. For Tuesday, November 28th, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.0MB || time:5m18s   Twenty-one prisoners are taken…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) published a report on the living conditions of the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Be’er Shiva and Nafha prisons. According to the report, the detainees…

During an appearance in late October on Ireland's Pat Kenny radio show, a popular national program broadcast daily on Ireland's RTE Radio, we were asked as the opening question if…

Israeli military bulldozers started on Tuesday to construct a section of the Annexation Wall near Artas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The army uprooted dozens of…

A woman in Jenin gave her life on Monday to save a young man. Israeli forces shot Mahmoud Abdul Razik Baker Nasser in front of Fatima Mahmoud Ahmed Shriem's northern…

In his first trip outside of the Gaza Strip since he took office, Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, left Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing in a tour that aims…

Scores of public sector employees in Gaza city took the streets on Tuesday morning in protesting of the delayed over due salaries. The protest took place near the headquarters of…

The Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and attacked residents' houses in Balata refugee camp and in the eastern side of the city on Tuesday morning. Troops…

The Israeli army conducted a number of invasions across West Bank cities, towns and villages and took prisoner 21 residents and injured another three on Tuesday morning. In Siliat Al…

Last Wednesday, a 70-year old Palestinian refugee in Iraq was abducted by a group that carried repeated attacks against the Palestinian refugees living in Iraq. The man, Tawfiq Abdul-Khaliq, Abu…

Israeli sources reported on Monday that the army took prisoner several members of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad in Qabatia town, near the West…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. For Monday, November 27th, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.0MB || time:5m29s   A fighter and a…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, attacked residents' homes, then took prisoner three residents on Monday at dawn. Troops attackled scores of houses in several neighborhoods…

A group of illegal settlers attacked Palestinian school kids going back home to the Tell Rumeida neighborhood in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday afternoon. Wourod Shabanah,…

Israeli forces attacked Palestinian residents of the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday morning at took prisoner three residents. Troops have been conducting a search campaign since the early…

Neither Democrats nor Republicans are prepared to say a word in opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to add far-right Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu…

A senior source at the Palestinian government, headed by Hamas movement, reported on condition of anonymity that the movement fired the head of Na'lin village council, west of Ramallah, after…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Monday that Israel insists on unilaterally drawing its borders, totally rejecting the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees, and that Israel will…

Senior Palestinian sources reported on Monday that Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, will head to Cairo on Tuesday for meetings with Egyptian officials to discuss the issues of National Unity Government,…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus attacked residents' houses then took prisoner three residents on Monday at dawn. Troops attackled scores of houses in several neighborhoods…

Mahmoud Al Sa’dy, one of the prominent leaders of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, demanded the Palestinian factions to reject any truce with Israel if it does not include the…

Israeli Prime Minster, Ehud Olmert, stated on Monday that ceasefire is practical level that could create a suitable environment for negotiations with the Palestinians and possible talks on a final…

An Israeli army convoy invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, surrounded a house and took prisoner one resident on Monday morning. Army vehicles invaded Wad Saheen neighborhood in…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Nahalen village, west of Bethlehem City, south of the West Bank and took prisoner four residents on Monday morning. Army vehicles and soldiers…

Israeli forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia and took prisoner three residents on Monday at dawn. Troops stormed and searched several houses and took Lu'ai Furij, 32,…

Palestinian sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank report on Monday morning that one fighter and one woman were killed in an Israeli invasion to the…

Palestine will not be able to join the Fifteenth Asian Games in Qatar 2006 due to the Israeli closure imposed on the Gaza Strip, media sources reported. Palestine’s participation was…

Palestinian Minister of Tourism, Eng. Judeh Markus said the Paestinian Authority decided to allocate 50 thousand dollars to decorate Bethlehem on Christmas, Palestine News Network reported on Sunday. The decorations…

An expanded panel of the Israeli High Court of Justice, headed by Justice Aharon Barak, rejected on Sunday  petitions against the route of the Annexation Wall near the village of…

Ghazi Hamad, Palestinian Government spokesperson from the Hamas movement, said on Sunday that the government will not allow any faction to violate the ceasefire as long as Israel is committed…

After three days of continuous military offensive in the norther part of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops withdrew leaving scenes of destruction, twenty-three Palestinian dead and hundreds of injuries. The…

Palestinian armed groups offered a ceasefire with Israel starting on Sunday at 6 a.m, in exchange to an Israeli halt of all attacks, assassinations, and military escalation. Israel said that…

Palestinian medical sources in in the Gaza Strip reported that two Palestinians were killed, on Saturday at night and several others injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a…

Detainee Rabee' Ali Hussein Ali, was paralyzed after soldiers fired on November 24, 2006, several rounds of live ammunition at him, one of the bullets directly hit his spine causing…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday afternoon that Israeli soldiers shelled several houses, east of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.…

One woman was injured by Israeli fire in Al Qarara town north of Khan Younis city, in the souther part of the Gaza strip on Saturday. Fawziyya Al Malaha, 40,…

Israeli troops took prisoner three residents of Beit Ola village, north west of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, on Saturday morning. Troops invaded the village…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed on resident in Al Sehikh Zayid neighborhood in Beit Lahia town, in the noprthern part of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday midday. Ahmad Lubbad, 22,…

Israeli troops shot and critically injured one boy in Sa'er village, north east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday. Jihad Al Furokh, 15, was injured by…

Israeli forces broke into a local TV station and a number houses in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday mourning, Palestinian sources reproted. Eyewitnesses said that troops…

Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians and injured another two on Saturday at dawn, Palestinian medical sources reproted. Dr. Muawieh Hasaneen, head of the emergency and ambulances department at the Palestinian…

Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, is to head a delegation to Lebanon, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to assess the human rights situation in the area following…

Palestinian sources reported on Friday night after midnight that Israeli soldiers fired a shell at a residential building in Sheikh Zayid city, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part…

Friday evening, Israeli troops took prisoner one fighter of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement, after he was shot and injured by the army in Ramallah…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip, reported on Friday evening that one resident died of wounds sustained three weeks ago in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file  12.5 MB || 13m35s   This Week in Palestine, a service of…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government's Disengagement Administration (Sela) has paid millions of shekels in compensation to dozens of settlers families who were evacuated from illegal settlement…

This Friday in Bil'in, some 250 Palestinians and 50 Israeli and international peace activists carried the weekly protest against the Israeli annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near the West Bank…

Friday evening, three Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli military fire in Tal Qleibo area, east of Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One of…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Friday evening that two residents were injured in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The two were injured after the army,…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territories in the period between November 16 and 22, and…

Palestinian source in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one member of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas was shot and…

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Thursday afternoon that fifteen residents were killed and forty-seven were injured  in the period between Wednesday until Friday afternoon, after Israeli decided to…

The Israeli army took seven residents prisoner in two separate invasions in Jenin city refugee camp in the north of the West Bank and Taqua village near Bethlehem city in…

The Israeli army shot and killed one resident and critically wounded a 9-year old boy, in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday morning   Palestinian medical sources reported that Ayman…

A senior Palestinian source reported on Thursday evening that Palestinian armed groups offered Israel a limited cease fire in exchange to an Israeli suspension of all attacks and operations in…

A total of six Palestinians were killed by Israeli military fire and shelling in several areas in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. One woman was also killed when she detonated…

Palestinian sources reported that two fighters of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, were killed,and three residents were injured, on Thursday evening after the…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday at night that one woman from Jabalia town carried a suicide bombing among Israeli troops operating in the town, the woman…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. For Thursday, November 23rd, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.41MB || time:4m31   Two are killed in…

Palestinian medical sources on Gaza reported on Thursday afternoon that one resident was killed after Israeli plane fired one missile at a group of residents east of Jabalia town north…

Israeli security sources reported that soldiers took four residents prisoner, near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. The four according to the Israeli security are Islamic Jihad…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Qarawit Bani Hassan near the West Bank city of Salfit, demolished one house and one sheep shad on Thursday. The house and the…

Palestinian sources in Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that a senior Hamas leader was moderately injured after unknown gunmen opened fire at him earlier on…

Thursday, Israeli soldiers took five residents prisoner in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank. Palestinian security sources in Hebron reported that soldiers broke into several houses,…

Israeli helicopters fired their heavy machine guns towards residents' houses in Jabalyia town in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday at noon. Residents reported a lot of damage to their…

Nidal Mansour, 25, was taken prisoner by the Israeli forces that invaded the West Bank city of Jericho on Thursday at dawn. Troops and army jeeps stormed the city center,…

The Israeli army invaded the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin north of the West Bank and took prisoner four residents on Thursday morning. A number of army vehicles stormed…

The Israeli forces invaded Ein Beit Al Ma' in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and took prisoner two residents on Thursday morning. Wajdi Barakat, 19, and Mustafa, Abu…

Khaled Mashaal, chief o f the politburo of Hamas arrived in Cairo on Thursday for talks with Egyptian officials, political sources reported. Khaled who heads a delegation of senior Hamas…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Wednesday at night one fighter of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin. A senior leader of the…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that one child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. One…

Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) at the Negev detention facility confined seven Palestinian detainees to solitary without any apparent reason. The detainees were informed that they will be moved to another…

Palestinians sources in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one fighters was killed on Wednesday evening by military fire of the Israeli under-cover forces.…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. For Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.41MB || time:5m54s The army continues its offensive…

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior decided on Wednesday to suspend and arrest any person who participated in the abduction of internationals since the current government took office. Khaled Abu Hilal,…

All foreign passports belonging to spouses and children of Palestinian ID-holders who had applied for visa extensions have recently been marked as “last permit” by the Israeli authorities. One hundred…

The Israeli security cabinet held a session on Wednesday morning and decided to continue the military offensive in the Gaza Strip without any changes to the current operations, but by…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip, reported that several residents were injured on Wednesday morning, among them school children. The Israeli army continued its invasion to the city that…

Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that an agreement of a National Unity Government is the way to enforce law and order, and ensure security for the Palestinian people.…

As the Israeli military continued its offensive in Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Israeli military sources that one soldier was moderately hurt during exchanges…

Israeli troops shot and injured five residents and took one prisoner after invading the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Wednesday morning. At least ten…

Israeli army naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats near the coast of Rafah beach,  in southern Gaza and injured one on Wednesday at dawn. The fishermen reported that…

The Israeli forces took prisoner five residents during a dawn invasion to the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Wednesday. Troops entered the city of Nablus from…

  The army invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and the nearby Nuor Shams refugee camp, and took prisoner one resident on Wednesday morning. Local residents reported that four…

At least one Palestinian man was killed as a result of the Israeli ongoing shelling at the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources reproted.  The man was identified as…

The many shades of the Palestinian national unity government are subtle.  It is the Palestinian dream, so as to break the unjust international economic siege against the Palestinian people. Hamas,…

Detainee Amna Mona, has been confined to solitary since October 5, 2006, and is facing very harsh conditions, humiliation and deprived of her internationally guaranteed rights, the Palestinian Prisoner Society…

Ten hours after they were abducted by an unknown group in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the two Italian citizens, working with the International Committee…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday night after midnight Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and fired rounds of live ammunition. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers, backed by…

The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has urged the world community, especially countries hosting Palestinian refugees, to annul those refugees' internationally-recognized right of return to their homeland (what is now…

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders considered Israeli detention of a Palestinian Human Rights fieldworker a flagrant violation of article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil…

The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that the group is developing its military capabilities, and that it will not agree to any truce with Israel as…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 21st, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.78 || time:6m19s Two were killed in southern…

The Syrian government slammed on Monday the assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister, Pierre Gemayel, who was shot to death near Beirut, on Tuesday. The Syrian official news agency announced the…

A factory in the Israeli town of Sderot, located less than 5 kilometers from the Gaza Strip, caught fire Tuesday morning after being hit by a homemade shell fired by…

Pierre Gemayel, a Lebanese cabinet minister and member of the Christian Phalange party, has been shot dead in Beirut. His convoy was attacked in a Christian neighbourhood. Gemayel, son of…