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Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 15, 2006..|| Click here to Download MP3 file 4.25MB || time:4m38s In the West Bank,…

Ahmad Al Afeefy, head of the Palestinian Football Association said on Wednesday that the team was unable to participate in the Asian World Cup due to the Israeli closure of…

Palestinians living under Israeli occupation aspire to liberation and freedom, but eighteen years after the Palestinian leadership, from exile, announced the Palestinian independence day, the Palestinian people are still under…

The Israeli army invaded Al Doha town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem for the second time on Wednesday afternoon and took another prisoner. Soldiers attacked the house…

  The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, searched and ransacked residents' houses and took two brothers prisoner on Wednesday at dawn. Residents…

The Israeli army invaded Dora village and Al Fuwar Refugee Camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Wednesday morning and took two prisoners. Troops attacked residents' houses…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assured Hamas that the boycott will be lifted despite their refusal to recognize Israel; rather it is conditioned on a non-partisan government of technocrats, according to…

President Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday night in Cairo, with David Welch, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, for an update on the meeting held between…

Wednesday morning, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met in Cairo with the Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and discussed the ongoing efforts to revive the Peace Process in the Middle East and…

The town of Azzun 'Atma has come to represent the worst of the worst of the effects of the Israeli Wall in the West  Bank. The small town is in…

On Wednesday soldiers abducted a mother of five  from Doura town, near Hebron in the south of the West Bank, in order to pressurise her wanted husband to surrender, Palestinian…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, searched and ransacked residents houses on Wednesday at dawn. Residents said that more than 17 army…

Israeli forces invaded the town of Al Doha west of Bethlehem, in the souther part of the West Bank, and took prisoner one resident on Wednesday morning. Troops stormed the…

A group of Palestinian resistance fighters fired on Wednesday morning seven homemade Qassam shells into the western Israeli Negev town of Sederot. One 57 year old woman was killed and…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Shin Bet security service chief, Yuval Diskin, stated on Tuesday that the government must prepare for a "military option" in Gaza, and claimed…

Palestinian Legislator, head of the detainees committee at the Legislative Council, Issa Qaraqe', said that the number of Palestinians being taken prisoner by Israeli forces has sharply increased as the…

The European Union has agreed to extend its mission on the Gaza-Egypt border crossing for additional six months, EU officials stated on Tuesday.   The decision came after EU Foreign…

A report prepared by the Israeli embassy in Russia revealed that the number of Russian Jews who left the country back to Russia arrived to 50.000, while three years ago…

On November 8, 2006 at around 2:00 am, under-cover units of the Israeli army shot and killed five Palestinians in Al Yamoun village, near Jenin, in the northern part of…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday November 14, 2006.|| Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s   A…

Members of the Hamas movement will still hold key positions in the nearly formed national unity government of Palestine and according to Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas will not settle…

Sources from the Palestinian preventative security forces working in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the forces managed to arrest two Gaza residents working as agents for the Israeli secret…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army controlling the border crossing in or out of Gaza is refusing to allow patients with severe…

A special Israeli army force invaded the village of Al Thahria, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday morning. Soldiers searched a number of houses, ransacked them…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia and took prisoner a photo journalist on Tuesday morning. Troops stormed the city and searched several houses including the house…

Israeli forces attacked the village of Harmalah, south east of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank and took prisoner five residents on Tuesday morning. Army vehicles and troops entered…

Palestinian medical sources reported that Mohamed Mekhiz, 21, died on Tuesday morning of wounds he sustained during the Israeli army attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza strip last…

Army invaded Ein Al Ma' refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus and killed Baha' Khater, 20, on Tuesday at dawn.   Local sources said that an Israeli…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported, on Monday at night, that soldiers shelled several homes in Al Mawassi area, and Al Qarara town, near Khan Younis, in the southern…

Palestinian sources reported on Monday at night that the rival Fateh and Hamas movements agreed on the formation of a National Unity Government headed by Mohammad Abu Shbeir. Abu Shbeir…

Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday  November 13, 2006. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.27MB || time: 5m 45s In…

Gilad Atzmon highlights the inherent contradictions in the views of Israeli Zionist author David Grossman who appears to espouse peace with the Palestinians but shows worrying signs of Jewish supremacism.…

    Dar Al Salam hospital (the House of Peace Hospital), along with the science and technology university departments in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern part of…

Israeli authorities released on November 6, 2006, detainee Marwan Ali Jabbour from Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He was taken prisoner by Israel on the…

The Israeli army invaded Al Doha Village on the western side of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and took prisoner six residents on Monday at noon. Several army vehicles…

The Israeli soldiers stationed at Za'tara military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus detained a Palestinian ambulance who was carrying a severe case patent on Monday morning. The…

The Israeli army started to install a barbed wire fence on the southern farm lands that belong to Azon Village, south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday…

Senior officials of Fateh and Hamas movements resumed their talks on the formation of a national unity government. The two movements held an extended meeting last night that concentrated on…

The Israeli army started to bulldoze farm lands and uproot trees that belong to the residents of Wadi Rahal Village, south of he West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday…

Israeli troops operating in Rafah at the southern border of the Gaza Strip attacked and took over one Palestinian home on Monday morning. Soldiers took over the roof top of…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem late Sunday night and took one child prisoner. More that 10 army jeeps entered the city from the western entrance and…

The Israeli army invaded Ein Beit Al Ma' refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and took prisoner two residents on Monday at dawn. Troops and army vehicles…

The late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who died on November 12th, 2004, was remembered today in simultaneous rallies held in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Gaza City, Rafah, Jenin and Beit Hanoun. In…

Israeli Authorities plan to annex Palestinians lands in Anata town, north of Jerusalem, for the construction of the Annexation Wall and for “military purposes”. The decision (T -06/84) states that…

Sunday evening, leaders of Hamas and Fateh movements met in order to finalize the details of the upcoming National Unity Government. The meeting was held at the presidential headquarters in…

Arab Foreign Minister decided during an urgent summit in Cairo to break the siege imposed on the Palestinians and to transfer aid money to the Palestinian Authority. Secretary of the…

Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one youth died of wounds sustained on November 6, in Beit Hanoun, in the…

Israeli soldiers, and border-guard forces, invaded on Sunday at night Batteer village, near Bethlehem, broke into several houses and searched them, the Palestine News Network reported (PNN). The invasion is…

Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest…

A Palestinian was wounded Sunday in al-Qarara town, north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, when Israeli troops opened random fire towards citizens' houses in the area, local…

Standing at 6'1, with strong build, a full beard, and long dark hair, Yehuda Shaul seems like an unassuming young man. Wearing dark cargo pants, and a long-sleeved blue shirt,…

In the town of Beit Hanoun, the site of an Israeli shelling that killed eighteen civilians on Wednesday, another child was killed Sunday by the ongoing Israeli shelling of the…

Sunday at noon, Israeli soldiers invaded Al Zababda village, south east of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. Local sources reported that at least fifty military vehicles…

Israeli soldiers took prisoner one employee of the Hebron office of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, the Palestinian News Agency,…

Israeli troops abducted on Saturday morning four residents of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the West Bank, as they were heading to Ramallah to attend a ceremony commemorating the…

Israeli soldiers abducted on Saturday evening one resident from Thannaba village, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Resident Ashraf Bilal Al Tabbal, 19, was taken prisoner after soldier stopped…

Egyptians detainees continue their hunger strike in Israeli prison in protest of being held without a legal cause or trial. On Saturday the Egyptian Consul in the Egyptian Embassy in…

On the second anniversary of the death of the late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority headed by Hamas has affirmed that it is determined to solve the mystery…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that the National Unity Government will be formed, in spite of all the difficulties, by the end of this month and that the…

A 65 year old woman attracted international attention to the plight of Palestinian olive farmers when she grabbed hold of the trunk of an olive tree, refusing to allow Israeli…

Lebanese sources reported on Friday at night that one Hezbollah fighter was killed when an Israeli cluster bomb exploded as he was clearing unexploded ordnance in southern Lebanon. The fighter…

Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr. Yousef Rizqa, said on Friday that the National Unity Government should not be formed before president Mahmoud Abbas receives American and Israeli guarantees that the…

Thousands of Arab residents of Israel held on Friday in a regional protest against the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the recent killing of twenty-one civilians, including several…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Awwa village, near Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and took five resident prisoner. Local sources reported that soldiers broke into…

Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file  8.7 MB || 09m 27s This Week In Palestine, a service…

In the village of Bil'in today, more than a hundred people, including Palestinians, Israelis and internationals, held a nonviolent protest to challenge the Israeli Wall and attacks, as well as…

The Israeli government imposed restrictions on West Bank residents, including prisoners as part of Israel’s high state of alert after the killings in Beit Hanoun that left 20 civilians dead.…

Just two days after an Israeli attack in Gaza killed 18 civilians, many of them children, the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has announced that he would be willing to…

In response to the Israeli military assault on the town of Beit Hanoun that left over 75 Palestinians dead in one week, including 18 civilians killed in an artillery strike…

Several Arab countries condemned the Beit Hanoun Israeli military attack that against civilian houses that left twenty residents killed, including eight children. The Palestinians demanded sanctions against Israel while Washington…

Former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei is among the members of a new committee formed between Hamas and Fateh factions to hash out details of the new coalition government. Leftist…

Palestinian medical sources in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one resident died of wounds sustained in the town last Wednesday after the Israeli…

Israeli police detained about 30 gay pride activists in Jerusalem Friday for secretly planning a parade in violation of an earlier decision agreed upon by police and parade organizers to…

Israeli army officers closed the old city area of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Palestinian worshipers whose ages are less than 45 on Friday. There is a strong presence…

One resident of Al Khader village was taken prisoner during a morning invasion to the village by Israeli troops on Friday. Troops searched houses and fired sound bombs and live…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning and took two prisoners. The two were known as Ahmad Habib, 45, and Yasser Iskafi, 45. They…

The Israeli forces took one resident prisoner from Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem during a Friday morning invasion. Local sources reported that members of the Israeli secret police Shin-Bit…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Habla south of Qalqilia city north of the West Bank and took two residents prisoner on Friday morning. Troops stormed the village and…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday night after midnight Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and the Jenin refugee camp, and fired rounds of live ammunition. The…

The Palestinians of southern Bethlehem's Wadi Rahal Village engaged in nonviolent resistance Thursday by demonstrating at the site of land confiscation for Wall construction in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers…

Israeli media and security sources reported on Thursday evening that one settler was apparently abducted in  Betar Illit settlement, south of Jerusalem. The report was not officially confirmed. Israeli Jerusalem…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.6MB || time: 6m4s   Palestine Today, a service of the…

Thursday morning, approximately 1,500 demonstrators protested against the recent demolition of Arab homes in the unrecognized villages of the Negev. The demonstrators marched from the Beer-Sheva Market to the offices…

Palestinian lawmaker, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, called on Thursday on the International Community to send an impartial international probe committee to investigate the Israeli attacks and “crimes” carried by the army…

Renewed violence in Gaza is again raising serious concerns about the welfare of civilians, including children. Over the past week, the armed conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated…

The Israeli army opened fire at the residents' houses in the village of Al Faraheem near Khan Younis city south of the Gaza strip on Thursday morning. Local sources reported…

The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and a nearby village of Taqua, troops took prisoner four residents on Thursday morning. In the city of Bethlehem,…

The Israeli troops stationed at a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus took prisoner one resident after stopping and hitting him on Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses said…

The Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Sawahra Al Sharkia, south of  Jerusalem on Thursday and took prisoner one resident. Troops attacked the houses of Jameel Ja'fa in the…

Five Palestinians were injured on Thursday by the Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron. Clashes erupted in several neighborhoods of the city between the local youth and…

The Federation of Unions of Health Care Professionals continues to strike against unpaid salaries despite a recent government plan to pay all salaries owed to the health care employees since…

Palestinians inside the Green Line are holding a nonviolent sit-in throughout Tuesday in protest of the Israeli decision to build a Jewish museum on the ruins of an Islamic cemetery,…

Palestinians inside the Green Line are holding a nonviolent sit-in throughout Tuesday in protest of the Israeli decision to build a Jewish museum on the ruins of an Islamic cemetery,…

The Al Aqsa Foundation for Protecting Islamic Holy Sites reported on Thursday morning that under-cover forces of the Israeli army detained dozens of school students in Jerusalem as they were…

Seven days later and over 80 Palestinians dead, Palestinians living inside Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip participate in the first of a three-day mourning period to remember those…

Israeli police and army officers attacked Palestinian protesters who were protesting peacefully Thursday morning against the massacre in Beit Hanoun, which killed 20 civilians Wednesday. The protest, organized by the…

Palestinians sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that Israeli forces invaded the Jenin refugee camp, exchanged fire with resistance fighters of the Al Aqsa…

Israeli forces invaded Qabatiya town, near the West Bank city of Jenin, broke into several houses and searched  them several houses before taking Mohammad Bsharat to an unknown location. Also…