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An Israeli force invaded Al Far'a refugee camp south of the West Bank city of Tubas on Monday morning. Six army vehicles and one bulldozer stormed the refugee camp and…

Mohammed Al-Ojul, 17, Rami Abu-Tarbosh, 17, were taken prisoner by Israeli soldiers stationed at a mobile military checkpoint East of Bethlehem on Sunday night. The checkpoint was located at the…

Israeli forces surrounded the Grand Mosque during evening prayers Monday in Al-Khader village, near Bethlehem, and arrested worshippers as they left the mosque.  Three were injured in the ensuing clashes.…

The month of Ramadan is a time for fasting during daytime and feasting at night, but this year's Ramadan in Palestine looks to be especially bleak for a population under…

The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas stated Sunday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is asking for the release of Fatah party leader Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned by Israel since July 2004, and…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, from the Hamas party, said on Sunday that the movement has serious intentions to form a national unity government, and that the movement is interested…

Palestinian medical sources in Bethlehem, reported on Sunday at night that one child was injured by Israeli military fire in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. The child, Ghassan Imad Salah,…

In the West Bank, Israeli troops wounded six Palestinian citizens at dawn Sunday in two separate incidents in Nablus and Jenin cities. According to Palestinian hospital sources, four Palestinian citizens…

The Israeli troops stationed inside the Ibrahimi mosque in the occupied Palestinian town of Hebron, apparently disturbed by an increase in worshippers entering the mosque since the Muslim holy month…

Israeli soldiers stationed at the Qalandia Crossing, south of the West Bank city of Ramallah, detained reporters working with Dubai satellite Channel after claiming that they attacked and hit a…

Israeli soldiers stationed at the Qalandia Crossing, south of the West Bank city of Ramallah, detained reporters working with Dubai satellite Channel after claiming that they attacked and hit a…

The Iz Ed-Deen Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, stated on  Saturday that it will not “remain silent towards the attempts of insurgence by…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that talks for the formation of a National Unity Government have collapsed back to square zero. The statements of Abbas came after the…

Islamic leaders, including Chief Justice Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, are expressing deep concern over the Israeli government excavation of a new tunnel near the Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem’s…

After a recent attack carried by unknown gunmen at a Greek Orthodox Church in Rafidia neighborhood in Nablus, Father Yousef Saada called on the Palestinian Authority to take a firm…

Six Palestinian churches in the West  Bank and Gaza Strip suffered damage and arson attempts in reaction  to the words of Pope Benedict XVI. Palestinian spokesmen of all stripes condemned…

An expert in international law and an  old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress  a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael…

An group of unknown gunmen opened fire at a Latin Church in the Rafidia neighborhood in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday at dawn. Palestinian police officers, who…

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, decided to open the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt for two days to allow Palestinian residents to cross into and from Egypt.  …

Israeli air force shelled on Friday at night a Palestinian house in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. At least one missile hit a house that belongs…

The recent report from the World Bank, An Update on Palestinian Movement, Access and Trade in the West Bank and Gaza, vividly illustrates the damage that is being done to…

At the weekly anti-Wall protest in Bil’in village today, around 75 villagers, internationals and Israelis tried to march to the site of the illegal Wall construction on village land, but…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 8.7MB|| time: 9m28s   This Week in Palestine, a service of the…

Israeli forces invaded Bal'a village near the West Bank city of Tulkarem and attacked one house that belongs to Anwar Al Wawi. Local sources reported that soldiers searched, ransacked and…

Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby villages of Dir Abu Da'ef and Jalabon, on Friday.   Troops invaded Jenin and fired rounds of live…

Israeli forces imposes full closure on the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip to prevent the entry of Palestinians into Israel as it celebrates the Jewish Rosh Hashanah (New…

The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is being challenged by the Palestinian government of acting as a mouthpiece for the United States government, and misrepresenting the Palestinian demands during his visit…

In an urgent letter sent by the detainees to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the detainees in Be'er Sheva Israeli prison appealed human rights organizations to save the life of…

The Director of the Center for the Right of Return for Refugees reiterated Friday that UN Resolution 194 is nonnegotiable.   Two-thirds of Palestinians are refugees and are not about…

In a meeting with the UN General Assembly Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assured his listeners that any national unity government he negotiated with Hamas would recognize Israel’s right to…

A road side bomb planted by Palestinian resistance fighters exploded near an Israeli army vehicle in the West Bank city of Nablus, injuring seven soldiers on Friday morning.   The…

Israeli forces invaded the village of Tammoun, near the West Bank city of Tubas, late on Thursday at night and took three residents prisoners. The three were identified as Ahmad…

The Al-Aqsa brigades, the main armed group affiliated with the Fatah movement has claimed responsibility on Thursday for launching two "Aqsa 103" homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Sderot.…

Israeli security sources said on Thursday that a comprehensive closure would be imposed on the West Bank and Gaza starting on Friday until further notice during the Jewish New Year…

Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew…

Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said on Thursday that he decided to open the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt for two days to allow Palestinian residents to cross…

Israeli Vice Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, met on Thursday with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on the sidelines of the  United Nations General Assembly in New York. Peres told Abbas…

The Israeli government is ongoing with its expansion plans in the occupied West Bank; on Thursday, it issued tender bids to build 164 new homes for settlers in three settlements…

Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.9MB|| time: 6m24s   Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle…

For years human rights organizations have pointed out the complicity between the Israel Defense Forces command headquarters in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israeli settlers, nurtured by policies intended to…

Israeli troops stationed at the gate of the Israeli wall surrounding the village of Qarawit Bani Hassan , near the West Bank city of Salfit, closed the gate on Thursday…

Members of the International Women’s Commission met with other women leaders at the UN Wednesday to discuss reopening peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Results were generally positive, drawing…

In separate Israeli attacks on both the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip early Thursday, five Palestinians have been killed, two of whom bled to death in Rafah…

The Israeli Salem military court extended the detention order of a student from Salfit, in the West Bank, for additional six months without any charges. The student Fawwaz Abdul-Bassit Maali,…

Israeli troops took five residents as prisoners on Thursday in two separate incidents in Nablus area, in the northern part of the West Bank. Three of the detainees, including two…

The circular logic that pervades pro-Israeli rhetoric today is in fact undermining the security of the Jewish State, and feeding the fire of anti-Jewish sentiment worldwide. This logic can be…

An Israeli military force invaded the city of Tubas, in the norther part of the West Bank and injured a number of civilians, Thursday noon. Local sources reported that troops…

Voicing dismay that the conflict in the Middle East has become "the epicentre of global instability," French President Jacques Chirac told world leaders who gathered today for the United Nations…

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York, said that the solution of the Palestinian cause does not mean an Israeli withdrawal…

Undercover Israeli army units stormed a farm near the village of Abu Da'eif, east of the West Bank city of Jenin, and took three prisoners, on Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses reported…

Israeli troops backed by twenty military vehicles and jeeps, invaded on Thursday morning the West Bank city of Bethlehem, surrounded one home and arrested two residents, Palestinian sources in the…

Nassem Al Khzari, 32, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an incursion into the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday morning. Army vehicles and troops entered the…

Polls show that Prime Minister Olmert’s approval ratings have dropped to 22 percent, from 48 percent six weeks ago.  Defense Minister Amir Peretz is in trouble with a 14 percent…

Hamza Al Sha'lan, 19, Ahmad Sabah, 27, were taken prisoners during an Israeli army incursion into the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday morning. Several army vehicles stormed the…

Abbas met foreign officials Wednesday to discuss the current social and political situation in the Occupied Territories as it relates to Israel.  The President met with leaders from Spain, the…

Israeli Forces wounded two teenagers in the West Bank city of Tubas on Wednesday. Security sources told the WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces backed by tanks and armoured vehicles…

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met on Wednesday with the US president, Georg W. Bush, in New York, and held talks on efforts to revive the stalled peace process, the National…

The Israeli human rights group B'tselem recently reported an incident of abuse by Israeli soldiers against two young Palestinian men.  Today, the group's investigation of the incident has led to…

There were many places I wanted to see in Palestine this June and Nablus was certainly one of them. Many people were telling me not to go. It was not…

Brian Avery, an American peace activist shot in the face by Israeli forces in 2003, has sought for a thorough investigation of his case since his injury, but the Israeli…

Palestinian sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Wednesday at night that under-cover forces of the Israeli army abducted seven Palestinians, including a leader…

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It is essential to reflect on this background before one can comprehend the widespread outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remarks in Germany. Imagine, for a moment, how much more enjoyable…

The Israeli police team investigating charges of sexual harassment against against the Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, estimated that they have enough evidence to press charges against him. The charges include…

A massive demonstration was organized Wednesday morning in the West Bank city of Hebron against the Pope’s comments on Islam and its Prophet Mohammad and the Israeli army moved to…

Mohammad Shahine, 50, from Al ‘Azaria south of Jerusalem was denied entry to Jerusalem by Israeli troops Wednesday morning.  Shahine, a cancer patient, was going to Jerusalem for surgery as…

Israeli troops installed Wednesday afternoon a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Tubas.   The checkpoint was installed between the village of Tamoun / Al Fara’a refugee camp…

Israeli Knesset “Ethics Committee “ decided to ban Arab members of Knesset Jamal Zahalka and Ibrahim Sarsour  from the Knesset for three days over a trip they made to Syria…

To ease the economic burden of thousands of Palestinian families, the Palestinian Ministry of Transport requested that a less costly form of gas be available for automobiles.  If the Council…

Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Fourik at dawn on Wednesday, set one house ablaze and took one person prisoner. Soldiers surrounded the house of Ferass Militat, 30, and…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that one resident was killed, another was injured, after the Israeli army fired a tank shell at a group of…

Hamas retracted its original agreement to include the 2002 Arab peace initiative in the proposed national unity government with Fatah, party officials said Tuesday.  Hamas officials are against the initiative’s…

An Israeli force invaded the Dohaisha refugee camp in the southern part of West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday. Troops conducted a wide scale search campaign in the refugee…

Bashar Bsharat, 24, was taken to an unknown location by the Israeli army troops who invaded Tamon village near the West Bank city of Tubass on Wednesday morning. Israeli troops…

Siraj Yousif, 23, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an incursion to Al Doha town west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday at dawn. A…

The Israeli army invaded several cities in the West Bank and broke into money changers' shops and banks, confiscating some 1.5 million USD, on Wednesday morning.  The seizure of cash…

Hanan Abu Odah, 15, from Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza strip, died on Wednesday morning of wounds she sustained last month in an Israeli attack that killed…

Following on a statement by an Israeli commander that the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during the war, the majority of which were fired…

Despite the rising tension this past weekend between Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas movement, it is safe to assume that soon a government of national unity…

Every Palestinian detainee has his own story of the horrors of being held in Israeli detention facilities, but in the case of detainee Luay Al Ashqar, 28, from Saida village,…

Detainee Suad Abu Hamad, from Nazareth, said that female detainees in Telmond Israeli prison are facing harsh procedures and collective punishment after the prison administration claimed that two detainees attempted…

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Israeli Undercover army units abducted a resident of Burkeen village, south west of the West Bank city of Jenin, on Tuesday morning. The man was identified as Abd-Allah Atik, 30,…

The crowd of men, women and children assembling outside Ramallah’s Ashtar Theatre on a hot August Friday evening is decidedly diverse, running the gamut from veiled Palestinian women to a…

Khalil Nawaja, in his 70s, was attacked with sticks and pipes Monday evening by a group of seven Israeli settlers with their faces covered.  An Israeli soldier was escorting the…

Israeli online daily Haaretz quoted Meretz member of Knesset Ran Cohen stating that Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, said on Tuesday that the Israeli soldiers will pull out…

A group of unknown gunmen attacked and damaged the offices of the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA,in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza strip on Tuesday afternoon. According…

Israeli forces stormed the West Bank city of Nablus and Osren nearby village, taking seven prisoners on Tuesday. Soldiers troops stormed Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, and took Rashad…

An extremist group of Jewish settlers living in Sousia illegal settlement outpost attacked and severely punched an elderly man, near Yatta town, south of Hebron in the southern part of…

Since the Israeli occupation in 1967, Israeli forces have arrested 700,000 Palestinian residents of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem according to a report issued Tuesday by the…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met at the UN headquarters in New York Monday to discuss the current political situation in Israel and Palestine.  Considered…

Khalil Al Nawaj'a, 79, was moved to hospital after being attacked by Israeli settlers in Yatta village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning. The settlers…

Taufik Abu Mihassen, 52, was injured during an incursion by the Israeli army into the West Bank city of Tubas on Tuesday morning. According to local residents several army vehicles…

  Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Shawawra east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and took two prisoners on Tuesday morning. Nidal Raba'a, 20, and Ala' Salem…

Two West Bank residents were killed by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning, one of them a pregnant woman who was delayed at an army checkpoint. Bushra Sultan, 27, from…

GUESS WHOSE words these are: "Starting this war was a scandal…It was possible to solve the problem of the missiles in South Lebanon by diplomatic means…The offensive of the last…

Palestinian sources reported, on Monday evening, that a woman died on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing. The woman, Aghfra Mohammad Al Arja, died as a result of…

Chief Islamic Justice for Palestine, Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, said Monday that attacks on churches in Palestine and anywhere in the Islamic world contravene the teachings of Islam, and that…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday at night that the Israeli army and air force shelled a Palestinian house in Rafah, in the southern part of the…

A Bedouin family near the village of Sussiya in Hebron was visited today by a group of internationals and Palestinians working for the PSP (Palestine Solidarity Project) and International solidarity…