Army invades Artas village near Bethlehem
Israeli Army units with invaded the village of Artas south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops broke into several homes in the village and searched them. Among the…
Army seals off Tubas-Tiaseer road
Israeli troops sealed off on Wednesday at dawn the Tubas- Tiaseer road near the West Bank city of Tubas. Soldiers closed the road and barred the vehicles from driving on…
One resident arrested in Rommana village near Jenin
The Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the village of Rommana west of the West Bank city of Jenin, and arrested one resident. Mohamed Amro 24 , resident of…
Peace Now movement visits Modi’n Elite settlement
Delegates of Peace Now leftist movement visited Modi’n Elite settlement, west of Ramallah, in order to report on the implementation of a project which will lead to the construction of…
Israeli Army to enforce Gaza buffer zone within hours
In the first stage of its plans to create a northern Gaza buffer zone, which is claimed to keep Palestinians from firing Qassam home made shells into Israel, Israeli air…
Fateh breakaway faction says in will unite with Abbas
The breakaway Fateh faction has formally announced, on Wednesday, that it would reunite with the Fateh elections list in the January 25 legislative elections, ending a dangerous split in the…
Palestinian Gunmen take over election offices in Khan Younis
Dozens of masked Palestinian gunmen took over election offices in the Gaza town of Khan Younis, on Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the ruling Fateh party from registering a…
Nonviolent resistance conference opens in Bethlehem
The International Popular (nonviolent) Resistance Conference opened on Tuesday night under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem with an attendance of 200 internationals from around the world…
Peretz’ peace plan; `“unified Jerusalem, retain settlement blocs`
The new political agenda of the Labor party in Israel is topped by a call for a unified Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel, thus rejecting any negotiations on…
Army shells Gaza, demands the residents to evacuate
Israeli war jets shelled several areas, on Wednesday shortly after midnight, in Al Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza strip, and demanded the residents of the northern Gaza strip…
Rockets fired at Keryat Shmoneh
An Israeli military source reported, on Tuesday at night, that Hezbollah fighters fired three Katyusha rockets at the Israeli northern town of Keryat Shmoneh; three homes were badly damaged.Firefighters and…
Rockets fired at Keryat Shmoneh
An Israeli military source reported, on Tuesday at night, that Hezbollah fighters fired Katyusha shells at the Israeli northern town of Keryat Shmoneh; one shell landed on a house, while…
Rockets fired at Keryat Shmoneh
An Israeli military source reported, on Tuesday at night, that Hezbollah fighters fired Katyusha shells at the Israeli northern town of Keryat Shmoneh; one shell landed on a house, while…
Peretz: `“Settlement outposts harms Israel’s image`
Israeli Labor Party chairman, Amir Peretz, slammed the policy of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, regarding illegal settlement outposts, and said that the they damage Israel’s image internationally. Israeli…
Report: ‘9200 detainees are imprisoned in Israeli prisons’
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported that 9200 Palestinian detainee are still detained in more than 28 Israeli prisons, detention facilities, and interrogation centers. The ministry released…
Al Aqsa Brigades: `“We did not break into public facilities`
Mohammad Hijazi, one of the prominent leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, in the Gaza Strip, said that Fateh is passing through a real crisis,…
Settler youths install 14 illegal outposts in the West Bank
Hundreds of settler youth installed 14 illegal settlement outposts in several West Bank areas, on Tuesday, in what was described by the Israeli media as a campaign to show their…
Five detainees of Hebron sentenced to high terms
The Ofer Israeli military court, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced on Monday evening, five detainees, from Hebron to high terms. Palestinenet news agency, reported that the…
Army levels a home in Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers leveled on Tuesday morning one morning, one home, in Al Aqaba neighborhood, in Beit Hanina area, north of Jerusalem. Resident Nabil Al Emwassi, the owner of…
Bethlehem hosts nonviolence conference with 350 attendees from around the world
This evening, the International Nonviolence Conference will open in Bethlehem under the auspices of the Holy Land Trust. The conference will continue over a three day period with the participation…
PICCR calls on the P.A to close political detention files
The Palestinian Independent Commission For Citizen’s Rights (PICCR )expressed its rejection to any illegal arrests against the Palestinian residents, and demanded the Palestinian Authority to releases all of the political…
Gunmen take over governor’s office in Gaza
A group of gunmen broke into and took over, on Tuesday morning, the governor’s office in northern Gaza, took positions inside the building, and demanded employment. Twenty-to-thirty gunmen, members of…
Army air-strikes northern Gaza
Israeli air force carried, on Tuesday at dawn, several strikes against areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, damage was reported; dozens of residents suffered shock. An Israeli…
Army arrests two residents from Hebron
Israeli army arrested, on Monday at dawn, two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron after invading it. A source at Anasr Al Sajeen Society (Prisoners Supports Society) in…
Army confiscates 231 Dunams in Hebron Area
Israeli army issued three military orders to confiscate 231 Dunams from the West Bank cities and villages of Al Thahiriyya, Al -Sammou’ and Yatta, south and south west of Hebron…
O Little Town
Bethlehem’s place in history began with a journey. It was to Bethlehem that Mary and Joseph traveled, twenty centuries ago, to find a safe harbor in which to give birth to…
Palestinian court allows Fateh to merge election lists
A Palestinian electoral court has allowed on Monday Fateh movement to submit a unified list after the movement managed to merge rival lists of candidates for the January legislative elections.…
Two Cocktail Molotov bomb hurled at Israeli jeep in Tulkarem
A Palestinian resistance group hurled ,on Sunday at night, two Cocktail Molotov bombs at Israeli jeep near Anabta village in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, no injures were reported.…
Army invades Nablus, search several houses
The Israeli army invaded, on Monday at dawn, the West Bank city of Nablus and conducted wide scale search in the city. Troops searched several houses including the house…
Army invades Bethlehem, one arrested
The Israeli Army invaded on Monday at dawn Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. Troops surrounded and invaded the house of…
Israeli army raises alert on borders with Lebanon
The Israel army announced this week that it was resuming a level of high alert along the northern border with Lebanon, after claiming that the intelligence received reports that the…
Arab residents of Israel to protest in Jerusalem
The directors and employees of local authorities of the Palestinians living in Israel will organize, on Tuesday, a Protest near the office of the Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon in…
Soldiers arrest a resident near Ramallah
An Israeli military source reported that soldiers arrested a resident at a military checkpoint which is installed near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The source claimed that the…
Army shells the northern Gaza Strip; homemade shells hit Sderot, Ashkelon
An Israeli military source reported that Israeli artillery fired several bombs at areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, after claiming the Palestinian resistance intended to fire homemade…
Sharon’s new party: `“More lands, less Arabs`
Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published a report on the Political Agenda of Sharon’s new part, Kadima, and revealed that Sharon intends to use the Road Map plan in accordance to…
Tenders to build 228 settler houses in West Bank
The Israeli Housing and Construction Ministry on Monday released tenders to construct 228 new settler houses in two West Bank settlements near Bethlehem.150 new housing units are slated to be…
Shitrit proposes firing Israeli-made ‘Qassams’ at Palestinians
During an Israeli cabinet meeting, on Sunday, Israeli Transportation Minister Meir Shitrit of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Kadima party has proposed firing Israeli-made Qassam shells at the Gaza Strip in…
Gaza infighting gets serious
Security sources announced today that members of Hamas placed explosives in front of the home of police captain Abu Wael Saada from the Jala’ neighborhood in Gaza City late last…
Four Gazans injured by PA security fire in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian security men guarding a greenhouse in the abandoned Gaza settlement of Netzer Hazani opened fire at a group of Palestinian laborers who approached the structure, on Monday, and wounded four…
Will `“black list` sabotage Rafah agreement?
The recent black list, which has effectively barred 15 leaders of military wings from traveling via the Rafah border crossing, has created a new crisis in light of threats by…
Army removes a container set up near Bil’in village
Israeli army removed a shipping container set up on the Separation Wall route near the Palestinian village of Bil’in, est of Ramallah on Monday A similar container was set…
ISR Housing Ministry released tender for constructing 228 settlers houses in W. Bank
Israeli Housing and Construction Ministry released, on Monday, tenders for the construction of 228 houses for settlers in the West Bank. The tenders include constructing 150 units in Beitar Elite…
Settlers uproot 100 trees in the West Bank village of Borin
Israeli settlers of the Illegal settlement of Yetzhar uprooted on Monday morning 100 olive trees in an orchard which belongs to local farmers of the village of Borin near the…
Israeli Army, Shin Bet set up joint team capture a Hamas cell
Israeli Army and security services, Shin Bet, recently set up a special joint investigation team in an effort to capture the Hamas group claimed responsibility for the killing of six…
PRC: `“We have detailed maps of Israeli military camps`
Palestinian Resistance Committees (PRC) reported on Sunday that its military wing, Salah Ed Deen Brigades, owns detailed maps of Israeli military basis in the northern part of the Gaza Strip,…
Youth injured near Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers invaded Anabta village, near Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank, and shot injured one youth. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that soldiers invaded several…
Resident injured near Tulkarem
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday evening the village of Anabta, near the Wet Bank city of Tulkarem and shot injured one resident. A medical source in Tulkarem said that…
Abbas meets with Fateh regional committee in Bethlehem
During his presence in Bethlehem, and his participation in Christmas celebrations in The Church of Nativity, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said that the Legislative Elections will be held without any…
Arab League warns Israel: let Jerusalemites participate in elections
The Arab League warned Israel today of the dangerous ramifications of its most recent announcement in which it said it did not intend to allow residents of Jerusalem to participate…
In Bethlehem, first real Christmas in five years
For the first time in five years, Bethlehem and its neighboring towns and villages are enjoying vibrant activities and an influx of visitors this Christmas. The city decided this year…
Islamic Jihad detainees in P.A prisons on Hunger Strike
Detainees of Islamic Jihad, currently detained in Jericho Central Prison, released a press released on Sunday, and announced an open ended hunger strike against the bad treatments they face, and…
Islamic Jihad: `“More Qassams, attacks, if Israel impalements its security strip in Gaza`
The Islamic Jihad movements threatened to increase the firing of Qassam homemade shells should Israel carry out its plan to establish a “security strip” in the northern part of the…
Settlements council: `“Sharon is preparing for a second Disengagement`
Israeli Settlements Council claimed on Sunday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is preparing for another unilateral Disengagement Plan, in the occupied West Bank. Several leaders of the Settlements…
Full closure imposed on the Palestinian territories
Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said during the weekly Knesset session, on Sunday morning that he instructed the army to impose a full closure over the West Bank and the…
Woman forced to undress at a military roadblock near Tubas
Israeli soldiers forced, on Saturday morning, several Palestinian women to undress at a military roadblock, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, the Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported. As…
Patriarch Sabbah: `“Separation Wall is turning Bethlehem into a big prison`
Latin Patriarch Michael Sabbah said, on Saturday evening, after arriving in Bethlehem that Israel should remove its Separation wall which is surrounding the Holy City, and transforming it into a…
MK Steinitz calls for Gaza blackouts
Speaking at a political forum in the Israeli city of Be’er Shiva, on Saturday, Chairman of Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Yuval Steinitz said Israel should launch a large-scale counter…
Two homemade shells fired into Israel
Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, claimed joint responsibility for firing two homemade shells into…
Pal. Tourism Min. 30,000 tourists expected in Bethlehem for Christmas
Days after Palestinian gunmen briefly took over Bethlehem’s city hall to demand jobs and wages, hundreds of Palestinian police and security men packed the festively decorated Manger square, on Saturday,…
Palestinian resistance fires a Qassam homemade shell into Israel
The Israel Radio reported on Saturday afternoon, that Palestinian resistance fired Qassam homemade shells at Israeli targets in the Negev desert. The shells apparently landed and detonated it Palestinian…
This Week in Palestine – December 24, 2005
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 5.81 MB This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle…
UK advises its citizens against traveling to Gaza Strip
The British government advised its citizens, on Friday, not to travel to the Gaza Strip, citing the abduction of two Westerners by gunmen earlier in the week. Until now, the…
Army arrests representative of the Islamic bloc in Bier Zeit University
Israeli soldiers arrested on Saturday Ala’ Al Natour, 22, from Tulkarem, and a senior student of Bier Zeit University, and the representative of the Islamic bloc. Al Natour was…
Army invades Nablus arrests one
Israeli army backed by 30 armored vehicles, invaded, on Saturday at dawn, several neighborhoods of the West Bank city of Nablus, prior to arresting one resident and taking him to…
U.S. Congress approves transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel
The United States Congress approved, on Friday, the transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel, this aid is to be used to fund joint security projects between Israel and…
Israel to enforce off-limits zone in northern Gaza Strip
Israel will enforce a new off-limits zone in the Gaza Strip with artillery, helicopter and gunboat fire in response to firing of homemade shells on Israeli towns, an Israeli defense…
Political detainees in P.A prisons started hunger strike
Forty-two detainees of the Islamic Jihad, and thirty detainees of Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, detained by the Palestinian Authority (P.A), started on Saturday morning, an…
Fateh’s old guard quit legislative elections
Ahmad Qurie, the former Palestinian Prime Minister, and several other members of the Fateh Old Guard have decided not to run for parliament and withdrew their names from Fateh candidates…
Being Palestinian
{mosimage}When death is in the air there is always a heavy silence that fills the lungs with a suffocating sensation. Everything seems gray and colorless. Life stops in its tracks.…
Residents, peaceful activists in Bil’in, protest against the Wall, settlements
Residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested, on Friday afternoon, against the Separation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and attempted to reach their…
Army evacuates a legal Caravan in Bil’in
In a move which was intended to reveal the sided policy of the Israeli army, and government, residents of Bil’in, near Ramallah, installed on Thursday a Caravan in orchards which…
Army evacuates a legal Caravan in Bil’in
In a move which was intended to reveal the sided policy of the Israeli army, and government, residents of Bil’in, near Ramallah, installed on Thursday a Caravan in orchards which…
Five injured in Qabatia
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Qabatia town, near Jenin, and clashed with dozens of residents; five residents were injured. The injured residents were identified as Osama Ibrahim, Bilal…
Soldiers invaded Anza village, south of Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the village of Anza west of the West Bank city of Jenin. A local source in the village reported that soldiers, supported…
Israel to step up assassinations of Jihad men
The Israeli army decided to step up assassination of Islamic Jihad resistance group in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli sources reported on Friday. This comes after the…
Troops invade the West Bank city of Tubas
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the West Bank city of Tubas after closing its entrances. A local source in Tubas reported that soldiers closed several roads in…
Detainee sentenced to two years
The Israeli Salem Military Court sentenced, on Thursday, a Palestinian detainee from the West Bank city of Jenin to two years imprisonment. The detainee, Ali Al Lubbadi, 19, was…
AL Aqsa Brigades: `“Truce had officially ended as army resumed violations`
Ahmad Abu Ras, one of the prominent leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, said that the Palestinian resistance sees itself unbound to the truce…
LAW missile fired in Netanya
An Israeli Police source in Netanya reported, on Thursday at night that, one LAW missile was fired in Ramat Poleg neighborhood, in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya. The police…
Israel plans to create `“security strips` in Gaza
An Israeli source reported, on Thursday at night, that Israel is planning to create “security strips” in the Gaza Strip, in a move which is said to aid the army…
Fateh agrees on a unified list
Sources within Fateh movement reported that an agreement has been reached between Fateh and its breakaway Future Faction in order to run in a unified list in the upcoming Legislative…
Sharon’s office warns of `“news steps` to counter Qassams
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said on Thursday that that Israel would step up its response to the firing of homemade shells against Israeli targets; adding…
Soldiers invade Hebron; two residents arrested
Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian residents in the West Bank city of Hebron, and the nearby village of Al Thahiriyya, after invading them conducting military searches, a Palestinian security source…
One resident killed, one injured, in Gaza shelling
Israeli soldiers shelled with heavy artillery several areas in Tal Al Za’atar neighborhood, east of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; one resident was…
Army shells on Beit Hanoun
Israeli artillery resumed its shelling of Beit Hanoun northern part of the Gaza Strip, the Maan News Agency reported. The shells landed and detonated in open areas close to…
Army invades Allar, Qaffin, arrest four
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank villages of Allar and Qaffin north of Tulkarem and arrested four residents, the Palestinian Wafa News Agency reported. Israeli…
One resident arrested south of Bethlehem
Israeli army invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank village of Artas . south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested one resident. Local sources reported…
5 soldiers injured by Qassam shells
Five Israeli soldiers were lightly injured, on Thursday, morning when a Qassam was fired at an army base not far from the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. This was…
Hamas U.S. intervenes in PA elections
In a press release issued, on Wednesday, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, accused US administration of financing the election campaigns of Fateh candidates ahead of Palestinian general elections. Hamas demanded…
Soldiers invade Qataia, near Jenin
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Qabatia town, near the West Bank city of Jenin, broke into a home and used it as a monitoring tower. A Local…
Three fighters assassinated in Nablus
Israeli soldiers, supported by dozens of armored military vehicles and jeeps, invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday morning, and assassinated three resistance fighters; one of the fighters…
Oh Bethlehem! What Have They Done to You?
{mosimage}Celebrating another Holy Season to rejoice in the birth of Christ and one wonders how to enter and venerate the birthplace in the big prison that the Israeli government created…
Netanyahu intends to oust far rightist members
Likud chairman, Benjamin Netanyahu, started a series of steps in an attempt to prevent Moshe Feiglin from appearing on the Likud part list. Feiglin was convicted on several charges of…
Poll: `“50% of the Israelis support negotiating with Hamas`
An Israeli-Palestinian poll conducted by Hebrew University’s Truman Institute and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that 50% of the Israelis support negotiations with Hamas, and 62%…
Poll: `“50% of the Israelis support negotiating with Hamas`
An Israeli-Palestinian poll conducted by Hebrew University’s Truman Institute and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that 50% of the Israelis support negotiations with Hamas, and 62%…
Israeli police releases Sheik Tameemy
The Israeli police in Jerusalem released Sheikh Taiseer Tameemy, head of the Islamic Religious Court, and Chief Islamic Clerk, after arresting him in Jerusalem and interrogating him for several hours.…
Two teachers abducted in Gaza, released
The two foreign teachers, who were abducted in Gaza earlier on Friday, were released unharmed shortly after the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP) claimed responsibility for abducting…
Israel to cut off Gaza electricity supply in retaliation to Qassams
Israel is threatening to cut off the Gaza Strip’s electricity supply if the Qassam homemade shells continue targeting Israel’s vital facilities, an Israeli military source reported on Wednesday. During a…
Residents, activists in Bil’in protest against settlement outposts
Several residents and international peace activists placed caravans, on Wednesday morning, in Palestinian orchards near Bil’in village, in Ramallah area, and raised Palestinian flags, in a move which resembles their…