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Israeli army forces invaded the village of Bitta south of the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday morning. Troops and army jeeps stormed the village, searched several homes and fired…

A Palestinian resistance group fired one homemade shell from Gaza Strip at the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Wednesday morning. In a press release, Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing…

UNICEF has begun a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers unexploded devices pose to children after the war in Lebanon. Children are particularly at risk from the aftermath of…

The Israeli army conducted a wide scale search campaign to residents’ homes in Yatta town near the West Bank city of Hebron and took four prisoners Wednesday morning. The campaign…

An Israeli army force invaded the village of Al Khader south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday at dawn and took one prisoner. The man was identified…

Fikree Abu Al Hija, 27, from Nor-Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem was taken prisoner by the Israeli army on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses reported that Abu…

The Israeli army took four prisoners in a military operation in Al Yamon and Al Zababda villages near the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday At dawn troops and…

Israeli army tanks and bulldozers stormed the eastern areas of Khan-Younis town south of Gaza strip, killing one resident and taking another as prisoner, Wednesday morning. Moss’ab Kadeh, 19, was…

A nineteen-year old was killed by Israeli gunfire Wednesday morning, and another young man taken prisoner, as Israeli army tanks and bulldozers stormed the eastern areas of Khan-Younis, in the…

The Lebanese army and the UN are preparing for the deployment of troops to the south of the Litani River, in an attempt to enforce the cessation of hostilities between…

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Israel has started evacuating its forces from southern Lebanon as 1000 paratroopers dropped on Saturday at night and were hiding in the mountains, starting marching back to Israel in planed…

IMEMC Interview with Reem Natour, resident of Nazareth. Q: Could you speak about how some of the first casualties by the Hezbollah rockets were Israeli-Palestinians, or so-called Arab-Israelis? Why do…

Israel released Palestinian Cabinet Minister Mohammad al-Barghouti on Monday after detaining him for about six weeks.  Barghouti is the fourth Cabinet minister to be released. Another four ministers and some…

Israeli army bulldozers uprooted large areas of Palestinian orchards in the villages of Kufur Laqif and Azzoun east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Tuesday in preparation for…

Troops invaded Bizaria village, west of Nablus in northern part of the West Bank, and abused a mentally challenged resident, late on Monday night. Annas Odah was stopped and abused…

Dozens of settlers of Oranit settlement, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, uprooted olive trees that belong to residents of nearby villages that became isolated behind the annexation Wall,…

Today, B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo , a report on ‘s policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories…

A Palestinian resistance group fired an anti-tank mortar shell atan Israeli army post near the Erez border crossing north of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Israeli sources confirmed the attacked…

The Israeli army took two prisoners during house searches in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday. Doctor Rifqa Al Ja’bari, 43, was taken to unknown location when troops…

Hezbollah fired a dozen rockets at positions occupied by Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon early Tuesday morning despite the UN-brokered ceasefire agreement that went into effect Monday.  No injuries were…

It is a measure of the scale of ‘Israels atrocities against the Lebanese that the worst environmental disaster in Lebanon’s history has gone largely unreported in the midst of all…

His Eminence Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary, hosted a delegation from the World Council of Churches in his Jerusalem office. Sheikh Al Tamimi briefed the…

Israeli army force invaded Howwara village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday at dawn. Soldiers took over the house of Ghazi Ishhada, and turned itinto an…

Tuesday, Israeli troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nerarby village of Fahma, and caused damage to residents and public property. Soldiers invaded Jenin and Fahma, fired…

Israeli forces invaded Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank and took three prisoners, Tuesday morning. Troops broke into and searched several civilian houses before taking three residents…

Israeli soldiers took Ahmad Salahat, 36, prisoner from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, late on Monday night. Salahat was heading back home from work when soldiers stopped him at…

Israeli troops invaded eastern Nablus City’s Askar Refugee Camp early Tuesday and surrounded several homes. Twenty military vehicles followed the soldiers just moments later. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a large contingent…

IMEMC Interview with Uri Avnery, founder of the Israeli Peace Bloc Gush Shalom, and former Israeli Parliament member, on August 10th.Interview transcribed by Tania Tabar Audio: Download MP3 Q: Could…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Monday at night that one child was injured after the Israeli tanks stationed near Arafat International Airport shelled several houses in Rafah, in…

Palestinian Medical sources and eyewitnesses in Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that at least twelve residents were injured when an Israeli fighter jet fired…

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, tonight claimed a "strategic and historic victory" over Israel as the first day of a ceasefire in the Middle East crisis…

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As a massive exodus of Lebanese refugees began the journey home, a joint statement released by the UN and the Lebanese government "urged the population to exercise extreme caution, due…

Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) members Dianne Roe and John Lynes went through five hours of questioning at the Kiryat Arba police station on 11 August before Israeli authorities released them…

Mohammad Barakeh, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, said Monday that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 allows Israel to continue attacks on Lebanon.  According to Barakeh the resolution grants…

Palestinian resistance group fired one homemmade shell at the Israeli  city of Ashklen on Monday. Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the…

“We’ve been told the situation here is different from Palestine,” says Huwaida Arraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. “In Palestine you have Israeli soldiers on the ground actively brutalizing…

Israeli troops detained several police officers and the commander of a police in the West Bank city of Tubas on Monday at dawn. Palestinian  security forces in Tubas reported that…

An Israeli army force stopped a Palestinian civilian car in the West Bank city of Tubas, and took its driver prisoner late on Sunday night. The driver was taken to…

Israeli troops stormed three hospitals in pre-dawn raids yesterday in the West Bank city of Hebron. Security sources said that the Israeli soldiers broke into Alya, Al-Ahli and Al-Mezan hospitals…

Amid reports that President Abbas and Prime Minister Hannia will be meeting in Gaza today to discuss a national unity government, several prominent Palestinian politicians have spoke out on the…

Guns fell silent across southern Lebanon on Monday morning as a United Nations ceasefire halting Israel’s month-long war against Hezbollah came into effect, Lebanese security forces say. Half an hour…

Farmers in the West Bank town of Qalqilia continue to challenge closures to their land created by the separation wall.   Unable to care for their crops, farmers have applied  for…

Palestinian vehicles were targeted by Israeli soldiers Monday as they tried to enter the West Bank town of Arrabah. Soldiers fired at vehicles coming from the West Bank town of…

"The food and security situation in Gaza is catastrophic," said Mario Carera, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for Gaza and the West Bank.  The SDC,…

Troops took two residents prisoners during a predawn invasion to the town of Halhoul, near the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday. The arrestees were identified as Sameh Al…

Israeli army troops and jeeps stormed the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday at dawn. Local residents said that troops stormed the camp and…

Amer Shaker Da’ass, 23, was taken prisoner while trying to cross an Israeli army checkpoint near his village Kafer Qaddoum, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia on Monday.…

Israeli forces took two prisoners on Monday morning from the village of Kafer Ra’y, and invaded the nearby village of Al Yamoun, west Jenin, in the northern part of the…

Three Palestinians including a child were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday…

Arifa Salman is a former Palestinian political prisoner and student activist at Al-Quds Open University, in the West Bank city of Nablus. In 2004, Arifa was charged with the ambiguous…

"There was never an agreement more favorable to Israel,” said Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz about the United Nations (UN) ‘ceasefire’ agreement.  Such words sound ominous to the ears of…

Lebanese security sources said that Israeli air raids killed at least 22 people on Sunday.  The Israeli government reported one civilian casualty from Hezbollah rocket fire in northern Israel.  After…

In the ongoing Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon that was significantly expanded on Friday with a doubling of the number of troops in Lebanon, Hezbollah resistance fighters have killed at…

A Palestinian man who admitted that he had been collaborating with Israeli forces to spy on his fellow Palestinians — giving them information on the locations of at least two…

It had been reported that the agreement between the prime ministers of Lebanon and Israel has been reached to stop the hostilities by Monday, August 14.  As part of the…

The fighter plane is the quintessence of modern civilization, the modern goddess. It is the product of the collective input of all the sciences and the neutralization of all morals…

Israel has admitted that it was "mistaken" in attacking a convoy of hundreds of cars carrying people fleeing the fighting in southern Lebanon.  At least six people were killed and…

Saturday, Hezbollah gunmen fired at least 65 Katusha shells at several Israeli towns in the north, at least six Israelis were injured.  Several shells were fired at Acre; the shells…

In the furthest reaches of eastern Rafah City, in the southernmost part of Gaza Strip, the village of Shouka , population 14,000, is located.  Reaching the village at night time…

At least nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon Saturday, and over one hundred wounded.  A military helicopter was shot down by Hezbollah fighters – the five soldiers inside the…

Israeli soldiers shelled on Saturday evening several houses in Al Faraheen and Abasan east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that tanks…

Saturday night, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported. Soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition after invaded the…

Israeli troops detained dozens of Palestinian residents for three hours in the hot sun at the Tayaseer checkpoint, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, after closing the checkpoint…

The Israeli army has installed an iron gate at the main road that connects the West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarem together on Saturday. The gate is located at…

Israeli army forces invaded and attacked shepherds’ huts in Al Bak’a Valley, East of the West Bank city of Tubas, on Saturday. Soldiers coming from the nearby Bekeot settlement attacked…

Anwar Ibrahem from the Village of Al Far’a valley, near the West Bank city of Tubas, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army Saturday morning. Local sources said that Ibrahem…

Following is the text of the operative provisions of a draft resolution circulated to members of the UN Security Council on Friday, August 11. The preambular provisions have been omitted…

Israeli soldiers stationed at Za’atara military checkpoint, at the Nablus-Salfit junction, opened fired at a Palestinian youth seriously injuring him in his back. The youth was identified as Islam Jom’a…

The Palestine News Network reported on Saturday that thousands of Palestinian children marched in Gaza in solidarity with the Lebanese people, and children, subjected to daily Israeli shelling and attacks.…

Members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad parties in Jenin are opening their doors to Palestinians residents of Haifa and Akka (Acre) seeking refuge from Hezbollah attacks. The mass exodus…

Four Israeli soldiers were killed and at least forty were injured in heavy clashes with Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon. Clashes have been also reported in the Lebanese towns of…

Yesterday, the Friday prayers were disturbed at Al Haram Al Ibrahimi Mosque , one of Islam’s holiest sites by Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank Hebron area.   The…

The Israeli army and Border Police prevented Bil’in’s weekly Friday non-violent demonstration, by firing rubber bullets and sound grenades on protestors as they marched through the village on their way…

Many Palestinians are fleeing from Haifa, Akka, and other areas inside Northern Israeli 1948 borders to escape being harmed by Hezbollah attacks. Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, urged Palestinians to leave…

The first act in Israel’s "Summer Rain" campaign in Gaza was the destruction of the power station which fed the Strip 70 percent of its electricity. The result was devastating…

The Indonesian Government has sent financial aid to victims of the Israeli occupation in Palestine, said Financial Minister Dr.Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Friday, the Indonesian National News agency (Antara) reported…

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the war on Lebanon, and authorizes the U.N. to deploy "peacekeeping" forces to help Lebanese troops…

Residents of Modi’in Illit do not consider themselves settlers. The housing shortage has pushed large ultra-orthodox families to the settlement, where they get public housing and government assistance not available…

Israeli forces have killed 203 Palestinians and injured 800 others since the start of their operations in the Gaza Strip, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains", launched June 25, according to a…

In its weekly report, from August 3-9, 2006 on the Israeli violations of human rights in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said 25 Palestinians, including…

“What is happening in Jerusalem goes beyond security needs, and reflects the essence of the original Zionist dream: maximum territory, minimum Arabs." -Israeli historian Tom Segev As the Apartheid separation…

The day before the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement indicating that there is nothing illegal about Israel’s use of cluster bombs, the Israeli Ambassador to Washington claimed that Israel…

A group of Lebanese civilians attempting to follow the Israeli instructions to evacuate southern Lebanon had formed a convoy of 600 civilian vehicles, accompanied by 350 Lebanese soldiers and police. …

An Israeli military court sentenced a Ukrainian female detainee to twenty consecutive years after charging her with transferring a bomber to Israel. Her Palestinian husband, is currently imprisoned by Israel…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested one resident in Thannaba town, eat of Tulkarem in the northern part of the West Bank. Local sources reported that the the resident, identified as…

Friday night after midnight, an Israeli F16 fighter-jet fired a missile at a three-story house in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that the shells house belongs…

Israeli security sources reported on Friday evening that Hezbollah gunmen fired a long range missile known as “Khaibar 1” at Haifa city, north of Israel. Dozens of Katusha rockets were…

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Nearly 150 Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and 100 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli annexation Wall and the ongoing…

Protesters broke through the barrier Friday at the weekly demonstration in Al-Khader village.  Internationals, Israelis, and local Palestinians from Al-Khader village gathered in two locations to protest the building of…

Eleven people were killed and 11 wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed northern Lebanon Friday morning, AlJazeera reported. At the same time, at the UN headquarters in New York, Russia proposed…

The Lebanese government has maintained its position that the US-French draft Security  Council resolution must contain certain provisions that would ensure a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict, before it…

A reader recently emailed to ask if anyone else was suggesting, as I have done, that Hizbullah’s rocket fire may not be quite as indiscriminate or maliciously targeted at Israeli…

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have seen a significant increase in war casualties with severe injuries over the past month and are running out of medical supplies, the Medical Emergency…

Israeli tanks and troops in southern Lebanon have retreated and regrouped in Marjayoun, the only town in southern Lebanon that Israeli forces have managed to hold on to, while a…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Thursday that EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, plans to visit the Middle East from Friday to…

Lebanese sources reported on Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers controlled Lebanese army barracks in Marj Oyoun town, in southern Lebanon while Israeli officials said that the offensive could go wider…

Thursday afternoon, two Israeli soldiers were killed and two were seriously wounded in clashes with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. During evening hours on Thursday, eight soldiers were injured, one…