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Dr. Ghazi Hamad spokesperson of the Palestinian government told Al-Jazeera on Thursday, that Hamas will not accept that the new government recognizes Israel saying that Israel does not recognize the…

There is something important to be learned from the recent experience of the United States and Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only…

Abdullah a-Zakh identified his son's body by the belt. The shoes and socks also looked familiar, irrefutable proof that he had lost his son. In the morgue of Shifa Hospital,…

In its latest rejection of democracy in the Middle East, the United States has taken a stand rejecting the Palestinian attempts to form a national unity government, despite the fact…

The city of Bethlehem was closed Wednesday afternoon, with a general strike declared by all shops and businesses to mourn the death of 13-year old Mohammad Ali Showria,shot in the…

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Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem), reported that the Military Police will investigate eight cases in which Palestinians filed complaints that soldiers beat and abused…

  Israeli troops conducting the army offensive of Gaza strip detonated a tunnel shaft on Wednesday. The tunnel was found during army operation in Gaza on Tuesday. According to Israeli…

The guards of Hasharon Israeli detention facility managed said they foiled an attempt by two female Palestinian prisoners to escpae from the facility, on Tuesday late at night. Israeli media…

Israeli National Infrastructure Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said on Wednesday that the Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz should follow the footsteps of I Northern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam,…

Israel soldiers stationed at the Annexation Wall gate located on the entrance of Khribet Jabara and Kafer Sour villages near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, closed it on Wednesday…

Israeli media sources reported that Israeli troops took one resident prisoner from the West Bank city of Bethlehem overnight. Ali Zalhat, was taken to an unknown destination, media sources reported…

A truck, carrying water supplied by the international aid organization Oxfam had been disabled on Tuesday afternoon when it was on the road entering the village of Suseya near Hebron,…

Israeli soldiers took fifteen residents prisoner in several West Bank areas overnight, Palestinian sources reported. An Israeli army official said that the arrestees are members of Hamas, Fateh and the…

Israeli army troops took three prisoners during a pre-dawn invasion to the village of Rabud near the West Bank city of Hebron and attacked residents houses. Suliman Fatinah, 20, Anwar…

Israeli sources reported that the Israeli Army Northern Command Chief, Major-General Udi Adam, requested the Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, to relief him from his duties; Halutz agreed.…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and took three residents prisoners on Wednesday. Ali Saman, 20, Dirgham Yousif, 19, and Mohammad Najem, 19, were taken to…

Ghassan Dahina, 28, and his brother Bassam, 23, from the West Bank city of Jenin were taken prisoners by the Israeli army on Wednesday morning. Troops and army vehicles stormed…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the Knesset House Committee is expected on Wednesday to approve a request by the Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, to go on a 16-hour leave…

The Palestinenet News website reported on Wednesday that Ehad Abu Salha, 18, from Sheikh Muslim neighborhood in Nablus, in the northern part of the west Bank, died in an explosion…

Ahmad Yousef, political advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said that European countries have hinted that they intend to lift the economic embargo on the Hamas-led Palestinian government…

Tuesday evening, one Israeli soldier was injured after a molotov cocktail was thrown at a military jeep near the Church of the Nativity, a holy site for Christians, who believe…

The Ofer Israeli military court decided on Tuesday to release three ministers and fifteen members of the Palestinian Legislative Council whop were taken prisoners by Israeli after resistance fighters abducted…

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Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a…

Israeli soldiers killed Mohammad Shawariya 12, from the village of Rakhma near Bethlehem and wound 25-year-old Najah Bouja Tuesday afternoon. A large Israeli military force invaded the West Bank city…

Israeli troops invaded on Tuesday the village of Kafer Ni'ma, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, took five residents and two female university students, after breaking into several houses…

Israeli army invaded the village of Tqoa’, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Tuesday morning, and demolished a warehouse and a barn. Khaled Hamida, head of the…

Amjad Al Tmeizy, 33, from Ithna village west of the West Bank city of Hebron, was taken prisoner by Israeli troops in a pre-dawn invasion to the village. Al Tmeizy,…

After his meeting at the presidential compound, on Monday night,  with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, president Mahmoud Abbas called on the International Community to lift the siege which…

The head of the Israeli Army rocket unit said on Tuesday that the Israeli army fired at least 1800 cluster bombs containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during…

Eyad Abu Lilah, 17, was injured by Israeli army fire in Beit Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza strip on Tuesday morning. Sources at Kamal Adwan hospital…

Israeli troops and military bulldozers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday morning. Army bulldozers were trying to reinstall roadblocks that army installed in some streets in the…

Tuesday marks the first time since 1967 that parts of the Gaza Strip will be powered by Egyptian electricity. The plan to purchase electricity from Egypt instead of the Israelis…

Three armed men have been killed and one wounded after they attacked the US embassy in Damascus in what Syria has called a terrorist operation. The men were chanting religious…

Palestinian resistance fighter killed one Israeli soldier in the Gaza strip, and injured several others in clashes erupted in the central Gaza Strip. The soldier was killed in the early…

The Israeli forces invaded the village of Husan, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and took four  residernts prisoners, on Tuesday. Local sources reported that troops invaded the…

Israeli war planes destroyed a deserted house in Gaza city after targeting it with missiles, on Tuesday at dawn. Local sources reported that an F16 jet fighter fired several missiles…

Bloodshed, destruction and fear are the remnants of the Israeli occupation army across the Gaza Strip since the Israeli settlers were evacuated on September 12, 2005 army. A year has…

Israeli air force shelled, early Tuesday, on Palestinian house in Gaza City, the house belongs to a senior Palestinian security official, eyewitnesses reported.   An Israeli military sources reported that…

Israeli media sources reported that an Israeli settler was found guilty of killing four Palestinians in an attempt to foil that Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip, and four settlements…

After his second meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minster Ismail Haniyya, from the Hamas party, Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Monday that the efforts to form a national unity…

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Israeli troops invaded the village of Beit Kad, near the West Bank city of Jenin and took five prisoners on Monday. Soldiers and army jeeps stormed the village from several…

Israeli soldiers opened fire at school students in Dar Salah village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Monday morning. Two army jeeps stormed the village then head…

Israeli troops invaded the village of Haloul north of the West Bank city of Hebron, and took four residents prisoners. The four were identified as; Ehab Al Baba, 19, Tariq…

Omer Al Dogha, 20, was injured by Israeli army fire east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Monday. Al Dogha was injured in his…

Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp on Monday morning and took three  residents prisoners. The three were identified as Talal Al Jetawi, 50,…

Israeli troops took three residents prisoners from the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby Al Ein refugee camp. According to Palestinian security sources in Nablus, troops stormed the…

Palestinian security sources reported on Sunday that Baha Ba'alosha, an officer in the Palestinian Authority intelligence department, escaped an assassination attempt after being targeted by unknown gunmen in Al Shikh…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday evening, that a Palestinian child was killed and his brother was his brothers is clinically dead after the Israeli army shelled an area near…

Two young men on their way to work Monday came under attack by Israeli special forces, who shot multiple rounds into the taxi in which they were travelling.  Both men…

  A group of right wing Israeli settlers attacked Al Nabi Younis mosque, located in Halol village, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Sunday at dawn. Local…

The Israeli army opened Karn-A border crossing between Gaza and Israel on Sunday morning after closing it for more than two months ago. Suleiman Abu Safia, the directer of border…

Israeli tanks and bulldozers withdrew from Khaza'a village, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza strip , on Sunday, ending a three day invasion of the area.   Palestinian sources…

Israeli Prime Minister met on Saturday evening with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The later plans to meet the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday but will not meet…

In accordance with an agreement made with United Nations (UN) chief Kofi Annan, the Syrian President Bashar Assad agreed to deploy a battalion of Syrian troops along the Syria-Lebanon border…

Israeli sources reported on Saturday that six Lebanese residents abducted by the Israeli forces on Friday in Aita Al Sha'ab village, in southern Lebanon, were released on Saturday, and that…

Sources in the ruling Palestinian Hamas party said on Saturday that prisoner swap talks between Israel and the Palestinians have reached a dead end due to the Israeli rejection of…

Unknown gunmen attacked and set fire to the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) office in the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Saturday morning.     According to local police…

A moderate earthquake was felt across Jerusalem and the plains area on Saturday at eight in the morning. The  quake was felt by residents of those areas, especially by residents…

Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday that one resident was injured by Israeli military fire after the army invaded Khazza'a town east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of…

Jihad Yahia, was taken to prisoner by the Israeli army during an invasion to the West Bank city of Tulkarem, late Friday night. Yahia was taken to an unknown destination…

Israeli tanks continued on Saturday morning to randomly shell areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that tanks stationed at the northern Gaza – Israeli…

Israeli troops stationed at a military checkpoint located at the entrance of the Ibrahami Mosque (known as the Tomb of  the Patriarchs) in the Old City of the West Bank…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, on Saturday morning, and searched scores of houses. Troops and army jeeps invaded the city from several directions, stormed and…

Israeli army tanks and bulldozers invaded the eastern part of Khazza'a village east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza strip on Saturday morning.   Tanks opened random fire at…

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the…

On a humid afternoon, an hour or two after lunch, Nadi al-Attar, 12, set off on a donkey-drawn cart with his grandmother Khariya and two of his young cousins to…

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Major General, Alain Pellegrini, head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), stated on Friday afternoon that Israeli had lifted the sea blockade over Lebanon. The Israeli government…

Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, reported that at least 150 residents, eight internationals and six Israeli peace activists protested against the Israeli Annexation Wall…

Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a…

Israeli troops invaded on Friday at dawn the West Bank city of Jericho, and took three residents prisoners, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported. Soldiers, supported by several armored vehicles…

Friday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Al Shawawra village, east of Bethlehem, and took two residents prisoners. Local sources reported that soldiers broke into several houses, searched them and took…

Israeli troops abducted on Friday one resident of Nour Shams refugee camp, while he was heading back home from Nablus. Local sources reported that soldiers based at Huwwara checkpoint, south…

Friday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded Qalqilia city, in the northern part of the West Bank, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported. Soldiers broke into the officers of the Prisoners…

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that the estimated total cost of the damages in the Gaza Strip assessed for the period between June 28 and August 27, 2006,…

After demanding that all detained Arab residents of Israel should be included in any possible prisoners swap deal, the Israeli police, special forces and Israel's General Security broke on Friday…

While continuing construction on the massive concrete Wall and series of electric fences and trenches in the West Bank and Gaza, Israel is now announcing the construction of another massive…

Arab members of Knesset, Jamal Zahalka and Wasal Taha, members of the Balad Faction in Israel, headed to Damascus on Thursday for meetings with the Syrian leadership. Israel considered the…

Thursday night after midnight, Israeli soldiers invaded the city of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, and randomly fired rounds of live ammunition, the Palestinian News Agency,…

Cluster bombs, manufactured mainly in the United States and in Israel, are small bombs that splinter into many pieces, raining shrapnel upon an area 2-3 kilometers from where the bomb…

Palestinian medical sources in Qabatia town, near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that four Palestinians were killed and at least fifteen were injured by military…

23 Internationals from different European countries and the United States are sitting at the Jalama military checkpoint as they were denied entry to the West Bank city of Jenin. The…

In an ad today in al-Ayyam newspaper, a group of independent Palestinians published a letter stating, "We, the signatories… notables, intellectuals and political figures declare that Tony Blair [the British…

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Riziq Al Barghouthi, member of the General Committee for the Teachers Union in the West Bank, told the IMEMC that teachers are ongoing with their strike and that no agreement…

Thursday morning, Israeli troops invaded the Khaza area, east of Khan Younis, and attacked homes belonging to Palestinian families.  Eyewitnesses stated that troops, backed with tanks and bulldozers, stormed the…

  Ziad Halada, 28, was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Nablus during internal factional fighting between Palestinian groups on Thursday. Halada was shot in the head…

Israeli tanks stationed at the eastern border between the Gaza strip and Israel, shelled Palestinian homes located in the Al Fokharia area in Khan-Younis, in the southern part of the…

At a press conference on Wednesday, foreign passport holders, human rights organizations, and representatives of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem charged Israel with separating families that have long lived together…

Israeli president, Moshe Katsav, was interrogated on Thursday morning for the fourth time, after additional complaints were filed by four other women, apart from his former secretary,  accusing him of…

Muhsan described to Ynet on Wednesday the events which had taken place on Saturday a week and a half prior: He was on his way from Nablus, where he studies…

The Israeli army invaded the village of Tamon, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, on Thursday at dawn, and attacked several residents' houses. Army vehicles and one bulldozer…

An Israeli army force invaded the village of Tiqua, south east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, late on Wednesday at night. Local residents reported that several army jeeps…

Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, said during a press conference in Haifa that Israel should hold direct talks with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, adding that direct talks will enable…

Sanaa' Qandeel, 24, from Asker refugee camp in Nablus was taken as prisoner by the Israeli army earlier on Thursday. Troops and army vehicles stormed the camp, then searched and…

On Saturday the 26th of August, Israeli military invaded the Jabal Shamali area of Nablus and destroyed 22 homes, according to an eyewitness report from the International Solidarity Movement. The…

This is IMEMC interviewing Faisal Sawalha from the Regional Council for the Arab Unrecognized Villages in the Negev.  Mr. Sawalha works in resource development and public relations.  Today is Wednesday…