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Said Abu Jaber, 23, was taken prisoner during a pre dawn invasion of the village of Jelqa Mous east of the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday.  Also Wednesday,…

Israeli army troops and jeeps stormed the village of Dura south of the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning. According to local residents, troops stormed residents’ homes, searched them…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses report that Israeli forces invaded Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp early Tuesday. The Israeli Wall lines the northern edge of the camp and Rachel’s Tomb military…

The UN Development Agency has reported that Lebanon’s 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hezbollah.  As well, a report…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday, one Palestinian child in Tulkarem city, in the northern part of the West Bank. The arrest took place after the troops invaded the eastern neighborhood…

Defense For Children International, (DCI) Palestine Branch, announced the opening of the four National Child conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The conference will focus on “Child Neglect,…

An Israeli court charged on Wednesday the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, with membership and and activity in “an outlawed organization”, referring to the Islamic Resistance…

Israeli forces arrested 15 Palestinians from the southern West Bank Tuesday. The raid spanned southern Bethlehem to southern Hebron city. The southern Hebron village of Dura lost nine residents after…

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An Israeli military source reported on Monday evening that soldiers shot three fighter of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party in southern Lebanon. The incident took place as the fragile ceasefire…

The Palestinian News Agency Wafa reported that a Jewish extremist settler on Tuesday deliberately ran over two citizens in the West Bank (WB) City of Hebron. Hebron Governmental Hospital sources…

What is really portended by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which set the terms for the present ceasefire in ? The very fact that it was signed at all might…

The Israeli police in Jerusalem seized computers and documents from the residence and office of the Israeli president, Moshe Katsav. The raid is part of an investigation which started after…

The Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, gave a speech on Tuesday which was televised throughout the country.. Speaking directly to he stated,  "I say to the Israeli enemy to stop…

Israeli army carried out wide scale of searches in the residents’ homes of two villages and one town of the west Bank area of Hebron Tuesday. Israeli army invaded Tuesday…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul On Sunday night at the Presidential Offices in Ramallah to discuss the latest development in the Palestinian areas. Particularly…

Official sources at the Hebron Reconstruction Committee reported on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers broke into dozens of shops and stores in the Old City of Hebron, and damaged awnings and…

Tuesday the Palestine News Network spoke with Yoram Ben Nur, an Israeli journalist and political analyst, regarding the current state of thinking among the Israeli people. The 50 year old…

There was concern at UN headquarters that the reinforcement of UNIFIL and deployment of the international force in South Lebanon are on the verge of collapse. Senior UN officials warned…

Israeli soldiers killed on Tuesday at dawn three members of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad after firing rounds of live ammunition at them as…

During a meeting Monday evening in the northwestern West Bank city of Tulkarem, attendees from Islamic and National parties issued a call for a unity government. The meeting followed a…

Tuesday at dawn, Israeli army troops, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank city of Nablus from its main entrances of Biet Eba and Huwwara , and took four…

Twenty Israeli army reservists, and families of soldiers killed in the course of war against Lebanon marched on Monday demanding a national investigation into the war against Lebanon, and demanding…

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According to B’Tselem’s (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Terretories) research, since the beginning of Operation Summer Rains in the Gaza Strip, on 28 June 2006,…

Four Palestinian residents, including two children, were injured in an explosion west of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza strip, Monday afternoon. Medical sources in Rafah identified the…

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Ayman Jouda Group, one of the armed wings of Fateh, and Abu Ali Mustafa brigades, Ismail Al Sadeeny group, one of the armed wings of…

The Israeli army troops occupying the international Gaza airport installed on Monday surveillance cameras. Security sources said that by installing those cameras the army will titans its hold on the…

Monday, Israeli troops occupying the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, installed surveillance cameras in the airport’s high buildings, the Palestinian News Agency,…

Major Haitham Sha’ban, Palestinian security top officer was attacked by unknown gunmen who also stole his car and injured two of his bodyguards, Monday at noon. Palestinian security sources reported…

Israeli Forces have recently escalated their military operations in the in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, arresting several people, invading towns, erecting road closures, and violently attacking residents.  Eyad…

A statement issued today by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs denounced the violence being carried out by the Israeli army against unarmed people and Palestinian representatives.  “…The…

The Israeli army troops closed the main Nablus road on Monday at noon, which connects the southern West Bank cities together. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers closed the road near…

The Israeli army took two prisoners during an invasion in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday at dawn. The invasion targeted Balata refugee camp and the nearby village of…

Troops stationed at Kitsofem border crossing in the eastern Gaza Strip injured four Palestinian resistors on Monday morning, the Israeli army claimed. The Israeli newspaper Yideot Ahranot reported that the…

Two residents from the West Bank city of Tulkarem escaped an assassination attempt by the Israeli army, while the army took 10 prisoners in several other West Bank areas on…

Israeli sources reported on Sunday that Israel is preparing for a “net round of war” against the Lebanon based Hezbollah party and vowed to prevent the Lebanese army deployment until…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers arrested Palestinian Legislative Council secretary Dr. Mahmoud Ahmad Al Ramahy, after breaking into his home in Al Janan neighborhood, in Al Biereh City in the northern…

The Lebanese government, in an unprecedented move, has warned Hezbollah against violating the UN-brokered truce. In an implicit warning to the militia, Elias Murr, Lebanon’s defence minister, said on Sunday…

Sunday at dawn, one Palestinian resident was shot and killed, and three were injured, by Israeli military fire after the soldiers fired at a Palestinian Taxi driving between Huwwara town,…

Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that one woman died on Sunday of swounds suffered during an Israeli shelling to…

Palestinian medical and security sources in Dir Al Balah, in the Gaza Strip, reported that Israeli soldiers fired shells at a Palestinian vehicles near the water reserve tanks the belongs…

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friends, for those of you that don’t know i’ve been in lebanon for the past   three weeks, trying to provide a biased alternative to the bullshit   that the…

As the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s popularity has grown, so has bizarre Israeli behavior. It is difficult to find another adjective to represent what is happening. Israeli…

Ahmad Shqer, 15, and another child whose name remains unknown were taken prisoner by Israeli troops from Al Zawia village, west of the West Bank city of Tubas, late Friday…

Hezbollah gunmen said on Saturday that they foiled an Israeli invasion attempt west of Ba’labek in eastern Lebanon; one Israeli soldier was killed and two others were injured, the Qatar…

“Every living is made of water”,  said Mrs. Tariq Azahiman of Shu’fat Refugee Camp. She said that the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality has shut off the water supply to 7,000 residents…

At first sight, the peaceful scene at a west Beirut fishing harbour seems far removed from the conflict that has raged in for the past five weeks.Small boats line the…

Israeli forces took scores of prisoners in the Jordan valley area north of the West Bank on Saturday afternoon. Troops installed military checkpoints on all main roads, stopped and searched…

One Palestinian fighter has been killed and another taken prisoner after they killed an israeli soldier in the Israeli settlement of Beqa’ot near the West Bank town of Tubas Saturday…

Echoing an earlier appeal from U.N. deputy humanitarian chief Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Israel must immediately lift its air and sea blockade on Lebanon so hundreds…

An Israeli force stormed Al Zakah charitable society offices located in Halhol town, near the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday at dawn. Troops forced their way into the…

Several funeral ceremonies were held on Friday as Southern Lebanese buried at least 250 people killed by Israeli  air strikes during its war with Hezbollah. "This is the day to…

As UNIFIL is seeking to add 3,500 troops to its existing  2,000-strong contingent within 10 days,  the United Nations was urging European countries Friday to  provide troops for the peacekeeping…

Israel warplanes and helicopters hit unidentified targets early Saturday morning near the Lebanese village of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley. Israeli commandoes aboard helicopters…

Medical sources in Rafidia hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus reported on Saturday that Majed Saadah, 20, died of wounds sustained on Friday. Saadah was injured when Israeli…

The Israeli army kidnapped the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Nasser Iddin El-Sha’er from his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, Palestinian sources reported. Ghazi Hamad,…

Israeli army troops stationed at Howwara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, fired at residents and injured two on Saturday morning. The two were identified as Adham…

Contary to the leading opinions of the American-European politicians and media, the main aim of Hamas in calling for the "destruction" of the State of Israel, is not to kill…

Hamas has insisted on keeping the post of prime minister and other key jobs in a possible new coalition government with the Palestinian president, according to the Islamist group’s officials.…

On Friday evening, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip, one resident is a shepherd while the second, killed in a separate attack, is a resistance fighter,…

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Friday’s protest in Bil’in village, which began after noon prayers, was conducted in the midst of a village sports tournament this week, that has been going on for the past…

The body of a Palestinian man abducted by an unknown armed group was found on Thursday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The body carried sever torture marks and several rounds…

At around 1:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon, scores of Al-Khader village residents, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, including children, supported by international and Israeli peace activists, marched to…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Friday two Palestinians in Nablus and the nearby Askar refugee camp, in the northern part of the West bank. Local and security sources in Nablus reported…

As public preoccupation with the war between Hezbollah and Israel is receding, the Israeli media is devoting increasing attention to a series of sexual and financial scandals involving top Israeli…

Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Friday that as a result of the war on Lebanon and the significant damage caused to residents in northern Israel, the convergence plan…

In addition to the 2,000 soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL – in place since 1978), 3,500 new United Nations…

After days of deliberations, the Lebanese cabinet and Hezbollah representatives agreed that Hezbollah members would not have to disarm, but must avoid carrying weapons in public.  Although this decision violates…

Israeli army war planes fired one missile at a blacksmith workshop located in central Gaza city, on Friday at dawn. The missile destroyed the workshop completely, several cases of shock…

Israeli special army unites assassinated two Palestinians in Al-Obaydiya village east of Bethlehem in the early hours of Friday morning, Palestinian sources said. Khaled 24, and Okla Shalyta 32, were…

Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Jenin reported that three residents form the village of Dier Abu Da’eef east of the city died due to an explosion…

Despite of his health set back, an Israeli military court has extended Thursday, the detention of Dr. Aziz Dweik, the chair of the Palestinian Parliament until next Tuesday, Palestinian sources…

Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed…

In answer to the question, "How can pressure be exerted on Hamas and Hezbollah to release information on kidnapped Israeli soldiers in their possession?", the Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Jacob…

The Israeli Occupation is not only is responsible for the physical dismemberment and destruction Palestine’s assets, it is also socially destructive. Denying Palestinians their right to education prevents the development…

There was nothing new about the broad objective behind Israel’s war on Lebanon: through the destruction of Hizbullah it was to wreak fundamental change in a strategic, political and military…

As Israeli troops continue their withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Amir Peretz has called for an investigation of Israeli actions during the war, amidst widespread allegations of war crimes…

Three Israelis expelled from Fiji described their experience as "The most humiliating experience we have ever gone through".  They should recognize that such humiliation is a daily occurrence for millions…

The Palestinian daily newspaper Al Ayam reported on Thursday that senior Hamas officials presented president Mahmoud Abbas with the movement’s terms for the formation of a Palestinian National Unity Government.…

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The Israeli government issued a military order on Thursday to expropriate some 275 acres of farmlands that belong to Palestinian farmers near Hebron, Palestinian sources reported. Palestinian News Network said…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Thursday that Fateh and Hamas movements have agreed to reinstate the temporary cease-fire with Israel. He added that this decision also includes other Palestinian…

It is true that Israel pulled out its military forces from inside the Gaza Strip, yet, attacks against Palestinian civilians and resistance groups never came to an end. Over 370…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed by Israeli military fire in al Boreij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. Dr. Moawiya Hassanen,…

It is true that Israel pulled out its military forces from inside the Gaz Strip, yet, attacks against Palestinian civilians and resistance groups never came to an end.  Over 370…

Palestinian resistance fired one homemade shell at the Eretz crossing in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.   The Iz Ed-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, issued…

Two children from the Village of Azzoun, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia were injured during clashes between local residents and invading israeli army troops on Thursday. The…

Israeli army forces invaded Al Arrooub refugee camp and Shiokh Al Arroub village near the West Bank city of Hebron and took five residents prisoners on Thursday. Troops stormed the…

Israeli soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque (Tomb of Patriarchs) in the old town of the West Bank city of Hebron attacked on Thursday a Palestinian…

Israel army imposed a tighht closure against the village of Beit Iba near the West Bank city of Nablus on  Thursday morning, Palestinian media sources reproted. Troops stationed at the…

The Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Khader near the West Bank city of Bethlehem early Thursday morning and took positions in the village.  Local residents said that troops…

Israeli troops took three residents prisoners from several areas in the West Bank city of Tubas on Thursday. Soldiers invaded the city, installed military checkpoint, stopped and searched dozens of…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Fahma, near the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.  Soldiers stormed the village and fired rounds of live ammunition at the houses;…

Mohamed Saba’ta, 20, was injured on Thursday morning when Israeli army troops invaded the village of Qabatiya south of the West Bank city of Jenin. Medical sources reported that Saba’ta…

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported on Wednesday evening that one child was killed, four other residents were injured during in crossfire during clashes between Hamas and Fateh gunmen in…

[ed. note: “Summer Rains” is the name the Israeli military has given to their ongoing operation in Gaza] In wintertime, we are used to having heavy rains sometimes in some…