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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…

The President of the European Union (EU) announced in a statement Wednesday evening that Israel should commit to restarting the Middle East peace process by freeing the dozens of Palestinian…

The following is a report issued this week by the Catholic relief agency, Caritas: Today, Israel issued tenders for 690 new settlement units around occupied East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the months-long…

Israel will lift the air and sea blockade imposed on Lebanon at 6 p.m. Thursday after receiving international assurances over an arms embargo on Hezbollah, the prime minister's office said.…

I am an Italian citizen, born and raised as a member of the German-speaking minority in northern Italy (the relevance of this fact will be apparent later). For the last…

Under-cover forces of the Israeli army assassinated on Wednesday leader of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, in Jenin, in the northern part of the…

Gerry Adams, the head of the Irish Sinn Fein party and a key player in the 'Good Friday' agreement that secured peace in volatile Northern Ireland in 2000, arrived in…

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A group of Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, east of the West Bank city of Hebron, started to open a new road to connect the settlement…

Israeli soldiers stopped on Wednesday a number of school teachers and barred them from from arriving to their school where they teach in the village of Ras-Tira near the West…

Thiab Al Asafra, 41, a resident of Beit Kahil village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army on Wednesday morning. Al Asafra was…

Wednesday at dawn, Israeli army troops attacked the house of Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, the Palestinian chief Islamic judge, located in the West Bank city of Hebron. The house of Al…

Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Kafer Dan and Qabatia, near the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning. Soldiers and army jeeps stormed the two villages and attacked…

An Israeli army source reported on Wednesday that Palestinians hurled a roadside bomb at a military force near Awarta checkpoint, south of Nablus in the northern part of the West…

Israeli soldiers and police detectives arrested three Palestinians in Hebron area earlier on Wednesday morning. According to the Israeli police, the three carried shooting attacks against settlers vehicles in the…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in two separate attacks, one of the casualties is a 16-year old boy.  A total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks…

Israeli bulldozers uprooted Wednesday scores of olive trees to pave a colonial road near the Jewish colony of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank City of east Hebron. Local sources…

In an interview with London's Financial Times on Tuesday, Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran, said that if the Hamas-led Palestinian government were to agree to a two-state solution with…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby Balata refugee camp on Wednesday morning and took one resident of the refugee camp as a prisoner.…

An Israeli force installed a temporary checkpoint on the main road that connects Tayasser village with the nearby West Bank city of Tubas, late Tuesday night . Troops stopped civilian…

A report prepared an published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees revealed 700.000 (25% of the total population) Palestinians were taken prisoners by Israel in the occupied territories. According to…

Khaled Ashour, 19, was injured during an Israeli army invasion to the village of Al Yamoun, near the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning. Ashour sustained an injury…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Wednesday at dawn and took four prisoners. The four were identified as Hanni Syif, 20, Mohammad Abdul-Al his brother…

Palestinian medical sources in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one resident was killed and at least three were injured after the Israeli soldiers…

The head of a Palestinian Presidential Security force, 'Force 17', was taken prisoner by Israeli forces Tuesday at an Israeli checkpoint outside the city of Nablus in the West Bank,…

Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday at night that four residents in two separate Israeli air strikes in Rafah city, in the southern part of the…

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Israeli Vice Prime Minster Shimon Peres said Tuesday that once the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is released, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, would start talks with the Palestinian…

Israeli Vice Prime Minster Shimon Peres said Tuesday that once the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is released, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, would start talks with the Palestinian…

The Israeli army closed on Tuesday the gate number 708 of the Annexation Wall, which is located between the village of Far'on, near the West Bank of Tulkarem, and its…

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Bani Neim and Dora south of the West Bank city of Hebron, and took one resident prisoner on Tuesday. Mohamed Al Zeer, from…

A general strike was carried out in Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala, and all surrounding villages in support of government employees who continued their strike for the fourth day…

Nader Sbeih, 29, from Al Khader village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, was taken as a prisoner by the Israeli army to an unknown location rising the…

In the middle of the conversation in the spacious CEO's office at the Palestinian National Beverage Company in Ramallah 10 days ago, Zahi Khouri's mobile phone danced on the table.…

A monthly report of the International Solidarity Institute for Human Right revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 86 Palestinians, including 16 children. Twelve residents were killed in targeted killing attacks. A…

Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that a Palestinian worker stabbed  a 60-year old Israeli man on Tuesday morning at the Atarot industrial zone, north of Jerusalem. The man sustained moderate…

Palestinians are so enmeshed in politics that it is akin to daily bread. The two are inseparable as there is no choice under occupation and now in the face of…

Taile Al Tirawi, 30, from the West Bank city of Nablus was attacked by Israeli prison guards on Tuesday morning while leaving the prison compound when he was released after…

A strike which began this past Saturday by the Palestinian teachers' union has now expanded to include nearly all sectors of the Palestinian government, as well as banks and private…

The Israeli forces Commander for the Central Region of the occupied West Bank, Major General Yair Naveh, has decided to confiscate 152 Dunams of southern Bethlehem. The annexation order aims…

sraeli soldiers, supported by dozens of armored vehicles and jeeps, invaded on Monday night the West Bank city of Tubas.   Troops and jeeps stormed the city and conducted wide…

Anwar Salah, 28, and Ismail Abdul-Kareem, 41, were taken prisoners by the Israeli army during an invasion to the village of Al Khader south of the West Bank city of…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Tuesday that progress has been made in the issue of a prisoner swap deal for the release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.…

A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning…

Armored Israeli jeeps and personnel carriers invaded the Palestinian village of Doha, west of the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on Monday evening.  Israeli troops opened fire on…

After its 34-day war with Lebanon, in which Israeli forces killed an estimated 1,000 civilians, the Israeli government has been taking a good deal of criticism internationally.  One of the…

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A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning…

The Israeli army left Khaza'a village east of Khan Younis in the Gaza strip after having destroyed a good portion of the village land, Monday afternoon.   Army bulldozers uprooted…

The Israeli Ministry of Housing issued on Monday tenders to construct 690 settlement homes in the Occupied West Bank. The new units will be constructed in large settlement blocs in…

Mohammad Al Markten, 25, and Mahdi Shahror, 30, were taken to unknown locations by the Israeli army during an invasion of the village of Tarqomia, west of the West Bank…

Four residents were injured during the Israeli army invasion of the village of Qabatia, near the West Bank city of Jenin, on Monday. The injured were identified as Ahmad Nazal,…

The Israeli army injured one women and three reporters during a search campaign of residents' houses in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday.     Medical sources in…

Palestinian teachers and employees resumed their general strike for the third day in protest to not receiving their full salaries sine march 2006. Ministries, schools and government officer are closed…

Israeli forces took one resident prisoner from Khaza'a town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza strip on Monday at dawn. Abd Hamed Qadeih, 60, was…

  The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, the Balata and Al Ein refugee camps in the city on Monday morning, and took four prisoners. Local sources…

Israeli forces invaded the village of Qabatia south of the West Bank city of Jenin, injured one resident and took four prisoners including three brothers.   More than 15 Israeli…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses reported, on Sunday evening, that an unknown group of gunmen stopped the car of Dr. Nabil Shaath, a senior Fateh official and a Palestinian legislator…

Ibrahim Abed, 24, was injured during and invasion to the village of Kofer Dan west Jenin city in the northern part of the  West Bank, on Monday at dawn. Israeli…

Yousif Selwadi, 22, and Hitham Ramadan, 36, were taken prisoners when the Israeli army invaded Tal village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday morning. Troops and…

Head of Security Committee at the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a senior Fateh leader, Mohammad Dahlan, headed to Egypt for talks on a possible prisoners swap deal with Israel. Dahlan…

Israeli soldiers abducted one resident at the Container Checkpoint, near Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem as he was heading back home in Al Obediyya village, near Bethlehem. The resident is…

Israeli troops annexed Palestinian orchards east of Bethlehem city in the West Bank, and declared the area as a closed military zone. The order, signed by General Yaer Neveh, confiscates…

Israeli Air Force fired on Sunday night after midnight several missiles at a Palestinian house in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip; five residents were injured while the…

Israeli soldiers uprooted on Sunday afternoon agricultural lands in Abu Safiyya area, east of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Soldiers, supported by tanks…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday at dawn the Al Fawwar refugee camp, near Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank, and arrested a father and his five…

Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the western area of Salfit, in the West Bank, and conducted military searches of homes. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes…

Sunday, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and its refugee camp, Palestinian sources reported. Troops fired rounds of live ammunition at several houses…

Israeli soldier stationed at a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, took one resident prisoner and transferred him to an unknown destination. A Palestinian security source…

Saturday evening, the Israeli air force shelled a house in Bir Al Na'ja area, in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza strip, one resident was…

A spokesperson of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Saturday that a Palestinian National Unity Government might be formed in ten days. Meanwhile, Abbas met in Gaza with the…

The Israeli army kidnapped a Palestinian man in the village of Beit Awwa, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Saturday, and increased its presence in the villages…

Troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin, its refugee camp, and the nearby Kafer dan village, on Saturday at dawn. Soldiers and army jeeps stormed Jenin and its refugee…

When garbage men went on a strike in Gaza three days ago, garbage covered the streets. In order to encourage people to do the same thing, Palestine Prime Minister Ismael…

Without salaries since the Hamas government took power in March, and with no sign that they will receive salaries anytime soon, hundreds of Palestinian schoolteachers took to the streets Saturday…