Army invades Jenin
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…
Residents detaines under teh hot sun for several hours
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…
Israeli Army installs a gate between Nablus and Tulkarem
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 attacks shepherds huts in Al Bak’a Valley East of Tubas
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…
Israeli army takes one Palestinian prisoner from Al Far’a valley
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…
TEXT: UN cease-fire resolution on conflict in Lebanon
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…
Youth suffers serious injuries in Nablus
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…
Children march in Gaza in solidarity with Lebanese children
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.…
Hamas & Islamic Jihad in Jenin open doors to Palestinians from Haifa and Akka
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 soldiers killed, at least 40 injured in southern Lebanon
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…
Israeli settlers disrupt Friday prayers at Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron
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…
Israeli Army Causes Two Serious Head Injuries to Protestors in Bil’in
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…
Palestinians of Northern Israel flee to West Bank
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…
Israel prevents Gaza – Egypt electrical supply plans
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…
Indonesia to send 2 millions US Dollars to Palestine and Lebanon
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 adopts cease-fire resolution
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…
Old economy, new economy: outsourcing labor to stolen Palestinian land
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…
Report: 203 Palestinians Killed Since Operation ‘Summer Rains’ began June 25
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…
PCHR Weekly Report: 25 killed, 59 injured in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories this week
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…
The Israeli Master Plan: Jerusalem 2000
“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…
Israeli Ambassador Lies about use of Cluster Bombs; Israeli General admits they are being used
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…
At least six killed, 15 injured by Israeli missile fired at convoy of fleeing refugees in Lebanon
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. …
Ukrainian female detainee sentenced by Israeli court to twenty years
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…
One resident taken prisoner east of Tulkarem
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…
Israeli war jets shell a house in Gaza
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…
Hezbollah fires a missile at Haifa, dozens of shells fired at northern Israel
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…
This Week in Palestine – August Week 2
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 9.6 MB This Week In Palestine, a service of the International…
Bilin protest marches against the Wall, Israeli aggression in Palestine, Lebanon
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…
Breakthrough At Al-Khader Demonstration
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…
11 people killed and 11 wounded in northern Lebanon on Friday morning
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…
New UN resolution proposals fall short of Lebanese demands
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…
How Indiscriminate is Hezbollah’s Shelling?
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…
British Medical group: Hospitals in Gaza overwhelmed and running out of supplies
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…
U.S. and France working on revised ceasefire plan as Israeli forces regroup in southern Lebanon
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…
Solana to Visit Middle East
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…
Israeli troops occupy Lebanese Army Barracks in Marj Oyoun, France says deal to end war Imminent
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…
Three Israeli soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters on Thursday
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…
Palestine Today – August 10, 2006
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Islamic Blowback Part Two?
A core component of America’s foreign policy since September 11 has been educational reform in Muslim countries to check the influence of extremist ideologies and fundamentalism. International obligations under the…
More Israeli strikes in Beirut and Al Biqa’ on Thursday
Israeli army continued its shelling to several areas in Lebanon, and shelled a historic lighthouse in a densely populated area in Beirut, as well as killing one man in an…
Total of 1,020 killed in Lebanon, OCHA reports; 120 Israelis
According to a report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Wednesday, a total of 1,020 have been killed in Lebanon, 3,508 injured,…
Total of 1,020 killed in Lebanon, OCHA reports on Wednesday
According to a report published by OCHA on Wednesday, a total of 1,020 have been killed in Lebanon, 3,508 injured, and 960 000 have been displaced. Emergency aid is being…
Dissent in U.S. Legislature about Lebanon; In the U.K.: Calls for Ceasefire
Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, sees a hopeful sign as some US Congressmen and Senators press for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In an article published in…
Three hours after opening it, Israeli closes the Rafah Border Crossing
Only three hours after the Rafah Border Crossing was opened, the Israeli side phoned the European observers an the crossing and ordered them to close it for "secuirty concerns". It…
Army detains scores of civilian cars between Jenin and Nablus cites
Israel army troops stationed at a military checkpoint on the main road connecting the West Bank city of Nablus with Jenin, and stopped scores of civilian cars on Thursday. Two…
In an army operation in Ramallah: two residents injured three taken prisoner
Two Palestinian residents were injured and three were taken prisoners in an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Rammallah which started Thursday morning and lasted until the…
The Palestinian Crime: Existence
Information about the Palestinian prisoner’s conditions in Israeli prisons. Interview with ex-prisoner Arifa Warkat from Balata refugee camp (Nablus). And music from a Palestinian band called Turab. The song is…
PNIC: `“23 Palestinians killed last week`
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center on the Israeli violations and attacks in the Palestinian territories revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 23 Palestinians, injured 64…
One resident from Kofer Ra’ie taken as a prisoner by the army
The Israeli army took Mostafa Melehm, 16, prisoner from the village of Kofer Ra’ie near the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday morning. Troops invaded the village, searched several houses,…
Army takes four prisoners from Tulkarem
The Israeli army took four residents prisoner from the West Bank city of Tulkarem and neighboring villages during a morning invasion Thursday. In Kofer Zeid, troops stormed the residents houses,…
Army takes five prisoners, including girl, from Nablus
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking five residents, including a young girl, prisoner. Local residents said the military operation started late Wednesday night…
Mother, her child, killed by Katusha shell in Dir Al Asad Arab town in the Galilee
Israeli sources reported on Thursday that Hezbollah gunmen fired of Katusha shells into northern Israeli towns, a mother and her child were killed in the Arab Galilee town of Dir…
U.S. and France fail to reach resolution on Lebanon at UN: Lebanese demands not met
An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider France’s revisions to the original draft. The crux…
Army invades Rammallah and impose curfew
The Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Rammallah Thursday morning, surrounded several buildings and imposed a curfew in the city. Troops stormed Al Murjan building near the…
Army invades Jenin and the nearby Al Yamon village
The Israeli army invaded the west Bank city of Jenin its refugee camp and the nearby village of Al Yamon, early Thursday morning. Army jeeps and bulldozers stormed the area,…
Army invades shepherds huts in the Jordan valley
Israeli army troops stormed shepherds’ huts is Al Maleh and Ein Al Helwa areas in the Jordan valley late Wednesday night. The shepherds reported that soldiers searched their huts and…
U.S. and France fail to reach resolution on Lebanon at UN: Lebanese demands not met
An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider France’s revisions to the original draft. The crux of…
More Homes Destroyed In Gaza
Israeli war planes targeted and destroyed two homes in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip after warning residents with a phone call to evacuate. The planes struck in the…
Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
Whatever we think of Israel’s assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah.…
Al-Wallaja Village vs Israeli Law
This 23 minutes audio piece presents 3 villagers that are struggling against Israeli law to have right of ownership of their own lands. Hanin Amr and Tania Tabar report. Click…
What do you say to a man whose family is buried under the rubble?
There were bulldozers turning over the tons of rubble, a cloud of dust and smoke a mile high over the smashed slums of Beirut’s southern suburbs and a tall man…
Extraordinary Precision: The Logic of Israel’s War on Civilians
A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah…
Nasrallah vows to continue fight, calls on Arabs in Haifa to leave the city
Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanon based Hezbollah party, said in a televised speech on Wednesday evening, that his party will continue to fight and that it backs the…
Palestinian Prime Minister, PLO, call for possible dissolution of Palestinian Authority
After the capture of the Palestinian Legislative head Dr. Aziz Dweik by Israeli forces this weekend, adding to the eighty Palestinian government officials already being held without charge by Israel…
Three Palestinians, including a three-year old child, killed in an Israeli air strike
Palestinian medical sources in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported on Wednesday at night that three Palestinians, including a three- year old child were killed, and three other residents were…
Israel’s Security cabinet approves expanding ground offensive in Lebanon
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the so-called Israeli Security cabinet approved the expansion of ground assault in Lebanon authorizing the army to invade Lebanese areas up to the Litani…
Behind the media’s Gazan blind spot
Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada 9 August 2006 As the Israeli war on continues to dominate world headlines, ‘s ongoing war against Gaza seems to be taking place in a…
Two Palestinians killed in Jenin in a targetted assassination
Two Palestinians were extra judicially killed and several were injured in an Israeli air strike in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday morning, Palestinian News Network…
Palestine Today – August 09, 2006
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Army invades Balata refugee Camp, detains four
Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and threw several tear-gas bombs in the neighborhood,…
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon seek shelter
As the sun baked the densely populated camp, young children carrying empty plastic bottles and cooking pots chased a United Nations truck transporting drinking water to schools which had been…
Resistance shells army post near Gaza
Palestinian resistance fighters shelled four home made shells at an Israeli army post in Kerem Shalom crossing south of the Gaza strip on Wednesday. The National Resistance Brigades, the…
Israeli forces announce they will bomb all traffic into Tyre, even humanitarian aid
Leaflets being dropped into the Lebanese port city of Tyre today and yesterday by Israeli aircraft have warned all residents that anything that moves in the city will be bombed.…
Soldiers assassinate leader of the Al Quds Brigades, and his assistant in Jenin refugee camp
Wednesday morning, the Israeli air force assassinated Amjad Sa’id Ajamy, 20, from Atteel village, one of the senior leaders of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic…
Army installs a military checkpoint near Hebron
Israeli army troops detained dozens of Palestinian civilians at a military checkpoint newly installed between Halhool village and the near by West Bank city of Hebron. Soldiers prevented cars and…
Army Continues Its Aggression In The Wake of Gazan Resistance
Gazan resistance fighters launched shells at an Israeli army post in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, while Israeli soldiers responded with their own shells in various parts of the Gaza…
Settlers attack peace activists in Hebron.
A group of illegal settlers with the participation of Israeli army soldiers attacked two members of the Christian Peacemaker Team late Tuesday night in Sousya east of the West Bank…
Israeli army takes one prisoner and intensifies its military presence in Hebron
The Israeli army arrested Faudil Dendis from the old town area of the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning and intensified its presence in the city. Local sources said…
Israeli army bans EU observers from reaching Rafah crossing
The spokesperson for the European Union monitors working at Rafah crossing south of the Gaza Strip said that the Israeli army banned them from reaching their work station at Rafah…
Army takes one prisoner from Isebet Jabara village south of Tulkarem
Akram Awwad was arrested while crossing a military checkpoint near Isebet Jabara village south of the West Bank city of Tulkarem Wednesday morning. According to eyewitnesses, Awwad was going from…
Army takes four prisoners from Balata refugee camp
Israeli army troops took four prisoners from Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday at dawn. The four arrested are brothers from the Abu Ayyash…
Army invades Fahma village near Jenin
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Fahma south of the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning. Palestinian security sources said that several army vehicles stormed the village and…
Army resumes its shelling of the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli army tanks stationed at the Gaza Israeli border continued shelling residential areas in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip Wednesday. The shelling targeted areas in Beit Lahia,…
Two people are killed in an army air strike on Jenin refugee camp
Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles into a resident’s home in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday afternoon. The house collapsed and caused the death of…
Fateh political party calls on Israelis to stop arresting Palestinian women and girls
The Information of Office of the Fateh Movement is calling for public attention to ’s policy of arresting women and girls intended to pressure other Palestinian political prisoners. Wednesday’s…
International support abounds as hundreds demonstrate against Israeli war crimes in Peru
{mosimage)Hundreds of people from the Palestinian and Arab community in marched in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people yesterday in the capital city of Lima in South America. Not…
Arab Bedouins living under Israeli control in the Negev Desert take their case to the UN
Two representatives of the Arab Bedouin community attended a United Nations meeting in Geneva last week entitled, “The Forum of Coexistence.” The UN meeting dealt with the difficulties of Indigenous…
Army invades Balata refugee Camp, detains two
Israeli forces invaded the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city fo Nablus in the early hours of Wednesday morning and surrounded one house of a Palestinian family and…
Israeli strikes kill one person in Ain Al Hilweh Refugee Camp in Lebanon, 15 wounded
An Israeli strike on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al Hilweh kills at least one person and wounds 15, including 5 children, early Wednesday, AlJazeera reported. According to Palestinian…
Israeli airforce bombs Lebanese funeral five times, killing 13
Thirteen people were killed Tuesday evening in Al Ghazziya, Lebanon, while attending the mass funeral of the fifteen Lebanese people killed just the day before. Local sources reported that 1500…
Israeli airforce bombs Lebanese funeral five times, killing 13
Thirteen people were killed Tuesday evening in Ghaziyeh, Lebanon, while attending the mass funeral of the fifteen Lebanese people killed just the day before. Local sources reported that 1500 people…
15 Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon on Wednesday
Official Israeli sources reported on Wednesday night that fifteen Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah fighters in several areas in southern Lebanon. The sources added that in one…
Peretz: Israel will not hold back because of diplomatic efforts
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Haaretz Tuesday that Israel would not hold back because of diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis. Israel is prepared to do whatever it takes…
Turkey cancels USD 500 million deal with aircraft industry
In protest at the Israeli attacks against , has canceled a deal with Israel Aircraft Industries to upgrade aircraft, Israeli sources said on Tuesday. The cancellation of this deal is…
Palestine Today – August 08, 2006
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Number of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon Tuesday rises to five
An Israeli military sources reported on Tuesday that one soldier died on Tuesday afternoon during in clashes with Hezbollah fighters. A medical source in Zef Hospital in Safad reported and…
Dozens of Katusha shells fired into northern Israel
Israeli sources reported tat at least two Israelis were wounded after Hezbollah gunmen fired some 100 Katusha shells into northern Israel on Tuesday, damage to constructions was reported. The two…
Lebanese sources: `“1000 Lebanese killed, 3369 injured sine July 12`
According to official Lebanese sources, at least 1000 residents were killed and 3369 were injured since the clashes started in July 12, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. The Higher Relief…
Army takes one prisoner from Bir Al Bash village near Jenin
Israeli army troops took, Sami Ghawadra, 20, prisoner during an invasion to Bir Al Bash village near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Soldiers searched several houses and…
One child injured by Israeli military fire in Beit Lahia
One child was shot and injured by Israeli military fire in Beit Lahia twon in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon. The child was injured when army…