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…
Fighting Rages as Diplomats at U.N. Exert Efforts to Work Out Plan More Favorable to Lebanon
Battles between Israeli forces and Hizbullah fighters raged Tuesday across south Lebanon as diplomats at the United Nations worked frantically to hammer out a peace plan that would take into…
The Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon
It is impossible to speak of a Hizbullah victory’ when nearly a thousand Lebanese civilians have been killed, thousands more injured, a million people internally displaced; and Lebanon’s infrastructure, environment…
Toll of a war that shames the world
It is 28 days since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, prompting a ground and air assault on by the Israeli army. In that time, 932 people have been killed in…
Army takes three prisoners and injures two in Qabatia village
The Israeli army conducted a wide scale military offensive in the village of Qabatia near the West Bank city of Jenin Tuesday morning, which led to the imprisonment of three…
Army takes one prisoner from Qarowwit Beni Hasan village
The Israeli army took one prisoner during an invasion of Qarowwit Beni Hasan village near Sulfit city in the West Bank late Monday night. The prisoner was identified as Aziz…
Army takes one prisoner from Deheisha refugee camp.
Israeli army forces stormed Deheisha refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday morning and took one prisoner. Nader Abd Rabu, 24, who works as a security…
Army takes five prisoners from Taqua village near Bethlehem.
Five residents were taken prisoner when Israeli army troops invaded the village of Taqua located east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem early Tuesday morning. The prisoners were identified…
Army invades Jenin city and its refugee camp
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Tuesday at dawn. According to local residents, a massive number of army vehicles and jeeps stormed…
Intense fighting in Qabatiya Village as Israeli forces invade and arrest Al Aqsa leader
Israeli forces arrested Al Aqsa Brigades leader Mohammad Adib Hanaish while invading Qabatiya Village southwest of Jenin Tuesday. Members of the armed Palestinian resistance began fighting back at dawn as…
Army continues to shell northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli heavy artillery continued shelling northern parts of the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning. The shelling targeted residential areas in Beit Lahya, Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Hanoun. No injuries…
Army takes four prisoners from Nablus
Four residents, including the wife of a political prisoner, were taken prisoner during an Israeli invasion of the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday morning. A massive army force stormed…
Army invades Kofer Daann village near Jenin
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kofer Daann west of the West Bank city of Jenin late Monday night. Troops and army jeeps stormed the village from several directions…
Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights issued its report for the month of July on Israeli violations in the Governorate of Occupied Jerusalem. A sample of the report…
Three Moroccan Jews sue Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz for War Crimes
Lawyers for leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon filed a petition against Peretz, a Moroccan-born Israeli, to Rabat’s high court. They say…
Bethlehem children hold nonviolent demonstration in support of Gaza and Lebanon
The Young Men’s Christian Association and the Ministry of Sport and Youth helped organize Monday’s event which condemned “the massacres being carried out by against the children, women and the…
Ultimate act of Palestinian nonviolent resistance: We refuse to leave our home
In the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis Refugee Camp 72 year old Mohammad Salameh received notice to evacuate his family home. Israeli warplanes were overhead and intended to continue the…
Solidarity from the south: Chilean group calls for withdrawal of ambassador to Israel
It is clear that Israel, the occupying power, does not care about the international condemnation of its actions in the occupied Territories, nor of its constant violations of international law.…
Boston Man Walks 123 Miles to Send Medical Supplies to Palestine
Marty Wrin, Boston-based activist and Grassroots International staff member walked over 120 miles in 36 hours to raise money and awareness to ship medical supplies to hospitals and clinics in…
UEFA bars Israel from hosting international soccer games until further notice
The European football governing body, UEFA, decided on Monday to bar Israel from hosting international soccer matches until further notice, as a result of violence in the region. The UEFA…
Palestine Today – August 07, 2006
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Death toll in Lebanon rises to 769 people, mostly civilians, 94 Israelis
Five Lebanese civilians were killed and eight Israeli soldiers were wounded after a raid that took place in the south of Tyre. Israeli commandos clashed with Hezbollah fighters after raiding…
Funeral for UN, Arab League and International Conscience in Palestine
Hundreds of Palestinian and International demonstrators took part in the symbolic funeral procession in the town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, Sunday. The event was organized to protest the silence…
Israeli Offensive To Continue Until Ceasefire Agreement
Israel will continue its offensive until a UN-sponsored ceasefire is agreed upon, sources from the Israeli military General Staff confirm, adding that the military will recommend a considerable expansion of…
Two residents injured in Nuba village near Hebron
Monday morning, Naseem Abu Amoud, 34, and Mahmoud Abu Amoud, 19, were injured due to an explosion by an unidentified object in Nuba village, south of the West Bank city…
Army invades Kafr Ra’ee village, west of Jenin
The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kafr Ra’ee, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday at dawn. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers stormed the village, conducted a…
Israeli forces invade Hebron and take five Palestinians prisoners
Israeli forces took five Palestinians from the west Bank city of Hebron prisoners after invading the city on Monday. The invasion began in the northeast and including breaking into several…
One resident taken prisoner in Nablus
The Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and took Mohammed Al Tubassyi, 20, prisoner. Troops and army vehicles stormed the city and searched several homes before…
Israel attempts to assassinate Palestinian P.M, by an envelope containing suspicious material
Five Palestinian Government employees were hospitalized in the West Bank city of Ramallah after inhaling suspicious material that was in an envelope addressed to the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, …
Dozens killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon
Lebanese security and medical sources reported that dozens of people were killed as Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several houses in a village at the Lebanese border. The sources estimate…
Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and kill Palestinian vegetable merchant and injure his son
During Monday’s early dawn hours Israeli settlers shot and killed a man, and injured his son south of Nablus in the West Bank. Palestinian security sources report that the Qalqilia…
Army invades the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Monday at dawn. Local sources said that troops fired their guns randomly at residents’ homes and…
Three Israelis injured in Hezbollah shelling across the north
Israeli sources reported on Monday that three Israelis were injured after Hezbollah fighters fired some 25 Katusha rockets at northern Israel. The sources added that eight Katusha shells landed in…
Five residents taken prisoners from Hebron
The Israeli army took five prisoners from the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby Al-Shiokh village, Monday at dawn. Troops stormed residents’ homes in the city and the…
Army jetfighters fire missiles into a house in Beit Lahia
Monday morning, an Israeli F-16 jetfighter fired missiles at a house in Bait Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that the…
Army invades the West Bank city of Bethlehem
Israeli army troops and jeeps invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday morning. Soldiers stormed residents’ homes and ransacked them in the Al Midbesa neighborhood in the center of…
Army takes one resident as prisoner from Tubas
Saed Ibrahim was taken as prisoner, late Sunday night from the West Bank city of Tubas, after being attacked by the Israeli soldiers. Local residents said that the boy Ibrahim…
PLC Member taken prisoner from Ramallah
Fadil Hamdan, Hamas Legislator in the Palestinian Legislative Council, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army from the West Bank city of Ramallah, late Sunday night. Soldiers surrounded Hamdan’s home…
In evening shelling, 13 killed in a village in Al Biqa’, 15 in al Dahiya, 69 total on Monday
Monday evening, Israeli air force shelled several civilian houses in Bretal village, in Al Biqa’ area in Lebanon killing at least 13 civilians; 23 were injured. In Al Shayyah neighborhood…
Three residents taken prisoners In Jenin refugee camp
Israeli soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, and took three Palestinians prisoners. One of the arestees is Mohammad Al Tubassy,…
Soldiers assassinate a leader of the Al Quds brigades near Jenin
Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers assassinated Rashid Al Omary, 24, of the leaders of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, in Sielet Al Harthiyya town, west…
Soldiers invade Nablus, take two Palestinians prisoners
Sunday morning, Israeli troops invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and took two residents prisoners, eyewitnesses reported. Soldiers broke into the homes of Ibrahim Al Mazni, and Ali…
Child killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah
Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses in Gaza reported that one child was killed after midnight Saturday night, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The sources…
Four Palestinians, including two teen brothers, killed in Rafah
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, reported on Saturday that Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians, including two children, in three air strikes in the city. The…
Soldiers fire at electricity network near Jenin
Saturday, Israeli soldiers deliberately fired at a main electricity network in Fahma village, south west of Jenin in the West Bank. Residents of the village reported that two Israeli military…
Israeli commando raid in Tyre
At least five people have been killed and eight Israeli commandos injured in a raid near the Lebanese port city of Tyre. Israel said the troops landed in Tyre by…