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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

{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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Sunday evening, Israeli settlers opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle south of the West bank city of Nablus, killing one resident and injuring his brother, Palestinian medical and security sources…

Israeli military and medical sources reported on Sunday that Hezbollah fighters fired, on Sunday afternoon, Katusha shells at soldiers in an open area in the northern settlement of Kfar Giladi…

The International News Safety Institute appealed last week to all parties in the current Middle East debacle to respect the safety and security of journalists and other news media staff.…

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…

Gaza’s health and environment statistics are reaching record lows. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Israeli forces killed 177 Palestinians in military operations during the month of July. This…

Israeli sources reported on Saturday that a mother and her two daughters were killed when a Katusha rocket hit their home in the in the Western Galilee Bedouin village of…

Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the Israeli Annexation Wall, and the ongoing military offensive in Palestine and Lebanon that claimed the…

Southern Lebanon faces dire drinking water and fuel shortages which threaten the outbreak of epidemics if Israel keeps up attacks on the country, a senior U.N. official warned on Friday.…

At least five Lebanese people were killed and twenty were injured in a recent Israeli air strike that targeted several areas across Lebanon. At the same time, heavy fighting between…

Lebanese officials reported on Friday that at least 33 Lebanese and Syrian farmworkers were killed after the Israeli air force fired missiles at vehicles in a farm near the Lebanon-Syrian…

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At least 23 farm workers have died after Israeli aircraft fired missiles at vehicles on a farm near the Lebanon-Syria border, Lebanese officials said on Friday. An additional 20 people…

Southern Lebanon faces dire drinking water and fuel shortages which threaten the outbreak of epidemics if keeps up attacks on the country, a senior U.N. official warned on Friday.  …

Israeli and Western sources agree on defining the start of the current round of hostilities in Gaza and Lebanon as an unprovoked act of hostility from the side of Hamas…

The non-violent demonstration in Al-Khader village changed course Friday when Israeli soldiers erected a metal barrier encased in barbed wire.  Heavily armed and protected by the barrier, the soldiers allowed…

Israel’s bombings on Friday have created a nightmare for international and UN agencies trying to deliver supplies to Lebanese refugees in villages. The bombings have prevented evacuations from the country…

Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Friday that four Palestinians, including a 5-day old infant, were killed. The number of residents…

Members of the Women’s Organization of Jenin gathered outside the city’s International Red Cross office Thursday afternoon to protest Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.  The women proudly…

One person was injured Friday afternoon in Bil’in, west of Ramallah, after Israeli soldiers fired sound bombs and tear gas at demonstrators, Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee…

In a statement released yesterday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said that more than 30 Palestinian political prisoners in Jalameh Prison are carrying out a hunger strike in protest against harsh…

Hezbollah fighters said on Friday that six Israeli soldiers were killed in Markaba, and Eita Al Sha’ab villages in southern Lebanon. Number of Israeli soldiers killed in two days rises…

Dozens of Palestinians farmers living adjacent to the Israeli Wall in Jenin have been issued warnings saying that Israeli forces will soon come to uproot hundreds of olive trees on…

Three prominent Jewish Moroccans, a leftist activist, an author and a human rights official, have submitted a petition to the Moroccan high court in Rabat. The petition accuses the Moroccan-born…

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, citing  the Israeli brutal war on the Lebanese people has decide to withdraw the Venezuelan ambassador to Israel. He said: "It really causes indignation…

Israeli warplanes bombed four bridges early Friday, killing 5 people and wounding nearly 20, AlJazeera reported. The bridges, located on the coastal highway in Northern Beirut were practically the last…

Interview with George Abu Zulif, Defense for Children International, about GazaQ:  Could you speak briefly on the effects of the latest Israeli attacks, the invasion into Gaza on children in…

Local medical sources reported that at least one bystander was seriously injured in addition to the two killed in the missile fired into Rafah city, in southern Gaza, Palestine.  An…

"If you want to fight like an army, we will fight you army to army – but if you continue to hit our cities, killing innocents, we will strike back…

According to a B’Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) report issued Thursday, the Israeli military killed 163 Palestinians in Gaza in July, 78 of…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the Israel’s killing of civilians in its aerial bombardment of Lebanon during the past three weeks. The U.S-based rights group said Thursday…