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Israeli soldiers shelled invaded late on Tuesday night the west Bank city of Ramallah , and surrounded a residential building in Um Al Sharayet neighborhood, in the city.    …

Tuesday at night, undercover united of the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian child, and injured his father and sister while they were standing near their house, east of…

Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…

Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…

Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…

Jan Egeland, who is in Gaza to evaluate the destruction caused by Israel’s offensive on Palestinians, claims that the Israeli use of force is “disproportionate”. It has been reported that…

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As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

As was recovering from a year of cruel assassinations and explosions, it was hit this month yet again by another confrontation with . The year 2005 saw the murder of…

The Israeli army claimed on Tuesday controlling Bint Jbeil Lebanese town, less than 10 km north of the strategic village of Maroun Al-Ras, which was captured by the Israeli army…

Israeli intelligence informed the family of Abu Abed, east of Gaza City, to vacate their two-story home. The Israelis said they intended to use warplanes to destroy the house. A…

A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported that one Palestinian resident died of wounds suffered in an earlier Israeli air strike in Al Maghazi refugee camp, south of Gaza City.…

In an interview on Monday with IRIN, UN’s Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Jan Egeland, reported that the people of Lebanon are facing their “greatest hour of need.” In response to the…

Palestinian parliamentary groups, along with international activists from France and South Africa, demonstrated in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners in front of the ‘Ofer’ Israeli detention center, located west of…

Israeli troops stationed around the West Bank city of Tubas stopped Palestinian trucks and barred them from entering the city on Tuesday. The trucks were delivering stacks of hay used…

Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general who is one of 10 candidates for the Democratic nomination for president, has written a new book that is just arriving on bookstore shelves.…

The Israeli army took eleven residents, including five brothers, as prisoners from the West Bank city of Hebron, after invading the city and the nearby towns of Biet Ummer, Dura…

Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, visiting Beirut and Jerusalem. proposed sending the Lebanese army along the border with Israel, backed by an international force to stop rocket attacks by…

Al-Jazeera reports that Hamas leader, Ismail Hanya, urges “moral stance” from US. "All that we ask the American administration is to take a moral stance towards the Palestinian people, and…

Palestinian resistance fighters shot one long-range home-made Qassam shell at the Israeli settlement of Miftahem, located east of Rafah city in Gaza Tuesday morning. The Al Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility…

International and Israeli peace activists joined residents from villages near Hebron and Jerusalem to help rebuild homes destroyed or badly damaged by Israeli settlers. Participants from the International Solidarity Movement…

Israeli army soldiers closed several main and side roads around the West Bank city of Tulkarem early Tuesday morning. Troops stopped public taxi and civilian cars at flying checkpoints, searching…

Jet fighters from the Israeli Air Force shelled a house in Rafah city, in the Gaza strip, Tuesday at dawn. The shelling targeted houses in the Al Barazil neighborhood of…

The Israeli air force jet fighters shelled on Tuesday at dawn a house in Rafah city i0n the Gaza strip. The shelling targeted house in Al Barazil neighborhood of the…

Israeli forces did not stop the firing blitz into the Gaza Strip throughout night. Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses confirm that Israeli warplanes bombed three houses including a home east…

Four residents were taken prisoners by the Israeli army after troops and army jeeps stormed the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby Asker refugee camp Tuesday at dawn.…

Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp Tuesday at dawn. Soldiers and military vehicles stormed the city and refugee camp from several directions…

The Association of Palestinian Refugees in Europe is calling upon the European Union, the United Nations, and the international community to move forthwith to protect the Palestinian people and call…

Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I…

As the dual Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Palestine continue unabated, local and international journalists covering the conflict have been affected by orders from the Israeli military censor’s office not…

Condoleezza Rice has put the blame on Hezbollah for the crisis with Israel and said a cease-fire would only be possible if two kidnapped Israeli soldiers were freed.   "Any…

Two hours after the Israeli army ordered two families to evacuate their houses, Israeli F 16 fighter jets shelled one house north of Khan Younis and a house in Gaza,…

Monday evening, a 5-year old child was killed and three members of her family were injured in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. In a separate…

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Esma’el Al Sabah, 23, was taken prisoner by Israeli soldiers at the Atzion checkpoint near Hebron while traveling from work to his home in the village of Taqua, east of…

Ministry of Health said Monday that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 39 first aid workers, doctors, ambulance drivers and nurses since its military operation "Summer Rains" on June 28, 2006.…

Leading Palestinian artist Ismail Shammout died this week at the age of seventy-six. With a career that spanned over fifty years, Ismail Shammout was one of the most influential Palestinian…

Layal Nejib, 23, a photographer for the Lebanese magazine Al-Jaras, was killed by an Israeli air strike on her taxi in southern Lebanon yesterday.  Although she is the first journalist…

A Palestinian source reported on Monday that the Israeli air force shelled a house that belongs to a leader of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza city. Fighters of the Islamic…

The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility forfiring homemade shells at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Monday morning. Israel confirmed the statement, saying that one…

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah stated on Monday that Israel’s ground invasion into South Lebanon will not prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into Northern Israel. Israel’s declared goal, of ending…

Monday afternoon, Israeli soldiers shelled with heavy artillery civilian areas in Abraj Al Nada area, north of Beit Lahia, in the northern Part of the Gaza Strip killing three residents,…

Israeli Army took two prisoners on Monday morning, one at a military checkpoint bear Araba village and another one during an invasion to Sannor village, both villages are near Jenin…

Six residents were injured Monday afternoon when Israeli army tanks shelled the Abraj Al Nada area, north of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza strip. The residents were injured by shrapnel…

Mohamed Al Massri, 28, was injured Monday afternoon in northern Gaza town of Beit Hannon during continued Israeli army shelling to the area. Al Massri sustained several cuts and injures…

The Israeli army troops installed several military checkpoints on the main roads and inside the West Bank city of Salfit Monday morning. Soldiers stopped residents and civilian cars, searching them…

Israeli army troops installed several military checkpoints on the main roads to and on roads inside the West Bank city of Salfit Monday morning. Soldiers stopped residents and civilian cars,…

This is obviously the outcome of the newly emerged Hebraic arithmetic laws. For 2 kidnapped Israeli soldiers who are still kept alive, 500,000 innocent Lebanese civilians are displaced. For 2…

The roads are closed and Jenin is besieged. Israeli forces are not allowing the northern West Bank residents to move, claiming “hot warnings.” The armed Palestinian resistance may conduct operations…

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that at dawn Monday Israeli Apache helicopters hit the home of Sheikh Mohammed Dib in Gaza City’s Beach Refugee Camp. Palestinian medical sources said…

The Israeli army took three residents prisoners from the village of Bel’a and the Nor Shames refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem during a predawn invasion Monday.…

The Israeli army closed the entrances to the West Bank cities of Tulkarem, Nablus, and Jenin Monday morning, putting the three cities under total siege as violence escalates on both…

American smart bombs are going to be delivered to Israel through Qatar, according to an article published today by the London based newspaper The Middle East. The article stated that…

Israeli army troops and armored jeeps stormed the West Bank city of Nablus Monday morning. Soldiers were deployed in several neighborhoods and the old town area of the city, though…

Israeli army tanks stationed at the Israeli-Gazan border shelled northern areas in the Strip late Sunday night, including farmland and residential areas. Damage to resident’s property was reported, though no…

Israeli forces invaded the town of Al Doha, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, taking Ra’ed Zakaria, 28, as a prisoner Monday at dawn. Troops invaded the town…

Demonstrations were held in major cities across the world on Saturday, as part of an international call of solidarity against Israeli aggression in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The biggest…

The following are two interviews with Tina and Michael Hannouneh.  Tina is an American of Palestinian origin who was beaten by Israeli border guards, along with her son, Michael, at…

Israeli soldiers shelled a house in Gaza city and several towns in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Sunday night after midnight, injuring two residents, the Palestinian News agency,…

Ahead of her trip to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 21 July 2006 blamed Hizbollah for the current crisis and announced that her trip is…

As the Israeli army continues its offensive against Lebanon for the twelfth consecutive day, eleven Lebanese were killed and dozens were wounded in several Lebanese towns and cities. On the…

In an ongoing invasion into the northern West Bank, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the city of Jenin on Sunday; two of them just 16 years old. The military…

Sunday evening. The Israeli police arrested three protesters marching against the war in Lebanon and Palestine during a protest in the northern city of Lod. The protest was organized by…

Israeli warplanes struck a minibus carrying people fleeing the ongoing Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon, killing three people, and injuring thirteen, Lebanese security officials said Sunday.  Those killed had been…

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described what is happening in Lebanon as saying. "This is an act of war." Olmert is correct. This is war. It has been war, non-stop,…

The Palestine section of the ‘Defense for Children International (DCI) – reported on Sunday that the Israel army has killed 783 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada…

The Israeli bombing of a Beirut neighborhood where Hezbollah supposedly had its headquarters has breached humanitarian law, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday. "It is horrific. I did not…

This audio documentary features audio of the people in the village of  Majdal Shams shouting across the minefield (1967 cease fire line) that separates them from their relatives in Syria.…

Israeli medical sources reported on Sunday morning that two Israelis were killed and at least 14 others were injured as ten Katusha rockets fired by Hezbollah gunmen hit Haifa, Israel’s…

Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday morning three Palestinians; an old man and two youths in a military invasion to Al Zibedat village in the Jordan valley. Troops and jeeps stormed…

The general surprise that Lebanese civilians are taking the brunt of Israel’s onslaught — and the unwillingness in some quarters of the media to report the fact — reflects a…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday afternoon that Israeli soldiers accompanied by armored vehicles and military bulldozers invaded an area east of Jabalia town, in the northern…

An Egyptian legal committee has warned of the serious consequences of the Israeli use of chemical weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for more than a week…

The village of Yaseed, north of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, was ransacked by Israeli troops Saturday.  The soldiers took one Palestinian prisoner, identified as Munther…

It looks like an earthquake hit the center of Nablus, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops pulled out Saturday.  A massive pile of rubble was…

As Israel continues its military attacks in Lebanon, Israeli soldiers occupied Maroun Al Ras village in southern Lebanon and claimed that the village was used by Hezbollah fighters. Major-General Benny…

Saturday evening, at least 5000 Israeli and Arab residents of Israel marched from the Rabin Square to the Cinematheque plaza Tel Aviv against the war on Lebanon and Palestine and…

Hundreds of Palestinian nonviolent activists took the streets outside Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli Annexation Wall. Al Khader Village is being forced under the shadow of the 25-foot concrete…

Israeli soldiers took Mish’al Abu Baker, from the West Bank city of Jenin, late on Friday evening, before he could see his newly born son. Abu Baker, who works selling…

On Saturday at noon, tanks from the Israeli army continued their shelling of residential areas in the eastern part of Gaza city. The tanks shelled several neighborhoods east of the…

The Israeli forces took Monther Mashaqi, 24, as a prisoner in an invasion to the village of Yassed, north of the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday. Soldiers surrounded…

The Israeli army have told the Palestinian military coordination office in the West Bank city of Tulkarem that Israeli troops will demolish the Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the city.…

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Beit Ola and Kharssa, near the West Bank city of Hebron, and took six residents as prisoners on Saturday at dawn. Troops invaded…

The Bush administration has complied with Israel’s request for an expedited delivery of satellite and laser-guided bombs, the New York Times reported Saturday.  Meanwhile, the reports coming in from southern…

Israeli forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin, Saturday morning, and started to provoke residents. Eyewitnesses reported that soldiers were using loudspeakers to insult local residents, and shooting live…

Atiha Al Sowarka, 70, sustained several wounds in deferent parst of his body after being hit with fragments of an Israeli tank shell at his house in the Abu Safiah…

Israeli army troops stormed the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Saturday at dawn, after putting the city under siege for a week.  Resistance fighters attacked the invaders. More than…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The fury of Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has more than a few observers shaking their heads. The vast majority of Western media reports do not accurately portray the fact that…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called on the Israeli Army to explain a shooting incident Wednesday in Nablus, in which a news crew of TV satellite channel Al Jazeera…

American marines arrived at the Beirut shore to evacuate the remaining American citizens from Lebanon, while those Lebanese unable to evacuate are facing shortages in food and medicine, according to…

The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli…

TYRE, Lebanon – Soldiers laid 72 coffins in two trenches, a mass grave for victims of the Israeli bombardment. Elsewhere, mounds of rubble sat undisturbed; rescue workers were too fearful…

In an interview with the pan-Arab satellite television channel "Al Jazeera", the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, denied the Israeli reports that 50 percent of Hezbollah’s military force have been…

Israeli air power alone is capable of damaging Hezbollah but not of defeating the Lebanese resistance movement, leaving Israel with a choice of a ground offensive in southern Lebanon or…

Al Arabiya television said on Friday the Israeli army had found the body of an Israeli soldier who had previously been reported missing, in southern Lebanon.  Earlier on Friday, Israel…

Since the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip started on June 27th, Israeli ground forces and warplanes have been killing Palestinian men, women and children, destroying the Palestinian economy…

Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in northern the West Bank, reported that a nurse died after the Israeli army charged the Palestinian Security Headquarters in the city with explosives and…

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