Palestinian resident killed in Jerusalem
A Israeli policemen from the border guards division shot and killed a Palestinian resident in east Jerusalem Thursday night, Israeli police in Jerusalem reported. The police claim the resident opened…
Palestine Today – July 27 2006
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A new group against war in Lebanon established in Israel
“Waking up in time” is the name of a new movement established in Israel following the current war on Lebanon. The origin of the movement stems from the “Four Mothers”…
What if?
What if Israel fails to win the battle against Hezbollah? Many are asking such a question, especially in the shadow of the results of the early ground battles, which Israeli…
Army invades Jenin refugee camp, injures three residents
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Thursday surrounding one house after firing rounds of live ammunition at residents; two people were…
Israeli forces invade Jenin, injured PNN and Al Jazeera correspondents
Some 40 Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin Thursday afternoon. As the raid began, Israeli forces immediately injured six Palestinians. As the attacks continued, Israeli…
Three Palestinians, including a 75-year old woman, killed by Israeli shells in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli military helicopter fired a missile at a group of people who gathered east of Gaza city,…
Israel increases air strikes in Southern Lebanon after suffering record loss on the ground
Israel continues its air bombardment of Southern Lebanon, while the Israeli cabinet made it clear that air attacks on Lebanon will intensify, but ground operations will be limited, Israel media…
Army invades south west of Rafah
On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army forcibly entered areas south east of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, in a 2km-deep incursion to the territory. According to local sources,…
One resident killed in Kofer Qadom village, east of Qalqilia
On Thursday afternoon, sources in the Qalqilia Governorate announced the death of Hamada Da’ass, 18, a resident of Kofer Qadom village, east of the city. Da’ass sustained injuries during a…
One resident injured in Israeli shelling to east suburbs of Gaza city
Medical sources reported on Thursday at noon that one resident from Al Tufah neighborhood was injured when Israeli army tanks targeted the area. Doctor Muawiya Hassinen, Director of the Ambulance…
Army takes a child as prisoner from Azaria, near Jerusalem
Local sources reported on Thursday morning that the Israeli army took the child, Mousa Faron, 14, as a prisoner from Al Azaria village, east of Jerusalem. According to family members,…
Army invades Beit Furiq and takes three prisoners
Three residents were taken as prisoners when troops from the Israeli army invaded the village of Beit Furiq, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday morning at…
Army takes four prisoners from Yatta and Hebron
The Israeli forces took four prisoners during wide scale searches in the West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby village of Yatta, early on Thursday morning. Several army vehicles…
Army takes one prisoner from Nablus
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday morning, taking Tha’er Al Aghbar as a prisoner. Troops stormed the city and the nearby Balata refugee camp, making…
Human Rights group investigation reveals Israeli Army targeted 3 family members in Gaza
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is calling for a full investigation by the Israeli Military Attorney’s office after their independent investigation revealed the Israeli Army illegally targeted the civilian…
British MPs Call for Immediate Cease Fire in the Middle East
56 British Members of Parliament called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East on Wednesday, calling the Israel military strikes on Lebanese civilians "immoral." The Members of Parliament released…
Israel continues with bombardment of Southern Lebanon despite Israeli losses on Wednesday
The Israeli military continued bombing Southern Lebanon on Thursday, launching a heavy air and artillery attack. Communication masts north of Beirut have been destroyed, as well as three trucks carrying…
75 year old woman dies after being hit by an army tank shell in Gaza
75 year old Kamilah Al Najar was killed on Thursday after an Israeli army tank shell hit her in the head in the town of Jabalia in the Gaza strip. With…
Army takes one prisoner from Al Khader village
Ahmad Mossa, 38, was taken prisoner by the Israeli army during an invasion to the village of AL Khadir near the West Bank city of Bethlehem Thursday at dawn. Troops…
24 Palestinians killed at least seventy injured on Wednesday
Israeli troops killed on twenty-four Palestinians, including three children, on Wednesday, and injured at least 70 residents in Al Sha’af in Al Shijaeeya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Palestinian medical…
Elderly Dies at Israeli Checkpoint east of Qalqilia
An elderly man died Wednesday night as Israeli soldiers prevented him from reaching a local hospital in the West Bank City of Qalqilya, witnesses said. Local sources told WAFA…
Israeli soldiers attack man for reading Qur’an, beat 70 year old, break 24 year old’s arm
In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading prayers from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers, eyewitnesses reported. Israeli soldiers at…
Israeli Army levels a house east of Qalqilia, seriously injuring one youth
Wednesday at night, Israeli soldiers invaded a town near Qalqilia, north of the West Bank, leveled one house and seriously injured a youth by shooting him in his head, the…
Israel’s ‘new Middle East’
{mosimage}Beirut is burning, hundreds of Lebanese die, hundreds of thousands lose all they ever owned and become refugees, and all the world is doing is rescuing the "foreign passport" residents…
Troops killed twenty-two residents, including children, injure 70 in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday
As the Israeli soldiers continue their offensive in the Gaza Strip, twenty-two Palestinian residents, including three children, were killed by Israeli shells, and at least seventy residents were injured in…
Palestine Today – July 26 2006
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July is bloodiest month of the year with Israeli forces killing 167 Palestinians
A Palestinian human rights researcher, Ahmed Betawi of the International Foundation for Human Rights, reported Wednesday that Israeli forces killed 167 Palestinians this month.. The total number of Palestinians that…
Four peacekeepers killed in IAF strike on UN base in Lebanon
An IAF strike in on the building of a UN observer force killed four peacekeepers.in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel. The four…
Resident killed, two injured in Gaza, death toll rises to fourteen on Wednesday
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported on Wednesday at noon that one resident was killed and at least two were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a…
Thirteen Israeli soldiers killed, twelve injured, in southern Lebanon
Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed and twelve were injured in the ongoing gun battles in Maroun Al Ras, Bint Jbeil, and Eitaroun, in southern Lebanon. The soldiers are from the…
Fire rages in Qalqilia while Israeli soldiers disallow water and take ID from firefighters
The Qalqilia Office of Civil Defense was called up this morning to extinguish a large fired that had broken out in the town, near the Israeli Wall. According to eyewitnesses,…
Israeli soldiers attack man for reading Qur’an, beat 70 year old, break 24 year olds arm
In an act of nonviolent resistance, a Palestinian man refused to stop reading from the Qur’an, despite beatings and racial slurs from Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers occupying the West Bank…
Thirteen residents killed, at least 40 injured in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of residents killed in the continuous Israeli attack in Al Shujaeyya area, east of Gaza City has arrived to…
A settler opens fire on the shepherds in a Hebron town
An Israeli settler riding a car fired at two shepherds in Al Thahreyah town south of Hebron and killed three of their sheep Wednesday. Aser Al Tal, a resident of…
Army takes four residents from a Nablus town as prisoners
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank town of Beit Furiq, east of Nablus, Wednesday at dawn and took four residents as prisoners Ahmed Nasarah, Secretary of Beit Furiq municipality…
Army installs a checkpoint at the southern entrance of a Jenin town.
On Wednesday at dawn, the Israeli army installed a checkpoint at the southern entrance of the West Bank town of Qabatia, south of Jenin. Local sources reported that soldiers present…
Army conducts wide scale of searches in an outlying Hebron town
Israeli army troops, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank town of Yatta, south of Hebron, Wednesday at dawn. Soldiers conducted searches over a wide area, notably in the…
Army invades Tulkarem, clashes with resistance fighters inside its refugee camp
Israeli army troops, backed by armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and Tulkarem refugee camp and fired rounds of live ammunition randomly at residents’ houses.The Palestinian resistance…
Nine soldiers killed and 10 injured in Bint Jbeil village
Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed and ten more injured in ongoing clashes between the Hezbollah Lebanese resistance fighters and the invading Israeli army troops in Bint Jbeil village in…
One resident injured in clashes with army in Dura village near Hebron
One resident was injured during clashes with the Israeli army troops who invaded the village of Dora, southwest of the West Bank city of Hebron, late Tuesday night. Troops stormed…
Five Israelis injured by Hezbollah rockets targeting outskirts of Haifa
Five Israelis were injured Wednesday morning by Hezbollah rockets targeting outskirts of Haifa city in Israel. Israeli media sources reported that several Katyusha rockets hit the city and explosions could…
Army invades Beit Fourik and takes one prisoner
Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Fourik east of the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday at dawn, taking one resident prisoner. Najeh Khataita, 56, was taken to unknown…
Five Katyusha rockets hit Tiberias
Five Hezbollah Katyusha rockets hits the city of Tiberias in eastern Israeli Wednesday morning.No injuries or damage were reported in the city. Sirens were heard in the town of Safad…
One camera man injured east of Gaza
Cameraman Ebrahem Al Atallah of Palestinian TV was injured while covering the Israeli army shelling to eastern parts of Gaza city Wednesday morning. According to reporters at the scene, soldiers…
One Israeli soldier killed seven injured in clashes between Hezbollah and the army
One Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured in ongoing clashes between Hezbollah resistance fighters and the Israeli army in the Beit Ejbeel village in southern Lebanon Wednesday…
Israel to establish ‘killing zone’ on Lebanon border
With many Lebanese civilians still hiding in their homes in refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon, afraid to flee after hearing of convoys of evacuees being hit by Israeli…
Haniyya: “US view on new Middle East destroys Lebanon, kills more Palestiniansâ€ÂÂ
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, said Tuesday that the Unites States’s view of a new Middle East begins with "destroying Lebanon" and killing the maximum number of Palestinians, the Middle-East…
Soldiers shell residential building in Ramallah, three injured
Israeli soldiers shelled the West Bank city of Ramallah late Tuesday night and surrounded a residential building in Um Al Sharayet neighborhood in the city. The Palestinian News Agency,…
Soldiers shell a residential building in Ramallah, three injured
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. …
Israeli Special Forces killed a child, injured his father and sister in Gaza
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…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
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…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
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…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
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…
The UN’s top humanitarian official describes Israeli use of force “disproportionateâ€ÂÂ
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…
Palestine Today – July 25 2006
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Economic and Human toll of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has long legacy
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…
Economic and Human toll of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has long legacy
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…
Economic and Human toll of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has long legacy
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…
Twelve Lebanese killed, Hezbollah shells Israeli cities, army claims capturing Lebanese villages
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 forces render 100’s of Gaza families homeless; Red Cross denies telling residents to leave
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…
Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza
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.…
UN’s Emergency Relief Co-ordinator says the situation in Lebanon is deteriorating day by day
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…
Solidarity demonstration in front of ‘Ofer’ detention center
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…
Army stops farmers’ trucks from entering Tubas
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…
The Village Voice, September 2003 What the General Never Told Re Bush Plan for Wars vs. Arabs
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.…
Army takes eleven Hebron residents as prisoners including five brothers
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…
US Secretary of State’s visit met with disdain.Olmert rules out cease-fire
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…
Ismail Hanya insists on ‘moral stance’ from US, reports Al-Jazeera
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…
The Palestinian resistance shells Miftahem settlement
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…
Internationals, Israeli activists help rebuild Palestinian homes
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…
Army closes main and side roads around Tulkarem
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…
Israeli Air Force jet fighters shell a house in Rafah
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…
Army air force jet fighters shells a house in Rafah
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…
Gaza City 4-story residential building destroyed and residents homeless in Israeli targeted attack
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…
Army takes four prisoners in invasion to Nablus and Asker refugee camp
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.…
Army invades Jenin and its refugee camp
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…
European Refugee Association calls to implement international law on behalf on Palestinians
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…
In the name of Judaism?
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…
Israeli Military Censor orders all media in Israel to comply with Censorship order
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…
Rice sets tough terms for truce
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…
Troops shells two houses in the Gaza Strip
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,…
Seven Palestinians, including two children, killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday
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…
Palestine Today – July 24 2006
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Army takes one prisoner from Toqua village
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: IOF Kills 39 Paramedics in its ‘Summer Rains’
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.…
Honour Ismail Shammout 1930-2006:Beloved Artist of Palestinian self-determination
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…
Reporter killed by Israeli air strike; Journalists claim Israel is targeting media
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…
Army air strikes a house in Gaza, resistance fires homemade shells at an Israeli areas
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…
Palestinian resistance shells Israeli city of Ashkelon
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…
Nasrallah: Ending rocket attacks will have no political results
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…
Three Palestinians killed, at least 15 injured in an Israeli shelling in northern Gaza
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,…
Army takes two prisoners on at Araba checkpoint and another during an invasion to Sannor village
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 injured in army shelling of Abraj Al Nada area north of Beit Lahia
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…
One resident injured in army shelling of Beit Hannon
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…
Army installs several checkpoints around Salfit
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…
Army installs several checkpoints around in Salfit
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,…
Israel’s New Math: 2 = 500,000
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…
“They have closed every exit, as if they want to strangle peopleâ€ÂÂ
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…
Israeli forces continue assault on Gaza Strip
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…