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This week I had the pleasure to appear on American radio, on the Laura Ingraham show, pitted against David Horowitz, a "Semite supremacist" who most recently made his name under…

On Friday morning Palestinian ambulance teams found the body of Mohamed Abu Sakran, 22, on farm land east of Gaza city. The youth was killed during the Israeli invasion to…

After Israel’s declaration that its decision to continue its assault on Lebanon had been endorsed by the 15-nation summit in Rome earlier this week, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose…

The Israeli tanks stationed at the Gazan-Israeli borders have resumed  shelling  Beit Lahia, Beit Hannon and Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza strip Friday morning. They targeted residential areas and…

An official source from Hamas, who wished to remain anonymous, told PNN Thursday that the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will not be released until Israeli authorities respond to the…

In the past two weeks, since the onset of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, regional and international media has all but forgotten Palestine. The killings, incursions, and arrests by…

Official sources in the Palestinian Office of the Public Land Defense Committee announced Thursday that the Israeli government will confiscate another 215 dunams of land for the Wall. This time…

Israel has said it has received implicit "authorisation" from international powers to continue its attacks in Lebanon. The Israeli justice minister, Haim Ramon, said Israel had "in effect obtained the…

Christians in Gaza protested on Thursday against the ongoing Israeli military escalation and war in Palestine and Lebanon, and called for a just peace in the region. The protesters called…

Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that a Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Media…

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…

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“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 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

{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…

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…

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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…

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…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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 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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…