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The Israeli army started to build new sections of the Annexation Wall south of the West Bank city of Hebron and surveyed the area there and installed signs in order…

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and six others were injured in clashes between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops in Avivim area, close to Keryat Shmoneh settlement, north of the country.…

Israeli warplanes pounded bases of a pro-Damascus Palestinian militant group near the Syrian border Wednesday as they pressed a week-old air offensive in Lebanon, police said. There were no immediate…

Israeli warplanes pounded bases of a pro-Damascus Palestinian militant group near the Syrian border Wednesday as they pressed a week-old air offensive in Lebanon, police said. There were no immediate…

Israeli warplanes pounded bases of a pro-Damascus Palestinian militant group near the Syrian border Wednesday as they pressed a week-old air offensive in Lebanon, police said. There were no immediate…

One Israeli civilian was slightly injured by flying shrapnal after two Katyusha rocket hit an empty building in Haifa Wednesday. Six other residents were treated for shock. The towns of…

“We are at war!” claimed the Israeli leaders five years ago. A unique kind of war: a unilateral war, where only one side, Israel, is fighting, hitting, destroying, assassinating, arresting,…

The Israeli army installed three military checkpoints at the Jenin-Nablus road on Wednesday morning. Troops stopped residents and cars, searching and checking ID cards,  local residents said. Soldiers held up…

Israeli aircrafts hit central Beirut for the first time since the conflict broke out one week ago and continued air raids in southern Lebanon have killed dozens and caused wide-spread…

American Muslims have criticised the US government for its reluctance to condemn Israel, as they worry about countless relatives and friends trapped in Lebanon. US officials have said Israel "has…

United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said he expects European countries to contribute troops to expand the current 2,000- member UN force in southern Lebanon, and has called on "countries…

The Israeli Prime Minister told United Nations envoys, trying to broker a ceasefire, that its offensive would continue until Hezbollah releases its two soldiers and rocket attacks end. "Israel will…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday at dawn and stormed the WAFA news agency headquarters in the city and arrested five residents. The Israeli army…

Lebanon’s Information Minister Ghazi Aridi has accused Israel of using banned weapons in violation of international law. Reports in the Lebanese media have claimed that has used phosphorus incendiary bombs…

Israeli air strikes targeting the north and east suburbs of Beirut have killed at least 29 people Tuesday, raising the deathtoll to more than 254 Lebanese since the Israeli offensive…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning and took one resident as a prisoner. Mohamed Zoghbi, 30, was taken prisoner when more than ten…

A new report by the Lebanese government shows that the Israeli air strikes have devastated the country’s infrastructure.   Lebanon’s airports and seaports have been destroyed. Thirty-Eight roads have been…

Israeli ‘s army deputy chief of staff, Major-General Moshe Kaplinsky, said Wednesday that Israel has not ruled out deploying "massive ground forces" in the country, Al Jazeera TV reported."At this…

Wednesday morning, Israeli troops invaded Al Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza, killing 6 Palestinians. The victims are Mohammad Al-Bashiti 25, Omar Sarhan Abu Emhesen 21, Mohammad Abu Sheba 21, Said…

President Bush, backed by British PM Tony Blair, is granting Israel around one week to continue its attacks on Lebanon before joining the international community in calling for a stop…

Less than one hour after the Washington-based Pacifica network had phoned me about a live interview about Maghazi camp, where I live, I laid down my head on the pillow,…

According to medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus reported that injures toll until the noon time reached to 23 injuries, two critical one of them a child.…

The General Staff of the Israeli Army said that Israel needs 10 to 14 more days to end the offensive in Lebanon, and that it will be concentrating attacks on…

IMEMC Exclusive interview with Karen Abu Zeid, director of UNRWA – the United Nations Refugee ans Works Agency in Gaza, about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Q. Could…

Dear Family and Friends, Ha! I think I am becoming a reporter now! First, we are still safe, but hardly anyone sleeps. The bombing has been continuous, day and night…

Israeli sources reported that Palestinian fighters fired homemade shells at Israeli towns, south of the country. The sources stated that five Qassam homemade shells at Kibbutz Nativ Haasarah late Tuesday,…

Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells on areas in the eastern and northern parts of the Gaza Strip, most of the shells areas are industrial zones, no injuries were…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells that fell close to a United Nations convoy for the Middle East while driving out of the Gaza…

Israeli Public Security Minister, Avi Dichter, said on Tuesday that Israel may have to consider prisoners swap deal, and negotiate with Hezbollah over the issue in order to end the…

For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans, who are arriving from abroad, but have lived and worked…

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, met with a special United Nations delegation led by political advisors of the UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan. Olmert initially refused to meet with the…

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Israeli sources reported on Tuesday afternoon that one Israeli was killed and five others were injured on Nahariya, north of Israel, and five others were injured after Hezbollah fighters launched…

I have seen so many photos of war and dead people and I can say that I got used to see these photos,, however, I was never disgusted more than…

The spokesman for the Hamas parliamentary bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Salah Bardawil, denied any organizational relationship between the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah. In a press statement,…

According to official sources from the Hebron Municipality, about 22,000 Palestinian citizens living in the villages just south of Hebron will face a water crisis in the upcoming weeks. This…

According to officials sources from the Hebron Municipality, about 22,000 Palestinian citizens living in the villages just south of Hebron will face a water crisis in the upcoming weeks. This…

Israeli prison authorities are reporting today that they have extended the Administrative Detention of Palestinian Minister of Finance Dr. Omar Abdul Razzaq. The prison authorities will be detaining Dr. Razzaq…

Despite calls from the international community for a truce, and worldwide protests against Israeli aggression, Major Moshe Kaplinsky, Israel’s deputy armed forces chief of staff, stated that the offense could…

Abd Al Rahman Sahbon, 44, was injured when heavy artillery from the Israeli army shelled residential areas in Al Zahr’a town, in the south of the Gaza strip, on Tuesday…

Abd Al Rahman Sahbon, 44, was injured when the Israeli army heavy artillery shelled residential areas in Al Zahr’a town south of the Gaza strip, Tuesday afternoon. Medical sources in…

The Israeli army struck several targets across Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least 23 Lebanese, including nine members of one family, raising the death toll to more than 220 Lebanese,…

Abd Al Rahman Sahbon, 44, was injured when heavy artillery from the Israeli army shelled residential areas in Al Zahr’a town, in the south of the Gaza strip, on Tuesday…

The Rafah-Egypt border crossing was partially reopened on Tuesday morning to allow Palestinians who had been trapped for the past 23 days on the Egyptian side of the crossing, to…

Israeli forces have officially pulled out of Beit Hanoun after two days of occupying the northern Gaza Strip town. Over the course of two days, the Israeli military caused extensive…

The Israeli army took four residents as prisoners in a pre-dawn invasion of the West Bank city of Hebron, and the nearby village of Bani No’em and Beity Omer, on…

TUESDAY 18 JULY — he Israeli forces invaded the village of Jayues near the West Bank city of Qalqilia and took Bajess Bida as a prisoner this morning at dawn.…

In Montreal, a coordinated response to Israeli agression began last week and continues indefinitely. This is the message that was sent out by those involved. Montreal-based organisations and individuals have…

TUESDAY 18 JULY — Palestinian resistance fighters shot one home made Qassam shell into the housing compound of Israeli intelligence officers in Ovikim, the Negev town east of the Gaza…

The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday at dawn and turned the municipality building into an army post. In addition, local security sources warned that…

As more and more Lebanese are bombarded by Israeli forces, it becomes more and more difficult for them to find safety, shelter, food and medicine. A humanitarian crisis is underway. …

TUESDAY 18 JULY — Israeli forces invaded the village of Qabtia, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, early this morning. Troops and army vehicles stormed the village, with the…

Bassel Sawalha, 20, was taken prisoner by Israeli army after troops invaded the Assira Al Shamalia village near the West Bank city Nablus Tuesday morning. Soldiers stormed the village, searching…

The Israeli army arrested one resident while he was driving his motorcycle at the main road near Wadi Al Far’a, north of the West Bank city of Tubass, Tuesday morning.…

Death toll passes 200 as Israeli air strikes continue to hit the south of Lebanon. While attacks increase and destruction intensifies, thousands of Lebanese civilians are abandoning their homes in…

A mother and son, both American citizens, were savagely beaten last week by Israeli security at the Israeli entry point into the Palestinian West Bank from Jordan: Allenby Bridge. The…

Whatever may be the fate of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is not about him. As senior security analyst Alex Fishman widely reported, the…

IMEMC exclusive Interview with Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi, Palestinian independent legislator, on the current situation in Gaza, and his public statement that the crisis could cause the dissolution of the Palestinian…

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  intends to visit the Middle East in an attempt to seek  calm the region, US  State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. He added that…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza reported on Monday that the Israeli soldiers totally reoccupied and isolated Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. …

Israeli soldiers operating in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus broke into a building belonging to the Nablus municipality and used it as military post. Soldiers also occupied a…

"I have lost a total of $1000 US dollars since the power supply has been cut, the number of my customers has decreased to minimum, I stay idle at my…

Israeli sources reported that eleven Israelis were injured in the northern Israeli town of Safad and two more Israelis were injured after Hezbollah fired missiles at what is being described…

Israeli aircraft have bombed Hezbollah positions in Lebanon for a sixth successive day but the attacks have not stopped the Shia fighters from firing over 50 rockets at Israeli towns…

The three-day-old baby, Mohammed, and his mother Asam 23, were sleeping in their room when an Israeli missile hit their house early Monday morning in the heart of Jabalia refugee…

The Israeli air force bombarded Lebanon with heavy fire Monday, killing 24 Lebanese on the sixth day of fighting. Missiles hit a bus driving on a bridge in the town…

Walid al-Umari, the Arab satellite channel’s bureau chief in the Palestinian Territories, was arrested Monday by Israeli policemen, the pan-Arab television station reported.   Al-Umari has been arrested twice in…

At least 140 Lebanese have been killed in five straight days of Israeli bombardments and air strikes, with the vast majority of those killed civilians and children, the Lebanese Daily…

Israel has rebuffed a UN call for an international monitoring force to be deployed in Lebanon as it continued to attack the country.   Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, had…

The Ramatan news agency reported, on Monday, that Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, said on Monday that the aim of the Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon…

One Palestinian child was killed on Monday at noon by Israeli military fire while he was standing on the rooftop of his parent’s house in Beit Hanoun, in the northern…

The Palestinian Ramatan News Agency appealed local and international media outlets to interfere for the protection of the reporters in the occupied territories. The agency reported that Israeli troops are…

An Israeli soldier, captured June 25th by Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza, was the original impetus for an Israeli invasion that has resulted in the deaths of over 100 Palestinians…

An undercover Israeli army unit has kidnapped one Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, during the afternoon of Monday 17 July. Yousif Abu Al Ize, 33, was kidnapped when…

Several Israelis were injured Monday afternoon when a building in Haifa, north of the country, collapsed after being targeted by Katusha rockets fired by fighters of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli…

The Palestinian people live a life of contradictions- joy and sadness, life and death, construction and demolition. Despite the continued Israeli incursions into the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and…

In light of the escalating conflict between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah, on top of the already heightened Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, many prominent…

Israeli police arrested four residents from the village of Beit Ikssa near Jerusalem Monday at dawn. Brothers Tawofek, 21, and Ramiz Jom’a, 24,  and Abdallha, 24 and Sa’ed Ghet, 21,…

Israeli troops invaded the village of Beit Amreen and arrested three residents there Monday morning. The arrested were identified as Samih Al Faqeh, 23, Medhat Hasson, 23, and Mohamed Hasson,…

During an incursion into the southern West Bank town of Hebron Sunday, Israeli forces attacked and beat four Palestinian citizens. Two of those injured in the incident are minors Those…

After years of asymmetric attacks on the First Amendment – assassinating journalists, surveilling dissent and censoring the free flow of information – the Democracy Mukhabarat rules. Using national security to…

I am Douglas Giles, an adjunct professor who was fired for allowing students to speak in a World Religions class at Roosevelt University, Chicago. I have taught college philosophy, ethics,…

Palestinian security and medical sources have reported that three Palestinians were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air raid on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun Sunday. A dozen…

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry was bombed by Israeli aircraft for the second time in a week, injuring five residents. An 8-story section of the building collapsed and dozens of houses…

Salah Qassem, 46, was arrested after troops invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday morning. Several army jeeps stormed the Jabal Al Mawaleh area in the city, searching and ransacking…

An Israeli soldier was killed and seven others were injured early Monday morning in an explosion in the West Bank city of Nablus.  Al Aqssa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing…

Protesters Blockade Brighton Warmongers, EDO MBM, to Prevent Production of Weaponry for War Crimes In the early hours of Monday morning protesters erected two roadblocks outside each gate of EDO…

Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…

Today in Izbat Tabib, in the Qalqiliya region, in the northwestern West Bank, over 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists successfully removed a land mound road block in order to…

The Israeli army resumed its shelling to Al Dahia area, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and killed 16 residents, including three children, at least 56 residents were injured in the…

A report from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Lebanon says thatt hundreds of people have been displaced from the south of the country and from the suburbs…

We woke up this morning to the footage. No less than six hours after we watched, live, the Israeli bombing of a Gaza building last night, the same rogue military…

The Israeli air force fired missiles at the building of the Palestinian Foreign Ministry early Monday, damage was reported. The attack against the ministry is the second in a week.…

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The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s effort to free three captured soldiers (one in Gaza, two in Lebanon) has become a broad campaign to alter the strategic balance of the…

Khaled Radhi, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, on Saturday announced that the Israeli invasion and the relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip have resulted in 92 Palestinians killed…

The Israeli air force fired missiles at a group of fighters east of Beit Hanoun town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing two resistance fighters and injuring…

Hezbollah representatives in Lebanon claimed that the attack on the northern Israeli port city of Haifa was in response to the indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon by Israeli…

Israeli sources reported on Sunday that three days after an attack on their vessel, the bodies of three missing crew members were found. The Israeli Ynetnews reported that an initial…

A Palestinian medical source in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that an elderly woman died when an Israeli shells blasted near her house.…