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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.…

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…

Mahmoud Al Sa’adi, head of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin reported that Mahmoud Lutfi Al Sa’adi ,18, a member of the movement in Jenin refugee camp died of wounds…

A Golf  ball landed in my front yard. It came from the direction of my neighbor across the street. I was not sure if one of my neighbor’s kids threw…

The Israeli air force shelled several buildings in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and the city of Trablus, north of Lebanon, soldiers also shelled a seaport north of Beirut, and the…

Palestinian detainees in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day in protest to the bad living conditions and bad treatment they face. Head of…

The electronic website of the Israeli paper, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Saturday that the Israeli army had deployed three Patriot missile batteries in the city of Haifa in the morning.…

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday night after midnight that Israeli soldiers shelled several houses in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Tanks and personnel carriers…

Israeli troops took four residents from the West Bank city of Hebron prisoners on Saturday. The four were taking prisoners when troops stormed Wadi Al Hira area south of the…

Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Saturday that prisoners in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued with their open hunger strike for the fourth day in protest to their bad imprisonment conditions…

Ibraheem Abd Al Razek, was arrested when Israeli troops stormed the village of Dir Istiya, west of the West Bank city of Salfit, on Saturday. Troops searched resident’s houses before…

Palestinian medical source at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, reported that two Palestinians, including a 7-month old baby were killed on Saturday after the Israeli air force fired missiles at…

Abd Allah Al Sayeh, 27, was arrested when Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday morning. Troops searched and ransacked several houses in the old city…

Mohamed Khalil Safi, 19, was arrested in the village of Al Obadiyya east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Saturday. Troops stationed at a military checkpoint near the…

One Palestinian was killed and eight were injured as Israeli air force war planes bombed a house in Gaza city on Saturday morning. The house is located in Al-Sheikh Radwan,…

Friday night, an Israeli source reported that a woman and her four-year-old grandson died of their wounds.  The two were injured by a Katyusha rocket fired by Lebanese militia fighters…

At the weekly protest in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinians, internationals and Israelis challenged the recent Israeli decision to block certain holders of American passports…

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Palestinian sources reported that approximately 2320 Palestinians imprisoned in the Israeli Negev detention facility announced on Friday morning a one day hunger strike in protest to the violations carried by…

Palestinian security source in the Gaza Strip reported that hundreds of Palestinians struck at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing since June 25 forced their way into the…

A senior officer of the Israeli army reported on Friday that the army is planning to bomb a Hezbollah headquarters in a densely populated area of south Beirut on Friday.…

Eyewitnesses said Israeli warplanes fired several rockets at dawn today, destroying buildings in near Jabaliya Refugee Camp north of Gaza City. The targets were elected government officials who ran and…

Israeli sources reported on Friday that Hezbollah fighters fired several Katyusha shells at several areas, north of the country; 24 Israelis were reportedly injured, two seriously. The shells were fired…

Israeli tanks and fighter-jets fired several shells in separate incidents at a building that belongs to Fateh legislators in the northern area of Gaza, a residential building in the Tal…

The Israeli army, stationed at Abu Holy checkpoint in the central Gaza Strip, fired artillery shells at a vehicle driving south of Dir Al Balah killing one resident and seriously…

      The National Resistance Bigades, the armed wing of  the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing  of Popular Front for the…

Thursday evening: Israeli army troops arrest two residents from the West Bank city of Hebron. Noaman Al  Najjar, a sergeant in the Palestinian police force in the city, and Atallah…

The Israeli army artillery shelled northern and eastern areas of the Gaza strip on Friday morning. The shelling targeted residents’ houses in Beit Lahia, Jabalia and Beit Hanon, as well…

The Al Aqsa Foundation are organizing demonstrations to stop Israeli desecration of Islamic holy sites. Palestinians conducted a sit-in in protest of Israeli violation of a Palestinian cemetery in a…

Human rights sources reported that upon expressing a sense of hope at the Lebanese capture of two occupying Israeli soldiers, Israeli prison authorities cut all television channels in its prisons…