Army claims arresting three Palestinians who attempted to abduct two settler-girls
An Israeli military source reported on Thursday that soldiers arrested three Palestinians who to attempted to abduct two settler teen girls at the Rechalim Junction, near the West Bank city…
Three Islamic Jihad Fighters Killed near the Kissufim Crossing in the Gaza Strip
Thursday evening, three Palestinian fighters of the Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli military fire near the Kissufim military crossing in the central Gaza Strip. Army source claimed that the…
Children and Resistance: Audio feature
When a fighter dies who is lost? When a young man ends his life strapped to a bomb who is left behind? And where do the new generations find a…
Palestine Today – June 15, 2006
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State Must Dismantle and Reroute The Annexation Wall near Jayous and Azoun
The Center for the Defense of the Individual and Palestinian residents won approval, on Thursday morning, for their petition filed before The High Court of Justice. The High Court ordered…
Barakeh calls on Katsav to release seven Shfa-Amr residents
General Secretary of Hadash Movement Israel, member of Knesset, Mohammad Barakeh, on Thursday called on the Israeli President Moshe Katsav to absolve seven Shfa-Arm residents suspected of killing a Jewish…
Army arrests one resident and turns two houses to military posts in Biet Al Rish village near Hebron
Israeli army troops invaded the village of Biet Al Rish near the West Bank city of Hebron, arrested one resident and turned two houses into military posts on Thursday. Soldiers…
WHO: averting humanitarian health crisis for Palestinians
The World Health Organization (WHO) called for urgent action to avert a humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories. WHO reported that the health sector in occupied Palestinian is currently…
Unknown gunmen abducts a resident in Khan-Younis town in the Gaza strip
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Hani Ad Doghmah from the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza strip Thursday afternoon. Several masked men driving a white civilian car stopped Hani Ad…
Jerusalem municipality plans to construct settlement neighborhood, Hotel and Mall in East Jerusalem
The Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to construct houses, a huge parking lot, Mall and a hotel in what is known as the…
Army arrests four residents from Hebron
The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Dora south of the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested four residents there onThursday. Troops stormed the village and searched scores…
Army arrests one resident from Attil village
The Israeli army arrested Mohamed Abd Al Rahamn Doka, age 28, in a predawn invasion to the village of Attil, north of the West Bank City of Tulkarem, Thursday. Soldiers…
Army invades Kofer Harres village near Salfit
The Israeli army troops invaded the village of Kofer Harres, north of the West Bank city of Salfit, and searched residents houses Thursday morning. Troops stormed the village from several…
Army arrests three residents from Nablus
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and the Askar refugee camp on Thursday morning, arresting five residents. The army stormed the Askar refugee camp, searching residents…
Israeli Military protects settlement expansion in Hebron
Beit Ayn settlers are being supported by the Israeli military, police, and secret service in their campaign to seize land owned by a Palestinian family near Hebron. While the settlers…
Israeli police commander promoted despite role in deaths of Arab citizens
The head of Israel’s paramilitary Border Police, Benzi Sau, has been promoted to a senior position in the Public Security Ministry in defiance of the findings of a state inquiry…
Ministry plans ‘universal’ immigration law to ban Arabs from residency rights in Israel
Israel’s Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, has ordered his department to hurriedly draft the country’s first immigration law to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. He said a Basic Law was needed within…
Israel says it found solution to `“Jews only` flights
Israel’s Transportation Ministry declared on Wednesday said it intends to install temporary X-ray scanning machines in the Kiryat Shmona airport. The move comes, according to the ministry, in an effort…
Palestinian lawyer sentenced to 11 months
Five months after Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian Lawyer, the Israeli Salem Military Court sentences him on for eleven consecutive months, the Palestine News Network reported. The lawyer, Dirar Moneer…
Olmert meets Chirac, says convergence plan will be implemented
Israel Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, claimed during his meeting with the French President, Jacques Chirac, in France, that he will be seeking a peace deal with the Palestinians based on…
Livni: `“Only a Palestinian State would solve the refugees’ cause`
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, said on Wednesday that the issue of the Palestinian refugees can only be solved by establishing a Palestinian State. “The two-state solution means an…
Palestinian medics hold nonviolent demonstration in Gaza after Israeli forces kill 4 Tuesday
Wednesday, Health care workers demonstrated in the Gaza Strip against Israeli forces’ systematic attacks against them. Israeli forces routinely contravene the Fourth Geneva Convention by preventing ambulances from reaching the…
Egyptians suggest a new technocrat Palestinian government be formed with a new PM
Ma’an News Agency has learned from private sources that a suggestion is being studied by the various Palestinian factions to cancel the referendum ordered by presidential decree and instead choose…
‘Shrapnel Evidence Reveals:Israel’s Guilt’ ` Human Rights Watch
Israel’s official denial of responsibility for the Gaza beach deaths and injuries was strongly challenged by a former Pentagon battle damage expert who has surveyed the scene of the beach…
Palestine Today – June 14, 2006
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Annan Doubts Results of Israeli Army’s Probe into Gaza beach
In an interview published in Al-Hayat, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan regarded the army’s version of the events as "strange." The army’s investigation team examining the incident…
Palestinian Sources: PA foreign Minister returns to Gaza with $ 20 Million in his suitcase
Palestinian security sources in the Rafah crossing border between Egypt and south of Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that the Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr. Mahmoud Al Zahhar returned from a two…
Palestinian Sources: PA foreign Minister returns to Gaza with $ 20 Million in his suitcase
Palestinian security sources in the Rafah crossing border between Egypt and south of Gaza Strip reported Wednesday that the Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr Mahmoud Al Zahhar returned from a two…
American Peace activist denied entry to Palestine on Israeli border
Paul Larudee, an American nonviolent peace activist, has been denied entry to Palestine by the Israeli authorities and is being held in detention at Ben Gurion Airport, sources at the…
The Israeli Army release wild pigs and poisonous snakes in Salfit
The Israeli army released wild pigs and poisonous snakes onto farm land belonging to Jama’en village near the West Bank city of Salfit, Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said that they saw an…
Palestinian PA employees storms the PLC headquarters while members are in session
Palestinian Authority employees stormed the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) headquarters in Ramallah while the MP’s were in session,on Wednesday at noon.The demonstrators entered the hall while the PLC was in…
Palestinian prisoners announce hunger strike in protest at their harsh conditions
Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli detention center of Qadomem east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem have announced a hunger strike in protest to their conditions in the detention…
Gunmen set fire in the house of head of the Preventive security force in KhanYounis
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
Gunmen set fire in the house of head of the Preventive security force in KhanYounis
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
Gunmen set fire in the house of head of the Preventive security force in KhanYounis
A group of gunmen set fire in the house of Rfa’et Kalab, head of preventive security force in Khanyounis city south of the Gaza Strip. An official source in the…
The Army installs yet more portable checkpoints north of Salfit village.
Israeli army intensifies its portable military checkpoints north of Salit and at the entrances of the nearby villages of, Hares ,Kefel Hares and Qarawet Bani Hassan. Local eyewitnesses in…
Army storms Aida refugee cam and Al-Duha village near Bethlehem and arrests five
The Israeli army invaded Aida refugee camp to the north of the west Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby village of Al Duha and arrested five residents early wednesday…
Army confiscates a house in a Bethlehem village, turns it to a military watchtower
The Israeli army confiscated one of the homes of Taque’ village south east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday and turned it into a military watch tower Khalid Hameeda, head of…
Army and settlers attack a Hebron resident and his son
Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers assaulted a resident and his son from the West Bank city of Hebron Wednesday morning. The man and his son sustained bruises on all over…
Army invades Beit Wazen village, arrests three
Israeli army continues its invasions into the Palestinian territories Wednesday morning as Israeli troops invaded the West Bank village of Biet Wazen, west of Nablus. Three residents were arrested. Eyewitnesses…
One Killed another injured in clashes in Khanyounis
One Hamas operative was killed and a Palestinian security official was injured in clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip erupted Wednesday morning, Palestinian sources reported. …
Abbas: Dialogue to resume over the prisoners document
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared that national dialogue will be resumed for a week, in bid to reach an agreement over the national conciliation document presented by the Palestinian prisoners…
Israeli Defense Minister attempts ‘damage control’, denying responsibility for Gaza beach attack
In a press conference with his Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, and army General Ma’er Khalefy, Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz claimed that the Israeli army was not responsible for…
Army assassinates leader of the Al Aqsa brigades in Jenin refugee camp
Tuesday after midnight, undercover units of the Israeli army infiltrated into the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, and assassinated leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in…
Abbas: `“Israel is trying to wipe out the Palestinian people`
After an Israeli air-strike killed 11 Palestinians, including eight civilians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel is trying to wipe the Palestinians out by its continuous attacks against…
Deteriorating conditions in Salem Israeli military prisons
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Mustafa Al Azmouty, said that the conditions at Salem Israeli detention camp, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, are sharply deteriorating,…
Army invades village near Bethlehem, injures two residents
Tuesday night, Israeli troops invaded Tiqua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with dozens of residents; at least two residents were injured. Soldiers fired rubber-coated…
Israeli Police arrests Arab residents suspected of killing Israeli terrorist
Tuesday at dawn, the Israeli police arrested six residents of the Arab town of Shfa-Amr suspected on involvement in the killing of a Jewish terrorist after he killed four people…
One hour before Gaza Strike, Peretz says `“self restraint policy is over`
One hour before the Israeli air force carried two strikes in Gaza killing eleven residents, including two children and three medics, Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said that Israel will…
Eleven Palestinians, including two children, killed in two Israeli air strikes in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air force fired two missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in a crowded street killing eleven residents, including two school children. Army…
Palestine Today – June 13, 2006
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Qassams, the big myth, should stop
Called ‘rockets’ by the Israeli, International and Arab media as well, a more serious look is needed to see what Qassam projectiles actually are, and the actual damage that they…
Money Negotiations Drag On With No End in Sight
Recently, the US cancelled talks in which ministers had been expected to approve urgent measures leading to the payment of Palestinian salaries, including those of the security forces, frozen after…
Olmert: `“Israel will never agree to total pullout from occupied West Bank`
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that will never agree to pull out of all of the occupied West Bank, and claimed that the borders that existed before occupied…
Court extends Administrative Detention of several Palestinian youth
An Israeli military court extended Administrative Detention of several young Palestinians formn the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. Under thjis military order, Palestinians are subject to a renewable detention without…
Army arrests one resident while settlers attacks farmers and burns fields in Hebron
The Israeli army troops have arrested one resident and settlers attacked and injured five farmers and burned their crops in Yata village south of the West Bank city of Hebron,…
Palestinian resistance fighters ambush army vehicles in Nablus
Palestinian resistance fighters from Al Aqsa martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah have ambushed Israeli military vehicles in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday morning. The Brigades confirmed…
Al Quds Open University Students Protest in Beit Sahour – Tuesday June 13
Fire and smoke rose up from the main roadway in front of Al Quds Open University in Beit Sahour as part of a protest in which the students burned tires…
Nine Palestinians, including two schoolchildren, killed in an Israeli airs trike in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air force fired two missile at a Palestinian vehicle in a crowded street killing nine residents, including two school children. Ar…
Gaza shelled by Israeli air force killing 9 and injuring 20
The Israeli army air force jetfighter fired several missiles at a car in Salah Al Den Street in Gaza city Tuesday afternoon, killing nine and injuring 20. According to medical…
Al Quds Open University students’ protests in Beit Sahour
With burning tyres and stones,the students of the Quads Open University in the West Bank city of Beit Sahour protested on Tuesday afternoon, at their university’s decision to be placed…
Army arrests one youth from Bethlehem
The Israeli army has arrested Ahmad Yassen, 17, from Aida refugee in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday at dawn. Troops stormed the Refugee camp and searched several houses…
Unknown gunmen burns the PLC offices in Salfit
Unknown gunmen have burned the Palestinian Legislative Council offices in the West Bank city of Salfit Tuesday morning. According to eyewitnesses, more than ten masked gunmen stormed the office building,…
Israeli Army invades Jenin
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and clashed with local Palestinian resistance fighters Tuesday at dawn. According to local residents, troops and armored vehicles stormed the…
Army arrests two residents from Nablus
Two more Nablus residents were arrested Tuesday at dawn as the Israeli soldiers continue their military campaign in the West Bank city. Soldiers stormed the residents’ houses in several parts…
Army arrests three residents from Tulkarem
The Israeli army arrested three residents during a predawn invasion to the West Bank city of Tulkarem Tuesday. Infantry troops and army vehicles stormed the city as soldiers fired live…
Fateh gunmen torch Haniyeh’s office in Ramallah
A Palestinian security source in Ramallah reported Monday night that Fateh members stormed government, parliament buildings in Ramallah and set ablaze the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister, and Hamas leader,…
Resident killed, fifteen injured in Fateh-Hamas clashes in Rafah
The ongoing clashes between members of Fateh’s Preventive Security force and the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed the life of a deaf resident; fifteen other residents…
ICRC steps up humanitarian aid due to economic crisis in Palestine
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it has increased it budget for its operations in the region for the Palestinian people. In a press release issued Monday…
Blair refrains from endorsing the convergence plan during meeting with Olmert
During his meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, British Prime Minister Tony Blair refrained on Monday from endorsing the convergence plan, and called for the resumption of the peace…
Hanegbi: `“Haniyya may be targeted for assassination`
Senior Israeli lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi (Kadima party), said on Monday that the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya does not have immunity in spite of the fact that he was elected…
Audio Report: Palestine Today, June 12, 2006
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Army arrests several residents from Hebron villages
The Israeli army invaded Ithna and Yata villages near the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested three residents. Hamza Al Hitawi, 23, an officer at the Palestinian Authority National…
Member of P.A executive force killed in Rafah
A Palestinian security source reported on Monday that a member of the Executive Force, that belongs to the Ministry of Interior, was shot an killed by unknown gunmen in Rafah,…
Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly backs down after Israeli pressure
Systembolaget, the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly, received complaints for having labeled its two kosher wines from the Golan Heights as coming from "Israel." The public argued that this was incorrect…
Lebanese intelligence uncovers Israeli spy network
The Lebanese daily A-Safeer reported on Monday that the Lebanese intelligence service has uncovered a spy network working for Israel since 1990. The spy network network, according to the report, was exposed…
PCBS: An increase in the poverty rate in Palestinian territories in the Last Three Months
The number of residents of the occupied Palestinian territories classified as poor more than doubled in the first quarter of 2006, and by one measure more than 70% of the…
The Palestinian Parliament discusses call for referendum
The Palestinian Parliament is set to discuss Monday the legality of a Presidential decree issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he calls for a public referendum over the…
Israeli government makes Palestinian Jerusalemites foreigners in their city
The Israeli government announced recently that it would restrict the right of Palestinian citizens who hold foreign passports, in addition to their required Israeli-issued ID and Palestinian passports, to live…
Army starts to open a trench along the Yabod-Araba road
The Israeli army bulldozers started digging a three meters deep trench along the Yabod-Araba village road near the West Bank city of Jenin Monday. According to the local residents, this…
Israeli Army shells a car in Gaza
An Israeli air force jetfighter fired two missiles at a Palestinian car that was traveling on Khalil Al Wazir near Al Nasser neighborhood in Gaza city Monday morning. Medical sources…
Army installs portable checkpoints south of Tubass and the entrance of Tamon
The Israeli army has installed several portable checkpoints to the south of the West Bank city of Tubass and the nearby village entrance of Tamon, on Monday morning. Troops stopped…
Army invades the West Bank city of Jenin and clashes with the resistance
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and clashed with the local resistance fighters defending the city during the early dawn hours Monday. A massive army force…
Army arrests one resident from Toqua village east of Bethlehem
Israeli army troops arrested Monier Al Omor, 27, from the village of Toqua east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem at dawn Monday. Al Omor was arrested when army…
Army levels one house in Tourah village west of Jenin
The Israeli army bulldozers leveled one house in Tourah village west of the West Bank city of Jenin Monday morning. An army bulldozer and more than 20 army vehicles stormed…
The need for a referendum
The assignment the editors at Al Quds Educational television gave their reporter seemed simple: Go out and assess the public’s reaction to the suggestion by President Mahmoud Abbas to hold…
Army prepares a plan to invade Gaza. Peretz to wave stronger response
The Israeli army is preparing to invade the Gaza Strip and conduct a large scale military operation as Israeli Minister of Defense Amir Peretz said Israelis will toughen their response…
Troops invade Jenin refugee camp, clashes with resistance fighters
Sunday after midnight, Israeli soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Jenin, and exchanged fire with resistance fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the military…
Abbas, Haniyya meeting ends with no agreement, next meeting Monday evening
A meeting between the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas and the Minister of Interior, Sa’id Siyam, ended Sunday evening without an agreement on the referendum, though both leaders agreed to hold…
NIC: `“Ten Killed and 59 Injured in several Israeli attack last week`
A statistical report documenting the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people asserted that Israeli occupation forces killed ten Palestinians and injured 59 others in one week throughout the different Palestinian…
Army targets a Palestinian vehicle in Gaza
Sunday evening, an Israeli fighter-jet targeted a Palestinian vehicle driving in Al Nasser neighborhood, west of Gaza city, two residents were moderately injured. Local source reported that the vehicle was…
Israeli Government Separates American Mother from Her Family by denying visa
Israeli authorities have denied a re-entry visa to an American mother and wife who has lived in the West Bank for thirty years, leading Palestinian-American groups to challenge what they…
Settler opens fire at workers in Hebron, one resident seriously injured
An extremist settler opened random fire on Sunday at a group of Palestinian workers, the south of the West Bank city of Hebron, seriously wounding one of them and taking…
Two Palestinians killed, seven injured in an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun
Two Palestinian fighters were killed after the Israeli air force fired missile at a resistance group in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, three other fighters…
Three more Palestinians killed in Gaza, several injured
Three Palestinians were killed on Sunday in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. The three belong to Al-Qassam brigade, Hamas’ armed wing, as Israeli gun shelled the strip, Palestinian…
Israeli forces invade Bethlehem, arrest two Palestinians, naked and blindfolded
Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses jointly reported that an Israeli force of eight military patrols invaded Bethlehem since the pre-dawn hours, and invaded Beit Jala and northern Bethlehem near Aida…
Blowback: Why Palestinian civil war must be avoided
At the height of the second intifada, in October 2002, I was one of those who called publicly upon the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to dissolve itself. At the time,…
‘Birthright Israel’ program refuses admission to Jewish American who planned visit to Palestine
This week, the "birthright israel" program, which provides free ten-day trips to Israel for Jewish youth, is celebrating its 100,000th participant since the tour group’s founding. But Sierra, a 26-year-old…
Olmert’s daughter protests Gaza killings, human rights organizations send a letter to Olmert, Peretz
Dana Olmert, the daughter of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, participated in left-wing protest against Friday’s Gaza beach military strike, outside the house of Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff of…
Palestinian Prime Minister, President meet to discuss ‘National Unity’ document
Hours after announcing that he would hold a referendum on the Palestinian ‘National Unity’ document, President Mahmoud Abbas received Prime Minister Ismael Haniyya to discuss the possibility of avoiding a…