Boycott Movement Grows. Canadian Union Votes for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Responding to a Palestinian initiated global campaign, The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, recently overwhelmingly approved a resolution that will make them an active partner in the campaign…
F16 Israeli fighters shlell main roads, farmlands in Beit Lahia
Israeli air force shelled on Wednesday night after midnight several main roads and agricultural roads leading to the northern borders between Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza…
International Peace activists and Israel’s annexation policy
{mosimage}They look different than us, but their actions and their solidarity with us makes them part of our people and companions to us in our struggle against the occupations’ policy…
Israeli air-force shells several areas in the Gaza Strip
Eyewitnesses and Palestinian security sources reported, on Tuesday night after midnight, that the Israeli air force shelled a training center for the Popular Resistance Committees, south of Gaza City. Troops…
Hamas has until week end to accept prisoners’ proposal for unity
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has given the Hamas government until the end of the week to accept a manifesto drafted by senior Palestinian detainees, implicitly recognizing Israel, or face a…
When Palestinians kill Palestinians
There is nothing more intoxicating, more soul-stirring, nothing more thrillingly, unstoppably transcendent, than nationalism. Until, that is, the moment that you begin to become a nation. Take the Palestinians. Take…
Army arrests two residents, suspected of killing a settler mother and son in 1996
An Israeli military source reported that troops arrested on Wednesday two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah suspected on killing a settler woman and her teenage son in…
Audio Report: Palestine Today, June 07, 2006
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Audio Report: Palestine Today, June 6, 2006
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Shin Bet Chief: `“P.A collapse does not serve Israeli interests`
Shin Bet Chief (Israeli Domestic Security Service) Yuval Diskin, said on Tuesday that the collapse of the Palestinian Authority (P.A) and its institution does not serve the Israeli interest in…
Hamas and other Palestinian faction praise prolonging the national dialogue
The step taken by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in which he decided to prolong the national dialogue over the National Agreement Document presented by the Palestinian prisoners. The ultimatum…
Israeli High Court rejects Peace Now petition on illegal outpost
The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected on Tuesday a petition filed by the Israeli Peace Now movement demanding the government to evacuate six illegal settlement outposts installed on private…
Six injured after gunmen fired RPG shells at a security center in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported on Tuesday that six Palestinian residents, including four members of the Preventive Security Force, were injured after gunmen fired RPG shells (rocket propelled grenades) at a…
Five injured in a RPG attack on Preventative Security headquarters in Gaza
Five Gaza City residents were injured, including two PA officers, when three RPG’s (rocket propelled grenades) landed at the preventative security headquarters in Gaza city on Tuesday afternoon. One of the five…
Palestinian resistance fires two homemade shells at Sederot
The Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad fired two home-made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot, on Tuesday. In a press release the Brigades said that…
One resident injured in unexplained explosion in Hebron
On Tuesday one resident from Hebron city was injured in an unexplained explosion. The Israeli army has intensified its presence in several parts of the city. Abd Al Fatah Ezghaier, sustained…
Israeli forces led bulldozers down the central market of Balata Refugee Camp
During the morning’s invasion to Nablus, an event that has become a daily occurrence for two months, Israeli forces arrested Palestinians, taking them to an unknown locations and destroyed the…
Army sets farms in Tayasser village on fire
An Israeli army force has set fire to farm lands belonging to farmers from the village of Tayasser, east of the West Bank city of Tubass, Tuesday at dawn. The…
Army arrests one resident from Tulkarem
The Israeli army arrested one resident from the West Bank city of Tulkarem Tuesday morning. An army force invaded the city, surrounded the house Samier Barhosh, 34, searched it, then…
Soldier commits suicide in a village mosque east of Tubass
One soldier from the Israeli army has committed suicide in Al Aqba village mosque east of the West Bank city of Tubass, Monday at dawn. The soldier killed himself after…
Army invades Al Aqba village and imposes curfew
More than 300 Israeli army soldiers invaded the village of Aqpa east of the West Bank town of Tubass and imposed curfew on the village, Tuesday morning. According to the…
Army arrests six residents from Nablus
The Israeli armed forces arrested six residents in a massive military invasion to the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday at dawn. Massive army forces enterd the city and the…
Army arrests one resident from Qabatia village south of Jenin
Mo’taz Hanaisha, 27, was arrested when troops invaded the village of Qabatia south of the West Bank city of Jenin Tuesday at dawn. Army vehicles entered the village and soldiers…
Boston groups protest the siege and starvation of the Palestinian population
The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR), together with a dozen other Boston-area peace and justice organizations, will be holding a demonstration in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the group said in a…
British relief worker detained, given death threat by Israeli Security
A British accountant with a relief organization was just released from a 3-week detention by Israeli security forces in which he was subjected to physical and psychological abuse, intense interrogation…
After talks with Hamas failed; Abbas to call referendum on Prisoners Document
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas informed delegates from various Palestinian factions that efforts aimed at getting the Hamas government to support the prisoners’ document for a two-state solution have failed, and…
Two Palestinians assassinated in Gaza, Qassams hit Israel
In a quick response to the assassination of two resistance fighters in Gaza, a Palestinian resistance group fired two home-made shells at Israeli areas outside of the Gaza Strip. No…
Palestinian Prime Minister rejects President’s ultimatum
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh voiced his opposition Sunday to the "prisoners’ document" for Palestinian internal unity, saying that Palestinian President Abbas’ ultimatum on the initiative was illegal under the…
Arab Bank closes two branches in the Gaza Strip after account-holders vent their anger
The Arab Bank closed two of its branches in Gaza City because it did not want to expose its employees to the anger and frustration of hundreds of employees of…
Audio Report: Palestine Today, June 5, 2006
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Israel’s Targeted Assassination Policy
On May 24, 2006, Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, appeared before the U.S. Congress to decry the lack of any "genuine Palestinian partner for peace," with whom Israel could talk.…
Gunmen break into the Palestinian Satellite TV Station
Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses reported on Monday that a group of gunmen broke in Monday afternoon into the main headquarters of the Palestinian Satellite TV station in the Khan…
Israeli soldiers confiscate IDs from Palestinian women
Eyewitnesses reported Monday that Israeli soldiers have been confiscating the identity cards of Palestinian women from Jenin and Tulkarem, apparently due to the fact that the women are related to…
Army levels two houses in Atof village east of Tubas
Monday, Israeli troops invaded the village of Atof, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, and leveled two houses. Army jeeps and soldiers stormed the village after sealing its…
Army closes Tulkarem city, bars residents from leaving
Israeli troops closed on Monday the entrances of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and barred the residents from entering or leaving the city. Troops barred the vehicles and the…
Army and settlers attack Hebron, arresting one and leaving two brothers injured
The Israeli army and settlers attacked farmland, burned olive trees and injured two brothers, arresting arresting one of them in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday at dawn. Rami…
Israeli forces invade Jenin Refugee Camp, arrest 4 as resistance fights back
At dawn this morning Israeli forces invaded Jenin Refugee Camp. Members of the armed resistance wing of Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds Brigade, fought back against the invading army as Israeli forces…
Explosion in Gaza kills one Palestinian
An explosion has ripped through a house in the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing one person and wounding two others, hospital officials say. The source of the…
Army arrests one resident from Beit Ola village west of Hebron
Dia’e Al Emla was arrested on Monday at dawn when the Israeli army invaded Beit Ola village, west of the West Bank city of Hebron. Soldiers stormed the village, surrounded…
One resident killed, three injured In an explosion north of Gaza Strip
Palestinian security sources reported on Monday that at least one Palestinian was killed and three more were injured in a mysterious blast that rocked one of the houses in Jabalya…
Army stops farmers in Tubas from harvesting their crops
The Israeli army troops stopped the local farmers from the West Bank city of Tubas from harvesting their crops Monday morning. The soldiers stopped farmers on their way to collect…
Army invades Bidia village and arrests one resident
The Israeli army has arrested one resident from the village of Bidia, west of the West Bank city of Salfit, in a pre-dawn invasion to the village Monday. Anwar Balasma, 24,…
Army arrests one resident from Al Thahria town near Hebron
The Israeli army arrested Ghaleb Al Sammamra, 24, after invading the town of Al Thahria south of the West Bank city of Hebron late Sunday evening. Al Sammamra, who works…
Army arrests four residents from Jenin Refugee camp
The Israeli army has arrested four residents from Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, Monday at dawn. Troops and army vehicles stormed the city and the…
Arab member of Knesset visits Abbas, Hamas ministers in Ramallah
Arab member of the Israeli Knesset Member, Ibrahim Sarsur, from the United Arab List-Ta`al, met on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior ministers of the Hamas-led government in…
Ramon: `“Israel to evacuate illegal outposts in a few weeks time`
Israeli Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, reported on Sunday that the evacuation of West Bank illegal settlements outposts will commence in a few weeks time, and that a ministerial committee is…
Five Palestinians killed in Gaza in-fighting Sunday
Sunday evening, Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that five residents were killed and at least seven were injured in several shooting incidents that took place in Khan Younis, in…
In Egypt talk, Israeli Prime Minister emphasizes Israeli unilateralism
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed Sunday to a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but said that if the Palestinians do not agree to Israel’s terms, Israeli forces will…
Israeli troops kill elderly man in invasion of Tulkarem
Israeli forces killed a 60 year old Tulkarem resident during an invasion of the refugee camp early this morning. Israeli forces invaded the camp, in the northern West Bank, and…
Palestinian Authority employees begin receiving salaries
Palestinian civil servants, who have not been paid since the end of February, have begun to receive their back salary checks, a bank official told reporters Sunday. "Our bank has…
Israeli Demonstrators in Tel Aviv: End The Occupation
A demonstration of approximately 1000 people took place in Tel Aviv Saturday night, demanding the Israeli government to end the Occupation of Palestine, end the siege and sanctions imposed on…
Children of Bethlehem commemorate International Children’s Day
On Saturday,The Palestinian Network for Children’s Rights in cooperation with the Peace Center in the West Bank city of Bethlehem organized a children’s procession on Saturday marking the International Children’s…
Army invades Nablus in what seems to be wide scale military operation
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Nablus in what it seem to be a wide scale military operation Saturday at noon. According to residents, a number of…
Israeli Soldiers Stab a resident in Hebron
A Hebron resident was injured when Israeli soldiers assaulted and stabbed him, north west of the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian medical sources reported. Medical sources at the Hebron…
Israel building new West Bank settlement
Israel has begun laying the foundations for a new Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank — breaking a promise to Washington while strengthening its hold on a stretch of…
Israeli Soldiers Stab a resident in Hebron
A Hebron resident was injured when Israeli soldiers assaulted and stabbed him, north west of the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian medical sources reported. Medical sources at Hebron Public…
Army arrests two residents from Beit Reema west Of Ramallah
The Israeli army has invaded the Village of Beit Reema west of the West Bank city of Rammallah and arrested two youth, Saturday at dawn. The two were identified as…
Hamas says it does not intend to consider Qatar proposal
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denied reports that it intends to weigh a proposal from Qatar to dissolve the Hamas-led government, and form a technocrat government headed by “liberal figures” that…
Fatah Deploys a new security force in Jenin
In a step apparently countering the Hamas Special Forces in the Gaza Strip, Fatah deployed its Special Force into the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, Palestinian sources reported.…
Shobaki denies Israeli allegations he `“confessed` during interrogation
Palestinian political prisoner, General Fuad Shobaki, denies reports attributed to him by Israeli prison authorities. During interrogations, Israeli forces claim Shobaki confessed to weapons smuggling. Shobaki is one of the…
Qaraqa: Fateh will win new elections based simply on the fact that Hamas has no strategic vision
Former Director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society and current member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Issa Qaraqa’, spoke with PNN regarding the current state of affairs in the Palestinian Government.…
Senior Hamas fighter wounded in Gaza drive-by shooting
Palestinian security officials and officials the the Hamas movement reported on Saturday that one senior member of the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was seriously injured in…
Amro: Abbas will not visit Gaza before Hamas removes new force
Nabil Amro, a senior Fatah leader said that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not visit Gaza if Hamas does remove the new forces deployed in the Gaza strip, Voice…
Army arrests two residents south of Jenin
The Israeli army arrested two residents at a military checkpoint on the Jenin-Nablus road south of the West Bank city of Jenin, Saturday morning. According to eyewitnesses troops stationed at…
Two children injured in Beit Lahia Shelling
Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday morning that two sisters were injured after the Israeli tanks fired shelled at areas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Nawal Mohammad…
Army arrest five residents from Hebron
The Israeli army arrested five residents from the West Bank city of Hebron during an extensive search campaign in the city, Saturday at dawn. Soldiers searched homes in the eastern…
Palestinian Lawmaker: Fatah will not be able to take over the PA
Issa Qaraqi’ member of the Palestinian Parliament said on Saturday, that Fatah will not be able to take over the Palestinian Authority even if Hamas Gov’t falls, because of the…
Two more temporary checkpoints installed south of Tubas
Israeli troops installed two temporary checkpoints south of occupied Tubas, Saturday morning. Soldiers stopped and searched vehicles and checked the Identification Cards of passengers forcing them to remain exposed to…
Army invades Ein Al Bidda east of Tubas, arresting one resident
The Israeli army invaded Ein Al Bidda village east of the West Bank town of Tubas and arrested one resident on Saturday morning. Troops stormed farmers huts and sheds searching…
Barghouthi: Israel controls 76% of water, Gov’t should resign for not paying salaries
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, Member of the Palestinian Parliament, said the Hamas government should resign for failing to provide the paychecks of the Palestinian civil servants. Barghouthi, who is also the…
Residents, peace activists and legislators protest against the Wall in Bil’in
Approximately six hundred Palestinian residents and one hundred Israeli and international peace activists along with several members of the Palestinian Legislative Council protested on Friday against the annexation Wall in…
Refugees in Iraq displaced again
Palestinian refugees in Iraq are once again being displaced, while their Right of Return is being ignored. Now, as some as being put in tent-camps in Syria and others are…
This Week in Palestine – May Week 05
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Islamic Jihad stress its objection to the Prisoner’s document
Al-Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad organization in Palestine strongly dismissed reports saying that the group has approved the document drawn by the Palestinian prisoners which carries…
Israeli soldiers attack a hospital, arrest injured Palestinian
Israeli soldiers accompanied by a military doctor, broke on Friday at dawn into a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested an injured resistance fighter. Under-cover…
Two gunmen killed, one injured, on borders with Egypt
An Israeli military source reported that border-guard troops shot and killed on Friday at dawn two gunmen, and injured a third one after they infiltrated into Israeli territory through the…
Army arrests a resistance leader from ICU in Nablus hospital
The Israeli army arrested Jawad Al Ka’abi, 23, a top leader of Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PLFP, in the…
Army forces families to leave their village east of Tubas
The Israeli army forced several Palestinian families to leave their village east of the West Bank city of Tubas Friday morning. Troops stormed the farmers huts and houses east of…
Army invades Tulkarem city
The Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem with troops positioned in the city center Friday morning. Soldiers searched several homes including the houses of Tha’er Hantash,…
Army arrests several residents from Ein Al Bida village in the Jordan valley
The Israeli army invaded the village of Ein Al Bida in the northern part of Jordan valley and arrested several residents Friday morning. Troops stormed the village and imposed curfew…
Palestinian security officer killed in Gaza
Palestinian security sources reported that one security officer was killed after gunmen fired at his vehicle in Gaza City Thursday night. At least five members of the preventive security force…
Settlers open fire at Palestinian workers near Nablus
Thursday evening, a group of extremist settlers opened fire at five Palestinian workers east of the West Bank city of Nablus. No injuries were reported in the attack. Yaser Mleitat,…
Audio Report: Palestine Today, June 1, 2006
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Protesting late wages, PA security men attack Gaza parliament
Thursday, thousands of Palestinian security men fired off automatic rifles at the parliament building in Gaza city and smashed the windows protesting their unpaid wages since Hamas took office in…
At least 10 injured in Hamas-Fateh clashes
Gunmen of the Hamas and Fateh party clashed on Thursday in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, at least three Fateh members were injured in the clashes, eyewitnesses and…
Army arrests child at Howwara checkpoint
Israeli troops stationed at Howwara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus arrested a Palestinian child and took him to an unknown location Thursday at noon. The soldiers…
Army storms Al Borak center in AL Bira city and arrested the director
The Israeli army stormed Al Borak culture and research center in Al Bira city south of the West Bank and arrested the director of the center Thursday. Troops invaded the…
Army invades the Balata refugee camp and Nablus city
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and nearby Balata refugee camp on Thursday morning. Troops entered the city and refugee camp from several directions then took positions…
Four residents arrested near Hebron
Thursday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested four residents in the village of Al Shiokh, north-east of the West Bank city of Hebron, after invading it and conducting military searches of…
Troops arrest ten residents in the town of Silwad, near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers arrested ten residents Thursday morning from the town of Silwad, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, after invading it and closing its entrances. Troops attacked and…
PPS: `“72 residents, including 13 children, arrested in Hebron in May`
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the Israeli army arrested 72 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Hebron and its surrounding villages during the month of…
Jewish settlers attack Palestinians in Tel Rumeida, Hebron
Jewish settlers living illegally on stolen Palestinian land assaulted citizens in Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the West Bank City of Hebron in an attack which locals say is meant to…
Palestinian Prime Minister: Our problem with the Israeli occupation not Judaism
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya has affirmed that his government is ready to make a long-term-truce with the Israeli occupation government if Israel pulls out of all the 1967-occupied lands,…
Two Israeli soldiers injured near Jenin by homemade explosive
During an early morning invasion of Jenin, two Israeli soldiers were injured, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources, when a homemade explosive went off next to an Israeli military convoy…
Human rights groups condemn Israeli attack on ambulance Tuesday in Gaza
A report released by Reliefweb International condemned the Israeli attack Tuesday in which four emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and one journalist were injured, and two ambulances were damaged, when Israeli…
Al-Aqsa Fund to donate $100 million to Palestinian Authority
The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported the following notice of yet another grant to aid the Palestinian people against the US-led political and economic boycott. Whether it will reach the…
Israeli forces and police open fire on Palestinians in Jerusalem while collecting taxes
Israeli forces shot young Palestinian men in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses, the officers came to the house escorted by the police to collect…
Army arrests one resident from Bethlehem
The Israeli army arrested one resident from Dihasha refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during a pre dawn invasion Thursday. 6 army jeeps stormed the camp and…
Resistance injures two soldiers during a predawn invasion to Jenin
Palestinian resistance fighters injured two soldiers during an Israeli army invasion to the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp Thursday at dawn. More than 20 army vehicles…
Here’s why they Call it the ‘Jewish State’
In recently approving an effective ban on marriages between Israelis and Palestinians, ‘s Supreme Court has shut tighter the gates of the Jewish fortress the state of is rapidly becoming.…