Israeli Army arrested one resident of Tamon village
On Tuesday morning Israeli troops arrested Jihad Bani Odah aged 20, from the Tamon village in the West Bank city of Tubass. Troops stormed Tubbas searching several houses before arresting…
Palestinians and Israelis ‘drum through the wall’
This weekend, a group of Palestinians and Israelis gathered in Abu Dis to “break the sound barrier by drumming through the wall”. As the sun set on Saturday, close to…
UN: `“Gaza on verge of a humanitarian disaster`
Several United Nations organizations are warning that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster as a result of the Israeli closure and isolation to the Gaza…
Israeli High Court to issue a ruling on a military Wall in Hebron
The Israeli High Court is slated to issue a ruling regarding installing a “security Wall” around several roads in the Hebron Mountain area after it held a session on Monday…
Hamas holds talks with French and Indian officials
A spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, reported on Monday that Hamas members held talks two months ago with French officials, and that recently the movement held talks with…
Palestinian child killed near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian child, and injured two youth, in Qalandia refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. A local source in the camp reported…
Israeli Wall in the West Bank: Post-Occupation Strategy to Deny Sovereignty to the Palestinian State
Constructive discussions or academic talks on Israel need an unbiased attitude, juridical approach and humanist values towards the Arabs particularly the Palestinians who have been losing their campaign for freedom…
Military court fines several Palestinian prisoners
The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced and fined a number of Palestinian prisoners during closed military trials held Monday morning. Abd Azazma was sentenced to three months and NIS…
Army arrests two residents in Hebron
Israeli army forces arrested one Palestinian resident of Dora village and another from Ithna village, near the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday morning. Troops invaded the village of Dora…
Israeli Bank which profited from Holocaust victims now allowing U.S. citizens to open accounts
Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, and one of five major Israeli banks found to have profited from the Holocaust by an Israeli government investigation last year, said on Sunday it…
Ahmad Sa’adat: Wherever I am I will continue to fight!
The Palestine News Network received the following statement from the Sumoud Political Prisoners Group Monday, reprinted in full below. "Palestinian Legislative Council member and General Secretary of the Popular Front…
PPS: `“Detainees are deprived of visitations, education and receiving insufficient food`
Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Adel Khalaila, visited several detainees in Hadarim Israeli detention facility who informed him of the bad living conditions and treatment they face in…
Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers increase
Palestinian farmers across the West Bank are finding it increasingly difficult to plough their fields as Israeli settlers, living illegally on Palestinian land, increase their attacks. Rabbis for Human…
Conservatives rush to cut ties with Hamas: demonstrate lack of diplomatic discretion
Israeli and Palestinian political commentators are calling the recent Israeli election results a political ‘earthquake’. From what I can tell, they are using the term not because the results have…
Seven residents injured, two arrested in Qalqilia.
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Qalqilia Monday morning, arresting two Palestinians and injuring seven others. Aziz Al Nabriss, Habib Hammad, Bilal Odah, Abd Al Latif Milhim,…
Israeli army invades Jenin, arresting three Palestinians
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby village of Bier Al Bash early Monday morning, arresting three Palestinians. Israeli soldiers invaded the village and searched…
Two injured, one arrested in an invasion to Balata refugee camp in Nablus
Israeli army troops invaded Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, injured two residents and arrested one, Monday morning. Army vehicles and soldiers stormed the camp and…
Two residents arrested from Salem village
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Salem east of the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested two girls on Monday morning. Tharwat, 23, and Khitam Ishtaiah, 22, were…
Eyewitnesses: Palestinian leader Obayat was shot ‘execution-style’ by Israeli forces
In the Monday morning assassination of resistance leader Raed Obayat by Israeli special forces, eyewitnesses describe a scene of a badly beaten Obayat, and his companion Ra’ed Sulaiman Abu Joura,…
Israeli Annexation Wall blocks water drainage; one dead, one injured from flooding
After a seasonal rainstorm Saturday night, many Palestinian areas have experienced extensive flooding due to the Annexation Wall constructed by Israel that has blocked water drainage. Iad Salamah Rabi’a, 29,…
Israeli forces impose closure on al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya area in Jordan Valley for 4th day
Israeli Forces continued on Sunday, for the fourth consecutive day, the isolation of al-Aghwar al-Shamaleya area in Jordan Valley in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Local sources said that the…
Israeli police arrest two Palestinian workers who crossed illegally into Israel
After a shutdown of the Israeli cities of Beit She’an and Afula due to ‘intelligence’ that the two cities may be targeted for an attack by Palestinian resistance, Israeli police…
Ten detainees injured in the Negev facility, thirty confined to solitary
Ten Palestinian detainees in the Negev Detention Facility after being attacked by Israeli soldiers who intended to move a transfer hundreds of detainees to other detention facilities. At least thirty…
Troops attack, abuse two Palestinian workers from Hebron
A Palestinian medical source in Alia governmental hospital in Hebron, south of the West Bank, reported on Sunday evening that one Palestinian resident was suffered fractures, concussions and bruises to…
‘Rachel’s Words’ Live On as Supporters Gather in New York
Each Palestinian has a special place in their heart for Rachel Corrie. She symbolized strength, perseverance, and self assuredness. Conversely, she was labeled an enemy of Israel, a nuisance of…
The myth of the ‘honest broker’: Britain and Israel
Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not…
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 Palestinians killed, 18 wounded by Israeli gunfire this week
In this week’s report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights revealed a number of violations of international law by Israeli…
Thursday’s suicide attacker was one of the prisoners freed by Israeli forces in Jericho jail raid
A Palestinian, who was one of several dozen prisoners set free by Israeli forces during their raid on Jericho prison in March, was responsible for a ‘suicide attack’ that killed…
Trying to enjoy a spring day Amidst Israeli Shelling
A few kilometers away from the continuous Israeli heavy shelling in the northeastern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 1, in the heart of Gaza City, several local Palestinians were enjoying…
Settlers attack Palestinian farmers and international peace activists in Hebron
An extremist Israeli settler group of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in Hebron, attacked on Saturday three Palestinian farmers and a Swedish peace activist in Tal Romeida neighborhood in…
‘Don’t worry – it’s just another Palestinian child’s death’
Since September 2000, more than 800 Palestinian children have been killed. . .Who will take responsibility for her death? Who shall be held accountable? On 18 March 2006, I visited…
Palestinian Authority to probe Gaza in-fighting
Rasheed Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip reported that the Palestinian Authority formed an investigation committee to probe the clashes…
Israeli air force shells Palestinian neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip
A Palestinian security source reported that the Israeli air force carried out three air strikes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; the attacks targeted Al Waha Resort, Al…
Bottles thrown at Israeli military patrols in Tulkarem and Hebron; Israelis respond with live fire
Israeli sources reported that Palestinian youth threw bottles and stones at Israeli tanks, jeeps and armed personnel carriers that were invading the Palestinian cities of Tulkarem and Hebron, late Friday…
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained two weeks ago
Dentist Emad Ald’dein Taha ( 31 years) died Thursday of wounds sustained in an unknown explosion inside his house in Al Nisirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip two weeks…
U.S. reiterates suspension of contact with Palestinian Government
In a press conference Friday, U.S. officials reiterated their directive, first announced Wednesday, that the U.S. will bar its officials from dealing with officials of the Palestinian Government agencies that…
Israeli Army resumes shelling of northern and eastern Gaza strip
Israeli army tanks positioned on the borders between the Gaza strip and Israeli resumed the shelling of Palestinian areas north of Gaza city and east of the town of Beit…
Israeli Army erects military checkpoint in Iqaba village, near Tubas
Israeli army forces erected a military checkpoint north of Iqaba village near the West Bank city of Tubas, Saturday morning. Soldiers and army vehicles closed the road that connects the…
Palestinian arrested from Assera Al-Shamaliya village, near Nablus
Israeli army forces invaded the village of Assera Al-Shamaliya near the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested one resident there, Saturday morning. Soliman Yassen, 23, was arrested when troops…
Army forbids residents under the age of 32 from passing through Huwwara checkpoint
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Huwwara checkpoint forbidden residents for the West Bank city of Nablus between the ages of 16 to 32 from traveling through the checkpoint,…
Army closes Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus
Israeli army troops stationed at Beit Iba military checkpoint west of the West Bank city of Nablus did not allow anyone to pass in our out on Saturday morning. This…
Anti-Wall Campaign asks for boycott of French companies following home demolitions in Walaja
After two home demolitions last week in the village of Al Walaja, near Bethlehem, the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign issued a call for citizens and civil society groups to…
Three Palestinians killed, twenty injured, during infighting in Gaza
A Palestinian security source reported on Friday night that three Palestinians were killed, twenty others were injured, during an exchange of fire between fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees and…
Residents, peace activists and international diplomats conduct march to Wall in Bil’in
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, invited diplomats from several European representatives offices in the Palestinian areas to participate in an activity regarding the…
This Week In Palestine, March Week 4
Listen to the audio from the MP3 Player on the right column. || Click here to Download MP3 file 7.36 MB This Week In Palestine, a service of the International…
Israeli Army arrests Palestinian at checkpoint near Ramallah
The Israeli army stationed at one of the checkpoints on the way to the West Bank city of Ramallah arrested one west Bank city of Bethlehem resident, Friday morning. Awad…
Leader of the Popular Resistance Committees assassinated in Gaza
The Popular Resistance Committees announced on Friday that its leader, Abu Yousef Al Qouqa, 44, was assassinated when a wired vehicle detonated fifty meters away from his home in Al…
Israeli settlers uproot trees west of Bethlehem
Israeli settlers uprooted several almonds and grape trees in lands that belong to Beit Omaer villagers west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday evening. More than five settlers…
Army closes the Jordan valley checkpoints and stops workers from arriving to their jobs
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Jordan valley checkpoints closed these checkpoints and did not allow the Palestinian workers from crossing to get to their jobs, Friday dawn. The…
Army invades Nablus and Asker Refugee camp, arrests six residents
The Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and Asker refugee camp in the city, six residents arrested, Friday morning. Troops and armored vehicles stormed the city…
Israeli Air force shells several locations in Gaza Strip
Israeli air force gun ships shelled, in the early hours of Friday morning, a bridge in the center of Gaza city partially destroying the bridge damaging the water system in…
Big demonstration against Apartheid Wall to take place in Bili’in village today
Palestinian residents are reported to have planned a huge demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in Bili’in village today. The demonstration will begin at 12:30pm.
Three Israelis killed in a suicide bombing near Qadumim settlement
Israeli sources reported that three Israelis were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car after night fall on Thursday close to the entrance of Qadumim settlement, near…
European Union mission visits Gaza Strip; says food crisis is ‘serious’ due to Israeli closures
A European Union (EU) delegation has visited Gaza to get a fresh perspective on food shortages following the Israeli closure of a critical checkpoint. The delegation, consisting of 16 heads…
Israeli Army attacks a Palestinian ‘Land Day’ rally in Jerusalem and arrests four, including media
Israeli army troops attacked a Palestinian rally commemorating ‘land day’ in Jerusalem and arrested four, Thursday afternoon. Troops stormed the rally with tear gas bombs and sound grenades and attacked…
Hamas takes over, aid dries up
Hamas formally took power yesterday, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swearing in 24 cabinet ministers, including 14 who had served time in Israeli prisons. Within hours, Canada cut off aid…
Settlers tacks over two Palestinian buildings in Jerusalem
Israeli Jewish settlers toke over two buildings that belong to Palestinian families in the Silwan and Al Toor neighborhoods in Jerusalem, late Wednesday night. According to the owners the settlers…
US Cuts Diplomatic Ties with Hamas Government
As the Hamas party formally took power with the swearing-in of its 24-member cabinet on Wednesday evening, the US government banned its diplomats from having any contact with the Hamas-led…
Eight residents arrested in Tulkarem, Nablus
Israeli soldiers stormed the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp, and arrested four residents, including two youth, after breaking into dozens of homes and searching them. Four…
Gas explosion rocked Haifa building
Israeli online daily Ynetnews reported that one person was seriously wounded from an explosion, apparently caused by gas leakage, which took place on Thursday morning in a multi-story building in…
Israeli forces prevent several Qalqilia farmers from entering their land cut off by the Wall inside
A number of Palestinian farmers from Qalqilia whose land is now behind the Israeli Wall north of Qalqilia gave testimony that Israeli forces are preventing them from reaching their lands,…
Army arrests two brothers from Bethlehem
The Israeli army troops stationed at the Container checkpoint east of Jerusalem, arrested two brothers from Al Azza refugee camp in Bethlehem. Amir and Mohamed Abu Shi’ra were arrested while…
Attacked by settlers, American volunteer believes Hebron attack was ‘planned’
On Saturday, an American volunteering with the Tel Rumeida Project in Hebron was attacked by a group of settlers and sustained a mild concussion. The gash in the back of…
Soldiers, settlers attack local farmers and international peace activists in Hebron
Israeli army troops and scores of extrimist right wing settlers attacked, on Thursday morning, dozens of farmers and international peace activists while planting trees in the West Bank city of…
Israeli army arrested scores of Palestinians in the W. Bank
Israeli army arrested 35 Palestinians in different cities and villages of the West Bank on Thursday before noon, in several military invasions, Palestinian news network reported. The bulk of arrest…
Land Day demonstrations taking place all over the West Bank
Today Palestinians commemorate the 30th anniversary of ‘Land Day’, a day in 1976 when thirteen Palestinians were killed by Israeli police during non-violent protests against Israeli land confiscation of Palestinian…
Army arrests two shepherds from Husssan village near Bethlehem
The Israeli army troops arrested two shepherds from the village of Hussan near Bethlehem city, Wednesday evening. Khalil and Wesam Hamamra, 16, were arrested while herding their sheep in the…
Army arrests three in Ramallah and four in Gaza
Israeli army arrested on Thursday at dawn three residents from the West Bank city of Ramallah and four from the Gaza strip. Troops stormed Ramallah city and arrested two residents…
Army invades the West Bank city of Jenin
Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Thursday morning. Troops backed up with several armored vehicles stormed the city and its nearby…
In an invasion to the city; army arrests one Nablus resident
Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident in the early hours of Thursday morning. Troops stormed and searched several houses in different parts…
Army invades Tulkarem and arrests four residents
Israeli army forces invaded the noprthern West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp, Thursday at dawn and arrested four residents. Troops and army vehicles stormed the city and…
Nonviolent Actions in Palestine and Israel on Land Day
Palestinians living in are planning number of activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Land Day. On this day, Palestinian residents of who protested ‘s land confiscation policy in 1976,…
Palestinian families forcefully evicted from home in Jerusalem
About 50 armed Israeli officials break into the house of Ibrahim Ghozlan in the Silwan area south of the Old City of Jerusalem and forced five Palestinian families from the…
Palestinian cabinet sworn in, PM: new cabinet is a victory for the resistance
The Palestinian Hamas-formed government sworn in by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city on Wednesday, marking the tenth Palestinian government since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in…
The Meaning of Provisional Withdrawal
Many scholars continue to recommend the need for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations while overlooking the harsh reality that Israel is on a predetermined course. Short of ideologically realizing the vision of the…
Abbas: `“Israeli elections won’t make a difference if Olmert does not change his stances`
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that the Israeli elections will not make any difference to the Palestinians if the acting Prime Minister in Israel, Ehud Olmert, does not…
Kadima to form a negotiating team for coalition talks
The Israeli acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, declared victory in the Israeli elections early Wednesday while his confidants said that Shas and the Pensioners Party would be partner of the…
Palestinian family calls for support to fight eviction in Jerusalem
Local sources report that the Jewish National Fund and Israeli Police are forcefully removing the Palestinian Ozlan family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem. In the late 90’s the…
While Israelis voted Tuesday, Israeli forces killed one, wounded 4, and arrested 27 Palestinians
One Palestinian was killed on Tuesday morning as Israeli forces invaded the village of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin, in the West Bank. Israeli Forces also wounded 4 citizens and arrested…
Palestinian leaders; Arab League criticize Israeli Unilateralism
Arab government leaders expressed Tuesday during the Arab League Summit in Khartoum that it doesn’t matter who wins the Israeli elections, as every Israeli party in the running plans to…
Hamas legislator vows for jihad
Hamas adopted a strident tone after its cabinet won approval in the Palestinian parliament, with one Member of Parliament declaring "jihad is our way". The parliament, dominated by members of…
With most votes counted, victorious Olmert declares plan for full apartheid
Ehud Olmert declared himself the new Israeli Prime Minister in the early morning hours of Wednesday, adding that he would go forward with a plan for full apartheid with the…
Big parties in Israel under mounting pressure by lower vote turnout
Kadima, Labor and the Likud parties, the biggest three parties in Israel, are under increasing pressure fearing that the lowest voter turnout in Israel’s electoral history may hinder their political…
March 30th, Land Day Protest against Apartheid Wall near Ariel bloc
A protest demonstration spearheaded by Salfit-based Palestinians and supported by internationals and Israelis in the solidarity movement will be held in the village of Rafat on Thursday, March 30, the…
Al Bireh Municipality no longer able to bury our dead as Israeli government preventing new cemetery
Ramallah’s twin-city of Al Bireh in the West Bank is having a crisis with its dead. The Israeli authorities are preventing construction of a new cemetery. There is no where…
Palestinian Parliament approves new cabinet
The Palestinian parliament approved in its session on Tuesday the new Palestinian cabinet formed by the majority party Hamas led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniya. The government, which is the…
Israeli source: `“Four Bedouins killed in two blasts in the Negev`
An Israeli military source reported that four Bedouins were killed, on Tuesday, in two separate explosions that took place when when unexploded shells detonated near them. Two Bedouin children were…
Palestinian Prime Minister criticizes U.S. for ignoring call to dialogue
"Regrettably, the U.S. administration is always hasty in making its decision and reaffirms its bias toward Israel and against the Palestinian people," said Ismail Haniyeh to reporters at the Palestinian…
Six residents injured, two arrested in Al Fouar refugee camp in Hebron
Israeli army forces stormed Al Fouar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday morning. During the invasion, youth throwing stones at the invading military force…
Israel votes for new cabinet amidst plans of West Bank settlement expansion
On Tuesday morning, the Israelis started casting their ballots to elect 120 members of the seventeenth Knesset. The voting comes amidst a clear statement from the acting Prime Minister, Ehud…
In an invasion to the city; army arrest four residents in Nablus
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army troops invaded the west Bank city of Nablus and arrested four residents. Soldiers, supported by armored vehicles, stormed the city and conducted wide scale search…
Two Israeli soldiers injured by stone-throwing; one Palestinian Security man arrested in Bethlehem
An Israeli army force stormed the West Bank city of Bethlehem, surrounded an apartment building in the city, and searched the residents’ apartments before arresting a Palestinian National Security officer…
Israel’s Artillery: Palestinian’s House Decoration
A cheering face with a broad smile is how Said Fahmi Salah, 40-year-old local farmer and a father of 20 children, receives journalists who happen upon his home in the…
Army invades Jenin shortly after killing one resident in a near by village
Shortly after an Israeli army invasion in the near by village of Al Yamoun, and killing one resident there, troops stormed the West Bank city of Jenin. Soldiers’ conducted wide…
Army invades Bethlehem, arrests one resident
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army troops invaded Al Azza refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested Hatem Da’dara, 26. Soldiers stormed the camp, searched several houses,…
Palestinian resistance shells Kitzofim border crossing
Members of the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing one homemade shell at the Israeli checkpoint set up at Kitzofim, on the Gaza…
In an invasion to the village; army kills one resident in Al Yamoun near Jenin
On Tuesday morning, Israeli army forces invaded the village of Al Yamoun, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, allegedly looking for wanted resistance fighters, and killed one resident.…
Israeli settlers prevent Palestinians from ploughing land
Local sources report that Palestinians from Yanoun village in the Nablus region of the West Bank tried to plough their lands Monday but were prevented by Israeli settlers living illegally on…
Israel seals Gaza border, closes Al Aqsa Mosque during Israeli elections Tuesday
The border crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip – Karni, Erez and Kerem Shalom – have been tightly sealed by Israeli forces during Israeli elections on Tuesday. The Israel…
As Israeli election begins, study shows voters committed to Occupation and Annexation of Palestine
Well-known Palestinian writer and journalist Antoine Shelhat says that Israel is heading into its Parliamentary elections with a greater commitment to the policies of annexation, expansion and aggression, which will…