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Speaking before the opening session of the Palestinian Parliament (West Bank branch) Saturday morning, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, now the majority party in Parliament,…

Saturday morning, families of Palestinian political prisoners broke into the opening session of the Palestinian Parliament (Gaza branch), where legislators were conducting their swearing-in ceremony. The families demanded the release…

The Palestinian Parliament held its swearing-in ceremony Saturday morning, but due to the Israeli closure, lawmakers from the Gaza Strip were unable to travel to Ramallah (in the West Bank)…

After Friday prayers in the West Bank village of Bil’in, dozens of Israelis, international supporters and Palestinian villagers marched toward the construction of the Israeli annexation Wall on villagers’ land.…

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The Likud Party, in a petition submitted Friday to the Israeli elections board, is attempting to disqualify the United Arab List candidates from the March elections in Israel, saying that…

Approximately 300 residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall in Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers attacked the procession and fired gas…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that one youth died of wounds suffered on Friday when an explosive charge, apparently left by the army, went off near Al Boreij…

As the Palestinian Parliament prepares to convene on Saturday, with the Hamas party occupying the majority of the seats for the first time ever, the Hamas leadership has delayed selecting…

On Friday morning, the Israeli police arrested four right-wing settlers after they distributed fliers inciting against a senior officer at the Israeli army.The fryers were distributed outside the Jerusalem home…

Ahmad Saaadat, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, newly elected member of the Palestinian Parliament, currently imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority, said that he should…

For the second time this week, a settlers group wrote a graffiti in Hebrew on the Wall a mosque in Nabi Elias village, east of the West Bank city of…

In less than a week extremist Israelis defaced the Nabi Elias Mosque east of Qalqilia early Friday morning with graffiti insulting Prophet Mohammad on the mosque for the second time,…

The Qatar based AL Jazeera satellite news channel reported that Hamas leader Sheikh Ismail Haniyya denied on Thursday that he had been nominated by the movement for the Prime Minister…

  Al Jazeera Quatari based satellite channel reported  Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s denial  on Thursday that he had been nominated for Palestinian coming premiership.     "Hamas is still continuing…

Chief-of-Staff of the Russian army Youri Palwionski announced on Friday that the Russian government will decide on a deal to export weapons to Palestine after meeting Hamas leaders in Moscow.…

One home-made Qassam shell hit south of the Israeli town of Askalan, Israeli army sources reported, on Friday morning. The shell fell in an open area causing no damages or…

Israeli army forces arrested 12 residents who were allegedly Islamic Jihad activists from the West Bank city of Jenin Friday morning. Several army vehicles stormed the village of Kufr Rai southwest…

Israeli army troops and vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested three residents from the city, on Friday dawn As more than ten army vehicles stormed the…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that Israeli soldiers started last week to implement a military order that bars Palestinians with permits to enter Israel from entering via the roads “designated…

An Israeli military source in Jerusalem reported that soldiers arrested a Palestinian woman from Bethlehem after she attempted to stab an Israeli soldier  in Jerusalem.The source claimed that the woman…

Thursday evening, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) denied  media reports confirming the the movement has decided to join the Hamas government.A PFLP source reported that the…

The Israeli Ofer military court, west of Ramallah, sentenced a Palestinian child from Al Khader town, near Bethlehem, to sixteen months imprisonment, and 1000 New Israeli Shekels fine. The child,…

Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested one resident in  Kafer Jamal village, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The Palestinian WAFA news Agency reported that Jihad Hatem Abdul-Rahim, 19, was…

According to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, the Israeli army arrested Thursday five citizens, including a girl in the West Bank (WB) cities of Bethlehem, Nablus and Qalqiliya. In Bethlehem,…

With the recent announcement of the Church of England that the Church would divest from companies which profit from Israel’s occupation, as well as a similar divestment by an Architect’s…

Thursday afternoon, local sources reported aerial bombardment by Israeli forces east of Gaza City. No injuries have been reported.  The Israeli military gave no statement as to the reason for…

Mohammad Mansour, a Palestinian organiser for non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation, faces trial Thursday for allegedly engaging in an ‘illegal protest’ with the International Solidarity Movement in 2004. In…

Last week, The Guardian (UK) published a two-part series by its reporter Chris McGreal comparing Israeli policies vis-a-vis its own Palestinian citizens and those living under its occupation in the…

The National Association for Democracy and Law denounced Wednesday the continued Israeli bombardment on crowded residential areas in Gaza Strip cities.  According to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, the Association…

Ni’meh Abu Zaharah, mother of eleven, has been prevented from visiting her daughter since 2005.  This testimony was documented by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. Before the intifada, my husband…

The Palestinian leadership condemned the Israeli construction of the ‘eastern Wall’ which will completely enclose the West Bank within a de-facto open-air prison.  The construction of the eastern section of…

Palestinian National Information Center (PNIC) published its weekly report on the Israeli violations to the cease fire agreement which was declared between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the Egyptian…

According to a report Thursday by the joint Palestinian-International grassroots organization, ‘Stop the Wall’, at least twenty homes have been bulldozed in the past month, most of them in the…

Hamas made its first parliamentary appointments on Wednesday in preparation for the opening of Parliament on Saturday, as Israeli officials declared that a Hamas-led Palestinian government would make it part…

Israeli troops stationed at a random checkpoint near the Al-Bira area, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, forced residents to remove their clothes and lie down on the…

Palestinian Official sources reported that one mentally-challenged resident was injured by Israeli army bullets in Beit Hanon city in the northern part of the Gaza strip late on Wednesday. Mofied Arafat,…

Four Palestinians were arrested at Sofia border crossing south of the Gaza strip by the Israeli army on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian security source reported. An Israeli army source…

Israeli army forces invaded Al-Marj area in the West Bank city of Qalqilia and soldiers searched several houses, arresting one resident there on Thursday at dawn. Mohamed Hilal, 25, was arrested…

From Gideon Levy’s article "There will be a Vietnam Here" in Ha’aretz 13 Feb 2006 As Israeli President Ariel Sharon lay comatose in a hospital in Israel with little chance of…

The Israeli military closed the main Nablus-Qalqilia road Thursday afternoon, imposing a mobile checkpoint in a heavily travelled area, according to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA. Palestinians were forced to…

The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers arrested 24 Palestinian residents in Bethlehem in seven days. All of the arrestees were arrested from home…

Although early reports indicated that Mofeed Arafat, 25, a mentally challenged resident of Gaza, had been killed late Wednesday night, medical sources indicate that he is alive and in serious…

Israeli soldiers invaded Al Zabbouba village, near the West Bank city of Jenin after claiming that residents of the village came close to the Separation Wall. A local source in…

The difference between the US/EU funding conditions and those of the Gulf countries are not as incongruent as Hamas leaders may want people to believe. The story of the Palestinian…

Dr. Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, called on the international community to continue financial aid to the Palestinian people, despite the fact that the Islamic Resistance Movement,…

The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced Assem Jaradat from Qabatia village to 15 months in jail on Wednesday afternoon. Also, the court prolonged the detention of  Zouher Aswad from…

Israeli soldiers intensified military presence in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, and conducted military searces of homes. A Palestinian security sources in the…

Wednesday morning, Israeli Prison Authorities released a jailed Palestinian legislator, and extended the the detention of another elected legislator for an additional eight days. The two legislators are members of…

The Hamas Party in Palestine has announced that its top parliamentary seat will go to Mahmoud az Zahar, who received the most votes of any candidate during the legislative elections…

Israeli army released on Monday Ezziddin Amarna, 35, a blind detainee, from the Hadarim detintion facility  after spending five years in prison. He was arrested at his house in the…

Undercover units of the Israeli army arrested a member of the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the military wing of Fateh, in Ya’bed Village west of the West Bank city of…

Wednesday at dawn Israeli army was deployed intensively in the Palestinian West Bank village of Nabi Elias east of Qalqilia, the Palestinian Maan News agency reported.   Eyewitnesses reported that…

According to a report Tuesday by the New York Times, diplomatic sources in Israel have revealed that US and Israeli officials have been meeting to discuss ways to ‘destabilize’ the…

In a joint press release issued in the Gaza strip, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah and Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility of firing one homemade shell at the…

Wednesday morning, a Palestinian medical source in Qabatia town, south the West Bank city of Jenin, reported that a mentally challenged child was shot and killed by Israeli military fire…

  On Tuesday, the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court sentenced Omri Sharon, the eldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to a nine-month jail term, a nine-month suspended sentence and a…

The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), clamed responsibility for shelling Israeli military targets east of the northern Gaza strip city…

Palestinian Security Officers safely disarmed an explosive charge near the motor-vehicle department in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday morning.             The charge…

Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem, broke into dozens of homes and arrested twenty residents, including two residents from the nearby village of Kafer…

The moment, the overwhelming victory of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was declared, voice were loud asking Hamas to recognize Israel as a pre-requisite for resuming negotiations and making peace,…

The Israeli military has imposed a total closure on the Jordan Valley area of the Palestinian West Bank since 2005, literally cutting off 2 million Palestinians from their sources of…

Contractors with the Interior Department of the Palestinian Authority appealed Monday to be considered as employees, in order to receive full pay and benefits, according to a Palestinian government source.

Palestinian detainees in Shatta detention facility in Bissan appealed humanitarian organizations to pressure the Israeli Prison Authorities to improve their living conditions, and stop the daily attacks and abuse they…

Muhammed Ahmed Al Jabiry, 17, was sitting in his school bus, on his way to school Tuesday morning, when he was shot in the face by an Israeli soldier. He…

Tuesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stationed at the main gate of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron arrested, arrested a Palestinian youth and claimed that he was carrying a knife. The Maan…

A Palestinian police officer, a members of the presidential guard unit,  was killed on Tuesday in the West Bank city of Ramallah,  when he was shot by mistake by another…

Tuesday morning, an Israeli army special unit injured one resident and arrested him along with two other residents, during an invasion of Beit Jala, near the West Bank city of…

Israeli army released Eiz Addin Amarneh, 34, on Tuesday after serving  five years of imprisonment. Troops arrested Amarneh, who is blind, after claiming that he planned two suicide bombings in…

Scores of Israeli settlers attacked homes in Khirbet Tana village east of the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday. Ahmed Nasasreh,  secretary of village council, said that approximately 60…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denies reports that it started collecting and registering  the weapons of its armed wing in the Gaza Strip. The denial, by a Hamas legislative member,…

Late Monday afternoon, the Palestinian Parliament empowered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to appoint a new constitutional court that would have far-reaching powers, a decision challenged by the majority Hamas party…

Media spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, Tawfiq Abu Khousa, reported on Tuesday that Israeli artillery fired ten shells on Tuesday morning at residential areas in the northern and…

For many religious Jews, Shabbat is a day of rest and spiritual enrichment. However, in Hebron, members of the local Palestinian community know all-too-well that Jewish settlers often commit their…

Al Masqibia military court extended the detention of Omer Abdul Raziq, Palestinian Legislative Council member, for eight more days for interrogations. Raziq was arrested two months ago. His wife called…

Israeli army troops arrested six residents from Balata and Askar refugee camps in the West Bank city of Nablus during an invasion of the city on Tuesday morning. Soldiers backed…

Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank cities of Jenin and Tubas, and searched several homes late Monday night. Israeli soldiers attacked the two cities while others erected temporary checkpoints…

Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, released a statement claiming responsibility for launching three mortar shells at the Israeli town of Kfar Aza Tuesday morning. In the…

Sariya Al Quds, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for launching two home made shells at the Israeli town of Sderot of Tuesday morning. The group also claimed…

With the Israeli move to isolate the Jordan valley and ban 2 Million West Bank Palestinians from entering one third of the total area of the West bank, the Israeli…

Khalid Mashal, a leader-in-exile of the Palestinian Hamas party, stated Monday in an interview that Israel must withdraw its troops from Palestinian territories as a prerequisite for peace talks. "If…

Monday night, a Palestinian security source in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian woman near the Kissufim Crossing in the central Gaza Strip.A medical source at…

10 year old Ahmed al-Haddad was attacked Monday by eight adult Israeli settlers in Hebron who chased him down, hitting him with stones until he fell off a wall. Doctors…

Sami Abu Zuhri, a leader of the Palestinian Hamas Party in Gaza, said he expects talks between Hamas and Russia to take place later this month. "We are going to…

The Israeli military court of Salem sentenced two Palestinians to prison terms and gave extended ‘administrative detention’ orders to three others on Monday morning. Ahmed Dalow was sentenced to three…

Scores of  Palestinian Muslims held a demonstration in Hebron Monday afternoon protesting the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have been published by Danish and other European newspapers several…

  Israeli military forces arrested two residents from Beit Amr Village north of the West Bank city of Hebron Monday, allegedly for throwing stones at Israeli cars.     Ahmed…

Monday afternoon, The Israeli army handed out anti-resistance leaflets to Palestinian laborers returning to Gaza at Eretz crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Israel, distributed. "When the crossing is sealed…

The Maan News Agency reported on Monday that at least ten residents were injured during clashes which erupted after the residents protested against the Separation Wall in Beit Sera village,…

After Israeli settlers attacked a mosque with anti-Muslim graffiti near Qalqilia Sunday, Israeli soldiers arrested one Palestinian and injured four who protested against the slurs. 18 year old Hamada Shaker…

Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza share their views regarding what they expect from Hamas after its decisive legislative elections victory. With Hamas’ election victory, the future of the…

On Sunday afternoon, Israeli settlers beat two Palestinians from Taqoua town, southeast of Bethlehem, while they were working in their lands.  The victims were not identified, and Israeli security forces…

On Monday morning, an unknown group burned a car belonging to a top Palestinian Preventative Security officer in the Deir Al Balah area in the Gaza Strip, local sources reported.…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that The GeoCartographia Research Institute conducted a public pull, which was commissioned by the Army Radio,  showing that 50% of the Israeli public opposes further…

On Monday at dawn, the Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby town of Beit Sahour.  One Beit Sahour resident was arrested during the invasion.…

On Monday at dawn, Israeli army troops invaded the villages of  Saida and Allar and arrested four residents of the villages. Soldiers arrested Issam Samaha, 24, Ahmad Radad, Abd Al…

In a Monday morning invasion, Israel army troops arrested six residents of Al-Yamoun Village, west of the West Bank city of Jenin. More than ten army vehicles stormed the village. …

Sunday night, Israeli Army uprooted hundreds of Olive Trees from lands owned by the Palestinian citizens in the western side of the West Bank village of Seera west of Ramallah.…

 Wissam Abd Al Razik, 25, who works as a Palestinian Authority security officer in the West Bank city of Nablus was arrested at a temporary checkpoint the Israeli army had…

A mosque near the city of Qalqilia was desecrated Sunday morning by graffiti spraypainted in Hebrew by Israeli settlers living illegally in the area. Othman Zamadi, a member of the…