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Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced that it has finalized the formation of its government, and that the acting Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya,  will present the government during a pres conference…

The Israeli court of Ofer sentenced on Saturday monring, Yousri Al Golani from the West Bank city of Hebron to 25 years imprisonment. Golani was arrested in July 2003 and…

Israeli army troops arrested three members of the Palestinian legislative council from the Hamas Party in Jerusalem, Saturday morning.  The three were arrested near Ma’ali Adumim settlement near the city…

  Two residents from Al Sammoa’ village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, died late on Friday night from land slide at the work place in the village.  …

Israeli army invaded Al Mroge area, which ia a farming land area, east of  the West Bank city of Qalqilia and arrested Odai Al Shobaki, 16, and Sameer Al Shobaki, 13, and took…

U.S. policies in the Middle East don’t serve the country’s national interest, and are determined primarily by the country’s pro-Israel lobby, according to a study published Thursday by researchers from…

International human rights organization Amnesty International called on Israel to cease the expansion of settlements and the construction of the Annexation Wall in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in…

A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported on Friday evening that two Palestinians were killed in an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, three residents were injured. The two were…

If there were poetic justice, if Hollywood or the publishing industry had true courage, the story of Rachel Corrie would be coming to a big screen or bookstore near you.…

American citizen and peace activist Rachel Corrie was run down by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor on March 16, 2003.  On the…

Residents of Bi’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the Israeli annexation Wall, and the recent statements of the…

Over the last several days, Israeli Authorities have ruled to extend the administrative detention of more than 60 Palestinians in the Negev Prison Camp, a camp made up mainly of…

Azzam Al Ahmad, head of Fateh bloc at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) said that Hamas movement rejected the joint document presented by all parliamentary blocs which includes four main …

Israeli military sources confirmed Friday that an Israeli soldier who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin Thursday was in fact shot…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday at dawn the West Bank city of Hebron and arrested one resident. A Palestinian security source in Hebron reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles,…

Israeli artillery shelled on Friday morning several areas east of Gaza city. The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported that tanks stationed on the Gaza Strip borders fired several shells at…

Hamas’ guidelines are helping Israel: They depict a religious and cultural clash, outside the framework of the people’s struggle against foreign occupiers The Palestinians are busy forming a government. It…

Israeli forces prevented Palestinian citizens living near Jenin from entering the city of Nablus Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces stationed at the Bathan checkpoint, northeast of the city of…

A conference scheduled Thursday morning in East Jerusalem to plan a Palestinian civil society response to the Israeli seizure of East Jerusalem was attacked by Israeli forces, and speakers, Palestinian…

 Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian citizen of At’teel town north of the city of Tulkarem Thursday afternoon. A local source reported that Israeli forces raided the town and arrested Mohammad…

Ahmad Sa’adat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, abducted by Israeli forces from a Palestinian prison on Tuesday, told the Palestinian people not to count…

An Israeli couple and their daughter were indicted on Thursday for trying to set fire to the Basilica of the Annuciation in Nazareth, one of the holiest sites in Christendom.…

"My Name is Rachel Corrie", a one-woman show based on the diaries and emails written by Rachel Corrie, the 23-year old American activist killed by an Israeli military bulldozer on…

American citizens arrested in Israel have repeatedly suffered physical and psychological trauma while detained by Israeli security forces, stated an FBI agent to a US court, during a hearing about…

The events overtaking Palestine are eerily reminiscent of 1948. Unfolding today in the occupied territories is another disaster of historic proportions, evocative of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence. Israeli expansion, colonization, and…

Israeli Foreign Minister, said in response of the statements of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, regarding the Jericho Prison attack, that Abbas (Abu Mazin) is a powerless leader with shortcoming…

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, and Physicians for Human Rights, in Israel (PHR), wrote on Thursday to the Israeli army Judge Advocate General,…

The Israeli High Court approved on Thursday the continuation of construction of the annexation Wall, especially in areas located west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The nine-judge court…

All of the bakeries in the Gaza Strip are closed.  Dependent on imports of flour, the 1.2 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, the most crowded place on earth…

Israeli Border Guard officers claimed thwarting a stabbing attempt at the Salem checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Jenin. An Israeli military source reported that a Palestinian man arrived…

Israeli war jets bombed the roads in Beit Lahia area and the northern area of the Gaza Strip Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses said that the bombing caused the destruction of parts…

The Israeli attack on Jericho and kidnap of a number of Palestinian prisoners, including the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) demonstrates once again the…

Days before the military assault on Jericho prison, Israel warned Britain and the US that it would seize Palestinians held there under an international agreement for killing an Israeli cabinet…

On Thursday Israeli soldiers arrested three school students at the main entrance of Al Arroub refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, after detaining dozens of students…

A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family from Teall Al Rmida village in the West Bank city of Hebron while farming their land on Thursday. The group attacked…

Settlers from the illegal outpost Ramat Yishai, in the West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Thursday a Palestinian family and barred its members from plowing their orchard near their…

A meeting between the party leadership of the now-ruling Hamas party and the minority Fateh late Wednesday night failed to bring together a common platform for the new Palestinian government.…

Ahmad Sa’adat, the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the other prisoners captured Tuesday during an extrajudicial prison raid by Israeli forces on the Jericho…

Israeli army troops arrested three students on their way to school near Al Arroub refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Thursday morning.  Al Mo’tassem Jbren,…

Thousands of Palestinians employed by the Palestinian Authority received on Wednesday their paychecks for the month of February.   The ministry of Finance was 15 days late in providing the…

The Israeli police stormed, on Thursday morning, the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem in which several Palestinian NGOs were holding a conference and arrested four participants. The police claimed that the…

The Israeli army invaded the villages of Azzoun and Al Nabi Elias, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and arrested three residents there, Thursday at dawn. Troops and…

Khaled Ateyya, 12, a resident of Kherbet Al Mesbah Village, near Ramallah, was killed when the so-called Israeli "border guard" opened fire at him Wednesday night near the construction of…

 Israeli army troops and vehicles invaded Balata refugee camp in Nablus, a West Bank city, and arrested two residents Thursday at dawn   Ali Abu Daiah, 22, and Ali Al Tirawi,…

Israeli army forces invaded the Al-Doha, a village in the West Bank located west of Bethlehem, on Thursday at dawn.   Several army vehicles stormed the village, surrounded then searched political prisoner Etaf…

Israeli army troops stationed at the container checkpoint east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem arrested Mohamed Abu Ariah, 33, while trying to cross the checkpoint late Wednesday night.…

An Israeli soldier was killed on Thursday morning during a military invasion to the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, Israeli media sources reported.   The sources…

Palestinians released on Wednesday the last four of 11 foreigners abducted the previous day in retaliation for an Israeli raid on a Palestinian prison in Jericho, the Palestinian interior ministry…

The Israeli Police in Jerusalem claimed that policemen arrested an Arab woman from East Jerusalem after she allegedly attempted to stab a policeman in Ramat Gan area, earlier on Wednesday.…

A Palestinian medical source in Gaza city reported that one fighter was killed while training with other fighter east of Gaza city. The fighter, Mohammad Abu Assi, was killed blast…

The Israeli army has decided to extend the closure imposed on the Palestinian territories until next Saturday. Army claims receiving several warnings of possible attacks against Israeli targets. The Palestinian…

On Tuesday night and Wednesday throughout the day, thousands of Palestinians from all political parties took part in random massive demonstrations, including a mass demonstration in Ramallah Wednesday afternoon. Demonstrators…

Sunday night was a horrible night for fourteen year old Hamza Fawzi Iweida. He was beaten, abducted, tied to a chair and insulted, after being asked for his identity card…

Israeli State Prosecution said, on Wednesday, that it is opposed to resuming the constructions of illegal houses in the Matityahu-East settlement neighborhood, in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Upper Modi’in, constructed…

Report: "We have now obtained previously top-secret papers which show not only that Norway was a mere cover for the Israel deal, but that Britain made hundreds of other secret…

Four fighters of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, were injured on Wednesday after being targeted by a missile fire from as Israeli…

One Palestinian fighter, member of the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was  killed, and nine residents were injured, on Tuesday, during clashes which…

The national resistance brigade, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and the Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility…

Orthodox Jewish rabbis with Neturei Karta, a Jewish group that opposes the existence of the state of Israel, visited Iran last week in a delegation meant to show the Iranian…

A group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Awarta, southeast of the West Bank city of Nablus, and injured three residents there, on Wednesday afternoon.   The settlers from…

Israeli army bulldozers uprooted, on Wednesday, Palestinian orchards east of the West Bank city of Tubas.   The orchards were annexed by the soldiers and settlers last month in order…

  In an ingoing invasion of the village of Qafr Qaddoum, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, the Israeli army has arrested one resident and is still imposing…

Israeli army troops stormed, on Wednesday morning, the West Bank city of Jenin, its refugee camp and the nearby town of Qabatia; five residents were arrested and two houses were…

With the media focused on the recent Israeli attack on the Jericho prison, the Israeli government has begun to develop facilities for what eventually could be the largest settlement project…

Israeli army troops stormed the village of Kofier Qadom, located east of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, and imposed a curfew on the village Wednesday at dawn.   Soldiers…

Israeli army forces stormed the village of Nahalen, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested two residents there on Wednesday morning.   Eight army vehicles invaded the…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Banni Na’am east of the West Bank city of Hebron, and arrested three residents there, on Wednesday at dawn.   Troops stormed the…

The European Union agreed to grant a $143 million emergency package to the Palestinian Authority in order to pay its bills for two months, however the Union remained undecided about…

Israeli army troops invaded Banni Na’am, located east of the West Bank city of Hebron, arresting three residents Wednesday at dawn.   Troops stormed the village and searced residents’ houses before…

A U.S. veto is expected to block a bid by Qatar for the UN Security Council to condemn Israel’s latest attack offensive against Jericho jail and its capture of Palestinian prisoners…

Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas. Al-Jazeera is broadcasting footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian…

Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, stated on Tuesday evening, that Israel knew in advance when the U.S and U.K guards will be leaving the Jericho prison compound, as part of…

A report from the Palestine National Information Center released on Tuesday revealed that 4,298 Palestinian people have been killed since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2000. Of…

Additional reports of intense suffering are coming from Israel’s Telmond Prison where several Palestinian children are imprisoned in Department Seven. In a interview with PNN, one of the children reported,…

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, announced that it will abduct Israeli soldiers in retaliation to the arrest of, Ahmad Sa’adat, Secretary General of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of…

Palestinian sources confirmed that Ahmad Sa’adaat, Secretary General of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and four of his comrades allegdly accused of killing the Israeli Minister Rehavam…

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Tuesday that Israel is conducting a serious escalation and attack by invading the West Bank city of Jericho and surrounding the Jericho Prison…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested three residents of Hebron, Al Fawwar refugee camp, and Beit Ummar village, near the West Bank city of Hebron. A local source in Hebron reported…

The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported on Tuesday that two Palestinian children and an international were injured after extremist settlers attacked them in Tal Romeida neighborhood, the the center of…

As Israeli forces continue to attack and shell the Al Muqataa prison in Jericho, where jailed Palestinian resistance leader Ahmed Sadat and others remain imprisoned, the besieged prisoners have condemned…

Ahmed Sadat, the target of the Israeli siege on the Al Muqataa prison in Jericho on Tuesday, was elected General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that several gunmen attacked the British Cultural Council, and the European Union Office,  in protest to the Israeli invasion to Jericho and the…

"I killed many Arabs, probably more than Hamas fighters killed Jews, and more than anybody else, but all in order to secure Israeli lives," said former Israeli Special Forces (Shin…

Israeli Special Forces broke into Aida Refugee Camp, in the northern part of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday and surrounded many houses in the camp. Eyewitnesses said…

Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank will be completed within several months.   "By the end of…

"When the US and British guards left their posts at the Al Muqataa prison, the ‘Jericho Agreement’ became null and void", announced an Israeli military commander in the midst of…

Published by The Independent   You’ve got to fight. It’s the only conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to discuss the Middle East.…

The Middle East envoy from the ‘Quartet for Mideast Peace’, James Wolfensohn, has told his staff that without a clear mandate on a policy toward Hamas he would leave his…

Israel has imposed a ban on all Palestinians by preventing them from entering Israel during the Jewish holiday of Purim as of last Saturday until next Wednesday. Israeli army officials…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is expected to declare Ariel settlement as part of the state of Israel during his visit there on Tuesday, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported. Official…

Israel has imposed a ban on all Palestinians by preventing them from entering Israel during the Jewish holiday of Purim as of last Saturday until next Wednesday. Israeli army officials…

The following is the letter I wrote to the artistic director of the New York Theatre Workshop, Mr. James Nicola, regarding the cancellation of the play "My Name is Rachel…

Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…

Israeli officials, while simultaneously demanding recognition from newly-elected Hamas, are lobbying for recognition of Palestine to be denied. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mired in a…

Leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine, Hamas, said that Saudi Arabia promised this weekend to remain one of the biggest financial backers of the Palestinians, despite US and…

The Center for the Defense of the Individual, in Israel,  filed on Monday a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice, demanding the army to lift or lessen the…

Israel has raised the alert level on the northern borders with Lebanon and claimed that Hizbollah fighters have completed logistic preparations to abduct soldiers.A senior Israeli military officer on the…

Maybe you never got the chance to know tom fox. i just learned of his death — an announcement i have been dreading, but almost expecting, since the video released…

A Palestinian official said Saturday that the Palestinian president rejected Hamas’s proposed government program, but Hamas and sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas have dismissed the claim. The senior Palestinian…

A Palestinian official said Saturday that the Palestinian president rejected Hamas’s proposed government program, but Hamas and sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas have dismissed the claim. The senior Palestinian…