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A group of Jewish settlers from Yatzhar, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, attacked a Palestinian photo journalist late Sunday evening.   Abd Al-Raheem Qussini, a Palestinian photo…

Israeli army units stationed at Al-Pathan checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus detained scores of Palestinian cars and buses on Monday morning.   Troops forced residents to travel on…

Israeli army troops and vehicles stormed the village of Khirbet Ibziq, north of the West Bank city of Tubass, on Monday at dawn.   Soldiers infiltrated the village and searched several houses…

Israeli army forces invaded Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and arrested Firas Da’amssa, 31, and his brother Khadier, 22, on Monday morning.   Troops and…

Qassam Abu Baker, 16, from Yabad village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, lost his finger during investigation in Israeli detention center of Salem. Qassam’s brother Rami said that…

Dr. Azeez Dweik, Palestinian Legislative Council spokesman, member of Hamas movement, reported on Sunday that the American Consulate in Israel contacted one of Hamas candidates to be a minister in…

Dr. Azeez Dweik, Palestinian Legislative Council spokesman and a member of Hamas, reported on Sunday that the American Consulate in Israel threatened a candidate for the upcoming Palestinian government, saying that “steps…

Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian residents at Beit Eeba checkpoint on Sunday, west of the West Bank city of Nablus, claiming that they were carrying a 20-kilogram explosive. The explosive were detonated in…

Israeli soldiers handed, on Sunday, several residents of Beit Jala city, near Bethlehem, military orders informing them that the military intends to annex vast areas of farmlands near the city.The…

Former Israeli Shin Bet Chief Ami Ayalon told the London-based newspaper the Sunday Times, in a recent interview, that he has killed many Arabs “probably more than Hamas fighters killed…

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas allowed until Monday for the Palestinian factions to express readiness to join a Hamas-led coalition to form the government. Hamas secured an absolute majority as…

Palestinian teachers of two schools in the West Bank city of Hebron went into a strike protesting the delay of salaries on Saturday morning.   Teachers who suspended classes for…

Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi head of the higher judicial council in Palestine condemned the Israeli army decision to prevent the call for prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank…

Israeli army arrested four residents from Rafah near Sofa crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, Palestinian sources reported.   Troops were carrying out a search in the…

Christian Peace Maker Teams (CPT) headquarters in Chicago in the United State has confirmed that CPT member kidnapped in Iraq Tom Fox, 54 was found dead in Baghdad on Saturday…

The Israeli army troops stationed at Za’tara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus tightened its procedures on Saturday morning.   Troops searched the local residents cars and slowly…

The Israeli army installed two military checkpoints near the villages of Araba and Fahma south west of the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday morning.   Troops stopped and…

The Palestinian refugees’ league in Europe demanded on Saturday morning a fair solution to the problems Palestinian refugees facing in Iraq.   The league sent their demand in an open…

Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp on Friday after midnight.   Soldiers backed by military vehicles stormed the city and the refugee…

Khaled Masha’al, head of the political bureau of Hamas described the plan by the acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to unilaterally set Israel’s borders as a declaration of war…

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Several residents, Israeli and International peace activists and a reporter were injured, on Friday afternoon, during protests against the annexation Wall in the villages of Beit Seera and Bil’in, near…

  The Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing three homemade shells at the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Friday afternoon.   In the…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that Israeli soldiers killed seven residents of the Gaza Strip,  five of whom were children. Of the five children who were killed this…

Israeli army troops invaded the village of Beit Fafar south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested four residents on Friday morning.   Troops and army jeeps stormed…

Israeli army renewed its heavy artillery shelling against Beit Hanon and Beit Lahia towns in the northern Gaza strip, on Friday at dawn.   The shells landed in farm lands…

Israeli army forces invaded Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus Friday at dawn and arrested two residents there. Ahmad Atalah, 19, and Ahmad Fa’or, 22, were…

Israeli army forces continued to detain farmers form the West Bank town of Tubas on Friday morning.   Soldiers arrested several farmers on Thursday while working in their farmlands located near…

Hamas leader, Ismael Haniya, the Palestinian Prime Minister-elect, said there are no signs of crisis between Fatah and Hamas,  and described his meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as…

Israel will continue to build in the disputed E-1 zone between the illegally constructed Ma’ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank and Jerusalem, despite American pressure to the contrary, Acting…

A third round of talks between Fateh and Hamas movements on the formation of the new Palestinian government was concluded, on Thursday at night, without any results or breakthrough in…

The Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, fired on Thursday evening two homemade shells at Kfar Azza settlement, east of the Gaza Strip. The brigades released a…

Full reliance on Israeli military accounts, selective word choice, taking sides – that’s what the media does when it comes to Palestinians being killed; academic study finds fault with Israeli…

A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man and woman in separate incidents in the Old City of Hebron Wednesday night, medical sources reported. Shaher Fakhouri, 43, and Ghazala…

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Israeli army troops stormed Al Aza refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem late Wednesday night, and searched several houses there, no arrests were made, local sources reported.

Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he intends to "get Israel’s permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large…

A Palestinian medical source at the Hebron Governmental Hospital reported that settlers attacked and injured, on Wednesday night, a woman in the Old City of Hebron. The source stated that…

Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, and Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for shooting at the settler’s road near Abu…

Israeli army artillery stationed at the borders between the Gaza strip and the south of Israel, fired  on Thursday at dawn, several shells at Palestinian areas in the northern part …

The Al Aqsa martyrs brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, and the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing four homemade shells at…

Israeli soldiers stationed at Taiaseer military checkpoint,  at the eastern entrance of the West Bank city of Tubas, confiscated,  on Thursday morning, indigenous plant groves.   Local farmers call the…

Dozens of Palestinian residents have been complaining in recent months that Israeli soldiers based at Tiaseer checkpoint in the Jordan valley are delaying their passage for several hours without concrete…

The US-based National Lawyers Guild (NLG) issued a statement Wednesday urging international support for the boycott of Israeli goods by the Norwegian County of Sor-Trondelag. The National Lawyers Guild has…

An extremist settlers group of Sousia settlement, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uprooted on Wednesday dozens of olive trees and bushes which belong to residents of Yatta…

In keeping with the stated Israeli policy to "put the Palestinians on a diet, but not starve them" (as stated by governmental advisor Dov Weisglass), Israeli forces stationed in Gaza…

A central court in Israel sentenced the security officer of Maale Adumim settlement to six years and a half imprisonment after being indicted with sexual harassment and abuse against Palestinian…

Israeli army troops invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Askar refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested one resident.   Ahmad Ghandour, 18, was arrested when soldiers…

In pre-dawn invasions on Thursday, Israeli army forces arrested 13 Palestinians from several West Bank cities.   Four residents, allegedly members of Fateh, were arrested in an invasion to the…

The Israeli army, backed by 15 armored vehicles, invaded the West Bank refugee camp and city  of Tulkarem Thursday at dawn. The army fired rounds of live ammunitions and broke…

An Israeli female settler was injured  by stones hurled at her as she was driving near Biet Aur Al-Tahta, west of Ramallah.   The settler received first aid treatment at one of…

Jewish settlers are able to "terrorize" Palestinians with impunity, intimidating children on their way to school and destroying farmers’ trees and crops, a United Nations expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…

In a letter to the United Nations Security Council, delivered on Monday by Dr. Riyad Mansour, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, the Palestinian representative to…

Israeli Forces have strengthened military measures at the checkpoint of Zatarah, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The forces stationed at the barrier prevented citizens of Jenin…

On Wednesday, the British government condemned Israeli Air Force attack in Gaza, which resulted in the death and injury of Palestinian citizens, including three children. In an official statement distributed…

Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army invaded the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Biet Sahour and arrested six residents on Wednesday at dawn.   The Israeli soldiers invaded the…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he opposed the creation of a Palestinian state with temporary borders and unilateral Israeli movement of settlers between illegal settlements in the West Bank.…

The Al Aqsa Brigades, the Military Wing of the Fatah Movement, claimed responsibility for the attack on an Israeli bus near Nablus, in the West Bank section of Palestine. In…

  Palestinian sources said that authorities of Eshel Jail in the Beir Sheva area attacked Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Eshel prison facility on Wednesday afternoon. The sources said that…

  Palestinian sources said that authorities of Eshel Jail in the Beir Sheva area attacked Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Eshel prison facility on Wednesday afternoon. The sources said that…

A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said on Tuesday that Israel’s threat to assassinate Palestinian prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyya was a form of state terrorism. The Hamas spokesman…

As a result of the Israeli closing of the Karni crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip since February 12, Palestinian greenhouse owners in Gaza have incurred $450,000 in damages…

The Israeli police in Jerusalem released Ahmad Attoun, a newly elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from the Hamas bloc, after detaining him for three hours.Attoun was arrested…

The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported that the Israeli Police in Jerusalem arrested Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahamad Attoun, member of Hamas, while heading to meet other PLC members of…

Palestinian women are not a marginal part of the Palestinian struggle against the occupation, they are major participants in the Palestinian struggle for national liberation.“They are mothers, sisters, daughters and…

A new World Bank aid package of $42 billion approved Wednesday is meant to "maintain economic and social stability in the short-term by covering urgent recurrent expenditures such as salaries…

Israeli army troops invaded Tubass, a West Bank city, early Wednesday morning. The army surrounded the city center and shot bullets at residents’ houses.   Amy vehicles proceded to close the main road, installing several military…

The Israeli army invaded the Bethlehem on Wednesday at dawn and arrested one resident.   Troops stormed Al-Saff, a neighborhood in the city, searched several houses and arrested Salah Hassan.  They…

Israeli army troops and army vehicles invaded Jenin, a West Bank city, on Wednesday at dawn.   Shots were heard in the city and soldiers were seen searching several houses…

Israeli army forces closed all exits and entrances to Nablus, a West Bank city, on Wednesday morning.   Army troops and vehicles sealed off all of the roads, stopping residents’ cars…

New York City has long been considered an international hub of modernity and diversity, and yet bringing “Made in Palestine” to the Big Apple has been a ferocious battle.  …

An Israeli air strike killed Raad Al-Batash, 8, Mahmoud Al-Batash, 15, and Ahmad a-Sweisi, 14, on Monday. Sumiyya Al-Batch, the mother of Raad and Mahmoud, was also wounded. And in…

Palestinian Legislative Council-PLC- Member, Azzam Al-Ahmad, of Fateh movement, accused the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, of delaying the formation of the government because the movement is waiting to see the…

The leftists Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) reported that it is waiting for the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to order the release of the PFLP secretary general,…

Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian resident at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel, and claimed that he carried an explosive belt. An Israeli military source reported that a “young…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported on Tuesday that one Palestinian fighter of the Al Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed during military training for the…

Imagine someone grabbed you by the throat, threw you on the ground, and began pummeling you in the head and chest. Would you be inclined to address him serenely saying,…

Israeli military bulldozers leveled on Tuesday a Palestinian house and a farm in Beit Iksa village, north west of Jerusalem. Army claims that the two constructions were built without obtaining…

On the eve of March 8th, International Women’s Day, 116 female detainees are still imprisoned in Israeli prisons and facing ongoing violations of their rights and inhuman living conditions, says…

After an ‘extra-judicial killing gone wrong’ resulted in the deaths of three innocent children, one of them just 8 years old, on Monday in the Gaza Strip, an outcry has…

 Israeli army troops stationed at Al Hamra checkpoint between the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jericho arrested, on Tuesday morning, one resident indentifed as Ra’d Marshod.   Marshod, a…

The ongoing Israeli military siege, closure and economic and social restrictions imposed on Palestinians have contributed to extremely high unemployment and poverty rates in the Gaza Strip, and a food…

Rajaa Al Ghoul, a Palestinian prisoner being held by Israeli forces, has a heart condition which, combined with abuse and sub-human living conditions in the prison, have caused her health…

 Israeli army units invaded the village of Kirssa south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning.   Troops searched several houses including the house of Mohemed Abu…

Israeli army forces stormed Al Khader village south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday at dawn, and searched one house there.   Troops stormed the village searched…

The Israeli army forces arrested, on Tuesday at dawn, two teenage Palestinian boys near the Sofa border crossing east of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza strip.  …

Israeli troops stationed at the military checkpoint installed at the entrance of the nearby town of Abu Dis, arrested Ahmad Eshi’bat, 20, while trying to inter the town on Sunday.…

Israeli army troops invaded the West Bank city of Jenin and arrested five residents on Tuesday at dawn.   Israeli army sources claimed that the five arrestees are Islamic Jihad…

Israeli army forces invaded the West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested four residents, claiming they were members of Islamic Jihad, on Tuesday at dawn.   The four arrestees were identified…

Israeli army troops stationed at Howara military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus arrested Izat Raian, 38, a village nearby called Qarawit Banni Hassan, on Tuesday morning.…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday at night Aqqaba village, near the West Bank city of Tubas and clashed with dozens of youth who hurled stones and empty bottles at the…

As the Palestinian Legislative Council held its first official session Monday, Fatah party member Abu Ali Shahin said that he considers what he saw in the session to be a…

In an invasion of the Palestinian city of Nablus Monday afternoon, in the northern part of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers who opened fire in various neighborhoods faced clashes with…

The Palestinian driver of a vehicle of a car that sped away from a checkpoint was severely injured when Israeli border police fired at his vehicle.  The car careened off…

After a Mass meeting held Monday in Jerusalem in which Moslem and Christian religious leaders participated, the group issued a statement condemning the attack on the Basilica of the Annunciation…

The Israeli air force fired a missile at a Palestinian vehicle travelling in the Shuja’eyya neighborhood in northern Gaza, killing the two passengers and two children, age 17 and 8,…

Khaled Mashaal, head of the political bureau of the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas party said in an interview with the Al-Arabiya satellite channel that Hamas will be willing to…

Two Palestinian brothers, 14 and 15 year-old were killed when a car exploded in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip Monday afternoon.   Nidal and his brother Ala…

The Palestinian Parliament disapproved in its first session the decision by the previous parliament to form a constitutional court which has an authority to disolve the council.   64 members…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that two Palestinian children were killed after an undetonated shell apparently fired by the army went off east of Al Boreij refugee camp,…