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Monday morning, an Israeli military source reported that one soldier was mildly injured near the West Bank settlement of Sholh, adjacent to the green line.  The soldier was injured when…

Monday morning, an Israeli military source reported that one soldier was mildly injured near the West Bank settlement of Sholh, adjacent to the green line.  The soldier was injured when…

The Israeli army is expected hand over control of Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority this week, Israeli military sources reported on Sunday, adding that the transfer could take place as early…

Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested Isam Jaber, 54, in the village of Kafer Laqif, east of Qalqilia in the West Bank. A local source in the village reported that Jaber…

The Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that detainees in Hadarim Israeli prison are facing harsh living conditions and repeated attacks carried out by the soldiers. Hanan al-Khateeb,…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in the camp reported that soldiers occupied the home of…

Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers arrested six residents in the villages of Ithna, Doura, al-Thahiriyya, and al-Arroub refugee camp, and one resident in the West Bank city of Hebron. The…

Israeli ministers decided during a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that the Separation Wall will cut off 55.000 Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem. Also, the cabinet decided that the construction…

Ahmad Abu al-Gheit, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, strongly criticized Israeli officials who appose the upcoming Israeli-Egyptian agreement to deploy Egyptian forces along the borders of the Gaza Strip. Israel and…

Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad reported that the Israeli army attempted to assassinate one of its prominent leaders in Gaza. “One of our leaders survived on…

Saturday evening, a medical source in Qalqilia reported that dozens of residents, Israeli and international peace activists suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the army, while they were protesting against…

Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Sielet al-Harithiyya, west of Jenin. A Palestinian security source in Jenin reported that soldiers broke into several homes in the village,…

Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem and arrested two youth. A local source in the village reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes…

Israeli troops stormed the home of Said Al-Ashkar in Sida village north of Tulkarem on Saturday afternoon.  Al-Ashkar, a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was away from the home when…

Palestinian Minister of Interior, Nasser Yousif, visited three security posts in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday. Special PA security forces will use the newly established three posts to monitor…

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday that the situation in the Middle East was one of the essential causes of Thursday’s London bombings. ‘The solution cannot only be security…

The burning sun lefts its own ‘finger prints” on the face of Khalil Ibrahim, 11 years old, from al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya, near Nablus, while he walks between the cars at Za’tara…

The General Assembly of the United Church of Christ, (UCC) decided in it 25 convention to selectively divest from companies involved with Israel’s occupation of the west bank and Gaza,…

In their summit, the G8 leaders approved $3 billion in aide to the Palestinian Authority to support the economy over the next three years. The plan was submitted to the…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday, two villages near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers invaded the villages of Allar and Saida, after surrounding…

Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers started to detonate military posts in Naveh Dikalim, and Gani Tal settlements, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Huge sounds…

A senior source at the Islamic Jihad movement, in the West Bank, reported that the Israeli army arrested 16 members of the movement over the last two days. Two members…

Saturday morning, a Palestinian security source in Hebron reported that Israeli soldiers arrested eight residents, including a child, in three villages near the West Bank city of Hebron. The source…

Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers closed Beit Eeba checkpoint, west of Nablus, and barred hundreds of residents from crossing. Soldiers interrogated dozens of youth, and students for several hours, and barred…

Sheikh Hasan Yousef, one of Hamas’ political leaders in the west Bank demanded the Palestinian Authority to reconsider the truce approved by the P.A and the Palestinian factions, in protest…

Saturday at dawn, Israeli soldiers shelled West Khan Younis refugee camp, one child was seriously injured. A medical source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis identified the child as Ghazi…

A medical source in Rafidia hospital in Nablus reported that the child, Nour Fares, who was shot dead two days ago buy the Israeli army, is clinically dead.

Israeli army arrests 2 young Palestinians in Gaza for allegedly attempting to infiltrate through a fence which surrounds the Gaza Strip.

Friday at night, Israeli soldiers detained an 80-year-old man on Tiaseer checkpoint, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, and forced him to take his clothes off. A resident…

Hundreds of residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall in the village of Bel’in, west of Ramallah, soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at the…

Friday evening, four Israeli soldiers were injured after an explosive charge detonated near the jeep in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The shells exploded as a military patrol…

Friday evening, an Israeli soldier guarding the Separation Wall shot killed a Palestinian teen in the village of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah. According to the Israeli army, one of…

Monday evening, Israeli soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition at dozens of homes west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian security source reported…

Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin and its refugee camp, and arrested two residents. A local source in Jenin reported that soldiers invaded the city and the camp, conducted military…

Settlers of Tal Rmeida illegal settlement outpost in the center of the West Bank city of Hebron attacked dozens of residents, and homes in the area. A local source in…

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Head of the metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, said in the wake of the London bombing that it will be very difficult now to determine the death toll, but it…

International media sources reported on Thursday that the ruling Fatah party rejected an offer by the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, to form a national committee to oversee the intended Israeli…

  Israeli troops invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin, at the early hours of Friday morning, Palestinian sources reported.   Eyewitness reports said that three residents were arrested in…

Israeli right-wing protestors have begun establishing a new stronghold in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in southern Gaza, Israeli sources reported Friday. This move comes week after the Israeli army…

Lat last night Israeli army sources said that the army arrested seven residents of Hebron city. According to the army clams, three are wanted for involvement with Islamic Jihad group,…

Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing two homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot. The brigades said that it fired the…

Israeli soldiers invade the village of al-Shiokh, north east the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and occupied two homes, using them as military posts. A local source in the…

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli Supreme Court issues an order to freeze the construction of a section of the West Bank separation wall in a village near Hebron. Resdients…

Meretz-Yahad leader Yossi Beilin said on Thursday that Israeli society is divided over the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The divide, said Beilin, demonstrates the gravity of the problem of…

At least 2 people have been killed in a series of explosions that rocked the British capitol of London on Thursday morning, a ccording to the BBC news website. Blasts occurred between Aldgate…

19 Palestinians were injured Thursday in clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Amateen, east of Qalqilia. The fighting erupted after the army began bulldozing villagers’ farmlands to…

The Israeli army arrested today a Palestinian and his son near Tamon village in southern part of the West Bank. According to an eye wetness, Israeli army invaded Tamon village…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday the village of Yatta, near the West Bank city of Hebron, conducted military searches of homes and arrested one resident. A local source in the…

Thursday at noon, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Nablus and broke into two institutions in a building in the center of the city. The WAFA news agency…

Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded an area adjacent to Wadi al-Maleh, near the West Bank city of Tubas. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers broke into dozens of homes,…

Five Palestinians were arrested and two injured when the Israeli army attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Mnezel, south of Hebron, on Wednesday afternoon. Dozens of…

Wednesday afternoon, five residents were arrested, two injured, after the Israeli army attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Mnezel, south of the West Bank…

19 Palestinian farmers from a village near Qalqilia were wounded Thursday morning by Israeli troops as they tried to prevent bulldozers from uprooting their orchards. Soldiers invaded the village of…

Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Aida Refugee camp to the west of Bethlehem. 12 Palestinians, most of them children under 14 years old, and one international peace activist, were injured…

Wednesday at night, Israeli soldiers based at military camps surround Morag settlement, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, fired at dozens of homes in Qeizan…

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem announced its intention to select a new patriarch to replace Irineos I, who was ousted by the church last month. The selection process will…

The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Mohand Khaled Abu Moeis was deported to Jordan after serving 33 months in Israeli administrative detention centers. The detainee was…

Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers killed a 17-year-old youth in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, and injured two others after invading the camp and exchanging fire with a resistance group.…

Mahmoud al-Zahar, believed to be the leader of Hamas inside the Palestinian territories, launched the severest-ever verbal attack on the Palestinian Authority, signaling a serious rift over the issue of…

A Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported that Abdullah al-Loh, 40, was found killed in a street in Gaza city. Marks of severe torture were apparent on his body. The…

Al-Quds martyrs’ brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing at military posts near Morag settlement in the Gaza Strip, and added that the fighter who…

Wednesday at night, an Israeli military source reported that soldiers recovered 11 pipe bombs after detaining two Palestinian youngsters at a flying checkpoint near the West Bank city of Qalqilia.…

Wednesday evening, an Israeli military source claimed that soldiers arrested several Palestinians residents carrying 150 bullets. The residents were arrested near the settlement of Morag, in the Gaza Strip, army…

Wednesday evening, an Israeli military source reported that soldiers of the Nahal infantry unit, arrested a 17-year-old youth from the village of Qaffin, near Tulkarem; army claims that the teen…

Wednesday evening, an Israeli military source reported that dozens of settlers of Homesh settlement, in the West Bank, clashed with Israeli soldiers and took over an army bulldozer preventing the…

In bid to overcome some legal difficulties that would delay the completion of the West Bank separation wall, Israeli Minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz proposed some changes on the wall…

Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers leveled two home in al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. A local source in the village reported that soldiers, accompanied by…

The Council of Settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip called on settlers and disengagement opponents to participate in a three-day march on Gush Katif starting on July…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet again with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before the pullout from the Gaza Strip begins, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday. According to the…

An Israeli military court decided to transfer deputy head of Janata village council, near Bethlehem, to six months in administrative detention. Ibrahim Asakra, 43, and his brother Kamal were arrested…

A settler rammed his car into a resident of the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening, causing moderate injuries, including fractures to several parts of the victim’s body. A medical source in…

The Peace Now movement in Israel reported that during the first half of 2005, the so-called Israeli Lands Authority issued tenders for the construction of 142 new homes in settlements in the…

Wednesday morning, a Palestinian resistance group fired a homemade shell at Kfar Darom settlement, in the Gaza Strip. According to an Israeli military source, the shell exploded in a Palestinian…

Tuesday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and fired rounds of live ammunition. An Israeli military source claimed that soldiers invaded the camp in an attempt to…

In an effort to get more settlers to cooperate with the Israeli government’s official Disengagement Administration, the government has decided that only those who file applications for compensation will receive…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Wednesday with the heads of the defense establishment to discuss the progress of the separation wall. On Tuesday his Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, ordered…

To date, the northern section of the wall, consisting of 213 kilometers, has been completed. It extends from Tirat Zvi in the north to Elkana in the center plus two…

Two Palestinian children were injured and four residents arrested Tuesday evening in Qutna village, northwest of Jerusalem, as soldiers fired on and attacked dozens of residents who were attempting to stop…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the Israeli army will remain in the Gaza Strip until the end of this year, even though all Israeli settlers are scheduled to be…

Tuesday at night, Israeli soldiers imposed curfew over the village of Ein al-Baidha, near the West Bank city of Tubas, after surrounding and invading it. A local source in the…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated warning to the Palestinian Authority over gunfire during the planned Israeli pullout from Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. During a special session…

Despite an Israeli court order allowing them to stay in their homes, cave-dwelling Palestinian farmers and herders in the southern Hebron hills still face a sustained and often violent campaign of…

A new wave of house demolitions in East Jerusalem Jerusalem – July 4, 2005– Again today, houses were demolished in East Jerusalem. In the early morning the bulldozers moved into…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have reached an agreement on a temporary arrangement and on a permanent ‘safe passage’ between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Israel Radio reported…

The Palestinian Authority and Israel arrived to an agreement to create an “overland” connection which links between the West Bank and the Gaza strip, Israeli Radio reported. According to the…

Tuesday afternoon, soldiers invaded al-Fondoq village east of Qalqilia, and fired rounds of live ammunition at dozens of homes. A local source in the village reported that soldiers forced the…

Settlers of Rotim settlement, in Wadi al-Malih area, east of the West Bank city of Tubas, attacked dozens of shepherds herding their cattle, and seized farmlands planted with olives. A…

Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of Fateh, claimed responsibility for firing homemade shells at Niztarim settlement, in the central Gaza Strip. The brigades said in a released s statement on…

The Israeli authorities bulldozed on Tuesday, nine homes and a fuel station east of Jerusalem, and claimed that they were built without obtaining construction permits.   The Jerusalem municipality and…

Monday evening, Israeli soldiers arrested a resident near al-Sawahra al-Sharqiyya village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The resident, identified as Mohammad Turkman, 23, from Jenin refugee camp was…

Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Arraba and Kafer Ra’ey, south west of Jenin. A Palestinian security source in Jenin reported that soldiers installed military checkpoints in…

Israeli soldiers killed 16 Palestinian residents, injured 140, and arrested 245 last month, according to the monthly report of the International Solidarity for Human Rights organization. “These acts are direct…

The Israeli police arrested at least 100 Palestinian workers in Israel overnight. The police claim that the workers were not carrying the needed entry and staying permits. All of the…

An Israeli military source reported that a Palestinian resistance group fired a homemade shell at a military force near the Gaza Strip settlement of Naveh Dikalim. Army reported no injuries…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is expected to meet with Palestinian Minister of Interior Nasser Yousef today in an attempt to iron out differences over the transfer of Bethlehem to…

Hamas’s decision not to join the PA cabinet would not affect the smooth takeover of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal, PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said Tuesday. ‘We…

Monday evening, the Israeli army claimed arresting a 16-year-old youth on Huwwara checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Nablus, after attempting to smuggle weapons. An Israeli military source reported…

The family of an 18-year-old Palestinian detainee who was injured as he was arrested by Israeli forces has appealed to humanitarian organizations and the Palestinian Legislative Council to take up…

Monday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested a resident of Jayyous, north of the West Bank city of Qalqilia. The WAFA news agency reported that Naji Hasan Khreisha. 26, was arrested on…