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Palestinian Minister Mohammed Dahlan listed Saturday the Palestinian Authority conditions to cooperate with Israel in the implementation of the disengagement plan, saying it should be complete, part of road map,…

Palestinian Foreign Minister Naser Kidwa called Saturday for convening an international conference to help rebuild the Palestinian territories, which suffered large scale destruction during the past four years. The minister…

Upon political directives, Israeli security has allowed Israeli citizens to arrive into Gaza settlements during the Jewish Holydays and join settlers’ protests against the disengagement plan. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel…

The last Syrian soldier will leave Lebanon on Sunday after 29 years, a senior Lebanese military officer said. Syrian troops vacated Saturday 10 positions in the northern part of the…

Palestinian detainees in Majeddo detention resumed their hunger strike for the third day, in protest to their bad conditions. Detainee Ra’fat Ayesh from Salfit said that soldiers are still conducting…

An Israeli military source reported on Saturday afternoon that an unidentified assailant stabbed am Israeli soldier guarding the West Bank settlement of Ghanim, and grabbed his weapon. The soldier sustained…

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4586.php Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has chosen 3 new security officials to head the three consolidated PA security branches. The three are mid-ranking PA security officials. Abbas also signed a…

Last week, I witnessed my first settler attack.  ‘It was nothing,’ my friend Arafat told me afterwards, and I know that he was speaking in comparison to other attacks, when…

Head of the military intelligence, Brigadier, Mousa Arafat on Saturday, declared his support to the new changes the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas carried out on the security forces. Abbas signed…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that the number of sick detainees in Israeli prisons in gradually increasing, and arrived to 950 detainees. The society stated that some of the sick…

Informed Palestinian sources reported that two prisoners in Gilboa prison are planning to run for the upcoming parliamentarian elections slated for July. Both Jamal Huweil from Jenin and Yasser Abu…

Sheikh Khader, one of the Islamic Jihad leaders, called on the Palestinian movements to reconsider the truce after the Israeli army attempted to assassinate resistance fighters in Nablus, and the…

Palestinian Minster of Prisoners’ Affairs, Sufian Abu Zayda, said that Israel no progress was made in the release of Palestinian detainees from Israel prisons. Abu Zayda added that he met…

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah hinted Friday his group might be forced to kidnap Israel soldiers to win the release of three Lebanese prisoners held by Israel. ‘When we fail…

Delegates of the United Kingdom Association of University Teachers, meeting in East Bourne England, voted Friday to boycott two Issraeli universities, Haifa and Bar Ilan. Delegates belonging to the leading…

Palestinian Interior Minister General Nasser Yousif expressed Sunday satisfaction with the smoothness of the unification of PA security devices and of the replacement of its chiefs. Yousif, in response to…

An Israeli military source reported that dozens of Israeli soldiers flee their military training base after not relieving food for three days. The soldiers were enlisted to the base two…

April 15 – 21, 2005 This week in Palestine –a service of the International Middle East Media Center IMEMC. Org, for the week of Friday, April 15 to Thursday, April…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah. A local source in the village reported that soldiers attacked…

How did Mohammad Wahdan, 41, become the target of rubber-coated bullets fired by an Israeli soldier on Beit Eeba checkpoint, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. He only…

Israeli troops operating near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday have arrested a Palestinian, they suspected of volunteering to perform a suicide bombing, Israel Radio reported. The Radio…

A Palestinian security source reported that two Palestinians detained at a Palestinian prison in Tulkarem managed to escape on Friday. The two residents were held on suspicions of connections with…

The Palestinian Minister of civil affairs, Mohammad Dahlan and the Israeli defense Minister Shaul Mofaz agreed Thursday night to form ‘coordination mechanisms’ in preparation to Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza…

The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that Israeli authorities released Ahlam Salah, 28, from Al-Khader near Bethlehem. Ahlam was in administrative detention for six months without charges…

At least 21 Palestinian demonstrators were wounded in a nonviolent anti-wall demonstration in the village of Beliin north of the West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian sources reported. The demonstration was…

Law makers from the ruling Fatah movement, who constitute a majority in the current Palestinian Parliament, decided on Wednesday to withdraw dozens of amendments to the proposed election bill. On…

Israeli military officials  decided Thursday to impose an entire closure on all Palestinian territories during the Jewish holidays. The closure order would be in effect from Thursday night until Monday…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet again soon, Sharon’s office said on Friday. Israeli official sources expect the meeting to take place before Abbas’…

Candidates for 84 local councils in the West Bank started their election campaigns as in scheduled by the high committee for local councils’ elections. The elections will be held on…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP), and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (DFLP), criticized the approval of the Palestinian elections law, which ‘disregarded the…

Palestinian factions under the umbrella of the Palestinian Liberation Organization are conducting extensive talks in an attempt to reach unified coalition in the upcoming legislative elections. A senior Palestinian source…

An Israel soldier was moderately wounded Thursday as an explosive device detonated near a military jeep patrooling the Israeli side of the northern Gaza Strip security fence. army source said…

Family of two detainees from Bethlehem appealed humanitarian organizations to aid in releasing their sons and end their suffering in solitary confinement. The family of Nasser and Nidal Sweilim, 18…

For the third day, the detainees in Huwwara detention, near Nablus, resumed their hunger strike which was announced in protest to the bad treatment and harsh conditions they face in…

‘My name is Rachel Corrie’ is the title of the play running in London’s theaters tracing the journey of Rachel Corrie from comfortable American home to death in a Gaza…

Physicians for Human Rights published a report on the bad treatment and medical neglect the Palestinian detainees are facing in ‘Ofer’ Israeli detention. The PHR report revealed that detainees in…

Chair of the Israeli Knesset Reuvene Revelen demanded the State’s Attorney General Minachem Mazuz, to urge Prime Minister Ariel Sharon not to sign the agreement in which Israel allows Egypt…

A public poll conducted in Israel revealed that the majority of Jewish Israelis support disengagement and believe that the tension between Jews and Arabs in Israel a grave threat to…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Wednesday in Ramallah with the two U.S. envoys, David Welch, deputy secretary of state, and Elliot Abrams, deputy national security advisor, Palestinian sources…

On April 18, the tiny Palestinian village of Aqaba, south-east of Jenin, received a new visitation from Asher, the local boss of the Israeli army’s ‘Civil Administration’. Aqaba villagers have…

A 13 year-old girl from Jenin Refugee Camp is writing a letter to Kofi Anan. Sandy Nasser Al Sa’di is appealing to international organizations to help her reach the UN…

‘SA-18 missiles will of course make it difficult to fly over the residence of the Syrian president,’ Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli TV channel one ahead of his next…

In an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon affirmed that his cabinet continue to expand West Bank settlements, despite international objections. ‘There, we are building 1,000…

Palestinians, assisted by mayors from the area as well as private businessmen, have been conducting a comprehensive survey of the buildings in the settlements in order to decide which to…

The Israeli army intends to evacuate 27 residents of three families from the village of Al-Aqaba, near Tubas, after notices of eviction were issued against them. The families have to…

Wednesday afternoon, at least 50 soldiers broke into Huwwara detention, north of the West Bank, and attacked the detainees, who were striking in protest to the bad treatment and living…

Wednesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Al-Ras, north of Tulkarem and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in Tulkarem reported that soldiers broke into dozens of…

Israeli army began moving equipment out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, in preparation to implementing the unilateral disengagement plan, Israeli sources reported. An army spokesman said, around 20 containers…

The central court in Tel Aviv ruled to end solitary confinement of Tali Fahima, an Israeli citizen arrested upon alleged accusations of helping Palestinians carry out attacks in Israel. Fahima…

A Palestinian woman trapped on Al-Tuffah checkpoint, the only passage leading to Al-Mawassi, west of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, gave birth to a dead infant, after soldiers barred…

Israel’s consul to Holland, Uriel Yitzhaki, 50, was arrested at Ben Gurion International Airport, after arriving in Israel for a visit on Tuesday. An Israeli source reported that the International…

The outgoing Israeli chief of staff Moshe Yaalon met with King Abdullah II of Jordan Tuesday in Amman, Israeli sources reported. The source did not mention topics discussed in the…

Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah that the United Nations’ demand to disarm the militias in Lebanon is irrelevant to Hezbollah because it is not…

As the Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz visited on Tuesday, Naveh Dkalim settlement, in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc, dozens of settlers called him a traitor and urged him to…

The American Administration has agreed to give Israel a 3 billion-dollar financial guarantee until 2008 to assist the implementation of the disengagement plan, Israel Radio said Wednesday. Israeli delegates met…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a Tuesday meeting with Israeli reporters in Ramallah, stated that Israel has once again failed to give him a chance, as it did while he…

The Palestinian legislative council approved in principle on Wednesday the election bell, ending a two weeks dispute on whether the election could take place on July 17. ‘It is now…

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei is slated to sign, Wednesday, an understanding to establish a coordination office to support the Palestinian Police. A senior source at the Palestinian Authority reported…

Approximately seventy days after the cease fire agreement declared at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit in Egypt, between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, the Israeli…

First step: show no sign of resistance to any move by the controlling superpower, no matter how painful or unjust the move may appear to you. Don’t demand a return…

The Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is meeting on Thursday in Ramallah to decide whether it is going to vote in the council for the delay of…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that the PA has collected weapons from all wanted men in the West Bank towns of Jericho and Tulkarem, which Israel transferred to Palestinian…

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headlin2-041905.mp369ze72.mp3 High court orders a halt to the construction of the Israeli annexation wall section near Ariel settlement, but approves wall construction near Bethlehem Israel has halted the construction of…

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/headlin1-041905.mp3    Israeli issued monday tenders seeking bids for the construction of 50 new houses in the Wet Bank settlement of Elkana near Salfit, The Palestinian Authority complained to the…

Israeli Prison Authorities (IPA) released on Monday evening detainee ‘Ali Farraj Salem Abu Juraida, 29, from Rafah, after four years in administrative detention, without trial or charges. Abu Juraida was…

The Israeli Separation Wall… one of its main aims is to separate Palestinian people from their land. In Ramallah, the Wall divides the villages into two Ghettos; nine in the…

Representatives of the northern west bank settlement Homesh ended a Tuesday meeting with Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon, saying “if disengagement takes place, we want to move together” The settlement…

Israeli Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz decided Tuesday to ban nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu from leaving the country for a further 12 months, claiming his departure could harm Israel’s national security.…

Settlers in Ganim and Kadim settlements in the northern West Bank expressed readiness to leave move en masse to Afula if they get a good compensation. They told Yonatan Bassi,…

Member of the PLO executive committee Yasser Abed Rabbo warned that Israel seeks to obstruct the Palestinian legislative elections slated for July 17. The statements of Abed-Rabbu came during his…

Israel has halted the construction of the wall around the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank, following injunctions issued by the High Court of Justice, in response to…

Last Monday, French President Jacques Chirac told Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres that Israel should offer Palestinians a political horizon. French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier proposed hosting an international conference…

In an interview with Israel Radio, Israeli infra-structure minister Benjamin Ben Eliazer (Labor) called Saturday for starting the pullout two weeks ahead of the originally set date. Eland strongly objects…

In addition to raising the risk of new tension with the United States an Israeli government decision to issue tenders seeking bids for construction of 50 new houses in the…

Members of the Aqsa Martyr Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah invaded on Sunday the Palestinian Legislative Council office in Jenin and demanded the members to resign in protest to…

Two Israelis were wounded Monday afternoon when a Palestinian sniper opened fire at them in the southern Gaza Strip close to the border with Egypt, Israeli media sources reported. The…

As the local government elections in Bethlehem area nears, the final number of candidates reached 413 competing on 118 seats, among which 67 women. Firas Yaghi, director bureau of the…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society Karim Hammouda, visited several detainees in Ofer military detention and reported that infectious skin diseases are spreading in sections 7 and 9. Prison administration…

The northern Gaza Strip settlements – Alei Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit – will be the first to be evacuated in the first week of the implementation of the disengagement plan,…

The Shin Bet security services said on Sunday that it arrested three Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem on suspicion of ‘plotting to assassinate Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef’. According to…

The Israeli Minister of Finance, Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday against allowing Egypt to deploy more troops on its Borders with the Gaza Strip by the Philadelphi route. ‘Bringing Egyptian…

Israeli news sources said the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering a request by the chief of the disengagement administration, in the weekly cabinet session, to postpone the evacuation…

A probe conducted by the Israeli army revealed that the soldiers, who killed the three Palestinian youth in Rafah April 9, did not aim their weapons at the lower parts…

Israeli soldiers and police on Sunday night removed three unauthorized outposts put by settlers near Hebron earlier in the evening. Two outposts were set up near the settlement of Kiryat…

The “Israel’s Lands Department” bulldozed on Sunday, hundreds of agricultural Dunams in Sa’wa area, in the Negev. Department employees, supported by the Israeli Police and borders guard units, surrounded the…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society revealed that Israeli arrested in 2004, 63 females, from several Palestinian areas, among them wives of detainees and residents who were killed by the army. Also,…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday several areas and villages near the northern West bank city of Tulkarem, and arrested two brothers in Baqa Al-Sharqiyya. A local source in Tulkarem stated…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is paying a visit to Egypt, said Sunday he is ready to coordinate fully with Israel in the implementation of the disengagement plan. Abbas…

Seven Jordainian prisoners will be released on Thursday, an Israeli prison authority offical said, but failed to expalin why only seven out of the 9 approved by the cabinet will…

Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved a plan for temporary homes for settlers who will be evacuated from the Gaza Strip. A sub-ministerial committee was set up to provide temporary homes…

A group of unknown gunmen opened Saturday fire at a building in the West bank city of Nablus, where two Palestinian Authority ministers held a press conference to explain the…

Palestinian Housing Minister Mohammed Shteiah expressed Saturday hopes that Israel demolish settlers’ homes and clean the resulting rubble, to help the PA replace them with high rise buildings as a…

‘We have no intentions or desire to delay these elections,’ Abbas told reporters at his Ramallah headquarters, dismissing reports over a planned delay of Palestinian legislative elections slated for July…

Israeli Prime Minister Advisor Dov Weissglas is scheduled Sunday to meet Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erikat, marking a resumption of security talks. Two months ago, at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit,…

Leaders of the Gaza Strip Gush Katif settlers Saturday canceled a meeting scheduled for Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The move indicates strong differences around the proposed entire…

Many things need to be reformed in the United Nations, said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ‘The United Nations can not continue to be a vital power if it…

Palestinian official sources announced on Saturday that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will visit the United States for meetings with the U.S. president George W. Bush in early May. Abbas…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian, PFLP, and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, rejected calls of the Palestinian Authorities to disarm. The two movements said that the weapons…

Following decades in which western democracies have backed oppressive regimes in the Middle East and focusing efforts on backing authorities and secular elites, both the U.S. and the EU are considering closer…

Israeli soldiers conducted extensive searches in the village of Doura, near Hebron, and several surrounding villages after closing the area. A local source in Doura reported that soldiers, and under-covered…