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Senior Israeli disengagement official, Eival Giladi, said on Tuesday that about half of the settlers in the Gaza Strip, have left the Gaza strip of their own will. “Nearly 50…

As the implementation of the disengagement plan begun, a major question is raised among the Palestinians, regarding what would this step, which took Israel 38 years to take, lead to.…

Israeli Director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze’evi, claimed on Tuesday that the Palestinian resistance may renew its attacks in April if the peace talks do not progress. The…

A local source in Hebron reported that four residents, including three women, were injured, four others were arrested during an invasion carried out by the Israeli army in the villages…

Israeli army opened fire on peaceful procession, celebrating the Israeli pull out from Gaza, near AL Tufah Checkpoint in Khan Younis in the Gaza strip on Tuesday morning. The protest…

Israeli soldiers leveled three barns and water well in Ethna village west of Hebron on Tuesday. Abdul-Rahman Tmeizy, the owner of the farm were the destruction took place, reported that…

Abdul-Fattah Hamayel, in charge of the file of the Wanted and Deported Fighters in the Gaza Strip, stated that their file will be closed following the Israeli withdrawal from the…

Army invaded Wadi Al Salaqa east of Deir AL-Balah in the Gaza strip Tuesday morning. A local source reported that army jeeps entered the area from the near by Kissufim…

An Israeli military source reported on Tuesday that soldiers arrested two soldiers trying to ransack home in Pe’at Sadeh settlement in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc. This marks the third…

Head of the Higher Elections Committee, Jamal Shobaky, said that the committee decided to postpone the local election in 27 areas out of 132 in the West Bank and the…

Army invaded AL Atara area west of Beit Lahia south of the Gaza strip on Tuesday morning. Soldiers, backed up with tanks and army jeeps, invaded the area from the…

Army invaded AL Mawassi area in Khan Younis west of the Gaza strip on Tuesday at down. Troops invaded the residents houses in the area, conducted wide scale searches and…

Israeli army imposed a strict closure, on Tuesday morning, in the West Bank city of Jericho, and barred the residents from entering or leaving it, a Palestinian security source reported…

JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers who have been denying freedom to…

A Women’s protest at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah began at 10:30 on Tuesday morning   Hundreds of women from all over the globe, in addition to Palestinian and Israeli…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday morning, three leaders of the Yesha Council of settlements, among nearly 500 right-wing activists while trying to infiltrate into the Gush Katif settlements Bloc via…

Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday at dawn, al-Mawassi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A local source in al-Mawassi reported that hundreds of…

An Israeli military source reported on Monday evening, that the evacuation of Kadim and Ghanim settlements, north of the West Bank, was completed. Most of the settlers of the two…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, addressed the Israelis on Monday at night and said that “Israel is leaving the Gaza Strip from “position of strength, not weakness” and vowed harsh…

A group of 100 extremist settlers gathered in the “Jewish Quarter” in Jerusalem on Monday evening in an attempt to attack al-Aqsa Mosque. An Israeli police source in Jerusalem said…

Jordanian detainee Sultan al-Ajlouny, who was arrested 23 years ago, appealed the Jordanian government and parliament and the Jordanian media in order to intensify their efforts in order to end…

Palestinian National Security Advisor, Jebril Rajoub, said that the United States has pledged to continue the implementation of the Road Map Plan, and added that he hopes the Arab countries…

Israeli army installed a portable checkpoint, on Monday morning, at the entrance of Sorda village south of Ramallah. Troops installed the checkpoint and stopped dozens of vehicles, detaines and interrogated…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, addressed the Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip telling them “Go in peace, and come to visit us as guests and tourists”. The statements of Abbas…

A local source in Hebron reported on Monday afternoon, that settlers attacked several Palestinian homes in al-Shuhada Street, and around the “Jewish Cemetery” area in the city. The settlers broke…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday afternoon, the villages of Atteel, Dir al-Ghsoun, and Sheika area, north of Tulkarem, and arrested six residents, including a 14-year-oild child. A local source in…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, al- Thaheriyya town, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in the town reported…

The Israeli government approved on Monday the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southern Gaza Strip by 16-4 vote, Israeli sources reported on Monday. This is the…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights published a report on the Israeli violations and assaults against the medical teams in the period between September 1, 2002 until December 31, 2004.…

Israeli soldiers closed abu holy and al-Matahin checkpoints, north of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A local source in Khan Younis reported that soldiers closed…

Israeli TV, Channel 10, published a report on Sunday at night showing videos of soldiers poaching the evacuated settlers’ homes in Beat Sadeh settlement, in the southern part of the…

Israel intends to keep major settlement blocs under its control despite no matter what the agreement with the Palestinians over final status will be, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told…

Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Tulkarem and the near by village of Dir Al Ghsson on Monday at down. Soldiers conducted wide scaled searches in the city…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Monday a Palestinian reporter in the village of al-Shiokh, near Hebron, while he was trying to cross through a military checkpoint near the village. The Palestinian…

Army invaded, on Monday at down, the village of Bezaria near the West Bank city of Nablus and took over two houses that belong to residents there. Hussein Salem, member…

A group of Israeli right-wing anti-pullout protestors started a day-long rally opposite to the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office in West Jerusalem, in the early hours of on Monday…

Army closed on Monday morning Shaveh Shamron checkpoint, which connects the West Bank Cities of Jenin and Nablus together, eyewitness reported. Israeli sources reported that clashes erupted between the settlers…

Palestinian Minister of Interior Nasser Yousef instructed the Palestinian security forces to act to find and release the French journalist kidnapped in the Gaza Strip Sunday night, Palestine News Network…

The Israeli army issued eviction notices to the settlers of the Nissanit settlement in the northern Gaza Strip, as the first step on the ground after sealing off the Strip…

Israeli sources reported that more than half of the Gaza Strip settlers have already left their houses in the settlement two days before the start of the disengagement plan. According…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that the Palestinian security forces completed their deployment around the settlements in the Gaza Strip. General Jamal Kayed, head of the Palestinian Security…

As hundreds of settlers started to evacuate from the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, thousands of Israeli police men closed the entrances of Gaza in a bid to bar pullout…

A local source in Tulkarem reported on Sunday, that soldiers supported by eight armored vehicles invaded Bal’a village, east of Tulkarem in the West Bank, and conducted military searches of…

Israeli soldiers shelled, on Sunday, several homes west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A local source in Khan Younis reported that soldiers based at…

A medical source at the Hebron Governmental Hospital, in Hebron reported that Israeli soldiers shot injured four children in Doura village, west of the city of Hebron after invading it…

Five Israeli soldiers were injured when an Israeli tank crew opened fire at them responding to an attack claimed to be by a Palestinian group near the Kfar Darom settlement…

Tawfeeq abu Khousa, spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior said on Saturday at night that Israel will hand three settlements in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority on…

The Israeli police reported on Saturday that it will start deploying the “sixth ring” of disengagement forces, and will install dozens of roadblocks in the south of the country in…

The Israeli Police said on Saturday that it will restrict entry of Muslims to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday. The decision was made in order to allow Jewish worshipers…

Israeli soldiers fired on Saturday afternoon, at a peaceful protest in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza strip. A local source in Khan Younis reported that soldiers…

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday afternoon, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and conducted military searches oh homes. A Palestinian security source in Hebron reported that soldiers broke into…

Israeli army invaded on Saturday at down the village of Tammoun south east of  the West Bank city of Tubas. Eyewitness reported that army invaded the village and conducted wide…

Army invaded on Saturday morning al-Obaidiyyah village east of Bethlehem. Troops invaded the village and drove in its streets without breaking into homes or conducting arrests, residents reported. Recently, the…

Israeli soldiers invaded the west bank city of Nablus and the neighboring village of Kafer Qaleel, late Friday night. Troops arrested Fadi Al Shbeer and Salah al-Qouka and Mohannad abu…

Israeli army arrested on Saturday morning Masoud Abu al-Wafa, from al –Zawiya village near the west bank city of Jenin, at Taiaseer checkpoint east of the West Bank city of…

A Palestinian security source reported on Saturday afternoon that the P.A police and security started deploying in areas close to the settlements slated for evacuation under the Disengagement Plan. The…

Israeli soldiers on Saturday morning arrested eight residents of al-Shiokh village, east the West Bank city of Hebron. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles and…

Israeli soldiers on Saturday arrested a youth in al-Mawassi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A local source in al-Mawassi reported that soldiers…

Lawyers for the Palestinian Prisoners Society recently visited several detainees in Israeli detention facilities at Gilboa’ and Be’er Shiva. According to the lawyers, Fawwaz Shalloudi and Raed Mahameed, detainees in Be’er…

Life in the tiny Palestinian hamlet of Qawawis seems straight out of the Old Testament, but that doesn’t stop the Jewish settlers in the hilltop outposts that surround the place…

Egyptian forces will be deployed on the border with the Gaza Strip starting next week as Israel starts implementing its withdrawal from the area, the Agence France-Presse reported on Friday..…

Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, and arrested 25 Israeli activists and nine internationals. Eight protestors were injured, including one…

The United States State Department on Friday issued a security alert to Americans visiting Israel, warning them of violent protests by settlers and other pullout foes over the coming weeks. The…

A massive rally organized by the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip on Friday gathered tens of thousands of Palestinians, including many fishermen from Gaza City’s fishing harbor. The rally,…

Israeli soldiers supported by armored vehicles and jeeps invaded Arraba village near Jenin at dawn on Friday at dawn and arrested seven members of the Islamic Jihad movement, a senior…

A local source in Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, reported that Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and rounds of live ammunition at hundreds of residents who protested in their orchards…

Severe clashes erupted in Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, after the residents held their Friday prayers in lands east of the village that Israeli is trying to annex. One youth…

The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine called on the Palestinian Authority, especially the Legislative Council, in order to close the political detainees file, and release them from Jericho detention facility.…

In a move that seen as provocative, some 25 armed settlers marched Friday through Palestinian villages in the West Bank in an attempt to reach the settlements of Sa-Nur and…

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Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

The mother of detainee Yousef Qandeel, from Jenin refugee camp, said that he is suffering of a deteriorating health condition as a result of medical neglect and bad living condition…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza released its weekly report documenting the Israeli violations and attacks in the Palestinian territories in the period between August 4 and August…

Nathmi Mhanna, head of the Border Crossing Department at the Palestinian Authority, said on Friday that the Rafah Border Crossing, which links the Gaza Strip with Egypt, will remain opened…

Expressing satisfaction with the huge number of right-wingers who gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the disengagement plan on Thursday evening, leaders of the Yesha Council, the…

The Israeli Police reported on Friday morning that dozens of cars which belongs to Arab residents of the Negev area were attacked and damaged at the Soroka hospital parking lot,…

Israeli soldiers invaded on Friday morning, the villages of Arraba and al-Rama, south of Jenin and arrested ten residents. A Palestinian security source in Jenin reported that soldiers invaded the…

Israeli soldiers stopped more than fifty vehicles at a military checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Tubas. A local source in Tubas reported that soldiers installed a roadblock…

Israel incessantly claims that she is the only true democracy in the Middle East. The Jewish state often uses this claim, which is half-true at best, to blur her systematic…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Sana’ Harbawi, reported that she visited several detainees in Asqalan detention center on Wednesday, who informed her of the bad living conditions and treatment…

As speculations about a political ‘big bang’ in Israel intensify, Yousef Lapid, chairman of the Israeli Shinui party and former Minister of Justice, said on Thursday that he does not…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Wednesday evening, a resident from Artas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. A local source in Bethlehem reported that Ziad Ali Ismail, 18,…

Dr. Mohammad al-Hindy, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday that the real battle with the occupation ends after Israel withdraws from all of the…

An Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli Army soldier to eight years in jail after being found guilty of manslaughter for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall, Israeli sources reported on…

Israeli soldiers arrested Haya Mohammad Hoshiyya, 25, in an attempt to put psychological pressure on her detained husband, the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported on Thursday. Ayed…

Settlers’ leaders are planning a massive protest rally in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, in their last bid to disrupt the pullout slated to start August 15. The Yesha Council…

Israeli soldiers arrest, on Thursday morning, a resident at a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. A source at Azzoun village council, near Qalqilia, reported that…

Israeli police and army admitted on Wednesday that they failed to bar thousands of right-wing pullout protestors from entering the Gaza Strip; the number of pullout opponents who managed to…

A medical source in Qalqilia reported, on Thursday morning, that one resident was hospitalized after soldiers attacked, severely punched and clubbed him while trying to cross Beit Eeba checkpoint. The…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Thursday at dawn, a resident of Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the West Bank. A local source in the camp reported that soldiers,…

Israeli soldiers arrested overnight a resident of al-Mawassi area, west of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers arrested Ashraf…

Israeli soldiers surrounded and invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday at dawn. A local source in the city reported that soldiers searched homes and occupied rooftops,…

Israeli soldiers invaded al-Khader, a  town south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Thursday at dawn. A local source in al-Khader reported that soldiers invaded the al-Baloa’ neighborhood,…

In bid to coordinate security activities prior to and during the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the four minor northern West Bank settlements, a joint Palestinian-Israeli operations room…

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior reported on Wednesday evening that two residents were injured when an explosive went off near them in Gaza. A Palestinian security source said that Khaled…

Israeli President Moshe Katsav apologized on behalf of the State of Israel to the settlers for asking them to leave the settlements. He made the comments in a special address broadcast live…

An Israeli paratrooper refused on Wednesday to carry out an order related to the disengagement plan, an Israeli military source reported. The soldier is the first paratrooper to refuse to…

An erstimated 40,000 to 50.000 pullout opponents conducted an anti-disengagement protest at the “Western Wall plaza” in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, according to Israeli sources. Additional protestors had planned to join the…

Israeli human rights organizations called on the Israeli government to take the steps necessary to protect the Palestinians in case of an escalation in violence by settlers during and after…