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Settlers bulldozed on Wednesday afternoon,  several orchards which belongs to residents of Kafer Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. A source at Qaddoum village council, reported…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Wednesday three residents in Qalqilia, after invading it and conducting military searches in dozens of homes and orchards, south of the city. A local source in…

  Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom surprised his Egyptian counter part as he called on Egypt to help Israel carryout its “regional road map.” which aims at normalizing relations and…

For the fifth day, Palestinian resistance fired homemade shells at the Gush Katif settlement Bloc in the Gaza Strip. Resistance groups said that the firing of the shells came after…

Gaza settlers have begun preparations for building camps in Gush Katif to accommodate tens of thousands of people who are expected to come to help them resist the evacuation. Settlers…

Israeli media sources revealed information about a planned visit by the Israeli police commissioner Moshe Karadi to Jordan on Wednesday morning. According to the Israeli source, the Jordanians asked that…

Three Palestinians were arrested in the northern West Bank city of Nablus as the Israeli army resumes its invasion in the city, and the surrounding villages and refugee camps for…

After the Bush-Sharon summit, and 100 days prior to the implementation of the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians feel pushed to the corner. Dr. Sae’b Ereikat, former chief of…

In a strong coming back, Fatah won Tuesday more seats than Hamas in the students’ council elections at Bir Zeit University, ending ten years of Islamic movement monopoly over one…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted Wednesday as saying that Israel would be ready to reconsider destroying settlers’ homes if the pullout is coordinated with the Palestinian Authority. ‘The…

Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday a child near Huwwara military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and claimed that he attempted to detonate a pipe bomb. The…

A report released by Jerusalem Center for Social and economic rights revealed that the Israeli government is planning to erect a chain of small Jewish neighborhoods in the east of…

More than 200 Palestinian resistance operatives have pledged not to carry out acts of violence, considered an important step towards solving the problem of “wanted” Palestinians, a Palestinian official said…

Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Hussein Al-Sheikh, said that several detainees imprisoned in Maali Adumim detention complained that they were tortured and wiped with wires during interrogation. Detainee Abdullah…

The Islamic Resistance movement warned Monday that the “calm” period could collapse due to Israeli violations and PA lack of seriousness in implementing internal reforms approved in the factions’ talks…

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom presented the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with an Israeli ‘road map’ to peace with Arab countries in their meeting in Cairo on Tuesday. According to…

Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon advised U.S. president George Bush to start planning for the post-Abbas era, saying the Palestinian leader is on the verge of collapsing, and is losing…

The Israeli army reported on Tuesday that the Knesset is weighing the possibility of conducting amendments to some articles in the peace agreements which were singed between Israel and Egypt…

The Palestinian Environment Authority claims there are dumping sites for toxic wastes, in some of the Gaza Strip settlements Israel is planning to evacuate within disengagement plan, Palestinian sources reported…

Security Guards, teachers and students of 167 schools and preschools in Tel Aviv, Holon and Ramat-Gan found themselves locked out of their schools on Monday morning as the gates of…

The Israeli Finance and Housing Ministries agreed on budget to absorb evacuated settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in July in parks built in the Western Negev…

Administrative detainees, held in the Negev detention camp, appealed the International Community, humanitarian organizations and the Red Cross to pressure Israel in order to end the administrative detention files and…

Palestinians expressed dissatisfaction with statements made by the United States President George W. Bush supporting Israel on keeping control over the Settlements built on the West Bank land. Hassan Abu…

Translated by Saed Bannoura “They arrested my three sons, and leveled our home, but we will remain steadfast in our land, the occupation is punishing us for defending out land,…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George Bush could have instead exchanged letters listing their agreement and differences. Unless Sharon badly wanted to taste the famous Texan steaks,…

The Israeli army reported on Tuesday evening that the Lebanon based Hezbollah flew a mini drone over the Western Galilee area. The army stated that the drone flew over 18…

The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, demanded the U.S. President George W. Bush to press the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is visiting the U.S. now, to immediately stop…

 In a news conference with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, U.S. president George Bush asked his guest not to undertake any activity that contravenes the road map or prejudices final…

Few hundreds Palestinian protesters from the Nablus region, supported by Israeli and International peace activists blocked Monday the way of garbage trucks coming from the center of Israel to dump…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told Monday Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee members that Israel, at this stage, will not respond militarily to Palestinian resistance shillings of Israeli Gaza…

The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, issued an order barring P.A security heads in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from holding talks with foreign parties, unless talks are conducted…

The Israeli army reported that soldiers arrested a Fatah member on Sunday for suspected ties with Hezbollah party and planning an attack in Israel on behalf of Hezbollah. The source…

A Palestinian military source in Nablus said that Israeli soldiers shot and injured eleven residents in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and arrested fifteen other residents. A local…

Awni Habash, a judge at the Central Court in Jerusalem, sentenced a Jewish youth to two consecutive years, and 18 months on parole, after trying to burn an Arab taxi…

Head of the Israeli ‘Civil Administration Department’ in Qalqilia area, informed dozens of residents of Jayyous, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, that the army intends to grab…

Palestinian Minister of security affairs, Mohammad Dahlan, said that the P.A is seeking to implement development, consultant and service projects in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal. Dahlan added…

Israeli official source reported on Sunday that the Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will be visiting Cairo on Tuesday for meetings with his Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Abul Gheit. Shalom’s quick…

  Thousands of Palestinians protested on Sunday in Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem against calls by extremist Jewish groups to attack the mosque, Revava extremist group renewed its call to attack…

Thousands of Palestinians took the streets of the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and took part in the funeral of the three Palestinian children, who were killed by army…

Israeli army intends to disarm Jewish settlers in four West Bank settlements two week prior to evacuating the West Bank settlements, Israeli military officials said Monday. Settlers, however, said they…

The Egyptians security forces have arrested a Palestinian who admitted that he smuggled Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles into Gaza through Sinai. Israel is worried that the smuggling of such missiles would…

The U.S. administration is planning to broaden the mandate of its special security envoy Lt. Gen. William Ward, to allow him to deal with Israeli complains and become more involved…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday night to request an immediate move to crack down on the armed groups in Gaza. According to Mofaza,…

 Israeli media sources reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to tell Bush that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s regime is on verge of collapsing, proposing to…

As a decent person, I am supposed to feel compassion for the Gush Katif settlers. To embrace them. To shed a tear for their plight. And indeed, there are grounds…

On Saturday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stationed near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah opened fire at a group of Palestinian children playing soccer at an open field, killing three…

Right wing activists, Opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan blocked the busy Ayalon Highway around Tel Aviv during Sunday morning rush hour, causing massive jams. Protesters blocked…

The planning-construction process of the Har Homa settlement north of the West bank city of Bethlehem, took place over an extended period following the signing of the Oslo accords between…

Labor MK Dani Yatum warned Saturday that a military coup could happen in Israel because national religious officers will soon constitute the majority in the army leading ranks. Yatum is…

Israelipolice released Monday Sheikh Hassan Yousif after being detained for few hours for entering Jerusalem without a permit. Israeli Police detain Sheikh Hassan Yousif Israeli police Sunday detained a Hamas…

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive charge near a military jeep near Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. The Israeli army confirmed…

Israeli soldiers fired on Saturday afternoon at a group of children playing at a playground near Salah Ed-Deen Crossing “Philadiphi Route” in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will depart for the United States on Sunday to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney at Bush’s ranch in…

Israeli soldiers broke on Saturday into a kindergarten which belongs to the Red Crescent Society in Hebron. Sameeha Al-Nather, headmaster of the kindergarten stated that soldiers into the building, and…

Dozens of settlers’ families moved recently into settlements and settlement outposts in Hebron, south of the West Bank. The WAFA news Agency reported that dozens of settlers came to the…

An Israeli military source reported on Saturday that the army and Israeli police started, over the last few weeks, training special army units to be deployed near settlements slated for…

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that settlement activities conducted by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories are illegal. The statements of Abbas were made as the…

Prison administration in Gilboa detention barred a youth from visiting his brother as he came along with his father to visit him. The father, Yousef J’eidi, said that after he…

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army issued written land confiscation memos to some residents of the city of Beit Jala and the villages of Al-Walajeh and Al-Khader. Adnan Al-Atrash,…

Israeli official sources reported Friday that Iran’s nuclear capabilities are expected to take a major part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Monday meeting with U.S. president George Bush. Israeli…

Israeli official sources reported on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leans to accept the recommendation of his defense minister Shaul Mofaz and retreat the cabinet decision to demolish…

Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon toured Friday Nitsanim area, which settlers of Gush Katif proposed to move to in their entirety. Sharon demanded that work starts immediately to build a…

A collection of testemonies by survivors of the massacre Mr. Fahimi Zeidan, 12,:’The Jews ordered all our family to line up against the wall and they started shooting us. I was…

U.S. President George Bush said on Friday he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that there can be no expansion of Jewish settlements under the U.S.-backed road map for…

Presidents, prime ministers and kings from around the world joined around two million people in paying a final farewell Friday to Pope John Paul II; one of the largest religious…

 Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom downplayed Saturday the political significance of the hand shakes between Israeli Preisdent Moshe Katsav and both the Syrian and Iranina Presidents. ‘I hope that it…

Friday afternoon, at least 10 residents were injured after Israeli soldiers fired at peaceful protest against the Wall in Deir Ballout, near Salfit. A local source in the village said…

Download MP3 http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/4365.php This week in Palestine—a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, April 1st to Thursday, April 7th. Amid high alerts…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers injured five residents in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah; one resident was arrested and transferred to an unknown location. A local source in the…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers injured five residents in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah; one resident was arrested and transferred to an unknown location. A local source in the…

The UN Security Council decided Thursday night to form an international committee to investigate the assassination of late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Harirri. The resolution 1595, submitted by the U.S.,…

Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Kassem told the Financial Times on Friday that his group will be prepared to discuss disarmament if Israel withdrew from Shebaa Farms. Kassem said if…

Mahmoud Radi Erekat, 16, from Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, complained of torture practiced against him in Maali Adumim detention center, before he was transferred to Atzion detention. Lawyer of the…

The Israeli Peace Bloc “Gush Shalom” said that Sharon is appearing to be obeying the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the route of the Separation Wall; it became clear now that…

The Israeli deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the US vice President Dick Cheney “not to worry about the constructions Israel intends to carry out near Maali Adumim settlement”, Israeli…

Israeli sources said that the new plan for Jerusalem, which would cost around $5 Millions, shows territorial contiguity between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. this linkage annexes wide…

The Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz told senior security officers that he wants the settlers’ houses that will be evacuated in Gush Qatif settlements after the intended Israeli pullout…

Salem Israeli military court sentenced a resident of Jenin refuge camp to five consecutive years after charging him of membership in the political wing of the Islamic Jihad and forming…

The Palestinian Prisoners Society published a reported on Thursday which revealed that there are 350 Palestinian children imprisoned in Israeli detention camps and prisons. The report revealed that there are…

Against Israeli security and police expectations, tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers peacefully concluded weekly prayers in Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on Friday. Amid high alerts of a possible attack…

In a conference held in the city of Nazareth on Thursday night, the local Roman Orthodox denomination accused Patriarch Irinuis I of selling church properties to the Jewish Agency and…

An explosion in a tourist area near al-Azhar mosque in the Egyptian Capitol, Cairo, took Thursday the lives of four people. 17 more were wounded to various degrees, Egyptian police…

The Rabbis’ Union for the People and Land of Israel, headed by former Israeli chief rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, called Thursday security forces to refuse orders to evacuate…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres met Thursday with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, and told him that for the time being Israel is not building new housing units near the…

A home made Qassam shell, apparently fired from Beit Hanun area of the northern Gaza Strip, landed in a cemetery in the Israeli Negev town of Sderot Thursday evening, causing…

Israeli army and police have recently set up a special command to coordinate the activities of selected elite combat units that will take part in the evacuation of settlements under…

The European Union called Thursday on Israel to observe its obligations, to freeze all settlement activity and to dismantle unauthorized settlers’ outposts, an EU statement said. The European Union expressed…

A report prepared and published by the Palestinian National Information Center revealed that the Israeli army violated the truce, arrived at the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit in Egypt, 345 times, including…

As only 20 percent of the wall around Jerusalem is a cement wall, Israeli Security officials have decided to raise the ‘cement wall’ portion to 30 percent claiming that this…

Yonatan Bassi, Disengagement Department head proposed to temporarily allocate the evacuated settlers in Ashkelon until the construction of their permanent residencies is finalized. Bassi met on Tuesday with a number…

Extreme right wing activists revert to new tactics to exhaust police forces as part of their anti-disengagement campaign. Israeli Police arrested Wednesday two right wing activists on suspicions that they…

A Palestinian medical source reported on Wednesday that four residents were seriously injured west of Salfit in the West Bank while they were trying to stop the military bulldozers from…

Based on post 1948 Egyptian maps, the PA proposes that the northern borders of the Gaza Strip should be at least two kilometers north of where it is now. The…

The Palestinian Authority has presented a plan to American and Israeli officials for coordinating the planed pullout from inside the Gaza Strip and four small settlements in the northern West…

Senior Palestinian officials have acquainted American and Israeli officials with a plan for coordinating the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported…

U.S. President George Bush is likely to refrain from bringing up “thorny” issues when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Bush’s Texas ranch next week, because he prefers…

Settlers of Hafat Ma’oun settlement, in the Hebron Mountain area continued their attacks against the Palestinian residents and their farmlands. Resident of villages in the Hebron Mountain area said that…

On Wednesday night, a group of unknown gunmen stopped their car near the headquarters of the PA Preemptive security in the west bank city of Ramallah, and opened fire towards…

Israeli security raised the level of alert as indicators of plans of extremist Jews attack on Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem increased considerably, Israeli TV Channel 1 reported Wednesday. Extreme right…

Israeli soldiers opened fire and seriously wounded four Palestinians on Wednesday morning near the Village of Deir ballout in the Salfit district. According to eyewitnesses, soldiers opened fire from a…