Saturday July 31, 2010 - 13:47, Central Gaza has been struck by a pre-dawn Israeli air raid, Saturday morning, resulting in one death and thirteen injuries.
Friday July 30, 2010 - 11:18, Qatar’s al-Jazeera network are reporting that a missile fired from the Gaza Strip has struck the south of the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
Friday July 30, 2010 - 08:20, The Israeli Jihad Movement expressed its rejection to direct talks with the Israeli occupation and said that it will not accept the outcome of Palestinian Israeli talks.
Friday July 30, 2010 - 08:11, In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 22-28 July 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian worker in the northern West Bank.
Friday July 30, 2010 - 07:34, Egyptian security sources reported Saturday that an Eritrean man was shot and killed by Egyptian border police fire while trying to infiltrate into Israel.
Friday July 30, 2010 - 07:25, Local sources reported on Thursday evening that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by Israeli military fire at the Atara Roadblock, north of central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Senior PLO official Hanan Ashwari says Obama administration has stepped up pressure on Abbas to move to face-to-face negotiations with Netanayhu, Arab media report.
Palestinian witnesses report one dead and 13 injured in heaviest strike on Hamas-linked targets since Operation Cast Lead, as Israel retaliates for rocket attack on Ashkelon.
Pilot who participated in joint training mission and rescue efforts says that rescue efforts were necessary due to the need 'to bring our friends home.'
Experts complete identification process; Israeli and Romanian armies plan to hold a memorial ceremony this afternoon for the seven victims at the Romanian military base from which the helicopter took off.
Britain's Guardian newspaper reports that Israel's ambassador to the U.K.met with the exiled crown prince of the Ras al-Khaimeh in March; Ras al-Khaimeh is strategically located directly across the Persian Gulf from Iran.
Vice PM Shalom slams Palestinian terms for direct talks, AFP reports; Abbas expected to tell Arab League that indirect talks have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face negotiations.
7/30/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - Ha'aretz - South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, Washington South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op's...
By Mitri I. Musleh - Many options have been tried over the past sixty years to settle the Palestinian/Israeli conflict; however, for one reason or another, they all ended in total failure. In the past, Israeli leaders tried to erase the Palestinian...
Gaza – PNN/UNifeed - Fresh from their last week’s basketball record, this week, thousands of children in Gaza attending UNRWA’s Summer Games smashed their own world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously. Over three thousand “UNRWA Summer Games” children had...
Bethlehem – PNN – U.S. internet companies have been exploited to fund the assassination of a top Palestinian leader in Dubai last January, the Wall Street Journal reported today. American investigators identified a couple of internet based businesses which apparently transferred money...
New York – PNN - the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Palestinian authorities in the West Bank to release Amer Abu Arfa, a correspondent for the Shihab news agency, who was convicted and imprisoned in connection with his news coverage. The...
Jerusalem - PNN - As part of its annual summer camp the Israeli human right group ICHAD fished re-building one house of the five homes it plan to so this summer. On Sunday, August 1st, ICAHD will dedicate the home of the...
Gaza - PNN - A top Palestinian fighter was killed in a series of air strikes by the Israeli Air Force targeting a number of locations in the Gaza Strip late on Friday night and Saturday morning. One of the airstrikes hit...
Ghassan Bannoura - PNN - Israeli troops attacked on Friday anti wall protests that were organized at a number of locations in the West Bank. Israeli and international supporters joined Palestinian villagers in Bil’in, Nil’in an Nabi Saleh in the central West...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled "insurance." The huge file, posted on the...
31 Jul 2010 - July 31, 2010 - An Al-Qassam Brigades fighter was killed and ten other Gaza residents were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes that hit targets across the Strip on Saturday morning. The Hamas-affiliated military group announced that...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - In the first detailed interview with a prisoner released from Guantánamo to Algeria, Abdul Aziz Naji, forcibly repatriated last week, has spoken to the Algerian newspaper El Khabar, describing his experiences during his eight...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - It finally happened. The Jerusalem Post has declared archeology itself anti-Semitic. To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues who are committed Zionists having difficulty in dealing with...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - 3 days after documents of 8 years of war crimes against the people of Afghanistan were leaked, what does the U.S. government do? Admit or apologize for the crimes? No -- go after the...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their release, the State Department said on Friday....
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - The timeframe for when U.S. troops should come home has been debated since American forces were first sent to Afghanistan. After the surge of troops was implemented, President Obama announced that some of those...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - The American Civil Liberties Union just released a report on the performance of the Obama administration on issues relating to national security, civil liberties, and human rights....But, as the report goes on to state...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, Nancy A. Youssef continues to LIE about Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange tells US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, "We will not be suppressed. We will continue to expose abuses of...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - My MP, a Foreign Office minister in the shiny new coalition government, has written to me saying he believes the Foreign Secretary was "extremely fair, tough and statesmanlike" in his reaction to Israel's murderous...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - Twenty years ago, the Middle East was an entirely different entity from the area of today. No U.S. troops were stationed in Arab countries. Iraq and Iran had just finished a bloody eight-year war....
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - Nine Palestinian families spent their first night in the open air on Thursday, after being forced out of their homes by Israeli settlers before sunrise the same morning. Sami Qeresh head of a household...
31 Jul 2010 - July 30, 2010 - In the eighteen months since the issuance of those executive orders, the administration’s record on issues related to civil liberties and national security has been, at best, mixed. Indeed, on a range of issues...
GAZA, July 31, 2010 (WAFA)- A Palestinian citizen was killed, today, in Israeli air raids against Al-Nseirat camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, as two were wounded in...
GENEVA, July 30, 2010 (WAFA)- A United Nations panel of experts has raised concerns about Israeli discrimination against Palestinians, demanding Israel stop targeted killings and torture, Voice of
GAZA, July 30, 2010 (WAFA)- More than 6,200 children attending a summer camp in the Gaza Strip run Thursday by the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees have broken their...
JERUSALEM, July 30, 2010 (WAFA)- The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has deplored today's forcible takeover by armed Israeli settlers of a building in Jerusalem's
RAMALLAH, July 30, 2010 (WAFA)- A British and an Israeli pacifist were wounded, during the weekly demonstration against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in west...
31 Jul 2010 - Hebron, July 31, (Pal Telegraph) Journalists and citizens were Injured today in the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces of the path of the weekly march which started from the northern governorate...
31 Jul 2010 - Nablus, July 31, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces imposed today morning a full closure on the village of ‘Iraq Burin’, south of Nablus in the northern of the West Bank, blocking entry...
31 Jul 2010 - Jenin, July 31, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces raided ‘Khirbet Irza’ east of Tubas in the West Bank and stormed the houses there handing owners warrants of demolition including a mosque and...
31 Jul 2010 - Women fear that even the small steps that they have taken so far will be threatened if the Afghan government and Western donors make a peace that does not allow small steps to become larger ones.
31 Jul 2010 - In Afghanistan's Helmand Province there is another place that goes by the name "Green Zone," but for very different reasons than in Iraq.
31 Jul 2010 - A Taliban spokesman said that the insurgent group is scouring classified American military documents posted online by the group WikiLeaks for information to help them find and "punish" Afghan informers.
31 Jul 2010 - The visit, five years after the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister, showed that Syria’s influence over Lebanon was rising again.
31 Jul 2010 - There were no injuries, but the explosive damaged buildings and brought panic to the streets of Ashkelon on Friday after more than a year of relative calm.
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Palestine 31 Jul 2010 - The Bedouin village of Al-Arakib, visited by a CPT delegation on July 25, was demolished just two days later. Having finished their job, the 1500 Israeli police, with their tear gas, water cannon, land and aerial vehicles, left. And the Bedouins began to rebuild.
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Palestine 31 Jul 2010 - Israeli border police demolished a rainwater cistern and removed irrigation pipes from several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on 14 July 2010, the second day of incidents in the area this month.
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Palestine 31 Jul 2010 - At 2 p.m. on 13 July, about 20 Israeli police and soldiers invaded the Awewi family home in Hebron’s Old City. They forced the mother and the eight children into the kitchen and arrested the father, who is a Palestinian Authority (PA) police officer. The mother...
Mondoweiss 31 Jul 2010 - Haaretz has the story on the latest record set by the children of Gaza. They've broken their own record from last year's UNRWA Summer Games for the number of kites being flown at one time. The UN website has the video : SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Palestinian Girl No...
Mondoweiss 31 Jul 2010 - Editor's note: I'm going to be writing a lot about boats these days. Americans are organizing a U.S. boat to Gaza , with a cruise around New York this Wednesday to raise money for the effort, and in the meantime a Jewish boat to Gaza will be...
Mondoweiss 31 Jul 2010 - This is interesting. Mike McMahon, a first-term Democratic congressman from New York, fired a staffer after she said that McMahon's Republican challenger was getting a lot of out-of-state donors and "Jewish money." NY Observer : The file, labeled "[Mike] Grimm Jewish Money Q2," for the second quarter...
Mondoweiss 31 Jul 2010 - It's happened: the Anti-Defamation League has overplayed its hand (in this case, neoconservative Islamophobia) in such a glaring manner that it is being condemned at every quarter-- a statement from the group opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York. The statement...
Mondoweiss 30 Jul 2010 - Today in Palestine: Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Jerusalem report documents wave of demolitions Jerusalem – Ma’an – The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights released a report on Thursday, documenting the demolition of several greenhouses, a car wash and a grocery in...
7/30/2010 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - Nine Palestinian families spent their first night in the open air on Thursday, after being forced out of their homes by Israeli settlers before sunrise the same morning. Sami Qeresh head of a household of six dependents, said women and...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - US-based Olympiya Foods Coop grocery store voted to join the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign, in what its board said was a move "to compel Israel to follow international law and respect Palestinian human rights." The move was endorsed...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Injuries were reported across the West Bank as Israeli soldiers responded to weekly non-violent anti-wall protests with tear gas, sound grenades and detentions on Friday. Clashes erupted in Bil'in, where the wall cuts off agricultural lands from farmers despite a...
7/30/2010 - Jerusalem - Ma'an - The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights released a report on Thursday, documenting the demolition of several greenhouses, a car wash and a grocery in the town of Hizma during the two previous days. On Tuesday and Wednesday of...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli settlers destroyed a field of vegetables in a Bedouin village in the southern West Bank on Wednesday night, international peace groups reported. During the night, a report said, a Palestinian farmer from Um Al-Kher village in the south Hebron...
7/30/2010 - Nablus - Ma'an - Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a village south of the West Bank city of Nablus and set fire to village land on Friday, reports said. Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority settlement affairs officer who monitors the northern West Bank, said...
7/30/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - A factory owner in Gaza was shocked to find that equipment he ordered from overseas, which was held in an Israeli port for several years, has been dismantled, with some parts missing and others broken. Mohammad Al-Telbani, owner of Al-Auda...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - A British aid convoy will deliver vital medical equipment to Gaza, still banned under Israel's siege, a statement said. Citing reports from the World Health Organization and the Health Ministry, Viva Palestina said that since easing the siege, Israel has...
7/30/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Hamas prefers not to bow to international pressure, it will remain steadfast and work to change the rules of the game, the party's politburo chief in Damascus Khalid Mash'al told reporters in Qatar on Thursday. Accusing "international parties" of being...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Residents and supporters of the Al-Araqib village, where 35 homes were demolished on Tuesday, were preparing for demonstrators on Friday, following calls for a mass protest against the demolitions. Residents say 250 men, women and children were left homeless by...
7/30/2010 - Gaza - Ma'an - Israeli crossings officials told their Palestinian liaison counterparts on Friday morning that all commercial crossings would close for the day and remain shut until Sunday. Palestinian crossings official Raed Fattouh told Ma'an that he was informed early Friday that both...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - The Palestinian Water Authority welcomed on Friday the UN General Assembly's adoption of a resolution recognizing access to water and sanitation as a human right. Palestinian Water Minister Shaddad Attili issued a statement after the motion was adopted, saying that...
7/30/2010 - i>Barak: Can't resume negotiations where they left off because Israeli government has no written records - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the current freeze on settlement building will not continue in its present form, Israeli media reported...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Syrian President Bashar Assad and King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah Ben Abdul-Aziz pledged their support to Lebanon's president "in the face of outside threats," Agence-France Presse reported Friday. King Abdullah and Assad visited Lebanese President Michel Sleiman to encourage...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - The Israeli military reported Friday morning that a projectile launched from the Gaza Strip hit the outskirts of the coastal city of Ashkelon. Richard Miron, spokesperson for the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry, issued...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - France and the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities signed an agreement to build a museum in the city of Bethlehem, under a heritage preservation and promotion project. The agreement, for some 700,000 Euro ($915,460 US), was signed on...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli President Shimon Peres told Israel Radio on Friday he believed that if President Mahmoud Abbas had rejected the idea of direct talks between Israel and Palestine, the Arab League would never have approved it." We do not have much...
7/30/2010 - Al-Arish - Ma'an - Egyptian security forces said officers located a weapons storehouse in the northern Sinai south of Al-Arish on Friday, and said they believed the goods were destined for the Gaza Strip. Police uncovered what a report described as a three-meter deep...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - A Palestinian refugee in Jordan in need of heart surgery asked Palestinian leaders to help. Manar Issa Eid wrote to Ma'an from the Al-Hussein Hospital in Amman, where he is waiting for financial support for surgery, appealing to President Mahmoud...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian Authority security forces detained six Hamas affiliates in the West Bank, a Hamas statement issued Friday said. The affiliates were from the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron and Qalqiliya...
7/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - For the second year in a row, Gaza children at the UNRWA Summer Games smashed a world record, flying 7,202 kites in the sky simultaneously on Thursday. Gathering on Gaza Beach, the children launched their kites one by one with...
28 Jul 2010 - At a meeting in Cairo on Thursday, the Arab League will decide whether to green light Palestinian participation in direct talks with Israel under...
29 Jul 2010 - The proposal by the Israeli right of a single state ( Jonathan Freedland , 28 July) is not new. Greater Israel has always been the goal...
November 25th, 2009 --, On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place on 25 November at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base. [
November 24th, 2009 --, Military incursions into Jayyus continued this past week, as many as three times daily. Clashes and curfews have characterized village life, and undercover units have attempted to trap local youth. Although there has of yet been no serious injuries among the villagers, a group of young men were arrested several days ago. [
US President Barack Obama has warned Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that failure to resume direct peace talks with Israel could undermine US-Palestinian ties, .......
Gaza police discovered a body of an 11-year-old child who disappeared on Thursday. It appears he was raped and murdered near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The .......
Bashar Assad sent a firm message to the international tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Syrian president warned .......
The Hamas operative killed in the IDF strike in Gaza Friday was a senior official who survived five assassination attempts by Israel, an announcement by Hamas' military .......
A 39-year-old Israeli was killed in a parachute competition in Peru on Saturday, local media reported. His family was notified of his death. According to the report, .......
American investigators working on the international probe of the assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, have identified links to US companies .......
Study released by the Dirasat - Arab Center for Law and Policy highlights obstacles faced by Israeli Arabs wishing to build homes; about a quarter of Arab communities have neither a local nor privatized master plan.
The man, 48, immigrated to Israel in 1999 , after being convicted in Hungary and sentenced to four years in prison for the sexual abuse of two 14-year-old girls.
Two days after helicopter crash in Romania, Israel Air Force commander Ido Nehushtan says IAF has broadened its training and its pilots fly increasingly complex routes during exercises.
State Prosecutor rejects a petition from right-wing activists to protest opposite Islamic National Movement offices in the Arab city, saying police believe it could lead to loss of life.
A march will be held Saturday night in Tel Aviv to mark the one-year anniversary of a shooting attack in a Tel Aviv gay youth center that left two dead and 13 injured.
Most lions nowadays live in eastern and southern Africa; a growing decline in numbers over last two decades has placed importance on lion preservation.
31 Jul 2010 - Hamas confirmed that Obama's letter to Mahmoud Abbas reflects the fact that the Arab decision to start direct negotiations had deceived the majority of Palestinian-Arab street.
31 Jul 2010 - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have completed preparations for launching a new war on the Gaza Strip, according to Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot on Saturday.
31 Jul 2010 - The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) suppressed a march in Beit Ummar, north of al-Khalil, Saturday afternoon, injuring four participants including journalists, local sources said.
31 Jul 2010 - The Ahrar center has denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for summoning Ikhlas Al-Suwais, the wife of detained Hamas leader Abbas Al-Sayyed, for questioning.
31 Jul 2010 - UNRWA condemned on Saturday a group of Israeli settlers who by force of arms and under Israeli military protection seized a building which houses 9 Palestinian families in Old City, Jerusalem.
31 Jul 2010 - The UN commission for human rights demanded Israel to lift its blockade on Gaza and invite an independent committee to investigate its deadly raid on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla aid convoy.
31 Jul 2010 - The Hamas Movement said that that the Israeli military escalation which started Friday night was a natural result of the Arab decision to give Mahmoud Abbas a green light for his talks with Israelis.
31 Jul 2010 - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) wounded two Palestinian young men Saturday morning east of Beit Hanoun town as they were collecting aggregate used in construction.
31 Jul 2010 - A Jerusalemite family refused to move away from their home taken by force from them by Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem and are holding a 24-hour vigil on the pavement facing their home.
31 Jul 2010 - Father Atallah Hanna said the Israeli municipal council in the holy city demolished and obliterated Christian ancient monuments dating from the Byzantine era in Ein Kerem area.
AL HADIDIYA, WEST BANK Wednesday, July 28, 2010 (IRIN) - The road to al-Hadidiya village in the northeastern West Bank district of Tubas is dotted with boulders etched with a warning in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Danger - Open Fire Area”.
CAIRO Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of people in Egypt - Africa’s second most populous country - have taken to the streets in recent months to protest against water shortages, a fact which goes some way to explaining the government’s reluctance to relinquish its current share of River Nile water.
CAIRO Sunday, July 18, 2010 (IRIN) - While a review is underway of how the World Health Organization (WHO) and national authorities handled last year’s outbreak of the H1N1 virus, also referred to as swine flu, medical experts in Egypt have criticized their government for overreacting to the pandemic, provoking unjustified fear and wasting millions of dollars-worth of much-needed public funds.
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