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Palestinian seriously wounded by IDF fire in Nablus arrest raid
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Ten Palestinians were wounded by live fire and rubber bullets during an Israel Defense Forces arrest operation in Nablus on Wednesday morning. The soldiers...

14 arrested, more than 17 injured in the West Bank
International Middle East Media Center 11/30/2005
Israeli soldiers continued their military operations in the West Bank, and arrested six residents in the West Bank city of Hebron, raising the number...

Al Aqsa, Salah Ed Deen Brigades, fire shell Native Ahsra settlement
International Middle East Media Center 11/30/2005
The Al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh, and Salah Ed Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, fired on...

Settlers burn olive trees in Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 11/29/2005
Settlers of Emanuel settlement burnt, on Tuesday morning, dozens of olive tress near the adjacent West Bank city of Qalqilia. The trees belong to...

Israeli Security officer attacks a Palestinian at Maali Adumim settlement
International Middle East Media Center 11/29/2005
An Israeli security officer at the entrance of the Israeli settlement of Maali Adumim attacked, on Tuesday, a Palestinian resident from the West Bank...

MI chief: Hezbollah planned massive rocket attack on Israel
Ha'aretz 12/1/2005
MI head: Nuclear talks with Iran will be pointless after March '06 -- Hezbollah had planned to unleash a massive barrage of rocket attacks on...

Undercover unit exposed in Bethlehem
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Duvdevan unit uncovered in Bethlehem as its members stop taxi to arrest suspect wanted for questioning; Palestinian security forces open fire, IDF intervenes, rescues...

Court rejects lawsuit of youth injured in October 2000 riots
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Haifa Magistrate's Court rejected on Wednesday a suit filed by a youth from the village of Fureidis who demanded state compensation for injuries caused...

Home Demolished, Barracks Destroyed in WB
WAFA 11/30/2005
BETHLEHEM, November 30, 2005 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) demolished Wednesday one home and a barracks in the West Bank(WB) city of Bethlehem...

Gaza evacuees protest in 'gold cages'
YNetNews 11/30/2005
1,000 people gather in front of Sharon’s official Jerusalem residence Wednesday to mark 100 days since disengagement in framework of Yesha Council’s attempt to...

Report: 15,000 settlers moved into the West Bank in 2008
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Some 15,000 Israelis moved into illegal settlements in the West Bank since the beginning of 2008, despite a pledge by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to halt settlement construction...

PLO: 5526 Palestinians killed, including 1010 children since September 2000
George Rishmawi, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
Eight Years in Numbers - At least 5526 Palestinians were killed, including 1010 children and 340 women during the second Intifada, the National and International Relations Department at the Palestinian Liberation...

Israeli forces seize Islamic Jihad leader following firefight in Qabatiya
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Qabatiya – Ma’an – Israeli forces seized on Monday morning a leader in Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya, following a firefight with...

Israeli military invades Qabatiya, capture a resistance fighter
IMEMC News & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
Israeli military forces capture on Monday morning a leader of Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Palestinian town of Qabatiya, local sources reported. Al-Quds...

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IMEMC News - Audio Deot, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
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VIDEO - Televised Hamas course teaches militants how to fight the IDF
Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Haaretz. com/Channel 10 daily feature for October 6, 2008. Despite a formal ceasefire between Israel and Gaza military groups, both sides continue to prepare for a standoff. For Hamas...

PLO: Israel killed 5,526 Palestinians in 8 years
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli forces have killed 5,526 Palestinians over the past eight years including 1,010 children under 18 and 340 women and girls, says a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) International...

Israeli military court convenes on Karen A case, deliberations delayed until October 28
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/7/2008
The Israeli Military Court in Ofer Israeli prison held on Monday a session on the case of Lieutenant Fuad Al Shobaky,the financial advisor of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO...

Ahrar Al-Jalil claim responsibility for Jerusalem shooting
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Ahrar Al-Jalil Brigades have claimed the latest attack in Jerusalem on Saturday. The attack took place Friday night, when an unknown shooter opened fire and...

Qassam rocket explodes in western Negev
Yonat Atlas, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Color Red alert system activated Saturday afternoon in Gaza vicinity communities, followed by blast in open area; no injuries or damage reported - A Qassam rocket landed Saturday afternoon in an...

Hamas rounds up more Al-Aqsa men over rockets
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star 7/12/2008
GAZA CITY: Hamas has arrested four more members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades for firing rockets at Israel or trying to do so, a member of the militant group ruling the...

Israeli Troops Kill Gunman in West Bank Clash
Ali Daraghmeh And Diaa Hadid, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
West Bank (AP) -- Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman who opened fire on an Israeli civilian driving in the West Bank early Friday, the military and Palestinian officials said. An...

QB vows retaliation to assassination of commander
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, on Friday vowed to retaliate to the Israeli occupation forces’ assassination of its field commander Mahmoud Asy in...

The Israeli army conducted 14 invasions and erected 4 military checkpoint in the West Bank
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
Local sources reported that the Israeli army conducted 14 invasions at several cities of the West Bank and erected 4 military checkpoints - The national security media office reported on Friday...

Israeli forces raid Al-Yamun near Jenin
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank town of Al-Yamun on Saturday, in addition to nearby neighborhoods. No arrests have been reported. Palestinian security sources stated...

Another Jerusalem Attack as Israel Cracks Down in Nablus [July 6 – July 12]
MIFTAH, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Just before midnight on June 11, an unknown gunmen opened fire at a group of armed Israelis near Jerusalem’s Old City’s Lions Gate, wounding two policemen...

Two Israeli policemen wounded in shooting incident
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Two Israeli policemen were wounded at midnight Friday when a man armed with a pistol fired at them in occupied Jerusalem, the Hebrew radio reported. The broadcast...

Two Israeli troops were shot in Jerusalem
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
Local sources reported that 2 Israeli troops were shot on Saturday at dawn near the Asbat Gate in Jerusalem. one was drasticaly wounded and one moderately so. Eye witnesses reported...

4 Israelis Arrested for Allegedly Selling Weapons to Palestinians
Jack Khoury, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Security forces last month arrested four Israeli citizens suspected of selling weapons to Palestinians, a gag order lifted on Friday revealed. The Shin Bet security service and the Galilee District...

Settlers fire more rockets at Burin
International Solidarity Movement 7/11/2008
Nablus Region - Photos - On the 9th July 3 more rockets were fired from settlements towards Palestinian villages. Settlers from the two settlements Yetshav and Brakha, both of them placed on...

Hamas Arrests Fighters after Rockets are Fired into Israel
Gulf News, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Hamas has arrested three fighters who fired cross-border rockets into southern Israel from the Gaza Stripon Thursday. It is the first such detentions since the Islamists and Israel agreed a...

Israeli Sources: Palestinian homemade shell fired toward Negev desert
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
Israeli sources announced on Saturday that a Palestinian homemade shell was fired across the border of the Gaza Strip into Israel, and hit the ground in the Negev desert. According...

Israel claims Gazans launched another round of projectiles at western Negev
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel said on Saturday that Palestinian homemade projectiles launched from the Gaza Strip Saturday landed in Sha’ar Hanegev (Negev gate area) in the western...

IDF strikes wound 4 Gaza militants in two incidents
The Associated Press and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Israel Defense Forces troops on Saturday attacked two groups of Palestinian militants firing mortar shells in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding four Hamas gunmen, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Witnesses...

Israeli forces destroy Nablus restaurant, cars
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – Israeli forces destroyed several cars and a restaurant in the West Bank city of Nablus early on Saturday morning, witnesses said. Israeli forces stormed Al-Quds street...

13 Palestinians wounded in the Gaza Strip on Saturday
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/25/2008
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that 13 Palestinians were wounded in several Israeli military attacks that targeted two areas in Khan Younis, in the southern part of...

Israeli war ministry decides to test US anti-rocket system
Palestinian Information Center 5/24/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli war ministry decided surprisingly to import from the US a computer-controlled anti-rocket system called "Phalanx" to examine its ability to intercept the Palestinian resistance’...

Deaths of five militants hamper Gaza peace efforts
Diaa Hadid, Associated Press Writer, The Independent 5/24/2008
Five Palestinian militants were killed in clashes yesterday with Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip, further undermining efforts to bring a brief truce to the violence-wracked area. Israeli aircraft sent...

Grad rockets land near Netivot
Shmulik Hadad, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Four rockets fired towards western Negev on Saturday, two of them confirmed as longer-range Grads. Residents awaken to first barrage at 6:40 am. No injuries or damage reported - Four...

PFLP fighters launch projectiles
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, claimed responsibility on Saturday morning for launching a...

Jihad Jibril Brigades attack Netivot
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – A group calling themselves the "Jihad Jibril Brigades," linked to the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, launched four projectiles from the...

Islamic Jihad fighters claim projectile attack
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – The military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility on Saturday evening for launching two projectiles at Miftahim, a town in Israeli to the...

Little-known Palestinian military group claims responsibility for attack
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – A group called the Al-’Asifa Brigades of the Martyr Dalal Al Maghrebi claimed responsibility for launching two homemade projectiles at the Sufa military installation...

Israeli forces impose checkpoint north of Tulkarem
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Tulkarem – Ma’an - Israeli forces erected a checkpoint on Saturday morning on the road between the towns of Zeita and Attil, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem...

Nine Hamas members arrested in the West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Nablus/Salfit – Ma’an – Hamas said that the Palestinian security forces arrested on nine members of the movement in the West Bank on Friday. The movement told Ma’...

11-year-old killed by unexploded IDF ordinance near Ramat Hovav
Fadi Eyadat, Ha’aretz 5/24/2008
An 11-year-old boy was killed Friday after he stepped on an unexploded Israel Defense Forces shell while hiking with his father near Ramat Hovav in the Negev. The two...

The Israeli army injures civilian and kidnaps four others during pre-dawn invasion
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/24/2008
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army has injured one Palestinian civilian and kidnapped four others during a pre-dawn invasion targeting several parts of the West Bank on Saturday. Ass...

Israeli forces invade Jenin, injuring one and arresting another
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces seized one Palestinian civilian, wounded another, and opened at a Palestinian military policy headquarters during a raid in Jenin refugee camp at dawn on...

IDF to step up Gaza assassinations
Amos Harel Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 2/11/2008
The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet internal security service are preparing to step up assassinations against key Hamas figures in the Gaza Strip in response to the continued...

The Occupation Report September 26, 2006
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel 9/26/2006
Chronicling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Jerrold Cohen, Ph.D., Editor -- Gaza Strip: "Palestinian police officers have begun to block major traffic arteries in north Gaza in protest over the non-payment of their...

The Occupation Report September 25, 2006
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel 9/25/2006
Chronicling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Jerrold Cohen, Ph.D., Editor -- Gaza Strip: Israeli soldiers, backed by a tank and a bulldozer, stormed the eastern part of al-Farrahein in 'Absan Al al-Kabera and...

The Occupation Report
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel 9/22/2006
Chronicling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Jerrold Cohen, Ph.D., Editor -- Incursions, invasions, and arrests, etc. West Bank: Israeli troops arrested 12 wanted Palestinians overnight Thursday. They were alleged to be members of...

The Occupation Report
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel 9/22/2006
Chronicling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Jerrold Cohen, Ph.D., Editor -- Incursions, invasions, and arrests, etc. West Bank: Israeli troops arrested 12 wanted Palestinians overnight Thursday. They were alleged to be members of...

IAF kills five Palestinians in at least three Gaza air strikes
Ha'aretz 9/6/2006
At least one Palestinian was killed and two other people were wounded in an Israel Air Force air strike in the southern Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, hours after IAF...

One of our lions is still missing
The Guardian 11/29/2005
Gaza City Zoo's latest acquisition is lying listless and disinterested. Sakher, a three-month-old lion cub, is pining for his sister, Sabrina, kidnapped by armed...

Mofaz Urges Mushrooming Settlements in Private Palestinian Lands
International Press Center 11/29/2005
GAZA, November 29, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Shaul Mofaz, the hawkish Israeli defense minister, promised the settlers of "Amona" settlement, which was planned to be...

IOF Arrests 4 Citizens in Hebron
WAFA 11/29/2005
HEBRON, November 29, 2005 (WAFA) - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Tuesday four citizens in West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, Palestinian prisoners society (PPS...

IOF Wounds 2 Citizens, Arrests 9 others in WB
WAFA 11/29/2005
HEBRON, November 29, 2005 (WAFA) - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded Tuesday two citizens and arrested nine others in different cities and towns of the...

PA police fire on undercover IDF unit in Bethlehem
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Palestinian policemen opened fire at undercover Israel Defense Forces soldiers during an operation in Bethlehem yesterday. No soldiers were hurt during the incident, and...

Pullout foes sentenced to community service
YNetNews 11/29/2005
Judge says yeshiva students who planned to block major highway with burning tires in protest of disengagement 'very far from criminal path' -- The Tel...

Settlers 'cut off' by W Bank barrier
BBC 11/29/2005
Religious zeal is the driving force which has drawn hundreds of young Jews from around the world to study under the enigmatic Rabbi Menachem...

Israeli Occupation Tightens Grip on Old City of Hebron As Settlers Flock to Ibraheem Mosque
International Press Center 11/27/2005
HEBRON, Palestine, November 27,2005(IPC+Agencies) - -The Israeli occupation forces stepped up Saturday its military draconian measures against the residents in the old town...

Israel Carries out Ethnic Cleansing Policy in Hebron City
International Press Center 11/28/2005
HEBRON,Palestine November 28, 2005, (IPC + WAFA) - - Ahmed Majdalani, state minister of Jewish Settlements and Apartheid Wall Affairs, confirmed that Israel is carrying out...

Colonizers Cut Dozens of Olive Trees
WAFA 11/27/2005
NABLUS, November 27, 2005, (WAFA)- Jewish armed colonizers cut down at least 200 olive trees Sunday in the village of Salem, near the West...

One More Resident Wounded in Jerusalem, Four Arrested in Nablus and Hebron
International Press Center 11/28/2005
WEST BANK, Palestine, November 28,2005 (IPC+WAFA)- - Few residents were wounded today morning differently by the Israeli occupation assualt in Annata village north east...

Gaza gang seizes lion in zoo raid
BBC 11/28/2005
A lioness cub and two Arabic-speaking parrots have been kidnapped from a zoo in Gaza. Gunmen overpowered the zookeeper before flinging a blanket over...

Israeli Arab from Nazareth indicted for contacts with Hezbollah agent
Ha'aretz 11/25/2005
An Israeli Arab man was indicted Thursday morning in Nazareth Municipal Court for his contacts with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization. The 38-year-old resident...

Settlers throw stones at Palestinian homes in Hebron
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
Youth from the Jewish enclave in Hebron and Palestinians threw stones at each other on Saturday and caused damage to property. Hebron police held...

Israeli Troops Teargas West Bank Pupils
Palestine Chronicle 11/24/2005
The group of about 300 elementary school children swarmed around the checkpoint on Tuesday, shouting.." -- HEBRON, West Bank (AP) Palestinian schoolchildren have scuffled with...

Siblings of Mike's Place bomber acquitted of complicity in U.K. court
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
LONDON - The brother and sister of a British would-be suicide bomber were cleared by a court yesterday of failing to tell police their brother...

Shin Bet: Hamas charity network funded terror activities in Jenin
Ha'aretz 11/28/2005
The Shin Bet security service and the police reported yesterday that they have discovered an organizational network run by Hamas, which collects charitable donations...

Eight Palestinians arrested in overnight West Bank raid
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Israel Defense Forces arrested eight Palestinians suspected of terror involvement late Monday night in the West Bank. Six Islamic Jihad and two Hamas gunmen...

IDF disallows mention of 'Gush Katif' on relocated war graves
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Families of fallen IDF soldiers whose bodies were relocated from the Gaza Strip after the disengagement are being prevented from adding anything to the...

Settlers to start sit-down strike near gov't complex in Jerusalem
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Former Gush Katif settlers will begin a sit-down strike on Tuesday near the government complex in Jerusalem in protest of what they call "the...

Gunman hurls explosive device at IDF checkpoint in Hebron
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
A Palestinian gunman hurled an explosive device at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday evening. The...

Palestinians: Settlers cut down 200 olive trees near Nablus
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
Palestinians on Sunday said that settlers cut down more than 200 olive trees in the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus. The Palestinians...

One Civilian Killed During Israeli Incursion of Jenin
International Press Center 11/23/2005
JENIN, Palestine, November 23, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces killed a civilian during its incursion of Jenin City, while members of Fateh movement's...

Israeli Forces Storm Jenin, Prevent Students from Reaching Schools
International Press Center 11/23/2005
JENIN, Palestine, November 23, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces stormed early this morning the city and refugee camp of Jenin, and conducted a...

New Labor Leader Amir Peretz OKs 350 new housing units in West Bank
Palestine Monitor 11/22/2005
Yesterday the Israeli Housing Ministry announced its plan to build 350 additional illegal housing units in the Ma'ale Adumim settlement east of Jerusalem. Ma'ale...

12 Citizens Wounded 5 others Arrested in WB
WAFA 11/23/2005
HEBRON, November 23, 2005 (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded Wednesday 12 citizens, including pupils, and arrested 5 others in the West Bank cities...

Justice Ministry ducks orders to curb illegal outpost expansion
Palestine Monitor 11/23/2005
The Justice Ministry and security officials have rejected several fundamental recommendations of the Sasson report on illegal outposts, which are meant to prevent more...

IAF bombards Lebanon - with leaflets
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Israel sends Lebanese residents a message: Hizbullah actions threaten you -- Israel Air Force aircraft hovered over the skies of south Lebanon in the early...

Fresh round of clashes erupts at Lebanon-Israel border
Daily Star 11/24/2005
BEIRUT: Clashes between Hizbullah and Israeli forces erupted in South Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over Beirut and the South...

Halutz: More attacks on north coming
YNetNews 11/23/2005
On the heels of massive Hizbullah attack on IDF posts, Chief of staff says army anticipates more attacks in near future, intelligence reports point...

Evacuees interrupt Bassi's speech
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Gush Katif evacuees interrupt speech of Disengagement Administration Head at Sderot Conference for Society, claiming 'You destroyed everything, you destroyed us' -- Disengagement Administration Head...

Israeli civilian parachutist blown into Lebanon evades capture
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
An Israeli paraglider was blown down into Lebanese territory yesterday, sparking exchanges of gunfire between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah until he managed...

Palestinian man killed in Jenin
BBC 11/23/2005
A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli troops during a military operation to arrest militants, in the West Bank city of Jenin...

Jenin: Officers injured from friendly fire
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Initial IDF investigation reveals three police officers injured during Wednesday's clashes in Jenin sustained wounds from friendly fire; one Palestinian killed, 10 injured in...

Senior Islamic Jihad militant turns himself in to IDF in Jenin
Ha'aretz 11/24/2005
A senior Islamic Jihad militant, thought to be responsible for the October 26 bombing that killed six Israelis in a Hadera market, turned himself...

Israel, Hizb Allah clash over intrusion
AlJazeera 11/24/2005
Israeli soldiers have fought with Hizb Allah fighters to enable the escape of an Israeli who floated into Lebanon in a hang-glider and landed...

In Pictures: Israel, Hezbollah, Exchange Fire, 4 Killed
Islam Online 11/22/2005
3 photos - Israeli warplanes attacked targets on the Lebanese side of the border on Monday, November 21, 2005, shortly after Hezbollah fighters launched a...

Interactive Map: West Bank Settlements Threat to Future Palestinian State
Islam Online 11/1/2005
View distribution of Israeli settlements, areas of Palestinian self-rule and Israeli control...

Palestinian Monitoring Group Daily Situation Report, 19 - 20 November 2005 (PDF)
Palestine Media Center 11/21/2005
JENIN:Checkpoint: The Israeli army continues to intensify its restrictions at Tayasir checkpoint east of the town of Tubas and to impede civilian access...

IOF Arrests 3 Citizens in WB
WAFA 11/22/2005
BETHLEHEM, November 22, 2005 (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested today 3 citizens in the West Bank (WB) city of Bethlehem , witnesses said. They...

PNIC: 4197 killed people, 783 were children, and 8435 wounded since the beginning of Al-Aqsa uprising
ReliefWeb/PNA 11/22/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 20, 2005 (IPC) - The number of the killed people since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa uprising on 29-9-2000 and until...

5 Pupils wounded in Hebron
WAFA 11/23/2005
HEBRON, November 22, 2005 (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded Tuesday five pupils in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, witnesses said. The...

Peretz Approves Building of Housing Units in Maale Adumim
WAFA 11/22/2005
TEL AVIV, November 22, 2005 (WAFA)- The New-elected Labor Party chairman, Amir Peretz approved Tuesday the building of new housing units in the colony...

Israel okays construction of 350 new homes in W. Bank
ReliefWeb 11/22/2005
Herzog made the decision with the approval of newly-elected Labor leader Amir Peretz. -- JERUSALEM, Nov 22, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Outgoing Israeli Housing and...

Israeli jets attack south Lebanon
BBC 11/22/2005
Israeli warplanes have bombed southern Lebanon, a day after Lebanese guerrillas attacked Israeli soldiers in a border area. The planes fired rockets at a...

Halutz: Lebanon appealed for ceasefire
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Defense minister and IDF chief of staff convene Tuesday to discuss violent clashes in north, report Lebanese government has appealed for ceasefire in region...

Hezbollah releases video footage of Monday's fighting in Ghajar
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
Hezbollah released video footage on Tuesday documenting Monday's fighting in Ghajar, in which four militants were killed while attempting to kidnap an Israel Defense...

Herzog okays 350 new homes in Ma'aleh Adumim neighborhood
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Outgoing Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) is to publish tenders on Thursday for the construction of 350 housing units in the West...

Video: Hizbullah video shows attack on north
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Video: A day after Hizbullah's attack on the north, terror organization releases video of most severe coordinated attack launched by group since IDF's withdrawal...

Mysterious 'booms' rattle homes
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Residents report hearing loud blasts in different parts of country, claim their homes shook as result; IDF says in response no unusual military activity...

Children, troops scuffle in West Bank
AlJazeera 11/22/2005
Palestinian schoolchildren have scuffled with Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron before soldiers fired teargas to disperse the...

IOF Arrests 7 Teenagers, a Security Man
WAFA 11/20/2005
BETHLEHEM, November 20, 2005, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday seven teenagers in the West Bank (WB) city of Bethlehem. Security sources...

IDF arrests Palestinian woman who planned to stab policeman
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
Israel Defense Forces troops arrested a Palestinian woman bearing a knife at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported Saturday. The woman admitted...

PA forces nab mentally disabled youth with fake explosive belt
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Palestinian intelligence services arrested a mentally disabled youth from Bethlehem on Sunday evening after Israeli security forces went on high alert in Jerusalem due...

Police reveal would-be terrorists caught last month in Negev
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Police on Monday revealed that last month they caught four militants who infiltrated Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to build terror...

PNIC: 4197 Killed People, 783 were Children, and 8435 Wounded since the Beginning of Al-Aqsa uprising
International Press Center 11/20/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 20, 2005 (IPC)--The number of the killed people since the outbreak of Al-Aqsa uprising on 29-9-2000 and until...

IOF Arrests 3 Citizens in Hebron
WAFA 11/20/2005
HEBRON, November 20, 2005, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Sunday three citizens and ruled against three others, sources said. In the city of...

IOF Arrests 6 Citizens in WB
WAFA 11/21/2005
NABLUS, November 21, 2005, (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) arrested Monday 6 citizens in the West Bank(WB) cities of Nablus, Bethlehem and Qalqiliya...

Israeli Occupation Forces Invade Jenin City
International Press Center 11/20/2005
WEST BANK, Palestine, November 20, 2005, (IPC) - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) renewed their military attack against Jenin city and carried out search and arrests...

Lebanese PM acts to achieve calm between Israel, Hezbollah
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Monday night made efforts to achieve calm between Hezbollah and Israel after a long day of fighting that...

Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest 4 Citizens in Jenin and Nablus Cities.
International Press Center 11/21/2005
West Bank, Palestine, November 21, 2005, (IPC) - - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) assaulted today dawn Nablus and Jenin cities in the West Bank (WB) and...

Two Israeli Arabs charged with murder of female security guard
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Two Baka al-Garbiyeh men were charged Monday in Haifa District Court with the murder of female security guard Kati David, 27, whose body was...

PA security detains IDF undercover troops spotted operating in Bethlehem
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Palestinians on Monday spotted Israel Defense Forces undercover troops operating in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Palestinian sources said Palestinian Authority police patrolling...

Israeli jets raid Lebanon after shelling
AlJazeera 11/21/2005
Israeli warplanes have bombed suspected Hizb Allah positions in south Lebanon after the Shia resistance group shelled an Israeli position in the disputed Shebaa...

Four Hezbollah men killed, 11 Israelis wounded in border attacks
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Four Hezbollah men were killed during a multi-pronged attack on Israel Defense Forces positions on the northern border with Lebanon on Monday afternoon. The...

Mofaz OKs Lebanon strikes
YNetNews 11/21/2005
Defense minister approves air strikes in wake of Hizbullah offensive on northern Border Monday; Israel characterizes attacks as ‘hostile war acts by Lebanon,’ sends...

IDF uncovers weapons in Hebron
Jerusalem Post 11/18/2005
The Erez terminal crossing was shut down Friday morning due to terror alerts less than a week after Israel eased up restrictions on the...

IOF Wounds a Citizen in east Gaza, a Child in Ramallah
WAFA 11/18/2005
GAZA, November 18, 2005 (WAFA) -Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued it brutal military aggression against Palestinian citizens in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). In...

Israel to continue construction in West Bank settlements
ReliefWeb 11/18/2005
JERUSALEM, Nov 18, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - Israel is continuing the construction in West Bank settlements despite claims that additional building is in violation...

Construction in West Bank continues despite road map
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
Israel is continuing the construction in the West Bank, despite claims it is in violation of the road map. The Israel Lands Administration (ILA...

Erez border crossing partly closed due to terror threat
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
The Erez crossing on the Gaza-Israel border was partly closed Friday morning due to a terror threat. Before dawn Friday, the border crossing was...

Israelis on the frontline with Gaza
BBC 11/18/2005
When Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, life for the residents of the southern Israeli village of Netiv Haasara changed overnight...

One person killed in clash between PA police, Khan Yunis clan
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
One Palestinian was killed and ten others were wounded in an exchange of fire between Palestinian Authority police and members of the Al-Astli clan...

IDF: Soldiers shoot and kill Palestinian near Hebron
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead a Palestinian near the West Bank town of Hebron on Friday after suspecting the man was involved in...

NIC: “6 killed, 18 injured, and 89 arrested in one week”
International Middle East Media Center 11/17/2005
The Palestinian National Information Center reported, on Thursday, that Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians, shot injured 18, arrested 89 and carried 639 violations during...

PALESTINIAN MONITORING GROUP MONTHLY SUMMARY OF ISRAELI VIOLATIONS 01– 31 October 2005 (PDF)
Palestine Media Center 11/18/2005
The following summary table and overview of events is a survey of Israeli violations during the period 01 October 2005 to 31 October 2005...

Israeli Fighter Jets Break Sound Barrier Over Gaza as Arrest Campaigns Continue in WB
International Press Center 11/17/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 17, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli fighter jets resumed its false air raids on Thursday, breaking the sound barrier with thunderous explosion...

PPS: “40 residents arrested in Hebron since the beginning of November”
International Middle East Media Center 11/17/2005
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported, on Thursday, that Israeli soldiers arrested 40 residents in the West Bank city of Hebron...

Hebron Governorate: Israel to Seize 720 Dunams for Apartheid Wall
WAFA 11/17/2005
HEBRON , November 17, 2005 (WAFA) - Hebron Governorate said that Israeli authority has taken an order to seize 720 Dunams of citizens' lands for the...

Palestinians stage mass armed march
Jerusalem Post 11/17/2005
Defying a Palestinian Authority ban on public displays of weapons, about 1,000 people brandishing assault rifles and rocket launchers marched through Gaza City on...

Settler poll: 18% back voluntary evacuation
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
Voluntary evacuation is not a popular question in the two Samaria settlements of Beit Aryeh and Ofarim, which are among 38 communities on the...

Two girls suspected of scrawling Sharon death threats in Knesset
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
Death threats against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon found in a bathroom at the Knesset last week were apparently scrawled by two girls who had...

Palestinians 'shot by Israelis'
BBC 11/17/2005
Two Palestinian militants have been shot dead in an ambush near the West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian sources have said. They were attacked...

Hamas members face murder charges
YNetNews 11/17/2005
According to indictment, two men were part of Hamas cell that abducted, murdered Sasson Nuriel -- An indictment was served Thursday against two Hamas members...

Right to issue 'evacuation' stamps
YNetNews 11/17/2005
Right wing activists propose introduction of new orange stamps holding pictures of evacuees, reading: ‘We won’t forget, we won’t forgive’ -- In yet another sign...

Gunmen shoot and moderately wound two PA police officers in Nablus
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
Two Palestinian Authority police officers were moderately wounded on Thursday night after being shot by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade gunmen in the West Bank city...

Israel issues tenders for further West Bank construction
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
Israel is continuing the construction in West Bank settlement, despite claims additional building is in violation of the road map. The Israel Lands Administration...

Jewish Gaza capital 'Hamas terror camp'
YNetNews/World Net Daily 11/18/2005
Senior Hamas sources say group turned former Gaza settlement Neve Dekalim into ‘military training camp for martyrs,’ boast several Qassam rockets fired from former...

Several structures leveled in Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Israeli bulldozers leveled on Wednesday morning several structures in Jerusalem that belongs to Palestinians. Israeli police claimed these structures were built without proper permits...

Nine Civilians Arrested as Israeli Forces Continue Incursions in West Bank
International Press Center 11/16/2005
HEBRON, Palestine, November 16, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Israeli occupation forces arrested nine civilians in different parts of the West Bank, including six in Hebron...

Two Civilians Arrested as Israeli Forces Impose Curfew on Jordan Valley for Second Day
International Press Center 11/16/2005
NABLUS, Palestine, November 16, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces arrested two civilians in the West Bank, while continuing its tight curfew on the...

Settler girls attack Palestinian farmers in the West Bank
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Six settler girls from Benjamin, a settlement Northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah, attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working in olive...

Explosive belt found with Pal. Youth is fake
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Four hours after the Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian youth, and claimed that he was carrying an explosive belt, an Israeli military source admitted...

Missile strike deaths may be probed
YNetNews 11/16/2005
IDF chief prosecutor tells left wing Yesh Gvul organization that missile strike on Islamic Jihad senior figure in which three Palestinians were killed may...

IDF troops arrest Palestinian youth carrying explosive belt at Nablus checkpoint
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested a Palestinian youth carrying an explosive belt at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday...

Senior PA official: Arafat died after poison was injected into his ear
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat died after a poison was injected into his ear, according to statements made by senior PA official Ahmad Abdul...

Settlers disrupt Palestinian olive harvest
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Six girls detained on suspicion of using knives to rip sacks of olives harvested by Palestinians -- A group of girls from a settlement in...

Mofaz: Strengthen settlement blocs
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Defense Minister meets with heads of West Bank settlements; tells residents he intends on promoting building of security fence, strengthening settlement blocs -- Defense Minister...

Israel's 'forgotten' settlers
BBC 11/16/2005
We have lost everything, including our dignity." -- Rachel Saperstein watches the children playing chase, a dour expression on her face. "Look, you see what...

A week after Issawiya clashes, Jerusalem hospital firebombed
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Five Molotov cocktails were thrown at Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus from the direction of the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya on Wednesday evening...

Army invades Tubas and Tammoun
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
The Israeli army invaded on Tuesday morning the village of Tammoun and the near by West Bank city of Tubas, north of the West...

Army invades Tubas and Tammoun
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
The Israeli army invaded on Tuesday morning the village of Tammoun and the near by West Bank city of Tubas, north of the West...

Army invades Beit Sahour and Beit Fajar
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
The Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Sahour town in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and searched several houses there. Troops...

Army invades Beit Sahour and Beit Fajar
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
The Israeli army invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Sahour town in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and searched several houses there. Troops...

Army shells areas in the northern Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
Israeli artillery shelled on Monday at night, and Tuesday at dawn, several areas in the northern Gaza strip causing damage to agricultural areas and...

Army shells areas in the northern Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
Israeli artillery shelled on Monday at night, and Tuesday at dawn, several areas in the northern Gaza strip causing damage to agricultural areas and...

Twelve injured near Jenin
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
Israeli soldiers withdrew from Al Zababda village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, after invading it on Monday at dawn; twelve residents, including...

Twelve injured near Jenin
International Middle East Media Center 11/15/2005
Israeli soldiers withdrew from Al Zababda village, near the West Bank city of Jenin, after invading it on Monday at dawn; twelve residents, including...

'We are Samah's parents too'
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Parents of Palestinian boy killed by IDF fire, whose organs were donated to Israeli children, meet with children who received their son’s organs -- The...

'We are Samah's parents too'
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Parents of Palestinian boy killed by IDF fire, whose organs were donated to Israeli children, meet with children who received their son’s organs -- The...

Six arrested in Hebron, one home occupied
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Israeli soldiers arrested six residents in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and occupied one home, using it as a military post and...

Six arrested in Hebron, one home occupied
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Israeli soldiers arrested six residents in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and occupied one home, using it as a military post and...

Video: 24 injured in police-Bedouin scuffle
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Scuffle starts after men join women, children in resisting efforts by Interior Ministry to serve demolition decrees for illegal buildings in unrecognized village -- (VIDEO...

Video: 24 injured in police-Bedouin scuffle
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Scuffle starts after men join women, children in resisting efforts by Interior Ministry to serve demolition decrees for illegal buildings in unrecognized village -- (VIDEO...

Supreme Court releases man accused of assault on Gaza youth
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal calling for the release from prison of Shimshon Sitrin, who allegedly led the attempted lynching of...

Supreme Court releases man accused of assault on Gaza youth
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal calling for the release from prison of Shimshon Sitrin, who allegedly led the attempted lynching of...

IDF shells Gaza in response to anti-tank missile launch
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
The Israel Defense Forces fired heavy artillery at the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, Israel Radio reported. The shelling was in response to an anti-tank...

IDF shells Gaza in response to anti-tank missile launch
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
The Israel Defense Forces fired heavy artillery at the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, Israel Radio reported. The shelling was in response to an anti-tank...

Palestinian killed in Gaza; IDF eases restrictions in West Bank, Gaza
Ha'aretz 11/13/2005
The Israel Defense Forces began Sunday to ease travel restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza, allowing 8,000 Palestinian workers to enter Israel and...

Soldiers bulldoze orchards to install fence
International Middle East Media Center 11/12/2005
Israeli military bulldozers continued leveling and bulldozing Palestinian lands and orchards in order to install a “security fence” beside a settlement road, north of...

Settler groups attack Israeli leftists in Hebron, raid orchards in Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 11/12/2005
An Israeli source reported that an extremist settlers group attacked Israeli peace activists, members of Merez Israeli leftist group while touring Hebron. In Qalqilia...

Israel Pursues Killings, Factions for Conditional Truce
Palestine Chronicle 11/13/2005
Bilal al-Shahr, 19, was shot dead by Israeli forces near Khuza'a across Gaza Strip borders.." -- GAZA CITY - Israeli forces assassinated a resistance leader and...

Palestinian Monitoring Group Daily Situation Report, 11 - 12 November 2005 (PDF)
Palestine Media Center 11/13/2005
TULKAREM: Closure of Main Roads: (i) The Israeli army continues to close the iron gate set up on the junction to the settlement of...

IOF Kills 2 Citizens, Wounds 7 others & Arrests 14
WAFA 11/14/2005
NABLUS, November 14, 2005, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued on Monday its brutal military aggression against the Palestinian citizens in different cities and...

Israeli Troops Assassinate Palestinian Activist in Jenin
Palestine Media Center 11/13/2005
IOF Soldiers Shoot Dead Four Palestinians Since Wednesday -- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Saturday extra-judicially executed a Palestinian anti-occupation local leader in the West...

Israeli Colonizers Wound 3-Year-Old Child
WAFA 11/14/2005
HEBRON, November 14, 2005 (WAFA) - Three years-old child wounded on Monday after being attacked by Israeli colonizers in the West Bank (WB) city of...

IDF artillery strikes Qassam launching zones in Gaza Strip
Ha'aretz 11/14/2005
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday night stepped up its retaliatory measures against Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel when firing...

After killing of top Hamas man, Palestinians fire on Israeli car
Ha'aretz 11/14/2005
Palestinian militants on Monday evening opened fire on an Israeli vehicle in the Halhul region south of Hebron, causing no casualties. One bullet, however...

Rocket lands in southern community
YNetNews 11/14/2005
Qassam rocket lands in open area in Nativ Ha’asara Monday evening; no injuries reported -- Palestinian terrorists fired a Qassam rocket Monday evening at the...

Israeli troops kill Hamas leader
AlJazeera 11/14/2005
Israeli occupation troops have shot dead two resistance fighters, including a senior Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Nablus. Meanwhile, Israeli troops...

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians
AlJazeera 11/13/2005
A Palestinian teenager has been killed by gunfire from Israeli soldiers, a Palestinian security official said. The body of Bilal al-Shahr, 19, was found...

IDF report: Soldiers kill wounded militant during patrol in Jenin
Ha'aretz 11/14/2005
Israel Defense Forces troops shot and killed a Palestinian militant while he lay wounded in a yard in the West Bank city of Jenin...

IDF bombards northern Gaza
YNetNews 11/14/2005
Army fires dozens of artillery shells at northern Gaza in response to firing of mortar shell at Gaza’s Karni crossing. IDF makes it clear...

Army invades Azoun village
International Middle East Media Center 11/11/2005
The Israeli army invaded the village of Azoun south of the West Bank city of Qalqilia, on Thursday night. Troops invaded the village which...

Residents of Deir al-Balah demand Hamas to halt Qassam shells
International Middle East Media Center 11/11/2005
Residents of Deir Al Balah city in the central Gaza Strip demanded the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to halt firing the home-made Qassam shells...

Al Aqsa Brigades: “Resistance will not disarm”
International Middle East Media Center 11/11/2005
The al Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fateh movement, released a statement on Friday declaring that it will not disarm and will continue...

Israel Stalls On Removal Of Outposts, Official Says
Forward 11/11/2005
TEL AVIV — Israel is stalling on the removal of illegal outposts, according to the official who wrote a government report on the matter. Eight...

Two Palestinians wounded by IDF fire after torching vehicle
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
Two Palestinians were on Friday evening lightly wounded when Israel Defense Forces troops fired at them in the West Bank village of Beit Athata...

Israel's 'linchpin' settlement
BBC 11/10/2005
Maale Adumim is emerging as one of the thorniest issues in the peace process-- On a hill east of Jerusalem stands the settlement of...

Palestinians fire Qassam rocket at Sderot; no injuries or damage
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
Palestinians on Friday afternoon fired a Qassam rocket toward the southern town of Sderot. It landed in an open field and did not cause...

Bil'in demonstrators: 14-year-old hit in the head by rubber bullet
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
A 14-year-old demonstrator was hit by a rubber bullet in the head in clashes with security forces during what has become Friday's weekly...

Three residents abducted in Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 11/10/2005
Under-Cover ynits of the Israeli army, abducted on Thursday at dawn three residents from the West Bank city of Qalqilia, local sources reported. Mohamed...

Soldiers invade several villages near Hebron, four injured
International Middle East Media Center 11/10/2005
Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday the Bank city of Hebron, and the neighing villages of Yatta, Bani Neim, Sa’ir, and Beit Ummar, east and...

More 6 Citizens Arrested in WB
WAFA 11/10/2005
HEBRON, November 10, 2005 (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested on Thursday 6 more citizens in the West Bank (WB) cities of Hebron and...

IOF Kills Citizen in GS, Arrests 6 others, Kidnaps 3 in WB
WAFA 11/10/2005
GAZA, November 10, 2005 (WAFA) - A Palestinian citizen killed on Thursday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at him in the Gaza Strip (GS) middle...

Palestinian sources: IDF kills gunman on Israel-Gaza border
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a gunman at the Kissufim crossing on the Israel-Gaza border early Thursday, Palestinian medics and sources said. Hamas said...

Internal Affairs: Police lied about Issawiya killing; man was shot in back
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
Police lied in their account of the shooting death of an East Jerusalem man on Wednesday evening at the hand of an officer and...

Suspicion: Issawiyeh shooting unjustified
YNetNews 11/10/2005
Senior Police Investigations Unit official tells Ynet Wednesday’s shooting death of a Palestinian in village of Issawiyeh, near Jerusalem, may have been unjustified, as...

Israeli Prosecution demands sentencing an activist to 35 consecutive life terms
International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2005
The Israeli prosecution demanded the Israeli court debating the case of Abbas Al Sayyed, to sentence him to “hundreds of years” holding him responsible...

Five residents arrested Ramallah and Tulkarem
International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2005
Israeli sources reported, on Wednesday, that soldiers conducted an arrest campaign in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Tulkarem; five residents, allegedly Hamas...

Army closes ten charitable societies in Jenin, occupies ten houses in Qabatia
International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2005
Israeli army closed Tuesday at dawn two charitable societies in the West Bank city of Jinin and claimed that they transferred money to the...

Child Wounded Seriously as IOF Arrests Several Civilians and Seizes Dozens of Homes
International Press Center 11/8/2005
NABLUS, Palestine, November 8, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded a child seriously during an incursion into a refugee camp in...

Several Fatah members break into one of Fatah's offices in Gaza
International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2005
At least 30 armed Fatah members broke into an office that belongs to the Fatah ruling party in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza strip...

Israeli Occupation Forces Invade Tubas City
International Press Center 11/9/2005
WEST BANK, Palestine, November 9, 2005, (IPC) --- The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a blitz today dawn onTubas city, North West Bank and besieged...

Colonizers Wound a Citizen, IOF Arrests Another
WAFA 11/9/2005
QALQILYA, November 9, 2005 (WAFA)- A Palestinian citizen wounded on Wednesday when Israeli colonizers brutally attacked him with stones causing him severe injuries. Security...

New Israeli settlement near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 11/9/2005
Israeli settlers backed by an Israeli army force started on Monday to construct a new settlement near the village of Yatta near the West...

In Nablus, the IDF is fighting a war that interests no one
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
Just a 45-minute drive from Tel Aviv a war is still going on that interests very few here. Two Palestinians were killed on...

IDF chief Halutz: We will continue targeted killings of militants
Ha'aretz 11/8/2005
Israel will continue with its targeted killings of Palestinian militants, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz said on Tuesday afternoon...

IDF troops kill Palestinian teen, wanted Islamic Jihad militant
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
Israel Defense Forces troops on Tuesday evening shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank town of Nablus and a wanted Islamic Jihad...

Mofaz adviser quits amid claims he assisted illegal outposts
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz's adviser on settlement affairs, Ron Shechner, resigned Wednesday after being accused of assissting in the construction of illegal outposts. In...

Issawiya resident shot dead by police during riot in village
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
Dozens of youths rioted at the entrance to the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya on Wednesday evening, as well as at the entrance to...

Israeli Arab sentenced to 6 years jail for Hezbollah membership
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
Nazareth District Court on Wednesday sentenced an Israeli Arab man convicted of active membership in Hezbollah to six years in prison. Jassan Atamallah, a...

Right-wing speaker: 'Don't go to army'
YNetNews 11/9/2005
For first time since disengagement plan, thousands of right wing activists gather in conference under banner 'We won’t forget and won't forgive' -- Thousands of...

IDF using phosphorus shells to train, against international law
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
The Israel Defense Forces has been using phosphorus shells in training exercises, a practice forbidden in inhabited areas under international law. Several weeks ago...

Israel Demolishes Houses in Jerusalem for Apartheid Wall
WAFA 11/7/2005
JERUSALEM, November 07, 2005 (WAFA) - Israeli bulldozers demolished on Monday a number of houses in Anata town of Jerusalem for the construction of the...

Israeli Occupation Forces Arrest 5 Residents in the West Bank
International Press Center 11/7/2005
WEST BANK, Palestine, November 7,2005 (IPC+WAFA)--The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at least five residents including a woman in Hebron city and...

IDF: 80% of Qassams hit Gaza
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
Two Palestinians were injured yesterday when a Qassam rocket aimed at Israel mistakenly hit a house in the Gaza Strip town of Dir el-Balah...

Senior MI officer: Hamas trying to transfer terror technology from Gaza to West Bank
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
The head of the research division of Israel Defense Forces intelligence, Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, said Monday that Hamas is making intensive efforts to...

IDF ending program aimed at cooling checkpoint frictions
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
In order to save insurance costs, the IDF is to end a successful project which places experienced older soldier volunteers at roadblocks in the...

Family of boy killed by IDF donates his organs for peace
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
The family of Ahmed al-Khatib, a 12 year old fatally shot last week by Israeli troops who mistook his toy gun for a real...

Hadera bombing death toll rises to 6 after woman dies of wounds
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
Jenia Polise, a 66-year-old woman, has died of wounds from a Palestinian suicide bombing in Hadera two and a half weeks ago, raising...

Qassam rocket aimed at Israel misfires, wounds PA policeman
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
Two Palestinians were wounded Sunday when a Qassam rocket aimed at Israel mistakenly hit a house in the Gaza Strip town of Dir al-Balah...

Troops who abused Palestinians indicted
YNetNews 11/7/2005
Military Prosecutor's Office charges two soldiers with abuse, after they violently assaulted handcuffed detainees at roadblock -- The Military Prosecutor's Office indicted Monday two soldiers...

Army arrests eight residents in several West Bank areas
International Middle East Media Center 11/4/2005
The Israeli army arrested, on Friday at dawn, eight residents in several West Bank cities. Three residents were arrested in Marka village, near Jenin...

Three youths, one fighter arrested near Nablus
International Middle East Media Center 11/5/2005
Israeli soldiers arrested on Saturday afternoon, three Palestinian youth, at Beit Eeba checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Nablus. One activist was arrested...

AL Aqsa brigades shells army post in Gaza
International Middle East Media Center 11/6/2005
Al Aqsa brigades fired a homemade shell, on Saturday, at an army post in Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing. in the northern part of the...

“You are an Arab? We hate Arabs, and your life is about to end!”
International Middle East Media Center 11/4/2005
Two Israeli extremists attempted to abduct an Arab resident of Israel from Rahat area in the Negev, yet the Israeli police released them several...

Israel raids, terrorizes Gaza
Rafah Today 11/1/2005
with photos] Two leaders were assassinated and eleven people have been injured during an air strike by Israeli helicopters in the Northern Gaza Strip...

Family denounces the release of four settlers who attacked their son
International Middle East Media Center 11/5/2005
The family of Manhal Hussein, 14, from Jeet village, south west of Nablus, denounced the Israeli decision to release four settlers who attacked their...

Four children injured in Qabatia
International Middle East Media Center 11/5/2005
A Palestinian medical source in Qabatia town, near the West Bank city of Jenin, reported on Saturday evening, that four children were shot and...

Jenin boy, shot by troops who mistook his toy gun for rifle, dies
Ha'aretz 11/5/2005
Ahmed al-Khatib, the 12-year-old boy shot by Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday after they mistook...

Residents vow to struggle in `Hebron spirit'
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
A few days ago, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz ordered the evacuation of the new neighborhood of Hebron named in memory of the baby Shalhevet...

Bereaved family refuses Jihad apology
Ha'aretz 11/5/2005
The family of Jamil Qa'adan who was killed in Hadera bombing last month says apology by Islamic Jihad is not accepted --The Qa’adan family...

Shot Palestinian boy dies in hospital
AlJazeera 11/5/2005
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli occupation soldiers while he was playing with a toy gun has died of his wounds. Ahmad...

Settlers: police harassing us
YNetNews 11/4/2005
Residents complain of false arrests, needless safety checks in wake of violent outpost evacuation -- Harassment or routine activity? Residents of the West Bank settlement...

Resident dies of wounds sustained last week
International Middle East Media Center 11/4/2005
A Palestinian medical source at Rafidia hospital in Nablus, reported that a resident of Qabatia, near the West Bank city of Jenin, died of...

Israeli artillery shells a town, south of Gaza
International Middle East Media Center 11/4/2005
Israeli soldiers shelled, on Friday evening, Khaza’a town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, damage was reported, no...

Pullout didn't bring longed-for `calmer days'
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
The uncertainty about the future is the hardest thing to bear," says the secretariat chair of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Haim Yelin. A mortar shell...

Soldiers mistake toy gun for rifle, seriously wound 12-year-old Palestinian child in Jenin
Ha'aretz 11/4/2005
Israel Defense Forces soldiers seriously wounded a 12-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday after mistaking his toy gun for...

Jewish extremists attack a Palestinian girl in Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 11/3/2005
Jewish extremists hurled stones, on Wednesday, at a Palestinian girl heading for school near close to Al Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, local sources reported...

Child shot in Jenin is clinically dead
International Middle East Media Center 11/3/2005
Palestinian sourcesin Jenin reported that the child who was shot earlier on Thursday on Jenin refugee camp is clinically dead, earlier it was reported...

IDF goes on alert in north, fearing Hezbollah attack
Ha'aretz 11/4/2005
The army has been firing shells in the area and using helicopters to patrol the border zone in an effort to deter attacks, according...

Palestinian boy shot in West Bank
BBC 11/3/2005
A Palestinian boy has been transferred to an Israeli hospital after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. Initial reports said that...

IDF shells Gaza targets after soldier wounded by mortar shell
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
An Israeli civilian driving in the West Bank on Thursday was lightly wounded after rocks were hurled at his car near the town of...

Police arrest right-wing teen suspected of attacking senior officer
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
Police on Thursday arrested a right-wing teen suspected of attacking an Israel Defense Force deputy brigade commander a week ago during the evacuation of...

Medics condemn Gaza sonic booms
BBC 11/3/2005
Doctors' groups have filed a petition at the Israeli Supreme Court seeking to halt air force jets from breaking the sound barrier over the...

Soldier hurt in mortar strike
YNetNews 11/3/2005
IDF soldier sustains light wounds after shell hits army base north of Gaza Strip Thursday -- An IDF soldier sustained light wounds Thursday after a...

IDF: Hizbullah may attack
YNetNews 11/3/2005
Forces positioned along northern border on high alert due to assessments regarding possible attempts by Hizbullah to fire mortars at army outposts, abduct troops...

Child hurt in Jenin clashes
AlJazeera 11/3/2005
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy has been seriously hurt by Israeli gunfire during clashes in the West Bank despite Palestinian President Mahmmoud Abbas's call...

Army invades Jenin, 12 arrested, Israeli soldier wounded
International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2005
An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded by a bomb when Israeli troops invaded the village of Qabatiya and the nearby city of Jenin in...

Army invades Bil’in, arrests three residents
International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2005
Israeli soldiers invade the village of Bil’in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday at dawn, attacked and clubbed several residents, and...

Second settler attack on elderly Palestinian
International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2005
Seventy-year-old Aziz Abdul-Karim Hanini from the village of Beit Djan east of Nablus had barely healed from wounds he sustained two months ago after...

Azmout residents complain of settlers' attacks
International Middle East Media Center 11/2/2005
Residents of the West Bank village of Azmout, near Nablus, complained of repeated attacks carried out by extremist settler groups Alon Moreh settlement, near...

Army to remove “security perimeter “ surrounding Yitzhar settlement
International Middle East Media Center 11/2/2005
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday morning that it intends to dismantle the integrated security perimeter which surrounds Yitzhar settlement, north of the West...

Azoun Atma; wall and harsh military procedures
International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2005
Residents of Azoun Atma village, south of the West Bank city are facing daily hardships after the Israeli Separation Wall isolated them and separated...

Army arrests 8 residents from Hussan village west of Bethlehem
International Middle East Media Center 11/2/2005
Israeli army invaded, on Wednesday morning, the village of Hussan west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and arrested eight residents. Troops conducted...

Negev residents: Give us good terms and we'll evacuate
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
Many residents in the western Negev communities recently said they want to leave the area, in view of continued rocket and mortar fire from...

IOF Arrests 13 Residents in Jenin and Bilin
International Press Center 11/1/2005
WEST BANK, Palestine, November1,2005 (IPC+Agencies)-- Israeli occupation forces rounded up today dawn 13 residents of Qabatia town of Jenin and Bilin village in...

Army artillery shells Gaza
International Middle East Media Center 11/3/2005
Israeli army shelled with heavy artillery several areas in Gaza, while military helicopters also fired several missiles, Israeli TV channel 2 reported. The Palestinian...

Focus on Settlements in Hebron
Palestine Media Center/Peace Now 10/30/2005
Settlements in Focus - Vol. 1, Issue 13: HEBRON - A publication of Americans for Peace Now -- How is Hebron different than other cities in the...

IOF Shoots and Wounds Citizen in Former Gaza Colony
WAFA 11/2/2005
GAZA, November 2, 2005 (WAFA) - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot and wounded a citizen in the northern Gaza Strip city of Jabalya, medical sources...

Israeli soldier shot dead in raid
BBC 11/2/2005
An Israeli soldier has been shot dead during an arrest operation in a West Bank village near the town of Jenin. The Israeli army...

Park Hotel bombing mastermind also planned mass poisoning
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
The Hamas leader convicted of murdering 35 Israelis in two separate terror attacks in Netanya also planned a mass poisoning, it was revealed in...

In Pictures: Israel Resumes Assassinations
AlJazeera 11/2/2005
Eleven photos from recent attacks by the IDF...

Court releases settlers accused of beating Palestinian boy, 13
Ha'aretz 11/2/2005
Four youths from the West Bank settlement of Kedumim accused of beating a 13-year-old Palestinian boy last Monday were released Wednesday for the...

Once again: Cops vs. evacuees
YNetNews 11/2/2005
Police officers attending convention in Jerusalem hotel greeted with chants of ‘a Jew does not expel Jews’ from Neve Dekalim evacuees, who are staying...

Israel Kills 2 Palestinian Radical Leaders in Airstrike
Washington Post 11/2/2005
JERUSALEM, Nov. 2 -- An Israeli airstrike Tuesday in the Gaza Strip killed two military leaders of radical Palestinian groups, including a senior member of...

IDF won't draft five anti-pullout youths
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
Five right-wing youths have been temporarily rejected from the Israel Defense Forces draft due to suspicions they were involved in violence against security personnel...

Kindergarten kids exposed to Qassams
YNetNews 11/2/2005
Ongoing firing of Qassam rockets toward Israeli towns and kibbutzim surrounding Gaza Strip raises fear that children may be hit by rockets while in...

Palestinian killed in IDF operation
YNetNews 11/2/2005
Three Palestinians wounded Wednesday afternoon from IDF fire in town of Kabatiya; earlier, gunmen killed in town by IDF soldiers -- One Palestinian was killed...

2 hurt in mortar attack
YNetNews 11/2/2005
One man lightly wounded, another suffers from shock after home in southern community of Nativ Ha'asara sustains direct mortar shell hit; following strike, IDF...

Hamas rejects truce renewal
AlJazeera 11/2/2005
Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said it will not renew an informal nine-month-old truce with Israel after one of its leading activists was killed...

U.S millionaire finances Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
American Jewish millionaire Irwin Moskowitz is behind a plan to establish a new Jewish neighborhood within the Sheikh Jarrah quarter of East Jerusalem. The...

Palestinian youth stabs woman in central Jerusalem park
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
Police arrested Wednesday night a 15-year-old Palestinian boy suspected of stabbing an Israeli woman outside a park in downtown Jerusalem. A Magen David...

Hamas vows revenge after IAF strike
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
An Israel Air Force missile strike killed two Palestinian militants, including a leading Hamas operative, in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza...

Hamas vows to call off truce with Israel
Daily Star 11/3/2005
Hamas vowed Wednesday to call off an informal truce at the year-end, as Israeli troops shot dead a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades just...

Quiet holds after IDF bombs Gaza launch sites
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
One Israeli was lightly wounded in Wednesday evening when Palestinians fired two mortar shells that hit the community of Netiv Ha'asarah, located just north...

'We need deterrence in Gaza'
YNetNews 11/3/2005
Israel cannot respond to each Qassam attack from Gaza, we need an operation that will create deterrence, a high ranking IAF officer tells Ynet...


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PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Ma'an News)
Justice minister: West Bank fence is Israel's future border
Ha'aretz 12/1/2005
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has stated publicly that the separation fence will serve as "the future border of the state of Israel" and that...

Mofaz warns PA over operation of Gaza-Egypt border crossing
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz threatened Wednesday to shut down crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel if the Palestinians don't improve operations at the...

President: Israeli Practices against Prisoners Inhuman
WAFA 11/30/2005
RAMALLAH, November 30, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday described the Israeli practices against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as "inhuman". Commenting on...

EC and UNRWA Sign Agreement for Helping Palestinian Refugees
WAFA 11/30/2005
GAZA, November 30, 2005 (WAFA)- The EU Commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, Louis Michel, signed Wednesday with UNRWA in Gaza a financing agreement...

UAERC Donates $13 Million to UNRWA
WAFA 11/30/2005
GAZA, November 30, 2005, (WAFA)- The United Arab Emirates Red Crescent Society (UAERC) announced a donation of $13 million to UNRWA to provide new...

Ayalon: “I killed Arabs more than Hamas killed Jews”
International Middle East Media Center 11/30/2005
Ami Ayalon, former head of the Israel Security Service, and one of the leaders of the Labor party, said that he does not object...

UN observes day of solidarity with Palestinian People
Electronic Intifada/UN DPI 11/29/2005
As the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was observed at Headquarters today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told delegations that, while a solution...

Ghana Reaffirms Solidarity with Palestinian People
WAFA 11/30/2005
ACCRA, November 30, 2005 (WAFA) - The Government Ghana on Tuesday reaffirmed solidarity with the Palestinian cause and renewed support for ongoing efforts of the...

Security Council presidential statement welcomes Israeli-Palestinian agreement on Rafah crossing as 'important step forward'
ReliefWeb/United Nations Security Council 11/30/2005
Political Affairs Under-Secretary-General Briefs on Recent Trip; Returns ‘Hopeful’, but with Renewed Appreciation for Immense Challenges -- The Security Council today welcomed the 15 November...

India Urges Palestinians, Israelis to Make use of "New Beginning"
WAFA 11/30/2005
NEW YORK, November 30, 2005 (WAFA) - India has urged Israelis and Palestinians to make "optimal" use of the "new beginning". "The vision of an...

PNI Press Conference Marking International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Focuses on Elections and the Apartheid Wall
Palestine Monitor 11/29/2005
Ramallah, 29-11-05: The Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People with a press conference in...

UN gives up on completing anti-terrorism treaty by year-end
Ha'aretz 12/1/2005
UN treaty writers have given up on completing a long-stalled comprehensive treaty against terrorism by the end of the year, as called for by...

United States, Israel vie to sell early warning planes to South Korea
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
The United States and Israel have been exchanging frosty words as the countries compete to sell South Korea an early warning aircraft (EWA). A...

Plan unveiled for protection of Egyptian border
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was shown plans for better protection of the border with Egypt during a tour yesterday of the border area in...

Comments from Commissioner Michel during his visit to the Khan Yunis refugee camp and the Rafah Border Crossing
ReliefWeb/European Commission 11/30/2005
Jerusalem, 30 November 2005 - European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, visited today the Gaza Strip to assess the Humanitarian situation. He...

Yemen says Israel-linked ’terrorist’ cell dismantled
AFP, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Yemini president alleges terror cell ’operating under slogan of Islam’ had connections to Israeli intelligence, refuses to provide any details - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced on Monday...

Activists hit territories’ PR campaign
Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
A new public relations campaign that invites the public to explore Judea and Samaria got off to a rocky start this week when vandals scrawled left-wing graffiti across large billboards...

’Israel has agreed to allow PA troops into Hebron’
Ali Waked, YNetNews 10/7/2008
Senior Palestinian defense official tells Ynet Israel has authorized request by Palestinian Authority to deploy security forces in Hebron in effort to block Hamas’ growing influence over the city...

Livni: 'We will continue the Annapolis process'
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
Israeli Foreign Minister, in charge of forming the new Israeli government, Tzipi Livni, stated on Sunday that peace talks with the Palestinians should resume as planned in the Annapolis summit...

Al Khodary warns of Israeli settlement expansion during peace talks
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
Palestinian Legislator, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Jamal Al Khodary, warned on Monday of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank during peace talk adding that Israel...

Al Khudari: Israel calculating in drawing out negotiations
PNN, Palestine News Network 10/6/2008
Gaza -- As members of the leadership continue to negotiate with the Israelis, many raise concern that the current period will result in the same disappointed efforts and back-tracking as previous...

Livni urges action on peace talks
Al Jazeera 10/6/2008
Israel’s prime minister-designate has called for increased efforts towards reaching a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Making her first foreign policy speech since being voted as...

Palestinian caretaker cabinet condemns settlement expansion, settler attacks
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian caretaker cabinet condemned on Monday the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank as well as violent attacks on Palestinians by settlers. The cabinet condemned...

Olmert: Livni not obligated by my stance
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Talking to reporters before leaving for Moscow, prime minister clarifies that his views expressed in Yedioth Ahronoth interview, that Israel should quit most occupied land, are his private views and...

Livni: I look forward to a Palestinian state absorbing all refugees
Palestinian Information Center 10/6/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israel foreign minister Tzipi Livni, the likely candidate for the post of prime ministr, stated that Palestinian state must guarantee to absorb all Palestinian refugees in diaspora...

Ex-generals cry foul over pro-Obama video
Matt Zalen And Shani Rosenfelder, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
A Jewish American group and an Israeli film company blamed each other on Monday regarding claims they had misled a number of retired IDF generals and top Mossad officials who...

Israeli generals duped into supporting Obama
The Associated Press, YNetNews 10/6/2008
8217;Pure and simple deceit,’ says enraged Uzi Dayan of American Jewish group that told him and other top Israeli figures they were being interviewed for documentary on Mideast...

Israeli bankers to attend IMF gathering in force
Eran Peer, Globes Online 10/6/2008
Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer will be among the main speakers at the Annual Meeting. Israel’s top bankers will meet in Washington in mid-October. The...

Yemen nabs ’Israel-linked’ terror cell
Jpost.com Staff, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Monday announced the capture of an Islamist "terrorist cell" he said was linked to Israel. "A terrorist cell was arrested five days ago and...

Egypt police stops aid convoy to Gaza
Associated Press, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
Dozens of activists, mostly from Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested Monday after attempting to send a supply convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the organization and security...

Egyptian delegation to be received by Popular Commmittee Against Seige in Gaza
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Marking a first in Gazan history, a delegation of Egyptians will travel through the Rafah crossing on Monday after accepting an invitation from the Popular Committee Against the...

Communications minister in Gaza congratulates Egypt on 35th anniversary of October War
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – The Communications Minister in the de facto government in Gaza, Yousif Al-Mansi, sent a letter to Egyptian Communications Minister Tareq Kamel in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of...

Hezbollah source: ’Big surprise’ awaits Israel if it attacks Lebanon
Yoav Stern, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
A senior Hezbollah-linked journalist reiterated Monday the Lebanese militia’s threat that a "big surprise" awaits Israel should it decide to engage in another conflict with the group. Ibrahim...

UNIFIL hosts Lebanese, Israeli officers for talks in Naqoura
Daily Star 10/7/2008
BEIRUT: A tri-partite meeting was held between Lebanese Armed Forces officials, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) officers and Israeli military representatives at the border crossing of Ras al-Naqquoura...

Lebanese union to sue Israel for ’claiming ownership’ of falafel
DPA, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
A new war between Israel and Lebanon has erupted, but this time the war is not geopolitical, but rather an issue of cuisine-who has sovereignty over traditional Arab dishes and...

Israeli security officials: Time running out on deal for Shalit release
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Security officials have warned that the time for making a deal for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit is running out. The officials told Haaretz that the more time...

Palestinian source: Shalit case - part of internal PA conflict
Ali Waked, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Man involved in negotiations between rival Palestinian factions says matter of kidnapped IDF soldier will remain unresolved pending end of internal strife between Hamas, Fatah -Gilad Shalit has become a...

Mashaal: Shalit talks deadlocked because Israel unreliable
Ynet, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Hamas politburo chief tell French daily he doubts new Israeli government will lead to change Jewish state’s stance in regards to his organization’s demands. Talks aimed...

’Stop putting Gazans before Gilad’
Yael Levy, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Two days before Yom Kippur, hundreds gather in Tel Aviv to ask forgiveness of captive soldier. Keynote speaker Shlomo Goldwasser: ’For 824 days now Gilad Shalit has been denied...

Metzger issues prayer for Schalit return
Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
Israeli Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger has issued a prayer for the safe return of captive soldier Gilad Schalit which he plans to distribute on Tuesday, to be read in...

Hamas funds being transferred to Israeli Arabs, documents reveal
Amos Harel, Ha’aretz 10/6/2008
Arab Israeli non-profit groups have approached Islamic charity organizations in the West Bank over the past year with requests to receive money for various projects, according to documents seized over...

PA: Travel permits to Jordan will be sold in Jericho only
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – West Bank Palestinians hoping to travel to Jordan and beyond will have to obtain official permission in the city of Jericho, instead of being able to apply in...

Teachers strike in Jerusalem until PA abides by appointment regulations
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Secretary General of the Teachers Union Jamil Shihadah announced the beginning of a strike for new teachers in the Jerusalem area. The strike will include those appointed over...

US warns Syria against interfering in Lebanon
Reuters, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Washington says ’concerned’ over Syrian military buildup, warns Damascus must not use recent attack as pretext to reinvade Lebanon - The United States voiced concern over Syria’s...

Lebanon, US set up joint military commission
Associated Press, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation - a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president...

Syria marks 35th anniversary of Yom Kippur War with call for peace
Yoav Stern, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Syrian military leaders marked the 35th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War Monday by saying that Syria was interested in peace, not war, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported...

PM Olmert unlikely to persuade Russia not to arm Iran and Syria
and Agencies, By Yossi Melman, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
MOSCOW - Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will seek today to persuade Russian President Dmitry Medvedev not to sell weapons to Iran and Syria, but with little chance of success, diplomatic...

NATO chief: Given Iran nukes, we can’t ask Israel to disarm
Reuters, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday he was not certain the world can stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. Scheffer told a conference in southeast France...

’I’m not positive Iran can be stopped’
Yaakov Katz And Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
In what is seen as a rare statement of support for Israel, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Monday that there was no reason for Israel to surrender its...

’Russia committed to preventing Iran from attaining nuclear arms’
Jpost.com Staff And Ap, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
Russia is committed to stopping Iranian nuclearization for military purposes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Moscow on Monday night. Olmert asked Lavrov to ratchet...

Russian FM: Committed to preventing military nuclearization in Iran
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Prime Minister Olmert meets with Russian minister shortly after landing in Moscow. Israel maintains Kremlin sees eye-to-eye with Jerusalem on concerns regarding Tehran’s nuclear ambitions - MOSCOW -Russian Foreign...

Foreign Min. compiles report on likelihood of West holding talks with Iran
Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
It emerged on Monday that the Foreign Ministry has compiled a report on the likelihood of Western countries launching negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Those negotiations, which...

Two Hamas legislators call for prosecuting Abbas after his term ends
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
Hama legislators of the Change and Reform Bloc, Dr. Salim Salama, called for detaining president Mahmoud Abbas after his term in office ends on January 8, 2009. Legislator Ismail Al...

Jerusalem property tax debts delay transfer of Sergei complex to Russians
Jonathan Lis and Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to inform Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday that he is returning the Sergei complex in the center of Jerusalem to Russia. However, the...

PA will appeal to Quartet to reverse closure of Nablus institutions
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Nablus – Ma’an – The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority is appealing to the international Quartet on Middle East peace to reverse Israel’s decision to close several charitable and commercial...

EU VP: 'escalation of the Israeli raids is unacceptable'
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Bethlehem - Ma’an - Vice President to the European Parliament Luisa Morgantini released a statement Friday condemning the "ongoing raids, closures, arrests and confiscations actuated by the Israeli army against...

France denounces Israeli approval for large settlement construction in East Jerusalem
Ma’an News Agency 7/11/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an - France denounced on Thursday the Israeli decision to continue building homes in the Har Homa settlement, located on Abu Ghneim mountain near east Jerusalem. Spokesperson for...

Islamic Jihad leader praises Jerusalem attacks
Ma’an News Agency 7/13/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Sheikh Nafeth Azam, a leader of the Islamic Jihad movement said on Saturday that Friday night’s shooting attack in East Jerusalem was a sign...

Hamas: Success of operations in Jerusalem reflect Israeli security’s fragility
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas described the success of Palestinian attacks against Israeli targets in Jerusalem Saturday as "reflecting the fragility of Israeli security services and Palestinian insistence on resistance...

Hamas: Jerusalem attack shows the weakness of Israeli security agencies
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
Hamas movement announced on Saturday that the Jerusalem attack today reflects the success of the Palestinian groups to hit the Israeli security system. Hamas’s spokesman Fawzi Barhoom reported...

Fayyad to US: stop Israeli incursions into West Bank
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Friday evening that he sent a letter to the US monitor General William Fraser complaining about Israeli incursions in...

Salam Fayyad complains to the U.S Security coordinator of the latest Israeli raids in the West Bank
Rula Shahwan, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
The Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad reported that he sent a complain letter to the U. S security coordinator General William Frères about the latest Israeli raids on...

Israeli forces try to arrest pardoned Fatah activist
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli forces stormed the northern West bank refugee camp of Jenin at 2:00 am on Saturday with the aim of arresting a pardoned activist from...

Al-Khudri to Carter Center delegates: 'Where are the ethics, where is the law protecting civilians?'
Ma’an News Agency 7/11/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Head of the popular committee against the siege and Palestinian Legislative Council member Jamal Al-Khudri held a meeting on Friday with delegates of Carter Center where...

Hamas official: 'We rejected Israeli offer to release 71 detainees, instead of 450 proposed'
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
The Deputy Head of the Hamas political bureau, Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouq, stated Saturday that the Hamas movement rejected an Israeli offer to release only 71 detainees out of a...

Taha: Hamas delegation ends talks in Cairo, heads for Yemen
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, on Saturday said that his Movement’s delegation had ended talks in Cairo and was heading for Yemen where it...

Lebanese-Israeli prisoner swap to take place Wednesday
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israeli media sources reported that a swap of prisoners between the Lebanese resistance and the Israeli occupation will be taking place next Wednesday at the Ras Al-Naqoura border...

Israeli generals urge ’diplomatic disarmament’
Daily Star 7/12/2008
According to a report published Friday in the Israeli daily Haaretz, top Israeli defense officials have said that Israel should recommence diplomatic efforts to end alleged Syrian arms smuggling to...

Gaza family left to hope that prisoner swap will see son’s body return home
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Ma’anImages]Gaza – Ma’an – "We do not know whether my brother’s body is among other bodies Israel is going to hand over with the Hizbullah...

PLO official meets Dalal Mughrabi’s family in Lebanon in advance of prisoner deal
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Beirut - Ma’an – Preparations are moving forward in Lebanon to honor the dead whose bodies will be handed over by Israel to Lebanon as a part of the planned...

Miki Goldwasser: We are very anxious
Ahiya Raved, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Friends of Goldwasser, Regev gather at point of their capture to mark two year anniversary, then visit soldiers’ homes. ’I hope two years of nightmares end here,’...

Lebanon army enters abandoned Shebaa Farm
Middle East Online 7/11/2008
SHEBAA, Lebanon - The Lebanese army moved on Friday into Bastara Farm, the only one of the occupied Shebaa Farms that the Israeli army evacuated when it pulled out of south...

Syria asks France to help direct talks with Israel
New agencies, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Assad meets with Sarkozy in Paris, says US, France should contribute to future security arrangements in region. French President says Damascus, Beirut to open embassies in each other’s...

U.S. Tries to Help 3 Scholars Barred from Leaving Gaza- Not Those with Links to Hamas
Ethan Bronner, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
American consular officials drove from Jerusalem to the Gazan border on Thursday in an unusual effort to interview three Gazan Fulbright scholars who Israel says are too dangerous to allow...

Former US diplomat gets year for anti-Arab comments
Reuters, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Patrick Syring convicted of sending abusive, intimidating e-mails and voice mails to employees of Arab American Institute. Among his comments: ’The only good Arab is a dead Arab’...

Bulgarian delegation expresses shock at Israel’s human rights violations
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Press sources in the 1948 occupied lands reported that Dr. Peter Byron, the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian parliament, and his accompanying parliamentary delegation expressed their shock...

UN Criticises West Bank Barrier
BBC News, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
The West Bank barrier Israel is building will be devastating for Palestinians if completed along its proposed route, the UN says. In a report, the UN said thousands of Palestinians...

Khudari urges Carter center to take action to end Palestinians’ suffering
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, called, during a meeting with a delegation of the Carter center, for taking concrete positions on...

Sarkozy asks Syria to help resolve Iran nuclear crisis
News Agencies, Ha’aretz 7/13/2008
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday asked Syrian President Bashar Assad to help resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program by persuading Tehran to cooperate with the...

Israel could attack Iran via Iraq
Middle East Online 7/12/2008
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi website said that Israeli warplanes have been using Iraqi airspace to practice for possible bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. Nahrainnet. com, quoting unnamed sources in the Iraqi...

Official says Iran will destroy heart of Israel if attacked
Dudi Cohen and Reuters, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Assistant to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei threatens that ’smallest move’ against Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear program will prompt missile attack on Jewish state, 32 US...

Shallah: Arab countries must help end Palestinian discord
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Arab countries must play an effective role in order to bring to an end to the divisions between the Palestinian territories, said Ramadan Shallah, secretary general...

Egyptian police uncover 250kg explosives cache in Sinai desert
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jerusalem Post 7/12/2008
EL-ARISH, Egypt An Egyptian security official says police have discovered 250 kilograms of explosives hidden in the Sinai desert near the border with Israel. The official says Bedouin trackers working...

Palestinians: Let us Tame Wild Jenin
Ilene Prusher, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Throughout most of the decade, Jenin has been synonymous with what Palestinians generally call fawda: a mix of chaos with the might of gun-toting militants trying to impose their own...

Abu Marzouk: We declined the Israeli offer to release only 71 prisoners
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, stated Saturday that the Movement rejected the Israeli approval of releasing only 71 names on the...

Hamas: Pressures on Palestinians would breed more resistance
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Saturday warned that more Israeli pressures on and harassment of the Palestinian people would only lead to more insistence on resistance against occupation. Fawzi...

Hezbollah: Second Lebanon War was biggest Israeli defeat ever
Haaertz Service, Ha’aretz 7/13/2008
Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Naim Qassem on Saturday said that the Second Lebanon War was the greatest defeat of Israel ever, Army Radio reported. "Israel today is beaten...

Abbas updates Lebanese counterpart via local representative
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Lebanon – Ma’an – Lebanese president Michel Sulaiman hosted Abbas Zaki representative of the Palestinian Authority to Lebanon on Friday - During his visit, Zaki delivered a letter to Sulaiman from...

Hezbollah readies for prisoners return party
Middle East Online 7/12/2008
SIDON, Lebanon - Hezbollah is speeding up preparations in south Lebanon to celebrate a prisoner swap with Israel that is expected to take place next week, a media correspondent said on...

Hizbullah report says Ron Arad apparently dead
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Prime minister, heads of intelligence services receive over weekend document summarizing Lebanese group’s efforts to obtain information on missing Israeli navigator. Intelligence chiefs to discuss report Sunday, present...

UN says more roadblocks were installed by Israel in the West Bank
International Middle East Media Center, Palestine Monitor 5/24/2008
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that since September 2007until Aprilthis year the Israeli army installed 41 additional roadblocks, and that the total number of...

’No Agreement on Gaza Truce’
Reuters, MIFTAH 5/24/2008
Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas still differ on terms for a Gaza ceasefire that Egypt is mediating, a Palestinian official familiar with the talks said on Wednesday. Egypt has...

French Foreign Minister: obstacle to peace is Israeli policy and practice
Najib Farrag, Palestine News Network 5/24/2008
Bethlehem - The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner levied heavy criticisms at Israel upon his visit for the Palestine Investment Conference. He said that Israeli measures were conducted to ensure that...

Hamas calls on French Foreign Minister to visit Gaza, witness Israeli war crimes
Palestine News Network 5/24/2008
Gaza / PNN - The spokesman for the Palestinian government still operating in the Gaza Strip, Taher Nano, issued a statement to the press. However the sentiment was directed to French Foreign...

Haneyya gov’t invites Kouchner to visit Gaza
Palestinian Information Center 5/24/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The PA caretaker government headed by Ismail Haneyya has invited the French external affairs minister, Bernard Kouchner, to visit the Gaza Strip and get first hand information on...

Syria rejects Livni’s call to cut ties with Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas
Associated Press, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Syrian government newspaper responds to Livni’s demands that Syria disassociate itself from Iran, "terror" organizations; says any preconditions to peace deal would ’put carriage before horse’...

Syria rejects linking Israel peace with cutting off Iran
Middle East Online 5/24/2008
DAMASCUS - Syria will not accept preconditions over its resumed peace talks with Israel and will not compromise its relations with other states, the government daily Tishrin said on Saturday, referring...

Damascus divided over peace talks
Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Editor-in-chief of al-Quds al-Arabi says Syrian leadership deeply divided over return to negotiations with Israel, sees resumption of talks as clear victory for those advocating jumping ship on Tehran - The...

Mash’al of Hamas says Palestinians are determined to break up the Israeli blockade
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/24/2008
Hamas’s exiled top leader, Khaled Mash’al, reiterated his ruling party’s determination to break up the ongoing Israeli blockade on Gaza, warning of what he...

Al Qassam Brigades: 'if the ceasefire talks fail, we are prepared to use all options'
Ghassan Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/24/2008
The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, stated that if the efforts by the Egyptians to mediate a truce between the Palestinian resistance groups based in...

Mash’al, in Tehran: end the siege of Gaza now
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an - Khalid Mash’al the exiled chairman of the political bureau of Hamas said that the Palestinians insist on an end of the siege imposed on...

Mishaal: Palestinians determined to break the siege
Palestinian Information Center 5/24/2008
TEHRAN, (PIC)-- Khaled Mishaal, the chairman of the Hamas Movement’s political bureau, stressed on Saturday that the Palestinian people would unilaterally break the siege if the world community...

Barghouthi: Israeli promises on checkpoints a 'policy of deception'
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an - Dr. Mustapha Barghouthi, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, said on Saturday that Israeli pledges to ease restrictions on Palestinian life are in fact...

Israeli checkpoints increasing in the West Bank, UN report says
Ma’an News Agency 5/24/2008
Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israel added a net 44 obstacles to Palestinian movement in the West Bank since last September, a new report from the United Nations Office for the...

Silent protest in Shufa village, Tulkarem, against Israeli road-blocks
International Solidarity Movement 5/24/2008
Tulkarem Region - Photos - On Friday 23rd May, approximately 100 Palestinians from the village of Shufa and Tulkarem city, along with international activists, demonstrated against the closure of Shufa’s...

Hamas, Islamic Jihad leaders say truce efforts failed
Saed Bannoura & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/25/2008
Two leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movements stated on Saturday that the Egyptian efforts to achieving a truce deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel have failed due...

An Israeli security chief in Cairo to listen from Egyptians about truce talks
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 5/24/2008
Chief of the political and security division of the Israeli army, Amos Gil’ad , will arrive in Cairo today in order to listen from Egyptian mediators about latest round...

Radwan: IOA replies to Egyptian calm offer not encouraging
Palestinian Information Center 5/24/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ismail Radwan, a Hamas political leader and one of its spokesmen in the Gaza Strip, has revealed that the Israeli occupation authority’s replies to the...

Israeli official in Cairo to discuss calm
Palestinian Information Center 5/24/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Amos Gilad, the head of the political-security division in the Israeli war ministry, is to head to Cairo on Saturday to discuss results of the Egyptian officials...

Investment Conference ends with success and knowledge that impediment to investment is Israel
Palestine News Network 5/24/2008
Bethlehem / PNN -- The Palestine Investment Conference is over and speakers agreed on a resounding success and beginning of a serious investment and development period. However, most all pointed out that...

'Live and See': First Palestinian Investment Conference 'Living on Hope' in Bethlehem
Palestine Monitor, Palestine Monitor 5/24/2008
The first Palestinian Investment Conference met this week in Bethlehem. The conference, which is a private sector partner with the Paris Donors Conference, acquired $7. 7 million in international donor...

At West Bank Conference, Dreams of Investment
Isabel Kershner, MIFTAH 5/24/2008
Hundreds of potential investors and dignitaries from the Middle East and beyond gathered here on Wednesday for the start of a vaunted conference under the slogan, “Palestine is open for...

U.S. Agency, Palestinian Firm Sign Deal to Boost Palestinian Exports
The Associated Press, MIFTAH 5/24/2008
A U. S. government agency on Thursday presented a political risk insurance program to help guarantee investments in the West Bank, part of an international effort to help develop the...

$1.4 Billion Raised Despite Political Instability [May 18 – 24]
MIFTAH, MIFTAH 5/24/2008
This week witnessed the arrival of the highly anticipated Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem. The lavishly organized three day event from May 21-23 event, which has not been without...

Syria sends minister to Iran after ’shock revelation’ of Israel talks
Yoav Stern , and AP, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Syrian Defense Minister Hassan Turkmani began an official visit to Iran Saturday and is expected to hold talks there with Iran’s leadership on military agreements between the two...

Ex-IDF chief: Golan Heights not indispensable
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz said on Saturday that Israel should consider pulling out of the Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria. "For real...

Obstacles to an Israeli-Syrian Deal
Patrick Seale, Middle East Online 5/24/2008
One would need to be an incurable optimist to expect real progress from the indirect talks that Syria and Israel have begun in Ankara under Turkish mediation. The obstacles to...

Meshal: Olmert too weak to make peace
Yoav Stern, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Hamas politburo chief, Khaled Meshal said yesterday in Tehran that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was too weak to make peace. Also in Iran for talks yesterday, Syrian Defense Minister Hassan...

Mashaal: Olmert too weak to negotiate peace with Syria
Dudi Cohen, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Hamas leader meets with Iranian FM in Tehran, expresses doubt as to Israel’s ability to make peace with Syria. ’There is great skepticism concerning Israel’s...

Halutz: Substantial peace comes with substantial price
Yael Branovsky, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Former IDF chief speaks at conference about Syrian talks, Qassam threat. ’Theoretically Israel can get by without Golan. It’s good to search for any possibility for peace...

In a sign of changing times, IDF and PA military officers meet to talk security
The Associated Press, Ha’aretz 5/24/2008
The military men don’t look like diplomats and the sun-baked checkpoint dividing the West Bank from Israel couldn’t have been farther from the Jerusalem hotels and...

Abbas fears Olmert probe may hold up peace talks
Reuters, YNetNews 5/25/2008
Senior aid to Palestinian president says peace negotiations in danger of being pushed to sidelines as election race intensifies in US while Olmert preoccupied with bribery allegations - Palestinian President Mahmoud...

Abbas: ’East Jerusalem must be Returned’
Khaled Abu Toameh, MIFTAH 5/24/2008
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday opened the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem by declaring that east Jerusalem belonged to the Palestinian people and must be returned to them...

Conference aims to lure $2 billion in investment to Palestine
Ezzedine Said, Daily Star 5/22/2008
Agence France Press - BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank: Hundreds of business and political leaders converged on the city of Bethlehem on Wednesday for a conference aimed at boosting the occupied West...

Israeli authorities imprison, deport and ban Jewish professor from Israel
Saed Bannoura, International Middle East Media Center News 5/24/2008
Norman Finkelstein, a prominent U. S. Professor who is an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation, was denied entry into Israel Friday, and banned from the country for ten years...

Israel denies entry to high-profile critic Norman Finkelstein
Yossi Melman, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
The Shin Bet security service detained and deported an American Jewish professor who is a prominent critic of the Israeli occupation when he landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday...

Hizbullah leader says negotiations over captives to continue
Roee Nahmias, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Organization’s chief commander in southern Lebanon, Nabil Kaouk, says talks regarding fate of kidnapped Israeli soldiers will continue despite internal Lebanese fighting -A senior Hizbullah official has said...

Lebanese Prisoners Association officially marks Liberation Day
Mohammed Zaatari, Daily Star 5/24/2008
SOUTH LEBANON: The Lebanese Association for Prisoners held a ceremony at the site of the former Khiam detention camp on Friday on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of Liberation...

Iran: mosque blast plotters admit Israeli, US links
Middle East Online 5/24/2008
TEHRAN - Iran’s chief prosecutor said bombers who caused a deadly blast at a mosque in Shiraz had confessed of links to Israel and the United States, the ISNA...

Britain tells Israel to try soldier for killing film-maker
Michael Smith, Times of London 8/5/2007
Britain has told Israel that it should prosecute one of its army officers for the killing of a British documentary maker after new evidence allegedly proved that the soldier fired...

Marines to train at new Israeli combat center
Barbara Opall-Rome, Marine Corps Times 6/25/2007
BALADIA CITY, Israel — In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops — and someday, U.S. Marines and soldiers — are preparing for the wide range of urban scenarios...

Blair accused as summit on anti-terrorism ends in failure
The Guardian 11/29/2005
A Spanish foreign policy adviser was caught on an open mike yesterday accusing Tony Blair of preparing to "throw the towel in" and blaming...

Abbas Condemns Assault on Ofer Prison
WAFA 11/29/2005
RAMALLAH, November 29, 2005 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Tuesday the Israeli assault on Palestinian prisoners in Ofer detention camp, west of Ramallah. "I...

President: Peace Comes through Recognition of Historical Injustice Palestinian People Suffered
WAFA 11/29/2005
NEW YORK, November 29, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that peace comes through recognition of historical injustice Palestinian people suffered. In an...

Summary of today's meeting of the General Assembly
ReliefWeb/United Nations General Assembly 11/29/2005
The General Assembly met today to conclude its consideration of oceans and the law of the sea -- including fisheries -- with action on relevant draft...

NAM: Israel's Wall Undermines Peace and Political Dialogue
WAFA 11/29/2005
KUALA LUMPUR, November 29, 2005, (WAFA)- The Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) asserted Tuesday that the Israel's continuous action to construct the separation (Apartheid) wall...

CAABU Asserts on the Two-states solution
WAFA 11/29/2005
NEW YORK, November 29, 2005, (WAFA)- The Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) stated that United Nations should exert more efforts in order to establish...

EU election observation mission for Palestinian legislative council elections
ReliefWeb/European Commission 11/21/2005
The European Commission will deploy in mid December an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council, currently scheduled for...

Factsheet: European Union Border Assistance Mission for the Rafah Crossing Point (EU BAM Rafah)
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/30/2005
The European Union (EU) has decided to establish a EU Border Assistance Mission at the Rafah Crossing Point (Gaza-Egypt border), in the framework of...

China Celebrates Solidarity Day with Palestinian People
WAFA 11/29/2005
BEIJING, November 29, 2005, (WAFA)- Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, said Tuesday that China is ready to join international efforts to continue the search...

PM Qurei Receives EU Official
WAFA 11/29/2005
RAMALLAH, November 29, 2005 (WAFA) - Premiere Ahmed Qurei received Tuesday the EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, in the West Bank...

Marking solidarity with Palestinians, Kofi Annan reiterates call for action
Electronic Intifada 11/29/2005
Secretary-general, In Message To Mark Day Of Solidarity With Palestinians, Reiterates Call For Renewed Action On Road Map Obligations -- Following is the text of...

Palestinians ask U.S. to prevent Israeli intervention in elections
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
WASHINGTON - Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Eerekat urged the United States on Tuesday to send thousands of election monitors and to increase pressure on Israel...

PM calls for strict control of Egypt border
YNetNews 11/29/2005
Sharon visits Israel-Egypt border following warnings of attempts by terror groups to smuggle cells into Israel and Gaza Strip from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula -- Prime...

PA official fears Israeli 'sabotage'
YNetNews 11/29/2005
During a news conference at the Palestine Center, Erekat refers several times to the possibility of Israeli sabotage and assassination -- Senior Palestinian official Saeb...

Finland sends monitors to the EU border control operation in the Palestinian Territories
ReliefWeb/Government of Finland 11/25/2005
Finland will make a sizeable contribution to the EU Border Control Assistance Mission at Rafah Crossing Point to be launched on 25 November on...

Sharaa claims Lebanon and Syria turned a 'new page'
Daily Star 11/29/2005
Siniora declares Shebaa Farms as Lebanese -- BARCELONA: Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said Monday Syria and Lebanon have opened a "new page" in their...

Jerusalem and Ramallah heads of Mission report on East Jerusalem
Palestine Monitor 11/25/2005
EU Report -- SUMMARY:1. East Jerusalem is of central importance to the Palestinians in political, economic, social and religious terms. Several inter-linked Israeli policies...

EU seeks to boost relations with Israel, Arab states
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
BARCELONA - Leaders of the EU nations, Israel and its neighbors open a summit today at which Europe will push to boost relations by linking...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood chief: We don't recognize Israel, but won't fight it
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
CAIRO - The leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday, buoyed by an unexpectedly strong showing in parliamentary elections, credited public mistrust, frustration and...

Egypt's Mubarak: Only Sharon can make peace with the Palestinians
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
BARCELONA - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is the only Israeli politician capable of reaching peace with the Palestinians, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an...

Patriarch’s ire at Israeli snub
YNetNews 11/29/2005
New Greek Orthodox patriach will not approve land sale to Israel -- The new Greek Orthodox patriarch of the Holy Land says Israel is not...

Israel-Vatican negotiations achieve some progress
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
The bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Holy See over signing a final agreement have been dragging on since diplomatic relations were established in...

IDF may redeploy along Egyptian border
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
The Israel Defense Forces is set to modify its deployment along the border with Egypt in an effort to better contend with the smuggling...

EU slams Israeli moves in East Jerusalem
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
Europe must resume ministerial-level meetings with representatives of the Palestinian Authority in East Jerusalem, as part of other political meetings that should be held...

Deputy PM Olmert urges Palestinians to disarm Hamas
Ha'aretz 11/28/2005
Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday to disarm the militant Hamas group at a rare bilateral meeting at...

Hezbollah says has right and duty to abduct Israeli troops
Ha'aretz 11/26/2005
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group said on Friday it had a duty to try to capture Israeli soldiers and exchange them for Arab prisoners in...

PA's Abbas: Rafah is one small step to statehood
Ha'aretz 11/27/2005
Palestinian control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is the fulfillment of "a small dream that is part of the progress toward an...

PM Condemns Israeli Military Court Ruling against Hussam Khader
WAFA 11/28/2005
RAMALLAH, November 28, 2005, (WAFA)- Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei condemned on Monday Israeli military court ruling against Hussam Khader, member of Palestinian Legislative Council...

Shaath Receives Departing UNRWA's Brisson
WAFA 11/28/2005
GAZA, November 28, 2005 (WAFA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information Dr. Nabil Shaath received Monday the departing UNRWA's Gaza Field Office Director...

EU diplomats slam Israel’s policies in occupied Jerusalem
Electronic Intifada 11/25/2005
A draft report by the Jerusalem and Ramallah heads of missions, representatives of the EU member states, to their foreign ministers, was leaked to...

Israel, U.S. to resume 'strategic dialogue'
YNetNews 11/28/2005
Dialogue suspended for three years over tensions between countries; Iran, northern border to be discussed in current round of talks -- The strategic dialogue between...

Israeli membership in Red Cross closer after pact with Palestinians
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
GENEVA - Magen David Adom and the Palestinian Red Crescent signed an agreement of mutual recognition yesterday, paving the way for Israel's entry into the...

Interview - Barghouti's wife: He’s your peace partner
YNetNews 11/27/2005
Fadwa Barghouti, wife of Tanzim leader jailed in Israel, encouraged by his victory in Fatah primaries, says it constitutes 'message for Israelis that if...

Podcast: Debating the Gaza "Disengagement" at North Park University
Electronic Intifada 11/26/2005
Listen to a podcast of EI co-founder Ali Abunimah and Tel Aviv University Professor of Philosophy Ilai Alon discussing the Gaza "disengagement" and what...

E.U. won't press Israel on Barghouti
YNetNews 11/28/2005
Ambassador to Israel confirms E.U. will not press Israel to release jailed Tanzim head Marwan Barghouti -- The European Union will not demand Israel release...

U.S. Supreme Court declines to block judgment against PLO, PA over deaths of Jewish couple
Ha'aretz 11/28/2005
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $116 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the...

Euro-Mediterranean summit ends with pledge to fight terrorism
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Dissent between Israel and the Arab countries yesterday on Monday prevented the publication of a final joint declaration at the Euro-Mediterranean summit in Barcelona...

Photostory: Palestinians cross Rafah border
Electronic Intifada 11/26/2005
Palestinians waiting to submit their passports to be able to pass the Rafah border crossing after it was reopened November 26, 2005./ Palestinian President...

Did UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw help sell out Jerusalem?
By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada 11/28/2005
Documents Obtained By Ei Under Freedom Of Information Act: Top Uk Officials Violated International Law, Helped British Firm Profit From Israeli Occupation Of Jerusalem...

Palestinians and Egyptians Sign Agreement to Facilitate Movement at Rafah Terminal
International Press Center 11/23/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 23, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Security sources mentioned that an agreement between the Palestinian and Egyptian sides was reached over easing the...

OIC Expresses Concern at Deteriorating Conditions of Historical Sites in Jerusalem
WAFA 11/23/2005
JEDDAH, November 23, 2005, (WAFA)-Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), expressed his grave concern at the...

Gaza border crossing to open temporarily for stranded Palestinians
ReliefWeb 11/23/2005
GAZA, Nov 23, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Palestinian chief of the Rafah crossing Nazmi Mhanna declared on Wednesday that Rafah will be opened temporarily...

PM Meets Senior EU Officials
WAFA 11/23/2005
RAMALLAH, November 23, 2005, (WAFA)- Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei met Wednesday with EU Envoy to the Middle East, Marc Otté, the Head of EU...

Top adviser: PM to offer PA independence for security
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
Ariel Sharon will offer the Palestinians independence in exchange for the guarantee of security for Israelis if he is re-elected prime minister, according to...

President Decorates Former Swedish FM "Bethlehem 2000"
WAFA 11/23/2005
GAZA, November 23, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas decorated Wednesday, in Ramallh, the former Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Anderson the "Bethlehem 2000" medal. The...

Annan briefs Security Council on recent Middle East trip
United Nations News 11/23/2005
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today briefed the Security Council on his recent trip to the Middle East, touching on the issues of terrorism, Syria and...

Gaza to reopen window to outside world
ReliefWeb 11/23/2005
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Nov 23 (AFP) - Nearly three months after the departure of Israeli troops, the Gaza Strip reopens to the world on Friday...

EU stays mum as Israeli ties improve
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
The European Union has prepared a harsh report on Israel's activity in East Jerusalem, but has decided to delay its release in the wake...

Israel maintains its strategic advantage, says Jaffee Center
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University has determined that the strategic balance in the Middle East clearly favors Israel, Jaffee...

Sharon Maneuver to Preempt Palestinian Borders: Experts
Islam Online 11/22/2005
GAZA CITY, November 22, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's resignation from his right-wing Likud to form a new party is meant to...

Czech FM Cyril Svoboda: EU Should Not Monitor or Control Palestinian Border Crossings
Palestine Media Center 11/19/2005
Ramallah -- Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda said in Ramallah that the European Union should help Palestinians train and educate policemen, but it should not...

EU: 172 Observers to Observe Legislative Elections in OPT
ReliefWeb 11/22/2005
BRUSSELS, November 22, 2005 (WAFA)-The European Union said that some 172 observers will be deployed in mid December to the Occupied Palestinian Territories...

Palestinian election gets Danish aid
ReliefWeb 11/22/2005
14 Nov 2005 - The minister of foreign affairs promises an aid package to help Palestinians carry out their January parliamentary election -- Aid for the...

Ireland announces €200,000 for EU border assistance mission in Gaza
ReliefWeb/Government of Ireland 11/22/2005
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D., and the Minister for Development Cooperation and Human Rights, Mr. Conor Lenihan T.D., today announced...

Palestinian officials voice hope for peace momentum after Israeli political realignment
ReliefWeb 11/22/2005
GAZA, Nov 22, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Senior Palestinian officials expressed hope with caution on Tuesday for new peace momentum following Israeli political realignment...

Erekat welcomes EU decision to send 70 monitors to Gaza crossing
ReliefWeb 11/22/2005
RAMALLAH, Nov 22, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat welcomed on Tuesday the European Union's (EU) decision to send a delegation...

PNA Reacts Skeptically, But Hopefully, to Ariel Sharon’s ‘Volcano’
Palestine Media Center 11/22/2005
Palestinian–Israeli Peace Process on Hold, Passive US Role Expected -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) immediately reacted to the latest Israeli political upheaval on...

Palestinians closely follow Israeli political upheaval
Middle East Online 11/22/2005
PA remains guarded, wants a man capable of securing ever elusive peace. -- Well aware that any shake-up at the top of the Israeli government...

Hizbullah, Israel retract claims of warplane attack
Daily Star 11/23/2005
Lebanon asks UNIFIL to mediate truce -- Hizbullah has denied Israeli warplanes attacked South Lebanon on Tuesday, saying an explosion heard in the area was...

U.N. debates response to Hizbullah strike
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Security Council members discuss consensual version of condemnation of Hizbullah attacks; U.S. congressmen slam Iran, Syria for involvement -- U.N. Security Council members conducted unofficial...

Mubarak congratulates Sharon on mov
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Egyptian president sends warm wishes to Sharon on his decision to leave the Likud party and continue along his political path -- Egypt's President Hosni...

Harsh UN resolution condemning Israel removed from agenda
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
NEW YORK - Following a successful round of talks held Monday by Israeli ambassador to the UN, a resolution proposal containing harsh condemnations of Israel...

Sharon rejects land for peace approach, says aid
The Guardian 11/23/2005
Ariel Sharon no longer regards big compromises over land as being crucial to setting up an independent Palestinian state, says one of the Israeli...

FM Shalom suggests opening joint counter-terror center with Israel's neighbors
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Israel proposes establishing a center for counter-terror research in conjunction with Arab countries and the European Union. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will present the...

Annan: Early Israeli vote could freeze peace process
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's call for early elections could lead to a temporary standstill in the Middle East peace process, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan...

Reports: Germany to sell Israel submarines at discount price
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
BERLIN - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's outgoing government has agreed to sell two submarines to Israel for a deeply discounted price, German news magazines reported...

Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs holds Israel Responsible for Cracks of Wall of Jerusalem City
International Press Center 11/20/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November20, 2005(IPC)- - Minister of Waqf and religious affairs Sheikh Yousef Salama held Saturday Israeli occupation authorities responsible for the cracks in...

President Abbas Describes Latest IOF Assassinations "Crimes" Marring Peace Prospect
International Press Center 11/20/2005
RAMMALLAH, Palestine, November 20, 2005 (IPC+Agencies)--The president Mahmoud Abbas decried the relentless Israeli escalation against the Occupied Palestinian Territories "it is turned...

Minister of Tourism Meets Korean Representative
WAFA 11/21/2005
BETHLEHEM, November 21, 2005, (WAFA)- Minister of Tourism and Antiquity, Ziad Al-Bandak, met Tuesday the head of the Korean Representative in the Palestinian National...

EC Calls on Israel to Improve Voting arrangements for Palestinian Elections
WAFA 11/21/2005
BRUSSELS, November 21, 2005 (WAFA) - The European Council (EC) calls on Israel urgently to improve voting arrangements for the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections, including...

Erez crossing partially reopens with strict restrictions: official
ReliefWeb 11/20/2005
GAZA, Nov 20, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A senior Palestinian security official announced on Sunday that Israel had partially reopened Erez crossing between Israel...

France to Send 50 Observers to Local Elections
WAFA 11/21/2005
RAMALLAH, November 21, 2005 (WAFA) - The French Consul General in Jerusalem Alain Rémy said his country will send 50 observers to oversee the fourth...

Fattoh: Israel may Use its Internal Crisis to Escalate its Aggressions
WAFA 11/21/2005
RAMALLAH, November 21, 2005 (WAFA) - Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Rouhi Fattouh warned on Monday that Israel may use its internal crisis to...

EU launches Gaza border mission
ReliefWeb 11/21/2005
BRUSSELS, Nov 21 (AFP) - The European Union gave the green light Monday for a monitoring mission to the Gaza Strip to help the Palestinians...

Amir Peretz ‘Peace Credentials’ Invite No Palestinian Reaction
Palestine Media Center 11/21/2005
New Leader of ‘Labor’ Party Says Abbas Is Partner, Ready to Talk to Hamas -- Statements by the new leader of the Israeli Labor Party...

Annan: Barrier, settlements and security challenge two-State Israeli-Palestinian solution
ReliefWeb/United Nations News 11/21/2005
The "window of opportunity" to revitalize the Middle East peace process that opened during the past year is still ajar, but the setbacks include...

President Meets US Security Envoy
WAFA 11/21/2005
RAMALLAH, November 21, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud abbas received Monday the US Security Coordinator, General William Ward, in Ramallah. President expressed warm thanks to...

EU gives official go-ahead to Gaza border monitoring mission
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers gave final approval Monday to deploy a 50-70 strong monitoring mission to observe the border crossing between the...

EU to support Palestinian police
BBC 11/21/2005
EU foreign ministers have approved a European police mission to monitor the Egypt-Gaza Strip border crossing. The EU is to provide about 70 people...

Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine - Report of the Secretary-General
ReliefWeb/United Nations Security Council 11/18/2005
07 Nov 2005 - Summary:The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 59/31. It contains replies received from the President...

Israel vs. the Vatican, Round II
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
Rosner's Blog - Catholic church calls Israel's claims 'bizarre' -- ....Since establishing diplomatic ties some 12 years ago, Israel and the Vatican have been unable to...

Syria welcomes election of Amir Peretz as leader of Israel's Labor party
Daily Star 11/19/2005
Damascus believes official can become a negotiating partner -- Syria regards the election of Amir Peretz as leader of Israel's Labor party as a positive...

Senior UN political official visits Israel, occupied Palestinian territory
ReliefWeb/United Nations News 11/18/2005
The top United Nations political official has begun a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, meeting with Israeli National Security Adviser Giora...

Italian General Heads European Observers at Rafah Terminal
International Press Center 11/17/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 17, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - The European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, said an Italian security...

Abbas to Israeli Cellulars: Stop Invading Palestinian Territory
Palestine Media Center 11/17/2005
Palestinian President after Meeting Shalom: ‘We Are Peace Partners’ -- President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday held two rounds of talks with the Israeli Foreign Minister...

Sha'ath: Participation at WSIS Reflects Palestinian Interest in Digital Industry
WAFA 11/17/2005
TUNIS, November 17, 2005, (WAFA)- Deputy PM, Minister of Information, Dr. Nabil Sha'ath, said Thursday that the Palestinian participation in the World Summit on...

FM Al-Kidwa Receives Indian Special Envoy
WAFA 11/17/2005
GAZA, November 17, 2005 (WAFA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Nasser al-Kidwa received Thursday the Indian Special Envoy to the Middle East, Chnmay Gharekhan...

IAF shares anti-terror tactics with Arab states
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
Commanders of air forces from NATO nations and senior officers from North African countries - including some without diplomatic relations with Israel - have wrapped up...

Shalom: If PA decides to fight terror, Israel will reciprocate
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
TUNIS - If the Palestinian Authority makes the strategic decision to fight terror then Israel will respond with a return to negotiations and the road...

Abbas denies Al-Qaeda cell in Gaza, optimistic over new plan to police border
Daily Star 11/18/2005
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday denied there are Al-Qaeda cells operating in Gaza or the West Bank, countering claims made by Israel's president...

Katsav, pope discuss tax dispute
YNetNews 11/17/2005
Vatican seeking ways to lessen its tax burden as one of the significant land owners in Israel, wants access to Israeli courts to handle...

European Parliament condemns Iran's militant stance on Israel
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
STRASBOURG, France - The European Parliament on Thursday strongly condemned Iran's call for the eradication of Israel and called on Tehran to recognize the nation...

Iran 'ships rockets to Hezbullah'
Jerusalem Post 11/17/2005
Iran has supplied Hezbullah with more than 10,000 short-range rockets and most of the weapons are deployed in southern Lebanon within reach of Israel...

Katsav makes landmark visit to Vatican for talks with Pope
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
President Moshe Katsav traveled to the Vatican on Thursday for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, marking the first official visit to the Vatican by...

Hamas: We oppose calm renewal
YNetNews 11/17/2005
In phone call with Palestinian prisoners in Israel, leading Hamas member Khaled Mashal says movement will request renewal of calm discussions only after PA...

Arab MK: I didn’t meet with Nasrallah
YNetNews 11/17/2005
Nazareth-based al-Sinnara is set to publish in its Friday edition that Israeli Arab MK Talab el-Sana met senior Hizbullah officials in Damascus; MK does...

N.Y. Jewish leaders lobby Rice on Gaza Strip border deal
Ha'aretz 11/18/2005
NEW YORK -- New York Jewish leaders encouraged U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to intervene aggressively in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute over the Gaza border...

Korean Official Representative Office to Palestine opened
International Middle East Media Center 11/16/2005
Under the patronage of the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Nasser Al Kidwa, the Representative Office of Republic of Korea to Palestine was...

Deal opens Gaza borders
Palestine Monitor/The Christian Science Monitor 11/16/2005
Israel agreed Tuesday to ease restrictions on Palestinian movement and travel to Egypt. -- JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a small but significant...

PNI: Gaza Border Agreement Represents Continuation of Occupation under New Guise
Palestine Monitor/Palestinian National Initiative 11/16/2005
Ramallah: A statement made today by the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) described yesterday’s agreement on the Gaza-Egypt border crossing as further proof of Israel’s...

Agreement on Movement and Access
Palestine Monitor/PLO - Negotiations Affairs Department 11/16/2005
To promote peaceful economic development and improve the humanitarian situation on the ground, the following agreement has been reached. It represents the commitments of...

PNA Urges Israel to Carry out Gaza Borders Deal ‘in Good Faith’
Palestine Media Center 11/16/2005
UN, US and EU Hail Gaza Access 6-point Agreement as ‘Big Step Forward’ -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel agreed on Tuesday...

Hamas, Jihad reject Palestinian-Israeli deal on Gaza crossings
ReliefWeb 11/16/2005
GAZA, Nov 16, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) rejected on Wednesday a US- brokered...

Agreed documents by Israel and Palestinians on movement and access from and to Gaza: Annexes
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/15/2005
Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian Authority November 15 achieved an agreement on facilitating the movement of people and goods within the Palestinian Territories...

Wolfensohn threatens to quit as Mideast envoy after being outdone by Rice
Daily Star 11/17/2005
JERUSALEM: Former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn said Wednesday he may quit as as international envoy to the Middle East, frustrated at his inability...

President Abbas Addressing WSIS: Knowledge and Technology can not be Attained Without Achieving Just Peace
WAFA 11/16/2005
TUNIS, November 17, 2005, (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that following the path of knowledge and technology can not be attained without achieving...

Joint statement by Javier Solana and Jack Straw on the "Agreement on movement and access" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/15/2005
EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, representing the EU Presidency, today issued a joint...

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for CFSP, welcomes appointment of Head of EU Police Mission for the Palestinian Territories
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/16/2005
Brussels, 16 November 2005 - Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, welcomes the appointment by the EU Political and...

Israel to avoid arresting Hamas candidates during PLC elections
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Israel will avoid arresting Hamas candidates during the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, unless they are suspected of terror involvement, a senior government official in...

Saudi Arabia annuls embargo on Israel
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Arab state to lift its economic embargo on Israel, as precondition to become member of World Trade Organization. Move is important milestone, may foretell...

Abbas meets Shalom in Tunis, praises Gaza border deal
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
TUNIS - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held two rounds of talks with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Wednesday at a United Nations technology summit...

Shalom to Abbas: Hamas threatens you
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Foreign minister meets Palestinian leader in Tunisia, warns him about Hamas danger; meanwhile, Abbas calls for continued diplomatic contacts, asks Shalom to send regards...

Katsav says he will invite Pope to Israel at Vatican meeting
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
President Moshe Katsav said Wednesday he would invite Pope Benedict to visit Israel when he meets the Pontiff on the final day of his...

Hamas slams Tunisia for hosting Shalom
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Organization condemns Shalom's visit to Tunisia, publishes statement slamming hosting of ‘the terrorist Shalom, calls visit a ‘stab in the back of the Palestinian...

Iran: We can spy on Israel
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Head of Iran’s space program says Sina-1 satellite capable of spying on Israel. Deputy Telecom Minister says, ‘it’s not possible to use it...

500,000 bullets on way to Gaza
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Mofaz gives green light-- Bullets to be used by PA police, Palestinian sources tell Ynet. Israel approves delivery on condition bullets used by police...

Interview - London mayor: Israel caused bloodshed
YNetNews 11/16/2005
In interview with British Jewish website, Ken Livingstone answers critics on range of issues, from his clashes with Board of Deputies of British Jews...

On Italy visit, President Katsav says al-Qaida penetrated Gaza Strip
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
ROME - President Moshe Katsav said Tuesday that al-Qaida penetrated the Gaza Strip after Israel's pullout, the latest senior Israeli official to issue the warning...

On Italy visit, President Katsav says al-Qaida penetrated Gaza Strip
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
ROME - President Moshe Katsav said Tuesday that al-Qaida penetrated the Gaza Strip after Israel's pullout, the latest senior Israeli official to issue the warning...

US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package
Globes 11/15/2005
The US initiated the present resumption in the talks. US foreign aid for 2006 includes $2.52 billion for Israel. -- The US and Israel have...

US, Israel resume talks on $1.2b special aid package
Globes 11/15/2005
The US initiated the present resumption in the talks. US foreign aid for 2006 includes $2.52 billion for Israel. -- The US and Israel have...

Italian President Urges Israelis Palestinians to " Protect their Dialogue from Extremist Provocations"
WAFA 11/15/2005
ROME, November 15, 2005 (WAFA) - Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Tuesday urged Israelis and Palestinians to "protect their dialogue from extremist provocations", AkI Italian...

Italian President Urges Israelis Palestinians to " Protect their Dialogue from Extremist Provocations"
WAFA 11/15/2005
ROME, November 15, 2005 (WAFA) - Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Tuesday urged Israelis and Palestinians to "protect their dialogue from extremist provocations", AkI Italian...

Dahlan: Rafah Crossing Will be Officially Opened on November 25
WAFA 11/15/2005
GAZA, November 15, 2005 (WAFA)- Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohamed Dahlan, said that Rafah International Crossing will be officially opened on 25 of the...

Dahlan: Rafah Crossing Will be Officially Opened on November 25
WAFA 11/15/2005
GAZA, November 15, 2005 (WAFA)- Minister of Civil Affairs, Mohamed Dahlan, said that Rafah International Crossing will be officially opened on 25 of the...

Abbas Meets Clinton in Amman
WAFA 11/15/2005
AMMAN, November 15, 2005 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with the Former US President Bill Clinton, in the Jordanian capital, Amman. During...

Abbas Meets Clinton in Amman
WAFA 11/15/2005
AMMAN, November 15, 2005 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with the Former US President Bill Clinton, in the Jordanian capital, Amman. During...

Palestinian state inevitable: Abbas
ReliefWeb 11/15/2005
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 15 (AFP) - Mahmud Abbas insisted that a Palestinian state was inevitable despite Israeli "intransigence" as he delivered a keynote address...

Palestinian state inevitable: Abbas
ReliefWeb 11/15/2005
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 15 (AFP) - Mahmud Abbas insisted that a Palestinian state was inevitable despite Israeli "intransigence" as he delivered a keynote address...

Erekat in Netanya: 'Full peace is just months away'
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
A comprehensive peace agreement is just months away, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat declared Tuesday. On the heels of the historic deal in Rafah...

Erekat in Netanya: 'Full peace is just months away'
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
A comprehensive peace agreement is just months away, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat declared Tuesday. On the heels of the historic deal in Rafah...

Diplomats hail Gaza border deal
BBC 11/15/2005
Israeli, Palestinian and EU officials have welcomed a deal to reopen Gaza's border with Israel and Egypt. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brokered...

Diplomats hail Gaza border deal
BBC 11/15/2005
Israeli, Palestinian and EU officials have welcomed a deal to reopen Gaza's border with Israel and Egypt. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brokered...

Gaza deal unlikely to foster trust
BBC 11/15/2005
After the personal intervention of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel and the Palestinians have reached agreement on opening border crossings linking the...

Gaza deal unlikely to foster trust
BBC 11/15/2005
After the personal intervention of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel and the Palestinians have reached agreement on opening border crossings linking the...

Abbas: Israel pushing PA to civil war over Hamas disarmament
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Tuesday of trying to avoid peace talks and push Palestinians into civil war by insisting that...

Abbas: Israel pushing PA to civil war over Hamas disarmament
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Tuesday of trying to avoid peace talks and push Palestinians into civil war by insisting that...

Saudi Arabia lifts Israel embargo
Jerusalem Post 11/15/2005
In a move meant to pave the way for its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Saudi Arabia on Tuesday cancelled its economic...

Saudi Arabia lifts Israel embargo
Jerusalem Post 11/15/2005
In a move meant to pave the way for its entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Saudi Arabia on Tuesday cancelled its economic...

Rice plays heavy to broker Gaza deal
Jerusalem Post 11/15/2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played the heavy on Tuesday to help seal a deal that was eluding Israelis and Palestinians and clouding a...

Rice plays heavy to broker Gaza deal
Jerusalem Post 11/15/2005
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played the heavy on Tuesday to help seal a deal that was eluding Israelis and Palestinians and clouding a...

Israel finally agrees to give Palestinians control of border
The Independent 11/16/2005
Palestinians stand to gain control of one of their borders for the first time in a wide-ranging US- brokered deal aimed at giving Gaza's...

Israel finally agrees to give Palestinians control of border
The Independent 11/16/2005
Palestinians stand to gain control of one of their borders for the first time in a wide-ranging US- brokered deal aimed at giving Gaza's...

Hizbullah: UN passed intel. to Israel
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
The pro-Syrian terror organization Hizbullah on Tuesday accused the UN team investigating the assassination former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of passing on crucial intelligence...

Hizbullah: UN passed intel. to Israel
Jerusalem Post 11/16/2005
The pro-Syrian terror organization Hizbullah on Tuesday accused the UN team investigating the assassination former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of passing on crucial intelligence...

Serbian minister in Israeli satellite scandal
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Prvoslav Davinic, who resigned last September amid a separate scandal involving the purchase of military gear, signed deal with ImageSat International in June -- Serbia-Montenegro's...

Serbian minister in Israeli satellite scandal
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Prvoslav Davinic, who resigned last September amid a separate scandal involving the purchase of military gear, signed deal with ImageSat International in June -- Serbia-Montenegro's...

Ministry official: Saudi Arabia to lift economic embargo on Israel
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
Saudi Arabia has agreed to lift its economic embargo on Israel so that it can join the World Trade Organization, the Ministry of Industry...

Ministry official: Saudi Arabia to lift economic embargo on Israel
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
Saudi Arabia has agreed to lift its economic embargo on Israel so that it can join the World Trade Organization, the Ministry of Industry...

Shalom, Annan meet in Tunisia
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Foreign minister and U.N. secretary general discuss series of issues including border crossings in Gaza, Iran and Israel-U.N. relations; Shalom returns for first time...

Shalom, Annan meet in Tunisia
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Foreign minister and U.N. secretary general discuss series of issues including border crossings in Gaza, Iran and Israel-U.N. relations; Shalom returns for first time...

Israel lifts 'siege of Gaza' in landmark deal
The Guardian 11/16/2005
Agreement opens border crossing with Egypt · Pressure from US helps to break impasse -- Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached a landmark agreement yesterday which...

Israel lifts 'siege of Gaza' in landmark deal
The Guardian 11/16/2005
Agreement opens border crossing with Egypt · Pressure from US helps to break impasse -- Israel and the Palestinian Authority reached a landmark agreement yesterday which...

Rice: U.S. expects Israel to halt settlement expansion
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday she expects Israel to fulfill its obligations to put a halt to settlement expansion and evacuate...

Belgian Minister of Justice Visits Civil Society Associations in Gaza
International Press Center 11/14/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 13, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - The Belgian Minister of Justice Laurette Onkelinx visited Sunday two Palestinian non-government organizations (NGOs) in Gaza in...

Dahlan: Israeli Occupations Suffocating Palestinian Economy
International Press Center 11/13/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 13, 2005 (IPC + RNA) - - Civil Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan called on the Quartet Committee's special envoy for the Israeli disengagement, James...

Planning Minister: International Conference in London for Supporting Palestinian People Next Month
International Press Center 11/14/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, November 14, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Dr. Ghassan Al Khatib, announced today that an international conference for...

174-member Delegation from Pakistan Reaches Israel
Palestine Media Center 11/14/2005
ISLAMABAD: Carrying complete official and political blessings, a 174-member Pakistani delegation led by Maulana Ajmal Qadari reached Tel-Aviv on Saturday, reports noted journalist...

Abed Rabbo to Norwegian FM: Hamas Part of Palestinian People
Palestine Media Center 11/14/2005
Jonas Stoere: ‘Settlements and the Wall are a Problem on the Road to Peace’ -- Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Gaza in danger of turning into a 'giant prison', says Mideast envoy
Palestine Monitor/Independent 11/14/2005
James Wolfensohn, the former chairman of the World Bank, warned yesterday that Gaza was in danger of becoming a "giant prison" after Israeli withdrawal...

Qurei: Israel's Unilateral Measures in WB will Destroy Peace
WAFA 11/14/2005
RAMALLAH, November 14, (WAFA) - Premiere Ahmed Qurei said Monday that the Israeli unilateral measures in the West Bank (WB) will destroy the peace process...

MOLSA Denies Israeli Claims of Easing Restrictions against Workers
WAFA 11/14/2005
GAZA, November 14, 2005 , (WAFA)- Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (MOLSA) denied Monday the Israeli claim of easing the restrictions in the West...

Council establishes EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/14/2005
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- Brussels, 14 November 2005 - The Council adopted a joint action establishing an EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories...

Concluding session, Fourth Committee takes action on situation of Palestinians, Israeli practices in Occupied Territories
ReliefWeb/United Nations General Assembly 11/14/2005
Nine Drafts Approved; More Assistance for Refugees Sought, Work of UNRWA Commended, End of Human Rights Violations Demanded -- Concluding its work for the current...

President Abbas Arrives in Amman, Meets with King Abdullah II
WAFA 11/14/2005
AMMAN, November 14, 2005 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Jordanian Capital Amman. During the meeting...

Palestinians say they will seek UN probe into Arafat's death
Ha'aretz 11/13/2005
DAMASCUS - The Palestinians will ask the United Nations Security Council to set up an international commission to investigate the death of Palestinian leader Yasser...

Sen. Clinton: I support W. Bank fence, PA must fight terrorism
Ha'aretz 11/13/2005
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she supports the separation fence Israel is building along the edges of the West Bank, and that...

Rice says Palestinian state would enhance Israel's security
Ha'aretz 11/13/2005
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel on Sunday declaring a Palestinian state would enhance the Jewish state's security. Speaking to reporters...

U.S. said pressing sides to reach Gaza border deal
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
The United States is pressing Israel and the Palestinian Authority to reach an agreement on the running of the Gaza-Egypt border at the southernmost...

Israel to ask U.S. Jewish communities to finance foreign aid projects
Ha'aretz 11/15/2005
Israel is trying to persuade Jewish federations and communities in the Unites States to finance Israeli aid programs in foreign countries, Haaretz has learned...

Rice, Sharon discuss impasse
YNetNews 11/14/2005
Secretary of state in Israel for Rabin commemoration ceremonies; meeting with prime minister centers on diplomatic process with Palestinians, but recent talks regarding Gaza...

Rice urges Israeli-Palestinian efforts on peace process
Daily Star 11/14/2005
U.S. Secretary of State pledges to boost cooperation with Saudi Arabia on terrorism -- Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday urged Israel...

Rice in Israel: Isolate Syria
YNetNews 11/13/2005
In Jerusalem speech, U.S. secretary of state lauds U.N. actions to isolate Syria; PM Sharon calls on international community to make it clear to...

Gaza border opening talks to resume
AlJazeera 11/14/2005
Israeli and Palestinian officials are set to hold fresh talks on the reopening of the Gaza-Egypt border, with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice...

Israel, PA at stalemate over deal on Gaza Strip crossings
Ha'aretz 11/14/2005
Quartet special Mideast envoy James Wolfensohn on Sunday called the next 72 hours "critical to his mission" in a meeting with the managers of...

UN Political Affairs Chief to OPT Next Week
WAFA 11/11/2005
NY CITY, November 11, 2005 (WAFA) - The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs will head to the region between 13 and 21 November and...

Palestinians Lobby White House To Press Israel on Arab Voting in Jerusalem
Forward 11/11/2005
WASHINGTON — Claiming that Israel plans to obstruct Palestinian voting in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority is urging the Bush administration and European governments to...

Report: Pakistan excludes Israel from quake relief conference
Ha'aretz 11/12/2005
The Pakistani official in charge of the earthquake relief effort, Major General Farooq Ahmad Khan, has told press that Israel is not invited to...

Al-Kidwa: Israel won't evade Hague Court fence ruling
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
Israel will not be able to evade the legal implications of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the separation fence even in 100...

Deal on Egypt-Gaza border several weeks away: EU
Daily Star 11/12/2005
PA official: Israel bypassing peace process -- An Israeli-Palestinian agreement on reopening the Gaza-Egypt border terminal is unlikely to emerge for another few weeks, the...

Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens to attack Israel
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
A Web statement Friday in the name of al-Qaida in Iraq, claiming the deadly hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, included a threat to Israel...

Rafah crossing talks hit snag
YNetNews 11/11/2005
After week of intense contacts, argument over security cameras hinders deal -- Negotiations fail – because of cameras: Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on...

Israeli Insistence to Put Surveillance Cameras Obstructs Rafah Terminal Talks' Development
International Press Center 11/10/2005
GAZA, November 10, 2005, (IPC) - - Israeli sources asserted that Palestinians and Israelis failed to achieve an agreement on the issue of re-operating Rafah border...

PM Qurie Receives British Chancellor Brown
WAFA 11/10/2005
RAMALLAH, November 10, 2005 (WAFA) - Premiere Ahmed Qurie discussed on Thursday with the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, the ways of the...

Abbas, Barghouthi Reject Sharon’s Threats to Disrupt Elections
Palestine Media Center 11/8/2005
EU Urges Israel to Facilitate Conduct of Palestinian Legislative Polls -- President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday rejected as a flagrant interference in the Palestinian internal...

President Abbas Receives EC Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner
WAFA 11/10/2005
RAMALLAH, November 10, 2005 (WAFA) - President Abbas received Thursday Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Ramallah. They discussed, throughout...

Iraq Pullout Bad for Israel: Bush's Aide
Palestine Chronicle 11/2/2005
The spread of democracy will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood for Israel,' said Hadley.." -- CAIRO - US President George W. Bush's national security...

Palestine Mourns in Solidarity with Jordan
Palestine Media Center 11/10/2005
Palestinian Military Intelligence Chief Among Five Palestinians Killed in Amman - Five Palestinians Killed, Including an Israeli Arab -- The Palestinian leadership on Wednesday announced three-day...

Israel Tells Greek Patriarchy not to Swear in Theophilos
WAFA 11/10/2005
TEL AVIV, November 10, 2005 (WAFA) - The Israeli government has warned on Thursday the Greek Orthodox Patriarch-elect, Theophilos III, not to hold an official...

Assembly's Special Political Committee receives series of draft texts on situation of Palestinians in Occupied Territories
ReliefWeb/United Nations General Assembly 11/10/2005
Action Delayed to Allow Work on Revised Versions; Debate Concluded On Report of Body Investigating Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights -- The Fourth Committee (Special...

At critical juncture, UN Political Affairs chief to visit Middle East next week
ReliefWeb/United Nations News 11/10/2005
With the peace process in the Middle East at a crucial phase and developments in Lebanon of heightened importance, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for...

Rice leaves on Mid-East mission
BBC 11/10/2005
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way to the Middle East to launch an initiative aimed at promoting democratic and economic...

King Abdullah cancels trip to Israel after Amman triple suicide bombing
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
Israel on Thursday evening says Jordan's King Abdullah II has canceled a planned trip to Israel after at least 57 people were killed in...

Clintons to attend 'American-Israeli Dialog' conference Sat. night
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, will attend Saturday night's gala opening of "The American-Israeli Dialog" at the King...

Justice Rubinstein: U.S. should free convicted spy Pollard
Ha'aretz 11/11/2005
High Court Justice Eliyakim Rubinstein on Thursday made a rare politically tainted comment when saying that the United States should release Jonathan Pollard, who...

Israel Strives for Image Makeover in Arab Media
Palestine Chronicle 11/9/2005
JERUSALEM - "I cannot enter into this so long as this criminal is on your screen," a Hamas spokesman calmly told Arabic satellite channel Al...

Israeli President Katzav Denies Deal with Vatican on Jerusalem Sites
Palestine Media Center 11/9/2005
President Moshe Katsav's Office has today (Wednesday), 9.11.05, released the following statement: "Recently, rumors have been published in the media in Israel and abroad...

President Abbas Condemns Amman Terrorist Attacks
WAFA 11/9/2005
RAMALLAH, November 09, 2005 (WAFA) - President Abbas condemned Wednesday the terrorist attack in the Jordanian Capital Amman, describing it as a crime against humanity...

Hezbollah-Israel talks over prisoners, Arad to resume
International Middle East Media Center 11/8/2005
Israel and Hezbollah renewed the second stage negotiations secretly to conclude a new deal on the missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad, the London-based al-Quds...

Abed-Rabbo to Asharq Alawsat: Armed Palestinian Militias Best Cover for Completion of Israeli Plans
Palestine Media Center 11/6/2005
Interview with PLO Executive Committee Member Yasir Abd-Rabbuh -- PLO Executive Committee member Yasir Abd-Rabbuh has stated that the present Israeli leadership "does not believe...

Nasser Al Kidwa to MEHRNEWS: Arafat Death Still a Mystery
Palestine Media Center 11/9/2005
Interview with PNA Foreign Minister Nasser Al Kidwa by Trish Schuh -- NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (MNA) -- At the United Nations 60th Anniversary World Summit...

Fourth Committee approves text urging assistance for mine-affected countries, recommending 4 April as international day of mine awareness
ReliefWeb/United Nations General Assembly 11/8/2005
In Continuing General Debate, Israeli Delegate Calls Special Committee Report ‘Absurd, Shameful Waste of United Nations Resources’ -- The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization...

British Chancellor: Rebuilding Palestinian Economy Vital for Peace Deal
WAFA 11/9/2005
TEL AVIV, November 09, 2005 (WAFA) - British Chancellor on fact-finding mission to Middle East, Gordon Brown, said on Wednesday that rebuilding Palestinian economy is...

Meetings on resolving Gaza-Egypt border fate
ReliefWeb 11/8/2005
JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (AFP) - Top-level meetings were continuing Tuesday in a bid to resolve differences between Israel and the Palestinians on reopening the border...

James Wolfensohn to continue as Quartet Gaza envoy – UN spokesperson
ReliefWeb/United Nations News 11/9/2005
The diplomatic Quartet promoting the Middle East peace process – made up of the United Nations, United States, Russian Federation and European Union – has requested...

Abbas' office: Jordan's King Abdullah to visit West Bank next week
Ha'aretz 11/8/2005
Jordan's King Abdullah will visit the West Bank this coming Monday, the office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced on Tuesday. Palestinian Prime...

Israel welcomes proposed changes to allow it to join Red Cross
Ha'aretz 11/8/2005
The Magen David Adom rescue service Tuesday welcomed the intention of the international Red Cross to introduce a new emblem that will pave the...

Palestinian refugee minister says issues with Lebanon 'will be solved'
Daily Star 11/10/2005
The Lebanese are serious about realizing this matter' -- BEIRUT: Palestinian State Minister for Refugee Affairs Abbas Zaki said Wednesday that current Palestinian-Lebanese issues will...

Quartet envoy: Israel's security concerns stall talks on Rafah crossing
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
Lingering Israeli security issues over crossings into the Gaza Strip are making it difficult to broker an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians to...

Israel shifts conversion policy after Indian government complains
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
Israeli rabbis in northeastern India have stopped converting about 6,000 people who believe they are members of an ancient tribe of Israel, after the...

World Bank report: Three West Bank-Gaza routes needed
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
The World Bank technical team examining the provision of a "safe crossing" between the Gaza Strip and the areas of the West Bank controlled...

Analysis / The Palestinian sine qua non
By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz 11/8/2005
Why has Israel backed off from its threat to prevent Hamas from participating in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections? Prime Minister Sharon has made...

Israel dismisses Hamas chief's hints at future negotiations
Ha'aretz 11/9/2005
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom Wednesday dismissed as a "tactic" remarks by Hamas chief Mahmoud Zahar, who hinted at openness to future negotiations with Israel...

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Israel next week
Globes 11/9/2005
The Clintons will attend the official memorial for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and also plan to tour a section of the Security Fence. -- Former...

Israel warns Greek Patriarchy not to swear in Theophilos
Ha'aretz 11/10/2005
The Israeli government has warned the Greek Orthodox Patriarch-elect, Theophilos III, not to hold an official inauguration ceremony scheduled for November 22....Two weeks...

Hamas leader: Israel talks possible
AlJazeera 11/9/2005
The leader of Hamas in its Gaza Strip stronghold says he doesn't rule out future negotiations between the group and Israel, in an unusual...

MK gives Assad letter from spy's wife
YNetNews 11/9/2005
Israeli Arab MK el-Sana gives President Bashar Assad letter from widow of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen, who was hanged in Damascus 40 years...

EU Stresses Need to Maintain Momentum Implement Road Map
WAFA 11/7/2005
BRUSSELS, November 07, 2005 (WAFA) - The EU Council underlined on Monday the need to maintain forward momentum towards full implementation of the Road Map...

President Abbas Says Final Touches Being Made to Reopen Rafah Terminal
International Press Center 11/7/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, November 7, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - President Mahmoud Abbas asserted that the final touches are being made to reopen Rafah border terminal with...

UNRWA Refuses Israeli Calls to Freeze its Activities
WAFA 11/7/2005
GAZA, November 7, 2005, (WAFA)- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) refused Israeli calls to...

Egyptian Training to Palestinian Diplomats
WAFA 11/7/2005
GAZA, November 7, 2005, (WAFA)- A delegation from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the ministry will provide its Palestinian counterpart with all the...

OPT: EU 'impressed' by Palestinian efforts at Gaza border
ReliefWeb 11/7/2005
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Nov 7 (AFP) - The European Union's Middle East envoy said Monday he was "impressed" by Palestinian preparations for the re-opening of...

PM: International Efforts must be Exerted to Launch Peace Process
WAFA 11/7/2005
RAMALLAH, November 7, 2005, (WAFA)- Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei affirmed on Monday the necessity for an international efforts to launch the peace process again...

Council conclusions on the Middle East peace process - 2687th External Relations Council meeting
ReliefWeb/European Union 11/7/2005
Brussels, 7 November 2005 - The Council adopted the following conclusions: "1. The Council underlined the need to maintain forward momentum towards full implementation of...

Wolfensohn, Rice, Solana and Otte Coming to ‘Open’ Rafah
Palestine Media Center 11/6/2005
PNA: Israel Not Coordinating in Good Faith to Open Gaza Border Crossings -- Amid Palestinian “deep frustration” with Israel’s “refusal to coordinate in good faith...

Israel: FM Shalom meets with new UNWRA commissioner
ReliefWeb/Government of Israel 11/7/2005
Shalom raised the issue of transferring authority from UNWRA to the Palestinian Authority -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday (Sunday, 6...

PA optimistic that deal with Israel on Rafah crossing is near
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday night that the PA was near a deal with Israel to reopen a border crossing for Palestinians...

Sharon says talks with PA off if Hamas runs in parliamentary elections
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that Israel is vehemently opposed to Hamas' participation in the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections. Speaking before the...

Sharon rules out peace talks with Syria, pullout from Golan Heights
Daily Star 11/8/2005
EU launches mission to train palestinian police forces -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday ruled out any prospect of peace talks with Syria...

Report: Israel to hand control of Jerusalem holy site to Vatican
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
Israel is to give the Vatican control over one of the most sacred Christian sites in Jerusalem, several European newspapers have reported recently. According...

EU to launch PA police mission, debate Rafah role
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
The European Union plans to announce the launch of a three-year mission today to help the Palestinian Authority build a credible police force, EU...

Mofaz Interview: ‘A Military Option Is Not on the Agenda’
Newsweek 11/3/2005
In a wide-ranging interview, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz rules out strikes against Iran and raises doubts about whether Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has...

Mofaz: Strike against Iran not on agenda
YNetNews 11/7/2005
In interview with Newsweek defense minister says, ‘I believe for the time being the diplomatic channel is the main one, There is a chance...

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom to attend int'l summit in Tunisia
Ha'aretz 11/7/2005
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom will attend a summit in Tunisia next week in another sign of improving ties between Israel and the Arab world...

Iran to present Mideast peace plan
YNetNews 11/7/2005
Iranian foreign minister says Teheran plans to submit comprehensive peace plan to U.N.; initiative calls for referendum among ‘all genuine Palestinians’ -- Iran is planning...

Iran Tries Charm to Counter Israel Remarks
The Guardian 11/7/2005
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Facing continued criticism for its president's call for Israel's destruction, Iran launched a charm offensive Sunday by proposing resumed nuclear talks...

Al Masry: “No renewal of the Calm without Israeli guarantees”
International Middle East Media Center 11/5/2005
Hamas media spokesperson, Mosheer Al Masry, reported on Saturday that the movement will not agree to a renewal of the ceasefire, which is due...

The Rafah Border Crossing to open for 4 hours on Monday
International Middle East Media Center 11/5/2005
A Palestinian source reported on Saturday that the Rafah border crossing will be opened next Monday for four hours in order to test the...

Envoy Ayalon may be forced to step down
Ha'aretz 11/6/2005
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, will be forced to resign his post shortly, according to governmentofficials who have looked over the...

UAE Calls for Permanent Solution to Palestine Issue
WAFA 11/5/2005
New York, November 05, 2005 (WAFA) - The United Arab Emirates has urged the international community to address the problem of Palestinian refugees, saying that...

Assad ‘told Palestinian militia no limits’ on activities
Financial Times 11/3/2005
Bashar Al-Assad, the Syrian president, told Palestinian militia leaders at a meeting in early September that there were no red lines limiting their destabilising...

Jerusalem, Groups Launch Campaign To Isolate Iran
Forward 11/4/2005
In an effort to capitalize on the international outrage over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent call to "wipe Israel off the map," Israel and...

Israel to resume involvement in prestigious U.S. defense project
Ha'aretz 11/5/2005
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and his American counterpart Donald Rumsfeld on Friday agreed to resume Israel's participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter...

Mofaz: Israel trying to advance opening of Rafah crossing
Ha'aretz 11/5/2005
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Saturday that Israel is trying to advance the opening of the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border, Israel Radio...

'Israel to return to combat plane project'
Yahoo! News 11/4/2005
In Pentagon meeting, Mofaz and Rumsfeld agree to end crisis between Israel, U.S. on Israel-China arms deal -- Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met Friday evening...

Hillary Clinton to arrive next week
Ha'aretz 11/4/2005
U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will arrive in Israel next week for a visit that she hopes will boost her support among New York...

Iraq Pullout Bad for Israel: Bush's Aide
Palestine Chronicle 11/2/2005
The spread of democracy will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood for Israel,' said Hadley.." -- CAIRO - US President George W. Bush's national security...

Arab officials tour Israeli missile boat
YNetNews 11/4/2005
Representatives from Arab states, including those who do not have diplomatic ties with Israel, invited aboard navy ship during joint Israeli-Greek exercise -- (VIDEO) For...

Hamas will not renew truce if Israel doesn’t halt its attacks
International Middle East Media Center 11/3/2005
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said that it will not renew its commitment to the truce, which expires at the end of this year, if...

Qurei: “current Israeli leadership does not seek peace”
International Middle East Media Center 11/2/2005
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said on Tuesday that the current Israeli leadership does not seek peace and is still governed by the “arrogance...

U.S. to Israel: Gaza cargo crossings must remain open
Ha'aretz 11/4/2005
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will demand in her upcoming visit to Israel that Jerusalem immediately remove all obstacles to the passage of...

EU mission to evaluate role at crossing
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
The European Union said yesterday it was sending senior officials to the Middle East to evaluate a possible role in helping monitor the Rafah...

Ferrero-Waldner on request for third party presence on Palestinian border
ReliefWeb/European Commission 11/2/2005
The European Commission welcomes the progress made yesterday in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on arrangements for movement of people and goods...

Hamas asks to relocate offices to Egypt, Jordan
Ha'aretz 11/4/2005
Senior Hamas officials recently asked Egypt and Jordan whether either country would be willing to allow the organization's headquarters to relocate to its territory...

U.S. to Israel: Reopen Gaza crossings
YNetNews 11/4/2005
Quartet Economic Envoy James Wolfensohn operating to restore activities at Gaza Strip's border crossings back to pre-pullout level to enable the flow of goods...

White House urges Abbas to act against Islamic Jihad
International Middle East Media Center 11/1/2005
The U.S. administration demanded the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to crack down on the Islamic Jihad movement, in the wake of the latest attacks...

Palestinian FM Nasser Al-Kidwa to ‘The Korea Herald’: ‘We Are Looking Forward to Seeing More Political Engagement by Korea’
Palestine Media Center/Korea Herald 11/1/2005
Already enjoying strong support from East Asian countries such as China and Japan, the Palestinian Authority is now seeking more fruitful cooperation with Korea...

Israel postpones signing deal on removing Gaza settlements' remains
ReliefWeb 11/1/2005
GAZA, Nov 1, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A senior Palestinian official denounced Israel on Tuesday for postponing signing a deal with the United Nations...

Hamas is committed to ceasefire: official
ReliefWeb 11/2/2005
GAZA, Nov 2, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Wednesday that it is still committed to a ceasefire after...

Hamas: Truce with Israel won't be renewed at end of year
Ha'aretz 11/2/2005
A Hamas spokesman said Wednesday the Islamic militant group would not renew an informal nine-month-old truce, which expires at the end of the year...

EU sending mission to evaluate role at Gaza's Rafah border crossing
Ha'aretz 11/2/2005
The European Union said Wednesday it was sending senior officials to the Middle East to evaluate an EU role in helping monitor the Rafah...

Israel cabinet backs Rafah border deal
AlJazeera 11/2/2005
Israel's security cabinet has approved an agreement with Cairo to reopen the Rafah border terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt under EU supervision...

EU to check travelers under Rafah plan
Ha'aretz 11/3/2005
Top cabinet ministers yesterday approved a plan calling for European Union officials to inspect travelers entering the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah...

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Peres quits Labour to support Sharon
The Guardian 11/30/2005
Ex-prime minister leaves party after 60 years · Peace process 'will be restarted after election' -- Shimon Peres resigned from Israel's Labour party yesterday, his political...

Fatah to resume primaries for Palestinian polls
ReliefWeb 11/30/2005
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 30 (AFP) - The ruling Palestinian Fatah faction decided Wednesday to resume its primaries to select candidates for January parliamentary polls...

Hamas site says 3 of its leaders are candidates for parliament
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Fatah veterans score big win in primary elections in Jerusalem for parliament -- Three top leaders of Hamas are among the Islamic militant group's candidates...

Dahlan: “The president did not cancel the primaries”
International Middle East Media Center 11/30/2005
Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs Mohammad Dahlan said on Tuesday, that the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, did not issue a decree canceling the Fateh...

Labor MK: Peres' invented ideology is embarrassing
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Shimon Peres' announcement Wednesday evening of his resignation from the Labor Pary in order to support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party, Kadima, drew...

Ben-Ami: Peres should free the nation from his internal torment
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Former foreign minister and Labor Party member Shlomo Ben-Ami leveled harsh criticism at Shimon Peres on Wednesday, calling on him to "free the nation...

Likud regroups amid ominous polls
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Senior party members, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvan Shalom, convene following polls showing party set to gain only 10 Knesset seats in March general elections...

Likud on verge of collapse
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Likud down to 10 Knesset seats in new Dahaf Institute survey, while Shas gains 11 seats; Sharon wins with 34 seats, Labor up to...

Likud legal advisor kicked out of party for aiding rival Kadima
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
In a first ever move, the Likud party on Wednesday morning ostracized a senior official for aiding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new rival political...

Peretz prepares for life after Peres
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Party chairman Amir Peretz refuses to comment on Peres' announcement he is to resign from Labor during press conference in Tel Aviv; presents new...

Suspension of Omri Sharon deferred
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Knesset committee decides to postpone vote on whether to suspend Omri Sharon from Knesset until court sentences him for illegal fundrasing -- The Knesset Constitution...

Journalist: 'Seculars anti-Semitic to religious'
YNetNews 11/30/2005
I am revolted by the anti-Semitic discourse promoted by seculars against ultra-Orthodox,' Shelly Yechimovitz says, one day after she joins Labor party -- The latest...

PLC: President Abbas’s term in office ends by January 8, 2009
Rami Almeghari & Agencies, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), decided on Monday that president Abbas’ term in office ends officially on January08, 2009, therefore Abbas becomes an illegal president of the Palestinian...

Bardaweil to PNN: extension of presidential term must pass through Legislative Council
Fadi Yacoub, Palestine News Network 10/6/2008
PNN -- The Legislative Council in Gaza met Monday regarding the legal dimensions of extending the term of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Gaza’s PLC discussed the legality and risks...

Finance C’tee demands crisis plan
Adrian Filut, Globes Online 10/6/2008
Committee chairman Avishai Braverman reiterated his demand for fiscal expansion. Increasingly worried about a severe recession, the Knesset Finance Committee today demanded that Minister of Finance Ronnie Bar-On and Governor...

Barak seen backtracking on budget expansion
Globes Online 10/6/2008
Livni aide: Barak wants bailouts for tycoons who took insane risks. The Labor Party will not insist on a budget expansion as a condition for joining a government headed by...

Livni expected to meet leaders of religious parties in bid to form ruling coalition
Agence France Presse - AFP, Daily Star 10/7/2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni pressed ahead with efforts to secure a ruling coalition on Monday, a day after delivering her first foreign-policy speech since being named to...

Barak edges closer to Livni coalition
Attila Somfalvi, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Hinting again Labor may be willing to compromise, join Kadima government, defense minister says dealing with current economic crisis more important than party’s budget demands. Meanwhile Shas adamant...

Deri withdraws from Jerusalem mayoral race
Ronen Medzini, YNetNews 10/6/2008
Former Shas chairman says he will not appeal decision to keep him from running to High Court. ’Although I am deeply disappointed by the court’s decision, I...

VIDEO / Gaydamak submits candidacy for Jerusalem mayor, as trial opens against him in Paris
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Russian-Israeli tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak on Monday submitted his official candidacy for the Jerusalem mayoral race, just as a trial against him opened in Paris on charges of illegal arms trafficking...

Barak: Economic crisis is top priority
Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
Labor Party chairman Ehud Barak hinted on Monday that he would give up his demand to expand the budget framework due to the current international economic crisis. In a meeting...

Hamas denies it suspended West Bank leaders over meetings with Abbas
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – A Gaza-based Hamas leader denied on Monday that his movement had suspended some of its own members in the West Bank after they met with Palestinian President Mahmoud...

Khreishah: Hamas kidnapped PLC name, illegal elections the ransom
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The meetings of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the Gaza Strip held by the Hamas bloc (‘change and reform parties) are “illegal,” and are only concerned with...

Mashaal: Hamas sets no conditions for internal reconciliation
Palestinian Information Center 10/6/2008
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, stated Monday that his Movement does not set any condition for inter-Palestinian reconciliation, stressing the need for respecting the Palestinian...

Muzaini: Hamas is ready to restore unity away from the US dictates
Palestinian Information Center 10/6/2008
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Dr. Osama Al-Muzaini, a prominent Hamas leader, stated Monday that his Movement is absolutely ready to discuss everything that would restore the national unity and lead to a...

Sha’ath to PNN: comments regarding presidential term provocative
Bethlehem, Palestine News Network 10/6/2008
PNN -- Nabil Sha’ath joined in the day’s denials of an agreement on an Egyptian paper or initiative for internal Palestinian reconciliation. A Saudi Arabian newspaper published...

Barhoum to PNN: no agreement on internal dialogue
Fadi Yacoub, Palestine News Network 10/6/2008
PNN -- Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum denied reports that it accepted an Egyptian initiative. Speaking to PNN Monday, Barhoum said that the Hamas delegation will arrive in Cairo tomorrow for its...

Hamas: Extending Abbas’ term 'even one more day' is unconstitutional
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas-affiliated legal officials reasserted on Monday that it is “unconstitutional” for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to extend his term for “even one more day” beyond 8 January 2009...

PLC member urges factions to work for success at Cairo unity talks
Ma’an News Agency 10/6/2008
Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Husam At-Tawil on Monday called on all Palestinian factions participating in Egyptian-sponsored political talks to “exert every effort to reach reconciliation. ”At-Tawil, an...

PLC holds session to discuss legal dimensions of end of Abba’s tenure
Palestinian Information Center 10/6/2008
GAZA, (PLC)-- The PLC held Monday a session to discuss the legal dimensions of specifying term of office of current PA chief Mahmoud Abbas. MP Faraj Al-Ghoul, the head of...

Ex-Mossad chief Halevy seen as key Livni adviser
Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post 10/6/2008
With last week’s resignation of Foreign Ministry director-general Aaron Abramovich, a trusted adviser to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, speculation is rife about who will replace him in her...

Hamas dominated PLC votes on the illegality of extending Abbas’ term beyond January 8
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 10/6/2008
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), dominated by Hamas movement, held on Monday a session to discuss the legal dimensions of specifying term of office of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas...

With Deri out, Porush courts Haredi elite
Yair Ettinger, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
MK Meir Porush can expect to sweat it out until the last minute, without knowing the conditions under which he will become the agreed-on ultra-Orthodox candidate for Jerusalem mayor. And...

Crisis pushes Barak, Livni together
Mazal Mualem and Tal Levy, Ha’aretz 10/7/2008
Stock markets tumbled worldwide, pulling down Tel Aviv stocks too as fears of a global financial crisis escalated after a pan-European bailout plan never even left the starting gate. The...

Fateh spokesperson holds Hamas responsible for the death of a political prisoner
IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center News 7/12/2008
Fahmi Al Za’areer, spokesperson of Fateh movement, accused Hamas movement of causing the death of Bassam Al Anani, 40, one of Fateh members, who was arrested by Hamas...

’Recommendation to indict PM expected within weeks’
Efrat Weiss, YNetNews 7/13/2008
Law enforcement sources estimate that following new suspicions, investigation file against Olmert to be handed over to State Prosecutor’s Office soon. Investigation team expanded in order to meet...

Fayyad Calls on Palestinians to Defy Israeli Army
Reuters, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad called on Palestinians on Thursday to defy an Israeli army attempt to shut down a major commercial center in Nablus. In a striking intervention in...

Fatah spokesperson responds to Hamas’ criticism on truce, national dialogue
Ma’an News Agency 7/13/2008
Ramallah – Ma’an – The Fatah movement says that the current ceasefire in the Gaza Strip puts it in position to regain control of the Gaza Strip. On Saturday Fatah...

QB: All attempts to liquidate us in the WB will fail
Palestinian Information Center 7/12/2008
GAZA, (PIC)-- The armed wing of the Hamas Movement, the Qassam Brigades, on Saturday asserted that all attempts by the Israeli occupation authority and its agents in the PA security...

Fayyad calls for interim Palestinian government to prepare for elections
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Jerusalem – Ma’an –The London-based Al-Hayat daily newspaper said, "The Palestinian Prime Minister [Salam Fayyad] behaved more like an Intifada man than an academic or an economist. " The paper...

Hamas: Fayyad is 'most dangerous man in the history of the Palestinian question'
Ma’an News Agency 7/12/2008
Gaza – Hamas’ spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum described Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Saturday as a man who is implementing a US-Israeli agenda rather than Palestinian one. Speaking over Palestinian...

Internal chaos in Gaza continues: local Fateh leader dies to alleged abuse in Hamas prison
Palestine News Network 7/12/2008
Gaza / PNN Fateh officials reported the death of their Secretary from the central Gaza Strip’s Nusseirat Refugee Camp this afternoon. He died on Saturday after spending a month...

Ehud Olmert Will Not Contest Leadership, Officials Say
Sheera Frenkel, MIFTAH 7/12/2008
Ehud Olmert’s tenuous grip on power weakened further yesterday when officials of his ruling Kadima party suggested that he would not contest the leadership primaries in September. Already...

Key witness in Olmert’s travel affair proclaims his innocence
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Diaspora affairs advisor to PM takes vow of silence amidst media turmoil on new "˜Olmertours’ case, saying he "˜never pocketed a shekel’ to fund family pleasures. Non-profit groups...

Former judge urges prime minister to resign
Ynet, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Retired Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner calls on Olmert, public to draw conclusions, claiming Israelis cannot wait for PM’s affairs to be thoroughly probed before he is ousted...

Olmert suspected of defrauding state, charities to fund trips abroad
Jonathan Lis Tomer Zarchin and Ofra Edelman, and News Agencies, Ha’aretz 7/12/2008
Israel Police and the Justice Ministry released a joint statement Friday saying that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of asking a number of different public organizations, and the state...

Olmert aides say new fraud suspicions a coup attempt
Attila Somfalvi, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Source close to prime minister responds angrily to allegations that non-profit groups funded Olmert’s trips abroad, says ’this is an attempt to oust a governing prime minister...

Labor official: We shouldn’t do a thing about Olmert
Attila Somfalvi, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Party members unmoved by new suspicions against prime minister. ’It’s all part of the same filth, and in any case the race for primaries in Kadima has...

Olmert says ’personally hurt’ by new suspicions
Roni Sofer, YNetNews 7/12/2008
Moments before leaving for Paris, prime minister slams fresh police investigation against him. ’The attempts to link my family to this affair are despicable,’ he says - Prime Minister...

Law enforcement source: Olmert’s indictment is just a matter of time
Jonathan Lis and Barak Ravid, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interrogated under warning on Friday for about an hour, after which timea law-enforcement source said that "as of now, an indictment against Olmert is only...

ANALYSIS / Olmert’s last police interview was tailormade for him
Ze'ev Segal, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
The prime minister’s lightning-quick interrogation Friday was an interrogation tailored to the interviewee. The prime minister set the date and time allocated for the interview - one hour. The...

Talansky to testify Tues. in PM corruption probe
Ofra Edelman, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
The American fund-raiser Morris Talansky is to testify Tuesday and, if necessary, in the following days, the Jerusalem District Court ruled Friday. The decision warded off an attempt by Prime...

Cabinet to decide on emergency water plan today
Avi Bar-Eli, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
The state is pushing desalinization and higher prices as the solution to shortage The cabinet will face two major decisions on the future of the Israeli water system at its...

Irate Sneh expected to exit Labor today
Mazal Mualem and Lily Galili, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
MK Ephraim Sneh is expected to announce today that he will be leaving Labor to establish a new party. Representatives of business tycoon Arcadi Gaydamak met with Sneh about a...

MK Sneh to announce split from Labor to form new party
Haaretz Service, Ha’aretz 5/25/2008
Labor MK Ephraim Sneh is to announce Sunday his intent to break from the Labor party and set up a new political party, Israel Radio reported on Saturday. Labor sources...

MK Sneh resigns from Labor Party
Amnon Meranda, YNetNews 5/24/2008
Recently dismissed deputy defense minister claims Labor has ’lost its way,’ become irrelevant, insignificant in peace talks with Palestinians. Sneh will likely try to form new faction or...

As Peretz's list grows, Labor MKs fear for their seats
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Broadcast journalist Shelly Yachimovich, who joined Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz yesterday, is not the last recruit Peretz is adding to his growing Knesset...

Peres prepares to leave Labour to join Sharon
The Guardian 11/30/2005
Friends advise ex-leader against joining new party · Role in talks with Arabs may tempt him to switch -- Shimon Peres, Israel's former prime minister, hinted...

Fatah holds primary in Jerusalem area, despite declaration of vote's cancelation
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
The Fatah movement held its primary in the Jerusalem region yesterday, despite having announced yesterday morning that the voting would not take place. Ahmed...

Kadima supporters vow to block Netanyahu win in Likud
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Mayors and Kadima supporters said yesterday in private conversations that they would try to stop Benjamin Netanyahu from being elected as Likud chair. Sharon...

Labor’s no. 2 not so keen on freedom of speech
YNetNews 11/29/2005
As president of Ben-Gurion University, Professor Braverman stifled students' right to organize -- The addition of Prof. Avishay Braverman to Amir Peretz's Labor Party has...

PM to host and woo 45 mayors, most of them from the Likud
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to host a gathering of some 45 council leaders and mayors, mostly Likud members, at his official residence Tuesday...

Court asked to recognize non-Orthodox conversions in Israel
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Israel Religious Action Center on Tuesday morning petitioned the High Court of Justice with a request that immigrants who undergo Reform or Conservative conversion...

Hamas recaptures control of student council at Nablus university
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he'll honor results of Fatah primaries conducted in the West Bank, but has not decided whether voting...

Peretz: Yechimovicz joining Labor is 'huge contribution'
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Labor Party leader Amir Peretz said Tuesday that journalist Shelly Yechimovicz' decision to leave broadcast news and join Labor was "a huge contribution to...

Peres: Real change in the political map is in Likud, not in Labor
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
As Israel's major politicians awaited word from Shimon Peres' over whether he would leave the Labor Party for Ariel Sharon's new Kadima faction, the...

Shinui founder joins PM's party
YNetNews 11/29/2005
Prof. Uriel Reichman, president of Herzliya's Interdisciplinary Center, joins Sharon's new party as education minister candidate -- Professor Uriel Reichman, founder of the Shinui movement...

Video: Top journalist joins Labor
YNetNews 11/29/2005
Video: Broadcast journalist Shelly Yechimovitz joins forces with Labor Chairman Peretz following long negotiations; announces she will run in party's primaries -- (Video) Senior television...

Shalom slams Mofaz, Bibi loyalty to Likud
YNetNews 11/29/2005
Foreign Minister officially launches campaign for Likud party leadership; asks Mofaz, Netanyahu if their remaining in Likud is dependent upon election results -- Foreign Minister...

Hamas defeats Fatah in student polls
AlJazeera 11/29/2005
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has defeated Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party in student elections at the largest university in West Bank. A final vote...

Education Min. director general meets PM in bid to join Kadima
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
Education Ministry director general Ronit Tirosh on Tuesday evening met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss the possibility of joining Sharon's new party...

Sharon party seeks permanent deal
BBC 11/29/2005
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's new political party, Kadima, will strive to reach a final status agreement with the Palestinians, an ally says. Meir Sheetrit...

Abbas suspends all Fatah internal polls
AlJazeera 11/29/2005
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended primary elections of his ruling Fatah movement over widespread fraud in Gaza and the West Bank, a party...

Fatah primaries thrown into chaos
BBC 11/29/2005
The main Palestinian political grouping, Fatah, has halted its primaries because of allegations of widespread fraud. Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that existing...

Knesset raises funding limit for party primaries
Ha'aretz 11/30/2005
The Knesset plenum approved on Tuesday evening in second and third readings amendments to the Parties Law, alleviating several restrictions on donations for party...

Itzik joins Sharon, can expect communications portfolio
Globes 11/29/2005
Media personality Shelly Yechimovich will run for the Knesset on the Labor Party list. -- By joining Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima party, MK...

Peres quits Labor
YNetNews 11/30/2005
Legendary Labor leader Shimon Peres announces Tuesday resignation from party, says will support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ahead of upcoming elections. 'Only Sharon can...

Court gives Mofaz 10 days for plans to demolish illegal outpost
Ha'aretz 11/25/2005
The High Court of Justice told Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Thursday to report within 10 days on preparations to demolish illegal structures at the...

Mofaz makes emotional TV appearance
YNetNews 11/28/2005
The defense minister's eyes filled with tears, before he said, 'I just miss him. I think of what he would say in certain situations...

Rabbi: Disengage from State
YNetNews 11/28/2005
In new book, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe says Israel should be replaced with ‘true Kingdom of David,’ calls on followers to refrain from praying...

Meretz-Yahad party to push for cutting military service for men
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
The Meretz-Yahad party will promote a plan to shorten military service for men to two years and provide funding for every soldier to get...

Peretz tells senior Laborites: No grudges
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Labor Chairman Amir Peretz yesterday held a series of meetings with senior party figures in an effort to clear the air. Peretz assured his...

Barghouti wins Fatah primaries
YNetNews 11/26/2005
West Bank Tanzim leader, jailed in Israel after being captured by IDF in 2002, wins Ramallah region primaries with 96 percent of vote, may...

Likud official slams PM's `cynical' tactics
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
A senior Likud official has accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of using illicit means to try and entice local council leaders and mayors to...

Peretz aide: Shimon Peres behind comments made by his brother on north Africans
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
A senior source close to Labor Party Chairman Amir Peretz said on Monday it was "clear" to him that Shimon Peres was responsible for...

Aide: Peres may join Sharon party
AlJazeera 11/28/2005
Israeli elder statesman Shimon Peres may leave the Labour Party that ousted him as its leader and join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new centrist...

Fatah cancels primaries in Gaza as gunmen storm polling station
Ha'aretz 11/28/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party cancelled its primaries in the Gaza Strip on Monday after militants stormed some polling places and shut...

Fatah cancels Gaza primary election
AlJazeera 11/28/2005
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party has cancelled its primary election across the Gaza Strip after armed men shot in the air at several...

Kadima platform calls for Jewish majority, territorial concessions
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Kadima party yesterday released the main points of its national agenda - preserving a Jewish majority in exchange for territorial...

Sarid may quit; Meretz says it would join a Kadima-led gov't
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Beilin says could join Sharon gov't -- The dovish Meretz-Yahad party, shaken by flagging polls and the possible departure of former party leader Yossi Sarid...

MK Dalia Itzik resigns from Labor Party to join Kadima
Ha'aretz 11/29/2005
Peretz attacks PM Sharon for 'wooing' Labor MKs -- MK Dalia Itzik announced late Monday night that she is resigning from the Labor Party in...

Press doubts emerge over Peretz
BBC 11/23/2005
With polls in Israel predicting that Israel's Labour party under new leader Amir Peretz will make substantial gains in the forthcoming elections, many experts...

PM Qurei to Form Mini-Cabinet as Several Ministers Quit to Run for PLC Elections
International Press Center 11/23/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, November 23, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Media sources reported that Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei intends to form a mini-cabinet to oversee the work...

PM's party may be called Kadima; to get NIS 9.6m. funding advance
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Ariel Sharon's new party may be named Kadima, Hebrew for "forward," Israel Radio reported Tuesday, as the prime minister's aides sought additional defections from...

Israeli ministry rejects strong line against settlers' outpost
ReliefWeb 11/23/2005
Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israel's Justice Ministry has rejected several recommendations for creating tough laws against the construction of illegal settlers' outposts in the West...

Sderot audience heckles FM Shalom during address
Ha'aretz 11/24/2005
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom was heckled Wednesday night when he tried to addresse a conference in Sderot on social issues. The interruptions came from...

Peres: I’m not joining Sharon
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Vice Premier Shimon Peres decides to stay in Labor party for time being despite speculation he was planning to join Prime Minister Sharon’s new...

Qurei: PNA Attaches Importance Elections be Held on Time
WAFA 11/23/2005
RAMALLAH, November 23, 2005 (WAFA) - Premiere Ahmed Qurei said Wednesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) attaches great importance to hold the legislative election...

Hamas: no plan to renew Middle East truce
ReliefWeb 11/23/2005
GAZA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The militant Islamic group Hamas said on Wednesday it did not plan to renew a truce at the end of...

Halutz: Pullout foe youth ignore calls to refuse combat posts
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said on Wednesday he believes most of the youths who took part in protests against the...

PA parliament rejects proposal to postpone election date
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
RAMALLAH - The Palestinian Authority parliament on Wednesday rejected a proposal to change the election law at the last minute, clearing the way for parliament...

Chief Rabbi Amar's son admits to charges of abduction and abuse
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
Meir Amar, the son of Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, on Wednesday admitted under a plea bargain to charges of abducting his teenage sister's...

State Comptroller: PM transferred millions to defense establishment without authorization
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for transferring millions of shekels to the defense establishment without first receiving government...

Top Labor politician defects to Sharon's new party
Daily Star 11/24/2005
Decree signed for dissolution of Parliament -- A prominent politician from the moderate Labor Party joined Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party Wednesday, the first...

Mazuz to Mofaz: Do not use ministry for campaign
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Attorney general warns defense minister to refrain from using office for political activities pertaining to his candidacy for Likud leadership, after Central Committee members...

New Sharon party 'aims for peace'
BBC 11/22/2005
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has said he aims to "lay the foundations for a peace settlement" with the Palestinians via his new political party...

Sharon’s party negotiating with 5 MKs
YNetNews 11/24/2005
Sources say Sharon’s new party negotiating with five Knesset Members in bid to add them to list of 13 others who have already joined...

50 reservist officers to back Mofaz Likud run
Ha'aretz 11/24/2005
Fifty high-ranking reserve army officers will be working to get Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz elected as chairman of the Likud. Mofaz began quietly preparing...

The army can make you Jewish, if you will it
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
A.G. came to Israel from the Ukraine five years ago and served in the Israel Defense Forces as an infantry instructor. She decided to...

Hamas Joins Polls for Political Legitimacy: Zahar
Islam Online 11/21/2005
GAZA, November 21, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Hamas is seeking to gain a foothold in the Palestinian political fray and acquire a political legitimacy by taking...

Justice Ministry rejects recommendations of Sasson report
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
The Justice Ministry and security officials have rejected several fundamental recommendations of the Sasson report on illegal outposts, which are meant to prevent more...

Israeli political shifts herald new era
By John Simpson, Palestine Monitor/BBC 11/21/2005
For years, Israeli politics have been frozen under the same two leaders, one now aged 77 and the other 82. Now, in the space...

'This is good for the peace process'
The Guardian 11/22/2005
Press and Opinion Review -- Prof Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: "I think Sharon's decision means a very fundamental realignment of Israeli politics...

Palestinian jailed for 2001 Ze'evi murder to run in January PA poll
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
RAMALLAH - A Palestinian militant jailed for the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi plans to run in a Palestinian parliamentary poll in January, an...

Netanyahu: Sharon is a 'dictator'
The Guardian 11/22/2005
Benjamin Netanyahu, the leading contender to take over Israel's beleaguered Likud party, today called the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, a "dictator" who had abandoned...

National Religious Party calls for rightist merger
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Party Chairman Zevulun Orlev calls for joint party list with National Union, but leaves question of who will lead rightist bloc unanswered -- The National...

Shalom announces candidacy for Likud chairmanship; Sharon 'eyeing final borders'
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Sharon wants to draw Israel's borders in talks with the Palestinians, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday, adding that he had just met...

Former officers rally to Sharon's side
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Prime Minister Sharon's supporters put their faith in numerous former elite unit members who volunteered for PM's new party campaign. 'Military men have the...

Immigration Police officers to be charged following hospital raid
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
An Immigration Police intelligence coordinator has been dismissed and two other officers are to stand trial following a raid by the Immigration Police three...

Mofaz, Shalom to attack Netanyahu economics
Ha'aretz 11/23/2005
Both Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom plan to make an attack on Benjamin Netanyahu's economic policy the focus of their...

Elections set for March 28
YNetNews 11/23/2005
Attorney General Mazuz approves election date; according to compromise agreement President Katsav permitted to issue order for Knesset’s dispersal by December 8; should the...

Palestinian finance minister resigns to run in PLC elections
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad announced Saturday his intention to resign from the cabinet in order to participate as a candidate in the upcoming...

President Issues a Decree on Legislative Elections
WAFA 11/20/2005
RAMALLAH, November 20, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas has issued Sunday night a decree crushing the latest reports talked about delaying the Palestinian Legislative...

PA police confiscate stolen cars in Nablus in effort to impose order
Ha'aretz 11/20/2005
Palestinian police began confiscating stolen Israeli cars in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday and have beefed up their forces to crack...

The HCLE Takes decisions Concerning Objections to Register Roll
International Press Center 11/21/2005
GAZA, Palestine, November 21 (IPC + Agencies) - - Jamal Al-Shobakey, Head of the Higher Committee for Local Elections (HCLE), declared yesterday that the electoral committees of...

Right-wing parties mull merger ahead of upcoming elections
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
The split in the Likud has also reshuffled the deck in the National Religious and National Union parties both are still weighing the possibility...

Peres, Ramon believed soon to join Sharon's new party
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Two of the most prominent members of the Labor Party, outgoing chairman and vice premier Shimon Peres, and Minister Haim Ramon, did not attend...

Poll: Sharon beats Labor, secures third term as PM
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Were the elections to the 17th Knesset to be held now, Ariel Sharon would win a third term in office as prime minister and...

Religion and AIDS don’t mix?
YNetNews 11/22/2005
Religious students receive watered down version of AIDS awareness booklet -- How much should religious students know about AIDS? Not too much, according to the...

Sharon aides: PM planning far-reaching diplomatic initiatives
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to resign from the Likud indicates his intention to carry out far-reaching diplomatic moves in what would be his...

Likud meets to decide on new way
YNetNews 11/21/2005
Likud faction convenes on Monday without PM Sharon, retiring MKs. We must tackle these difficult developments, temporary party Chairman Tzahi Hanegbi says, adds Central...

Analysis / Leaving the Likud - no one tried to make him stay
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Ariel Sharon is known to put off making decisions to the very last minute, and sometimes even beyond it. It therefore comes as no...

Sharon says he would have wasted time by staying in Likud
Ha'aretz 11/22/2005
Sharon said Monday he left his Likud party because he didn't want to waste time with political wrangling or squander the opportunities created by...

State to begin funding private immigration groups
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
For the first time in its history, Israel will support private organizations that encourage immigration. The cabinet decided yesterday to give organizations that meet...

Analysis / Ariel Sharon's new faction is a one-term party
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
In 1999, Israel witnessed the founding of the Center Party. With four figures at its helm, all of whom laid claim to the crown...

AG continues probe of Sharon's role in corrupt campaign affair
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said on Monday that he has no intention of ceasing his investigation of public figures accused of corruption during election...

Israeli PM leaves Likud party
The Guardian 11/21/2005
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said today that his departure from Likud in order to form a new centrist party came because he...

Three IDF soldiers arrested for raping female soldier in Eilat
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested at the end of the week under suspicion of raping a female soldier on Wednesday night in...

Mofaz rejects PM Sharon's offer, will run for Likud leadership
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's efforts to lure prominent Likud members to his new National Responsibility party suffered a blow Monday evening when Defense Minister...

Peretz: New party temporary adventure
YNetNews 11/21/2005
Labor faction holds meeting to decide on next steps following Sharon's dramatic resignation from Likud -- Addressing the recent political developments during a Labor faction...

Lawmakers overwhelmingly approve disbanding Knesset
Ha'aretz 11/21/2005
A massive majority of some 80 lawmakers approved eight bills to dissolve the Knesset on Monday evening. President Moshe Katsav said Monday evening he...

Independent Sharon party would trounce Likud
Middle East Online 11/18/2005
Israeli Prime Minister expected to announce whether to split from his right-wing party. -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to announce soon whether...

Mofaz warns against Likud split
YNetNews 11/18/2005
Defense minister opens elections campaign, says ruling party should focus on social issues. Likud can win 40 Knesset seats with Sharon at the helm...

Sharon camp: 'Rebel' MKs may spur PM's Likud exit
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's main concern about staying in the Likud, according to his associates, is the composition of the party's Knesset slate, which...

Palestinians postpone first-ever Fatah party primaries
Ha'aretz 11/19/2005
RAMALLAH - The Palestinians' ruling Fatah party postponed its first ever primaries, which had been scheduled to start Friday, saying it was unprepared to run...

Shas seeks return of former chairman
YNetNews 11/18/2005
Fear of Amir Peretz 'stealing votes' leads Shas spiritual leader's confidant to call on former chairman Aryeh Deri to return home as party's 'president...

Palestinians protest over poll delay
AlJazeera 11/18/2005
Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets in the southern West Bank town of Hebron to protest against the postponement of local elections...

Bill offers funds to settlers who move inside fence
Jerusalem Post 11/18/2005
In a gesture designed to heighten public awareness of the plight of the 80,000 Israelis living outside the security fence, MKs Colette Avital (Labor...

The poor will have to wait
YNetNews 11/17/2005
Plan to narrow social gaps initiated by Sharon, Peres, Olmert nowhere close to being ready; with Sharon setting the elections for late February or...

Struggles ahead for Israel's new voice
BBC 11/17/2005
There is a new voice in Israeli politics - Amir Peretz. He is a trade union leader - with a walrus moustache and an open-necked shirt...

Israel faces poll within four months
Financial Times 11/17/2005
Israelis will go to the polls to choose a new government within four months after Ariel Sharon, prime minister, reluctantly bowed to pressure from...

“Globes” survey: Perez narrows gap with Sharon
Globes 11/17/2005
47% say socio-economic issues affect their voting preference more than security. -- A week after MK Amir Perez was elected chairman of the Labor Party...

Landau: Sharon can’t represent Likud
YNetNews 11/17/2005
Likud ‘rebels’ object to prime minister’s call for early elections -- Likud “rebels” opposed to Ariel Sharon are already voicing their objection to the prime...

New ordinance outlaws cutting off water service to poor families
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz on Thursday initiated a new ordinance that will outlaw the cutting off of water service to poor families who have...

Aides: Sharon tempted to quit Likud
YNetNews 11/17/2005
PM aides believe Sharon will leave Likud, but final decision likely to be made over weekend; aides estimate 10-15 MKs will leave together...

Sarid proposes Meretz-Labor merger, to the dismay of both
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Senior Meretz lawmaker Yossi Sarid, citing new winds blowing in the election of Amir Peretz as chairman of the Labor Party, has proposed that...

Rightist bloc in the making?
YNetNews 11/16/2005
Yesha council heads call for right-wing parties to join forces, form new united party ahead of upcoming elections, in a bid to form 'influential...

Sharon camp rejects Likud rebels' call for reconciliation
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's associates on Wednesday evening rejected a call from the Likud "rebels" for reconciliation within the party, dismissing the move as...

Sharon favors elections as soon as possible
Ha'aretz 11/17/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday he wants new elections to be held as soon as possible, since he does not want "to waste...

Labor, opposition settle on election day
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Labor MKs voice support for newly-elected leader, agreed to 'end coalition with Likud and leave Sharon’s government' -- Opposition parties Tuesday decided on March 7...

Labor, opposition settle on election day
YNetNews 11/15/2005
Labor MKs voice support for newly-elected leader, agreed to 'end coalition with Likud and leave Sharon’s government' -- Opposition parties Tuesday decided on March 7...

Netanyahu blasts cabinet for Gaza access links agreement
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
MK Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday blasted the cabinet agreement to the U.S. proposal to allow Palestinians access links between the Gaza Strip and the West...

Netanyahu blasts cabinet for Gaza access links agreement
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
MK Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday blasted the cabinet agreement to the U.S. proposal to allow Palestinians access links between the Gaza Strip and the West...

Poll: Sharon's lead over Netanyahu is growing
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is holding on to a clear lead over his main rival in the Likud chairmanship race, MK Benjamin Netanyahu: The...

Poll: Sharon's lead over Netanyahu is growing
Ha'aretz 11/16/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is holding on to a clear lead over his main rival in the Likud chairmanship race, MK Benjamin Netanyahu: The...

Source: Sharon to 'close ranks'
YNetNews 11/16/2005
As fears rise following election of Amir Peretz as Labor leader, prime minister will attempt to reunite party in upcoming Likud meeting; Peretz says...

Source: Sharon to 'close ranks'
YNetNews 11/16/2005
As fears rise following election of Amir Peretz as Labor leader, prime minister will attempt to reunite party in upcoming Likud meeting; Peretz says...

Party allies call Peretz behavior `drugged'