Israeli army invades Nablus, targets medical workers
Five international Human Rights Workers from Britain, Sweden, Italy and the United States continue to maintain a presence in the invaded city of Nablus, assisting Palestinian Medical teams. Early yesterday morning the Israeli Army invaded the city of Nablus, injuring at least 54 civilians, arresting 15 people, and detaining over 50 medical workers. The Army fired its first shots just after midnight, January 2, and has maintained a presence until this morning. The Army has deployed 70 jeeps, including Special Forces and Border Police, to the Old City and surrounding neighborhoods. This invasion comes just 24 hours after Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and his Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, visited the city.
Two Qassam fighters killed by Israeli army in Beit Hanoun
Two Palestinians, said to be members of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed early on Friday morning during an armed clash with an Israeli army force in northern Gaza.
Israeli soldiers kill Hamas gunmen
Israeli troops today killed two Palestinian Hamas gunmen in Gaza, wounding three others in an upsurge of violence days before the US president, George Bush, visits Israel.
Israeli army invades al Bireh mayor's home
Israeli forces invaded the house of Sheikh Jamal al Taweel, Mayor of the central West Bank city of al Bireh on Friday morning. After searching and ransacking the house, the Army gave orders for the mayor and his son to be interviewed by Israeli intelligence.
Israel bombs Gaza homes
Israel has carried out a bombing raid in Gaza, targeting the homes of two men belonging to Islamic Jihad killed by Israeli troops last week. Ambulances raced to the family home of Mohammed Dadouh, a rocket-maker for the armed group, killed by Israeli forces in December, Hamas officials said.
Report: Additional Palestinian wounded by IDF shell dies of his wounds
Palestinian sources report that one of the family members whose home was hit by an IDF shell in Khan Younis has died of his wounds. This raises the death toll from the attack to five people, all members of the same family.
Israeli forces kidnap four from different parts of the West Bank and injure one
Israeli military kidnap four Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank during Thursday night and early hours of Friday morning, injuring another Palestinian during the military operation.
Security guard shoots Palestinian at landfill north of J'lem
A Palestinian was lightly injured after he was shot in the leg by a security guard at a landfill north of Jerusalem. According to the security guards at the scene, the shooting occurred after the Palestinians pelted the guards with rocks.
PCHR Weekly Report: 18 killed, 25 wounded, 35 abducted by Israeli forces
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report, in the week of the 27th of December 2007 to 2nd of January 2008, 18 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, 25 were wounded, and 35 were abducted by Israeli forces.
Palestinian PM lambasts Israel over W. Bank raids
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad criticised Israel on Friday for mounting a major military sweep in the West Bank, saying such intervention was ruining a Western-backed internal Palestinian security plan.
Um Salamunah village protest the illegal Israeli Wall
On Friday morning 200 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis marched against the illegal wall being built on land stolen illegally by the Israeli army from the villagers of Um Salamunah, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The Impact of the Conflict on Children
119 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 971 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.
Petition against Gaza fuel cuts rejected
The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a petition by human rights groups to issue an injunction against the continued cuts in fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Sewage, Water Disaster Looms
More than 1.4 million Gaza Palestinians are facing an impending health disaster from decaying sewage and water systems that lack vital spare parts, fuel, and maintenance work, due to an Israeli economic siege on the Gaza Strip.
What Palestinians will do with $7.4 billion
About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance.
Palestinian survey shows public support for rocket attacks is rising
Despite, Israel's insistence that its targeted killings would cause a decline in Kassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian survey showed that public support for Kassam rockets attacks was rising, Channel 10 reported Thursday. The television channel also reported that dialogue between Hamas and Islamic Jihad on the possibility of a temporary truce, or "hudna," with Israel had been brought to a standstill.
Bush: Settlement expansion 'impediment' to peace
U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday called Israeli settlement expansion an "impediment" to the success of revived peace efforts and urged the Jerusalem to follow through on its pledge to dismantle unauthorized settler outposts.
Bush calls on Israel to dismantle wildcat settlements
JERUSALEM (AFP) - US President George W. Bush called on Israel to dismantle wildcat settlement outposts on occupied Palestinian land, in an interview published on Friday ahead of his visit to the region next week. "We expect them to honour their commitments," Bush said in the interview with Israel's mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily.
Livni dismisses international calls to stop settlement building
Bethlehem – Ma'an – Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni seems to be preparing to back up the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following the publication of the Winograd report on the failures of the Israeli army in the 33-day war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, according to the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv.
Olmert says 'hand of God' favours Israel in peace talks
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the "hand of God" had helped create an international climate that is favourable to Israel in its peace negotiations with the Palestinians, according to an interview published on Friday.
White House downplays Bush Mideast trip
WASHINGTON - President Bush's aides all but ruled out a three-way meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders during his upcoming Mideast visit and dampened hopes that the president's high-profile travels would make tangible progress toward peace.
Court gives IDF green light to build bases in Negev
A plan to relocate several major army bases to the Negev cleared a major hurdle Thursday, when the Be'er Sheva District Court rejected a petition against the plan by the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (Adam, Teva v'Din.)
Bush says his Mideast trip partly about Iran's influence
President George W. Bush said on Thursday that part of the reason for his trip to the Middle East this month is "absolutely" about efforts to contain Iran's influence in the region.
Christmas under Hamas rule
"You media people!" Father Musallam boomed at me when I first poked my head around his door. "Hamas this, Hamas that. You think we Christians are shaking in our ghettos in Gaza? That we're going to beg you British or the Americans or the Vatican to rescue us?" he asked. "Rescue us from what? From where? This is our home." ..."Of course, I am a Christian believer, but politically I am a Palestinian Muslim. I resist Israel's military occupation, obviously not with weapons."
POLITICS-US: Christian Zionists Gain Israel's Inner Sanctum
After raising more than two hundred million dollars for various projects in Israel, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), the organisation he founded and is president of, has hit pay-dirt.
Regional Anglicans fear Jerusalem conference could 'inflame tensions'
Arab Anglican leaders have called for the cancellation of a June gathering of Anglicans in Jerusalem, claiming it could exacerbate Christian-Muslim tensions in the Palestinian territories. On Wednesday, the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem, Suheil Darwani, released a statement saying the presence of hundreds of conservative Anglican bishops in the Holy Land would inject the Anglican Communion's political disputes into the diocese of Jerusalem, and could also have "serious consequences for our ongoing ministry of reconciliation in this divided land."
The Sack of Annapolis
If you want to appreciate just how hopelessly entangled America has become in the fate of modern day Israel and Zionism, you may want to take a look at an eye-opening article of December 5th in the Jerusalem Post. It is entitled "Annapolis—A True Zionist Victory" by Dr. M.K. Ephraim Sneh.
Israeli outpost removals likely - Olmert deputy
Israel will likely begin a crackdown on Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank when U.S. President George W. Bush visits the region next week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputy said on Friday.
Study: Gaza pullout hurt Israel's image
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip did not garner the expected international sympathy, a new study found. According to the study by two political and communications researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's unilateral 2005 removal of troops and settlers from Gaza and four West Bank communities had the effect of presenting Israel in a more negative light in the Western media.
It's only the beginning
Rocket fired at Ashkelon marks Hamas effort to produce symbolic victory. A Katyusha rocket lands in the southern town of Ashkelon, the Air Force bombs targets in the Gaza Strip, and we stopped counting the Qassams a long time ago. Every week, another "red line" is crossed and without feeling it we are already deep inside an intensive military confrontation in the Strip.
Is Tom Lantos' Seat in Jeopardy?
Lantos has visited Israel 68 times, making one wonder whether his constituency is in San Mateo or Tel Aviv.
ISRAEL-AFRICA: African asylum-seekers detained in "harsh conditions"
TEL AVIV, 3 January 2008 (IRIN) - Some 1,000 African asylum-seekers, including over 200 women and children, are being detained in Ktsiyot prison in Israel's Negev desert. Some have been held for up to six months. In late September 2007, all newly arrived African asylum-seekers were moved into tents within the prison grounds. Activists from various Israeli advocacy groups have begun to look into prison conditions: They said they were appalled by "harsh conditions" in the camp.
Abandoned in the desert
At the entrance to the tent stands a tall Sudanese woman, wearing flip-flops and holding an 18-month-old child, who doesn't look any older than a year. The child's cheeks are dry from the wind and the cold. He stares apathetically, doesn't smile and doesn't cry. "It's very cold, maybe you should bring the child inside," suggests a compassionate warden. But the tent - canvas sheets that are blowing in the wind - is not enough protection from the cold. Or from the rain.
Pre-Iowa Israel Factor: We know Clinton, we want Clinton
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