UN delegation to visit Beit Hanoun this week to investigate Israeli carnage 2008-05-26 10:46:00 NEW YORK - PalestineInfo : The UN announced that it will send this week a delegation headed by South African priest Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace prize laureate, to the Beit Hanoun town, northern Gaza Strip, to investigate a heinous massacre committed by the IOF troops in November 2006 and claimed the lives of 19 Palestinian citizens most of them were members of one family. The UN council for human Read more:visit
, Israeli
, carnage
Mishaal: Resistance will not abide by the truce as long as Israel rejects it 2008-05-26 10:41:00 TEHRAN - PalestineInfo : Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, stated that the Palestinian resistance factions would not abide by the truce as long as the Israel
i occupation rejects the Egyptian initiative and lays down conditions for implementing it. "Hamas responded to the Egyptian efforts and crystallized a unified Palestinian position that mainly displayed that the Palestinia Read more:Resistance
Five Palestinians wounded in IOF shelling 2008-05-25 10:04:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : Five Palestinian citizens were wounded
at a late hour on Saturday in Israeli occupation forces' shelling east of Gaza city, local sources reported. They said that the IOF troops fired a land-to-land missile at a group of Qassam Brigades fighters east of Gaza wounding three of them while two locals were also injured in the blast.Medical sources said that two of the injured we Read more:Palestinians
Barghouthi: Israel lies when it talks about easing movement in WB 2008-05-25 09:56:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian lawmaker, stated Saturday that the IOA is persisting in its policy of deception through its allegation that it eased the movement
of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank. He affirmed that Israel
is stalling to gain time and use negotiations to cover up its crimes against the Palestinians and to impose the status quo.Commenting on the
Radwan: IOA replies to Egyptian calm offer not encouraging 2008-05-24 10:26:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : 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 Egyptian
calm offer were not encouraging. Radwan, speaking in an address before a ceremony marking the foundation anniversary of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine – general command in Gaza on Saturday, s
IOA bars entry of American professor for supporting Palestinians 2008-05-24 10:14:00 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - PalestineInfo : The Israeli occupation authority on Friday barred an American
political science professor
from entering the Hebrew state due to his support for Palestinian rights. Mousa Abu Hashash, a human rights activist who works in B'Tselem (the Israeli information center for human rights), said that the IOA detained Norman Gary Finkelstein, who is also an author, at the B Read more:Palestinians
Palestinian doctors: Israeli siege on Gaza causes more death among children 2008-05-23 10:30:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : Palestinian
doctors have warned on Thursday that the Israeli
blockade on Gaza Strip was taking its heavy toll on Palestinian children as death
rate among newly-born children sharply increased due to lack of medical equipments and electricity. They also underlined that the embargo wasn’t also affecting newly-born babies, but rather, they explained, it was inflicting "catast Read more:causes
The Qassam Brigades confront an IOF incursion, blow up tank 2008-05-23 10:09:00 KHAN YOUNIS - PalestineInfo : The Qassam Brigades said that an IOF tank exploded when it was hit with two RPG's fired by the resistance, Friday morning, during an incursion of occupation forces into the Fakhari neighbourhood to the east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. A statement published by the Qassam Brigades said that its fighters fired two RPG's at 5:40 am at an occupation tan
IOF troops kidnap Hamas leader in Jenin only one month after PA releases him 2008-05-22 10:13:00 JENIN - PalestineInfo : The IOF troops kidnapped at night Wednesday Sheikh Ibrahim Jabr, 45, one of the prominent Hamas
leaders in the Jenin refugee camp, just one month after he was released from the PA intelligence jails in Ramallah. Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that a large number of IOF troops stormed the camp, and surrounded and ransacked the Sheikh's house before kidnappin
IOF troops destroy agriculture sector in Gaza; kill Palestinian farmers 2008-05-22 09:58:00 GAZA - PalestinInfo : The agriculture ministry in the PA legitimate government in Gaza Strip asserted on Wednesday that the IOF troops had bulldozed vast agricultural areas in the eastern sector
of the Gaza Strip which is considered the food basket of the 1.5 million Palestinian
s living there. According to a report issued by the ministry and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, the Israeli oc Read more:destroy
, farmers
Taha: Hamas delegation to receive Egyptian response on calm 2008-05-21 10:04:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : The Hamas
Movement's delegates are expected to have another session with Egyptian
officials on Wednesday to receive the final response on the calm between Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza said. He added in a press statement that the Hamas team members would address a press conference later today to table their Movement's final
IOF aerial raid kills Qassam fighter, wounds three others 2008-05-21 09:47:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : A member of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, was killed on Tuesday in an IOF aerial bombing that targeted his group in Zaitun suburb, Gaza city, while three others were wounded. The IOF aggression on Gaza since the early morning hours thus claimed three lives so far including a 13-year-old child, while a fourth Palestinian was killed in the West Bank.Qa Read more:fighter
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IOF shell blows off the head of Palestinian boy, another child killed in WB 2008-05-20 10:39:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : An Israeli occupation forces' shelling of a group of citizens north of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday blew off the head of a 13-year-old Palestinian
boy. PIC reporter quoted medical sources as saying that the body of the child
Majd Abu Okel was badly mutilated in the blast.The sources pointed out that a number of other wounded citizens were rushed to hospital.IOF
IOF bullets kill Palestinian in Gaza 2008-05-20 10:13:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : A Palestinian
man was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces' gunfire in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday while passing in his car near Juhr Al-Dik area, medical sources reported. The sources told PIC reporter that Ali Dahdoh, 32, was hit with a bullet in the head that killed him instantly.The new murder comes few hours after IOF shelling shredded the skinny body of a 13-year-o
Bahar: Extending presidential tenure till end of PLC term against the law 2008-05-20 10:01:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting PLC speaker, has called for abiding by the Palestinian basic law in the issue of presidential elections, stressing that extending presidential term in office until the time of legislative elections was not legal. Bahar warned in a statement to Quds Press on Monday against
tampering with the presidential elections' date.He explained that the presid
Khater: Hamas's position towards calm did not change 2008-05-19 10:09:00 DAMASCUS, PalestineInfo : Sami Khater, member of Hamas
's political bureau, has underlined that his Movement's delegation visit to Cairo was meant to get acquainted with results of Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman's visit to the Hebrew state, denying reports of any new deal for calm. Khater told Al-Resala newspaper published in Gaza on Monday that Hamas's position
regarding calm did not ch
Palestinian sources: Rice asked Abbas to appoint a deputy 2008-05-19 09:16:00 RAMALLAH - infopalestine : US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has asked PA chief Mahmoud Abbas
to appoint
a deputy
fearing that Hamas would take over the post of president if Abbas resigned or his term in office ended, Palestiniansources
said. The sources, described as "high level", told Quds net website on Monday that the Palestinian basic law stipulates that in the event the president resig
Ex-detainee: Palestinian women are living in tragic conditions in Israeli jails 2008-05-18 10:33:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : The newly-released prisoner Samar Subeih revealed that the imprisoned women in Israeli
jails are living in heartbreaking living, health and psychological conditions
, adding that the Israeli jailers put the Palestinian
women in small humid cells underground that are full of cockroaches and rats.In an interview with the Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners, Subeih e Read more:tragic
Palestinians factions to Blair: The resistance is a red line no one can overstep 2008-05-18 09:18:00 GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian resistance factions strongly denounced Friday the recent statements of Tony Blair
, the envoy of the quartet committee to the middle east, in which he stressed that the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank were designed for protecting and guarding the Israeli occupation, highlighting that the resistance is a red line that no one could overstep. "The Palestinian securi Read more:Palestinians
New Zionist organization assaults Palestinians in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement 2008-05-17 09:53:00 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Hebrew Kol-Haeer newspaper reported Friday that the Israeli police discovered last week a new extremist organization composed of young settlers under age 18 living in the Israeli Pisgat Ze'ev settlement who planned and committed assaults against Palestinians
to force them out of the settlement.An indictment was placed before the central court in occupied Jerusalem a
Blair links establishment of Palestine to PA's ability to eliminate resistance 2008-05-17 09:44:00 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Tony Blair
, the envoy of the international quartet to the Middle East, linked the establishment of a Palestinian state to the PA security apparatuses' ability
to eliminate the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.In a press statement to the Israeli Jerusalem Post newspaper, Blair said if the Israelis saw that the PA leadership failed to protect Israel's security, the Read more:links
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Hamas delegation delays visit to Cairo 2008-05-17 09:31:00 GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas
Movement on Friday announced that its delegation's scheduled visit
to Cairo
on Friday to discuss the Israeli response to the Egyptian calm initiative was postponed for a few days. Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said in a press statement on Friday that the delegation's departure was delayed but would not go into details.He said that the Hamas delegates are visiting C
Massiri predicts demise of Israel within 50 years 2008-05-16 10:36:00 CAIRO, (PIC)-- Egyptian intellectual Abdul Wahab Al-Massiri anticipated the demise of the "Zionist entity" within
the coming 50 years, underlining that his prediction was based on his research.Massiri, who is specializes in Zionist and Jewish affairs and has authored an encyclopaedia entitled Jews, Judaism and Zionism, told Reuters that Israel
i writers and researchers have expressed fears of such
Israeli vice premier calls for a strategic decision to foil Hamas's rule 2008-05-16 10:28:00 NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israel vice premier, Haim Ramon, said that the Israeli
government should take a strategic decision
to foil Hamas
's rule.Ramon said in a statement to the Israeli radio on Thursday that such a decision will entail a military connotations and that Israel is not showing enough resoluteness and determination in this regard.He called on the occupation authorities not to allow human Read more:calls
Israel Bakar Ladang Gandum Milik Warga Palestin 2008-05-16 09:48:00 Nablus-PalestineInfo : Krisis pelanggaran Israel
terhadap warga tua semakin meningkat. Selama minggu kelmarin, sejumlah warga Zionis dari wilayah Yetashar, selatan Nablus menyerang rumah keluarga Jamal Yusuf Shalih yang tinggal di wilayah paling ujung Atshirah. Mereka kemudian membakar sejumlah ladang milik warga dan melempari rumah penduduk dengan bom molotov. Akibatnya sejumlah rumah warga ikut
IOF gunboats kidnap six Palestinian fishermen 2008-05-27 10:43:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : The agriculture ministry in the PA caretaker government in Gaza on Tuesday said that Israeli gunboats at dawn Tuesday kidnapped six Palestinianfishermen
while working at sea off the coasts of Gaza. Dr. Hassan Azzam, director of fisheries, said in a press release that the gunboats attacked and fired at the Palestinian fishermen before kidnapping six of them.He noted that the
Al-Quds Brigades: We will use new means against Israel, if siege is not lifted 2008-05-27 10:29:00 GAZA - PalestineInfo : Abu Ahmed, the spokesman for Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, warned Monday that the Palestinian resistance would use new means to confront the Israel
i occupation if it did not lift its siege on the Gaza Strip and open the crossings. In a press release, the spokesman underlined that the Israeli occupation has two options either to lift the sieg Read more:against
, lifted
Two Qassam members killed in IOF raid 2008-05-28 10:35:00 RAFAH - PalestineInfo : Two members of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air raid that targeted their position in the vicinity of Sufa crossing east of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.Qassam sources told PIC reporter that the two martyrs were killed when an IOF drone fired a missile at their position and that a third was wounded in th
Qurei and Livni resume their talks in Jerusalem 2008-05-28 09:57:00 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - PalestineInfo : Hebrew media sources reported that PA negotiator Ahmed Qurei and Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni
met Tuesday evening in occupied Jerusalem
to resume their talks about outstanding issues between the two sides, adding that negotiation teams from both parties participated in the meeting.Israeli premier Ehud Olmert had stated Monday that the international supp
IOF troops withdraw from Beit Hanun after kidnapping tens of youths 2008-05-29 10:54:00 BEIT HANUN - PalestineInfo : IOF troops mounting armored vehicles withdrew from northern Gaza Strip on Thursday after bulldozing cultivated lands and kidnapping
scores of young men. Local sources reported that the soldiers advanced into east of Beit Hanun amidst intensified firing while escorting two huge bulldozers that wreaked havoc in farmers' lands.They said that the soldiers rounded up tens o Read more:withdraw
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