Israeli occupation forces declared state of emergency after Ramallah operation carried out by al-Qassam Brigades led to wounding two Israeli settlers in West Bank on Wednesday 1st of September 2010 at 11 p.m. Israeli occupation army lives a case of disability as Qassam operations continue targetting settlers in West Bank. Israeli sources reported on Thursday [...]

The Palestinian Hamas movement has beefed up its military prowess, unveiling reports of new missiles, capable of hitting targets deeper into Israel. The Islamic movement said on Wednesday that it had completed the construction of a new missile with the range of 80 kilometers, Quds news agency reported. The missile has a range of more [...]

An Iranian lawmaker has censured direct talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel in Washington, saying the US-led plan will fail. “As previous plans by the US and Zionist regime against the Palestinian people achieved no result, this plan will also bear no fruit,” Gholamali Haddad-Adel said on Wednesday. He added that International Quds [...]

Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades fullfill its series of promises by carrying out a new heroic operation against hatefull Zionist settlers in West Bank. On Wednesday, 1st of September ,Al Qassam members in the West Bank opened fire on a car driving near the illegal settlement of Kochav Hashachar and east of the West Bank city [...]

Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have staged a sit-in to protest the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel. On August 20, the PA agreed to US calls to sit at the negotiating table with Israel at the summit on September 2 in Washington, despite vehement [...]

On the eve of peace talks between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israelis, a poll shows two-thirds of Israelis support occupation in the West Bank. Sixty-four percent of those questioned favored resumption of settlement construction in the occupied West Bank territories after a 10-month moratorium expires on September 26, according to the poll conducted by [...]

Hundreds of Israeli settlers started last night building a new settlement on the territory of the farming village of “Baq’a”, east of Hebron in the West Bank. A villager named Mar’i Jaber (local witness), said that large numbers of Israeli settlers raided the village in the evening, with amounts of cement, sand, wood and water [...]

A senior Israeli official says Tel Aviv will not accept East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of a future Palestinian state. An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday described al-Quds as the “undivided capital of Israel,” saying that Tel Aviv will not the city to be divided, AFP reported on Wednesday. The aide [...]

Iran’s Association for liberation of the holy al-Quds (Jerusalem) slams Western and US support for Israel, insisting that global resolve to annihilate the Israeli regime has strengthened. “The US and European Union, as staunch allies of the occupying Zionist regime (Israel), and certain Arab and Muslim governments are openly and covertly supporting the illegitimate Israeli [...]

Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades members in the West Bank open fire on a car driving east of the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement near Al Khalil (Hebron) at 6:30 p.m. In a statement distributed by the Brigades on its website confirmed that “This operations is part of the repelling operations against the occupation assaults on Gaza [...]

An Iranian lawmaker has criticized acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to attend US-brokered peace talks with Israel in Washington. “Abu Mazen’s presence at the Americans’ summit will only weaken the status of Palestinians. He should know that the US-Israeli plans will turn him into a puppet,” Fars news agency quoted Head of the [...]

Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has secretly met with Israeli defense minister amid warnings at home against resuming direct talks with Israelis. Abbas held talks with Ehud Barak on Sunday during a clandestine meeting in a private home in Amman, AFP quoted Israeli media reports as saying on Tuesday. Barak had earlier talked with [...]

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the recent killing of four Israelis is a “natural response” to Tel Aviv’s crimes in the occupied West Bank. “The attack is a natural response to the crimes of the occupiers,” the UK tabloid Daily Mirror quoted a commander for the Islamic movement as saying on Tuesday. Hamas spokesman [...]

Ten Zionist settlers fired at and chased three Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya village, Nablus, on Tuesday morning while tending to their lands. The village’s mayor said that the three farmers, all in their teens, were fertilizing olive trees in one of the fields north of the village when the settlers mounting horses attacked them. [...]

Unidentified gunmen reportedly shoot and kill four Israelis travelling in their vehicle in the south of the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. The incident took place near the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement close to the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) on Tuesday, AFP reported. The dead, identified as two males and two females, are [...]

US-brokered peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel will be inconclusive due to their failure to address the issue of the Palestinian nation, an Iranian lawmaker says. “These negotiations will be definitely doomed to failure because the issue of the Palestinian nation is disregarded,” IRNA quoted member of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission [...]

Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouthi has urged acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas to reconsider his decision to engage in direct talks with Israel. Speaking at a press conference in Ramallah on Monday, Barghouthi warned the PA against emboldening Tel Aviv by making concessions in upcoming negotiations, Ma’an news agency reported. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority [...]

Israel has decided to deprive six ailing Palestinian prisoners of direly-needed medical care and place them under strict confinement. The Israeli prison service has chosen to move those affected from Israel’s Ramleh Prison Hospital to central prisons. The families have gathered in protest to the potential move and human rights organizations have warned that transferring [...]

Zakaria Najib, 55, of Jerusalem was transferred from the desert prison of Nafha to the Negev prison, the Ahrar center for prisoners and human rights studies reported. Najib, a husband and father of six, was arrested on Oct. 1994 and sentenced to 22 years in prison. Throughout his more than 20 years behind bars, he [...]

Less than a week ahead of the US-backed talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Tel Aviv insists on resuming its West Bank settlement expansions. In November, Israel announced a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements which excluded the projects in east al-Quds (Jerusalem) and allowed construction of schools, synagogues and ‘community centers.’ “There [...]