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International Red Cross suspends activity in Gaza over security situation The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Monday suspended all its field operations in the Gaza Strip in protest of the deterioration in security.
The ICRC closed its offices in Khan Yunis indefinitely Monday, after gunmen fired dozens of bullets at them. A number of United Nations aid people have been abducted in the Gaza Strip in recent days.
The ICRC said "the ICRC is profoundly worried by the attack on its offices and the kidnapping of workers of international organiz...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 6:04pm PDT
Abbas promises January elections The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, today promised to hold long-delayed parliamentary elections in January and urged Palestinians to maintain calm during next week's Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 11:41am PDT
Abbas urges restraint in Gaza pullout President Mahmoud Abbas has urged Palestinians to ensure Israel's Gaza withdrawal takes place in an orderly and civilised manner....
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 10:37am PDT
Banksy Bombs West Bank 
Bansky has been on holiday and he's taken his spray can with him ... to the Palestinian side of Israel's separation wall....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 11:43am PDT
Text of Netanyahu´s Letter of Resignation Text of Netanyahu´s Letter of Resignation...
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 10:58am PDT
Israeli army looking for nine armed deserters who may attack Arab citizens Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz disclosed Monday that the army is "doing its best" to locate nine deserter soldiers who are still in possession of their weapons. According to Haaretz, Mofaz said that hundreds of troops have deserted the Israeli army but only the nine still have their weapons....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 7:20am PDT
Netanyahu quits over Gaza pullout Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has resigned in protest against this month's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2005 9:52am PDT
Threat to Divest Is Church Tool in Israeli Fight "Our policy is one which is pulled from an Afrikaans word "apartheid," and I'm afraid that has been misunderstood so often. It could just as easily and perhaps much better be described as a policy of good neighborliness. There are differences between people and while these differences exist and at the same time you can live together with one another and it can best be done when you act as good neighbors always do."
---------Hendrick F. Verwoerd Chief Architect of Ap...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 9:29pm PDT
Art prankster sprays Israeli wall 
Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 6:46am PDT
Israel on high alert after bus killings Israel has gone on alert for a possible wave of Arab unrest after a Jewish militant shot dead four Israeli Arabs....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 6:41am PDT
Gaza: Between freedom and fear Links to several articles from this weeks Al-Ahram...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 8:16pm PDT
10,000 Gazans rally to celebrate upcoming Israeli pullout Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia said on Thursday that Israel's pullout from Gaza is a step toward evacuating the West Bank and Jerusalem....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:40am PDT
Jewish gunman kills four on bus in Arab town A Jewish Israeli man in Israel Defense Forces uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram Thursday afternoon. Four people and the gunman were killed and 12 wounded, two of them moderately....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:26am PDT
UK Helped Israel Get Nukes: Report LONDON, August4 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Britain secretly sold Israel a key ingredient for its nuclear program in1958 with no "peaceful use only" condition, enabling the production of nuclear weapons, press reports revealed Thursday, August 4 , citing official documents....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:17am PDT
israeli War Crimes (audio/mpeg 4.8MB) This is a summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 3 August 2005. 5mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 8:41am PDT
For the sake of Palestinians and Israelis, it can't be Gaza Last Ultimately, the Gaza withdrawal is a welcome first step, provided that is done with honorable intentions. The strengthening of Israeli settlements elsewhere understandably dampen the enthusiasm and raise suspicions. But it’s time to start thinking of the human price -- a price that has no dollar amount nor gets much attention....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 5:24pm PDT
Islamic Jihad head: We may recognize the State of Israel An Islamic Jihad leader in the West Bank, Abdel Halim Izzedine, known as Abu Qassam, has told Haaretz that his organization supports the hudna - temporary cease-fire - but is forced to respond to Israeli provocations....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 10:38pm PDT
Tear gas injures Palestinian protesters Israeli soldiers have injured five Palestinian villagers after firing tear gas at the group protesting against a settlement road project threatening their land....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 9:33am PDT
Gaza Land Prices Skyrocketing Ahead of Pullout GAZA CITY, August2 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Land prices are skyrocketing in the areas adjacent to Israeli settlements due to be evacuated in mid August as part of an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 8:36am PDT
Dismantling Settlements in Gaza and Expanding Them in the West Bank 1. Update on Beating and Deportation of Shora Esamilan, 30 Jul 2005
2. Vigil at Ofer Military Base for Abdullah Abu Rahme, Peace Activist
3. Palestinians Give the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) a `Gift
House' and Receive Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas, by Ninna and Palle
4. Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) Tells Lies Again, comments by D,
Haaretz article link, 30 Jul, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2005 10:28pm PDT
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