Palestine Media Center - PMC - Latest News [Page 9]
Thousands to Join ISM’s ‘Freedom Summer’ Campaign
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 10:08 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said that more 2,000 people from all over the world will join forces in Palestine this summer to protest the “brutality of the [Israeli] occupation and the injustices perpetrated by the Israeli forces ... More >>
Putin Affirms his Role in Peace Process
Monday, 23 June 2003, 12:18 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat awarded a Palestinian decoration to the European Union Middle East envoy Miguel Angel Moratinos on the conclusion of his mission in the Middle East as the Russian President Putin stressed that ignoring Arafat’s role in the peace ... More >>
Settlers Set up More than 10 New ‘Outposts’
Monday, 23 June 2003, 12:17 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The council of Jewish settlers (Yesha) has set up more than 10 new “illegal” West Bank outposts since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised US President George W. Bush and Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas to dismantle over one hundred similar outposts ... More >>
Israel Assassinates Top Hamas Activist
Monday, 23 June 2003, 12:16 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
In another escalation that would spark new violence, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) assassinated a top Hamas activist Saturday night in the southern West Bank city of Hebron as US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice is expected in the region ... More >>
Arafat Agrees to Form ‘Unified National Leadership
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 10:49 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
PNA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has announced that President Yasser Arafat agreed to form a “unified national leadership” (UNL) within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a proposal which would be discussed in detail at a ... More >>
Top Palestinian Religous Figure Detained
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 10:47 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Top Palestinian Religous Figure Detained, Questioned by Israeli Police Mufti Office Sources Describe His Arrest as ‘Dangerous Escalation’ More >>
Abbas Meets US Envoy Wolf Powell’s Visit Confirmed
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 10:46 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) on Tuesday met in Gaza city with the US Middle East envoy Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf, ahead of a visit on Friday by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. More >>
Palestinians Face Severe Water Shortages
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 10:44 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinians Face Severe Shortage of Water Supplies B’Tselem: Water Disruption Between Israelis, Palestinians ‘Unfair’ More >>
Israeli Settlers' bus runs over four-year-old girl
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 10:16 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
A 4-year-old Palestinian girl was critically wounded when an Israeli settlers’ bus ran her over near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem while another child was wounded in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invasion of the Fara’a refugee camp, ... More >>
PNA PM Abbas Resumes Inter-Palestinian Dialogue
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 10:14 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) continues an intensified inter-Palestinian dialogue in Gaza and is expected to meet with the US envoy John Wolf Tuesday, ahead of a possible visit Friday by the US Secretary of State Colin Powell. More >>
PNA Accepts Partial IOF Withdrawal as a beginning
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 10:32 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
One day ahead of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas’s visit to Gaza, an Egyptian team of mediators was about to win an agreement in principle on truce from Hamas as part of a cease-fire package, which the Palestinian leadership approved on Sunday. More >>
EU to Consider Peacekeeping Force for Palestine
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 10:30 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
EU foreign ministers are set to look on Monday at the feasibility of taking part in a peacekeeping force in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory. More >>
IOF Shoot Dead 2 Palestinians in Gaza, Nablus
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:51 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed two Palestinians in northern Gaza and Nablus city while a child died of wounds she sustained earlier last week in the Israeli assassination attempt on Hamas political leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi. More >>
Arafat to Chair PLO Meeting Ratify Truce Proposal
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:50 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat will chair in Ramallah Sunday two separate meetings for the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the central committee of Fatah to discuss the results of the first high-level Palestinian-Israeli ... More >>
Egyptian Team Set for Inter-Palestinian Gaza Talks
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:48 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority’s (PNA) Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and an Egyptian team of mediators are expected in Gaza Monday to begin inter-Palestinian national dialogue aimed at securing an agreement on a proposed truce with the Israeli ... More >>
PNA: US Giving Free Hand to Israeli Assassinations
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:47 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) expressed concern on Friday that the United States was giving a free hand to the Israeli extra-judicial assassinations against suspected Palestinian operatives and activists against the 36-year-old Israeli occupation. More >>
Arafat, Abbas Condemn ‘Terrorist Operations’
Friday, 13 June 2003, 12:09 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Arafat, Abbas Condemn ‘Terrorist Operations’ in Jerusalem, Gaza PLO, PNA Urge ‘Immediate’ Ceasefire but Israel Doesn’t Reciprocate - Israeli Army Radio: IOF were ordered to “completely wipe out” Hamas with “whatever means necessary” More >>
Successive Deadly Air Raids on Gaza 9 more dead
Friday, 13 June 2003, 12:07 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Successive Deadly Air Raids on Gaza Render 9 Palestinians Killed Arafat, Abbas Condemn ‘Terrorists Attacks’ in Jerusalem, Gaza More >>
10 Palestinians Killed in ‘Black Tuesday’
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 9:23 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Three Palestinians from the same family were killed Tuesday afternoon when Israeli Apache gunships fired several missiles at a car and a civilian building in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya, a few hours after a failed assassination attempt on a ... More >>
Israel’s Attack a ‘Crime’, ‘Terrorist Act’
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 9:21 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) condemned an Israeli missile strike against the political leader of the Islamic Hamas movement Abdul-Aziz Al-Rantisi Tuesday as a “terrorist” attack, as the US, UN, UK and Arab foreign ministers warned ... More >>