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Hamdan: Israel is fully responsible for its retreat from the truce agreement

Osama Hamdan, the representative of the Hamas Movement in Lebanon, on Saturday held Israel fully responsible for any retreat from the understandings of calm, adding that the Egyptian mediator should take a stance towards this Israeli procrastination...

Report: Lives of patients in Israeli jails are in real danger

The Palestinian center for prisoners’ studies reported Sunday that the lives of dozens of prisoners and patients in Israeli jails are in real danger especially the detainees with chronic diseases who live under the mercy of prisons’ doctors, noting that some imprisoned patients died after they underwent surgery..

Nazzal: The battle of Gaza unveiled Israel’s true face

Nazzal: The battle of Gaza unveiled Israel’s true face..

Erdogan: Results of Israeli elections will make future of the region "bleak"

Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed concern over results of the Israeli general elections that witnessed emergence of far right parties...

Slams On Government Interventions In Judge Elections

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, Court of Cassation Vice-Chair Mahmoud El-Khodeiry, a prominent figure in the Judicial Independence current, slammed the Ministry of Justice and Supreme Judicial Council for their election interventions which put Judge Hisham Genena in an embarrassing situation as he stood still in front of the clear support given to the government-backed candidate...

Egyptian Truck Drivers Still on Strike amid Security Threats

Trailer truck drivers continued their strike and stopped hitting the road for the second day in a row in several Egyptian governorates, stressing they will not stop the strike unless the People’s Assembly backpedals on a bill it recently ratified to cancel trailers. The drivers said these bill will harm their sources of living. ..

Lebanese committee calls for sending peaceful fleet to break the siege on Gaza

The Lebanese national committee to break the siege on Gaza has called on all freedom loving peoples in the world to send a unified "peace fleet" to break the siege on the Gaza Strip..

Agriculture minister denounces continued IOF shooting at fishermen

Dr. Mohammed Al-Agha, the Palestinian agriculture minister in Gaza, has denounced the Israeli occupation forces’ continued shooting at Palestinian fisherman and their boats off the Gaza coasts...

More Trouble in Cairo

Egypt continues to catch headlines for the wrong reasons. Noha El-Hennawy, at Babylon and Beyond, reports on Thursday’s protests in the streets of Cairo. Activists gathered in opposition to the conviction of a pro-Palestinian journalist who was sentenced to two years in prison. Magdy Ahmed Hussein was convicted for illegally crossing into the Gaza Strip during the recent Israeli operation. Hussein was tried in a military court, where the right to appeal is denied...

Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?

Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes an interesting piece on the prospects of a Muslim Brotherhood-Iranian alliance. While he admits it is unlikely, history, he attests would prove otherwise. Khalaji concludes:..

Moroccan delegation: What we saw in Gaza was more atrocious than TV broadcasts

Dr. Mohamed Guti, the head of the Moroccan health committee to support Iraq and Palestine, said that what he and the Moroccan delegation saw in the Gaza Strip was more hideous than what appeared on TV screens, adding that Israel destroyed everything in the Strip to force its people to surrender and raise the white flag...

AI urges Ki-moon to broaden a probe into Israeli attacks on UN buildings

Amnesty International urged Friday UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to broaden an investigation of attacks on UN institutions in the Gaza Strip so that it becomes a comprehensive probe into all violations of international law committed by Israel and allegedly by other parties to the conflict...

European MPs: Israel committed war crimes against humanity in Gaza

A delegation from the European parliament met Friday with Palestinian lawmakers in a tent prepared to receive guests after the destruction of the PLC headquarters during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, where the visiting delegation affirmed that Israel deliberately committed war crimes against humanity in the Strip..

Egyptian MPs Lash Out at Denying Int’l Lawyers Access to Gaza

An Egyptian MP denounced the Egyptian government’s action of denying international lawyers access to Gaza ..

Call for Sending Peaceful Fleet to Break Gaza Blockade

The National Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza from Lebanon stressed in a statement that it is as well as Free Gaza movement that coordinates with it, are at the disposal of any one who needs to contribute to the peaceful fleet intended to break the blockade on Gaza..

The Power of Nightmares

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares..

Gaza government welcomes unity talks, calls for releasing political prisoners

The PA government in Gaza under the premiership of Ismail Haneyya welcomed the efforts to end the state of Palestinian discord and called on Ramallah to release political prisoners to create the right atmosphere..

Abu Marzouq: Egypt will announce the Tahde’a within 48 hours

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouq, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, announced in Cairo that Egypt will announce an 18-month Tahde’a (truce) in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and the Palestinian resistance faction on the one hand and the Zionist entity on the other..

Gamal Mubarak: "We Need Audacious Leaders"

Mubarak: The Egyptian stance on this issue is unambiguous. I ask all the countries in the region, with no exception, to not seek nuclear weapons, or to get rid of them if they already have them. Weapons have nothing to do with civilian nuclear energy. The nonproliferation treaty clearly affirms the right of each state to develop a nuclear research program with peaceful designs. When President Mubarak talks about the entry of Egypt into the nuclear area, he, of course, refers to its civ..

2200 Tons Gaza Aid Seized, Relief Officials Detained

Egyptian security forces on Thursday raided stores in North Sinai cities and seized Gaza aid and arrested people responsible for this aid, sources told Ikhwanweb. ..