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Spanish court to probe Israeli war crimes in 2002

The international federation for human rights, the human rights association in Spain and the Palestinian center for human rights hailed the decision taken by the examining magistrate in the central Spanish court on the 29th of January which confirms the court’s eligibility to investigate a complaint about war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip in 2002..

Abu Marzouk: Hamas will not yield to the Israeli extortion regarding the calm

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, stated Friday that his Movement would never yield to the Israeli blackmail regarding the truce, highlighting that the release of the Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit must only be within a swap deal ensuring the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails..

Haneyya government resolves misunderstanding with UNRWA

Representatives of the Palestinian government in Gaza, led by Ismail Haneyya, on Friday resolved the misunderstanding between the government and UNRWA over the past couple of days, Taher Al-Nunu, the government spokesman said...

Health ministry appeals for saving lives of hundreds of cancer patients in Gaza

The ministry of health in Gaza appealed to all concerned human rights organizations to urgently intervene to save the lives of hundreds of cancer patients who are languishing under the yoke of the Israeli siege and cannot find a single pill to ease their pains...

Arab medicine, food supplies rot in Al-Arish

Dr. Bakat Barkani, the chairman of the Algerian doctors syndicate, has plainly accused the Egyptian government of wasting tons of medicine and blood supplies donated by Arab countries to their Palestinian brothers in Gaza Strip..

Mizan: Israeli aggression destroyed water networks, put lives of Gazans at risk

Al-Mizan center for human rights has asserted that the Israeli war on Gaza Strip destroyed water networks, and mixed potable water with waste water that affected the lives of the 1.5 million Palestinians living there...

MB Detainees Suffering Unprecedented Restraints

MB Lawyer Khalaf Bayyoumi affirmed in his statements to Ikhwanweb that around 228 MB detainees in Borg El-Arab prison north of Egypt are suffering unprecedented restraints whether during family visits which are not permitted to exceed 30 minutes or in their food and clothes..

In Response to Published News on "Global politician"

In response to the published news on internet, we strongly deny what came in the news and refuse using our name in a report about terrorism, targeting leading British Jew and advocating the destruction of Israel...

Advice for the new President

With President Obama naming several high level officials to his foreign policy staff, in addition to demonstrating that the Middle East would be a priority for the administration, several commentators have been wondering what the President’s “change” policy would look like for the region. There has been no shortage of suggestions for the new President-Another piece today advocating for a more nuanced and direct approach to political Islam as well as one from George Lesser on thinking ..

Thoughts on Obama’s Outreach to the Arab World

In an interview with AlArabiya.net POMED’s Director of Advocacy, Stephen McInerney highlighted the significance of Obama’s interview last week with Hisham Melhem. He explained how “this sends an important signal about the new administration and its desire to directly engage the people of the Middle East and the Muslim world. For too long the American administrations have focused too much on relationships with Arab governments rather than Arab people.”..

Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship

The Israeli navy has captured and diverted a ship from Lebanon carrying more than 60 tonnes of aid to the Gaza Strip...

The Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Pro-Gaza Protest Friday

The Muslim Brotherhood calls for holding a protest vigil in front of Rabia al-Adawiya mosque, Nasr City on Friday afternoon..

Israeli navy hijacks Lebanese ship carrying aid to Gaza

Al-Jazeera TV reporter Salam Khadr aboard the Lebanese fraternity ship on Thursday reported that Israeli naval troops stormed the ship, which is carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, and physically attacked the passengers...

Egyptian lawyers want Israeli war criminals put on trial

Prominent Egyptian lawyers affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood Movement called on the Egyptian general-prosecutor to file criminal lawsuits against top Israeli political and military officials for the crimes against humanity they committed in Gaza..

MB Lawyers Call For Probe into Israeli Crimes

MB Lawyers filed a report with the Egyptian Attorney General requesting him to carry out investigations into the war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army throughout its last offensive in Gaza and their transferal to the Egyptian criminal court. The report includes 26 names of Israeli leaders, the most prominent of them who are Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni..

5 Qina Muslim Brothers Detained

State Security Police in the upper Egyptian governorate of Qina detained 5 Muslim Brotherhood leaders on Wednesday night.The detainees are: Dr Mohamed Solaiman, an inspector at the ministry of endowments, Ahmed Abdullah, on pension general manager, Dr. Saber Sayed Al-Sagheer, a pharmacist, Ahmed Ali Eid, an employee at the governorate hall, and Jahlan Ismail Hassan, a secondary school teacher..

Haneyya gov’t denies UNRWA allegations of seizing relief aid from its depots

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya on Wednesday categorically denied the UNRWA accusations that the police in Gaza seized relief aid from its warehouses and called on the UN agency to apologize immediately for spreading false news..

Former US justice secretary: Israeli war on Gaza genocide

Former US secretary of justice Ramsey Clark has accused Israel of waging a war of genocide against the Gaza Strip and of killing women, children and old people without any differentiation..

Ging: tens of thousands of Gaza inhabitants without shelter

John Ging, the director of UNRWA operations in Gaza Strip, has warned that tens of thousands of people in Gaza were homeless while his agency was still finding difficulty in distributing assistance to the needy..

European MPs: EU wrong for not talking with Hamas

Martin Schultz, the German leader of the European Parliament’s socialist group, has called for initiating dialog with Hamas in its capacity as a democratically elected movement if the international community wanted real progress toward a comprehensive settlement of the Middle East conflict..