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Agha: Israeli bombs pose big threats to agriculture, damage environment in Gaza

Palestinian agriculture minister Dr. Mohammed Al-Agha has requested Arab and European parties to help his ministry in examining samples of the soil, water, and sea water in Gaza, explaining that the chemical weapons used by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza posed a big threat to the agriculture and damage the environment...

Press Conference, MP Sit-in at Rafah Crossing after Denial of Access to Gaza

On Wednesday night, January 28, 2009, Egyptian authorities denied an Egyptian MP delegation, including MB and independent bloc members, access to Gaza via the Rafah crossing in a continuance of the security apparatus’ stubbornness with Egyptian MPs. ..

MB Bloc Esteems Erdogan’s Stance, Call on Arab Leaders to Follow His Example

The Egyptian MB Parliamentary Bloc expressed their deep appreciation of the moral stance of the Turkish PM Ragab Tayyeb Erdogan on Thursday, January 29, in the Davos Forum, when he withdrew from the debate session after the conference’s moderator proved to be biased towards the occupational party and to the flagrant aggression on Gaza which left 7000 dead and wounded. ..

Habib: Erdogan’s Stance Suits a Leadership That Stands Up for Justice

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, Dr. Mohamed El-Sayyed Habib (MB Vice-Chair) described the withdrawal of the Turkish PM Ragab Tayyeb Erdogan from the Davos World Economic Forum during the debate between him and Israeli President Perez as a stance that suits a leadership who stands up for truth and justice and by the side of a people whose rights have been violated, lands usurped, lives killed,..

Spain to amend law to avoid trying Israeli war criminals

The Spanish government has decided to amend the country’s law dealing with prosecuting military commanders involved in war crimes...

Arab- Israeli Recommendation to Withdraw Consultative Status for Arab Commission for Human Rights

A number of Arab and African states, members of the International Human Rights Council, in its last meeting in New York, made a recommendation to the UN Economic and Social Council to withdraw the consultative status of AOHR for one year. ..

Academics and Journalist in Gaza call for boycotting the BBC

Palestinian academics and journalist in the Gaza Strip called for a boycott of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for its biased coverage of the Israeli occupation war on Gaza..

Sourani: 86 Israeli war criminals are now wanted by international courts

Palestinian human rights activist Raji Al-Sourani has disclosed Wednesday that at least 86 Israeli military officers were now wanted by a number western courts for their role in the holocaust in the Gaza Strip...

Abu Marzouk: The Cairo ceasefire talks led to nothing new

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, said that the Cairo ceasefire talks did not lead to anything new, noting that it is not possible to accept truce without opening the crossings and lifting the siege...

Egyptian company supplied IOF with food during war on Gaza

The paper gave details of drivers, their licence numbers, their addresses, the amount of food they transported and the dates of their deliveries, especially during the war on Gaza and compared those figures with the figures of casualties in Gaza and the closure of the Rafah crossing. ..

Large European delegation to visit Gaza to report about Israeli war on Gaza

The European campaign to lift the siege reported that a large European parliamentary delegation is due to visit the besieged Gaza Strip in mid-February to eyewitness and report on the impact of the three-week Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip..

Mishaal: We’ll build national authority for the Palestinians at home and abroad

Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, stated Wednesday in Qatar that his Movement would embark on building a national authority referred to by the Palestinian people at home and abroad and involving all national forces and trends..

MP: This Government should’ve been Dismissed Long Ago

MP Mohsen Rady (Member of the MB Bloc in the Egyptian Parliament) ,in an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, stressed the importance of the dismissal of this government long time ago,specially after Chancellor Dr. Gawdat Elmalt (Cheif of Central Auditing Agency) accused the government of committing political crimes...

Reactions to Obama’s Al Arabiya Interview

The blogosphere is abuzz with talk of President Obama’s interview yesterday with Al Arabiya’s Hisham Melhem. Here’s a brief round up of what people are saying…..

More on Mitchell

Yesterday, new Middle East envoy George Mitchell stopped off in Cairo on the first leg of his trip to the region. In a discussion with Hosni Mubarak he stressed the importance of supporting Egypt’s efforts in extending and consolidating the Gaza ceasefire...

Freedom House’s “Freedom in the World 2009″

Yesterday, Freedom House hosted an event discussing the findings from its recently published Freedom in the World 2009 survey. The report shows that global freedom is continuing its retreat, with 34 countries registering declines. Participants in the discussion included Arch Puddington, Director of Research for Freedom House..

Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC), Press Release of the 8th Annual Report

In its eight annual report, the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) monitored a state of regression in human rights in Syria, outlining that the period which the report covers, January to December 2008, “witnessed unprecedented abuses of human rights in Syria, regressing to the levels that were the norm in the mid - 1980s of the last century”. During the previous year, Supreme State Security Courts were held in camera from July onwards. The world was no longer able to keep track of th..

Swiss lawmakers: Israel destroyed man, stone, and tree in Gaza

"This was not a battle fighter to fighter, but rather it was a war between a regular army (the IOF troops), and civilians (The Palestinian people in Gaza). This is unacceptable crime, and the international community should punish the perpetrators", said MP Joseph Zisyadis. ..

Peace now: Settlement expansion rose by 60 percent in the last year

Regarding the settlement outposts which the Israeli government promised the high court to evacuate, the report affirms that not a single outpost was evacuated in 2008, but quite the reverse the settlers expanded the construction in these outposts taking special advantage of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. ..

Deputy Head of MB Parliamentary Bloc Criticizes Governments Refusal of Recommendations of HR

He clarified that the matter is not only in the aggravation of the perpetrator of the crime of torture but to expand the scope of criminality, pointing out that he had submitted this request since last year; however the Council has achieved these recommendations. Mr. Ibrahim added, I did not like this situation so I decided for this file not to be closed. ..