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Khudari: the trickle of food supplies allowed into Gaza not enough

Besides the fact that the supplies allowed in are not enough to meet the Strip’s need even for one day, local observers fear that the Israeli occupation’s step was an attempt to beautify its image on the international level before launching its offensive on the Gaza Strip during which the occupation intends to inflict high casualties amongst the civilian population. ..

Barhoum: Livni used the Egyptian arena to declare war on Palestinian people

"Livni will definitely fail in her strive to instigate the Palestinian public opinion against Hamas, and we tell her that she wouldn’t be able to destroy the Hamas Movement or the resistance", underlined the Hamas official, underscoring that all efforts to sideline Hamas and get it out of the Palestinian equation will fail. ..

Arabs’ Deadly Silence: All Quiet on the Gaza Shore

The UNHRC harshly reprimanded Israel for its policies toward Palestinians generally and its blockade of Gaza specifically, calling for an end to their “cruel, inhuman and degrading” punishments. Falk also insisted the UN International Criminal Court investigate Israel’s behavior and actions in order to “determine whether the Israeli civilian leaders and military commanders responsible for the Gaza siege should be indicted and prosecuted for violations of international criminal law." ..

Muslim Brotherhood Wishes Christians Merry Christmas

The Muslim Brotherhood wishes Christians all over the world a merry Christmas and happy New Year...

MB Calls For Release of Gaza Relief Detainees

The Muslim Brotherhood called for the immediate release of the Gaza relief detainees who have reached around 200 MB members...

Sawaseya Calls On Egypt Gov’t To Abandon Political Feud, Release MB Leaders

In its press release issued on Monday, December 22, Sawaseya Center for Human Rights and Combating Discrimination called on the Egyptian authorities to release MB prisoners of conscience who were jailed in case number 963 for the year 2006. ..

MB Leader: Egypt Gov’t Exerts Pressure to Prevent National Coalitions

MB leader Ali Abdel Fattah accused the Egyptian government of seeking to prevent the formation of strong national coalitions between the opposition forces and political parties through pressure. The relation between the Muslim Brotherhood and different parties is based on respect and stimulating common areas of agreement, especially in the issue of political reform, he told Ikhwanweb...

Imprisoned Muslim Brothers In 2008

Egyptian prisons host at present about 250 Muslim Brotherhood detainees. ..

MB Lawyers to Take Position After General Assembly Meeting

MB lawyers will not determine their position on backing a certain candidate for the Bar chairman post until the next General Assembly meeting. Such decision will be taken according to the pulse of this meeting, Mohamed Tosson, spokesman of the Sharia Committee (Muslim Brotherhood lawyers) and former member of the Bar Association council told Ikhwanweb. ..

Probe Accuses Egypt Gov’t Of Wasting Grant Money

In a 15-page long probe to be discussed next week in the Egyptian parliament, Member of the MB Parliamentary Bloc MP Mohsen Radi accused the Egyptian government of wasting grant and financial aid money received from the United States and the European Union...

Essam El-Erian Files Lawsuit Against Dismissal From Health Insurance Authority

After the decision of dismissing him from his work as a medical doctor in General Authority for Health Insurance, Dr. Essam el-Erian, a top leader in the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), confirmed in exclusive statements to Ikhwanweb that he brought a lawsuit against this decision...

IOA to rally international support for major operation against Gaza

The campaign apparently kicked off when Yuval Diskin, the head of the Israeli general security apparatus the Shabak, claimed that Hamas Movement in Gaza obtained new missiles capable of reaching Ashdod and the outskirts of Beer Sheba. ..

Gamal Abdel-Salam: The Saint of Humanitarian Relief

Gamal Abdel-Salam is the most prominent and leading relief activist in the Arab World as he headed the Emergency and Relief Committee in the Arab Medical Doctors Union since February 2005 until today. Abdel-Salam had also occupied several important positions including Secretary-General of the Cairo Medical Doctors Syndicate from November 1999 to 2005. He further participated in several relief activities throughout the Arab World. ..

MB Requests Probe into Internet Cut in Egypt

Hassan asked the government to give an answer for what had been published in press about bribes related to the cables, besides the statement of the minister saying that the internet cut has a particular sensitivity for its link to some political bodies, and that the Administrative Control had arrested an engineer at the Egyptian Company for Communications and accused him of taking bribes. ..

Kefaya Calls For Event Supporting Right to Travel

Isaac made special call for scores of Muslim Brotherhood leaders topped by Essam Al-Erian, Gamal Heshmat, and Abdul-Hamid Al-Ghazali who were prevented from travel before. ..

Islamist setbacks prompt strategic rethink

“The danger now is that the setbacks for political Islam will undermine moderate elements within these movements and strengthen conservatives,” writes Roula Khalaf in the Financial Times, as Islamists question the merits of embracing electoral politics. ..

MB Bloc, World Islamist MPs Denounce Duweik’s Prison Sentence

Egyptian MB Parliamentary Bloc and the World Forum for Islamist Parliamentarians expressed their firm denouncement of the ruling issued by the Israeli Military Court of Aufer on Tuesday, December 16, sentencing Dr. Aziz El-Duweik, Head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, to prison for three years...

Abul-Futouh: Accusations Against Abdel-Salam Politically Motivated

Secretary-General of the Arab Doctors Union and Member of the MB Executive Bureau contended in his statements to Ikhwanweb that the accusations laid against Gamal Abdel-Salam, Head of the Union’s Relief and Emergency Committee, are for a political aim which is threatening to harm any person who works towards lifting the political and humanitarian siege on Gaza...

Egypt Police Arrest 27 Muslim Brotherhood Members, Detain MB Relief Activist

Egyptian state security forces rounded up on Thursday 27 Muslim Brotherhood members from the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta governorates of Kafr El-Sheikh and Sharqeyya. ..

MP Slams Gov’t Violation of Court Ruling In Favor of Relief Convoys to Gaza

MP Hamdi Hassan (Spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood MPs), in his bill submitted to the head of the Egyptian parliament Fathy Sorur, slammed the interior ministry’s aggression against the participants in Eid Al-Adha convoy to break the siege on Gaza. ..