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Mishaal: Israel trying to open channel of communication with Hamas

Khaled Mishaal, the head of the Hamas political bureau, revealed Tuesday that the Israeli occupation is attempting to open channels of communication with the Movement, but it was always met with rejection, categorically denying PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s allegation that Hamas has such channels with Israel...

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members clash with police ahead of municipal elections

Hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful opposition group, staged demonstrations across northern Egypt on Tuesday, accusing the government of preventing them from participating in upcoming municipal elections, security officials and the organization said. ..

IOF command claims foiling Qassam human bombing attack

The IOF command and the Israeli intelligence have foiled a Palestinian human bombing operation that targeted soldiers at the Erez crossing north of Gaza, the Hebrew radio reported on Tuesday...

IOF troops kidnap five Palestinian children from Salfit city

A large number of IOF troops stormed Tuesday morning Salfit city, northern West Bank, amid heavy gunfire for the second consecutive day and kidnapped five Palestinian children from the city’s houses and roads...

Ikhwanweb’s Chief Editor Detention Extended Two More Weeks

State Security Prosecution ordered the temporary detention of Khaled Hamza, Ikhwanweb editor-in-chief, extended for 15 more days...

Egyptian authorities block 40 European MPs from reaching Rafah

The Egyptian authorities barred Monday evening 40 European MPs from the European campaign to end the siege on Gaza from reaching Rafah to express their solidarity with the besieged Gaza people...

Peace Now: 500 settlement units under construction since January in WB

A new report issued by the Israeli Peace Now movement revealed Monday that about 500 settlement units including thousands of apartments have been under construction since January in more than 100 Israeli settlements in the West Bank...

HRW calls on Israel to stop immediately demolition of Bedouin homes

Human rights watch (HRW) called on the Israeli occupation to declare an immediate moratorium on demolition of Bedouin homes in the Negev area, south of the Palestinian lands occupied in 1984, and to create an independent commission to investigate land and housing discrimination against its Bedouin citizens in the Negev...

Zionist settlers kill Palestinian in cold blood

A group of Zionist settlers on Monday shot and killed a Palestinian man near the entrance to Shilo settlement near Nablus city at the pretext he was trying to stab one of the settlers. ..

Olmert announces settlement activities in Jerusalem and WB will continue

Israeli premier Ehud Olmert announced Monday that the construction in the Jewish neighborhoods in occupied Jerusalem and the large settlement units in the West Bank would continue because they would remain under Israel’s sovereignty in any agreement with the PA...

SHRC Slams Media, Political Silence to Human Rights Issues in Syria in Arab Summit

The Syrian Human Rights Committee lamented the " the shameful political negligence and bad media coverage" of human rights issues in Syria during the Arab summit that Damascus hosted last Saturday and Sunday . ..

Al Dustour’s Eissa Acquitted in Egyptian President’s Health Case

Boulak Abo Al Ela Court acquitted journalist Ibrahim Eissa, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian daily Al-Dustour, in the lawsuit accusing him of spreading rumors around the health of the Egyptian president. ..

NDP Launches Media Offesnive to Counter Muslim Brotherhood

The General Secretariat of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) approved an offensive media campaign to face the sprawling network of websites created by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to sources close to the party...

Selling Democracy - De Lux Model with Double-Standards Built In

The news went largely unreported, so you may have missed it, but last week the editor of a newspaper in Cairo was sentenced to six months in prison for spreading "false information... damaging the public interest and national stability" by reporting that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was in a coma. The judge in the case said the report, by Ibrahim Eissa, editor of Egypt’s Al-Dustour, caused panic among foreign investors and threatened Egypt’s economy...

Mishaal: Palestinians entitled to resist occupation with all available means

Khaled Mishaal, the chairman of the Hamas political bureau, has stressed that the Palestinian people were entitled to resist occupation with all available means including military means. ..

Dutch film an extremist plot to widen Islam-West gulf

THE Doha-based Muslim scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi has condemned the anti-Islam film released last Thursday by a far-right Dutch lawmaker...

On land day Hamas renews adherence to constants, rejection of settlement project

The Hamas Movement called on the Arab rulers and ruled to support the Palestinian people and the resistance option...

Hamas: Abbas’s statements do not represent the Palestinian people’s positions

The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the statements of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas during the Arab summit in Damascus on Saturday, saying such statements do not represent the Palestinian people’s position which rejects the continuance in the settlement project with Israel...

IOA blocks visits to female detainee

The Israeli occupation authority has banned lawyer of Nafha legal society from visiting detainee Hanadi Kenaan raising doubts that she was subjected to illegal pressures and blackmailing...

IOF troops kill Qassam fighter, wound two others in Khan Younis

A Palestinian resistance fighter of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, called Bilal Al-Astal, 17, was killed and two others were wounded during confrontations on Friday with a special Israeli force that infiltrated into an area east of Al-Karara in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. ..