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 33 Lebanese and Syrian farm workers were killed in an Israeli air attack in the village of Qaa’ on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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Sources close to decision making circles disclosed that Egypt recently rejected the second phase of the QUIZ agreement which allows textiles and other Egyptian items access into the American markets. The sources added that this step was taken by the Egyptian government as a punitive measure against Israel to halt its aggression on Lebanon and accept a political solution by which the issue of th..

The IOF continued Friday their assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip killing six people, including a 3-day-old girl, raising the death toll within the past 24 hours to 14 people.

PIC correspondent said that two Palestinians were killed in their houses Friday morning when IOF troops shelled residential areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

Dr. Ali Mousa, manager of Abu Yousef a..

The PA premier, Ismail Haneyya, has warned that Israel was exploiting the world’s focus on the war on Lebanon to carry out more massacres in the Gaza Strip.

He asserted that the source of conflict and instability in the area was the Israeli occupation, adding that all concerned parties should realize this fact and start to address the problem from the roots and not to be conte..

Member of Parliament Dr. Shahinaz el Naggar refused to receive an award presented by the UN media center in protest of what she called the heinous massacres against the Lebanese people while these massacres are met with pathetic silence on the part of the UN which has failed to take effective measures to stop this aggression on civilians as well as targeting the Lebanese and Palestinian in..

A statement was released by more than 169 prominent Islamic figures from all over the Muslim world representing nearly all cultural, intellectual, political and religious affiliations in the Muslim Nation. The signatories of the statement included a large number of Saudi scholars who contributed to this statement out of their sense of moral duty and a testimony to history as regards the tragedi..

The National Committee for Solidarity with Lebanon and Palestine (NCSLP) posted all syndicates, trade unions, popular political movements and all the civil society establishments to send their representatives to take part in the preparatory meeting to be held at seven p.m., on Saturday August 12, 2006 at the Press Syndicate, Cairo. The meeting is aimed to set the scene for the expanded popular ..

Al Qaeda second man Ayman el Zawahri said in a new video footage aired by the media Saturday August 5, 2006 that some of the Egyptian Islamic Group in Egypt joined al Qaeda” We bring good news to the Nation that knights from the Islamic Group have closed ranks and got together” he said. He added that this step is aimed to mobilize the Nation’s potentials in the face of its enemies in what he de..

Important Update on August 12 - Now a Global Day of Action
Stop the Attacks on Lebanon and Palestine

"From Michigan, people are preparing to march on Washington DC in large numbers this Saturday, August 12. Our community is coming in the thousands to the White Hou..

Gaza - After reneging on their pledges for the fifth successive time, PA crossing director Saleem Abu Safeyya has plainly accused Wednesday the EU observes in Rafah of conniving with Israel to keep the Rafah terminal sealed off.

He charged that the EU observes, who were originally stationed at the terminal to facilitate crossing pf Palestinian citizens in and out of Gaza Strip through t..

Women in the Islamic Movement in Jordan organized a march on Thursday June 10, 2006 in protest against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. The protestors marched through the UNICEF office in Jordan and Head of Women Section within the movement Dr. Arwa el Kilani called on the organization to step in to safeguard the international principles on protecting children which Israel viola..

In a symbolic gesture reflecting affinity between the two peoples, Palestinians collected donations to send to their brothers and sisters in Lebanon despite the worsening situation in Palestine.

A convoy of 20 lorries loaded with food and medicine and cash donations of about 250 thousand dollars left Palestine on Wednesday on its way to Lebanon through Jordan.

Organizers of the ..

The PA minister for captives affairs, Wasfi Kabaha, said in a press release on Thursday that the Israeli court at Ofer decided to extend the detention of Dr. Aziz Dwaik, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, to eight days to for further interrogation.

Dr. Dwaik will be moved to the Kfar Youna detention center where Israeli intelligence officers will continue with his interroga..

Parliamentarians from various countries began their conference in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday to discuss ways and means of supporting Lebanese and Palestinian resistance in face of Israeli aggressions.

The annual event used to be held in Beirut but due to the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon the participants decided to hold their meeting this year in Damascus.

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Scores of political detainees in Damanhour Prison staged a hunger strike protesting their detention without charges. The same prison witnessed cases of attempted suicide by a number of detainees. The Prosecution tried to persuade the detainees to end their hunger strike but failed. The detainees affirmed that they want nothing from the authorities but to abide by the court rulings whi..

Under this heading, Syrian Marxist figure Mekal Zohour Odai wrote that the Arabs have a golden chance to inflict such a defeat on Israel, making it too paralyzed to stand up on its feet, so that it meets the same pathetic end of the once powerful Crusade emirates which faded away after subsequent military defeats.

The writer adds that now Israel is suffering military and civil losses, ..

The Jordanian Ikhwan MPs have stepped up their discontent over the rulings issued against two of MB Members of Parliament, sentencing one to two years and the other to one and a half years in prison, in addition to financial penalties.

As a reaction, the MB Shura Bureau in Jordan- the MB highest authority - released a statement (posted to Ikhwanweb) to the effect that the group wi..

The third consultative meeting held by the Muslim Brotherhood and independent MPs witnessed strong criticism to the Arab regime’s position in general and the Egyptian one in particular toward the Israeli crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian and Lebanese people, calling for organizing a funeral-like procession with a moment of silence as a sign of the death of the Arab League. The deputies..