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Sadr urges support for ’resistance’

Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader, has called on Arab countries to support his militia’s battle against "US occupation" as clashes between Shia groups and Iraqi government troops entered their fifth day. The remarks came as Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister called the fighting in the southern city of Basra "a decisive and final battle". More than 200 people have reportedly died since an Iraqi military crackdown in Basra sparked violence across the country. ..

PA ministry urges world community to check IOA crimes against Palestinians

The ministry of prisoners in the PA caretaker government has urged the international community to end its silence regarding Israeli occupation authority’s crimes against the Palestinian people and to adopt a daring stand to check those crimes...

Egypt: Newspaper editor’s prosecution part of a “pattern of harassment” of Egyptian media

Ibrahim Eissa was charged under Articles 171 and 188 of the Penal Code for publishing in 2007 information considered by the authorities to be damaging to the public interest and Egypt’s national stability...

Ethiopia: Two prisoners of conscience freed

Amnesty International today welcomed the release of human rights activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, who had been detained in Ethiopia since November 2005, but said the two prisoners of conscience should be compensated for the time they spent in prison...

Palestinian refugees commemorate martyrdom of Sheikh Yassin and Rantisi

Representative of Hamas in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said on Thursday that the language of dialogue between Hamas and Fatah Movements should continue in order to resolve the inter-Palestinian division, and to unite the Palestinian stand against the Israeli occupation. ..

Haneyya urges Arab leaders to end inter-Palestinian rift, break Gaza siege

The prominent political leader in Hamas Movement Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya has urged on Friday the Arab leaders to sincerely act to end the inter-Palestinian rift, and to put an end to the crushing economic siege that had been imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip for more than two years now...

Hamas’s battle for hearts and minds

ATTEMPTS at a rapprochement between the Palestinian Islamist party, Hamas, and its more secular rival, Fatah, faltered this week almost as soon as they had begun. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and head of Fatah, quickly disowned an agreement that his negotiator had signed after talks with Hamas representatives in Yemen...

Opposition Calls for General Strike

A coalition of opposition groups—including the suspended Labor Party, Kifaya, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the unlicensed Karama (Dignity) Party, the unlicensed Centrist Party, the workers of Mahalla, the Lawyers’ Syndicate...

Court orders 8 MB leaders freed

North Cairo court has ordered the release of Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, member of the MB Executive Bureau, and seven other Muslim Brotherhood(MB) leaders today...

Court Orders Release of Senior MB Leader Mahmoud Ghozlan

North Cairo court ordered the release of Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, member of the MB Executive Bureau, and seven other Muslim Brotherhood(MB) members today...

IOF troops kidnap Palestinian young woman

IOF soldiers at dawn Thursday kidnapped a 26-year-old Palestinian young woman from her parent’s home in Rafidia suburb, Nablus city, local sources reported...

Hamas warns Olmert not to commit follies against Palestinian people

The Hamas Movement warned the Israeli occupation against perpetrating any follies against the Palestinian people in the wake of the threats made by Israeli premier Ehud Olmert to intensify the aggression on Gaza, holding it responsible for repercussions of its terrorist policy against the Palestinian people. ..

Delegates of Hamas and Islamic Jihad visit Egypt to discuss crossing, calm

Delegations of the Hamas Movement and the Islamic Jihad Movement headed Thursday morning to Egypt to resume discussions about a number of issues especially the temporary calm with the Israeli occupation and the opening of the Rafah border crossing...

Katatny Downplays Assembly Speaker Statements About Need for MB Party

Dr. Ahmed Fathi Sorour, The Egyptian People’s Assembly Speaker surprised all when he said," It is time for the Muslim Brotherhood to have a party instead of running in elections as independents, to put an end to their designation as an outlawed group."..

IOF troops demolish two houses, bulldoze agriculture lands

IOF troops on Wednesday demolished two Palestinian homes and bulldozed 100 dunums of agriculture lands in Qarara town east of Khan Younis, to the south of the Gaza Strip, locals reported. ..

Videos of the Brussel’s Conference on Egypt’s Human Rights Violations

The Belgian capital Brussels hosted on Thursday March 20, a conference about freedoms in Egypt. The conference "Freedoms and Human Rights in Egypt, where to?" was organized ..

A Tear In Both Eyes

Rihab Kanaan, a Palestinian poetess was born in Beirut 1959. The Intifadah and the Zionist occupation brutal manner to curbing it were the theme of her poems...

Gaza’s sewage system in crisis

Design errors, a fast growing population, the halting in recent years of development projects, and Israeli restrictions on imports have rendered the Gaza Strip’s sewage system incapable of handling the enclave’s waste, experts said...

Palestinian woman dies of Gaza blockade

Jazia Abu Hilal, 65, died on Tuesday in Gaza city after long suffering of a chronic disease which she could not get treated in Gaza and at the same time could not travel abroad for treatment due to the Israeli siege...

PJB: Crimes of PA security forces against journalists intolerable

The Palestinian Journalist Bloc (PJB) has warned on Tuesday that list of the crimes committed by the PA security forces against Palestinian journalists became very long and that it is about time to stop such crimes...