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Hayya: Hamas will never accept any initiative detracting from Palestinian rights

Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya, a prominent Hamas leader, stated on Saturday that his Movement would not accept any mediation or initiative for calm with the Israeli occupation if this calm detracted from the Palestinian people’s rights, highlighting that the Palestinian people would never recognize Israel...

Hamas: Cheney’s statement provocative, affirms collusion in crimes

The Hamas Movement said on Saturday evening that American vice president Dick Cheney’s backing to "Israel’s right of self defense in face of missiles launched from the Gaza Strip" constituted a provocation against the Palestinian people...

Israeli court turns down appeal to free longest serving administrative detainee

The Israeli military court in Negev jail has turned down an appeal to free the longest serving Palestinian administrative detainee who has been held in occupation jails for 51 months without trial...

Abu Marzouk: The PA delegation’s statements undermines Yemeni efforts

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, said that the statements of the PA leadership and its delegation to Sana’a that Hamas did not approve the Yemeni initiative and was not ready for dialog aimed at undermining the Yemeni efforts to bridge the rift in the Palestinian arena. ..

Egyptian University Professors Go on Strike, Doctors Call off

Egyptian universities witness on Sunday, March, 23rd, 2008, a complete strike against work staged by Egyptian university professors in protest at their low salaries and demanding proper raises to be in line with a decent living of university staff. The strike committee- composed of the teaching staff members nationwide- defined several mechanism to be adopted by the professors in the strike, the most prominent of which that every teaching staff member stage the strike in his offic..

Dispatches: Iraq - The Betrayal

Peter Oborne accompanies the UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq, meeting the main players who will determine the future of the country; from the US Commanding General David Petraeus, to militiamen fighting to protect their homes, to parliamentarians holed up in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Oborne discovers that Iraq seems to have reverted to a violent feudalism...

Nunu welcomes Lavrov’s call for ending siege & settlement building

Taher Al-Nunu, the PA caretaker government’s spokesman, has welcomed Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s call on Israel to end the Gaza blockade and to stop building settlements on Palestinian occupied lands...

IOA to build residential neighborhood in Efrat settlement in WB

The municipality of the Israeli Efrat settlement in the southern West Bank announced a new scheme to build a residential neighborhood in the settlement, according to Hebrew press reports...

Hebrew sources: IOF troops train for possible Gaza invasion

Hebrew media outlets have unveiled on Friday that the Israeli occupation army concluded large-scale military exercises in preparation for possible full-scale military invasion to control the tiny Gaza Strip. ..

The Gaza siege claims its 115th victim

Two more Palestinian patients died in the Gaza Strip as a result of being denied travel out of the Gaza Strip to seek medical treatment which is not available Gaza, according to Palestinian medical sources...

Dispatches: Iraq - The Betrayal

Peter Oborne accompanies the UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq, meeting the main players who will determine the future of the country; from the US Commanding General David Petraeus, to militiamen fighting to protect their homes..

Anti-War Demonstrations in US Cities to Protest Bush’s ’Major Victory’

The United States witnessed on Wednesday and Thursday a series of anti-war demonstrations o protest the US war in Iraq marking the fifth anniversary of the US invasion...

Human Rights Group Slams Egypt ’s Anti-Terrorism Law, Military Courts

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) expressed its astonishment towards Egyptian government’s enacting an anti-terrorism law, questioning about the target from this new law although the phenomenon terrorism vanished or at least receded to a great extent inside Egypt ...

Abbas’s authority record of crimes against journalists

The Hamas information office revealed in a detailed report issued on Wednesday that the PA security apparatuses had committed 100 assaults on press and media personnel and institutions since Hamas won the legislative election in 2006...

Hamas: No hope for change in American strategy towards Arab-Israeli conflict

The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the statements of John McCain, the republican party candidate for the presidential elections in the USA, in which he considered occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the Hebrew state...

Sharnoubi Vs. State Security Forces, Part II

For the second time in less than 10 days, Egyptian State Security Forces fails to arrest journalist abdel Gelil Sharnoubi, chief editor of Ikhwanonline, the MB official Arabic website. Police forces stormed the house of the Abdel Gelil Sharnoubi on Friday at 2:00AM Cairo time trying to arrest him but again, he was not there. Sharnoubi has just ended his sit-in inside the Journalists’ Syndicate in protest of the government ‘s attempt to arrest him the first time on March 12, 2008. ..

Brussels Hosts Int’l Conference on Egypt’s Human Rights Violations

The European Union capital, Brussels , hosts on Thursday, March, 20th, the international conference around human rights violations in Egypt . The conference is organized by the Paris based Arab Commission for Human Rights and the London based Justice International. ..

Rachel Corrie’s 5th Anniversary: Heroic Death, Adds to Israel’s Criminal Record

These days five years ago, Palestinian occupied territories witnessed the brutal death of the US activist Rachel Corrie, 23, by Israeli bulldozers while they were demolishing a house of a Palestinian family. Rachel Corrie’s death gave another- not a last- proof on the barbarism of Israeli Occupation Forces and to reflect the international community’s recklessness towards the Palestinian cause...

Dayton meets PA security commanders in Al-Khalil

Gen. Keith Dayton, the American officer in charge of security coordination between the PA and Israeli security apparatuses, on Tuesday discussed with commanders of PA security commanders in Al-Khalil their efforts in implementing security campaign in the West Bank...

Hamas: Israeli plans to kill a senior Hamas figure prior to reaching calm

The Lebanese Akhbar newspaper quoted a "reliable" source in Hamas as saying that the Israeli occupation is planning the assassination of senior Hamas officials prior to the calm agreement which Egypt is working on in order to prompt the Movement to beg for truce...