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The Muslim Brotherhood Announces 2008 Municipal Elections Program

The Muslim Brotherhood declared on Thursday March, 6th, 2008, its platform for the 2008 municipal elections scheduled to be held next April, 8th. The main items of this election program are: ..

The CIA Plot To Overthrow Hamas

Al Jazeera interviews Hamas’ head of the groups political bureaux, Khalid Mishaal..

Nazzal: Hamas possess strong evidence to indict Dahalan over Gaza events

Senior Hamas political leader Mohammed Nazzal has affirmed on Thursday Hamas Movement posses "amazing" evidence on the role of Mohammed Dahalan in carrying out an Israeli-US scheme to oust Hamas from power after it won the elections...

Olmert says he will not attack Gaza if homemade missiles are halted

After failing to stop the resistance homemade missiles through brutal military means, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, announced on Wednesday evening that the IOF will not attack Gaza if the Palestinian resistance stops firing homemade missiles at Israeli colonies...

Zionist rabbis says Torah permits killing Palestinian civilians

The association of rabbis for the people and land of Israel headed by extremist rabbi Dov Lior issued on Wednesday a religious ruling legitimizing the shelling of Palestinian civilian gatherings by IOF troops at the pretext of responding to the rocket attacks carried out by the Palestinians...

IOF troops kill Palestinian young man en route from his work

The IOF troops killed on Wednesday evening a Palestinian young man called Mohamed Aslamiya, 23, and wounded another en route from their work to the Idna town, west of Al-Khalil city in the West Bank...

High-Profile MBs Detained, Ghozlan Included

The Egyptian security apparatus continued its bone-breaking crackdown on the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood by detaining several MB leaders today dawn, toplisted by Dr. Mahmoud Ghozlan, MB Executive Bureau member...

MB Detainees Submit Papers to Stand Municipal Election

Muslim Brotherhood potential candidates who were detained by Egyptian security forces to prevent them from standing elections insist on running for the elections despite their detention, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader said...

Egyptian Security Leaders: We are Here to Block not Open Elections

In an ominous sign that may presage more serious violations, election committees accepting nomination papers for the Egyptian municipal elections were turned into military barracks on Tuesday, the first day of registering for the elections...

Al Katatni Accuses Egyptian Gov’t of Deception Over Injured Palestinians

Mohamed Saad Al Katatni, head of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, accused the Egyptian government of deceiving members of parliament when the Minister of Information Anas Al Feqi said he ordered injured Palestinians to be hospitalized in Al-Arish...

23 MBs arrested in Suez and Monufeya

Egyptian state security forces have arrested 13 Muslim Brotherhood members in Suez governorate today (Wednesday March 5th) in the second day of registering for municipal elections held next April...

Medical negligence suspected in prisoner’s death

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is deeply concerned over the death of Fadel ’Ouda ’Atiya Shaheen, 47, from al-Jalaa’ neighborhood in Gaza City, who had been detained by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Be’r al-Saba’ Prison, as there are indications that his health condition deteriorated and the administration of the prison failed to offer him appropriate medical treatment...

Hamas: Rice’s statements gives cover to Israel’s crimes and US’s complicity

The Hamas Movement strongly denounced on Tuesday the statements of American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in which she held Hamas responsible for what happened in Gaza, considering these statements an American attempt to absolve Israel from its atrocities in the Strip and to cover for the American complicity...

Human Rights Organizations Condemn Arab Restrictions on Satellite Transmission

34 International and Arabian Human Rights organizations confirmed their total rejection of the document of "organizing space & radio broadcasting" which was declared by Arab ministers of information on February 12, 2008...

Khaled Hamza

Khaled Hamza is the editor of www.ikhwanweb.com , the Muslim Brothers’ impressive English website. I met Khaled several months ago and he’s a very affable, intelligent man...

Pakistani Jamat-e-Islami Denounces Latest Terrorist Bombings

Qazi Hussein Ahmed, leader of Jamat-i-Islami in Pakistan , condemned in a statement to Ikhwanweb the bombings that took place near the Supreme Court building in the eastern city of Lahore , causing dozens of casualties...

Islamic Parliaments Forum Condemns Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza

The International Forum for Islamic Parliaments (IFIP) lashed out at the war crimes committed by Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) against Palestinian civilians...

Al-Zahar: Hamas Won 5-Day War, Will Release Shalit if Conditions Met

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a top leader in the Palestinian Hamas movement, confirmed that the Palestinian resistance achieved a big victory in its war with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the "black five-day war". ..

Registeration for Egyptian Municipal Elections Began Today

The Egyptian Supreme Commission on Elections, the highest body supervising elections, declared on Tuesday March, 4th, starting the process of registering for elections in the long-awaited municipal elections due to be held next April, 8th. The registeration process will end after ten days, next March, 13th...

Sweeps of Arrests in Monufeya

Monufeya governorate witnessed large-scale arrests of MB members today(March 4) on the first day of fielding candidates in the municipal elections due on April 8...