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Palestinian victims of the IOF siege on the rise

A Palestinian cancer patient died in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday night after medicines necessary for his case ran out of stock in the besieged Strip...

Haneyya calls on Abbas and Fatah to turn new page to restore national unity

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, congratulated the Palestinian people on the return of Gaza pilgrims through the Rafah border crossing safely, calling at the same time on PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah faction to open a new page to restore national unity...

Five Palestinians killed in IOF shelling including a mother and her daughter

Five Palestinians were killed in IOF shelling on the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Younis including four of one family along with a resistance fighter...

Morgantini warns of Zionist scheme to uproot Palestinians

Luisa Morgantini, the vice president of the European parliament, told a press conference in Ramallah on Wednesday that Israel was planning to uproot Palestinians from their indigenous homeland. ..

Zionist settlers set fire to historical mosque

Zionist settlers broke into and set fire in one of the historical mosques in Khader village, west of Bethlehem city, on Tuesday evening...

Kenya braces for banned march

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Ondinga vowed to go ahead with a banned "million man" protest rally in Nairobi Thursday, setting the stage for further clashes between security forces and Odinga’s supporters, the Associated Press reported. ..

Palestinian will prevails as Gaza pilgrims head home through Rafah gate

After five days they had spent in harsh conditions at the Egyptian side of the borders between Gaza Strip and Egypt, thousands of Palestinian pilgrims crossed the Rafah terminal back home, declaring victory of the Palestinian determination and will...

Military trials in Egypt? Freedom

In August of 2007, former Guild President Bruce Nestor participated in a human rights delegation to Egypt organized by the Muslim American Society (“MAS”). The delegation, including Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of the MAS Freedom Foundation and Dr. Ammar Qurabi, envoy of the UN Human Rights Commission and President of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, spent one week investigating the use of military tribunals against members of the Muslim Brotherhood by the governm..

More Arab bloggers in peril

It seems like every day there’s another story about Arab political bloggers being arrested, harrassed, or shut down. In Egypt, Abd al-Monem Mahmoud draws attention to the early December arrest of Ahmed Mohassan ("Eyes Still Open"), whose blog has among other things reported police torture, and the harassment and arrests of other Egyptian bloggers...

Pastor Manuel and PCAS Chairman call for Pope Benedict XVI to end siege

Urgent appeal to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. From the land of prophets, peace and blessings and from the besieged Gaza we send you our heartfelt greetings as well as toward all Christians around the globe...

PRESS FREEDOM IN 2007

- 86 journalists killed in 2007 – up 244% over five years - Iraq, Somalia and Pakistan the most deadly countries - At least two journalists arrested each day in 2007 - More than 2,600 websites and blogs shut down in a year..

Voters’ Rights Absence is Normal Under the Absence of Judicial Supervision.

Maat center for Juridical and Constitutional Studies watched- from a distance- the parliament completing elections process in some electoral districts which had vacant seats for different reasons. Maat showed some notes about this process to indicate the election process future generally in Egypt… ..

Democracy Solves All Problems

The Bush administration has made promoting democracy - interpreted mainly as free and fair elections - as the centerpiece of US foreign policy..

Seven Palestinian fighters killed while confronting invading IOF troops

Seven Palestinian resistance fighters were killed late Tuesday and at dawn Wednesday including five of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, in a series of IOF shelling...

Zahhar: We welcome unconditional dialogue under Arab auspices

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a Hamas prominent leader, announced in response to the speech of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas that Hamas welcomes any new orientations towards the national dialogue under Arab auspices, despite the Gaza events stirred up Monday by Fatah-affiliated mutiny trend in which four of Hamas cadres were killed...

Palestinian woman dies due to Gaza siege

A Palestinian woman died in Gaza Tuesday night to bring the number of Palestinian patients dying in the besieged Strip to 61 after being banned from treatment abroad...

Barak: IOF barriers in WB to remain as they are

Israeli war minister Ehud Barak dealt a blow to the PA-Israeli negotiations as he stated that the Israeli barriers in the occupied West Bank would remain after they proved effectiveness and urged the PA leadership to extend a helping hand to crush the Palestinian resistance...

A third Palestinian pilgrim dies while stranded at Egyptian borders

A third Palestinian woman out of the hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims being blocked from returning to the Gaza Strip died on Wednesday of worsening health condition and lack of appropriate treatment. ..

Sources: Bhutto was to give U.S. lawmakers vote-rigging report

On the day she died, Benazir Bhutto planned to hand over to visiting U.S. lawmakers a report accusing Pakistan’s intelligence services of a plot to rig parliamentary elections, sources close to the slain former Pakistani prime minister told CNN Tuesday. ..

The number is shocking and sobering

It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003..