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Ten Palestinians and foreign sympathizers were wounded on Friday including a cameraman when IOF troops used new weapons to disperse a peaceful anti-wall demonstration in the village of Bil’in to the west of Ramallah city.

Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the anti-wall committee in the village, said that the IOF soldiers sealed off the entire western areas of the village where they had..

Israel has agreed to free 800 Palestinian captives from its jails in return for releasing its captured soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been in Palestinian resistance hands since 25th June 2006, according to Hebrew press reports.

Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday quoted unidentified political sources as saying that the swap would take place over three stages the first: releasing 300 ..

Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, on Friday night conferred with George Galloway, member of the British House of Commons, on regional issues, a Hamas press release said on Saturday.

Mishaal hailed Galloway’s courageous stands in support of just questions and national liberation movements along with his opposition to American and Zionist imperialism and..

The Israeli housing ministry announced on Monday plans to build new housing units in the Ma’aleh Adomim and Beitar Illit in the West Bank in violation of its government’s own pledges before the international community to freeze construction of such units in the West Bank settlements.

The ministry said it planned the construction of 690 units, 342 in Beitar Illit and 348 in Ma’aleh Adomi..

Deputy Mohsen Radhi of MB Parliamentary Bloc called on the Parliament to convene for an urgent meeting to discuss the recurrent train crash accidents the recent of which was Monday September 4, 2006, which led to the death of six people and the injury of another 35 ones. The deputy demanded that, in compliance with the Parliament statute, the meeting must be a plenary one where all members with..

Dr.`Abdul- Mon’em Abul- Fotouh with Naguib Mahfouz  
 
There is a historical story telling us about one of the old philosophers, who possessed and enjoyed a lot of worldly things, but- eventually- he found himself a sad one. This is true because everything- except for Allah- will one day fade; everything has a certain day to exist in and another one to go in; howev..

The Judges’ Club is examining the idea of forming a legal and constitutional committee to study the recent government’s bill on constitutional amendments, with some of these amendments being seen by the judges as a threat to the judiciary independence. Sources said that this committee will voice its opinion on all the constitutional amendments, especially with polls conducted amo..

Gerry Adams, the Leader of the Irish Sinn Fein party, Wednesday opined that the world community should open dialogue with the Hamas Movement after winning the Palestinian parliamentary elections.

Adams, who arrived in Ramallah on a visit to PA-run lands at the invitation of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, said that he planned to meet with PLC members of all factions including those of Hamas.

A seminar on Shiites and Sunnis in Egypt was held at the Journalists Union on September 6, 2006, where a host of scholars and Islamic thinkers participated. The seminar was aimed to ward off attempts of sectarian sedition which some seek to rise within Muslims. The participants unanimously called on Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites alike, to respect each other’s schools of opinion, enjoining the Sun..

In a statement to Jazeera Satellite Channel on September 7, 2006, MB Executive Bureau Member Dr. Abdul Monem Abul Fotouh said that the Bush Administration is to blame for the growing hatred dominating the Arab and Islamic worlds toward the US government, citing the recently disclosed overseas prisons run by CIA as part of the so called "war on terror". Asked if some Arab states run such pr..

The Islamic movement in Jordan on September 7, 2006, settled the issue of its members of Parliament, rejecting resignations tendered by some of its MPs in protest of the recent government measures against the movement. In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front Zaki bin Arsheed said that the group agreed ,with majority and after an in depth analysis of..

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) said it reported 156 cases of torture and 81 deaths of detained individuals in police custody from 2000 to 2005. The organization suspects that deaths may have been caused by torture with electric shocks, beatings and sexual abuse. The organization released its report on Thursday September 7, 2006, which carried the titl..

In response to president Mubarak’s call for MPs to voice their opinions concerning proposed constitutional amendments, the MB Parliamentary Bloc announced it will hold a workshop on its vision toward these amendments on Tuesday September 12, 2006 at Maadi Hotel. Legal and constitutional experts as well as representatives of different Egyptian political groups will discuss the Bloc’ vi..

The Hamas Movement declared on Monday that its candidate for premier of the new national unity government is Ismail Haneyya.

Sami Abu Zuhri, the Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, told reporters that the Movement nominated Haneyya during the "positive meeting" held between Haneyya and PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, and added that an agreement was reached in this respect.

For his part, ..

An IOF commander has admitted that his army’s air force had dropped around 1.2 million internationally-banned cluster bombs on Lebanon other than using the phosphoric bombs, which are also internationally-banned.

Hebrew daily ’Ha’aretz’ on Tuesday quoted the commander of the IOF rocket unit as saying, "The IOF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblet..

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and independent MPs called on the Peoples’ Assembly, the Arab and Islamic parliaments to take legal measures to suspend the membership of the Israeli Knesset in the international and Euro-Mediterranean parliaments in retaliation to Israel detaining the Speaker and 15 deputies of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The deputies staged an hour- sit in to show thei..

A delegation from the European "The Peace Cycle" have visited Tuesday the Palestinian refugee camp of Balata in the West Bank city of Nablus as part of a plan to visit more Palestinian cities in the area.

Palestinian officials including member of the Palestinian National Council (PLO’s parliament in exile), Tayseer Nasrallah, and Sabri Tokan of the popular committee for services in the ..

A Jewish rabbi living in the West Bank has called on the IOF troops to kill all Palestinian males more than 13 years old in a bid to end Palestinian presence on this earth.

Extremist rabbi Yousef Falay, who dwells at the Yitzhar settlements in northern West Bank, wrote an article in a Zionist magazine under the theme "ways of war" where he called for killing all Palestinian males refusi..