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Protest rally, including Hamas, Fatah, at Erez

National and Islamic forces topped by Hamas and Fatah movements on Wednesday organized a rally at the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing in northern Gaza to protest the Israeli imposed security belt along the Strip's borders...

IPU pledges to take legal action against Israel for violating prisoners’ rights

Ingeborg Schwarz, the secretary of the human rights committee of the inter-parliamentary union (IPU), pledged to file lawsuits against Israel for its violation of the international humanitarian law regarding the imprisonment conditions of Palestinian prisoners in its jails...

Bahar calls for int’l plan to activate issue of Palestinian MPs in Israeli jails

Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), on Wednesday called on the international community to develop a systematic plan to activate and internationalize the issue of Palestinian lawmakers imprisoned in Israeli jails...

PLC warns of the seriousness of the underground metro in OJ

The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) chairmanship on Wednesday warned of the seriousness of the Israeli project to build an underground metro that would run from western to eastern Jerusalem...

Palestinian prisoner suffering cancer starts his 18th year in captivity

Palestinian prisoner Emad Zurub, who suffers cancer, has started his 18th year in Israeli detention and is in bad need of proper medical treatment outside prison, the higher national committee supporting prisoners said on Wednesday...

ACT! for America is better known as Hate! for America

ACT! for America has a problem. Its first problem is that it was founded by Brigitte Gabriel. Yes, the same Brigitte Gabriel the New York Times called a “radical Islamophobe” and who in the past has made statements like “Arabs have no soul,” and “Arabs are barbarians.”..

Angry protesters call for immediate release of political detainees

Hamdi Hassan from the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, called for participation from all walks of life...

A Birthday Present

Obama will have to take into consideration the fears of a Naqba-injured and occupation-damaged people; to promise the realization of the Palestinians’ hope for independence within two years, to guarantee that the US will not allow ethnic cleansing...

Those We Honour and Why

In honouring those who define the values we share and those whose work we seek to emulate, Arab Americans make a statement about who we are, what we bring to this country and the way forward. This is the community’s tribute to the Spirit of Humanity, says James Zogby...

IPU pledges to take legal action against Israel for violating prisoners’ rights

Ingeborg Schwarz, the secretary of the human rights committee of the inter-parliamentary union (IPU), pledged to file lawsuits against Israel for its violation of the international humanitarian law regarding the imprisonment conditions of Palestinian prisoners in its jails...

Palestinian fisherman wounded in IOF shooting, other youth detained in OJ

A Palestinian fisherman was wounded off the Rafah coast when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) aboard navy boats fired at him on Wednesday, medical sources reported...

10,000 Palestinians homes razed by Israel in 10 years

Al-Maqdesi foundation for society development said that Israel demolished more than 10,000 Palestinian homes in the neighborhoods of occupied Jerusalem during the past 10 years..

Egyptian authorities to demolish houses to complete building the steel wall

The Egyptian authorities were negotiating tens of families living at the border area with Gaza Strip to compensate them and give them alternative houses in Rafah border town to allow the completion of the steel wall along the borders, local residents reported..

Finally the Truth about the Emergency State: Bullets for Demanders of Freedom

After three decades of continuous renewal of the emergency state as well as national and international advocacy by the Egyptian government for the necessity of maintaining the emergency state to combat terrorism and drug dealing, the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) finally disclosed its real vision of what constitutes terrorism and how to combat it...

MB MPs and opposition call for MP's stripping of immunity

Recent comments made by NDP MP's Nashaat EL-Qassas and Ahmed Abu Aqrab have prompted political activists to demonstrate in front of parliament on Tuesday April, 20...

Egypt: Five prominent activists, including Saudi national, referred to trial in a new phase of MB oppression

Egyptian authorities illustrate its inability to practice democracy with the animosity targetted at MB leaders...

Appeals against arrests of 89 MB members

The defense team for the MB detainees, appealed to the Attorney General for Detainees Affairs against the Interior Minister's decision to arrest 89 MB members...

IOF tanks shell central, southern Gaza

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired tank shells at eastern Khan Younis, south of Gaza Strip, and Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, at a late hour on Tuesday, local sources said...

Obama’s Remainees

Closing Guantanamo does not simply mean emptying the prison cells at that naval base and throwing away the keys. It means ending the policy that has become synonymous with Guantanamo -- of incarcerating individuals without the need to prove their guilt, and without a clear and recognizable process for determining the grounds for their detention, notes Karen J. Greenberg...

Islamophobia – Now in American Children’s Textbooks?

True, the demonizing of Arabs and Muslims in America began well before the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001 but, what is new post-9/11, is that now demonizing Muslims and Islam is not only more widespread but also considerably more mainstream and respectable. In short, Muslim-bashing has become socially acceptable in the United States, notes Abdus Sattar Ghazali...