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Der Speigel: Exchange deal to bear fruit soon

BERLIN, (PIC)-- The German mediation has succeeded in achieving a breakthrough in the prisoners' exchange deal between the Hamas Movement and Israel, German weekly Der Spiegel reported in its latest edition...

British trade unions launch boycott campaign against Israeli products

LONDON, (PIC)-- The British federation of trade unions announced the initiation of a campaign to boycott the Israeli products manufactured in settlements in the West Bank, which were built on occupied Palestinian lands in violation of the international law...

Members of Miles of Smiles leave Gaza

Members of the European aid convoy "Miles of Smiles" left the Gaza Strip at a late hour on Friday night after staying there for 48 hours...

Sheikh Salah warns of Israeli plan to build Talmudic parks around Aqsa Mosque

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, warned Friday of an Israeli plan to establish mythical Talmudic parks around the Aqsa Mosque...

Dweik denies affirming reconciliation agreement to be signed by end of November

AMMAN, (PIC)-- The speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, Dr. Aziz Dweik has denied telling the press that he expected Hamas to sign the Egyptian reconciliation paper by end of this month...

Bardawil: Israel trying to portray Hamas as hostile to justify its crimes

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman for Hamas parliamentary bloc, stated Saturday that the Israeli occupation has embarked lately on portraying itself as a country suffering from fear and horror and Hamas as an aggressive force in order to justify its crimes in the Gaza Strip...

ISESCO condemns Jewish edict allowing murder of children

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has condemned the Jewish edict that allowed murder of non-Jews even if they were children if they posed dangers to the Jews...

Union of fuel companies warns of humanitarian crisis due to gas depletion

GAZA, (PIC)-- The union of fuel companies in the Gaza Strip warned Saturday of an imminent humanitarian crisis after the depletion of cooking gas from fuel stations for the 25th consecutive day...

A New Issue of Arab Reform Bulletin

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Arab Reform Bulletin is always a fine collection of essays on democratization and related issues in the Arab world, and there’s a new issue up with a wealth of interesting stuff: Iraq’s electoral law, Muslim Brotherhood troubles (post in preparation here on that, soon I hope), post-Jihadism (by Omar Ashour, who’s very good at it and I also plan to post on the wave of “post-Jihadi” discussions lately, perhaps as early as tomorrow); and a lot more...

Egypt’s Street kids: making ends meet

Dina and Salma wake up everyday before the sun peeks over the still Nile waters and make their way to what has become their defacto kiosk. In reality, what composes their little kiosk is a little table, cracks protruding the center with bread lined up in a neatly designed fashion...

Campaign to boycott Israeli goods in al-Khalil

The Popular Campaign to Boycott Israeli Goods (PCBG) organized a tour of Al-Khalil streets and markets on Wednesday asking citizens to boycott Israeli goods and to buy instead national, Arab or foreign products...

Picketers in Holland denounce visit of Lieberman, ask for his arrest

Tens of Palestinian supporters picketed the Dutch parliament on Wednesday to protest the visit of Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman to the Netherlands, describing him as a "war criminal"...

IOF troops abduct 45 W.B. Palestinians, including 12 children since 5th November

The IOF has abducted, at dawn Friday, five Palestinian citizens from various West Bank localities, according to Israeli radio reports...

Jewish settlers destroy over 80 olive trees south of Nablus

NABLUS, (PIC)-- A number of Jewish settlers on Thursday attacked and destroyed olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Burin to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus...

Zionist security officials claim that Hamas has anti-aircraft missiles

The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, on Thursday reported that Zionist security officials said that Hamas has managed, after the war on Gaza, to smuggle anti-aircraft missiles into the Gaza Strip which pauses a serious threat the Zionist helicopters...

Court order defiance of release orders all too frequent.

The re-arrests of distinguished and highly ranked Muslim Brotherhood leaders exemplify the all too frequent defiance by the security forces of court orders for the release of citizens. For the 5th consecutive time the Cairo Criminal Court has ordered for the release of Dr Ossama Nasr and 11 other group members and for the 5th consecutive time the order was ignored...

Re-arrest of former parliamentary candidate and transfer to Wadi el-Notron.

The Minister of Interior has ordered the re-arrest of Dr Mustafa Diab to serve a second term in Wadi el-Notron Prison. Diab had served a prior 70 day term after being transferred to the Prison following illegal detention in state security headquarters...

Aqsa satellite TV channel decries escalation against W. Bank correspondents

The Gaza-based Al-Aqsa satellite TV channel has strongly condemned the arrest of three of its correspondents in the West Bank at the hands of the Abbas’s militia, adding that the Abbas’s militia escalation against journalists must be halted...

Barhoum: Elections committee decision proves that Abbas’s edict was wrong

Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, said on Friday that the declaration of the Palestinian elections committee of its inability to hold elections in the presence of the rift between Gaza and the West Bank proves that Abbas’s edict was wrong and Hamas’s opinion was right...

Hamas lawmakers hope elections committee decision could enhance reconciliation

WEST BANK,-- Palestinian lawmakers from Hamas Movement in the West Bank have described the decision of the Palestinian elections committee to postpone the legislative elections as “professional and responsible”...