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Russia asks for expediting an end to the Gaza siege

Alexander Sultanov, the special Russian presidential envoy to the Middle East, has called for expediting an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza and for solving the problem of Palestinian refugees...

Gov’t committee against siege: Egypt blocking Australian delegation

The government committee against the siege announced in a statement on Saturday that the Egyptian authority was blocking an Australian solidarity delegation from entering the Gaza Strip...

Hamas: The release of 20 political prisoners from PA jails is a silly game

The Hamas Movement said Saturday that Fatah leaders’ talk about the release of 20 out of 750 political prisoners in PA jails in the West Bank is a meaningless stupid game, and an attempt to insult others’ intelligence and to escape from the obligations in this regard...

Mishaal: Hamas is keen on reconciling with its rivals

Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas political bureau, stressed Saturday that his Movement has a genuine intention to achieve the national reconciliation with its rivals, adding that the Hamas experience in the Gaza Strip was compulsory and not optional...

Gov’t committee against siege: Egypt blocking Australian delegation

It said that Cairo should have rather facilitated entry of those solidarity teams that try to alleviate part of the suffering of the Gaza inhabitants, noting that the Australian team members were carrying with them social and educational programs that would help alleviate the suffering resulting from that siege. ..

Russia asks for expediting an end to the Gaza siege

Quds Press news agency said on Saturday that Sultanov, during a meeting with Karin Abu Zaid the UNRWA commissioner general in Moscow, mentioned his country’s efforts to unite the Palestine line and to break the stalemate in the Middle East peace process. ..

Cracks in the Middle East

The increasingly intense, public expressions of dissent in Iran continue to fascinate. These are scenes we are not used to...

Morsy: Dweik and his captive combatant brothers, Our Nation’s

Renewal of Detention For Five MB Leaders

Its worth mentioning that Egyptian Security Forces have launched a raids campaig in 5th April and arrested nine MB leaders during their presence at someone house in Behteam city in Qalyoubeya and released Ahmed Abul Aziz El-Sayed earlier. ..

U.S. Accuses Egypt of Contributing to Human Trafficking

It advised Egyptian government to "Substantially increase law enforcement activity against trafficking, including the growing problems of the involuntary domestic servitude of children and child sex trafficking; to draft and enact legislation criminalizing all forms of human trafficking; to institute and apply a formal victim identification procedure to ensure that victims of this trafficking are not punished or otherwise treated as criminals for acts committed as a direct result of be..

U.S. Embassy in Cairo Refuses to Give Visas to four Azhar Preachers

The four preachers nominated by the Ministry for the United States are: Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al-Atrash, the head of Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee, Sheikh Ibrahim Al Fayyoumi, Secretary General of the Islamic Research Academy, Sheikh Hassan Ibrahim Hassanein, and Sheikh Abdul Rahim Abdul Wahab, who were due to be distributed in al-Faruq mosque in Texas, the Islamic Center of Jersey, New York City, Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque in New York, and the Islamic Center in Washington respectively...

Muslim Brotherhood MP’s calls on Health Committee to counter plague

Dr Jamal Qorni, of the MB parliamentary bloc and People’s Assembly health committee, called on the government not to neglect the possibility of plague while engaging in tackling the Swine and bird flu as it poses a threat beyond what is caused by influenza viruses. He asserted that he would call on Hamdy Al-Sayed, chairman of the Health Committee in the People’s Assembly to conduct an urgent meeting to discuss the situation and to implement the necessary measures in facing the crisis. ..

Families of detainees demand immediate release of loved ones

The Security Services were infuriated while prisoners were being transferred in deportation vehicles yesterday. Families of prisoners were bewildered and stunned as they witnessed their loved ones being beaten and feelings of hurt and anger were provoked as they watched helplessly the food and belongings of the detainees thrown onto the ground. The detainees were also denied food and water during interrogation. ..

Erdogan supports Gaza reconstruction conference in Istanbul

Turkish prime minister Tayyeb Recep Erdogan and seven of his ministers have sent Wednesday a letter of support and solidarity to the conference of the International Arab Agency for the reconstruction of Gaza that was held in the Turkish city of Istanbul, whishing them all the best...

Abu Zuhri: Crimes of Abbas’s militia in W. Bank derail national reconciliation

Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, has asserted Wednesday that his Movement was and still is very much keen on achieving national reconciliation in the Palestinian arena although the crimes of the militia of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank derail such reconciliation...

Hamas: Mishaal to deliver important address within days

Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, is to deliver an important address within the few coming days to outline his Movement’s position towards numerous issues in addition to tackling a number of important topics, Hamas said in a press release on Wednesday...

40 UN, NGO organizations call for lifting siege on Gaza

40 UN and non-governmental organizations have called on the Israeli occupation authority in a joint statement read on Wednesday at the UNRWA office in occupied Jerusalem to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip that has been in effect for more than two years...

Carter: No Peace in Israel Without Hamas

Former President Jimmy Carter Thursday reiterated that there can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians without involving the militant group Hamas...

Electronic Campaign calls for fair Elections in Egypt

In his statement to Ikhwanweb, Chancellor Mahmoud El-Khodeiry Vice President of the Court of Cassation and one of the coordinators of the campaign said “the campaign come within the framework of the early preparation to guarantee the fairness of the coming parliamentary and presidential elections” ..

11 MB Members Arrested in Monofeya Today At Dawn

The Security Services has launched a raid and arrest campaign in Monofeya governorate on Wednesday at dawn, resulted in the arrest of 11 MB members and transferred Ashraf Helal, one of the detainees, in an ambulance to the section of prisoners in the Educational Hospital in Shebin El-Kom, due to his illness...