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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Al-Arish, Egypt - Fifteen policemen were injured in clashes with Bedouin near Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, police told the German Press Agency dpa. The clashes came after police confiscated a storeroom full of supplies, including ...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
"Thus, neither the facts nor the law support an Israeli self-defense claim. Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression and its ongoing occupation and blockade of the Gaza Strip, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense. The House is now on record disavowing international law and international accountability...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A Fatah lawmaker on Tuesday defied a Hamas ban on marking the death anniversary of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and held a candle-lighting ceremony at his office in southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. The office of Ashraf Jum'a, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), were crammed with nearly 100 supporters of Fatah who commemorated the fifth anniversary of Arafat's death. The...
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hamas security forces have arrested tens of activists and members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday. The crackdown started early Tuesday, a day before the fifth anniversary of Fatah founder Yasser Arafat. Earlier, Hamas has told Fatah officials in Gaza that they were not allowed to hold mass ceremonies marking the death of Arafat. A Fatah...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A senior official of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party reiterated Monday that his party will not accept holding the general elections only in the West Bank, without Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. Azzam el-Ahmad, Fatah central committee member, told students at al-Najah University in the northern West Bank city of Nablus that Fatah party is determined to hold elections all over the Palestinian territories....
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday criticized the Arab League (AL) for not boycotting his bitter rival Islamic Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip. Abbas told a group of Palestinian businessmen at his Ramallah headquarters that the AL should boycott Hamas movement "because it is the one which obstructs reaching an inter-reconciliation agreement." "There has been a previous...
The Muqata (Free subscription) | yesterday
While this is apparently big news in the US, hardly anyone knows about this issue in Israel. CNN reported last week that 21 year old Gazan college student, Berlanty Azzam, was apprehended at an IDF checkpoint between Ramallah and Bethlehem. She said she was held at the checkpoint for five hours with no explanation, and then blindfolded, handcuffed and put into a military vehicle. Well, perhaps if she...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
A senior United Nations official Monday called on Israel to reopen the crossing points to allow construction raw-materials into the Gaza Strip blockaded by Israel. Maxwell Gaylard, UN Humanitarian Affairs coordinator in the Palestinian territories, told a news conference in northern Gaza that Gaza population are in need for construction materials to rebuild their destroyed homes. During a 22-day Israeli...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, on Monday denied reports that it wants to integrate Gaza armed groups into its government security forces. Ihab al-Ghussein, spokesman for Hamas interior ministry, said "we did not seek or hold any contact to combine the military wings of the resistance factions into the security services." The reports carried by the London-based...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Gaza Strip-ruling Hamas authorities on Monday banned the holding of a conference for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in Gaza, organizers said. The workshop was aimed to discuss the journalism ethics and put standards for the media in the Palestinian territories. The two-day discussions have started in the West Bank but the journalists in Gaza were unable to link with their colleagues...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The United Nations and its non-governmental organization (NGO) partners today called yet again on Israel to immediately open crossings into the Gaza Strip to give Palestinians access to desperately needed materials, especially in view of the coming winter and rainy season.
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Knowing full well that I tee myself up for easy, Whitney-Houston-themed ridicule, I'm here to say that the children are our future, and that childhood in the Gaza Strip -- a radicalized, blinkered, deprived existence, according to Lawrence Wright's humane report for The New Yorker -- bodes very badly for the future of peace. Wright, for instance, catches readers up on the story line of a notorious...
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
On Wednesday, 28 October 2009, we learned that Ms. Berlanty Azzam, a Bethlehem University student studying business administration and translation, was arrested by the Israeli military. On Thursday, 29 October 2009, we spoke with Berlanty via mobile phone and learned that on Wednesday night at 11:00pm the Israeli military loaded her into a military jeep - blindfolded and handcuffed - and moved her...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
An Islamic group Monday announced its responsibility for firing a rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. In a statement posted on a pro-al-Qaida website, the Ma'sadet (house of lions) of Mujahdeen in Palestine said it had fired on earlier Monday a home-made rocket into southern Israel. The statement did not reveal more details about the missile or the group. Israeli sources said the missile...
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abdulruff | 06/29/2009
Defenseless Palestinians Seek Justice! - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** US-led West so far has offered all sorts of support to fascist Israel in its genocides in destructions in Palestine while they criticize lack of democracy in Islamic world. By reigning in the protection of the powerful western powers, Israel goes on rampage in Palestine and terrorizes the Arab world. The crudely pathetic existence...
aprpeh | 01/27/2009
The MSM, reporting from Gaza City is once again showing its bias against Israel. By reporting an Israeli reaction to an act of violence at the beginning of an article, the intent is to cast the IDF and Israel in the worst possible light. The roadside bomb which killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others, mentioned initially in the second paragraph without explanation and then in the third paragraph...
sizzlingdoll4 | 01/10/2009
The US military has sought to hire a merchant ship to deliver ammunition to Israel this month, tender documents show, but the Pentagon said the shipment was not linked to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
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