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Muslim Brotherhood Slaps Local Poll

An Egyptian Member of Parliament rejects the municipal council’s elections, terming it invalid legally since the ruling party tries to expel the others parties particularly the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt’s Opposition: Blocked From Polls

Egypt’s largest opposition group accused the government of sharply curbing its chances in upcoming local elections by allowing only 60 of its 10,000 potential candidates to register amid an ongoing

Israel’s ultimate plan for Gaza

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai’s much publicized remark last week about Gaza facing a "shoah" -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant

Winter Soldier Hearings

Get ready for the horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven’t heard it before. For four days, from March 13 through March 16,

IOA blocks Italian minister from visiting Gaza

The Israeli occupation authority barred on Monday Massimo Toschi, the Italian minister for international cooperation and peace, from visiting Gaza to inspect the humanitarian condition there in the context of

The Meaning of Gaza’s ‘Shoah’

Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai’s much publicised remark last week about Gaza facing a “shoah” -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant

Israeli sniper bullet takes 12-year-old girl’s life

"I put my hand on her chest to stop the streaming blood. She told me that she could not breathe, her body trembled and she closed her eyes," said Ra’d

Italian solidarity with Palestinian filmmaker on trial in Israel

At the end of last November, filmmaker Mohammad Bakri furiously left a press conference organizaed at the Library of the Auditorium of Rome. He was present because of the performance

EQA: The Israeli siege destroyed Gaza’s natural resources

The environmental quality authority (EQA) in Gaza warned on Sunday that the Israeli siege and practices contributed in the destruction of the natural resources which are already limited in the

Detention of Ikhwanweb Chief Editor Criticised by HRInfo

The Arab Network for Human Rights (ANHR) criticised on Sunday detention of Ikhwanweb Chief Editor Khaled Hamza, whose arbitrary arrest two weeks ago was widely condemned by intellectuals and rights