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Hamas: We won’t respond to heresies of Fatah spokesmen

Hamas Movement has confirmed Sunday that its response to the Goldstone report didn’t contain any apology, stressing the Palestinians' right to defend themselves and to resist the Israeli occupation.

Barhoum: Abbas’s priority is talks with Israel not with Hamas

Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, has asserted Sunday that Mahmoud Abbas's main concern was to talk to the Israelis and not to Hamas.

IOA transfers Barghouthi to solitary confinement in Jalbo prison

BEER SHEBA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has transferred Hamas leader Abdullah Al-Barghouthi from his solitary conferment in Beer Sheba

Blair Survives Iraq Inquiry

Blair today is seen for what he really is. Instead of showing contrition and apologizing for the countless dead, maimed and homeless resulting from his reckless beliefs and lack of

I was savagely beaten without knowing the reason.

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) once again highlights the issue of human rights abuses by the Western backed Palestinian Authority in the Occupied West Bank. It seems to Intelligence blasphemy

Hamas accepts independent state on 1967 borders: Official

A senior Hamas leader in the West Bank said Thursday that the Islamist organization was prepared to accept 'temporarily' an independent Palestinian state in the territories occupied by Israel in

Israel’s Assassination Policy

In recent weeks Israel has escalated its practice of assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. At the end of December, Israeli special forces broke into the Nablus homes of

IOA razes around 1,000 Palestinian homes in 10 years

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has razed 969 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in the period from 1-1-2000 till 31-12-2009, the land research center said in a report on

Netanyahu Plays Games with Peace

Despite gestures by Benyamin Netanyahu, a stubborn and aggressive Israel is very far from accepting any formula such as the world envisages for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, notes Patrick Seale.

Egypt’s “Metal Wall” Punishes Hamas

The mounting criticism of the Egyptian Government by human rights organizations continued as Egypt began to construct a metal wall along its borders with Gaza Strip and prevented the passage