The Palestinian News Network reported that on Tuesday afternoon an undercover Israeli Security force attacked a young man from the town of Issawiya in Jerusalem and arrested him. In a second incident Israeli soldiers beat another young man in Beit Ommar near Hebron. They arrested and later released him. ...
During a visit to both Washington and the UN in New York, Israeli Military Intelligence Commander Major General Aviv Kochavi discussed the Iranian nuclear programme, the Syrian crisis, and Hezbollah’s increasing power base in Lebanon. This visit is one of a number of recent visits to the US by senior military and political figures. ...
Israeli sources reported that, last week, Israeli soldiers forced closure of a Palestinian elementary school in Khribit Jibna village, in the south Hebron hills, in the southern part of the West Bank, in order to replace it with a military base. ...
In Haifa District Court on Tuesday the judge ruled that whether a person is an Israeli citizen is determined by whether that person is of Jewish descent, i.e. born to a Jewish mother following halachic law, and not by their place of birth or whether they are by religion Jewish or not. ...
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday. He was repeatedly kicked and punched to various parts of his body. ...
Palestinians' Suffering Continues to Get Worse and the Human Rights Situation Deteriorates Today, 15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest and most brutal ethnic cleansing in the world, and included systematic and deliberate killings and displacement. This culminated in a declaration of the State of Israel on the debris of Palestinian people, cities and villages. ...
Ma'an News reported Medics as saying that over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on Tuesday, as protesters commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe, the name given to their ethnic cleansing in 1948. ...
Israeli settlement building and curbs on economic development in the occupied West Bank risk wrecking Palestinian hopes of creating their own state, the European Union was reported by Reuters as stating on Monday. ...
Reuters has reported that Israel allowed the export of Palestinian-made clothes from the Gaza Strip for the first time in at least five years on Monday. ...
The Palestinians mark the Nakba Day on May 15; the day armed forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and lands, and destroyed their villages, killed and injured thousands of Palestinians before Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine in 1948. ...
5/16/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - By Sunny, 8 May 2012, International Solidarity Movement, West Bank - On Monday, May 7 in the southern West Bank village of Idhna, Mohamed Temezi was busy working on his caravan home. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrived unexpectedly and subjected him and his...
5/16/2012 - International Solidarity Movement - By Mazin Qumsiyeh, 15 May 2012, Popular Resistance - On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an...
May 15, 2012 - Local Coordination Committees in Syria The number of martyrs of Syria has risen to 63 thus far; 33 martyrs in Idlib, 8 martyrs in Homs, 7 martyrs in Deir Ezzor, 5 martyrs in Hama,...
May 15, 2012 - ... Corruption has been endemic to the so-called National Transitional Council (NTC) since its inception during the war last year. After being placed in power in Tripoli in late August 2011 and throughout the country...
May 15, 2012 - On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an...
May 15, 2012 - Palestinian hunger strikers redefined courage. Mass willingness to die for justice is unprecedented. On May 13, they reiterated their dignity or death steadfastness. More on that below. Reports about where things stand leave unanswered...
May 15, 2012 - My name is Falasteen, I am the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. I am the home and only home to my children the Palestinians. Poets celebrate my beauty, my culture...
May 15, 2012. Chaos and violence continues, the secret prisons and torture continue in Iraq, Tareq al-Hashemi's trial starts without him, ...and much more. Today is a really sad day as the BBC spits on human rights and...
May 15, 2012 - Sixty-four years have passed since Palestinian society was decimated by the forcible transfer of some 700,000 people by Israeli forces. Each year, on 15 May, Nakba Day' commemorates the anguish of those who were...
May 15, 2012 - As foreign oil majors begin developing some of the world's richest oil fields in southern Iraq, there have been complaints of the way they are carrying out their obligations. Legislators from the Province of...
May 15, 2012 - Twenty percent of the population of Israel could be affected by a court ruling in Haifa on Tuesday in which a judge ordered that only Jews should be allowed to have Israeli citizenship, and...
May 15, 2012 - Stark Aerospace of Mississippi is perhaps the only foreign-owned company with FAA permission to fly a drone in U.S. airspace. Based in the town of Columbus, not far from Mississippi State University, Stark is...
May 15, 2012 - Iraq's government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad's Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government...
May 15, 2012 - Strategic interests largely benefitting Israel, not shared values, are at issue. Washington doesn't provide the Jewish state more aid than all other nations combined because of historic binding ties. On March 25, 1948, Harry...
May 15, 2012 - Details of the Israeli concessions that ended an historic 28-day mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and the more than two-month hunger strikes of several prisoners, emerged today. Palestinian prisoners' rights...
May 15, 2012 - ...Seven months on from Muammar Gaddafi's butchering in the ruins of Sirte, the fruits of liberal intervention in Libya are now cruelly clear, and documented by the UN and human rights groups: 8,000 prisoners...
May 15, 2012 - The Nakba has a dual meaning today. On one hand, it is about the hundreds of villages that were razed in 1948 and the hundreds of thousands of refugees who lost their homes. On...
May 15, 2012 - Amira is a 30-year-old Palestinian woman, struggling to raise her three children in Shuafat Refugee Camp. Amira grapples with fear, feelings of vulnerability, and isolation from her family in Amman. But her biggest concern...
May 14, 2012 -The number of martyrs has risen to 15 thus far, including 2 children and 3 defected soldiers; 9 martyrs were reported in Homs, 3 in Deir Ezzor, 1 in Hama and 2 in Damascus Suburbs....
May 15, 2012 -- Over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on Tuesday, medics said, as protesters commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe, of their exile in 1948. After a mass rally in Ramallah's...
May 14, 2012 - Shortly after the IDF entry into the West Bank and the establishment of the military government which continues to this day, it was Meir Shamgar - head of the army's judicial branch, later Attorney...
May 14, 2012 - Amid recent reports that the bodies of four Mexican journalists were discovered in a canal in the port city of Veracruz, less than a week after another journalist based in that city was found...
May 14, 2012 - NATO is still trying to come to terms with the 72 civilians it killed last year in the Libyan Civil War, having come full circle from a blanket denial that it ever happened to...
May 14, 2012 - This video shows pre-1948 Palestine and its well-established Palestinian society that was shattered by Jewish terrorist groups and then the newly-formed Zionist forces of Israel. It is a tragic story of people's lives cut...
May 14, 2012 - Along with America and Britain, Israel has the greatest wealth disparity and social inequality among developed nations. Over 20% of Israel's population is poor. In a nation of 7.9 million, over 850,000 children live...
16 May 2012 - President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he faced no real domestic opposition in the 15-month-old uprising against him.
16 May 2012 - Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi spoke amid concerns about the potential for voting fraud and the military’s willingness to shift to civilian control.
16 May 2012 - Robert S. Mueller III said that such a leak threatens operations, “makes it much more difficult to recruit sources, and damages our relationships with our foreign partners.”
17 May 2012 - A seriocomedy about life under occupation, “Food and Fadwa” is the inaugural production of Noor Theater, the Middle Eastern American company in residence at New York Theater Workshop.
16 May 2012 - The monitors escaped unscathed, but three of their vehicles were damaged by some kind of explosive device. Activist organizations said the confrontation killed around 20 and wounded dozens.
16 May 2012 - Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs.
17 May 2012 - Former commander of IAF comes out strongly against public discussion regarding strike on Iran; says Israel's air superiority in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai threatened by proliferation of surface-to-air missile systems.
16 May 2012 - It might sound absurd, but if we cannot overcome some empty Palestinian stomachs, then Israel may be in for a diplomatic diet we will soon come to regret.
16 May 2012 - A good place to start would be ending the possibility of extending administrative detention orders; one period of detention is bad enough.
BBC 16 May 2012 - Air strikes kill 16 suspected al-Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen, officials say, as a US-backed government offensive against militants continues.
Mondoweiss 16 May 2012 - Yesterday I was at a pub quiz in London, and talking to my friends about how I was going to a launch of a book on Palestine by Bidisha , and a man sitting at the next table with his wife (but who had spent the evening...
Mondoweiss 16 May 2012 - Dan Sisken took these photos in Washington, D.C., yesterday at the Nakba commemoration: Girl with Nakba photo Refugee being interviewed Tattoo: "Palestine is free" A woman narrates her mother's story The key Another key Looting photo
BBC 16 May 2012 - In an address to Russian TV today, President Bashar Assad insisted the Syrian people supported his reforms and called his opponents "terrorists".
BBC 16 May 2012 - Syria is losing the information war against the West, President Bashar al-Assad has said, amid continuing violence across the country.
BBC 16 May 2012 - Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas swears in a new cabinet in the West Bank, a move Hamas describes as a "big error".
BBC 16 May 2012 - As Egypt prepares for the presidential elections at the end of May, the country's sizeable Coptic Christian minority is hoping for a moderate leader to protect their rights.
Mondoweiss 16 May 2012 - As a promoter of Peter Beinart's new book The Crisis of Zionism (albeit with major differences), I was overjoyed to read David Shulman's review of the book in the new New York Review of Books. The piece is not yet online, I got it in the...
Mondoweiss 16 May 2012 - A lot of people are talking about Eli Valley's cartoon called "The Hater in the Sky " that is up at +972. It is an imagined encounter between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama as astronauts in space, and at its climax Netanyahu demands sex from a submissive...
Mondoweiss 16 May 2012 - Representative Joe Pitts (Photo: CSPAN) Since we published Ian Rhodewalt's report over the weekend about the odd letter Representative Joe Pitts (R-PA) sent a constituent calling for Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to restart negotiations , Pitts's office has been scrambling to explain the error. Just as...
Tikun Olam 16 May 2012 - Tweet Ibrahim "Abe" Mashal, Marine veteran and Muslim placed on No Fly list and recruited to inform on fellow Muslims Today’s To the Point show reported on an ACLU class-action lawsuit by 14 U.S. Muslims against the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security for the...
Tikun Olam 15 May 2012 - Tweet Today’s news brings two new lunacies from our friends in the Only Democracy in the Middle East ™ . In the first instance, the Israeli tax authorities impounded a shipment of copies of the Arabic language edition of Yehuda HaLevy’s seminal work of medieval Jewish...
allAfrica.com 16 May 2012 - [ENI] Damascus - Hani Sarhan is a Christian who says none of his relatives works with Bashar Assad's regime or has anything to do with it.
allAfrica.com 16 May 2012 - [Aswat Masriya] Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq stressed on the importance of strengthening strategic relations with all countries, beginning with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), but not with Iran if it would come at the expense of KSA.
allAfrica.com 16 May 2012 - [The Herald] A visiting Iranian professor has urged the Government to prioritise education for women for them to make just decisions about their families and communities. Professor Sheida Nikooravin, whose visit falls within the Women's Day commemorations back in Iran, said educating a woman was like...
allAfrica.com 15 May 2012 - [RSF] Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language satellite TV station Al-Alam.
Rachel Corrie Foundation 16 May 2012 - MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MAY 16, 2012 (Olympia, WA USA – May 16, 2012) – The verdict in the civil lawsuit against the State of Israel for the killing of peace activist Rachel Corrie more than nine years ago will be announced August...
Palestine Solidarity Project 15 May 2012 - Today, May 15, 2012, Palestinians are remembering the 64th anniversary of the Nakba. In Arabic, “nakba” means “catastrophe,” and it refers to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, which was accompanied by the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. Many Palestinians were...
Palestine Solidarity Project 14 May 2012 - On Friday, May 11th, 2012, two Palestinian farmers were attacked in Beit Ommar by Israeli settlers from Karmei Tsur. Walid Sabarna and Ibrahim Abu Maria were working on their land 150 meters from the settlement, when two security guards from the settlement accompanied by six soldiers...
Arab American Institute 16 May 2012 - By Mehrunisa Qayyum This region�s media environment underwent huge improvements in 2011, but it remained the worst-performing part of the world. For every Egypt moving forward in media freedom, there�s a Bahrain or two moving backward and neutralizing the progress.
Sabbah report 17 May 2012 - A brief and crucial history of the United States. Related posts: Treason by Members of the United States Congress [Video] Portrait of a Great Taboo: the Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States Surprise: United States & Israel among least peaceful nations!
Sabbah report 17 May 2012 - Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February. Related posts: Arna’s Children: The Life and Death of Palestinian Children Forced labor for Palestinian children in Israeli...
Sabbah report 17 May 2012 - Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA’s intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington’s and London’s clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and its...
Sabbah report 17 May 2012 - Obama goes all the way to AIPAC just one day before he welcomes Netanyahu. Listen to what he says about Shimon Perez and his Hagana involvement. Related posts: Shaping U.S. leaders at AIPAC 2008 Debbie Menon – Can Obama escape the dominating influence of AIPAC and...
A-infos 15 May 2012 - "I commute between Anjouan [Island of the Comoros archipelago] and Mayotte since 2003. I have my family there [Mayotte] and it is there that I built my life. Each time I repeated and each time I return. This means that it is not my last voyage!"....
A-infos 15 May 2012 - Tens of thousands of public workers from the North are expected to take part in the UK wide industrial action this Thursday in protest over cuts to pension and attacks on living standards. In the North, civil servants are expected to join immigration officers in the...
A-infos 15 May 2012 - One day in the life of protest camp against inauguration of Putin in Moscow - 14th of May For photos, check original at http://avtonom.org/node/17655 ---- Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a concert. Later, a freemarket was opened, where everyone could leave their goods and...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 16 May 2012 - At 1:30am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, ten armoured jeeps of the Israeli occupation forces and intelligence surrounded and raided the offices of Stop the Wall in Ramallah. The Israeli military stole two laptops, three hard drives and ten memory cards containing files and photos, as...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 16 May 2012 - To the memory of all who have lost their land, homes, lives during the Nakba and to this day, m ay Palestinians around the world never lose hope. In Their Name, We Remember The NAKBA Come congregate with us- 531 of us, 1 for every village...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 16 May 2012 - Palestinian Christians published an open letter to delegates to the United Methodist General Conference urging them to support the church's resolution to divest from three corporations--Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard--that are profiting from Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands. The letter implores delegates not to be misled...
US Campaign to End the Occupation 16 May 2012 - Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Maria Otero spoke yesterday at the State Department on implementing the Guiding Principles of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Otero claims that "We must establish clear guidelines and reliable processes so...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on Tuesday, medics said, as protesters commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe, of their exile in 1948. After a mass rally in Ramallah's Clock Square...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A reshuffle of Palestinian Authority ministers has been finalized and the new cabinet will be sworn in later Wednesday, sources close to the process told Ma'an. The Fatah Central Committee approved the new government at its...
5/16/2012 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian teenager was seriously injured Wednesday in clashes with Israeli forces at Hebron's al-Arrub refugee camp, a local official said. Omar Haitham Badawi, 18, was hospitalized after he was struck in the face by a...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A deal struck early Tuesday to end the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike will not halt administrative detention, prisoners groups said Wednesday. The document signed by prisoners representatives states that prisoners will halt hunger strikes and "security activity...
5/16/2012 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- The University of Haifa on Wednesday canceled an event planned to commemorate the Nakba, or catastrophe, of Palestinians' mass expulsion, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. The university dean canceled the event when he realized...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The head of the Palestinian Authority's anti-corruption commission said Tuesday that a former advisor to late president Yasser Arafat would be sought abroad and referred to court. Rafiq Natsheh said the Palestinian Authority "already took legal...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A Gaza court has rejected an appeal against the death by hanging of a murder convict, a rights group said. The Gaza Court of Cassation on Sunday refused the appeal of defendant N. J. D. , from Gaza City...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) - The reshuffled Palestinian Authority government will be sworn in Wednesday at 6 p. m. officials said, in a move that Hamas condemned and labeled illegitimate. This is the second reshuffle for the Ramallah-based government which was first established...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- ِA former adviser to late President Yasser Arafat is accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars, the head of the PA anti-corruption commission said Wednesday. Rafiq Natsheh told Ma'an his commission sought an international...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Reuters) -- Palestinian Authority premier Salam Fayyad lost his dual role as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday, officials said. Fayyad was supported by the West for rare fiscal responsibility in the corruption-plagued and donor-dependent economy. Although he is relinquishing...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority premier Salam Fayyad lost his dual role as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday, as President Mahmoud Abbas swore in 9 new ministers. He was replaced by Nabil Qassis, a former university president who...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A list of cabinet ministers sworn in to Salam Fayyad's new government late Wednesday in Ramallah, as provided by Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority. -- Salam Fayyad, prime minister (incumbent)-- Nabil Qassis, finance...
5/16/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- An investigation has been opened into a fire that erupted Wednesday at a government building in Ramallah, a civil defense spokesman said. Firefighters managed to control the fire at the ministries complex, which is still under construction, Luay...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- At least eight people were injured on Wednesday after bus overturned on the road near Abu Dis, witnesses said. Three people were seriously injured and transferred to Hadassah hospital in East Jerusalem after Israeli and Palestinian ambulances arrived...
5/16/2012 - By Ramzy Baroud - Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $6. 5 million grant to improve job prospects for Palestinian graduates. The "Education to Work Transition" project will foster partnerships between universities and employers and tailor courses toward future employment, the...
5/16/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Soccer teams from eight countries are in the West Bank to compete in the Palestine International Championship. Jordan's Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein, who is Fifa's Asia Vice President, attended the championship's opening...
5/16/2012 - ISTANBUL (Ma'an) -- Palestinians in Turkey on Tuesday held a rally to commemorate the anniversary of Palestinian exile in 1948. Ahmad Abu Saleh, a member of the Palestinian community in Turkey, gave a statement stressing Palestinians' right to return to...
5/16/2012 - BEIRUT (Reuters) -- At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of UN monitors caught in the incident said they were in rebel hands "for their own protection." When Reuters...
5/16/2012 - BEIRUT (Reuters) -- The United Nations aims to collect a monitoring team from the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday, the head of the monitoring mission said, after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack near their...
5/16/2012 - AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Syrian rebels delivered six UN ceasefire monitors caught up in attack that killed at least 21 civilians to UN colleagues on Wednesday, a rebel commander said." We gave the six with their cars to a UN convoy near the...
5/16/2012 - TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) -- As armored vehicles rumble past bullet-scarred streets, Lebanese men heckle soldiers they have now added to their list of enemies: "There go the traitors!"In Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, the army may have halted three days...
5/16/2012 - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syriaremains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a UN Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential draft report by a UN panel of experts seen by Reuters on...
15 May 2012 - Israel's ambassador, Daniel Taub, is right to say the Unison boycott is discriminatory ( From boycott to bigotry , 9 May). That is the unavoidable crudity...
15 May 2012 - International Olympic Committee turns down Israeli plan to mark 40th anniversary of terrorist attack with a minute's silence The International Olympic Committee has rejected...
16 May 2012 - Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was labelled a Mossad agent by Iran and sentenced to death for the murder of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi Iran has hanged...
15 May 2012 - Israel says inmates have signed deal that should allow them more visiting rights and better conditions in jails Israel delivered significant concessions to end...
15 May 2012 - Tony Blair urges action and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas fears potential 'disaster that no one could control' Demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza...
November 25th, 2009 --, On 23 November 2009, after 61 days of detention for the purpose of interrogation by Israeli Security Agency officers, human rights defender Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order. The administrative detention order is set for a three month period, during which time Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place on 25 November at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base. [
November 24th, 2009 --, Military incursions into Jayyus continued this past week, as many as three times daily. Clashes and curfews have characterized village life, and undercover units have attempted to trap local youth. Although there has of yet been no serious injuries among the villagers, a group of young men were arrested several days ago. [
16 May 2012 In his first interview in nearly half a year, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed Wednesday that his regime had captured foreign mercenaries who were fighting for the opposition.
16 May 2012 The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran may be narrowing their differences on how to tackle concerns over Tehran's atomic ambitions, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
16 May 2012 A UAE federal court will pass its verdict later this month in a case filed against the interior ministry by seven Islamists whose citizenships were revoked over alleged terror links.
16 May 2012 Egypt's government submitted its final draft budget for 2012/2013 to the state's military rulers on Wednesday, increasing spending by 17.7 billion Egyptian pounds.
16 May 2012 Iran hardened its tone against a plan to unite Bahrain with Saudi Arabia, calling on its people to protest Friday against what it described as a US plot to annex the tiny Gulf archipelago.
11 May 2012 - Source: UN General Assembly , UN Human Rights Council Country: occupied Palestinian territory Summary The present report provides information on the status of the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 17/10, in which the Council called upon concerned parties to ensure...
16 May 2012 - Gunfight between special police forces, members of Abd al-Kader crime family leave one man dead; another wounded. No casualties for Israeli forces. Several clan members arrested ....
16 May 2012 - Relief organizations slam interior minister for labeling entire foreign workers, refugee community as criminals based on recent weeks' incidents ....
Tadamun for Human Rights has revealed more details of the agreement signed the day before yesterday under Egyptian auspices between the captives and the occupation Prison Service.
The family of the administrative detainee Mohammed Suleiman Tawfiq Skafi, from Al-Khalil city in the West Bank who had participated in the dignity strike in an attempt to achieve his release.
The energy and Natural Resources Authority confirmed that the deliberate procrastination by the Egyptian authorities led to delaying the arrival of the Qatari fuel shipment to the Gaza Strip, so far.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served five demolition notices in Jenin province including a car wash, a petrol station, and three shops, local sources said.
Gaza government spokesman Taher Al-Nunu has said that the statement by Israeli war minister Ehud Barak on borders of the Hebrew state pointed to uselessness of any future negotiation process.
An Australian court rejected a police request to delay the march to commemorate the occupation of Palestine to the weekend claiming that it would cause unacceptable traffic disruption in the city.
The Palestinians in the Netherlands commemorated the 64th anniversary of the Nakba in a sit-in tent outside the Parliament in The Hague, highlighting the prisoners' issue..
Hamas official Osama Hamdan said the resistance has many pressure cards to use against Israel if it tried to circumvent its recent agreement with leaders of the Palestinian hunger strikers.
RAMALLAH/TEL AVIV 14 May 2012 (IRIN) - Israeli settlers east of the separation barrier in the central West Bank occupy the land most critical for any future final status agreement under a two-state solution. But instead of limiting settlement expansion, critics say the Israeli authorities are setting a dangerous precedent by legalizing new outposts and undermining the law.
Kourosh Ziabar i Burning the holy books which are interconnected with the hearts and souls of millions of people around the world is one of the most heinous and dreadful actions which one can think of. After decades of bloodshed... more
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