Rachid Ghannoushi, the head of Tunisia’s ruling Al-Nahda Party, has said that his movement has not yet decided whether it will run in the upcoming elections on its own...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture opened the annual olive harvest season in the Gaza Strip on Monday. Ministry officials also watched the olive pressing process as part...
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News A group of Jewish settlers have destroyed 120 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The latest...
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News Turkey’s parliament approved on Thursday a memorandum granting the government powers to conduct military operations in Syria if necessary. The decision was followed by an announcement from the Turkish...
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News Jewish settlers have diverted their waste water onto Palestinian-owned farms, damaging crops in the process. The incident took place in the village of Fokeen to the west of Bethlehem....
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News Former PA intelligence officer Jamal Shabaneh has questioned the role of senior “front line” Palestinian officials in the death of the late President Yasser Arafat, Quds Press said on...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel (“1948 occupied Palestine”) has briefed Malaysia’s Prime Minister about the threats to the Holy City of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa...
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News A senior official at Israel’s Defence Ministry has warned that the collapse of the Palestinian Authority will lead to the collapse of Israel’s peace agreement with Jordan. Amos Gilad...
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News The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has claimed that his government has been able to break the territory’s international isolation thanks to official delegations to foreign capitals. Ismail Haniyeh...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Living under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face numerous difficulties in their daily lives. The health sector is among the most affected arenas as there are Palestinian casualties on...
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News The Palestinian Return Centre in London (PRC) has announced that it is to host an international panel discussion on the situation of Palestinian refugees in Syria in the light...
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News A UN report has noted that since the beginning of 2012 the Israeli occupation forces have demolished 465 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, displacing 676 Palestinians in the...
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News The family of Samer Al-Barq, 38, has confirmed that Egypt will grant asylum to the Palestinian prisoner following Israel’s decision to deport him after his release. Al-Barq has been...
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News The Palestinian government in Gaza has expressed its satisfaction at the statements made by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, saying that they help to reinforce international peace and security....
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News Israel’s various intelligence services have conflicting and contradictory details about Iran’s nuclear programme, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said this week. This has led to some confusion in the country’s...
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News The President of the Tunisian Renaissance Movement, Sheikh Rashid al-Ghannouchi, has strongly criticized the Syrian-Iranian attack on Khalid Meshaal, head of the Hamas’ political bureau, for supporting the Syrian...
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News President Mohammed Morsi has used his maiden speech at the UN General Assembly to speak out on behalf of Arab and Muslim issues. Mr. Morsi also told world leaders...
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News Reliable Palestinian sources have revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to drop the Oslo Accord, the Paris Protocol and security coordination with Israel. He made this...
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News Israel’s El Al airline has stopped all flights to and from Cairo. The head of the Egyptian Civil Airline Authority, Mohammed al-Sharif, said on Monday that El Al stopped...
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News William Hague has arrived in Cairo for meetings with Egyptian officials to discuss bilateral cooperation. Britain’s Foreign Secretary is being accompanied by British businessmen. They are due to meet...
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News More than eighty Palestinian civil society organisations have handed a petition to the EU representatives in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Ramallah complaining about Europe’s expansion of trade and...
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News The Israeli occupation forces have turned the roofs of Palestinian homes in the ancient city of Hebron, south of the West Bank, into military barracks and control points under...
The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called on the Egyptian authorities to provide greater support for the territory’s electricity supply, which is still in crisis. Government spokesman...
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News Three groups of Israelis have visited Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City protected by soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces. Al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Waqf (Islamic endowment)...
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News The Syrian army has attacked Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, killing two refugees and a Syrian, and wounding a child. Abdul-Basit al-Bitar was killed when an artillery shell...
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News After concluding meetings between Palestinian and Egyptian senior security officials, Palestinian Prime Minster Ismail Haniyeh is scheduled to meet his Egyptian counterpart this week, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Mohammed Abu-Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), was released on Wednesday after spending one year in administrative detention in an Israeli prison. The parliamentarian,...
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News The Council of Catholic churches in the occupied Palestinian territories has condemned the hostile graffiti scrawled on the main gate of a Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem yesterday. The attack...
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News The foreign ministers of Tunisia and Germany, Rafik Abdul Salam and Guido Westerwelle, have condemned acts which they say go beyond freedom of speech to incite hatred. In a...
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News In a long TV interview on Thursday, senior Israeli politician Yossi Beilin called on the Palestinian President to get rid of the Oslo agreement because “it destroyed Palestinians”. Beilin...
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News Officials at Israel’s national archive have refused requests from journalists to have access to documents relating to the 1982 massacre in the Palestine refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila...
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News EXCLUSIVE PICUTURES Demonstrations against massive price-hikes of fuel and other essential commodities which began last week in the occupied West Bank have accelerated following clashes which erupted between security...
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