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Forces of the Israeli Occupation stationed along the obsolete border line between the Gaza Strip and the territories occupied in 1967 continues to shoot Palestinian citizens, particularly farmers, violating...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas – announced on Tuesday the re-election of Mr Khaled Meshaal as head of its political bureau for the next four years, a briefed...
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The Council of Settlements in the West Bank have demanded the opening of a police investigation into the Haaretz newspapers and its journalist, Amira Hass, following the publication of...
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Experts in Israel have concluded that Hamas has been able to preserve its power base and authority in the Gaza Strip despite Israel's blockade and military offensives. This conclusion...
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Israel's Defence Minister warned on Wednesday that his government will respond to any attack against the country, the Israeli media has reported. Moshe Ya'alon was speaking amid claims that...
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80 per cent of those killed by Israeli forces killed during the last four days of the war waged on the Gaza Strip in November were uninvolved civilians, Israeli...
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Veteran Fatah politician Abdul Aziz Shahin, known by his kunya of Abu Ali, has passed away, aged 80. He died on Tuesday morning after spending weeks in Al-Shifa Hospital...
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Iranian support for Hamas has been affected because of the Islamic Resistance Movement's position towards Syria, prominent Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya said on Thursday. The head of the Hamas...
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The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority is "doing its best" to block a third Intifada (uprising), said a senior PA and Fatah official on Thursday. Nabil Shaath added that the PA...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Hamas – has issued a statement today describing Hezbollah's military intervention in Syria as contributing to the worsening climate of sectarian polarisation...
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Israeli occupation forces used explosive ammunition to kill a Palestinian youth, it has been alleged. Police Cadet Mutaz Al-Sharawneh, 19, was shot and killed on Monday night in the...
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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Palestinian Culture Ministry has unveiled the longest mural in the country, which is painted on the walls of the Palestinian Legislative Council headquarters in the Gaza...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) marked the 13th anniversary of the Aqsa Intifada (uprising) with a declaration that it "would not recognize any agreement or promise which leads to...
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The Israeli magazine Weekends, which is affiliated to the Hebrew web site Walla, has reported that after the military coup in Egypt, Israel asked the interim authorities in Egypt...
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PHOTOS To mark the second anniversary of the prisoners swap reached between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation in 2011, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh delivered a speech...
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An Israel Defence Forces commander has admitted that his soldiers in the occupied West Bank are facing a "new operational reality". It can be described as a threat to...
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The annual report from the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has revealed that twenty-seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank during 2013; nine people...
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Human Rights Watch has issued a statement on Saturday saying it regrets that Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died "without facing justice for his role in the...
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Israeli occupation authorities fear that Palestinian fighters in Gaza now own ground to air missiles that are a threat to Israel's air forces, Israeli radio reported on Wednesday morning....
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On Tuesday Hamas released a statement stressing that the idea of dissolving the armed wing of the resistance factions, specifically Al-Qassam Brigades, is totally out of the question as...
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Senior Israeli analyst, Ravin Berko, has suggested that Egypt's Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's repeated threats against Hamas in the Gaza Strip are intended to attract US attention....
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The Director of Lebanese General Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, has asked the Palestinian factions in Lebanon to unite in order to fight terrorism and the radical agendas that...
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Last month, the Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad staged a protest at Al-Quds University that sparked an international controversy, leading two American universities to take the decision to sever ties...
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Activism,
Article
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There is no way that an honest resistance committed to protecting its country and people, or a pure resistance that has given thousands of its youth in their prime...
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January 29, 2014
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
Israel is a de facto, not a de jure, entity. The League of Nations' "mandate" given to Britain to turn Palestine into a "Jewish homeland" was as baseless in...
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January 27, 2014
Ahmed Fouda
Egypt's independence from British occupation, which officially began in 1882, went through two main phases. The first was the period after the 1919 revolution, leading the British government to...
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Africa,
Article
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January 27, 2014
Middle East Monitor
A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mahmoud Ghozlan, has denied any intention to tighten the siege on the Gaza Strip. He made his statement in the context...
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January 25, 2014
Saleh Al Nu'ami
Contrary to what Israel might have expected, Hamas's reaction to the latest Israeli escalation in Gaza didn't follow the normal pattern. Thus, Israeli calculations have been confused. Normally, Hamas...
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January 25, 2014
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Oraib Al-Rantawi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to impose a long-term ceasefire on Hamas and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, one that lasts for fifteen years at least. This is...
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January 25, 2014
Bashir Abdul Fatah
Israel's latest aggression against the Gaza Strip was not just a military assault on occupied land which has a geo-strategic link with Egypt, but it also presented a serious...
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January 25, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
The history books will record November 2012 as the month in which the Palestinian people achieved three major victories which could change the power equations in the region: The...
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January 25, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Israel's practice of targeted assassinations against Palestinians, an evolution of 'focused foiling' or 'liquidations policy' by Israel, remains a contentious issue in the discourse on human rights and international...