Muslims Commemorate Al-Quds Day, Hold Prayers at Al-Aqsa
Muslims Commemorate Al-Quds Day, Hold Prayers at Al-Aqsa

Islam Times - Tens of thousands of Muslims poured into the heavily guarded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of ...



Islam Times - Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct talks in 20 months Thursday, starting the clock on a daunting one-year deadline ...

PA arrested 80 members of Hamas north Hebron
PA arrested 80 members of Hamas north Hebron

Islam Times - The PA forces arrested 80 member of Hamas movement in Dora village in the north of Hebron in West Bank...

 
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Israel Gets Away with Murder…Again
8 February 2010 12:05

Israel Gets Away with Murder…Again

Amid the glamour of the world’s tallest building, gold bars, man-made islands, casinos and fashion, a man lay dead in his hotel room. Preliminary reports would say he had been suffocated with a pillow; further investigation would determine that he was injected with poison.

Palestinian Unity within Reach, Fatah Says
8 February 2010 08:51

Palestinian Unity within Reach, Fatah Says

A Palestinian Fatah party delegation, returning home from the Hamas-run Gaza strip, said Friday the rival factions have taken major steps toward a reconciliation deal.

Israel slaps six-month travel ban on Palestinian map expert
8 February 2010 08:37

Israel slaps six-month travel ban on Palestinian map expert

Citing "security reasons" -- the ubiquitous and unanswerable catch-all phrase against which it is almost impossible to mount any defense -- Israel's Ministry of the Interior has just issued a six-month travel ban on map expert Khalil Tafakji.

Power cut to about 50% of Gazans as fuel runs out
7 February 2010 12:49

Power cut to about 50% of Gazans as fuel runs out

One of the two generators of Gaza's only power plant has been shut down due to a shortage of fuel, cutting power to around 50 percent of the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza
6 February 2010 12:02

Gaza's Only Power Plant May be Forced to Shut Down

Gaza officials have warned that if no fuel is received, the Gaza Strip's only power plant will have to be shut down on Friday night.

Palestinian politicians face tide of persecution in Israel
3 February 2010 11:25

Palestinian politicians face tide of persecution in Israel

Leaders of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution, backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, designed to stop their political activities.

Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza supply tunnels
3 February 2010 11:14

Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza supply tunnels

Israeli warplanes have targeted and attacked a number of supply tunnels in the Gaza Strip in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.

West Bank
1 February 2010 11:22

In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying

In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes. Robert Fisk reports from Jiftlik

Researcher accuses Israel of "
31 January 2010 12:10

Researcher accuses Israel of "'cultural massacre"

Israel plundered and destroyed tens of thousands of Palestinian books in the years after the state's establishment, according to a doctoral thesis to be submitted next month by a Ben-Gurion University researcher.

No Checkpoints in Heaven
31 January 2010 11:22

No Checkpoints in Heaven

I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my family’s home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old yellow pyjamas and a seemingly ancient robe. As I hauled my one small suitcase into a taxi ...

Palestinians hand Gaza War report to UN
31 January 2010 11:11

Palestinians hand Gaza War report to UN

The Palestinian Authority says it has submitted a report to the United Nations on Israel's last year offensive on the Gaza Strip.

30 January 2010 11:43

'Israel assassinates top Hamas commander in Dubai'

Israel has assassinated a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai, an official in the Palestinian resistance group says.

"Our community is at risk": An interview with Ittijah
30 January 2010 11:30

"Our community is at risk": An interview with Ittijah's Ameer Makhoul

Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Based Associations, was founded in 1995 in response to a widely felt need for increased cooperation and exchange between Palestinian Arab organizations in Israel. Ittijah's member organizations are engaged in a variety of issues from human rights to social and economic ...

How surrendering Palestinian rights became the language of "peace"
28 January 2010 11:26

How surrendering Palestinian rights became the language of "peace"

The 1993 Oslo agreement did not only usher in a new era of Palestinian-Israeli relations but has had a much more lasting effect in transforming the very language through which these relations have been governed internationally and the way the Palestinian leadership viewed them. Not only was the Palestinian ...

"Humanity cannot be divided": Gaza shows solidarity with Haiti
27 January 2010 11:08

"Humanity cannot be divided": Gaza shows solidarity with Haiti

"We have been living a man-made disaster actually for the past 62 years," said Palestinian parliamentarian Jamal al-Khudari, a chairman of the Gaza-based Committee to Break the Siege. "We would like to send out a message of solidarity to the people of Haiti, who are now facing a natural disaster. Despite ...

Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
25 January 2010 11:55

Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Established in 1989, the MA'AN Development Center is "an independent Palestinian development and training institution....work(ing) towards sustainable human development in Palestine" through its various programs. On October 31, it released a publication on the Palestinian BDS campaign titled, "Boycott,...

Gaza
25 January 2010 11:49

Gaza's thin red line one year later

"The last Israeli attacks were the hardest, the most dangerous. It wasn't a war, it was a massacre. They shot anyone walking, anyone outside of their home, in their home ... it didn't matter. And it didn't matter if the victims were children or adults; there was no difference."

Lebanon activists launch campaign targeting Egypt
24 January 2010 10:48

Lebanon activists launch campaign targeting Egypt's "wall of shame"

The Campaign to Stop the Wall of Shame, a newly-formed activist movement based in Beirut, Lebanon, held a press conference this morning to publicize the Arab Contractors construction company's role in the building of an underground steel wall along the Egypt-Gaza border.

Fuel Shortage in Gaza as Cold Season Arrives
24 January 2010 10:40

Fuel Shortage in Gaza as Cold Season Arrives

Officials in Gaza warn that the dire gas shortage in the blockaded coastal strip could bring closer to reality a humanitarian crisis as a cold winter nears.

US Envoy Fails to Lure Abbas Back to Mideast Talks
24 January 2010 10:29

US Envoy Fails to Lure Abbas Back to Mideast Talks

President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy failed Friday to lure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas back to peace talks with Israel, as Abbas stuck to his insistence that an Israeli settlement freeze come first.

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