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Khreisha: Political regime in West Bank exerts no effort to free MPs

MP Dr Hasan Khreisha has charged that the political system in the West Bank made a little effort to help release the MPs held in Israeli occupation authority (IOA) prisons

Haneyya gov’t condemns PA security for its ongoing arrest campaigns in West Bank

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya strongly denounced the PA security apparatuses for its persistent arrest campaigns in the West Bank especially against women, stressing that these arrests

Al-Ghoul: IOA still detains 36 MPs and 3 former ministers

The minister of prisoners’ affairs in the PA government in Gaza, Mohammed Al-Ghoul, sent his congratulations to MP Ibrahim Abu Salem on his release after serving 38 months in Israeli

DFLP: Abbas’s security imprisons NRB elements

Central committee member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Talal Abu Dharifa has revealed that West Bank security apparatuses loyal to former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas

Delegation of European campaign to meet Solana today

A high-level delegation of the European campaign for ending the siege is expected to meet on Wednesday with Javier Solana, the European Union (EU) high representative for the common foreign

Hamas: No change in list of prisoners to be freed in return for Shalit

Hamas on Wednesday denied press reports that it was pondering a change in the list of Palestinian prisoners names tabled with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to be freed in

Number of siege victims rose to 349

The number of victims of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has risen to 349 after the death of Abdul Halim Zurub, 49, who was suffering from a brain

Israel forces Palestinian citizen to demolish his home in O. Jerusalem

Palestinian sources in the occupied city of Jerusalem reported that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) coerced a Palestinian citizen on Wednesday into demolishing part of his home located in Beit

Some of our Clerics are no Better than the Taliban, Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush*

Today, the world of Islam is going through a strange period. And, any way you look at it, the Iranian revolution played a role and is still playing a role

The Taliban’s Winning Strategy in Afghanistan

The Taliban’s clear strategy and increasingly coherent organization have put the International Coalition on the defensive, marginalized the local Afghan government, and given the Taliban control of southern and eastern