During special session on US-sponsored negotiations PLC demands immediate PA withdrawal from peace talks

[ PIC 21/08/2013 – 01:54 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian legislative council (PLC) convened on Tuesday to discuss the decision taken by the Palestinian authority (PA) to resume its talks with the Israeli occupation regime. The session was chaired by first deputy speaker of the PLC Ahmed Baher and attended by Palestinian premier Ismail […]

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PLC slams PA forces’ attack on MP Jarar

[ PIC 29/07/2013 – 05:33 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) strongly condemned the PA forces’ attack on MP Khalida Jarrar after her participation on Sunday in a protest against resumption of talks in Ramallah. Dr. Ahmed Bahar, PLC First Deputy Chairman, said in a press statement on Monday that PA forces’ attack […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | Khreisha champions reactivating PLC in response to Israeli arrests

[ PIC 04/02/2013 – 09:05 PM ] TULKAREM, (PIC)– Dr. Hassan Khreisha, the second deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has said that Israel was cloning its previous step of detaining Palestinian MPs to influence their effective role in the Palestinian arena. Khreisha told Quds Press on Monday that Israel was trying to obstruct […]

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Wife of PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Dweik dies

انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون الله يرحمها [ PIC 08/11/2012 – 10:03 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The wife of Dr. Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, died on Wednesday night in Al-Khalil from a chronic disease. The change and reform bloc said in a statement to the PIC that Um Hisham […]

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Barghouti calls for review of Paris Economic Agreement

MEMO | Aug 2, 2012 The current Israeli-imposed taxation regime causes great suffering for Palestinians. A leading member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouti, has called for a review of the Paris Economic Agreement. The agreement was signed 17 years ago to establish economic relations […]

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PLC members visit Palestinians detained in Israel

Maan News Agency | July 26, 2012   NABLUS (Ma’an) — A delegation of Palestinian Legislative Council members on Thursday visited Palestinians detained in Israeli jails. Najat Abu Bakr, Gamal Huwail, Nasser Jumaa, Ala Baghee, Jihad Abu Zneid, and Jihad Tmlah visited prisoners and met with Israel’s prison service to discuss detainees’ legal and health […]

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PLC delegation leaves Gaza on Arab tour

[ PIC 28/02/2012 – 10:00 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A delegation of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) led by first deputy speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar left the Gaza Strip on Tuesday on an Arab tour. A press release for the PLC in Gaza said that the delegation would visit Tunisia and Morocco. The delegates are […]

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Bahar calls for resuming PLC sessions in the West Bank

Related: Israel. Not looking for Peace. Nor Talks. But this… [ PIC 13/02/2012 – 10:46 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Acting speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Dr. Ahmed Bahar has called for resuming sessions in the PLC premises in the West Bank in response to the Israeli detention of speaker Dr. Aziz Dweik. In […]

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ONE Palestinian And Israeli State ~ by @KawtherSalam

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Kawther Salam | Febr 2, 2012 Mahmoud Abbas, “President” of the puppet dictatorship PA, is granted permission to move around by some small Israeli soldier occupied as a clerk at the colony of Beit Ell near Ramallah. This makes it possible for him to move […]

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World parliamentarians say ‘appalled’ at Israel’s detention of PLC members

[ 27/07/2011 – 04:55 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Inter-Parliamentary Union said it was ”appalled” at Israel’s repeated detention of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, calling it a violation of the Palestinians’ democratic rights. The condemnation came in a letter by the IPU Human Rights Committee directed at Palestinian MP Mushir al-Masri, who heads […]

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Israel raids offices of Nablus PLC members

[ 07/06/2011 – 02:17 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli forces raided Tuesday morning the offices of Palestinian Legislative Council members from the Hamas bloc in Nablus, confiscating computers and other property. PLC member Mona Mansour told the PIC that Israeli patrols surrounded the building where the offices are situated in the Rafadia district of the West […]

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Dweik calls for PLC unity session

15/03/2011 – 04:49 PM AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Dr. Aziz Al-Dweik has called for a PLC session in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Sunday 20/3/2011. He said that the session would be in response to Palestinian popular demand for ending internal division and restoring unity and […]

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MP Khreisheh urges Abbas to invite PLC to convene rather than hold elections

[ 15/02/2011 – 12:08 PM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Second deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Hasan Khreisheh called on de facto president Mahmoud Abbas to invite the parliament to convene again in accordance with the Palestinian law in order for the lawmakers to contribute to the national reconciliation. “What is required today […]

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PLC sits in to support exile-threatened MPs in Jerusalem

[ 09/01/2011 – 05:28 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Legislative Council pitched a sit-in tent Sunday morning demanding renewed Arab and international mobilization to deter an Israeli decision to exile several Arab MPs from the holy city of Jerusalem. Three Arab elected officials in Jerusalem stationed themselves in front of Red Cross headquarters […]

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Kuwaiti mediation ends crisis on PLC delegation’s return to Gaza

[ 28/12/2010 – 05:26 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Kuwaiti parliament speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi made intensified contacts with Egyptian officials to convince them to allow the return of the Palestinian legislative council’s delegation via Egyptian territory to the Gaza Strip. Special sources told the PIC that the parliamentary delegation led by Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the […]

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