[ 08/11/2010 – 11:09 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at Palestinian citizens’ homes and land east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday night but no casualties were reported. Media sources said that the soldiers stationed at military watchtowers in the vicinity of Karm Abu Salem military base […]
Continue readingPalestinian prisoner society calls for firing Habbash from his post
[ 08/11/2010 – 11:19 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian prisoner society called on de facto president Mahmoud Abbas to remove his minister of religious affairs Mahmoud Habbash from his post after he expunged 200 names of relatives of martyrs and prisoners from the list invited by the Saudi king to go on pilgrimage […]
Continue readingZionist pressures exerted to deprive French film director of Oscar
[ 08/11/2010 – 11:08 AM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– Zionist pressure groups in the USA are exerting big efforts and pressures to persuade the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences not to award French film director Jean-Luc Godard the international Oscar honorary award because of his support for the Palestine cause. The […]
Continue readingIsraeli police threaten to tear down Sahwa Mosque in Negev area again
[ 08/11/2010 – 11:04 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The inspector-general of the Israeli police, who personally supervised the demolition of Al-Sahwa mosque in Rahat city of the Negev region, said the mosque will be razed again after the Palestinians there finish rebuilding it. Bulldozers sent by the Israeli interior ministry under military protection flattened […]
Continue readingIOA deprives two Palestinian villages of potable water
[ 08/11/2010 – 10:09 AM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has been depriving villages of Brukin and Kufr Al-Deek, west of Salfit district, of potable water for the fifth day on Sunday, locals reported. They said that the sewage water of the nearby Ar’il settlement had polluted the underground water wells […]
Continue readingFatah using Iran bogey to justify surrender to Israel
[ 07/11/2010 – 11:34 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh Trying to justify its manifest moral and political bankruptcy, the Fatah movement, under PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, is trying to use the so-called Iran bogey to justify its effective surrender to the Zionist regime. Fatah, which is kept alive by American money and Israeli tolerance, […]
Continue readingAshqar leaves Gaza to join Hamas delegation in reconciliation talks
[ 07/11/2010 – 05:45 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– MP Ismail Al-Ashqar, a Hamas leader, left Gaza on Sunday heading for Syria to participate in the next round of reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah that would be held in Damascus on Tuesday. He told Quds Press before his departure that he would join the […]
Continue readingJP: USA supplying Israel with smart bombs
[ 07/11/2010 – 05:39 PM ] WASHINGTON, (PIC)– The Israeli air force is to receive soon the first batch of American-made precision-guided bombs that would noticeably boost its ability to shell specific targets, the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The English-language paper said that the Israeli air force would be the first air force […]
Continue readingPalestinian government asks Britain not to amend war criminals law
[ 07/11/2010 – 05:28 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza has asked the British government to revoke an earlier decision to amend the legislation on prosecuting war criminals. The justice ministry said in a statement on Sunday that such an amendment would constitute a big insult to the British judiciary’s reputation, […]
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