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Abbas: Palestinians were asked to annex parts of Sinai

MEMO | Monday, 01 September 2014 14:43 Speaking in a meeting of Fatah leaders in Ramallah, Abbas said: ‘The plan, which was proposed in 1956, included annexing 1,600 square kilometres from the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip in order to receive Palestinian refugees.’ Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday revealed that Palestinians refused […]

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@BBC denies reality of how siege hurts healthcare in Gaza

Amena Saleem | 11/22/2013 – 19:08 | Electronic Intifada In April this year, the BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall gave assurances to members of Parliament about the BBC’s impartiality when covering Palestine. He also told MPs that the BBC’s complaints process, headed by the BBC Trust, provides adequate checks and balances. However, some of the BBC’s […]

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AOHR condemns Egyptian army’s attempt to involve Gaza in Sinai events

[ PIC 17/09/2013 – 11:09 AM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Arab Organization for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) strongly condemned the Egyptian army spokesman’s statement about the operations that the army is carrying out in Sinai Peninsula. It noted that the army claimed weapons were found stamped with the name of the Qassam Brigades, the […]

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VIDEO | Gov’t: Buffer Zone not between neighboring countries

Al Ray Agencies | Sept 2, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Palestinian Government denounced the Egyptian step to create a buffer zone at  the border between Gaza and Egypt. Egypt’s military has bulldozed 13 homes along the Gaza Strip border and caved in tunnels beneath them as a prelude to the possible creation of a buffer […]

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Abu Zuhri refutes Egyptian claims of involvement in Sinai events

[ PIC 01/09/2013 – 10:20 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, has denied that elements of his movement were involved in the Sinai events. The spokesman said in a press release on Sunday that the allegation voiced by the Egyptian interior minister was completely untrue and baseless. He charged that […]

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Hamas’ Abu Marzouk: We are innocent of the accusation linked to unrest in Sinai

Middle East Monitor | Aug 29, 2013 Mousa Abu-Marzouq, the Deputy Chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, said on Wednesday that his movement has no interests in any of the chaos in Egypt, especially what is happening in the Sinai Peninsula. Abu-Marzouq wrote on his Facebook page that, “We are innocent of everything we have been […]

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25 Egyptian Policemen Executed in Sinai – Fingers Point at Israel

Kawther Salam | Aug 19, 2013 إسرائيل متورطة ومستفيدة من إغراق مصر في الصراعات الدموية Israel the jewish state is led by zionist extremists and religious parties which believe that God gave the jews all the territories from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates river in Iraq. The jews are not only interested in […]

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Israeli sources claim drone attack on Sinai was coordinated with coup leaders

Middle East Monitor | Aug 10, 2013 An Israeli website,DEBKA, has reported that Friday’s drone strike on the Sinai was carried out with intelligence and military coordination between the Israelis and the leaders of Egypt’s military coup. The website, which is widely regarded as close to the country’s intelligence services, quotes Egyptian security officials who […]

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Abu Reda (abducted by Israel from Sinai) reveals details of his detention and torture

  Al Ray Agencies | July 30, 2013   Gaza, Alray – Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who disappeared in Egypt last month Wael Abu Reda,35,  revealed on Tuesday morning details of his detention.  According to prisoners ministry’s lawyer Kareem Ajwa, Reda was abducted  in Sinai while he was in  Egypt to get his son […]

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VIDEO | Netanyahu wants to take Sinai from Egypt: Mark Glenn

Still live in fairy-tale-land about Israel? Time to wake up: The Map of the “Greater Israel” even is hammered on the currency: All facts at Storify continuously updated. Read what Israeli ‘leaders’ have said and done even before (peace) talks and how their actions contradict the reality and ugly facts which they try to hide […]

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Sinai security chief denies involvement of Hamas in any acts of violence

[ PIC 21/07/2013 – 10:07 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Security director of northern Sinai Saleh Al-Masri denied the involvement of the Hamas Movement in the violence taking place in the Sinai Peninsula. Masri told Al-Resalah Net on Saturday that the security investigations proved that Hamas is not involved in any way in acts of violence […]

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Abu Zuhri denies Hamas links to Grad missiles in Sinai

[ PIC 18/07/2013 – 11:44 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, has denied that his movement had anything to do with the Grad missiles found seized by the Egyptian army in Sinai Peninsula. Abu Zuhri said in a statement on his Facebook page on Wednesday that Grad missiles are not […]

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Israel’s occupation elements extend the detention of Wael Hassan Abu Rida kidnapped kidnapped by Mossad in Sinai

[ PIC 10/07/2013 – 03:26 PM ] RAMALLAH,(PIC)– Israeli authorities have extended the detention of a Palestinian from Gaza who was kidnapped a month ago in Sinai by the Israeli Mossad, human rights sources said. Tadamun Foundation for human rights revealed that Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of Wael Hassan Abu Rida for 8 additional […]

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Palestinian shot dead in Sinai, wife critically injured

Maan News Agency | June 29, 2013 CAIRO (Ma’an) – A Palestinian man was shot dead and his Egyptian wife was critically injured Friday by unidentified gunmen in the northern Sinai Bedouin town of Sheikh Zuweid, according to Egyptian security sources. Ahmad Al-Marzouq Abu Bakra, 35, and his wife Yusriya Shehata Ahmad, 30, were travelling […]

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Haniyeh: Sinai security an integral part of Palestinian national security

[ PIC 23/05/2013 – 09:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday evening phoned Al-Arish Governor Abdul Fattah Harhour, and congratulated him on the liberation of the kidnapped soldiers and their safe return. Haniyeh thanked Harhour for the hospitality he has shown to the Palestinians; who were obliged to stay on […]

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