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High Court: Squatters in Heftsiba homes in West Bank can stay
The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday that clients of the collapsing construction company Heftsiba, who began squatting last month in houses they purchased in the disputed West Bank neighborhood of Matityahu East, will not be evacuated from their homes at this time.
The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday that clients of the collapsing construction company Heftsiba, who began squatting last month in houses they purchased in the disputed West Bank neighborhood of Matityahu East, will not be evacuated from their homes at this time.
One Palestinian killed and four injured during Israeli undercover operation in Jenin
Salah Muhammed Surour leader of the Al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) was killed in Jenin in the early hours of Saturday. Four other Palestinian were injured in the same incident . Eye witnesses report that at about 5am Salah Muhammad Surour (Ala Abu As-Sa'eed) and three other Palestinians were in a car on Abu Bakr street in Jenin. A Palestinian taxi or a white Volkswagen drove up and members of an Israeli special unit jumped out and immediately opened fire on Surour's car. Surour died immediately and the three other men were injured, one seriously. and seriously injured.
Israeli army injures man with learning difficulties in the northern Gaza strip
Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian was severely injured on Tuesday afternoon after an Israeli army tank stationed at the northern Gaza-Israel borders opened fired at him.
Israeli forces kidnap 6 Palestinians from Abu Da'ef village in Jenin
Israeli military forces abducted 6 Palestinians from Abu Da'ef village, located north of West Bank city of Jenin, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Israeli army attacks several areas of the West Bank, kidnapping 4 from Nablus and 3 from Hebron
The Israeli army implemented a series of military operations in different areas of the West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Hamas orders private clinics in Gaza Strip to shut down
Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers ordered striking doctors to shut down their private clinics on Monday, in a challenge to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that threatened to deepen hardship in the long-suffering territory. The face-off has largely paralyzed Gaza's medical system, putting it at the mercy of the rivalry between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas seized control of Gaza in June after routing Fatah forces, while Abbas formed a new government in the West Bank.
Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers ordered striking doctors to shut down their private clinics on Monday, in a challenge to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that threatened to deepen hardship in the long-suffering territory. The face-off has largely paralyzed Gaza's medical system, putting it at the mercy of the rivalry between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movement. Hamas seized control of Gaza in June after routing Fatah forces, while Abbas formed a new government in the West Bank.
The "moderate" Palestinian government has ordered the closure of 103 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday, in an apparent crackdown aimed at the Islamic Hamas.
The long expected safety and security returned to Gaza's streets eventually after Hamas took control of the enclave, however people living there began to come to their senses that it is not the only thing they want. "We were looking for an end of chaos, we wanted the security and we got it," said Ahmad al-Ifranji, a middle aged beans dealer whose face showed paradoxically anxiety rather than delight.
Hamas said on Monday it planned to enforce a 12-year-old Palestinian press law designed to silence dissident journalists, amid a crackdown that has raised fierce protests from the local media.
Secretary-General of the deposed Palestinian government, Muhammad Awad, said on Monday that three new Palestinian police forces have been established in the Gaza Strip. The three forces are; interior security, beach police and female police. Awad said that the deposed government ratified the new services, which will begin work in the coming days.
The aL-Dameer foundation for human rights, warned on Tuesday of an imminent collapse of the Palestinian economy in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Says Hamas Is Training Hundreds Abroad: H amas has sent hundreds of its fighters abroad for military training, most of them to Iran, the Israeli Army's deputy chief of staff says, and Israel has the names of more than 100 of them.
A British charity has denied charges of anti-Semitism after coming under fire for producing a detailed guide to boycotting Israel. War on Want, ostensibly a charity set up to fight worldwide poverty, recently published a guide on its website, entitled, 'Towards a global movement for Palestine; a framework for today's anti-apartheid activism.'
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met on Tuesday in Jerusalem, in order to discuss plans for US President Bush's international peace conference this autumn.
In the early afternoon the Palestinian security forces returned an Israeli soldier who is understood to have become lost in the streets of Jenin.
Is this Jericho or Hell?
We're in. After more than a year we have been allowed back in to Palestine. It has been a long journey -- I was refused entry last year along with several thousand others, and we have been working since then to try to arrange this visit. So many emails later, and after 11 hours at the border, here we are...
Soon after coming to power, Ariel Sharon started to commission public opinion polls. He kept the results to himself. This week, a reporter of Israel's TV Channel 10 succeeded in obtaining some of them.
Western governments never stop clamoring about the need to foster democracy, clean government, human rights and the rule of law in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. However, in practice, western policies and behavior seem often at odds with these declared ideals. I don't know if European leaders themselves (the Americans are brazenly hypocritical about anything Arab or Islamic) do believe their own rhetoric in this regard. However, what we, as Arabs and Muslims, do know for sure is that there is a deep and wide gap between what the Europeans are preaching in public and what they are doing in reality.
With every passing day, the nature of the criminal activity that characterized the conduct of construction company Heftsiba's managers and owners is becoming clearer.
An Egyptian male, trapped for two years in the Gaza Strip, was forced to swim back to Egypt via the Mediterranean Sea, Syrian media reported. After swimming all night the long-distance swimmer was detained by Egyptian authorities as soon as he set foot on home soil. During questioning he said that in 2005 he had illegally crossed into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, but was unable to return home as he had no documents with him.
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