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  • January 10, 2015

    Palestinian prisoners face slow death from freezing temperatures in Israeli jails

    Head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee, Issa Qaraqe, has confirmed that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are facing “very difficult” conditions because they are denied proper clothes and cover...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Palestinians raise concerns over dangers facing Al-Aqsa Mosque

    After the announcement of a thwarted attempt to bomb the Dome of the Rock, Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Adnan al-Husseini announced Palestinian fears regarding the dangers facing Al-Aqsa...

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  • January 9, 2015

    Shin Bet thwarts operation to bomb Al-Aqsa

    The Israeli intelligence service Shin Bet have thwarted an operation to blow up the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in the Al-Aqsa compound, by an American Jewish extremist, Yedioth...

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  • January 9, 2015

    UN chief defends Palestinian right to join ICC

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday defended the State of Palestine’s right to join the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Anadolu Agency reported. Ban told reporters after...

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  • January 9, 2015

    McCain: Deploy US ground troops to defeat ISIS

    Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator John McCain yesterday called on the US administration to deploy ground troops to participate in the war against the Islamic...

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  • January 9, 2015

    Meshaal salutes people of Konya for defending Jerusalem

    The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, surprised supporters of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party this week by participating in the party’s conference held in the...

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  • January 9, 2015

    Ehud Barak: BDS is developing, Israel liable to a boycott

    Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as warned that Israel is vulnerable to a boycott, as the BDS movement develops. In an interview in Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Barak was...

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  • January 9, 2015

    We are silent about the tragedy of Gaza

    Many conclusions, explanations and semantics can explain the situation in Gaza today. Opportunism and betrayal; punishment and slow death; absolute villainy and crude maliciousness; conspiracies and shamelessness; obligations and...

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  • January 9, 2015

    Internal inquiry must not whitewash Israeli war crimes in Rafah

    Over the last couple of weeks in Israel, in what has been called an “exceptionally widespread attack”, politicians, op-ed writers, and reservists have urged the IDF Military Advocate General...

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  • January 9, 2015

    Israel hands down 8 month suspended sentence to Haniyeh's sisters

    Two sisters of the Vice President of the political bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh were given eight-month suspended sentences on charges of entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing,...

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