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Peace Now: Settlement activity witnessed unprecedented upsurge in 2011

Tuesday-10-January-2012

An Israeli anti-settlement organization said that the Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank had witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in 2011 especially in occupied Jerusalem.

Haneyya returns to Gaza to warm reception

Tuesday-10-January-2012

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya returned to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border terminal on Tuesday evening after a tour of four countries.

IOF troops storm Nablus village detain minor

Tuesday-10-January-2012

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the village of Sebastia to the north west of Nablus on Tuesday and detained a minor in one of its streets local sources said.

Pharmaceutical conference in Gaza later this month

Tuesday-10-January-2012

The association of Palestinian pharmacists-Balsam said it would hold in cooperation with the health ministry a conference on pharmaceutical security in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Human shields to bar Jews from holding banned festival in Egypt

Tuesday-10-January-2012

Egyptian political parities and groups decided to prevent the Jews coming from occupied Palestine and Europe from celebrating the birth of Abu Has Hasira festival.

Thabit urges Ki-moon to address rights of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Tuesday-10-January-2012

Thabit organization for the right of return appealed to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to pressure the Lebanese government to provide the Palestinian refugees with their social and civil rights.

Nablus families demand release of their relatives from Juneid jail

Tuesday-10-January-2012

The families of political detainees in Nablus city staged a sit-in on Monday to demand the Palestinian authority and its security forces to release their relatives from Al-Juneid jail.

IOA wants to annex large swaths of Qalqilia land

Monday-9-January-2012

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has issued orders for the confiscation of thousands of cultivated land lots to the east and south of Qalqilia north of the West Bank.

PFLP Jihad: Amman meetings poison reconciliation atmosphere

Monday-9-January-2012

Popular front for the liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad movement have lashed out at the PA meetings in Amman with the Israeli occupation authority.

Qassem: Security coordination and reconciliation do not meet

Monday-9-January-2012

Security coordination and meetings with the IOA do not conform to Palestinian national reconciliation Dr. Abdulsattar Qassem professor of political science at Najah University in Nablus said.