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The government : one year on

Wednesday-31-January-2007

Around this time last year Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem went to the polls to elect a new legislative council to replace the former Fatah-dominated council whose legal term expired in the year 2000 pursuant the Oslo Accords.

Mutiny trend in Fatah secretly smuggles weapons and munitions through Rafah

Wednesday-31-January-2007

Palestinian security sources have affirmed Wednesday that trucks loaded with weapons and munitions were parked at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing ..

IOF troops kidnap 21 Palestinian citizen across West Bank

Wednesday-31-January-2007

At least 21 Palestinian citizens were rounded up at the hands of the IOF troops across the West Bank at dawn Wednesday under allegations that some of them were concealing guns and knives. The arrested Palestinians denied the allegations.

Nightmare of Eilat explosion disturbs Israeli settlers

Wednesday-31-January-2007

Nightmare of the Monday’s deadly explosion in the 1948-occupied Palestinian city of Um Al-Rashrash (Eilat) on the Red Sea where three Israeli settlers were killed and seven others wounded was disturbing Israeli settlers in the city.

Nazzal to Dahalan: don’t spoil truce deal

Wednesday-31-January-2007

Hamas’ senior political leader and member of its political office abroad Mohammed Nazzal has praised the Hamas-Fatah ceasefire truce in Gaza expressing hopes that the deal will be translated on the ground.

Hamad: Truce won’t cancel prosecution of killers

Wednesday-31-January-2007

PA government spokesman Dr. Ghazi Hamad has explained Tuesday that the truce deal reached between Hamas and Fatah faction in Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday doesn’t exonerate killers of Palestinian citizens of the heinous crimes they have committed.

Haneyya wants PA security apparatuses be restructured to serve Palestinians

Wednesday-31-January-2007

PA premier Ismael Haneyya has declared Tuesday his full support for restructuring the PA security apparatuses on purely Palestinian vision and away from partisan or factional calculations.

Hebrew paper: Dahalan forms own army in Gaza with US support

Tuesday-30-January-2007

The Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has quoted Fatah leader as affirming that Mohammed Dahalan was forming a 12000-strong private army in Gaza Strip with full American military support ..

Israeli warplanes bombard Mintar crossing point in Gaza

Tuesday-30-January-2007

Israeli warplanes have unleashed aerial raid at the Mintar crossing point east of Gaza Strip at dawn Tuesday but no casualties were reported in the raid Palestinian and Hebrew sources revealed.

Hamas Fatah reach truce deal in Gaza

Tuesday-30-January-2007

The two largest Palestinian factions in the Palestinian arena Hamas and Fatah have reached Monday a ceasefire deal in an overnight meeting between leaders of the two factions under Egyptian sponsorship.