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IOF troops round up six Palestinians overnight including woman

Sunday-3-December-2006

Ramallah - IOF troops overnight Saturday rounded up six Palestinians including a woman on allegation she was a member of the AMB the armed wing of the Fatah Movement an IOF spokesman said Sunday.

Barhum: Fatah foiled formation of government

Saturday-2-December-2006

Fawzi Barhum a spokesman for the Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip on Saturday charged Fatah Movement with foiling the national dialogue aimed at forming the unity government after bowing to American pressures.

Abu Marzouk: Lifting blockade should not mean ceding rights

Saturday-2-December-2006

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk the deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau on Saturday said that Palestinians should not surrender national rights and constants in return for lifting the "oppressive" economic and political blockade imposed on them.

Hayya: Hamas won’t remain idle towards attempts to abort Palestinian democracy

Saturday-2-December-2006

Palestinian lawmaker and head of Hamas parliamentary bloc in the PLC Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya has gone direct to the point and accused Fatah faction and the PA presidency of foiling the talks on unity government that was about to end positively.

Salah returns from Turkey with positive suggestions to protect Aqsa

Saturday-2-December-2006

Head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands Sheikh Raed Salah has returned Friday from a two-week-long trip to Turkey bearing with him a number of what he described as "positive suggestions" to help protect the Aqsa Mosque.

Nazzal: American pressures prompted Abbas to voice pessimistic remarks

Saturday-2-December-2006

Mohammed Nazzal member of Hamas' political bureau has expressed surprise over the sudden declaration by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas that talks on unity government reached a dead-end immediately after he met with US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in Ramallah.

Minister Zeidan admitted to hospital one day after his release from Israeli jail

Saturday-2-December-2006

PA minister of public works and housing Abdul Rahman Zeidan was admitted into Zakat hospital in Tulkarm where he underwent an urgent surgery to remove his gallbladder medical sources reported.

Haneyya: Talks on unity government will continue despite snags

Saturday-2-December-2006

Apparently optimistic PA premier Ismail Haneyya has affirmed that inter-Palestinian talks on unity government will continue in spite of the difficulties put by others to derail those talks.

Redwan describes decisions of PLO’s executive committee as “coup”

Saturday-2-December-2006

Spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip Dr. Ismail Redwan has scathingly criticized threats made by the PLO's executive committee of forming a PA government of technocrats and considered those threats as a "clear coup" against the democratic will of the Palestinian people.

IOA gives the free rein for IOF troops to commit more killing in West Bank

Saturday-2-December-2006

Israeli security sources anticipated that the Israeli occupation government would approve a recommendation made by the Israeli occupation army and the various intelligence apparatuses to release the hands of IOF troops to carry out more arrests and killings in the West Bank.