IOF troops arrest five Palestinians in the West Bank
Saturday-16-December-2006
IOF soldiers on Saturday arrested two Palestinians in the southern West Bank city of Al-Khalil after breaking into their homes and searching them locals reported.
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Bahar: Abbas decision legally null and void
Saturday-16-December-2006
The acting PLC speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar on Saturday stressed that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas' call for early legislative elections was legally null and void.
Abbas calls for presidential parliamentary elections
Saturday-16-December-2006
PA chief Mahmoud Abbas in a surprise step on Saturday called for early presidential and parliamentary elections during a speech he delivered in Ramallah city that focused on attacking the Hamas Movement.
McCormack: Abbas might have blocked Haneyya’s return
Saturday-16-December-2006
Spokesman of the US state department Sean McCormack has announced that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas could have decided to block Haneyya's return into the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in favor of the Palestinian people.
Khuraisha: We will not allow early elections
Saturday-16-December-2006
Second-deputy speaker of the PLC MP Hassan Khuraisha has affirmed that calls uttered here and there urging early presidential and legislative elections will not succeed charging that those calling for such elections have no political weight in the Palestinian arena.
PA government boycotts Abbas’ speech over bloody role of his forces
Saturday-16-December-2006
The PA government has decided to boycott the anticipated speech of AP chief Mahmoud Abbas Saturday over the untoward role of his forces in the bloody incidents in Rafah and Ramallah cities that claimed a number of Palestinian lives.
Hamas: PA security apparatuses want to replicate Algeria’s bloody experience
Saturday-16-December-2006
Hamas Movement has affirmed that the PA presidential guard apparatus along with other security apparatuses working under the command of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas have played an extremely bad role in the bloody incidents in Ramallah city.
Mishaal: The entire world cannot distance us from serving our people
Saturday-16-December-2006
Head of Hamas' political bureau Khaled Mishaal has affirmed that the Palestinian people have no other option before them save national unity dialogue and political partnership and called for respecting results of the legislative elections.
IOA releases Palestinian MP after two years of detention without trial
Saturday-16-December-2006
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Friday released the Palestinian MP Hatem Kufaisha Al-Khalil district after two years in detention without trial or charge.
Rezka: Our contacts opened Rafah terminal before pilgrims
Saturday-16-December-2006
Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims from the Gaza Strip Friday afternoon managed to cross the Rafah terminal into Egypt en route to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj (pilgrimage).
