Two Workers Injured In Tunnel Fall, One Seriously
Scoop.co.nz - 45 minutes agoGAZA, (PIC)-- Two Palestinian workers fell in a tunnel while working inside it in Rafah, to the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
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Ashkar: Gazan PrisonersTo Receive Family Visits Next Month
Scoop.co.nz - 1 hour 14 minutes agoGAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli prison service (IPS) told prisoners from Gaza Strip that it will allow their relatives to visit them starting from the beginning of next June, under the recent agreement signed between the prisoners' leadership and the IPS, ...
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EMOHR Slams Israel For Systematic Targeting Of Gaza Fishing
Scoop.co.nz - 1 hour 15 minutes agoGENEVA, (PIC)-- The Euro-Mediterranean Observer for Human Rights (EMOHR) said Israel systematically and deliberately targets the fishing sector in the Gaza Strip. In a report on Sunday, the observatory warned that the systematic Israeli targeting ...
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Egypt's Brotherhood would keep Israel treaty: Carter
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun May 27, 4:24 am ETCAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood may seek to modify, but will not destroy, Egypt's 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Saturday. Carter, 87, was speaking after initial vote tallies put the Brotherhood's candidate ahead in the first round of Egypt's presidential election, which his Carter Center helped monitor. The U.S. ...
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Middle East Online
Middle East Online - Sun May 27, 11:58 am ETGAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories) - Palestinian election officials will begin work on updating the electoral register in the Gaza Strip on Monday in a key step to pave the way for elections, an official said on Sunday.
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Hamas to announce new leadership in next month
Fox News - Sat May 26, 4:37 pm ETThe militant Islamic Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will announce the results of their internal elections next month, an official said Saturday, ending a monthslong voting process that will define strategy for the group.
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Israel Plans to Build 1,100 Homes
Arab News - Sun May 27, 9:27 am ETJERUSALEM — Israel is planning to build 1,100 new apartments for Israelis in East Jerusalem, a Cabinet minister said yesterday, angering Palestinians and further straining troubled peace talks.
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Israel fears 'security vacuum' in Sinai
The Daily Star Lebanon - Sun May 27, 8:58 am ETThe growing wave of lawlessness sweeping the Sinai Peninsula has put Israel on edge, with the Jewish state hoping Egypt's new government will ensure a swift crackdown -- whatever the outcome of the presidential elections.
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Egypt Agrees With Hamas on Gaza Pullout
Arab News - Sat May 26, 4:57 pm ETCAIRO, 10 August 2004 — Egypt has reached an agreement with Palestinian militant group Hamas over “special arrangements to guarantee Palestinian safety” after an Israeli withdrawal of the Gaza Strip, the official Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper said yesterday.
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PA elections officials to visit Gaza in bid to revive unity deal
Haaretz Daily - Sun May 27, 3:06 am ETPlanned arrival is a result of a meeting between Hamas, Fatah officials in Cairo, in which the rival groups said they agreed on a new timetable for a power-sharing deal.
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Business in Brief
Haaretz Daily - Sat May 26, 5:50 pm ETIsrael Electric Corporation has set its sights on raising NIS 3 billion in July to help cover its higher energy costs - half the amount it originally hoped to raise - after the Finance Ministry refused to provide a guarantee for more.
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Gaza Withdrawal a High-Stakes Gamble
Arab News - Sat May 26, 6:28 am ETWASHINGTON, 29 June 2003 — Israel’s agreement to withdraw forces from the Gaza Strip and turn over security to the Palestinian Authority, made after intense US pressure on the eve of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s trip to the region, is an enormous gamble that could backfire and leave the new peace effort in tatters, diplomats involved in the effort said.
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Former U.S President Carter: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will not cancel peace treaty with Israel
Haaretz Daily - Sat May 26, 3:06 pm ETCarter, 87, spoke after initial vote tallies put the Brotherhood's candidate ahead in first round of Egypt's presidential election, which Carter Center helped monitor.
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U.N. rights chief to stay two more years; US, Syria aren't fans
The Star - Fri May 25, 8:09 pm ETUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday renewed the mandate of the world body's human rights chief Navi Pillay, but she was given an abbreviated term as part of a compromise deal with the United States, which dislikes her criticism of Israel, envoys said.
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Outside View: Palestinian refugees forever?
UPI - Fri May 25, 7:44 am ETBy ALEXANDER JOFFE and ASAF ROMIROWSKY UPI Outside View Commentator WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- Suggested congressional changes to UNRWA and the Palestinians are long overdue and would improve the Palestinians’ ability to become self-reliant. It may also improve the chances for peace with Israel.
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Honoured for a lifetime of peacekeeping and advocacy
Cochrane Times - Fri May 25, 11:14 pm ETCochrane’s Lloyd “Tex” Leugner was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his service to Canada at a ceremony in Calgary May 14.[...]
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