Middle Orient

GAZA, Nov. 11 – Israel stopped delivering fuel to Gaza power station Tuesday afternoon hours after providing insufficient amount, Palestinian officials said.

RAMALLAH, Nov. 11 – More than 8,000 Palestinians, many were Fatah supporters, gathered in the West Bank on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of late leader Yasser Arafat, while their counterparts in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the rival Hamas movement, were suppressed.

GAZA, Nov. 11 – Hamas forces that were deployed across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday quickly crushed any attempt of gathering by supporters of rival Fatah movement who try to commemorate the fourth anniversary of late leader Yasser Arafat.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Sunnis and Shi’ites made an emotional reach across the sectarian divide on Tuesday, reopening a Baghdad bridge between the two communities closed since a 2005 stampede, the deadliest incident of the war.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria prevented a World Food Programme vessel carrying rice for Iraqi refugees from unloading at the country’s main port on Tuesday because, the government said, its cargo failed tests.

At least three people have been killed in a double bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has agreed to partially lift Israel’s suspension of fuel supplies to the only power plant in the Gaza Strip.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh said that no country is ready to accept the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

GAZA, Nov. 10 – Hamas forces arrested groups of “Fatah-aligned cells,” saying they were planning to carry out “operations aimed at restoring anarchy and disorder” in the Gaza Strip, said Ihab al-Ghussein, spokesman of Hamas interior ministry, on Monday.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Monday said that fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip remain on hold despite a looming power breakoff across the Hamas-controlled area.