Palestina News

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel was launching a satellite Tuesday to spy on Iran’s nuclear programme, an Israeli defence official said, as Iran’s leader persisted with his calls for the Jewish state’s destruction.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that clashes between activists loyal to the Hamas movement and his more moderate Fateh group were of concern, but added that he would “never let a civil war occur.” Abbas spoke amid rising tensions between Hamas, which won Palestinian parliamentary elections, and his own …

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Fateh Party of Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas Saturday of courting civil war, as relations between the moderate Palestinian leader and the government hit crisis point less than a month after the Islamists took power.

Fanatic Zionist groups intensified their desecrating assaults on the Aqsa Mosque, especially with the advent of the Jewish Passover feast, as big numbers of Israeli settlers and foreign nationals were seen strolling in the Aqsa plazas under heavy IOF guards without paying any respect to the sanctity of the place. For …

TEL AVIV (AP) — A Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv during the Jewish holiday of Passover on Monday, killing nine people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing in more than a year.

PARIS (AFP) — The United States warned the Hamas-led Palestinian government against defending or sponsoring “terrorist acts” as a suicide bombing in Israel on Monday drew widespread international condemnation.

TWO FIGHTERS OF Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades were killed Wednesday in an Israeli air strike along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said. They said an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of Palestinians near the Kissufim crossing between the central Gaza Strip …

THE HAMAS-LED Palestinian government was inaugurated on Wednesday, but not all those elected to the new parliament are able to take up their seats. For some, the best they can do is have a life-sized photograph of themselves propped up in their place.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak called interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to congratulate him for being named to head a new government and the two leaders decided to meet “immediately after a government is formed” in Israel.

GAZA (Reuters) — Palestinian Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday rejected a decision by President Mahmoud Abbas to assume security control over the Gaza Strip’s border crossings.Abbas’ overnight move underscores tensions with Hamas in the wake of the Islamic group’s crushing win against the president’s long-dominant …