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Category: Arab News

  • Israel reject to protect Arab Bedouins

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    The Supreme Court of Israel rejected a petition by human rights groups to protect Arab Bedouin villages in southern Israel from Gaza rocket fire. The petition Sunday was submitted following the death of Auda al-Wadj, a 32-year-old Bedouin who was hit by a rocket near city of Dimona Saturday, Xinhua reported. Four of his family…

  • Kerry to travel to Egypt

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Egypt Monday to meet officials on the situation in Gaza, the State Department said Sunday. Kerry is working to support Egypt’s initiative to pursue a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, Xinhua quoted State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as saying in a statement. The Gaza Strip…

  • UN Calls for Gaza Ceasefire

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    The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after holding an emergency closed-door meeting on the crisis. The talks came after the UN chief described Israel’s shelling of a Gaza City suburb as “an atrocious action”, BBC reported. A total of 501 people have now died in Gaza during Israel’s operation against…

  • Iraqi PM slams eviction of Christians

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    Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Sunday slammed as criminal acts the displacement of Christian citizens by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group from northern Iraqi city of Mosul, calling for a worldwide unified stand against the militants. A statement issued by Maliki’s office said the IS militant threat against the Christian minority in its seized…

  • Israel feels the heat in Gaza

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    Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed overnight and early Sunday in several clashes with Palestinian militants amid the military’s ground incursion in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said. Seven soldiers were killed when their armoured personnel vehicle was hit by anti-tank missiles overnight, Xinhua reported citing Walla! news website. Shortly afterwards, at 1.20…

  • PICS: Ramadan across the world

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  • Lady Gaga to perform in Dubai

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    Lady Gaga will perform in Dubai September 10, the Gulf News reported. The tour, launched to support the singer’s third studio album, ArtPop, kicked off earlier this week in Florida in the US. Gaga will perform across North America until August before heading to Japan later that month. Her UAE stop will kick off the tour’s European…

  • Gandhi & Gaza – By C Uday Bhaskar

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    C Uday Bhaskar says India’s parliament must reflect on Gandhi’s words  After considerable vacillation that brought little credit to the world’s largest democracy, the Indian parliament is now set to discuss the violence and bloodshed in Gaza on Monday, July 21. Earlier, even as the spiral of violence continued, the Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj…

  • Mosque Offers One Million Iftars

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    The Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre in Abu Dhabi has hosted around 515,000 people who are fasting in the first half of the Holy Month of Ramadan, WAM reported. The mosque is providing Iftar meals in tents located in the grounds of the mosque, including 350,000 through the “Guests for Iftar” project which is held…

  • Israel expands into Gaza

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    Clashes in the Gaza Strip have intensified overnight after the Israeli army announced that it was expanding its ground operation phase of Protective Edge. “The ground phase of Operation Protective Edge has expanded, as additional forces join the effort to combat terror in the Gaza Strip,” Xinhua quoted the Israel defence forces (IDF) spokesman as…

  • India & Palestine issue

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    `India’s West Asia policy unlikely to see major change’ There could be a nuanced change in India’s West Asia policy under NDA rule but there will be no substantive change, former diplomats and analysts have said, as the Modi government prepares to debate, after initial reservation, the spurt in violence in Gaza in Parliament Monday…

  • ‘Go to Gulf with rights’

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    Amnesty International India launches ‘Go to Gulf with rights’ campaign to help expats In a bid to prevent human rights violations among Indian migrant workers in the Gulf region, Amnesty International India and UAE Exchange India have launched a “Go to Gulf with rights” campaign. The awareness campaign will provide information about migrant workers’ rights under Indian…

  • China calls for ceasefire in Gaza

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      China has appealed for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestine’s Hamas and avoiding of any military ground operations and other actions that may lead to further escalation of the crisis. Liu Jieyi, China’s permanent representative to the UN, made the appeal at an emergency meeting of the Security Council on…

  • UN seeks $60 mn aid for Gaza

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    The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has made a fund appeal for $60 million to respond to the immediate shelter, food, health needs of affected Palestinian families in Gaza. “UNRWA urgently seeks $60 million to prepare for carrying out vital interventions that will be required immediately upon cessation of military activities,”…

  • Ground offensive into Gaza begins

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    Israel have begun their ground offensive into Gaza by sea, land and air. Power has been cut in Gaza for this operations that has commenced at 10.30pm local time. Three Palestinian children were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City a few hours after a short humanitarian truce ended Thursday, taking the toll in…

  • Labour MEPs seek peace in Gaza

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    Labour MEPs including North West’s Afzal Khan played a leading role in successful efforts to win strong, across-the-board parliamentary backing to call for an immediate ceasefire to end the death toll in Gaza. Richard Howitt MEP, Labour’s European spokesperson on foreign affairs, took part in negotiations for a resolution agreed by the European Parliament condemning…

  • PICS: Sufi Dance in Cairo

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    Sufi dance is a populat entertainment during the Ramadan festival in Egypt. The shows after breaking the fast prompt many to join the street festivals during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Old Cairo, Egypt.

  • Short Hamas-Israel ceasefire begins

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    A five-hour ceasefire came into effect Thursday at 10 a.m. between Israel and the Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip on a request of the UN even as the toll in Gaza due to Israeli air strikes touched 227. The ceasefire will enable humanitarian aid into the coastal enclave. Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas movement’s…

  • Israeli blitz kills over 213 in Gaza

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    Four more Palestinians were killed Wednesday in a new Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, taking the death toll in nine days of bombing to 213 even as the Islamic Hamas movement rejected a Egyptian ceasefire proposal with Israel. Israeli war jets pounded western Gaza city Wednesday killing four Palestinian children and wounding 10 others…

  • Israel orders Palestinians to leave Gaza

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     Israel has ordered thousands of Palestinians in eastern and northern Gaza to leave their homes as airstrikes continue, a media report said Wednesday. This order came after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire proposal Tuesday to stop the on-going attacks on the Gaza Strip failed, BBC reported. Under the terms of the Egyptian initiative, the ceasefire should have…

  • Gazan’s suffer in pain

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  • Israel resumes Gaza attacks

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    Israel has resumed its air strikes on Gaza after its brief ceasefire was met with continuing rocket fire, BBC reported. Israel had earlier accepted an Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict and stopped operations on Tuesday morning. However, the armed wing of Hamas, which controls Gaza, rejected the initiative as a “surrender”. Palestinian officials say…

  • Israel, Hamas declare ceasefire

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    Israel has accepted a Egyptian proposal for a truce in the conflict in Gaza. The Al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of Hamas which controls Gaza, has said it rejects it as a “surrender”. The Egyptian initiative urges a ceasefire starting imminently, followed by a series of meetings in Cairo with high-level delegations from both sides. Palestinian…

  • London rally to rap Gaza raids

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    The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) will stage a protest march in London on 25th July to mark Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day.  IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh said the annual commemmoration of the dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people will take place on 25 July and end in a rally outside the US embassy, chosen as a rallying…

  • Recruiters blamed for labour abuse

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    A report commissioned by the Qatar Foundation alleged that the rights of migrants, mainly from South Asian cuntries, are flouted in their home countries from the moment they sign up for work. “Critics of human and labour rights violations most often shift the blame to Qatar in a rather generic manner,” said the report focused…

  • Focus on Gaza conflict

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    The world’s focus is now on the conflict in the Gaza strip.   The UN says 17,000 people have sought refuge in its facilities as Israeli air strikes continue for a sixth day. The toll is reaching the 200 mark. A mortar shell or rocket fired from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights,…

  • Israeli navy raids Gaza

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    Israeli navy commandos raided Gaza in a first ground assault on the strip Sunday, stepping up its six-day offensive even as the UN called for a ceasefire between the two sides. It is the first time that the Israeli military acknowledged having entered the Gaza Strip since the deadly air campaign, dubbed ‘Operation Protective Edge’,…

  • Abbas requests UN protection

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     Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday asked the United Nations for international protection to the Palestinian people amid escalating Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. In a meeting in Ramallah between Mahmoud Abbas and Robert Serry, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s envoy to the Middle East, Abbas handed Serry an official letter asking for UN protection…

  • TROUBLE IN THE TOILET 

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    DAILY DOSE By Bikram Vohra Most men have five or six items in their bathrooms. Toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving foam, a razor and a ragged towel and maybe a talc and a cologne. These could all fit into a travel bag. The stuff women have could fit into a tent and still there’d be some sans…

  • Saeed Naqvi on Shia-Sunni schism

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    Saeed Naqvi says the new Caliphate opposed to Shia apostasy and, eventually to Sunni monarchies  The expanding Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world is exposing vast gaps in popular understanding of the schism. For example when Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, the Tunisian strongman was ousted, people thought a Shia dictator had fallen. From this they extrapolated…

  • UAE pledges $25 mn aid for Gaza

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    UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Thursday announced 25 million dollars aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, state media reported. The UAE president was donating the money as urgent humanitarian aid to support the Palestinian people, “who are exposed to the latest brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip”, reported Xinhua citing an official…

  • Israel prepares for ground invasion of Gaza

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    The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Thursday told Palestinians living near the Gaza Strip border to evacuate their homes, media reports said. More than 100,000 Palestinians residing in areas adjacent to the border received notification from the IDF in a recorded message over the phone that they must evacuate their houses as quickly as possible, Xinhua…

  • Burials in Gaza as Hamas and Israel trade fire

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    At least 81 Palestinians have died and more than 500 have been injured since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge two days ago to prevent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Thursday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any ceasefire. The number of injured was put at 567, 20 of them…

  • UN calls for peace in Gaza

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    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to restore peace in the violence-hit Gaza region, media reported Thursday. Ban Wednesday said that he was alarmed by the new wave of violence that has engulfed Gaza, southern Israel and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Xinhua reported. “The deteriorating situation in Gaza is leading…

  • PICS – GAZA – Remains of a raid

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    Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 people as they continued into Thursday, Palestinian medics said. The first strike hit a coffee shop in the city of Khan Younis, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France-Presse, adding that six men were killed and at least 15 other people wounded. The second, in…

  • Hamas target Israel’s n-reactor

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    Hamas fired three rockets Wednesday evening into Dimona, a city where Israel’s nuclear reactor is located, the Israeli military said. However, it caused no damage or injuries to anyone. A rocket was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, while the rest fell in open fields, reported Xinhua citing Israel’s Channel 2. Hamas’ military…

  • Israel, Hamas intensify attacks

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    Palestinian militants have fired more rockets at Israeli cities after Israel carried out dozens of overnight air strikes on the Gaza Strip, BBC reported. Israel said it had intercepted eight rockets over Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Ashdod on Wednesday morning. Reports from Gaza said at least eight people had been killed in the latest Israeli…

  • Abbas urges Israel to stop Gaza strikes

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    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on Israel to immediately stop its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Abbas Monday warned Israel of the dangers of escalation and tension, and called for the international community’s intervention, Xinhua reported. “The Palestinian leadership is holding intensive and urgent contacts with Arab and countries and the West to stop…

  • Israeli air strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza

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    Two Palestinians were killed and one was moderately injured Sunday as the Israeli fighter jets launched air raids targeting central Gaza Strip, authorities said. The two Palestinians were killed right on spot in the strike in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of al-Maghazi, Xinhua quoted a Palestinian health ministry spokesperson as saying. The two…

  • Abbas seeks UN probe into Israeli crimes

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    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday asked the UN to form an international fact-finding committee to investigate what he described as ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinians. Abbas’s comments came after his meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Robert Serry, the UN special envoy on the Middle East peace process, Xinhua reported. His…

  • Caliph Ibrahim Calling…

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    Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’ aka Caliph Ibrahim’s first public ­appearance in Mosul, Iraq’s second city, ­contrasts with former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who hid his location when recording messages. Wearing a black turban and robe, al-Baghdadi – who claims to be ­descended from the Prophet Mohammed – is filmed slowly climbing stairs to a balcony, above…

  • Naqvi on the trail of jehadists

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    Saeed Naqvi analysing the plot behind the jehadists. Why is the world in grip of jehadist menace?   Three momentous events, all in November-December 1979, are the genesis of a great deal of chaos the world faces today. First, was the return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran and the Iranian occupation of the US embassy, a…

  • Israeli jets raid southern Gaza Strip

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    Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip Friday, as Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets into Israel, security sources said. Israeli warplanes carried three air raids on a Hamas military site in the city of Rafah and another Hamas site in Khan Younis city, both in southern Gaza…

  • UN concern over Syria refugees

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    At close to three million, Syria’s refugee crisis is becoming the world’s largest displacement, a media report said. “Today, there are close to three million Syrian refugees, and the number of those seeking safe haven is increasing by 100,000 every month,” Xinhua quoted UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric as saying. If enough humanitarian support is not…

  • UK plan to arm Syria rebels exposed

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    BBC exposed a secret UK plan to arm Syrian rebels – ‘Extract, equip, train’ The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight revealed. The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, General Sir…

  • Abbas wants Netanyahu to condemn murder

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    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemn the suspected retaliatory killing of an Arab teenager in occupied East Jerusalem early Wednesday. “We demand Netanyahu condemn the kidnap and murder of a Palestinian teenager as we did condemn the abduction and killing of three Israeli settlers,” Xinhua quoted Abbas as…

  • Israel accused of ‘aggression’

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    Rights forums based in London accused Israel of launching collective punishment against Palestinians over the killing of three settler youths “The international community must take urgent action to stop Israel from using the deaths of three hardline settlers to collectively punish the Palestinian people,” the Islamic Human Rights Commission said in a statement. “The bodies of the missing…

  • DON’T GET EVEN, GET SMART

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    DAILY DOSE By Bikram Vohra A friend of mine wants revenge. Someone he trusted has done the dirty on him and he is hoping mad because he feels cheated, betrayed, let down and that is just for starters. Told him, waste of time and energy, enjoy the scenarios but don’t carry them out. Why not,…

  • Three Israeli teenagers laid to rest

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    Three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found Monday were laid to rest at a joint funeral Tuesday in Modiin near Jerusalem. Thousands of people, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, participated in the funeral in which the caskets were wrapped with Israeli flags, Xinhua reported. “The whole nation has witnessed your inner…

  • GALLERY- Ahlan Ramdan

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