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New PA cabinet to be sworn in Wednesday - Ma'an News Agency
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A reshuffle of Palestinian Authority ministers has been finalized and the new cabinet will be sworn in later Wednesday, sources close to the process told Ma'an. The Fatah Central Committee approved the new government at its meeting ...
Hamas representative in Lebanon visits Gaza - Ma'an News Agency
Baraka met senior Hamas officials over the situation in the Gaza Strip, and visited the training center for the Gaza government's ministry of interior, the official, who asked to remain anonymous, told Ma'an. On Saturday, a delegation of Hamas leaders, ...
Analysis: Palestinians forgotten amid Iran war of words - Ma'an News Agency
"Without a viable peace process, the situation here risks getting progressively frayed," said one Israeli officer, not authorized to speak on the record about security concerns. Stone-throwing youths and Israeli security forces have repeatedly clashed ...
Diplomat: Syria 'whitewashing' crimes in Latakia - Ma'an News Agency
But attempts by Syrian leader Bashar Assad's forces to manipulate evidence will "backfire on this isolated regime," according to the diplomat, who insisted on anonymity out of concern for colleagues in the country. He told Ma'an that Assad's "Bathist ...
Organizers: Flotilla era may be over - Ma'an News Agency
Other organizers, who asked not to be identified, were less upbeat. Speaking to Ma'an just after the coast guard escorted the Audacity of Hope into port late Friday, they remarked that this year's bid to sail to Gaza likely spelled the end of the ...
Report: Abbas knows UN won't recognize state - Ma'an News Agency
"President Abbas knows getting recognition will be difficult, which is something quite different," the official said on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. "This is because of what the Americans are doing. ...
Sources: Iranian former defense minister in Israeli jail - Ma'an News Agency
The sources said Israeli authorities had imposed a gag order on the country's media forbidding them from reporting details of the case. Iranian officials and Asghari's family have accused Israel's Mossad of abducting the former cabinet minister, ...
Sources: Hamas officials invited to meet Abbas - Ma'an News Agency
A date has not been set, sources close to Hamas told Ma'an, however the meeting could take place very soon in order to take advantage of President Abbas' initiative to visit Gaza and finalize a reconciliation agreement. A high-level official in the PLO ...
Gaza government 'committed to press freedom' - Ma'an News Agency
One reporter, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told Ma'an that Hamas had threatened her and her son over her participation in the rallies. She said authorities sent the head of her family a text message saying, "We will kill her the ...
Gaza journalist: Hamas threatened to kill me - Ma'an News Agency
The journalist, who requested anonymity due to fears of reprisal, said she was detained and that while in jail, police referenced her son by name and indirectly threatened to take action against him over her work. "I deactivated my Facebook account and ...
Erekat: Negotiations staff are Palestinians - Ma'an News Agency
An NSU official, who asked not to be named, said Amirah's statement was "the most shameful statement any PLO member could make." The unit had always been staffed overwhelmingly by Palestinians, but some did not have Palestinian IDs because of the ...
Sources: 3 Egyptian officers kidnapped near Israel border - Ma'an News Agency
EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Unidentified armed men on Sunday abducted three Egyptian officers patrolling the border with Israel, Egyptian security sources said. Sources told Ma'an that three officers serving in Rafah's central security forces were ...
Palestinian student detained in Egypt over spy technology - Ma'an News Agency
Nouh admitted that terrorist organizations had used the network to contact their leaders in Arab and European countries, security sources said. ...
PA forces say 'wanted' Hamas member detained - Ma'an News Agency
The source, who requested anonymity, said Ayoub Al-Qawasmi has been on the PA's "most wanted" list since 1998. Al-Qawasmi is also wanted by Israeli forces, ...
Officials: Missing Israeli found near Jericho - Ma'an News Agency
Palestinian sources said they believed a financial dispute was behind the disappearance. The search began late in the evening, when Israel's Coordination ...
Lebanon PM to visit Iran amid political crisis - Ma'an News Agency
... first official visit to Iran on Saturday when he will meet with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials, a government official said Tuesday. ...
Israel grants PA 24-hour control of Nablus - Ma'an News Agency
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the group that hatched the alleged plot was based in Nablus with a network extending throughout ...
PA says it foiled Hamas plot to kill governor - Ma'an News Agency
The officials, who declined to be identified, said the group that hatched the alleged plot was based in Nablus with a network extending throughout the ...
Sources: Egypt wants to host peace conference - Ma'an News Agency
... step regarding settlements, while the Palestinian president insists that they stop settlements before he resumes face-to-face talks,” a source said. ...
PA urged to investigate torture allegations - Ma'an News Agency
The second man, MB, who asked that his name not be used, was arrested in September and held first in the Preventive Security detention facility in Hebron ...
Hamas leaders banned from entering Egypt - Ma'an News Agency
Hamas sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Ma'an that among the leaders prohibited from accessing Egypt are lawmaker Salah Al-Bardawil and ...
Egypt declares state of emergency on Gaza border - Ma'an News Agency
The move came after Egyptian authorities received information that Palestinians were entering Egypt from Gaza via underground tunnels, sources said, ...
Sources: No compromise on settlements - Ma'an News Agency
Citing what the source called precedents in the talks in both Washington and Egypt, the source said that on a growing number of occasions mediators had ...
Fatah Al-Islam leader killed in Lebanon - Ma'an News Agency
According to Lebanese daily Ad-Diyar, Lebanese-Syrian security coordination was involved in the ambush, an anonymous source said. Ad-Diyar added that Awad ...
Report: Suspected Israeli spy met with Nasrallah - Ma'an News Agency
According to an anonymous source mentioned in the report, the meeting with Nasrallah means two things: first, Israel's Mossad had access to Nasrallah at ...