Egyptian forces killed a migrant attempting to cross the border into Israel on Friday, Egyptian security sources said.

Egypt canceled the visit of an Iranian minister after he described Arab leaders’ participation in Washington peace talks as a betrayal, The Associated Press reported.

The number of women and children assaulted during a rebel raid rises to 240

The evicted families, estimated to be around 250 people, have no other options but to return to the settlement at Gunhill; at present they are living in the open without access to shelter.

At least 19 people have been killed in fresh fighting between forces loyal to the Western-backed government of Somalia and al-Shabab fighters in Mogadishu.

Protests over food and fuel prices turn violent for a second consecutive day in Mozambique, leaving at least seven people dead and hundreds injured.

The US said Wednesday that it is planning more consultations with other countries to decide whether to rejoin the six-party denuclearization talks involving North Korea.

Two US drone attacks have killed at least ten people in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal region amid growing discontent over climbing number of civilian casualties.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed opposition to visiting US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates over a range of issues regarding the Afghan war.

...Dahlan told me: “We know that Netanyahu signed a letter to [Likud MK and minister] Benny Begin and others promising them not to extend the settlement freeze.” The letter, Dahlan explained, confirmed a secret deal that the premier had made with Begin. Dahlan added that Netanyahu’s plan was to reveal the existence of the letter when the nine-month period of the freeze elapses, and say: “‘Look, I signed this as an earlier commitment, and before we entered direct talks. I can’t back out now, it would be at a huge political cost for me.’”

On Sunday, September 5th, the Haifa District Court will resume hearing testimonies in a civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza.

(PIC)-- A Palestinian academic was taken to hospital late Thursday night after deterioration in his health while in a PA security detention center in Ramallah. Aziz Haroun Kayed, who also served as an undersecretary in the tenth government, was arrested by the PA security on 1 July 2010, according to the National Committee for the Defence of Prisoners in PA Jails.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti told Reuters that Palestinian infighting should be the current priority, and not peace talks, which he said were destined to fail.

Israeli soldiers raided a house in Hebron and converted it into a military base on Friday afternoon, residents said.

The home of a Jerusalem activist was raided and one man detained on Thursday night, family members said, adding that soldiers confiscated his mobile phone and personal computer during the raid.

Hezbollah Secretary General has described resistance as the only way to bring an end to the Israeli occupation and to liberate Jerusalem.

(PIC)-- The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemned, in a statement on Thursday, the continuous arrest campaigns, which have been carried out by the Palestinian security services against members and supporters of Hamas in the West Bank.

The latest campaign of arrests against Hamas members and its supporters which started after the attack on settlers in al-Khalil has continued with the number of people arrested exceeding 600.

On 10 Aug. `10, soldiers sealed three Palestinian-owned shops in Hebron. The action was part of the Israeli authorities’ separation policy in the center of Hebron, which is aimed at protecting settlements erected there. This policy entails physical and legal segregation between the Israeli settlers and the Palestinian majority, as well as extensive and harsh restrictions on movement of Palestinians and systematic refusal to enforce law and order on settlers who attack Palestinians.

Hebron Some thoughts on last night’s deadly shooing attack in Hebron: The four Israeli settlers who were killed were civilians, noncombatants, and therefore their murder is to be condemned. But I want to talk analytically about the attack:

Pfc. Aluf Benn spent his years in the army in the Military Police in Lebanon. Yesterday, with commendable courage, he revealed his military routines in these pages (“When I was Eden Abergil“). He handcuffed and blindfolded people countless times and led many detainees to their cages. He saw detainees eating like dogs, as he put it – crouching with their hands tied behind their backs – and smelled their sweat and urine.

Dozens of Palestinians together with Israeli and international solidarity activists demonstrated against Elad’s settlement activity in the Silwan neighborhood of Wadi Hilweh today. The protest was staged in response to Elad’s open day event at the City of David, that hosted a range of both Israeli and international speakers in support of the project.

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Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip have pledged to continue resistance against Israel, condemning direct talks between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority.

Based on the past months of popular struggle in the West Bank which have included countless demonstrations, arrests, house raids, injuries and trips to the military courts, I find myself asking whether Israelis would like things to be better.

Silwan is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem just outside of the old city walls. The streets of the neighborhood are narrow and steep as most of the houses lie on either side of a deep gorge. The people and the geography of Silwan are unforgiving. Various settler organizations have been taking over Silwan house by house for years with the full assistance and permission of the Israeli goverenment.

(PIC)-- Six demonstrators were abducted Wednesday evening when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) suppressed a protest march against Zionist groups who recently seized houses in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem

Last night (1 Sept. 2010) around 150 to 175 Israeli settlers, many armed, constructed an illegal outpost at a new location in the Baqa’a valley, east of Hebron, and attempted to harass a Palestinian family.

Attacks by Hamas` armed wing will continue "in any form and in any place,” including inside Israel and in Gaza, a spokesman said Thursday.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemned Thursday the ongoing arrest campaign by the Palestinian Authority against Hamas supporters in the West Bank since Tuesday’s attack in Hebron.

A Palestinian worker in Israel, from the southern West Bank town of Dura in the Hebron district, said he was attacked on Wednesday by his Israeli coworkers.

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in northern Gaza Thursday, following earlier reports that Israeli patrols and bulldozers entered the area.

As the principals were in Washington for the re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks, a third nighttime attack on Israeli settlers driving in the West Bank occurred at around 9pm on Thursday night, in the northern West Bank near the large settement of Ariel.

Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami has strongly condemned the US-sponsored resumption of direct talks with Israel as huge betrayal to the Palestinian nation.

Check out the full version of the debate between Norman Finkelstein and Richard Hellman

In a voice recording posted to a file-sharing website on Monday, three members of the Supreme Court of Appeals talked about what could be done to prevent a “yes” from coming out of the referendum. They also stated that terrorist Kurdistan Workers` Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan was crucial for generating opposition to constitutional reforms, ahead of the referendum, scheduled for Sept. 12

A new recording released online yesterday allegedly featuring the voice of Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) member Ali Suat Ertosun has created more shockwaves in the Turkish political scene, which has already been rocked by a voice recording in which three high court judges exalt the leader of a terrorist organization as being crucial to the failure of a referendum on government-backed constitutional reform on Sept. 12.

The investigative journalist Janine Robert rightfully believes that the Israeli lobby in Britain has been more successful than its counterparts in the United States.

The death toll from a triple bombing at a Shia Muslim gathering in eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has risen to 37 after many passed away in various hospitals.

I was looking for more information on the book-looting that took place during the Nakba, and quickly came across the essay below, originally published in Yitzhak Laor`s Hebrew-language anti-Zionist literary quarterly, Mitaam: a Review for Radical Thought. Gish Amit wrote it, and Rebecca Gillis translated it from the Hebrew. Ideology may or may not matter to solving the conflict, and Palestinians may or may not be willing to reprise the historic compromise of 1987. But without placing the Nakba at the core of the analysis, as the starting point for judgment, it is the Israelis who look like they are giving up land for peace when in fact in 1987 it was the Palestinians who agreed to give up land for peace.

BY RESPONDING with violence to the resumption of Fatah-Israeli negotiations, Hamas, ruler of Gaza, is demonstrating that there can be no peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved.

Those three little letters seem to override everything except Israel when it comes to policy.