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Several Palestinians who had been rearrested in Israel after being freed because of a prisoner exchange are going to stage a hunger strike on Tuesday, Ramallah-based Prisoners’ Club said on Monday. The strike will be observed by 63 of the 1,027 prisoners who were freed by a swap arrangement in 2011. Since June, when 3 Israeli teens were allegedly kidnapped …

An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of top activist Alaa Abdel Fattah on bail at a retrial of the case in which he was handed a 15-year prison sentence. Abdel Fattah, who was one of the biggest faces of the 2011 revolt against former President Hosni Mubarak, was initially charged with assaulting a policeman at a protest. His …

By Abdulrahman Murad Gaza, Nearly three weeks of being housed in overcrowded shelter schools in dire living conditions has not dulled Gazans’ desire to see Israel’s blockade on the strip lifted. Palestinians displaced from east Gaza City following Israeli shelling and bombing of the Shejaiyeh and Tufah neighborhoods have demanded that negotiators in Cairo do not waive their demands during …

On Thursday, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal rejected any claim that Hama will disarm as demanded by Israel, and said that the Palestinian movement’s weapons were “sacred”. “The weapons of the resistance are sacred and we will not accept that they be on the agenda” of any future negotiations with Israel, he said at a press conference in Doha, where he …

Palestinian officials have said that they have reached an agreement with their Israeli counterparts in a “permanent” peace in Gaza, a source close to the delegation said on Tuesday, in an advance which Hamas has hailed as a “victory”.  However, there was no immediate comment from the Israeli officials on the alleged deal to end the seven weeks of violent …

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, on Wednesday warned foreign airliners against flying to Tel Aviv, threatening to escalate the conflict with Israel and declaring that truce talks in Egypt were over. “We are warning international airlines and press them to stop flying into Ben Gurion airport from 6 am (0300 GMT) Thursday”, Abu Obeida, a spokesman …

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have reportedly agreed to extend their truce deal in the Gaza Strip by five days, only minutes before their three-day ceasefire was about to expire at 21:00 GMT on Wednesday. Officials from both parties have been in indirect talks in Cairo, with Egyptian mediators trying to find a peace solution to the conflict. Palestinian and Egyptian …

By Ghina Dajani, CAI Research Fellow The third in a four-part series analyzing the 2011 census data by Statistics Canada; this report shows the distribution of Canadian Arabs by citizenship, immigrant and generational status, as well as the languages spoken by Canadian Arabs.[1] Citizenship and Immigration in the Canadian Arab Community As previously demonstrated inreports outlining immigration rates of Arabs …

On Friday, Israeli warplanes hit targets across the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians, after the three-day truce deal ended. The conflict reared its ugly head again after negotiators failed to extend the ceasefire beyond 05:00 GMT. Egypt, which has been trying to broker a truce between the Palestinians and Israelis, insisted that the negotiations were still making progress, even while …

Wednesday marked the second day of a temporary return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip as the 72-hour ceasefire held on. Meanwhile, Egyptian negotiators continued to engage in shuttle diplomacy as it looks to extend the ceasefire. Markets, banks and shops reopened in Gaza, with residents looking more confident than they did on Tuesday, when the ceasefire began; small businesses …