OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- After it had built a synagogue near the Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli occupation authorities started the construction of a shopping center and a conference hall next to the Muslim holy shrine, Palestinian and Israeli sources revealed Thursday.

GAZA, (PIC)-- The PA economy ministry in the Gaza Strip has warned that most of the bakeries in the Strip would close down by Thursday morning in the event the Israeli occupation authority continued to bar the entry of cooking gas into Gaza.

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed the Tuesday speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and said that this speech is an attack against Hamas, and that he did not call for lifting the Israeli blockade over Gaza.

Wednesday November 12, 2008 02:34 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, warned on Tuesday of upcoming clashes between Israel and the Hamas movement in Gaza.

Wednesday November 12, 2008 00:29 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

GAZA, (PIC)-- The European parliamentary delegation that arrived in Gaza Strip aboard the Dignity boat on Saturday left the Strip on Monday afternoon carrying with it eight trapped Palestinians.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, said that the Zionist scheme to judaize occupied Jerusalem through ethnic cleansing became crystal clear after the IOA ordered the expulsion of Jerusalemite citizens from their homes in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel.

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 5 November 2008

AMMAN, (PIC)-- The Royal Jordanian committee for Jerusalem affairs has warned that the Israeli occupation authority was planning to open two tunnels under the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces on Monday detained and beat up three Palestinian workers while en route to work in the 1948 lands at the pretext they had no work permits.

GAZA,(PIC)-- Sami Misha'sha', the UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, has criticized the use of fuel as a political pressure card by the Zionist government against the Gaza Strip.