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Palestinian resistance reject foreign troops

Posted on 30/06/200718/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The armed wing of Hamas has rejected calls by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing to attack them like other “occupation forces”.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Saturday: “We will only receive these forces with shells and rockets.”
In talks on Friday with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, Abbas had called for deployment of international forces into Gaza where Hamas routed his forces on June 15.

Al-Azhar striking teachers score victory

Posted on 30/06/200729/12/2020 By 3arabawy

It seems the teachers have won. Al-Azhar senior official is quoted by Al-Masry Al-Youm today promising to include the Al-Azhar teachers in the reform package starting from the beginning of July, yielding to the strikers’ demands.

Thousands of Sinai Bedouins to protest Mubarak’s police brutality

Posted on 29/06/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

In two days, thousands of the Sinai Bedouins are scheduled to start an open-ended sit-in on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders, protesting police torture, mass detentions and random killings, demanding State Security police troops evacuate from the peninsula and the release of those detained without trial.

Down with Mubarak's Police تسقط شرطة مبارك

[Above: Sinai Bedouins intifada against police brutality. Photo by Amr Abdallah, April 2007.]