The latest opinion polls, published in the Al Quds newspaper today, show that the latest developments in Gaza led to shifts in public opinion towards both Hamas and Fateh at the same time, confirming the fact that both factions are losing support in Gaza, especially Hamas.

For more than 40 years the people of Al Aqaba have been struggling for the right to exist on their land. Surrounded by three military training camps, they are facing continuous house and public infrastructure demolitions. Located in the Jordan Valley, on the border with the area ‘C’, the villagers are now threatened by the new Israeli route for the apartheid Wall. A War of nerves that began 40 years ago, with Haj Sami Sadiq, a charismatic character from the town, leading the Aqaban peaceful resistance.

n the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the standoff between hawks and doves has long rendered the quest for peace a lame duck

Israeli forces seized eleven Palestinians on Tuesday during a dawn raid on the West Bank city of Nablus and neighboring Balata refugee camp

Israeli forces raided the West Bank town of Qabatiya, near Jenin, detaining four Palestinian civilians.

Israel closed all of its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a small homemade projectile that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Monday.

Ramallah, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, today held a press conference condemning the use of internal violence to solve Palestinian internal divisions.

What a contrast. In western Europe Obama-mania is in full flood, epitomised by raving crowds in Berlin last night as well as the polls which show the Democratic candidate to be far more popular than John McCain in almost every country. In Israel he is met with apprehension, and in the Palestinian territories there is only the faintest hope that the deadlocked conflict will ever end.