Belgians attend a debate on Israeli Apartheid between PNI Secretary General, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, Dr. Ilan Pappe and Belgian Foreign Minister, Karel De Gucht, in Brussels on 14 November 2007.

The death of a Palestinian doctor awaiting transfer to an Israeli hospital to receive life-saving treatment after the ambulance carrying him was delayed at the Erez crossing, is "tantamount to murder," said PNI General Secretary Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi today.

Tributes to Dr. Haider Abdel Shafi, the late President and co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative, were replete with warnings to Palestinian negotiators at the upcoming Annapolis peace meeting not to compromise on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, a staunch position for which Dr. Abdel Shafi was renowned and widely respected.

PNI leader, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP, denounced as pure hypocrisy today’s promises by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert that power cuts to Gaza would not cause a humanitarian crisis.

Dr. Barghouthi condemned the brutal attack carried on against Palestinian prisoners by Israeli soldiers this Monday. At 2am, a special unit of the Israeli military stormed the Negev Desert Israeli jail, and went on a rampage. They beat the prisoners with sticks, used tear gas and sonic bombs and ransacked the prisoners? tents. During the extremely violent attack several tents were set on fire and prisoners? belongings were destroyed.