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Hamas officials are Israeli hostages
Along with four parliamentary colleagues I travelled to the West Bank in January on a visit organised by the charity Forward Thinking to help promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. During the visit we met the Palestinian education minister Nasser al-Shaer. What he wanted to talk to us about was not how to go to war with Israel, but how to promote a durable peace between Israelis and Palestinians (Comment, May 23). Mr Shaer has now just been arrested in Nablus. By seizing such people, Israel is only making matters worse.
Palestinian PM escapes with life
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has had a narrow escape after an Israeli aircraft struck a succession of militant targets in the Gaza Strip. The missiles hit a house in the refugee camp where Haniyeh lives.
Shocking Video: Summary executions perpetrated by Abbas and Dahlan's men
"This video is the only document that can give us an idea from what happened in Gaza from May 11th to May 18th. It shows us how President Mahmoud Abbas' armed forces liquidate disarmed, defenceless men for being sympathizers or members of the Hamas democratically elected government.
France slams the abduction of the Palestinian Education Minister
France slammed on Friday the Israeli abduction of the Palestinian Education Minister, Nasser Ed Deen Al Sha'er, and 30 other legislators, ministers and officials, and demanded their immediate release after describing the recent violations and dangerous escalation.
Six wounded, two taken prisoner in Bilin's weekly anti-wall protest
A number of Palestinians and internationals have been injured, and two others were taken prisoner in the weekly protest in Bilin, on Friday, as army attacked the protestors with tear gas, sound bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Israel and U.S. back Fatah's fight against Hamas
Senior US officials in Washington on Wednesday promised ongoing military support for secular Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas amid his power struggle with Islamist Hamas as part of an $84 million aid package largely aimed at improving the fighting ability of an elite corps of loyalists from his Fatah Party.
OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 16 - 22 May 2007
Palestinian inter-factional violence continued between 16 and 19 May before a ceasefire came into effect that has largely held. 40 people were killed (including three children and one woman) and 106 injured during internal violence. With the ceasefire rival factions exchanged abducted persons, withdraw fighters from the streets and dismantled roadblocks.
Israelis swoop on Hamas politicians
Israeli soldiers and security forces detained 33 Hamas politicians, including the education minister, in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank and launched several air strikes at Hamas targets in Gaza in a new round of conflict with the Islamist Palestinian group.
One taken prisoner in Nonviolent action in Bethlehem
At least two hundred Palestinians, accompanied by a number of Israeli and International peace activists marched to the confiscated land in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday after the noon prayer. A number of other international and Palestinian activists joined after they played a soccer game at the path of the wall in Wadi Neiss.
Obstacles to peace: Borders and settlements
The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East and the main obstacles. Today, Martin Asser looks at the question of Israel's borders and settlements.
Photographer wounded by Israeli troops
An AFP photographer was shot and wounded in the head by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli troops on Friday while covering a protest in the occupied West Bank, medics and witnesses said.
Nasrallah urges political solution
"The problem in the north can be solved politically and through the judiciary in a way that protects the Lebanese army, our Palestinian brothers, the state and peace and stability without transforming Lebanon into a battleground in which we fight al-Qaida on behalf of the Americans."
Nasrallah warns Lebanese gov't against storming Palestinian refugee camp
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday warned the Lebanese government against storming a Palestinian refugee camp where Islamic militants are holed up and criticized U.S. weapons aid to the military in the standoff.
Refugees warn clashes may spread amid fury at Lebanese army
Officials representing the 400,000-strong Palestinian community in Lebanon said there was a risk of militant sympathisers in other Palestinian camps rising up, after days of clashes in and around the Nahr al-Bared camp left at least 22 militants and 32 soldiers dead, as well as a dozen civilians. Scores have been wounded.
Egypt to host Palestinian factions for talks on Gaza violence
Fighting between them in Gaza has killed about 50 people this month. A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, said he was aware of the Egyptian move. Hamas was waiting for its own formal invitation to Cairo and would welcome one if it came, he added.
Israeli employer fire three Palestinians because the hold prayer at work
Three Arab employees working at an Israeli factory in Acre, manufacturing parts for camions were fired last Monday for holding prayers at the factory. Acre also known as Akka, is located on the northern end of Haifa bay in northern Israel.
Mazuz versus Herzl
The Jewish National Fund owns 2.5 million dunam (625,000 acres) of land in Israel. They were bought - I must tell you today, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the justices of the Supreme Court in its capacity as the High Court of Justice - "dunam by dunam, clod by clod" so they would become the "Jewish people's eternal property," in accordance with the principle established by modern Zionism's founder, Theodor Herzl, at the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901. Now, 106 years later, along comes the attorney general of the Jewish state created by Herzl's vision and declares that this era is over.
The commonplace cowardice of responsible professors
What the Finklestein tenure fight tells us about the state of academia.
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