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ISRAEL-OPT: Fewer resources for a
worsening situation - UNRWA
The UN agency supplying basic services for Palestinian refugees is in a funding crisis, and is facing a difficult year as the political situation continues to hamper its work in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Gaza gas station owners won't accept reduced fuel supply from Israel
A strike staged by the owners of Gaza gasoline stations entered its fifth day Thursday, deepening a fuel crisis that has been gradually emptying the coastal strip's streets of cars and taxis.
Gaza's medical sector suffers Israeli sanctions, restrictions
Health officials in the Gaza Strip say they are concerned about hundreds of patients unable to travel to Israel or other countries for vital treatment, and that local hospitals lack essential medical equipment, drugs and fuel.
Only about one in seven patients who used to travel through the Rafah terminal to Egypt for treatment are now able to access medical care in Israel, according to World Health Organization (WHO) statistics.
Abbas calls on Israel to stop expanding
Har Homa settlement
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to stop the expansion of the Jewish settlement of Har Homa between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, an aid to Abbas said Thursday.
Abbas aide: Israel can't continue settlement
construction and do peace at the same time
Nabeel Abu Rodyianh, the spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called for the immediate halt of Israeli construction in the Abu Ghinim settlement, located Between the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Talia Sasson slams 'continued gov't inaction'
The Defense Ministry has done little to halt illegal settler construction and has demolished only three percent of the unauthorized structures in the West Bank over the last decade, Peace Now said Tuesday. According to a report by the organization, 3,449 demolition orders have been issued by the Civil Administration against unauthorized settler construction over a nine-year period - from the start of 1997 until March of 2007 - of which only 107 were executed.
Palestinian killed near Gaza fence-medics
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian near the border fence between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, local medical officials said.
Border Police unit kills PA police officer in bungled W. Bank action
A Palestinian police officer was killed Wednesday in Bethlehem, and another officer was wounded in clashes with an undercover Border Police unit in the midst of an arrest raid. During the operation, the Border Police troops fired at an unidentified group of Palestinians, after being fired upon. It later emerged that the source of the fire had been a Palestinian police force on patrol.
Female settlers' assault elderly Palestinians in Deir al Hatab
Deir Al Hatab village near the eastern West Bank city of Nablus is used to frequent attacks by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Elon Moreh, but the attacks which occurred in the past two days were of a different kind as it was female settlers who attacked elderly Palestinians in the area.
Israeli army injures one resistance fighter in Jenin
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin and the nearby Jenin refugee camp on Thursday morning, injuring one Palestinian resistance fighter.
Israeli military shells northern Gaza
Israeli military forces shelled two targets in Beith Hanoun and Beit lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Palestinian sources: Israeli army use illegal weapons in Gaza, as death toll reaches 16
Medical sources in the Gaza strip reported on Thursday that during the latest attacks, the Israeli army has used weapons which are deemed illegal by international law.
Prisoner release clouded by thousands still in custody
Thousands gathered at the presidential compound in Ramallah on 3 December 2007 to welcome 429 Palestinian prisoners just released from Israeli jails as part of what Israel has called a "goodwill" gesture. Nonetheless, behind the cheering and flag waving, the feeling was bittersweet as the families of the released were overjoyed to have their loved ones returned, while there remained an atmosphere of cynicism towards Israel's "gesture." Jesse Rosenfeld writes from Ramallah.
Hamas: Palestinians will be freed in any Hezbollah-Israel swap
Palestinian prisoners will be included in any future prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Hamas official said Wednesday. "Everyone knows that many efforts are currently invested in achieving a prisoner swap. We believe that the Palestinian prisoners will be on the exchange list," Osama Hamdan was quoted by the Lebanese news agency as saying following a meeting with the Hezbollah's top official in southern Lebanon, Sheik Nabil Kauok.
Hamas: Palestinian security forces arrest 18 of the
movements' members in the West Bank
In a press statement faxed to the media, the Hamas movement stated that the Palestinian Security forces of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah had arrested 18 of its members on Wednesday from several parts of the West Bank.
Palestinian government closes all alms committees
The Palestinian Authority has shut down all alms committees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and accused some of corruption.
Leftists announce mock power cuts to protest Gaza fuel slash
Residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were surprised Thursday morning to find on the doors to their homes mock notices announcing that the flow of electricity to the two cities would be cut off next week.
Solidarity in Tubas
"The clinic is modern, light, open and clean. Coming from a dark, dirty hospital with MRSA [the superbug] stalking the wards I almost felt we should send our managers to learn from the people here," reflected Lucy Collins, a midwife from the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. She had spent two days in the Red Crescent primary health care center in Tubas. Such positive reflections on the grinding reality of life under occupation in the West Bank are rare. But there are many stories of a resilient people who still have the energy to welcome visitors and reassure them when things become particularly heavy. Alice Cutler reports.
Banksy Moves Santa's Ghetto To The West Bank
santa's ghettoAnyone looking forward to Santa's Ghetto this year (the annual supermarket-art show created by Banksy and selling the works of fellow graffiti artists) may have to travel a little bit further than Oxford Street. Actually a lot further- to Bethlehem! The artists have set up shop in a former chicken shop on Manger Square in Bethlehem opposite the Church of the Nativity, and along the way have used the dividing West Bank security wall as an 8 meter high blank canvas which they have decorated with highly symbolical and provocative images.
The Second Phase of a Western-Backed Plan in the West Bank
The second phase of a US and Israeli-backed security plan in the West Bank began on Tuesday with the deployment of 250 Palestinian National Security Forces in the Tulkarem district.
Abbas says open to Hamas talks only if it cedes control of Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he did not oppose dialogue with rival Hamas Islamists but reiterated the group must first relinquish control of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader calls for increased dialogue with Fatah
The deposed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, has once again called for dialogue between his party and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abass's rival Fatah party.
Palestinian government denies any ministerial changes,
Fatah deems it illegal
The Palestinian minister of information and official spokesperson of the Palestinian caretaker government, Reyad Al Malki, stated that the government will not make any ministerial changes.
Girls in West Bank village advocate for their rights
Girls demonstrated the importance of exercising their rights by performing in a play in the village of Bani Naim, 40 km south of Jerusalem, as part of a World Vision supported child protection project in East Hebron. Members of the cast, ages 14 to 16, said they felt more empowered, less shy and more likely to stand up to wrong attitudes as a result of their participation in the play.
Palestinian entrepreneurs plan two built-from-scratch cities in the West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank: In this ancient land where communities have grown helter-skelter, the future now looks more like well-tended U.S. suburbia: powerful entrepreneurs are planning two built-from-scratch West Bank cities with thousands of homes as well as malls, high-tech call centers and hotels.
Will peace cost me my home?
Sixty years ago, my grandparents lived in the beautiful village of Beit Daras, a few kilometers north of Gaza. They were farmers and owned hundreds of acres of land. But in 1948, in the first Arab-Israeli war, many people lost their lives defending our village from the Zionist militias. In the end, with their crops and homes burning, the villagers fled. My family eventually made its way to what became the refugee camp of Khan Younis in Gaza. We were hit hard by poverty, humiliation and disease. We became refugees, queuing for tents, food and assistance, while the state of Israel was established on the ruins of my family's property and on the ruins of hundreds of other Palestinian villages.
Gilad Atzmon - Some People Never Learn the Lesson
For Blair it was No 1 Labour fundraiser, the Zionist Lord Levy who got him into serious trouble, for Brown it is Mr David Abrahams, just another 'Friend of Israel' and a provincial chairman of Jewish Labour, who may be the one to finish off his political career.
Audio: Crossing the Line interviews Norman Finkelstein
This week on Crossing The Line: The international conference in Annapolis, Maryland recently came to an end. During the talks US Presient George W. Bush stated that the time is right for peace in the Middle East, but what does that mean in terms of a solution to the decades-long conflict? Host Christopher Brown speaks with Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein, a noted scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the author of several books including his latest, Beyond Chutzpah: On The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and The Abuse of History, about Annapolis' chances for success.
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