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Palestinian militants fired either a mortar shell or a Qassam rocket before dawn Saturday, which hit a barracks housing Palestinian security officers, Israel Radio reported....

"A demonstration of some sensitivity toward the Palestinians at this fragile state of the relationship is far more important than adding any new territories," concluded a recent editorial in Haaretz. Yes indeed, but it isn't only a matter of building and territory. The fact that numerous roadblocks obstructing Palestinian freedom of movement remain in place is not generating a good atmosphere, and neither is the continuing arrest of Palestinians....

A) Update on Mohammed Mansour's Trial B) Israeli Peace Activists Convicted C) Walking Through the Soldiers' Line- by Bela D) Through the Looking-glass E) Down time in Qawawis by Camyla F) Marching and Praying to Save Azzawiya's Land - IWPS...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is calling on the international community, including the "Quartet" (the US, EU, Russia and the UN), to pressure Israel to put an end to nearly daily pogrom-like attacks by messianic Israeli terrorists on defenseless Palestinian villagers throughout the West Bank....

Juliette G. and Shihad writing from Bethlehem, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 31 March 2005...

Women have faced increased demands as care-givers and providers while at the same time their freedom of movement and action has been curtailed, and they have borne the brunt of the anger and frustration of male relatives who feel humiliated because they cannot fulfill their traditional role as providers. The escalation of violence and the deterioration of the situation in recent years have occurred in the context of Israel’s 38-year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which h...

Lydia Gall writing from Hebron, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 28 March 2005...

In the spring of 1996, not long before Benjamin Netanyahu sent prime minister Shimon Peres back to the opposition, the head of Military Intelligence dropped an assessment bomb that shook the very foundations of the political corridors. At a well-attended press conference, he said he had information indicating that an increased Iranian effort to hit Israeli targets by means of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah. He added that "their assumption is that a change of regime in Israel will lea...

GAZA, Palestine, March28, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)--The revolutionary council of the largest Palestinian faction, Fatah, opened Sunday its twenty-sixth session in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas in the latter's Gaza-based headquarters, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported....

No workable Palestinian state can be established as long as Israel keeps its settlements in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurayahas says....