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Students were relieved and parents up in arms after two foreign teachers were kidnapped and then released by armed gunmen north of Gaza City....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:55am PST
This is a weekly summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 23 Dec 2005. 5mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:40am PST
Joint Statement, ECCP, 21 December 2005...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:29am PST
Eighty thousand Palestinian Bedouin Israelis live in unrecognised villages in the Negev desert in the south of Israel. The villages are deprived of basic services like housing, water, electricity, education and health care. With the adoption of the Israeli Planning and Construction Law in 1965, 45 villages in the Negev were not declared as existing. Recently, Bangani Ngeleza and Adri Nieuwhof visited the region. They write about the serious consequences this has had for villagers in these &qu...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:28am PST
Israel will not enable voting for the Palestinian Authority's legislative election to take place in East Jerusalem because of Hamas's participation, senior Israeli officials told Veronique de Keyser, who heads a delegation of European election observers....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 10:26pm PST
Report, PCHR, 19 December 2005...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:14am PST
Armed Palestinians from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have stormed the office of the mayor of Bethlehem, in the West Bank....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:11am PST
Noura Khouri, The Electronic Intifada, 20 December 2005...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:09am PST
By GIDEON LEVY...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:02am PST
Arab Israelis and Christian Palestinians will be allowed to drive into Bethlehem, and Palestinian Christians will be allowed into Israel to visit family...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 4:05am PST
Savitri Groag, The Electronic Intifada, 18 December 2005...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:20am PST
Reportedly suffered stroke, temporarily lost conciousness....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:50am PST
Israel, with the international media fanfare as background music, recently withdrew 8,000 Israeli settlers from the occupied Palestinian District, home to more than a million Palestinians. Gaza is not new to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Bible tells us, in the Book of Judges that it was there that Samson committed suicide, thousands of years ago, by destroying the Temple and killing himself and thousands of Philistines....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:28am PST
The European Union has joined the United States in threats to withhold aid if Hamas participates in a Palestinian government....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:02am PST
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have rejected a resolution by the US House of Representatives that would condition American aid on the exclusion of Hamas from parliamentary elections in January....
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 8:41am PST
Rhetorical hostilities between Iran and Israel have grown sharper with Iran's defence minister warning that any Israeli attack would provoke a "swift and destructive" response....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 2:16pm PST
Former Israeli Labour Party leader and ex-prime minister Shimon Peres held a joint press conference with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on December 4 to formally announce that he was quitting Labour to join Sharon’s new Kadima (“Forward”) Party. Peres’s defection follows that of two other Labour cabinet ministers, Haim Ramon and Dalia Itzik....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:13am PST
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, is scrambling to heal a split in his ruling Fatah party, while the Islamic movement Hamas has outstripped his faction in the latest round of municipal elections in the West Bank....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:05am PST
By OREN BEN-DOR...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:56am PST
Ariel Sharon's new Kadima Party looks set to win the Israeli elections while his actions augur the future beyond them, writes Graham Ushe...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 7:33pm PST