News Highlights: Roman Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah criticizes exclusivism and occupation in the Holy Land in his Xmas message in Bethlehem. Israel blocks Arab clergy from reaching their churches in Bethlehem and elsewhere in the West Bank, due to new travel restrictions. Israel announces plans to build even more settler housing, on the eve of …
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Dec 18
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News Highlights: Palestinians mourn the 11 people killed in Israeli air raids, and Arab analysts believe the raids make a mockery of the Annapolis conference. Donors pledge $7 billion for the Palestinians in Paris, although previous pledges have fallen far short of money delivered. Israeli Foreign Minister working to avoid any international criticism over its …
Dec 11
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News Highlights: Palestinian negotiators call for freeze on Israeli settlements after Israel issues a tender for more settlement construction in “Har Homa”. EU criticizes the Israeli settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territory. Israeli human rights groups support the call to end the siege on Gaza, as the Israeli blockade intensifies. Seriously ill Palestinian baby boy …
Dec 04
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News Highlights: Israel is planning to install underground sensors to further tighten the closure on Gaza. Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Bargouthi calls Israel’s prisoner release “a joke”, as Israel releases around 400 Palestinian detainees set to be freed soon anyway. Israeli cabinet approves Annapolis declaration, and cabinet minister claim success in keeping core issues and …
Nov 27
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News Highlights: Palestinian demonstrator killed by PA security forces in the West Bank, as thousands defy ban on anti-Annapolis rallies. Tens of thousands of Palestinians rally in Gaza to also protest the U.S.-led summit. Three Palestinians killed in Gaza in two Israeli airstrikes on Nov. 26th, 2007; close to 100 Palestinians, including many civilian passersby, …
Nov 20
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News Highlights: 12-year-old Palestinian boy dies in Gaza after Israeli authorities refuse to let him leave for medical treatment. Syria and Saudi Arabia among 40 countries and organizations attending the U.S. Annapolis meeting. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators working on “final document” which may end up with no real content. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says a …
Nov 13
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News Highlights: Seven Palestinians, including one child, killed in Gaza during a mass rally commemorating the late Yasser Arafat; over 50 injured in the clashes between Hamas and Fateh supporters. Israel says it may release more Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture before the U.S. sponsored summit on Nov. 26th. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says …
Nov 06
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News Highlights: Ehud Olmert says he will release an undetermined number of Palestinian political detainees before the Annapolis summit and that will be the only “goodwill gesture”. Palestinian police launch attacks on Balata refugee camp next to Nablus and clash with fighters from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades as part of Mahmoud Abbas’ law and …
Oct 30
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News Highlights: Israel’s new sanctions against Gaza are internationally condemned, and the Israeli Supreme Court gives the government a week to justify its embargo. 10 Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups had petitioned the court over the act of collective punishment. Human Rights Watch reveals that Israeli forces are preventing Palestinians from receiving medical treatment …
Oct 23
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News Highlights: Oct. 21st – surgery rooms in Gazan hospitals are closed due to lack of anaesthetic as a result of Israeli restrictions; Palestinian human rights groups call on international community to pressure Israel to allow medicine and medical supplies into Gaza. Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails go on one-day hunger strike after Israeli authorities …