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Real peace only possible ‘if Hamas on board’

Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the Palestinians to choose between peace with Hamas or peace with Israel

 

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians is only possible if Hamas is involved, a group of former top statesmen and diplomats said in a letter made public on Friday.
In the letter, which is addressed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, 24 former international figures warned against the dangers of rejecti [...]

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Mussa wants peace with Israel but not at any price

The Arab League's outgoing chief and Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Mussa

 

CAIRO (AFP) - The Arab League's outgoing chief and Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Mussa told French television on Thursday that he wants to work for peace between Israel and Palestinians but not at any price.
"Egypt's position will have to get back to a position of influence in the region and to follow the right policy, which is to establish peace, not at any price," he told Fr [...]

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Settlers try to burn down mosque: Palestinians

Palestinians demonstrate in the West Bank city of Ramallah

 

AL-MUGHAYYIR, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Vandals tried to set fire to a mosque in the northern West Bank, causing damage to the inside, Palestinian security sources said on Tuesday, blaming Jewish settlers.
The attackers lit tyres inside the mosque in Al-Mughayyir village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Ramallah, which damaged prayer mats inside the building.
They [...]

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Parents of captured Israeli soldier to file suit

An Israeli activist holds a flag with the image of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Jerusalem

 

PARIS (AFP) - The parents of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in Gaza in 2006, plan to file suit in a Paris court against his kidnapping and illegal confinement, his family told AFP.
The parents of Shalit, who has French citizenship, will file suit in Paris against his "kidnapping and illegal confinement", with the aggravating circumstances that he is [...]

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Abbas agrees to peace talks based on 1967 borders

Mahmud Abbas, who met the Pope on Friday, says acceptance of Israel's 1967 borders is a pre-requisite for peace talks

 

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has told France he is ready to attend a Paris peace conference if Israel accepts talks based on the 1967 borders, an aide told AFP Sunday.
Nimr Hammad, a political adviser to Abbas, said the president had told French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that he agreed officially to a French proposal to host a peace [...]

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Palestinians charged with murder of settler family

The Israeli military says two Palestinians have confessed to killing a family of five settlers

 

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Two Palestinians have been charged with the grisly murder of a young Israeli family stabbed to death in a West Bank settlement, the Israeli military said on Sunday.
Its website said military prosecutors charged Hakim Awad and a relative, Amjad Awad, both from the West Bank village of Awarta, with the murder of five members of the Fogel family: three-month-old Hadas [...]

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Egypt restricts use of Gaza crossing

The Rafah crossing has been closed for 'works', a security source in Egypt says

 

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Egyptian officials at the border with Gaza restricted Palestinian use of the Rafah crossing on Saturday, Hamas police told AFP.
A security source in Egypt initially said the crossing was closed for works which should have been completed on Friday and efforts were underway to allow through Palestinian buses.
Egyptian security and state tele [...]

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Pope agrees on ‘urgent need’ for Palestinian state

Pope Benedict XVI (R) exchanges gifts with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

 

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met in the Vatican on Friday and said there was an "urgent need" for a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Particular stress was laid on the urgent need to find a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the Vatican said in a statement after the talks -- the fourth [...]

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Midest talks must resume by September: France

Juppe is to travel on to Israel and the Palestinian territories

 

ROME (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks by September or face "consequences," after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Rome on Wednesday.
"If nothing happens by September, France... has already said that there will be consequences," Juppe told reporters at the close of the talks.
"The deadline is Septe [...]

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New rules set Rafah crossing limits

Some 2,912 Palestinians crossed through Rafah between Saturday and Tuesday

 

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - New rules at the recently reopened Rafah crossing will cap the number of Palestinians entering Egypt at 400 a day, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said on Wednesday.
The travel cap is one of several new restrictions announced just days after Egypt reopened the crossing, the only way in and out of Gaza that is not controlled by Israel.
B [...]

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Facts & Stats

Country:Palestine

Population:

  • 2,514,845

Ethnic Groups:

  • Palestinian Arab and other 83%
  • Jewish 17%

Religions:

  • Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni)
  • Jewish 17%
  • Christian and other 8%

Languages:

  • Arabic
  • Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians)
  • English (widely understood)

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