JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli troops fired on two Palestinians near the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday, likely killing one and wounding the other, the military and witnesses said.
Troops identified the Palestinians apparently trying to breach the fence and opened fire, a military spokesman said.
"Apparently one Palestinian was killed and the second was injured," he said.
Palestinian witne [...]
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Palestinian psychiatrist Eyad El-Sarraj on Tuesday won the 2010 Olof Palme Prize for his "self-sacrificing and indefatigable struggle for common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East, the Swedish jury said.
El-Sarraj, who in 1977 became the first psychiatrist to practice in Gaza, is the founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), a non-g [...]
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, less than 48 hours after a female protester died after being tear-gassed.
Palestinian officials condemned the two deaths, calling them part of a "dangerous escalation" by Israel.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said Mohammed Daraghmeh, in his early twen [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States reacted Friday to a Palestinian and Arab draft resolution set to go to the United Nations urging Israel to halt Jewish settlements, saying only that it preferred negotiations.
"On the Middle East, our view remains unchanged. The only viable path is through a negotiated agreement that resolves the core issues and ends the conflict," said State Departmen [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The year 2010 saw the fewest militant attacks against Israel and the least number of casualties since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising a decade ago, the Shin Bet security agency said Thursday.
However, Israel's internal security agency cautioned that the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers have intensified efforts to smuggle in advanced weapons as they prepare for a future c [...]
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli police on Wednesday razed an illegally-built house in occupied east Jerusalem, shortly before the Palestinian owner arrived home with a court order halting the demolition.
Scores of police and a single bulldozer were involved in the operation, which leveled the small house in the Al-Tur neighbourhood near the Mount of Olives.
House owner Abed Zablah, a father of five, [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Mahmud Abbas called on Thursday for concrete US efforts to deliver a Palestinian state, as crowds marked the sixth anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death.
The Palestinian president said he would hold US President Barack Obama, who helped relaunch direct peace talks in early September, to his pledge to seek the creation of a Palestinian state within [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed to resume reconciliation talks after next week's Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, officials from both sides said on Wednesday.
"We agreed to continue the dialogue after the Al-Adha holidays," which start in the middle of next week depending on the sighting of the moon, Hamas official Mussa Abu Marzuq told AFP.
"After the feast, we [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's hardline Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned on Monday that negotiating the borders of a Palestinian state without security arrangements for Israel would be a "historic mistake".
"It would be a dramatic mistake, a historic mistake and strategic mistake to talk about borders before we complete the security discussions," Lieberman told Israel's army radio.
Lieber [...]
GAZA CITY (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed and three others wounded on Wednesday when a car exploded near the headquarters of the Hamas-run police force in Gaza City, medics and eye witnesses said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, the spokesman for emergency services in the Hamas-run health ministry, named the man killed in the blast as 27-year-old Mohammed Jamil al-Nemnem.
Security sources said Nemnem was [...]
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