FARATA'A, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Thick black smoke billows from the olive grove under the gaze of Israeli soldiers as Palestinian farmers use branches to try to beat out the fires lit by Jewish settlers.
It's olive harvest time in the occupied West Bank.
The firebombers swooped down from Havat Gilad, a wildcat Jewish settlement unauthorised even by the Israeli government.
Enc [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Monday sentenced a prominent Palestinian activist to a year in prison for organising demonstrations against its controversial West Bank separation barrier, according to another activist.
"(Abdullah Abu Rahma) was sentenced to 12 months in prison, out of which he has already served 10," said Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli activist who attended the hearing.
He was also f [...]
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The outgoing head of Israel's armed forces visited the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem on Sunday for talks with Palestinian security officials, the local governor said.
Abdul Fatah Hamayel said that during his one-hour stay, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi also visited the Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believ [...]
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