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OPT: Little recourse for victims of gender-based violence
RAMALLAH, 27 January 2011 (IRIN) - Gender-based violence in the occupied Palestinian territory remains at epidemic levels, according to UN agencies, local NGOs and women, while victims lack legal...
July 25, 2011
Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village
In a bleak but beautiful landscape of undulating stony hills I watched a group of Palestinian schoolchildren take their lessons yesterday in the open air next to a heap of rubble that, until this...
Harriet Sherwood
July 25, 2011
Israel/West Bank: Separate and Unequal Under Discriminatory Policies, Settlers Flourish, Palestinians Suffer
(Jerusalem) - Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlements, Human...
July 25, 2011
Hamas warns against buying cars imported from Israel
Ministry says it fears bugs and bombs, but many Gazans assert the warning is a cynical business decision.
DAVID E. MILLER / THE MEDIA LINE
July 25, 2011
PLO: Settler violence on rise
JERICHO (Ma'an) -- A PLO report on settler violence said Friday that a sharp increase in assaults on Palestinians and vandalism of property was recorded for October.
July 25, 2011
Opening of $11 million theatre in settlement sparks Israeli artist boycott
An artists' boycott of a $11 million performing arts centre opening Monday in the Jewish settlement of Ariel is giving a new twist to a pressing question — where should Israel's permanent borders run...
Karin Laub
July 25, 2011
New group highlights Palestinian perspective on Mideast conflict
Amid the ongoing Israeli−Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, a new student group, the Tufts chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), hopes to foster discussion and expose students to...
Kathryn Sullivan
July 25, 2011
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The Obama Administration likes to imagine its Middle East peace process is in a holding pattern until after the midterm elections — but a holding pattern implies momentum, a quality conspicuously...
Tony Karon
July 25, 2011
Will the Palestinians Take Their Case to the U.N.?
The Obama Administration likes to imagine its Middle East peace process is in a holding pattern until after the midterm elections — but a holding pattern implies momentum, a quality conspicuously...
Tony Karon
July 25, 2011
Egypt reiterates it may seek UN help for Palestinian state
Cairo - Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit reiterated his country's position that if Israel continues to build controversial settlements in the West Bank, Egypt and other Arab nations may...
July 25, 2011