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Barak admires PA security forces for protecting settlers

Saturday-24-December-2011

Israeli war minister Ehud Barak hailed the Palestinian authority security forces for its role in protecting Jewish settlers and preventing any attacks on them in the West Bank.

The Islamists and US: The prospects don’t seem too good

Saturday-24-December-2011

It is probably true that many within the American political establishment would like to have good relations with Islamist movements in the Arab world.

Haneyya: Reconciliation understandings should be implemented on the ground

Friday-23-December-2011

Ismael Haneyya the Palestinian prime minister has stressed Thursday that the understandings between Palestinian factions pertaining to national recompilations must be implemented on the ground.

Knesset will discuss a draft law making Jerusalem the “capital of Jewish people”

Friday-23-December-2011

The Knesset will discuss on Sunday a draft law which considers Jerusalem as the “capital of Israel” and the capital of the “Jewish people” at the same time.

Occupation municipality plans to abandon neighbourhoods outside the wall

Friday-23-December-2011

The Israeli occupation mayor of Jerusalem put forward a plan which aims to give up responsibility for Palestinian neighbourhoods outside the apartheid wall.

Palestinians stopped from crossing roadblock because they refused a strip-search

Friday-23-December-2011

A Palestinian man and his sister on Friday were not allowed to cross the Barta’a military roadblock because they refused to be strip-searched.

IOF soldiers raid home of a Palestinian captive south of Jenin

Friday-23-December-2011

IOF troops at dawn Friday entered the city of Jenin its refugee camp and the villages of Jaba' Maithalaoun and Qabatia and raided a number of homes including the home of a captive.

Israeli artillery fire target the southern and northern Gaza Strip

Friday-23-December-2011

Israeli occupation tanks on Friday morning fired artillery shells to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and Jabal al-Kashef in the northern Gaza Strip without any casualties reported.

Zionist minister: We will annex settlements in response to Palestinian unity

Friday-23-December-2011

A Zionist minister warned Fatah of the consequences of reconciliation with Hamas and threatened that if a Palestinian unity government was formed the Israeli occupation would annex Jewish settlements.

Ministry of detainees: Israel still keeps some prisoners as unlawful combatants

Thursday-22-December-2011

There are still three civilian prisoners from the Gaza Strip classified by the Israeli occupation as unlawful combatants in its jails although they ended their prison terms.