RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, seen as the Palestinians' national poet, died in Texas on Saturday following heart surgery, a doctor at the Houston hospital where he was treated told al-Arabiya television. "Mahmoud Darwish died 45 seconds ago," Abdel Aziz al-Shibani told the station by telephone.
Jewish settler boys walk on a street in the West Bank city of Hebron August 6, 2008. In 2007, Israel's B'Tselem human rights group said more than 1,000 Palestinian homes had ...
