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08 Dec 2009 07:15:25 GMT
World News: Popular Fatah Leader Complicates Prisoner Swap --- Imprisoned by Israel Since 2002, Marwan Barghouti Tops List of 1,000 That Hamas Demands in Exchange for Sgt. Gilad Shalit
JERUSALEM -- Marwan Barghouti, the popular imprisoned Palestinian leader, embodies the promise and the peril Israel faces as it negotiates with Hamas to trade hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a long-held Israeli soldier.

08 Dec 2009 07:08:35 GMT
Israel's Settlement Freeze
Distracted by the crucial debate over Afghanistan, many Americans may have missed a pivotal event in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. On Nov. 25, Israel's government announced a 10-month construction freeze in Judea and Samaria -- the ...

08 Dec 2009 06:24:32 GMT
Man dies at Gaza fence
AROUND THE WORLD SECURITY forces have shot dead an Israeli man trying to climb a security fence surrounding the Gaza strip. The man, believed to have been mentally ill, ran toward the fence from the Israeli side of the Erez crossing and ...

08 Dec 2009 06:02:50 GMT
EU rowing back on Palestinian stance.
EU FOREIGN ministers are poised to drop an explicit endorsement of East Jerusalem as capital of a new Palestinian state in a statement today on the stalemate in the Middle East peace process.

07 Dec 2009 21:59:27 GMT
Israel pressuring Gazan patients to turn collaborator in return for care: Palestinians interrogated and held without charge Questioning is a security measure, government says
Israeli security agents held a Palestinian patient for three weeks without charge, interrogated him repeatedly and offered access to hospital care if he agreed to become an informant, the Guardian has learned.

07 Dec 2009 20:48:42 GMT
Workshop aims to boost areas near Nahr al-Bared
Beirut -- BEIRUT: A workshop for municipalities surrounding the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared was held on Sunday in Tripoli in order to promote sustainable economic development. The workshop was held under the patronage ...

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