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In the occupied West Bank, a bedouin community whose school is made out of car tires and mud faces the same problem as a developer planning a whole new Palestinian town: building controls imposed by Israel.
Hospital masks and anti-bacterial hand gel vanished from shelves in the Gaza Strip as fear gripped the besieged Hamas-ruled territory after the first deaths of swine flu.
Palestinian elections will not take place in the West Bank if Hamas refuses to allow voters to take part in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on a visit to Beirut on Tuesday.
Egypt is building a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip to disrupt the tunnels Palestinians use to transfer food and other basic needs into the blockaded territory.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian leaders will meet Dec. 15 to discuss healing the rift between the Hamas and Fatah factions and a plan to seek United Nations recognition of an independent Palestinian state.
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
Gaza Strip: The Health Ministry said: The movement of Hamas in Gaza prevented some patients from leaving the Gaza Strip to go to hospitals inside the Green Line, Jerusalem and the West Bank for medical treatment yesterday.
Mohammed Dahlan, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah and the Commissioner for Information: stated that the invocation of the Legislative Council requires that Hamas rejects the coup which was carried out in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian government announced Tuesday that it is enforcing a boycott of goods made in Israel's West Bank settlements and has confiscated more than $1 million in merchandise from shops and companies.
Two women and a baby have become the first people to die of swine flu in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
Source: Reuters * Bedouin, developers, government face same problem * Palestinian "natural growth" curbed - former negotiator * Israel blocks Palestinian projects - minister By Tom Perry RAMALLAH ...
Source: Reuters By Erika Solomon MASKIOT, West Bank, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Jewish settler families here leave their doors unlocked, because this is a community of trust, says 31-year-old Rachel Vitkon. But beyond the ...
Palestinian elections will not be held in the West Bank if Hamas refuses to allow voters to participate in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said during a visit to Lebanon on Tuesday.
The Palestinian prime minister praised on Wednesday a recent EU resolution that says that Jerusalem should be the shared capital of the both Israel and a future Palestinian state.
The protests in Melbourne on Sunday night against the presence of a high-profile Israeli delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom hogged the headlines here and abroad. Although disappointing, it was no great surprise. After all, if it bleeds it leads, goes the old axiom.
Palestinian elections will not take place in the West Bank if Hamas refuses to allow voters to take part in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on a visit to Beirut yesterday.
