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3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes
GAZA CITY: Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinians including a schoolboy in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, officials said, while Gaza rocket squads fired salvos into southern Israel, deepening the worst round of violence between the sides in more (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
Hamas strongman in Gaza rejects unity deal
RAMALLAH: A rare public rift broke open Sunday in the usually tightly disciplined Islamic movement Hamas over a reconciliation deal that would require it to relinquish key areas of control in the Gaza Strip. The deal, brokered by Qatar, was (...)

12 - 02 - 2012
Hamas moves to join PLO umbrella
CAIRO: The rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas took an important step toward reconciliation on Thursday, announcing plans for the Islamist group to join the umbrella group that has overseen two decades of on-and-off peace talks with (...)

22 - 12 - 2011
Palestinians resigned to defeat in UN bid
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians are resigned to defeat in their quest for full membership at the United Nations, officials say, and have started work on their backup plan — seeking an upgraded observer status that would give them access (...)

10 - 11 - 2011
Thousands celebrate freed Palestinian prisoners
GAZA CITY: Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps. Hamas, which had (...)

18 - 10 - 2011
Palestinians criticize Hamas on prisoner swap
RAMALLAH: Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates. Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal to Fatah, (...)

14 - 10 - 2011
Palestinians criticize Hamas on prisoner swap
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Some Palestinians criticized Hamas on Thursday for conceding too much in its deal to swap a captured Israeli soldier for more than a thousand Palestinian inmates. Much of the criticism has come from officials who are loyal (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Palestinians will submit UN membership letter
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is pressing ahead Tuesday with his diplomatic campaign to gain full U.N. membership, brushing aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto as the issue of Palestinian statehood (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Picasso work loaned to West Bank goes on display
A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers said they had (...)

21 - 06 - 2011
Hamas considers hands-off approach
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — After four years of turbulent rule in the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant group Hamas is weighing a new strategy of not directly participating in future governments even if it wins elections — an approach aimed at (...)

10 - 06 - 2011
Fatah, West's hope for peace, faces critical test
RAMALLAH: Fatah, the divided movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West s best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a comeback. On Tuesday, Fatah is supposed to open its first convention in 20 years, hoping to clean (...)

02 - 08 - 2009
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