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Palestinian official denies rift with Qatar on Mena
A top Palestinian official has denied any differences between the Palestinian Authority and Qatar, over the Middle East and North Africa Economic (Mena) conference due to be held in Doha in November.
Palestine, Politics, 10/11/1997

Netanyahu - Arafat meeting briefed to Egypt Ambassador
Karim said that the meeting also reviewed ongoing efforts to solve the crisis of the ME peace process.
Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 10/10/1997

Environmental problems in the heart of Gaza
Palestinians living in the city of Gaza face a serious environmental crisis with at least 90 percent of factories and industrial sites located within the populated area of the city.
Palestine, Local, 10/10/1997

Erekat: Tax released . Ross on way back.
Erekat confirmed reports that US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross, is due to return to the region on October 19 and that Palestinian and Israeli negotiating teams will be heading to Washington
Palestine, Politics, 10/10/1997

Students call for the formation of a public body
Palestine, Politics, 10/10/1997

Prisoners oject to Ramleh conditions
The prisoners said that though they are bound to their beds under strict guard, they still have their beds and bags searched many times each day in a provocative manner and complained that family visitations have lately been restricted.
Palestine, Politics, 10/10/1997

Palestinian Authority, Israel shut down for Yom Kippur
Palestine-Israel, Religion, 10/10/1997

Sheikh Yassin, Rabbi Menachem Froman to meet
The aim of contacts with the sheikh, said Froman, is to bring closer to each other the religions, Islam and Judaism.
Palestine, Religion, 10/9/1997

Palestinian women's center: Marriage can wait
Palestinian girls who want to get married should be at least 17 years old, not 15
Palestine, Culture, 10/9/1997

Gaza airport opening plans in final stages
The meeting of the Palestinian-Israeli airport committee follows an agreement to this effect between PNA President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who met early Wednesday morning for the first time in eight months.
Palestine, Business, 10/9/1997

Waiting for money amidst reports of mismanagement
The Palestinian losses over the first half of 1997 have amounted to US 230 million, double the amount of aid the Palestine National Authority had received from the donor countries over the same period, said Tchanmay Garighan, UN coordinator in the PNA areas.
Palestine, Economics, 10/9/1997

Assira Ash-Shamaliya reconnected to outside world
Israeli troops clamped the closure on the village after four Palestinians from the village were named as suspects in two separate suicide bombings in West Jerusalem on July 30 and September 4.
Palestine, Local, 10/9/1997

Arafat expects positive results - Albright mad as heck
The sudden summit meeting between Arafat and Netanyahu came amid reports from Washington saying the US Administration has been disappointed at Israel. Netanyahu tried to speak to Albright on the telephone, but she refused to talk and instructed her aides łnot to transfer that call to me.˛
Regional-Palestine, Politics, 10/8/1997

Sheikh Yassin: A baby back to his mother's womb
Let them leave our civilians alone and we will leave theirs alone. Israel must leave the Palestinian lands and not keep control of half or three-quarters of them. A cease-fire will only be possible if Israel implements these conditions.˛ we will not fight against the Palestinian Authority and spill Palestinian blood.
Palestine, Politics, 10/8/1997

Palestinian and Israeli children make effort for peace
Twelve-year-old Omer Senech decided challenge his notion of Palestinian as nothing but terrorists who blow themselves up in Jewish streets.
Palestine, Short Essay, 10/8/1997

Palestinian Authority sets up industrial area in Gaza
The Palestinian Authority (PA) will inaugurate at the beginning of next year the project of the industrial area in Gaza, which is the first project implemented by the Palestine Company for Development and Investment.
Palestine, Economics, 10/8/1997

Hamas and Arafat and the King
many among the Palestinians, and the Israelis as well, believe the release of Sheikh Yassin is counter-productive to the peace process and might weaken the leadership of Arafat. Meanwhile, the PNA, and Arafat in person, are apparently doing the maximum to avoid a face-to-face confrontation with either Hamas or Jordan
Palestine, Analysis, 10/7/1997

A tamer Sheikh Yassin is back
Israeli and Palestinian sources alike were busy over the past few days trying to analyze the impact on Palestinian domestic politics by Sheikh Yassin's return to the Gaza Strip with most Israeli observers believing his return would step up suicide attacks by Hamas activists against Israel.
Palestine, Politics, 10/6/1997

Arafat between kisses and behavior
Last week following Israel's alleged identification of four of the five bombers responsible for the last two suicide attacks in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority arrested about 70 Palestinians on suspicion of being Hamas activists and closed down 20 Islamic institutions.
Palestine, Analysis, 10/6/1997

The United Nations Relief and Work Agency reduces services
The statements said that reducing services aims to settle the refugees in diverse areas and to prevent them from returning to their homeland.
Palestine, Politics, 10/6/1997


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