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Human Rights Watch: Israeli army commited war crimes against the Palestinians
The US based Human Rights Watch organization stressed in a report issued on Friday said that the Israeli army committed war crimes against the Palestinians in Jenin camp for the Palestinian refugees and resulted in killing scores of civilians.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/4/2002

One Israeli army officer killed in Nablus
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/4/2002

An agreement between Israel, Arafat
The Lebanese daily al-Sharq unveiled Friday the agreement made between Israel and Yasser Arafat in order to lift the siege imposed on him, noting that this agreement makes it compulsory for the Palestinian authority to collect all weapons from Gaza and halt the violence, and
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/4/2002

United Nations at odds regarding jenin dilemma
Following UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's decision to disband the UN fact-finding mission to Jenin, the Security Council is at a loss as what to do next.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/4/2002

SC turned its back on Annan over fact-finding mission
Egypt's permanent delegate to the UN ambassador Ahmed Abul Gheit criticized the lax UN Security Council's stance over the fact-finding team which UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced to have dissolved Thursday.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 5/4/2002

$ 2 billion, the needs of the Palestinians after the invasion
The commissioner general of the Palestinian Refugees Relief and Work Agency UNRWA Peter Hansen said on Thursday that the needs of the Palestinians in the coming phase is estimated at USD 2 billion after estimates were USD 117 million at the beginning of this year.
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/4/2002

Humanitarian crisis looms over Gaza Strip, UN relief agency warns
A humanitarian crisis is looming over the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli authorities continue blocking the entry of food, medicines and fuel, while restricting the movement of all goods and personnel, the lead United Nations relief agency in the Middle East warned.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/4/2002

Israel detains more Hamas, Islamic Jihad members
The Israeli forces on Friday in Badya village in Qalqilya district, the West Bank detained two members of the Palestinian national resistance movement ( Hamas) under charges of resisting Israeli occupation.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/4/2002

The fate of al-Shawbaki, Saadat to be decided today
Palestine, Politics, 5/3/2002

Al-Zanoun: 2150 Palestinians killed, 36,000 wounded during Intifada
The Palestinian minister of health Riad al-Zanoun has stressed that number of wounded Palestinians is increasing and huge number of the wounded and the patients did not find needed medicines and the Israeli siege and the Israeli soldiers prevented ambulances from having access to the wounded and treating them at hospitals.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/3/2002

US, Britain commitedto tough security measures on the 6 Palestinians accused of killing Zeifi
The US and Britain stressed their commitment to impose very tight security measures on six Palestinians who will be jailed in a prison inside the Palestinian territories, according to an agreement approved by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 5/3/2002

Draft resolution demands Israeli cooperation
The Arab states are preparing a draft resolution to the Security Council to force Israel to allow a United Nations Fact-Finding mission into Jenin refugee camp, where Israeli occupation forces massacred Palestinian civilians.
Regional-Palestine, Politics, 5/2/2002

Fahmy stressed the need for a permanent settlement
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 5/2/2002

Pope stresses the need of establishing peace in ME
Palestine-Vatican, Politics, 5/2/2002

Arafat's visit to Syria is still valid
The chairman of the Palestinian National Salvation Front Khaled al-Fahoum has announced that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat will visit Syria in the course of a tour he will shortly pay to the Arab capitals, noting that the idea of this visit is still valid and confirmed.
Palestine-Syria, Politics, 5/2/2002

Israel refuses to dismantle any settlement in Gaza
The Israeli defense minister Benjamin Bin Aliazer has renewed the rejection of the Israeli government to remove or dismantle any Israeli settlement in Gaza in the context of any agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/2/2002

Arafat to make vast changes in his Authority
The Lebanese daily al-Sharq said on Wednesday, according to high ranking Palestinian sources that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat will start basic changes in his authority and in the Fatah movement, noting that Arafat will assign the chief Palestinian negotiators in Madrid Haidar Abdul Shafi to chair a plenary government including ministries having all Palestinian security departments.
Palestine, Politics, 5/2/2002

Israeli tanks invade Rafah, six Palestinians killed including one infant
The Israeli forces on Wednesday continued their aggressions against the Palestinians. As a result six Palestinians were killed and other 14 wounded by the Israeli tanks bullets at the Palestinian houses in Rafah.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/2/2002

Egyptian initiative to restore Palestinian antiquities
An emergency meeting of the Arab Antiquities Authorities agreed on an Egyptian initiative for restoration of Palestinian, antiquities damaged during a series of brutal attacks against the Palestinian self-rule areas.
Egypt-Palestine, Culture, 5/2/2002

UN is awaiting formal reply on Jenin, Annan says
Annan said: "It was Mr. Peres who told me that 'we have nothing to hide' and the team was welcome," the Secretary-General said. "Not just Mr. Peres, but also the Defense Minister [Binyamin] Ben Eliezer told me: 'You are welcome. We have nothing to hide.'
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/1/2002

Maher for eliminating abnormal conditions in the Palestinian territories
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 5/1/2002

Israeli forces continue invasions, five Palestinians killed, hundreds detained
The Israeli forces on Tuesday continued acts of killing and destruction in the occupied Palestinian territories and several Palestinians were killed or wounded as a result.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/1/2002

Papal envoy to the holy lands
Palestine-Vatican, Politics, 5/1/2002

Morocco ready to help reconstruct Palestinian agricultural sector
Morocco is ready to contribute to the reconstruction of the Palestinian agricultural sector, Moroccan minister of agriculture, rural development, water and forests, Ismael Alaoui, said Abu Dhabi Monday.
Morocco-Palestine, Economics, 5/1/2002

Vedrine hopes Sharon will relaunch peace with Palestinians
Palestine-France, Politics, 5/1/2002

ALECSO backs Palestinian cultural institutions
The executive council of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and scientific Organization (ALECSO) adopted a series of measures meant to back Palestinian institutions operating in the realm of education, science and culture.
Palestine-Regional, Culture, 5/1/2002

Arafat got two telephone calls
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 4/30/2002

Powell talks on the telephone with Arafat
Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/30/2002

Powell will return back to the region by the mid of May
Palestine-USA, Politics, 4/30/2002

Israel's manoeuvres with UN Security Council fail
"Israel's manoeuvres with the UN Security Council have failed as the UNSC members decided after consultations held late Sunday night to give Israel another 24 hours to receive a UN fact-finding commission and insisted on the implementation of the UNSC resolution 1405," Egypt's Permanent Delegate to the UN said on Monday.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/30/2002

Secret negotiations over founding a Palestinian state
The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyasah said that secret negotiations are being made in Washington to declare the independent Palestinian state on an area ranging between 56 to 62 % of the territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/30/2002

The Israeli forces invade Hebron, inflect heavy losses, kill nine Palestinians
The Israeli forces on Monday morning broke into the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West Bank amid intensive fire, and missiles launched by Apache planes. This resulted in killing 8 Palestinians and wounding other 20.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/30/2002

Peres, Annan telephone talks over UN investigation team
The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has stressed that Israel will not give up what he had called its special rights to sovereignty and will not permit summoning its soldiers or officers in the Israeli army to be brought before a fact finding team concerning the incident of Jenin camp in the West Bank without its ( Israel ) consent.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/30/2002

Egypt welcomes lifting siege off Arafat
"Egypt welcomed an agreement to end the siege imposed on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat," said Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/30/2002

Mrs. Mubarak leads popular march in support of Palestinians
Egypt's First Lady Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak yesterday led a popular march from AL Irish to Rafah in support for the Palestinians.
Egypt-Palestine, Culture, 4/30/2002

Israel delays once again UN investigation mission
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/2002

Peaceful settlement needs no new references
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher stressed the need to implement the international legitimacy to solve the Palestinian question and reach peaceful basis for the previous references.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/29/2002

Bin Aliazer and peace agreement with the Palestinians
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/2002

Washington Times: Jenin not even a graveyard
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/2002

Maher: Israel knows fact-finding mission will condemn its crimes in Jenin
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher underlined Saturday that Israel's position as regards any investigation into Jenin massacres would be very weak.
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 4/29/2002

Moussa: Israel overstepped all limits
Arabs must expose to the rest of the world the atrocities committed by Israel which plans to wipe out the Palestinian people, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa told a women's forum that opened in Kuwait yesterday. The Arab states should ensure that the Palestinians are given international protection against all forms of Israeli aggression and seek all means to bring Israeli war criminals to international justice, Moussa told the opening session of the Arab Women's Economic Forum.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/2002

Jenin ordeal more like earthquake
"Jenin refugee camp has become a symbol of Israeli violations of Palestinian rights. The destruction which I saw with my own eyes cannot have been man-made as it seemed more like the aftermath of an earthquake," Secretary-General of Amnesty International (AI), Irene Khan said yesterday.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 4/29/2002

International community allocates one billion dollars in West Bank aid
there are calls for the adoption of UN Security Council resolutions to have Israel pay compensations to the Palestinians for the damages it inflicted on public and private property. Also, some have expressed great concern over aid money flowing into Israeli companies "as a reward" for Israel's action rather than having Jordanian companies benefit from the Palestinian reconstruction efforts.
Palestine, Economics, 4/29/2002


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