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Moroccan premier: Socialist International Session in Morocco, a backing to Palestinian cause
The holding in Morocco of the Socialist International council will not harm the Palestinian cause but, on the contrary, it is a backing to this cause, said Moroccan premier, Abderrahmane Youssoufi who, in his capacity as first secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), is vice-president of the association.
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 6/1/2002

Palestinian, Israeli delegations laud SI Mideast Resolution
The Palestinian and Israeli delegations, attending in Casablanca the meetings of the Socialist International (SI), lauded a resolution passed Friday by the organization on the Middle East.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2002

Israel's Labor, Meretz parties agree to sharing Jerusalem with Palestinians
The Israeli Labor and Meretz parties voted for a resolution of the council of the Socialist International, currently held in casablanca, backing Jerusalem as capital for the Palestinian and Israeli States, and calling for a "fair settlement" to the refugees issue.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/1/2002

ILO reports dire economic, social crisis in occupied territories
Warning of a "socio-economic meltdown" in the occupied territories, the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday called on Israel to ease movement restrictions on Palestinians and urged the world community to support a dialogue between the two sides.
Palestine, Economics, 6/1/2002

The Israeli forces storm into Nablus, Balatah camp; Continue campaign of arrests
The Israeli forces on Friday continued advancing towards the allies of Balatah camp from one house to another while demolishing the houses by bulldozers and expanded its attack towards the city of Nablus and stormed into it but avoided to break into the older part of the city.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/1/2002

Burns discusses with Arafat reforms, Israel arrests 25 Palestinians, 15 wounded in confrontations
These breaking in operations by the Israelis resulted in arresting more than 15 Palestinians in various Palestinian areas while 15 Palestinians were wounded only in Rafah.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/31/2002

Israel uses Palestinians' money to support its budget
The Israeli government has decided to use USD 200 million of the sums of the Palestinian authority, frozen by it to support its budget.
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 5/31/2002

Moussa meets with German liberal democratic party chief
Palestine-Germany, Politics, 5/30/2002

Morocco's premier calls International Socialist to strongly condemn abuses against Palestinian people
Moroccan prime minister, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, vice-president of the International Socialist (IS), called the member parties to express strong condemnation of abuses against the Palestinian people's rights and dignity.
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 5/30/2002

Powell and the ME
Palestine-USA, Politics, 5/30/2002

US is looking for a strategy on Palestinian-Israeli negotiations
The Washington Post on Monday said "In a significant evolution of administration thinking, U.S. officials are debating whether to go beyond President Bush's endorsement last year of a Palestinian state and publicly detail terms for a final Middle East settlement, including a negotiating schedule for achieving an accord."
Palestine-USA, Politics, 5/30/2002

German army officers in the Palestinian territories
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2002

Palestinian prisoner in Israel commits suicide
A spokesman for the commission of Palestinian prisoners said that one Palestinian committed suicide on Tuesday evening in al-Ramlah prison near Tel Aviv.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2002

Human rights group: Palestinian detainees in Israeli detention center severely abused
A Geneva-based human rights group that said Palestinian detainees in the Israeli Ofer detention center were being subject to severe forms of abuse,
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2002

Democracy, resistance, sole path for free, democratic Palestine, hawatmeh says
He slammed, in this connection what he called the Israeli-U.S. project to restructure the PNA. The project, which boasts to plead for transparency, merely seeks to maintain the Authority under control. This project is a conspiracy against the Palestinian people and will allow Israel to soak more Palestinian land through settlements to such a point that the Palestinians will have nothing to negotiate, warned Hawatmeh, who attended the meetings of a political party in Morocco.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2002

Israel extends detention for Barghouthi
The Israeli military court on Wednesday extended the detention period of Marwan Barghouthi -- the secretary general of the Palestinian Fatah movement in the West Bank -- for another 22 days under the pretext of completing investigations with him.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/30/2002

Israeli forces storm into Qalqilya and carry out detention campaigns, bombardment of Rafah
While the Israeli army tightened its siege of the Palestinian cities and villages and started running patrol on all roads of the West Bank; scores of Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armed vehicle once again broke into Qalqilya and the neighboring village amid intensive fire. An Israeli military spokesman said that the Israeli forces will not pullout from Qalqilya until completing what he called the mission assigned to it.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/30/2002

Hani al-Hassan vows continued Palestinian resistance
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/29/2002

Arafat cancels visit to Saudi Arabia
Israeli political sources said on Tuesday that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat has for several times postponed a visit which he was due to pay to Saudi Arabia of fears that Israel will not permit him to return back to the Palestinian Authority areas.
Palestine-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/29/2002

Continued Israeli occupation of Bethlehem, Qalqilya, break into Jenin
The Israeli forces on Tuesday continued incursions into several quarters into Jenin especially in al-Qasaba area amid intensive fire and tear gas at the houses of the Palestinians. This resulted in the killing of the Palestinian Youssef Shreim (55 year old) and wounding many others.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/29/2002

Efforts to stop Palestinian martyrdom operations
The French weekly news bulletin "TTA" said on Tuesday that efforts are being made now to halt "martyrdom operations" in order to resume political negotiations.
Palestine-Regional, Politics, 5/29/2002

Peres: Barghouthi might succeed Arafat
The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has expressed his conviction that the secretary of the Fatah movement Marwan al-Barghouthi, currently detained by the Israeli occupation forces, will succeed the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/29/2002

Israel strengthens its apartheid system
The British daily the Financial Times has stressed the Israeli forces have deliberately installed buffer zones in the Palestinian areas with the aim to damage the Palestinian economy and restrict the movement of the Palestinians.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/28/2002

New Palestinian martyrdom operation; Israeli forces continue break-in operations in the occupied territories
Al-Aqsa Martyrs group claimed responsibility for the operation and said in a statement that it comes in retaliation to the practices of the Israeli forces in the occupied territories, and the acts of killing and detention against the activists of the Palestinian Intifada especially the assassination of Mahmoud al-Titi, Eyad Abu Hamdan, Imad al-Khatib on Wednesday in Balat camp.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/28/2002

Palestinian film, coproduced by Moroccan TV, prized at Cannes
"Divine Intervention" comes across mostly as a series of vignettes, illustrating the absurdities of life under Israeli occupation. Many of these vignettes are disturbing, witty and poignant; a few are just disturbing.
Palestine-Morocco, Culture, 5/28/2002

Amnesty International calls for a commission of inquiry into mass arbitrary detention of palestinians
Amnesty International deplores in a report released Friday a consist pattern of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment used by Israeli soldiers in its arrest of more than 8,500 Palestinians between February 27 and May 20, many of them arbitrarily detained.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2002

Arafat and the exiled Palestinians
The director of the Palestinian general intelligence in Bethlehem Abdullah Dawoud denied that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat had played a main role in reaching an agreement to break the Israeli siege from the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank for expelling 13 Palestinians who were besieged inside it.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/27/2002

Israeli forces break into Qalqilya, Toulkarem, Bethlehem and Hebron, detention campaigns, demolish houses
The Israeli occupation army broke again on Sunday into the cities of Bethlehem, Qaqilya, Toulkarem and the adjoining villages under the pretext of searching for Palestinian businessmen.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/27/2002

Sharon approved bringing in Thai labor force to Israel
The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has decided to permit bringing in some 8,000 workers from Thailand to work in the Arab agricultural sector which was greatly affected by the Palestinian Intifada.
Israel-Palestine, Economics, 5/27/2002


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