Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 1/10/2000
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of January 10, 2000
- Barak to meet with Arafat Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/15/2000
- Erekat: Abu Dis will not be an alternative capital to Jerusalem Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/15/2000
- Trial starts for secretary of Fatah movement in Lebanon
The military court in Beirut started trying Khaled Aref, secretary of the Fatah movement, in Saida today, concerning whom an arrest warrant was issued for committing terrorist works, yet the trial was delayed until the end of the current month. Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 1/15/2000 - A financial shortage in the UNRWA budget
Asaad Abd El-Rahman, the official for the refugee issue in the Palestinian Liberation Organization depicted the financial status of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as very difficult, saying that the host countries for the refugees and the Palestinian camps are living in anxiety due to the financial shortage of the agency, which negatively reflects on the services presented to the refugees which in the first place suffer a shortage. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 1/15/2000 - Israel expected to hand over to PNA villages surrounding Jerusalem
Israel is definitely pulling out of another 6.1 percent of the West Bank in part of the third phase redeployment and in compliance with the Sharm al Sheikh agreement of last year, Palestinian sources said Friday. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/14/2000 - Palestinians worried of possible deal with Syria
Many Palestinians who fear that a peace deal between Syria and Israel might finally be reached at their expense are worried, but not that much. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/13/2000 - Some 40,000 Palestinians with IDs in their homeland
Well-informed Palestinian sources said that more than 40,000 Palestinians who came back home from abroad according to visit licenses which expired, are living now in the Palestinian Authority areas and cannot move among the Palestinian cities or travel abroad due to the fact that any of them who pass through Israeli barriers will be immediately detained and then expelled outside the borders. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/13/2000 - Palestinian labor forces contributes to 25% of Israel's national income
A study prepared by Palestinian researcher Laila Farsakh said that the average contribution of Palestinian labor's participation inside Israel to the GNP of the Palestinian territories between 1967 and 1999 reached 25%. Palestine-Israel, Economics, 1/13/2000 - Shaath asserts Palestinian refugees' right to return home Palestine, Politics, 1/12/2000
- Joint Israeli-Palestinian committee to develop bilateral relations Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/12/2000
- No progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/11/2000
- Palestinians regain control over Jerusalem 'with consent of Israel'
The Palestinian security services have lately obtained a free hand in Occupied Jerusalem in return for intelligence coordination with the Israeli secret services, an Israeli researcher concluded recently. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/10/2000 - Palestinians want Israel to rid itself of nuclear weapons in final status agreement
The Palestinians plan to demand the inclusion of a special clause in the final status agreement with Israel that would prevent Israel from keeping its nuclear arsenal. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/10/2000 - President Arafat hails King Mohammed's backing to Palestinians
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat hailed the constant backing extended by King Mohammed VI to the Palestinians "to help them recover their legitimate and inalienable rights, including their right to return, to self-determination and to statehood with Al-Quds Asharif as capital." Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 1/10/2000