Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has called for a halt to rocket fire into Palestinian territory. He also wants a truce with Israel to cool the temperature of the fighting.
Thursday, May 24, 2007 (Gaza Strip):Palestinian militants have rejected a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to restore a ceasefire with Israel and stop violence between rival factions.
Israel is destroying any notion of a state of Palestine and is imprisoning an entire nation. That is clear from the latest attacks on Gaza. The attacks, reported on Britain’s Channel 4 News, were “targeting key militants of Hamas” and the “Hamas infrastructure”.
Yesterday at Geneva's Musee d'art et d'histoire, Roman Gaza was the subject of a gathering of scholars and archaeologists from Palestine, Switzerland and elsewhere in the world.
New Palestine's girls tennis season came to an end with a 5-0 loss to No. 6 Carmel in Tuesday's North Central Regional semifinals, but Dragons coach Chris Hardin says the loss wasn't as one-sided as the score appears.
Gaza plan: Is Israel at the start of a new road? Palestinian militants have rejected a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to restore a ceasefire with Israel and stop violence between rival factions.
Poster outside Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid forum at UCLA advocating for Palestinian rights. Photo by Merissa Nathan Gerson As part of UCLA's Palestine Solidarity Week, on Sunday, May 20, the Southern California Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (CEIA) staged a forum titled, "Israel, Zionism and Apartheid: The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions."
A Palestine Liberation Organisation official said on Wednesday that it would not object if the Lebanese army decided to send its troops into a refugee camp to crush Islamist extremists entrenched there.
A region bedeviled by multiple conflicts will inevitably see them link up with one another, as seems to be the case here with the Palestine, Iraq and Syrian-Lebanese conflicts converging into a single battle, at least for this week, says Rami Khouri .
A judge on Thursday upheld an indictment against three U.S. soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist in Iraq, rejecting an appeal filed by national prosecutors.