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24/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Press freedom group condemns Palestinian TV raid

Reporters Sans Frontières has strongly condemned the arrest of a journalist and confiscation of equipment owned by a TV station carried out by the Israeli Defence Forces ...

22/05/2012 - Report: Israel

Israeli settlers and Palestinians in Jerusalem Day stand-off

An extremely heavy police presence and periodic violent confrontation marked Jerusalem Day on 20 May, as thousands of Israelis attempted to march through the traditionally Palestinian area of East ...

17/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Palestinian cabinet reshuffle deepens Fatah-Hamas split

A surprise reshuffle of the Palestinian Authority has angered the Islamist movement Hamas. There are nine new ministers in the 24-member cabinet.

17/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Palestinians face repression on Nakba Day rallies

Palestinians across the West Bank held rallies and protests to commemorate Nakba Day Wednesday with many protests facing violent repression.

12/05/2012 - Report: Israel

Protests for hunger strikers hit Jerusalem

A week of protests in support of the 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike inside Israeli prisons reached fever pitch in Jerusalem yesterday as two prisoners began their 73rd day without ...

11/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Protests intensify as hunger strikers “could die at any moment”

Protests across the West Bank and within Israel intensified yesterday, as a prison doctor visiting Thaer Halahleh, who along with Bilal Diab is on his 73rd day of hunger strike warned that he ...

09/05/2012 - Report: Israel

Netanyahu dodges election bullet with surprise coalition

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied expectations yesterday morning by announcing a new governing coalition with the centrist Kadima party, meaning that a planned early election will ...

02/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Over 30 injured at rally for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners

A protest to celebrate May Day and in support of the 2,000 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails resulted in 31 injuries on Tuesday, some of them serious.

27/04/2012 - Report: Israel

Palestinian hunger strikers grow to 2,000

The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has risen to 2,000 according to human rights group Addameer. And, it says, the punishment of those on the strike is ...

25/04/2012 - Report: Israel - Egypt

Egypt cuts off gas to Israel

Egypt’s partly state-owned Natural Gas Holding company confirmed late Sunday night that it stopped delivering gas to Israel last Thursday.

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