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Israel Reopens Key Gaza Crossing For First Time Since April Suicide Bombing
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz August 19, 2008 - 12:00am Israel has allowed food and other supplies to enter the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip through a key commercial crossing that had been closed for months, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Tuesday. Defense Ministry official Peter Lerner said about 80 trucks would pass through the Kerem Shalom crossing in a trial run before it is officially reopened in accordance with an Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas. |
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Results Of An Opinion Poll On Hamas And The Truce, The Government, Security Campaigns, The Peace Process And Elections
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab World For Research and Development August 20, 2008 - 12:00am Sample Size: 1200 Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza Margin of error: + 3 One: Introduction |
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Eu Boosts Aid To Palestinian Authority By An Extra 40 Million Euros
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz August 20, 2008 - 12:00am The European Union will give a financial boost on Wednesday to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to help Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pay public sector salaries, EU and Palestinian officials said. The 40 million euro injection of funds comes on top of the 256 million euros in budget support disbursed so far this year by the European Union. Fayyad has struggled in recent months to pay government workers because many Arab donors have not met their financial commitments. "The situation is very, very tight, for sure," a top official from Fayyad's office said this week. |
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Hamas, Fatah Delegations Head To Cairo For Reconciliation Talks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz August 20, 2008 - 12:00am Egypt has invited Palestinian groups to Cairo next week for talks on Palestinian reconciliation, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Tuesday. The agency quoted an unnamed official as saying Egypt would hold talks with Fatah and Hamas individually and would then organize wider discussions with all the groups simultaneously. |
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Israel Groups Call For Indictment Of Officer, Soldier
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Arab News by Mohammed Mar’i - August 20, 2008 - 12:00am The Palestinian peace activist, Ashref Abu Rahmeh, and several Israeli human rights organizations yesterday submitted a petition to Israeli High Court of Justice demanding a harsher indictment be presented against an Israeli army’s commander and soldier who were involved in shooting unarmed and bound Abu Rahmeh in the West Bank village of Nilin in early July. The petition was filed by B’Tselem, Yesh Din, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, and Abu-Rahmeh. |
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Idf To Prosecute Officer Who Shot Palestinian Teen
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Hanan Greenberg - August 20, 2008 - 12:00am The Judge Advocate General decided Wednesday to file aggravated assault and exceeding military orders charges against Lieutenant A., for his involvement in a shooting incident which caused the severe injury of a Palestinian teenager three years ago. According to the indictment, on December 19, 2005, a riot took place in a Palestinian village near the northern West Bank settlement of Tekoa. During the riot, several teens began stoning the IDF troops present at the scene, among whom was A. |