February 26th, 2013

Rocket explodes in Israel, first attack from Gaza since truce ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Allyn Fisher-Ilan - February 26, 2013 - 1:00am A rocket exploded in southern Israel on Tuesday in the first such attack by militants in the Hamas Islamist ruled Gaza Strip since a truce ended a week of cross-border fighting in November, Israeli police said. The rocket caused some damage to a road near the city of Ashkelon but no injuries, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "An explosion was heard in the Ashkelon region experts searched areas experts and found one rocket that struck, damaging a road but causing no injuries," Rosenfeld said. » Read more

Dozens injured in second day of West Bank protests ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency February 26, 2013 - 1:00am Hundreds of people took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday in the second day of protests following the death of a Palestinian prisoner who PA officials say died as a result of torture. The PA Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday that results from an autopsy of Arafat Jadarat's body indicate that he died after being tortured in Israeli custody, and not from a cardiac arrest, as Israel's Prison Authority had claimed. » Read more

2 Palestinian Teenagers Hurt Amid Israeli Gunfire at Protest ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jodi Rudoren - February 25, 2013 - 1:00am Palestinian teenagers were seriously injured Monday when Israeli soldiers used live ammunition to disperse a demonstration at a holy site outside Bethlehem, as clashes in the West Bank continued for a fifth day an » Read more

Peaceful protest to keep pressure on Israeli policy ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National (Editorial) February 26, 2013 - 1:00am Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old Palestinian petrol-station attendant and father of two young children, was arrested on February 18 after a protest at an Israeli settlement near Hebron. After he died in jail on Saturday, Israeli officials said with bland effrontery that a heart attack was the probable cause of death. » Read more

February 25th

Prisoner’s death fuels Palestinian protests, as Israel braces for more ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Joel Greenberg - February 25, 2013 - 1:00am   JERUSALEM – The death of a Palestinian prisoner under Israeli interrogation after a week of demonstrations for the release of four other inmates on hunger strikes triggered fresh clashes Sunday and heightened concerns in Israel about a swelling wave of unrest in the West Bank. » Read more

Palestinians Dispute Israel’s Findings on a Prisoner’s Death ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Khaled Abu Aker, Jodi Rudoren - February 25, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more

Israel and Turkey Might be Headed for Reconciliation ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line by Linda Gradstein - February 24, 2013 - 1:00am Economic Ties Continue Despite Tensions » Read more

Arab-Israeli in Haifa uses art to help Palestinian refugee sister ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Gideon Levy - February 22, 2013 - 1:00am   A childhood memory documented in a photo: A little boy is holding his mother's hand; his four siblings stand alongside them. The place is a refugee camp near Damascus. The year is 1950. This is where the Abdi family eventually fled to after escaping from their home in Haifa, which had been captured by the Haganah during the War of Independence. » Read more

Gaza court slashes jail term in Italian murder case ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP) February 24, 2013 - 1:00am A Palestinian military court in Gaza on Sunday cut by half the jail sentence of a man involved in the abduction and murder of Italian national Vittorio Arrigoni. An AFP reporter said the tribunal's judge accepted the appeal of former policeman Khadr Faruq Jerim, who last year was convicted of kidnapping Arrigoni, and cut his prison term from 10 to five years. Jerim's lawyer Mohammed Zaqut told AFP that "the conviction was adjusted from abduction for the purpose of murder to abduction for the purpose of holding captive." » Read more

Israel, US successfully test anti-missile system ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Ian Deitch - February 25, 2013 - 1:00am   » Read more