Official: 30 years after camp massacre, justice still elusive
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 17, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- On the 30th anniversary of the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila camp, a Palestinian official stressed that no one has been brought to justice. "Those responsible for slaughtering thousands have not been punished and Palestinian refugees continue to be denied their homeland," PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a statement Sunday.

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The forgotten massacre
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Robert Fisk - (Opinion) September 15, 2012 - 12:00am

The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip amid the concrete hovels – the stench of injustice still pervades the camps where 1,700 Palestinians were butchered 30 years ago next week.

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Jerusalem teens charged with attacking Palestinian
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oz Rosenberg - September 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Six Jewish teenagers from Jerusalem have been charged in Jerusalem District Juvenile Court with attacking an East Jerusalem Palestinian and causing him serious injury, including a broken ankle.  Four of the suspects have admitted to assaulting Ibrahim Abu Ta'a, 28, saying they thought he was “taking advantage” of an intoxicated Jewish woman he was accompanying. Abu Ta'a, from East Jerusalem's Ras al-Amud neighborhood, and his co-workers at Jerusalem's Mamilla Hotel were at a club in the Talpiot neighborhood on the night of September 5-6.

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Gaza court sentences man to death for collaboration
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 12, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A 45-year-old man in Gaza was sentenced to death on Wednesday on charges of collaborating with Israel, Ma'an's reporter said. A Gaza court also sentenced the man's 40-year-old wife to 10 years in prison for her part in the alleged collaboration charges.

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Palestinian protests turn violent in West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Mohammed Daraghmeh - September 10, 2012 - 12:00am

HEBRON, WEST BANK — Palestinian protests against the high cost of living have turned violent in the West Bank city of Hebron.

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Israel to compensate Gaza family over two sons' deaths in 2009 war
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
September 10, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The state of Israel will pay 430,000 shekels (108,000 U.S. dollars) in compensation to a Gaza family who lost both of its sons to army gunfire during the 2009 Gaza War.

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Residents: 7 Palestinians killed in Syrian army shelling
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 7, 2012 - 12:00am

Seven Palestinians were killed on Thursday as the Syrian army bombed the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, sources in the camp said. Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad bombed Safad and al-Jaouna areas and the al-Basel Hospital, local Yarmouk media reported, adding that residents of the camp would protest the shelling outside the al-Waseem Mosque after evening prayers. At least 20 people were killed in Syrian army mortar and artillery bombardment in southern Damascus, residents and local emergency workers said.

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State settles with family of Palestinian left to die by Israel Police, will pay damages
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - September 6, 2012 - 12:00am

The State of Israel will compensate the family of a Palestinian who was left to die by Israeli police officers four years ago, in a compromise agreement obtained by Haaretz on Thursday.

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A Ray of Hope
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) September 5, 2012 - 12:00am

The Arab community is clearly a victim of discrimination by the government. Israeli Arabs have never received what has been due to them, as far as budgets or positions. The mirror image of reduced rights is reduced duties, in practice if not in theory. A close look at Arab towns and villages reveals a troublesome picture of citizens ignoring state laws and the regulations of local councils. Israeli Arabs have told their government: if we don't get the honey, we don't want the sting either.

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Witnesses: Palestinian camp in Syria shelled, killing 2
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
September 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Two Palestinian refugees were reported killed and a third seriously injured in Al-Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria on Monday morning, according to witness accounts. Palestinians in the camp said a barrage of shells hit a home in the al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood of al-Yarmouk, in Damascus. The casualties were identified as Fadi al-Thahir and his wife Rawaa Muhammad Saadi, refugees who originally come from Tiberias. The couple’s four-year-old son was also seriously injured, according to al-Yarmouk News, a Facebook page reporting on events in the camp.

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