Police: Israeli Wounded in Stabbing Attack by Arab
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
April 19, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — Police say an Israeli has been stabbed in an attack by an Arab in Jerusalem. The ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was seriously wounded and was taken to a hospital. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says two suspects were arrested following the incident Thursday. It took place near a Jewish prayer site in a predominantly Arab area. The attack is the latest in a series of politically-motivated stabbings in Jerusalem. Last month, an Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack on Jerusalem's light rail line.

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'Gaza Doctor' Builds New Life in Toronto
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Guttman - April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Toronto — The photo leaning on Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish’s office window almost blocks the view of the Toronto skyline. It shows his three daughters, Mayar, Aya and Bessan Abuelaish, sitting on the beach in Gaza, writing their names in the sand. Closer to his desk, pinned to the wall, is the recent fourth-grade math test of Abuelaish’s youngest son, Abdullah, taken at his school in Toronto. The grade: A+.

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Israeli soldiers 'shoot, injure farmer' in southern Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian farmer on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Forces opened fire from an army watchtower toward fields in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, hitting Hasan Shenyo in the leg as he worked on his land, witnesses told Ma'an. Shenyo was taken to the European Hospital in Khan Younis with moderate injuries. An Israeli military spokeswoman said forces identified "a number of suspects approaching the fence" between southern Gaza and Israel.

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Medics: Body Found East of Gaza City
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
April 4, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Medical authorities on Wednesday discovered the body of a man who appeared to have been shot dead late Tuesday east of Gaza City. Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said the body of Hisham Misbah Saad, 17, was discovered near the eastern cemetery. Medics coordinated with the Red Crescent to remove his body from an area hard for Palestinians to reach. Abu Salmiya said he was transferred to Kamal Odwan hospital in northern Gaza.

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Officials: 2 Killed on Israeli-Egypt Border
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 27, 2012 - 12:00am

EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Two people died in a clash late Tuesday in Egyptian territory near Israel's border, a Ma'an correspondent reported and an Israeli security official confirmed. Egyptian and Israeli security officials said a group of infiltrators was spotted entering Israeli territory and fled back into Egypt, where two people were killed either by smugglers or Egyptian forces. An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers identified two infiltrators inside Israeli territory and initiated arrest procedures, but they crossed into Egypt and exchanged fire with Egyptian forces.

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Israel Indicts Hamas Militant Suspected in Kidnap and Suicide Bombing Plot
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
March 21, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — Israel’s internal security service says a Palestinian militant has been indicted in an alleged plot to capture an Israeli soldier and carry out a suicide bombing. The Shin Bet service said Wednesday that Mohammed Abu Adra of the militant Hamas group was arrested in February while trying to infiltrate Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. It accused him of being involved in planning the capture of an Israeli soldier and a suicide bombing in the southern city of Eilat. He was indicted Wednesday on charges including conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to kidnap.


Israeli Group Shows Rise in Palestinian Civilian Deaths
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 21, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians last year, including 18 minors, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. The death toll of 2011 shows a marked increase on 2010, when Israeli forces killed 68 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 in the West Bank. Further, 47 of the casualties in 2011 were killed while not taking part in hostilities, an increase from 30 in 2010.

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Toulouse Tragedy Shows Depth of Hatred
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Robert Zaretsky - (Opinion) March 21, 2012 - 12:00am

France, and the rest of the world, is still reeling from the shock of events in Toulouse, where a lone gunman killed a teacher and three children at a local Sephardic Jewish school on March 19. In the coming days, all of us ardently hope that we will learn not about another massacre, but instead of the capture of the killer. But in the confusion and uncertainty of the moment, it is important to recall what we know, and what we don’t know, about this event.

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Israeli military accused of mistreating children
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Donald MacIntyre - March 20, 2012 - 12:00am

The Israeli military is accused of a "pattern of systematic ill treatment" of children and teenagers detained in the West Bank in a report by an international non-government organisation published today. It alleges that minors between the ages of 12 and 17 have been arrested at night, bound and blindfolded, and interrogated without their parents or lawyers present. The arrest and transfer are "often accompanied by verbal abuse and humiliation, threats as well as physical violence", the Defence for Children International [DCI] adds.

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Syrian Security Forces ‘Warn Palestinian Camp’
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 16, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Sources in Damascus say Syrian security forces threatened to raid the Yarmuk refugee camp due to Fatah's alleged support of demonstrations against Syrian leader Bashar Assad. “Yarmuk is not more precious than (Homs neighborhood) Baba Amro, and it will be raided if the demonstrations which Fatah movement organizes” continue, a security agent was quoted as saying. Syrian security forces have detained a number of Fatah members: Ayman Juda Abu Ala, public action official in Yarmuk, Jihad Abu Yousef, Abdul Wahed Kherma, Firas Tahmaz, and Amjad Sadya.

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