Palestinians Prepare to Exhume Arafat to Check for Poison
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner - November 13, 2012 - 1:00am

JERUSALEM — The West Bank tomb of Yasir Arafat has been cordoned off and screened from public view ahead of an expected exhumation, a Palestinian Authority official said Tuesday, four months after a television investigation raised new suspicions that the Palestinian leader had been poisoned.

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Gaza: Boy Killed as Militants Clash With Israeli Force
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Fares Akram - (Analysis) November 8, 2012 - 1:00am

A Palestinian boy was kille

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Gaza man killed by Israeli forces was mentally ill
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Diaa Hadid - (Analysis) November 5, 2012 - 1:00am



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Fighting rages at Damascus Palestinian camp, 20 killed
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
(Analysis) November 5, 2012 - 1:00am

The Syrian army shelled rebel positions inside a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus on Sunday killing at least

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Israeli shell wounds Palestinian in central Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
(Analysis) November 2, 2012 - 12:00am

  A Palestinian was critically wounded on Friday by the shrapnel of an Israeli artillery shell fired at an area east of the central Gaza Strip al-Buriej refugee camp, witnesses and medics said.

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Syria rebels bring fight to pro-Assad Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
October 31, 2012 - 12:00am

BEIRUT, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had formed a brigade of sympathetic Palestinians in a Damascus district to fight armed Palestinians aligned with President Bashar al-Assad.

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Syria rebels, Palestinian fighters clash
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Australian
(Analysis) October 30, 2012 - 12:00am

 

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UNRWA responds to Israel TV's Gaza war claims
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
(Analysis) October 29, 2012 - 12:00am

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees issued a response this week to an Israeli TV channel's claim that Palestinian militants had used UNRWA facilities to fire rockets at Israel during its war on Gaza. During a recent interview, a reporter from Israel's Channel Two News claimed that during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9, Hamas militants had been operating from inside UNRWA installations and attempting to fire rockets at Israel. The popular Israeli news channel did not provide any evidence to substantiate the claims made by its reporter.

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Arafat widow questioned in French murder probe: source
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Agence France Presse (AFP)
October 17, 2012 - 12:00am

French investigators probing the death of Yasser Arafat questioned his widow Suha, who claims the veteran Palestinian leader may have been poisoned, in France in mid-September, a source told AFP Wednesday. France opened a murder enquiry in late August after Arafat’s family launched legal action following reports he may have died from radioactive polonium near Paris in 2004.

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New York Man Kills Cook at Israeli Hotel, Then Is Shot by Police
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - October 5, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — A New York man opened fire in the dining room of a hotel in the southern Israeli resort of Eilat on Friday and killed a kitchen worker before being shot dead by police officers, the authorities said. The gunman, William Hershkovitz, was born in 1989, and had just been fired after working at the hotel for a couple of weeks through Oranim, a company that provides tourists with internships in the industry, a company official told The Associated Press.

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