January 5, 2010 - 5:04pm Palestinians stop torturing Hamas inmates
January 5, 2010

PM Fayyad confirmed a "dramatic change for the better" in West Bank prisons and said 43 officers have been jailed, fired or demoted for abusing prisoners, denied that torture was ever official policy, but acknowledged past "excesses."

December 31, 2009 - 11:54am PCBS: 10.88 million Palestinians in the world, half in diaspora
December 31, 2009

10.9 million Palestinians worldwide by the end of 2009, with 2.5 million in the West Bank including East Jerusalem, 1.5million in the Gaza Strip and 1.25 million living in Israel. More than half live in the diaspora.

December 30, 2009 - 2:02pm 28 kilometers of distilled apartheid
December 30, 2009

Going (quickly) along with the occupation and feeling like there is none. That way the highway has fulfilled another secret national wish - that they get out of our faces.

December 24, 2009 - 2:45pm Breaking Palestine's peaceful protest
December 24, 2009

Palestinians have a long history of nonviolent resistance but Israel has continuously deployed methods to destroy it

December 21, 2009 - 3:37pm Survey finds Abbas would win election
December 21, 2009

Mr Abbas would take 54 per cent of the vote, comfortably beating Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, by 16 per cent.

December 17, 2009 - 11:06am Abbas now
December 17, 2009

Abbas suggested a way out of the dilemma: freezing Jewish construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for six months without making a public declaration to that effect.

December 14, 2009 - 11:06am No freeze on Palestinian suffering
December 14, 2009

International excitement about the West Bank settlement freeze means little to those facing the sharp end of Israeli military rule

December 4, 2009 - 11:07am Israel illegally annexing East Jerusalem - EU report
December 4, 2009

"Israel is, by practical means, actively pursuing its illegal annexation of East Jerusalem by weakening the Palestinian community in the city, impeding Palestinian urban developments and ultimately separating East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.”

December 3, 2009 - 11:31am Senator George Mitchell, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, interview with Middle East Bulletin
December 3, 2009

It is critical to match our efforts to restart negotiations with efforts to build the Palestinian state from the ‘bottom up.’ Prime Minister Fayyad’s program integrates aspects of the ‘top-down’ political/negotiating track and ‘bottom-up’ economic/security/institutional development track.

November 30, 2009 - 11:18am UN chief stresses importance of creating Palestinian State
November 30, 2009

Jerusalem is a final status issue to be negotiated by Israel and the Palestinians, Ban underlined, saying the city "should emerge as the capital of two States, with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to all."


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