Abbas forms committee as violence against women rises
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am

President Mahmoud Abbas is forming a committee to study personal status laws to protect women, following a rise in violent attacks against women in the West Bank, state media reported.

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Minister: Most public sector salaries to be paid Monday
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian Authority Minister of Finance Nabil Qassis said Thursday that most public sector salaries will be paid next Monday.

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Palestinian PM Fayyad calls for parliament vote
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Mohammed Daraghmeh - August 7, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian prime minister in the West Bank has said that Palestinians should hold parliament elections in the territory soon, instead of waiting for the elusive reconciliation with Gaza's Hamas rulers.

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Sinai attack seals up Gaza to outside world
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Ahmed Aldabba - August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Although Islamic militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, has strongly condemned the killing of Egyptian guards at the border with Israel and Gaza yesterday,

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On Apartheid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) August 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Spending days with the Jewish community of South Africa at Limmud is a unique opportunity to meet another dynamic, engaged Jewish community in the Diaspora.

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VAT tax rise to be implemented in September
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 5, 2012 - 12:00am

The Palestinian Authority will put into effect a recently approved decision to raise Value Added Tax by 1 percent by the beginning of September, a VAT official said Sunday.

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Palestinian women outraged by marketplace killing
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Dalia Nammari - August 1, 2012 - 12:00am

The brutal killing of a battered wife in front of horrified witnesses in an open-air Bethlehem market prompted angry accusations Wednesday that Palestinian police and courts ignore violence against women. Nancy Zaboun, a 27-year-old mother of three, had her throat slashed Monday after seeking a divorce from her abusive husband of 10 years. The husband was arrested at the scene and is the prime suspect, West Bank officials said.

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Abbas confident in Palestinian bid for UN recognition
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 29, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday expressed confidence that the Palestinian bid for the United Nations' recognition of a Palestinian state will succeed this time once the bid is applied. Abbas, who paid a visit to the West Bank's northern city of Jenin to have Iftar meal with city notables during the holy month of Ramadan, said that "we went to the UN and we didn't succeed in the first time, but next time we will."

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Inquiry: Police chiefs should be questioned over Ramallah violence
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 27, 2012 - 12:00am

An investigative committee has recommended that high-ranking officers be questioned over the use of force against protesters in Ramallah. President Mahmoud Abbas ordered an investigation after police cracked down on protesters who opposed a visit by Israel's vice premier to Ramallah for talks with the president on June 30, and again used force to shut down a protest on July 1 against police brutality.

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Adviser to Palestinian president Abbas visits Auschwitz memorial
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
July 27, 2012 - 12:00am

An adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the memorial at the German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz to pay respect to camp victims on Friday. Ziad al-Bandak, who advises Abbas on Religious affairs, visited prisoner blocs, gas chambers and a crematorium in the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex that the Germans built and operated in southern Poland during their World War II occupation of the country. Some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were killed in the camp from 1940-45.

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