Hamas calls day of mourning; Abbas demands end to fire
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 23, 2011 - 12:00am

Gaza government officials declared Wednesday a day of mourning, with a collective funeral in central Gaza City at midday, for the four civilians and four militants killed by Israeli fire a day earlier. Officials called on residents of Gaza to join the funeral procession. In Moscow, President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Russian foreign minister to exert pressure on Israel, and demand a halt to what he described as an "escalation" against Gaza.

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Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad: 'An Independent Palestine Is in Israel's Interest'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post
by Elisabeth Braw - (Interview) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am

"On August 26 there will be a Palestinian state, and it will be open to all," says Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in exclusive Metro interview. He's the Prime Minister of the Palestine National Authority. But traveling between his office in Ramallah and his Jerusalem home, Salam Fayyad must nonetheless pass Israeli military checkpoints.

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Gaza Strip residents seek to join the 'Arab spring'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
by Jon Donnison - March 22, 2011 - 12:00am

A friend of mine's cat recently leapt from the tenth floor of a tower block in Gaza City, yet emerged with just a few grazes and a bit of a limp. It was a Gazan cat, I was told. On Saturday afternoon, I witnessed toughness and resilience shown by two young Gazan women who had been trying to demonstrate in one of the main squares in Gaza city. They were part of a small protest calling for political unity between Hamas, who are in power in Gaza, and Fatah, who run parts of the West Bank.

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Miral, a New Film about the Palestinian Experience, Screens in NY, LA, DC and Other Select Cities!
Press Release - Contact Information: Ghaith al-Omari - March 22, 2011 - 12:00am

Miral, a New Film about the Palestinian Experience, Screens in NY, LA, DC and Other Select Cities!


Settlers stab Palestinian south of Hebron
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 21, 2011 - 12:00am

A 32-year-old from the south Hebron hills told Ma'an he was stabbed in the chest on Monday by settlers from the Ma'on settlement. Speaking by phone from hospital, Mahmoud Ibrahim Ali Awad said he was treated for moderate stab wounds. The father of two lives in Khirbet Toubeh. Family members told the Palestinian Authority shortly after the incident that he was attacked while riding his donkey toward the nearby town of Yatta, where he was to receive treatment for kidney problems.

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Palestinian worker stabbed in Jewish settlement
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
March 21, 2011 - 12:00am

A veiled man, believed to be an Israeli, stabbed a Palestinian worker in a West Bank settlement near Hebron City Monday, Palestinian medics and security sources said. Israeli media also reported the incident, saying the Palestinian was stabbed in the chest several times. Palestinian doctors said the 25-year-old worker was moderately injured. Israel's Ynet news website said that the Palestinian man insisted on being taken to a Palestinian hospital. Israeli police deployed heavily near Havat Ma'on settlement and were investigating the incident, according to Ynet.

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Palestinians continue anti-division rallies in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
by Saud Abu Ramadan, Emad Drimly - March 20, 2011 - 12:00am

The popular peaceful rallies lead by youth movement against the internal Palestinian division continued on Sunday in the Gaza Strip which is ruled by Islamic Hamas movement. Thousands of students at the Gaza-based al-Azhar University organized at noon time a sit-in on campus. They chanted slogans that called for ending the internal division and succeeding the efforts to achieve the reconciliation, and called for escalating the popular activities. The demonstrators also held banners that read "the people want to end the division -- Fatah and Hamas hand in hand."

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Wanting an end to the split
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
by Daoud Kuttab - March 17, 2011 - 12:00am

March 15 marked the launch of yet another Arab youth movement, following those in Egypt on January 25 and in Libya on February 17. The aim of this youth-led movement appears simple: end the split between Gaza and the West Bank and between the PLO and Hamas. Popular uprisings are not new to Palestinians who introduced the term Intifada to the world in 1987. In fact many in Palestine feel that they broke the barrier of fear - a prerequisite for going out in the streets against brutal, violent crackdowns - long before the youth in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain.

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Palestinians rally for unity in Gaza, West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post
by Joel Greenberg - March 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Tuesday to demand an end to the rift between the Hamas and Fatah factions that has left the two Palestinian territories in the control of rival governments. "The people want an end to the division!" the demonstrators chanted in the largest such push to date. "National unity!"

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Voices in unity raise new hope for Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
(Editorial) March 16, 2011 - 12:00am

The phrase "Palestinian resistance" does not usually evoke peaceful images. From the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, to Israel's use of fighter-jets to strike neighbourhoods in the West Bank, to rocket attacks from Gaza, violence has been ingrained in the story of the Palestinian struggle.

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