Shin Bet: Action Against Jewish Extremists Has Reduced Attacks on Palestinians in West Bank
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - April 6, 2012 - 12:00am

Shin Bet security service officials say their actions against extreme right-wing activists have led to a significant reduction in violent incidents against Palestinians. Senior Shin Bet officials, from the unit monitoring the activists’ activity in the West Bank, made the statement recently at an internal defense establishment meeting dealing with events in the extreme right.

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Hebron Settlers Threaten Retaliation After Israeli Police Evict Them
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Alon Bernstein - April 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli security forces swiftly evicted dozens of Jewish settlers from an illegally occupied building in this volatile West Bank city on Wednesday, ending a week-long standoff that had threatened to spill over into broader violence. The raid caught the settlers off guard. Only a day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had moved to block the eviction order. Settler supporters in Netanyahu's hard-line government condemned the surprise raid, a key political ally threatened to quit the coalition and settler leaders vowed retaliation.

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Israeli Forces Evict Jewish Settlers From West Bank Building
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
April 4, 2012 - 12:00am

HEBRON, West Bank — Israeli security forces swiftly evicted dozens of Jewish settlers from an illegally occupied building in this volatile West Bank city on Wednesday, ending a weeklong standoff that had threatened to spill over into broader violence. The raid caught the settlers off guard. Only a day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had moved to block the eviction order. Settler supporters in Netanyahu’s hard-line government condemned the surprise raid, a key political ally threatened to quit the coalition and settler leaders vowed retaliation.

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Man dies of wounds from Israeli West Bank raid
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
April 2, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A young Palestinian man died on Monday morning from wounds suffered in an Israeli raid on his village near Ramallah last week, his family told Ma'an. Rashad Theib Shoukha, 28, was critically injured by a gunshot to the chest during a dawn raid on Rammun village on Tuesday. His brothers Anwar and Akram were also injured in the raid. An Israeli army spokeswoman said at the time that an Israeli soldier "was stabbed during routine activity ... the soldiers responded to the attackers in self defense, and three were injured."

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Jailing of journalists 'not based on security complaint'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
April 2, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The recent detentions of three Palestinian journalists in the West Bank are not based on security complaints but legal charges filed by individuals, the spokesman of the West Bank security services said Sunday. "The Palestinian Authority's security services have no security-related problem with any journalist," Adnan Dmeiri told Ma’an.

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'Red Crescent workers behind shooting attack'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Yaakov Katz - April 2, 2012 - 12:00am

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced Monday that it uncovered and arrested a terrorist cell that included a number of Palestinian Red Crescent workers that was behind a shooting in the Ramallah area earlier this year. The shooting near the Amari Refugee Camp on January 20 caused no injuries but did damage a number of IDF vehicles. The weapons used in that attack, which were Kalashnikov automatic assault rifles, were provided by a senior officer in the Palestinian Authority's intelligence service, who is also in charge of security for the Red Crescent.

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Israel Frees Palestinian Detainee After Hunger Strike of Weeks
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Fares Akram, Isabel Kershner - April 1, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian woman who spent more than 40 days on a hunger strike to protest her detention by Israel without charge or trial was released from an Israeli prison on Sunday and sent into temporary exile in Gaza under a deal reached with the Israeli authorities.

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Land Day and Gaza’s Hamas
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Dar Al-Hayat
by Abdullah Iskandar - (Opinion) April 1, 2012 - 12:00am

Two days ago, Palestinians commemorated Land Day, when on March 30, 1967, Israeli forces stormed the towns of Galilee and confronted with gunfire their Arab inhabitants who were protesting the Judaization of their region. This day has represented for the Palestinians a declaration of their attachment to their identity, their freedom and their land, not just their rejection of the occupation and its practices.

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Israeli deputy FM: Arab demos 'diplomatic terror'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
March 31, 2012 - 12:00am

JERUSALEM — Israel's deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is "political terrorism." Danny Ayalon spoke Saturday in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. He said Land Day protests are "a continuation of the diplomatic terrorism (Palestinian Authority President) Abu Mazen is using against Israel in international forums."

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IDF: Settlers in Hebron Building May Harm Security
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - March 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Fifteen settler families who moved into a vacant Palestinian apartment building in the West Bank city of Hebron early Thursday morning could create a security risk, the IDF charged. The three-story stone structure is located by a small park near the Cave of the Patriarchs, in a Palestinian neighborhood under Israeli control. Shlomo Levinger, who moved there with his seven children, said that a number of Hebron Jews had bought the building from its Palestinian owner months ago.

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