Palestinian killed in Gaza house blast: medics A Palestinian was killed and another 16 were wounded on Saturday in an early morning explosion at a house owned by a Hamas member in Gaza City, medics and witnesses said.
State Dept. Reinstates Gaza Fulbright Grants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was surprised to hear of the withdrawals, adding: ?If you cannot engage young people and give complete horizons to their expectations and their dreams, I don?t know that there would be any future for Palestine. We will take a look. I am a huge supporter of Fulbrights.?
Israel plans more settler homes The Israeli government has announced plans to build nearly 900 new housing units in a part of East Jerusalem that is considered occupied territory.
Egypt finds weapons cache near Gaza
11 Jewish teens charged with assaulting Arabs in Jerusalem Eleven Jewish teenagers have been indicted in a Jerusalem court for assaulting two Arabs teens in the city on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, in a racially-motivated hate crime.
Feature: No Children's Day in besieged Gaza Dozens of Gaza children are seen during the day selling cigarettes, biscuits and candies. Most of them say they are so poor that they have to work to help their unemployed parents.
IRAN: Former German official says war imminent He wrote a piece that appeared in today's Daily Star, an English-language Lebanese newspaper, arguing that President Bush's recent visit to the Middle East was a precursor to a war on Iran's nuclear program
Olmert stresses importance of U.S. visit The Israeli prime minister departs Monday to attend the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington, which provides an opportunity to confer with President Bush and the three candidates to succeed him.
Three Gaza militants, Israeli soldier wounded
US delegation meets Hamas leader in Gaza The delegation represented the Council for the National Interest, a group of diplomats, analysts, and businessmen who, according to the group's website, seek to counter the "over-zealous tactics of Israel's lobby" in the US.
Iran not seeking to build nuclear weapons: Putin Putin stressed that Russia was opposed to Iran achieving a nuclear-power status. "That is our principled position," he said. "Using nuclear weapons in a region as small as the Middle East would be synonymous with suicide. Whose interests would it serve? The Palestinians? Hardly, the Palestinians would cease to exist...."
Hamas warns of carrying out escalatory actions to break the siege
Hamas: Dialogue with Fatah possible only without preconditions
Israel PM delays decision on Gaza truce
Thai worker wounded in Gaza rocket strike on Israel: medics
IDF soldier moderately injured in Gaza
Hamas spokesman: Egypt not to reopen Rafah crossing
Hamas leader stresses no early elections
Assailants beat guards, steal bus from Christian school in Gaza: officials A Palestinian human rights group says assailants have beaten up guards and stolen a bus from a Christian school in Gaza.
Hamas denies getting Israel's answers on ceasefire
Islamic-era skeletons 'disappeared' from Elad-sponsored dig Dozens of skeletons from the early Islamic period were discovered during excavations near the Temple Mount, on a site slated for construction by a right-wing Jewish organization. Contrary to regulations, the skeletons were removed, and were not reported to the Ministry of Religious Services.
Robert Fisk: Horrors we have no choice but to forget I have a clear memory of a terrible crime that was committed in southern Lebanon in 1978. Israeli soldiers, landing at night on the beach near Sarafand ? the city of Sarepta in antiquity ? were looking for "terrorists" and opened fire on a car load of female Palestinian refugees.
It took the Israelis a day before they admitted shooting at the car with an anti-tank weapons
Planned Palestinian City in West Bank Faces Hurdles the state-of-the-art planned city faces big hurdles, including Israeli military objections and critics who say the West Bank is not ready for such projects.
EU supports Palestinian private sector through PEGASE PA arrears repayment scheme
Short Cuts Bethlehem thrives at the business of daily living, and it does so while existing in a state of geographical squeeze, as if a vice had been installed at every point where the bustle of the town threatens to make way for the countryside.
Gaza: Investigate Abduction, Torture by Islamic Jihad
'I kicked the Arab, I stepped on his head'
Israel Revisits Limitations on Gaza Students Israel said Friday that it would reconsider a policy that prevents Palestinian students from leaving the Gaza Strip to pursue their education overseas as the United States pushed for recipients of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship to be allowed out.
East Jerusalem Arabs detail violence they face by city's Jews
Residents of Deir Istiya prevented from planting olive trees on their land by Israeli forces
Dozens treated for tear gas inhalation at the weekly Bil'in protest
Israel?s Self-Destruction as a Jewish State Israel?s systematic colonization and annexation of the Palestinian territories over the last 40 years, and equally systematic opposition to the creation of an independent Palestinian state?no longer a serious prospect, as was evident during President?s Bush?s recent visit to Israel?have turned Israel into an Arab-Jewish state under Jewish control. A good article by William Pfaff.
Israel to launch PR campaign against Ahmadinejad visit to UN summit The Foreign Ministry has earmarked a special budget for the campaign, to be organized by the Israeli embassy in Rome and local Italian Jewish organizations.
Israel urges EU: Show 'caution' in contacts with Damascus Foreign Ministry officials are growing increasingly concerned at what they see as signs that relations between Syria and European countries are thawing following many months during which the Syrian regime was internationally isolated.
Return of soldiers' remains greets release of Hizbullah spy
'Bomber' killed by Lebanon troops A suspected suicide bomber has been shot dead by troops near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp.
The villagers of Al Khader conduct their weekly nonviolent protest
A bit of ?tough love? for Israel Should the U.S. spend billions in support as Israel usurps land and resources illegally and against U.S. policy? Do Palestinian Christians have no right to live unencumbered in the land of Jesus?
French-Swiss director pulls out of Israeli film festival
Former Israeli Cabinet minister Joseph Lapid dies Lapid sympathized with some of the things he saw going on in Hebron: Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father to the Nazi genocide, said in a weekly commentary on Israel Radio that the acts of some Hebron settlers reminded him of persecution endured by Jews in his native Yugoslavia on the eve of World War Two.
End of the line for peace in Palestine
When a scarf is not just a hip accessory Celebrities including David Beckham, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell and those rad bad Olsen twins have been spotted wearing the scarves tied loosely, casually around the neck.
Israel hangs on to Russia's Holy Land property There have been other successes as well. Together with the property in Bethlehem, the Palestinian Autonomy has also returned to Russia property in Jericho and on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. But it's only half the story. Negotiations with Israel about property on their land have not gone quite as smoothly.
Church leader in parliament The Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, will join members of the parliament?s cross-party group on Palestine to launch a Week for Peace in Palestine, from June 4 to 10.
Police halt Husseini memorial in east Jerusalem
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