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Intensive bombardment of houses, schools
Most victims are children, women
On Tuesday Israeli air strikes targeted more houses and schools which people are using as shelters, increasing the number of civilian victims, namely children and women.
Pope meets Abbas and calls for Palestinian homeland
"I know how much you have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of the turmoil that has afflicted this land for decades. My heart goes out to all the families who have lost so much," he said
Why Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Israeli universities
A Palestinian academic union urges British colleagues to back a boycott in support of 'our struggle for justice'
Palestinian academics have been heartened by the outpouring of solidarity with our people on the part of British academics and students – the latter attested to by the creative "student occupation movement" in the wake of the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinian people in Gaza last December and January.
Free Gaza Movement wants boat from the UAE for next flotilla
DUBAI- Huwaida Arraf, a key member of the Free Gaza Movement, said the group is raising money and organising for another and hopefully bigger flotilla that would cross the Mediterranean to Gaza. 

Israeli settlements cover 42% of West Bank
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Jewish settlements control more than 42 per cent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli supreme court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday. 

Host countries to play role in refugee solution – Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that any solution to the refugee issue will be decided in coordination with Jordan and all other concerned countries, the Jordan News Agency, Petra reported. 

Israel's Barak meets Palestinian PM
JERUSALEM - Israeli War Minister Ehud Barak was on Monday holding a rare meeting with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad at a hotel in Jerusalem, officials on both sides said.  

Settlers worry about impact of Palestinian boycott
Tel Aviv- Israeli settler and industrialist Avi Elkayam, 35, has no patience with the Palestinian boycott of settlement products. "It's economic terrorism," he shouts shaking his fist.  

UN official: Frustration in Gaza at 'bursting point'
TOKYO - Frustration among refugees in Gaza has reached "bursting point" with further unrest likely unless Israel lifts its blockade against them immediately, the head of a UN aid body said Friday.  

Gaza gets chocolate but no cement as embargo 'eases'
GAZA - If you have cash to spare in Gaza, you can treat your children to new varieties of chocolate Israel has just let in for the first time in a few years, or splash out on new tableware it allowed into the territory this week. 

Abbas voices frustration over Israel peace talks
JERUSALEM - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of stalling the peace process, in remarks published on Thursday by several Israeli newspapers.  

Israeli air strikes hit 3 sites in Gaza
Gaza – Israeli aircraft shelled two locations in the southern Gaza Strip and one in the north Thursday morning, damaging the already destroyed Yasser Arafat International Airport, a residential area and an empty field.  

Israeli forces arrest 9 Palestinians in the West Bank
Ramallah- Israeli occupation forces arrested Tuesday 9 Palestinians in the West Bank. 

Hamas police raid Gaza bank
GAZA CITY- Hamas police raided a Gaza bank and seized $16,000 on Sunday after the lender refused to obey a court order to release the funds, a bank official said.  

Gaza factories remain paralyzed despite Israel pledge to ease blockade
GAZA-After three years of deadlock, Palestinian businesses are hoping for a better future. But some fear that the new Israeli trade rules could actually mean a fresh squeeze. Donald Macintyre reports from Gaza City 

Israeli occupation troops seize oxygen machines bound for Gaza hospitals
GAZA- According to officials with the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry, Israeli forces have seized seven oxygen machines bound for hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The machines were donated by the Norwegian Development Agency. 

Palestinians launch first women's radio station
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Entrepreneurs in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday launched the first-ever Palestinian radio station devoted to women.  

Israeli Arab MPs receive death threats over flotilla
NAZARETH- The letter that arrived in Ahmed Tibi’s in-tray last week warned him he had only “180 days to live” and that his death would be “cruel and accompanied by terrible suffering and agony”.  

Israel plans more 'desecration' of Muslim site
NAZARETH- Israeli authorities are pressing ahead with plans to build a courthouse complex on a large historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that is already at the center of protest over plans to locate a "Museum of Tolerance" there.  

Hamas demands complete lift of Israeli siege
GAZA CITY - Hamas on Thursday dismissed an Israeli plan to ease the land blockade of the Gaza enclave as a PR stunt and called for the complete lifting of all restrictions.  

Israel moves to ease four-year siege on Gaza
TEL AVIV - Israel on Thursday approved a plan to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip after weeks of international pressure, but provided few details on what new goods would be allowed in.  

Israeli army team to 'examine' deadly flotilla raid
TEL AVIV - Israel's army announced late Monday the creation of a team of high-ranking officials charged with examining and learning from the deadly May 31 operation against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.  

Israel navy kills four Palestinians off Gaza
GAZA CITY - Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinians at sea off Gaza on Monday, medical sources and witnesses said.  
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