Category: Middle East

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96% of Gaza’s water unfit for use

January 8, 2015 Headline 695

Some 96 per cent of Gaza’s underground water is unusable as it does not comply with global standards, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) said yesterday. In a statement, the authority said that the water situation…

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Abbas accepts gradual Israeli withdrawal

January 29, 2014 Headline 835

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Palestinians could accept an Israeli military presence in the West Bank for a three-year transition period as part of a peace deal.  But Abbas says “whoever proposes 10 or 15…

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Ariel Sharon: Warrior or war criminal?

January 13, 2014 Headline 853

  We discuss the complex legacy of Israel’s controversial former statesman and army commander. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being remembered, both by those who loved and loathed him. The soldier-turned-statesman died on…

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Israel’s Ariel Sharon dies at 85

January 11, 2014 Headline 710

Former Israeli prime minister dies eight years after going into a coma following a stroke.   He was 85 years old and had been in a coma since 2006, when a stroke incapacitated him at…

Photo shows Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian journalist for filming a demonstration in Kafr Qadum, before they arrested and detained him for 2 days [June 2013]
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Israel arrested 4,000 Palestinians in 2013

December 24, 2013 Headline 697

Israeli occupation authorities arrested approximately 4,000 Palestinians, including parliamentarians, women, children and patients, in 2013. The vast majority of those arrested are from the occupied West Bank, with only a small number from the Gaza…