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Palestinian Authority blames Gaza for deficit mess
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April 11, 2012 09:23 PM
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Paying for the upkeep of the Gaza Strip while its political rival actively blocks revenues flowing back is taking its toll on the deficit-racked Palestinian Authority. The Western-backed PA, many of whose top leaders belong to the mainstream Fatah movement, says it has poured...
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Palestinian crisis set to deepen without more aid: World Bank
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March 16, 2012 01:53 AM
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RAMALLAH: The aid-dependent Palestinian economy faces a deepening crisis unless foreign support grows and Israel eases restrictions on its trade, the World Bank said Thursday. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority is relying on foreign aid to cover a 2012 budget deficit projected to reach $1.1...
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Palestinian children suffer trauma from Israeli jails
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March 14, 2012 01:35 AM
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RAMALLAH: Of the hundreds of Palestinian children locked in Israeli jails each year, the vast majority suffer nightmares, bed-wetting and anxiety after their release, Save the Children said in a report published Tuesday. The charity said that since 2000, the Israeli army had detained more than...
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Palestinian woman on hunger strike in prison
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February 27, 2012 10:35 PM
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RAMALLAH: A Palestinian woman, released by Israel in a prisoner swap last year but re-arrested earlier this month and held without charge, is on a hunger strike to protest at her treatment. Hana Shalabi started refusing to eat 12 days ago, her lawyer and a Palestinian prisoners's organisation...
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Palestinians unmoved by Israel’s border presentation
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January 28, 2012 01:08 AM
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH: Israel has presented Palestinians with its ideas for the borders and security arrangements of a future Palestinian state, in a bid to keep exploratory talks alive, Palestinian and Israeli sources said Friday. However, Palestinian officials said the verbal...
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Palestinian woman says locked in bathroom for 10 years
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January 23, 2012 08:57 PM
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RAMALLAH: A 21-year-old Palestinian woman has told authorities she was locked in a bathroom for the past decade by her father, who let her out only in the dead of night so she could clean their house. "People are monsters," Baraa Melhem said her father would tell her, according to...
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Arab Spring maelstrom gives renewed impetus to resuming peace talks
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January 12, 2012 01:27 AM
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RAMALLAH: Uncertainty sweeping the Middle East is raising pressure to restart the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process and tackle one big problem in the region that major powers believe they could, just, fix – given enough trust on both sides. The next two weeks may be crucial....
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Israeli rabbi deserves death- ex Palestinian prisoner
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December 19, 2011 11:20 PM
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DAHYIAT EL BARID, WEST BANK: A Palestinian prisoner released by Israel on Sunday as part of a swap for a captive soldier said the influential rabbi he was jailed for plotting to assassinate deserves to die. Salah Hamouri, 26, was one of 550 prisoners freed on Sunday to complete a deal in which...
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Palestinian artist offers to stamp passports at Ramallah bus station
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May 31, 2011 02:10 AM
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RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank: It is like no other passport control on earth. No stern official sitting behind a glass wall, no scanning of travel documents, no terse questions about where you are going. Instead, a lone artist greets arriving visitors and politely asks them if they would like an...
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