Bei einem Selbstmordanschlag auf ein Armeegebäude in der irakischen Hauptstadt Bagdad sind heute mindestens acht Menschen getötet worden, 25 weitere wurden verletzt.

War Propaganda wins the Academy Award

A mother who had been stranded in Gaza was allowed to return to her husband and sick 3-year-old daughter in the West Bank on Thursday.

Tel Aviv (Fars News) - Laut der israelischen Zeitung Haaretz hat die finanzielle Unterstützung der USA für Israel im laufenden Jahr 3 Milliarden Dollar betragen.

Die Palästinenser in Ostbeitolmoqaddas sind Opfer der Diskriminierungen der Zionisten.

Die Regierung des zionistischen Regimes hat am Sonntag die Ernennung von Joav Galant zum neuen Generalstabschef gebilligt.

Palästinenser und Israelis haben sich darauf geeinigt, dass die nächste Runde direkter Verhandlungen am 14. September dieses Jahres im ägyptischen Scharm-el-Scheich am Roten Meer stattfindet.

At least 18 people, none of them Americans, are killed and 39 wounded in the attack by insurgents. The incident comes five days after President Obama declares an end to US combat operations in Iraq.

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“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”

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Israeli war planes have bombarded the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis and tunnels in the city of Rafah, leaving a number of people wounded.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- An Israeli human rights organization issued a report Sunday stating that Palestinian citizens in the occupied city of Jerusalem are “selectively” subject to “unacceptable” practices and violations by Israeli authorities.

Palestinian negotiators will not sign a peace deal with Israel unless it includes the Gaza Strip, the PLO envoy to the United States reiterated ahead of the first round of negotiations in Washington.

A new round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis has just begun in the United States. The summer was one of kite-flying, on the one hand in the form of indirect contacts between the two sides so as not to further provoke Palestinians sick of the Israeli Occupation and the incompetence of the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli troops took over a house belonging to the family of Ahmed Ghannam at Kharsa junction in the city, locked up all members of the family in one room, confiscated their cell phones and cut home phone cords. ... In a separate incident on the same day, the IOF troops closed the entrances to Iraq Burin village, south of Nablus city, and declared it a closed military zone.

The United Nations officials have finished the Jordan part of the world body`s investigation into Israel`s recent attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy.

Al-Ahrar center for the defense of prisoners revealed that Israeli intelligence officers interrogated the Hamas detainees, who were kidnapped lately as a result of the three resistance operations that took place last week, in the Palestinian authority`s jails.

(PIC)-- Palestinian National Initiative Secretary-General Mustafa Barghouti says Israeli settlement activities “are well under way” despite recent peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.

(PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces provided with aerial cover stormed at dawn Sunday Issawiya district in occupied Jerusalem firing rubber bullets, stun and tear gas grenades at Palestinian homes.

As we all know, in addition to the hard running violence in demonstrations against the occupation, one of the key tools of repression against the popular movement is the mass arrests - along with bogus trials that lead to long periods of confinement in prisons in the West Bank and Israel.

Direct formal Middle East peace talks begin in Washington tomorrow, after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had separate meetings with Barack Obama at the White House today.

Israel has not returned the bodies of two Palestinians killed 41 years ago in the northern West Bank, relatives said Sunday.

A man from the Salfit district accused Israeli soldiers Sunday of stealing jewelry from his car at a West Bank checkpoint.

...Ahmadinejad said negotiations were "doomed to fail." He said Abbas lacked the legitimacy to "make concessions" on behalf of the Palestinian people and accused him of being a hostage of Israel.

Israel sollte nach Ansicht des Chefs der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, über einen Beitritt zum Atomwaffensperrvertrag nachdenken.

Gaza medics have retrieved the body of a second Palestinian killed when Israel`s air force struck the southern Strip overnight, officials said Sunday morning.

After the shooting of four Israelis near Hebron on Tuesday, an Israeli army official said new attacks were likely and the upcoming period would be "even more tense."

Bei drei israelischen Luftangriffen auf Ziele im Süden des Gazastreifens ist mindestens ein Palästinenser getötet und drei weitere verletzt worden.

I traveled to Ni’ilin as well as Nabi Salih, to document and support friends at the sites of struggle.

At least four people were injured in the airstrikes in Rafah and three others are missing, a Press TV correspondent quoted witnesses as saying. Israeli jets are still flying low over the Gaza Strip, and the Gazans are bracing for more attacks.

Nach Ansicht des US-Botschafters in Bagdad, "James Jeffrey, haben die Verzögerungen bei der Regierungsbildung im Irak keine Auswirkungen auf die Sicherheitslage in diesem Land.

Die irakische Nationalkoalition hat angekündigt, dass sich die Mitglieder dieser Koalition bei einer Sitzung am Donnerstag über die Kandidatur von Abdul-Mahdi für den Posten des neuen irakischen Ministerpräsidenten geeinigt haben.

Neuer Botschafter der Islamischen Republik Iran im Irak hat bei Treffen mit den Botschaftern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Türkei in Bagdad über die Bildung einer neuen Regierung im Irak gesprochen.

Türkei (IRINN) - Im Falle einer Fortsetzung der Gazablockade, werden 50 Schiffe aus den USA, Kanada und anderen europäischen Ländern nach Gaza geschickt.

(PIC)-- Ezzat Al-Resheq, member of Hamas`s political bureau, said on Thursday that members and supporters of Hamas who where kidnapped in the wake of the attack on Israeli settlers last Tuesday were subjected to severe torture sessions in the jails of the PA in the West Bank. He added that the armed militias of Abbas in the West Bank have kidnapped nearly 600 Hamas supporters and leaders since Tuesday after the Qassam Brigades armed attack on Israeli settlers in Al-Khalil city that left four of them dead.

(PIC)-- An Algerian ship loaded with aid for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip has arrived on Thursday at the Egyptian port of al-Areesh where the cargo will be unloaded and transported by land to the Gaza Strip.

PIC)-- Palestinian resistance factions in occupied Palestine have hailed Thursday the attack on the Israeli occupation in Al-Khalil and Ramallah cities in the West Bank on Tuesday and Wednesday, considering them as natural retaliation to Israeli crimes against the Palestinian citizens there.

(PIC)-- IOF troops on Friday occupied two houses belonging Palestinians near the Keryat Arba` Jewish settlement in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to local sources.

...Dahlan told me: “We know that Netanyahu signed a letter to [Likud MK and minister] Benny Begin and others promising them not to extend the settlement freeze.” The letter, Dahlan explained, confirmed a secret deal that the premier had made with Begin. Dahlan added that Netanyahu’s plan was to reveal the existence of the letter when the nine-month period of the freeze elapses, and say: “‘Look, I signed this as an earlier commitment, and before we entered direct talks. I can’t back out now, it would be at a huge political cost for me.’”

On Sunday, September 5th, the Haifa District Court will resume hearing testimonies in a civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza.

(PIC)-- A Palestinian academic was taken to hospital late Thursday night after deterioration in his health while in a PA security detention center in Ramallah. Aziz Haroun Kayed, who also served as an undersecretary in the tenth government, was arrested by the PA security on 1 July 2010, according to the National Committee for the Defence of Prisoners in PA Jails.

Israeli soldiers raided a house in Hebron and converted it into a military base on Friday afternoon, residents said.

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti told Reuters that Palestinian infighting should be the current priority, and not peace talks, which he said were destined to fail.

The home of a Jerusalem activist was raided and one man detained on Thursday night, family members said, adding that soldiers confiscated his mobile phone and personal computer during the raid.

Hezbollah Secretary General has described resistance as the only way to bring an end to the Israeli occupation and to liberate Jerusalem.

Global Player, weltweit aktive Konzerne, die Milliarden-Umsätze machen, können sehr feige sein. Deutschlands größter Baustoffehersteller HeidelbergCement hat das auf peinliche Weise unter Beweis gestellt.

(PIC)-- The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemned, in a statement on Thursday, the continuous arrest campaigns, which have been carried out by the Palestinian security services against members and supporters of Hamas in the West Bank.

The latest campaign of arrests against Hamas members and its supporters which started after the attack on settlers in al-Khalil has continued with the number of people arrested exceeding 600.

On 10 Aug. `10, soldiers sealed three Palestinian-owned shops in Hebron. The action was part of the Israeli authorities’ separation policy in the center of Hebron, which is aimed at protecting settlements erected there. This policy entails physical and legal segregation between the Israeli settlers and the Palestinian majority, as well as extensive and harsh restrictions on movement of Palestinians and systematic refusal to enforce law and order on settlers who attack Palestinians.

When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more over the years. We Palestinians were banned from traveling to Israel, the land where many of our parents were born. And now I find I cannot leave the West Bank.

Hebron Some thoughts on last night’s deadly shooing attack in Hebron: The four Israeli settlers who were killed were civilians, noncombatants, and therefore their murder is to be condemned. But I want to talk analytically about the attack:

Pfc. Aluf Benn spent his years in the army in the Military Police in Lebanon. Yesterday, with commendable courage, he revealed his military routines in these pages (“When I was Eden Abergil“). He handcuffed and blindfolded people countless times and led many detainees to their cages. He saw detainees eating like dogs, as he put it – crouching with their hands tied behind their backs – and smelled their sweat and urine.

Dozens of Palestinians together with Israeli and international solidarity activists demonstrated against Elad’s settlement activity in the Silwan neighborhood of Wadi Hilweh today. The protest was staged in response to Elad’s open day event at the City of David, that hosted a range of both Israeli and international speakers in support of the project.

Beirut (Farsnews) - Der Generalsekretär der libanesischen Hisbollah wird am heutigen Nachmittag eine wichtige Ansprache zum El-Kuds-Tag sowie die Verbrechen Israels an den Palästinensern und die Direkt-Gespräche in Washington halten.

Beirut (Farsnews) - Im Südlibanon ist es am heutigen Freitag zu einer heftigen Explosion gekommen.

Tel Aviv (Farsnews) - Die israelische Tageszeitung Haaretz hat angesichts der Aufnahme von neuen Nahostgesprächen in Washington geschrieben, Mahmud Abbas ist nicht in der Lage, Forderungen an Israel zu stellen.

Beitolmoqaddas (Farsnews) - 120 Tausend Palästinenser haben sich am letzten Freitag im Fastenmonat Ramadan in der Al-Aqsa-Moschee und deren Umgebung eingefunden und das Freitagsgebet verrichtet.

KANAL 10, einer von Israels drei Fernsehkanälen, strahlte in dieser Woche einen Bericht aus, der sicherlich viele Leute in Schrecken versetzte. Sein Titel war "Wer organisiert den weltweiten Hass gegen die Israel-Bewegung?" und sein Inhalt war: Dutzende von Gruppen verschiedener Länder, die eine rigorose Propagandakampagne für die Palästinenser und gegen Israel ausführen. Von Uri Avnery.

Gaza (IRIB/APA) - Angesichts der Aufnahme von erneuten Direkt-Gesprächen zwischen Israel und der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde am gestrigen Donnerstag in Washington, haben mehrere Palästinensergruppen Israel mit neuer Gewalt gedroht.

"Palgaz | September 02, 2010

Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip have pledged to continue resistance against Israel, condemning direct talks between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority.

Silwan is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem just outside of the old city walls. The streets of the neighborhood are narrow and steep as most of the houses lie on either side of a deep gorge. The people and the geography of Silwan are unforgiving. Various settler organizations have been taking over Silwan house by house for years with the full assistance and permission of the Israeli goverenment.

(PIC)-- Six demonstrators were abducted Wednesday evening when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) suppressed a protest march against Zionist groups who recently seized houses in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem

Based on the past months of popular struggle in the West Bank which have included countless demonstrations, arrests, house raids, injuries and trips to the military courts, I find myself asking whether Israelis would like things to be better.

Attacks by Hamas` armed wing will continue "in any form and in any place,” including inside Israel and in Gaza, a spokesman said Thursday.

Last night (1 Sept. 2010) around 150 to 175 Israeli settlers, many armed, constructed an illegal outpost at a new location in the Baqa’a valley, east of Hebron, and attempted to harass a Palestinian family.

A Palestinian worker in Israel, from the southern West Bank town of Dura in the Hebron district, said he was attacked on Wednesday by his Israeli coworkers.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemned Thursday the ongoing arrest campaign by the Palestinian Authority against Hamas supporters in the West Bank since Tuesday’s attack in Hebron.

Israel hat sich bei der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde für ihre Zusammenarbeit bei der Niederschlagung von Mitgliedern der islamisch-palästinensischen Widerstandsbewegung Hamas in Westjordanland bedankt.

As the principals were in Washington for the re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks, a third nighttime attack on Israeli settlers driving in the West Bank occurred at around 9pm on Thursday night, in the northern West Bank near the large settement of Ariel.

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in northern Gaza Thursday, following earlier reports that Israeli patrols and bulldozers entered the area.

Der Kriegsminister des zionistischen Regimes gab bekannt, Israel wird letzten Endes dazu gezwungen, einen Teil von Bait-ul-Mughaddas den Palästinensern zu überlassen.

Der Al-Aqsa Fernsehsender berichtet von einer großen Verhaftungswelle von Gegnern der Direkt-Gespräche mit Israel durch die Fatah im Westjordland.

„Netanjahu und Abbas wollen Frieden in einem Jahr“ heißt es in einem Online Artikel der Welt vom heutigen Abend. Und weiter: Lichtblick für den Nahen Osten: Der israelische

If artists bring up political considerations, politicians may do same, intervene in art`s content, Minister Livnat says

Hundreds of Israeli settlers started last night building a new settlement on the territory of the farming village of “Baq’a”, east of Hebron in the West Bank.

PIC)-- Families of five Al-Khalil detainees held by Abbas’s intelligence militia in the Jericho prison are calling on human rights organizations to step in on the Jericho prison administration to improve humanitarian conditions inside the prison.

PIC)-- Hamas Movement strongly denounced the frenzied arrest campaign being carried out by the Palestinian authority`s security militias in the West Bank in search of the resistance fighters who carried out Al-Khalil operation on Tuesday, describing it as a national crime.

Palestinian Authority claims arrests of 300 Hamas members in response to killing of settlers

(PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed full responsibility for the second shooting attack which rendered two Israeli settlers wounded in Ramallah city on Wednesday evening, saying it was part of the "torrent of fire" operations it promised to carry out in retaliation to the settlers` ongoing crimes against the Palestinians.

Israel carries out an incursion into the Gaza Strip on the first day of the renewed reconciliation talks between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Anyone in his right mind knows that the present round of Direct ‘Peace Talks’ is doomed to failure. Anyone with an open mind can see that the parties involved in these talks represent the same points of view…. that of Israel.

Unmittelbar vor Beginn der Nahost-Friedensverhandlungen in den USA haben jüdische Siedler den bis zum 26. September geltenden Baustopp im Westjordanland aufgekündigt. In mehreren Siedlungen sind Zementmixer und schwere Baufahrzeuge im Einsatz.

The leading settler group, City of David, is using archeology as a means of disposing hundreds of Palestinian families their homes. The State of Israel has decided that archeology rubble is more important than Palestinian homes and has regularly demolished houses in the name of protecting archeology ruin. The ELAD group is a leading investor in the creation of archeology parks which function as cover for settlers to take over more land in Silwan.

Bei gewalttätigen Auseinandersetzungen am Mittwoch wurden fünf Menschen, davon vier Polizisten, im Irak getötet.

Die palästinensische Widerstandsbewegung Hamas hat die Erhöhung der Raketen-Reichweite für die Unter-Beschussnahme der besetzten Gebiete auf 80 Kilometer gemeldet.

Tel Aviv (IRIB/IMEMC) – Das zionistische Regime hat die Statistik über die seit Beginn der zweiten Intifada der Al Aqsa-Moschee getöteten Israelis veröffentlicht und mit 542 angegeben.

An Israeli military court of appeal rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, an anti-wall activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, supporters said Wednesday.

Hamas` armed wing has claimed responsibility for the second shooting attack in two days which injured two Israeli citizens near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening.

Ovadia Yosef is the spiritual leader of hundreds of thousands of haredi orthodox Jews who give him automatic and nearly absolute allegiance. This week, he lashed out at the Palestinians, saying that they should all be annihilated. "May God destroy them with a plague," said the elderly rabbi.

In Washington starten heute die ersten Zusammenkünfte von Netanyahu und Abbas, die zu einjährigen Verhandlungen führen sollen an deren Ende ein möglicher Nahost-(Teil-)Friede stehen könnte.

Bevor die von den Vereinigten Staaten initiierten Nahost-Friedensgespräche überhaupt beginnen – ist absehbar, dass diese scheitern.

2716 Tage nach dem Beginn des Feldzuges der USA in den Irak gab der US-Präsident am Dienstagabend das Ende dieses Krieges bekannt.

Der Stadtrat der zionistischen Siedlungsbewohner nimmt mit dem Vorwand der Tötung von vier Zionisten den Siedlungsbau im Westjordanland wieder auf.

Obwohl die Direktgespräche zwischen Israel und der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde noch nicht aufgenommen wurden, gab Israels Premier die Nichtverlängerung des Moratoriums für den Siedlungsbau im Westjordanland bekannt.

A Palestinian young man was killed due to the collapse of a tunnel linking Egyptian territory and the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. According to Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency Sectors in Gaza, that the young gazan, Abdul Latif Abu Toyoor (16 years), arrived to the hospital of Abu Yousef Al Najjar as a dead body after a tunnel collapsed on him.

Israeli police arrested two foreign peace activists and Israelis during a demonstration by more than two hundred of these activists in the town of Silwan, South of Al Aqsa mosque, in solidarity with the residents of the town and to condemn the regular attacks of Israeli settlers on them.

Approximately 50 Israeli settlers attacked the home of a Palestinian family near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement on Wednesday, reportedly in response to the killing of four Israelis one day earlier.

Der Ministerpräsident und der Staatspräsident des Irak haben die Stärke der irakischen Kräfte bei der Gewährleistung der Sicherheit und Stabilität in diesem Land betont.

Die Verschlechterung der politischen Beziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Israel zeigt nun auch wirtschaftliche Folgen. Der israelische Tourismus in die Türkei ist praktisch zusammengebrochen.

Frieden in Nahost – das ist das offizielle Ziel des Gipfels in Washington. Ob dies aber auch im Interesse aller Beteiligten ist wird zunehmend angezweifelt.

Gaza (Farsnews) - Ein Parlamentsabgeordneter der islamisch-palästinensischen Widerstandsbewegung Hamas hat den gestrigen Anschlag auf ein Fahrzeug mit zionistischen Siedlern nahe Khalil im Westjordanland mit vier Toten als einzigen Weg zur Konfrontation mit dem jüdischen Siedlungsbau bezeichnet.

Following yesterday’s fatal attack on 4 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, responsibility for which was claimed by the military wing of Hamas, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev informed Al Jazeera that this episode was evidence of how all Israelis are now considered equally valid targets—with no mention of course that Israelis not located on illegal settlements have in recent years generally been targeted by Hamas only following Israeli breakage of ceasefires, and that such targeting during the Gaza War of 2008-09 resulted in the deaths of 3 Israeli civilians compared to over 1200 Palestinian civilians.

Ramallah (Farsnews) - Bei einer Demonstration im Westjordanland haben Hunderte Palästinenser gegen die Aufnahme neuer so genannter Friedensgespräche zwischen der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde und Israel protestiert.

The fact that he is old is no excuse. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said, in a sermon at a synagogue in Jerusalem this weekend, a few days before last-ditch efforts to hold Israeli-Palestinian direct talks in Washington, that “Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] and all these evil people should perish from this world …

At a time of increasing settler violence in the West Bank, the International Solidarity Movement is issuing an urgent call for volunteers to participate in the 2010 Olive Harvest Campaign at the invitation of Palestinian communities.

(PIC)-- The Hamas Movement strongly denounced Salam Fayyad for vowing to protect the Israeli settlers following Al-Khalil operation, stressing that anyone trying to harm the Palestinian resistance would be deemed as a traitor.

PNN - The Hamas movement announced that the Palestinian Authority security forces had arrested over 250 of the movement’s members from deferent parts of if the West Bank.

Eigentlich hätte er sich wie ein Palästinenser fühlen müssen...Yedioth Ahronoth`s Atta Awisat asked to strip during security check. `I felt like a prisoner in Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq,` he says. Later, President Peres personally apologizes to him

PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) ramped up Wednesday morning security measures on West Bank checkpoints, especially at posts surrounding the city of Nablus, as Israeli settlers spread along the road between Nablus and Ramallah early morning.

Der Israelische Brigade-General Oded Tira, früher IDF Artillerie-Chef, empfiehlt in der hebräischen Ausgabe von HAARETZ die Zeit kurz vor den US-Kongresswahlen als geeigneten Zeitpunkt für einen Angriff auf den Iran.

(PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed full responsibility for Al-Khalil operation that led to the death of four Israeli settlers on Tuesday evening and stressed it was carried out in retaliation to the constant attacks waged on West Bank villages and towns by the settlers.

Hotline for Migrant Workers says low number of requests for residency `proves figures presented by Yishai were inflated,` adding that `500 children will not change the State of Israel`s character`

(PIC)-- As de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas ventures into futile negotiations with Israel, the U.S. has given Israel the green light to resume construction in 57 Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli sources said, despite the alleged decision to freeze settlement activity until September 26.

Palästinensische Widerstandskämpfer haben vier Zionisten im Westjordanland getötet.

Palestine is belligerently occupied. Threats continue against Iran and Syria as well as Lebanon, specifically Hezbollah, elected partner in the nation`s unity government, bogusly designated a US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), what Israel also calls it, repeating veiled and overt warnings, suggesting violence or an impending attack.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, faces a crisis of credibility among his own people as he heads into direct talks with Israel in Washington this week.

The building of new Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory will be one of the key and determining issues in upcoming peace talks that will be held in the US capital Washington DC.

Ramallah (Farsnews) - Die islamisch-palästinensische Widerstandsbewegung Hamas hat die jüngste Aktion gegen Israelis in der Stadt Al Khalil im Westjordanland als natürliche Reaktion auf die Verbrechen des zionistischen Regimes bezeichnet.

Israeli authorities issued warrants ordered Bedouin families lodging in tents and sheds on land between Jericho and Jerusalem to leave the area by June 2011.

Der Irak hat nach den Worten von Ministerpräsident Maliki mit dem Abzug der amerikanischen Kampfverbände seine Unabhängigkeit wiedererhalten.

Dozens of Israeli settlers broke car windows on Tuesday evening and cut down several olive trees, hours after four Israelis were killed in a shooting near an illegal West Bank settlement in Hebron, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Kurz vor Beginn neuer direkter Gespräche zwischen der palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde und Israel hat es in der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman ein Geheimtreffen zwischen Israels Kriegsminister Ehud Barak und dem Chef der Palästinenserbehörde Mahmud Abbas gegeben.

Extremistische jüdische Siedler haben palästinensische Landwirte im Westjordanland mit scharfen Waffen angegriffen und sie aufgefordert ihre Wohnungen und Gebiete dort zu verlassen.

Der Chef des Hamas-Politbüros Khaled Maschaal hat erklärt, für die Lösung des Palästinaproblems sind wir auf die Unterstützung der Türkei angewiesen.

Kurz vor Ende des US-Einsatzes im Irak reiste US-Vizepräsident Biden nach Bagdad.

Kurz vor Ende des US-Einsatzes im Irak reiste US-Vizepräsident Biden nach Bagdad.