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NEWS ABOUT: Palestinian people

Palestinian people stories: 9 news summaries

 Palestinians, Jews 
 Clash at Holy Site 

Civilians, police injured in Jerusalem confrontation

Sep 28, 09 3:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Palestinian civilians and Israeli police were injured when Jews and Arabs clashed at a Jerusalem holy site yesterday. Palestinians praying at the site—which includes the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques—pelted a Jewish group with rocks, leading police to respond with stun grenades, reports CNN. The Palestinians'... More »

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Israel • Jerusalem • Israel and Palestinians • al Aqsa • Palestinian people • Temple Mount • Dome of the Rock • Arab-Israeli conflict

 Tehran Rally Turns Violent 

Opposition uses government-sponsored demonstration to protest June election

Sep 18, 09 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A government-backed rally in Tehran turned violent today, the BBC reports, after opposition supporters turned out to protest June’s disputed presidential election and clashed with security forces. A state news said opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi was attacked and tear gas used during the event, intended to demonstrate support for... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Palestinian people • political demonstrations • tear gas • Mir Hossein Mousavi

Gaza Fighting Continues After 3-Hour Break

Militant rocket fire breaks lull, Israel says

Jan 7, 09 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Fighting resumed in Gaza today after a 3-hour ceasefire, the Times of London reports. The lull was broken by a rocket attack launched by Palestinian militants into the Israeli city of Beersheba, Israeli officials said. The Israeli military plans to halt fighting every day from 1-4pm (local time) to allow... More »

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Gaza • Israel and Palestinians • Red Cross • Palestinians • assault • Palestinian people • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Using US 
 Smart Bombs 
 on Gaza 

Petite missile one of the world's most precise

Dec 29, 08 7:02 AM CST
(Newser) - The new low-cost, high-precision missiles Israel has been using to bombard Gaza were purchased recently from the United States, the Jerusalem Post reports. In September, the Israel Air Force purchased 1,000 units of the GBU-39, a bunker-buster missile whose small diameter helps minimize collateral damage, earning it a rep... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • bombing • Israel and Palestinians • missile • Palestinian people • bunker busting bombs

 Israel Bombs 
 Gaza Supply Tunnels 

Egypt begins stopping Palestinians from entering

Dec 28, 08 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - As Gaza air strikes raged on for a second day, Israel said it bombed more than 40 Palestinian supply tunnels used to transport weapons, BBC reports. Palestine said one tunnel intended to carry fuel from Egypt to Gaza had been destroyed. Fleeing the southern strip into Egypt, hundreds of Palestinians... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Egypt • bombing • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinian people • militant • tunnels • Gaza Egypt border

Pop Culture Battles Fundamentalists in Gaza

Western imports ease daily stress, but fuel the fundamentalists' ire

Sep 7, 08 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Culture is the quiet battleground in Gaza, where Jennifer Lopez pouts on CD covers beside religious paperbacks on store shelves, the New York Times reports. Combating daily food shortages and feeling isolated, Gazans escape with soap operas, sitcoms, and music—homegrown or imported from the West. But recent incidents—from... More »

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television • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • culture • Noor TV • Palestinian people • culture wars

Gaza in Worst Crisis in
40 Years, Charities Warn

Blockade destroying jobs, food supplies

Mar 6, 08 5:19 AM CST
(Newser) - As Israeli and Palestinian leaders tentatively prepared to resume peace talks, a new report by a coalition of British charities warns of a crushing humanitarian crisis in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The international consensus to isolate Hamas has led to unemployment, medical shortages and hunger worse than at any time... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Israel and Palestinians • Palestinian people • Gaza blockade

Israel Pulls Out of Gaza
on Eve of Rice Visit

Two-day 'interval' during Rice's Mideast visit

Mar 3, 08 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip today after five days of fighting that left over 100 Palestinians dead. Hamas is exulting over its "victory" over the "army of Jews," but Israeli leaders say the operation has served its deterrent purpose. A "two-day interval" is... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Condoleezza Rice • Palestinian people • rocket fire

Columbia Prez Lays Into Ahmadinejad

Head of state answers ‘unfriendly’ intro with contentious talk

Sep 24, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared today at Columbia University, where the school’s president called the Iranian president “a petty and cruel dictator” and excoriated him for his human rights rap sheet, Holocaust denial—which Lee Bollinger called "simply ridiculous"—and nuclear ambitions. The visitor smiled as Bollinger spoke,... More »

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Columbia University • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Holocaust • warrantless wiretapping • Lee Bollinger • Palestinian people • atom bomb

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