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Israel steamed after Google starts using the word ‘Palestine’ across its products
Israel on Friday questioned Internet giant Google’s decision to replace the term “Palestinian Territories” with “Palestine” on the Palestinian www.google.ps page, after last year’s UN decision to award Palestine observer status. “This change raises questions about the reasons behind this surprising involvement of what is basically a private Internet company…
UN elevates Palestine to a ‘nonmember observer state’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinians fired in the air, whistled and embraced each other in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday after the General Assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. As the votes were cast, there was silence among the thousands gathered in the West Bank…
Four Gaza rockets hit Israel after militant killed
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Four rockets fired from Gaza crashed into southern Israel on Sunday without harming anyone, Israeli police said, hours after an air strike killed a Hamas militant. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP two rockets fell in open areas within the Eshkol district which flanks the…
Noam Chomsky makes first visit to Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky reportedly called for an end to Israel’s siege of Gaza, on his first ever visit to the Hamas-ruled enclave on Thursday. Chomsky, who was in the Gaza Strip for a conference at the Islamic University, called “to end the…
Palestinians set first private sector minimum wage
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian government on Tuesday approved a minimum wage of 1,450 shekels ($376, 290 euros) a month for the private sector, labour minister Ahmed Majdalani said. “This is an unprecedented decision… on which we can build,” Majdalani told AFP, dismissing criticism that the rate was to…
One dead in Israeli air strike on Gaza: medic
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories — One Palestinian was killed and nine others wounded on Sunday in an Israeli air strike that targeted a motorbike in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources told AFP. “One citizen was killed and five others, including two children, were wounded by an Israeli aircraft that…
Palestinians say Romney peace remarks ‘unacceptable’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Tuesday that comments by US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that the Palestinians did not want peace were “absolutely unacceptable.” “We consider these statements absolutely unacceptable,” he told AFP. A recording released on Tuesday shows Romney telling donors that the Palestinians…
American and European activists to try again with Palestinian visit
US and European activists insisted Tuesday on making a new attempt to go to Palestinian territories, two days after Israel and Jordan barred them from entering the West Bank to deliver aid to students. “We are thinking of going in December to the Palestinian areas to break the siege on…
Palestinian inmate becomes a father after smuggling sperm to wife
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories — A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife. Baby Muhannad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two…
Palestinian leadership says Gaza tunnels a ‘threat’
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian Authority has condemned the network of smuggling tunnels between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt as a “threat” to security and lauded Cairo’s campaign to seal them. Speaking a week after a deadly attack which killed 16 Egyptian border police in northern Sinai, Tayeb Abdelrahim, chief…
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