News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 87
MIDEAST: Critical Healthcare Fails to Recover
- Inter Press Service
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that unless the siege of Gaza is lifted and a political solution implemented, Gaza's badly damaged health system will go from very bad to worse.
MIDEAST: Non-Story Sets Off Ripples of Trouble
- Inter Press Service
It's not so much the proverbial making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill, but Israel finds itself climbing out of a stinky dung heap and onto a slippery diplomatic minefield.
LEBANON: Shattered Camp Revives Under Military Eyes
- Inter Press Service
Palestinian refugees at Nahr Al-Bared in North Lebanon are living under tight military siege two years after a war destroyed the refugee camp. It has now become a test case for a new approach in Lebanon's security policy towards Palestinian refugee camps.
MIDEAST: Settlers Push Palestinians to Sleep on the Street
- Inter Press Service
Israel's continued policy of Judaising East Jerusalem in order to establish facts on the ground before the future of that part of the city is decided, has left dozens of Palestinians homeless and sleeping on the streets.
MIDEAST: Republicans Attack Obama on Palestine Policy
- Inter Press Service
Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been in Israel and the occupied West Bank this week, stridently criticising Pres. Barack Obama's policies of pushing for an Israeli settlement freeze and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
EGYPT: Differences 'Narrowing' Over Nile Waters
- Inter Press Service
Signs are emerging of some narrowing of differences over the sharing of Nile waters.
MIDEAST: Israel Turns Dubiously to Africa
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been busy pursuing one aspect of the Obama Administration's agenda - carrying to Africa the U.S. message of accountability. With a rather different agenda, Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Liberman also has Africa in his sights.
MIDEAST: Embattled Hamas Shows its Moderate Face
- Inter Press Service
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas's rule of Gaza is facing protracted political and military opposition from within Gaza, other Palestinian territories and abroad.
EGYPT: Union Eyes the Silver Bullet
- Inter Press Service
Property tax collectors from across Egypt gathered last week in Cairo to protest fresh attempts by the official state trade union to undermine their independent syndicate.
POLITICS-US: NGOs Call Mubarak to Account for Abuses
- Inter Press Service
Egyptian President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak is visiting Washington this week and will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Jewish American groups.
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