Syria's Palestinians flee to Lebanon, but for how long?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from USA Today
by Stephen Starr - August 10, 2012 - 12:00am


At the edge of a sprawling Palestinian camp in south Beirut, Syrian volunteers unload two dozen boxes from the trunk of a taxi. Young boys help carry them into the dark, narrow alleyways where families peer out from underground houses that were bomb shelters during Lebanon's past civil wars.


'Netanyahu, Barak mulling fall strike on Iran'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
August 10, 2012 - 12:00am


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak advocate an attack of Iran's nuclear facilities in the upcoming fall, Yedioth Ahronoth's senior commentators Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer reported Friday. 


IDF court convicts Palestinian of lynching Israeli soldier in 2000
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - August 10, 2012 - 12:00am


The military appeals court last week convicted Wisam Radi of murdering a soldier during the 2000 Ramallah lynching, overturning a lower court's decision to acquit him.


Minister: Most public sector salaries to be paid Monday
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am


Palestinian Authority Minister of Finance Nabil Qassis said Thursday that most public sector salaries will be paid next Monday.


VAT tax rise to be implemented in September
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 5, 2012 - 12:00am


The Palestinian Authority will put into effect a recently approved decision to raise Value Added Tax by 1 percent by the beginning of September, a VAT official said Sunday.


Abbas forms committee as violence against women rises
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am


President Mahmoud Abbas is forming a committee to study personal status laws to protect women, following a rise in violent attacks against women in the West Bank, state media reported.


UN agency, Jerusalem officials lock horns over trailers for homeless Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am


Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has signed demolition papers for two trailers in east Jerusalem erected by the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli media reported Thursday.


Israel frees Palestinian prisoner after 78-day hunger strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am


Israel on Thursday freed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for more than two months, the fifth similar case this year.


West Bank settlers raise fund to purchase Palestinian land
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 9, 2012 - 12:00am


Residents of a West Bank outpost slated for demolition on Thursday launched a fundraising campaign aimed at purchasing the land on which their community was built.


Hamas: Egypt briefly reopens border with Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
August 10, 2012 - 12:00am


A Hamas official says Egypt has temporarily reopened its border with Gaza but only to allow the passage of Palestinians back to the coastal territory.



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