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Israel hits target in Syria border area
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Oliver Holmes - January 30, 2013 - 1:00am Israeli forces attacked a convoy on the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, a Western diplomat and regional security sources said on Wednesday, as concern has grown in the Jewish state over the fate of Syrian chemical and advanced conventional weapons. The sources, four in total, all of whom declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, had no further information about what the vehicles may have been carrying, what forces were used or where precisely the attack happened. |
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Israel jets increase activity in Lebanese airspace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press by Zeina Karam - January 30, 2013 - 1:00am The Lebanese military said Wednesday that Israeli warplanes have sharply increased their activity over Lebanon in the past week, including at least 12 sorties in less than 24 hours in the country's south. |
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Israel Skips U.N. Review on Rights, a New Move
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Nick Cumming-Bruce - January 29, 2013 - 1:00am Israel became the first country to withhold cooperation from a United Nations review of its human rights practices on Tuesday, shunning efforts by the United States and others to encourage it to partic |
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Palestinians face growing food crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency January 30, 2013 - 1:00am Fluctuating prices, poverty and border restrictions mean growing numbers of Palestinians are facing food insecurity this year -- one of the key priorities in the humanitarian community’s annual appeal for the occupied Palestinian territory. This year’s Consolidated Appeal Process is for $401.6 million, a slight decrease on last year’s $416.7 million, only 68 percent of which was financed. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which helped coordinate the CAP, estimates that 1.3 million Palestinians do not have enough food. |
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PNA criticizes Israel for limited release of tax revenues
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua January 30, 2013 - 1:00am The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Wednesday criticized Israel's decision to release only parts of withheld Palestinian tax revenues. "The decision is incomplete because it only transfers the funds of one month out of four," said an official from Palestinian Ministry of Finance, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official added that the released amount, estimated around 100 million U.S. dollars, would help ease the PNA's financial crisis, which deepened in the past two years due to a drop in international aid. |
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Israel to Transfer Tax Funds to Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - January 30, 2013 - 1:00am Israel has decided to transfer tax and customs revenues collected last month on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to help ease the economic crisis there, a senior Israeli government official said on Wednesday. |
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Trudy Rubin: Little settled by Israeli vote
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Philadelphia Inquirer by Trudy Rubin - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am Here's a pop quiz for those who have been too busy to notice the surprising results of Tuesday's Israeli election: Was the key issue (1) Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's testy relationship with President Barack Obama; (2) whether Israel should bomb Iran's nuclear sites; or (3) whether to revive the mummified peace process? |
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Time has come for 2 states
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews by Gilead Sher - (Opinion) January 29, 2013 - 1:00am In about a month and a half Israel's 33rd government will be sworn in, and, regardless of the make-up of the next coalition, it must succeed in determining the country's borders. |
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New Class of Palestinians Get Rich On Gaza Tunnel Trade
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor by Omar Shaban - (Opinion) January 28, 2013 - 1:00am One of the challenges for reconciliation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) is to reaccommodate 55,000 PA employees — who had been asked to refuse to work with the Hamas government — in the Gaza Strip. Another important challenge is how to assimilate hundreds of newly rich Palestinians who have amassed vast fortunes from illegal trade as well as legal economic activities, and re-incorporate hundreds who had halted economic activity because of the blockade. The tunnels are not new |