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Yasser Arafat's widow says her marriage was 'a big mistake'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Harriet Sherwood - February 10, 2013 - 1:00am


Yasser Arafat's widow has said she tried to leave her husband hundreds of times and that had she known what marriage to the Palestinian leader would be like, she would never have gone through with it.


Cyprus gives Palestinians full diplomatic status
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Google News
February 9, 2013 - 1:00am


Cyprus said on Friday it has upgraded its relations with the Palestinians to full diplomatic mission status, one of just eight European Union countries to do so.


Israeli Says Syrian Media Misreported Exile’s Views
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Anne Barnard, Isabel Kershner - February 9, 2013 - 1:00am


A public relations controversy erupted Saturday after a leading Israeli newspaper published comments from a brief interview with the leader of Syria’s main exile opposition group.


Witnesses: Settlers vandalize Hebron community center
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
February 11, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Israeli Goods Flood Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Rana B Baker - February 8, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Palestinian delegation visits Syria
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from United Press International (UPI)
February 11, 2013 - 1:00am


High-ranking Palestinian Authority officials are in Syria to discuss the plight of Palestinian refugees caught in fighting between government and rebel forces. The delegation, led by Zakaria al-Agha, was to meet with Syrian officials to discuss ways of keeping residents at the Yarmouk refugee camp in the city out of the two-year conflict in which more than 600 Palestinians have been killed, the Ma'an news agency reported.


Syria’s Palestinians Seek Refuge in Lebanon
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Beast
by Venetia Rainey - February 11, 2013 - 1:00am


Like most conversations between strangers, it began with the weather.? Abul Nidal (not to be confused with the founder of Fatah, Abu Nidal) tells me there is a bizarre phenomenon occurring in the cramped confines of Sabra, one of Beirut’s refugee camps. “First it rains outside, on the roof. When it finishes raining there, it rains inside,” he says, pointing to the stains on the walls and ceiling.??


Hamas: Egypt destroying Gaza smuggling tunnels by flooding them
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Jack Khoury - February 11, 2013 - 1:00am


The Egyptian army has been destroying smuggling tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Sinai, said Palestinians who build them. The Egyptians have been flooding them, they said.


Hamas: Egypt imposed travel restrictions on Gazans
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
February 10, 2013 - 1:00am


 


Israeli troops detain AP photographer
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
by Josef Federman - February 10, 2013 - 1:00am


Israeli troops detained an Associated Press photographer during West Bank unrest over the weekend, handcuffing him and forcing him to sit on the ground without food or water or access to a bathroom for roughly five hours, according to eyewitness accounts. The photographer, Nasser Shiyoukhi, was released without charge after Saturday's incident.



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