Palestinian women's killings spark outcry over lax laws
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times
by Maher Abukhater - August 3, 2012 - 12:00am

Four recent cases of Palestinian women slain allegedly at the hand of relatives have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher laws against domestic violence and more stringent enforcement. Several female activists marched Thursday through the streets of Bethlehem in the West Bank demanding justice for women in this patriarchal and traditional society. They also demanded severe punishment for men who kill or batter a female family member.

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1 militant killed, 2 others wounded in Gaza blast
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
August 1, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinians say a Hamas militant was killed and two others were wounded when an explosion went off in the car they were driving near Gaza City. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra confirmed the death. There were no claims of an Israeli attack, suggesting that the blast may have been from an explosive device that went off prematurely.


Fayyad: Israel to blame for checkpoint killing
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 31, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Monday blamed the Israeli government for the shooting of a 46-year-old Palestinian at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. Israeli border police opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle at a checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem shortly after midnight on Monday, killing Hasan Omar and wounding two other passengers, Palestinian officials and an Israeli police spokesman said.

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Israel troops shoot dead Palestinian at checkpoint
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
July 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli border police have shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded two others at the entrance to Jerusalem. Border police spokesman Shai Hakimi says 40-year-old Akram Badr was traveling in a car that burst through a checkpoint at high speed early Monday and tried to run over officers who ordered him to stop. Palestinian police said the car had entered a wrong lane and was backing up to enter the right one when Israeli border police mistakenly thought it was trying to hit them and opened fire.

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Arafat inquiry like looking for 'needle in the ocean'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 30, 2012 - 12:00am

The investigation into late President Yasser Arafat's death is ongoing, director of the committee responsible for the inquiry said Sunday. Tawfiq al-Tirawi told Ma'an that a medical committee headed by Abdullah al-Basheer is undertaking research in coordination with international specialists and will brief officials on the results once investigations reach their final stages.

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Hamas executes three Gaza men for murder
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
July 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Three men convicted of murder were hanged in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the territory's interior ministry said. A total of 14 Palestinians have now been executed since the Islamist group Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 from Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction. No details of the murder cases were given and the Hamas-run ministry identified the executed men only by their initials.

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Arafat sister: Don't exhume late leader's body
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
July 13, 2012 - 12:00am

A sister of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is not among those, including his widow, calling for the Palestinian Authority to exhume the body in the wake new questions about his death. "Leave him to rest in his soil,” Khadija Arafat said Thursday, saying she has been overwhelmed with media inquiries following an Al Jazeera investigation that raised the possibility Arafat was poisoned.

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30 Palestinians wounded in fireworks explosion near Ramallah
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
July 13, 2012 - 12:00am

At least 30 Palestinians were wounded early Friday by an explosion of fireworks when they were celebrating a wedding ceremony in a small town near the West Bank city of Ramallah, witnesses and medics said. Medics at a Ramallah hospital said 30 people were brought to the hospital with various injuries, adding that four of them were in serious conditions. Witnesses said the explosion occurred suddenly while some relatives and families were celebrating and dancing during the wedding ceremony in a wedding hall in the town of Termes'aya, north of Ramallah.

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In exclusive interview, neo-Nazi recounts aiding Palestinians in Munich massacre
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Ofer Aderet - July 12, 2012 - 12:00am

A popular German detective novelist accused of being directly involved in the 1972 Munich massacre apologized for his involvement in the attack and denied being a neo-Nazi in an interview with Haaretz earlier this week. Willi Voss, who was revealed to be an accomplice to the massacre by a report compiled by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and was made public at the request of Der Spiegel, told Haaretz that he “is not a neo-Nazi and has never been.”

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New Arafat medical file released in death probe
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Karin Laub - July 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Medical files released for the first time Thursday portray Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his mysterious 2004 death, was initially blamed on viral gastroenteritis. The treatment notes by Arafat's Arab doctors who cared for him at his West Bank compound before he was airlifted to France are part of a renewed push to find out what killed the Palestinian leader.

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