‘Forgotten Neighborhood’ Underscores the Poverty of an Isolated Enclave
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Jodi Rudoren - September 9, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY — In the Forgotten Neighborhood, houses have walls but no floors: people sit, eat and sleep on the sand.

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Palestinian prisoner refuses water after two months on hunger strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for more than two months refused water on Wednesday in a new challenge, protesting the renewal of his administrative detention. The Palestinian Prisoners' Association said that Hassan Safadi went on a hunger strike on June 21 and was promised by Israeli authorities to be released by the end of his administrative detention term. However, this term has now been renewed for another six months, prompting him to refuse water.

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Israeli rights groups ask court to stop razing of Bedouin villages
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Several Israeli human rights organizations petitioned the High Court on Tuesday to prevent the demolition of five Bedouin villages. The petition is spearheaded by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and is aimed at averting the construction of agricultural settlements in the area of Mevo'ot Arad, in the Negev. These Jewish settlements, seven of them, will be built after the existing Bedouin villages, which are home to hundreds of families, are razed.

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Under Israeli blockade of Gaza, books are a rare, cherished commodity
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Ruqaya Izzidien - July 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has been blamed for a multitude of problems facing the population there: malnutrition, unemployment, limited access to electricity and potable water.

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Group: 25 prisoners start hunger strike in Israel jail
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 28, 2012 - 12:00am

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Two dozen prisoners in an Israeli detention facility in the occupied West Bank have launched a hunger strike against their living conditions, the Palestinian prisoners society said Thursday. The 25 detainees in the Etzion detention facility near Bethlehem started refusing food over two weeks ago, said Jaclyn Fararjeh, a lawyer for the prisoners rights group.

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Israel's Best Friends
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Naomi Chazan - (Opinion) June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

‘I am obligated to uphold the law and preserve the settlements, and I say here that there is no contradiction between the two.”

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Palestinians say Israel should not host football tournament
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News
June 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel is due to host the European Under-21 championship in 2013. PFA President Jibril Rajoub wrote to Uefa to express concern about three Palestinian players who are being held in Israel without charge. One of them, midfielder Mahmoud al-Sarsak, is on hunger strike. Mr Sarsak, 25, is one of a handful of Palestinian prisoners who have rejected a deal that ended a mass hunger strike on 14 May.

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FIFA urges support for Mahmoud al-Sarsak
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

FIFA on Tuesday urgently called on the Israeli Football Association to raise the plight of detained hunger-striking soccer player Mahmoud al-Sarsak with Israeli authorities. Al-Sarsak has been on hunger strike for 86 days to demand his release. He has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since July 2009. FIFA urged IFA to draw attention to al-Sarsak's situation "with the aim of ensuring the physical integrity of the concerned players as well as their right for due process," a report on its website said.

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Bipartisan House letter seeks Pollard’s release
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
June 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Congressional Democrats and Republicans are joining forces for the first time in more than a decade in an effort to secure Jonathan Pollard's release. A bipartisan letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives soliciting signatures on a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Pollard's sentence to time served. The "Dear Colleague" letter is signed by veteran House members Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.).

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Why Israel should help Syrians during this crisis
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Eli Epstein, Ghanem M. Nuseibeh - (Opinion) June 11, 2012 - 12:00am

Israel’s regional and global image continues to sink to new lows. The political peace process continues to be stalemated. As internal and external factors allow Israel to keep indulging in self-perpetuating isolationism, the anti-Israel camp finds no difficulty in recruiting sympathizers, further causing Israelis to recoil from the compromises needed to advance toward a final settlement.

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