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

 

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Netanyahu aides deny he is considering settlement freeze
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Barak Ravid - February 8, 2013 - 1:00am

  Sources in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau denied Thursday that he is considering another freeze on settlement construction in an effort to jump-start negotiations with the Palestinians.

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IDF breaks pledge to remove West Bank fences severing Palestinian land
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Chaim Levinson - February 7, 2013 - 1:00am

The Israel Defense Forces broke a pledge to the High Court of Justice, and has not removed two illegal fences around settlements, which prevent Palestinian farmers from reaching their land. The IDF had pledged to remove the fences by the end of 2012, but work has not yet begun and no forecast has been made as to when it might start.

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Israeli group criticizes army over conduct probes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
February 7, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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Ramallah Wages War on Cart Sellers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Al-Monitor
by Linah Alsaafin - February 7, 2013 - 1:00am

 

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Israeli army demolishes Palestinian protest camp out of its jurisdiction
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
February 5, 2013 - 1:00am

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) demolished a Palestinian protest camp over the weekend although it was out of its jurisdiction, the Ha'aretz daily reported Monday. Israeli security forces on Saturday evacuated the camp in the Burin village near Nablus in the West Bank, where 150 Palestinian activists protested against Israel's expansion of its settlements. Clashes erupted following the eviction between the Palestinian activists, security forces and settlers living nearby.

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Israel, Palestine and the mapping of power
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Tristram Hunt - February 4, 2013 - 1:00am

'It's almost comical. The idea of maps is to represent reality; here it represents fantasy." So Professor Bruce Wexler of Yale University comments on how the vast majority of maps in Palestinian and Israeli schoolbooks omit the existence of the other entity.

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Barak approves 346 new Gush Etzion housing units
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - (Analysis) February 1, 2013 - 1:00am

  The Defense Ministry has advanced plans to build 346 housing units in the West Bank’s Gush Etzion region, area council head Davidi Perl reported on Thursday.

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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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Truce brings extra gleam to Gaza marketplace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Nidal al-Mughrabi - December 13, 2012 - 1:00am

GAZA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The horizon of the claustrophobic Gaza Strip stretches further out to sea after a bloody eight-day battle last month and its main market gleams with extra supplies of locally-caught fish. In a low-key move it has yet to acknowledge, Israel moved a naval blockade it imposed in 2009 back to six miles (10 km) from the Palestinian enclave's coast from three on Nov 23, two days after signing an Egypt-brokered truce with Gaza's Hamas rulers.

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