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Palestinian killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza
Israeli air strikes have hit a number of targets in Gaza, killing at least one person and wounding at least one other, Palestinian medics had said.
The strikes came after a day in which about a dozen rockets were fired from inside Gaza into Israeli territory.
Explosions rocked Gaza City, Khan Younis and smuggling tunnels in Rafah. BBC
No clear plan for resuming peace talks with Israel, says Fatah official
A Palestinian Fatah party official said Tuesday no clear scheme has emerged to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace process despite intensified efforts to restart the talks.
SSNP announces the death of Dr. Anis Sayegh
MP Assaad Hardan, leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) announced the death of Dr. Anis Sayegh.
Saudi-Syrian effort to resolve Palestinian weapons issue
Former Tripoli MP Misbah al-Ahdab told LBC TV on Monday that unofficial reports point to a Saudi-Syrian arrangement to resolve the issue of Palestinian weapons outside the refugee camps in Lebanon
Ahmad Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), said yesterday his group will not surrender its weapons to the Lebanese army.
Jibril a formal captain in the Syrian army has very close ties with the Syrian leadership. His headquarters and his main military base are very close to the Syrian borders
Ahdab also reiterated his objection to Hezbollah’s weapons, adding that he only supports legitimate arms within the state authority.
Palestinians fire 2 rockets from Gaza at Israel
A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli woman in the West Bank and Gaza Strip militants fired two rockets at Israel in back-to-back attacks following the torching of a West Bank mosque.
Jewish extremists are suspected in the fire, though no arrests have been made.
In another development Sunday, Lt. Adam Malul , an Israeli army officer was convicted of beating a Palestinian man during a 2008 military raid in the West Bank village of Kadoum. AP
Palestinian officials: Abbas won’t quit presidency soon
Senior Palestinian officials ruled out on Thursday that Mahmoud Abbas would quit his post as Palestinian president during the upcoming meeting of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council on Dec. 15.
Abbas hinted last month that he would quit his post as the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) if the general Palestinian elections could not be held in January 2010 in the Palestinian territories as it was decided in a decree he issued on Oct. 24.
Jamal Meheisen, central committee member of Abbas’ Fatah party said that Fatah party’s leaders insisted that Abbas was still the only candidate of the movement for the president of the PNA. Source: Xinhua
Abbas: What we read in the ministerial Policy Statement is good
Following his meeting with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that they discussed Lebanese-Palestinian relations, the status of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the Arab-Israeli peace process and the internal Palestinian situation.
Regarding the ministerial policy Abbas said: What we read in the ministerial Policy Statement is good, but it is still early to comment on before it gains the Parliament’s vote of confidence.
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