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/ 20 September 2008
One of Tzipi Livni’s greatest challenges will be to restore some integrity to the tainted Israeli political system, writes Rory McCarthy.
Controversial plans for the first new settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in almost a decade have been revived by Israel.
Israeli police say they suspect the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, of ”serious fraud” after questioning him for a third time on Friday.
Former Palestinian collaborators forge a new life in Israel. Rory McCarthy reports from Sderot.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
Desmond Tutu stepped out of his armoured 4×4 and walked up to the Athamna family house in Beit Hanoun last week. Then the retired archbishop stopped and bowed his head in prayer for a minute. Before him was an alleyway that 18 months ago was filled with grieving relatives and neighbours and soaked in blood.
The United Nations was forced to halt food handouts for up to 800 000 Palestinians last week because of a severe fuel shortage in Gaza brought on by an Israeli economic blockade. Gaza’s streets have largely been emptied of cars, except for those running on the last reserves of fuel, or on cooking gas or used vegetable oil.
In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the whitewashed three-storey home and small tree-lined garden that Bassam Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a decade ago.
A Palestinian journalist who died in Gaza on Wednesday was killed by metal darts from a shell fired by an Israeli tank, doctors said on Thursday. Thousands gathered for the funeral of Fadel Shana (23), a Reuters cameraman. His body was carried through the streets of Gaza City, draped in a Palestinian flag.
Officially Twayil Abu Jarwal, a village on the land where the Talalqah clan has lived for generations, does not exist. It is ”unrecognised” in the terminology that shapes the bitter land dispute between the 160 000 indigenous Bedouin in the Negev desert and the Israeli state.