France24 (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is set to visit Israel after a trip to the Palestinian West Bank town of Jenin. Kouchner said a slow-moving US-backed peace process will be unlikely to be met by December 2008.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Saturday he feared the world may forget the Middle East peace process while distracted by the U.S. election, a government change in Israel and tension with Iran.
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Here's some of what's been happening during the past couple of days: A 16-year old PalArab girl from Jenin was arrested by Israel for planning a suicide bombing in Netanya. Apparently, information about her plans came from the PA security services. A 17-year old boy was killed by "stray bullets" in Rafah while visiting a friend. Hamas is accusing Fatah of torturing a prisoner to death . Fatah denies...
Shimshon 9 (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
With scores of terror warnings current for the Jewish New Year starting sundown Monday, Sept. 9, a beefed up Jerusalem Border Police squad detained a Palestinian from the West Bank of Jenin early Monday, on his way to a knifing attack on the route leading to the Western Wall in the Old City. In his [...]
Backspin (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
An Israeli news site, Walla, reports (in Hebrew) that the IDF has asked Israel's attorney general to open criminal proceedings against Mohammed Bakri, who produced and directed "Jenin Jenin." His film alleges Israeli war crimes during the 2002 Operation Defensive...
Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Israelated (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Roni Sofer Fearing Hamas may attempt to seize West Bank city, Palestinian prime minister asks Israel allow him control over Hebron. Jerusalem yet to sign off on plan due to concerns settlers will revolt, but diplomatic sources say plan, which would follow Jenin model, viewed positively Israel is examining the possibility of expanding the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority's security forces to...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Israeli forces arrested seven Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said. The sources said the detentions took place in Jenin, Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron. According to Israeli sources, the detainees were wanted by Israeli intelligence services and were taken for interrogation. The Israeli army carries out nearly daily raids in West Bank cities and...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Col. Radi Asideh, the deputy commander of the Palestinian security forces, has been quoted , saying:- “We got a clear American message that the Palestinian state will start from Jenin,” asserted ...The plan is to have a security model that can then be implemented all over Palestine.” And Gen. James L. Jones, special American envoy to the region said this week after visiting Jenin, said: “I see this...
Truemors (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Car bombs and police raids may be the most common images that pop to mind when the Israeli-Palestinian situation is mentioned, but the projects underway in Jenin and Gilboa offer a pinpoint of light in a dark story. Once thriving areas in the West Bank, the area has been blighted since the violence of the [...]
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
One thing that reporters in the Middle East enjoy is irony. So that’s the angle Ethan Bronner takes about Jenin in A West Bank Ruin, Reborn as a Peace Beacon. But a quiet revolution is stirring here in this city, once a byword for the extremes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2002, in [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
One thing that reporters in the Middle East enjoy is irony. So that's the angle Ethan Bronner takes about Jenin in A West Bank Ruin, Reborn as a Peace Beacon. But a quiet revolution is stirring here in this city, once a byword for the extremes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2002, in response to a wave of suicide bombers from Jenin, Israeli tanks leveled entire neighborhoods. From...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
A quiet revolution is stirring in Jenin, once a byword for the extremes of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
An 11-year old boy was shot and killed i n central Gaza; circumstances still unclear. The IDF and Shin Bet found a 15-kg bomb in Jenin. Two Hamas sites were bombed in Gaza City , no injuries reported. The 2008 PalArab self-death count is now at 160.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Palestinian security forces of President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday arrested ten members of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank, Hamas said in a statement. The detentions took place in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Qalqilya, Jenin and Tulkarem, said the statement, adding that two teachers and an Imam of a mosque were among those arrested. It is the latest detentions after formation...
