UNHCR- 05/09/2008- A total of 29 vulnerable Palestinian refugees stranded for the last two years in a makeshift camp in the desert on the Iraq-Syria border are set to leave Monday to begin a new life in Iceland.
BAGHDAD (AP) 2-9-2008 By Karin Laub and Sameer Yacoub - Omar Ahmed rarely emerges from his rundown Baghdad housing project. When he does, he leaves behind the Iraqi-issued ID card that marks him as a Palestinian and switches to the Iraqi dialect of Arabic at police checkpoints.
PIC- 01/09/2008- A delegation of the Egyptian judges club, parties and popular forces are planning to head to the Gaza Strip via the closed Rafah terminal on 10/9 to break the siege imposed on the Strip, judicial and parliamentary sources disclosed on Sunday.
IRIN– 01/09/2008- Violence by settlers perpetrated against Palestinians has been on the rise in recent weeks in Hebron and the surrounding areas, residents and international observers said.
Gaza – Ma’an Report – 01/09/2008- On the first day of Ramadan 200,000 students returned to UNRWA schools; 8,500 teachers moved their textbooks to 200 new schools in the Gaza Strip, and UNRWA offered 100 shekels to each student returning to school.
By Mustafa Barghouti 1-9-2008 Oslo has entered its final, tragic-comic stage. The onus now is to ensure Olmert‘s planned dénouement does not become a reality.
By Joy Ellison- 18/08/2008- "I had a dream last night," Sami (not his real name) told my teammates and me while we sat munching sliced tomatoes and olives one hot afternoon.
By Stuart Littlewood – 18/08/2008- Is the Palestinian Authority for or against the siege? While others put on a show of solidarity with the brave ‘freedom‘ voyagers as they set sail to break the siege of Gaza, where is the voice of the PA?
UNRWA- 18/08/2008- Smiling faces and eyes full of joy and sparkling energy, an atmosphere full of the innocence of childhood... This describes the Summer Games run by UNRWA on a small beach on the Gaza City seashore near Beit Hanoun.
By Motasem Dalloul* —10/07/2008- Mohammed Selmi, 12, rushes from school to his home, takes a quick meal before rushing back to the street, this time with a box filled with thermos he peddles on the street of Gaza city for the rest of the day.
PRC- 07/05/2008- Under the motto of “Sixty years…and return is nearer” the Sixth Palestinians in Europe has been concluded. It was jointly organized by the General Secretariat of the Conference of European Palestinians, the Palestinian Return Centre, London,
PRC- 07/05/2008- To mark the 60th anniversary since the Catastrophe of our people began, observing all that the occasion bears of pains experienced by the Palestinian people and the successive calamities that this entailed.
