CAIRO, Sept 28, 2008 (AFP) - Rival Palestinian factions will meet in Cairo in November to launch an Egyptian plan aimed at forming a national consensus government, a Fatah official said on Sunday.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Sept 25, 2008 (AFP) - Tourism in the occupied West Bank more than doubled in the first half of this year from a year earlier, reflecting improved security, the Palestinian tourism ministry said on Thursday.

GAZA CITY, Sept 24, 2008 (AFP) - Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya cast doubt Wednesday on Egyptian-brokered Palestinian unity talks, saying the path to dialogue with president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party was 'impassable.'

CAIRO, Sept 23, 2008 (AFP) - Ruling Palestinian faction Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal to create a new government that would be acceptable to the international community, a senior Fatah official said on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - Pledges of international aid to the Palestinian Authority were the focus of talks on the sidelines of the UN general assembly here Monday.

JERUSALEM, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - About a dozen soldiers were wounded Monday night by a Palestinian in a car on a street in West Jerusalem who was himself killed, Israeli public radio announced.

Two of the wounded were in serious condition, the radio said, citing medical sources.

JERUSALEM, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - About a dozen people were injured Monday by a Palestinian who steered his car at them on a west Jerusalem street and was then shot and killed by an armed passer-by, police said.

JERUSALEM, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - About a dozen Israeli soldiers were injured Monday by a Palestinian who rammed his car into them on a west Jerusalem street and was then shot and killed, police said.

Two of the injured were reported to be in serious condition, as police confirmed initial reports that all were Israeli soldiers.

CAIRO, Sept 21, 2008 (AFP) - Members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah movement arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks with officials aimed at starting a national dialogue between rival factions, the MENA news agency said.

WASHINGTON, Sept 19, 2008 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the White House on September 25, US officials said Friday.

JERUSALEM, Sept 17, 2008 (AFP) - Burdened by Israeli restrictions that paralyse the economy of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinians have become more and more reliant on outside assistance, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

SIDON, September 15, 2008 (AFP) - A gunman was killed in heavy clashes in Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon on Monday after a militant was shot dead, a Palestinian official said.

SIDON, September 15, 2008 (AFP) - Heavy clashes erupted in the Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern port city of Sidon on Monday after an Islamist militant was killed, a Palestinian official said.

RAMALLAH, September 15, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to hold talks with US President George W. Bush at the White House on September 25, a day earlier than initially announced, Palestinian officials said on Monday.

'The meeting will be held on September 25,' Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.

BEIRUT, September 15, 2008 (AFP) - Teenage rappers Yassim Kassem and Mohammed Turek have no qualms about upsetting politicians or clerics when they sing of inter-Palestinian violence and the daily hardship of life in the refugee camps.

SIDON, Lebanon, Sept 15, 2008 (AFP) - A gunman was killed in heavy clashes in Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon on Monday after a militant was shot dead, a Palestinian official said.

AIN EL-HELWEH, Lebanon, Sept 15, 2008 (AFP) - Two Islamic militants and a leader of Fatah were killed Monday at the Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon, Palestinian officials told AFP.

JERUSALEM, September 14, 2008 (AFP) - Israel's search for a successor to embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has cast serious doubts on US-backed hopes of reaching a peace accord with the Palestinians this year.

BETHLEHEM, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - Israeli troops shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank on Saturday after rocks were thrown at an army patrol, Palestinian medics said.

RAMALLAH, September 9, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is due to hold talks with US President George W. Bush at the White House later this month, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.

'The meeting will be held on September 26 in the morning,' Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.

RAMALLAH, September 9, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is due to hold talks with US President George W. Bush at the White House later this month, Palestinian officials said on Tuesday.

'The meeting will be held on September 26 in the morning,' Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.

JERUSALEM, September 1, 2008 (AFP) - The popularity of Hamas has declined further among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamist movement rules, and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an opinion poll published on Monday found.

PARIS, August 29, 2008 (AFP) - A Palestinian-born doctor imprisoned in Libya on charges of infecting children with AIDS has offered new and harrowing details of his incarceration, according to judicial testimony seen by AFP Friday.

HEBRON, August 29, 2008 (AFP) - Anti-war activists and fashionistas have carried the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh across the globe, but in the West Bank producers of the headscarf are struggling to compete with Chinese imports.

BEIT AWWA, August 28, 2008 (AFP) - For years Nawal, 42, and her brother Bassam, 39, were kept captive by their father in a dark and filthy cellar sealed with an iron door because they are mentally handicapped, Palestinian police said on Thursday.

BEIRUT, August 28, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian refugees in Lebanon should not be permanently resettled in the country, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Thursday after talks in Beirut with Lebanese President Michel Sleiman.

'The Palestinians have the right of return and this is an issue we are discussing with the Israelis,' Abbas told a media conference after the meeting.

WASHINGTON, August 24, 2008 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left here Sunday for the Middle East in a new bid to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by January 2009 despite mounting odds.

BEIRUT, August 24, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will begin a two-day visit to Lebanon on Thursday, a government official said on Sunday.

'The visit has two aspects to it. It will address Lebanese-Palestinian relations and inter-Palestinian relations,' the official told AFP of the country's large refugee community.

CAIRO, August 24, 2008 (AFP) - An Islamic Jihad delegation arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks with officials aimed at ending months of better infighting between rival Palestinian factions, the official MENA news agency reported.

SANAA, August 24, 2008 (AFP) - The Palestinian envoy to Yemen on Sunday denied a report by his embassy's own spokesman that the mission was closing in protest at 'dual Palestinian representation,' an apparent reference to a Hamas office.

GAZA CITY, August 23, 2008 (AFP) - Palestinian factions will send envoys to Egypt next week for talks aimed at ending months of bitter infighting, leaders and spokesmen for several groups said on Saturday.

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