Important News
- Israeli forces attack Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades in Hebron, causing suffocation cases and fire to break out
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- Elderly sustains injury in colonists’ attack in southern West Bank
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- Prisoners' organizations: Escalating and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in April
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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- Israeli forces continue to demolish homes in Nour Shams camp amid ongoing offensive
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- Armed colonists graze their sheep near Palestinian residents' homes south of Hebron
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- UN organizations: 2.1 million Gazans face starvation, as Israeli genocide continues
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Ban Ki-moon Calls for BBC Reporter's Immediate Release
NEW YORK, APRIL 12, 2007 (WAFA) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for the immediate release of a BBC journalist, abducted in the Gaza Strip a month ago, and offered to help secure his freedom.
"I sincerely hope that those who are responsible for this abduction should release him unconditionally and immediately," Ban told reporters. "I am deeply concerned. I will do whatever I can in my capacity as secretary-general."
President Mahmoud Abbas said he had credible evidence that Johnston was "safe and well," according to the BBC's director-general, Mark Thompson, who spoke to reporters after meeting Abbas.
"Freedom of coverage, as well as freedom of the press, should be protected as a matter of principle," Ban said.
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