Important News
- Cabinet condemns Israel’s resumption of land settlement process in Area “C”; reaffirms support for displaced families in Tulkarm
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- 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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President Abbas: British Journalist Still Alive
STOCKHOLM, April 19, 2007 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday at a news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt that the abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston was "still alive".
Sweden was Abbas' latest stop during his ongoing tour of European countries that began in France earlier this week.
"Our intelligence services have confirmed to me that he is still alive," Abbas said, adding he was seeking Johnston's safe release but did not want to go into detail in order not to jeopardize Johnston's safety.
The BBC reporter was abducted almost six weeks ago in Gaza City.
"There are some positive signs, but I don't want to jump to any conclusions," Abbas said.
President Abbas also met with King Carl Gustaf and briefed the Swedish officials on the Arab Peace Initiative, which was recently readopted by the Arab summit conference in Riyadh.
The peace plan, which was launched for the first time in 2002, offers to extend recognition to the Jewish state by all Arab countries after it pulls out from all Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 Mideast war.
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