This is the Forward’s coverage of the Palestinian people, an Arab ethnic group native to the Middle East. They are a party to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiator Erekat Urges Kerry To Salvage Peace Talks
The top Palestinian peace negotiator urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday to salvage American-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that both sides say are faltering. Sixteen Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed since negotiations began in July and Palestinian officials say the sides remain far apart on the central issues of borders, security,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Investigators Close To Naming Who Killed Arafat
A Palestinian investigator said on Tuesday he would soon name the people he believed were responsible for the death of former leader Yasser Arafat, almost a decade after he started searching for suspects. Arafat, a guerrilla leader who became the first Palestinian president, died in 2004 from a sudden illness contracted while under an Israeli…
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Gazans Protest Israeli Fishing Blockade
Hundreds of Palestinian youth activists sailed from the shores of the Gaza Strip on Monday to protest at Israel’s restrictions on fishing in the seas off the Islamist-ruled enclave. Palestinian fishermen say they cannot meet demand in Gaza due to Israel’s naval blockade on the territory and limit of six nautical miles (11 km) in…
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Fast Forward Four Palestinians Arrested for Attack That Injured Israeli Toddler
Four Palestinians were arrested in connection with an attack on a car in a Jerusalem neighborhood that seriously injured a Jewish toddler. The alleged attackers, ranging in age from 15 to 20, are residents of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher, located adjacent to the scene of the attack. They were ordered held in…
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Opinion Saveur Declares State of Palestine
Jews and Arabs appaerently still can’t work out terms for a mutually acceptable nation for the Palestinian people. But Saveur, an upscale food magazine, has it all figured out. Throughout an opulently photographed feature headlined “Heart of Palestine” in Saveur’s December issue, writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins — who’s written cookbooks on the Mediterranean and Italy…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Plan To Move Bedouins from Villages Sparks Large Protests
Hundreds of Bedouin Arabs and their supporters clashed with Israeli forces on Saturday in protests against a government plan to force 40,000 Bedouins living in the southern Negev region to leave their villages. The plan has not only angered the Bedouins but also spurred many other young Arab citizens of Israel to associate it with…
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Fast Forward Israel May Join European Group of U.N. Human Rights Council
Israel may join for the first time a regional group within the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of a deal to improve the U.N. body’s relations with the Jewish state. The council’s Western European and Others Group (WEOG) is expected to announce that its member states have voted in favor of Israel’s admittance,…
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News Gaza Fuel-Shortage Pushes United Nations to Step In to Keep Infrastructure Running
The United Nations began distributing fuel in Gaza to keep critical infrastructure running, an official said. “Fuel is actually coming in, as of today, through the Kerem Shalom,” a border crossing with Israel, U.N. Middle East Special Coordinator Robert Serry told a news conference in northern Gaza Thursday. The fuel, he told the AFP news…
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