Saeb Erekat

By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on January 27th, 2011
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After days of furiously shooting the messenger, (in truth, simply making public a privately held belief), the Palestinian Authority may, finally, be seeing the real value of the Palestinian Papers.

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on January 25th, 2011
West Bank map by the Palestinian Authority that was leaked in The Palestine Papers

Shockwaves went through the Palestinian diaspora after The Palestine Papers revealed how Palestinian Authority negotiators conceded a very limited right of return for refugees to Palestine.

According to the documents that were revealed on Monday, the PA conceded to settle on the return for only 100,000 out of some 5,000,000 refugees and their families.

From Lebanon to Egypt, Palestinians in the diaspora reacted with anger and disbelief to the revelations by Al Jazeera.

Mahmoud Zahar, a leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, immediately urged Palestinians to protest the PA's suggested concession.

In the Jordanian al Hussein refugee camp, one of 13 camps set up in the aftermath of 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel, refugees said the Ramallah-based authority has no right to dismiss the right of refugees to return to Palestine.

"Regardless of whether it was treason or not, we f

By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on January 24th, 2011

We'll be blogging throughout the day about the first installment of The Palestine Papers, Al Jazeera's months-long investigation into thousands of confidential documents from Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

(Last night's coverage, if you missed it, dealt with the PA's offer to concede almost all illegal settlements in East Jeursalem, and chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat's offer to be "creative" about the legal status of the Haram al-Sharif.)

By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on May 31st, 2010
Protesters in Istanbul wave Palestinian flags after the raid (Photo: AFP)

Early Monday morning, Israel attacked a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip; up to 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn raid, according to organisers and media sources.

We'll be live-blogging the aftermath of this incident throughout the day; keep checking back for international reaction, news from our correspondents on the ground, photos and video. (All times are GMT, except where noted.)

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By Nour Odeh in Middle East on October 9th, 2009
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Palestinian youth clash with Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint, one of several hundred roadblocks that have come to symbolize the humiliation and restrictions of Palestinian daily life under Israeli occupation. This checkpoint is one of the gateways to occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinians bearing West Bank ID cards are barred from passing through it unless they have a special permit.

The young men are protesting Israel’s siege of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, where up to 200 worshipers have been holed up for a week. These protestors believe rightwing Israelis plan to storm it. Their fears are fueled by statements from Israeli officials and parliamentarians, who have advocated changing the sensitive status quo and allowing Israeli worshipers into the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest site.

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