The IDF has confirmed that its troops fired several shots atPalestinians who were throwing rocks, claiming that the soldiersfeared a “threat to their lives.”Mahmoud Titi, 22, was fatally wounded in the shooting and laterdied in a hospital. At least eight others were injured in theviolence. According to activists, Titi was a communications andjournalism student and a founder of a youth movement supportingfreed prisoners in Hebron.Titi is the sixth Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in WestBank clashes since the beginning of the year, Palestinian officialssaid.The incident comes a week ahead of a visit to Israel by USPresident Barack Obama, who will attend separate talks with IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President MahmoudAbbas.Tensions in the region flared after the death of 30-year-oldPalestinian Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli prison inFebruary.Jaradat, who was arrested for throwing stones at Israelisecurity forces, died from what Israeli medics identified ascardiac arrest. However, the Palestinians have claimed his bodyshowed signs he was tortured.Following Jaradat’s death, crowds took to the streets in theWest Bank to protest against Israel’s imprisonment and mistreatmentof thousands of Palestinians. On several occasions, the proteststurned violent.Every year, some 700 Palestinian teenagers are arrested,interrogated and detained by Israel, the United Nations ChildrenFund (UNICEF) said in a report released last week. In some cases, theorganization described the treatment of children as “cruel andinhuman.” … Read More
The Frost Interview – Shimon Peres: ‘Self-victimising Palestinians’
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Yasser Arafat and the Radioactive Cigarette
While the world awaits the results from tests for polonium on Yasser Arafat’s exhumed corpse, it is a good time to ask whether polonium poisoning had to be a deliberate act. There are other options, such as exposure to tobacco smoke, which is known … Read More
Yasser Arafat body exhumed and reburied in six-hour night mission
Samples taken from corpse of late PLO leader will be used to investigate claims he was poisoned with a radioactive substance Yasser Arafat was buried eight years ago to a chorus of gunfire before a crowd of thousands amid the rubble of his Ramallah headquarters. On Tuesday, his corpse was quietly…
Arafat exhumation to probe for traces of poison
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — One of the biggest Middle East enigmas could come closer to a resolution on Tuesday, as remains of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are exhumed to enable investigators to seek traces of poison. The process will cap eight years of speculation about whether…
Yasser Arafat’s Body To Be Exhumed Tuesday
The tomb of Former Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat will be opened Tuesday as investigators seek to establish whether he was poisoned eight years ago. Forensic experts from France, Switzerland and Russia will take samples for independent analysis, reports CNN. The tomb will then… … Read More
Arafat body to be dug up Tuesday for poison test
The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday to undergo poison tests, the head of the Palestinian inquiry team said on Saturday. “The tomb will be opened on November 27 and experts will take samples the same day within a matter of a few hours,” Tawfiq Tirawi…
