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BREAKING NEWS

Ha'aretz Breaking News
Frequently updated

Palestine Media Centre

News photographs [via Yahoo]

Israel Defence Forces
Latest news from the military

Daily updates [currently unavailable]
Palestine National Authority (also in Arabic)

ALTERNATIVE NEWS

Jerusalem Indymedia

Electronic Intifada

Palestine Monitor 
"The voice of civil society"

Palestine Chronicle

Israel Independent Media Center

QUICK BRIEFING

Encarta Encyclopedia on Palestine

Basic facts
about the West Bank from the CIA. Also Gaza.

Country profile: Israel and Palestine
Key facts, figures and dates (from the BBC)

Fact-file on Jerusalem
CAABU, April 2000

Chronologies of the conflict 

Chronology of bomb attacks against Israelis (BBC)

Chronology of suicide bombings in Israel 
(Haaretz/Reuters)

CASUALTIES

General statistics 
Deaths, injuries, deportations, house demolitions, administrative detention [B'Tselem]

Palestinian Red Crescent Society
A variety of statistics

Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 
Up-to-date statistics from the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Herzliya. Plus analysis and searchable database of incidents.

Palestinian deaths and injuries
Statistical analysis by the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (October 2000)

Analysis of casualties
By age group, site and type of injury, etc. (JMCC, October 2000)

CAMPAIGNS

International Solidarity Movement

Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People ( Beit Sahour)
Includes information for those wishing to go to Palestine an join the activities of the International Solidarity Movement

DOCUMENTS 

Documents on Palestine
Full text of key documents covering the establishment of Israel, Palestinian resistance and international diplomacy

Middle East Peace Process documents
(Palestine Mission to the United Nations)

Negotiations Affairs Department
Official Palestinian view of negotiations with the Israelis

PEOPLE 

Biographical notes from Medea database:

PALESTINIANS

ABBAS Abu
ABBAS Mahmoud (Abu Mazen) 
ABDELSHAFI
Haidar 
ARAFAT
Yasser
ASHRAWI Hanan
BARGHOUTI
Marwan [BBC]
HABASH
George
HAWATMAH
Nayef
HUSSEINI
Faisal
NIDAL
Abu
QUREI Ahmed (Abu Ala)
SHAATH
Nabil

ISRAELIS

BARAK Ehud 
BAR-ILAN David
BEILIN
Yossi
GOLD
Dore
HERZOG
Chaïm
LEVY
David
NETANYAHU
Binyamin
PERES
Shimon
RABIN
Yitzhak
RAMON
Chaïm
SHAMIR
Yitzhak
SHARON
Ariel
WEIZMAN
Ezer
 

Biography of Ariel Sharon
CAABU, February 2001

Who's Who in the Palestinian Authority
The officials in charge - and how to contact them

List of Israeli government ministers (CIA)

Yasser Arafat's homepage

POLITICS

Opinion polls
Conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre

Palestine Liberation Organisation
Encarta Encyclopedia

Palestine Liberation Organisation
A brief description [Medea]

Fatah
A brief description of Yasser Arafat's organisation [Medea]

Hamas 
Arab Gateway's special page

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
A brief description [Medea]

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC)
A brief description [Medea]

Palestinian People's Party


Some alternative views from Israel ...

Gush Shalom

The Other Israel

Peace Now 

NEWS SOURCES

CLICK HERE for critique of media coverage

Moreover: Palestine
Automated news feed from many sources

Yahoo compilation of reports on the conflict

Palestine Daily
(worldnews.com)

Middle East News Online
from regional sources

BBC Middle East crisis page

BBC general news from the Middle East 

BBC (archive on Palestine)

Reuters/ABC

UPI on Palestine 

Agence France Presse
via Yahoo

Associated Press
via Washington Post

The Guardian
(Israeli-Palestinian conflict)

Business & economic news
(Middle East News Online)

Wafa News Agency
Palestinian news agency (Arabic only)

Middle East Newsline

Arab Media Internet Network (AMIN)   


RADIO (ARABIC)

Amwaj Radio
Live from Ramallah 

Voice of Palestine
Daily news headlines from the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, updated at 11 am local time
   

NEWSPAPERS

In English ...
Ha'aretz
(daily)
Jerusalem Post (daily)
Palestine Times (weekly)

The Palestine Report

(weekly, by subscription)

In Arabic ...
al-Ayyam
(daily)
al-Hayat al-Jadedah (daily)
al-Quds (daily)
Alsabar (bi-weekly)
Akhbar al-Naqab (weekly)
al-Esteqlal (weekly)
Kul Al-Arab (weekly)
Falastin Almoslemah (monthly)
          

            

 

Last revised on 22 August, 2002

Links checked on 10 April 2002 (some Palestinian sites not working, probably because of the political situation)