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Palestinian and Media
In 2012, Haaretz reported that Israeli intelligence agencies have reduced their monitoring the Palestinian media with MEMRI and Palestinian Media Watch now providing the Israeli government with coverage of " anti-Israel incitement " in social media, blogs and other online sources.
* Palestinian Media Watch
In February 2006 at the University of Toronto, Tagar organized a " Know Radical Islam Week " featuring activist Nonie Darwish, former Sudanese slave Simon Deng, Dr. Salim Mansur ( a Muslim activist speaking on gay rights in the Middle East ) and presentations by Honest Reporting and Palestinian Media Watch.
In March 2012, UN official Khulood Badawi, an Information and Media Coordinator for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, tweeted a picture of a Palestinian child covered in blood and falsely claimed that she had been killed in an IDF strike.
* Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms ( MADA ) website -- Palestine
A bi-national solution enjoys the support of about a quarter of the Palestinian electorate, according to polls conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center.
Israeli Media Coverage of the Tense Ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Authority Following the Sharm el-Sheikh Understandings " by the Israeli media monitoring NGO Keshev ( trans.
In August 2012, it was reported that the Ramallah municipality approved the construction of a mausoleum to honor the eight Palestinians who were involved in the attack ( the vote was initially reported by the PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and subsequently translated into English by Palestinian Media Watch ).
In March 2011, Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Fatah-affiliated Al-Amari Palestinian youth center announced a football tournament named after Wafa Idris.
A report by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, a Palestinian organization, showing trends based on polls conducted since 1997, indicated that Palestinian support for military operations against Israeli targets stood at 34 – 40 percent in 1997 – 1999, climbed to 65 – 85 percent in 2000 – 2004, and dropped back to 41 percent at the end of 2004.

Palestinian and Watch
Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.
" In the month that followed the attacks, when New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani refused to cash a $ 10 million check written by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in light of the Prince's suggestion that the attacks were an indication that the United States " should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause ," McKinney published an open letter to the Saudi Prince, in which she wrote of her disappointment at Giuliani's action and stated, " Let me say that there are a growing number of people in the United States who recognize, like you, that U. S. policy in the Middle East needs serious examination ... Your Royal Highness, many of us here in the United States have long been concerned about reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury to the security forces or to others.
Later investigations by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch estimated the total Palestinian death toll at 52 ( with estimates of civilian deaths ranging from 22 to 26 ) and contradicted previous claims that a massacre had taken place.
On 9 November 2004, members of Machsom Watch released a video of IDF soldiers requiring Wissam Tayam, a Palestinian violinist, to play his instrument at a checkpoint.
Human Rights Watch urged it to look at international human rights and humanitarian law violations committed by Palestinian armed groups as well.
" Palestinian Holocaust Denial ", Washington Institute Peace Watch, No. 255, April 21, 2000.
Human Rights Watch published a report criticizing the extensive destruction of Palestinian houses in the southern Gaza strip, and said it was unlawful, claiming that Israel uses the Palestinian smuggling tunnels as a pretext to create a " buffer zone " along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Ashraf Al Hajuj, the Palestinian Intern, told Human Rights Watch “ We had barbaric, sadistic torture for a crime we didn ’ t do ,” “ They used electric shocks, drugs, beatings, police dogs, sleep prevention .” The interview was conducted in the presence of a prison guard.
In Israel, Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, uses hooding systematically ( more systematically than the IDF ), according to reports published by Human Rights Watch, who interviewed Palestinian detainees who had been hooded for extensive periods ( four to five days at a time throughout their detention ).
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said: " The reports of torture by Palestinian security services keep rolling in.
In January 2005, Ta ' ayush activists along with Gush Shalom, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Machsom Watch, Anarchists Against the Wall and residents of the nearby Palestinian village Jayyous, began to plant hundred of olive saplings which they had brought with them to the plot of land where the bulldozers of the settlers had uprooted hundreds of olive trees.
Place of the Night Watch ) is a Palestinian town east of Bethlehem under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority.
In a 2007 report, Human Rights Watch related the claims of alleged ghost detainee Marwan Jabour, a Palestinian who was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan, in May 2004.
Human Rights Watch said shells exploded over populated civilian areas, including a crowded Palestinian refugee camp and a United Nations school where civilians were seeking refuge.

Palestinian and reported
The assassins were subsequently reported to be part of the Palestinian fedayeen from refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
In 2010, " more than one hundred " Palestinian businesses were reported to have moved to Ramallah from East Jerusalem, because “ Here they pay less taxes and have more customers.
In March 2009, The Guardian reported allegations that Israeli UAVs armed with missiles killed 48 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, including two small children in a field and a group of women and girls in an otherwise empty street.
The submissions for the 75th Academy Awards, for instance, became shrouded in controversy when it was reported that Humbert Balsan, producer of the critically acclaimed Palestinian film Divine Intervention ( 2002 ), tried to submit his picture to the Academy but was told it could not run for the Foreign Language Film Award since the State of Palestine is not recognized by the Academy in its rules.
On 23 January 2006, Israeli radio reported that Abbas had secured a thirty-day ceasefire from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
According to a Palestinian publication, Dov Yirmiya, who was company commander in the 21st battalion, reported:
Amanpour has reported on major crises from many of the world's hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans and from the United States during Hurricane Katrina.
Hass had published accounts, which the court found to be false based on several televised accounts of the incident, by Palestinians that claimed Israeli settlers defiled the body of a Palestinian militant killed by Israeli police ; the settlers stated that the event did not take place, and that Hass reported the story with malicious intent.
In 2008, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported the number of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem was 208, 000 according to a recently completed census.
In April 2010, Israel's Channel 10 reported that the Palestinian Authority named a street in Ramallah after Ayyash.
It was reported by Palestinian sources that Arafat and Ahmed Qurei had approved
The Jerusalem Post reported on 10 March 2008 that influential Palestinian figure Marwan Barghouti had told Israeli politician Haim Oron “ that it was possible for Israel and the Palestinians to reach a final-status agreement along the lines of the Geneva Initiative ”.
After his meeting with Faisal, Weizmann reported that Faisal was " contemptuous of the Palestinian Arabs whom he doesn't even regard as Arabs ".
In November 2007, Ha ' aretz reported that the Palestinian Authority observer at the UN, Riad Mansour, had sought to include a clause " expressing concern about the takeover by illegal militias of Palestinian Authority institutions in June 2007 " and calling for the reversal of this situation.
FAIR has alleged that National Public Radio reported more Israeli casualties of the Arab-Israeli conflict than Palestinian casualties by percentage.
According to the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers " 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers ", there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004 In 2004, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reported that " there was no evidence of systematic recruitment of children by Palestinian armed groups ," also noting that this remains a small fraction of the problem in other conflict zones such as Africa, where there are an estimated 20, 000 children involved in active combat roles in the Sudan alone.
On June 15, The Israeli press reported that the Shabak arrested a Palestinian militant cell in Nablus during the previous month.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that 926 of the 1, 417 dead had been civilians and non-combatants.
During the fighting, BYU sources reported that the center's staff remained on location and managed to maintain good relations on both Israeli and Palestinian sides.
For example, the Washington Post reported in 2004 that a torture position known as a " Palestinian hanging ", where a prisoner is suspended by their hands behind their back, was approved by the Bush administration for use in CIA interrogations ( termed an " enhanced interrogation technique " by the CIA ).
Palestinian witnesses reported that it was more than an hour before Israeli troops would allow medics to evacuate the body in an ambulance.

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