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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '18 March 2010';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nSaleh Zeidan, Gaza-based leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), spoke to The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari about chances for peace in the region following the latest failures and setbacks in United States peace initiatives. This is part of an occasional series of interviews with various political figures and factions in Palestine.';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '5 March 2010';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nRAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Israel\'s occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza. The World Bank warned over a year ago that unless Israel eased its restrictions on movement and access in the West Bank the Palestinian economy would further deteriorate.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Nightmares continue to plague Gaza children';
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syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '3 February 2010';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nOCCUPIED GAZA STRIP (IRIN) - Mona al-Samouni, 12, is depressed and has nightmares about the day -- just more than a year ago -- when she witnessed her parents and a number of relatives being shot by Israeli soldiers in their home in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City. Like a number of other children who witnessed horrific events during last year\'s 23-day Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, Mona has become increasingly withdrawn and silent -- common ways of coping with tragedies, doctors say.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Hamas parliamentarian: \"We accept existence of Israel within 1967 borders\"';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11046.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '1 February 2010';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nRAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Palestinian politics are at an impasse. The four-year term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) ended on 25 January with no new elections planned. Presidential elections, meant to be held last year, were also postponed indefinitely. IPS spoke with Dr. Mahmoud Ramahi, a neurosurgeon and secretary-general of the PLC, on the political deadlock.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Floods bring more misery for tented communities in Gaza';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11042.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '29 January 2010';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nOCCUPIED GAZA STRIP (IRIN) - Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza made homeless by Israel\'s 23-day military assault on the Gaza Strip which ended just over a year ago, are still in tents and damaged buildings; cold weather and recent flash floods have exacerbated their plight, say aid workers and the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Humanitarian, rights orgs. decry \"international community\'s betrayal\" of Gaza';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10962.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '22 December 2009';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nThe international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and recovery, say a group of 16 leading humanitarian and human rights groups in a new report released today.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Palestinian refugees in Jordan stuck in a no man\'s land';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10960.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '22 December 2009';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nAMMAN (IPS) - According to the records of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Jordan is home to 1.9 million displaced Palestinians. \"Jordan hosts about 42 percent of the total refugee population,\" says Mattar Sakr, director of public relations for UNRWA in Jordan. Sakr adds that most refugees reside in 13 camps, three of them considered unofficial dwellings because they were not assigned by the government.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Palestine refugees face service cuts due to UNRWA financial crisis';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10946.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '15 December 2009';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nThe United Nations agency Palestine refugees (UNRWA) faces a severe deficit that could lead to cuts of essential services to more than 4.7 million Palestinian refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. According to UNRWA, the agency\'s 2009 funds are already exhausted and it faces a shortfall of US $140 million for 2010. Rami Almeghari reports from the occupied Gaza Strip.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Israeli physicists supply solar and wind power to Palestinian herders';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10864.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '3 November 2009';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nSUSYA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.';
syndicate.index++;syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'How Israel bought off UN\'s war crimes probe ';
syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10814.shtml';
syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = '6 October 2009';
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\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nIsraeli diplomats suggested on Sunday that Washington had promised the Palestinian Authority, in return for delaying an inquiry into accusations Israeli war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, that the US would apply \"significant pressure\" on Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to move ahead on a diplomatic process when the US envoy, George Mitchell, arrives in the region tomorrow. But, according to Israeli and Palestinian analysts, diplomatic arm-twisting was not the only factor in the PA\'s change of heart. Jonathan Cook reports.';
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