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Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories.

Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Hass joined Haaretz in 1989, and has been in her current position since 1993. As the correspondent for the territories, she spent three years living in Gaza, which served of the basis for her widely acclaimed book, "Drinking the Sea at Gaza." She has lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah since 1997.

Hass is also the author of two other books, both of which are compilations of her articles.

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Bus crash victim: Palestinian who visited Israeli friends

Anas Maloul, 25, lived in Ramallah and worked for a Palestinian NGO focusing on democratic education; he was the sole victim in Tuesday's crash.

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British parlimentarians take on treatment of teens in Israeli military court

Israel's West Bank military court was debated in two sessions of the House of Lords, with a focus on the issue of the detention and sentencing conditions for Palestinian minors by the Israeli military.

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Palestinians Ramallah - Reuters - March 15, 2011
Bracing for a boomerang

Getting the United Nations to vote on Palestinian statehood is not as brilliant a move as some would think, dissenters warn

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Nabil Sha’ath, Ismail Haniyeh - AFP
More up our sleeves

Nabil Sha'ath tells Haaretz that Fatah has other measures planned to create pressure on Israel - aside from the UN declaration of statehood.

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Otherwise Occupied / The story of the real Geronimo

Harlyn Geronimo, the great-grandson of the legendary Apache freedom fighter, is demanding an apology from Barack Obama for naming the operation to kill bin Laden after his great-grandfather.

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The unbearable Israeli lightness of arresting Palestinians

A senior IDF officer signed an administrative detention order full of mistakes in its contents and with many whiteout erasures. Is an arrest without trial for six months such a trivial matter that it doesn’t require checking of the details?

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Palestinian stone-throwers
Judge remands Palestinian teen despite suspicions that soldiers beat him

Boy from Bil'in rarrested on Friday on suspicion of throwing stones during the weekly protest against the separation fence says soldiers injured his hand who 'kicked and attacked' him.

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In Egypt, kids with Palestinian fathers to get citizenship

Interior Minister Mansour al-Isawi had announces change in citizenship law to grant citizenship to applicants with Egyptian mothers and Palestinian fathers.

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Salam Fayyad - AP
Not settlements, and not watermelons

The Karameh National Empowerment Fund has made good progress in its campaign to rid PA territories of goods grown or made by Jewish settlements, says its director, but state-building requires more than just boycotts.

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Did case of mistaken identity put Palestinian man behind bars?

A 52-year-old Palestinian taxi driver has been held in Israeli detention for the past two weeks on allegations by a soldier that the driver had thrown stones at him.

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Palestinians waiting to cross border - AP
Palestinian reconciliation may lead to Israel's Palestinian separation

Back in February, Egyptian diplomats predicted that Egypt would help bring about an internal Palestinian rapprochement, but what good is reconciliation if Palestinians from Gaza still won't be able to travel to the West Bank?

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IDF judge: Unnecessary extension of Palestinian remands borders on illegal

According to the law, a Palestinian may be detained for up to eight days before being brought before a judge; judge reprimanded police for habitually extending Palestinian suspects' remands.

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Supreme Court is on wrong side of West Bank separation fence

A recent ruling demonstrates the bureaucratic machinery the state has created to restrict the Palestinians' ability to enter, live and work on land west of the separation fence.

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Salaam Fayyad - Moti Milrod
Fayyad's road to freedom runs over Israeli law

In honor of Land Day, the leader of one of the two Palestinian governing bodies encouraged Palestinians to continue building and planting, even if Israel continues uprooting.

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Palestinian security forces block protesters - AFP
Many Palestinians think Fatah-Hamas unity efforts distract from the occupation

While young protesters in Ramallah are calling for an end to the split between Gaza and the West Bank, others argue that those words have lost their meaning.

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Judge Ruth Ronnen
Defense Ministry ordered to release internal documents on Gaza policies

The ministry has been ordered to release information regarding the minimum nutritional requirements needed to sustain Gaza residents, names of officials responsible for policy of limiting the entry of goods into the strip.

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Bassem Tamimi
Mighty Israel and its quest to quash Palestinian popular protest

The military has delegated its best soldiers, investigators and judges to safeguarding Israel against the organizer of Nabi Saleh's popular uprising.

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Mahmoud Awad, 25, who lives in Tuba, was attacked on his way to a doctor's appointment in Yatta.

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Egypt proved to Palestinians that revolution has a point

In their attempts to suppress youth demonstrations in Gaza and Ramallah, the two rival Palestinian ruling parties appear to be remarkably in tune

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As Egypt unrest subsides, young Muslim Brotherhood plans own revolt

Muslim Brotherhood's young guards believes that its leaders have yet to grasp significance of recent events in Egypt and are thus planning to revolt and demand reforms.

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Cairo’s Zabaleen neighborhood - Amira Hass
Cairo's 'garbage people,' dumped again

The 'Zabaleen,' the mostly Coptic Christians who famously live in and off of Cairo's garbage, are reeling from a recent attack in which nine people from the neighborhood were killed.

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The Israeli occupation echoes from Cairo

The author is reminded that the Palestinians are under occupation when almost all Egyptians refuse to meet with her because she writes for an Israeli newspaper.

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For the first time since Mubarak's ouster, the recently-announced Egyptian Federation of Independent Labor Unions convened and added a higher minimum wage to the list of democratic demands

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Mubarak to be questioned over corruption as Egypt PM resigns

Hours after the Prime Minister that he appointed during his final days in power resigns, CNN reports that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be brought to the capital next week to answer questions over his family's secret bank accounts.

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Former transport minister appointed PM by Mubarak during last days of his regime; military under pressure to sack former cabinet in wake of popular revolution.

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