Palestinians lament Arab Idol outcome
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About 3000 Palestinians, some holding images of Ammar Hassan, gather in the West Bank to watch the final of the Arab Superstar contest.
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PALESTINIANS at home and abroad wept, waved flags, and burned tyres in an eruption of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation.
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Thousands poured onto Palestinian streets to mourn Yasser Arafat on Thursday while world leaders praised him as an icon of his people's struggle whose death could usher in a new Middle East peace drive.
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Abbas claims Arafat's mantle, but peace may be no closer
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While violence was largely over, people worried about how a round of deadly infighting postponed hope for an independent and unified Palestinian state.
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PALESTINIAN leaders stepping into the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat face one of the most daunting challenges in their people&#39;s troubled history.
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Thousands of Palestinians gathered at a West Bank park on Sunday, defying Islamic militant disapproval, in the hope their pop idol would become the first Palestinian to win an Arab song contest.
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Palestinians expressed sorrow and anxiety at the thought of a future without Yasser Arafat, wondering if his absence from the Palestinian territories would bring a bloody
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Palestinian parliament urged Arab states on Tuesday to cut ties with Israel in protest at excavation work near Islam's third holiest site which has triggered Muslim protests.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians streamed into  the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday in an  outpouring of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the  enduring symbol of their nationalist cause.
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THE approaching death of Yasser Arafat will throw most Palestinians into mourning but breathe new life into the failed Middle East peace process.
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In death, as in life, the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat provoked a great wave of contrary emotions across the Middle East on Thursday - grief at the passing of the once
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Palestinians are utterly consumed by the fate of the 26-year-old man who will compete in Lebanon in the final of the televised contest to be named the Arab worldÂs finest singer.
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SALFIT, West Bank -- Worn down by four years of bloody conflict with Israel, Palestinians found a welcome diversion yesterday: Watching Ammar Hassan, one of their own, compete for the title of best singer in the Arab world.
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The somber official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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Ramallah: Yasser Arafat, the icon of the Palestinian freedom struggle, was laid to rest in his ravaged West Bank headquarters in here amidst a surge of emotions and hysteria with many of his supporters firing from Kalashnikovs in the air.
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Palestinians at home and abroad wept, waved flags and burned tires Thursday in an eruption of grief at the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation. The quick appointment of successors did little to dispel the huge question marks now hanging over Mideast peace efforts.