Palestinian fugitives draw hospitals into line of fire
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These days, Bethlehem's hospitals aren't just for the sick. They're becoming havens from Israel too.
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With Yasser Arafat apparently near death, leading Palestinian politicians have moved rapidly to prevent a visible vacuum of power, reaching out to disaffected younger legislators, Palestinian militant ...
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.
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GAZA CITY, Nov 6  - Prime minister Ahmed Qorei urged leaders of armed factions not to drag the Palestinian people into internecine conflict Saturday as their veteran leader Yasser Arafat fought for his life in a Paris hospital.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical condition in a French hospital on Saturday and Hamas militants in Gaza said there was an urgent need for unity among Palestinian leaders.
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Palestinian militants have burst into a mourning tent for Yasser Arafat, firing shots in protest at the presence of his potential successor, Mahmoud Abbas.
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A group of Palestinians unleashed bursts of gunfire yesterday as Mahmoud Abbas, a possible successor to Yasser Arafat as president, arrived at a mourning service for Arafat in Gaza City.
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Islamist militants are seeking to evacuate their wounded from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where they have been battling the army for more than three months, security sources and a mediator said on Sunday.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Rival gunmen exchanged fire at two Gaza hospitals yesterday and Cabinet ministers fled their weekly meeting after the government headquarters was caught in the crossfire of a brutal day of infighting that killed 17 Palestinians.
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About 2,500 Palestinian police, some firing in the air, pushed onto the grounds of Gaza City's parliament while dozens of parents carrying infants broke into a West Bank clinic Saturday in protests against the cash-strapped Hamas government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - An ambulance pulled up  outside the headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat  on Wednesday and three medics went inside, a Reuters journalist  said.
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Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister's office during factional fighting on Monday that killed 11 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
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A fragile cease-fire between Palestinian factions in Gaza teetered on the edge of collapse Tuesday after Hamas and pro-Fatah forces battled inside a Gaza City hospital and near the Palestinian presidential compound.
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Palestinian leaders on Monday sought to end a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up in a refugee camp which has been the battleground for Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian officials prepared to move the ailing Yasser Arafat (search) out of his sandbagged headquarters to a hospital in Paris Thursday as associates described a Palestinian leader who was too weak to stand, appeared confused
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Seriously ill and perhaps fighting for his life, Yasser Arafat was rushed Friday to a military hospital near Paris that specializes in blood disorders.
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An assassination and continued unrest focus scrutiny on the country's Palestinian refugees