Palestinian candidate says Israeli soldiers beat him
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Democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti who joins the Palestinian presidential race told reporters on Thursday that he and his bodyguards were beaten by Israeli soldiers on a roadblock in the northern West Bank.
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A mortar attack on an Israeli military post in the southern Gaza Strip injured 11 soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said. Israeli troops hours later raided the Khan Younis refugee camp, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
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A candidate in next month&#39;s Palestinian presidential election was detained briefly Friday by Israeli authorities after allegedly assaulting a border policeman at a checkpoint.
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A prominent candidate in the Palestinian presidential elections accused Israel yesterday of &quot;discrimination&quot; in allowing the former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas to travel freely
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Fears that the struggle to find a new Palestinian leader could bring bloodshed and instability were confirmed last night when the PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas was caught in a gun battle during a visit to Gaza.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip  - The moderate  frontrunner in the race for Palestinian president called Israel  the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday after an Israeli tank killed seven  Palestinian youths in a Gaza strawberry field.
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RAMALLAH - Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti said on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers had beat him at an army checkpoint south of Jenin in the West Bank.
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An influential and outspoken Israeli rabbi has said Israeli soldiers died in battle because they were not ritually observant Jews, sparking outrage in Israel.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Thousands of Palestinians  including armed militants gave presidential election  frontrunner Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome on Saturday in a  Gaza refugee camp shattered by fighting with Israel.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas denounced Israel as the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday &#151; his harshest language yet on the campaign trail &#151; after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.
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JERUSALEM -- In a challenge to Mahmoud Abbas, president-elect of the Palestinian Authority, Islamic militants yesterday killed a Jewish settler and wounded three Israeli soldiers with homemade explosives laid on a settlement boundary road in the Gaza Strip.
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A PALESTINIAN presidential candidate was arrested by Israeli authorities for allegedly attacking a border guard at a roadblock near Jerusalem, his party said.
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The killings drew a pointed response from Mahmoud Abbas, the favorite in the Palestinian presidential election on Sunday.
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Palestinians hoping for a morale boost after four years of bloody conflict with Israel were disappointed Sunday, when their contestant in a much-watched contest for the Arab world's best singer lost to a Libyan.
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Almost 70 Israeli soldiers were injured early Tuesday when Palestinian militants hit their base with a Qassam rocket, an Israel Defense Forces Spokeswoman said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the Palestinian uprising jailed by Israel but perhaps the strongest candidate to oust Yasser Arafat's old guard of politicians, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections, a person close to Barghouti said yesterday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians accused Israel  on Saturday of not carrying out a promised easing of its  military grip on the West Bank and Gaza for a presidential  election to pick Yasser Arafat's successor.