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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Yehya Shatarat punched his fist into his hand as he watched satellite television pictures of Palestinians in the West Bank voting for a successor to the late Yasser Arafat.
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An Israeli soldier caught on  videotape beating Palestinians at a busy West Bank checkpoint  was sentenced by a military court on Tuesday to six months'  imprisonment, the army said.
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DEIR BALAH, Gaza Strip -- In his campaign for the Palestinian presidency, Mustafa Barghouti has been dragged through the dirt, detained at gunpoint and arrested by Israeli security forces.
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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 Israeli soldier and two Palestinian  militants were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting  since Yasser Arafat's death, raising the prospect that renewed  violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
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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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prison cell, posed an immediate challenge to the front runner, elderly former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas. Likud, from the government for voting against the 2005 state budget in a first reading in parliament.
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Israel has been stepping up its military raids in the Gaza Strip with its troops killing 12 Palestinians in the past two days. The action comes as Palestinian presidential contenders campaign for the January 9 elections.
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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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Yasser Arafat's interim successor escaped  injury in a Gaza gunfight triggered by hostile militants on  Sunday as Palestinian officials set Jan. 9 for elections to  replace the late president and avert a feared power vacuum.
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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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JERUSALEM -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading Palestinian presidential candidate, described Israel yesterday as ''the Zionist enemy" in reaction to the shelling by Israeli troops of a town in the Gaza Strip -- while he was campaigning in Gaza -- that left seven people dead, including an 11-year-old, a 12-year-old, and three teenagers.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- When Abu Fahdi joined a Palestinian militant group and took up arms against Israel, he thought he was serving his people. Now he believes he only did them harm.
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Mahmoud Abbas has said before that the Palestinians were wrong to use violence against Israel in the &quot;current intifada.&quot; But this time, he said it as a candidate to lead the Palestinians
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A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, as US Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry warned that if he wins the November 2 election there will be no reprieve for sidelined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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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.