...will report on the effectiveness of a University of Minnesota program being used with youth living in the very troubled Gaza Strip and West Bank. The Aug. 9 Unlimited Learning class will be from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Heartwood Senior Living Community...

...plan to pursue U.N. ratification of Palestinian statehood will be more hardship for the people of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Congress may terminate U.S. aid, causing an instant economic crisis; Israel is hinting at retaliation, ranging...

...consider whether to engage the new Israeli coalition. A merger of Mr. Abbas's administration with that of Hamas in the Gaza Strip is still pending; so are long-overdue elections. If Mr. Abbas or a successor chooses to focus on peace talks rather...

...ever offered before, but falls short of Palestinians' long-standing sovereignty demands. As he returned home to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, thousands of Palestinians gave him a hero's welcome, praising him for his tough stand on Jerusalem...

...the next," Sneh said Wednesday evening after meeting Tayeb Abdel Rahim at the Erez checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Sneh has been working with the Palestinians to prevent violence following the failure of the summit. Sher, speaking...

...contested Jerusalem shrine. Six Palestinians were killed and about 325 injured in the worst violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in four years. "The battle for Jerusalem has begun," said Bassem Naim, a Palestinian activist. Palestinian gunmen...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A tentative cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip lasted barely half a day on Tuesday, dissipating in the smoke of gunfights and rockets fired from helicopter gunships. The renewed...

...rock-throwers and several dozen gunmen in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, killing four rioters in what the Palestinians...sealing off the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli forces also pulled back from a potentially...

...Palestinian gunmen barred Israeli medics from reaching the compound for several hours. Violence across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, sparked by a visit by hard-line opposition leader Ariel Sharon to a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews, has...

...administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The days of rage that have consumed Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since Sept. 28 have spread elsewhere. Israel was building up its forces on its northern border after Lebanese guerrillas...