Arafat file shows no poisons found
The precise cause of Yasser Arafat's death remained unclear yesterday, after his nephew collected the late Palestinian leader's medical records from France yesterday in a trip prompted by mounting rumours among Palestinians that he was poisoned by Israel.
Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian - 23 November 2004

Israeli soldiers accused of tampering with corpses
A military police investigation was ordered yesterday by the Israeli Chief of Staff into allegations that soldiers had tampered with the bodies of dead Palestinians and posed for photographs with the corpses.
Donald Macintyre / The Independent - 20 November 2004

Israelis want to exhume shot girl's body
Military prosecutors are seeking to exhume the body of a 13-year-old girl who Israeli soldiers say was repeatedly shot by their company commander as she lay wounded on the ground in the southern Gaza Strip.
Donald Macintyre / The Independent - 19 November 2004

Israel's democratic dilemma
Free and fair elections? Israel will do its very best to stop them, reports Khaled Amayreh
Khaled Amayreh / Al Ahram Weekly - 18 November 2004

Losers all
As the violence soars in Gaza the prospect for any "political" Israeli withdrawal recedes, writes Graham Usher in Jerusalem
Graham Usher / Al Ahram - 14 September 2004

3,000 Arab students will be forced to cross fence on way to school
Some 3,000 Arab schoolchildren and dozens of teachers will be forced every day to pass through the transit points in the West Bank separation fence in order to get to their schools in Jerusalem, according to figures released yesterday by the Jerusalem municipality.
Yoav Stern / Ha'aretz - 01 September 2004

Sharon flies to US to seek backing on Gaza
Ariel Sharon flies to Washington this week increasingly confident of securing the new accord with President George Bush that he needs to convince right-wing sceptics in his own party to back his unilateral plan to "disengage" from Gaza.
Donald Macintyre / The Independent - 11 April 2004

Israeli police storm mosque compound
Thousands of Palestinians today barricaded themselves inside mosques at one of Islam's holiest sites after Israeli police stormed worshippers who they said had been throwing stones at officers.
George Wright / The Guardian - 02 April 2004

US vetoes UN Yassin resolution
The US last night blocked a UN resolution condemning Israel's assassination of the Hamas founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, on the grounds that the text was "one-sided".
Jackie Dent / The Guardian - 26 March 2004

Academic boycott of Israel gathers momentum
Leading advocates of an academic boycott of Israel have stepped up their campaign calling for an "outing" of Israeli universities which support their government's policy on the occupied territories.
Polly Curtis / The Guardian - 25 March 2004

Israelis kill two villagers in barrier protests
Demonstrations over West Bank wall claim first victims as seizures belie Sharon's pledge to abandon settlements
Conal Urquhart / The Guardian - 27 February 2004

Land grab in Gaza casts doubt on pullout
Israel is seizing Palestinian land in Gaza to expand one of the most controversial Jewish settlements three weeks after Ariel Sharon said he intended to remove all settlers from the territory.
Chris McGreal / The Guardian - 27 February 2004

Israeli arms mole vows to fight on after release
Mordechai Vanunu, whose imprisonment for spilling Israel's nuclear weapons secrets has made him an international cause célèbre, opened a battle this week against government plans to restrict his freedom after he is released from 18 years' solitary confinement on 21 April.
Eric Silver / The Independent - 27 February 2004

Suicide bomber kills eight in Jerusalem bus attack
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed eight Israelis and wounded about 60 when he blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem during the morning rush hour yesterday.
Eric Silver / The Independent - 23 February 2004