Word: balata
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...many attendees of Picture Balata’s opening reception last Wednesday, the event’s strong pro-Palestinian view of the Israeli occupation was explicit. The moving testimonies of three children from the Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank, coupled with their bleak photographs, vividly portrayed the hardships that these teenagers have had to face in a volatile refugee camp...
...living conditions resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The teenagers and their stories, attested to by the moving photographs that flashed on the screen behind them during a presentation at the Center for Goverment and International Studies (CGIS), were part of a six-city U.S. tour organized by Picture Balata, a West Bank-based group dedicated to teaching the youth of the Balata refugee camp about photography. The exhibit, which will remain on the ground floor of CGIS North until April 21, highlighted the plight of the refugee camp, the largest in the West Bank, according to information...
...some success. In his first six weeks on the job, Tibon's men nabbed 10 suicide bombers only a day or two before their deadly missions. And there are less dramatic arrests every night, more than 2,000 since Tibon took over. Last month, an operation in the Balata refugee camp on the edge of Nablus netted Lou'i Abdo, a prominent member of the Tanzim, part of the militant wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. But Tibon's terrorist hunt isn't focused on the top suspects on the wanted list. Instead, he works from the bottom...
...giving them a greenish but clear-eyed view of a nighttime world. Once inside Baghdad, the Americans would start clearing buildings one by one, from the top floor down. They would probably use the technique that Israeli forces employed during fighting earlier this year in the West Bank's Balata refugee camp. Once inside a building, Israeli forces moved to the next one by cutting holes in the adjoining walls. That kept the Israeli troops largely inside and safe from Palestinian sniper fire. The U.S. has a wide range of wall-breaching weapons, ranging from M-1 tanks to exploding...
...discuss the prospects for renewed Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, Israeli forces moved back into Nablus and Qalqilya. Among those arrested in the West Bank raids was Issam Abu Bakr, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in Nablus. Troops went from house to house in the Balata refugee camp, a main base of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, responsible for a recent suicide bombing near Tel Aviv in which two Israelis were killed. ITALY Mamma Mafia Two carloads of gangsters sped through the southern town of Lauro di Nola, exchanging gunfire and terrifying passers by. When the cars...