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  • New Palestinian cabinet sworn in

  • Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas swears in a new cabinet in the West Bank, a move Hamas describes as a "big error".
  • Arafat's moneyman targeted in corruption probe

  • FILE - In this May 11, 2002 file photo Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's economic adviser Mohammed Rashid, right, and Israeli Foreign Minister at the time Shimon Peres, left, shake hands as Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni looks on at a ceremony before the start of a concert in Rome's Colosseum. Rashid is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)The late Yasser Arafat's powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption probe to date, facing allegations he syphoned off millions of dollars in public funds, the chief investigator said Wednesday.



  • Palestinian PM loses finance role in new cabinet

  • RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian leader widely credited by the West with introducing transparency to a corruption-plagued and donor-dependent economy lost his job as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday. Although he is relinquishing the treasury portfolio, Salam Fayyad will retain his other post as prime minister in a shakeup born of a financial crisis in the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and a deadlock over implementing a power-sharing deal with rival Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip. ...
  • Arafat's former aide faces embezzlement charges

  • FILE - In this May 11, 2002 file photo Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's economic adviser Mohammed Rashid, right, and Israeli Foreign Minister at the time Shimon Peres, left, shake hands as Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni looks on at a ceremony before the start of a concert in Rome's Colosseum. Rashid is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday.



  • Looking out

  • Looking outA Palestinian child peers through hanging floor matting at her home in the Shati Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza City.



  • Gaza mural

  • Gaza muralA Palestinian woman paints the word in Arabic that reads, "Returning" as she designs a mural in Gaza City.



  • Nakba Day

  • Nakba DayA Palestinian demonstrator kicks a burning tyre down the road as clashes broke out with Israeli soldiers during protests outside Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, marking Nakba Day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of Israel state in 1948.



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