But the tea party in the office of the Nablus Mayor reportedly was electric.
FORBES: To Bring True Peace To The Middle East, Women In Palestine And Israel Must Take Center Stage
The 45-minute journey from Ramallah to Nablus now takes Birzeit's supply trucks four or five hours.
ECONOMIST: We query a plan to rehabilitate Fatah and isolate Hamas
Palestinian security sources identified the bomber as an 18-year-old member of Islamic Jihad from the Nablus area.
Gitai recalls an interview he did many years ago with Palestinian Basam Chaka(ph), then mayor of Nablus.
On Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokesman called the Nablus attack a "new and dangerous" escalation of the violence.
The trip from Jerusalem to Nablus is not for the faint of heart.
FORBES: To Bring True Peace To The Middle East, Women In Palestine And Israel Must Take Center Stage
The Israeli army reoccupied the West Bank city of Nablus and raided Gaza.
Soldiers built a large, dirt barricade making it impossible for villagers to reach the main road between Ramallah and Nablus.
Hamas took control of three key cities in local elections last week, including a landslide in Fatah's former stronghold, Nablus.
It may also reflect collaboration, which is now common in such war zones as the West Bank city of Nablus.
The Israeli army said Palestinian gunmen killed Gilad Zar, 41, near the Palestinian-controlled city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Last week's major IDF operation in Nablus was directed against Fatah terror squads which had begun producing rockets to attack central Israel.
Its founder and director Danny Zamir was jailed in 1990 for refusing to serve in Nablus during the height of the Palestinian uprising.
The Hamas statement said al-Masri carried out the attack to avenge the Israeli killing of Hamas militants, specifically two killed last week in Nablus.
There has been more violence between Palestinian factions in the West Bank, with police stations torched in Jenin and foreigners briefly abducted in Nablus.
On Saturday, 43-year-old merchant Munzer Hafnawi was sentenced to death in a Nablus courtroom, and on Sunday, in Gaza, Khalid Akka was likewise condemned.
Akram Dweikat, a Startup Weekend Organizer from Nablus on the West Bank, recently met with President Obama in Palestine to discuss education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
She was received in Nablus by, in addition to her Palestinian hosts, a delegation of Israelite-Samaritans from their nearby Mountain of Blessings community, Kiryat Luza.
FORBES: To Bring True Peace To The Middle East, Women In Palestine And Israel Must Take Center Stage
Stone-throwing protesters in the West Bank towns of Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and elsewhere faced off with Israeli soldiers deploying tear gas and stun grenades.
So, for the moment, it is doing, mobilising swiftly to stop demonstrations getting out of control in flashpoints such as Hebron and Nablus and Gaza.
In the mid-1990s, there was local consternation that Israel still controlled access to the area even after Nablus was handed over to Palestinian Authority control.
In Nablus, where Fatah is divided, they charged a security base.
On Friday, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, identified the Hadera attacker as Abed Hassouneh of Nablus.
On December 1st, one of the signatories, Mouawiyah Masri, a legislator from Nablus, in the West Bank, was shot in the leg by three masked gunmen.
In the West Bank on Wednesday, schools and government offices were shut to allow for demonstrations backing the UN membership bid in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus and Hebron.
On October 18th, the last remaining Palestinian families left a village near Nablus after two years of armed harassment from settlers and no protection from the army.
Take Nablus, the should-be commercial capital of the coming state.
In Nablus, too, the largest city in the northern West Bank, a similarly intensive search-and-arrest operation is under way following a terrorist attack on a kibbutz inside Israel.
Hamas took to the streets in Nablus in defence of Mr Masri and, on December 5th, five of the eight signatories still in jail began a hunger strike.
It was dusk when we finally trudged into Nablus, one of the West Bank's biggest cities - and one of the world's oldest, called Shechem in the Bible.
应用推荐