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Palestinian rivals hold unity talks in Qatar (AP)

AP - The Palestinian president and the head of rival Hamas resumed talks Sunday over efforts to move along a reconciliation pact that remains stalled after nearly a year.

HRW calls for Palestinian residency rights (AP)

In this Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, photo, Palestinian Hussein al-Ustaz works in a garage as a mechanic in the Anata refugee camp, on the edge of Jerusalem. An international human rights group has urged Israel to lift what it says are arbitrary restrictions on Palestinian residency in the West Bank and Gaza. Hussein al-Ustaz, a Gaza man who moved to the West Bank 15 years ago, before the travel ban, remains an 'illegal alien' even though he married a local woman and they have six children. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - A Gaza-born woman recently sneaked into her native land through a smugglers' tunnel because the legal route was blocked. A car mechanic who settled in the West Bank 15 years ago to raise a family lives in fear of deportation because his ID card says he's originally from Gaza.


Israeli prospector says natural gas found offshore (AP)

AP - American and Israeli gas prospectors say they have discovered a large amount of offshore natural gas in Israeli waters near the Lebanese border.

Top Hamas member leaves Syria because of uprising (AP)

AP - Hamas officials say a senior member of the Palestinian militant group has left Syria because of the government's crackdown on an uprising there.

Bahrain opposition launch week-long rally for reform (Reuters)

Reuters - Bahraini opposition parties, launching a week-long 'sit-in' for political reforms at a mass rally, swore on Sunday to take their campaign to the centre of last year's democracy protest in the capital Manama.

February 5 2012

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