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Adel Meshoukhi was summoned by police and arrested, an interior ministry source said.

On Wednesday Meshoukhi published an online video about the ongoing shortages of electricity and employment in Gaza which included the line "Hamas enough".

It has been viewed more than 150,000 times.

Power shortages in the Palestinian enclave have occurred repeatedly in recent weeks, with homes in Gaza City typically getting around four hours a day instead of at least eight normally.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/afp/2017/01/palestinians-gaza-arrest.html

Gaza energy crisis: Arrests and rallies as Hamas and Fatah trade blame

Hamas officials accuse West Bank government of 'thwarting' attempts to solve two weeks of electricity crisis
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arrests-and-counter-protests-gaza-hamas-and-fatah-trade-blame-electricity-crisis-1393319520

How Hamas is looking to boost foreign ties

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Hamas' foreign relations chief Osama Hamdan revealed that several weeks ago in Qatar, the movement's leadership met a delegation of high-ranking European diplomats. He expressed optimism about a European decision to strike Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/palestine-hamas-interview-foreign-relations-osama-hamdan.html

After Aleppo’s fall, Hamas finds itself resisting Tehran as well as Tel Aviv

The fall of Aleppo to Iran-backed pro-government forces has brought a bubbling conflict between Iran and Hamas to the boil, with the former making thinly-veiled threats to cut off the Palestinian group.

The threats came from Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, a member of the Iranian Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, in the wake of increasing solidarity from Hamas to Aleppo.

In an interview last week with the reformist Qanun newspaper, Falahatpisheh made clear there would be material consequences if Hamas did not change its position on Iran’s role in the region, not least its intervention in Syria.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/after-aleppo-s-fall-hamas-finds-itself-resisting-tehran-well-tel-aviv-1017030317

PA asks Attorney General to shut down 13 local radio, TV stations

Officials of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ministry of Information sent an official request to the office of the attorney general on Monday asking to shut down 13 local radio and TV stations who are allegedly operating without a license.

The ministry's director general in the northern occupied West Bank, Majid Kittana, told Ma'an that the ministry asked the attorney general to shut down eight local radio stations and five TV stations. He highlighted that in general, 75 radio stations and 15 TV stations were currently operating across the West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774833

Fatah leader speaks out on Abbas' exclusive congress

According to Abdel-Hakim Awad, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council and the Palestinian National Council, Fatah crowned President Mahmoud Abbas “king” of Fatah during its 2009 congress, but Abbas’ will and political achievements have been hijacked by a group of other leaders.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/palestine-fatah-congress-abbas-plc-exclusion.html

Eine Musikschule in Gaza nutzt Mozart und Fairuz zur Verarbeitung von Kriegstraumata

Direkt außerhalb eines Gebäudes im Stadtteil Tal al-Hawa in Gaza versammelt sich eine Gruppe junger Leute unter einem Fenster, um die schöne klassische Musik zu hören, die aus einem Fenster ein paar Meter über ihnen kommt.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19580

Hope hard to come by in Lebanon camp

For young people in Ein al-Hilweh, Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, there are few glimmers of hope for a better life.

Like many of his peers in the impoverished community – not far from the coastal city of Sidon in the south – Khaled, 17, dropped out of school years ago. But unlike many of his peers, he hasn’t taken up arms in exchange for a monthly stipend from one of the camp’s many political factions, saying he would “rather play video games and spend time with friends.”

Instead, he takes electrical engineering classes sponsored by international organizations as a means of escaping the danger in Ein al-Hilweh’s narrow streets.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/hope-hard-come-lebanon-camp/19076

Syria refugees test Palestinian solidarity in Lebanon

When Palestinian Fuad Abu Khaled fled Syria's war in 2013, he sought refuge among his own, looking for solidarity among Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon's Shatila camp.

But instead he found a community already struggling to get by and sometimes resentful of new arrivals who are testing the limited resources of the UN agency dedicated to helping Palestinian refugees.

"Despite the fact he's Palestinian and I'm Palestinian, I'm Syrian and he's from Lebanon," said Abu Khaled, who fled the Yarmuk camp in Damascus with his family after fighting began there.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-refugees-test-palestinian-solidarity-lebanon-190039233.html

'Afro-Palestinians' forge a unique identity in Israel

In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City lies the "African Quarter" — home to a little-known community of nearly 50 Arab families of African descent.

Descended from Muslim pilgrims from a variety of African countries, they now consider themselves proud Palestinians, despite widespread poverty and occasional discrimination from both Palestinians and Israelis. Several have even participated in violent attacks against Israel.

"We regard ourselves to be Afro-Palestinian," said community leader Ali Jiddah.

Jiddah, a former member of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, spent 17 years in Israeli prison for taking part in a 1968 bombing that wounded nine Israelis before he was freed in a prisoner swap. Jiddah, who long ago renounced violence, is now a well-known tour guide in the Old City, offering what he calls an "alternative" perspective on the conflict with Israel.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f6bf554b21d04b56be9d6385fbf36d31/afro-palestinians-forge-unique-identity-israel

PFLP dedicates 'house of mourning' in Gaza to the late Fidel Castro
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774234

How Palestinian left hopes to renew political system

Al-Monitor met with Jamil Mezher, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's political bureau, at his office in Gaza City. Among the several Palestinian issues he discussed in the interview were the decline of Arab and Palestinian leftism at the expense of the advancement of Islamist movements, the most efficient Palestinian tools to resist Israel, the obstruction of the Palestinian internal reconciliation and general elections since 2006 and the current situation, problems and stances of the PLO toward ongoing Arab armed conflicts.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/palestine-interview-popular-front-jamil-mezher-al-monitor.html