mas at King's College, London. Ma'an News Agency Study: 37 percent of Palestinian women exposed to violence by husbands 08/03/2012 -- RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Some 37 percent of Palestinian women were exposed to violence by their husbands in 2011, says a new study revealed on International Women's Day

hairman Mahmoud Abbas had publicly declared the current conflict with Israel as a religious "war for Allah." On Friday, the Palestinian news service Ma'an printed an opinion piece that likewise interpreted the last lines of Abbas' speech as a call to West Bank Palestinians to initiate violence: "He g

its injustice and crimes is about to end and be wiped out,=and soon the [Palestinian] prisoners will be released, and the prisons wil= empty out." [Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 22, 2=15] =nbsp; Headline: "Tirawi conde=ns assassination of fighter leader Samir Kuntar" Fatah Central