Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call for Palestinian national unity this week while the Bil’in conference on popular resistance ends with a nonviolent protest against the separation wall. These stories and more in this week’s update.

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Efforts to negotiate a truce between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip have hit a snag. As Robert Berger reports from VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, a deadly Palestinian attack has reinforced Israeli concerns.

This program was produced by Voice of America for April 25, 2008.

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