Tonight, the Israelis fired on four Gaza bases of Palestinian Authority security forces, wounding about 30 people, Palestinian hospital officials said.
This descriptive analysis of patient information at the MSF mental health program in Gaza Strip is based on records from two years prior through two and a half years after the bombardment of Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009.
The internal Palestinian tragedy creates a possibility for Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to demand of Israel and the international community significant measures to improve the situation in the West Bank, to serve as a model for a future solution which would include the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, based on the 1967 borders with mutual land swaps.
It said the Palestinian men, two from Jerusalem and one from the West Bank, were recruited by an operative based in the Gaza Strip who worked for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The Eighth Army's XXII Corps (3rd and 53rd Infantry Divisions) was based at Gaza while its XX Corps (16th, 26th and 54th Infantry Divisions) was based at Sheria in the centre of the Gaza Beersheba line.
Also on Tuesday, the Israeli military said it would close the crossings out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip until Thursday, based on "situation assessments".
Mr Abbas presented a formal request to the UN asking for membership of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, based on the 1967 borders.
Kibbutz Zikim is north of the Gaza Strip, near an army base that was attacked in September.
Yasir Arafat left his base in the Gaza Strip on a diplomatic tour aimed at solidifying international support in the wake of the Camp David talks.
But he left the party, long the primary sponsor of Israel's settlement movement, in November after alienating its base with his Gaza evacuation.
A deeply disgruntled Yasir Arafat left his base in the Gaza Strip today on a diplomatic tour aimed at solidifying international support for the Palestinians in the wake of the Camp David talks.
