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Tuesday, 29 January, 2008, 20:22 GMT

LATEST NEWS

A PFLP supporter demonstrating against the arrest of the group's leader, Ahmed Saadat

Militants warn Arafat over arrest
The militant PFLP warns the Palestinian Authority of conflict after Palestinian police arrest the group's leader.

Israel strikes at Arafat headquarters
Outrage at Israeli strikes
Mid-East stunned by suicide attacks
Leaders condemn Israel bomb attacks
Arafat orders crackdown
Eyewitness: Israel's bomb horror
Palestinian police arrest top militant
Palestinians accused of rights abuses
US Mid-East envoy calls for change
Israel pulls back in 'goodwill gesture'
Israel retaliates in Gaza
US builds new Mid-East peace initiative
Peres backs Palestinian state

Latest analysis

Pivotal moment in Middle East
The BBC's Roger Hardy examines the implications of the worst crisis in the Middle East since the intifada began 14 months ago.

Arafat's dilemma
Israeli backlash raises the stakes
Who are Force 17?
US diplomacy put to the test
Low expectations for Sharon visit
Arafat faces tide of frustration
Mid-East awaits next US move
Peres faces the Palestine question
Israel turns right
Q&A: A Palestinian state?
Analysis: Arafat's crackdown
The Arafat enigma
The intifada one year on
Analysis: Israel pivotal to coalition moves
Palestinians count the cost
Why grab Orient House?
Israel's history of bomb blasts
Israel's undercover assassins
Q&A: Cycle of violence
Tenet plan open to interpretation
Israel's 'assassination policy'
Q&A: Mitchell report
Flashback: Palestine's catastrophe
Intifada: Then and now

Background issues

Resident of Kalandia camp, near Ramallah

Right of return: Palestinian dream?
One of the main problems hindering the Middle East peace process is the Palestinian refugees' demand to return to their homeland.

Who could follow Arafat?
Settlers: Claiming the 'Promised Land'
Analysis: Hardship of the blockade
Holy Jerusalem: The key to peace
Jerusalem: Eternal, intractable
Birzeit: Revolutionary campus
Hebron: City of strife
Israel's Arabs: Enemies within?
Slow train to peace
The Golan: Territory and security
Analysis: Hopeless in Gaza

Key players

Profile: Ariel Sharon
The BBC News website profiles Israel's former prime minister, Ariel Sharon.

Arafat: Flawed symbol of Palestine
Profile: Binyamin Netanyahu
Peres: Peace architect, election loser
US envoy is old Mid-East hand
Spotlight on Israeli cabinet
Who are Hamas?
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Fatah: Political heavyweight floored
Who are the suicide bombers?
Tanzim: Shock troops of the uprising
Who are Islamic Jihad?

From the correspondents

Inside Israel's circle of violence
The BBC's Paul Wood accompanies an Israeli politician as he visits families bereaved by the conflict with the Palestinians.

Palestinians under siege
Generations of violence in Jerusalem
Jerusalem: City of fear
Mid-East violence kills man of peace
The future of the Jewish settlements
Life as a Jewish settler
School trains suicide bombers
Gazan homes turned to rubble
Middle East's circle of despair
Eyewitness: Refugees' plight
Face-to-face with Hamas
Gaza: Living in a war zone
Israeli views on Sharon
Living on the front line
Viewpoint: Death of a stonethrower
Eyewitness: Gazans pushed into poverty
Palestine's lost children

Texts and transcripts

Mitchell report: Main points
The Mitchell report into the Israeli-Palestinian violence warns of the urgent need for a return to dialogue.

Sharon on Mitchell report: Excerpts
Transcript: Interview with King Abdullah
Arafat speech to Muslim ministers