Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 550, 15 September 1988

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 550 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 15 September 1988, features the following topics: - Demonstrations in Qalqilya following the curfew lift, and Israeli forces arrest 370 youths within a week. - Mass demonstrations and clashes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the closure of neighbourhoods in Nablus, and the Israeli raids on villages and refugee camps continue. - Israeli concern about the political movement of the PLO. - Educational institutes offer an alternative education program in light of the continued closure of universities, institutes and schools. - Three Iraqi conditions for resuming negotiations. - Arafat identifies Palestinian options: declaring a Palestinian state, forming a government in exile, or seeking international tutelage. - Ṣalah Khalaf: PLO leadership is about to announce a new political initiative. - Syrian-American talks to agree on a candidate for the Lebanese presidency, Frangieh may announce his withdrawal. - The outcome of the Israeli campaign in Qalqilya, the arrest of 370 young people and the transformation of two schools into temporary prisons. - Fourteen shaheeds were killed by colonizers since the Intifada started. - The tenth month of the Intifada, three killed and 137 wounded, 7 of them in severe conditions. - Shaheeds of the thirty-ninth week of the Intifada. - A curfew imposed during the thirty-ninth week of the Intifada. - A black-and-white photograph capturing the rubble of a house demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces in Isawiya. - The Palestinian turn is heading towards decisiveness and the announcement of a new political program. - A people's lineup is required in the face of the regimes' line-up. - Yaser Abed Rabbo: The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine gives us the right to establish an independent Palestinian state. - An American viewpoint: Arab regimes fear the establishment of a Palestinian state with democratic freedoms.