1. What is the news about? Palestinian MPs Meet General Listening

2. battered damaged by hitting, or after an attack under … siege surrounded by an army Palestinian MPs Meet difficult words & sentences The meeting had been moved from the offices of the Palestinian legislative council, to Yasser Arafat's battered compound where he's been under virtual siege for much of this year.

3. Palestinian MPs Meet difficult words & sentences to renew his call in a speech or formal statement, to ask for something again counter –productive something that leads to the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve Mr Arafat is expected to renew his call for an end to suicide bomb attacks, because they're seen by many Palestinians as counter-productive to the Palestinian cause.

4. Palestinian MPs Meet difficult words & sentences curfews a law which says that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night a town that is still under Israeli occupation and regular curfews.

5. Palestinian MPs Meet difficult words & sentences a video link a connection between two or more places so that the people in those places can communicate with each other by video They'll all be participating in the Parliamentary session by means of a video link between Ramallah and Gaza, as they have done in the past.

6. Palestinian MPs Meet (questions) Who’re going for the meeting?? Who can’t go [would be barred]? How many?? Who won’t go? Why not?? Palestinian MPs as well as foreign diplomats and other international observers. Anyone involved in terrorism. 12 in all. The majority of their colleagues in the Gaza Strip. In protest of the Israeli ban.

7. What does this sentence meanWhat does this sentence mean? the Intifada: The Intifada involved demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence, and was performed both in Gaza Strip and on the West Bank. Palestinian MPs Meet discussion “This was to have been the first time that all the members of the Palestinian parliament had met in person since the start of the Intifada nearly two years ago.” If it hadn’t been for the Israeli ban, they would have met in person this time.