The race on 21 April will be the first marathon to be held in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The Middle East and North Africa, which are dominated by the situation in Iraq, and violence in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Although the dusty, arid hill-top is on what is internationally recognised as occupied Palestinian territory, Israel recently announced it was planning to build homes there for Jewish settlers, our correspondent says.
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"Treatment inconsistent with child rights continues during court appearances, including shackling of children, denial of bail and imposition of custodial sentences and transfer of children outside occupied Palestinian territory to serve their sentences inside Israel, " it said.
He has talked about the annexation of part of the West Bank - land that the international community universally regards as occupied Palestinian territory - but, unlike some politicians even further to the right, he does not appear to advocate encouraging Palestinians to leave.
The Mission also recommended that the Assembly ask the Swiss Government to convene a conference of the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and ensure its respect in accordance with its article 1.
The bombings witnessed in Sinai are not the type of bombings carried out by the Palestinian resistance factions against Israeli targets but they cannot be separated from what is happening in the occupied Palestinian territory and the negative stance of the international community towards ending Israel's violations against Palestinian territory.
Israeli governments have viewed Fatah as a relatively moderate bunch with whom business may at a pinch be done, since it recognises Israel and espouses a two-state solution, whereas they tend to see Hamas as an irredeemable terror group that must be repeatedly clobbered, since it says Israel should be destroyed and a unitary Palestinian state established on the entire territory occupied by Israel.
The 6-foot-5, 308-pound Aboushi is the ninth of 10 children born in Brooklyn to Palestinian parents who came to the U.S. from the town of Beit Hanina in the occupied territory of the West Bank.
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