Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.

Thomas "Tom" Hurndall was a British photography student, member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On April 11, 2003, he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb. According to witnesses, this occurred while he was acting “as a human shield, …

Rabbi Meir David Kahane (also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, author, political activist, and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political and nationalist views, …

Suha Daoud Arafat, "née" Suha Daoud Tawil, is the widow of the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.

Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement.

Victor Batarseh (b. 1935) is the mayor of Bethlehem in the West Bank in the Palestinian territories. He was elected in 2005. He is a retired physician, a Roman Catholic, and a former activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. By law, the holder of this post must be a Christian.

Ed O'Loughlin is a journalist for John Fairfax Holdings, an Australian media group. His reporting appears in the Australian newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Born in Toronto in 1966, he studied liberal arts at the Trinity College, Dublin. His career began as a freelance journalist in the Belgian Congo in the Democratic Rebublic of the Congo. He began work for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, first in South Africa, …

Dr. Ahmad Tibi (sometimes spelt Ahmed Tibi, born 19 December 1958) is an Israeli Arab politician and leader of the Arab nationalist party, Ta'al (the Arab Movement for Renewal). He was elected on a joint ticket with the United Arab List to serve in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. He describes himself as Arab-Palestinian in nationality, but has called Israel his "homeland" and vowed to stay in Israel regardless of the fate of the Palestinian territories.

Suleiman, Elia was born in Nazareth in 1960. He has lived in New York, the Netherlands and France, as well as in Palestine. In addition to Divine Intervention (2002), his film credits include: Cyber-Palestine (1999), War and Peace in Vesoul (1997), Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and several others. Suleiman won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002.

Pierre Rehov (1952-) is the pseudonym of a French Jewish film maker, most known for his movies which are almost exclusively based on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Rehov was born to a Jewish family in Algeria, where he experienced terrorism at a young age. In 1961 his family moved to France with as many as 250,000 other French fleeing Algeria, which was to become independent the next year.

Wendy W. Campbell, is an La Quinta, California-based documentary film-maker and writer, born in 1951 in Tallahassee, Florida. She received a BFA in Printmaking and an MS in Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Campbell is a self-professed "anti-Zionist" and "Pro-Palestinian" activist. She formed "MarWen Media" with partner and boyfriend Mark Green, a host of local cable access show, "Flashpoint". Campbell is also a real estate agent.

James Reynolds (born 1974) is the BBC's Beijing correspondent. From 1998 to 2001, he was the BBC's South America correspondent, based in Santiago, during which time he reported on the arrest of General Pinochet in Chile. From 2001 to 2006 he was based in the Middle East and primarily reported on stories in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

Masri, Mai originally from Nablus, is based largely in Lebanon. Born in 1959, she received a degree in film production from San Francisco State University. She has directed and produced several award-winning films that have been broadcast and shown internationally.

Tamer Nafar is an Arab rap artist living in Israel. He and a former mentor, Israeli rapper Subliminal, are the subjects of the documentary film "Channels of Rage". Tamer was born on June 6, 1979 in Lod, Israel. He began writing and making rap music in 1998, in 2000 his brother Suhell and their friend Mahmoud Jrere joined him to start the first Palestinian Arabian rap group, called DAM. Singing mostly in Arabic but also in Hebrew and English, …

Mohammed Shabir (sometimes written "Mohammed Shbeir", "Mohammed Shubair" or "Mohammed Shubeir") is the Prime Minister-in-waiting for the next Palestinian unity government. On November 13, 2006 senior Hamas officials in Syria announced that Hamas and Fatah had agreed on him. Shabir, 60, is originally from the Gaza town of Khan Younis and received his doctorate in microbiology from Marshall University.

Abdel Aziz Duwaik is a member of Hamas, and the current Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Duwaik was a university professor at An-Najah National University in Nablus on the West Bank. Duwaik has been arrested many times and was exiled from the Palestinian territories and sent to southern Lebanon along with 400 other Hamas members by the Rabin administration in 1992. Abdel Aziz Duwaik was arrested by Israel on June 29, …

Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook ; born January 9, 1951) is a senior member of the Palestinian organization Hamas. He is believed to have fled from or to Syria in September 2004. He was born in the Gaza Strip, while it was occupied by Egypt. Marzook provided substantial funds to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) in the early 1990s. In 1994, Marzook designated HLF as the primary fund-raising entity for Hamas in the United States.

Kate Raphael Bender is an American Jewish lesbian peace activist. After about a year in the Palestinian territories volunteering with Palestinian and international human rights groups, she was arrested December 14, 2004 during a peaceful protest against Israel's West Bank barrier, which took place in the West Bank village of Bil'in. She was held in custody until her Israeli visa expired on January 15, 2005.

S. Brian Willson, (born July 4 1941), is a United States Air Force (USAF) veteran who became a prominent anti-war activist. Willson served, from 1966 to 1970, in the USAF, including several months as a combat security officer in Vietnam. He left the Air Force as a Captain. He subsequently became a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Veterans For Peace (Humboldt Bay Chapter 56, California). Upon completion of Law School at American University in Washington, D.C., …

Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (pron. ; born January 17, 1944) is one of the most famous Swedish authors and journalists. Among his many books, the most well-known are the novels about Swedish spy Carl Hamilton and the trilogy about Knight Templar Arn Magnusson. Guillou's daughter Ann-Linn is a journalist and feminist commentator. Guillou rose to fame following his exposure of a secret intelligence scandal in 1973 (known as the "IB affair"), …

Didier Julia is a French politician. He is currently (as of 2007) representing the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from Seine-et-Marne in the French National Assembly, a post he has held from 1967. He is mainly known for his interference in liberation operations of French hostages detained in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003. Didier Julia was born in Paris. He is doctor of State in Literature, "agrégé" in philosophy and university professor.

Henry Chalfant (born January 2, 1940 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA) is a well known and highly regarded urban culture photographer and videographer most notable for his graffiti and breakdance photography and film. His photos are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Stanford University who majored in classical Greek, …

Mohammed Milhim is the current mayor of the city of Halhul in the southern West Bank. He graduated the University of Lebanon with a certificate in English literature in 1974. In 1980 he was exiled from the Palestinian territories for being a member of the PLO Executive Committee and was allowed back 12 years later. He served as Yasser Arafat's consultant and several roles in the Palestinian Ministry of Education.

Omar Hammayil (b. 1976/77) is the mayor of Al-Bireh in the West Bank in the Palestinian territories. He is also a chemistry teacher.

Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine from October 1994 to July 1, 2006 when he was retired. He agreed to let an interfaith group, associated with Reverend Sun Myung Moon, hold a peace rally in the Al Aqsa Mosque on December 22, 2003.

Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or more fully Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi (أبو محمد عصام المقدسي) is the assumed name of Isam Mohammad Tahir al-Barqawi (عصام محمد طاهر البرقاوي), a Jordanian-Palestinian Islamic scholar and jihadist writer. He is best known as the spiritual mentor of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the initial leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Robert Baird McClure CC (1900 - November 10, 1991) was a Canadian physician, medical missionary, and the 23rd Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1968 to 1971. Born in Portland, Oregon, the son of a medical missionary, he spent the first fifteen years of his life in China. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1922. In 1923, he was appointed a medical missionary to Henan, China and served until 1948.

Martine van den Oever (born 1979) was arrested together with Nouredine el Fahtni and his wife, Soumaya Sahla, on 22 June 2005 on suspicion of being a member of the terrorist organisation Hofstad Network, based in the Netherlands. She was released after six weeks due to what the Public Prosecution called "personal reasons", but remained a suspect. Police found by her a goodbye letter in which she announces an important event Van den Oever, from Naaldwijk, …