21.   They are the first to travel with Palestinian passports, as Gaza achieved partial autonomy from Israel last May.

22.   Half a million Palestinian passports for residents in the autonomous areas of Gaza and Jericho are ready to be printed in Germany, a PLO official told AFP Thursday.

23.   Israel has refused to allow the Palestinian passport to be granted to those living outside the autonomous zones.

24.   Israel only recognizes Palestinian passports as valid for inhabitants from the autonomous regions of Gaza and Jericho.

25.   Israel has recognised the validity of Palestinian passports issued by the self-rule authority, PLO chief negotiator Nabil Shaath said Monday.

26.   Israeli authorities have stamped a Palestinian passport for the first time, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Nahar reported Friday.

27.   A British consulate spokeswoman in Jerusalem confirmed the report and said Palestinian passport holders would be eligible for entry visas to Britain.

28.   Before the issuance of Palestinian passports, residents of the West Bank had to use Israeli travel documents or Jordanian passports to travel abroad.

29.   Brazil has begun recognizing Palestinian passports as valid travel documents, an official with the Palestinian authority said Saturday.

30.   But Israel only recognises the Palestinian passports as valid for inhabitants of the autonomous regions of Gaza and Jericho.