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Supreme Court petitioned on Separation Barrier near Qalqilya
The petition describes a wide range of severe infringements on the residents in addition to the loss of livelihood and enforced social isolation which include: humiliation by IDF soldiers, children who are forced to go by foot along the barrier to reach their schools being threatened with weapons, preventing the entry of ambulances into the area of the enclave in emergencies...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3055.shtml
Separation fence apparently to stop short of Dead Sea
The Defense Ministry's Seamline Administration, which is building the fence, is planning two additional sections - a 40-km section from Zurif south of Hebron to Shomriya, and a 40-km section from Shomriya to Yatir forest.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=471943&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Barrier protecting Israelis, army claimed before latest attack
In the meantime, the killing of Palestinians continues unabated, with 2004 set to become the second worst since the uprising began. In the first six months of this year, 362 Palestinians died in the occupied territories at the hands of Israeli security forces, according to B'Tselem.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1294645,00.html
Jews are creating their own ghetto warns Israeli
Jews are not making themselves safer by building a security wall in Israel but are rather sending themselves back into a ghetto, according to an Israeli Jew writing in a publication launched today by Christian Aid agency World Vision and the Christian Socialist Movement.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_04091wall.shtml
Prisoners Express Determination, Call for More Arab Solidarity
The Prisoners' Hunger Strike Leadership issued Tuesday a statement affirming that the strike will continue until the prison authority submits to all the humanitarian prisoners' demands, calling Palestinians and Arabs for a Thursday fasting and a Friday and Sunday after prayer demonstrations.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week1/090104/prisoners.htm
Prisoners in Gilboa prison suspend hunger strike for few days
The prisoners in Gilboa received promises from the prison administration to accept some of their special demands set by the 500 prisoners in that jail. However they said they will resume the strike if these demands were not fulfilled.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week1/090104/gilboa-prison.htm
IHC: “Prison authorities can't bar lawyers from meeting the Striking detainees”
Attorneys Orna Kohn from Adalah and Sonia Bulus from ACRI argued that there are no legal basis for the prevention of meetings between lawyers and hunger-striking detainees, and that this act even contradicts with the existing laws.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week1/090104/IHC.htm
International support needed for Palestinian farmers
Olives and olive oil are by far the largest agricultural products in the Palestinian economy. So the olive harvest is the basis of their survival. The olive tree is also a symbol of the indigenous people of the land, the Palestinians. Defending the right to harvest olives is to defend Palestinian right to the land and to their history.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=126&mid=10443
Israel killed 436 Palestinians in past 'quiet' six months
None, however, referred to the number of Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed in the months between. None referred to Israel's military assault on Rafah in May 2004 , when Israeli forces killed 44 Palestinians, including 18 children, and destroyed 400 homes, and Beit Hanoun from June to August .
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3054.shtml
Forces Tear Down Three Homes, Wreck Ten Others in Rafah
Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that Israeli forces opened heavy and random gunfire at civilians and their homes in the quarter, before Israeli bulldozers advanced and tore down three houses there. The bulldozers also wrecked ten other houses and razed dozens of dunums of arable lands before their withdrawal.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/003.html
Israeli Forces Isolate Hebron, Blow Up two Houses
Witnesses added that Israeli troops surrounded Al Qawasmi family house in the Hars area, and imposed a strict siege on the entire area, before arresting the attacker's brothers and other civilians there. The soldiers then planted explosives inside the house then remotely detonated it.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/004.html
PHR-Israel Harshly Condemns Israeli Targeting of Palestinian Medics
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) harshly condemned Tuesday the Israeli attack on Palestinian ambulance in which a physician and the driver were wounded yesterday.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1641
Far-right activist convicted of membership in terror group
Wednesday's ruling was the first case in which a court has convicted an Israeli Jew of membership in a terrorist organization since a number of individuals belonging to the Jewish Underground were convicted of several crimes in the 1980s.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472219.html
Gadhafi to compensate Libyan Jews for lost homes
"Any Jew whose home had been taken away has to be compensated or given his home back on the condition that he had not taken away the home of a Palestinian in Palestine," Gadhafi said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=472022&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
PLC to halt weekly sessions until Oct. 7: speaker
The PLC sessions will be halted from Sept. 1 to Oct. 7, Fatouhtold reporters, adding that the decision was made after Palestinianleader Yasser Arafat failed to signed the bills approved by thecouncil.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/01/content_1936403.htm
PNA urges Hamas to hand over assassination suspects
The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) issued on Wednesday an ultimate to Hamas to hand over three of its members accused of attempting to assassinate a senior Palestinian security official in Gaza.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/01/content_1935883.htm
Israel will answer bombs with assassination efforts
As soldiers demolished the family home of one of the two Hamas bombers, a senior government source said on Wednesday that its battle against the Islamist group and its leadership would not be constrained by borders.
http://www.iht.com/articles/536824.html
Israel bars agency head from leaving Gaza in unprecedented ban on UN mobility
Israel has barred the head of the main United Nations body for Palestinian refugees from leaving the Gaza Strip to perform his duties in the West Bank in what the agency today called a "flagrant" step and "unprecedented and serious development" in a security clampdown.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11795&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
IDF warns Syria, PA, Hezbollah after 16 killed in Be'er Sheva
A day after 16 people were killed in a double suicide bombing in the southern city of Be'er Sheva, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff warned that Israel would "take care of those who support terror," singling out the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Hezbollah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472097.html
Larry Franklin: Just a Sideshow on the Road to Total War
Isn't it curious that right smack in the middle of an investigation of Israel spying on its best “friend,” Hamas pulls off back-to-back suicide bombings—after a lull of nearly six months—in Beersheba? Hamas declares the bombing was revenge for Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi. Rantissi was assassinated on April 17 and Yassin on March 22.
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/nimmo09012004/
Remembering the Massacre of Palestinian people
You could be for an embargo of weapons to the White racist regime of South Africa, even American weapons, but you could not protest weapons supplied by Israel to South Africa or its involvement with nuclear weapons.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1557.shtml
Background / Has the world given up on Palestine?
As the real-time history of the Holy Land repeats itself in a tail-chasing parade of tragedy and farce, there are signs that even Palestinians have to a degree wearied of the demands, the costs, and the conduct of their own struggle.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=472226&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Be'er Sheva bus bombers were part of Hamas cell in Hebron
Ahmed Kawasma owned an aluminum products store in Hebron, while Nisim Jabri is a construction worker and lives near Kiryat Arba. Jabri's close relatives, well-known Fatah members in Hebron, accused Hamas of brainwashing Jabri.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=472101&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Shin Bet tried to recruit one Be'er Sheva bomber as a collaborator
According to Jabari's family, the Shin Bet agent offered Naseem benefits, such as a magnetic card permitting work in Israel.
The Prime Minister's office on Wednesday confirmed that a Shin Bet agent met with Jabari in April 2004.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/472097.html
Spy probe scans neo-cons' Israel ties
Some of these past investigations involve top current officials, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, whose office appears to be the focus of the most recently disclosed inquiry; and Richard Perle, who resigned as Defense Policy Board (DPB) chairman last year.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI02Ak02.html
Ramadan's vital work
We must examine the tactics of Ramadan's accusers. While they offer no evidence that he is a threat to US security, he is readily charged with being anti-semitic - a tactic widely used by pro-Sharon elements in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and those in the Pentagon who would intimidate and silence critics of the current government of Israel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1294497,00.html
Delayed attack likely to backfire
Mr Qureia, in a statement condemning the bombing, shared Mr Isaac's assessement that Israel will benefit from it. His office said such attacks gave Israel a pretext to assassinate Palestinian militants, step up raids into Palestinian cities, and speed up expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied territories.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1294652,00.html
Palestinian Trade Fair in London
The Palestinian General Delegation to the United Kingdom in cooperation with the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce will be organising a Palestinian Trade Fair in London in November.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1642
Despite Iraq War, Arab-American Republicans Stand Behind Bush
"Every Arab understands that Saddam Hussein was not going to be cajoled into democracy,"... The Institute hosted the Arab-American Republican meeting and, unlike so many other events at the convention this week, drew only a very mild protest: Lelia Kawar and a friend, with a sign in Arabic that read "Shame On You."
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26070
Explosions mark first day of Iraq assembly
Five mortar bombs exploded near Iraq’s interim national assembly shortly before it met for the first time on Wednesday, providing a stark reminder of the country’s dangerous road to elections. Gunmen also opened fire on a convoy carrying prominent Shi’ite politician and former Pentagon ally Ahmad Chalabi...
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/28d044a4-fbf2-11d8-bb3a-00000e2511c8.html
Senior Sadr aide amd two other people killed in Iraq ambush
Sayed Bashir al-Jazaeri was killed Tuesday when his car came under fire as he was returning from Najaf, which was until recently the scene of fierce fighting between US forces and Sadr's militia, a spokesman for one of the cleric's offices said. Jazaeri headed one of Sadr's local offices near the capital, said Sayed Naim al-Qaabi.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20040901/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_sadr_toll_040901182003 |
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