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9 Palestinians Killed on Saturday, at least 60 in the last four days, over 300 wounded
The Palestinian Ministry of health said that the number of Palestinian killed in the continuous military operations in the Gaza Strip reached 60, nine of them on Saturday, and over 300 residents who were shot wounded.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week1/100204/Gaza_raid.htm
Half an hour later, people were still collecting body parts
On Wednesday night, a bulldozer and a tank uprooted an orchard at the eastern end of Madaras Street. The next morning, a tank entered one of the schools. A few hours later, A. saw that tank leave and another tank approach, crushing fences and house walls in its path. Behind it came a bulldozer. Their progress was accompanied by gunfire.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/483595.html
Israeli Occupying Troops Continue Their Offensive on the Northern Gaza Strip Causing More Casualties among Palestinian Civilians and Destroying More Civilian Properties
On Saturday morning, 2 October 2004, Isreali occupying troops expanded their military operations in the Gaza Strip, especially in Beit Hanoun. Since the beginning of this latest offensive on the northern Gaza Strip, 45 Palestinians, including 21 civilians, 15 of whom are children, have been killed by Israeli troops. In addition, at least 250 Palestinians have been injured.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2004/122-2004.htm
3000 mark 4th anniversary of Oct. 2000 incidents
Some 3,000 demonstrators who gathered in town of Sakhnin on Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the October 2000 riots in which 12 Israeli Arabs and a Palestinian were killed in clashes with police.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=483909&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
More than 50 Civilians Killed During Israeli Invasion of Northern Gaza
More than 50 civilians were killed by Israeli occupation forces since the barbaric onslaught on northern Gaza Strip began last Wednesday and continue until this moment. Following is the list of the victims of the Israeli carnage:
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_10/005.html
Episcopalians may pressure companies that deal with Israel
An Episcopal committee angered Jewish leaders Friday by recommending that the church research taking action against companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/483965.html
Israeli troops wound four children demonstrators in central Gaza
Dozens of Palestinian children demonstrated on Saturday morning in the central Gaza in protest against Israel's large-scale military operation, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said. The witnesses said as soon as the soldiers saw the demonstration, they opened fire at the marching people, wounding at least four children.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/02/content_2047437.htm
More killed in Gaza fighting as Israel seizes a 'buffer zone'
The Israeli army rolled out an operation to seize a stretch of territory and create a "buffer zone" in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least six Palestinians and wounding more than 20 in battles lasting several hours.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/02/wmid02.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/02/ixworld.html
Hamas militants threaten to fire rockets at Ashkelon
Masked Hamas gunmen threatened at a news conference Saturday to fire homemade Qassam rockets at the coastal city of Ashkelon, which has been out of reach until now.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483990.html
Israel and the occupied / autonomous territories: ICRC urges respect for international humanitarian law
The ICRC is alarmed by this recent escalation, particularly by the deaths of several children and other civilians in the past 24 hours. It wishes to remind all those involved in the hostilities that the Fourth 1949 Geneva Convention is applicable in the occupied and autonomous territories and that international humanitarian law prohibits the killing or harming of civilians...
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/2e1a78a664842b4f85256f2000523071?OpenDocument
Daughter of American judge beaten in West Bank
Masked assailants beat the daughter of a Douglas County judge Wednesday as she and another Christian relief worker escorted Palestinian children to school in the West Bank. Rich Meyer, spokesman for the Hebron-based Christian Peacemaker Teams, said Jewish settlers were responsible for the attack.
http://www.comeandsee.co.il/article.php?sid=572&mode=thread&order=0<a%20href=
Sharon Calls for Expansion of Israel Raid in Gaza
"We must expand the areas of operation to ward off the (militant) launchers from the areas within the firing range of the rocket into Jewish towns over the border," Sharon told Israel Radio.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6396256
Palestinian gov't holds emergency meeting in Ramallah
While also pointing a finger at Israel, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Saturday signaled his cabinet's consensus that rocket attacks on Israel should stop because they give the Jewish state what they see as a pretext for more raids.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483962.html
Arab League to hold emergency meeting on Gaza flare-up: Palestinians
The Arab League will hold an emergency session here on Sunday to discuss the violence in the Gaza Strip that has seen more than 50 Palestinians killed this week in a major Israeli incursion, the Palestinian representative said.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=29330
Iran condemns Israeli airstrike on Palestinian refugee camps
"The Zionist regime's escalation of military approaches and its ruthless massacre of innocent people in the Gaza Strip further revealed the inhuman nature of Israeli leaders," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/03/content_2048386.htm
PA urges UN and U.S. to halt Gaza massacre
The PA urged the European Union "to intervene immediately to enforce the road map for peace and define a mechanism for implementing it." PA chairman Yasser Arafat's adviser Nabil Abu Rudeina warned Israel that continued killing of Palestinians would only increase the cycle of violence, chaos and bloodshed.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/483593.html
Palestine Monitor: URGENT APPEAL; STOP IMPENDING MASSACRE IN GAZA
The Palestine Monitor urgently appeals to the international community to intervene in the carnage being wrought on the civilian populations of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=1940&blz=1
France urges end to violence in Gaza
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier expressed concern Saturday about the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip and appealed to both Israel and the Palestinians to end the violence. "There is no solution for the Palestinians and Israelis in this spiral of violence and blood,"
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=29329
More Calls for Qurei to Resign
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah criticized Palestinian Prime minister Ahmed Qurei for taking a vacation during a big Israeli raid into the Gaza Strip, calling for removing him from office.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week1/100204/more%20calls%20for%20qurei.htm
Israel will not change Gaza pullout plan, Peres says
But he appeared to reject the US State Department's warning to use only "proportional force" in the Gaza operation, which has left at least 45 Palestinians dead in the past several days. "When you exchange fire, it's not a matter of proportion. It's a matter of blood," Peres said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20041001/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_gaza_041001220842
High-level Presbyterians and Jews discuss Israel divestment
Caterpillar, Inc., has repeatedly been identified as a potential target for PC(USA) divestment. The church has nearly $3 million invested in the heavy equipment company whose bulldozers are being used by the Israeli Defense Forces to build a controversial separation barrier and to demolish Palestinian homes and orchards.
http://www.wfn.org/2004/10/msg00006.html
?Palestinian boy dies of Israeli gunfire injuries, another wounded
A Palestinian child on Saturday died of Israeli occupation forces' gunfire head wounds that he sustained early last August in Khan Yunis South of the Gaza strip, medical sources said. Mahmoud Tharwat Abuture, 13, died in the intensive care unit in the Shifa hospital here today, Dr Jumaa al Sagga, the director of public relations told KUNA.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=668824
ILA cancels tender for leasing Karmiel land to Jews only
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and the Arab Center for Alternative Planning filed the petition in September against the ILA, the Jewish National Fund, and the Karmiel Municipality.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/484002.html
Israel accuses UN of allowing ambulance to be used by militants
"The UN's role is to bring peace and not to give shelter to killers of women and children," it quoted the letter as saying. "The UN must set up a commission of enquiry to look deeply into the matter and find out if its employees have collaborated or been used," Gillerman told the station.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=29336
UN denies Israeli claims of assisting Palestinian militants
"Until now the Israeli government has not officially contacted UNRWA concerning these allegations and claims that are totally rejected by UNRWA, because this would hurt its credibility in doingits job," said the source.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/03/content_2048389.htm
Avoid a quagmire in the Gaza Strip
According to another proposal, every time a Qassam rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip against Israel the immediate response should be an artillery barrage against the area from which the rockets were launched, even if it's a location inside a Palestinian town. Such a response, its advocates argue, would result in the Palestinian population preventing...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483615.html
EU urges Bush to adopt Kerry line on Iran
President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival agreed in their first election debate on Thursday night that nuclear proliferation posed the most serious threat to US security. But there was clear disagreement over how to stop the suspected weapons programmes of both Iran and North Korea.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ba248bd8-13d3-11d9-aa94-00000e2511c8.html
Iraqis Condemn Prime Minister After Falluja Raid
After the latest U.S. air strike on Falluja, enraged residents clasped wounded children and challenged Iraq's prime minister to visit the town to see how bombs were hitting civilians, not "terrorists.""Is this a terrorist? Is this a terrorist? Iyad Allawi come and show us the terrorists," screamed a man as he fixed a bandage on the head of a small boy in his arms.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6054&s2=02
US forces thwart mission to rescue French hostages in Iraq: French MP
"The American forces absolutely want to eliminate the people who are protecting them (the hostages)," Julia said. Julia said Brett had learnt of one last incident which prevented the journalists and their guards from pursuing their way to Syria as soon as he arrived separately at the Syrian border and headed straight back to the journalists' captors.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=16&u=/afp/20041001/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_france_hostages_041001224657
Iraq Kurds demonstrate for independence
Iraqi Kurds rallied in the disputed oil centre of Kirkuk to demand independence for traditionally Kurdish districts in a move likely to fan the fears of neighbouring countries with large Kurdish minorities.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20041002/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_kurds_demo_041002183958 |
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