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Non-stop Destruction in Hebron District for the Apartheid Wall
Occupation Forces are working non-stop in the Hebron District to build the Apartheid Wall, at the time of the olive picking season, ensuring further losses and devastation. Destruction for the Wall began last month, in September, in the district's southwest villages of Beit Awa, Deir Samit, and Al Sikka.
http://stopthewall.org/photos/769.shtml
Hundreds of Dunams and Olive trees bulldozed near Hebron
A source at Surif Municipality said that several military bulldozers supported by armored jeeps started uprooting the fields on Sunday evening. The source added that soldiers barred the residents from reaching their fields, assaulted some of them and withheld tens of villagers for several hours.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week1/100404/sorif.htm
Building of the Apartheid Wall Continues in Budrus, as does the Popular Resistance
The people of Budrus demand resistance against the Zionist plan to “transfer” them, once again, and to steal their lands and homes yet another time. Amidst this plan of expulsion, the people of Budrus refuse to be forced into a big prison which will be isolated from other parts—if not all of Palestine.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/770.shtml
Source: U.S. to veto UN resolution condemning Israel
The United States will veto a resolution condemning Israel for its military operation in the Gaza Strip should such a resolution be proposed during Monday's United Nations Security Council meeting, a diplomatic source in Washington told Haaretz.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=484504&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Four-year-old Palestinian killed in Gaza-witnesses
The boy was hit in the head when soldiers guarding Israeli bulldozers clearing farmland near the Palestinian town of Khan Younis fired warning shots apparently aimed at keeping residents away from the area, witnesses said. (high-tech warning shots?)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B619794.htm
Eight killed in Gaza as Israel warns onslaught could last weeks
Eight Palestinians, including a child and a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip... Since Israel unleashed its military might six days ago, 73 Palestinians have been killed in the deadliest incursion into the northern Gaza Strip since the start of the intifada, or uprising, four years ago.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/110026/1/.html
Israel Kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank -Witnesses
Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and an undercover Israeli policeman was seriously wounded in a raid in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday, witnesses and media reports said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6409247
Gaza Residents Run Out Space to Bury Dead
Normally, Beit Lahiya uses the graveyard at the nearby Jebaliya refugee camp. But since Israeli tanks and infantry surrounded the town Wednesday in a mission to stop Palestinian rocket fire, even the dead have nowhere to go.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=19&u=/ap/20041004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gaza_grave_shortages
Hamas fires Qassam rockets at Sderot
Palestinian witnesses reported that Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian civilian in Beit Lahiya while he was standing in front of his house. In eastern Jebaleya, an off-duty Palestinian police officer was killed by a gunshot wound to the head when an Israeli gunship opened fire while he was standing in the balcony of his house...
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5189
Trapped with the fighters in battlefield Gaza
Tens of thousands of civilians trapped without electricity or water by the most extensive military occupation of the Gaza Strip since the intifada began four years ago. The demolition of homes, roads and power lines that typically accompanies Israeli assaults on Gaza's refugee camps.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1319096,00.html
Sharon: No relief for Gaza until rocket threat is neutralised
Bulldozers had destroyed rows of homes, uprooted orchards and torn up roads. They demolished a kindergarten, scattering Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse posters. "We have 400 boys and girls who used to come here and play," Jaber Abu Oukal, its head teacher, said. "Now they will have nowhere to go but the street. Those kids will remember forever...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=568510
Palestinians accuse Shin Bet of harassment at Rafah border
Furthermore, say Palestinians, the Shin Bet is offering a "you help us and we'll help you" deal to some, but in general they are simply not allowing young men to cross. They say an estimated 1,500 people in that age bracket have been stuck in Gaza since mid-August. Many are students overseas, now missing the start of their school year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=484604&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Gaza fighters use carpets to hide from spy drones
Palestinian fighters at the Jabalya refugee camp are trying to use the low-tech tactics to beat the sophisticated optics and electronics of Israeli drones that buzz above the battleground to spy out gunmen and possibly to kill them.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04373521.htm
Arabs get UN session on Gaza violence
The meeting was expected to take place on Monday afternoon and Algeria, which holds a non-permanent Security Council seat, said it would probably table a draft resolution on the events. “The situation is incredibly bad in Gaza,” said Abdallah Baali, Algeria's ambassador to the UN. “It's only normal the security council deal with it.”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/63de1332-162d-11d9-b835-00000e2511c8.html
Egypt tells Israel Gaza incursion a 'dangerous escalation'
Egypt told Israel its continuing military operations in Gaza were a dangerous escalation of the Middle East situation, while hundreds of students and lawyers demonstrated in the capital against the raids in which more than 70 Palestinians have been killed.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20041004/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_egypt_041004180406
Citing civilian casualties, Annan calls on Israel to stop incursions in Gaza Strip
Reacting to mounting civilian casualties, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the Government of Israel to halt its military incursions into the Gaza Strip while urging the Palestinian Authority to press militants to hold their fire.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12111&Cr=Palestin&Cr1=
UNRWA chief Peter Hansen 'sure' Hamas members on payroll
"Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another." Hansen told the CBC, however, that the UN expects all employees to act with neutrality.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/484839.html
Response by Commissioner-General Peter Hansen to allegations regarding misuse of a UN vehicle
Note: the footage has erased the indication of the date on which it was shot. There is no way of
identifying when or where the clip was taken.
http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2004/hqg30-04.pdf
UN agency demands Israeli apology for "malicious propaganda"
"It is appalling that, with the serious conflict now raging in the northern Gaza Strip, where UNRWA ambulances are operating in constant danger alongside those of other humanitarian agencies to try and save and transport scores of wounded Palestinians to hospital, the government of Israel would put out such deliberately inciteful, false and malicious propaganda,"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041004/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_gaza_041004182003
Hamas smokescreen blown away
An Israeli commander said there had been considerable improvement in the Palestinians' fighting ability against overwhelming force. "They don't come straight at us like they used to," he said. "They try to read our moves."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10973955%255E2703,00.html
HAMAS SEEKS TO DEVELOP LONG-RANGE KASSAM
Hamas sources said the "Islamic insurgency group" has been working on a so-called Kassam-4 missile. The missile was meant to have a range of 17 kilometers and capable of striking the Israeli city of Ashkelon from the northern Gaza Strip.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/october/10_05_2.html
Anatomy of a Palestinian Outrage
O ne can only imagine the utter outrage that would engage world leaders and media if a series of Palestinian bombings rocked an Israeli town, spontaneously, and in less than four days killed 60 people and wounded hundreds, mostly innocent civilians.
http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud10042004.html
Two Peoples, One State
But the struggle against South African apartheid proves the battle can be won. The only question is how long it will take, and how much all sides will have to suffer, before Israeli Jews can view Palestinian Christians and Muslims not as demographic threats but as fellow citizens.
http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/863_0_15_0_C/
Jewish concern over Frankfurt Book Fair's Arab theme
A German Jewish organization and student groups announced protests in reaction to the invitation of the Arab League as main guest of the Frankfurt Book Fair which opens Wednesday. Organizing the rally is the Zionist Organization of Germany which is supported by student groups from several Frankfurt universities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=484920&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Robertson: If Bush 'touches' Jerusalem, we'll form 3rd party
"I see the rise of Islam to destroy Israel and take the land from the Jews and give East Jerusalem to [Palestinian Authority Chairman] Yasser Arafat. I see that as Satan's plan to prevent the return of Jesus Christ the Lord," said Robertson, a Christian broadcaster.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/484861.html
Concordia nixes speech by ex-Israel PM Barak
Concordia University's refusal to allow a speech by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has sparked outrage by Jewish students who say freedom of expression is dead at the educational institution.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/04/655640-cp.html
Nine killed in US air raids on Fallujah
Nine people, including women and children, were killed in two pre-dawn raids by US planes on suspected rebel targets in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Doctor Adel Khamis of Fallujah general hospital said Monday that the second of the two strikes killed nine people, three of them women and two children.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=17&u=/afp/20041004/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_raids_fallujah_toll_041004094139
Iraqi cleric claims he has seen hostage Ken Bigley alive
The imam that one reason why Mr Bigley had not been executed was because his kidnappers were trying to ascertain whether he was Irish or British. Mr Bigley's mother is Irish. "They said: 'The Irish have fought like us to wipe the stain of English imperialism, murder and rape from their lands'."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=568512
Poland aims for Iraq troop pullout by end of 2005
Poland said that it aims to withdraw all of its 2,500 troops from Iraq during the course of next year, a major disappointment for Washington which sees Warsaw as one of its staunchest allies in Iraq.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041004/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_poland_troops_041004153250
U.S. Faces Complex Insurgency in Iraq
In other U.S. wars, the enemy was clear. In Vietnam, a visible leader — Ho Chi Minh — led a single army fighting to unify the country under socialism. But in Iraq, the disorganized insurgency has no single commander, no political wing and no dominant group.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20041004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_complex_insurgency
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