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ISM Olive Harvest Campaign Begins Today!
Palestinian agricultural organizations and farmers, in coordination with the International Solidarity Movement, the International Women's Peace Service and Israeli activist groups, announce the 2004 Olive Harvest Campaign. The olive harvest is one of the key events in the lives of Palestinians.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=492&mid=10400
'Israeli troops shot schoolgirl 20 times'
Iman al-Hams and two other girls, all of them wearing school uniforms, passed a watchtower in Rafah refugee camp near the Egyptian border, a scene of frequent violence in a 4-year-old uprising, Palestinian witnesses said. "Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag and tried to run," said one. "Bullets hit the bag and then soldiers opened fire on the girl."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1096970580542B253
"Like Mandela", Arafat aims to lead Palestine to independence then retire
"I am ready to be a Nelson Mandela. I agree, but only after the establishment of a Palestinian state which I will preside over to start with and then leave to others," he told the London-based Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=7&u=/afp/20041005/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_041005110719
Shalom attempts to head off Security Council condemnation
Shalom met with foreign ministers from the Netherlands, Russia and Great Britain. He asked them to oppose any resolution that does not also condemn Qassam rocket attacks on Israel. The European ministers said they condemn the attacks on Israel, but expect Israel to respond to them in a manner proportional to the Qassam threat.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/485435.html
US set to veto Gaza resolution at the UN
"I predict it will not go forward," U.S. Ambassador John Danforth told reporters. "I will bet either my left or my right arm that this resolution will not pass," he said, calling the measure one-sided and unbalanced. (Man, isn't he cool?)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05301735.htm
U.S. rejects Russian UN compromise on Hamas, Israel
The United States on Tuesday rejected a Russian-sponsored compromise to balance a United Nations Security Council condemnation of Israel for its operation in the Gaza Strip with a condemnation of Hamas for firing Qassam rockets at the western Negev town of Sderot.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485435.html
Israel/Occupied Territories: Excessive use of force
Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli authority to:
put an immediate end to the use of excessive lethal forceput an immediate end to unlawful destruction and damage of Palestinian homes and properties, roads and other infrastructureallow immediate access to medical care and other essential services for the Palestinian population in the affected areasrespect the right to freedom of movement for the Palestinian population elsewhere in the Gaza Strip
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150952004
Israeli troops press on with Gaza raid ahead of UN vote
Israeli troops pressed on with their offensive in the Gaza Strip as the United Nations was set to vote on a resolution calling for halt to the onslaught that has killed almost 80 Palestinians... Her body was riddled with 20 bullets, including five in the head, doctor Ali Musa from the Rafah hospital told AFP.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=1312&e=6&u=/afp/20041005/wl_afp/mideast_041005110910
New Israeli Missile Strike in Gaza Kills 2 Militants
An Israeli helicopter missile killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya Tuesday night, hours after an air strike that killed the Islamic Jihad commander in the territory, medics said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6421107
Israeli Arrest Campaign in WB: 10 Citizens Arrested
In Bethlehem, Israeli troops broke into the city two refugee camps of Bethlehem and al-Aza amid intensive fire shooting, arresting a youth and a girl, Palestinian security sources said. They added that the Israeli troops broke into the camps, besieged the house of Mossa al-Adween, shortly before arresting his daughter Islam 17.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1765
50,000 trapped by Israeli assault on Gaza
Israeli forces have demolished the homes of hundreds of Palestinians, bulldozed swaths of agricultural land and destroyed infrastructure in their bloodiest assault on the Gaza Strip in years. Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that the dead included 31 civilians. Nineteen were under 18.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1319776,00.html
Interview with a Palestinian Doctor used as a Human Shield
The execution of five members of the armed resistance, the murder of an 11-year-old girl and the serious wounding of over 35 unarmed people in Nablus on 15th September, did not receive any significant coverage in the mainstream press. Doctor J, a cardiac surgeon whose house lies adjacent to the garden where Israeli soldiers shot the five men, has now given an additional account of what took place that morning.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=482&mid=10344
IDF: Indictments to be filed against 13 UN employees
The IDF was reevaluating its claim - an apparent climbdown in a high-profile confrontation - and Ziv emphasized the IDF "is not innocent of mistakes." On Tuesday, the IDF removed from its Web site the military drone's video footage.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485254.html
Annan to send UN team to investigate UNRWA case
Annan told Gillerman that the UN is treating Israel's allegations "very seriously," adding that "If necessary, the UN will reach certain conclusions." The U.S. State Department said that if the allegations are true, such a situation cannot be allowed to pass.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/484839.html
IDF, Foreign Ministry remove UNWRA video clips from websites
The IDF and the Foreign Ministry have taken out the video clips in which Palestinians were seen placing an object in an UNWRA ambulance. The decision was reached after defense officials said this morning that it is possible that the Palestinians placed a stretcher in the ambulance and not a Kassam rocket as first believed.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=11224
Ibrahim, the Shin Bet wants you to join Qaida
Rashi Abu Sba, head of the preventive security apparatus in Gaza, the equivalent of the Shin Bet, accused the Israeli security service of tricking young Palestinians into conducting missions in the name of Al-Qaida. Last Tuesday, a young man named Ibrahim was presented to reporters in Gaza. Ibrahim hid his face behind a mask, and told what happened to him.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=241042&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=241042
Border Policeman killed in Ramallah
Initial reports into the killing of a Border Policeman late Monday during an operation to arrest wanted Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah show that his death was apparently caused by the mistaken fire of his comrades
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/484452.html
Current violence pushing Gaza into a humanitarian crisis, UN agencies warn
The ongoing violence in Gaza, on top of the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation this year, is pushing the Palestinian population into a deep crisis, a dozen United Nations aid agencies working in the region warned today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12133&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Escwa official: Arab states must help rebuild Palestinian economy
She made the comments ahead of next week's meeting in Beirut between Escwa, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League to put the final touches to the Arab/International Forum for Rehabilitation and Development in the Occupied Territories.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=8987
Israelis, Egyptians to meet on pullout
Security sources said there was no connection between Tuesday's meeting and any talks on ending the Israel Defense Forces operation in north Gaza, now in its seventh day. However, they said Israel would discuss a cease-fire if its Egyptian hosts ask them to do so.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485251.html
Hamas says no plan to stop firing rockets
"As for talk about an initiative to stop the firing of Qassam rockets, we reaffirm that the occupation is the problem and it is up to the enemy to stop its aggression first and to leave our land second."
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=596855§ion=news
UAE appeals to international community to pressure Israel
The UAE government urged the UN Security Council, and the Quartet Committee to adopt a prompt stance capable of ending the current Israeli flagrant aggressions in Gaza, which are an obvious violation of all international and human conventions and norms.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/05/content_2052779.htm
New book breaks censorship on Palestinian issue
The book, CENSORED 2005, is the most recent in a series produced by "ProjectCensored," a highly respected media research organization whose mission is "To Tell The News That Didn't Make the News." The strongly worded chapter, by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir, describes the history of Israel, its continuing violations of human rights, and the cover-up on this issue in the American press.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3162.shtml
Palestinian periodical reprints Israeli critique of militants
In the article "Red Flag - Palestinian Guerrilla," first published September 21 on the leftist Israeli Web site "The Left Bank," Spiro assails Palestinian organizations for choosing to focus on attacking civilian Israeli targets instead of fighting soldiers and armed settlers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485268&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Eat the guard
During the past four years (in which, by the way, the population of Gaza has grown by 200,000 children), the Palestinians have blocked all tentative steps toward partial progress, preferring the dubious macho "honor" of pulling the trigger to a light cease-fire that could bring them diplomatic gains.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/484983.html
American Arabs and Muslims have a mountain to climb
The hate crimes include murder, beatings, arson, attacks on mosques, shootings, vehicular assaults and verbal threats. The FBI reported that anti-Islamic hate crimes rose 1,600 percent in the past year. Is anything being done to insure fair treatment for the three million American citizens of Arab heritage...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=8976
Palestinian who killed 10 Israelis in shooting attack arrested
The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service on Tuesday said they had arrested a Palestinian man whom they believe had shot dead seven soldiers and three Israeli civilians in March 2002 in a sniping attack at an IDF roadblock north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, near the settlement of Ofra.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485444&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
No explosives found on diverted Lufthansa flight
Israeli jet fighters escorted the plane to Cyprus to keep it from entering Israeli air space. Stella Urumi, a Lufthansa spokeswoman in Cyprus, said all 331 passengers and 16 crew members got off the plane in Larnaca so that it, everybody aboard and their luggage could be searched.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485360.html
Cypriot protests after Israeli jets force airliner into flight control zone
Cyprus issued a strong protest after Israeli warplanes forced a German airliner into their flight control zone without prior authorization amid what proved to be a false bomb alert.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20041005/wl_mideast_afp/israel_germany_air_041005193411
300 Likud members sign petition to oust Sharon: paper
The Likud central committee has some 2,000 members, so the gesture was mostly symbolic, said the newspaper, adding if the petition fails, Likud primaries will be held shortly before the next general elections which are set for November, 2006.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/05/content_2052802.htm
Allawi: Peace Deal Reached With Al-Sadr
``Fortunately, there are positive signs in some areas. I met with some brothers in Sadr City and we laid the basis for an agreement to end all their armed manifestations and to give up all their arms,'' Allawi told the National Council, a watchdog over his interim government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4535910,00.html
Bremer says US makes two major mistakes in Iraq
Criticizing his country for making what he called "two major mistakes," Paul Bremer, former head of the US occupation forces in Iraq, said that "we never had enough troops on the ground." In a statement Monday night to the paper, Bremer expressed hisfull support for the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/05/content_2055684.htm |
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