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Solidarity in the Occupied Territories
The Israeli army has responded with unwarranted force. Soldiers fire tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets, and often beat and arrest demonstrators. Israeli peace activists are increasingly being prevented from reaching the village. The Israeli army has been imposing curfews, declaring the place a "closed military area" and turning back Israeli peace activists on the roads leading to the village. As a result fewer outsiders are present to witness the human rights abuses which the villagers suffer daily.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/CHAO-6HR4SA?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Human rights groups sue to stop Israeli sonic booms over Gaza
Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups filed suit Wednesday to compel the Israeli air force to stop causing sonic booms over Gaza, citing psychological damage and calling the practice "collective punishment."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640957.html
On This Day 1917: Balfour Declaration for selling Palestine
His Majesty's Government accept the principle that Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people and will use its best endeavors to secure the achievement of this object and will be ready to consider any suggestions on the subject which the Zionist Organization may desire to lay before it.
http://www.wzo.org.il/home/texts/d152.htm
Fighter killed, two residents injured in Jenin
An Israeli (OCCUPATION) military source reported that Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday evening, one resistance fighter and injured two residents, during clashes which erupted in Qabatia town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14774&Itemid=1
Azmout residents complain of settlers attacks
Resident Abdul-Ghani Al Azmouti, said that three Palestinian families were attacked recently while picking their olives. “The attacks were psychical and verbal”, Al Azmouti said, “The settlers also stole most of the olives the residents picked”.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14765&Itemid=1
30 Oct. 05: Proposed bill will enable Palestinian detainees to be held incommunicado
The Cabinet's Ministerial Committee for Legislation recently approved a bill initiated by the Ministry of Justice that will allow non-residents of Israel who are suspected of having committed security offenses to he held almost completely incommunicado for fifty days. If enacted, the law will severely breach the fundamental rights of suspects in criminal proceedings, and increase the risk of maltreatment during interrogations.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Special/20051030_Detention_Law.asp
Hamas vows revenge after IAF strike
An Israel Air Force missile strike killed two Palestinian militants, including a leading Hamas operative, in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday afternoon. The strike triggered threats of violence from Hamas, which said it would avenge the assassination.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640511.html
Hamas: Truce with Israel won't be renewed at end of year
The announcement came after a Palestinian legislator, Ziad Abu Ziad, told Army Radio on Wednesday that Israel rejected the Palestinian Authority's offer to stop targeting militants if they would lay down their arms.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640256.html
Hamas Promises to Retain Truce in Israel
But with an informal, 9-month-old truce approaching its Dec. 31 expiry, the group's spokesman Mushir Al-Masri said its renewal was not assured if Israeli attacks would persist. "In the face of this Zionist aggression, no one should dream about the renewal of this truce," he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1272955
Palestinian gunmen kill Israeli (OCCUPATION) soldier on raid
Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli soldier on a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and Hamas said Israel's targeting of militants would kill chances of renewing a truce due to expire at year's end.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-02T121159Z_01_KNE231103_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST.xml&archived=False
Court releases settlers accused of beating Palestinian boy, 13
Until a decision is handed down in their trial in the Tel Aviv District Court, they are prohibited from entering the West Bank, and they will be placed under nightly house arrest.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640912.html
IOF Shots and Wounds Citizen in Former Gaza Colony
The sources said that Muhareb Tammous was shot by IOF with several gunshots all over his body when he was in the former Israeli colony of Eli Sinai. Meanwhile, IOF troops arrested ten children in Hossan own of Bethlehem, witnesses said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4487
Israeli wounded in mortar shelling north of Gaza
One of the rockets hit a vehicle. A house and a high-tension electrical line was also damaged in the shelling attack and the community was plunged into darkness. Israel Radio reported four other people suffered from shock as a result of the attack.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/640949.html
EU to check travelers under Rafah plan
Israel wants the Europeans to have greater authority than observers and be able to intervene in dangerous security situations, while the Palestinians want more limited authority for the EU. Israel is also demanding that it receive information in real time from the border control authorities via cameras filming those who use the Rafah crossing
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640510.html
Pal. source: “Palestinian-Israeli meeting fails to reopen the Rafah terminal”
“Israel wants the observers to have an operational role at the crossing”, Saidam stated, “We insist that they should only be as observers”. The Rafah crossing will be opened at midnight and will remain opened until 9 a.m on Thursday in order to allow the residents to return to the Gaza Strip on the first day of Eid Al Fitir
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14772&Itemid=1
Israel dragging heels over Gaza agreements
In the seven weeks after Israel's departure from Gaza, he said, the Rafah and Erez crossings into Egypt and Israel respectively had been closed most of the time. The number of containers of goods leaving Gaza through the Karni goods crossing had fallen from 50 a day before disengagement to 20 a day afterwards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1606541,00.html
Border closures shut door on Gaza revival hopes
However, all imports and exports still have to go through Israel because of its concern that militants could smuggle in weapons -- a cause of continued frustration for Gaza businesses and a threat to the economic gains from the Israeli withdrawal. "Sometimes we have items sitting at the Israeli port for six months,"
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6HR3VH?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
EU inspectors for Gaza-Egypt border
Israel has indicated it might not allow the crossing to re-open until January 15, to try to boost Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, before legislative elections on January 25.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b7b7fa14-4b46-11da-aadc-0000779e2340.html
Israeli, Palestinian female youth win peace prize
The prize, which is an annual event, was presented to Oriella Ben-Zvi and Nisreen Shaheen by Queen Nour, the Wife of late king Hussein of Jordan. The youth are members of the “One Voice” peace organization.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14767&Itemid=1
UNRWA Mandate Not Yet Fulfilled
In a recent Palestine Center briefing, Peter Hansen, the former Commissioner-General of UNRWA, argued that calls for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to take over the UN Relief and Works Agency's mandate would undermine the Palestinian refugees' symbolic right of return under any final status negotiation and prematurely relieve Israel and the international community of their obligations toward Palestinians.
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/Hansen_Transcription.pdf
How the PA failed
The PA, as opposed to Iceland or Bangaladesh, is neither a country nor a state. It is a bureaucratic-political system with limited administrative and governmental authority over a population of approximately three and a half million people. It has no authority or control over central elements that define a people's sovereignty: land, water, minerals, borders, freedom of movement, freedom to make decisions...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640518.html
Report: Sharp rise in conversion rate
One of the ministry's objectives for the coming year, according to Livni, is to promote the Aliya of Belgian Jews to Israel. The Jewish community in Belgium has apparently been showing increasing interest in Israel, and the ministry therefore plans to focus its efforts there.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3163290,00.html
In Congratulation Letter to Abbas Bush Looks Forward to Working toward Independent Palestinian State
US President George Bush sent Wednesday to President Mahmoud Abbas a congratulation letter on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. "I look forward to working toward our common vision of a democratic, viable and independent Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security with Israel,"
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4490
U.S. designates Egypt-Israel trade zone
The United States will designate a new Qualified Industrial Zone and expand two existing ones to strengthen Egyptian-Israeli trade and political relations, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement yesterday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640505.html
Students bring blockbuster film `Bab el Shams' to Israel
"The movie also portrays points of weakness: sometimes retardation, sometimes cultural reaction and sins," he said. "It shows the approach to women. I think this may be the most natural Arab movie, the nicest from the perspective of the image of the Palestinian woman. The woman in the movie fights, wants to study, wants to love, wants to divorce freely.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640495.html
Rabbis issue list of names Jews should not give their children
A group of Israeli rabbis has put together a list of names they say should be off-limits to Jewish children - including Ariel and Omri, the given names of Israel's prime minister and his eldest son.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/640946.html
Iran summons Italian envoy over planned Rome rally
Italian politicians from both government and opposition ranks are due to attend the rally on Thursday evening to protest against comments by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week in which he said Israel should be "wiped off the map."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HUG261456.htm
At least 21 Iraqis killed in car bombing ahead of Eid
A minibus packed with explosives blew up "near a Shiite mosque and a market just ahead of prayers marking the end of the Ramadan fast," said police Captain Ahmed Naimi in the provincial capital of Hilla. The blast torched some 20 cars, destroyed about 40 shops and set nearby buildings on fire.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051102/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_051102182722
Copter Crash, Bombing Leave Four GIs Dead
The U.S. command said the AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter went down about 8:10 a.m. near Ramadi, killing the two Marines aboard. The military said the cause of the crash was being investigated. But Associated Press Television News quoted an Iraqi man who said he saw the crash and that insurgents "fired at the helicopter and shot it down."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Iraq urges former Saddam officers to join new army
"All former army officers who wish to rejoin the forces are invited to do so. These officers must rank no higher than major," a statement said. Iraqi armed forces are expected to reach their full complement of 131,000 men by the end of 2006, allowing US forces to start to withdraw.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051102/wl_mideast_afp/iraqarmy_051102125106 |
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