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Bil'in Weekly protest; plant olive trees to counter concrete Walls
Bil'in residents, along with international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil'in by marching towards a construction site and planting olive treas. Soldiers attacked the protestors and fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at them, five residents, and two Israeli activists were injured.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15397&Itemid=1
IOF Attacks UN Official's Car in Bil'in
Eyewitnesses revealed that Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters and rubber coated-metal bullets towards Dugard's car while he was visiting Bil'in village, west of Ramallah city, to examine the Israeli inhuman practices against Palestinian citizens.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4833
Soldiers demolish three homes, two shops near Jenin
Kabha added that soldiers instructed him to stop the construction two years ago, and that his lawyer provided the Israeli Authorities with all of the needed documents which proves ownership of the land, and construction license, yet the Israeli authorities decided to level it.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15386&Itemid=1
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
At 1 A.M. you wake up in horror to the sound of a voice on the loudspeaker calling you to go out into the street immediately. After the soldiers instruct you to return home, suddenly a frightening dog enters your apartment, grabs your child, who is sitting on his bed in shock, bites him hard in his leg and drags him down the 20 steps that lead from the second-floor apartment to the street.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655552.html
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories 1-7 Dec 2005
4 Palestinians, including 3 civilians, were killed by IOF. IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF used force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the Wall; IOF arrested two Palestinian children near the Wall; and at least 610 donums (1) of Palestinian land were confiscated in Yatta village near Hebron to construct a section of the Wall, which will also isolate 14000 donums of land.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6JWA2Q?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
On This Day December 9, 1987: The First Intifada Began
Residents of the Jabalya Refugee Camp, where the workers resided, suspected that the killings were intentional. They demonstrated and burned tires. On December 9, 1987, there were more demonstrations, and three youths were killed by Israeli soldiers. The uprising soon spread to all the Occupied Territories. Demonstrations, strikes, a boycott of Israeli goods, and general unrest lasted from 1987 to 1993.
http://www.palestinecenter.org/palestine/intifada.html
Breach in the (APARTHEID) wall
Sixty-five members of the As'ad family live on the western side of the separation wall - that is, inside Israel - among the homes of Baka al-Garbiyeh. Yet amazingly, they are residents of the Palestinian village of Nazlat Isa, they do not have Israeli ID cards and they are not permitted to enter Israel. They are allowed to cross the border checkpoint only in order to enter their homes, and when they leave they return to the checkpoint and the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655634.html
Life under siege in a divided city
Visitors to the Abu Aishe family in the heart of the biblical and bitterly-disputed city of Hebron either require an army escort to the front of the steel mesh cage protecting the three-storey home or risk assault by a barrage of stones, rotting food and shouts of "Death to Arabs" from the ( JEWISH ) neighbours. Three generations of the Abu Aishe family are the last Arabs living in their street (AMONG ILLEGAL SETTLERS)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1663419,00.html
Life under siege in a ( ILLEGALY ) divided city
Palestinian and Israeli communities live closer in Hebron - sometimes in the same street - than anywhere in the occupied territories outside Jerusalem. About 500 Jews live in the heart of the city among 130,000 Palestinians. A short walk away is the settlement of Kiryat Arba, home to another 6,000 Israelis and the crucible of support for the Kach organisation, which is banned in Israel as a terrorist group.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1663419,00.html
PPS demands discussing detainees file in the ICJ
The society released a statement marking the International Day for Human Rights, December 10, and appealed the international community to put the Israeli occupation on trial for its “war crimes carried out against the Palestinian detainees since 1967”
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15395&Itemid=1
Israel threatens "economic siege" on Gaza - TV
It said Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz told Abbas that unless a crackdown on militants begins by Sunday, Israel will redesignate two commercial terminals on the Gaza boundary as border crossings, which could choke off Palestinian trade. There was no immediate comment on the report from officials close to Mofaz
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09115449.htm
Two-thirds of Palestinians living in poverty
In the five years since the start of the Palestinian uprising, unemployment in Gaza and the West Bank has risen from 10 percent to more than 30 percent,according to the report compiled by all the United Nations agencies working in the region. The agencies now say they need $215 million in emergency assistance for the Palestinian population.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=20622
Palestinians seek U.S. pressure on Israel to renew talks on Gaza-West Bank bus convoys
Erekat was slated to meet Friday with C. David Welch, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, who arrived in Israel a day ealier to discuss issues including the West Bank-Gaza Strip bus convoys, the Karni crossing and the Gaza airport.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655199.html
US 'not pressing' for convoys
While the US would like the deadline to be met, it's not seen as imperative, though it's hoped that Welch would be able to resolve the issue. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman Ra'anan Gissin said that "there's no pressure" on Israel from the Americans to return to discussions about meeting the deadline for the convoys.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475713774&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas chief abroad says calm with Israel is over
However, in the Gaza Strip a spokesman for the Movement said a decision on extending the calm is related to several conditions. "Pressure should be made on the (Israeli) occupation to compel them to answer these conditions before there are any new talks about extending the calm," Sami Abu Zuhri was quoted as saying by Reuters.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/192412
Jerusalem-W. Bank Crossing Temporarily Closed
On Monday, following an attack in Netanya, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered a general blockade in the region. Israel reports these kinds of measures are taken as self-defense to prevent new attacks.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20051209&hn=27316
15 year-old Palestinian caught with pipe bombs
A 15 year-old Palestinian teenager was caught at the Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus, in possession of two pipe bombs. In another incident, a 19-year old Palestinian was caught with a knife at the same checkpoint.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3181972,00.html
Fatah claims responsibility for stabbing Israeli
The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed wing of the ruling Fatah movement, claimed responsibility on Thursday for stabbing to death an Israeli soldier at an Israeli army roadblock north of Jerusalem.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/09/content_3896799.htm
We get no money from the Palestinian Authority and Israel boycotts us, says Bethlehem mayor
Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh on Thursday accused the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) of failing to provide financial assistance to his town as it prepares to celebrate Christmas. He also explained how new Israeli checkpoints have created an oppressive atmosphere.
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4835
Red Cross finally opens door for MDA
The decision was made by a 70 percent majority of the member states, with the objection of all Muslim and Arab states, except for Jordan, which abstained.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655787
Palestinians sue Dichter in U.S. for millions of dollars
Palestinians filed a civil suit against former Shin Bet security service chief Avi Dichter in a U. S. federal court yesterday, seeking millions of dollars in damages. The plaintiffs are relatives of the 14 civilians who were killed when Israel assassinated senior Hamas operative Salah Shehadeh in July 2002. The suit was filed in the U. S. District Court - Southern District of New York.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655791
Outside looking in
"The man who organised the Oslo Accords is governing now, and he believes the Intifada is the wrong way, and that military resistance is wrong. There is a big difference between our two political ideologies," he said. Kaddoumi, the new leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), was referring to Mahmoud Abbas, the current president of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/772/re2.htm
Barak opts out of Labor primaries
Barak blasted Labor chairman Amir Peretz for failing to keep Shimon Peres in the party, and for trying to drive out veteran figures with party hit lists. "The Likud's collapse and the fact that our way has been proved right create a unique opportunity to return to power and lead Israel,"
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=655788
A message from Congress to Abbas: It's time to dismantle Hamas
House Resolution 575 will probably pass before the Christmas recess. It states that Hamas and other terrorist groups should not be allowed to participate in the upcoming elections in the Palestinian Authority. It's a lost cause, as the politicians all know. But their intention is to make sure that Abbas understands he has no room to maneuver after the election. Either he deals with Hamas or he faces the American legislature.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=655777
Hizbullah a terror group? IDF says no
Despite extensive public relations efforts to depict Hizbullah as a murderous terror group, an IDF presentation prepared for the benefit of foreigners refers to the Lebanese organization as a guerilla movement, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3181381,00.html
Mofaz: Israel must face Iran with solutions 'other than diplomatic'
Mofaz commented on a speech Ahmadenijad made on Thursday in which he questioned the extent of the Holocaust and suggested Israel be moved to Europe. World leaders, including UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, condemned these remarks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/655943.html
Damascus denies talks on Israel
The reports were spread by Israel with the aim of "deceiving public opinion by making it believe that Syria is backing down in the face of the strong pressure it is receiving", the official said. But, the official added, Syria is "working for a comprehensive peace in the region" in line with Arab initiatives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4513318.stm
Rumsfeld's Handshake Deal with Saddam
Now, Saddam Hussein has gone on trial, but such questions remain unasked by mainstream U.S. journalists. Rumsfeld met with Hussein in Baghdad on behalf of the Reagan administration, opening up strong diplomatic and military ties that lasted through six more years of Saddam's murderous brutality.
http://www.counterpunch.com/solomon12082005.html
US edges towards Iraq troop reductions
Despite no-let up in the deadly insurgency, the US military has delayed sending a combat brigade to Iraq and put another on hold in what could see troop levels scaled back after next week's key election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051209/ts_afp/iraq_051209105444
Iraqi Sunnis Appeal for Hostages' Release
Prominent Sunni Arab clerics and residents of a Baghdad neighborhood where four kidnapped Christian humanitarian workers had aided people appealed Friday for their release a day before a deadline set by their abductors to kill them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq |
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