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Three Cities Against the Wall
Through this collaborative exhibition, the organizers and participating artists will draw attention to the reality of the Wall and its disastrous impact on the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the separation of Palestinian communities from each other and from their fertile lands, water resources, schools, hospitals and work places; thereby "contributing to the departure of Palestinian populations," as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has warned.
http://www.abcnorio.org/againstthewall/
Eizarya Villagers Halt Israeli Bulldozers that Threaten to Destroy their Lands
Villagers of Eizarya, south east Jerusalem halted the Israeli bulldozers that threaten to destroy their lives and lands for the construction of the Apartheid Wall. Marking the 9th of November week against the Apartheid Wall, hundreds of Palestinians in Eizarya have marched Sunday from the village centre to the Wall construction site on the north east the village, said Stop the Wall Campaign in a press release.
http://english.wafa.ps/cphotonews.asp?num=962
Palestine: Another arrest in Bil'in
The army entered the house of Hazem Shukat Khatib (26) and arrested him. His three brothers Wajdi, Khaled, and Basel were all already arrested in the recent wave of nighttime incursions into Bil'in, and remain incarcerated. Ashraf Ibrahim Abu Rahme "the bear" (22) a well known and much loved anti-wall activist from Bil'in was also arrested at his home.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00197.htm
The International Solidarity Day - November the 29th
On the 29 th of November 1947 the United Nations adopted resolution 181 which stated that the British mandate of Palestine was to be partitioned. The original idea, was that the partition would be a solution to the conflict which had arisen from several waves of Jewish immigration before, and after, the Second World War. In what had once been a territory with a large Arab majority, there were now to be two states, with 55% of the land given to the quickly expanding Jewish minority.
http://www.jai-pal.org/content.php?page=138
Izzedin Qassam commander assassinated in cold blood
At dawn on Monday, Israeli occupation troops assassinated Amjad Hinnawi in Nablus. Hinnawi was the commander of Hamas' military wing, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades in the northern West Bank. His assassination took place during a wide scale Israeli raid and arrest campaign in Nablus.
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week2/141105/report3.htm
Soldiers arrest Hamas media spokesperson in Jenin
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday afternoon, Sheikh Abdul-Basit Al Haj, Hamas media spokesperson in Jenin, and another resident who was with him, and took them to an unknown destination.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15003&Itemid=1
(ILLEGAL) Jewish settler attacks Tsufim checkpoint
One of the farmers told PNN: "After the incident the soldiers were extremely agitated. But instead of punishing the settler, they punished the farmers who were waiting for permission to enter their lands, isolated behind the wall."
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week2/141105/report2.htm
(ILLEGAL) Settlers burn Olive trees near Nablus
Dozens of settlers of Itamar settlement, near Awarta village, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, burnt on Monday at least 30 Olive trees. The Maan News Agency reported that the armed settlers burnt the trees in Al Dhabia area, in Awarta, after attacking the areas and firing rounds of live ammunition.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15017&Itemid=1
HAMAS Takes Oath for Revenge
The Islamic Resistance Movement, one of the armed factions in Palestine, is reportedly planning to take revenge for its militants killed during an Israeli offensive Sunday. The organization's military wing leader, Izzeddin al-Qassam, has said "a painful retaliation is on the way".
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20051114&hn=26387
MOLSA Denies Israeli Claims of Easing Restrictions against Workers
In its statement today the Ministry expressed its wonder on the Israeli announcement on issuing permissions for Palestinians to work in Israel. MOLSA said that it received no official information on permissions for work in Israel. It affirmed that 180 persons were allowed to pass to Israel.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4597
Abu Zuhri: Hamas rejects PA decision to postpone Hebron elections
Hamas has announced that it rejects the decision of the Palestinian government to postpone local council elections in Hebron, saying the decision is not based on any legal or national foundations.
http://www.palestinenet.org/english/archive2005/nov/week2/141105/report1.htm
Rice and PM in sharp row on Hamas role in PA vote
In recent weeks, the IDF has arrested hundreds of Hamas activists, most of them members of the organization's political wing, those most likely to run as candidates in the January election or take central roles in Hamas election campaigns.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/644942.html
Israeli Colonizers Wound 3-Year-Old Child
Three years-old child wounded on Monday after being attacked by Israeli colonizers in the West Bank (WB) city of Hebron, sources said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4596
Rice: Border-Crossings Deal 'In Sight'
The top U.S. diplomat used coded language to say that Israel should not build more illegal outposts in the West Bank or use a security barrier now under construction to effect a land grab before the borders of an eventual Palestinian state are fixed. And she said the Palestinians must do more to disarm and counter the militant group Hamas.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/14/international/i042457S18.DTL
Rice: Deal on Gaza crossings near
According to the Palestinians, the deal will include the safe passageway between Gaza and the West Bank and easing restrictions on the Palestinian population, including the removal of no less than 125 checkpoints in the West Bank. The implementation of the first phase of Wolfensohn's plan is scheduled to begin as early as Tuesday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3169010,00.html
Rice delays departure to win Gaza-Egypt border deal
"We're still working the issues," her spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters, announcing that the chief US diplomat would spend at least one more night in Jerusalem to try to make her fourth Middle East visit a success.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051114/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_051114181037
Palestine: Inflation up 1.93% during October
According to the press release, the prices of remaining West Bank (The West Bank except for those parts of Jerusalem, which were annexed after 1967 occupation by Israel), have gone up by 1.95%, prices in Jerusalem increased by 1.66 %, and prices in Gaza Strip (GS) increased by 1.54%.
http://www.menareport.com/en/business,Economy_and_Trade/191370
PCBS: 9.6 Million Palestinian in Mid 2004
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said that 9.6 Million is the number of Palestinians in the Mid of the Year 2004. In its sixth statistical report, PCBS revealed that 4.9 millions in diaspora, 1.1 million in Israel, and 3.6 millions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=4595
Islamist gunmen order Gaza election office closed
In a leaflet dropped at the scene, the gunmen called January parliamentary elections a U.S. and Israeli plot to hurt Palestinians and cause strife among Muslims in the name of democracy, freedom and women's rights.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14647167.htm
IDF bombards northern Gaza
By midnight, the IDF had fired ten artillery rounds, and soldiers continued to fire dozens of shells after the one mortar shell was fired by the Palestinians. On Sunday, a number of Palestinian attempts to fire mortars were thwarted, and no mortars landed in Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3168733,00.html
Peretz: Compensate West Bank settlers who elect to leave
Amir Peretz, the newly elected chairman of the Labor Party, Monday submitted a Knesset bill which would offer to grant compensation to any West Bank settlement if 60% of its residents agreed to leave voluntarily.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/645263.html
Rice in Israel: Isolate Syria
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who also spoke at the convention, called on the international community to continue in its efforts to press Syria and “make it clear the radical approach it adopts puts the continued existence of the regime in danger.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3168675,00.html
Solana: European Union against sanctions on Syria at present time
"It is too early to talk about economic sanctions against Syria at this time," Solana was quoted as saying by the official Jordanian news agency, Petra, after a meeting with King Abdullah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/644941.html
Lapid: Government has run its course
The government has come to its end; it has run its course, Shinui Chairman Yosef Lapid said during a meeting with opposition members Monday, convened to discuss the possibility of early elections, less than one week after Labor Party Chairman Amir Peretz was elected.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3169046,00.html
Bibi: Peretz danger to economy
The messages conveyed that should Sharon agree to the proposal, Likud members would work to revoke the candidacy of Benjamin Netanyahu and Uzi Landau for party leadership and unite behind Sharon.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3168706,00.html
World fetes Israel's Rabin in death, shuns Arafat
Dennis Ross, former U.S. envoy to the Middle East, saw it as revealing that not only the United States, but also European and Arab countries were absent from the ceremonies for Arafat. "It looks as if the world sees Arafat as someone who ended his life as someone who was determined to prevent peace or was against it,"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10785921.htm
The Jordan's two banks draw closer
The rest were mostly Jordanian citizens, more than half of them of Palestinian origin. Five of those killed were senior officials in the Palestinian bureaucracy and economy, who were visiting Amman. Eighteen members of one family from the town of Silat al-Dahr in the northern West Bank were killed while attending a family wedding.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/644916.html
Petitioners want to revoke Nobel
The petition protests the 2005 Nobel in economics given to Robert Aumann because he “uses his analysis to justify Israel's occupation,” according to the document. Aumann is a specialist in game theory, the study of how rival groups nwhether business colleagues or warring parties n interact to secure ideal outcomes.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/11/10/news/world/xpetitioners1111.txt
Iraqi official expects 30,000 foreign forces to leave by mid 2006
"We hope some 60,000 members of the multinational forces willbe out of Iraq by the end of the next year (2006), bringing downto less than 100,000 the number of foreign forces in the country by the beginning of 2007," the Iraqi official said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/14/content_3776055.htm
Annan supports reconciliation efforts in Iraq
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan confirmed Saturday the UN support to the Arab League efforts aimed at reconciliation between different Iraqi communities. "The idea is that reconciliation is absolutely essential in Iraq. I don't think anyone would argue with that," Annan told a joint news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/14/content_3777078.htm
Withdrawal of British troops from Iraq in 2006 possible: Blair
Reid said he would judge whether the time was right for withdrawal on the level of threat from insurgents, Iraqi security forces' ability, the capacity of Iraqi authorities to deal with the changeover and the support available from coalition forces.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051114/wl_mideast_afp/iraqbritaintroops_051114175232 |
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