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Trees Not Walls! Call to Action: For Eco-Justice Bloc at MWM & Palestine Solidarity O17 and Beyond ...
The Wall disrupts the hydrology of watersheds, altering surface water flow and increasing erosion; it fragments animal populations, diminishing overall levels of wildlife; and Israeli earthmovers have uprooted hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees, “shaving the land” to clear the path for the Wall's erection …
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/106390/index.php
Two girls, two shots to the head
The two 15-year-old pupils at Jabaliya's school were both shot in the head by Israeli soldiers inside their homes just a few blocks and several hours apart. Islam died almost immediately after the bullet smashed through her forehead as she baked bread with her mother in their yard on Sunday. Tahreer is still on life support at a Gaza hospital after an operation to remove shards of shattered skull from her brain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1320735,00.html
US vetoes resolution calling for Israeli halt to Gaza operations
He said the veto was the seventh by the Bush administration on the Israeli-Palestinians conflict and the 29th since 1976. He heard much talk about the two Israeli children killed in the rocket attack, but none about a 13-year-old Palestinian girl that he said was riddled with 30 bullets as she walked to school.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=569258
Palestinians won't bring anti-Israel draft to General Assembly
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman expressed his happiness after the vote and said that the resolution only condemned the victim and not the attacker. Gillerman added that the nations which abstained showed courage while those that voted in favor were cowards.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485827.html
Israel: Palestinian State Shelved with U.S. Blessing
Israel's plan to withdraw from some occupied territory aims to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely, with full U.S. approval, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chief of staff said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6430818
Israeli tank shell wounds 10 Palestinian family members
The 10 injured, including a father, his brother and eight of their children, were treated at al Awda Hospital east of Jabalya refugee camp, medics said, adding that a four-month-old infant was in critical condition.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/06/content_2057328.htm
Palestinian teenager killed in northern West Bank
A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli gunfire in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem, Palestinian security sources and medics told AFP. The victim was named as Mohammed Raddad and medics said he had been shot three times.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=8&u=/afp/20041006/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_tulkarem_041006094605
Red Cross aid convoy runs out of time
Though Jabalya is only six kilometers away, the convoy had to make many detours to avoid tanks and roadblocks, increasing the journey to 20 kilometers. One half-kilometer stretch, from Beit Lahia to eastern Jabalya, consisted of an asphalt road that had been destroyed by IDF tanks and bulldozers and covered by blowing sand that hid the potholes.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/484971.html
Body count grows in besieged Gaza camp
operation "Days of Penitence" arrived in the northern Gaza Strip involving an estimated 200 tanks and 2,000 troops, the toll shows everywhere. the 106,000 Palestinian refugees of Jabaliya are in an almost continuous state of mourning, as family and friends circulate among makeshift funeral tents throughout the squalid cinderblock camp, paying condolences
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097013010688&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Three Hamas fighters, Thai worker killed in Gaza settlement attack
The latest deaths brought the number of people killed since the September 2000 start of the four-year-old intifada to 4,451, including 3,425 Palestinians and 954 Israelis, according to an AFP count.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/110379/1/.html
?Palestinian woman seriously injured in Beit Lahya
Palestinian medical sources said that Amnah al-Najjar, 60, was transported to a hospital in Gaza. The Israeli forces opened fire toward the Palestinian houses in the town, injuring a number of Palestinian citizens.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=670055
PNA Denounces Recent US Veto
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) condemned the US veto against a draft resolution in the Security Council condemning the Israeli onslaught against northern Gaza Strip and calling to halt it, expressing concern that Israel might expand its offensive after this veto.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=338
Israeli commandos and pilots conducting special operations in Iraq: sources
With the increased crackdown on the Iraqi people, the presence of Zionist forces has become more evident, to the extent that Israelis have taken over some military operations in Tall'Afar, Samarra, and Falluja, informed sources in Iraq, including two Iraqi National Guard officers, said.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6132&s2=06
Israel presses Gaza offensive, Hamas threatens to step up rocket fire
Israel's deadly offensive in northern Gaza entered its second week with the government vowing to press on until Palestinian rocket fire stopped and with militant chiefs pledging to intensify their attacks.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041006/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_041006193011
Sharon renews support for US-backed peace plan under fire from top aide
It came after top Sharon aide Dov Weisglass said in a newspaper interview that the prime minister's plans to pull out of the Gaza Strip next year had been a deliberate attempt to undermine the roadmap's promise of Palestinian statehood next year.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=4&u=/afp/20041006/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_041006135300
Senior Palestinian official condemns US veto on UN resolution
Erekat told reporte rs that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) condemned the US veto and considered it as locking all the doors of international diplomacy for the Palestinian people to end Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/06/content_2057611.htm
Isolating Arafat would fuel extremism: India
"We have advised our Israeli friends about our belief that the isolation and confinement of President Arafat in his Ramallah headquarters would engender popular frustration and encourage extremists on the Palestinian side,"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1535&ncid=1312&e=5&u=/afp/20041006/wl_sthasia_afp/mideast_india_041006135046
Egyptian FM expresses regret over US veto on UN resolution
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed AbulGheit expressed Wednesday Egypt's disappointment at a US veto on a UN Security Council draft resolution which urged Israel to stopmilitary operations in northern Gaza.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/07/content_2058636.htm
64 percent of Palestinians support resuming peace talks with Israel: poll
The poll was done before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon'ssenior adviser Dov Weisglass said the aim of the disengagement plan was to freeze the peace process.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/06/content_2058637.htm
Israel to tell UN it is 'unacceptable' to employ Hamas members
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent the team this week after Israel claimed a Palestinian rocket had been transported in a UN ambulance.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485254.html
UN team arrives to probe charges that UN vehicle was used to carry rocket
Meanwhile, clarifying recent media reports of UNRWA staff being held by Israeli authorities for their involvement in terror activities, Mr. Eckhard said the Agency was aware of only one staff member in Gaza currently under detention. "This individual has been held for over two years," he told the daily press briefing in New York. "He is still awaiting trial."
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12140&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Judging the Intifada
Those who wish to mark the anniversary of the Intifada with a hard look at reality, rather than self-delusion, might make the following predictions: there will be no Palestinian state alongside Israel, because such a thing is impossible in the reality Israel has, with the world's acquiescence, created. But
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3166.shtml
Ahead on points as the fifth year begins
No one is talking about an end to the confrontation, certainly not about a resolution of the conflict, only about a mutual "exacting of a price." There is broad agreement on both sides to continue with the war and there are no internal pressures for a respite, despite the horrific price.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485502.html
Israel is undermining its credibility
But the question is not whether Qassam crews, or other groups of armed men en route to commit attacks, really make use of UN vehicles. There have certainly such been cases, just as, in the 1950s, there were cases in which IDF units, including some well-known to Ariel Sharon, made operational use of either genuine or fake UN observer vehicles.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485518.html
What would Israel do without UNRWA?
Because UNRWA is one of the most important safety nets the international community has spread out under Israel, which, as an occupying power, has been unwilling to recognize its responsibility for the occupied civilian population. For the past three years, the UN has been regularly providing food aid to about half the Palestinian population
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485500.html
Cyprus files protest against Israel over Lufthansa intercept
Cyprus protested formally to Israel on Wednesday over the diversion of a German airliner to the Mediterranean island, and the airspace violation by two Israeli jets who escorted the airliner.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485529.html
'Palestinian Silver Screen' comes to Beirut
The American University of Beirut is screening "Palestinian Silver Screen," a selection of short films from of this year's inaugural edition of the Ramullah Film Festival. Films will be screened every evening from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at AUB West Hall's Bathish Auditorium, until Oct. 14.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=9019
On This Day 1973: Arab states launch war on Israeli forces
Early in the conflict, Egyptian and Syrian forces retook key positions lost in the 1967 'Six Day' war. But ultimately the Arabs buckled under a sustained Israeli counter-attack strengthened by US airlifts. In 1974 agreements negotiated by then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave Egypt control of the Suez Canal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/6/newsid_2514000/2514317.stm
On This Day 1981: Egypt's President Sadat assassinated
Following Sadat's assassination, over 700 people were rounded up. Twenty-five faced a secret trial, five of whom were then executed, and seventeen others given prison sentences and hard labour. Vice President Hosni Mubarak succeeded Sadat as head of state. He remains President to this day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/6/newsid_2515000/2515841.stm
Video: US Pilots Kill Civilians
The video includes an audio track of the pilot's conversation with mission controllers. As the UK Independent notes , "At no point during the exchange between the pilot and controllers does anyone ask whether the Iraqis are armed or posing a threat."
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=3716
About 6,000 prisoners held in two Iraqi jails without trial
About 6,000 Iraqis and other Arab nationalities were being held without trial in both Abu Ghoraib prison, west of Baghdad, and Pokka prison in Basra, 600 km south of Baghdad, local newspaper Al Mashriq reported Wednesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/06/content_2057500.htm
Saddam destroyed weapons in 1991, report says
An extensive U.S. investigation has found that Iraq destroyed virtually all its chemical and biological munitions in 1991, a dozen years before President Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade based largely on the alleged threat posed by those weapons.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-10-06-wmd_x.htm |
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