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Bil’in Demonstrators Attacked by Experimental Weapons
Israeli soldiers rushed into the village firing rubber bullets and teargas canisters, one military jeep arrived and supplied soldiers with more equipments and ammunition. Other weapons were also used - once again, Bil'in seems to be a testing ground for new types of “less lethal” weapons. One Palestinian and one Israeli were also hit with a sponge bullet, which places needles within the skin and sucks out blood.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/01/experimental-weapons/
Nonviolent movement claims partial victory as part of settlement dismantled near Bil'in
Palestinians in the village of Bil'in have declared a partial victory in their struggle against Israeli settlement expansion on their land, as several structures built to expand the Matityahu settlement were dismantled today. But in the rest of the West Bank, Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land are due to expand, with an Israeli court order ruling that Israeli authorities should allow (ILLEGAL) settlement growth.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21193/1/
Israeli Company Refuses to Prosecute British Protesters Over Fear of Examination of the Lawfulness of its Business in Court
Early Wednesday morning, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco's UK headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the occupied territories of Palestine. The company advised police that they did not wish to have protesters prosecuted and after eleven hours locked on the company’s property the protesters left.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/09/01/2nd-agrexco-blockade-report/
Supporting CUPE’s Israel Boycott
Not many people in North America were paying attention in July 2005 when The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, along with over 170 Palestinian unions, political parties, and organizations called for a global campaign of boycotts and divestment from Israel similar to those brought against apartheid South Africa . Remarkably, however, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) was paying attention
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10866
UN Warns of Gaza "Time Bomb"
UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland on Friday, September 1, implored donor states to dig deep into their pockets to help the Palestinian people, warning that the situation in the Gaza Strip was a "ticking time bomb".
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/01/03.shtml
Palestinian PM urges govt workers not to strike
Most government workers are affiliated to the once dominant Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been locked in a power struggle with Hamas since the Islamists won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections in January. "I (especially) urge teachers and students to go to their schools to begin the new school year," Haniyeh said while helping Hamas activists and other officials collect garbage piled up on Gaza's streets after a strike by municipal workers.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=
2006-09-01T123134Z_01_L01567691_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-PALESTINIANS.xml&archived=False
Eyewitness reports from Gaza
After every Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, destruction spreads. Trees are rooted out. Roads are destroyed. Israeli bulldozers smash everything. Moreover, people lose parts of their bodies and sometimes they lose their lives. Last month, tens of young men lost their arms and legs.
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/gazre639.html
Gaza – ICRC Bulletin No. 05 / 2006
Those operations continued to affect the residents of Gaza throughout August, especially the Shoka area (in the south of the Gaza Strip), where military action killed 17 people and destroyed houses, agricultural land, irrigation systems and greenhouses. The farming and Bedouin communities there lost their homes and their livelihoods. People in areas in the north of the Gaza Strip – Beit Hanoun, Shejaya, Jabalia – also continued to be affected, as did those in Khan Younis in the south.
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/gaza-news-010906
Twilight Zone / Deadly diaries
Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the fourth floor. Two brothers. Their parents and siblings were all killed while they were sleeping. Only the brothers were saved from the inferno caused by two missiles dropped by a plane on their house in the middle of the night. Awad, 19, is seriously injured; Mohammed, 20, uninjured, tends him. Their parents and all seven of their younger siblings, including a disabled sister, were killed. Just try to imagine.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/756772.html
Israeli military court sends captured Hamas leaders for trial
An Israeli military court yesterday ordered 15 Hamas leaders, including two cabinet ministers and the speaker of Palestine's parliament, to go on trial charged with membership of an outlawed organisation. The group, 12 of them elected members of the parliament, appeared in court at Ofer Camp on the occupied West Bank. At trial on December 12 they face a maximum jail sentence of 10 years if convicted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1862541,00.html
Galloway says Israel poisoning West
Galloway said Israel's 39-year occupation of swathes of Arab territory had spurred militants to attack the West. "The poison which circulates as a result of this unresolved conflict is poisoning our own lives in the West and making our people more endangered," Galloway told a news conference at the end of a visit to Lebanon and Syria.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1288552006
Palestinian woman injured by US-troops fire in Iraq
The woman was shot as she was leaving her home in the Palestinian area in Al Dawra area located in the souther district of Baghdad. WAFA stated that the woman, was shot by sniper-fire and was transferred to a nearby hospital. Her Husband, Ibrahim Ahmad Al Hawwy, 45, said that she is originally from Ein Ghazal, one of the Palestinian villages that were completely destroyed by Israel in 1948, near Haifa. The attack is part of a series of attacks against Palestinian refugees in Iraq
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21195/1/
UN chief highlights Gaza aid importance
"You cannot seal off an area, which is a little bigger than the city of Stockholm, has 1.4 million people, of whom 800,000 are youth and children, and then have 200 artillery shells go in there virtually every day, seal off the borders so that it is very hard for them to send anything out, crippling the economy, for people to live or even humanitarian supplies to get in," he told reporters.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/international-affairs/un-chief-highlights-gaza-aid-importance-$449161.htm
Donors conference raises US$500 million (€390 million) in aid for Palestinians
World donors promised Friday to send US$500 million (€390 million) in aid for Palestinians, saying the humanitarian situation in Gaza turned critical while the world focused on halting a monthlong war in Lebanon. Some analysts questioned whether the aid would be delivered at all, noting that donor nations have a dismal record in backing their pledges with action.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/01/europe/EU_GEN_Sweden_Gaza_Conference.php#
PA unity government could ask for int'l force
A Palestinian unity government would request the deployment of a multinational force in Palestinian Authority territory, according to a document presented by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials on the eve of the start of talks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757329.html
Palestinian denies Israeli allegation of uncovering tunnel in eastern Gaza
Palestinian officials said that it was just an excuse to cover their acts of killing Palestinians and destroying their farms and houses as well as to keep on the ongoing mutual conflict in the area.
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/01/eng20060901_298575.html
EU president: Hamas must change stance before EU talks
Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said on Friday Hamas would need to change its stance before the EU could talk to the Palestinian militant movement in an effort to revive the Middle East peace process.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757673.html
Report: Israel discusses freeing 1,000 Palestinians in Shalit swap
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti will not be among the prisoners released in the deal, the newspaper reported. However, the Palestinian ministers and legislators who have been arrested by Israel recently may be freed if the Palestinians agree to form a unity government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757654.html
Labor minister: Peretz 'zigzagging' in his war stance
Peretz is setting himself at odds with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by supporting the state commission - which has more powers than the public committee Olmert wants - and preparing an aggressive campaign to increase funding for social issues in the 2007 budget, even if this leads to a coalition crisis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757292.html
Israel thinks PA unity gov't unlikely
The defense establishment is of the growing opinion that Hamas and Fatah will not succeed in joining forces and creating a unity government and that, in the end, terror and anarchy will continue to thrive within the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525982040&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Palestinian bursts into British embassy with toy gun
Police said the forces seized and disarmed the man after he laid down his pistol for a second to eat food that they had given to him. After the arrest, the authorities discovered that the weapon was plastic, the police said in a statement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757323.html
Officials underestimated Hezbollah's arsenal size
New postwar intelligence indicates Hezbollah had broader access to sophisticated weaponry than was publicly known -- including large numbers of medium-range rockets made in Syria, according to U.S. and Israeli government officials and military analysts.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003236931_mideast31.html
2007 budget to increase by NIS 3.6 billion in wake of war
The 2007 budget deficit was originally slated to be 2 percent of gross domestic product, or NIS 12 billion. Increasing it to 2.8 percent will give the state another NIS 4.8 billion to spend. Some of that money will be used for defense needs, some for rebuilding the north and some for social purposes.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757645.html
We need a strategic revolution
it repeatedly emphasizes that for the first time since the 1948 War of Independence it is facing an existential threat: the threat of Iran, which is developing nuclear weapons and is controlled by an extremist religious regime whose president is calling for the eradication of Israel. On the other hand, Israel continues to consider the battle against the Palestinians as its main front. This contradiction defies all logic.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/757340.html
Arab League floats new peace plan
It is still not clear if the letter was appro ved by the Arab League or whether it is an initiative floated by Moussa and a number of Arab states. The initiative is expected to be presented at a summit meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo next week. The letter details a new mechanism for furthering talks between Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria. It proposes that the Security Council manage and oversee the negotiations
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=756802
Annan Says Syria Pledges To Help Lebanon Peace
Specifically, the UN chief said Damascus will increase patrols on the Lebanon-Syria border and establish joint patrols with the Lebanese Army "when possible" to stop the flow of arms to Hizballah, Syria's ally.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/F9EE278A-D835-49E1-8587-28C718A54962.html
Israel buys two submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons
Israel purchased two German-made “Dolphin” submarines that have the capability to carry nuclear warheads. The submarines are built with a cost of 1.3 billion US Dollars but Germany will pay one third of the bill.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21194/1/
Shiites warn against revenge after Baghdad bloodbath
Muslim preachers have warned worshippers against carrying out reprisals that could push Iraq into civil war, after bombs and mortar shells killed 67 civilians in Shiite areas of Baghdad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060901/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_060901151115
Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media
The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media. Proposals, due Sept. 6, ask companies to show how they'll ``provide continuous monitoring and near-real time reporting of Iraqi, pan-Arabic, international, and U.S. media,'' according to the solicitation issued last week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6051108,00.html |
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