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Protesters in Bil'in demand access to the isolated orchards to plant them
Residents of Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists held the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and the isolation of the Palestinian orchards. The protesters also marked the Partitioning Day of Palestine and protested the Israeli policies of annexing the Palestinian lands.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23012/1/
Protesters get a mauling in Bil’in
At today's peaceful protest against the apartheid wall in Bil'in the IOF lashed out at activists with fists and batons, and arrested one Israeli activist. One activist had blood streaming down his face from the assault and had to have his head bandaged by medics on the scene.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/12/01/bilin-1-12-06/
ISRAEL-OPT: For farmers, much of their land remains out of reach
Israel's West Bank barrier has separated Palestinian villages along it from around 60 percent of their farmland. With Israeli authorities reducing the number of permits they grant to those wanting to access this land, Palestinians face losing their farmland altogether.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56581&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=ISRAEL-OPT
IDF soldier gets two weeks for shooting Palestinian
Haytem Yasin, 25, was shot by the soldier on November 4, at the roadblock of Asira al-Shemaliya. Since the incident he is being treated at Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva, where he is in serious condition as a result of major abdominal injuries. According to testimonies collected by the human rights group B'Tselem, Yasin was shot after he told the soldiers that they should not ask women to run their hands over their bodies as a means of searching for concealed arms.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795022.html
Diabetic journalist imprisoned without trial on hunger strike
Farag is protesting the Israeli administration's decision to isolate him in solitary confinement for two months. The journalist is prohibited from mixing with the rest of his colleagues, or to listen to the radio, watch television, or read newspapers or magazines.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23004/1/
Fall in love only with Jews
Arab citizens have to marry among themselves, or emigrate from Israel. Any possibility of marrying an Arab from a different state or the territories will be blocked by the citizenship law or the law on illegal aliens.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795040.html
Muezzin's life lies sunk in a Gaza mosque's ruins
Commanders sent in armored bulldozers to knock down its ancient walls, which dated to the 13th century. "They came and they crushed it," said Kafarneh, sitting in the shadow of the mosque in Beit Hanoun's Martyrs Square, large mounds of brick and rubble lying behind him.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061201/lf_nm/palestinians_israel_mosque_dc_1
Army shoots and kills a resident of Hebron
Bashar Al Ja'bari, 22, was going to pray the morning prayers in the Abraham Mosque, also known as the Tomb of Patriarchs, located in the old city, when soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint at the mosque entrance shot Al Ja'bari in the head and killed him.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23001/1/
Israeli soldiers open fire on Palestinian youths throwing stones
Palestinian sources in Nablus say Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian youth. The Palestinian sources say that the youth, Shadi Naif, was with several dozen youths who were hurling rocks at soldiers conducting a routine operation in the village. According to the sources two additional youths were seriously wounded by the Israeli soldiers fire, after which the soldiers left the village.
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/219211/cs/1/#reply
Palestinian dies of injuries in Gaza
Morad Abu Awad, in his 20s, was wounded 10 days ago during an Israeli incursion into a neighbourhood of Gaza City on an arrest operation. Medics said he had probably been a civilian.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061201/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgaza_061201143128
Two weeks after his death, Palestinian resident identified by family
Palestinian medical source in Gaza reported on Friday afternoon that a resident who was shot and killed by the Israeli army two weeks ago and remained unknown was identified on Friday by family members.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23014/1/
Israeli court extends detention of wife of Palestinian minister
They added that Israeli military prosecution tabled an indictment list against Wadha accusing her of running the Afak (Horizon) studies center that was administered by her husband before his arrest.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23007/1/
PLO Executive Committee calls on Haniyeh to resign as PM
Abbas told top PLO officials during a special session in Ramallah on Friday that Hamas was to blame for the talks' failure. "[Chairman] Abbas stressed that there would be no dialogue with Hamas," said Tayseer Khaled, a member of the PLO's executive committee. "He said the dialogue ended and that Hamas bears the responsibility for the failure of the talks."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795306.html
Hamas's Cairo messages
According to Hamas sources, Meshaal is demanding that Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured last June, be released in exchange for 1,400 Palestinian prisoners. The first batch of Palestinian prisoners would be released parallel with Shalit, though the deal will not go ahead in the absence of Israeli guarantees to Egypt that the second batch will be released. Hamas has selected the names of the 1,400 Palestinian prisoners -- including 120 women and 400 children -- involved.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/822/eg1.htm
No exit
Victimised by the Shia as part of the Sunni population, and by the Sunni in revenge for the privileged treatment they were granted by Saddam at the expense of Iraqis themselves, Palestinians are in the bad books of most, if not all, the fighting factions in Iraq today. As a result, many Palestinians, Nouicer said, have tried their best to escape the inferno in Iraq. The problem, he added, is that apart from those who had the resources and contacts to grant them alternative residence, the vast majority are without the means to alternate refuge.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/822/focus.htm
Security officials said set to advise against expanded truce
"Rice asked to receive updates and she got them," he said. "It is difficult to say that we reached a specific point [in the meeting]. Abu Mazen [Abbas] explained to her that at this moment there is no progress in the matter of the unity government and if the Hamas stance remains unchanged, it is possible that in two or three months we will have to go to early elections."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795259.html
Cabinet to consider West Bank cease-fire
The Cabinet, meeting Sunday morning, is to consider a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to include the West Bank in a cease-fire declared last week in the Gaza Strip. The Ha'aretz newspaper and Israel Army Radio reported that security officials were expected to argue strongly against Olmert's proposal, saying it would allow West Bank terrorists to regroup.
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=5838
UN: Israel breaks border agreement
The Agreement on Movement and Access, signed last November after the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, was meant to facilitate the movement of Palestinians and goods in and out of Gaza. It also promised Palestinian control over the Rafah crossing into Egypt by November 2006, after a transitional year of EU monitoring and Israeli video surveillance.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7FBC2CF9-DDF6-46AC-90C4-F0B89ABD7D95.htm
Tell us the truth
The first option, of isolation and pressure, was supposed to have led to re-elections in the Palestinian Authority, in the hope that Fatah would win the next time around. The second response, the one of acceptance, would have led to the recognition of Hamas as a new and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. These two options required that Israel make national-strategic decisions that could have become historic. However, the cabinet avoided making such decisions and thus failed miserably on both fronts.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3334598,00.html
Ya'alon still in New Zealand, despite arrest warrant for war crimes
The New Zealand Justice Ministry issued the warrant on Tuesday, several days after a request by a New Zealand resident that was co-signed by various local and international human rights organizations. Officials at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said they had received confirmation from the embassy in New Zealand that the charges have been dropped.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794834.html
High Court rejects war inquiry petitions
The High Court of Justice voted on Thursday to reject petitions calling for the formation of a State- commissioned inquiry into the conduct of the political and military echelons during the second war in Lebanon. The seven-strong panel of High Court judges ruled against the inquiry by a one-vote majority.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3334797,00.html
On ethnic cleansing and racism
Palestinians have been and remain victims of a determined ethnic cleansing policy that began in 1947-48 and continues today. Any act of collective punishment -- whether ethnic cleansing or genocide -- is often preceded and adjoined by a racist discourse that dehumanises the victim and justifies the crime on baseless grounds, a concoction of lies and fabrications that may appeal to national or religious psyches, but fails any test of law, morality or basic human norms.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/822/op132.htm
In Palestine, a Dream Deferred
The chances of Palestinians overcoming exile and exercising their right of return seem as far away as ever. Hardly more promising are the immediate prospects for ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza in accordance with the international and Arab consensus, in place since at least 1976 and rejected by the United States and Israel.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061218/abumanneh
North and south
The latest rounds in the campaigns on both fronts, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, have left too many issues undecided, too many potential detonators that could cause a new conflagration. The army's conclusion from this is that a war in the new future is a reasonable possibility. As Amir Oren reported in Haaretz several weeks ago, the IDF's operative assumption is that during the coming summer months, a war will break out against Hezbollah and perhaps against Syria as well.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794993.html
UN human rights inquiry: Israel should compensate Lebanon
It suggested setting up an international compensation program similar to the one which has paid out billions of dollars to cover losses due to Iraq's 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795327.html
Israel demands proof soldiers are alive
Israel will not free prisoners to Hezbollah unless the Lebanese guerrilla group proves that two Israeli soldiers it captured before this year's war are alive, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Israel-demands-proof-soldiers-are-alive/2006/12/01/1164777790090.html
Arab foreign ministers urge Rice to act on Mideast woes
"Of course, we realize that many of you have strong and passionate opinions about U.S. policy with regards to Iraq and Lebanon and the Palestinian territories," Rice said in prepared remarks for the meeting. "At the same time we all agree on the importance of reform and the need to move forward actively with a robust reform agenda."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795326.html
Forum links reform to Mideast conflict resolution
"The absence of a fair and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict weakens moderate forces and reinforces those who stipulate violence, extremism and hatred," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061201/wl_mideast_afp/mideastarabreform_061201184353
Bush reaches out to Iraqi Shiite, Sunni leaders
US President George W. Bush has scheduled talks with key Shiite and Sunni leaders of Iraq, the White House said, ahead of a potentially pivotal week for US strategy in the battered nation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061201/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqpoliticsbush_061201195917 |
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