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Nablus village schoolchildren terrorized by IOF
On Tuesday a group of six human rights activists travelled to the small vallage of Sarra, west of Nablus, in response to a plea from a local school headmaster about Israeli army harassment of schoolchildren. According to countless eyewitness reports, during the last week an Israeli military Humvee would arrive in front of the school as the children were coming out, and proceed to let off sound bombs, tear gas and fire rubber bullets.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/12/03/sarra-school-terror/
Israelis invoke Area C and destroy northwestern West Bank homes
The Israeli authorities are escalated their campaigns in the northwestern West Bank province of Qalqilia. By accusing Palestinians of not obtaining licenses from the occupation authorities to build on their own land inside the West Bank, the Israelis are issuing more land confiscation and home demolition orders.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1129
Old women step forward as 'martyrs'
In the centre of Beit Hanoun, there is nothing left of the 800-year-old mosque but the minaret. It looks like a lighthouse stranded in a sea of rubble. People whose homes were demolished during the latest Israeli army incursion sit on plastic chairs around bonfires. At night they bunk down with the neighbours. 'I saw the Israeli soldiers eye-to-eye,' she said. 'They took my four-year-old grandson, Mahadi, who has Down's syndrome. They shook him and yelled: "Where are the guns?" Now he is traumatised and wets the bed every night.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1962858,00.html
Dutch bank divests holdings in J'lem light rail, cites settlements
A Dutch bank has decided to divest itself of its holdings in a French company that is participating in building Jerusalem's light rail system, on the grounds that the project "is not in line with the United Nation's demand to stop all support for Israel's settlement activities." Work recently began on the railway's first line, which will run from Neveh Ya'akov to Mount Herzl, passing through parts of the city that Israel annexed in 1967 on its way.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795387.html
Seeing the negative side of Israel's nationalism
The subsequent Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands rendered her an instant foreigner. Since returning in 1975, she has tried to obtain permanent residency status, but like tens of thousands of other Palestinians, she was given a tourist visa, which requires quarterly renewal. So she diligently left and came back. For 31 years. A Foreign Ministry spokesman recently told the British Daily Telegraph that Samara and people like her "are foreign nationals with no legal status, living [in the West Bank] as tourists while we turned a blind eye."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0612030315dec03,1,5185179.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed
Palestinians: IDF troops kill 16-year-old stone-thrower in Nablus
Medical personnel said soldiers opened fire on protesters who were throwing stones at military vehicles at a refugee camp outside of Nablus. The youth was shot in the head and died on the way to hospital
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795734.html
Child injured by setters fire in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron reported that a six-year old child was shot by settlers fire near Khirbit Qalqas area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. The child was walking with his parents near settlement road number 60 near the village.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23030/1/
Palestinian killed in Gaza, another seriously injured in Khan Younes
Palestinian security authorities on Sunday found a corpse of a 40 year-old Palestinian citizen in the center of Gaza and declared that the victim had been shot dead in various parts of his body. Security authorities started investigations to try determine circumstances of the killing of the man.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=930159
Gaza child dies of wounds sustained during Israeli attacks last month
The child was shot in the head by an Israeli army sharp-shooter during a military invasion to the town on November 25th, and was moved to an Israeli hospital, medical sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23018/1/
98 residents taken prisoner in Bethlehem in November
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers took prisoner 98 resident in several attacks and invasions carried by the army in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during the month of November.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23028/1/
Security cabinet votes to maintain Gaza restraint
The ministers did not decide to extend the cease-fire to the West Bank, however, and Defense Minister Amir Peretz said during the meeting that the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service will continue to operate there
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795656.html
Hamas suspends ceasefire talks following West Bank violence
The movement said in a leaflet sent to reporters that 'ongoing (Israeli) violence in the West Bank 'threatened' the fragile Gaza truce. The Hamas statement came as Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz repeated Israel's refusal to expand the ceasefire to the West Bank
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1229019.php/
Hamas_suspends_ceasefire_talks_following_West_Bank_violence
Qatar to pay wages of Palestinian education workers
"Qatar will pay the salaries of all the education employees, who are 40,000. This amount will total $22.5 million per month for the coming several months starting now," Ismail Haniyeh said, adding that Qatar was also studying giving an additional $7 million per month to the Palestinian health sector.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795694.html
Qatar to help pay Palestinian wages
Haniya said a Qatari delegation would travel to the Palestinian territories in 10 days to discuss setting up an Islamic bank with a $50 million capital that would be increased to $100 million to finance development in the territories. The Gulf Arab state will also build a sports city in the Palestinian territories, Haniya said, but gave no more details.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/94075147-2270-4281-84A3-FB35B9256E8C.htm
Abbas: Economic situation worsening
"Any delay in forming a national unity government means a worsening in the conditions of the Palestinians, especially in the economic conditions they are living," he said. Abbas, who had announced Thursday that talks to form a unity government with the radical Islamic group Hamas had failed, expressed hope Sunday for restarting them.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335521,00.html
PM overrules Peretz's call for response to Qassams
Disagreements between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz over Israel's restraint in the face of Palestinian violations of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip developed into a confrontation during a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335605,00.html
The Hidden Agenda of the War on Gaza
This policy is retribution for the Palestinian people's implementation of their democratic rights through the electoral process. Additionally, it is a policy meant to reshuffle the Palestinian political reality and force it to coincide with Israeli-American political objectives. Consequently, Israel's campaign of punishment is supported by the United States and Europe, with the collaboration of the Arab regimes and some Palestinian political parties.
http://alternativenews.dyndns.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=1
The cease-fire will go up in flames
There are plenty of examples. In January 2002, after several months of quiet, the Tanzim activist Raed Karmi was assassinated in Tul Karm. Dichter, who was then the head of the Shin Bet, pushed for this action, of course. Immediately afterwards, Fatah began its suicide bombing attacks. Several months later, the Tanzim announced a unilateral cease-fire. Shortly thereafter, in July 2002, Salah Shehadeh was assassinated in Gaza in a one-ton bombing, which also killed 15 innocent residents.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795406.html
Gaza group warns women to cover heads
The group, Just Swords of Islam, directed its warning to female students at universities and colleges who do not wear hijab head coverings according to Islamic tradition, the Jerusalem Post said Sunday. The group said followers in Gaza City recently threw acid in the face of a young woman they said was dressed "immodestly."
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061203-080822-1412r
Israeli Arabs: Let us return to pre-'48 villages
"The move by refugees of 1948 to their villages will not change the demographic balance or endanger the Jews. Unlike the refugees in Arab states, we are [already] here," Farah said. "The internal refugees [residents forced to leave their villages in 1948 who moved to other Arab communities within Israel] represent about one-fourth of the Arab population in Israel today."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795396.html
Islamic Jihad threatens to attack Israel 'in the coming hours'
"Calm is on the edge of collapse due to the continued Zionist violations and the attacks against our Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza," Abu Ahmed, a Gaza-based spokesman for the group's armed wing, said in a statement. "Nobody should blame [Islamic Jihad] for any reaction its brigades will take in the coming hours in response to the violations by the Zionist occupation."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795736.html
Report: PM to meet high-ranking Saudis soon in new peace bid
The Sunday Times of London has reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will soon meet high-ranking Saudi officials to discuss future peace talks with moderate Arab countries, and that Olmert held a preliminary meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a close advisor to Saudi King Abdullah, in Amman at the end of September.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795632.html
19 percent growth in export to Arab countries
The growth in export to Egypt was influenced by the coming into effect of the QIZ agreements, which allow for tariff-free exporting from Egypt to the United States of products of traditional industries, subject to the acquisition of raw materials from Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335306,00.html
Protesters demand Canada end its support of Israel in Middle East conflicts
Protesters holding banners with slogans such as "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" fought gusting winds to stay upright while shouting "shame." They denounced Prime Minister Stephen Harper's depiction of Israel's rocket campaign in Lebanon in the summer as a "measured" response.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=0e0c857a-9406-4742-a6c3-a0b87408ff65&k=98434
Time to pack?
We're really good in history. The right-wing opposition competes with the Olmert-Lieberman government over the question of who scares us more on the Iran question; who will cause more involuntary-immigrants not to come, more Israelis to leave the country, and more former Israelis not to return?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335443,00.html
Israel creates new ministry to deal with Iran threat
The Israeli government has approved the creation of a new ministry for strategic affairs, to be headed by a controversial ultra-nationalist and deal mainly with Iran's nuclear ambitions.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061203/wl_mideast_afp/israeliranpolitics_061203141242
Minister: IDF can't even defend itself
These failures were discovered following a surprise security investigation that was executed on the base. The investigators discovered smug guards, faulty equipment, and pedestrians being able to walk in and out of the base freely.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3335482,00.html
Israel fears Siniora government may fall
As a result, government officials have raised several ideas in recent days for how to strengthen Siniora in the face of the street protests that Hezbollah has launched against his government. The goal is to prove that Siniora can obtain more through peaceful diplomacy than Hezbollah, which has accused him of a "defeatist policy" toward Israel, was able to gain through violence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795398.html
Former IDF intelligence chief: War is more likely if Siniora quits
Chances of another war in Lebanon would increase should Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora choose to resign, according to former chief of Israel Defense Forces Army Intelligence Corps, Major General (res.) Aharon Ze'evi Farkash.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795418.html
Ministers approve IDF withdrawal from Lebanese side of Ghajar
The security cabinet approved Sunday a defense establishment recommendation to withdraw Israel Defense Forces troops from the Lebanese side of the divided border village of Ghajar, and hand over responsibility for the area to United Nations peacekeepers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795753.html |
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