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Israeli authorities impose additional restrictions on farmers in southern Qalqilia
Residents of Azoun 'Atma live behind the Wall in southern Qalqilia. The village became entirely isolated from the rest of the northwestern West Bank district when the Wall was imposed, and now the Israeli authorities have placed additional restrictions on them. The Israeli administration decided that this season Israeli soldiers will accompany farmers to the olive harvest in order to protect them. Therefore, farmers have only three days. Any additional harvesting in prohibited. A farmer with 86 Dunams of planted land said this will result in huge losses.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21999/1/
Despite high turnover, West Bank settlements keep growing
Over the past two decades, they have grown at a faster rate than most other communities in Israel. The average annual growth rate in the settlements is five to six percent, as opposed to two to three percent in the Jerusalem area and central Israel, and even lower rates in Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Ashdod or Ra'anana.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773171.html
UN: Number of IDF roadblocks in West Bank up
A UN aid agency said Wednesday that the number of Israeli military roadblocks in the West Bank grew by nearly 40 percent in the past year, part of an increasingly sophisticated lockdown that disrupts all aspects of Palestinian life. The placement of these checkpoints and unmanned physical obstacles means the West Bank is increasingly being carved up into separate parts, with travel between them becoming more and more difficult
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3313752,00.html
U.N. humanitarian chief says Gaza crossings must be opened to avert 'social explosion'
"It cannot continue like it is now without a social explosion that will hurt everybody, including Israeli security," Jan Egeland told reporters in Geneva. He said that the 750,000 young people in Gaza were particularly hard hit by the border closure and the increasing humanitarian crisis. They "feel they have no hope, no future, and of course that will not lead to less extremism, it will lead to more extremism, so it has to change," said Egeland.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/11/news/UN_GEN_UN_Palestinians_Gaza_Crossings.php#
Israeli forces shot Jenin child four years ago; medical problems persist
In the year 2002 Israeli forces invaded Jenin Refugee Camp. Tanks began firing down alleyways. Thirteen year old Jihad Mousa stood near his house on the edge of the northern West Bank camp. From four meters away an Israeli soldier shot the child. He fell to the ground, soaked in blood from the 250mm bullet that pierced his young body. The child is now 17 and is suffering kidney failure. His health has deteriorated since the day Israeli forces shot him in several places
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=761&Itemid=49
Hamas proposes new deal on coalition government
Khaled Mash'al, exiled Hamas leader, proposes a new deal to support Qatar's 6 point initiative to form a Palestinian national unity government, according to ‘Al Hayat' in London. The two Hamas leaders, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Mash'al, produced a written document outlining a new five point initiative to solve the disagreements between Hamas and Fatah.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22003/1/
Settlers attack residents of Tall Al Rimada in Hebron
The settlers, who live in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ramatiashai, near the Tell Al Rumida area, attacked residents' houses with stones while giving death threats. These attacks are becoming daily events in the area, residents say, with the attacks even being carried out under the protection of the Israeli army.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21994/1/
Forbidden to settlers, not the state
The state promised the High Court that it would make it possible for the farmers to reach these lands. So it promised. But most of the year, the gates are open only twice a week. People have therefore given up on trying to grow vegetables and wheat, which require daily attention, or on letting their sheep graze in uncultivated pastures. Now that it is harvest time, the gates are due to open every day, three times a day. Instead of several dozen permits for every village, several hundred are being given out. Yet there are still many who are turned down, in arbitrary fashion. This daily damage to the Palestinians does not find its way into the headlines.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772907.html
Six residents taken prison in Jenin, resistance exchanges fire with invading forces
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Qabatia town near Jenin and exchanged fire with resistance fighters. Six residents, including two brothers, were taken prisoner in several areas near Jenin, Palestinian sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22000/1/
PA probing militant group's claim it kidnapped American in Nablus
Samah Atout, manager of Project Hope, said she received a call saying Phillips had been kidnapped. She refused to give further details. She said Phillips was working with Project Hope in refugee camps near the West Bank city of Nablus, teaching English.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773180.html
State Prosecutor won't reopen case against policemen 'absolved' of killing Arab Israeli in 2003
The State Prosecutor's Office turned down a request to reopen the 2003 investigation of police officers who killed Moursi Jabali, an Arab Israeli from Taibeh. The state last weekend informed the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel that it found no reason to overturn the decision by the Justice Ministry's Police Investigation Unit (PIU) to close the case for "lack of guilt," and said that "the shooting was justified."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772899.html
US free speech row grows as author says Jewish complaints stopped launch party
The British-based author and former publisher Carmen Callil has become embroiled in a growing dispute over the limits of freedom of speech in America after a party celebrating her new book on Vichy France was cancelled because of the opinion she expresses about the modern state of Israel. n the postscript Callil says she grew anxious while researching the "helpless terror of the Jews of France" to see "what the Jews of Israel were passing on to the Palestinian people. Like the rest of humanity, the Jews of Israel 'forget' the Palestinians. Everyone forgets."
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1892433,00.html
Italian probe: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip
The weapon is similar to one developed by the U.S. military called DIME, which causes a powerful and lethal blast, but only within a relatively small radius. The Italian report is based on the eyewitness accounts of medical doctors in the Strip, as well as tests carried out in an Italian laboratory. The investigative team is the same one that exposed, several months ago, the use by U.S. forces in Iraq of phosphorous bombs, against Iraqi rebels in Faluja.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772933.html
A rerun of Lebanon war in Palestine?
The reality is that the Palestinian Authority is not and has never been a government for the Palestinian people. The Palestinian Authority receives Western backing only to the extent that it directly and exclusively serves Israeli interests. It was designed to protect the Israeli occupation against its victims; no one will be permitted to turn it into a representative body that fights for the rights and interests of Palestinians. To avoid the trap that is being set, Hamas will either have to sell out or get out.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093130303
Fatah and Hamas trade blame for ongoing crisis in unity gov't talks
An advisor to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Amru, accused Hamas leaders of trying to fundamentally change a critical Arab peace initiative in order to cause it to fail, while Hamas Information Minister Youssef Rezqa told reporters that associates of Abbas "were conducting media wars" against Hamas to cause it "to lose its principles."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772900.html
Palestinians suffer from West Bank closure
Although the number of Palestinians working in Israel has gone down significantly in the past few years, thousands of West Bank residents still find their source of income in Israel. Gaza residents, on the other hand, have been forbidden entry into Israel since Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3313541,00.html
Victims of insecurity increase in oPt
"This year has witnessed a significant rise in the number of insecurity victims," said Ma'moun Iteily of the PICCR's department which documents cases of insecurity and human rights violations. According to the PICCR statistics, 270 people were killed in the oPt by 10 October. By contrast, 93 people were killed in 2004 and 176 in 2005.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5843.shtml
US weapons to be transferred to terrorists?
The man, Abu Yousuf, hinted any new weapons provided by the US to his group could be shared with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization, the declared "military wing" of Abbas' Fatah party. Abu Yousuf, like several Force 17 members, is also a member of the Brigades.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3313776,00.html
Abbas briefs Kadhafi on situation in Palestine
President Mahmoud Abbas has briefed Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi on the latest developments relating to the situation in Palestine, official Libyan sources revealed here Wednesday.
http://news.africast.com/africastv/article.php?newsID=60116
Peretz to Olmert: No coalition with Lieberman
Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, as the two met in Olmert's sukkah at his Jerusalem residence, that he did not want the government coalition to include Israel Our Home.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3313891,00.html
Invite Lieberman to join coalition, Laborites urge PM
The Labor officials told Olmert that he cannot rely on their party, because the party infighting has escaped the control of its leader, Defense Minister Amir Peretz. Due to Peretz's loss of control, these officials said, they could not guarantee that Labor's 19 Knesset members would support the 2007 state budget.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772901.html
PM Olmert meets with MK Silvan Shalom behind Netanyahu's back
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Wednesday with Likud MK Silvan Shalom to discuss, among other things, the suggestion to change the system of government. It is unclear whether the meeting had anything to do with the Prime Minister's recent statements regarding his desire to expand the coalition.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773179.html
State: High Court has limited role in deciding nature of Lebanon war probe
The government said in response that while, in theory, the High Court has the jurisdiction to order the government to establish a state commission of inquiry, "it is doubtful that we will ever get to such an extreme situation in which such an order would have to be given."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773309.html
Peres: Assad should visit Israel if serious about peace talks
Peres said Assad should seek to address the Knesset in Jerusalem, adding that, "If Assad said 'I am coming to the Knesset' would anyone stop him?" "He needs to say 'I want to speak with Israel about peace. That is it. I want to meet,'" Peres said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773212.html
Gaza blockade lift allows Palestinian team to unite - AFC
A trio of Palestinian internationals have joined their team for Wednesday's Asian Cup qualifier against China after Israeli authorities lifted a blockade on Gaza, the Asian Football Confederation has reported. The lift of the blockade allowed skipper Saeb Jendeya, Hamada Eshbair and Ihmeidan Barrbakh to leave
http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6139202,00.html
Jordan's King warns Palestinian statehood at risk due to feuding
A power struggle between Hamas and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction that triggered the worst internal fighting in a decade last week could be exploited by Israel and worsen the Palestinians' plight, Abdullah said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773340.html
Report: Peres torpedoed Gaza desalination plant in '92
"I stressed to him that I was about to establish a desalination plant on the border of the Gaza Strip," Zaslavsky related. "Peres burst out in response that he opposed it, because it did not concern us, and we did not need to worry about the Arabs, as they would look after themselves." He claims that the project was consequently canceled.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772925.html
A long Yom Kippur detour for an Arab bus in Jerusalem
To my surprise, on leaving Nablus Gate the bus did not turn north as usual onto the main road, Highway No. 1, but rather turned east, toward the Wadi Joz neighborhood. The driver explained that because of Yom Kippur the police blocked Highway 1, and we have to go around through the Mount of Olives. There was no other option.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772928.html
Youth on right, left unite to protest war
Even though the political establishment appears to have gone back to "business as usual," the extra-parliamentary arena has refused to surrender to attempts to force it into oblivion. It is not just the demonstration to call for a state commission of inquiry that is planned for tomorrow in Jerusalem; mainly, it is the change in the nature and makeup of the protest that indicates the depth of crisis left by the war.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/772897.html
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442_pf.html |
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