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Home demolitions resisted in Al Funduq
Five buildings were destroyed and three Palestinians were hospitalized by the Israeli military in Al Funduq, east of Qalqilya today. The Israeli army arrived at 5.30 this morning, allowing the occupants of homes just minutes to collect valuables and evacuate before their homes were demolished. The Israeli army claimed that the three homes and two agricultural structures were constructed without permits despite ongoing court cases.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/22/funduq-home-demolitions/
Harassment of non-violent activists in Bil’in continues
Last night the IOF invaded Bil’in village at around 2am and arrested 4 villagers, who were taken to Ofer military base. Head of the Popular Committee against the Wall Iyad Burnat, committee member Basel Mansour, Loi Burnat and Khamis Abu Rahme were held at Ofer until 9am when they were taken to the police station at Mod’in. They were then interrogated first by the police and then by Shabak, the Israeli intelligence service.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/22/bilin-arrests-22-11/
Blow to settlement movement
For many months now, the state prosecution has been clashing in the High Court of Justice with Peace Now over its duty under the Freedom of Information Law to publish data about ownership of land on which settlements were built. The state requested to refrain from revealing the data on the grounds that "the subject of the petition is a complex and sensitive one, and questions of the country's security and foreign relations are tied up with it." Its representatives asked for more time. Now it seems that time is up.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791336.html
Olmert: I did not use classified information
Wednesday morning, Yedioth Aharonoth reported that the prime minister used top secret intelligence information in order to censure Peretz for and, by doing so, exposed a number of Israeli intelligence capabilities, including the capability to listen to Abbas' conversations.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3331425,00.html
Israel's West Bank Theft
The Israeli colonizing movement in the occupied West Bank is practically thievery, wrapped in false "security" arguments. The report published this week, by the Israeli left wing organization "Peace Now" provides the statistical and legal infrastructure and the basic database for what we -- journalists, human rights organizations, liberal minded Israelis, and every Israeli with a grain of moral and ethical values -- have known for many years.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/yossi_melman/2006/11/israel_stole_the_west_bank.html
Several homes destroyed in northwestern West Bank citing building without Israeli permission
The Israeli administration continues to target the houses of Qalqilia District citizens where early this morning Israeli forces demolished several homes 18 kilometers east of the city, and just days ago destroyed others in the south. In addition to breaking in to other houses under the pretext of searching for the “wanted,” Israeli forces uprooted groves of olive trees.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1060&Itemid=30
New in Gaza: Priest, nun human shields
These homes have become pilgrimage sites in recent days not only for locals. Foreign peace activists have started to show interests in the phenomenon, and two Americans, a priest and a nun from Michigan, arrived at Jabalya from Michigan to take part in the human shield mission at the Brudi family home.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3331460,00.html
Seven detainees confined to solitary at the Negev detention facility
Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) at the Negev detention facility confined seven Palestinian detainees to solitary without any apparent reason. The detainees were informed that they will be moved to another prison, but after they packed their belongings and were ready to go, they were instead confined to solitary.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22829/1/
Israel sends troops into two Gaza towns
In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli snipers positioned themselves on more than a dozen rooftops in the towns of Beit Hanoun and Jebaliya as ground troops fanned out, Palestinian security officials said. Three teenage Palestinian girls were wounded by Israeli gunfire outside a school in Beit Hanoun, hospital and security officials said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
Jenin: IDF kills Al-Aqsa member
Palestinian sources said the activist, Shadi el-Amor, was shot dead during a gun battle between members of various Palestinian groups and IDF troops who arrived to detain Ashraf al-Saadi, commander of Islamic Jihad’s armed wing in Jenin. During the attempted arrest Saadi sustained moderate to serious injuries.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3331577,00.html
Naval boats injure a fisherman near Rafah
The fishermen reported that the naval boats opened heavy fire on them while they were fishing and injured one, who was moved to Abu Yousif Al Najar Hospital in Rafah after receiving medium range wounds.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22816/1/
Army invades Nablus, takes prisoner five residents
Troops entered the city of Nablus from several directions, opened fire randomly at residents' homes using live rounds and sound bombs. Soldiers searched scores of houses and took five prisoners to unknown locations.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/22814/1/
Qassam kills Sderot man as ten rockets slam South
A man was killed yesterday when a Qassam rocket landed in the poultry-processing plant in Sderot where he worked. A total of approximately 10 rockets were fired at Israel yesterday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790920.html
Gaza gunmen release kidnapped Canadian
A few hours after they were kidnapped by masked gunmen in a Palestinian town known as a hotbed for militants, a Canadian aid worker and his Italian counterpart were freed unharmed in the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=f30c49ab-3fea-4dbb-8e6b-59d322a0b112&k=74395
Security cabinet decides to step up response to Qassam fire
The ministers approved a series of measures, including attacks on Hamas institutions, and called for the IDF to aim for a "significant halt" to the Qassam rocket fire, to increase "pinpoint preventions" - a euphemism for targeted killings - and to prepare for a ground operation in Gaza, evacuated by Israel last year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791471.html
No more hitching in the W. Bank
The OC Central Command, Yair Naveh, dropped a cluster bomb early this week. He signed an order barring Israeli citizens from taking Palestinian passengers in their Israeli vehicles within the West Bank. The order will take effect on January 19, 2007 and it exempts those who take Palestinians with permits to enter Israel and the settlements, or those who take their first-degree relatives with them.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790933.html
Flemish Palestine Committee marks Israeli fruit
According to the committee, it's impossible to determine whether Israeli fruit originates from occupied Palestine areas. If the area is cultivated by Israeli growers, they often use Palestine water to irrigate the land. Therefore Palestinians are missing income. The action is part of a bigger campaign against Israeli politics.
http://www.freshplaza.com/2006/22nov/1-4_be_israeli_fruit.htm
Families of Oct. 2000 riot victims nix payout over wording of deal
In a statement released Monday, the eight families said they rejected any settlement or agreement with the state, insisting that "the Israeli establishment is primarily responsible for the murder of our sons, and therefore we will act to bring to justice those who killed our sons, be it within local or international jurisdiction."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791320.html
Hebrew Univ. to review application process deemed discriminatory
Tamir decided to act against the discrimination in the university's medical school following a report in Haaretz that exposed the declining number of Arab students accepted by the institution. This year, the report revealed, only sixteen Arab applicants were accepted, compared to 55 in 2005 - a 71 percent drop.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791449.html
Peretz considers retaking parts of Gaza
Peretz held a security briefing yesterday, and requested an examination of options for reoccupying areas from which rockets are fired in order to distance the fire from Israeli communities. Peretz would like to avoid a long-term presence in Gaza, and therefore instructed the IDF to come up with "creative solutions."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791330.html
Defense budget approval suspended over reinforcing Sderot buildings
The Knesset Finance Committee is delaying approval for expanding the defense budget to cover costs of the Lebanon war until sufficient funds are earmarked for reinforcing schools in Sderot against Qassam rocket strikes.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790913.html
Olmert considers dismissing Peretz
He is expected to take a look at the political ramifications of firing Peretz, particularly at whether it would cause the rest of the Labor Party ministers to resign as well - something Olmert prefers to avoid.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791335.html
Exodus threatens Israel-India ties
Israel's immigration policy is riddled with internal contradictions, and the Bnei Menashe aliyah embodies them all. Otherwise it would be impossible to comprehend how one man's vision has brought Israel to the brink of a severe crisis in relations with India or how the Chief Rabbinate, reluctant to convert hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish citizens from the former Soviet Union, would send a special delegation of religious judges to eastern India to convert a mysterious ethnic group.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790907.html
A settlements mafia
The figures published yesterday by Peace Now's Settlement Watch team on the ownership of land on which the settlements sit presents a scary picture of the State of Israel's behavior in the territories. Put simply, for dozens of years, Israel continued to expand and entrench the settlement enterprise by dispossessing Palestinian residents of their lands, whose private ownership even the State of Israel does not dispute.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790934.html
Israel is in need of mediators
The world, and in particular Europe, is assumed to be hostile to Israel, and every international conference is conceived of as an ambush in which Israel's enemies will try to force it into an arrangement that is contradictory to its existential interests. This aversion is particularly difficult to understand in view of the fact that Israel is sunk in a bloody conflict that has no solution, neither diplomatic nor military.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790928.html
Israel eyes trade deals from China visit
The delegation, in Israel for three days, is headed by Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic organising committee and member of the Chinese Communist Party's politburo. The team held separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061122/bs_wl_afp/mideastisraelchina_061122175001
Syria is the key
The extreme wing of Hamas, headed by Khaled Meshal, is also only a tactical tool in Syrian hands against Israel and the West. If the Syrian president decides that he no longer needs its services, he will not hesitate to expel it, as he did with the leader of the Turkish Kurds, Abdullah Ocalan, when he decided to improve his relations with Turkey.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/790937.html
IDF teaches UNIFIL to dismantle bombs
Following the use of cluster bombs, which caused IDF Chief of Staff to appoint an officer holding the rank of major general to look into the issue, Ynet has learned that the Israel Defense Forces is training the international forces stationed in southern Lebanon on how to dismantle mines and bomb duds... United Nations officials have estimated that there are still about 1 million duds of cluster bombs in Lebanon.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3331435,00.html
Lebanese FM asks UN to help investigate Gemayel murder
The UN investigation is already looking into 14 other apparently politically motivated attacks in Lebanon since Hariri's killing. Belgian Serge Brammertz, who heads the commission, has reported evidence that all 15 cases were linked in some ways.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/791421.html
IRAQ: More than 3,700 civilians killed in October, UN reports
"Hundreds of bodies continued to appear in different areas of Baghdad, handcuffed, blindfolded and bearing signs of torture and execution-style killing," the statement said. "Many witnesses reported that perpetrators wear militia attire and even police or army uniforms."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/3760430e22a96bf7832c0ce3d07a49ee.htm
Iraqi defence minister declares ‘state of war’]
Gunmen killed a much-loved Iraqi comedian yesterday as attacks and kidnaps of senior politicians and dozens of ordinary people prompted the defence minister to declare that Iraq was now in a "state of war".
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=28437&s2=22 |
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