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Israel announces new restrictions on foreigners in West Bank
In addition to the visa generally received at the border, all of which are controlled by the Israelis, foreigners will need to go to offices inside Israeli boundaries to apply to a visa to enter the West Bank. This is already the case with the Gaza Strip, where very few foreigners are allowed by the Israeli checkpoint guards to enter the Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23432/1/
Israeli forces take12 year old and 14 year old brothers from their home for midnight interrogation
For over four hours in the middle of the night Israeli forces interrogated two young boys in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya. The intention was to investigate, interrogate, and pressure the boys into revealing the movements of “wanted” Palestinians in the Jenin District town, as reported to PNN by their family.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1328
Interrogators torture and attack a detainee with metal chains
Media sources reported that Hakam Abu Roomy, 18, from Al Ezariyya town near Jerusalem, was moved to the interrogation center in Maali Adumim and there he was violently beaten with iron chains after the interrogators forced him to undress and kept him under the rain.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23438/1/
Israeli Navy Boats Abduct Three Palestinian Men Near Rafah Beach
Majied Farahat, his two brothers Mohamed and Ahmad were fishing on their boat when Israeli war ships surrounded them and abducted them to unknown destination, eyewitnesses reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23434/1/
Israeli Army Abducts Two Men From Al Showawra Village Near Bethlehem
Several army vehicles stormed the village, and searched and ransacked several houses before abducting Imad Hmadan and his twin brother Adel, both 19, and leaving the village, taking the two to unknown destination, their family reported.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23435/1/
Israeli forces invade Jenin Refugee Camp to interrogate Mahmoud Assadi's family at dawn
Eyewitnesses counted at least 20 Israeli military vehicles in the camp backed by bulldozers. They surrounded the house of Mahmoud Nasser Assadi. The wife of Mahmoud Assadi told PNN that the soldiers broke into the house amid heavy fire and carried out a search while detaining the family for several hours.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1329
Did Sharon Order the Assassination of Arafat?
Dan claimed Sharon got approval from George Bush by phone early in 2004 to proceed with his plan after he told the US president he was no longer committed to "not" liquidating the Palestinian leader who then was under siege and practically incarcerated in what remained of his Ramallah compound, most of which had already been destroyed by the Israelis in a lawless act of retribution against him.
http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman12302006.html
Charities hard at work during Eid Al Adha in light of continued US-led blockade
The Women's Society Project in Jenin held a charitable day on this first of the Eid Al Adha holiday with the funding of the United Arab Emirates. The charitable organizations will also provide “food-stamps which means that dozens of families will be able to eat together and will also provide toys for children, all of which contribute to breaking the Israeli-American siege, and strengthening the steadfastness of our people.”
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1331
Leftist women's nonviolent resistance for Eid Al Adha
She said, “We remember the sacrifices of those killed and the sacrifices of the prisoners. We want only to bring smiles to the faces of their families who are deprived of their loved ones during this holiday, and who face such difficult circumstances as do all of the Palestinian people as the economy deteriorates and the occupation cements.”
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23436/1/
200 new trailers placed in West Bank settlements since June
Despite declarations by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, there has been apparently no progress toward dismantling outposts. Since the beginning of the month, nearly 90 trailers were placed illegally in the West Bank. A Defense Ministry aerial survey found new mobile homes in illegal outposts such as Givat Assaf, near Beit El, and Amona, near Ofra.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807108.html
Army installs a roadblock in Qabatia
Israeli soldiers installed on Saturday evening a roadblock at the southern entrance of Qabatia town, south-east of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. The southern entrance of Qabatia also leads to several villages south of Jenin.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23429/1/
Northern West Bank journalist spending his third Eid Al Adha in Israeli prison without charge
This will be the third Eid Al Adha that Nablus journalist Sami Asi has spent without his family. Israeli forces took him from the northern West Bank in April 2004 and have held him under Administrative Detention in Israeli prison since then. He has never been charged with a crime or been afforded a trial.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1324
Abbas to visit Gaza for first time since breakout of PA violence
Abbas, who spends most of his time at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, arrived Saturday afternoon to celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday, according to his office. He was also expected to attend ceremonies for the anniversary of his Fatah movement on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807394.html
Abbas: Olmert broke his promise
Before leaving Ramallah, Abbas criticized Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saying he had broken his promise to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of the holiday. Olmert and Abbas met last week and the Israeli leader agreed to a series of gestures, including easing travel restrictions in the West Bank. Israeli officials said he would also consider a small prisoner release to help strengthen Abbas in his rivalry with Hamas.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467624329&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
U.S. eyes support for Abbas' forces
The Bush administration is holding talks with Congress about providing training and other support to security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. "Those consultations are ongoing," deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_palestinians_2
Abbas aide denies Fatah received arms from Egypt
Meanwhile, the head of the Defense Ministry's diplomatic-security panel, Major General (res.) Amos Gilad, said yesterday that the military assistance transferred to the Palestinian presidential guard came from the Arab world, and Israel was not directly involved in it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807072.html
Abbas in first visit to Gaza since factional fighting
It will mark the first time that the Palestinian leader will visit Gaza since internecine violence killed 16 people and wounded dozens there in the days immediately following his call for elections on December 16.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061230/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinian_061230122550
Palestinian militants and public condemn Saddam' execution
"It is a crime of political assassination for every one supports the Palestinian cause," the Brigades said in a statement faxed to reporters. "This crime was carried out according to American and Zionist agenda that eliminate everything stand by the Palestinian people," the statement added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/30/content_5551128.htm
Isolation produces generation of bitter children in Gaza
For the children of Gaza, prisoners of the narrow coastal strip surrounded by the Israeli Army, the outside world is nothing but fury, violence and tragedy - a menacing universe that they fear. Most of Gaza's minors - 840,000 out of a population of 1.4 million - have never left their narrow piece of land stretched out on the Mediterranean coast, access to which is strictly controlled by Israel. They grow up in frustration, anguish, anger and poverty.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=78087
Christian public library opens in Gaza
“It's a beautiful building that was built with the investment of the Palestinian Bible Society and others that have invested into a place where the Christian community can have a witness in a hostile environment," Dr. Carl Moeller, president and chief executive officer of Open Doors, said.
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jan07/Art_Jan07_16.html
Special Report: “2006, a year of elections, invasions, chaos and “Shalit”
One of the main events in 2006 was the “rise and fall”, the rise of Hamas to power and the fall of Fateh that dominated the power in Palestine since 1996. Yet, after Hamas was elected and brought to power, the international community, headed by Israel and the United States imposed strict economic and political siege on the Palestinians and their elected leadership.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/23440/1/
Painting a rosier future
The foreign minister proposes directing efforts toward energetic diplomatic activity with the Palestinians, in an orderly and sustained fashion, and not only as an occasional gesture. She thinks that progress must be made constantly, without being conditioned on progress in the cease-fire. Livni also says that Palestinian good behavior should not be a precondition for goodwill gestures, but only for the agreement that will be signed in the end.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807087.html
The year of the zigzag
Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres used to say that in the matter of peace agreements, intelligence has always fallen down on the job. Can we trust the Mossad's assessment that Iran will have nuclear weapons three years from now? And how will we know that Israel is ready to take preemptive action? When the chief of staff gives orders to his bank to sell his shares?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807086.html
Markers on the route to Damascus
In 1974, the Agranat Commission published its report, which examined the principal failure and the secondary failures that led to the Yom Kippur War. Inter alia, the commission recommended that, in order to prevent future mistaken "conceptions," the pluralism of intelligence assessments in Israel should be strengthened by reinforcing the research divisions of the Mossad and the Foreign Ministry.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807038.html
Message for Olmert: Ignore Bush and Start Talking to Assad
Unfortunately, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is one of the doubters, and once again, the president of the United States is part of the problem, not the solution. George W. Bush says speaking to the Syrians would only reward them for bad behavior, and they must first repent and mend their ways. And the ever-obedient Olmert goes along with that.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11723/
Saddam Hussein hanged at dawn in Baghdad
Before the rope was put around his neck, Saddam shouted: "God is the greatest. Long live the nation and Palestine is Arab," Sami al-Askari, the political adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told the Iraqi channel. The execution took place at an Iraqi army base in Kadhimiya, once was Saddam's main military intelligence headquarters.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/31/content_5551286.htm
Deputy Defense Minister: Israel worried about post-Saddam Iraq
Sneh told Israel Radio that Israel was concerned about the strengthening of Iranian influence in the Shiite sections of southern Iraq and also in the central government. Iraq had also become a regional "power station" for terror that could spread chaos throughout the Middle East, he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807388.html
Iraqi government to hand over Saddam's body to his tribe
"In short time, the governor of Salahudin province Hamad Hamoudal-Qaisy, his deputy and Sheikh Ali al-Neda, head of the Saddam's tribe, will receive the body of Saddam Hussein," deputy governor of Salahudin province Abdullah Jabara told Xinhua by telephone. Earlier in the day, Jabara said the province will not send representatives to attend a burial of Saddam in Baghdad, insisting that the executed leader should be interred in Uwja village where his sons were buried in 2003.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/31/content_5551287.htm
Kuwaiti officials: Saddam's execution is "divine justice"
Noting that "Kuwait has suffered so much from Saddam's regime," the minister expressed hope for security and stability in Iraq. In addition, Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly (parliament) Jassem Mohammad al-Kharafi said Saturday that Saddam's death by execution is "fair and just."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/30/content_5551131.htm |
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