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Except for U.S. Judge, International Court Rules Against Israel's Wall, Occupation
The ICJ decision, even more than anticipated, was a triumph for international law and the Palestinians, with every single judge on the 15-member panel—except, shamefully, American Judge Thomas Buergenthal, who basically followed the U.S. administration's line—agreeing to the total illegality of the Wall, and indeed of the occupation itself.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Sept_2004/0409008.html
Destroying History
Israeli bulldozers sank their jaws into three buildings in the old city of Hebron. The demolitions, to make way for a settler-only road to connect the Kiryat Arba settlement with the Ibrahimi Mosque, caused an outrage. The three buildings were ancient, dating back some 500 years to the Mamluk period.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3058.shtml
New fence route to be presented to U.S. first, then cabinet
The route of the fence was changed in the wake of the June 30 High Court of Justice decision that rejected a lengthy part of the fence project northwest of Jerusalem because of the way it infringed on Palestinian rights.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=474587&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israel urges Russia to back fence at UN
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he told Lavrov that Israel now expects Russia not to support a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations on the fence issue later this month, which calls for sanctions against Israel. Russia voted against Israel on this issue when it was brought to the General Assembly in July.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1094279635169
PNA Implores Barghouti to Call Off His Hunger Strike
Mr. Hisham Abed Al Razeq, the Minister of Prisoner Affairs, appealed yesterday all the legal and human rights watchdogs to intervene immediately and press on the Israeli government to stop solitarily imprisonment of the legislator Barghouti and doing the best to release him.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/039.html
Israeli troops wound four Khan Younis residents
Four Palestinians, including two children, a woman and an old man were injured on Tuesday by Israeli troops' gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kahn Younis,local medics said. They said that one of the four wounded is a 13-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl who was shot in the head as she was inside her school.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/07/content_1952987.htm
Civilian Dies of Wounds and Israeli Forces Dismember Gaza
Doctors at the European Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, said that Yousef Abu Libda, 18, who was wounded critically during an Israeli bombing of a demonstration in Rafah three months ago, died today of the wounds he sustained then.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/040.html
Pro-Israel Activists Start Media Campaign
Graduates of the seminar contacted local news organizations across America to argue—in advance of Friday's ICJ's decision—that Israel has the right to fend off terrorists, and that polls show most Americans support Israel's security barrier.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Sept_2004/0409010.html
A Flicker of Hope at Haifa Conference on “Right of Return and Just Peace”
Recently Democratic presidential nominee-apparent John Kerry joined President Bush in supporting Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's rejection of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in Israel. Often forgotten, this position violates international law...
http://wrmea.com/archives/Sept_2004/0409022.html
Israel frees 188 Palestinian prisoners
The release, the largest in more than seven months, was not meant as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinians but rather to relieve deteriorating prison conditions, the sources said.Most were convicted of relatively minor crimes, such as throwing rocks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474924.html
Israeli fire wounds Palestinian girl in UN school in Gaza Strip
“The kind of live firing into refugee camps that is so indiscriminate that it makes classrooms dangerous for 10-year old children is totally unacceptable,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen said. The girl, Raghda Adnan Al-Assar, underwent major surgery in the European Gaza Hospital.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11841&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Israeli Occupation Troops Raid
Voters' Registration Centers in Jerusalem
In an attempt to halt the registration process and deter Palestinian voters from participating in their democratic electoral right, the Israeli Special Forces, accompanied with Israeli Intelligence have raided four registration centers in Jerusalem in the past 48 hours.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/sep/sep7.html
Court halts tender for leasing Karmiel land to Jews only
The Haifa Magistrate's Court on Tuesday issued a temporary injunction instructing the Israel Lands Administration to freeze a tender for leasing land in Karmiel's Givat Hamachosh neighborhood. Alternatively, the court ruled, the ILA must allow Israeli Arabs to take part in the tender.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474913.html
World Cup 2006: IOF Prevents Palestinian Players to Meet Uzbekistan
Five players, including the goalkeeper, try to leave Gaza, via Rafah border point with Egypt, to attend training camps in Egypt. The Palestine- Uzbekistan match will be held tomorrow September 8, in Qatar.
The Palestinian Federation will depend on Palestinian players in Diaspora.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1656
Most Palestinians live in poverty, on two dollars a day
Two million Palestinians out of the 3.6 million in the occupied territories live on less than 2.1 dollars a day, while 42 percent of Palestinian families survive only thanks to humanitarian aid, the director of a UN agency said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20040907/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_040907191133
Qureia: Retaliation for IDF strike in Gaza 'will be justified'
"This crime cannot be accepted ... No crime goes unpunished," Qureia said at a meeting of the Palestinian cabinet. "For sure there will be retaliation, and the retaliation will be justified if it happens."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474588.html
Court bars rubble removal from Jerusalem shrine
The Israeli petitioners demanded that the 3,000 tons of earth from renovations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, should be sifted by archaeologists before being disposed of.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07351665.htm
Arafat's Fatah movement condemns Gaza strike
"This serious Israeli aggression and military escalation is a clear evidence to the world and the world's public opinion that Israel is just a war government that consists of a group of failed ministers who are thirsty for blood," it said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/07/content_1952900.htm
Police, IDF discuss implementation of disengagement plan
Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces held their first meeting to coordinate their activities over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan on Monday night, National Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi told reporters on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474791.html
Egyptian FM holds talks with Arafat on Gaza pullout
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit met with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat Monday to discuss Cairo's plans to help ensure security in the Gaza Strip after Israel's pullout from the territory.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=8134
Israel tells World Bank it wants to move Rafah crossing
The Egyptians, whose consent is required for the move, have voiced their opposition, noting, among other reasons, the fact that they have invested some $6 million in constructing a new terminal at the Rafah crossing. The Palestinians, for their part, have also informed the World Bank that they are vehemently opposed to moving the crossing.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=474667&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
US Mideast envoy to visit Palestinian territories soon
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said on Tuesday US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns will start a Mideast tour and visit the Palestinian territories, holding meetings with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/07/content_1952920.htm
Powell: Arab-Israeli retaliation tragic, unhelpful
Asked about the Israeli tank, helicopter and warplane raid on the militant group and Palestinian threats to respond, he told reporters: "I don't think they are helpful. ... The situation is very tragic. ... Retaliation is not a solution."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07588481.htm
PA condemns Mofaz threats to expel Arafat
Shaath Tuesday condemned Mofaz' statement, but said he realized Mofaz was only trying to placate the right wing. However, he warned, "if Israel carries out such a step, they will blow up the whole region."
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040907-021422-4425r.htm
Prison and society
Given the circulation of prisoners who do not serve long sentences, the situation in the Palestinian territories has reached a point now where it is difficult to find a single family where at least one of its members either is not or has not been in prison.
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/pal1.php
Little deterrent effect
The prisoner issue offers one of the most telling manifestations of the unequal power relationship between Israel and Palestine. Israel has thousands of Palestinian prisoners; neither the Palestinian Authority nor any other Palestinian organization holds Israeli prisoners. Thus the question of release of prisoners is entirely up to the Israeli authorities...
http://www.bitterlemons.org/issue/isr1.php
On terror and hypocrisy
Unlike September 1939, when Europe quickly realized that it was looking at a world war, it's not clear whether Europe today realizes what America grasped long ago - that World War III is in full swing. This war is different from all the wars in history. It's not countries fighting countries.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474477.html
Peace activist held as 'danger to Israel'
Tali Fahima served her time in the Israeli army, voted for Ariel Sharon as prime minister and took it as given that her country was struggling for survival against terrorism. On Sunday, the military placed Ms Fahima in detention without trial using a law applied to thousands of Palestinians over the past four years of intifada but rarely to Israelis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1298770,00.html
Israeli whistleblower Vanunu: 'I would like to be a Palestinian citizen'
"I want to ask the Palestinian Authority and chairman Arafat: if you want, I would like to be a Palestinian citizen," Vanunu told Israel private television late Tuesday. "I want to have a wife ... and to build a family and live like a normal human being," he told Channel 2, speaking in English.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=6&u=/afp/20040907/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_040907190228
UN envoy says Syria wants peace talks with Israel
United Nations special envoy Terje-Roed Larsen said on Tuesday Syria was seriously interested in resuming peace talks with Israel and urged both sides to explore ways to return to the negotiating table.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07506295.htm
More Than 1,000 Military Deaths in Iraq
The grim milestone was surpassed after a spike in clashes that has killed 14 American service members in the past two days. Two soldiers died in fighting Tuesday with militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Five other Americans died Tuesday in separate attacks, mostly in the Baghdad area.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Clashes in Baghdad claim 44 lives
US forces targeted the suspected hide outs of militants in Fallujah and Sadr city following the killing of 8 US troops on Monday. Twenty people were killed and four houses were demolished by US air raid over al-Fakhirya village near al-Yusifiya, south of Baghdad...
http://www.geo.tv/main_files/world.aspx?id=39442
Chalabi nephew loses Saddam trial role
Mr Chalabi, whose uncle Ahmad Chalabi is the controversial founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), has been removed as the head of the Iraqi special tribunal responsible for Saddam's case, INC officials said last night.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1298699,00.html |
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