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Mohamed Lahrub from Deir Samit: “The Apartheid Wall Nakba Has Come”
These trees were planted a long time ago, and thank God they bear an abundance of fruit, and we would produce 12 tons of olives from it, and the same quantity as well was produced by my uncle. And now this third Nakba has come upon us which was inconceivable: is it not enough the 1948 Nakba and the 1967 Nakba, and now a new Nakba that is the Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/communityvoices/771.shtml
Israeli assault turns Gaza into battlefield
Armoured bulldozers had demolished scores, possibly hundreds, of homes, they said. Thousands of people had spent days without electricity and water. Residents said that the destruction of sewage systems had contaminated the water supplies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1321668,00.html
Three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, UN delivers aid
Palestinian doctors identified the two slain children as Sliman Abu Ful and Raed Abu Zeid, both 14, and said their bodies had been ripped apart by what appeared to be a tank shell. A 17-year-old girl, Samah Udeh, was also seriously wounded in Jabaliya when Israeli soldiers opened fire from tanks at the entrance of the camp...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041007/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_041007184814
Tanks fire shells into family homes
Israeli tank fired two shells into blocks of flats yesterday, killing a Palestinian father and his son in one home and wounding nine children asleep in another. The most seriously hurt was 18-month-old Wisal Obed Felfel, who doctors fear will not survive brain injuries from shrapnel. Her eight siblings, aged from seven months to 11 years, have shrapnel wounds and burns.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1321584,00.html
Ninth Day of Israeli Escalation in GS and WB: 3 Killed, Scores Arrested
In Deir al-Balah city, central Gaza Strip, massive Israeli troops, backed by four tanks and five military bulldozers dynamited the house of Nassar al-Fleit, shortly after besieging it and demanding its dwellers to leave out under fire threat.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1769
14 residents, including 6 brothers and 3 lads apprehended in Hebron
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers withheld more than 60 school students, and apprehended three, after stooping a school bus on a military checkpoint on the entrance of the village of Beit Ummar , north of Hebron, and apprehended 14 residents in several areas in Hebron, in the south of the West Bank on Thursday afternoon.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week1/100704/14_Hebron.htm
Israeli assault on Gaza leaves scores dead and many homeless
Daud Asliya, a 33-year-old resident of Jabalya refugee camp told Christian Aid's partner B'Tselem: 'Since the invasion began, we have been under siege and cannot leave the house. A tank is positioned 50 metres from my house and is intensively shelling all the time…
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/stories/041006s.htm
Heroism in the Holy Land: Chris Brown beaten for walking children to school
Chris and Kim are volunteers with an organization called Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which provides nonviolent intercession in areas of violence. They serve in the West Bank city of Hebron, where Palestinian civilians are frequently attacked and harassed by Israeli settlers. The presence of such international witnesses often reduces this violence.
http://www.sfbayview.com/100604/heroism100604.shtml
Powell: U.S. in no doubt of Sharon's commitment to road map
United States Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters while visiting Grenada on Wednesday that the U.S. does not doubt Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's commitment to the internationally-brokered road map to Middle East peace.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485862.html
Arab League 'fed up' with US veto: official
The Arab lawyers' union said Washington's decision to resort to the veto had blocked "condemnation of the Israeli butchery in the Gaza Strip", in a statement released here. It made the United States "a full partner of the Zionist entity in its attack on the Palestinian people and the implementation of its extermination plan", the union charged.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041007/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_gaza_un_arab_041007174938
Battling to survive in Jabaliya
“At least 250 people have been injured, and 18 are in very critical condition. Eight of them are expected to die in the coming few days. Thirty-three of the injured are under the age of 16,” Sakka told Palestine Report.
http://www.palestinereport.org/article.php?article=528
First UN relief convoy reaches families trapped in northern Gaza
The first shipment of food and water to people trapped in their homes by the current Israeli incursion into northern Gaza was delivered to half of the 600 families there, the main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees said today.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12148&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
UN warns of impending humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip
Twelve UN organizations - under the auspices of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - put together the report after realizing the situation was more severe than they had initially thought, said David Shearer, the head of OCHA's Jerusalem office.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485843&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
UN challenges Israel on UNRWA terror link claim
Israel linked the UN employees to "terrorism" shortly after backing away from an accusation that Palestinian militants transported a rocket to be fired at Israel in an UNRWA ambulance in Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485254&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Explosion at Hilton Hotel in Taba, near Egypt-Israel border
The Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera said that most of those wounded in the blast were Israelis. An Israeli witness at the Hilton said that the hotel was on fire, and that dozens of bodies were lying on the floor.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485939.html
Hamas not to stop firing rockets at Israel: leader
A senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) asserted on Thursday that Hamas would continue firing rockets at Israel despite the call of severalArab countries for an end to such attacks.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/07/content_2061462.htm
Dahlan: Gaza offensive won't bring security to Israel
"a revenge operation that would never bring security to the Israeli people and would never bring peace to the region," Dahlan said. "The Israeli army operation in northern Gaza is a continuation of a plan prepared by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to leave the Gaza Strip destroyed," he contended.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/485847.html
PNA blames int'l community for keeping silence over Israeli offensive
Speaking to reporters, Hassan Abu Lebda, chief of staff of Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, said that the Palestinian National Authority blamed the world for inaction toward the ongoing Israeli military operation.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/07/content_2061469.htm
Israeli communist leader denounces violence against Palestinians
Israeli Communist Party leader Issam Makhoul on Wednesday denounced his country's occupation of Palestinian land and recent escalation of violence against Palestinians.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/07/content_2059568.htm
US deports Palestinian man after Santa Fe raid
Thirty-year-old Mohammed Abraham Manasara was sent back to the West Bank last month. Manasara had lived in the United States since 1995. He was held at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, until he was deported.
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14171&cat=SANTAFE
Martin Indyk: Assad offering to make peace with Israel
Syrian President Bashar Assad is offering to make peace with Israel and says he is ready to cooperate with the United States in stabilizing Iraq, a former senior State Department official said Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485831.html
Israel takes U-turn on road map
"These are historic and courageous actions," the president said of the Sharon plan to evacuate all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four more in the northern West Bank. Mr. Sharon, Mr. Bush said, is "beginning to implement a vision that allows for contiguous territories so that a Palestinian state can emerge." But now...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1007/p06s01-wome.html
Why a 'right of return' is necessary
The right of return of Palestinian refugees to their place of origin is enshrined in four separate bodies of international law: humanitarian law, human rights law, the law of nationality as applied to state succession, and refugee law. Beyond these bodies of laws, which apply to all refugees in the world, the UN General Assembly specified the Palestinian case in Resolution 194...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9038
Palestinians extend voter registration after lackluster turnout
Only 920,000 people, 51 percent of the 1.8 million eligible voters, had registered by Wednesday, one day before the original registration deadline, Palestinian Election Commission head Ali Jerbawi said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=485865&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
US AND RUSSIA ALL BUT AGREE ON PALESTINE-ISRAEL SETTLEMENT
The United States approves of freezing the Palestine-Israel peace process. This is the conclusion the Israelis drew from the recent UN Security Council deliberations. Moscow and Washington assumed opposite positions during Security Council voting on a draft resolution censuring Israel's actions in Gaza.
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=4944677&startrow=1&date=2004-10-07&do_alert=0
What would Israel do without UNRWA?
Israeli assault on UNRWA could turn out to be a double-edged sword, if it leads to a cutback in the donations upon which the organization's budget depends. Because UNRWA is one of the most important safety nets the international community has spread out under Israel, which, as an occupying power, has been unwilling to recognize its responsibility for the occupied civilian population.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485500.html
Analysis / How Israel created another PR disaster
Television viewers were told it was a Qassam rocket. The IDF is "investigating" - as it always is - but it is unlikely ever to answer a really troubling question - did innocent Palestinians ever pay with their lives for the mistaken identity of an unclear photograph.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485486.html
Two women push for peace in Israel-Palestine conflict
Both women stressed the need for equality and justice for all citizens of Israel, including Palestinians and women. “As a Palestinian citizen in Israel, the democracy ends with me,” Abu Rabia said. She explained the political marginalization of Palestinians in Israel, and how much greater the gap was for Palestinian women.
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0410/07/news/2two_women_pu.htm
Talking to each other in the diaspora
Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim created an orchestra of Palestinians and Israelis to share musical culture and put aside historical antagonisms. Recently, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed at London's Barbican concert hall.
http://www.africasia.com/themiddleeast/tme.php?ID=404
Boston Protests the Wars on Iraq and Palestine This Saturday!
With an almost total lack of protest in the United States, and only weak criticism in the international community, the U.S. government and the colonial apartheid government of "Israel" have once again demonstrated their willingness to destroy entire communities in order to achieve the goal of stealing all of the lands and resources from the indigenous populations of Palestine and Iraq.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_12420.shtml
Sadr militia proposes arms surrender in return for prisoner release
"We are ready to lay down our heavy and medium-sized weapons in return for the release of all those imprisoned from our movement, a commitment that members of our movement will no longer be pursued and the restoration of basic services to areas like Sadr City," Sheikh Abdul Hadi al-Darraji told AFP.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=17&u=/afp/20041007/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_shiite_arms_041007163039
At least two rockets hit Baghdad hotels
A source at Iraq's Interior Ministry said three Russian-made Katyusha rockets were employed in the attack. The Iraqi police said the rockets were fired from the back of a truck parked in a square about 500 metres (yards) from the hotels.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5262466
US military releases 230 prisoners from Iraq prisons
The US military said it released some 230 detainees from Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison and the coalition's other major detention facility of Camp Bucca in the southern town of Umm Qasr.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041007/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_prisoners_041007182832 |
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