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At least 40 Israelis arrested in Anti-Wall Protest
constructing the wall as planned will consume more agricultural land which might force the villagers to leave their land, as it is their only source of income. Mansour asserted that the villagers will not leave their land no matter what cost was. "We do not want a third catastrophe, like what happened in 1948 and 1967
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week1/120704/budrus.htm
Continued Targeting of Citizens in the Jerusalem Region: In Anata, Occupation Forces Demolish 3 Houses and 25 Animal Shelters
Occupation Forces' military vehicles and bulldozers demolished three homes in the southwest section of the village of Anata, located northeast of Jerusalem. The house demolitions made 25 people homeless. At the same time, the Occupation Forces destroyed 25 Bedouin homes, together with their livestock shelters, in the southeast part of the village.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/824.shtml
Christians to visit suffering church in Bethlehem for Christmas
In 2004 Pax Christi launched its "People of the Holy Land need Bridges not Walls " campaign to raise awareness of the impact of the separation wall, called by some the "Apartheid Wall", on the Palestinian community. Pax Christi has a history of supporting peacemaking initiatives in the region.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_04126bet.shtml
A rude awakening is in the offing
The Palestinians are guided by a permanent fear of "the mu'amra," the plot, which Israel is devising in order to imprison them once and for all in "bantustans" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, separated and surrounded by a network of settlements, checkpoints and the separation fence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/510960.html
Report: Israel biased against non-Jews
"For a long time now, we have been witness to the distress of many thousands of people whose dignity has been trampled upon, whose possibility of personal or family stability has been wrested from them," the report read. "The Population Authority has done everything possible to make the life of thousands of inhabitants miserable," it added.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/78E9FD35-D047-47FC-A0D1-A12D7A6E8BD2.htm
This isn't security - it's cruelty
During the last four years Israel has demolished houses in the Occupied Territories on an unprecedented scale. All have one result - tens of thouthands of civilans, mostly children, made homeless. "Video Clip"
http://80.179.108.02/betzelem/heb/movie_eng.html
Health Action in Crises Monthly Report
WHO held a coordination meeting in Ramallah, West Bank, during which Maram/USAID presented findings of a survey on the prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency among children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Findings reveal that 22% of children aged 12-59 months suffer from vitamin A deficiency, and 54% of these have vitamin A levels indicating borderline deficiency.
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/47d4e277b48d9d3685256ddc00612265/441674944d21d62385256f62006e192f!OpenDocument
Child Wounded, Scores Arrested in WB
Medics at Thabet Hosoital, in Tulkarem, said that the 14-year-old Rami Hamad, of Deir al-Ghassoun village south of Tulkarem, was shot in the right leg when an Israeli patrol rolled into the village and opened random fire at houses.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1917
Israeli army arrests 21 Palestinians in West Bank
The Israeli army arrested at least 21 Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Qalqilya, Nablus and Bethlehem... Israeli troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles intruded into Qalqilya before dawn Tuesday and stormed Kfar Saba and Nazzal neighborhood in the city.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/07/content_2305936.htm
Israeli jailed for role in terror group that attacked Arab schools
An extreme right Jewish settler convicted under counter-terrorism legislation for membership of an organisation that killed eight Palestinian civilians was jailed for eight years yesterday. ( Isn't it ironic, Don't you think? )
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=590435
Gaza chicken coop booby-trapped with explosives kills Israeli soldier
Israeli aircraft fired two missiles on separate groups of armed men. Islamic Jihad said two gunmen were killed in the air strikes. Palestinian hospital officials said seven other people, including boys aged 14 and 16, were wounded. A large group of youths had gathered to watch the standoff, occasionally throwing stones at Israeli tanks and bulldozers in the area.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1786361
Arab MK: Barghouti may pull out of Palestinian election
MK Talab al-Sana said Barghouti told him he would withdraw from the race if his candidacy caused turmoil within Fatah. Barghouti's candidacy could undermine Abbas, seen by Israel and the United States as a potential peacemaker after four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/511343.html
Galloway declares support for Barghouti in PA election
George Galloway threw his weight behind Fatah firebrand Marwan Barghouti in next month's Palestinian elections and said he may visit Palestine to campaign on his behalf. Speaking at a conference organized by Lebanese supporters in Beirut, Galloway also called on the people of Lebanon to reject UN Security Council Resolution 1559
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=10758
U.S. Assures PA on EJ Palestinians Right to Vote
Palestinian Minister Saeb Erikat told reporters Tuesday afternoon that the U.S. administration assured the PA that Palestinians of East Jerusalem will take part in the slated for January 9 presidential elections.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week1/120704/us%20assures%20pa.htm
?EUs executive allocates 7 million euros for vulnerable Palestinians
The European commission (EC) has Tuesday allocated seven million euros in relief supplies for vulnerable Palestinians who are victims of the Middle East crisis. The aid will provide access to food, clean water and sanitation for the poorest Palestinians living on the west bank and the Gaza strip.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=686275
Egypt heralds Mideast peace 'breakthrough', eyes return of ambassador
Egypt raised the prospect of a framework for a Middle East peace deal and said it could soon return an ambassador to Israel, a move that would revive full diplomatic ties after a four-year break.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=2&u=/afp/20041207/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_egypt_israel_041207183837
EIGHTEEN DONORS PLEDGE NEARLY $90 MILLION FOR UN PALESTINE REFUGEE AGENCY
Eighteen donor countries pledged approximately $90 million for the 2005 budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), during this morning’s meeting of the General Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee for Voluntary Contributions.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/ga10312.doc.htm
Palestinian leaders mend ties with Syria, woo opposition
ON Monday evening he met Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Islamic Jihad, Ramadan Shalah, and Ahmad Jibril of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=1&u=/afp/20041207/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_041207140947
Palestinian leaders due in Beirut after fence-mending Syria trip
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) chief Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei are set to meet Wednesday with President Emile Lahoud, parliament speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Omar Karameh.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=14&u=/afp/20041207/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_041207172038
UNRWA chief says aid group suffers deficit
UNRWA's director-general in Lebanon, Richard Cook, said Monday that the agency was striving to improve its limited financial resources in order to meet the increasing needs of Palestinian refugees in camps across Lebanon.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=10751
Israeli unit banned over killing
The army had said the man had been shot whilst fleeing from his hiding place. This was contradicted by an Israeli human rights group's inquiry that found the man had been killed whilst lying injured and unarmed on the ground.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4075673.stm
Israel, PA said to have agreed on basis of peace deal
There was no immediate official comment from Israel or from Egypt, which has tried to play the role of mediator in previous efforts to ease Israeli-Palestinian violence. Palestinian sources said reports of an Israeli-PA truce agreement were inexact, but gave no further details
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/511355.html
Israel, U.S. Concerned Over Blair's Call for Peace Conference
Israel prefers to limit ME peace efforts to Israel and Palestinians with the U.S., its main ally, sanding as the only international broker.U.K. proposal to hold an international peace conference on the Middle East in coming January or February, after the Palestinian Presidential elections, stirred concerns in Israel and the U.S. Administration.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week1/120704/israel%20us%20concerned.htm
Israel Says It Would Respond Positively to Truce
"There are a few correct elements but it's a little premature to say there's an agreement," a senior official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said. "We will respond positively if on the other side there will be arrangements for a cease-fire, a cessation of hostilities."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7019663
WMD non-proliferation clause delays EU-Israeli deal
According to diplomatic sources, the relatively minor and semantic disagreement deals with one word. However, this one word appears within a very sensitive context: the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The EU has already complete negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and five other states.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/511237.html
Netanyahu to back Sharon's plan for coalition with Labor
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his support Tuesday to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to invite the opposition Labor Party into a unity government, a Sharon aide said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/510985.html
Israel And The Nightmare Of Occupation
As a post-Holocaust Jew I feel the tug of loyalty to my people. Yet precisely because of what the Jews have experienced at the hands of other people, the brutish behaviour of the Israeli state towards the Palestinians in recent years has seemed to me particularly shameful.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Robert-Manne/Israel-and-the-nightmare-of-occupation/2004/12/05/1102182152001.html?oneclick=true
From churches, a challenge to Israeli policies
A vote by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to use economic sanctions against certain companies doing business with Israel - namely those that profit from the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - has set off a quiet firestorm within the American religious community.
http://csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p11s02-lire.html
PLO lawyer, adviser advocates for one-nation state
Tarazi, a Harvard Law graduate from Colorado who advises the Negotiations Affairs Department of the PLO, discussed the difficulties in dividing the region between Palestine and Israel, as well as the problems caused by Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
http://thedaily.washington.edu/news.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=newspage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=11171&-search
Miyasar's fear: The Aftermath
Although the house is still standing, the engineers have declared it was too fragile and dangerous, as its foundation has severely been damaged in the explosion by the Israeli army last week. Impact of the bombs left its fatal marks everywhere; cracks run through every surface, windows and doorframes are blown out, walls are crumbling.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3405.shtml
Gilad Sharon silent during interrogation over business deal
The focus of the interrogation was a business deal between the Israel Land Development Corporation (ILDC), which is under control of the prominent Nimrodi family, and the Sycamore Ranch, which is owned by the prime minister's sons.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/511332.html
U.S. Slows Bid to Advance Democracy in Arab World
When Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other senior American officials arrive at a summit meeting in Morocco next week that is intended to promote democracy across the Arab world, they have no plans to introduce any political initiatives to encourage democratic change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/politics/05powell.html
Dutchman held for 'Iraq genocide'
The United Nations suspects the man was a major chemical supplier to the former Iraqi regime, having made 36 separate shipments, including mustard gas and nerve gas originating from the United States and Japan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4074803.stm |
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