Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for "collaborating with an enemy nation" but this has never been confirmed by the Israeli authorities.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/10/31/reporters-without-borders-golan- heights-journalist-ata-farahat-held-without-trial-for-past-three-months/

Palestinian prisoner appeals to international community to save his life
Khalil Moussa, a Palestinian being held by Israeli forces as a prisoner of the occupation, has a heart disease that will soon cause his death without medical intervention.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51222

Killing of Palestinian prisoner condemned
The United Against Torture Coalition (UAT), comprised of Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights NGOs that cooperate in the struggle to combat torture and abuse in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), is gravely concerned by the actions of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) in Ketziot Prison in the Negev that left one Palestinian prisoner dead and dozens more injured.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9075.shtml

IOF prevents Aged Man from Entering Jerusalem for Treatment
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) prevented on Wednesday an old man from entering Jerusalem to receive medical treatment at one of its hospitals. Local sources revealed that Eissa Abu Rumi 75, was denied access into Jerusalem by Israeli soldiers despite the fact he has a permit. The sources added that Abu Romi suffers from many diseases, adding that he waited for two months until he got his permit to enter Jerusalem.
http://www.wafa.ps/english/body.asp?id=10525

Shiokhy slams ongoing attacks carried by settlers and soldiers in the West Bank
Azmi Shiokhy Secretary –general of the Palestinian Popular Committees, part of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), slammed on Wednesday the ongoing attacks carried by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Hebron, and other Palestinian areas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51229

DFLP armed wing injures Israeli soldier
The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the DFLP, on Wednesday claimed that their fighters had shot an injured an Israeli soldier near Gaza International airport.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51221

Al-Qassam Brigades leader reportedly returns to Gaza
Muhammad Daif, leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has reportedly returned to the Gaza Strip after spending more than one year abroad receiving medical attention.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51219

Palestinian PM meets EU Envoy
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, met in Ramallah on Wednesday with the European Union Envoy to the Middle East, Marc Otte, and informed him on the effects of the siege over the Palestinian territories.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51228

Palestinian President opens Ëœsecurity training school" to counter Hamas
A new training school has opened in Jericho, in the West Bank, in which Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will build up a security force with US funds, apparently in order to counter his rival Hamas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51224

Israel arrests local Hamas chief in West Bank
NABLUS, West Bank - The Israeli army early Thursday arrested a local chief of the military wing of Hamas in the West Bank, a Palestinian security official said. Omar Tirawi, 40, a leading light of the Ezzedin Al Qassam Brigades, was arrested in the El-Massiah district of Nablus in the north of the West Bank.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/ 2007/November/middleeast_November4.xml&section=middleeast

Israeli police, Druse in rare clash after cellphone tiff
JERUSALEM - A normally quiet Galilee village turned into a battleground at dawn yesterday as police officers clashed with rioters from the Druse community, police officials and community leaders said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/10/31/israeli_ police_druse_in_rare_clash_after_cellphone_tiff/

Israeli soldiers exchange photos of killed Palestinians
Israeli soldiers have recently exchanged photos of killed Palestinians on their cellular phones, the Israeli Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51245

Those who die waiting
Late last Monday evening, after an eight-hour wait at Gaza's Erez crossing, 20-year-old Mahmoud Abu Taha's repeated attempts to leave the country finally came to an end. Not because he had given up hope of getting through, but because the colon cancer that had ravaged his body - and for which he wanted to seek medical care outside Gaza - finally killed him.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200711010023

Days of Nablus' 'Night Horsemen,' are numbered
After spending two hours with Mahdi Abu Ghazale, it is hard not to get the impression that he is a dead man walking. At 34 - relatively old for a wanted man - he is considered the commander of the "Night Horsemen." These armed men, from Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, operate in the Nablus casbah and have refused to give up their weapons to the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=919319

Former Fatah officers face trial as German foreign minister visits West Bank
The Palestinian emergency government headed by Salam Fayyad put eight former Fatah militia officers on trial before a military court, set up at the site of the new US and EU-funded "Security Academy" in Jericho. The men, all of them low-ranking officers, who had fled the Gaza Strip during last summer's armed show-off in the Gaza Strip with the Executive Forces of the regular government, now stand accused of having deserted the former Fatah Preventive Security forces headed by Mohammad Dahlan.
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio.php?idnews=21082 &lang=en

Bush plans big cash aid boost for Fatah
The US President, George Bush, has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $US150 million ($163 million) in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the Government before a Middle East peace conference that is planned for this month.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bush-plans-big-cash-aid-boost- for-fatah/2007/10/31/1193618973325.html

Hamas calls for a state of emergency in resistance of Israeli attacks on Gaza
The ruling Islamist group of Hamas in Gaza called on Thursday on all Palestinian resistance factions to declare a high state of alert, in preparation for an imminent Israeli massive offensive on the coastal region.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51244

Israeli FM: Timetable not needed in negotiations with Palestinians
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that a timetable is not needed in peace negotiations with the Palestinians since Israel has no interest in prolonging a political standstill, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/02/content_6995015.htm

Diaspora Palestinians to Abbas: Right of return not negotiable
The following Hamilton Declaration was unanimously approved by 18 Palestinian Canadian community associations (representing Palestinian communities in: Toronto, Mississauga, Ottawa, Halifax, Vancouver, London (Ontario), Hamilton, Brantford, and Montreal) at the third conference of the Palestinian National Voice initiative in Canada held in Hamilton, Ontario on 27-28 October 2007.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9078.shtml

Four decades in Jordan, Palestinians still live in limbo
Located 27 km north of the capital Amman, the Baqaa refugee camp braces the same hustle and bustle as any other Jordanian towns, with Arab pop music blaring from video shops and noisy residents fighting their way through a crowded open-air market.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/01/content_6990443.htm

Gaza crisis needs urgent attention - Moore
Commenting on the threats by the Israeli Defence Minister of a 'broad operation' in Gaza, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Michael Moore MP said: "The dire situation in Gaza needs urgent international attention. Rather than turning a blind eye to the awful reality there, the threat of escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinians must be taken seriously.
http://www.libdems.org.uk/news/gaza-crisis-needs-urgent-attent ion-moore.13377.html

UN defines exact area covered by Shaba Farms for first time
A periodic report issued by the United Nations has, for the first time, defined the area covered by the Shaba Farms on the basis of expert cartographic work.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=919160

Southern Illinois student trapped in Gaza
Classes are underway at Southern Illinois University, but civil engineering student Mona Bkheet (bik-HEET') isn't in Carbondale. The 26-year-old Ph.D. student is among students trapped in Gaza since Islamic militants took over the territory this summer and Israel halted travel in and out. Human rights groups say 670 Palestinian students are trapped.
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=7294398&nav=1sW7

Disorder in the Ranks of Hamas?
What future direction should Hamas take regarding Gaza? It is this very question that causes confusion and exposes a blatant antithesis between two of Hamas' founding platforms – political progression and extreme action.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-103107150804.htm

High court orders Jewish town to set aside land for Arab couple
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction ordering that a plot of land in the predominantly Jewish town of Rakefet be set aside for an Israeli Arab couple who had been previously denied entry to the community for "lack of suitability."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=919057

Israeli court demands money from child of a killed Palestinian fighter
The family of a Palestinian fighter killed by the Israeli army were this week shocked to receive an Israeli court order demanding the child of the fighter pay for the cost of transporting the body.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51238

America and Gaza in darkness
Although the Bush administration may be on the verge of taking a big leap forward in paving the way for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement, brewing for nearly 60 years, none of the US presidential candidates have yet bothered to make any noteworthy comment about the upcoming Mideast peace meeting in Annapolis at the end of November. The only step some of the leading candidates - there are more than a dozen running for the top position in each party - have taken on this key issue is not much different than what motivated the Democratic front-runner, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Jewish news agency, JTA, said the senator's action was "not only to praise the Jewish state but to bury doubts that she would be any less vigilant in its protection than the Bush administration". But it is surprising to see that Rudolph G. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and the Republican Party's front-runner, has outranked Clinton in scoring higher on a poll just published in Haaretz.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10164170.html

McCain: Peace in Israel rests on Iraq victory
Stability in the Middle East, including Israel, rests on a decisive American victory in Iraq, Republican presidential candidate John McCain told Jewish leaders. Speaking Tuesday in New York to a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, McCain said the Bush administration had mishandled the war and Americans were understandably frustrated.
http://stlouis.ujcfedweb.org/page.html?ArticleID=160689

Orthodox Rabbi Talks of Splittling Jerusalem, Faces Backlash
Los Angeles - When a prominent Orthodox rabbi broke ranks with the official Orthodox line last week and called for an open discussion of the division of Jerusalem, the backlash was swift — though not entirely unexpected. Yosef Kanefsky, senior rabbi of B'nai David-Judea Congregation, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles's Pico-Robertson neighborhood, is no stranger to controversy, and when Orthodox leaders rushed to condemn an opinion piece he wrote for the October 26 edition of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, he was unruffled by the response.
http://www.forward.com/articles/11930/

FIFA reject Palestinian appeal
Fifa have ruled that Palestine's no-show in Singapore counts as a forfeit despite their inability to leave Gaza. Fifa have rejected an appeal by the Palestinian Football Federation to have their World Cup qualifying match against Singapore rescheduled after the national side argued they missed their match because of Israeli travel restrictions.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/703267B5-96C2-4A35-A960- 412093559409.htm

Rabin's killer to circumcise son on murder date
The new-born son of the assassin of former Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin will be circumcised in jail 12 years to the day after his father carried out the murder, a court ruled on Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071101/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisrael unrestrabincourt_071101154500