Israeli military abducts 24 Palestinians across the West Bank
The Israeli army kidnapped a total of 24 Palestinians from different areas of the West Bank in the early hours of Monday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50209

A Fresh Israeli air strike on Khan Younis leaves five bystanders injured
In a new fresh Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, five bystanfers were reportedly injured as resistance fighters of the Al-Quds brigades, an offshoot of the Islamic Jihad, escaped the attack.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50203

United Nations International Civil Society Conference ends with call to oppose Israeli military operations
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People joined the European Parliament in calling on the Israeli Government to immediately stop the military operations against the Palestinian people, Paul Badji (Senegal), its Chairman, said as the United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace concluded this afternoon.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76P4AR?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR

Lebanon refugees yearn to return home once fighting ends
As raging battles continue for the fourth month between the Lebanese army and Islamist extremists, Palestinian refugees who fled the fighting yearn only to return to the smouldering ruins of their homes. Sitting in a classroom at the refugee camp of Beddawi in northern Lebanon, Lina Abdel Halim does not even want to await the eventual reconstruction of her home at the nearby war-ravaged camp of Nahr al-Bared.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/lf_afp/lebanonunrest_070901194316;_ylt=Ao5X2B06Y7lzWhgRS_ZxfcsUvioA

Heritage uprooted
Universally regarded as the symbol of peace, the olive tree has become the object of violence. For more than forty years, Israel has uprooted over one million olive trees and hundreds of thousands of fruit trees in Palestine with terrible economic and ecological consequences for the Palestinian people. Their willful destruction has so threatened Palestinian culture, heritage and identity that the olive tree has now become the symbol of Palestinian steadfastness because of its own rootedness and ability to survive in a land where water is perennially scarce.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8970.shtml

Lieberman claims Palestinian construction is "endangering" settlers' lives
The Israeli Minister of Strategic affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, has called on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to establish a committee designed to investigate so-called "illegal" Palestinian construction in those areas under full Israeli control.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50206

The MOST detailed mapping of Palestine ever via Google's Maps and Earth programs
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story1913.html

All West Bank security chiefs meet IDF counterparts
For the first time since 1994, all Palestinian security organizations in the West Bank participated in a senior level meeting with their Israeli counterparts. The security coordination meeting yesterday took place in the army headquarters in Beit El, near Ramallah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899379.html

Hamas: "P.A Security forces arrested 17 Hamas members in 24 hours
Hamas movement in the West Bank issued on Sunday a press release accusing Palestinian Security Forces, loyal to Fateh movement, of arresting 17 of its members in several West Bank areas over the last 24 hours.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50204

Abbas dismisses government employees appointed by Hamas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday issued a presidential decree dismissing government employees appointed by Hamas. From the ministry of information Moussa Mohammad Mahmoud Al-Sammak and Hasan Muhammad Abed Al-Rahman Abu Hasheesh were dismissed and had all privileges removed.  The decree also dismissed Ihab Sa'dy Kheil from the ministry of justice.
http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=25110

Jailed Fatah leader Barghouti slams Hamas for 'bloody coup'
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti harshly criticized Hamas for what he called a bloody coup with its takeover of Gaza in remarks released Monday, urging the Islamic group to accept early elections to settle internal Palestinian differences.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=900037&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Palestinians demand Hamas release detainees
Several dozen Palestinians rallied in front of a Hamas headquarters in Gaza on Sunday, demanding the Islamists release political foes arrested during demonstrations two days ago. "Release, release our sons!" chanted some 50 people, many of them women, who held a sit-in in front of the al-Saraya complex that serves as headquarters for the Executive Force, Hamas paramilitaries who have acted as police since the Islamists seized control of the territory in mid-June.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070902/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestgaza_070902201652;_ylt=AoFufeChXu1ZG7utixbB9ZOaOrgF

Al-Aqsa Brigades fighters escape Israeli assassination attempt in northern Gaza
Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, said on Monday morning that a group of fighters escaped an assassination attempt by the Israeli forces, after launching a homemade projectile at the Israeli Western Negev town of Sderot.
http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=25115

EU emphatic on no Hamas contact
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana insisted during a visit to the Middle East on Monday that the 27-nation bloc would have no contact with radical Islamist movement Hamas. "I want to repeat the position of the EU. There will not be contacts between the EU and Hamas," Solana told reporters in the West Bank political capital Ramallah where a Western-backed Palestinian government is based.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGdyygsHfgN3VTyzUqjMDDHaRzNw

Increased signs of anti-Hamas 'intifada' in Gaza
There are increasing indications that Fatah is trying to organize an intifada against Hamas, as Fatah members in the Gaza Strip try to snap out of what one commander termed a state of "depression" following their defeat at the hands of Hamas in June.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392519220&pagename=JPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull

Nuclear whistleblower Vanunu appeals jail term for foreign ties
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is contesting a new jail sentence received for maintaining unauthorized ties with foreigners after he completed an 18-year prison term for treason, his lawyer said on Monday.  Attorney Avigdor Feldman said that Vanunu had filed an appeal on Sunday with the district court in Jerusalem, where a lower court sentenced him to six months behind bars in July.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/900309.html

Haredi school rejects 'Sephardi' child--Talmud Torah school rejects four-year-old due to Sephardi grandfather. Principal says child has 'stain' in genealogy
Anyone who thinks that racist rules are a thing of the past is wrong, according to the mother of a four-and-a-half year old child who was rejected from a Talmud Torah school because of his grandfather's ethnicity.  "They are alive and kicking in all their ugliness in Ashkenazi haredi educational institutions," the mother said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3444634,00.html

Olmert says unclear if Abbas deal possible by Nov
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he hoped to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on statehood principles but it was unclear if that would be possible before a U.S.-planned conference in November.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03594841.htm

Rice thought Palestinian leader weak
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thought Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a weak disappointment, and she once judged President Bush's signature Mideast peace program unworkable, according to a new biography. Months into her term as secretary of state in 2005, Rice considered Abbas "a nice man but ineffective," and she worried Abbas was unworthy of the investment in trust and money the U.S. had placed in him, the book says.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070902/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice_book_2

New study reveals surge in drug use in the Palestinian territories
The Palestinian interior ministry in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are to present a study on Tuesday into drug use in the Palestinian territories. The study reveals that the use of narcotic drugs is increasing, particularly among the youth, in the Palestinian territories.
http://maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=25114