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Israel
invites bids for new east Jerusalem settlements
"The
Israel Land Administration has published a tender for the
construction of 307 housing units in Har Homa," an official in
the housing ministry told AFP, referring to a neighbourhood in east
Jerusalem. At the Annapolis conference last week, Israel and the
Palestinians pledged to implement the 2003 roadmap plan, the first
phase of which calls on Israel to freeze all settlement activity and
for Palestinians to improve
security.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071204/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyisraelsettler_071204163202
Spokesman:
Israel has right to build in E Jerusalem
"Israel
will strictly abide by obligations under the Roadmap that applies to
West Bank," Mark Regev told Xinhua, adding that "Jerusalem
is not the West Bank but Israeli capital." Regev admitted that
Jerusalem is one of the core issues under negotiations with the
Palestinian. But he claimed that, unlike the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip, it's not part of the requirements in the roadmap peace
plan.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/05/content_7200420.htm
Peace
Now: IDF carried out only 3% of settlement demolition
orders
According
to the report, from 1997-2007 the Civil Administration issued 3449
demolition orders for illegally built structures in the settlements
and settlement outposts, but evacuated and demolished only 107 of
them, the report
stated.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931046.html
Palestinian
Political detainee hospitalized following attack
A
female Palestinian detainee claimed she was attacked and beaten by
Israeli gaurds at the Hasaron Israeli detention camp, she told her
lawyer on Tuesday.Her lawyer, Shreen Nasser, told how her client
Amneh Mona was kept in solitary confinement for over six
months.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51854
Palestinian
human rights organization: PA excessive use of force leaves 17
Palestinians dead
The
committee reported that 17 Palestinians were killed due to either
excessive force by the Palestinian Authority or the general state of
lawlessness in the PA controlled areas. Of the 17 killed in the month
of November, 12 were in Gaza and 5 in the West
Bank
http://www.imemc.org/article/51855
Three
Nonviolent Protests in the West Bank
Troops
installed barbed wire in an attempt to prevent the protesters from
reaching the highway. However, the villagers insisted and managed to
reach the road. Troops fired several rounds of rubber-coated steel
bullets and tear gas at the protesters, however no injuries were
reported. For seven years in a row, Israel prohibits Palestinians
from using this 200-mile road which is built on the land of
Palestinian villages, and allows only (Illegal) Jewish
settlers to use
it.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/12/03/three-nonviolent-protests-in-the-west-bank/
B`Tselem
slams Israeli Supreme Courts delay in decision to allow reduction of
fuel supplies to Gaza
B'Tselem
asserted there should be questions asked regarding the courts
unwillingness to intervene in what amounts to collective punishment.
They also pointed out that the court has postponed the decision
regarding Israels plan to reduce the fuel supplies to Gaza for two
weeks as it was supposed to be given on the 2nd of
December
http://www.imemc.org/article/51852
Israei
army tortures teenager over false allegations
The
subsequent interrogation, in the police taxi and at the Ariel police
station where he was then taken, revolved around accusations of
stone-throwing at cars on highway 55 as well as at police and
military jeeps when they invade Azzoun. Mahmoud was threatened
repeatedly, interrogators telling him he must confess to throwing
stones if he wanted to return home or else he’d
be taken to court and fined. He was repeatedly threatened that the
Israeli police would “make
problemsâ€ï¾ï¾ﾝ
for
him and his family. He was further repeatedly cursed, profanities
used against him and female family
members.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/12/03/israei-army-tortures-teenager-over-false-allegations/
Israel
mulls how to deal with Gaza amid revived peace push
Last
week Olmert said that he would take his time in deciding how to deal
with the territory, from where Israel withdrew settlers and troops in
2005 after a 38-year occupation. "The question is not if we have
to stop the (rocket) fire, but what kind of strike we should deal,"
he said in an interview with the mass-selling Yediot
Aharonot.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071204/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisraelgaza_071204123641
Israeli
air strikes kill three Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli
air strikes killed three Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip city
of Rafah in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The strikes come
following Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Baraks' authorization of
military action against Gaza. Twelve members of Hamas have been
killed during Israeli attacks on Gaza in the past
week
http://www.imemc.org/article/51850
Red
Cross training Gaza fighters in international humanitarian
law
According
to the spokesperson of the Salah al-Din brigades, Abu Mojahed, the
armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza, which
has been attending the ICRC's humanitarian training, "This is a
part of the ICRC's mission, which we feel we should respect and deal
with." "We always avoid areas where there is a civilian
population so we can guarantee less harm is inflicted. However, the
Israeli army intentionally harms
civilians
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9139.shtml
Detainees
Media Center: “Israel
is avoiding its commitments to the peace processâ€ï¾ï¾ﾝ
The
Center also stated that there are dozens of children, women, elderly
and sick detainees who should be freed without any preconditions, and
that Israel insists on obstructing any progress in the peace process
by not fulfilling its
obligations.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51847
Israel’s
First Madam In Lebanon
Shulamit
accepted to work with the Mossad, money probably being one of her
motives. Before she started her work as a spy, she was sent into
training in Ha-Kirya in Tel Aviv, where she learned to fulfill her
duties as a prostitute for the Mossad. After that, she was sent to
London to learn the English language and good manners, and how to
“fish in troubled
watersâ€ï¾ï¾ﾝ
after
men of interest for her
employer.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/06/14/israels-first-madam-in-lebanon/
Hospitals
to disclose Palestinian patients' profiles to Defense
Ministry
Israeli
hospitals are no longer authorized to schedule medical appointments
for Palestinians without first providing the security services with
the patients' names for vetting, Health Ministry officials confirmed
to Haaretz
Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/930825.html
2
Palestinian police held in shooting
Two
Palestinian policemen have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a
Jewish settler in a volatile West
Bank area where Palestinians are trying to impose law and
order, the Israeli military said
Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_settler_shooting_1
Israeli
forces kidnap one Palestinian in Tubas and attack local
shepherds
Security
sources reported that several Israeli military vehicles invaded the
city as well as several other neighborhoods in the surrounding area.
Troops besieged a civilian's home before kidnapping a Palestinian
youth. The boy, Sameh Sawafta, was taken to an unknown detention
center. In a separate incident, Israeli forces attacked a group of
shepherds in the al Aquapa village in
Tubas.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51853
Adding
insult to Gaza's injuries
At
a time when the international community is meeting to try to resolve
one of the longest standing conflicts in the world, around 20
Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel - in less than one
week. These Israeli atrocities only fuel feelings of distrust between
the two sides and further contribute to the isolation of the Gaza
Strip.
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/editorial_opinion/region/10172199.html
Israel
to aid Palestinian refugees in peace deal: OImert
"We
will do this out of goodwill, not, God forbid, out of any sense of
guilt, but out of pure humanitarian motives and as good neighbours.
This is a commitment and a promise," Olmert said. (Surely not
from their respect to International
Law!)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EMAE-79JNBK?OpenDocument
Israeli
Arab leaders: A Palestinian state is not the solution for us
Dr.
Amal Jamal, head of the Political Science department at Tel Aviv
University, said Tuesday that the "Palestinians have their
Palestine. We have our Palestine." He emphasized the Palestinian
right to self-identification also encompasses the Palestinian
minority inside Israel, and demanded Israeli Arabs be give the chance
to realize this
right.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931127.html
Budget
shortfalls threatening assistance to Palestinian refugees, warns UN
official
"Lack
of resources means that we are unable to employ enough teachers,
health care and social workers to keep pace with a beneficiary
population that is growing in both size and needs," said Filippo
Grandi, Deputy Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which aids 4.5
million
people.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-79K4W7?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Egypt
relaxes its Gaza border for haj
The
movement of Gaza pilgrims through Egypt suggested a softening stance
from Cairo toward Hamas. Egypt has had little contact with the group
since it seized power. It was also a blow to the rival Fatah-led
government in the West Bank, which promised to ship pilgrims out
through Israel. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both traditional supporters
of Fatah, were both involved in Monday's
passage.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1195546792479&pagename=
JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Secretary-General
appoints Robert H. Serry of Netherlands United Nations Special
Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process
Robert
H. Serry of the Netherlands was appointed by United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the United Nations Special
Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and his Personal
Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the
Palestinian Authority. In this capacity, Mr. Serry will be the Envoy
of the Secretary-General to the Quartet.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-79KPZK?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR
Bring
them home, gradually
Since
the separation fence (Apartheid Wall) was built, thousands of
settlers who live east of it find themselves in an unclear situation.
Having to wait for a political settlement to determine the permanent
border is nerve-racking for those who wish to lead a normal life.
Polls show that some 20,000 settlers at least would at this point
like to vacate communities east of the fence, if they receive enough
compensation to buy a new
home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/930809.html
Troubled
waters adds tension in West Bank
Amid
peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians over how to divide
land, there is another conflict bubbling just beneath the surface;
this one is over water, a precious resource in the Middle East. The
sleepy Palestinian village of Qattaneh just north-west of Jerusalem
and with approximately 10,000 inhabitants, many of them refugees, has
had its piped water reduced to only one day per week, according to a
recent Humanitarian Monitor report released by the U.N. Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA).
http://www.metimes.com/International/2007/12/03/troubled_waters_adds_tension_in_west_bank/5494/
Guerrilla
artist Banksy in Holy Land
Banksy,
who has successfully outfoxed the art world over his identity, has
"tagged" the 436-mile West Bank wall before. In 2005, he
stencilled nine scenes of life beyond the concrete wall, sparking a
craze for international graffiti artists to leave their mark on the
eight metre-high concrete barrier and winning plaudits from human
rights campaigners for his satirical attack on the wall, which
borders large sections of the occupied territories. His latest
publicity stunt is timed to coincide with today's opening of an
exhibition of his work, and that of other artists, in the city which
aims to bring tourists back to Bethlehem over the Christmas
period.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2221002,00.html
Pray
for success, because Israel will pay the price of Annapolis
failure
There
is already a growing international movement calling for boycott,
divestment and sanctions against Israel - even now as Israel is
engaged in a peace process. It is a small movement lead by the same
coalitions that are against globalization and against the war in Iraq
. Even though this global movement is presently small and perhaps
insignificant, it is being advanced by a tight net of small
organizations of activists, many of whom were behind the successful
campaign against apartheid. Failure of the Annapolis process is the
fuel that these people and organizations are waiting
for.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546794663&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Bush
to make 1st official visit to Israel in January
During
his visit, Bush is expected to focus on promoting Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations in the framework of agreements reached at last week's
Mideast peace conference, held in Annapolis, Maryland.. This visit
will be Bush's first visit to Israel since he took office seven years
ago. Bush visited Israel in 1998 when he was governor of
Texas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931129.html
President
Bush Launches New Partnership to Help Palestinian Youth
The
president says an important component will focus on young people in
the West Bank. Additional efforts to help the Palestinians will
continue when France hosts a donors' conference later this month.
President Bush has asked the U.S. Congress to approve an increase of
more than $400 million in additional aid to the Palestinian
people.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-03-voa57.cfm
Kidnappers
give Britain 10-day ultimatum to quit Iraq
"My
name is Jason. Today is the 18th of November. I have been here now
held for 173 days and I feel we have been forgotten," the
hostage said in the video, as he sat flanked by two masked gunmen in
front of a banner reading the Shiite Islamic Resistance in Iraq. The
kidnappers set Britain a 10-day deadline from the date of the video's
broadcast to pull out of Iraq or see the hostage
executed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071204/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestkidnapbritain_071204163026
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