Jenin: Child critically hurt by IDF fire

An eight-year-old boy from Jenin was critically injured by IDF fire Thursday, in the course of an operation against a wanted Palestinian suspect in town.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3446610,00.html

Israeli army kills three Palestinians in southern Gaza strip

The Israeli army killed three Palestinians on Thursday afternoon.They are said to be members of the resistance to the ongoing military offensive which started earlier in the day targeting the Al Qarara area of the southern Gaza Strip.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50288

Israel carried several home and property demolishing attacks in Jerusalem over the last week

Local Palestinian sources in the Jerusalem reported that the Israeli authorities and the Jerusalem municipality carried several attacks against Palestinian areas in Jerusalem over the past several days and demolished three houses and one sheep farm in Anata town and the Old City.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50273

Senior Al Quds brigade leader kidnapped; one child injured during the Israeli invasion of Jenin

The Israeli army kidnapped Ahmad Salah, a senior leader of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, during a military operation in Jenin which began in the early hours of Thursday morning and is still continuing.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50285

Israeli army attacks on West Bank towns of Tulkarem and Nablus ; 6 civilians kidnapped

In two separate military operations on Thursday morning the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarem. During the invasions six civilians were kidnapped.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50281

Israeli army attack Al Qarara in Gaza; two Palestinian fighters, four civilians injured during clashes

More than 13 Israeli tanks backed by bulldozers invaded the Al Qarara area of the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning. Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army and a number of Israeli Special Forces carried out a ransacking campaign on residents homes and confiscated the properties.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50280

Non-Violent Peace Activist Threatened with Assasination

At 2:30 in the morning, Israeli Occupation Forces invaded the Old City of Nablus close to the Al Masre school. In doing so they invaded the homes of a number of residents in particular targetting the family home of a local Palestinian human rights actvist. The residents of the activist's home, as well as the residents of neighbouring houses were forced onto the streets and their homes heavily searched. Sound grenades were thrown and live ammunition was fired scaring the children and shattering the quiet of the streets.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/09/05/non-violent-peace-activists-threatened-with-assasination/

Israeli human rights group: Israel must adhere to international law

The Israeli human rights group, the Civil Rights Society, sent an urgent message to the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert on Wednesday warning of the consequences of enforcing collective punishment of the residents of the Gaza strip.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50284

Cutting vital supplies to Gaza would amount to collective punishment: Amnesty International

Cutting off the supply of basic necessities such as water and electricity -- which Gazans cannot obtain from elsewhere because of the blockades imposed by Israel -- would constitute collective punishment of Gaza's population in violation international humanitarian law, which prohibits all forms of collective punishment.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE150602007

Report: Norway diplomats urge Oslo to criticize Israel over torture

Norway's embassy in Tel Aviv has urged the government to criticize Israel for the alleged use of torture in prisons, the state radio network NRK reported Thursday. The network said it had obtained a secret diplomatic document from the embassy urging action by expressing our concern that torture is still practiced in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901673&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Rubinstein defends 'apartheid' speech

Ha'aretz columnist Danny Rubinstein had the unrepentant last word after being dropped by a British Zionist organization that objected to his calling Israel an "apartheid" state at a U.N. Palestinian rights conference in Brussels.  "I am not apologizing for what I said," Rubinstein told a crowd of about 100 Monday evening at the New North London Synagogue, according to several people in attendance. "People do use the word apartheid in my circles. My newspaper increasingly uses that word. This is nothing new."

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/print/20070904rubinsteinlondon.html

Education Ministry split over transfer of NIS 50m to Arab communities

A proposal to transfer NIS 50 million directly to Arab communities in order to bolster the levels of education there is being met with opposition at the Education Ministry. This comes at a time when Education Minister Yuli Tamir is considering the renewal of a five-year plan to improve education levels in Arab schools in Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901586&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Palestine: no Iranian experts in Gaza

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement has rejected an Israeli claim that experts from Iran are training its forces in Gaza. An official from Islamic Jihad Movement described the claims as 'baseless lies' designed to weaken the Palestinian resistance.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=21994&sectionid=351020202

Hamas denies accusations that it arrested two officials in Khan Younis

Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued on Wednesday a press release stating that it did not arrest Sheikh Mohammad Abu Jame', and member of the National Palestinian Council, Hosny Zo'rob, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50274

Al Mezan condemns threats and assaults on journalists; calls them to face threats with solidarit y

Infringements on the freedom of media and assaults on journalists have escalated in the Gaza Strip. This has been represented by frequent beating of journalists and destroying their cameras and cassettes, or arresting and threatening them while carrying out their work. These conducts are aimed at fostering censorship and silencing journalists in Gaza. They come at a time when Palestinians are in a crucial need for free, impartial press and honest sources of information to unveil violations of rights and freedoms and put them at scrutiny in the society.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MKOC-76RH3W?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR

Hamas accuses PNA of supporting Israel's Gaza offensive

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accused on Thursday the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in Ramallah of encouraging Israel to launch a wide offensive into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/06/content_6676877.htm

Clashes between Fatah and Hamas wound five in Rafah

At least five Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday in clashes between supporters of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and members of Hamas executive security force in southern Gaza town of Rafah, medics said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/05/content_6668019.htm

Hamas downplays Blair Mideast peace mission, warns regional war

The Hamas movement on Wednesday downgraded the Middle East tour of Tony Blair as the international Quartet envoy on Mideast peace and said it was part of a plan to wage a war in the region.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6255676.html

Sara, Mahmoud and Yehya

Sarah Abu Ghazal's school uniform still lay on her mattress, untouched as she had left it before running out after her cousins Mahmoud and Yehya Abu Ghazal on Wednesday, 29 August. She was to begin the fourth grade on 2 September, but her friend Amani, who has accompanied her to school since the first grade, would walk alone this year. Sarah's mother had bought her the blue school uniform, blue jeans and the black shoes just the day before she was killed by Israel tank fire. Her mother waited until the last minute to buy Sarah's school supplies because she was waiting for her husband's salary which he had not received since June. Still full of life, Sarah was readying her new clothes for the start of the school year when Yehya called for her to come out and play.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8978.shtml

Israel presents Hamas new proposal on Shalit deal

Israel recently sent Hamas a new proposal in its negotiations to secure the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. However, no details of the proposal are known, and Hamas has not yet responded to it.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901286&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Hamas denies Haaretz report of new Israeli offer on Shalit deal

A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, Osama Al-Mazini, denied Thursday that the organization had received a new Israeli offer aimed at securing the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901645.html

MK Nafaa ignores gov't travel ban, arrives in Syria for a visit

MK Said Nafaa (Balad) on Thursday ignored a ban on Israeli lawmakers from traveling to enemy states and arrived in Syria as part of a delegation of Druze religious officials.  Nafaa's office said the Israeli Arab MK's visit is aimed at strengthening ties between Israeli and Syrian Druze, as well as improving links bertween Israeli Arabs and the Syrian people.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901641&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Should 'Pragmatist Intellectuals' Decide Refugee's Fate?

There are Palestinian intellectuals who do not deal with the Palestinian refugees from the viewpoint of the Israelis, but their views have not and will not be recognized by the PA leadership and the West pro-Israel policy makers.

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-09060711712.htm

Syria says Israel bombs territory, Israel silent

Syria accused Israel of bombing its territory on Thursday and said it could respond to its neighbour's "aggression and treachery".   Israel refused all comment on the report, which said no casualties or damage were caused.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L062568.htm

Study: US Jews distance themselves from Israel

Feelings of attachment to Israel declining among non-Orthodox American Jews, and are replaced by indifference and even alienation, study finds. Only 48% think Israel's destruction would be a personal tragedy for them, only 54% 'comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3446492,00.html

Israel accused over Lebanon war

Human Rights Watch said Israel showed "reckless indifference" to the fate of civilians and queried its argument that Hezbollah used them as human shields.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6981557.stm

Hamas flag goes up in Lebanon camps

There is a new look to the entrance of the Palestinian refugee camp Baddawi in northern Lebanon. Hanging above the armed man who guards the entrance are posters of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the slain spiritual leader of Hamas, and other fighters from the Palestinian guerrilla group. Nearby, a huge Hamas banner covers the side of a house, and down the road Hamas flags flutter in the wind.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8977.shtml

UN cartographer to plot disputed Shaba Farms' border boundaries

The United Nations cartographer Miklos Pinter is in Israel this week to move ahead on the specifics of marking the controversial boundaries of the Shaba Farms on the slopes of Mount Hermon, government sources in Jerusalem said. Pinter said a few weeks ago that based on maps and other documents he had received from the Lebanese government, the area of the farms was between 20 to 40 square kilometers.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=901591&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

'Israel gives US unreliable intel'

Israeli intelligence about Palestinian groups that a US-based Muslim charity aided was often unreliable, a former senior US diplomat testified at the organization's trial on terrorism-support charges.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1188392539438

Nuclear Hypocrisy in the Middle East, Bush, Iran and Israel's Hidden Hand

The internet is loaded these days with reports of the inevitability of a U.S., or a U.S.-Israeli, attack on Iran. Some writers allege that the attack is imminent. Others, including the writers of this article, argue only that the attack will happen sometime before January 2009, when the Bush administration leaves office. Many of these stories have by now been picked up by the mainstream media. In fact, it is probably safe to say that today a majority of the traditionally cautious and so-called respectable foreign policy experts in the U.S. think it is at least possible that Bush will attack Iran before he leaves office.

http://www.counterpunch.com/christison09062007.html