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ISRAEL-OPT:
Fewer resources for a worsening situation - UNRWA
The
UNs agency supplying basic services for Palestinian refugees is in a
funding crisis, and is facing a difficult year as the political
situation continues to hamper its work in the Gaza Strip and West
Bank.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/
917957a2c150cd9dbc36f2fd334a21fd.htm
Gaza
gas station owners won't accept reduced fuel supply from Israel
A
strike staged by the owners of Gaza gasoline stations entered its
fifth day Thursday, deepening a fuel crisis that has been gradually
emptying the coastal strip's streets of cars and taxis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=931985
Gaza's
medical sector suffers Israeli sanctions, restrictions
Health
officials in the Gaza Strip say they are concerned about hundreds of
patients unable to travel to Israel or other countries for vital
treatment, and that local hospitals lack essential medical equipment,
drugs and fuel.
Only about one in seven patients who used to
travel through the Rafah terminal to Egypt for treatment are now able
to access medical care in Israel, according to World Health
Organization (WHO)
statistics.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9148.shtml
Abbas
calls on Israel to stop expanding Har Homa settlement
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to stop the expansion of the
Jewish settlement of Har Homa between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, an aid
to Abbas said Thursday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/06/content_7211643.htm
Abbas
aide: Israel can't continue settlement construction and do peace at
the same time
Nabeel
Abu Rodyianh, the spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas, called for the immediate halt of Israeli construction in the
Abu Ghinim settlement, located Between the West Bank cities of
Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51883
Talia
Sasson slams 'continued gov't inaction'
The
Defense Ministry has done little to halt illegal settler construction
and has demolished only three percent of the unauthorized structures
in the West Bank over the last decade, Peace Now said Tuesday.
According to a report by the organization, 3,449 demolition orders
have been issued by the Civil Administration against unauthorized
settler construction over a nine-year period - from the start of 1997
until March of 2007 - of which only 107 were executed.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546805510&pagename=
JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Palestinian
killed near Gaza fence-medics
Israeli
troops killed a Palestinian near the border fence between Israel and
the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, local medical officials
said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06244393.htm
Border
Police unit kills PA police officer in bungled W. Bank action
A
Palestinian police officer was killed Wednesday in Bethlehem, and
another officer was wounded in clashes with an undercover Border
Police unit in the midst of an arrest raid. During the operation, the
Border Police troops fired at an unidentified group of Palestinians,
after being fired upon. It later emerged that the source of the fire
had been a Palestinian police force on patrol.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931551.html
Female
settlers' assault elderly Palestinians in Deir al Hatab
Deir
Al Hatab village near the eastern West Bank city of Nablus is used to
frequent attacks by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of
Elon Moreh, but the attacks which occurred in the past two days were
of a different kind as it was female settlers who attacked elderly
Palestinians in the area.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51894
Israeli
army injures one resistance fighter in Jenin
Palestinian
sources reported that the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank
city of Jenin and the nearby Jenin refugee camp on Thursday morning,
injuring one Palestinian resistance fighter.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51896
Israeli
military shells northern Gaza
Israeli
military forces shelled two targets in Beith Hanoun and Beit lahiya
in the northern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51893
Palestinian
sources: Israeli army use illegal weapons in Gaza, as death toll
reaches 16
Medical
sources in the Gaza strip reported on Thursday that during the latest
attacks, the Israeli army has used weapons which are deemed illegal
by international law.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51898
Prisoner
release clouded by thousands still in custody
Thousands
gathered at the presidential compound in Ramallah on 3 December 2007
to welcome 429 Palestinian prisoners just released from Israeli jails
as part of what Israel has called a "goodwill" gesture.
Nonetheless, behind the cheering and flag waving, the feeling was
bittersweet as the families of the released were overjoyed to have
their loved ones returned, while there remained an atmosphere of
cynicism towards Israel's "gesture." Jesse Rosenfeld writes
from
Ramallah.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9146.shtml
Hamas:
Palestinians will be freed in any Hezbollah-Israel swap
Palestinian
prisoners will be included in any future prisoner exchange deal
between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Hamas official said
Wednesday. "Everyone knows that many efforts are currently
invested in achieving a prisoner swap. We believe that the
Palestinian prisoners will be on the exchange list," Osama
Hamdan was quoted by the Lebanese news agency as saying following a
meeting with the Hezbollah's top official in southern Lebanon, Sheik
Nabil Kauok.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931655.html
Hamas:
Palestinian security forces arrest 18 of the movements' members in
the West Bank
In
a press statement faxed to the media, the Hamas movement stated that
the Palestinian Security forces of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah
had arrested 18 of its members on Wednesday from several parts of the
West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51882
Palestinian
government closes all alms committees
The
Palestinian Authority has shut down all alms committees in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip and accused some of
corruption.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05332330.htm
Leftists
announce mock power cuts to protest Gaza fuel slash
Residents
of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were surprised Thursday morning to find on
the doors to their homes mock notices announcing that the flow of
electricity to the two cities would be cut off next week.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/931528.html
Solidarity
in Tubas
"The
clinic is modern, light, open and clean. Coming from a dark, dirty
hospital with MRSA [the superbug] stalking the wards I almost felt we
should send our managers to learn from the people here,"
reflected Lucy Collins, a midwife from the Royal Sussex County
Hospital, Brighton. She had spent two days in the Red Crescent
primary health care center in Tubas. Such positive reflections on the
grinding reality of life under occupation in the West Bank are rare.
But there are many stories of a resilient people who still have the
energy to welcome visitors and reassure them when things become
particularly heavy. Alice Cutler
reports.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9144.shtml
Banksy
Moves Santa's Ghetto To The West Bank
santa's
ghettoAnyone looking forward to Santa's Ghetto this year (the annual
supermarket-art show created by Banksy and selling the works of
fellow graffiti artists) may have to travel a little bit further than
Oxford Street. Actually a lot further- to Bethlehem! The artists have
set up shop in a former chicken shop on Manger Square in Bethlehem
opposite the Church of the Nativity, and along the way have used the
dividing West Bank security wall as an 8 meter high blank canvas
which they have decorated with highly symbolical and provocative
images.
http://www.psfk.com/2007/12/banksy-moves-santas-ghetto-to-the-west-bank.html
The
Second Phase of a Western-Backed Plan in the West Bank
The
second phase of a US and Israeli-backed security plan in the West
Bank began on Tuesday with the deployment of 250 Palestinian National
Security Forces in the Tulkarem district.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=50828
Abbas
says open to Hamas talks only if it cedes control of Gaza
Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he did not oppose dialogue
with rival Hamas Islamists but reiterated the group must first
relinquish control of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=931982
Hamas
leader calls for increased dialogue with Fatah
The
deposed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, has once again
called for dialogue between his party and Palestinian president
Mahmoud Abass's rival Fatah party.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51895
Palestinian
government denies any ministerial changes, Fatah deems it illegal
The
Palestinian minister of information and official spokesperson of the
Palestinian caretaker government, Reyad Al Malki, stated that the
government will not make any ministerial changes.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51897
Girls
in West Bank village advocate for their rights
Girls
demonstrated the importance of exercising their rights by performing
in a play in the village of Bani Naim, 40 km south of Jerusalem, as
part of a World Vision supported child protection project in East
Hebron. Members of the cast, ages 14 to 16, said they felt more
empowered, less shy and more likely to stand up to wrong attitudes as
a result of their participation in the play.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/wvmeero/
01adabf8edafcf9290bb292812d59931.htm
Palestinian
entrepreneurs plan two built-from-scratch cities in the West
Bank
RAMALLAH,
West Bank: In this ancient land where communities have grown
helter-skelter, the future now looks more like well-tended U.S.
suburbia: powerful entrepreneurs are planning two built-from-scratch
West Bank cities with thousands of homes as well as malls, high-tech
call centers and
hotels.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/05/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-New-Cities.php
Will
peace cost me my home?
Sixty
years ago, my grandparents lived in the beautiful village of Beit
Daras, a few kilometers north of Gaza. They were farmers and owned
hundreds of acres of land. But in 1948, in the first Arab-Israeli
war, many people lost their lives defending our village from the
Zionist militias. In the end, with their crops and homes burning, the
villagers fled. My family eventually made its way to what became the
refugee camp of Khan Younis in Gaza. We were hit hard by poverty,
humiliation and disease. We became refugees, queuing for tents, food
and assistance, while the state of Israel was established on the
ruins of my family's property and on the ruins of hundreds of other
Palestinian villages.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9141.shtml
Gilad
Atzmon - Some People Never Learn the Lesson
For
Blair it was No 1 Labour fundraiser, the Zionist Lord Levy who got
him into serious trouble, for Brown it is Mr David Abrahams, just
another 'Friend of Israel' and a provincial chairman of Jewish
Labour, who may be the one to finish off his political career.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2007/12/
gilad-atzmon-some-people-never-learn.html
Audio:
Crossing the Line interviews Norman Finkelstein
This
week on Crossing The Line: The international conference in Annapolis,
Maryland recently came to an end. During the talks US Presient George
W. Bush stated that the time is right for peace in the Middle East,
but what does that mean in terms of a solution to the decades-long
conflict? Host Christopher Brown speaks with Dr. Norman G.
Finkelstein, a noted scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
the author of several books including his latest, Beyond Chutzpah: On
The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and The Abuse of History, about
Annapolis' chances for success.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9147.shtml
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