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Civil
Administration chief: Hundreds of units approved in disputed
areas
There are hundreds, even thousands, of planned
housing units in the West Bank that have building permits and do not
need any further government approval before their construction can
begin, Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, the head of the Civil
Administration, told the interministerial committee on illegal
outposts Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933600.html
PA
expresses outrage over J'lem construction during talks
The
first formal Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in seven years got off
to a rocky start Wednesday, with the Palestinians lambasting Israel
for a new construction project planned in disputed East Jerusalem, a
Palestinian official said. The Palestinians have said that newly
announced Israeli plans to build more than 300 apartments in the Har
Homa neighborhood threatened to undermine the talks. The Palestinians
hope to establish the capital of an independent state in East
Jerusalem.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933863.html
Turkey
calls Israeli settlement plan 'shocking'
Turkish President
Abdullah Gul on Tuesday strongly denounced Israel's plan to build new
settlements in annexed east Jerusalem and urged the Jewish state to
retract the decision. "Israel's intention to build new
settlements in east Jerusalem has shocked the whole world... The
Israeli leadership must correct this," Gul told reporters after
talks with visiting King Abdullah II of Jordan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071211/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyisraelsettler
turkeyjordan_071211184744
Troops
demolish a Palestinian home in Jerusalem
Israeli bulldozes
belonging to Jerusalem Municipality demolished on Tuesday a
Palestinian home in the Old City of Jerusalem and attacked two
brothers while attempting to evacuate their furniture from the house
before the bulldozers leveled it.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51967
IDF
leaves Palestinian home in shambles after weapons search
Last
Thursday, in the middle of the night, soldiers arrived at the Nasser
household in the village of Yata in the southern Hebron Hills. They
came on a routine search for concealed weapons based on intelligence
information, but the damages they left behind at the Palestinian
family's home were nothing but routine.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933586.html
Israel
army chief says big Gaza push more likely
Israel's army
chief said on Wednesday daily strikes against Palestinian militants
in the Gaza Strip were having an impact but he believed a big
military offensive would be
needed.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12902263.htm
Israeli
Occupation Forces Kill 5, Invade Gaza
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza
Strip - Israeli ocupation force tanks and bulldozers invaded the
southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing five members of the
Palestinian resistance movent and trapping hundreds of people in
their homes, while another resistance member died from an airstrike
elsewhere in the occupied territory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
A
Palestinian resistance fighter killed by Israeli army in central
Gaza
Local media sources in central Gaza Strip said that a
Palestinian resistance fighter of the Saraya aL-Quds Brigades, of the
Islamic Jihad group, has been killed after an Israeli tank fired a
shell on a group of the Saraya fighters in eastern Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51975
Four
kidnapped in Hebron including one female
Israeli military
forces abducted four Palestinians, including one female during
separate incidents in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on
Wednesday. Local sources reported that military forces invaded homes
and kidnapped two residents in the town of al Shoyokh located north
east of Hebron. The abductees were later identified as Mohammad
Halayka and Amer Husien.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51973
Palestinian
security forces arrest 13, at least 4 of whom are Hamas members, near
Nabulus
Palestinian security forces stormed the village of
Yasid, north of the West Bank city of Nabulus on Wednesday and
arrested 13 people, at least four of those arrested were members of
the Hamas movement.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51976
PCHR
Calls for Investigating the Abduction, Torture, and Shooting of 3
Gazans
PCHR calls for an immediate investigation into the
crime of abducting 3 residents of Gaza City, torturing them, and
shooting them by unknown gunmen. The Centre stresses that this crime
is a continuation of the security chaos plaguing the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (OPT).
http://www.imemc.org/article/51966
Palestinian
Prisoner Denied Access To Care -- PHR
In December 2005,
PHR-Israel submitted a petition, demanding that the Israel Prison
Service (IPS) pay for a kidney transplant for Ahmad Al-Tamimi, a
Palestinian prisoner. After approximately two years, throughout which
IPS and Beilinson Hospital withheld the examinations, which finally
showed that the potential donor matches Al-Tamimi, and therefore that
the transplant is medically feasible, the court ruled that IPS must
pay for the transplant.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0712/S00682.htm
Detainees
families hold a protest in front of the Red Cross office in Tulkarem
Hundreds of families of Palestinian detainees imprisoned
by Israel held a protest in front of the Red Cross Office in the
northern West Bank city of Tulkarem and appealed human rights groups
and the Red Cross to intervene and allow the entry of warm clothes to
their detained family members.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51969
Israeli
tanks, bulldozers move into Gaza
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -
Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by attack aircraft moved into the
southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing five militants in the widest
operation in the territory since Islamic Hamas forces wrested control
in June. Another died in an airstrike in northern Gaza.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_14
An
Israeli army incursion into southern Gaza leaves 6 dead, 19
injured
Palestinian medical sources reported on Tuesday
that six Palestinians have been killed and 19 others wounded, during
an Israeli army ground offensive on southern Gaza Strip today. Dr.
Moa'wiya Abu Hasanin, chief of emergency room of the health ministry,
told the IMEMC that a number of the wounded had to undergo surgery to
amputate limbs and that majority of those killed had burns all over
their bodies.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51965
Siege
that Spells Slow Death for the Innocents
FOR three weeks,
seven-month-old Mohammed Abu Amra has been lying in Gaza's main
paediatric hospital, suffering from immune deficiency and suspected
cystic fibrosis. His doctors do not have the drug they need to
relieve his symptoms, which include fever and distressed breathing,
racking his thin ribs at almost twice the healthy rate of breaths per
minute.
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=15594&CategoryId=5
Gaza's
Donkeys in Demand as Fuel Crisis Mounts
It's not
surprising the buyers at yesterday's weekly donkey market here were
looking over their prospective purchases with care. They opened the
jaws of the tolerant beasts to examine their teeth, and test-drove
them, harnessed to a cart, out of the crowded yard to gauge their
pulling power. "You need to make sure that it doesn't kick
people with its back legs, that it's strong and that the colour of
the coat is all right," said Saber Dabour, 25. He had just
bought a donkey for 410 Jordanian dinars, or just under £290.
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=15593&CategoryId=5
Hamas-Fatah
unofficial talks continue despite wide differences
Contacts
between Hamas and Fatah officials in West Bank were going on despite
wide differences, Hamas officials announced Wednesday, responding to
conflicting reports. Hamas leaders, Hussien Abu Kwaik and Faraj
Romana, said the difference was back to the security compounds which
Hamas occupied in Gaza. Fatah determines that Hamas gives up control
on the security before any dialogue while Hamas demands the opposite.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/12/content_7236221.htm
Hamas
urges PA to cancel Wednesday's peace talks due to Gaza op
Hamas
on Tuesday called on the Palestinian Authority to cancel the
following day's peace talks with Israel in response to the IDF
operation in Gaza in which 6 Palestinians were killed. A Hamas
spokesman in Gaza said that it would be an "embarrassment"
for Palestinian representative to shake the Israelis' "blood-stained"
hands, Israel Radio reported.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847312269&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas
asks US to free Gaza 'ghetto'
THE Hamas rulers of Gaza
have implored the US to bring an end to the crippling boycott of the
Gaza Strip, which they have likened to the World War II siege of
Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto. In the militant group's first public appeal
to the US since it won democratic elections in the Palestinian
Territories in January last year Hamas said yesterday it did not have
"any ideological arguments with the West".
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22901801-2703,00.html
Hamas
is here to stay
Daily deadly attacks on Gaza, the
resumption of incursions into West Bank towns and villages and the
plan to build three hundred housing units in East Jerusalem is hardly
what the Arabs who attended Annapolis expected to be its immediate
results. The Israeli measures must have surprised even Mahmud Abbas
and his team mates who, at Annapolis, were all smiles. Anyone
watching TV footage of the Annapolis receptions could not miss the
opportunity to see members of the Palestinian team warmly hugging
members of the Israeli team, while other Arab delegates watched from
a distance. The smiles on the faces reflected a congratulatory mood
and expressed optimism that some unprecedented breakthrough was in
the pipeline.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/azzam_tamimi/2007/12/post_annapolis.html
Blair
urges int'l donors to back PA's $5.6 billion economic plan
The
Quartet's Mideast envoy Tony Blair on Tuesday praised a Palestinian
development plan that seeks $5.6 billion in aid over three years, and
urged donor countries to provide the required funds.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=933591
Palestinian
refugees demonstrate in northern Lebanon
Beirut
- Palestinians went on strike in northern Lebanon Tuesday to protest
the delay in efforts to reconstruct the devasated Nahr al-Bared camp,
Palestinian sources said.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1380287.php
UNRWA
in rush to school Nahr al-Bared children-Many students attending
classes in shifts
BEIRUT: While Palestinians protested on
Tuesday against the lethargic tempo of improvements at the war-torn
Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, only days ago did the final students
living in the camp start their school year, as agencies worked to
seal up leaky temporary dwellings put together on land next to the
camp, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokeswoman Hoda
al-Turk said Tuesday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=87422
Gaza
makes an appeal to you!
About 60 years have passed since
our Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba). Palestinian people have passed
through and tasted several sufferings and calamities, and the Gaza
Strip, which includes about 1.5 million people, 75% of them refugees,
got a big share of this suffering. By the start of the 2nd Intifada
in 2000, Israeli Occupation violated all the taboos international
conventions and has tortured Palestinians severely.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/12/11/gaza_makes_an_appeal_to_you
DFLP,
PFLP, Islamic Jihad delegates visit a number of Human Rights
Organizations in Gaza
On the anniversary of the
International Declaration for Human Rights, delegates representing
the leftist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)and the
Islamic Jihad Movement visited a number of human rights groups in
Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51968
True
Aim of Annapolis, and Why It Failed
The US-sponsored
peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland was neither a success nor
failure, if one accepts that its so-called objective was indeed
'peacemaking'. From a US perspective, the meeting was, at best, a
diplomatic manoeuvre on the part of the Bush administration, a last
chance for becoming relevant to a region that is quickly escaping its
grip. At worst, the conference was a desperate public relations
charade aimed at convincing the American public that the
administration's plans for democracy and peace in the Middle East are
unfolding smoothly. In both scenarios, the conference was a necessary
but fleeting distraction from the prevailing criticism that the Iraq
war is a 'nightmare' without end.
http://palestinechronicle.com/story-121107152616.htm
Latest
Poll: U.S. Jews Oppose Compromise on Jerusalem
The
American Jewish Committee released its always insightful Annual
Survey of American Jewish Opinion yesterday. Among its notable
findings is this: A clear majority (58%) of American Jews do not
believe that "Israel [should be willing] to compromise on the
status of Jerusalem as a united city under Israeli jurisdiction"even
"in the framework of a permanent peace with the Palestinians."
Combined with the recent polling of Israelis' views on this matter,
it is abundantly clear that the consensus view among the Jewish
People is to retain Jerusalem as our eternal and indivisible capital.
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/33733
Survey:
U.S. Jews are losing interest in Israel
American Jews are
losing interest in Israel according to figures released Tuesday in
the American Jewish Committee 2007 Annual Survey of American Jewish
Opinion. Figures showed that 69% of Jewish Americans agreed with the
statement "Caring about Israel is a very important part of my
being a Jew" in 2007, compared to 74% last year and 79% in 2005.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=933815
Mayor
of frontline Israeli town quits over Gaza
The mayor of a
town on the front line of Israel's conflict with Palestinian
militants resigned live on radio on Wednesday in protest at the
government's failure to halt rocket fire from Hamas-run Gaza.
Militants in the Gaza Strip, seized by Hamas Islamists from their
Fatah rivals in June, fire short-range rockets and mortars every day
at towns in southern Israel. While few cause damage or injury, the
rockets spark widespread panic among residents.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12225394.htm
Running
a gauntlet in Jerusalem
EFRAT, West Bank–Some might
dismiss it as just another 20-minute outing on one more four-lane
highway, but to Yitzhak Sokoloff it's a way of making history. The
Israeli tour operator shuttles each working day between a town many
would say is illegal – some use even harsher language – and a
city that all would agree is among the holiest in the world.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/284336
Palestinians
drive to Jordan for the fist time since 1976
On Wednesday
a team of Palestinian car racers will leave Ramallah and drive to
Jordan in their own cars, something which hasn't happened since 1976.
The team will participate in the final round of the 2007 Jordanian
racing championship of al Aqapa. The race will be launched next
Friday by Prince Faysal Bin Al Hussien, Head of the Jordanian motor
sport federation.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51974
First
Palestinian policewomen deployed to direct W. Bank
traffic
Palestinian pedestrians gawked at the unusual
sight of women directing chaotic Ramallah traffic on Wednesday, the
first batch of women to venture into a job traditionally reserved for
Palestinian men in the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=933950
Helper
'a hero' in NYC subway attack
Four Jewish students
assaulted on NY subway receive help from fellow Muslim rider. A
suspected bias attack on four Jewish subway riders has resulted in a
friendship between the Jewish victims and the Muslim college student
who came to their aid. Walter Adler is calling Hassan Askari a
hero for intervening when Adler and three friends were assaulted on a
subway train in lower Manhattan on Friday night.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3481929,00.html
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