The second Intifada

4950 Palestinians killed including 945 children.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50946

Israeli occupation troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank

Hospital officials said a militant leader from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, had been killed. Medics said a 70-year-old Palestinian civilian had also been shot dead during the attack.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=124811

The Israeli planning committee in Jerusalem approves the construction of Bridge near Al Aqsa

The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee of Jerusalem district approved on Tuesday a new plan to construct a bridge that leads to the Mughrabi gate, the main entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque. This bridge will be 95 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and will be composed of metal and wood with a number of columns.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50928

Israeli settlers attack campaign to help farmers in Hebron

On Thursday morning,Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked scores of Israeli and international activists and Palestinian olive growers in the area around the Atna'el settlement. The Israeli settlement of Atna'el was constructed on Palestinian land which is owned by the people of the village of Al Samou'a, in the southern part of the district of Hebron.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50945

Bitter olive harvest / Justice falls short in the West Bank

Abed Al-Fatah Al-Hindi, a resident of the Nablus-area village of Tal, reaches the main highway between the Hawara and Git junctions, near the Gilad Farm. An International Red Cross crew stands waiting for him. He is bleeding from a large scalp wound, and his left eye is swollen.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/914123.html

Israeli army invades Nablus, 7 Palestinians abducted

Israeli military forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and the surrounding areas in the early hours of Thursday morning, carrying out attacks and a wide-ranging search of the area.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50938

Israeli forces invade Qabatiya and Tulkarem, kidnapping 6 Palestinians

The Israeli army carried out military operations in the northern cities of Qabatiya and Qalqilia in the early hours of Thursday morning.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50940

Israeli army attacks several areas of the West Bank

The Israeli army attacked a house in the village of Beit Fajar, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/50942

Four killed in deadliest Gaza infighting under Hamas

Four Palestinians were killed overnight in the deadlist bout of infighting between Fatah and Hamas loyalists since the Islamist movement captured the Gaza Strip in mid-June, medics said Thursday. Paramilitaries in Hamas's self-styled police Executive Force armed with anti-tank missiles exchanged fire with members of a powerful Gaza clan, the majority of which supports political rivals Fatah, witnesses said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071018/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestgaza_071018090233;_ylt=AriMLF_TLB85gr1ptgIodyiaOrgF

Raids and restrictions - Deheisha residents reveal daily hardships in refugee camps

It's 2:00 am in Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and I hear a large, loud bang. Camp residents – most of whom are either refugees from the 1948 war or their descendents – say the Israeli army enters Deheisha between three and seven days a week, and that raids have increased over the past few months. My friend Shadi Al-Assi – the Music, Dance and Media instructor at the Ibdaa community center in Deheisha – and I rush to Ibdaa's top floor window, where we look around for Israeli military activity.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-7847ZS?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PFR

Abbas: Israel hampers progress on peace

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday accused Israel of hampering progress toward a joint declaration of principles that would guide future peace talks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

Gaza minister criticises Ramallah government

The General Director of income tax in the Ministry of Finance of the dismissed Gaza-based government demanded on Thursday that businessmen and owners of commercial companies do not deal with officials of the Ministry of Finance in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50948

PFLP calls on PA to halt meetings with Israelis

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in a statement issued in Nablus, called on the Palestinian Authority to withdraw from the meaningless meetings with the Israelis, stop the coordination of security and, instead, prepare a nationally agreed plan to bring an end to the Israeli occupation.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50944

Rice to return to Middle East in two weeks

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday she was encouraged by her talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials this week and a U.S. official said she planned to return to the region in about two weeks.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1871360.htm

Erekat: Palestinians want accord by start of U.S. presidential rac e

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have until the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions next summer to complete peace talks, Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Thursday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=914481&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Israel agrees to addresss core issues in peace document

Israel has agreed to address core issues of the Middle East conflict in a statement that will form the basis of a planned US-sponsored peace meeting, a senior official said on Thursday.  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert retracted his insistence on only a vague document after a meeting on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who wraps up a tour of the region on Thursday, the official said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071018/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyisrael_071018085852;_ylt=Aqt3kl70uCAjC_ZAZONKo5uaOrgF

Roughly 100 stranded Palestinians protest on Egypt-Israel border

A group of stranded Palestinians protested on the Egyptian border Thursday, demanding to cross into Israel so they could reach their families in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinians territories, police said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=914467&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Court urges eviction of Hebron squatters

In a "hearing" that lasted about two minutes, the High Court of Justice issued a show-cause order instructing a military appeals court to explain in detail why it was allowing Jewish families to continue squatting in stores in downtown Hebron despite eviction orders from the civil administration.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380585206&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Bill to revoke citizenship for suspected traitors passes first reading

A bill to revoke the citizenship of people accused of betraying the state passed its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday. Initiated by MK Gilad Erdan (Likud), the law would allow the court to revoke a person's citizenship solely on the basis of secret evidence, provided by the Shin Bet security service.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=914121&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Government source: State may send African refugees to Ethiopia

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert confirmed Wednesday for the first time that the state is considering establishing extraterritorial refugee camps to cope with the influx of African refugees to Israel. According to a highly-placed source, Ethiopia is a potential location for such camps.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=914384&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Jewish rightist: 'Finish Hitler's work, kill Ashkenazi Jews'

A right-wing Jewish extremist has been disseminating calls for the assassination of leftists and Ashkenazim on Internet sites in Israel and abroad. One film clip posted on YouTube, for instance, declares: "You are about to view a handful of leftist Ashkenazim that Hitler and Eichmann did not manage to incinerate. Before we begin, please remember: 90 percent of the moderate left are Ashkenazim!! 100 percent of the extreme left are Ashkenazim!!"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=913888&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1

Popular Struggle Front slams measures limiting freedom of press in Gaza

The Popular Struggle Front in Gaza issued a press release on Wednesday slamming that the illegal measures and attacks which are affecting the freedom of press and proper media conducts in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.imemc.org/article/50934

FEATURE-Toy guns cocked, Palestinian boys play at militants

The scrawny Palestinian boy cocks his automatic rifle and smiles as he holds it to another child's head. "Today we're playing Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters," says 12-year-old Hassan Mahdi, who deftly handles an M-16 that is almost as tall as he is.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1494000.htm 

Outside interference by Israel's supporters has plunged one U.S. campus after another into crisis

They have introduced crudely political -- rather than strictly academic or scholarly -- criteria into hiring, promotion and other decisions at a number of universities, including Columbia, Yale, Wayne State, Barnard and DePaul, which recently denied tenure to the Jewish American scholar Norman Finkelstein following an especially ugly campaign spearheaded by Alan Dershowitz, one of Israel's most ardent American defenders. Our campuses are being poisoned by an atmosphere of surveillance and harassment. However, the disruption of academic freedom has grave implications beyond campus walls.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/335667_academics17.html

Gates: U.S.-Israeli Partnership as Important as Ever

The United States has stood as a friend and partner of Israel since its independence in 1948, and that situation won't change, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here yesterday evening.

http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1366/documentid/3946/history/3,2359,2166,1366,3946