Israeli authorities demolish all houses in an unrecognized Arab village in the Negev
For the twelfth Israeli authorities demolished on Wednesday morning all houses, tin-houses, in the unrecognized Arab village of Taweel Abu Jaroul, in the Negev, for the twelfth time, and uploaded all the belongings of the residents on eight trucks before dumping them in a nearly trash-yard.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51073

Israel kills two Palestinian boys in Gaza
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian boys in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, hospital officials in Gaza said. Hospital officials said the boys, aged 12 and 13, were in an area used by militants to fire rockets into southern Israel. Medics described them as civilians. An Israeli army spokeswoman said Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians who had just launched three rockets into Israel. In the occupied West Bank earlier on Wednesday, an Israeli soldier was shot and injured while driving near a Jewish settlement, ambulance services said. http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L248766.htm

Israeli army invades Jenin refugee camp - two Palestinians kidnapped
Two Palestinians were kidnapped by the Israeli army from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank. The kidnappings took place in the early hours of Thursday morning. Both men were taken to an unidentified detention center.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51082

Elderly Palestinian dies at Erez crossing after Israeli forces leave him on the ground to die
A Palestinian man who was on his way to receive medical treatment inside Israel was left on the ground for over an hour by Israeli border police, until he finally passed away.

UN Says Medical Supplies Short In Gaza: Cairo, Egypt (AHN) - The United Nations said on Wednesday that Gaza is facing an increasing shortage of medical supplies as a direct result of Israel's restrictions on goods being allowed to be imported. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that drastic measures must be taken in order to relieve the situation facing Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51075

ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza residents unable to get medical care, aid workers say
Dozens of patients in the Gaza Strip are unable to receive medical treatment, in some cases life-saving procedures, due to the continued border closures with Israel and Egypt, health officials and international aid workers.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/443de89f130253e78adb89ae182d5cbb.htm

PCHR slams torture in Palestinian Prisons in the West Bank, demands probe
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights, based in Gaza, slammed the ongoing political arrests carried by Palestinian Security Devices in the West Bank, and the repeated incidents of torture during interrogation.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51071

Ketziot inmates: Wardens acting provocatively, as before deadly riot
Inmates at Ketziot Prison fear that the Israel Prison Service is planning to break into their tents again, three days after a similar incident led to clashes and to the death of one prisoner, Mohammed al-Ashkar. A prisoner at Ketziot told Haaretz that a few officers from the IPS Nahshon Unit were walking around the tents of the Negev prison at around 7 P.M. yesterday, accompanied by dogs. The prisoners considered the presence of the officers a clear provocation, as the inmates are still mourning the death of their fellow detainee.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=917001&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Shin Bet prevented medical care to Palestinian cancer patient
The Shin Bet is refusing to allow a 21-year-old Rafiah man who is sick with cancer and in need of immediate medical care to come to Israel, even though he obtained permission from the Israeli Defense Forces' Coordination and Liaison Administration.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=916690&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7

Israel holding talks with Hamas: Abbas
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that meetings have taken place between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip. But both Israel and Hamas quickly denied that such talks had taken place. "We have information that some Hamas men are meeting with the Israelis at Erez (on the Israel-Gaza border). This information is almost confirmed," Abbas said after meeting Jordan's King Abdullah II.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071025/wl_afp/mideastisraelhamasdiplomacy_071025151322;_ylt=AkSMdHwnGQ7zzYvRZQWaH0iaOrgF

Israeli police attack mosque near Haifa
On Tuesday morning, a group of Israeli Special Police damaged the Sarafand Mosque and stole artifacts from the mosque.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51061

Barak approves limiting Israel's Gaza
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak gave the green light on Thursday to reduce Israel's power supplies to the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled territory.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL25518465

Israel pressuring ill Palestinians to be informers, activists say
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Yasser Hiyya didn't know why he was always so weak and tired until this summer, when doctors discovered a small hole in his heart. Israel gave Hiyya permission to leave the Gaza Strip last month and cross Israeli territory for immediate surgery in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank.

Images that shock
Occasionally the mask slips and unpalatable truths emerge. The Guardian has filmed rare scenes inside Hamas-controlled Gaza which the various players in the unfolding tragedy of the Middle East would rather we did not see - Hamas beating up Fatah dissenters, Palestinian doctors forced by their Fatah paymasters to go on strike or forfeit their salaries, the militants who log on to Google Earth to search for Israeli targets for their Qassam rockets. The images, now on the Guardian's website, affront our concept of right and wrong, but they serve our understanding of what is going on.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071024/wl_mcclatchy/20071024bcmideastgaza_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop

Abu Rudienah: Israelis not helping November meeting
Nabeel Abu Rudienah, spokesperson for the Palestinian Presidency, said on Thursday that it is the Israeli delegation's stance which is hindering progress in talks over a final document prior to the November peace conference.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51085

Hammad: despite the meetings, nothing has been agreed
Nimir Hammad, President Abbas' advisor, said on Thursday that over the past two weeks only three meetings have been held between the Palestinian and the Israeli sides, during which not even one word was written down. He indicated that the Americans had called for these meetings to be intensive, daily and away from spotlights.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51088

US Court throws out case against Caterpillar by family of slain volunteer
Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli forces over four years ago while working in Gaza as a peaceworker with the International Solidarity Movement. Her family filed a lawsuit in US court against the American company which built the Caterpillar-brand bulldozer that killed Corrie, but that lawsuit has now been dismissed by a Judge in the US Court of Appeals.
http://www.imemc.org/article/51074

Blocking the road to Apartheid
Palestinian nonviolent protestors are blocking highway 443: An anti-apartheid protest today blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only. Israeli Security forces used force to move the demonstrators. Two of the protesters, one Israeli and one American, were arrested and are being held in an Israeli police post. Blake Murphy, from Boston, is currently being threatened with deportation.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/10/25/blocking-the-road-to-apartheid-palestinian-nonviolent-protestors-are-blocking-highway-443/

A life cut short
Five-month-old Eyad is one of the happiest babies I've ever met. Barely touch his cheeks and he smiles and giggles; tickle his little belly and he bursts out in laughter, kicking his feet up in the air. Jamalat, his mother, says his laughter is a blessing from God for it fills her heart with joy and takes away some of her heartbreak and sorrow. Yassmin Moor writes from Gaza.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9059.shtml

Jerusalem: "Sharing" Not "Dividing"
Here is the only thing you need to know about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to divide Jerusalem: there is no such plan. There never was one and it is safe to say that there will never be one. Nor is there a plan by any other Israeli leader to divide Jerusalem. Additionally, neither Mahmoud Abbas nor the Palestinian Authority he heads favors the division of Jerusalem. From Olmert to Ramon to Beilin to Abbas and Fayyad, there is not a single proposal to divide the city.
http://www.ipforum.org/Printer.cfm?Rid=2524

Recycling in Israel, Not Just Trash, but the Whole Dump
It is rare in Israel for leaders to have a site named for them while they are still alive. It is more bizarre for the object of dedication to be a colossal garbage dump, for decades the country's most conspicuous — and smelliest — eyesore. But on Oct. 28, in the hazy light of afternoon, Israel's president, prime minister, senior politicians, mayors and business leaders plan to gather on this flat-topped brown mound, known as Hiriya, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, just by Ben-Gurion International Airport, and name it the Ariel Sharon Park.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/middleeast/24dump.html?em&ex=1193457600&en=c8db200e843acc7c&ei=5087%250A