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Palestine : A call for 40 Days Of Prayer for Bethlehem
In the email request they sent to friends, they ask to pray for "the Seperation Wall to tumble down and to be dismantled peacefully since to say that the wall merely inflicts hardship on the people is a gross understatement. There is a sense of helplessness and hopelessness that is generating a lot of anger. There is fear and uncertainty of what the future holds".
http://www.comeandsee.co.il/article.php?sid=570&mode=thread&order=0
Sharon: Fence to include Ariel, Ma'aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion bloc
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday decided that Ariel, Ma'aleh Adumin and the Gush Etzion settlement bloc would be included inside the West Bank separation fence, while the route of the other segments would be built close to the Green Line.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475314.html
Donating to apartheid
The donor nations are committed to help the Palestinian Authority. Therefore, build separate roads for the Palestinians. And since there is no partner for peace and negotiations, we will continue to develop for our citizens a separate network of roads, which will bring them even closer to sovereign Israel and continue to encourage new settlers to move to the settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475007.html
Israel to Expand Jordan Valley Settlements
Israeli Agriculture Minister Israel Katz revealed Tuesday plans to expropriate some 31,000 dunams (8,000 Acres) of land to expand Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley. Katz said he intended to implement the plan "without unnecessary delays.", confirming that he would soon bring it before the ministerial committee on for the development of rural settlement.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week2/090804/settlement-expansion.htm
Activists demolish W Bank outpost
The activists later took one of the containers to Tel Aviv where they left it outside the Defence Ministry. "We wanted to demonstrate to the Israeli public it is possible to dismantle outposts," Peace Now activist Dror Etkes said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3637452.stm
The Pure Blood of Raghda Covers her School Seat
While Raghda Al-Assar, 11 yers old, was sitting on her chair in the fourth grade, on the first week of school when a bullet penetrated her head and, leaving her innocent dreams under the mercy of the live support machines, in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Raghda’s blood covered her chair, in Khan Younis school for girls, which will remain empty...
http://www.imemc.org/features/2004/september/raghda-blood.htm
High Court to rule today on Palestinian cave dwellers
"We never understood the state's insistance on removing these poor villagers," said Rabbi Arik Asherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights. "Now we understand that Sharon wants to annex Susiya and other settlements in the area by means of the fence, and therefore he wants to get rid of them."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/474993.html
Palestinians say Israel trying to block vote drive
A senior Israeli official said the week-old voter drive was a violation of Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem. The city's Arab eastern sector was captured in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in a move not recognised internationally.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08645612.htm
Court: Palestinian homes in southern Hebron Hills can stay
She also condemned the Palestinians' need for an "unattainable permit" in order to rebuild.
Both sides agreed to a compromise, according to which the petitioners will apply for permits for existing structures from IDF authorities, and the state will honor the court injunction and avoid demolishing any further structures.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475423&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
UN agency replaces Palestinian refugee homes demolished by Israel
The main United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees today handed over 103 new shelters in Rafah in the Gaza Strip for families whose homes have been demolished during the latest uprising against Israel, but the ceremony planned for the event had to be postponed due to ongoing Israeli military operations.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11858&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Palestine quintet barred from travelling
'Everyday they come to the border only to be sent back and now, with the match being tomorrow, they have given up hope.' Palestine are playing all of their 'home' Group Two matches in Qatar for security reasons. Barakat said world soccer's governing body FIFA had denied a request from Palestine to postpone the match because of their weakened squad.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=309431&cc=4716
Israeli army wound 2 Palestinians in northern Gaza
one of the two wounded was a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was in a serious condition. The Israeli army opened intensive fire on the residents' houses during the incursion into the area and destroyed a Palestinian house still under construction, witnesses added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/08/content_1958428.htm
Israeli tank, troop carrier destroyed in northern Gaza -- Hamas
The Ezzeddine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Hamas Movement, on Wednesday said its fighters managed to destroy an Israeli tank and a troop carrier as the occupation troops made an incursion into northern areas of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=662391
2 Israeli soldiers wounded in detaining Hamas militants
The two injured Israeli soldiers were rushed to Hadasa Ain Karem Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment, Israeli sources said. Meanwhile, Palestinian security sources said the Israeli army detained 14 Palestinians throughout the West Bank overnight Wednesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/08/content_1957985.htm
IDF Gaza operation fails to halt Qassam volleys
A Qassam rocket landed on Wednesday afternoon in Sderot, hitting a vehicle in the compound of the "Of Kor" factory in the city. No injuries were reported in the incident. Earlier on Wednesday, Palestinians fired a mortar shell at the Gaza Strip settlement of Neveh Dekalim in the Gush Katif settlement bloc.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475034.html
Gaza Beach... New Workplace for Kids
The latest Palestinian Bureau of Statistics survey on the problem estimated child labor at 3.5%, but a further drop in family income has put 60% of Palestinians below poverty line of $2 a day, pushing more and more children onto the streets as an alternative to education.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1662
Qureia threatens resignation following row with Arafat
Qureia and Arafat failed to reach an agreement during a meeting Tuesday on whether to send a delegation to a donor states conference in New York. Qureia is opposed to sending a delegation, while Arafat insists on sending a group.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475289&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Egypt steps back on Gaza plan over Israeli attacks
Egypt took a step back from plans to help the Palestinians prepare for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza on Wednesday, saying it could not play its role in full as long as Israeli attacks on Palestinians continue.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08601544.htm
Spy-scandal lobby blitz;
AIPAC secures wide backing after secrets charges
Soon after media outlets reported on the scandal late last month, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists and their political liaisons across the country asked Democratic and Republican lawmakers to issue public statements in support of America's premier pro-Israel group.
http://www.thehill.com/news/090804/spy.aspx
Likud MKs, S. African leaders join to end Middle East conflict
President Thabo Mbeki led the South African delegation, which included current and former Cabinet members who participated in the negotiations that ended apartheid in 1994. Pretoria said it aimed to offer insight into the process that culminated in South Africa's transformation to a peaceful democracy.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475514.html
Vanunu looking to relinquish Israeli citizenship, move to U.S.
"In Israel, I am regarded as a traitor ... and since my release they are not respecting my human rights, my freedom of speech my freedom of movement." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin refused to comment on Vanunu's desire to leave the country and seek foreign citizenship.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475492&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The myth of Gandhi and Palestinian reality
We had a tantalizing glimpse of the potential power of such action on the bittersweet day the late minister Faisal Husseini's was buried in June 2001, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded into occupied Jerusalem, and Israel was powerless to stop them. For those brief hours the people made Jerusalem free and whole.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3066.shtml
Crisis in the PA: Events and the Challenge of Reform
PCHR contends that this violence is just a mask for other demands and in fact undermines the long term goal of establishing genuine democratic reforms in Palestinian political society. It is also regrettable that the measures which have been taken by the PNA, in response to these activities, give the appearance of reform but were not genuine.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3079.shtml
Weaker Hamas retains support
It was the first time in four years of fighting that the Army had targeted such a large group of militants. Like the assassinations, the helicopter strike made obvious that Israel is receiving precise intelligence from collaborators who are well placed to monitor Hamas.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0908/p06s03-wome.htm
Report: Germany ready to help Israel acquire new submarines
Germany is ready to help Israel acquire two new submarines and modernize three older vessels, German Defense Minister Peter Struck was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475521.html
UN: Iraqis exported 42 engines from banned missiles
For more than a year, Iraqi authorities have been shipping thousands of tons of scrap metal out of the country including at least 42 engines from banned missiles and other equipment that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction, according to a new report from UN weapons inspectors.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475205&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Iraqis die in Fallujah; hostage snatch spurs charities to look at pullout
Fighter jets and helicopters pounded Fallujah all night after radical militants attacked American positions near the city. The US military said up to 100 militants were killed, but medical sources there reported only six dead and 23 wounded.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20040908/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_040908191509
U.S. General Says Samarra Will Fall
Allawi and U.S. ground commander Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz also have said they are optimistic that Samarra will be relinquished without a repeat of April's disastrous siege of Fallujah or August's brutal assault on Najaf. Thousands of Iraqis were killed in those operations and city blocks were blasted to rubble.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=10&u=/ap/20040908/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_samarra
Policy let U.S. hold detainees in secret, military officers say
However, three recently completed Pentagon investigations didn't examine the Army's practice of holding secret detainees, now known as "ghost detainees," and whether it may have contributed to abuse.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/9602584.htm
U.S. Helicopter Crashes Near Baghdad
A terse statement from the U.S. Marine base at Camp Fallujah gave no precise location, no time of the crash and did not say what type of helicopter was involved nor whether it was downed by hostile fire.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040908/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_helicopter
Captors of French reporters deny ransom demand
"The Islamic Army assures that the statement lifted from the Internet by the media and listing three demands on the issue of the French hostages, including a financial one, is false," said the statement.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=14&u=/afp/20040908/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_france_hostages_040908160126 |
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