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Israel's wall an act of violence, speaker says
But the reality remains that Israel is in the midst of building a $2 billion barrier that will run more than 400 miles and in the process cut more than 150,000 Palestinians off from their fields, their friends and facilities such as hospitals, supermarkets and schools.
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-10/109483155283870.xml
In Mourn or Joy, Palestinians Are Besieged
A full-blown closure, named by the army “a non-breathing closure” does not only means banning Palestinians from entering Israel-this is in effect, around the clock, 365 days a year- but also means closing all the main West Bank and Gaza Strip military check posts, therefore isolating Palestinian areas away from each other.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week2/091004/in%20mourn%20or%20joy.htm
Palestinian shown crushed by Israeli jeep
The video, which was aired on Friday, showed 18-year-old Muhammad Abd Allah Jad al-Haq being rolled over twice and left for dead while he was on his way home from the funeral of Amir Eidiya, a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades killed earlier in Jericho. The vehicle fled from the scene after running over al-Haq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A87D11E7-CED3-4009-BDA4-6503586AA589.htm
14-year-old among camp raid dead
THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire during an armoured incursion into the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said today.
One of the dead was named as 14-year-old Bahi Nasser, killed after an Israeli tank opened fire.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10733008%255E1702,00.html
Occupation forces shell al-Shoqairi school and demolish two Palestinian homes in Beit Lahya
Furthermore, occupation forces demolished two homes yesterday close to the Department of Eduacation offices to the east of Beit Lahya. Eyewitnesses said that occupation forces stationed in the area demolished a two story building belonging to the Bahri family and a three story building belonging to the Fefel family
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_7839.shtml
4 Qassams hit Negev
Four Qassam rockets fell in the western Negev on Friday, the third day of an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip aimed at ending the rocket strikes on southern Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/475034.html
Over 70,000 attend Islamic Movement rally
The Islamic Movement's northern branch's deputy, Sheikh Kamel Khatib, said the title for the rally gains real significance this year due to a warning by the public security minister a few weeks ago that Jewish extremists were planning to harm the mosque.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476496.html
Police trying to nix PA poll in J'lem by recording voter rolls
Jerusalem police are conducting surveillance of seven voter registration offices in East Jerusalem for anticipated Palestinian Authority elections, apparently trying to prevent the voter registration drive in the city.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=475244
Fact-finding team heads to the West Bank
A delegation of Swiss parliamentarians, academics and writers is embarking on a week-long visit to the occupied territories on Saturday.
The 12-strong delegation will divide their time between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where they hope to hear from ordinary people about life under the Israeli occupation.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=5203925
PCHR: “ Israel committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip”
“Occupation forces violated the rules and regulations of the fourth Geneva conventions which forbids collective punishment policies and protects the civilians in the times of war, army in these operation violated all rules and destroyed the properties and lands of the civilians and their lives in a way which can only be describes as a war crime”, the center said.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week2/091004/PCHR.htm
Sharon says roadmap must be abandoned for now
"We accepted the roadmap, with our 14 reservations, and formally the Palestinians also accepted it. But nothing came of it. There was no progress," he told the daily English-language Jerusalem Post. "I came to the conclusion that we will get nowhere along this plan," the conservative daily reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20040910/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_roadmap_sharon_040910162646
Key European countries urge Israel to end Arafat's isolation
Key European countries are pressing Israel to end its policy of isolating Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. But Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom responded that Israel is sticking with its policy of isolating Arafat.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=476229&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Powell: Key to Mideast progress is stripping Arafat's power
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday said the key to making progress in the Middle East was stripping Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat of his power.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476493.html
Israeli officials say Arafat expulsion unlikely
Senior Israeli defense officials on Friday dismissed Foreign Minster Silvan Shalom's call to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, calling Shalom's comments as "empty words meant for domestic political consumption".
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/10/content_1966928.htm
?Arafat, Qorei to meet in 24 hours, says Palestinian official
Palestine Authority leader Yasser Arafat and his Prime Minister Ahmad Qorei will meet within the next 24-hour period to discuss urgent issues like the situation in Gaza... The meeting will put to rest rumors about the possibility of Qorei stepping down from his post, said Arif, who is Fatah Movement's secretary in Lebanon.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=662611
Palestinian security chiefs to hold talks with Egypt
The meeting set to begin on Monday follows Egypt's offer to help train Palestinian security officers in preparation for an Israeli pullout planned by the end of 2005. But Egypt's initiative appears to have made little progress so far.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10677668.htm
Israeli settlers: Sharon plan could spark civil war
Settler leaders warned on Friday that plans to evacuate some Jewish settlements could plunge Israel into civil war, but Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press ahead undeterred.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10514580.htm
U.S. scholar works the connection between Sabra-Shatilla and 9/11
Though he supports the efforts of advocacy groups in the Sabra-Shatilla case, he is less interested in advocacy himself than in understanding "how a case of universal jurisdiction against Sharon is unfolding and what are the risks and possible consequences of applying this doctrine."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=8259
State A, State B
Haaretz military correspondent Ze'ev Schiff, who brought us this news, says the U.S. administration is puzzled about why it should be difficult for Israel to obtain this vital information in areas that it controls. Is it possible that Israel doesn't know how, when and where illegal outposts are being built?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476211.html
Israel's Bedouins Fight to Keep Their Ancestral Land
Today half the Negev's 140,000 Bedouin live in 45 villages the state refuses to recognize and which lack all public amenities, including running water, electricity, sewage and garbage disposal, medical care and schools.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=8242
One Friday afternoon four years ago
The death of the boy Mohammed al-Dura; the Madhat Yusuf affair; the rioting of Israeli Arabs; the abandonment of Joseph's Tomb; the kidnapping of three soldiers on Har Dov; the lynching in Ramallah - all took place during the first three weeks of the conflict.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476162.html
The Likud doctrine
First Bush, and now Putin, have picked up lessons for their wars on terror from Israel's campaign against the Palestinians... Fortunately for Putin, there is still one place where he is shielded from the critics: Israel. On Monday, Ariel Sharon welcomed the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, for a meeting about strengthening ties in the fight against terror.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1301503,00.html
Arafat, PM were close to a deal, new book claims
A senior Palestinian official says that "everything was completed and ready, in detail, especially the meeting at the Erez crossing [between Arafat and Sharon]." But the source says that Arafat backed away from the meeting.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476189.html
No shortcuts for peace and democracy
The hope of many of us for an open and independent Arab media is not satisfied. There have been changes, by the introduction of an audio-visual law, but it is taking a long time for government officials to accept the idea that someone other than a government official can run a local radio or television station.
http://www.amin.org/eng/daoud_kuttab/2004/sep10.html
Reading, writing - and propaganda
"Quotations attributed by earlier CMIP reports to the Palestinian textbooks," says a Middle East Working Group of the EU, "are not found in the new PA schoolbooks funded by some EU member states; some were traced to the old Egyptian and Jordanian textbooks that they are replacing, ... and others [were] not traced at all."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476179.html
FEATURE-Is Israel "swing state" that could tip US election?
On the other side of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, Jerusalem marketing manager Stuart Schnee, a lifelong Jewish Democrat who has never crossed party lines, plans to cast his ballot in November to keep a Republican in the White House.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28597074.htm
U.S. envoy Burns to tell Syria to leave Lebanon
"Burns will deliver a strong message to Syrian President Bashar Assad because it is time for Syrian troops to withdraw from Lebanon and for an end to all interference in its internal affairs," Burns' deputy Elizabeth Dibble was quoted as saying.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476492.html
U.S. Airstrike Hits Fallujah for 4th Day
A U.S. jet fired missiles Friday in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, the fourth day of attacks targeting the city where U.S. and Iraqi troops have no control, officials said.One man was killed in the attack, Dr. Ahmed Thaer of the Fallujah General Hospital said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=8&u=/ap/20040910/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
US enter Samarrah during new push against insurgents
As with many other US air strikes described as precisely targeting terrorists, local doctors disagreed. Dr Rafi Hayad said eight people were killed by the air attacks, four of them children and two women. Reuters Television pictures showed several children, heavily bandaged and covered in blood, being treated in Fallujah hospital.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=560055
Hiding the bodies
During August, Iraqi insurgents proved themselves more capable of inflicting casualties on American troops than ever before. Sixty-six American soldiers were killed and more than 1,100 were wounded.... But even with extensive coverage of the intense conflict in Najaf last month, the U.S. media was relatively quiet about the cost of battle to U.S. soldiers.
http://www.freepress.net/news/print.php?id=4484
U.S.: Investigate 'Ghost Detainees'
"Secret detention is the gateway to torture," said Reed Brody, Special Counsel at Human Rights Watch. "History shows that when people are taken off the books, they become vulnerable to mistreatment, torture and even ‘disappearance.'"
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/09/10/usint9338.htm |
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