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Hundreds of Dunams bulldozed near Hebron
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers bulldozed hundreds of Dunams in the villages of Dir Al-Asal Al-Foqa, and Dir Al-Asal Al-Tihta, in the south west of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank, on Sunday morning. The source added that military bulldozers uprooted hundreds of Olive trees...
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101004/Hebron_wall.htm
Civilian toll grows in Gaza fighting
Filfil was planning a business trip to Germany this month. That was before an Israeli tank shell crashed into the top storey of his five-floor house one night last week, wounding him, his wife and all his nine children. with a steel pin in his shattered right arm and a six-inch shrapnel wound across his shoulder, it is doubtful he would be travelling any time soon.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/31978e6e-1ae0-11d9-9fe4-00000e2511c8.html
Two Palestinians dead in Gaza Strip
A Palestinian schoolteacher on Sunday was killed and five others injured in an Israeli missile raid on one of the Jabalya houses in northern Gaza Strip. PIC reported that Israeli aircraft fired a number of missiles at a house near Khulafa Rashideen mosque in the camp.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=286566&lang=e&dir=news
Israel strikes Gaza
Witnesses said the Israeli missile struck three Palestinian resistance fighters as they were planting a bomb intended for use against Israeli troops late on Sunday evening, wounding at least three of them.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3583E84E-0280-4627-BF62-2F59DC2D850B.htm
Palestinians call for boycotting Israeli products
"Israelis should know that it has to pay the price of its ongoing military aggression that is practiced against our people everyday," Al Salhi said, adding that the boycott would cause severe damage to many Israeli companies.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/10/content_2073712.htm
Woman escorting Palestinian kids beaten by mob of Israeli teens in Hebron
Diane Janzen, 28, and an Italian worker, whose name isn't being released, were returning to their quarters at about 3 p.m. local time after walking five Palestinian children home from school in the area when a mob of eight Israeli teenagers from the nearby Ma'on settlement attacked them with sticks... just 10 days earlier two others were beaten.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/10/10/663376.html
Arab League slams US for supporting Israel despite Gaza killings
"The Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people is continuing because some superpowers are encouraging Israel," Mussa told reporters. Mussa did not name the United States but his comment came amid the 22-member body's exasperation over a US veto of a draft UN resolution demanding Israel halt its Gaza raid...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=8&u=/afp/20041010/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_gaza_arab_041010170013
US, EU and Israel to discuss Gaza offensive: Shaath
Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said on Sunday that officials of the United States, the European Union and Israel will convene later in the day to discuss the ongoing Israeli large-scale offensive in northern Gaza Strip.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/10/content_2073784.htm
Palestinian killed in Gaza as Kerry vows no reprieve for Arafat
US Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry warned that if he wins the November 2 election there will be no reprieve for sidelined Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Sunday's deaths brought to 107 the number of Palestinians killed during Israel's "Days of Penitence" operation... (Kerry is fine with it)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=10&u=/afp/20041010/ts_afp/mideast_041010141308
Ministerial panel nixes call for referendum on disengagement
Meanwhile, the Justice Ministry officials said Sunday that they wished to be exempted from promoting the bill outlining the compensation package and evacuation procedures for the politically-charged disengagement plan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486880.html
Senior Israeli officer accused of spying for Palestinians
Israeli security authorities arrested a "senior" Israeli reservist officer on charges of spying for Palestinians, radio Israel reported. The Radio quoted Israeli security sources as saying the officer is implicated in activities "jeopardizing state security in return for money from the Palestinians."
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=671317
Settlers to Lunch a Massive Campaign against Disengagement
The group is also disscusing plans to ad 1,500 more settlers to Gush Katif settlement, and ways of blocking the roads leading out of the Gaza Strip settlement to prevent the evacuation of settlers.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101004/settlers%20to%20lunch.htm
Algeria-Palestine: Farouk Kadoumi in Algiers
The president of the political department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Farouk Kadoumi, arrived Saturday in Algiers, “to inform Algerian senior officials of the latest developments in Palestine in the light of the terrorist attacks the Palestinian people is confronted to.”
http://www.aps.dz/an/pageview.asp?ID=73089
Egypt: Bedouin says may have sold explosives for Sinai bombs
"The explosives were sold on the assumption that they were going to the Palestinians," the official said on condition of anonymity. Palestinian and Egyptian officials told The Associated Press that Egyptian security and intelligence officers have been discussing the attacks with officials from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486334.html
Israelis who disregard counter-terror unit may face sanctions
The sanctions, which would include the cancellation of rights to compensation guaranteed to victims of terror attacks, are already practiced by the United States and Britain.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486826.html
Believe a Word - By: Uri Avnery
The real purpose of the “disengagement” is to block negotiations with the Palestinians for dozens of years and to prevent any discussion about the West Bank, while at the same time extending the Israeli settlements in a way that will put an end to any possibility of a future Palestinian state.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uri_avnery/2004/oct9.html
U.S. should support a viable Palestinian state
Israeli troops have also demolished dozens of houses to carve out paths for tanks mainly in Jebaliya, scene of the heaviest fighting. On Oct. 5, BBC News showed a kindergarten the Israeli army had deliberately destroyed.
George Bush claimed that we are hated because we have democracy.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=293611
Hamas had too much to lose
An Egyptian-Islamic attack, in distinction from a Palestinian one, is directed at Egyptian authorities no less than at Israeli tourists, with the aim of driving out the despicable presence of Westerners in Muslim lands.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486480.html
Israelis occupy state of denial over Zionism's great moral crisis
Weisglass said a deal had now been made with the US Government that, in exchange for the Gaza withdrawal, the US would abandon its promise of a Palestinian state, "with all that entails". He added: "All this with a presidential blessing (from Bush) and ratification by both houses of Congress."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11035852%255E2703,00.html
Sharon's last session
In his Knesset address tomorrow to mark the opening of the winter session, Rivlin will stress that "it has been years since we were faced with such fateful decisions. The parliamentary debates will be more profound than ever and the battle will be for all or nothing."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486519.html
Sabotage an option against Iran's atomic plans-experts
"If the Israelis believe sabotage is the only way of stopping Iran getting the bomb, I think they will go with it, even if this ends up harming relations with Europe," Vatanka said. "The Europeans have invested enormous diplomacy in Iran, but that means little to those planning Israel's self-defence."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28314095.htm
Ken Bigley's desperate final bid to escape his murderers
A dramatic picture emerged yesterday of the desperate last hours of Ken Bigley, who evaded his captors only to be hunted down and beheaded. The Liverpool engineer may have spent as much as a night on the run before being recaptured by militants, according to extraordinary eyewitness accounts from the town where he was held.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=570543
Wide attacks threatened if US enters Fallujah
The threat presents a conundrum for US and Iraqi officials who have begun a nationwide offensive to take back territory held or contested by insurgents before national elections scheduled for January. In the last 10 days, US forces have stormed Samarra in the Sunni Triangle and Latifiyah south of Baghdad, in an attempt to beat back insurgent forces.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/10/10/wide_attacks_threatened_if_us_enters_fallujah?mode=PF
The massacre of Mesopotamian archaeology
Properly excavated, these cities could reveal valuable knowledge on the development of the human race and resolve the big mysteries of history. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen. The Sumerian cities have been destroyed, ravaged by the incessant looting that started with the American invasion of Iraq.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=8536
US-led rebuilding efforts turn to locals in rocky Iraq
US-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq are changing track amid a scourge of hostage beheadings, as contractors seek to hire more local companies directly instead of high-risk and costly foreign expertise.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20041009/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hostages_britain_041009234122
Iraqi groups ‘work on WMD'
Saddam Hussein may not have had weapons of mass destruction before the US-led invasion but the chief US inspector found evidence that Iraqi insurgents have tried to develop them since. In his report on the work of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer said several rebel groups were trying to make chemical weapons to use against coalition forces.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/56e40484-1add-11d9-9fe4-00000e2511c8.html
France's Saddam deals revealed
The disclosure will embarrass President Jacques Chirac as it follows on from claims last week by the Iraq Survey Group that Saddam indirectly paid French politicians and individuals to gain support for lifting UN sanctions and influencing French policy. The ISG's claims were dismissed by Chirac as politically motivated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1323967,00.html
For Marines, a Frustrating Fight. Some in Iraq Question How and Why War Is Being Waged
Perez said he thought that in some ways he was still fighting terrorists "and I can see how they might attack the United States in the future. It's a link, but it's not really based in the same thing." Perez added that he now believes the primary reason for the U.S. presence is to help the Iraqis. "But they don't seem like they want to be helped," he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20794-2004Oct9?language=printerS |
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