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In Norway, Protestors Demand: No Money for Apartheid, Boycott Israel Now
The protestors were expressing their outrage against the fact that the Israeli government was seeking $200 million from donor countries to pay for a series of roads in the West Bank designed to cement the Apartheid system imposed by the Israeli Occupation. The World Bank recently denied a similar Israeli request. Protestors braved the cold to display signs declaring “No Money for Apartheid” and “Boycott Israel Now.”
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/825.shtml
What does the wall mean?
Now I understood why this man had been crying when I met him two days earlier. The District Commanding Officer had refused to issue him a permit to cross the wall, even though he is 65 and a threat to no one. They had given him a permit earlier in the year, when the fruit was still growing. But they had not given him one to let him harvest it. When the fruit is ripe, if no one picks it, it will fall to the ground immediately, like tears.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/fe4.htm
The Slow Creep of Israel's Annexation
Then they told the Palestinian farmers on whose land the wall rests that they would have unlimited access to their lands……after which gates were erected along the wall – gates which would be opened only three times a day. …. Then the Palestinian farmers were told that if they wanted to work their land – now on the Israeli side of the wall – they would have to get special Israeli work permits in order to pass through the gates which only opened three times per day.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=6828
Child girl shot killed in Khan Younis
A medical source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, said, on Friday evening, that soldiers shot killed a 10 years old child, and critically wounded a youth after shelling a residential area in the city. The source said that Rania Siam, 10 year old, sustained a gunshot injury to her head causing instant death
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week2/121004/child%20girl.htm
Armed Settlers Uproot Palestinian Olive Grove
Villagers said dozens of settlers, some of them armed, entered the olive grove owned by village resident Mohammed Salim at 8 A.M. and started uprooting trees using a bulldozer. Villagers reported that they requested the help of army from early morning hours, but police and troops only arrived late in the afternoon. The settlers had by then destroyed the trees.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week2/121004/armed%20settlers%20destroy%20olive.htm
Presidential Candidate Attacked by Israeli Forces
Lu'ai Arafat received several blows to the head with the butt of a rifle. As soldiers began to beat Dr. Allam Jarrar, Dr. Barghouthi stepped in to intervene and received a severe beating to his back during which he fell to the ground. The other staff were also forced to the ground and all six were made to remain face down for more than an hour.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/december_update_archive.htm#mustafa
Court releases on bail PA election candidate after checkpoint scuffle
Witnesses said Border Police officers stopped Bassam al-Salhi, handcuffed him and took him away as he tried to cross A-Ram checkpoint into Jerusalem. Police scuffled with Salhi's aides when they tried to pull him free. This marks a second incident to mar the campaign to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/512958.html
Call for Israel to readmit deported Palestinian students
Walid Muhanna, Bashar Abu Salim, Mohammad Matar and Bashar Abu Shahala were arrested during the night of November 18 at the apartment they shared in Birzeit and deported to Gaza, where they come from, on November 21. They claim they have been given no reason for their deportation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1371071,00.html
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
This week, 8 Palestinians were killed and a number of others were injured by Israeli troops. Human rights violations perpetrated by Israeli occupying troops included willful killings, incursions into Palestinian areas, indiscriminate shelling, land leveling and total closure imposed on Palestinian communities.
http://pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2004/09-12-2004.htm
Four Israelis Hurt by Mortars in Gaza Settlement
Palestinian militants launched a mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza on Friday, wounding four people, a day after the Israeli army carried out two missile strikes in the coastal territory, officials said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7050915
Feature: "Checkpoints; different shapes, locations, same suffering"
Looking at the situation on the ground, Israel increased the number of checkpoints separating the Palestinian areas from each other, closed the entrances of the Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps, and broke the geographical unity of the Palestinian areas.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/December/week2/121004/Feature-shapes.htm
IDF re-deploys near Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza
IDF troops on Friday evening were taking up positions in an area west of the Khan Yunis refugee camp in central Gaza Strip hours after Palestinians fired a volley of eight mortar shells at the Neveh Dekalim settlement, wounding four, two of them seriously.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/512952.html
Egyptian police block solidarity group accompanying aid to Palestinians
"We are returning. Negotiations with the police to go to Rafah have failed," Alima Bouomediene, a French senator from the Green Party, told AFP. "I am disappointed that Arab states are not in harmony with the Arab street. Israelis can sleep soundly," she said. The Arab world needs more "democracy, freedon and freedom of expression."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=723&e=4&u=/afp/20041210/wl_mideast_afp/egyptpalestiniansaid
Palestinians start campaign for first municipal vote since '76
The December 23 vote for some West Bank councils is also expected to be a test of strength between the dominant Fatah movement and Islamic militant groups. The last municipal vote was held in 1976.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=512866&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Jailed Israeli Arabs start hunger strike
The five men, who include the group's head Shaikh Rayd Salah and a former mayor of Um al-Fahm town, were indicted by an Israeli court in July 2003 for allegedly channelling money from charities in Europe and the Middle East to the Islamic Movement in Israel and thereafter to Hamas in the occupied Palestinian territories.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/98AED400-F87D-4053-B151-E25EDB6DE7FF.htm
EU observers for Palestinian elections begin their work
The EU is deploying more than 260 observers in total, including a 13-member core team, who had arrived in the West Bank and Gaza, said the EC in a press release. The EU's executive arm said some 40 long-term observers would arrive around Dec. 15
http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/10/content_2320001.htm
Palestinian Authority to follow in Arafat's footsteps
Speaking during a visit to the Rashidieh refugee camp in Tyre, where they were welcomed by the commander of Fatah in Lebanon, Sultan Abul-Ainayn, Qorei stressed: "We cannot fill the void left behind by Abu Ammar [Arafat], but we will try to follow in his footsteps and continue the mission and fulfill the trust.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=10874
Sharon invites Peres to begin talks on Labor joining coalition
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon telephoned Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, Shas leader Eli Yishai and United Torah Judaism leader Yaakov Litzman on Friday morning and invited the three to hold coalition talks, Israel Radio reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/512905.html
Palestinians hope new Sharon government will revive peace process: Erakat
Palestinian negotiations minister Saeb Erakat says his people hope Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's next coalition government will breathe fresh life into the Middle East peace process. "We hope the formation of a new Israeli government will lead to the reviving of a meaningful peace process,"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=7&u=/afp/20041210/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelpoliticspalestinian_041210085000
The Writing on the Wall: Jizelle Salman
Generally, what keeps me going on, it's hope. You have the hope of being able to make changes. The feeling that you're still young, that you can do so much here. You see foreigners staying here for solidarity purposes; they give. So you ask yourself: What about you, Palestinian youngsters, why don't we give? In fact I do believe that we give a lot. And we still have the energy to give more
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3423.shtml
UN appeals for resettlement of stranded Kurd refugees 18 months after Iraq war
The agency also asked many Arab countries to grant shelter, even on a temporary basis, to the Palestinians stuck at the Jordanian border. Last year, Jordan itself granted temporary asylum to 386 Palestinians with Jordanian spouses while 250 Palestinians chose to leave Ruweished to go back to Iraq.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12772&Cr=Kurds&Cr1=
FBI steps up AIPAC probe
An FBI investigation into alleged Israeli espionage against the United States and the possibility a pro-Israel lobby group was involved in passing classified U.S data to Tel Aviv has intensified because a confessed Pentagon spy has stopped cooperating with federal law enforcement officials, U.S. government sources said.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041208-045115-7516r.htm
Background / Anti-disengagement strategy collapses
The anti-disengagement activists are still pinning their hopes on the Likud rebels, but it is hard to believe that they would vote no confidence in Sharon, and force elections, after the party convention rejected this option.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/512524.html
Sharon victory boosts Gaza withdrawal plan
The prime minister's victory appears to assure his plans to close Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank next year. But the ultimate price of Labour joining the government and keeping the "disengagement plan" alive may be that it results in surrendering more territory than Mr Sharon has in mind.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1370884,00.html
'An unfair swap'
It was on the eve of 25 August when Mustafa and his friends got lost while traversing from one village to another in search of a piece of land. "That night was particularly dark and misty, and we could hardly see a few centimetres away," Mustafa said. "We suddenly found ourselves standing in front of a wire fence which was only half-a-metre high."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/720/eg1.htm
US endorses Annan's work and refutes push for his resignation
The United States Government gave unambiguous support today to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan after several days of attacks on him by a US senator and sections of the US news media over the UN's supervision of the Iraq Oil-for-Food programme.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12766&Cr=annan&Cr1=
Lebanon mobilizes Arab help to stave off French ban on Hezbollah TV
In a solidarity meeting with Al-Manar in Beirut on Friday, the country's Higher Audiovisual Council threatened to cancel privileges granted to French media outlets in Lebanon should Paris take measures against the channel.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20041210/wl_mideast_afp/francelebanonmedia_041210182507
Moqtada followers omitted as Shia finalise polls list
Shia politicians said on Thursday they had finalised an electoral alliance of Iraq's main Shia parties, but that it excluded the followers of Moqtada al-Sadr, the former insurgent leader. The United Iraqi Alliance, backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the senior Shia cleric, includes figures from the al-Dawa party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri).
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/02134e00-4a0e-11d9-b065-00000e2511c8.html
Red Cross Returns After Fallujah Offensive
"We couldn't reach the warehouse because of the time limitations," said Ahmed Rawi, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross who went on the trip. "The ICRC will follow up this issue with the concerned authorities in terms of documenting and then burying the bodies."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_red_cross
Stop Destroying the Mosques of Iraq - By Ralph Nader
The city of mosques -- Fallujah -- now lies mostly in ruins. So do many of its mosques. You believe this was unavoidable because mosques are being used as locations of arms caches or resistance to the advancing U.S. troops. It is their fault if these insurgents bring down their mosques on themselves, not that of the policies initiated by you as commander-in-chief, you would say.
http://www.counterpunch.com/nader12102004.html |
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