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Greek javelin thrower wants to compete under Palestinian flag
Greek javelin thrower Sofia Sakorafa said Tuesday she has petitioned the International Olympic Committee to compete under the Palestinian flag at the Athens Games. Sakorafa, 47, who broke women's javelin record in 1982, claims she has become a Palestinian citizen...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=426209&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Women's anti-barrier protest underway in Bidu
A women's demonstration against the 'security' barrier is underway in the village of Bidu. About 100 women are taking part in the protest.
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=7195
High Court will stop separation fence, defense officials fear
Senior officials in the defense establishment are worried about the future of the separation fence, following Supreme Court President Aharon Barak's announcement that the court's ruling on petitions against the fence's route north of Jerusalem is due only at the end of the year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/425921.html
O Jailed Town of Bethlehem
A network of trenches, barbed-wire fences, walls, and military checkpoints is closing off the holy city of Bethlehem. The siege is becoming harsher every day. "It is choking the Christian community," says the Rev. Alex Awad, dean of students at Bethlehem Bible College. "There is utter depression here."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/005/12.54.html
3 Houses Demolished, Gaza Divided
Witnesses said that Israeli bulldozers, backed by tanks, swept into the neighbourhood of Zo'rob, east of Rafah and destroyed two houses. The three-story Zo'rob house and the two-story Breika's were reduced into rubble in minutes.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=659
Palestinian child killed in Israeli helicopter raid on Gaza
A 12-year-old Palestinian was killed and five other people wounded when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile near a market in Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=7&u=/afp/20040511/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_toll_040511123823
8 Civilians Killed, 110 Wounded in al-Zaytoon Massacre
The number of Palestinians who were killed Tuesday in al-Zaytoon massacre in southern Gaza City by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) gunfire and Apache helicopters missiles mounted to eight and 110 others wounded, including 40 children, Palestinian medical sources reported.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=663
6 soldiers killed in Gaza; troops pour in as Strip cut in 3
Six Israel Defense Forces soldiers from the Givati Brigade's engineering company were killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning... IDF sources said the vehicle had been carrying explosives for demolishing workshops...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/426159.html
Protesting against the deterioration of their human Conditions, Qadomeem Palestinian Detainees start an Open Hunger Strike
Palestinian detainees in Qadomeem Concentration Camp started an open hunger strike- since 8 May 2004- and it is still lasting till now. This was reported by Mohannad Ek Kharraz – lawyer of the Palestinian Detainee Club- after visiting the camp and meeting a number of those detainees.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_05/058.html
Militants set demands to return Israeli remains
"We possess the remains of your bodies that were thrown into the streets of Gaza. We have our demands to hand them over to the Zionist occupier," said a joint statement by Islamic Jihad and the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11347709.htm
Palestinian Girl Arrested in Tulkarem
The sources said that IOF troops stormed Wadi Shahin neighbourhood, broke into several houses, severely searched them, and arrested Nida' Jebril, leading her to an unknown location. Witnesses added that IOF turned al-Safa building in the city into a military post.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=661
1,100 Palestinians made homeless in Gaza in 10 days of destruction
In one of the most intense periods of destruction since the start of the intifada, the Israeli military has demolished, or damaged beyond repair, 131 residential buildings in the Gaza Strip in the last ten days. The demolitions have made 1,100 people newly homeless...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2644.shtml
UN says Israel fired smoke bombs at its border post
"UNIFIL strongly protested to the Israel Defence Forces' intentional firing of three smoke rounds that directly hit a UNIFIL position during the exchange of fire with Hizbollah in the Shebaa Farms area on Friday morning," a U.N. official, who declined to be identified, said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11284746.htm
Rajoub: Qureia to present Rice with plan for Palestinian state
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia will next week present U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice with a plan for a new Palestinian state, based on the internationally-brokered road map to Middle East peace...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/426194.html
How to perpetuate poverty
The Central Bureau of Statistics report on socioeconomic differences between the Arab and Jewish populations of Israel, released a few days ago, should come as no surprise. This partial data corroborate claims of discrimination and neglect by the state toward the Arab minority
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/425947.html
Bush Assures Palestinians on State in Letter
The comments were made in a letter to Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, the official said. Palestinians have been furious since Bush said last month that Israel could expect to keep parts of the West Bank under any final peace deal and ruled out chances that Palestinian refugees could return to former homes.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=18&u=/nm/20040511/ts_nm/mideast_usa_dc_3
Bush Urges Palestinians to Back Gaza Pullout
The letter came amid signs of renewed contacts between Washington and the Palestinians, who are furious at unprecedented assurances given by Bush to Israel last month in a bid to support the Gaza Strip pullout plan.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5109440
Israeli confessed 'under duress' to killing peace activist
In a conflict that has seen thousands of deaths but only a handful of soldiers arrested, the trial of Sgt Idier Wahid Taysir for manslaughter was described as an historic one, a result of a campaign for justice by Mr Hurndall's family.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=520097
Annan 'disturbed' by latest cycle of deadly violence in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is deeply disturbed by the alarming violence in Gaza City that started today, which left several Palestinians, including civilians and children, and at least six Israeli soldiers dead, his spokesman said.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10697&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
Qurei says Palestinians to go for general election
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei announced on Monday that he would refer to the Quartet Committee asking for setting up a proper date for holding presidential and parliamentarian election in the Palestinian territories.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/11/content_1461574.htm
Syria says US sanctions "unjust, unjustified"
Sanctions imposed on Syria by the United States are "unjust and unjustified," Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri said... But he added that "these sanctions will not have any affect on Suria," while calling on Washington "reverse its decision and not provoke problems between the two countries."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20040511/wl_mideast_afp/us_syria_sanctions_reax_040511205020
Iran: We retaliate if israel hits our nuclear facilities
Iran's top nuclear negotiator warned Israel on Tuesday that his country would certainly retaliate if the Jewish state were to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/426245.html
Conditions for Israel's Legitimacy as "the Jewish State in Palestine" have yet to be met!
Despite many reservations the UN eventually bought into the argument in 1949 with the understanding that there were certain conditions that Israel had to meet along with recognizing Palestine's right to self-government. Today most Zionists like to point out that Resolution 181 was non-binding, perhaps because they don't want to go back to the 55-45% borders proposed by the plan.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/may/may112.html
IS ISRAEL OBLIGED TO IMPLEMENT INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW?
There are two UNGA resolutions that interest us here: Resolution ES-10/13, adopted on 21 October 2003 , which requests Israel to stop the building of the wall in occupied Palestinian territory; and Resolution ES-10/14, adopted on 8 December 2003 in the 23rd meeting of the UNGA’s 10th Emergency Special Session.
http://www.imemc.org/opinion/2004/may/israel-intl-law-oped.htm
Bush and Sharon Pursue a Common Goal: Dominance Over the Middle East
Sharon aims to crush Palestinian resistance and maintain Israel’s continued dominance over the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights. Bush’s “Greater Middle East Initiative” aims at turning Arab governments into pro-Western, free-market states that will establish normal relations with Israel and encourage the Palestinians to make peace on Israel’s terms.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May_2004/0405006.html
A war cry from Israel highlights American double standards
Is it any wonder the United States' stock is at its lowest ebb on the Arab street, that it is seen as anything but an honest and impartial broker in the "road map" process to an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, that it is seen as the brutal, deceiving and hypocritical occupier of Iraq?
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=3417&categ_id=17
Israeli link possible in US torture techniques
The head of the American defense contracting firm implicated in the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has close ties to Israel and visited an Israeli "anti-terror" training camp in the occupied West Bank earlier this year.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2641.shtml
Amnesty report lists 37 'disputed' killings by UK forces
Hanan Matrud, an eight-year-old girl shot dead by British troops in Basra. She is one of 37 Iraqi civilians killed in disputed circumstances by UK soldiers. Hanan Matrud was playing with three friends when a British Army Warrior armoured vehicle pulled up near her home in a village in southern Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=520103 |
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