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Qalqilya Strangled by Israel's Wall
Farmers can visit their fields outside the wall only when Israeli soldiers open the gates. Israelis are now forbidden by their government to shop for produce, get haircuts or fix their cars in Qalqilya as they used to. Israel has posted signs saying it is forbidden even to enter Qalqilya. This town will not survive without trade from Israel, and was dying before our eyes.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410048.html
ICJ Rules Israel Is “Obligated” to Observe International Law, Make Reparations
The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime, is contrary to international law. The U.S. and Israel have conspired to remove all questions of legal rights from peace negotiations.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410010.html
Amount of apartments sold in territories rises by 20.5%
The rise in sales in the territories parallels a decrease in sales of apartments in the periphery that are located within the Green Line. The average lag time between construction and sale is about 18 months.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487358.html
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The Gaza community mental health programme has catalogued a full range of post-traumatic stress symptoms displayed by the children: stammering, depression, headaches, stomach pains, the inability to concentrate. Behind the cheeky grins, the shooting and shelling is educating the children of Gaza on a daily syllabus of fear.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1324405,00.html
Palestinian olive grower shot, critically wounded
A Palestinian farmer was shot and critically wounded in his olive orchard near Nablus in the West Bank on Monday. Palestinians blamed Israel Defense Forces, while the IDF said that a Jewish settler fired the shots.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486924.html
Palestinian Shot in the Neck During Olive Picking
Hani Shihadeh, 26, was shot in the neck by a soldier after the troops arrived at the orchard to break up a fist fight between Jewish settlers and the Palestinians picking olives, said Munir Darwish, a Palestinian who was picking with Shadeh.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101104/olive-picking.htm
Israelis probe Gaza girl shooting
Hundreds of Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli troops during the Palestinian uprising or intifada. It is unusual for the army to launch an investigation into the circumstances of such incidents. But the death of Iman al-Hams is different because soldiers have complained publicly about the behaviour of their commander - who has not been named.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3733638.stm
Four Palestinians Shot Dead as Israeli Aggression on Gaza Strip Heightens
Four Palestinian residents were reportedly killed and several others wounded in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupying forces, including three in the northern refugee camp of Jablya, and a fourth in the middle city of Deir Elbalah.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=440
MK set to propose bill enabling communities for Jews only
The Knesset presidium voted on Monday to allow National Union MK Zvi Hendel to propose a bill enabling the establishment of communities for Jews only, sparking charges of racism. Hendel said the purpose of the bill was to allow for the creation of communities for Jews only.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487364.html
Médecins Sans Frontières asks for access to its patients in Gaza
Since then, and despite multiple daily requests to the Israeli authorities to allow medical teams to reach people in need, no "coordination" - clearance given by Israeli army - has been given to MSF. To this day Gaza is still cut into three segments, and access to our patients is strictly impossible.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3202.shtml
Sharon withholds approval to End Jabalia Offensive
Therefore, the military operation will continue despite mounting criticism in the General Staff and Southern Command of the Israeli Army. The army officers said that remaining in the densely populated camp increases the danger to the troops, and recommended operating in other parts of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101104/withhold-approval.htm
Jihad confirms commander's escape of assassination in Rafah
It was the third time that Khalil survived a possible assassination within the last few months. He was wounded in a previous Israeli attack, during which hisleg was cut off. In a second airstrike, two of his brothers were killed in Rafah. His another two brothers were killed in Lebanon in 1983 when Israel invaded south Lebanon.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/11/content_2077853.htm
Catholic hospitals and dying patients hunted by Israeli tax collectors
The Jerusalem Municipality is threatening to confiscate the funds of St. Louis Catholic Hospital, if the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, who run this specialised hospital for the terminally ill, do not pay the property taxes, from which, by international law, they are exempt.
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1653
South Africans Rally Against Olmert's Visit
The Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa plans a protest campaign across South Africa against a visit by Israeli Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert to the country, scheduled for Saturday, October 16.
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-10/11/article06.shtml
Palestine's game in Taiwan put back over visa delay
Palestine's World Cup qualifier away to Taiwan has been put back one day after a delay in the Middle Eastern team obtaining exit visas from Israel, FIFA said on Monday.
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-worldpalestine&prov=reuters&type=lgns
EU demands Israel end Gaza incursion
"(The EU) condemns the disproportionate nature of Israeli military actions in the Gaza strip,"... Meeting in Luxembourg, the ministers acknowledged Israel's right to defend itself against missile attacks but said "these actions have claimed the lives of many innocent civilians, including children, and left many injured".
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=601225§ion=news
Israeli attack on Gaza: NEC resolution
As the recent death toll in Gaza rises to over 70, including at least 19 children, UNISON condemns the activities of the Israeli army and calls on the government of Israel to cease its violent and indiscriminate attack on Gaza immediately. UNISON further condemns the demolition of homes and the destruction of agricultural land
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/news_view.asp?did=1707
Arab forum on Palestinian development meets in Beirut
Due to run until October 14, the conference aims "to enhance mechanisms for forging partnerships between Arab and Palestinian entities ... therefore assisting the Palestinian people to overcome the repercussions of the occupation as well as to address future challenges
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487381&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Sharon Vows Parliament Vote on Gaza Plan on Oct. 25
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Monday to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a parliamentary vote on Oct. 25, despite persistent violence in the coastal strip and fierce opposition from Israel's far right.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6469257
Jewish settlers step up campaign against Sharon's Gaza pullout plan
Under the banner "Sharon is tearing apart the nation," the settlers' main organization, the Yesha Council, "is demanding that the prime minister bring his Gaza and northern Samaria -- northern West Bank -- disengagement proposal to a national referendum or call for early elections", a statement said.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30446
Silvan Shalom: Peace with Syria 'a strategic goal'
"I think that peace with Syria is a strategic goal for the State of Israel" he said. "(It) would mean that all the countries we share a border with would be at peace with us and of course that would also make future negotiations with the Palestinians easier."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487322&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israeli planes fly through Lebanese airspace
Four Israeli jets flew over the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, an official said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. The planes caused some panic among the inhabitants of Akkar, a town near the east Lebanese border with Syria, the official added.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097468028320
Foreign Minister chairs peace process conference on Israeli-Palestine conflict
Senior adviser to Palestine President Arafat Mohamed Rachid Arafat and Israeli Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit, both former negotiators, were among the official speakers at the conference together with the authors of the Geneva Accord, also former peace negotiators, Yossi Beilin of Israel and Yasser Abed Rabbo of Palestine.
http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28072
Israel Destroys Palestine's Children
Israel portrays the children of Palestine as terrorists, faceless stone throwers, but due to Israeli policies, it's highly complex matrix of control, the health, education and overall well-being of the 1.8 million children of Palestine are at severe risk, Adah Kay, Professor at City University, London stated at the UN Conference
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/133075.php
Unforgivable Betrayals and Broken Promises - By ROBERT FISK
British thought they could fix the Middle East in 14 days. And so we laid the borders of Iraq and laid out the future for what Churchill would, much later, refer to as the "hell disaster'' of Palestine. I'll always remember the way that Macdonald, talking to me in his Sevenoaks home 26 years ago, turned to me during our conversation. "In Palestine, I failed,'' he said. "And that is why you are in Beirut today.''
http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk10112004.html
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Next to Rachel’s Tomb, the traditional pilgrims’ route between Jerusalem and Bethlehem now is barricaded and impassable. “It’s a big shame to put the wall at the entrance to Bethlehem,” said Mayor Nasser. The Israeli military seized Rachel’s Tomb for—what else?—”security reasons,” pushing concrete barriers in front of the site and wrapping it in razor wire.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410054.html
Massacre in Gaza
The Israeli army's murder of 82 Palestinians in the week after Sept. 28; Ariel Sharon's unleashing of artillery and rockets on civilian areas; the U.S. veto at the United Nations backing Sharon's massacres; the position of the Kerry-Edwards campaign--all must be looked at in the light of the ongoing occupation.
http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/edit1014.php
Reconstruction of the Heart of Jenin
From 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Nov. 22, 2002, Israeli snipers attacked the U.N. compound in Jenin, trapping 28 staff members, including Wolstenholme and Iain Hook, both British ex-military men who had worked together in Bosnia. Wolstenholme described how Hook was shot. The IDF then prevented an ambulance from getting to the compound.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410058.html
Charge of “Anti-Semitism” Used to Provoke Immigration of French Jews to Israel
History has recorded that anti-Semites and Zionists are natural allies who have helped each other on several occasions. Anti-Semitism in France, real or imagined, and the invitation to French Jews to occupy Palestine is yet another instance of this phenomenon.
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410008.html
“The Game Is Clear”: Israel Dismantling Palestinian Society, Culture
With each passing day, it became more apparent that Israel’s strategy is twofold: not only to dismantle Palestinian society, but also to eliminate any moderate Palestinian who could serve as a “partner for peace.” “I am Israel’s real enemy,” Erekat explained, “because I am committed to working for peace.”
http://wrmea.com/archives/Oct_2004/0410046.html
Rumsfeld's optimism silenced by bombing
Mr Rumsfeld's trip had not been announced beforehand for security reasons. He met US military commanders, the American ambassador, John Negroponte, and Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. His last visit was in May at the height of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=570732 |
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