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Three Days Ultimatum for Palestinian Olive Growers to finish
Israeli Authorities warned Palestinian olive growers in the Nablus area in the West Bank to finish picking the olives in three days, claiming that the olive picking season threatened lives of Israeli settlers. This step comes one day after settlers from Yetzhar settlement assaulted some farmers in Asseirah Al-Qibliyyeh resulted in critically injuring one of the farmers in the neck.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101204/olive-ultimatum.htm
Jewish peace group challenges Caterpillar's Israel business
A Jewish group has submitted a shareholders' resolution to Caterpillar Inc., arguing that the heavy machinery company may be risking its reputation by continuing to sell to the Israeli army bulldozers that are used to demolish the homes and orchards of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
http://www.wfn.org/2004/10/msg00074.html
Israeli Gunfire Hits 11-Year Old Girl Sitting at her Desk in an UNRWA School
At 10:45hrs this morning, two shots were heard from the direction of an Israeli army position on the border of the Gush Katif settlement block and overlooking Khan Younis refugee camp. One of the shots hit Ghadeer Jaber Mokheimer, a grade five pupil at UNRWA’s Co-Ed Elementary D School. Ghadeer was immediately taken to hospital and into emergency surgery.
http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2004/hqg33-04.pdf
'Officer emptied gun on dead Palestinian girl'
Thirteen-year-old Iman al-Hams was first gunned down by soldiers posted in a nearby observation tower in the southern Gaza Strip last week as they suspected she was carrying explosives in her satchel. The commander then shot the girl several times, a fellow soldier said. Her body was riddled with 20 bullets, including five in the head
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket7st/basket7st1097486063.aspx
Lost boys of Gaza
The pattern he sees emerging, at the start of the fifth bloody year of intifada, is a generation of Gazawi boys so traumatized by multiple layers of political violence that they no longer view their father as a figure of power.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097358613608&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist1016110013469
Amin Salem 1969 - 2004: UHWC staff member killed during Israeli operation
Amin was married and had a four year old daughter called Asil. He was very dedicated to his work and had a smiley disposition that was never dampened by tough times. Amin's family originated from the village of Herbia, now inside Israel, a few kilometers away from Beit Lahia. But like so many Palestinians, they were made refugees by Israeli militant groups advancing on Palestinian towns and village in 1948.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3210.shtml
Culture and dissent: Khalil Sakakini Center looks towards creative resistance
In Occupied Palestine, it is as if you live a dehumanized existence from the day you're born. You are uneqal. You feel it everyday in how power is exercised. That relationship is rarely altered. You are second class and relegated to a Bantustan-like existence. When the people in power talk peace, you see the situation deteriorate. You see loved ones die, killed off by security forces.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3193.shtml
Deadly Gaza offensive continues - In Pictures
Israel's deadly Gaza offensive enters third week
Israel's massive military onslaught in the northern Gaza Strip entered its third week Tuesday with the death toll topping 110 and scenes of utter devastation in the territory's largest refugee camp. Israeli army bulldozers continued to level citrus groves and houses in the northern sector of the camp.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30537
115 Palestinians killed in Israel's Penitence operation
An official report issued by the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday that 115 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of Israel's Days of Penitence innorthern Gaza on Sept. 29. The report said that among the dead, 65 were civilians, most of them children under the age of 16.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/12/content_2082450.htm
Woman escorting Palestinian kids beaten by mob of Israeli teens in Hebron
The Italian man suffered a broken arm and had his camcorder stolen while he tried to film the attack. Janzen, who works for Christian Peacemaker Teams, escaped shaken, but suffering only bruises.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/10/10/663376.html
PA: Gaza will remain occupied territory
The document says Israel seeks to proclaim an end to the Gaza Strip's occupation in order to absolve Israel of all legal responsibilities as an "occupying power," while simultaneously retaining military control over the Strip and its residents.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487428.html
Sharon: Palestinians to be blamed for not having a State
"The cabinet's decision from June 6 this year does not speak of the evacuation of settlements, but rather says that the cabinet will hold future discussions on whether to evacuate settlements and which ones," Peres said. "It is doubtful that we will vote in favor of this."
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week2/101204/sharon-blames-pals.htm
Arab, international donors give $25 million for Gaza aid
Arab and international donors have given some $25 million to a fund set up to provide humanitarian and reconstruction aid to Gaza, the Islamic Development Bank and Palestinian officials said Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487847.html
Car bomb explodes at Palestinian security HQ in Gaza
Musa Arafat, a nephew of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was appointed head of the Palestinian general security service in July, prompting angry outbursts from militant groups who branded him a symbol of corruption and warned the controversial appointment would lead to "internal conflict".
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041012/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_gaza_041012190851
NRP's Eitam, Levy give party two weeks to quit coalition
National Religious Party MKs Effi Eitam and Yitzhak Levy are threatening to divide their party if it does not quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government, Israel Radio reported Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487850.html
PM meets supporters; 'rebels' accuse him of dividing party
Sharon was only meeting at his Jerusalem residence with those Likud ministers and MKs who voted in support of his state of the nation address to the Knesset on Monday. Sharon lost the largely symbolic vote 53 to 44 following a speech in which he introduced his plans to submit the disengagement...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487729.html
Sharon's words should turn into deeds: Erekat
Erekat called on the Quartet Committee's representatives to act seriously to oblige Israel to implement the roadmap. "The Quartet is actually able to oblige Israel to implement the plan by imposing a mechanism, setting up timetables and bringing international observers," said Erekat.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/12/content_2082059.htm
FM visits Poland in hope that it will make EU more pro-Israel
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday to try and strengthen the relationship between Israel and Poland in the hope that the Eastern European country could make the European Union more pro-Israel, he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487780.html
EU: Unilateral disengagement can't replace two-state solution
The foreign ministers stressed that any withdrawal from Gaza could not replace a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict as foreseen in the road map for peace drafted by the United States, the United Nations, the EU and Russia.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487749&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
EU to unveil plan to help Palestinian state
The European Union is set to produce a plan to ensure the viability of a Palestinian state, based on 1967 borders, it has emerged. In a bid to step up the EU's engagement in the region, the plan is set to focus on reconstruction as well as ensuring security is brought to the territories. It will also set out the need for holding free and fair elections.
http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=17503
Shaath: Disengagement plan aims to destroy Gaza
Speaking in Beirut on Monday, Shaath said, "In reality, it only aims to mark a blow to the national PA, and hit the infrastructure and the economy and divert international attention from the policy to expand settlements and gobble up the land of the West Bank."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=9182
Annan laments ongoing violence in Gaza as another girl is hit by Israeli gunfire
In a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr. Annan said he deplored the "high toll of death and injuries among the civilian population" and grieved "for the many children who have been killed or wounded" during the Israeli military operations in the north of the Gaza Strip. (Carefully choosing words not to hurt Sharon)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12196&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Interview: Ghazi Hamad
As for Arafat, he has expired. I wrote an article a few weeks ago in Al-Risala titled Arafat - You Have to Go. The majority will not vote for Arafat. But the problem is in Fatah. Arafat is the only one who can control them and, if he is lost, there is no alternative. The number two man does not exist in Arab regimes.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48BF1C1C-0300-49E9-A7FC-2FC72D02204B.htm
Between the Lines / Sharon plans to lie low and survive
Indeed, the only one who could carry out the disengagement plan at this time and form a unity government is not Ariel Sharon. Since the Likud members' referendum, Sharon is functioning as a prime minister in Netanyahu's cabinet. The one making the decisions is not the leader but his would-be successor.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487470.html
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487412.html
New bill in US calls for rating countries on treatment of Jews
US Jewish organizations have hailed final congressional approval of a bill that compels the State Department to create a special office to monitor anti-Semitic abuses around the world and compile annual reports rating countries on their treatment of Jews.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&e=7&u=/afp/20041012/pl_afp/us_jews_041012144340
Jewish students protest Duke conference with bus display
The National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement is planned Friday through Sunday. The group is an umbrella for organizations that seek an end to Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their original land.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487411&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
IDF admits Qassam was not transported in UN ambulance
The Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman admitted Tuesday that the IDF was wrong to accuse the UNRWA of using its ambulances to transport Qassam rockets.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487866.html
Iraqi mosque ablaze after US air strike
"Air strikes were called in on the mosque position. The mosque is partially damaged and is currently on fire," he said. Hiyt is on the main road that follows the Euphrates river towards Syria. A US military helicopter was downed in the same city in earlier clashes on Monday, witnesses told Aljazeera.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5FA41DD4-C3A1-42A5-8503-831418384965.htm
Nuclear-linked items 'have vanished from Iraq'
Mr ElBaradei's letter says AEA analysis revealed "in many instances the dismantlement of entire buildings that housed high precision equipment" such as milling machines and electron beam welders that had previously been tagged and monitored. Equipment and materials had been removed from open storage areas.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f858f2ae-1c1b-11d9-bb5b-00000e2511c8.html
Iraqi Kurds ready to fight for Kirkuk: Barzani
"If anyone, if any regime or system wants to continue the Arabization or oppression of the people of Kirkuk, we will defend their rights and we are ready to fight for them," Barzani told AFP through an interpreter. He said the Iraqi Kurds would defend not only the Kurdish people of Kirkuk but "any other group or minority" in the city.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=14&u=/afp/20041012/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_turkey_kurds_041012143401
Poland has repatriated 34 soldiers from Iraq for psychiatric problems
"PTSD syndrome (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) has been diagnosed among seven soldiers in the first contingent (in 2003), 23 in the second, and four in the current one," Colonel Miroslaw Karasek told journalists.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20041012/wl_mideast_afp/poland_iraq_041012173844 |
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