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Forcible Migration in Rafah Refugee Camp: 3 Palestinian Civilians Killed and 35 Houses Destroyed by Israeli Occupation Forces
IOF killed 3 Palestinian civilians, including an elderly man, and destroyed 35 houses during an incursion into Rafah refugee camp. Each time, IOF try to justify such house demolitions in Rafah by claiming that they are searching for tunnels, but in fact, such attacks aim at creating a buffer zone along the Egyptian border, south of the town, and expel local inhabitants.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2004/128-2004.htm
Palestinian Authority coordinated timetable for olive harvest with IDF
In some cases, when Palestinian farmers did try to reach their groves they were driven off by settlers. Yesterday, four Palestinians from the village of Salam and four International Solidarity Mission activists who were trying to harvest olives in the Elon Moreh area were detained for questioning.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487911.html
Breaking Sharon's 'Iron Wall' - Death of the Roadmap to Peace
September 14th, Occupation forces began in earnest the process of building a new settlement on Izbat Salman and Izbat Jalud lands, near Qalqiliya district in the West Bank. Earlier in August, the Occupation forces began moving in bulldozers to clear the way for settlement expansion including the uprooting of 5,000 olive trees during the construction of the Separation Wall.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/oct/oct14.html
UN figure calls on EU to freeze Israel's special trade status
Ziegler said he would submit a report at the next United Nations General Assembly meeting , according to which 22 percent of Palestinian children in the territories were suffering from malnutrition. A United Nations food expert called on the European Union to freeze Israel's special trade partner status, in order to pressure Jerusalem into ceasing a policy...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488934.html
Palestine beats Taiwan 1-0 in World Cup qualifier
Palestine coach, Ghassan Balawi, said he had to bring a young team to Taiwan because seven of his best players weren't allowed to travel. "It was a political problem," he said. "The Israeli government would not let them go."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/soccer/20041014-0517-as-spt-soc-taiwan-palestine.html
Olive growers rue absent Palestinians
Basem, a Palestinian worker, on the phone Wednesday from Kabatiya, said he can't understand the policy at the checkpoints. "We are given permits, and then stopped. We merely want to work for our livelihood, otherwise we will have nothing to eat. I don't own any land, or property, if I can't work, what will I do?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=488479&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Different Kinds of Tears
A 12-year-old child, Hussam al-Najjar, was crying loudly, his tears showered his face while his relatives were trying to make him calm. Hussam, who was wounded with an Israeli gunshot in the right leg, was crying because he has just heard that his 10-year-old cousin Mohammed has just died of wounds he sustained the day before.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1787
Five Palestinians killed in Gaza; Israeli officers urge end to offensive
Five more Palestinians were killed in Gaza as Israel pushed on with a massive operation in the north of the territory despite criticism by officers that the offensive had become counter-productive.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=1312&e=3&u=/afp/20041014/wl_afp/mideast_041014115917
Israelis covering up their losses in Jabaliya
Testimonies and eyewitness accounts from residents of the refugee camp, being aired around the clock on local radio stations, either confirm seeing an Israeli tank ripped apart by a roadside bomb or helicopters landing nearby to evacuate Israeli casualties.
http://www.arabmediawatch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2019
UN criticizes Israel for human rights violations in territories
The annual human rights report is to be presented to the UN General Assembly later this month. The 18-page report was prepared by John Dugard, the UN representative for human rights. It charges that while some of Israel's actions in the Palestinian areas can be explained by security concerns, many cannot.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=488934&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
UN agency faces $120 million shortfall for emergency aid to Palestinians
The United Nations relief agency assisting Palestinians faces a $120 million shortfall for its emergency operations this year in Gaza and the West Bank, donor countries were told today. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said only $89.4 million has been pledged for its $209.4 million Emergency Appeal for Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12224&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Living conditions for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon 'worse than Occupied Territories'
"I was stunned by the refugee camps in Lebanon," he said. "Even in camps in Gaza and Nablus in the Occupied Territories, the situation is better than that of the camps in Lebanon." During his visit to Beirut this week, Khatib, with a delegation of Palestinian officials, visited President Emile Lahoud to plead for "easing the living and working conditions for Palestinians here."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=9250
Israel could become pariah state, warns report
The EU says Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 must be followed by major troop withdrawals in the West Bank, and pave the way for Palestinian statehood. "None of this is exactly what the Israelis want to hear, but we have to say it," Ms Gallach said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1327370,00.html
Israel will not limit access to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque for Ramadan
Israel will not restrict the entrance of worshippers to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan despite concerns part of the structure could collapse, security sources said Thursday
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30797
Palestinian PM says PA unable to put end to chaos
Angered by a lack of reforms that international peace mediators demand as a condition for Palestinian statehood, Palestinian legislators have demanded Qureia present a report on his cabinet's performance on October 20.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/488826.html
U.S.: Gaza Pullout Timing Up to Israel
The Bush administration renewed its approval of a planned Israeli pullout from Gaza on Thursday and said the timing was up to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_israel_palestinians
Arafat appeals for Arab support over deadly Gaza campaign
Arafat urged Arab League chief Amr Mussa in a letter to "intensify his contacts with the international community to support the Palestinian people against Israel's official policy of killing and destroying and to revive the peace process, which is currently at an impasse,"...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041014/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_gaza_arab_arafat_041014162612
PM: Gaza raid will proceed if there are Israeli casualties
The Israel Defense Forces operation in northern Gaza will continue as long as there are casualties on the Israeli side, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488107.html
Low turnout at anti pullout demonstrations across the country
Several thousands of people gathered across the country to protest Prime Minister Sharon's disengagement plan on Thursday evening. Demonstration planners said they expected some 500,000 people to take part in the various protests in support of the Gush Katif settlers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488706.html
Peace Now: Probe rabbi's call to disobey evacuation orders
According to Shapira, orders must be refused "also at the price of sitting in jail." In addition, soldiers must not even assist in evacuating settlements, he said. "It is an offense, it is forbidden, and they must say that to their commander. It is like desecrating the Sabbath and eating non-kosher food," Shapira said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488477.html
UN agency demands Israel apology
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is demanding an apology from Israel after the Army admitted it was wrong to accuse UN staff of helping Palestinian militants.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1219646.htm
'The last Jewish intellectual'
London- based Egyptian professor Sabry Hafez shared what he had heard from Swedish sources -- that had Said lived another year, he was in line to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature... As Alexander Cockburn put it, "Edward was important not just for what he did in his books, but because they have encouraged so many people."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/cu1.htm
Spelling out Sharon's real plan
"Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda," he said. "And all this ... with a [U.S.] presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/12/opinion/edsiegman.html
Israel buries the "peace" process
THE SUICIDE bombing that targeted Israeli tourists at an Egyptian resort hotel captured front-page headlines across the U.S. But the more lethal Israeli violence against Palestinians in the days before and after the hotel bombing barely earned a few paragraphs. This is the sick double standard of U.S. politicians and their media mouthpieces...
http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/516/516_03_Israel.shtml
Analysis / No white flags in Jabalya
The prime minister is aware of these facts, but no less aware of the political tangle he is in. Against the right-wing's charges that he is making too many political concessions, Sharon can make a convincing display of force, without paying too high a price, in the military arena.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488433.html
Israel ‘risks EU ostracism unless conflict resolved'
EU could harm Israeli interests by challenging the influence of the US, Israel’s main ally. “This could put Israel on a collision course with the European Union,” the report said. “Such a collision course holds the risk of Israel losing international legitimacy and could lead to its isolation in the manner of [apartheid] South Africa.”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7b37b84a-1dbb-11d9-9c24-00000e2511c8.html
Duke increases security for Palestinian conference
Duke University said it plans to have more than 100 uniformed security personnel on campus this weekend in case of trouble during conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement. The conference begins Friday.
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=56966&SecID=2
Syria-Lebanon question headed back to UN Security Council
Annan said that both Beirut and Damascus had indicated that the Syrian troops were on the ground "at the invitation of Lebanon and that their presence is therefore by mutual agreement." The United States and France put forward a draft UN Security Council resolution pressing Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20041014/wl_mideast_afp/un_syria_lebanon_us_041014194408
Fallujah Delegation Suspends Peace Talks
Allawi's "government now is an (American) agent that is working to make this city easy for American troops to enter and do what they want," Assad said. "Military operations didn't even stop when the negotiating delegation was in Baghdad ... Dozens are killed every day. Entire families have been eliminated."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fallujah
At least 31 die in Iraq violence on eve of Ramadan; Green Zone bombed
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the dead Americans were security staff with a private company on contract to protect the US embassy. He added that embassy staff had been ordered to remain in the heavily fortified facility until further notice.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041014/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_041014185849 |
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