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Settler violence restricts Palestinian olive harvest
Two olive groves totaling approximately 110 acres will not be allowed to be harvested at all. One of these olive groves is near the illegal settlement outpost of Havat Gilad. Restrictions on Palestinians harvesting their own crops were also imposed on the villagers of Kafr Kaddum.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/oct/oct141.html
90,000 Worshippers Attend Ramadan prayers At Al-Aqsa
Most of worshippers came from Arab Moslem communities inside Israel . Palestinians from the West Bank are banned from entering Jerusalem , some find their way by-passing road block and military check posts. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip stand no chance to join the Friday prayer in Haram-Al-Sharif, during the holiest Moslem month.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week3/101504/90000%20attended.htm
Letter from Twanie
In the 1980s, Israel began building settlments (or colonies) in these hills. They have systematically expanded them, confiscating more and more of these villages' farm and grazing land. Some of the smaller villages have been destroyed entirely by the Israeli military or rampaging settlers. This simple and loving village of Twani has demolition orders on every house...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3236.shtml
Three hours at Kalandia checkpoint
As part of the effort to Judaize Jerusalem (a term used by the Israeli Authorities), Palestinians from East Jerusalem are not given permits to build or even repair their homes in the city. If they built without a permit their houses are demolished. On the other hand they are permitted to build in areas closer to Ramallah like Al-Ram and Samir Amis.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3238.shtml
The FIDH Calls for the Immediate End of the Ongoing Incursion in the Gaza Strip
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli military operation going on since 28 September 2004 in the Northern Gaza Strip in complete violation of international law. The FIDH recalls that the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 applies...
http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=1985
Israeli Soldier Cleared In Palestinian Girl's Death
commander who was accused of repeatedly shooting a 13-year-old Palestinian girl to make sure she was dead, but officials said Friday the punishment wasn't because of the shooting. The officer was suspended for "failure of command" and poor relations with his subordinates, Harel said.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/3825130/detail.html
Five killed on Friday, including an aged woman shot dead while at home in Jabalia
A Palestinian medical source in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, said that soldiers shot dead an 80 years old woman while she was at home, easting with her family after the first fasting day of the Moslem Holy Month of Ramadan.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week3/101504/Gaza%20strike.htm
Palestinian children are not terrorists
These children are confronted with a hard struggle: to find ways to clear their name and reputation in the media. They want others to realize their only fault was to be born under an occupation that stripped away their childhood. The life of Palestinian children is far from normal. Their daily trips to school take hours instead of minutes.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/195275_palestinian15.html
Settlers who attacked Palestinian olive pickers arrested
Palestinians said the settlers who attacked them reside in a nearby outpost. Three Palestinians were detained for questioning. After the incident, the army prevented the Palestinians from harvesting the olives and sent them home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489266.html
Organized Settlers' Gangs Step Up Attacks on Peace Activists
While Israeli police declared that attacks against peace activists and innocent palestinian civilians, especially school children, in the Hebron area was the work of a well organized settlers' gang, army says "As soon as the peace activists are gone, things will calm down,"
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week3/101504/settlers%20attack%20peace%20activists.htm
?Palestinian gunners fire missile on Israeli targets
The spokesman said the gunners fired one Al-Qassam missile from the northern part of the strip in the direction of Ashderot in southern Israel, despite continuing Israeli military operations in the strip. The spokesman said a missile crashed into the industrial zone in the town inflicting no losses.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=672707
Sharon's rampage
Missiles fired by military drones killed as many 10 civilians this week, many while struggling to bring food or water to their families, locked down inside their cubic cement rooms for the second consecutive week. Meanwhile, the Israeli army has belatedly confessed to have deliberately murdered a Palestinian school girl.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/re4.htm
Working Towards a Better Future for Palestine Refugees
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, is holding a two-day meeting with 26 major donor countries and host authorities to plan the future of humanitarian assistance to the millions of stateless Palestinians scattered across the Middle East.
http://www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2004/hqg35-04.pdf
UN criticizes Israel for human rights violations in territories
During operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel engaged in "massive and wanton destruction of property," the report said. "Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=488934&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
France protests Israeli warning shots near envoy
"This type of act is unacceptable, even more so since it concerns people with diplomatic passports who followed all the formalities demanded by the Israeli army," he said. "It is all the more worrying because it is not an isolated case," the statement added. "Other European diplomats have experienced similar difficulties."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1518678.htm
French FM to see Sharon on fence-mending visit to Israel Sunday
The minister was to reaffirm France's belief that the so-called Middle East roadmap is the "only agreed framework for relaunching the peace process," the spokesman said. On Thursday Barnier said the EU has a political role to play in resolving the conflict.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20041015/wl_mideast_afp/france_israel_mideast_041015161910
Sharon to hold meeting with settlers
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has invited leaders of the settler movement, who are fiercely opposed to his Gaza pullout plan, to a meeting on Sunday, his office said. "The meeting is being held on the initiative of Mr Sharon at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem," a spokesman said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/14AEB1C8-5238-4ED4-B548-E94233CC117D.htm
Russia to send its envoy to Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone
Inappropriate use of military force by Israel in densely populated areas impedes the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.
http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20041015183620.shtml
International poll: World opposes Bush, except Israel
While more than half of those polled elsewhere stated their attitude toward the U.S. had deteriorated, most respondents in Israel said their opinion had improved, and 76 percent said the U.S. contributed to peace in the world. Among Israelis polled, 50 percent said they would like to see George Bush reelected
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=489210&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Hizbullah is involved in West Bank, says Israel
Israel's claim was given some credence this week by the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, who complained about Iran meddling in the West Bank and Gaza. He claimed Hizbullah was trying to "infiltrate" Fatah, his own organisation, which includes the al-Aqsa Brigades.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1327732,00.html
THE SITUATION: Knesset Vote Against Sharon Seen To Signal Coalition's End
Some army commanders quietly back the referendum idea, fearing that the lack of a popular mandate will make the plan's implementation dangerously divisive. The prime minister, however, has refused so far to consider the idea, insisting he can win Knesset approval and implement the plan on his own timetable.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=shelah20041013930
Israel and Racism
The fact of the matter is that the people of historical Palestine did exist. Their roots are derived from the ancient Canaanite population and the Muslim and Christian Arab peoples who jointly conquered Palestine from Byzantium in 637 A.D. In 1897, 93% of the inhabitants were Palestinian Arabs: 88% Muslim and 10% Christian.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=6412
Don't let him fall
There are people, particularly on the left, who say Sharon has been bluffing all along. They claim he never meant what he said and would never do it. His own camp, on the other, has been much more believing - especially the right-wing extremists and settlers. They have made up their minds to shoot him down...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489049.html
Column One: Sharon shows his cards
The idea is that by pushing a radical leftist agenda, Barak then and Sharon today have both been pulling the wool over our eyes – forcing the Palestinians to show their cards and in so doing, pointing to the emptiness of the Left's ideology of appeasement, thereby, indirectly, advancing the platform of the Right.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097727860804
The New York Times' coverage of Operation "Days of Penitence" in Gaza
Not one of Bennett's 8,692 words alluded to the 20,000 civilians killed in Sharon's 1982 bombing of Beirut; nor did Bennett's research cover Sharon's missives to South Africa's apartheid regime, urging them to beef up their military... A notable example was Greg Myre's October 5 report, “Palestinian Rockets Miss Some Targets, but Hit Israeli Nerves.”
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3237.shtml
Report slams US Arabic radio station
A draft report by the US State Department's inspector general has criticized the Arabic-language Radio Sawa for failing to promote democracy and pro-American attitudes in the Middle East. The radio station, which opened in March 2002 with an annual budget of $22m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3743624.stm
US forces hit Falluja and arrest Iraqi negotiator
US forces arrested Falluja’s chief negotiator on Friday after air strikes on the rebel-held city that were part of a U.S. drive to thwart attacks in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. A hospital doctor, Thamim al-Nuaimi, said five civilians had been killed and 11 wounded in the overnight raids.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fc2c48e4-1e88-11d9-9015-00000e2511c8.html
Americans want negotiations to fail: Fallujah delegation member
"If the government represents sovereignty and has its own will, then the negotiations would succeed, but if the government is just a front for the Americans, the negotiations would certainly fail," he said. He said that the delegation wanted to stop bloodshed and restoresecurity and stability in the city.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/15/content_2092011.htm
Iraqi Kurdish leader visits Syria
Barzani, who arrived form Jordan, said he would discuss a number of subjects with Syrian leaders. They included federalism in Iraq, relations between the two countries and the question of Kirkuk, the troubled, ethnically-mixed northern Iraqi city.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041015/wl_mideast_afp/syria_iraq_kurds_041015191640
Polish PM survives confidence vote, promises Iraqi pullback from 2005
Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka promised to start pulling out troops from Iraq next year, shortly before his shaky left-wing government survived a confidence vote in parliament.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=8&u=/afp/20041015/wl_mideast_afp/poland_politics_041015165450
Zarqawi - Bush's Man For All Seasons
Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset turned Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is set to give the go-ahead to what the US Army twice could not bring itself to carry out: the leveling of Fallujah. Following a purely military logic, this is the next step after the barrage of precision strikes that are killing dozens of Sunni Iraqi civilians, according to Fallujah hospital reports.
http://www.world-crisis.com/analysis_comments/922_0_15_0_C/
Germany's Schroeder, Kadhafi disagree over Iraq in landmark meeting
The two leaders disagreed over Iraq, with Kadhafi blaming the United States for the continuing violence there and called for US troops to withdraw, while Schroeder expressed doubts over the wisdom of a sudden pullout, a German official said. The two men were also at odds over the US role in the Middle East.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=18&u=/afp/20041015/wl_mideast_afp/libya_germany_041015124226 |
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