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Left-wing activists not allowed to help olive-pickers
Israel Defense Forces troops denied the entry of more than 100 Israeli left-wing activists who had come to assist in an olive harvest, into the village of Azawiyeh in the northern West Bank on Saturday morning.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/488976.html
Corries push U.S. government to investigate their daughter's death
Corrie and his wife, Cindy, are pushing the U.S. Congress to open a new investigation into the death of their daughter, Rachel, 23, who was crushed by a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian physician's home.
http://www.wfn.org/2004/10/msg00122.html
Gazans survey devastation after Israeli operation
Lamp posts and electricity cables lay uprooted along roads mangled by Israeli tanks around Jabaliya and Beit Lahya. Puddles of stagnant drain water permeated refugee camp streets with a fetid smell. Whole districts were still without water and electricity on Saturday. "This is worse than an earthquake. The Israelis threw out the Palestinians in 1948 and in 1967 and they're trying to do the same thing now,"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041016/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_gaza_041016153141
PCHR Receives delegation from Human Rights Watch and witnesses destruction in Jabalya Refugee Camp
HRW was visiting Gaza as part of a programme marking the release of their new report in Jerusalem on Monday the 18 th of October. The report is entitled Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip. The report details the comprehensive destruction of homes and agricultural land in Rafah last May...
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2004/129-2004.htm
Young Palestinian dies suffering from wounds in Gaza
Director of the Public Relations Department in Al-Shefaa Hospital in Gaza, Dr. Jumaa Al-Saqa told KUNA that young Palestinian Mohammed Al-Eilla, 25, died after suffering from serious wounds and burns that covered his whole body, caused by shrapnel of an Israeli missile fired at him on October 6th.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=672882
'Sharon is a butcher'
Around 100 houses were levelled in the refugee camp of Jabaliya and neighbouring Beit Lahya, scenes of the heaviest violence, said Palestinian security sources and a correspondent at the scene. Fifty workshops and shops along the Gaza Strip's main road were destroyed by tanks and army bulldozers.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1606255,00.html
Twilight Zone / The meter is running
Far from the lazy eye that we still somehow open in the direction of the horrifying killing in the Jabalya refugee camp - where there were 110 killed by the beginning of this week - the innocent victims who die daily in Jenin remain anonymous, and the circumstances of their killing don't interest anyone.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489312.html
Palestinians retrieve belongings from rubble of flattened homes
Gaza Strip Residents of a northern Gaza refugee camp are poring through the rubble of what was once their homes. After 17-days of an Israeli incursion, Palestinians are now trying to retrieve their belongings from dozens of destroyed houses.
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Muslims protest Israeli visit - (South Africa)
Ehud Olmert is expected in the country next week to discuss strengthening economic ties with South Africa. "Suddenly economics is more important than human suffering," said Mandla Sishi of the Palestinian Solidarity Group, which helped organise a demonstration in Cape Town, one of three major cities where rallies were staged.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1606281,00.html
Hadash-Ta'al announces will opppose disengagement bill
Hadash's political bureau, headed by MK Mohammed Barakeh, said it reached its decision because "the disengagement plan is an alibi for Sharon and is meant to serve as a cover for continued war crimes against the Palestinians and to bury the peace process."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489425.html
UN report: Israel guilty of wanton destruction
"Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines." The report is dated August 12, well before the current Israeli operation in northern Gaza, the largest in four years of fighting.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097915021482
Israel calls for ouster of UN food officer
Ziegler, according to an AFP report, will present a study to the UN General Assembly next week saying that 22 percent of children in the territories are gravely malnourished, and half of the Palestinians are dependent on food aid.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097727861522
UN-backed Palestine Rehabilitation Forum announces development initiatives
New initiatives - from planting trees to helping businesswomen - aimed at fostering development in the Palestinian territories have been announced at the conclusion of a four-day United Nations-backed Arab International Forum held in Beirut.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12249&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
?Palestinian official warns of further deterioration in occupied territory
Palestinian Minister of Negotiations Saeb Oreikat on Saturday warned the Palestinian Authority that conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories were dramatically deteriorating as a result of continuous hostile action by the Israeli occupation forces.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=672960
IDF leaves Jabalya, redeploys near site of Qassam launchings
In a television interview on Saturday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that while Israeli forces had pulled back in northern Gaza, troops remain committed to battling the rocket threat - a strong hint that Israel believes more Qassams will be launched.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489056.html
The Political Aims Behind "Days of Penitence" Operation
Evidently, with the American Veto in the UN Security Council, Sharon felt that he enjoyed a solid international umbrella even as the death toll among Palestinian civilians was unprecedented; almost a Palestinian was killed every three hours.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week3/101604/political%20aims%20behind.htm
International poll: World opposes Bush, except Israel
Israelis, perhaps not surprisingly, are alone in their support of the American president. While in other countries, 60-80 percent of those asked said they believed the war in Iraq to have been a mistake, in Israel most thought it justified.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489210.html
Indonesia to work for independent Palestine
“He stated that the Indonesian government under his leadership will take a more pro-active role on the issue of Palestine and hopes that the formation of an independent, viable and sovereign state of Palestine will be realised as soon as possible,” Dino Pati Djalal, quoted the president-elect as saying.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-10-2004_pg4_7
Under siege since 9/11, Arab voters shift to Kerry
By luck rather than design Arab-Americans are a sizeable force in many swing states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. In a third of the states needed to win the electoral college, Arab-Americans make up more than the gaps between the two parties. In 2000 they backed George Bush. This year they are leaning half-heartedly towards his Democratic challenger...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1328800,00.html
Documentary film review: "Checkpoint"
The simplest of activities are made impossible by Israeli soldiers, who are documented in the film as sometimes denying Palestinians movement just because they can. Palestinian men, women, and children - healthy, frail, old, and young - are forced to wait in bitter thunderstorms, snow, and the heat to get to hospitals, schools, funerals, jobs, and their homes.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3232.shtml
Cinema for Palestine: so many images, so few movies
As there is no institutional support for Palestinian film, it relies completely on what resources can be drummed up by individual film-makers and most of them rely on European funding. This is less of a problem, though, than the lack of local training facilities. "The most important thing is that we have no film schools," explains Odeh.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9294
Candidates Ignore Palestinians' Plight
both President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry used almost identical words of support for Israel vis-a-vis Iraq. "A free Iraq will help secure Israel," said Bush. And Kerry almost echoed, "I am going to get it [Iraq] right -- because it is important to Israel." According to them, the purpose of invading Iraq was for the interest of Israel. What is important to Palestinians?
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041016/NEWS/410160343/1036/EDIT
Scream fight for Palestine
Generation after generation has been there since 1948, scattered all over: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and in occupied Palestine. "From Shatila to Gaza, it is these kids I see when I think of Palestine. They have been ignored and excluded, growing up without any hope. We want to tell them we are with them, that they are not alone."
http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/041015/340/f4mvw.html&e=l_news_dm
Officials say Bush considering tougher sanctions on Syria
The official declined to discuss the timing or scope of the additional sanctions, but congressional aides briefed by the administration said a leading option under consideration was freezing the assets of high-ranking Syrian and Lebanese government officials.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=489391&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Lebanon Calls U.S. Envoy Over Assets Issue
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri summoned the American ambassador to Lebanon on Saturday over reports Congress was considering freezing the U.S. accounts and assets of Lebanese and Syrian officials as a way to pressure both countries.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041016/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_us
US mixes jaw-jaw and war-war to quell Falluja
following the start on Friday of an offensive by US and Iraqi government forces to oust suspected foreign militants from the city, will largely determine the success or failure of the effort to quell the bloody insurgency in Iraq's “Sunni Triangle”. There are signs that the resistance in Falluja is divided and the population tired of bloodshed. But it is just as clear that the US...
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c06ce2bc-1eda-11d9-9015-00000e2511c8.html
Fallujah Seeks Peace Talks if Attacks End
"We are ready to resume talks," delegation member Khaled Fakhri al-Jumeili told reporters. "We suspended the talks because we felt that the Iraqi government, especially Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, was meeting the demands of the Americans." He said that if attacks and airstrikes stop, "we are ready to return to the negotiating table."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=13&u=/ap/20041016/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fallujah
Baghdad blasts rock churches as car bombs kill four US troops
A bomb hit the church of Saint Joseph at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT) followed by similar explosions over the next two hours outside four other churches. Flames engulfed the Roman Catholic Saint George's church in the central Baghdad district of Karrada, leaving its wood-built sanctuary charred.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041016/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_041016183326
Four US troops, one translator killed in twin Iraq car bombings
Three US soldiers, a marine and a civilian translator were killed and one soldier wounded in two car bombings in Iraq, one to the west and another in the northern city of Mosul, the military said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=17&u=/afp/20041016/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_attack_toll_041016142324
Pentagon uses depleted uranium shells in its raid against Iraq
The radiation level may testify to the fact that the US army used uranium-cored projectiles in the raids. Japan's Kyodo News agency reported from Baghdad, a group of specialists had found several radioactive tanks in the area of the Iraqi town of Samawa, where the Japanese contingent was stationed.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6344&s2=16
British opposition hits out at possible Iraq troop redeployment
British media have been reporting that Washington has asked for British troops to be sent from the southern city of Basra to relieve US forces in south Baghdad, although Britain's defence ministry denied a decision had been made.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=7&u=/afp/20041016/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_britain_us_troops_041016181131 |
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