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Prisoner Stories: Sleiman Sari al Sa'di's sons
The family has recently lost the 97 dunums of land in Araboneh (south of the destroyed al Mazar) that they had managed to hang onto. The part of the wall that Israel has already built in the far north side of the West Bank has now cut them off from their land.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3101.shtml
ON THIS DAY - 1982: Sabra and Shatila - aftermath of an atrocity
I went into the camps with the Red Cross but too late. Nobody had been allowed in. Bulldozers had gone in to bury bodies. They had also bulldozed buildings with people still inside, families still watching television, or having dinner. (Massacre made possible by Democraticaly ellected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/september/17/newsid_2891000/2891661.stm
Palestinian Detainee Dies of Medical Neglect
“On Thursday morning, Al-Bolbol who was detained since 15/4/2003, suffered from some health problems , we asked the soldiers to send him to the clinic, but they kept installing us for more than six hours, then he was transferred, but shortly after arriving at the clinic he was pronounced dead”, the representative said.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091704/prisoner-dies.htm
Report: IDF troops kill Palestinian woman during Nablus clashes
Witnesses said Beriza Aminawi was shot in the heart as she stood on the roof of her house. The IDF had no immediate comment.
Troops, in 10 jeeps, entered the city earlier in the day, clashing with Palestinian youths, witnesses said.
The youths threw stones...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478584.html
The death and disorientation of the children of Gaza
Raghda Alassar's classmates did not hear the Israeli bullet that tore into the nine-year-old's brain as she wrote an English test. But as a pool of blood spread across her desk and spilled on to the floor, a wall of screams rose from the classroom of the UN elementary school for girls in Khan Yunis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1306433,00.html
Israel nabs eight Palestinians in West Bank raids
Eight Palestinians were arrested overnight by Israeli troops in several West Bank towns, an army spokesman told AFP. Three of them, suspected of belonging to the radical Islamic Jihad group, were nabbed in the Bethlehem area, in the sourthern West Bank. Five others were arrested in Nablus and Salfit...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&ncid=1312&e=1&u=/afp/20040917/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_unrest_arrest_040917101600
Israeli Forces Shell Palestinian Homes as a Prisoner Dies inside Jail
The sources added that an Israeli forces of several tanks and armored bulldozers advanced east of Jabalia camp and razed dozens of dunums of arable lands owned by the Zein, Ebeid and Abed Rabbo families. Nearby, Israeli forces opened heavy gunfire at the Nasser Village, north of Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses affirmed.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/096.html
Inhuman Treatment of Checkpoints; soldiers force a Palestinian to drink their urine
Sameeh added that soldiers forced him and the other worker to do a poll, conducted by the soldiers “as a sort of entertainment!”, the soldiers wrote on three pieces of paper the “punishment”, first paper was to break a leg, second paper to break an arm, then the third to drink urine prepared by the soldiers previously in a bottle...
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091704/soldiers-morality.htm
Zionists install early warning system to detect Palestinian home made rockets
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the new system which was revealed lately detects a Qassam rocket seconds after its launch, this information is passed on to the head quarters of the internal front unit in the settlement and within 20 seconds sirens will be sounded around the settlement prompting the settlers to go to the shelters.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_7990.shtml
UN reports another 'bad month' in Middle East, calls for return to peace plan
A top United Nations official today again reported "a bad month in the Middle East ," with a resumption of Palestinian suicide bombings inside Israel, further deadly Israeli military operations in Palestinian territories and no progress on an international peace plan... (skipping daily home demolitions and Wall)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11961&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
After the 'Road Map'
What Ariel Sharon has been indicating for months is now stated Israeli policy: The US-drawn "road map" to a Palestinian state is locked in the glove compartment - along with other failed peace plans. So, no negotiated deal with the Palestinians, no lead role for Washington as the go-between, and just half a loaf of Palestinian autonomy for the foreseeable future.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0917/p08s02-comv.html
Israel-Vatican talks: points of contention
After meetings with Vatican officials, a key Israeli government leader has said that diplomatic problems between the Holy See and Israel will soon be resolved. But an Israeli Catholic priest who has been involved in negotiations has told the AsiaNews service that some serious obstacles remain.
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=32203
India for lifting restrictions on Arafat
Describing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as a "hero", India today demanded that the restriction on the freedom of his movement should be lifted forthwith as it would not help the cause of peace. "It is our view that restrictions on the freedom of movement of President Arafat would not help the cause of peace. This only compounds difficulties,"...
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Palestine&slug=India+for+lifting+restrictions+on+Arafat&id=60590&callid=1
Yoko Ono gives peace prize to Mordechai Vanunu
Veteran peacenik, artist and musician Yoko Ono has given Mordechai Vanunu a peace prize founded in her late husband's memory, an award she hopes will keep the Israeli nuclear whistleblower safe.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478559.html
On This Day 2003
The United States vetoed United Nations Security Council resolution specifically demanding that Israel not deport or threaten the safety of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Today in 2004 Sharon hints that Arafat may be killed
Oman paper: Second phase of prisoner deal may be reached soon
According to the paper, which based its information on reports from "sources closely following the negotiations" over an exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hezbollah, the new information is liable to prompt the implementation of the second stage of the deal within two or three weeks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478555.html
Black September
Everyone knows of the terrorist attacks that occurred on 9/11 when 3,000 innocent American civilians were killed in one of the most audacious terrorist attacks in modern history. But how many people know that September is also the month when 3, 500 civilians, mainly Palestinian refugees, were slaughtered in Chatila refugee camp in Beirut in 1982?
http://www.masnet.org/articleinterest.asp?id=1670
Israel's Demographics
Published by Israel's leading English language newspaper, Haaretz, the data shows that Israel's population of 6.8 million consists of 5.5 million Jews and 1.3 million Arabs.It does include citizens of East Jerusalem, which Israel illegally annexed and that the international community still considers occupied territory.
http://www.counterpunch.org/hanania09172004.html
Hezbollah Active Among Palestinians
Badawi is aware of the problem, which he has encountered in Balata. "It is true that many of the small groups look for support to people like Hezbollah. That is not good, we don't want our people to be influenced by outsiders and we try to act against it."
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/biedermann.php?articleid=3590
Too much to atone for on Yom Kippur
Lockdown, the latest extreme violation, is just a continuation of Israeli actions over more than 37 years, and grows from its policy of curfew and closure. Indeed, to be precise, it is an intensification of closure, which combines the horrors of closure with the terror of curfew.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/708/re2.htm
Israeli use of placebos in common
A survey of Israeli clinicians found three of five use placebos to treat patients despite the medical profession's official disapproval. The report, authored by Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg of Herzog Hospital and Hadassah School of Medicine in Jerusalem, is published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal this week.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=a54448ba04314d98
Germany to deny visas for Islamic conference
Organizers of the Oct. 1-3 event call on the meeting's Web site for "the liberation of all the occupied territories and countries in struggle against the American-Zionist hegemony and occupation."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1095405212033
The Resort to Force - By Noam Chomsky
As predicted, the war increased the threat of terror. Middle East expert Fawaz Gerges found it ``simply unbelievable how the war has revived the appeal of a global jihadi Islam that was in real decline after 9-11.'' Recruitment for the Al Qaeda networks increased, while Iraq itself became a ``terrorist haven'' for the first time.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6916.htm
John Pilger hears Blair echo Mussolini
These days, the Americans routinely fire missiles into Fallujah and other dense urban areas; they murder whole families. If the word terrorism has any modern application, it is this industrial state terrorism. The British have a different style. There are more than 40 known cases of Iraqis having died at the hands of British soldiers; just one soldier has been charged.
http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200409200016
Up to 60 killed as US targets 'rebel fighters'
Dr Ali Awad of the Fallujah General Hospital said 30 people were killed and more than 40 were injured, including women and children. But the US military said intelligence showed up to 60 suspected enemy fighters may have been killed.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=562692
Oil pipeline ablaze in Iraq
Sabotage of oil infrastructure is common in Iraq where a fire which raged on a strategic northern pipeline, stalling exports through Turkey, was brought under control early on Wednesday. An official at the Northern Oil Company said the repair work would take "three days to a week to complete".
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10792010%5E1702,00.html
Foreigners Taken Hostage in Iraq Tops 120
Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped more than 120 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=6&u=/ap/20040917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_hostages_glance
Zarqawi's fighters in 'heart of Baghdad'
The admission came as a car bomb struck a police checkpoint in Rashid Street, the old commercial centre of the Iraqi capital, killing 13 people. The toll would have been higher had it not been a Friday when many shops and businesses are closed. A second car bomb in Baghdad was foiled when guards opened fire and killed the two men inside.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1374c34-08c8-11d9-8185-00000e2511c8.html
France backs Annan on 'illegal' Iraq war
That was "traditionally" France's view from the start, he added. "We have always considered that it's international law that constitutes the framework for any action, notably against terrorism or for stability in the world," he said. (except for 1956 war 'only')
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=11981&name=France+backs+Annan+on+'illegal'+Iraq+war
France and Belgium block Nato academy in Iraq
France in particular is concerned the academy could be seen as a first step towards wider Nato involvement in Iraq. Officials said Friday's veto was meant to send a signal to the US that it should not demand more help from Nato to control an increasingly violent and unpredictable situation.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/11e5020e-08a7-11d9-8185-00000e2511c8.html |
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