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Yassouf Villagers and Internationals Pick Olives
International Women's Peace Service from Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, UK and the USA and friends from the Israeli peace have,on Sunday, picked olives in the area north of Tapuach colony known as An-Naqar.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1792
Palestine: The Assault On Health And Other War Crimes
Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest-the sniper's wound. Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=6435
The Jewish appeal for Israeli Arabs
Nearly five years ago one of Green's friends proposed he donate a joint tennis center for [Arab] Nazareth and [Jewish] Upper Nazareth. "That was the first time," says Green, "that I learned there were over 1 million Arabs in Israel, and about their difficult situation."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489488.html
Gaza cleans up after Israeli offensive
More than 100 Palestinians were killed in the operation, which saw Israel send in tanks, infantry and armored bulldozers, giving bite to its pledge to hit militants hard. Palestinian officials estimate more than 100 houses were destroyed in the northern Gaza camp.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/17/content_2100373.htm
Refugee camp a shambles after Israeli offensive in Gaza
Palestinian officials denounced the offensive. "It is part of an attempt . .. to bring our people to their knees," Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia told reporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "This, of course, will never happen."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/17/MNGPG9B9B31.DTL
Several Palestinian children injured
Several Palestinian children were injured when local youths clashed with Israeli soldiers in a West Bank refugee camp, Palestinian sources say. Palestinian youths threw stones at an Israeli tank which was piling dirt in order to block the Balata refugee camp, located in the West Bank city of Nablus.
http://www.maldivesinfo.gov.mv/news.php?newsid=4474
Israeli forces destroy seven houses in Rafah, injure two Palestinians
Israeli occupying forces destroyed on Sunday seven houses in the Brazil district and block 5 in Rafah south of Gaza and two Palestinians were wounded during an incursion that ended this morning. Palestinian security sources said "ten military vehicles and two bulldozers backed up by helicopters penetrated into the Brazil district
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=673076
Israeli Tank Shell Wounds Citizens in Rafah
Local witnesses revealed that a convoy of Israeli tanks rolled into Block (O) refugee camp and opened heavy random fire at houses in the area. Some of the wounded are Moshera 18, and Hussam Abu Samhadana 15, medics said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1790
Ultra-orthodox Jews 'must stop religious abuse'
Jerusalem's Christian community has demanded that Jewish leaders and the Israeli government take action against what they claim is growing harassment of their clergy by religious Jews. Christians say ultra-Orthodox Jewish students spit at them or at the ground when they pass.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1329380,00.html
Two Israeli Arab MKs to vote in favor of disengagement bill
"I won't raise my hand in opposition to an end to the occupation and evacuation of settlements in Gaza," said Dehamshe. On Saturday, the Hadash-Ta'al party announced its three MKs would vote against the disengagement bill... Azmi Bishara's Balad party is also expected to vote against the bill.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=489425&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
PNA calls for emergency aid to Gaza areas damaged by Israeli offensive
The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) on Sunday called on Arab ambassadors to visit northern Gaza areas damaged by the 16-day Israeli offensive and urged for an emergency assistance, Palestine satellite channel reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/17/content_2102879.htm
Sharon urged to hold poll on Gaza pullout
A spokesman for Mr Sharon said the prime minister was still determined to avoid a referendum, despite the latest appeals for a nationwide vote. Analysts said that holding a referendum on the so-called disengagement plan could delay its implementation by up to a year.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb4cc298-2064-11d9-af19-00000e2511c8.html
Israeli PM's talks with settlers over Gaza plan end in acrimony
"We met with a prime minister who was deaf to our positions and who just read set texts which had been cooked up by his advisors," said Yehoshua Mor-Yussef, secretary general of the main Yesha settlers council. "We did not receive any serious response to our demand that he put this to a decision of the people."
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/112154/1/.html
French FM on highly charged visit to Israel
Barnier's visit to Israel was the first by a senior French official since Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in July that France was host to "the wildest anti-Semitism" and urged French Jews to flee the country. French officials called Sharon's comments "unacceptable," and French Jews also criticized him.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489839.html
French official visits Israel
Speaking at a Foreign Ministry seminar of Israeli and French journalists in Paris last Friday, Barnier said that “peace for Israelis will follow the renunciation of occupation.” Barnier also warned Israel that it would have to deal with the European Union as a political force for peace in the Middle East if it wanted cooperation on economic matters.
http://www.jta.org/brknews.asp?id=122845
Palestine Conf. Underway in US Despite Jewish Campaign
"We have carefully researched this student-run group, checked with federal authorities in Washington and with our colleagues at universities that have hosted or even considered hosting past conferences. We are confident this group is not affiliated with terrorists," he averred.
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-10/17/article05.shtml
Israel worried about EU sanctions
The Israeli Foreign Ministry believes that Solana will present a detailed list of measures to advance the roadmap on the Middle Eastpeace process and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/17/content_2101156.htm
Israeli whistleblower Vanunu makes appeal to European Social Forum
Speaking by telephone from Israel in a call relayed by loudspeakers to the assembly, Vanunu appealed for the promotion of worldwide peace and the reduction of inequality between peoples. "This is a message for the 21st century," he told the European Social Forum, which has attracted 19,000 activists to the British capital this weekend.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=12&u=/afp/20041016/wl_mideast_afp/europe_forum_israel_041016204737
U.S. Jewish leaders split over public support for pullout
Supporters said that the Conference of Presidents was founded with the express mission of supporting the State of Israel, and therefore an immediate publication of a statement of support was imperative. They also stressed that lack of Jewish support for Sharon at this hour would be perceived as a slap in the face for the White House and the Bush administration
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489492.html
Time to Get Serious
The crisis is mainly the product of relentless colonial policies of oppression and outright dispossession of the Palestinians and their land, practiced by the Israeli side for decades now, but more so in the last four years.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2004/oct/oct17.html
Analysis / Be wise Hamas - stop the Qassams
With the end of Operation Days of Penitence in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces' General Staff has decided that should the firing of Qassam rockets at Sderot or other Israeli towns in the Negev resume in a serious fashion, the IDF will return to Gaza in force, perhaps even with a larger operation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489458.html
Analysis / The political fight
This week, Sharon will fight against a national referendum under increasing pressure from the Yesha Council of settlements and senior Likud ministers, led by Benjamin Netanyahu. His aides said yesterday that he remains opposed to a referendum. With good reason: both a justified fear of destructive delay in implementing the disengagement
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489468.html
Everything is temporary - until deportation
Father Gabriel asked for the transfer - after 12 years in Israel and the territories, including five-and-a-half years in Jaffa - when he saw the church emptying out as his congregants began disappearing one after the other, deported by the Immigration Police.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489487.html
Monetary prize to be offered for information on MIA Arad
The Oman-based Al-Watan daily reported that Hezbollah has recently released "new and credible information" on Arad under the terms of the second stage of the prisoner exchange deal with Israel. A senior defense source noted that the key to the mystery of Arad's fate remained in the hands of Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/489863.html
Tens of thousands throng London to protest Iraq war
The march was arranged Sunday to coincide with the end to the three-day European Social Forum held in London. It comes also after a stormy week for Blair, who was accused in parliament last Wednesday of misrepresenting intelligence on Iraq to make the case for war.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=7&u=/afp/20041017/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_britain_demo_041017165031
Seven killed, 10 wounded in clashes in Iraq's Fallujah
Seven Iraqis were killed andten others wounded in the on-going fierce clashes that broke out Sunday morning between US-Iraqi forces and fighters who defend the city, local medics told Xinhua.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/18/content_2102884.htm
British troops in Iraq won't be redeployed to Baghdad, Fallujah: ministry
British troops in Iraq will not be redeployed to Baghdad or the restive Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah after it was confirmed that the United States has requested London to move its soldiers to the US-controlled sector, a defence ministry spokesman said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041017/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_britain_us_troops_041017164421
'They want Zarqawi. They can't kill him so they're killing us'
The missiles struck at just after 3am with devastating effect. Eight members of the al-Jabouri family were killed as they slept, their home destroyed. The following morning the US military issued a statement saying that fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's number one enemy in Iraq, had been taken out in a precision strike in Fallujah.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=572922
Many Iraqi Intellectuals Seek Exile
The walls of Iraqi universities were once festooned with announcements of coming forums and lectures. Now, many are draped with black mourning banners inscribed with the names of professors who have been slain in the country's spiraling violence.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=6&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_academics_in_peril
Iraqi police arrest 135 infiltrators from Iran
"Border guards forces, a department of the Iraqi police, carriedout a search campaign in villages and border areas with Iran and arrested 135 infiltrators carrying Afghani and Pakistani nationalities," a police source was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/17/content_2099561.htm
Iraq says 'come and get us' to Western oil companies
Iraq has issued an open invitation to the world's largest oil companies to exploit its vast reserves. The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields. But it thinks that the only way to do this is by involving the West's energy giants.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=572870 |
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