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Eight Inhabitants, One Critically Wounded In Peaceful Rally Against The Wall in Hebron
Eight inhabitants at least, one critically, were wounded today noon , when the Israeli occupation troops attacked anti –Apartheid Wall peaceful rally organized in Beit Awwa and Al Seka villages... About 150 Palestinians inhabitants of Beit Awa vilalge and 30 peace activists from Israel and abroad headed off toady noon in a massive peaceful anti apartheid wall rally
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/112.html
Israel hopes to close debate on West Bank barrier
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he hoped to close the international debate over Israel's West Bank barrier, predicting that Palestinian efforts to take the issue to the UN Security Council would fail.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/107461/1/.html
US seeks to limit UN bias against Israel
Last week, the American Jewish Committee called on world leaders "to make a concerted effort to end the world body's chronic assault on Israel." It released a report entitled, "One-Sided: The Relentless Campaign Against Israel in the United Nations."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1095490890330&p=1006688055060
Israeli Source: Americans Has no Concerns, We Can Proceed with WB Barrier
An Israeli government official said Saturday that while the Americans asked the Israeli delegation visiting Washington many questions, they did not express any concerns or opposition to the West Bank Separation wall new route. "We are concluding by this that we can proceed," the source added.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091904/israeli%20source.htm
Apartheid Israel
A classic apartheid construction when it refers to the essential attributes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is essentially a conflict between a settler-colonial state and an indigenous population dispossessed by the colonial project.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=22&ItemID=6257%20
Security prisoners charge guards with humiliating them
Written and oral testimony obtained by Haaretz alleges that guards and officers, acting under the guise of conducting searches, humiliated inmates by forcing each to undress (separately), then to perform squats and walk around in front of the guards. According to the inmates, the guards and officers taunted them and even hit several inmates.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478705.html
?Struggle of Palestinian prisoners will continue until freedom -- Barghouti
The eminent Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and Secretary of Fatah movement, said on Sunday the Palestinian prisoners' struggle against the Israeli prisons' administrations will not stop until Palestinians achieve freedom and independence.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=665103
Top Hamas Militant Killed in Israeli Missile Strike
They said the missile was apparently fired by an Israeli airforce unmanned drone in the air over Gaza City. The missile tore through a car carrying a top leader in Hamas's Izz-el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, killing him and wounding several passersby.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20040919_164.html
Israeli troops kill Palestinian in northern Gaza
Israel Radio reported that Israeli soldiers had spotted three Palestinian militants approaching the fence along Gaza's northern border, apparently with the intention of carrying out an attack. The troops opened fire, killing one and wounding the other two.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/September/middleeast_September501.xml§ion=middleeast
Two Children, A Girl Wounded In Separate Incidents
during the Israeli raid in Ayda refugee camp of Bethlehem, the invading troops opened intentionally towards the two children Zaid Al Barat'a,14, shot in the thigh whilst Mohammed Al Azrq,17, was wounded in the shoulder and a shrapnel in several parts of his body.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/113.html
MP falls ill on West Bank visit
Norwich North MP Dr Ian Gibson has suffered a suspected stroke while on a fact-finding tour in the Middle East. His ambulance was believed to have been delayed for several hours at an Israeli army checkpoint while on route to the Makassed Hospital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/3670422.stm
General Strike in Arab Israeli Areas to Commemorate October' Killings
The strike will include schools, public institutions, and private businesses. The decision, which was demanded by the families of those killed, was reached unanimously. On the anniversary, Arab Israelis will march to the gravesites to pay respect to the 12 killed.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/September/week3/091904/general%20strike.htm
Hamas leader arrives in Cairo for talks with officials
"This visit has nothing to do with the dialogue issue," Nazal, a Syria-based Hamas leader told The Associated Press, adding that the trip would last a few days. "This visit is to discuss the issue and the consequences of the Zionist withdrawal from Gaza Strip."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=478726&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Hamas denies being involved in bombing attacks in Iraq
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri made the remarks in response to a report by Radio Sawa financed by the United States, which said more than 200 Hamas members infiltrated into Iraq from Iran to carry out armed attacks against the US forces in Iraq.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/19/content_1994651.htm
Palestinians register for elections
The number of Palestinians who have registered to vote in the upcoming Palestinian elections is steadily rising, says a newly released report. Until recently the election process had been marked by widespread voter apathy amid almost daily Israeli incursions and raids, and continued Palestinian lawlessness.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8398E7B0-FFF3-4EA7-9955-FC5CE7737280.htm
Egypt asks to visit students caught infiltrating Israeli border
The families of the students, talking to the Egyptian media, have dismissed the accusations, saying they went to Israel looking for work and had no politically motivated intentions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/479041.html
Israeli Forces Try Palestinian Legislator Hussam Khader Today
Since the main witness withd
rew his testimony against Khader during the last hearing on March 15, 2004, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Khader has not had any hearings until today, Nasrallah added.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/106.html
Israel Plans to Expel Residents From East Jerusalem, President Arafat Calls for Their Aid
In a report issued yesterday by the center, the most controversial part of the scheme is related to the old city of Jerusalem, where the Israeli planners proposed limiting the population growth, under the pretext of the population’s welfare.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_09/110.html
Madonna Views Western Wall from Afar
Madonna, who recently adopted the Hebrew name Esther and wears a trademark Kabbalah red string on her wrist, has said she is serious about her belief in Jewish mysticism and irritated by accusations her faith is nothing more than a celebrity fad.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=peopleNews&storyID=6271972
Iranian arrested photographing Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan
Security forces in Azerbaijan have arrested an Iranian citizen caught videotaping footage of the Israeli Embassy in the capital city of Baku, the Shin Bet internal security service announced Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/479049.html
British aided Mossad kidnap, says Vanunu
ISRAELI nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu risked legal retribution during a telephone interview at a human rights festival yesterday, as he claimed that British, French, Italian, and US security services had co-operated in his 1986 kidnapping by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency.
http://www.sundayherald.com/44913
The Temple Mount Bombers - By Uri Avnery
But the Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: that a Jewish terror group will bomb the mosques on the Temple Mount. Years ago, a Jewish underground organization was preparing to do exactly that. It was uncovered before it could carry out its plans. Now similar plots are afoot.
http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/article322.html
Palestinian groups in Gaza amassing arms ahead of withdrawal
Various Palestinian security organizations in the Gaza Strip have redoubled efforts to get weapons and ammunition before the IDF withdraws from the Strip and the settlements are evacuated. The units buy arms and ammunition from smugglers bringing them into Gaza from Egypt
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=478803&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
For first time, Israeli Bedouin named university department chairs
In a striking and encouraging coincidence, two Bedouin professors at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva were elected chairs of their respective departments this summer. Dr. Aref Abu-Rabia of Middle East Studies and Dr. Alean Al-Krenawi of Social Work are the first Bedouin to serve as department chairs in any Israeli university.
http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Articles%5El782&enZone=Profiles&enVersion=0&
Berlin Islamic rally organizer deported to Beirut
An organizer of a controversial Arab Islamic Congress scheduled to be held in Berlin next month to rally support for "resistance and intifada" in Iraq and Israel has been deported from Germany... Authorities are looking at the possibility of banning the conference, announced on the Internet (http://www.anamoqawem.org/berlincall.htm) and planned for Oct. 1-3.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=479027&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
IDF using radar to warn of incoming Qassams
Known as Maamin, the system fixes the position from which a rocket is fired and issues a warning. Using electro-optic sensors and advanced computers, Maamin is capable of pinpointing both the location of the launch and the point where the missile will land, in less than a second.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/478697.html
17,193 Iraqis killed, wounded in six months: health ministry
A total of 3,511 Iraqis were killed and 13,682 others wounded, the source said. The victims included 175 women and 146 children, and the wounded included 617 women and 429 children, the source added. He emphasized that the number only included those admitted to hospitals and registered in official records.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/20/content_1995606.htm
Allawi and Blair say Iraq polls will proceed on time
After talks with Britain's Tony Blair, Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi called for more help from the United Nations in organising the polls. Both men played down talk of more foreign troops being sent in to shore up security.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d9822712-0a49-11d9-a415-00000e2511c8.html
Iraqis tell Britain: Release our prisoners or we kill hostage
A 62-year-old British engineer was last night less than 48 hours from death at the hands of his kidnappers in Iraq, intensifying the atmosphere of crisis at today's meeting between Tony Blair and the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=563423
Three Kurds beheaded in Iraq: website
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna said in a statement that the three killed, members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), were taken hostage in Taji, north of Baghdad. The same group was believed to be responsible for killing 12 Nepalese in Iraq last month.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/19/content_1995564.htm
Iraq militants parade 15 captive guardsmen, give 48-hour ultimatum
Calling itself the Mohammed bin Abdullah Brigade, the group demanded the immediate release of Hazem al-Araji, representative of Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr for the Baghdad pilgrimage district of Kadhimiya, the television reported. Another Sadr aide in the Iraqi capital denied his movement had any connection to the kidnappers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20040919/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_hostages_guard_040919185911 |
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