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Israel: Caterpillar Should Suspend Bulldozer Sales
“Caterpillar betrays its stated values when it sells bulldozers to Israel knowing that they are being used to illegally destroy Palestinian homes,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Until Israel stops these practices, Caterpillar's continued sales will make the company complicit in human rights abuses.”
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/22/isrlpa9711.htm
World Bank: PA economic crisis due to Israeli closures
After four years of intifada, nearly 50 percent of Palestinians live below the poverty line, and 16 percent cannot afford even the basic necessities, according to a report to be published Tuesday by the World Bank.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/505196.html
IDF officer indicted for shooting 13-year-old girl
documentary show Fact broadcast Monday night the army communications tape recording of the real-time events, including videotape, in which R. is heard explicitly stating he "verified the kill." The tape showed that the soldiers at the outpost kept firing at the girl even after she had been identified by soldiers as "about 10 years old." (Child is Arab, No Criticism!)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504926&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Analysis / Absolutely illegal
the main question is why the company commander and his soldiers fired at the girl who was 100 meters away from the outpost, was not armed, was not a danger to the soldiers inside the protected outpost, and when at least some of the soldiers knew that it was a little girl. A soldiers is explicitly heard saying "it's a little girl," and that she is "scared to death."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504930&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Father and Son Wounded in Khan Younis
Mustafa Al Sumeiri, 42, and his 13-year-old son Yousef were shot and wounded... Eyewitnesses said Mustafa and his son were traveling in a car along with other civilians when the car came under heavy gunfire from an invading Israeli force.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=1109
Wounded Palestinian barred from hospitalization out of the Gaza Strip
The family of Abu Rafee' said that it applied for permits to enter Israel several times, but in spite of providing the Israeli authorities with the needed medical reports and papers, the their applications were rejected. In a seperate incident, the Israeli authorities barred on Tuesday tens of Palestinian suffering from cardiac diseases, and cancer from crossing Eretz crossing
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week4/112304/hospitalize.htm
Israeli army arrests 9 Palestinians in W. Bank
In another development, Israeli troops arrested a 19-years-old Palestinian after storming the house of his family in Beit Gala. The young man's father and brother were arrested several months ago, according to local residents. they destroyed the house before arresting Abu Al Nawa, who was taken to an unknown place.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2252012.htm
Palestinian prisoners demand right to vote
"The prisoners are a part of the Palestinian people and have theright to vote and to participate at the elections," PLO's executivecommittee member Abed al Rahim Malouh, who was imprisoned two days ago, said in a statement on behalf of the prisoners.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2252173.htm
Middle East ; Israeli troops attack Palestinian charitable societies
Late on Monday the Israeli occupation forces attacked the society’s headquarters and confiscated some of its contents. In its statement, the society described the incident as an outrageous aggression and an Israeli attempt to hamper its charitable activities.
http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=67893
Israel bars Italian woman from joining family in West Bank
How can an Italian citizen reunite with her Palestinian spouse and two children in Ramallah? Ezia Quagliozzi and her husband, Maher Sha'abaneh, have been trying for over a month to get together.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504877.html
Powell: `New attitude' in Mideast
Israeli officials said they also were considering ways to allow Palestinians living in east Jerusalem to vote, likely by mail. They have ruled out allowing polling places in the city.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=1&u=/chitribts/20041123/ts_chicagotrib/powellnewattitudeinmideast
Powell wins poll assurance from Sharon
But Mr Powell disappointed the Palestinian leadership by declining to press an array of other issues, including the continued expansion of Jewish settlements and the revival of the road map to the creation of a Palestinian state next year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1357482,00.html
Abbas: I won't give up demand for right of return of refugees
At a memorial ceremony for Arafat at the Palestinian parliament, Abbas said he would walk in the footsteps of the late Palestinian leader. "We promise you [Arafat] that our heart will not rest until we achieve the right of return for our people and end the tragic refugee issue," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/505214.html
PM rejects Russian proposal that Quartet advance peace talks
Sharon said the plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank would lead to the implementation of the Quartet's road map to peace, according to the report.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504928&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
World Bank: Gazans should work in Israel beyond 2008
The World Bank is putting together a package of economic, security and diplomatic measures in an effort to rescue the Palestinian Authority's economy from its current crisis, Nigel Roberts, director of the bank's office in the territories, said Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=504929&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Survey: Abu Mazen has support of 24 percent of Palestinians
When no candidate's name was mentioned, 34.3 percent said they would support Fatah, 11.5 percent expressed allegiance to Hamas, 12.9 percent favored an independent candidate, and 34.5 percent said they would decide on election day.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504368.html
Quartet to help PA pay for January elections
Members of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators have agreed to help the Palestinian Authority pay for their January 9 elections to choose a new chairman, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504928.html
Fatah asks Fattouh to set date for legislative election
The mainstream Fatah movement on Monday asked Rawhi Fattouh, the interim chairman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), to set a date for holding the legislative election before mid-2005, the official WAFA news agency reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2248928.htm
Qurei, Abbas to meet Mubarak over peace process
"They will also discuss with Mubarak issues related to the Palestinian elections and recent Palestinian-US talks as well as ways to push forward the peace process and establish an independentPalestinian state.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2252086.htm
Quartet: Israel Must Ease Restrictions for Elections
Members of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators urged Israel Tuesday to ease restrictions on Palestinians ahead of January elections to choose a successor to late President Yasser Arafat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=2&u=/nm/20041123/ts_nm/mideast_dc_44
Annan: Theres an opportunity for Mideast peace
Annan made his remarks at the international conference on Iraq which has turned its focus to the Palestinian crisis. Annan, moreover, called for the support of Iraq elections to help create a "united and peaceful country".
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5671
Palestinians Open Voter Registration for one Extra Week
The committee said in a leaflet distributed Tuesday, that 1000 offices will be reopened in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The leaflet called the Palestinian residents to register stressing that voter registration is the way to guarantee their right to vote a prerequisite to vote and to run for election.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/November/week4/112304/registration.htm
NII report: 1.5 million were below poverty line in 2003
"Israel is becoming poorer and poorer," said NII Director General Dr. Yigal Ben Shalom during the presentation of the report. In response to the report, the treasury reiterated its stance that employment is the way out of poverty. It also denied that cuts in benefits had increased the number of people living below the poverty line.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/504927.html
Israeli demolitions undercut an ancient cultural heritage
The destruction, intentional or otherwise, of such heritage - be it in the form of buildings, monuments, houses or places of worship - undoubtedly has adverse consequences on human dignity and human rights - and in the case of Palestine - the destruction has adverse consequences on peace.
http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=10324
Labor considers proposing no-confidence motion
The Labor Party will conduct a telephone survey on Wednesday among its MKs on whether to bring a no-confidence vote against the government over the poverty report set to be issued Tuesday by the National Insurance Institute.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/504861.html
16-year-old paralyzed Bedouin boy burnt to death in Negev
A 16-year-old paralyzed boy died on Tuesday after suffering critical burns all over his body. The boy was from the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Karwan near the town of Arad in the south
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=505255&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Income Tax Authority probing Gilad Sharon
The Income Tax Authority has begun examining various Sharon family bank accounts to probe suspicions that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son, Gilad, evaded taxes on millions of shekels' worth of income...
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/504862.html
Back to the argument of the 1967 lines
Sharon correctly reckoned that the Green Line would return to the political picture, despite the enormous efforts to erase it. To prevent that, he equipped himself with two constraints: One was the letter from President Bush promising no return to the "armistice lines" and consideration for the "Israeli population centers" in determining the border;
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/504899.html
Iraq Conference Closes With No Pullout Timetable
The international conference on Iraq closed Tuesday, November 23, after adopting a declaration in support of the country's January election, but failed short of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops.
http://www.unobserver.com/layout4.php?id=2019&blz=1
Powell meets Syria FM on Iraqi border security
US Secretary of State Colin Powell met Tuesday with the Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara on Iraq's border security on the sidelines of an international conference on Iraq held here.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/23/content_2252847.htm |
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