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PCBS: the Apartheid Wall Splits 80.7% from Medical Services
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said that the Israel Expansion and Annexation (apartheid) Wall separates 80.7% of the households living west of the wall from the basic medical services.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=1808
Israeli travel ban bars 1,200 Palestinians from studying abroad
In a statement, the center called upon the international society, especially the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO) to interfere and press Israel to allow Palestinian students to travel abroad to continue their study.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2133730.htm
Trauma center bulldozed in Gaza
Ali Bahri's house has been a source of pride for himself, his family, and even the odd envious neighbor. No more. Like so many residents of the Gaza Strip, the simple location of his home was enough to entice the Israeli army in to demolish it.
http://metimes.com/2K4/issue2004-43/reg/trauma_center_bulldozed.htm
Study: Israel legally occupying Gaza, even after pullout
But because Israel intends to maintain control over the crossings into Gaza, its coastline and airspace, international law will still hold Israel responsible for the territories and its population, according to the study by legal experts from the Justice Ministry, Foreign Ministry and the military.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492704.html
Palestinians' digital honor
"Digital honor" is probably the only sympathetic description that the Palestinians can expect from the Arabs. There are half-hearted condemnations, but it's difficult to find an Arab leader who has recently delivered a stinging speech against Israel or who has come out with a new political initiative.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492465.html
Israeli warships shell northern Gaza Strip
Meanwhile, Israeli troops backed by several tanks and armed vehicles invaded at predawn the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, according to Palestinian sources. The sources also said the troops opened intensive fire and razed down several houses in Beit Hanoun before withdrawal.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2132931.htm
2 Palestinians killed in southern Gaza Strip
Palestinian medics of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis confirmed that Ziyad Abu Mustafa, 27, and Omar Abu Mustafa, 20, who were brothers, were killed in the airstrike and their bodies were badly burned. Medics added that five others were rushed to the hospital, one in serious condition and the other four moderate.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2132772.htm
Israeli Courts Rob Palestinian Prisoners' Money
Riayd Alarda, one of the advocates, confirmed that the fines being imposed on the prisoners constitute a big economic burden on the prisoners' shoulders, as millions of NIS's have entered the Israeli treasury.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=658
Israeli troops arrest, wound number of Palestinians in El-Ein camp near Nablus
The Israeli forces continued Sunday their military operations in the camp, wounding a number of Palestinians and causing others to suffocate from gas, as the Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear bombs towards the citizens. Radio Israel claimed that a booby-trapped car went off near an Israeli patrol in the camp without causing any injuries in the Israeli army.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=674794
Israeli Missile Wounds 2 Gaza Policemen -Medics
Witnesses said the attack came as more than two dozen Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers took up positions between the Jewish settlements in southern Gaza and Khan Younis.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6590917
Two apprehended in Hebron, tens withheld, one school attacked
In the old city, soldiers intensified military presence and broke in a home causing huge damages. On the other hand, settlers in Hebron continued their assaults and attacked the Ibrahimi School, near Al-IBahimi Mosque, in the city causing damages to some windows of the school.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102404/Hebron1.htm
Car Explodes Next to Israeli Army Jeep
A car exploded Sunday next to an Israeli army jeep in this West Bank city, damaging the vehicle, Palestinian witnesses and the army said. No injuries were reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=10&u=/ap/20041024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_explosion
Half Palestinian deficit due to Israel funds seizure
A PA treasury source says the sum of confiscated funds reached some NIS 1 billion this month, consisting of levies, taxes and customs collected by Israel for services and merchandise intended for the PA.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492477.html
PNA welcomes EU initiative to follow up Israeli pullout
The EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana revealed on Sunday that the EU intended to contribute to the implementation of the roadmap by sending army experts to train policemen in the Palestinian security apparatuses. "Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip should be the first step in a process that leads to the pullout from all the occupied areas, " said Solana.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2133424.htm
Elections committee: Referendum possible within 75 days
Sharon, however, stressed his continued opposition to such a referendum and said he would present the Knesset with a disengagement bill devoid of any references to a referendum. A vote on the disengagement bill is expected Tuesday. The cabinet approved the bill Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492830.html
Let me leave and be free, pleads Israeli whistleblower Vanunu
"My hope was that by revealing the nuclear secrets I would bring new states towards real peace in the Middle East and the abolition of nuclear weapons in all the Middle East," he said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=5&u=/afp/20041024/wl_mideast_afp/israel_nuclear_vanunu_britain_media_041024141130
The Arabs / Two Arab MKs expected to say yes to disengagement
Al-Saneh decided in favor of disengagement, among other reasons, in the context of the recent call of his movement, the Arab Democratic Party, to run in the upcoming elections in a joint bloc of Arab parties and Jewish leftist parties.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492459.html
Let them refuse
For the settlers it is an effective and brutal means to frighten the largely indifferent public; for the IDF it is one more way to perpetuate its status as the central factor in Israeli life. It is only in this light that it is possible to understand the statements made by generals and rabbis, all of which bordered on hysteria.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492467.html
On the Road to Civil War - By Uri Avnery
Quietly and not so quietly, the Shin Bet is taking precautions. The prison service has been ordered to prepare facilities for mass detentions. The army leadership is planning the call-up of 10 thousand reserve soldiers and starting to think about the steps they must take in the case of…
http://www.amin.org/eng/uri_avnery/2004/oct23.html
Report: Apply law to make outposts illegal
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appointed the attorney to find a legal way to evacuate the illegal outposts in the West Bank. Previous Justice Ministry attempts to apply Israeli construction laws in the settlements were thwarted by ministers, since the existing situation was convenient for the governments set on building settlements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492729&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Israeli Cabinet Approve Settlers' Compensation
The approved bill gives Sharon the power to issue evacuation orders for the settlements, details the compensation package for the evacuated settlers [an average of 330 thousand dollars per family], and sets penalties for those who stay in evacuated areas or work to hinder the evacuation.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102404/cabinet%20approves%20compensation.htm
Crunch vote for Sharon on settlement pullout plan
Israel's parliament will on Tuesday take what is billed as one of the defining decisions in the state's 56-year history when it votes on the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to remove Jewish settlements from Palestinian land.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8bacc9e8-25bf-11d9-81d9-00000e2511c8.html
Rebel forces set to disrupt final withdrawal vote
In an extraordinary broadside, Reuven Rivlin, the speaker of the Knesset, declared in a letter to Likud's 3000 members that Sharon, with his disengagement plan, was “not loyal to the land of Israel” and accused him of betraying “the principles of Likud”.
http://www.sundayherald.com/45603
Settlers' champion Sharon turns reputation on head with pullout from Gaza
The irony that Sharon previously dismissed talk of Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories as tantamount to surrender has not been lost on the settler movement, who have replayed some of his old speeches at anti-disengagement rallies.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041024/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_sharon_041024152506
Syria: U.S. wants support of anti-Israeli resistance to cease
The United States is increasing its pressure against Syria to force the Arab state to stop backing anti-Israeli resistance in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, Syria's information minister said Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492485&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
PM's son, MK Omri Sharon, questioned by fraud squad
He was said to have been questioned over possible involvement in the Cyril Kern case. According to police suspicions, the prime minister had received bribes to promote the interests of businessmen overseas in the Middle East through his son, Gilad.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492721.html
Politicians, intellectuals vow to try to end Mubarak's rule
Almost 700 politicians, activists and intellectuals issued a landmark joint statement Saturday saying they will push to amend Egypt's constitution to prevent Hosni Mubarak, the country's president for almost a quarter of a century, from standing for another term next year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492488&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
US Jews send letter of support to Sharon
As the Knesset vote on disengagement from the Gaza Strip approaches, the American Jewish Committee sent a letter of support on Sunday to Ariel Sharon to express support for the prime minister's plan.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1098591996166
Informants suspected in deaths 50 Iraqi soldiers
The attack, in Diyala province, demonstrated the likelihood that guerrillas had inside information on the soldiers' movements and the fact that they were unarmed. The men were returning for home leave after completing basic training at a base east of Baghdad.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/26d9b8f0-25b0-11d9-81d9-00000e2511c8.html
US secretly moved prisoners out of Iraq for questioning
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention protects civilians during wartime and occupation, prohibiting "individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory... regardless of their motive."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=4&u=/afp/20041024/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_prisoners_041024111326
US diplomat killed in Iraq attack
A State Department security officer was killed Sunday when insurgents launched a mortar or rocket attack on a US base near Baghdad International Airport, The US embassy said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/24/content_2133418.htm |
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