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Two Jewish families move into Bethlehem site near Rachel's Tomb
Right-wing activists and people involved with the yeshiva were preparing to ultimately bring 10 families to live there and transform it into a settlement near the holy site, on the northern outskirts of Bethlehem, to provide a basis for a Jewish hold in that region.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493329.html
Egypt: Mastermind behind Sinai blasts was Palestinian
A Palestinian angered by Israeli-Palestinian violence plotted and then died in the nearly simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and tourist camps in the Sinai that killed at least 34 people, the Egyptian government said Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493266.html
Israeli Interrogators sexually harass female detainees
Several female detainees accused the Israeli Security of sexually harassing them, in order to force the detainees to confess to charges imposed on them, in addition to repeatedly imposing physiological and physical pressures.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102504/harrasement.htm
Fourteen Palestinians killed as Israeli MPs to debate Gaza plan
The dead, among them an eight-year-old boy, were killed in either air strikes or from gunfire and tank shelling the town of Khan Yunis. Most died when the army fired at least four air-to-ground missiles at the area, one of which hit a national security service position, security officials said. Palestinian medics said some 70 people had also been injured...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=2&u=/afp/20041025/ts_afp/mideast_041025125713
MOH Accuses Israel of Using Highly Explosive Missiles in Northern Gaza
The Ministry of Health accused the Israeli occupation forces today of using highly explosive missiles during their onslaught on northern Gaza Strip, which resulted in tearing victims' bodies apart.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=692
?One more Palestinian killed
One more Palestinian was killed and two others were injured in a new Israeli air raid on a Palestinian Security Forces quarters in the Khan Younis city Monday. Israeli warplanes launched at least one missile at the building to kill Haitham Al-Nebrais, 22, and seriously wound two others. The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks today goes up thus to 15.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=675107
The Killing of Iman al-Hams
I man al-Hams was a 13-year old refugee schoolgirl who was executed...
In a flash, Israel proved to the world -- yet again -- that it is not only intransigent in its patent and consistent violation of international law, but also incapable of adhering to the most fundamental principles of moral behavior.
http://www.counterpunch.com/barghouti10252004.html
Al Qassam attacks Israeli vehicles in southern Gaza
Al Qassam said in a leaflet that its militants fired on Monday morning one rocket at an Israeli tank and exploded a roadside bomb on an Israeli bulldozer at al Namsawi neighborhood in the town. The two operations certainly killed and injured Israeli soldiers, said the leaflet.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/25/content_2136977.htm
W. Bank settler indicted for allegedly killing Palestinian driver
According to the charge sheet, Elitzur decided to stop the car of the Palestinian man for no reason and without any authority, as he was driving on the highway between the settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=493234&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
AMF offers 10 million dollars in aid to Palestinians
The AMF has decided to allocate 10 million dollars from its net profits for 2003 to help the Palestinian people, Jassim Al Manai, AMF Board Chairman, was quoted as saying. Five million dollars of the assistance will be directed to the education sector, Al Manai noted.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/26/content_2138183.htm
Fatah calls on int'l community to stop Israeli attack in Gaza
The Fatah movement, chaired by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, on Monday called on the international community to immediately step in to stop an Israeli attack on the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/25/content_2137391.htm
No Israeli guarantee Arafat can return if leaves
The source was speaking after Israel television reported that Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz had given Arafat permission to leave Ramallah for medical treatment. Doctors said Arafat is recuperating from the flu.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25705559.htm
Palestinians did not request Arafat's hospitalisation: Erakat
The Palestinians did not request Israeli permission for their leader Yasser Arafat to be hospitalised in the West Bank town of Ramallah, negotiations minister Saeb Erakat said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=14&u=/afp/20041025/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_israel_041025194305
Rice urges foreign leaders to pressure Arafat to step down
Foreign leaders who still talk to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must pressure him to step aside, now that Israeli leaders are pushing a plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041025/APP/410250932
Al-Aqsa Brigades to split from Fatah if the Qorei Government does not fulfill its demands
Al-Aqsa Brigades threatened to split from Fatah Movement if the Qorei Government and Fatah's Central Committee does not fulfill their demands to conduct new procedures in order to solve the problems and crises which the brigades face within two weeks.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102504/AqsaB.htm
UN Mideast envoy stands by criticism of PA
Outgoing UN Mideast envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Monday that Palestinians are now embracing him for telling the truth after initially chastising and even banning him for publicly criticizing Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's failure to combat lawlessness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493322.html
Israeli occupation is reason for violence
He said that Israel was taking advantage of the international community's refusal to take any political move, saying that the Israeli attack on Khan Yunis matches Israel's concept of the withdrawal plan -- leaving the lands destroyed.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/25/content_2137131.htm
Egyptian NGO sets up committee for defence of Semite rights
The Association for the Defence of Arabs (ADA), founded in 2000 to "defend the image of Arabs abroad", decided to create the committee "due to the sharp rise in the number of attacks against Arabs, who are also Semites," it said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20041025/wl_mideast_afp/egypt_us_rights_041025185809
AG to judges: Stop temporary confiscation orders on PA funds
Mazuz is asking Israeli judges who adjudicate such cases to stop imposing temporary confiscation orders on PA funds. Israeli judges have customarily imposed seizures on Palestinian funds in response to Israeli citizens' damage suits against the PA in recent years, before the court has reached a verdict.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=493181&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Shaath hopes next U.S. leader will 'reinvest in peace process'
Sha'ath declined to express a preference for either U.S. President George W. Bush or his Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry, neither of whom has made the Middle East crisis a campaign issue. "The winner, whoever he may be, should think of American interests in the Middle East."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=492865&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Sharon: Gaza Plan Only Way to Security
As the debate began, violence flared in Gaza, with Israeli troops killing 15 Palestinians and wounding 91 others in a raid on the Khan Younis refugee camp to halt Palestinian mortar fire at nearby settlements. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041025/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
Israeli Arabs won't vote
The entire Palestinian ethos is built on them losing their livelihoods, honor and identity, when they were uprooted from land they had settled for generations. So Israeli tears about a few hundred families that will be generously compensated after just a few years of settlement looks like a con.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492907.html
Israel is waiting for a Lincoln
This too is just a prelude to the inevitable: In the Middle East, both among the Israelis and among the Palestinians, anyone who wants peace must prepare for a civil war. This, as Sharon said in a different context, will be the most justified of all Israel's wars.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492908.html
Main Points of Gaza Disengagement Plan
After the withdrawal, Israel will retain control over a patrol road on the Gaza-Egypt border. Israel will also control Gaza's border crossings, the coast and airspace. Gaza will be demilitarized, and Israel reserves the right to re-enter the strip if attacked. With the withdrawal, Israel believes its 37-year occupation of Gaza will end
http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041025/API/410250935
Germany says missing Israeli airman dead
A former German official who negotiated prisoner swaps between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah says an Israeli airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986 is dead, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Monday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=9601
Rebel militias deny holding British aid worker Hassan
"She had been living in Iraq for 30 years and she was a humanitarian. The resistance did not kidnap her because this would have left a bad impression of the resistance in the world," he added. Commanders of five separate guerrilla groups in Fallujah said they were not holding Mrs Hassan and had seen no evidence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organisation had kidnapped her.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=575637
Iraq fighters face death penalty
Capital punishment, which was in force under the ousted regime of president Saddam Hussein, was reinstated by the interim government on August 8, after being abolished by the previous US-led occupation authority.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/25/content_2137275.htm
Iraqi civilians are paying the price for American irresponsibility
In either case, the United States, Great Britain and others who enthusiastically pushed for this war need to take far more serious responsibility for the consequences of their deeds and misdeeds. It is fine for Messrs Bush and Blair go on and on about the monstrous nature of Saddam Hussein's former regime, yet they are repeating accepted facts...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=9592&categ_id=17
Tons of Iraqi explosives missing
Nearly 350 tons of conventional explosives have vanished from a former military complex in Iraq, the UN says. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the explosives vanished from the al-Qaqaa facility near Baghdad during looting after the invasion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3950493.stm |
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