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Two Jewish families move to create Bethlehem settlement
Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel's Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week, in effect creating what appears to be a new settlement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=493329&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
International Solidarity Movement's Olive Harvest Campaign - Update
The Apartheid Wall is much more completed this year. These “facts on the ground“ create great hardship for Palestinian farmers who find more of their lands inaccessible than ever before. The Israeli military has created a system of “permissions“ that has further complicated the harvest.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?TabID=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&ItemID=567&mid=10547
Commander implicated in death of Palestinian girl arrested
Military Police have arrested a Givati Brigade company commander on suspicion he shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian girl at close range, after she had already been shot by troops and was laying on the ground. (Still not sure!)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493807.html
Israeli tanks' shell wounds six-year-old child
Amin Shahwan, Hasna's father said that he woke up to the sound of the huge explosion, finding the wall falling on his daughter who was asleep. Doctors at the Nasser hospital's reported that Hasna was in a “very serious” condition since shrapnel penetrated most parts of her body.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/27/2004&Cat=4&Num=005
Settler shoots Palestinian to death in West Bank
Security forces detained the security coordinator for questioning after the incident. Israel Defense Forces troops and police were investigating whether the Palestinian may have entered the outpost with olive pickers who were given permission by the IDF to enter the area to harvest olives.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493683.html
Two killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday
A local source in Khan Younis said that a military scouting plane fired at least one missile at a group of residents in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing one, critically wounding at least three others, on Tuesday after midnight.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102604/Kh_Younis1.htm
4 apprehended in Hebron, one carpentry, one shoemaking workshop burnt in Hebron
A local source in Hebron said that soldiers apprehended four residents, burnt carpentry and a shoemaking store and pinched money and gold from some homes during raids conducted in Wad Abu Kteila, in Hebron in the south of the West Bank.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102604/Hberon4.htm
Reacting to deaths in Gaza, UN envoy calls on Israel to protect civilians
Voicing deep concern over the continuing violence in the Gaza Strip, the senior United Nations envoy for the Middle East today deplored deaths during the renewed military operation in Khan Younis and called on Israel to respect international law. (So Gently; keep on killing, just try not ot shoot a child using sniper...)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12340&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Qurei blames int'l community for silent over Israeli massacre
"At the time we talk about a promised Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israel carries out massacres in the Palestinian areas every day," he said, adding "we want to say to the whole world that words and statements are not enough anymore, and we want actions indeed."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/26/content_2140973.htm
Israeli Supreme Court demands army justify demolitions
The Court was responding to a petition filed by the Arab-Israeli rights group Adalah, which accuses the military of having perpetrated "war crimes" with the demolition of the large number of houses in the town which borders Egypt.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1228529.htm
US says committed to Roadmap, unsure about independent Palestinian state by 2005
The United States said on Tuesday it remained committed to the Road Map peace initiative but stopped short of making any commitment to the establishment of a viable Palestinian state by 2005.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=675443
State to underwrite damages awarded to Israelis in suits against PA
The temporary seizures of the last two years contradict the state's commitment to the United States to transfer to the PA, under the road map, all the customs and tax money taken by Israel for merchandise and services intended for the PA. ( But USA is fine with it!)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/492877.html
Yasser Arafat said to be suffering from large gallstone
Hospital sources said they had brought X-ray and ultrasound machines to Arafat's compound two days ago to perform tests on his chest and stomach. The X-ray turned up clean, but the ultrasound uncovered a 1-centimeter-long gallstone.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493801.html
Arafat to work to end disagreement among security apparatuses
"These measures aim to stem the worsening security situation that has prevailed in the Palestinian lands, especially in the Gaza Strip," Palestinian Minister of Agriculture Ibrahim Abu Naja was quoted as saying.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/26/content_2141434.htm
Graffiti in W. Jerusalem: "We killed Rabin and will kill Sharon as well, Death to the Arabs"
Israeli police in found on Tuesday morning graffiti on the walls in the streets of West Jerusalem as saying: "We killed Rabin, we will kill Sharon too, and death to the Arabs." Israel Radio said, police thinks these are acts of the extreme right wing in Israel. A Police source said they are investigating the issue.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/October/week4/102604/grafitti.htm
Protesters Harry Israel Parliament Before Gaza Vote
Thousands of rightist Israelis accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of treason Tuesday as parliament looked set to approve the first pullout of settlers from occupied land Palestinians want as part of a future state.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6616220
Ministers may abstain in pullout vote unless PM calls poll
The threat comes after the ministers managed to secure a deal with the National Religious Party under which the party will not quit the coalition government if a referendum on the pullout plan is held. Likud ministers Limor Livnat, Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvan Shalom, Yisrael Katz and Tzachi Hanegbi...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493670.html
Israeli parliament approves Gaza pullout plan
Sharon's victory was achieved partly through a decision by the left-wing opposition Labour and Yahad parties to support the premier, who had previously been regarded as the ultimate champion of the settler movement.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20041026/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_israel_gaza_vote_041026192631
Egypt: No sign bomber linked to Palestinian groups
Egypt said on Tuesday there was no indication the Palestinian organiser of bombings at Egyptian Red Sea resorts frequented by Israelis had links with Palestinian groups fighting Israel.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26494296.htm
Analysis / Much ado about nothing
According to Mallouh, and most Palestinian spokespersons, the noise being made by the Israeli right with regard to the pullout from Gaza is nothing more than a big act designed to demonstrate to the world the terrible pain of the Israeli concession.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493402.html
Pro-Israeli groups pressure Columbia University
The far-right Pro-Israeli newspaper The New York Sun broke a story on Oct. 20 that there existed an underground film in which university students and alumni complain that they felt their academic careers were threatened because they expressed pro-Israeli positions.
http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9607
The Jews versus the Israelis
Zionism posed a challenge to the "We are Jews" of Rabbi Avraham Shapira and his disciples because it stated that the fate of the Jewish people is a matter for human action, not divine action. It is precisely along this fault line that Orthodox rabbis disengaged from Zionism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/493417.html
On This Day 1994: Israel and Jordan make peace
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan formally made peace at a ceremony in desert area of Wadi Araba on the Israeli-Jordanian border. US President Bill Clinton was a witness to the treaty also watched by 5,000 guests and relayed to the world on TV. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was conspicuous by his absence - he had not been invited.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_3764000/3764162.stm
ExpoTech Palestine in Gaza from December 4th-6th
ExpoTech Palestine Exhibition will be held at the Rashad Al Shawa Cultural Center, Gaza from December 4th—6th 2004. Claim your exhibition space at the technology crossroads of Palestine Gaza City. Meet your market, launch, preview and demo products. Sell your proven technology solutions.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3257.shtml
Letter from the people in Fallujah to Kofi Annan
On the night of the 13th October alone American bombardment demolished 50 houses on top of their residents. Is this a genocidal crime or a lesson about the American democracy? It is obvious that the Americans are committing acts of terror against the people of Fallujah for one reason only: their refusal to accept the Occupation.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6601&s2=25
Syria arrests Kuwaitis trying to fight in Iraq
Syrian security forces have recently arrested several Kuwaitis who had attempted to enter Iraq to fight a holy war against US forces in Fallujah, the Arab Times reported Tuesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/26/content_2140912.htm
Rumsfeld 'ignored Fallujah warnings'
Warnings by the US military commander of last April's operation in Fallujah on the consequences of attacking the city were ignored by the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and not passed to President George Bush, an American newspaper has claimed. After weeks of fighting, and with 600 Iraqis dead, not only did the assault fail...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=576042
FLASHBACK: United States War Crimes Against Iraq (1991)
The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, have carefully considered the Initial Complaint of the Commission of Inquiry dated May 6, 1991 against President George H. W. Bush, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Commander of the Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf...
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6556&s2=25
ICRC says it must be notified about Iraq prisoner transfers
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that it must be notified of every prisoner transfer under the Geneva Conventions, following reports that United States had transferred detainees out of Iraq
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20041026/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_prisoners_icrc_041026180712
Report: Army denies most compensation claims by Iraqis
The Army has denied most of the thousands of compensation claims Iraqis have made against the U.S. military, determining that combat accounted for most of the deaths, injuries and property damage, a newspaper reported Sunday.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=6577&s2=25 |
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