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Today in Palestine - April 8Th |
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by MrParadise
Email: MrParadise_lb (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) |
09 Apr 2004
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Protests against separation fence resume in Biddu
Some 150 Palestinians and left-wing Israeli protesters resumed demonstrations Thursday in the village of Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, against the construction of the West Bank separation fence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=413681&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Further non-violent demonstrators injured in Biddu, clashes in Nablus
Israeli troops injured five more in Biddu this morning... Four Palestinians and one Spanish photojournalist were hit by rubber bullets, as villagers tried to prevent Israeli contractors from confiscating their land to prepare ground for the Wall.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/biddu_nablus_demonstrations.htm
UNITED NATIONS TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION OF WALL IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
The closing session of the meeting will take place on Friday, 16 April, at 5:30 p.m. The report of the meeting will be issued as a publication of the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/gapal948.doc.htm
A Wall of Trouble
No doubt the barrier will further break up and choke the Palestinian population, it said. The planned wall – a portion of which has already been constructed – would isolate more than 250,000 to 300,000 Palestinians, representing over 10 percent of the population
http://www.masnet.org/views.asp?id=1122
Palestinian woman saves life of Israeli patient
Sonia Makhlouf, a 26-year-old resident of Jifna village, north the West Bank city of Ramallah, did not think twice before agreeing to offer her own medicine to save the life of an Israeli woman.
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?iapinfo+2366
Israeli Soldiers Wound Civilian in Rafah
Medical sources in Rafah City told WAFA that Ziad al-Sdodi 30, was shot with a live gunshot in the head when Israeli soldiers opened heavy random fire at civilians’ houses in Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood...
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=409
Israeli troops nab Palestinian official in Ramallah office
A Palestinian official from the ministry of prisoners affairs was arrested Thursday by Israeli troops in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, a source from the ministry said.
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?iapinfo+2364
Incurring into West Bank, IOF Arrests 17 Civilians
(IOF) stormed early Thursday the west Bank cities of Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem and arrested seventeen civilians, including two university female students, witnesses said. They told WAFA that the IOF troops, escorted by thanks and personnel armoured carriers...
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=407
IOF Seizes Tens of Homes In Tulkarem, Turn Them into Barracks
the IOF seized tens of homes in Tulkarem refugee camp and in the nearby Zanaba Village, and turned them into military barracks to watch the movement of the citizens in the area. The IOF, by this, caused a state of horror and terror among the citizens who feared that IOF might launch new military offensives.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/060.html
Balfour to Bush, Vietnam to Israel
Balfour promised a Jewish national homeland in the Land of Israel and Bush is supposedly going to promise the borders and identity of the Jewish state to include the large settlement blocs in the West Bank and keep the Palestinian refugees away...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413417.html
Tulkarem’s Medical Services Under Israeli Offensives
The continuous raids and random fire have led to either to killing or wounding many medical team members, not to mention the intentional destruction of clinics, ambulances and restriction of movement at the different military checkpoints.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/058.html
Palestinian plan says no to attacks on civilians
The Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad leaderships in Gaza have prepared a draft "National Plan" that "emphasizes the right to use violence to oppose the occupation and the settlements, while avoiding turning civilians from either side into targets for attack.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413408.html
Sha'ath: Israeli pullout could pave the way for elections
Speaking to reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah after meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Sha'ath said, "we hope this [a withdrawal] will pave the road for a Palestinian general election with participation with Hamas,"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413441.html
Qorei discusses Israel's Gaza pullout plans in Amman
"The unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is to take place in mid-April, but we have not been informed about the details of the plan or the manner in which the pullback will be conducted," Qorei told reporters Thursday. He said Jordan's King Abdullah II would "inform" US President George W. Bush...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=16&u=/afp/20040408/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_palestinian_040408155357
Intifada cost Palestinian economy $11b - report
Average per capita income for Palestinians in the territories is now only $2 per day. The report states that Arab countries, headed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have sent only $50 million a year to the Palestinians since the outbreak of the intifada in September 2000.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=787230&fid=942
Palestinians expect U.S. aid if Israel quits Gaza
The Palestinians have been promised substantial U.S. aid if they ensure peace in the Gaza Strip should Israel end its 37-year occupation, their foreign minister said on Thursday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08396321.htm
Hamas says it won't join current PA leadership
"Hamas will not participate in the current Palestinian Authority," said Said Siam, a Hamas leader from the Gaza Strip. "Discussion of this possibility is misplaced. Hamas does not intend to abandon the armed struggle so long as the conquest remains intact."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413859.html
Police prepare for riots during Friday prayers at Temple Mount
Jerusalem police received intelligence information Thursday warning of Palestinians' intention to hold riots at the end of Friday prayers on Temple Mount following tensions in the territories since the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413833.html
London's mayor calls for Sharon to be jailed
Livingstone predicted there would be no peace in the Middle East until "the West shows it is taking on board the injustice of what's happening to the Palestinians, and looks at the financial network of corruption between some of the oil sheikhdoms, the oil companies and the White House."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413857.html
Not Pepsi or Coke - By Azmi Bishara
The US anti-war left mustn't blur the course of the peace movement by associating it too closely with Kerry. The peace movement should retain its independence, so that it can protest against Kerry himself when such a need arises. Yet a section of people, including Arab-Americans, need to be persuaded to shift their votes from Bush to Kerry in the meanwhile.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/685/op13.htm
Deir Yassin Remembered
The massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin is one of the most significant events in 20th-century Palestinian and Israeli history. This is not because of its size or its brutality, but because it stands as the starkest early warning of a calculated depopulation of over 400 Arab villages and cities and the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian inhabitants...
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/061.html
Some more questions for Condoleezza
Powell gained agreement for the basic outline of the original plan. But just as he was to announce his breakthrough, Rice intervened, instructing him that he could not discuss any political process and that the whole burden of accountability must be put on the Palestinians and none on the Israelis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1188165,00.html
Back to 'no Palestinian people'
Those who are considering their position on the disengagement plan should set aside the territorial element and consider the concept of "unilateralism" as the real test of the initiative. If they support a more sophisticated variation of Golda Meir's declaration that "there is no Palestinian people," they should support Sharon's plan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413415.html
Breaching Another Barrier for Palestine—This One in the U.S. Peace Movement
Nonetheless, it does seem that the Palestinian cause might be on its way to achieving “political correctness” among U.S. activists. One hopes that, as a result, Americans’ realization of Palestinian’s legitimate demands will spread more quickly among those who profess to stand for justice.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/April_2004/0404032.html
Iraqis march to Falluja carrying aid
Thousands of Sunni and Shia Muslims backed by cars full of food and medical supplies have headed on foot toward the town of Falluja which has been besieged by US occupation forces. "No Sunni, no Shia, yes for Islamic unity. We are Sunni and Shia brothers and will never sell our country," they chanted.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E6D5061F-F02F-49B4-A197-8DE7A1C4A0AA.htm
200 dead in Iraq's bloodiest days
More than 200 people, including 170 Iraqis and about 30 coalition troops, have died in attacks in seven cities across the country, sparked by the killing and mutilation of four civilian contractors last week.
http://www.thewest.com.au/20040408/news/general/tw-news-general-home-sto122924.html
Iraq interior minister resigns as battles rage
Nouri Badran, Iraq's interim interior minister, resigned on Thursday in the latest blow to the US appointed transitional administration, while the kidnapping of three Japanese citizens increased the pressures facing the occupying coalition.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420236995&p=1012571727172
US may extend the stay of 15,000 troops in Iraq
Other Pentagon officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the total force could be maintained at the current 135,000 -- up from 118,000 in late February -- by extending the stay of some soldiers who have been in Iraq for a year and are scheduled to return home even as fresh replacements arrive.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/08/us_may_extend_the_stay_of_15000_troops_in_iraq/ |
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