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Today in The MidEast 12th of april |
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13 Apr 2004
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Ahmad Nimer – Beit Liqya
It was a bomb and it exploded, and he was killed. The Occupation forces tend to leave bombs in the lands they want to confiscate, to terrorize the people. My son died but still we did not stop going to our lands. I made a symbolic tomb for my son in one of my fields.
http://stopthewall.org/communityvoices/467.shtml
Palestinians demonstrate over lack of PA action against fence
"Mere condemnation is insufficient. The ministers don't care about the barrier, it doesn't affect them. They get VIP treatment at checkpoints and send their children to study abroad," Salameh Abu Eid, 25, from Biddu village told Reuters.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414576.html
Villagers Punished for Peaceful Protests
Villagers Northwest of Jerusalem, who peacefully protested against the construction of the separation wall, reported that they are being repeatedly harassed and punished by the army. In addition to grabbing their land, dozens were arrested and army regularly set the villages under strict curfews.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/April/week2/041204/villagers%20punished.htm
Forces kill three Palestinians
Military sources had earlier said that around four gunmen had opened fire and thrown grenades at troops around greenhouses on the outskirts of the settlement at around 05:00. Troops returned fire and recovered the bodies later in the morning.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1511211,00.html
2 Civilians Wounded in Bethlehem, Israeli Thrust into Jenin
The security sources reported that around twenty Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers rolled into Jenin and its Refugee Camp, amid intensive heavy fire. Witnesses said Israeli troops hurled stun bombs and opened intensive fire at civilians’ houses, causing a state of panic among children and women
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=441
IOF Wounds Civilian in Gaza
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) early Monday wounded a citizen and opened heavy fire on civilians in the Gaza Strip Cities of Khanyounis and Rafah, medical sources and witnesses said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=437
Israeli Under-Cover Units Kidnap Civilian in Bethlehem
a “Toyota” Israeli car stopped in front of the “Arab Bank” in the Refugee Camp, two Israelis disguised in a civilian uniform headed to Firas Abu 'Alia 31, the Bank guard, whom they attacked, threw in the car and kidnapped, taking him into an unknown place.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=442
Little Hands Relieve Travellers' Suffering at IOF Checkpoints
Checkpoints children or the "little porters" as some others call them, ease some of the traveller's sufferings and feel ten feet tall for the few NISs they receive for the service they offer. Those children had to do so, because of the poor financial situation they experience.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=439
GUPW Secretary Calls for Further Political Involvement of Women
In an interview with the IPC, Abu Khadra, who is also a member of the Revolutionary Council, demanded what she called "an internal revolution inside the factions" in order to further involve women in the decision-making process.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/085.html
During His Memorial: Journalists Demand Capture of Al Zaben's Assailants
During a memorial marking 40 days of his killing, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) in Gaza organized a gathering attended by the Al Zaben's family, Palestinian journalists and a number of political and social figures.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/083.html
Health Ministry: 14 Killed by IOF over the Past Two Weeks
Seven of them are under 18 which constitutes 50% of the Palestinians killed by IOF over the past two weeks. The report added that 85.7 % of the Palestinians killed were shot dead with live bullets and 64.3% were shot allover the body. The number of the wounded estimated at 161; 153 in the WB and 8 in Gaza.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=444
PA security men arrest Palestinian resistance fighters
Palestinian Authority security men yesterday arrested a number of resistance fighters affiliated with the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, military wing of the Fatah Movement, in the West Bank city of Kalkilya.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_5526.shtml
Sharon lists settlement blocs he intends to keep
Sharon for the first time named the six areas he intends to keep: Maaleh Adumim and Givat Zeev near Jerusalem, Ariel in the heart of the West Bank, the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, the Kiryat Arba settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron and settler enclaves in Hebron itself.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1081748014597&p=1078397702269
PA to nix any U.S. pledges that endanger final status issues
"Any guarantees to Israel that affect the final status issues... are unacceptable and will be rejected," said Qureia following a meeting of the Palestinian cabinet in Ramallah on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414293.html
Bush and Mubarak welcome Israeli plan to quit Gaza Strip
"We also believe the future of the Middle East and the future of Iraq are closely linked," Bush told reporters. "The people of the greater Middle East have a right to be safe, secure, prosperous and free."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414561.html
Erekat denies receiving US guarantees
Palestinian Minister of Negotiations Affairs Saeb Erekat denied on Monday reports that the Palestinian Authority received guarantees from the United States that it would not take steps that would be harmful to the final status issues.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?DSNO=620918
US to emphasise commitment to Middle East
Despite the dead-ends on the Middle East "road map" and the concerns about the Iraq insurgency, the Bush administration has scheduled a series of meetings to demonstrate the president's commitment to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420271708&p=1012571727172
Palestinian Activist Ordered Released After Two Years in Prison Without Charge
In Pennsylvania, a federal judge last week ordered the release of prominent Palestinian New York activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti. Abdel-Muhti has been jailed for almost two years even though he has never been charged with a crime.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/1424204
Jordan refuses to boycott the government of Sharon, to halt normalization
Al-Fayez was quoted as saying that the government honors constructive criticism and the opposition's view and is proud of the vocational role of the trade unions.. Other trade unionists said that the prime minister refused the trade unions to organize campaigns to boycott the American goods.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040412/2004041207.html
Orthodox Jews To Demonstrate Against 'State' Of Israel
Upon the meeting of President George W. Bush and "Israeli" Prime Minister Sharon on April 14, at the White House, Washington DC, Orthodox Jews will be demonstrating in front of the White House, to proclaim and clearly state that: Sharon and the State of "Israel" are illegitimate and they do not represent the Jewish people.
http://rense.com/general51/agz.htm
The March of Folly - By: Uri Avnery
The Bushes are oilmen. Among the big-money people who helped to put the two Bushes, Sr. and Jr., into the White House, oilmen played a leading role. The neo-con fanatics, most of whom are right-wing Zionists, added to this another objective: to eliminate the Iraqi threat to Israel, before freeing Israel of the Syrian and Iranian threats.
http://www.amin.org/eng/uri_avnery/2004/apr10.html
Israel unsettled by US Iraq quagmire
On Thursday, top Israeli military and intelligence chiefs met in Tel Aviv to discuss the "deterioration of the security situation in Iraq" and its possible ramifications on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8BE8742-2311-44C7-AC67-C08BF2381196.htm
Thais prosecutors charge Israeli with grisly murder of wife
An Israeli tourist accused of killing his wife, chopping up her body and dumping it into a Bangkok canal was formally charged with murder by Thai prosecutors Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414569.html
CNI: Americans Believe Israel should be Accountable for Violations in oPt
The poll, conducted by Zogby International for the CNI, and released on April 7, showed that 56 percent of Americans agree and 29 percent disagree that the US Congress should pass Israel accountability act on weapons of mass destruction and human rights violations.
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/080.html
U.S. Forces Seek to 'Kill or Capture' Iraq Cleric
"The mission of the U.S. forces is to kill or capture Moqtada al-Sadr," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, said in a video conference from Baghdad with reporters at the Pentagon. Gen. John Abizaid, head of Central Command that covers Iraq, on the same video conference said Sadr was being isolated by fellow Shi'ites.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4804876
Report from Fallujah -- Destroying a Town in Order to "Save" it
An ambulance with two neat, precise bullet-holes in the windshield on the driver's side, pointing down at an angle that indicated they would have hit the driver's chest (the snipers were on rooftops, and are trained to aim for the chest). Another ambulance again with a single, neat bullet-hole in the windshield. There's no way this was due to panicked spraying of fire.
http://www.empirenotes.org/fallujah.html
Abizaid seeks more combat troops for Iraq
General John Abizaid, commander of US forces in the Middle East, has asked the Pentagon for two additional combat brigades to be deployed in response to the widespread rebellion in Iraq, reversing a year-long trend of reducing the American military presence in the war-torn country.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420281822&p=1012571727172
Nine Americans, including two soldiers, missing in Iraq
Two US soldiers and seven US contractors working for a Halliburton subsidiary are unaccounted for in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the head of US forces in the country, said.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/79843/1/.html
Arab TV networks accused of fueling violence in Iraq
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera and its Dubai-based rival Al-Arabiya, have been providing graphic images of the devastation and casualties in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah during fierce fighting between US forces and insurgents last week.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=9&u=/afp/20040412/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_arab_media_040412180400 |
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Today in the MidEast 13th of April |
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Preliminary Work On The Wall At Azzawiya
Work has started on the Apartheid Wall in Azzawiya. There are currently 4 contractors' vehicles, an army jeep, soldiers and engineers on Highway No. 5 at the bridge over the road between the villages of Mas'ha and Azzawiya. They are putting marks in preparation for the wall to be constructed on lands confiscated from Azzawiya.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0404/S00104.htm
PM in U.S. for Gaza pullout talks, will meet Rice on Tuesday
Hours before leaving the country at around 2 A.M. Tuesday, Sharon said the West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim would be included in the "Jerusalem envelope" section of the West Bank separation fence.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/414790.html
Israel: Bush Should Press Sharon on Rights Violations
U.S. President George W. Bush should raise Israeli human rights violations in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip when he hosts Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the White House on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said today. “The separation barrier further encroaches on local land and resources in order to consolidate control over these illegal settlements,”
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/04/13/isrlpa8426.htm
IOF Escalates Arbitrary Measures in WB
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) razed Tuesday vast areas of arable land in Hussan village of Bethlehem City. Head of the city rural council, Mustafa Hamamreh, said that a number of military bulldozers, backed by dozens of soldiers, razed vast areas of cultivated land.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=453
A Citizen Dies of IOF Disruptions as Offensives Spread Throughout Palestinian Territories
Local residents affirmed that the Israeli soldiers used a large amount of stun grenades, causing 56-year old Ahmad Abdel Rahman to suffer a heart attack. "When the ambulance tried to rush him to the hospital, the Israeli soldiers prevented it from leaving the area and kept it there until he died,"
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_04/089.html
Dozens of Civilians Wounded in Hebron
Eyewitnesses said that around 100 colonizers, carrying automatic rifles and clubs, brutally broke into al-Jabari neigbourhood and attacked civilians, causing a state of panic among children and women. He added that around twelve houses were damaged when Israeli colonizers opened heavy fire and threw igniter grenades at these houses.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=451
Soldier, bus driver wounded in West Bank attacks
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel earlier Tuesday when the bus in which he was traveling came under fire in the West Bank, between the settlement of Hermesh and the town of Baka al-Sharkiyeh.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414828.html
New Israeli Wave of Demolishing and Incursion in OPT
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) demolished Monday night a house in al-Sheikh Ejleen area of the Gaza Strip and incurred into Tulkarem refugee camp and Ramallah City of the West Bank. In Gaza area of al-Sheikh Ejleen, IOF demolished a civilian house, witnesses said.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=tech_news&id=447
Palestinian children killed by Israel
Among these victims, 266 children were 14 or younger while the ages of the remaining 279 ranged from 15 to 18. Moreover, as many as 20,000 Palestinian children were injured, with nearly 1500 sustaining life-long disabilities.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C3994F6B-9576-4702-94E3-73EA1470182E.htm
Reporters Without Borders urges police investigation after Reuters photographer beaten
Ammar Awad, was brutally beaten and kicked by around a dozen Israeli police officers, according to witnesses at the scene. Awad was covering clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli Police on the esplanade of the mosques in Jerusalem...
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9719
UNRWA resumes food supply to Gaza Strip
"It has been a month since we started asking the Israeli government to facilitate our staff's movements as well as allowing food and medicine containers to enter the strip," he said. The UNRWA launched an urgent appeal to the international community in order to raise 195 million US dollars for the 2004 budget, but has only raised 70 million dollars so far, he said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/13/content_1417372.htm
UN Committee's recommendations to Lebanon: Need for effective measures to protect the human rights of Palestinian refugees
the Lebanese government should make the necessary changes to its domestic laws and policies to make them compatible with its obligations under international human rights law and to end all practices that prevent Palestinian refugees from enjoying their basic human rights. Amnesty International recognizes and advocates the right to return of Palestinian refugees.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256E750054086B
Annan cautions Israel on West Bank settlements
Israel's plan to pull out of Gaza should not involve any plans for the West Bank that might affect the future creation of a viable Palestinian state, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13624090.htm
Israel, PNA agree on Gaza pullout: Palestinian source
Meanwhile, other Palestinian security sources confirmed that the Palestinian military intelligence services headed by Mussa Arafat would take over security responsibilities in the Jewish settlements that are supposed to be evacuated.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/13/content_1417258.htm
Anger over Sharon's pledge to keep West Bank settlements
Infuriated Palestinians, who want both territories for a state, said Mr Sharon's comments in effect closed the door on any deal under a peace plan to which the US President, George Bush, has reaffirmed his commitment.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081838725764.html
Neturei Karta to hold Anti Israel Protest Outside White House
”The Torah forbids stealing land, subjugating and oppressing a people etc. ”The root cause of the endless bloodshed and suffering in the Holy Land is Zionism and the State of Israel. ”The root cause for the continual rise of worldwide anti-Semitism is Zionism and the State of Israel…”
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=60749
Settler leaders preparing anti-pullout campaign
Settler leaders were meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday night to prepare for the launching of their campaign against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414793.html
For the Third Time, Same Settlement Slated for Removal
Already ten months ago, in June 2003, Israeli media reported on the dismantling of the settlement. The Israeli army, based on a government decision started to dismantle the Settlement of Mitzpeh Yitzhar, however, the order was never implemented.
http://www.imemc.org/headlines/2004/April/week2/041304/settlements.htm
Sharon vows to keep control of major West Bank settlements
Mr Sharon is confident the US president, George Bush, will reward his proposal for Israel to dismantle its settlements in the Gaza Strip by allowing the country to control the majority of the West Bank when the two leaders meet tomorrow.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1190810,00.html
Analysis / A summit of the weak
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's ninth trip to Washington and tenth meeting with U.S. President George Bush will center on the two leaders' appearance tomorrow on Israel's main news broadcasts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/414633.html
The stakes of Ariel Sharon's visit to Washington
Because of the possibility that Sharon may be indicted on corruption charges, this could be his last visit to Washington. Never has the importance and centrality of the US in Middle East peacemaking been so obvious.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=1989
Parents of American Killed by Israel Speak on Campus
“Our tax dollars bought the bulldozer that crushed our daughter,” Craig Corrie said. An Israeli investigation cleared the driver of any wrongdoing, but ISM witnesses said Rachel’s top half was clearly visible to the driver as he moved forward. They, and Rachel’s parents, have called for an independent investigation.
http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1134
PNA court sentences 3 Palestinians to death
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) court on Tuesday sentenced three residents of Gaza City to death for raping and murdering a Palestinian schoolgirl a few months ago. A fourth convicted was sentenced for life imprisonment...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/13/content_1417353.htm
Sadr undaunted by massed US troops
Mr Sadr has been holed up for the last week with hundreds of his Mahdi Army fighters, the Shia leader said: "I am ready to sacrifice (myself) and I call on the people not to allow my death to cause the collapse of the fight for freedom and an end to the occupation."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1190932,00.html
Italians taken hostage as nervous nations pull out
"The Italian Government ... should vow and give guarantees to withdraw its forces from Iraq and give a time schedule and to free Muslim clerics in Iraq," a voice on the film said, adding the men were captured in the Sunni Muslim town of Fallujah.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081838727859.html
Foreign workers urged to quit Iraq after kidnappings
Russia and France, both vocal critics of the US-led war in Iraq, on Tuesday advised their nationals to leave the country after a spate of kidnappings and continuing clashes between coalition forces and rebels. The move follows a similar statement by the German foreign ministry on Monday...
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420305670&p=1012571727172
Iraq: Jo Wilding in Fallujah
US snipers in Falluja shoot unarmed man in the back, old woman with white flag, children fleeing their homes and the ambulance that we were going in to fetch a woman in premature labour. Trucks, oil tankers, tanks are burning on the highway east to Falluja.
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=1577&blz=1
Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported - By Robert Fisk
Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa... - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq. Lieutenant-General Mark Kimmitt admitted on Tuesday that "about 70" American and other Western troops had died during the Iraqi insurgency since April 1 but he made no mention of the mercenaries...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6031.htm |
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