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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
03-14-06 - Israeli Forces Raid Jericho Jail During the operation, a Palestinian officer and a prisoner were killed in a shootout between Palestinian police and Israeli forces, Palestinian security officials said....U.S. and British observers who had monitored the jail for the past four years withdrew early Tuesday morning - just before the raid - citing security concerns. The Israeli government ordered the raid because the monitors were withdrawn, the army said, blaming the Palestinians for violating the agreement regarding the prisoners.
03-14-06 - Palestinians Attack Foreigners After Raid Palestinian police whisked foreigners to safety, and several international relief agencies closed in the Palestinian territories on Tuesday in response to the kidnapping of aid workers and journalists by angry militants
03-14-06 - Groups Pull Staff From Palestinian Areas Angry Palestinians accused Britain and the United States of complicity in the raid because the two countries withdrew their inspectors shortly before the Israelis arrived to try to seize a top Palestinian militant leader.
03-14-06 - UNICEF sees aid shortfall for Palestinian children In a report to donors, UNICEF said it urgently needed $6.2 million to address "a sharp deterioration in the humanitarian situation" in the Palestinian territories since the Islamic militant Hamas group won elections in January. Nearly one in ten children under age five in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are so malnourished that it has stunted their growth, while newborns often lack medical care, the agency said.
I'm sure Israeli officials will lose sleep at night over this news..
03-14-06 - EU warns Palestinians of disruption to EU help The European Union may cut back assistance to the Palestinians if attacks on EU property there and kidnappings of Westerners do not stop, a senior EU official said on Tuesday...."Israel is in an election campaign but at the same time I think we have to condemn this action by Israel,"
03-14-06 - In pictures: Jericho prison raid
03-14-06 - Explosions, smoke and angry crowds Other BBC staff saw gangs of youths gathered near the prison throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers, he said. "One Palestinian teenager stood in front of an Israeli military 4WD vehicle preventing it from going any further. 'Run me down!' he screamed. 'Run me down!'"
03-14-06 - Abbas rushes home after jail raid He was on the first day of a trip aimed at securing aid for the Palestinians..... The BBC's Alex Kroeger in Strasbourg said the trip - which was to include a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday - was an important one.
03-14-06 - A sudden exit, a jail is stormed - and Israel's long wait is over The monitors slipped away at 9.30am after telling Palestinian authorities at the prison they were getting their car fixed. They headed straight for the Israeli checkpoint on the road out of Jericho. Col Belkin was waiting. He says there was no collusion between Israel and Britain, but the speed with which his men moved against the prison did nothing to quell Palestinian suspicions.
03-14-06 - Britain accused after day of chaos and kidnaps in Gaza Jack Straw, told the Commons the monitors were withdrawn as the Palestinian Authority had not done enough to ensure their security. He denied Britain had collaborated with Israel
03-14-06 - Olmert: Separation fence to be completed by end of year Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told settlers the State of Israel intends to complete the construction of the separation fence around the West Bank within several months.
03-14-06 - US monitoring Israel's Iran options The sources pointed out that it is clear that Israel would have to coordinate with the US forces air control any attempt to fly over Iraq on the way to Iran, if Israel chooses to attack using the shortest route. Last week, former Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said in Washington that the West does have a military option against Iran and that a joint US-NATO-Israeli air strike against dozens of nuclear facilities in Iran could set back Teheran's nuclear programs for several years. ...One of the questions Pentagon analysts are grappling with is how an Israeli attack - if launched - would affect the US and its forces in the region and whether it would force the US to follow with further strikes in order to complete the mission. The US is also discussing what could be the possible avenues of retaliation Iran would take against US's forces and interests in the region.
03-14-06 - Israeli Jail Raid Angers Palestinians British and American officials said they had complained repeatedly about security conditions at the prison and threatened in a letter last week - a copy of which was sent to Israel - to remove the monitors if things did not improve immediately. Naveh said troops were outside Jericho for days, waiting for the monitors to leave. Minutes after the withdrawal, troops rushed in, he said, denying there was any coordination with the monitors....The six wanted men were being held at the jail under the supervision of British and American wardens in accordance with a 2002 deal between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The agreement allowed the prisoners to be transferred from Yasser Arafat's besieged compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where they were holed up during Israel's operation Defensive Shield that year....Abbas lashed out at the Americans and the British, saying they violated the agreement by withdrawing monitors without telling him
03-14-06 - Israel tightens grip on Jordan Valley UN officials have also told the BBC they are concerned that the region is gradually being cut off by restrictions imposed on the Palestinian population by the Israeli security forces.
03-14-06 - High alert along northern border Israel blames the Lebanese government for the planned Hezbollah attack. The IDF says Beirut must regain its composure, take control of what is going on in southern Lebanon and allow its army to patrol the Lebanese-Israeli border.
03-14-06 - Israel closes Gaza export terminal Karni, the only export terminal for goods leaving the Gaza Strip to Israel, was closed, just five days after being reopened following a lengthy closure, a security official said.
03-14-06 - Lebanon to disarm Palestinians outside camps Berri said the leaders backed a government decision to disarm Palestinians outside refugee camps in six months and to "tackle the issue of the arms inside the camps," while also pledging to improve Palestinian living conditions in Lebanon.....The politicians also agreed to consider the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms border area Lebanese land, even though the United Nations says it belongs to Syria. Israel seized the tiny pocket of land in the 1967 Middle East War.
03-14-06 - Russia, Syria will push Hamas on road map: Lavrov Russia and Syria are both trying to persuade the Palestinian group Hamas to fulfil steps laid out in the road map toward Middle East peace, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
03-14-06 - Former Labour MP Tony Benn on how Britain Secretly Helped Israel Build Its Nuclear Arsenal I knew Michael Michaels very well. I went through my diary, which is about 17 million words long, and picked out every reference to him. And I had good grounds for not trusting him. But I had no idea of this, of course, at all. And he was doing it behind the back of ministers, and he undoubtedly did assist Israel and was intended to assist Israel, because I believe after he retired, he was given a job by the Israeli government. So there could be little doubt that that was what it was about.
03-14-06 - Arab League head accuses UK, US in raid Moussa said he was in touch with Arab and international leaders, including U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, to "bring a swift and complete end to this dangerous and strange (Israeli) intervention".
03-14-06 - Louisville man briefly abducted by Palestinian militants
03-14-06 - Red Cross official freed in Gaza - witnesses
03-14-06 - S.Korea confirms journalist kidnapped in Gaza
03-14-06 - Ariel part of Israel under permanent borders: Olmert
03-14-06 - 400 Palestinian children imprisoned in Israeli jails without the most basic human rights
03-14-06 - Who's afraid of Rachel Corrie? Artists clamor for play to be seen
03-14-06 - Christian Radio Host Fired For Criticizing Israel The program was canceled by the WFAX management because supporters of Israel had complained to the radio station about Crowley's criticisms of Israel.
03-14-06 - Chicago court hears chilling tales of torture In federal court in Chicago Tuesday, chilling stories about the torture of political prisoners by Israeli police
03-14-06 - India to send special envoy to Palestine: Govt In the first high-level contact, India is sending a special envoy to Palestine to talk to the newly-elected Hamas regime, Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed informed the Rajya Sabha today.
03-14-06 - Indonesia, US agree to create peace in Palestine and Korean Peninsula
03-14-06 - A moral duty to support Christians in the Holy Land
03-14-06 - Gaza turmoil prompts US appeal for calm
03-14-06 - Senators press Bush on Saudis A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators led by Jews from each party asked President Bush to urge Saudi Arabia to cancel a meeting on an Israel boycott.
03-14-06 - No respect for borders or the rule of law
03-14-06 - Jordan urges Israel to stop military operation in Jericho
03-14-06 - Human rights lawyer testifies in Hamas trial in US
03-14-06 - The walls of Jericho
03-14-06 - American donors to Israeli parties draw back with Sharon out of picture By contrast, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu was loudly applauded for pledging never to give up the Jordan Valley and to bring more West Bank settlements inside Israel's security barrier, essentially annexing more land. "Wherever your political career takes you, we will be your friend, and we know that you will always be a friend of the U.S.-Israel relationship," Michael Levin, an AIPAC board member, said after Netanyahu's address
03-14-06 - Play about activist's death pulled; Iowa aunt saddened Brodersen, who had been looking forward to seeing the play in New York, said the cancellation of the production was "very discouraging, very disheartening." She said for three years, family members have been fighting for an independent investigation into Corrie's death ? or at least official public acknowledgement that such an investigation has never been done.
03-14-06 - Poll finds huge support for broad Palestinian coalition
03-14-06 - Anglicans retreat on Israel divestment However, the shift hasn't mollified the American Jewish Congress.
03-14-06 - Evan Bayh: Loves His AIPAC In other words, he wants that "free flow of information" for which AIPAC is so famous to continue. Unfortunately, it is a free flow of classified information from our officials to Israeli officials
03-14-06 - AJCommittee, Portugese Jewish group sign pact "This association will bring our communities closer to one another as we work together to strengthen a united Jewish world and combat anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,"
03-14-06 - U.S. was wrong to support dividing Palestine in 1947 In 1957, my high school debate class, on the 10th anniversary of the partition, debated the issue. Our team took the position that this act was wrong, not because we were anti-Semitic, but because we felt it was wrong to displace the Palestinian people just so someone else could have their land.
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