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Sunday, March 19, 2006
03-18-06 - Israel scrambles to contain bird flu outbreak Inevitably in the conflict-ridden Middle East, the outbreak fueled rumours that the Palestinians were to blame. But Pokamonsky formally denied suggestions the virus had been brought into the Jewish state in poultry smuggled in from the Gaza Strip. And the Palestinians vowed to work together with Israel to contain the outbreak despite a collapse in relations since a controversial deadly army raid on a West Bank prison Tuesday.
03-18-06 - Photostory: Rachel Corrie remembered in Seattle The event was part of the national Rachel?s Words campaign in protest of the cancellation of ?My Name Is Rachel Corrie? at New York Theater Workshop.
03-18-06 - Palestinian leader set to approve Hamas government Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas is set to give his reluctant approval to a narrow Hamas-led government following the Islamic militant group's upset victory in January parliamentary elections, aides said.
03-18-06 - Lebanese president repeats vow not to step down Lahoud backed the call for Palestinian refugees and pro-Syrian militias to be disarmed
03-18-06 - Israel culls poultry, H5N1 not confirmed - official Near the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian customs officials intercepted two trucks carrying poultry which had entered illegally. Palestinian officials said they would kill the 2,600 chickens in the trucks.
03-18-06 - Four peaceful protesters injured in Bil'in In a separate incident, ten residents were injured in Beit Siera village, west of Ramallah, after soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Annexation Wall.
03-18-06 - ACT Appeal OPT: Emergency Assistance to Civilians - MEPL61 Through a contract with the PA, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)-Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in Jerusalem, was providing, on a monthly basis, about 1700 medical procedures for the Palestinians such as dialysis, radiation, chemotherapy, endoscopy and head-neck treatments. The blockage of the funds will put in danger the life of the patients who are currently under treatment as it is the only source of treatment they can access.
03-18-06 - International pressure grows as Hamas unveils its new cabinet The militant Palestinian organisation Hamas yesterday unveiled its new government, setting Palestinian society on an inevitable collision course with Israel and the international community.
03-18-06 - Hamas ministry choice spurs unrest fears Hamas leaders have chosen one of their own to run the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, a decision that could bolster a US and Israeli campaign to isolate a Hamas-led government economically.
03-18-06 - Israeli Warplanes Hit Gaza Strip Witnesses said Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a main road in northern Gaza Strip, causing severe damage to the road and smashing windows of nearby houses. No casualty was reported.
03-18-06 - Photostory: Israeli extremists' attack on Nazareth's most famous Christian church goes virtually unreported Almost from the outset the Israeli media downplayed the significance of the attack, saying only "firecrackers" had been set off by Habibi, who was described - without evidence - as being mentally disturbed. As a result, most of the world's media ignored the event entirely. These pictures capture some of that night's dramatic events and a joint Christian and Muslim protest march through Nazareth the next day.
03-18-06 - Egyptian woman dies of bird flu The Israeli Health Ministry said four people suspected of having bird flu had tested negative for the virus.
03-18-06 - Peres: We'll talk with Palestinians on pull-out
03-18-06 - Abbas Urges UN to Press Israel to Release Jericho Militants Abbas also urged the UN envoy to press Israel to open the crossings in the Gaza Strip so as to allow daily necessities and fuel to flow into the coastal area to avoid a humanitarian disaster, said Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who also attended the meeting between Abbas and De Soto.
03-18-06 - Army arrests three Palestinian legislators from Hamas in Jerusalem
03-18-06 - Palestinian minister warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza Sanakrot told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah that the Karni crossing on Gaza's eastern border had been closed by Israel for over 44 days and that all the seven mills in the coastal strip had run out of flour stock.
03-18-06 - An Old Woman Robbed of her Seasonal Food
03-18-06 - Britain condemns Israel over fatal shooting of a child The Foreign Office minister, Douglas Alexander, urged Israel to show restraint. He said: "We condemn the killing on 17 March of a Palestinian child in the Occupied Territories. Israeli actions in the Occupied Territories must be proportionate and in accordance with international law."
03-18-06 - Jennifer Loewenstein: Israel plows over human decency, Palestinians
03-18-06 - The Israel Lobby's Canadian branch office The Canadian dedication to 'neutrality' in the Middle East, forced by the Canadian branch of the Lobby, has taken Canada to the point where it now votes on UN Resolutions concerning Israel against the rest of the world and along with Israel, the U. S., and those embarrassing South Sea islands that are bribed to vote along.
03-18-06 - Open Letter to Pink Floyd's Roger Waters
03-18-06 - Photostory: Made in Palestine Exhibit opens to packed crowds in New York
03-18-06 - Death plot suspect failed to foresee Israeli prison raid
03-18-06 - Report: Bishara acted as Syria-Israel mediator in 1990s talks Former Syrian vice president Abed al-Halim Haddam said in an interview with the Arab-language Nazareth-based newspaper, A-Sinara, that will be published on Friday that Israel and Syria were very close to signing a peace treaty in the mid 1990s.
03-18-06 - Resident arrested near Huwwara checkpoint Last week, soldiers arrested a woman carrying a kitchen knife she bought for her household; the woman was arrested and interrogated for attempting to "stab a soldier".
03-18-06 - RAFAT VILLAGE AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS WILL RESIST DESTRUCTION OF SHEPHERD'S HOMES NEAR THE WALL The Wall in Rafat has partly been constructed. Already it has forced the shepherds from their original pasture, the most fertile valley of the village. Their sheep and goats are their only means of livelihood and the shepherds have no other fields to go to anymore.
03-18-06 - Good Shepherd to use Palestinian communion ware at weekend worship The goal of the communion ware journey is to raise awareness of the hardship that the walls being built between Israeli and Palestinian territory have caused to those living in the walled-off territories, said the Rev. Jeff Tengesdal, senior pastor at Good Shepherd....The communion ware was made by Palestinian artists at the International Center of Bethlehem, a ministry of Christmas Lutheran Church. Christmas is one of six congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land.
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