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Monday, April 17, 2006


News for 04-16-06

04-16-06 - Christians prevented from attending Jerusalem rites Latin Patriarchate officials said that many Palestinian Christians who applied for security passes were denied them by Israeli military authorities who control passage into Jerusalem from West Bank towns, especially Bethlehem.


04-16-06 - Star switches venue after protests Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is moving his concert in Israel from a Tel Aviv park to a chickpea field next to a joint Jewish-Arab village because of Palestinian protests, it has been reported.


04-16-06 - Gaza Mayor: Work stopped in more than 30 projects because of the closure


04-16-06 - Iran confirms it will fund Hamas government


04-16-06 - Two IDF soldiers held for alleged role in West Bank clash Two Israel Defense Forces troops have been arrested on the suspicion that they took part in clashes between settlers and Palestinian farmers, and opened fire, while on leave from the army. The soldiers allegedly joined a group of settlers that tried to thwart the work of Palestinian farmers near the West Bank village of Salem, in the vicinity of Nablus


04-16-06 - IDF accused of 'knowingly risking Palestinian lives' Six human rights organizations appealed the High Court on Sunday to cancel a regulation which allows Israel Defense Forces artillery to fire shells at targets up to 100 meters away from Palestinian houses.



04-16-06 - IDF presents: Educational punishments "They're not allowing them to live," Lalo said, referring to restrictions of movement imposed on the Palestinians. "They're trying to clear whole areas of Palestinians and get them used to moving underground, or maybe not moving at all."


04-16-06 - Pope calls for nuclear diplomacy Pope Benedict, in his first Easter message, called on Sunday for an "honorable solution" to the nuclear standoff with Iran, a truly independent Palestinian state, and global cooperation to combat terrorism.


04-16-06 - Israeli troops arrest 13 year old Apr. 15 - Israeli troops arrested a 13 year old Palestinian child while he was sleeping, in a raid on a West Bank village and accused him of stone throwing. There's a video of the event on the page.


04-16-06 - Hamas in talks to broaden government Hamas has held talks with rival factions to try to persuade them to join a Palestinian government which the group said was facing a "state of crisis" because of Western pressure.


04-16-06 - Israelis detain top Hamas deputy A senior Hamas politician was detained for several hours on Sunday by Israeli police in East Jerusalem.


04-16-06 - Gaza bird flu contained Palestinian health workers have contained an outbreak of bird flu in the Gaza Strip after culling more than 360 000 birds exposed to the illness, Gaza Governor Mohammed al-Kidwa said on Sunday.


04-16-06 - Pope's Easter Message Calls for Diplomacy "May the international community, which reaffirms Israel's just right to exist in peace, assist the Palestinian people to overcome the precarious conditions in which they live and to build their future, moving toward the constitution of a state which is truly their own," Benedict said.


04-16-06 - Olmert lays out plan to redraw Israel border


04-16-06 - Petition: Gaza shelling illegal


04-16-06 - Dor-Alon renews gas supply to PA Energy market officials claim that Dor-Alon Energy Company, the main gas supplier to the Palestinian Authority, has renewed supply to the Palestinians


04-16-06 - On Prisoner's Day; One-Third of Palestinian Population Arrested Since 1967, PPS Says


04-16-06 - Israel must quit Shebaa before Hezbollah disarms: Siniora "I will explain to President Bush the necessity of Israel withdrawing from the Shebaa Farms and ending its violations of Lebanese land, sea and air space," he told journalists a day before he heads to Washington.


04-16-06 - Israel moots freeing Barghouthi for US spy: radio Israel would hope to convince the Bush administration that freeing Barghouthi, a senior figure in the once-dominant and pragmatic Fatah movement, would weaken the new Palestinian government under Islamist group Hamas, Army Radio said.


04-16-06 - WALLED OFF CHRISTIANS Defenders of Israeli policy claimed my facts were wrong Feb. 16 when I wrote that the wall threatens Israel's tiny Christian minority and particularly Aboud's Christian roots going back two millennia. Coming here for a firsthand look, I found the plight of the village's Christians worse than I had reported.


04-16-06 - Abbas offers Gaza border control to Hamas Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has offered to hand control of the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt to the new government led by the militant group Hamas, officials said on Sunday.


04-16-06 - Ingathering Once the 'Arabs' in Israel and the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories came to be thought of in the West as 'Muslims' it was easy to elicit support for Israel's demographic policies, at least where it counted: on Capitol Hill. But even in Europe there was no need, after 9/11, to explain why Israel has a 'demographic problem'


04-16-06 - Meshal: The West seeks to 'starve the Palestinian people'


04-16-06 - Moussaoui assails U.S. support of Israel Zacarias Moussaoui said U.S. support for Israel is one of the main reasons he hates the United States.



04-16-06 - Peres: Gaza airport should be opened


04-16-06 - Pollard-Barghouti swap in the works? American and Israeli officials denied reports that Israel plans to offer to free a jailed Palestinian militiaman if the United States grants clemency to Jonathan Pollard.


04-16-06 - Israeli Arab eyes Jerusalem An Israeli Arab leader said Jerusalem will become an international Islamist capital.


04-16-06 - Former Enemies Join for Peace


04-16-06 - IDF accused of 'knowingly risking Palestinian lives'


04-16-06 - College classes share views The Birzeit students were not mum about their political stances toward United States foreign policy.


04-16-06 - Settler Attacks and House Occupations in Hebron Later in the afternoon fifteen settlers were seen by Human Rights Workers attempting to break into a Palestinian home near Beit Hadassa settlement


04-16-06 - Hamas cabinet stripped of power: spokesman


04-16-06 - Stop the deportation of Palestinian Peace activist Issam Al Yamani from Canada


04-16-06 - Chafee, Laffey spar over policy on Israel Laffey calls Chafee week on terrorism and says the United States should get tough -- withdrawing even humanitarian aid from the Palestinians until Hamas renounces violence.

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