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Saturday, July 01, 2006
06-30-06 - Two brothers killed, child injured in an explosion in Khan Younis Palestinian medical sources in southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis reported that two brothers were killed and seven residents were injured in an explosion that took place in a Palestinian house in the city.
06-30-06 - Palestinian shot dead in Israel arrest operation
06-30-06 - From Amnesty International: Israel/Occupied Territories: Deliberate attacks a war crime Deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes, Amnesty International said today.....The deliberate destruction of the Gaza Strip?s only electricity power station, water networks, bridges, roads and other infrastructure is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has major and long-term humanitarian consequences for the 1.5 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.
06-30-06 - ELCA Participates in Emergency Assistance to Families in the Middle East The funds were sent June 28 to Action by Churches Together (ACT), which has issued an emergency appeal for funds on behalf of the Middle East Council of Churches/Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (MECC/DSPR).
06-30-06 - The U.S. and Gaza / Sit quietly and do nothing The pro-Israeli lobby has already begun vigorous action to persuade the public that the document and the Hamas-Fatah agreement that followed it are not breakthroughs. In the coming weeks the U.S. Congress will formulate the final version of the law blocking money transfers to the PA. Someone suggested yesterday that the ongoing violence will make it easier for those advocating the harsher version, as opposed to the refined one that passed in the Senate.
06-30-06 - Militants' new demands for Israel Palestinian and Israeli diplomats traded accusations at an emergency session of the UN Security Council called by Arab nations - but a resolution condemning the Israeli offensive was blocked, apparently due to US opposition
06-30-06 - AG refuses to ok use of Hamas officials as 'bargaining chips' The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago
06-30-06 - Israel quiet on second kidnap claim A SECOND Israeli soldier has been kidnapped and will be killed unless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades declared overnight
06-30-06 - Army shells Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza
06-30-06 - Army shells electricity generators in central Gaza Friday after midnight, the Israeli air force fired missiles at electricity generators in the central Gaza Strip causing complete power blackout in the whole area.
06-30-06 - Palestinians seek UN pressure on Israel over Gaza "The United States is of the firm view that a prerequisite for ending this conflict is that the governments of Syria and Iran end their role as state sponsors of terror and unequivocally condemn the actions of Hamas," including Shalit's kidnapping, Bolton said.
06-30-06 - Israel Kidnaps Non-violent Palestinian Activists The Committee has recently been organising non-violent actions in the area that try to gain access for Palestinian farmers to their farm land after it has been is closed off by settler violence, or closure by the Israeli military.
06-30-06 - Families flee as Israel?s siege of Gaza continues With no army, no tanks, helicopters, jets or bulldozers to defend themselves, Gazans are up against the world?s fourth largest military power and preparing for the worse.
06-30-06 - Kidnapped Israeli soldier still alive - TV The 19-year-old soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, was visited by a Palestinian doctor at a certain place in the Gaza Strip, said the report, adding that the doctor treated Shalit's wounds.
06-30-06 - ELCA and Episcopal bishops call for U.S. diplomatic intervention in Gaza "We condemn the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier and pray for his safe return," said Hanson and Griswold in a letter to Bush. "We recognize the grief this brings to all Israelis, but we cannot accept the response which punishes all Palestinians in Gaza."
06-30-06 - Gaza militants demand 1,000 prisoners for Israeli
06-30-06 - Palestinians, Israelis and internationals protest in Bil'in against the Israeli attacks in Gaza At least 400 Palestinians and 60-70 Israeli and international peace activists participated in the protest, and chanted slogans against the annexation Wall Israel is constructing on Palestinian orchards and lands in the village and in numerous other places in the rest of the West Bank.
06-30-06 - Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.
06-30-06 - Gaza invasion and violence is no solution, says Christian Aid "The message to the civilian population of Gaza could not be clearer ? collective punishment is part of Israel?s military strategy. This is in addition to the internal security chaos that exists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the lack of Palestinian Authority control."
06-30-06 - Canada calls for return of kidnapped Israeli soldier "We want to be sure that people respect the rights of settlers and others to live in peace in the region," Canada, whose pro-Israel lobby has succeeded in putting its interests ahead of those of Canada, is the newest Israel-occupied territory.
06-30-06 - IDF bars East J'lem residents from using Bethlehem crossing Christians from East Jerusalem, for instance, who wish to visit the holy sites in Bethlehem now have to go to the Qalandiyeh crossing, north of the city, where the Israel Police have said that they are unable to implement the policy
06-30-06 - Long after his death, rebbe's words resound among Washington's elite The conference culminated in a White House briefing by Joshua Bolten, President Bush's chief of staff, who also is Jewish. Bolten said Bush would never encourage Israel to give up territory without a Palestinian quid pro quo.
06-30-06 - Texas GOP: U.S. Is a Christian Nation As in past years, state and national Jewish organizations have condemned the platform, but local Jewish communal officials told the Forward that lobbying to strip the language from the document was not a top community priority.
06-30-06 - Israeli offensive called premeditated plan
06-30-06 - Thousands of Turks Protest Israeli Actions
06-30-06 - Israel revokes Jerusalem residency for Hamas minister, MPs Israel bans all Palestinian political activity in east Jerusalem which was occupied and annexed following the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, a move not recognized by the international community.
06-30-06 - Rice phones Israel's Tivni for fifth time amid tensions Rice again urged the Palestinians to release an Israeli soldier whose capture sparked an Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip, US State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
06-30-06 - The Gaza Beach Party Massacre The buzzing of Bashar al-Assad's summer residence, the mass arrest of democratically elected Palestinian lawmakers and ministers, the targeting of infrastructure in violation of the Geneva accords and the commonly held concept of human decency ? the Israelis do it simply because they can. This isn't "colonialism" ? it's sadism.
06-30-06 - Bush imposes, then waives, PLO sanction The president has the right to waive any of these sanctions if he deems it "in the national security interest of the United States," the letter said.
06-30-06 - Thousands in Egypt rally for Palestinians Several thousand protesters at one of Cairo's main mosques called Friday for holy war against Israel to help the Palestinians in their conflict with the Jewish state.
06-30-06 - Arab states keep Israel in U.N. human rights dock Arab and Muslim states on Friday won a decision to keep Israel in the United Nations dock for alleged abuses in the occupied territories, overcoming U.S.-led opposition to singling out the Jewish state. A loss for neocon John Bolton.
06-30-06 - Don't give up Israeli soldier for nothing - Hizbollah Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group, which has swapped kidnapped Israelis for Arab prisoners in the past, urged militants on Friday to only free an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza exchange for Palestinian prisoners
06-30-06 - Egypt warns Israel not to take peace treaty for granted
06-30-06 - There will be no Palestinian referendum: Hamas PM
06-30-06 - Estimation: UN won?t condemn Israel Deputy head of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Danny Carmon estimated that a decision condemning Israel will not be made Friday night at the UN Security Council....Washington's UN Ambassador John Bolton estimated that the probability the Security Council will vote on condemning Israel at the end of the emergency meeting was small.
06-30-06 - Archbishop Hanna: Israeli aggression against the Palestinians is an ugly crime
06-30-06 - International community must act boldly to stop vicious cycle of violence in Israel/Palestine, WCC says
06-30-06 - Visiting Palestinian youths teach about Christian roots .."Many people here don't know there are Christians in Palestine,'' he said.
06-30-06 - More Settler Vandalism in Hebron June 27th: Settler youth continue to trash a internationally funded project intended to make it safer for Palestinian girls living in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) to reach their elementary school.
06-30-06 - Israel: Most Israelis Want To Negotiate An opinion poll showed that 53 percent of Israelis favor negotiations over the return of a captured Israeli soldier being held in the Gaza Strip
06-30-06 - Israeli Press: Army May Ban Tourists From Holy Sites
06-30-06 - Poll shows most Israelis prefer talks on captured soldier
06-30-06 - Exiled Hamas leaders under pressure
06-30-06 - Security forces tighten siege on Sheikh Sa'ed village The court ruling of March 2006, referred to above, states that the planned route causes disproportionate harm because it detaches the residents from East Jerusalem
06-30-06 - Israel's performance 'pretty good' -U.S. Israel's performance in protecting innocents during its current strike on the Gaza Strip has been "pretty good," the U.S. State Department said. Outrages BS. THe US State Department, along with most of the rest of the government, is Israeli-occupied territory.
06-30-06 - Rights council passes anti-Israel resolution Bolton is enraged, no doubt. His idea to 'reform' the UN was meant to quash this kind of thing.
06-30-06 - Israel conflict rankles at Arab-American forum A throng of Arab executives and leaders gathered in Houston this week to promote stronger economic ties with their American counterparts, but found the ambitious goal could easily get lost in heated rhetoric over the long-simmering conflict.....The head of the 22-member League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, in his opening remarks said the Israeli-Palestinian question "continues to be the main source of tension in the region."
06-30-06 - UN warns of full-scale war if violence continues US Ambassador John Bolton told reporters earlier that the council should not be a forum for 'talks and no action.' But he warned against premature steps that can worsen the situation.
06-30-06 - Israeli soldiers kill Sudanese illegal immigrant Israeli troops shot dead a detained illegal immigrant from Sudan who crossed from Egypt as he tried to escape on Friday, an army spokesman has said.
06-30-06 - B'Tselem to Israeli Defense Minister - Don't damage indispensable civilian facilities in Gaza
06-30-06 - CBS's Mideast 'Cycle of Violence' - Analysis omits Palestinian deaths There's no reason why Simon's timeline of the crisis would 'begin' with the June 25 kidnapping of Israel soldier Gilad Shalit, or why that attack would be unequivocally attributed to a desire to "provoke a brutal Israeli response"?unless one wishes to erase the killings of Palestinian civilians over the past several weeks.
06-30-06 - Court Won't Supervise Love-Crazed MySpace Teen
06-30-06 - Pro-Israel coverage
06-30-06 - Gaza's infrastructure suffers That was Israell's intention.
06-30-06 - Israel and the United States would be wise to heed the words of Pope Paul IV
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