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Thursday, July 06, 2006
07-05-06 - Deadly explosions rock Gaza beach The attack early on Thursday killed a Hamas fighter and a policeman, and wounded six officers from the Palestinian coastal police, four seriously.
07-05-06 - First Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories As the UN Human Rights Council (the Council) convenes in its first ever Special Session to consider the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Amnesty International today reiterated its call on the UN to assemble and deploy a team of authoritative international experts to Israel and the Occupied Territories, with a mandate to carry out an independent and thorough investigation into the deteriorating human rights situation in the Gaza Strip
07-05-06 - Israel tanks forge deeper into Gaza as crisis spirals Earlier in the same area, a police officer and another member of the Hamas armed wing were killed by an Israeli shell. Seven Palestinian police were injured in that incident, three of them seriously. One later succumbed to his wounds.
07-05-06 - Rice says Hamas responsible for "root cause" of Israeli-Palestinian tension Rice does not mention the attacks on Palestinian civilians that were the sole reason for Hamas' subsequent abduction of the Israeli soldier. But that's what one could come to expect from a government that's under the influence of a foreign nation.
07-05-06 - Hamas fired new rocket from old Israeli settlement Palestinian militants who fired a rocket deeper into Israel than ever before launched it from land that Israeli settlers had occupied until last year, witnesses said on Wednesday.
07-05-06 - Hamas ready to compromise if Israel swaps prisoners Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal also said at a meeting with a visiting Turkish official that Hamas was ready to resist an all-out Israeli attack on the Gaza strip but preferred a deal to end the crisis, the sources told Reuters.
07-05-06 - Ministry admits 'blacklist' of Palestinians who left West Bank during Six-Day War The government maintains a "blacklist" of Palestinians who left the territories during the 1967 Six Day War, and have since been barred from coming back, lest they sue for the return of their land, the Defense Ministry admitted for the first time yesterday. The property has been used to establish settlements and military bases in the Jordan Valley. More land theft by Israel.
07-05-06 - Palestinian families pay high price as Israel warns of marathon stand-off The women were close to hysteria. They had tried to return to their homes which they fled after the Israelis rolled into southern Gaza to get food and clothing for their children. But the soldiers were unimpressed by their white flags and fired shots to force them back, they said.
07-05-06 - Erekat urges quartet to intervene to prevent situation deterioration
07-05-06 - Israel closes Bethlehem to Jerusalem Palestinians The Israeli army has issued orders to close the 'Bethlehem Terminal' to Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. This has been in practice for many months, and has now become army policy following recent orders by Major General Yair Naveh, Head of IDF Central Command.
07-05-06 - Europe's response to the siege of Gaza is shameful The Palestinians kill two soldiers and take one prisoner and, in response, power stations are blown up, sewage and water systems grind to a halt, bridges are destroyed, sonic booms terrify children day and night, and all this is inflicted on a hungry people who are under siege in what is effectively a huge open prison. The EU's response? Vague expressions of "concern" and calls for "restraint".
07-05-06 - Teenager wounded Witnesses said that the 16-year-old Palestinian was throwing stones at passing Israeli troops near the Askar refugee camp in Nablus when soldiers fired at him
07-05-06 - High street companies accused of complicity in Israeli war crimes Israel?s actions have been identified as war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, as well as being in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Yet the UK has done nothing to bring Israel to account for its actions, or to stop British companies from supporting the Occupation.
07-05-06 - Israeli soldier kept in Gaza bunker: report
07-05-06 - Gaza 'in fear' after Israeli incursion After enduring a week of violence and uncertainty, Christian Aid partners have spoken out about the looming crisis in the Gaza Strip.
07-05-06 - UN envoy attacks Israel over Gaza Israel was violating in Gaza the "most fundamental norms of humanitarian law and human rights law", UN envoy John Dugard told the special session....Mr Dugard, the keynote UN speaker, told the session that Israel's conduct was "morally indefensible". ....he said that Israel's military action was a "disproportionate use of force against civilians".
07-05-06 - Kuwait allocates 45 million for Palestinians
07-05-06 - At Tuwani Update: 18-27 June 2006 The morning grazing and watering occurred without incident, but on the
journey back to Mufakara two settlers approached the shepherds and told them
the land was forbidden to them. The shepherds continued home. Twenty
minutes later a police vehicle, with the two settlers inside, approached the
group and told them they were leaving a forbidden area
07-05-06 - UN: Gaza children wetting their beds Palestinian medical sources, as well as the Physicians for Human Rights organization, reported that Israel was preventing many patients from leaving to the West Bank, into Israel and Egypt. The patients are mainly people who suffered from heart attacks and leukemia and other patients in need of urgent surgery.
07-05-06 - Settlers set fire to olive orchards in a Hebron neighborhood
07-05-06 - Palestinian candle drive hopes to light up Gaza Palestinians in the West Bank began collecting candles on Wednesday to help light up the Gaza Strip after an Israeli air strike knocked out the power supply for hundreds of thousands of residents.
07-05-06 - UNRWA: No Stored Quantities Anymore in Gaza Strip He added that UNRWA had 8,000 tons of food, or some 410 containers, waiting in the Israeli port of Ashdod because since 4 June, and Israel was not allowing containers to enter Gaza.
07-05-06 - Egypt Islamists call on Arabs to expel Israeli envoys Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood has joined leftist opposition groups in calling on Arab countries to expel their Israeli ambassadors and to boycott Israeli goods, the Islamist group's website said.
07-05-06 - West Bank militants rattle sabres over Gaza Palestinian radicals are rattling their sabres in Nablus, one of the most volatile cities in the West Bank, threatening to unleash untold violence if Israel moves deeper into Gaza.
07-05-06 - OIC calls for pressure on Israel to end attacks The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called on the international community to "intervene urgently" to bring an end to Israeli attacks on Palestinians, a statement said
07-05-06 - World Jewish Congress: New Human Rights Council Jeopardizes 'Moral Legitimacy' With One-Sided Condemnation of Israel "It is shameful that, as thousands continue to die in Darfur and millions languish under oppression worldwide, Israel has once again become the decoy of choice for regimes seeking to shield themselves from international scrutiny," said Shai Franklin, WJC Director of International Organizations. Pointing to the crimes committed in other nations never excuses another nation of the crimes that it has committed - a concept that pro-Israelis can't seem to grasp.
07-05-06 - Lieberman?s support for Iraq war creates dilemma for Jewish backers "If you consider yourself first and foremost part of the pro-Israel community, you will stick with Joe Lieberman," said Grossman, who also is a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The problem with this article is the fact that the reasons for the pro-Israeli turnabout in opinion on Iraq are not mentioned. Since the war on Iraq was not the 'cakewalk' as promised by neocons such as Wolfowitz, they purport to no longer support it. The fact is pro-Israeli groups were vociferously pushing the attack on Iraq during the months prior to it.
07-05-06 - Muted reaction to Gaza offensive highlights shift in EU Mideast policy The EU's tilt toward the Jewish state was highlighted after Israel's attacks on infrastructure targets in the Gaza Strip. Normally such strikes elicit stinging rebukes, but this time they brought only limp appeals to both sides to resolve the crisis through diplomacy....In the past, the EU has demanded that Israel repay the EU for damage caused to infrastructure that is often financed with European money, but there was no mention of that this time...."Europe is now following the U.S. policy of being passive toward Israeli actions,"
07-05-06 - Synagogues Speak Out Against Wiretapping, Torture Officials at the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and American Jewish Congress, on the other hand, have been silent on the wiretapping program and generally less confrontational when offering any critique of the administration on the torture issue.......In recent years, and especially since the September 11 attacks, the ADL, AJCommittee and AJCongress have increasingly focused their advocacy efforts on the defense of Israel When has this NOT been the case?
07-05-06 - Holy Land: daily life in Gaza becoming intolerable Since Israeli war planes bombed and destroyed Gaza's only power plant, as part of their efforts to rescue a kidnapped soldier - life for the 1.3 million people living without electricity or water is becoming increasingly difficult, with the threat of widespread disease just days away. Dr Virginia Tilley has written a graphic account of conditions there. An extract follows.
07-05-06 - The hospitality sector in Bethlehem calls upon the Church Leaders We, the hotel owners and employees in Bethlehem call upon the Church leaders and Church related
organizations to call upon their international contacts, friends and faithful believers to insist to an overnight in Bethlehem during their tour and we promise them the best of Palestinian hospitality.
07-05-06 - Israel court hears fence route objections
07-05-06 - Widespread illegal experiments at Meir Hospital Professor Mordechai Ravid and five other doctors and interns at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava conducted an illegal medical experiment on some 60 women - most of whom were Arab - with diabetes, aged 45 to 70, between 2001 and 2003.
07-05-06 - Lone Palestinian farmer battles settlement over land Sabri Agrayeb is not enjoying peace and quiet in his old age. Not only is the 67-year-old Palestinian farmer's home surrounded on three of four sides by a chain-link fence, but his neighbors from the settlement of Givon Hahadasha on the other side of the fence want the IDF to throw him out of his home.
07-05-06 - Hebron update: 16-24 June 2006
07-05-06 - D.C. Showdown Expected on Hamas Bill The House version was initiated, strongly supported and - according to congressional insiders - drafted by the by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
07-05-06 - On the main findings of the impact of the Wall and its associated regime on the forced displacement of the Palestinians in Jerusalem
07-05-06 - U.S. thanks Turkey for hostage intervention "What Turkey did that was very helpful is to go to Damascus and to say to the Syrians they need to use all of their leverage to help this take place," Condoleezza Rice How is this our problem?
07-05-06 - US Army sparks a fashion craze in militant Gaza "This is the new fashion in the market," says Shorah. "It's a show of force, because the US army is powerful. It's a symbol of strength and of our refusal to put down arms."
07-05-06 - IDF raises alert on Syrian border The IDF has raised the level of alert along the northern border with Syria out of fear that President Bashar Assad would launch a strike against Israel in response to a recent IAF buzz of his palace.
07-05-06 - Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian living in the Diaspora, returns home & takes notes on environmental impact of Wall in Beit Sahour A brief diary of Palestine
07-05-06 - Israel's path to self-destruction Americans better wakeup before its too late. Israel is headed off a cliff and taking America along for the ride.
07-05-06 - Hillary May Be Presidential Material, After All - On Iraq and Israel, she's a perfect neocon The senator's comments seem as if they were taken word-for-word from an AIPAC position paper. They may well have been. In May 2005, Sen. Clinton spoke at an AIPAC conference where she praised the bonds between Israel and the United States
07-05-06 - From 2004: A Warning To Those Who Dare Criticize Israel In The US Come again? If you or I suggest--or, indeed, if poor wee Mary suggests--that the Palestinians are getting a raw deal under Israeli occupation, then we are "anti-Semitic"....Even the Malaprops of American English are now on their knees to those who will censor critics of Israel's Middle East policy off the air.
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