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Friday, August 04, 2006
08-03-06 - Eight Palestinians killed as Israel presses Gaza offensive Israel pressed its month-long offensive into the Gaza Strip with eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy being killed..... Twenty-six other people -- six of them children -- were wounded in the Israeli operations around Rafah, hospital officials said, adding that seven of the injured were in a critical state. Several women were among the wounded....Another tank shell killed a member of Islamic Jihad, while a 50-year-old man died late morning when Israeli soldiers fired in a Rafah neighborhood....Two youngsters, Muhamed Abu Hassan, aged 4, and his six-year-old sister Rihem, were wounded late on Wednesday by Israeli tank fire during an incursion in the area of the Dahaniya airport
08-03-06 - Palestinian security officer assassinated
08-03-06 - Israeli air raids kill 15 civilians From Aug 02.
08-03-06 - Three killed in air raids on Lebanon, police say Three civilians have been killed when Israeli warplanes hit several regions of Lebanon including southern Beirut....Two civilians were killed near Jwaya in the southern Tyre region when an Israeli fighter-bomber fired a missile at their car. Six civilians had been wounded on Thursday in earlier air raids, police said.....
A girl was killed and three other civilians were wounded in a raid on Budai,
08-03-06 - Morocco sends second aid shipment to Palestine
08-03-06 - Olmert declares the enemy tamed but rockets keep pounding villages For the second straight day, Hizbullah fighters launched a barrage of rocket fire into northern Israel. Eight civilians were killed and dozens injured
08-03-06 - Lebanon counts human cost of 23 days in firing line "Israeli forces have fired with war planes and artillery on dozens of civilian vehicles, many flying white flags,"
08-03-06 - Traumatised and afraid - 300,000 children who want to go home
08-03-06 - Lebanon death toll 'reaches 900'
08-03-06 - Almost half the fatalities in the Gaza Strip in July were civilians not taking part in the hostilities Of the incidents B'Tselem investigated in Gaza over the past month, the organization has identified four cases in which Israel may have committed grave breaches of the laws of war
08-03-06 - Most Gaza children experience war trauma "Gaza has been an occupied territory for a long time, and still is; Israel controls its borders, its air and water access. It has been described as a vast open-air detention center,"
08-03-06 - Rights group slams Israel for bombing civilians Israel's military appears to have deliberately bombed civilians in Lebanon and some of its strikes constitute war crimes, U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Why should this come as a surprise? Israel has a history of terrorizing civilians.
08-03-06 - HealthWrap: The psychic costs of warfare "It seems the international community is neglecting them, that somehow Palestinian children don't deserve the protections guaranteed under the Geneva Convention and humanitarian law,"
08-03-06 - Syria promises to use all its influence on Hezbollah: Moratinos In particular, he said he and the Syrians had agreed a common position on a French proposal calling for an immediate ceasefire and the subsequent deployment of an international peacekeeping force.
08-03-06 - U.S. to Help Train, Equip Lebanon Army The program was approved by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to take effect "once we have conditions on the ground permitting," said department spokesman Sean McCormack.
08-03-06 - Buried in rubble, mother saved lives in Qana "We say to Israel; 'You killed us on purpose' and America gave cover to the killers."
08-03-06 - Nasrallah is a bad name to have in Lebanon, youngster finds
08-03-06 - Iraq's Shiites gather for march as coalition warns of civil war Shiite protesters were summoned to the capital by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in order to protest Israel's attacks on Lebanon but also as a show of force by a leading opponent of the US-led coalition force in Iraq. Israel is uniting the whole Middle East against it.
08-03-06 - Israel accepts principle of prisoners' swap Hamad, however, told reporters in Gaza that until now, "nothing has been reached yet on the specific numbers of Palestinian prisoners that would be freed from the Israeli jails, in case Israel and the Palestinians agree on the swap."
08-03-06 - Israel responsible for 'massacre' of civilians: Pakistan Pakistan has described the killing of civilians in Israel's offensive in Lebanon as a 'massacre' that could provoke a clash of civilisations.
08-03-06 - Olmert retreats from political firestorm after linking Lebanon to West Bank plan Right wingers accused him of risking the lives of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in order to uproot Jews from their homes. Some West Bank settlers were so outraged they said they would refuse to fight.
08-03-06 - A protester holds a couple of doves tied with anti-war messages prior to releasing them at an almost daily rally outside the Israeli Embassy
08-03-06 - Eliminating Zionist regime, cure for conflict: Ahmadinejad
08-03-06 - Hizbollah offers Israel end to rocket attacks The leader of Hizbollah warned Israel on Thursday it would fire rockets at Tel Aviv if Israel targeted central Beirut, but offered to stop its rocket barrage if Israel ended attacks on civilian areas in Lebanon.
08-03-06 - Lebanese displaced hang on as aid trickles in "Between 800,000 and 900,000 (people) have been displaced from south Lebanon and we've only been able to deliver food for 80,000 for one week. So we are nowhere near our targets."
08-03-06 - A Lebanese girl plays with balls next to a poster in the background, showing an injured boy after he was injured following an Israeli attack
08-03-06 - Hizbollah heroes to Arabs: Jordan king "Unfortunately Israeli policy ... has contributed to the rise in the wave of extremism in the Arab world and this war has come to weaken the voices of moderation,"
08-03-06 - Venezuela recalls ambassador from Israel Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he has withdrawn his country's ambassador from Israel to show his "indignation" over the military offensive in Lebanon
08-03-06 - Anglican bishop shares in solidarity visit to Gaza The solidarity visit began with the delegation seeking to enter the Gaza Strip from the Erez crossing point, but they were delayed for two and one half hours even though the religious leaders had secured entry permits in advance.
08-03-06 - US supplying Israel with NSA signals intelligence
08-03-06 - GOP wants representative reprimanded Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) was asked on a Detroit TV station why he was among only eight lawmakers who voted against a resolution supporting Israel in its action against Hezbollah; 410 lawmakers voted in favor.
08-03-06 - Letter asks Bush to enforce Syria legislation The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the letter. "Damascus must be held accountable for its actions, and the United States has the necessary diplomatic and political tools to do just that," spokesman Josh Block said. AIPAC pleased with two of its top agents in Congress - Ros-Letinen and Engel.
08-03-06 - U.N. meeting on Lebanon protested Jewish groups protested the focus on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon by a U.N. committee against racism
08-03-06 - China flies aid to Lebanon The first batch of Chinese emergency relief items have been loaded onto a specially-chartered cargo plane in Beijing
08-03-06 - UNITED CHURCH URGES OTTAWA TO CALL FOR A MIDDLE EAST CEASEFIRE
08-03-06 - Israeli aircraft drop flyers over Gaza against Hamas chief Israeli aircraft dropped on Thursday thousands of flyers over Gaza City to incite the Palestinians' discontent with politburo chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khaled Mashaal, Palestinian witnesses said.
08-03-06 - U.S. providing Israel with intelligence? The NSA routinely provides Israel with some intelligence, but this is an expansion directed by Vice President Dick Cheney and Elliott Abrams, the deputy national security adviser, and approved by President Bush, Salon said. A National Security Council official had no comment. We give them everything else - money, weapons, carte blanche via the UN veto - so why should this be a surprise? Hey, I wonder why Iraqi Shiites today would be marching and chanting 'Death to Israel' AND 'Death to AMERICA'?
08-03-06 - Senate urges 'cessation of hostilities' The resolution notes at length the suffering of Lebanese civilians during the fighting, after some senators had expressed concern that an earlier resolution supporting Israel did not adequately address the need to safeguard civilians on all sides.
It's about time.
08-03-06 - Govt: Arms licences carefully considered He added that British embassies in Israel monitored "all developments which might impact on our foreign policy", including uses of military equipment that might be "inconsistent with our export criteria" not to supply arms for "aggressive" use in the Palestinian territories
08-03-06 - Don't forget us Gazans speak out about the Israeli offensive in the strip
08-03-06 - Fearing Violence, Jerusalem Police Close Temple Mount to Non-Muslims Talab El-Sana, an Israeli Arab lawmaker, warned that the visit would ignite a "third intifada," and two other Arab lawmakers, Ibrahim Sarsur and Abbas Zkoor, wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, asking him to intervene.
08-03-06 - Blair admits to cabinet splits over his support for Bush on Israel
08-03-06 - Israel extends Lebanon occupation plan Israel today threatened to reoccupy most of the strip of southern Lebanon it withdrew from in 2000, as Hizbullah recorded its most deadly day of attacks on Israel since the start of the 23-day conflict.
08-03-06 - The Association of United Arab Nations and Panamanians protest against the war in Lebanon in front of the Israeli embassy in Panama City
08-03-06 - US rebukes UN No. 2 for criticizing Mideast policy
08-03-06 - Filmmakers bring Palestinian struggle to London Hayden noted that the proceeds from the evening will go to support children in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus.
08-03-06 - Judge Says No To Leaving Bridgeview Hearing U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve denied recusing herself from the case of Palestinian-American Mohammed Salah after his defense attorneys filed papers stating she has acted biased in court
08-03-06 - U.S. needs new policy on Israel
08-03-06 - The Great Game
08-03-06 - Thousands of Muslim students join anti-Israel march in southern Indian city
08-03-06 - Letter demands funding for nonprofits Wednesday?s letter cited last week's attack on the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle that killed one woman and injured five others, and critiqued the department's policy of reserving the funds, earmarked by Congress, only for "credible threats."
08-03-06 - Faces of US Muslim and Jewish dissent In Boston this week, some two dozen Jews wore black clothes and lay motionless at the South Station train terminal to protest Lebanese civilian losses from Israel's bombing campaign. The signs on their chests read: "Not all Jews support Israel's actions!"
08-03-06 - American Jewish Committee Urges UN to Condemn Iran's Renewed Threat to Eliminate Israel
08-03-06 - Moroccan Jews: Peretz a 'war criminal' Three Jews in Morocco asked a Moroccan court to charge Israel's defense minister with war crimes.
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