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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
08-22-06 - Three Islamic Jihad militants killed in central Gaza (Roundup)
08-22-06 - Israeli tanks enter Gaza A 14-year-old boy suffered head wounds during an Israeli tank raid, medics said. Several other civilians were also hurt.
08-22-06 - Hezbollah official discusses blockade A Hezbollah Cabinet minister on Tuesday said the government may try to break the Israeli naval and air blockade of Lebanon by calling on ships and aircraft to travel to Lebanese ports without prior Israeli approval.
08-22-06 - Lebanon truce 'fragile', warns UN The security situation in Lebanon is likely to remain "fragile" for the next two or three months, a senior UN envoy has warned.
08-22-06 - Amnesty slams Israel 'war crimes' Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon...."The pattern, scope and scale of the attacks makes Israel's claim that this was 'collateral damage', simply not credible," said Kate Gilmore, Executive Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International...."Many of the violations identified in our report are war crimes, including indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks," said Ms Gilmore. Look at this before and after photo.
08-22-06 - Palestinians: Soldiers more violent due to war In the past few days, more and more Palestinian testimonies have amassed that claim that IDF soldiers humiliated them at checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. The same Palestinians say that the soldiers are taking the frustration created by the war in Lebanon out on them.
08-22-06 - Israel: No plans to end Lebanon blockade Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon takes up positions along the Syrian border and at Beirut's airport.
08-22-06 - Israel must be ready for any Iranian attack: minister
08-22-06 - Israel must respect ceasefire if Italy to join UN force: D'Alema "From Israel, we expect a renewed commitment... to respect the ceasefire," D'Alema told the newspaper, la Repubblica. "It is right to demand that Hezbollah gives up its weapons but we cannot send our soldiers to Lebanon while the Israeli armed forces continue to fire."
08-22-06 - Lebanon's development 'annihilated': UN Lebanon's 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hezbollah, the UN development agency has said.
08-22-06 - Lebanon spy agency led Germans to bombmaker Lebanon's military intelligence agency gave German authorities information that led to the arrest of a Lebanese man the Germans suspect planted suitcase bombs at two train stations, German prosecutors said on Monday.
08-22-06 - Former Mossad boss steels West for 'third world war' "This is a third world war," Efraim Halevy, Mossad director from 1998 to 2002, told The Globe and Mail in an interview yesterday. "International Islamic terror has made its objectives and aims very clear." Islamic terrorists learned well from their Jewish counterparts. (Can't call them Israeli, because Israel didn't yet exist.)
08-22-06 - Kidnapping signals rising threat in Gaza They have not been heard from in more than a week. And in an unprecedented turn for journalists covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza, no group has stepped forward to claim responsibility or to set conditions for release..."Gaza needs journalists here," says Anita McNaught, the wife of Wiig and herself a broadcast journalist for the BBC. "These two men were here by choice and working very hard to tell the Palestinian story to a wider audience. I cannot for the life of me see what gains anyone makes by this. It's tragically misguided." Was it a case of the duvdevan, the elite Israeli forces that pose as Arabs? Nahh. Why would they do that?
08-22-06 - A month of living dangerously in south Lebanon we watched as the dusty bodies of children were extracted from a half-collapsed house struck hours earlier by aerial bombs. For those that believe that those pictures of the children being pulled out from the rubble were 'faked'.
08-22-06 - Hamas speaker charged in Israel An Israeli court has charged the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Abdel Aziz Dweik, with being a member of the militant group Hamas.
08-22-06 - Hizbollah eyes recovery, not new war with Israel Israel, for its part, lost military prestige and credibility but got a U.N. resolution to end the war that implicitly allows it to take defensive actions in Lebanon. With no clear winner and an uneasy truce, that is a recipe for future escalation, analysts say.
08-22-06 - Gul: Tragedy Will Go On If The Issue Of Palestine Is Not Resolved ''The roots of all clashes in the Middle East are connected to the Palestinian issue. Tragedy will go on if the issue of Palestine is not resolved,'' Turkish FM Abdullah Gul said on Sunday.
08-22-06 - Qatar hails Lebanese for 'first Arab victory' over Israel
08-22-06 - Israel to US: Fund Gaza sewage treatment And the US response to Israel should be : "Great. We'll just deduct it from the billions in foreign aid we already give you each year."
08-22-06 - Leverage for a Prisoner Swap The events were seen as more evidence that Israel may try to win the release of its soldiers abducted to Gaza and Lebanon through a prisoner exchange, an idea once firmly opposed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
08-22-06 - Lebanon Diary: Holding a Rock
08-22-06 - Archbishop tells church to stay in Lebanon: 'You'll make it'
08-22-06 - Troops install cameras at the Gaza International Airport Monday, Israeli troops occupying the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, installed surveillance cameras in the airport's high buildings, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported.
08-22-06 - Soldiers arrest a child in Tulkarem, 450 are currently imprisoned by Israel Meanwhile, Defence For Children International ? Palestine Branch, reported that since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa intifada in September 28, 2000, until August 16, 2006, Israeli troops arrested at total of 803 children.
08-22-06 - Lebanon oil spill cleanup may take a year: Greenpeace The watchdog released pictures it said showed oil that had sunk to the seabed, pointing to the urgent need for an immediate and comprehensive assessment of the pollution.
08-22-06 - Palestinian teachers to strike over wage arrears The Palestinian teachers' union has said that its members would not return to their classes at the start of the new school year on September 2 in protest at six months without pay.
08-22-06 - 1,300 Egyptian police beef up Gaza-Egypt border Egypt has deployed 1,300 civilian police officers to beef up security along the Gaza-Egypt border over fears Palestinian militants might attempt to breach the frontier,
08-22-06 - Abbas favors forming Palestinian technocrat gov't: sources Abbas believes that a government made up of independent Palestinian experts will be more capable of convincing the international community to resume aid to the Palestinians, according to the sources.
08-22-06 - Palestinian official says Israel immoral to keep women and children in jails
08-22-06 - Army attacks several stores and shops in Hebron
08-22-06 - Palestinian Authority: Fear for safety -- abducted journalists Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of journalist Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, who were abducted by Palestinian gunmen on 14 August in the Gaza Strip.
08-22-06 - ANALYSIS: Policing in Gaza has blunted IDF fighting abilities
08-22-06 - Israeli Bulldozers Swallow more Palestinian Lands in WB
08-22-06 - Second-class compensation A fourth petition, submitted by attorney Samuel Dahwar from the Arab village of Fassouta in Galilee, reveals the fact that no Arab communities are included on the full-compensation list even though Arab towns and villages were in the range of the Katyushas and were hit by them.
08-22-06 - U.N. Envoy: Israel May OK Prisoner Swap A senior U.N. envoy said Tuesday that efforts were continuing to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah and that Israel may be warming to the idea of trading Lebanese prisoners it holds in exchange.
08-22-06 - Who leaked the leak case? The judge in the classified information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists ordered an investigation into the leak of the investigation two years ago
08-22-06 - Hezbollah kit still a mystery One source at the company, which is a distribution firm, not a manufacturer, said: ?The kit we supplied was actually made in Russia, which makes some pretty rugged equipment. But they were not the sort of systems which the Israelis seem to be talking about.?
08-22-06 - Man Sentenced After Blowing Up Van A man who went to jail for six months for setting off an explosive device that wrecked a van belonging to a Palestinian American family was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to an additional 15 months in prison....the federal government plainly wanted to demonstrate that it would not tolerate acts of bigotry aimed at Arab Americans. It asked Kennelly to sentence Nix to as much as 87 months in prison but the judge refused.
If it was an Arab that was the perpetrator, you had better believe he would've been given the maximum.
08-22-06 - Fleischer rips Carter in letter President Bush's former press secretary lambasted Jimmy Carter for saying Israel's military response to Hezbollah attacks had no legal or moral basis.
08-22-06 - U.S. lawmaker drops links to Arab sites A U.S. lawmaker removed links to anti-Israel Arab American sites, the Detroit Jewish News reported. Lawmaker falls under the influence.
08-22-06 - Sligo SF hand deliver letter to NY Mayor Bloomberg Sinn Fein believe "the root cause of the conflict in the Middle East is the ongoing long-term failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict".
08-22-06 - the world avoids Israel like the plague
08-22-06 - Group: Israel should protect its own The Israeli army ethical? What kind of drugs is this Rabbi smoking? Did he not see the unusually high civilian-to-Hezbollah death toll, or how about the total destruction of civilian infrastructure? These people are deluded.
08-22-06 - Gladwin man helps rebuild Palestinian homes While in Israel, O?Rourke worked with the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions.... "We walked by some of the settlers, who were throwing trash at us," he said. "Just out of hate, because they feel this is their land and we shouldn?t be there."
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