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Friday, September 08, 2006
09-07-06 - IDF kills 3 civilians, 1 al-Aqsa operative in Qabatiya
09-07-06 - Palestinian killed in in-fighting in Nablus
09-07-06 - West Bank fragmented by occupation Palestinian society, under attack from every direction, is finally crumbling in the West Bank. New roads linking Israeli settlements do not even have signs. And the settlements continue to grow. Israel announced 690 homes are to be built in two Jewish settlements on the West Bank where 2.4 million Palestinians and 240,000 settlers live.
09-07-06 - Get-tough visa policy may mean West Bank Palestinian exodus ISRAELI officials have confirmed a tightening of visa policies in the West Bank that could force thousands of Palestinians to leave the occupied area.....The shift comes as Israel steps up its expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, this week issuing 700 tenders for new Israeli housing there. It's called ethnic cleansing, folks, and it is not a new Israeli policy.
09-07-06 - 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now' Many people are being killed by Israeli incursions that occur every day by land and air. A total of 262 people have been killed and 1,200 wounded, of whom 60 had arms or legs amputated, since 25 June,
09-07-06 - UN official backs international monitors for Gaza With crossing points closed so much of the time, the difficulty of moving goods and people in and out of Gaza is at the heart of the crisis, and an international presence could help
09-07-06 - U.S. says Israel should not expand settlements The United States appears to have little leverage over Israel to stop the construction of more homes in Jewish settlements and, in recent years, largely appears to have acquiesced in their expansion Gently rebuked? Try cutting off the aid and see if that works.
09-07-06 - OPT: Refugees displaced by military offensive Sitting in a classroom holding her baby, Fatema, a 26-year-old Palestinian Bedouin said, "I ran from home with my husband and seven children. We were so scared by the sound of the shelling. We left home barefoot. We fled because we don't want our children to get killed."
09-07-06 - Netanyahu points to 'cracks' in Iran leadership ** Netanyahu, who met with US Vice President Dick Cheney and a group of senators, said that the Iranian nuclear program could be stopped if the United States led a determined campaign....He refused to give details about his meeting with Cheney, but said that the people he spoke with in Washington understood the danger. That's because Cheney's office brims with neoconservatives.
09-07-06 - Man, 63, injured in Jerusalem stabbing The stabber embedded a knife in Shimon's shoulder from behind and escaped. Shimon told security forces called to the scene that he felt the blow and turned around in time to see an Arab-looking man running away.
09-07-06 - Israel keeps blockade of Lebanon ports The blockade of Lebanon has hampered reconstruction and cost the country some $50 million a day. At one point the blockade caused severe fuel shortages in Lebanon, leading to long lines at gas stations and forcing the electric company to ration power
09-07-06 - Italian FM urges Israel to end blockade of Gaza
09-07-06 - Syria and Palestine to boost agricultural cooperation
09-07-06 - US Senate committee delays vote on Bolton nomination to U.N. post Chafee sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice later in the day saying he had questions about U.S. policy in the Middle East, including worries that the U.S. has not done enough to prevent Israel from expanding its settlements in the Palestinian West Bank
09-07-06 - Gerry Adams: Law limiting family reunification is a 'terrible thing'
09-07-06 - Update on Lymor Goldstein the Israeli Lawyer and Activist Shot in Bil?in on the 11th of August Lymor was shot with two rubber bullets to the head and one in the neck, causing a fractured skull and internal haemorrhage
09-07-06 - Hebron Reflection: School Patrol
09-07-06 - Middle East crisis fractures SA unity Meanwhile, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined the debate comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa.
09-07-06 - Army bars teachers from reaching schools near Qalqilia
09-07-06 - Lebanon seeks clarification of UN Hariri tribunal plan
09-07-06 - Blair told he is not welcome in Ramallah
09-07-06 - Ned Hanauer in Memorium: Premier media activist for Palestinian Human Rights
09-07-06 - Bush ranks Iran and Hezbollah with al-Qaeda
09-07-06 - Peres: Moscow asked Syria to explain why Hezbollah had Russian missiles
09-07-06 - Caritas' medical center in Gaza celebrates its 3rd anniversary
09-07-06 - Six states call for cluster bomb ban More than a dozen Lebanese, including several children, have been killed by bomblets from cluster bombs since the end of hostilities on August 14.
09-07-06 - Lebanese greet blockade end with mixed feelings Around 1,200 Lebanese were killed, 1 million displaced and many villages, towns and city suburbs were destroyed along with parts of the country's infrastructure, setting back Lebanon's recovery many years at a cost of billions of dollars.
09-07-06 - War not answer to terrorism: Villepin
09-07-06 - U.S. moves against 2 Lebanese companies The Bush administration took action Thursday against two Lebanese financial companies, accusing them of functioning as Hezbollah's "unofficial treasury."
09-07-06 - Israel's Peretz demands swift talks with Palestinians The Jewish state had pulled out of the Gaza Strip last year, following a 38-year occupation, but returned limited numbers of troops to the territory in late June in a bid to retrieve the missing Shalit.
09-07-06 - Egypt still trying to release captured Israeli soldier
09-07-06 - Jordan king sees Mideast peril without peace deal "By 2007, if we don't see something that reassures all of us -- the international community, the Israelis, the Arabs and the Palestinians -- then I think we are doomed to another decade or decades of violence between Israelis and Arabs, which affects everybody," the king said.
09-07-06 - Report: Olmert considering Shebaa handover Israel could hand over the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon as part of the cease-fire, Ehud Olmert reportedly said.
09-07-06 - Nearly 100 Palestinian mothers are in Israeli Telmond Prison and conditions are worsening
09-07-06 - Israel defends arms policy "International law does not impose an absolute and all-inclusive ban on the use of these cluster bombs or white-phosphorus bombs," the newspaper quoted the memorandum as saying. Those physicians in Lebanon were right - Israel was dropping phosphorous bombs on civilians.
09-07-06 - Army prevents 23 internationals on a Peace Tour from entering West Bank The group arrived at 8:00 o?clock on Thursday morning, from Nazareth on a bicycle tour called ?The Peace Cycle? which will tour the West Bank in ten days and meet with different Palestinian figures and organizations.
09-07-06 - New Gaza settlement tenders concern Caritas Jerusalem
09-07-06 - Palestinian official calls on all factions to join coalition A senior Palestinian official Thursday called on all factions to join a proposed national unity government while talks on forming the coalition are still underway.
09-07-06 - South Lebanon villagers desperate for housing before winter "Agriculture is our livelihood and we can't even work the fields any more because we risk being blown up,"
09-07-06 - After a century of struggle, a new monastery rises Mamalos says the work was held up for decades because Israelis, who have occupied the West Bank since 1967, did not want a Greek Orthodox church built on a site that some Jews consider sacred......It was here in the crypt that Mamalos' predecessor, Archimandrite Philoumenos, took shelter in November 1979 when a group of people, believed to be fanatical Zionists, broke into the monastery and attacked him with hatchets....No one was ever arrested for the murder, which took place a week after a Zionist group had come to the monastery claiming that it was a Jewish holy place and demanding that all the crosses and other religious iconography be removed.
09-07-06 - Four German experts to Beirut for Hezbollah arms embargo: Steinmeier Germany is also expected to dispatch a naval force to patrol the eastern Mediterranean in a bid to prevent Hezbollah receiving weapons by sea.
09-07-06 - Families challenge Israel's newly-imposed policy of expulsion of foreign passport holders
09-07-06 - Christians, Muslims, Jews Cycle for Peace A group of cyclists consisting of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish members have bicycled from London to central Europe recently as part of a campaign to encourage peace between Israel and Palestine.
09-07-06 - Israeli journalist awarded Euro prize Stern was recognised for his series of articles "All in the Family in Umm Al-Fahm", published in Haaretz in February 2006 which presented three stories from a Palestinian city in Israel.
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