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Tuesday, October 03, 2006


News for 10-02-06

10-02-06 - 2 Killed as Palestinian Factions Clash for 2nd Day A Palestinian fisherman was killed Monday just off Gaza?s Mediterranean coast, in what Palestinian officials said was a shooting by an Israeli gunboat. The Israeli military said that naval vessels fired in the air several times to drive fishing boats back toward the shore, but that it was not aware that anyone had been hit


10-02-06 - Palestinian factions clash as government stops work A Palestinian waiter who was shot and wounded by members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades during clashes in the West Bank town of Jericho was pronounced "clinically dead," medics said.


10-02-06 - Hamas closes offices as violence spreads


10-02-06 - Gazans bury dead after clashes


10-02-06 - Gazans fear call from Israeli army An F16 destroyed my home with two rockets. They demolished the four-storey house completely.

The reason they gave was that one of my sons is planning attacks against Israel.

But this son hasn't lived with me since 2004. He lives in the middle of Gaza, between Gaza City and Khan Younis, in Nasiriya Camp
A sinister new low by the Israeli government.


10-02-06 - Hamas rejected Arab initiative for recognizing Israel Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said Monday that Hamas didn't accept the Arab peace initiative because it calls for recognizing Israel, asserting they would never recognize the Jewish state.


10-02-06 - Israeli-Arab kidnapped in Palestinian village


10-02-06 - Fatah closes down shops and private schools; Hamas closes ministries


10-02-06 - Ailing Palestinians hit hard by worker strike "The most difficult thing in life is to see your son dying before your eyes and not to be able to do anything to help him," Dmairi said as he dried his tears with his hands outside the shuttered ministry building in Ramallah.


10-02-06 - OPT: Freshwater shortage leads to health problems in Gaza Strip Environmentalists and public health specialists are warning of escalating health problems due to a growing freshwater deficit and declining water quality in the Gaza Strip.


10-02-06 - Palestinian group threatens Hamas The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, threatened for the first time on Tuesday to kill Hamas leaders, including exiled political chief Khaled Meshaal. Israel is loving this.


10-02-06 - Poverty drives Palestinian children to work at checkpoints


10-02-06 - Condoleezza Rice arrives in Saudi on Mideast tour Iran's nuclear program and the crisis in Lebanon were also to figure on the agenda, he said


10-02-06 - Hebron Update: 16-22 September 2006 CPT's immediate neighbor took Gibb to their apartment to show her that
Israeli settlers on Shuhada St had again thrown stones through their windows,
breaking them again.


10-02-06 - Arms industry 'flouting export laws' The report, Arms Without Borders, by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms, points out, for example, that the European Union prohibits selling helicopters to Israel. But Apache gunships used in the recent attacks in Lebanon, which drew widespread condemnation, were built with components made in Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.


10-02-06 - UN to study Lebanon environment


10-02-06 - Lebanese troops deploy on border In a small ceremony near the border, Lebanese army commander Brig Gen Michel Suleiman promised to reassert Beirut's control of the area by stopping arms smuggling and cross-border attacks from either side. He urged his soldiers to take tough action against Israel too, if needed. "I call on you to confront any Israeli aggression and violations," he said.


10-02-06 - Sudan worries over situation in Palestinian territories


10-02-06 - During war, PM ignored Livni's plan for early exit from Lebanon


10-02-06 - Israel's Lebanon bombardment visible from space Israel's recent bombardment of Lebanon was clearly visible with "the naked eye" from space, a Russian cosmonaut based at the time on the international space station has said.


10-02-06 - Kuwait''s Ramadan meals distributed in Jordan, Palestine


10-02-06 - No Ground Troops in Iran, Say Americans Many adults in the United States think it would be a mistake to launch direct military action against Iran, according to a poll by Zogby International released by Reuters. 70 per cent of respondents oppose the use of U.S. ground troops in the country. Look at the second part of that poll.


10-02-06 - IDF threatens Lebanon raids Officers say army would not hesitate to carry out incursions into Lebanon if UN peacekeeping force fails to prevent Hizbullah from reclaiming border posts or waging attacks


10-02-06 - Lebanon economy reels under hardships since war Lebanon's finance minister said last month the offensive and Israel's blockade on the country had increased Lebanon's public debt to 41 billion dollars.


10-02-06 - PA to stop buying petrol from Alon Oil


10-02-06 - Amnesty: Two thirds of Israeli arms ? for exports Among the many examples given by the report, Israel is mentioned several times as an alleged culprit in these violations. One example
is the sales of weaponry from the United States to Israel, which in turn uses these arms in its military actions in the Palestinian territories, resulting in the death and injury of thousands, all in violation of the international humanitarian law


10-02-06 - France calls Fatah, Hamas to keep calm


10-02-06 - Army closes the Ibrihimi mosque in Hebron to Palestinans.


10-02-06 - Just another day at Huwarra-Journalist beaten, ten men detained


10-02-06 - Lie Less in Gaza The decision by Israel's security services to prevent the launch of a peace initiative between Rabbis representing the three main streams of Israeli Jewish thought and the Hamas MP Muhamed Abu Tir and Minister for Jerusalem Khaled Abu Arafa was unprecedented.


10-02-06 - Habib: "Gaza internal clashes, free gift for the occupation" "This is unimaginable, a Palestinian killing his fellow Palestinian", Habib said, "All of this is without any excuse or justification, the only beneficial is the Israeli occupation".


10-02-06 - Gooood morning Tehran! This is Jerusalem


10-02-06 - Final note On the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of Edward Said, Ferial J Ghazoul* reviews the posthumous publication of a collection of articles, lectures and class notes


10-02-06 - Coming out in Arabic Brian Whitaker reports on a lesbian group's struggle for acceptance in the Middle East


10-02-06 - Alarm bells for banks after US bombings ruling The US government declared in August 2003 that Interpal was a terrorist organization, several days after the last of the bloody suicide bomb attacks cited in the suit. Israel had branded Interpal a terrorist organization in 1998. NatWest said that Interpal - or the Palestinian Relief and Development Fund - was cleared by Britain's Charities Commission, which regulates charities in England. The US and Israel says it's terrorist, and the Brits say it's not. Why is that?


10-02-06 - Palestinian Dance Education under Occupation: Need or Frill?


10-02-06 - Paralysis of the Palestinian 'Authority': What's to be done?


10-02-06 - Israeli leader's scheduled visit causes stir at IU

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