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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
10-03-06 - Israeli air force shells Khan Younis; one resident killed, his brother injured
10-03-06 - Israeli warplanes strike on Gaza Strip targets
10-03-06 - Israeli strike wounds 5 Palestinian militants An Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on Tuesday wounded five Palestinian militants, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.
10-03-06 - West Bank settlements grew during Lebanon war With media attention focused on the Lebanon war, Israeli wildcat settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank have mushroomed in recent months, a watchdog group has said.
10-03-06 - Israel should face war crimes probe over Lebanon: UN rights expert Israel should be held to account for possible war crimes during its offensive in Lebanon, the United Nations' food rights expert has said in a report.
10-03-06 - Israel removes closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip The general closure, imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip prior to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, has been lifted, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday.
10-03-06 - Israel, Hizbollah broke human rights law: U.N. envoys
10-03-06 - UN Sets Up Camps For Palestinian Children Hit By School Strike In West Bank With 500,000 Palestinian children out of school due to a strike in the West Bank that has left most public schools closed, the United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) has set up youth clubs to provide extracurricular activities, safe indoor and outdoor play areas, and centres to provide literacy and computer training.
10-03-06 - Palestinian clashes flare for third day
10-03-06 - Arabs Pressure Rice On U.S. Peace Efforts During talks Tuesday in both Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Rice was confronted by friendly but firm pressure from eight Arab governments -- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain -- to follow up on promises by President Bush to help achieve a two-state solution in the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians Rice's visit to the Middle East, under the guise of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, is a front to gain Arab support for the upcoming war on Iran. This comes just after a number of high-ranking Israeli officials visited Washington in the preceding weeks.
10-03-06 - U.N. moves to maintain peace in Lebanon A Lebanese army statement said four Israeli jets flew over southern towns and villages as well as areas in northern Lebanon. UNIFIL has asked Israel to end this practice, which violates the cease-fire. Israeli officials said previously that air patrols would continue. A military spokesman declined comment on the latest overflight reports
10-03-06 - Palestinian refugees see payouts stop A considerable number of refugees used to receive assistance from the Palestinian Authority, but that has stopped after an international embargo was imposed on the Hamas-led Palestinian government since the Islamist group won elections in January
10-03-06 - Nof Zion vs. Jabal Mukaber: Manipulations to Erase Reality This is an effort to erase the Arab presence, to take over the space, together with the land, the view, to ?judaize? East Jerusalem by a combination of Jewish building projects and the erasure of the Arab presence.
10-03-06 - Rice off to Middle East - with no new ideas the Saudi foreign minister. He described the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the region's "core problem" on whose settlement the resolution of other disputes depended. Similar appeals have come from Egypt and Jordan.
But Ms Rice, conscious of neo-con opposition at home to any pressure for Israeli concessions and aware that Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is in no shape politically to reopen peace talks, offered no concrete res
10-03-06 - Lebanese government under pressure to resign "The main ally of the Siniora government was the Americans and they didn't seek to end the war but in fact sought to prolong it. Certainly, what happened during the war really strengthened the hand of the government's opponents; it allowed them to say, 'look what your alliance has brought us'."
10-03-06 - Outburst on Bush and Blair threatens foreign policy rift He also accused them of making "an enormous error" by refusing to press Israel for a ceasefire during the war in Lebanon.
10-03-06 - Rice plea on Palestinian clashes "Innocent Palestinians are caught in this violence," She makes no such plea when it's Israel that is doing the killing, and that goes for Lebanon too.
10-03-06 - Can Rice rally Mideast against Iran? Hizbullah is seen by the US as an Iranian proxy that could harass Israel if the nuclear dispute with Iran moves to open conflict; disorder in Iraq is seen as serving Iranian interests by tying up US forces and creating the possibility that the country's Shiites could rise up against US forces in support of their coreligionists; and Hamas, too, is seen by America as a threat to speed attacks against Israel in the event of war....Washington's conviction that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons (Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only) trumps all other concerns.
10-03-06 - UNIFIL sets rules of engagement in Lebanon
10-03-06 - U.N.: Israeli military won't answer probe A U.N. panel investigating the July deaths of four U.N. military observers in Lebanon says Israel will not allow interviews with tactical operations officers.
10-03-06 - Cries of victory, sighs of defeat from Jews as Congress recesses The American Israel Public Affairs Committee scored a victory in a separate bill setting up an office within the Homeland Security Department that would coordinate cooperation with counterparts in Israel, Britain, Australia, Canada and Singapore.....Appropriations for U.S.-Israel programs, victory. An AIPAC priority, the $460 million allocated for such programs in the U.S. Defense Appropriations bill is separate from the $2.8 billion Israel receives each year in assistance, and is considered an investment. Some of the innovations, including protective tiles for armored vehicles, a targeting and navigation pod and unmanned aerial vehicles, already are in use in Iraq.
10-03-06 - UNHCR "Deeply Concerned" over Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Iraq UNHCR Spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis said at the press briefing today at the Palais des Nations in Geneva that the security situation of Palestinian refugees in Iraq has deteriorated - particularly since the Samarra bombings last February - and an increasing number of them have left or are trying to leave the country.
10-03-06 - Hawke calls for help for new Palestine FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke has called for a huge injection of capital and expertise to a new Palestinian state as way to end the long-running conflict in the Middle East.
10-03-06 - PRC: "No more talks on abducted soldier release, if Israel expands its invasion" The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), one of three factions that abducted an Israeli soldier on June 25, said that if Israel expands its invasion and military assaults in the Gaza Strip, there will be no further talks on the release of the captured soldier.
10-03-06 - Palestinians Assess Hezbollah's Techniques
10-03-06 - Yushchenko: I believe in cooperating with Israel Ukrainian president tells Ynet that he will use his visit to Jerusalem next month to advance initiative for joint Israeli-Ukrainian development of missiles and satellites for peaceful purposes
10-03-06 - Israeli jets fly over Lebanon despite withdrawal Israeli warplanes flew over Lebanon on Tuesday two days after Israeli forces withdrew from virtually all of south Lebanon, witnesses said.
10-03-06 - Palestinian volunteer to remove unexploded Israeli Cluster bombs in Lebanon Abu Ali, has become the only hope for the farmers of that region who are worried about farming their fields filled with these internationally prohibited cluster bombs Israel fired at the southern Lebanon during the war with Hezbollah, which claimed the lives of 1500 Lebanese and 157 Israelis. In addition, over one million Lebanese were displaced from their homes as a result of the Israeli shelling.
10-03-06 - Hezbollah denies seeking U.S. money A veteran member of the Hezbollah political party in Beirut says the organization is not involved in fundraising in the United States.
10-03-06 - Israelis selling arms to India Down the years, successive Indian governments have been at the forefront of support for the Palestinian cause and in the vanguard of criticising Israel. But this began to change under the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
10-03-06 - Palestinian resistance group fires home made shells at army post in Gaza
10-03-06 - Palestinian in-fighting provokes despair, frustration "The only winner right now is the occupation. The only way out is early elections, otherwise a dark future awaits us."
10-03-06 - Palestine: Deals on prisoners swap with Israel "immature"
10-03-06 - Pro-Israel political funds in U.S. target friendly incumbents - and challengers Since he lost the Democratic party's nomination - and its financial backing - for his Senate seat, Lieberman has become the top fund-raiser among American Jews whose primary political focus is support for Israel.....Among the trends in pro-Israel money, fund-raisers say, is a rush to defend endangered Israel-friendly incumbents, the majority of whom are Republicans. There is also significant support directed toward challengers of incumbents such as Chafee and Hostettler, who are not considered friendly to Israel. America's interests factor in, exactly how?
10-03-06 - Sanford Garner; D.C. Rector Worked for Peace Abroad In the 1970s, he helped establish House of Hope, a peace center in Galilee for Palestinian and Israeli young people
10-03-06 - WCC asks Israel to recognize head of Orthodox Church of Jerusalem The Israeli authorities have, however, refused to validate the August 2005 election of the leader of the Word Council of Churches' largest member church in the Holy Land, and have thus prevented the church from fulfilling its regular functions
10-03-06 - New Romantic Comedy Film 'Crossing Borders' May Bring Middle East Peace "Crossing Borders" is a satirical comedy about Jewish and Arab lifestyles and culture. A Jewish girl and an Palestinian boy meet, fall in love, and break down the barriers between their two cultures bringing happiness not only to themselves, but to the world around them.
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