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Sunday, October 22, 2006


News for 10-21-06

10-21-06 - Masked gunmen in Gaza kill senior Fatah militant Masked gunmen killed a senior Fatah militant in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on Sunday in what appeared to be another deadly episode of an increasingly violent power struggle with the governing Hamas movement.


10-21-06 - Israeli raid in Gaza kills one civilian - medics Hospital officials said the dead civilian was a man aged 50. Residents said he was shot and killed when soldiers raided an area near the Sufa Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.



10-21-06 - Hamas may accept forming technocrat government: spokesman


10-21-06 - Palestinian doctors alarmed by new weapons injury we?re calling on the Israeli ministry to let us know what is being used and we?ve been asking them this question for over a month already. Asking them to let us know what is the weapon that is being used in Gaza for the simple reason for the benefit of the patients and there have been innocents, many who have been hurt by this new type of injuries and maybe new weapon and we would like to know exactly what it is so that the doctors can treat them.



10-21-06 - Tyres burned in Gaza pay protest Wassafi Batala, an officer in the national security service, said members had not been paid for six months


10-21-06 - Expansion of Hamas' auxiliary forces illegitimate: Fatah


10-21-06 - Erekat calls on Norway to restore aid level to that of 2005 Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat met here with Norwegian envoy to the peace process Svein Savje on Saturday, calling on Norway to restore the aid level to that of 2005.


10-21-06 - Fatah loyalists block Gaza City roads


10-21-06 - Member of the Executive Force injured in internal clashes in Gaza Palestinian medical sources reported that a member of the Executive Force, formed by Hamas, was injured on Saturday evening during clashes between members of the force and Fateh gunmen in Al Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.



10-21-06 - Haniyeh urged to accept govt of 'national figures'


10-21-06 - Army withdraws from the Rafah Border Crossing area


10-21-06 - Abbas brings security commander out of retirement to curb Hamas buildup in West Bank


10-21-06 - West Bank: Left activists shield olive harvest The Tuesday before we arrived at Farata, verbal confrontations between Palestinians and settlers were reported there. The army separated the two groups and took the opportunity to declare that leftist activists would not be allowed in the groves during the harvest in order to keep things calm.....?The best way we can help Israel is to help the Palestinians. It is a moral issue, against the injustices of the occupation,? explains Physics doctor David Nir.


10-21-06 - Creative Resistance: The Nassar Family?s 'Tent of Nations' In this small corner of Palestine, on land that is under direct threat of confiscation, the Tent of Nations project was doing what it does best: "connecting people to their land," in the words of co-founder Daoud Nassar.


10-21-06 - Lawyer Defends Israeli Major's Arrest at KSG Under Almog?s leadership, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb in a residential area of the Gaza Strip to assassinate a Hamas leader, killing the target and his assistant, along with 14 civilians, including nine children, according to news reports at the time.


10-21-06 - Guest column: Israel conference reflects minority view The United States can lay the groundwork for negotiations by reversing its policies which exacerbate the growing tensions. As citizens we should advocate for our government to lift severe restrictions on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people and to repudiate all settlement expansion in the West Bank.


10-21-06 - Qatari emir ready to mediate between Palestinian factions Qatar's emir is ready to travel to the Palestinian territories to try to break the political deadlock and violence between Palestinian factions, a senior Palestinian official said


10-21-06 - Exclusive: Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC Did a Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government.


10-21-06 - Hezbollah again calls for 'national unity cabinet' The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah repeated its call for a national unity cabinet for the country, calling it a "serious option it is useless to try to avoid."


10-21-06 - Palestinians Blame U.S. for Current Crisis Notice that Israel was mysteriously absent from the list of choices.


10-21-06 - Peres: Israel has no intention of attacking Iran ** Israel has said repeatedly it wants the United States and other countries to take the lead in dealing with Iran If they can get us to do it for them. Israeli officials have in the recent past demanded that the US deal with Iran and Syria.


10-21-06 - South Lebanon gets first state reconstruction aid Owners of entirely destroyed houses receive 40,000 dollars, with compensation for lesser damage awarded according to an official assessment.


10-21-06 - New study indicates Wall destroying northwestern West Bank economy


10-21-06 - Israeli forces confiscating family home of deceased Palestinian Gabr, who passed away last Saturday, lived in Beit El until increased attacks by neighboring Israeli settlers forced him to move to another village


10-21-06 - Religious authorities in several Mideast nations say the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr will begin Monday Official media in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Territories announced late Saturday that the feast would start Monday


10-21-06 - Russia calls for one-step-at-a-time approach in talks with Hamas Lavrov said it was unrealistic for Hamas to fulfill all of the Quartet's requirements immediately and that the Islamist group should be given more time.


10-21-06 - Israel, Palestine and Canada Harper's statement of total support for Israel in Lebanon is not in keeping with traditional Canadian views and policies. Canadians want balance and fairness. Unqualified support for Israel is tantamount to giving it a free pass to repeat the many savage things it has done, things most Canadians do not support.


10-21-06 - ICCR: Stop Silent Transfer of Palestinians


10-21-06 - KC event looks at Mideast conflict The conference included discussions of how people against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza conduct nonviolent resistance, how some Israeli soldiers refuse to serve in occupied areas, and international human rights.


10-21-06 - Strangers in the promised land An Arab hip-hop trio is waking the world to the reality of ?their? Israel, Sophie Heawood reports


10-21-06 - Essential ally - Pro-Israel lobby gathering here will examine some of the most troubling challenges to U.S. foreign policy AIPAC's mission is almost as essential for the United States as it is for Israel. BS.

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