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Wednesday, November 08, 2006


News for 11-07-06

11-07-06 - Israel pulls out of Gaza town, eight Palestinians killed A woman, Nahla Shanti, and Abdel Majid Ghirbawi were killed when a shell struck the home of Hamas lawmaker Jamileh al-Shanti where the two were staying.


11-07-06 - Israeli army blasts home of Hamas MP


11-07-06 - Female suicide bomber in Gaza attacks Israeli troops An 18-year-old Palestinian woman strode defiantly toward an Israeli army checkpoint and blew herself up Monday, slightly wounding a soldier in the latest act of resistance among women to the occupation of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun


11-07-06 - Beit Hanoun: Israelis pull out leaving trail of death


11-07-06 - Gaza: UN agency reports significant damage in Beit Hanoun after Israeli withdrawal ?We have seen an extraordinary number of children being killed just in the last five days,? UNICEF Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dan Rohrmann said. ?There are tanks everywhere, shelling, house demolitions and there is fighting in the streets. People are getting quite desperate. The children are terrified by everything going on, including seeing family members being taken away.?


11-07-06 - Abbas wants Hamas to give up soldier


11-07-06 - Border cops charged with beating Palestinian in Old City They then allegedly took him into an alley near the Jewish Quarter and ordered him to stand with his face to the wall with his legs spread. One of the policemen then reportedly held his neck while the other two began to kick and beat him.


11-07-06 - Resident injured by settler fire in Hebron Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that one resident was shot and injured after a settler from the Keryat Arba' settlement, east of Hebron, opened fire at him when he was standing near the settlement fence.


11-07-06 - Abbas hopes for Palestinian cabinet deal 'in days' Stoere said Israel's actions in the impoverished territory, destroying homes, schools, mosques and other civilian infrstructure, were illegal, unacceptable and disproportionate.


11-07-06 - Gaza militants carry out deepest rocket strike in months The four rockets did not cause any injuries or damage, but marked the first time since July that rockets fired by Gaza militants reached the city of 120,000, the army said Tuesday


11-07-06 - Hebron Update: 29 October to 4 November 2006 In the morning while on the roof with a tour group Ozanne saw four soldiers
surround a Palestinian boy at the end of the street. She saw them push the boy
slightly and then grab him by the neck


11-07-06 - Israel Declares End to Gaza Mission, but Firing Continues "We fire rockets to respond to what Israel is doing to our people," said Ibrahim Seweil, Yousef Seweil's brother, a policeman who said he was arrested during the operation and whose son was arrested, and let go, four times. "We are not sheep they can just slaughter."


11-07-06 - Withdrawal around Ghajar Israeli forces withdrew from areas around a village straddling Israel?s border with Lebanon.


11-07-06 - WJC meets with Chinese president The two met Tuesday to discuss international affairs, including the Iranian threat to Israel and the rest of the world.


11-07-06 - Lieberman projected to win Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.


11-07-06 - Olmert seeks Lebanon talks "Two senior world leaders are working at my behest to try to create the conditions for my meeting Siniora, and I am personally in touch with them."



11-07-06 - West Bank outpost residents handed eviction notices


11-07-06 - Jews favor Democrats as number of Jewish senators jumps Deadlock between Congress and the White House "will influence domestic policy, immigration, health care, taxes, social policies, the Supreme Court," said Daniel Ayalon, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Washington. "It won't influence foreign policy, with the possible exception of Iraq. For sure, not the U.S.-Israel relationship."


11-07-06 - Wolfensohn: US may lose interest in Israel Not if the Israeli lobby can help it.


11-07-06 - US diplomat: Israel won?t attack Iran The official further stated that he did not believe Israel would attack Iran?s nuclear facilities, as 'Israel has repeatedly stated that this is an international problem and such an attack would make it an Israeli one.' Right. They won't attack if they can get somebody else (namely us) to do it for them.


11-07-06 - UN humanitarian chief calls for freeze on use of cluster bombs The United Nations said the density of unexploded cluster munitions in Lebanon was higher than those found after conflicts in Kosovo and Iraq which had already caused alarm among humanitarian agencies. The unexploded ordinance is a "constant threat" to 200,000 refugees and internally displaced people in Lebanon as well as for hundreds of thousands of people returning to their homes and for humanitarian and reconstruction workers, it added.



11-07-06 - UN says it found no evidence of uranium-based munitions in Lebanon The investigation confirmed that Israel had used artillery and mortar ammunition containing white phosphorus, the statement said


11-07-06 - ISRAEL: Unexploded Hezbollah rockets pose risk (Still) trying to one-up Lebanon's victim status with regard to the cluster bombs, are we? Please.


11-07-06 - A brutal taste of the future The assault on Beit Hanoun is a terrifying example of what lies in store for Palestinians


11-07-06 - FEATURE-Jordan dynasty bolsters religious role in Jerusalem


11-07-06 - Cabinet to review Peace Valley project


11-07-06 - Ethiopia: AU blasts Israel for attacking Palestine


11-07-06 - Deal signed for Jordan to supply Jericho's electricity


11-07-06 - Palestinian women held on suspicion of transfering Jihad funds to activists


11-07-06 - Former Israeli PM speaks out on Iraq Speaking at Indiana University recently, Ehud Barak cited Iraq's deterioration into civil war, adding: "The U.S. presence is more and more a part of the problem and not the solution," according to CampusJ.com.


11-07-06 - Gaza students traumatized by fighting, says parish priest


11-07-06 - US official: Israel won't bomb Iran "I do not see that Israel is going to do something like that. ... In all our conversations, thus far, Israel has stressed that this is an international problem. Israel does not want to make it an Israeli problem. Israel is committed to the political approach that the international community it taking,' .....The US official said the text of UN sanctions against Iran would be discussed with Olmert when the Israeli leader met with the US President George Bush in Washington next Monday The last sentence tells you who is really running the show, folks.


11-07-06 - Blair sets term for Palestinian talks


11-07-06 - Hamas: West told Abbas boycott will end once coalition formed


11-07-06 - Dear Mr. Secretary We have a duty to see to it that justice is served when it comes to crimes committed against our own. What if it were YOUR brother, or father, uncle, grandfather, or son? These guys have a right to have their day in court. We owe them that much in the very least.


11-07-06 - South Africa trade union: Hizbullah fighters heroic


11-07-06 - Divorce in Israel: Men get the final word What, no HRW report for this?


11-07-06 - Rice: Better to have Hamas in gov't than armed on the streets


11-07-06 - Has America ?lost? the Middle East? What then should the US do to regain trust and credibility? It should perhaps begin by recognising its many mistakes. Perhaps the greatest mistake over the past 25 years was to allow Israel to expand its colonies on occupied Palestinian territories.
Among other things.


11-07-06 - Pope in Gaza Peace Plea His call for an end to the bloodshed came after the Israeli forces killed some 47 Palestinians in the previous week including a four-year-old child, a 12-year-old boy, two teenagers, a 70-year-old man, some women and at least 25 militants, while one Israeli soldier was killed.


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