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Monday, December 04, 2006


News for 12-03-06

12-03-06 - Truce deal falters following Israeli operations in West Bank Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers hit Mohammed Jebji, 15,who was on his way to school, with a gunshot on his head.....In southern West Bank city of Hebron, medical sources said an eight-year-old boy was critically wounded after an Israeli settler opened fire at him.


12-03-06 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager-medics


12-03-06 - Unknown gunmen kill one resident, wound another in Khan Younis


12-03-06 - Child injured by setters fire in Hebron Medical sources in the city said that Mohammad Firas Al Atrash, was hospitalized after suffering two rounds of live ammunition in his right shoulder and neck.



12-03-06 - Jihad threatens to resume attacks on Israel Saraya al-Quds, armed wing of Islamic Jihad (Holy War), on Sunday threatened to resume armed attacks against Israel if Israel continued violation of truce deal.


12-03-06 - Qatar to pay thousands of Palestinian salaries Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has "taken charge of paying the salaries of all employees of the education ministry, almost 40,000 people, amounting to 22.5 million dollars a month", he said at the end of a visit to Doha on Sunday.


12-03-06 - Israeli DM says ceasefire not to extend to W Bank Moreover, the defense minister said that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would continue its operations in the West Bank.



12-03-06 - Hamas drops out truce with Israel In a statement sent to reporters, Hamas said that it made the decision out of the consideration of the current interior situation in the Palestinian territories..... Meanwhile, Israeli army also rejected the halt of military operations in the West Bank, putting aside Palestinians threats of dropping the truce deal if the operations in the West Bank are not stopped.


12-03-06 - Palestinian Authority to include disabled in govt., while challenging Israeli attacks on disabled On the occasion of the international day to honor the disabled, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is calling on the international community to intervene in Palestine


12-03-06 - Palestinian factions agree with Abbas on strengthening Gaza ceasefire Saleh Zidan of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) said the factions agreed on forming a special committee to outline conditions that secure the continuation of the calmness.


12-03-06 - Israeli military resumes shelling in northern Gaza; rejects call for ceasefire in West Bank


12-03-06 - 'Church of the Ark' found on West Bank Jewish residents in the modern settlement of Shiloh, which sits on a hill amidst Palestinian villages, want the team to keep digging


12-03-06 - Solana blames Hamas for failure to form Palestinian unity gov't


12-03-06 - Israel creates new ministry to deal with Iran threat The Israeli government has approved the creation of a new ministry for strategic affairs, to be headed by a controversial ultra-nationalist and deal mainly with Iran's nuclear ambitions


12-03-06 - NY Times bestseller list 12-03-06 Number 11!


12-03-06 - Loss of Arab support due to US apathy in Mideast: Carter "One is not even allowed to say he has an objective opinion about the Middle East conflict or that he supports the rights of Palestinians on their land and favours Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories," said Carter, who has just released a book in which he is deeply critical of Israeli policies.


12-03-06 - Beirut protests keep pressure on While the demonstrations have had the good nature of a pop concert or festival, this is an extremely serious crisis for Lebanon, says the BBC's Jon Leyne in Beirut.


12-03-06 - For Palestinian women soccer players, a field is a dream "They're doing their best," says Hilal, "but they don't have the facilities or the equipment to be as good as they could be."


12-03-06 - israel destroys water well in Bethlehem


12-03-06 - Ghajar deal reached The Cabinet approved on Sunday a plan under which Israeli troops that occupied northern Ghajar since the summer war with Hezbollah would withdraw to the southern part of the village, to be replaced by UNIFIL peacekeepers and a small contingent of Lebanese police and troops


12-03-06 - Israel decides to maintain policy of restraint in Gaza "restraint" as defined by Israel: shooting kids.


12-03-06 - Israeli tourists urged to leave Egypt's Sinai


12-03-06 - Syrian PM highlights importance of Palestinian national unity


12-03-06 - 98 residents taken prisoner in Bethlehem in November The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported that Israeli soldiers took prisoner 98 resident in several attacks and invasions carried by the army in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during the month of November.


12-03-06 - Carter's frontal attack "I wrote the book because I wanted to stimulate a debate in this country about what is actually going on in the Middle East," Carter said during an interview at a midtown hotel on the first day of his national book tour. "This is a subject which, in my mind, has rarely if ever been honestly debated or discussed in the United States." Say what you want about Jimmy Carter, it takes an enormous amount of cojones to do what he did given the climate in this country at this time. It's legend.


12-03-06 - Gaza nurtures hopes of peace


12-03-06 - Blair heads for US to press for peace in the Middle East The Prime Minister, who is said to be ?deeply frustrated? that Mr Bush has failed to fulfil his promise of spending ?political capital? on brokering a settlement between the Arabs and Israelis, will arrive on Wednesday evening


12-03-06 - Israel's wall has forced Palestinians to move home - right into Jerusalem


12-03-06 - Bahrain vows support for Palestine His Majesty called upon all Palestinians to shun anything that may weaken their national march and remain united in order to face challenges ahead at this crucial phase.


12-03-06 - Palestinian PM arrives in Syria for two-day visit


12-03-06 - Carter criticizes U.S. approach to Israel interview on C-Span, said that, given widespread support for Israel in the United States, it would be "unimaginable" that a politician would assign any blame to Israel for the ongoing violence in the Middle East and still win office...."You're a racist and anti-Semite," one caller shouted at Carter during Sunday's broadcast before being cut off by the show's host. Now there's a charge we rarely see when it comes to criticism of Israel. Imagine.


12-03-06 - Report: Olmert to Meet Senior Saudi Officials Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will in the near future meet with senior Saudi Arabian officials to discuss the Saudi peace initiative


12-03-06 - Hamas official holds Abbas responsible for failure of national dialogue


12-03-06 - Polonium-210, Fiction and Fact Perhaps it isn?t significant, but most Russian nuclear reactors are subject to IAEA Safeguards. None of Israel?s are


12-03-06 - Israeli Arabs: Let us return to pre-'48 villages


12-03-06 - Harman gracious to successor Pelosi reportedly was irked that Harman solicited lobbyist to help her keep the position, including from major Jewish donors to the party.


12-03-06 - Dutch bank divests holdings in J'lem light rail, cites settlements A Dutch bank has decided to divest itself of its holdings in a French company that is participating in building Jerusalem's light rail system, on the grounds that the project "is not in line with the United Nation's demand to stop all support for Israel's settlement activities."



12-03-06 - Mideast peace a personal mission for Dataw man "The problem with Christians isn't that they don't care -- it's that they don't know," Harb said. "Maybe if they hear what Israel is doing from a past U.S. president, people will start to listen."


12-03-06 - Feds' Mideast stand ripped Newly anointed Liberal leader Stephane Dion must work to restore Canada's "moral authority" on the Middle East by demanding a reversal of Ottawa's "blind support" for Israel, say Palestinian supporters.


12-03-06 - Conference: Fear of Arab-Israelis unfounded


12-03-06 - Seeing the negative side of Israel's nationalism


12-03-06 - Imam disputes tie to Hamas


12-03-06 - Giving the gift of Water this Christmas in Palestine, Israeli authorities place tight restrictions on the supply of water to Palestinian communities.


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