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Thursday, March 22, 2007


News for 03-21-07

03-21-07 - Youth killed by military fire near Ramallah


03-21-07 - Renewed Clashes in Beit Lahia Claim One Resident's Life, Wound Others Palestinian media sources said Wednesday that one Palestinian civilian was killed and eleven others wounded during renewed Hamas-Fatah infighting in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia.


03-21-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Ramallah


03-21-07 - Palestinian youth killed in Israeli incursion into Nablus


03-21-07 - Right to family life denied As an occupying power, Israel is obliged to respect the family rights of Palestinians (1). Yet violations by Israel of the right to family life have persisted for decades and have worsened over the past six years. By 2006 at least 120,000 families were affected. Moreover, since 2006 the restrictions on family life, and the number of families affected by such restrictions, have increased ? the right to enter the OPT is now also denied to spouses from countries for whom advance visas are not required to enter Israel.



03-21-07 - Two Palestinian Security Personnel Wounded in a Drive-by Shooting in Khan Younis


03-21-07 - Haneya vows to restore security in Palestinian territories Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas asserted on Wednesday that ending a state of lawlessness and restoring security were on the top of the unity government's agenda.


03-21-07 - US 'to slash funding for Abbas' The United States is to slash funds for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' security forces, amid fears the money could end up with Hamas.


03-21-07 - Israeli Army dog attacks a Palestinian Woman in Bethlehem Troops released the dog after an army bulldozer had demolished part of the home of a civilian named Daoud Rabai'a, 29, who is claimed to be 'wanted' by the Israeli army.


03-21-07 - New ministers heading to Europe to gain support for unity government, Germany is focal point


03-21-07 - Muslim pioneer pushes Israel to negotiate "As an Arab I understand the Palestinian side, and as an Israeli I understand the Israeli side," Majadele said. "These are tools that can be used in trying to end the conflict."


03-21-07 - Women celebrate Mother's Day by standing up to occupation: nonviolent demo against Wall Women of all ages gathered in Umm Salamuna Village to demonstrate against land confiscation on the occasion of Palestinian Mother's Day. The land is being bulldozed, eaten by the Israeli machines, in order to impose the Wall in between the villages of southern Bethlehem.


03-21-07 - PLO says Rice's coming visit important Yasser Abed Rabou made the remarks in an interview with the Voice of Palestine. Rice is due to arrive in Israel on Saturday to begin her tour of the region, the third one so far this year.


03-21-07 - UAE-OPT: Interview with Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestine refugees


03-21-07 - Rice defends security aid to Palestinian ally


03-21-07 - Arab summit should back Palestinian govt-Meshaal


03-21-07 - Emergency water supply and sanitation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip


03-21-07 - Palestinians complain of 'double standards' in Hebron Like other Palestinian residents of Hebron, he wonders why the law enforcement authorities failed to do a similar check on dozens of settlers who occupied a building in the city, claiming that they had purchased it legally in exchange for cash.


03-21-07 - PLO chief heaps more pressure on Fatah al-Islam


03-21-07 - Turkish team inspects controversial Jerusalem dig About six Turkish officials toured the area briefly with Turkey's consul general in Jerusalem, Ercan Ozer.


03-21-07 - Big powers say they will judge Palestinian government by deeds


03-21-07 - United Nations meeting in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace to take place in Rome, 22-23 March


03-21-07 - Three civilians kidnapped from villages near Hebron


03-21-07 - Quartet urges Palestinian commitment to peace principles


03-21-07 - Germany Slowly Builds Bridges to Palestinian Government Merkel herself will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories at the end of the month, a government spokesman said Wednesday in Berlin


03-21-07 - Report: "Israeli troops committed 1,123 violations last week" The violations included opening fire at civilians, shelling neighborhoods, and repeatedly invading cities, villages and refugee camps.


03-21-07 - No military solution to Palestinian issue: Sinha


03-21-07 - Italy and Palestine With reference to your leader (March 20), I wish to clarify that the news of a telephone call from the Italian minister for foreign affairs, Massimo D'Alema, to the prime minister of the new Palestinian government of national unity, Ismail Haniyeh, is unfounded.


03-21-07 - Qaraleh congratulates Palestinian Foreign Minister Head of Jordan?s Diplomatic Representation Office to the Palestinian Authority Yahya al-Qaraleh on Wednesday reaffirmed Jordan?s firm stand in supporting Palestinian brothers at all levels to help them regain their legitimate rights.



03-21-07 - War drill fails to reassure Israelis Israel's largest-ever such drill was meant to signal to the public that the government and safety services had learned the lessons of this summer's war with Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.


03-21-07 - 'Israel Lobby' Authors Return With Book


03-21-07 - U.S.: Europe won't stop Iran terror funding "The major stumbling block -- the one that looms larger than all the others combined -- is that the Europeans won't recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization," Stuart Levey, the U.S. Treasury's under secretary for terrorism financing, told the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday.


03-21-07 - Female? Foreign? Israeli spies want you Israel's high-tech secret services have been told to step up efforts to recruit women and foreign Jews


03-21-07 - House letter urges E.U. on P.A. A congressional letter urging the European Union to maintain its isolation of the Palestinian Authority garnered signatures from more than half of the U.S. House of Representatives.


03-21-07 - Obama's Israel credentials pushed A Jewish congressman wrote Jewish leaders to tell them that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama has a sincere love for Israel.


03-21-07 - MacKay tries to soothe Arab and Muslim critics MacKay was attempting to soothe critics of his government's Middle East tilt in policy toward Israel in a speech in Ottawa late Monday.


03-21-07 - Nonviolent Palestinian resistance on behalf of Al Aqsa, strikes in Jerusalem Dozens of Palestinian Muslims gathered at the protest tent near Al Aqsa Mosque after Friday prayers today. They chanted slogans for justice, for God and for an end to the occupation.


03-21-07 - Singapore welcomes formation of Palestinian unity government


03-21-07 - Rights activist, banned from Israel, seeks Mideast peace "Every day Israeli warplanes fly over Gaza and cause sonic booms. Windows shatter twice a day. Sixteen year olds are losing their hair because hunger and malnutrition are so prevalent. People live in half bombed-out houses. During the intifada, 12,000 Palestinian homes in Gaza were destroyed."


03-21-07 - Education Ministry: Israeli attack on Palestinian school curriculum political The Israelis are accusing Palestinians of teaching students to ignore former signed agreements between the governments and for promoting an attitude ?hostile? toward the occupation.


03-21-07 - Hebronites threaten to sue Peace Now for slander The leaders of the Hebron Jewish community sent a letter on Wednesday night to left-wing activist group Peace Now, demanding that they take back their claims that a group of settlers broke into a house in one of the city's Palestinian neighborhoods.


03-21-07 - Interfaith activists mend ties after bishop's slurs Shimon Stein, Israel's ambassador to Germany, reacted to Hanke?s comparison with "horror and disgust." Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, condemned the remarks as "appalling and completely unacceptable." Most people that visit the area would agree with the bishops' description of the place. But everybody is expected to shut up about it to please the likes of these folks.


03-21-07 - Palestinian lesbians draw fire


03-21-07 - Sen. Obama Rebuffs George Soros on Hamas


03-21-07 - Author: Shimon Peres persuaded France to backdate 1957 nuclear deal with Israel "Shimon Peres: The Biography" also says an earlier, secret agreement between the two countries pledged French co-operation on Israeli research and development of nuclear weapons, even before the French government formally decided to build its own atomic bombs.


03-21-07 - Grim upsurge for Lebanon prosthetics Prosthetic limb-fitting centres in southern Lebanon are struggling to cope with the rising toll from the one million unexploded munitions left over from last year's war with Israel. .....The UN has said that clearing them has been made more difficult by Israel not revealing the precise areas they targeted.


03-21-07 - Calling out Satterfield Next opportunity: March 27 at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, when Satterfield speaks on "Iraq: Prospects for Peace at Home and Progress with its Neighbors." WINEP was, after all, spun off from AIPAC back in the late 1980s, its events are attended by the pro-Israel community's best and brightest and I know that a lot of its staff's attitude toward the Rosen-Weissman case can be summed up in the unexpandable acronym, WTF?


03-21-07 - Texas Samaritan for Canadian boy says he'll help more kids detained in U.S.

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