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Tuesday, May 01, 2007


News for 04-30-07

04-30-07 - Humanitarian situation in Palestinian territories keeps deteriorating: UN report


04-30-07 - Underpaid Palestinian teachers in violent protest Hundreds of angry Palestinian teachers demanding full pay after more than a year of partial salaries tried to storm the Palestinian government headquarters in the West Bank on Monday.


04-30-07 - Haaretz: Protest in Jaffa against home demolitions


04-30-07 - Police chief promises change in Nablus It's quite a challenge for the Nablus police. They do not just have to conquer or win over the gunmen but also Palestinian public opinion. People feel the police have been emasculated.


04-30-07 - European Commission launches training for Palestinian customs officers at Rafah


04-30-07 - Army invades Tulkarem city and surrounds a house of Palestinian activist


04-30-07 - The Israeli army kidnaps 17 Palestinian civilians from several parts of the West Bank


04-30-07 - A resident of Khan Younis wounded after being abducted A Palestinian resident of the Khan Younis city, south of Gaza Strip, has been reportedly wounded after being abducted by unknown gunmen.


04-30-07 - Marking Labor Day; Thousands Unemployed Labors Protest Before UN Office in Gaza


04-30-07 - Unknown gunmen open fire at a Palestinian top security officer in Hebron Unknown gunmen opened fire at the house of a top Palestinian security officer located in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday at dawn.



04-30-07 - Hamas-led government interested in the ceasefire, a government?s spokesman says


04-30-07 - Various Arab and European countries urge P.A to go for early elections Various Arab and European countries urged President Mahmoud Abbas during the his seven-European countries tour to hold elections early in a bid to end the internationally-imposed economic embargo on the Palestinian Authority.


04-30-07 - Deputy Palestinian PM says gov't could be disbanded


04-30-07 - Norwegian bishop likens situation in Hebron to apartheid Two (Lutheran) Church of Norway bishops visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories in mid-April have said they were appalled at the way Israelis were treating Palestinians who hugely outnumber them in the West Bank city of Hebron.


04-30-07 - Palestinian govt in contact with BBC man's kidnappers: official


04-30-07 - Palestinians storm Egyptian Gaza mission Angry Palestinian demonstrators stormed the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City on Monday, demanding that Egypt release five Palestinians held in Cairo jails.


04-30-07 - Palestinian public sector employee attempts suicide in protest of not being paid by the gov. The man who's name remains unknown lost hope after suffering from severe economic hardships caused by not getting his salary for months from the municipality were he works


04-30-07 - PICCR initiates a probe in the killing of a Gaza resident The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens? Rights (PICCR) initiated a probe into the incidents that led to the killing of resident Izzat Rasheed Al Bazary, who was abducted last week


04-30-07 - Palestinian deputy-PM expects more pressure on Palestinians in light of Winogard report Al-Ahmad told reporters in Ramallah that the ?Palestinians will encounter further difficulties, reiterating that the Palestinians ?had no peace partner?.


04-30-07 - Carter Visit Sees Some Controversy In Jewish Circles ASUC Senator Sammy Averbach, who is involved with Hillel and has not read Carter?s book, said he thinks that having Carter speak will not be positive for the campus community because of what he called ?inappropriate and blasphemous assertions? made in Carter?s book.


04-30-07 - Bush views Olmert as 'essential' : White House US President George W. Bush views Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as "essential" to Middle East peace efforts, the White House said Monday as Olmert faced tough criticism over the Lebanon war.


04-30-07 - Vanunu convicted for media links A court in Israel has convicted former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu of violating a military order banning him from speaking to foreign journalists.


04-30-07 - Tenet: U.S. must do more in Mideast Former CIA Director George Tenet says the United States needs to revitalize the Palestinian-Israeli peace effort and do a better job leveraging its own diplomatic and economic strength to offset Iran's growing influence in the Middle East.


04-30-07 - Israel PM 'will remain in office'


04-30-07 - Clinton and Obama Raiding Donors Who Backed Bush Mr. Karp, a former Israeli paratrooper who described himself as Palestinian, said he is comfortable with both Mr. Bush and Mrs. Clinton because they have "very similar" views on Israel. "I very strongly believe in the U.S. supporting Israel," he said. "I always call Israel the 51st state."


04-30-07 - Arab Alliance invites students to walk through Arabia


04-30-07 - Three Women Tour US, Call for End to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict "When I met Palestinians for the first time I was 23, and I heard the word 'Nakba' and I said what is that? I did not know what it means,? recalls Dor. ?I did not know that there is another narrative for the war of independence because I have been always told that the land was vacant and it was a land without people ? for people without land ? and that we did not do anything wrong, we just needed land. That first acknowledgement, that first eye-opening changed my life."


04-30-07 - Palestinian Film Festival Opens in London The two-week festival features more than 40 films made by Palestinian directors, some of whom are based in Palestinian territories and others in the diaspora.


04-30-07 - Israel Confiscates 238 Dunums in Jordan Valley Receiving the notices of confiscating 238.6 dunums by the Israeli authority yesterday was painful for the residents of Bardala in the north of the Jordan Valley, especially for those who own agricultural land. The notice said, "According to my authority as commander in the Israeli Defense Force in the area of Judea and Samaria, and since I believe the matter is necessary for military reasons ? I announce confiscating these lands for military reasons to build the Security Wall."


04-30-07 - Jimmy Carter to visit UC Irvine, talk with students


04-30-07 - Syria has underground 'missile city': Israeli report Syria has built a fortified complex buried deep underground and cloaked in secrecy to manufacture and store ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel, an Israeli newspaper said on Monday.


04-30-07 - MEP says she feels like ?strangling? Israel's ambassador Addressing a European Left Group hearing on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners last week, De Keyser deplored the ?passivity? of the European Parliament on the Palestinian issue, and hailed the ?moderation and maturity? of the Palestinians.


04-30-07 - Jordan confiscates newspaper saying article harms ties with the Palestinians, editor says


04-30-07 - Palestinians: Winograd may complicate peace moves "We want to continue making peace with the Israeli government. Having said that, we hope that this report and the findings of this report will not further complicate and hinder attempts to revive the peace process."



04-30-07 - For College Students in Gaza, Choices Are Few


04-30-07 - Branagh joins Prince for premiere In 1969 Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site - was attacked by a Christian fanatic and the pulpit, made from more than 16,000 hand carved pieces of wood, ivory and ebony, was destroyed in a fire.


04-30-07 - Israeli Speaks on "Palestinian Rights in Israel and Under Occupation" Dr. Uri Davis is the author of several books that compare Israel's policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories with South Africa's apartheid policy


04-30-07 - Palestine: A Homeland Lost Homeland Lost by reportage photographer Alan Gignoux is a photographic essay that juxtaposes the portraits of individual Palestinian exiles and their families with present-day images of the places they left in 1948


04-30-07 - A collection of photos from Bethlehem


04-30-07 - Forcing Transfer in Izbat at-Tabib


04-30-07 - Accepting the other in Palestine

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