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Saturday, June 23, 2007
06-22-07 - Israeli troops kill Palestinian in Hebron-hospital Hospital officials identified the man as a 25-year-old civilian.
06-22-07 - Hashemite charitable convoys arrive in Gaza
06-22-07 - Report: Captors of BBC journalist demand safety guarantees Clan head Mumtaz Dughmush is refusing to release the correspondent for fear that Hamas would kill him and most of his clan members, the newspaper said.
06-22-07 - Evacuated Palestinians return to Gaza
06-22-07 - More WFP Trucks With Humanitarian Assistance Head For Gaza The United Nations World Food Programme has announced that nine trucks carrying 225 metric tons of food have begun to cross the border into Gaza today. The food convoy follows the arrival yesterday of seven WFP trucks carrying 200 metric tons of food assistance into the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
06-22-07 - Israeli forces invades Jabalia town near Gaza
06-22-07 - Israeli army kidnaps 13 Palestinian civilians from several West Bank areas
06-22-07 - The economist 'Omar Sha'ban says:Closure of Gaza not just a humanitarian crisis but also an economic disaster Israel is conducting punitive measures against the Gaza Strip, the most prominent of which is the cancellation of the commercial code of the Gaza Strip and the closure of the crossings through which food stuffs and other basic raw materials usually pass
06-22-07 - UNICEF responds to growing humanitarian needs in Gaza The conditions for children living in Gaza are incredibly poor. UNICEF?s work in the occupied Palestinian territory focuses on education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, child protection and adolescent participation.
06-22-07 - Interfax: Quartet envoys to meet Tuesday in Jerusalem Representatives of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers will meet Tuesday in Jerusalem, a Russian envoy said Friday, according the Interfax news agency.
06-22-07 - Israel fails to stem Gaza food crisis: UN Aid agencies say food stocks could run out in the Hamas-held Gaza Strip within two weeks, creating a major humanitarian crisis if Israel does not ease a cargo blockade further.
06-22-07 - Egypt rejects any condition on U.S. aid program: FM Earlier this month, the appropriations committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved to withhold a 200-million-U.S.- dollar aid program to the Egyptian military in fiscal year 2008 until Egypt made some reforms in its judicial system and ended weapon smuggling into the Palestinian Gaza Strip via Sinai.
06-22-07 - Gaza's only Catholic priest says his people need peace "We cannot go. We cannot come. Everything is closed. It is a big prison. Fear, stress, hunger, lack of work, lack of electricity, lack of water. And more. Lack of police, lack of law, lack of justice, lack of freedom.
06-22-07 - Caritas says humanitarian access must be guaranteed in Gaza
06-22-07 - Living with Hamas in Gaza Things are quiet now, but this could mean two things. Either it really is calm, or it's the calm before the storm. You can't tell.
06-22-07 - Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills Need Your Help It is quite amazing that even though some of Susya's residents have been expelled by the military and the settlers several times, they have always managed to return to their lands. They continue to eke out a frugal living from their herds of goats and sheep and by farming the few fields that have been left to them.
06-22-07 - Report: IAF preparing for Iran strike **
06-22-07 - Hamas ex-minister kidnapped in West Bank The former justice minister in the Hamas-dominated government that held power for a year until March was kidnapped in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, witnesses said.
06-22-07 - Abbas dismisses head of security No reasons were given but Mr Shbak has faced criticism for failing to stop the takeover, which effectively split the Palestinian territories in two.
06-22-07 - Haniyeh calls for talks with Abbas's Fatah faction Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, called for renewed talks on Saturday between the factions, Haniyeh's office said.
06-22-07 - EU must act now on Palestine - de Brún ?The EU and the international community bear a heavy responsibility for the current tragedy in Palestine? according to Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún.
06-22-07 - Israel coy over help for Abbas ahead of Mideast summit Israel owes the Palestinians more than 600 million dollars in back taxes collected on their behalf, which remained frozen while Hamas-led governments were in power from March 2006 until last week.
06-22-07 - Gazans fear isolation as guns fall silent "It has been a very bad week for the Palestinian people. The Palestinian cause has never seen such a crisis," said Gaza physician Bassam Ismail of last week's rout by Islamist Hamas fighters of forces loyal to Abbas after six days of bloodshed.
06-22-07 - Robert Fisk: How can Blair possibly be given this job? And Israel likes Lord Blair. Indeed, Blair's slippery use of language is likely to appeal to Ehud Olmert, whose government continues to take Arab land for Jews and Jews only as he waits to discover a Palestinian with whom he can "negotiate",
06-22-07 - Wexler queries EU failure to ban Hezbollah A top Jewish congressman held hearings on the European Union's refusal to place Hezbollah on its terrorist list.
06-22-07 - Hebron Reflection: Checkpoints and Gates Another way in which 'freedom of movement and access" is restricted here in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories is through an Apartheid-type road system.
Israeli registered vehicles have yellow number plates; Palestinian vehicles
green or white. The Israeli authorities prevent Palestinian registered vehicles
from using many roads, forcing them to use poorly maintained roads and
circuitous routes
06-22-07 - Boycotting DePaul Officials at DePaul University caved to pressure from pro-Israel ideologues, denying tenure for Norman Finkelstein, an outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights--and then announced that they were withholding tenure for another professor who actively supported Finkelstein's cause.
06-22-07 - Jewish groups back travel insurance law "We urge you to act to protect travelers to lawful foreign destinations from unfair and discriminatory insurance practices," said the letter, signed by, among others, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and representatives of the Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams.
06-22-07 - GOP writes AIPAC to explain 'no' vote The Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is sending a letter to AIPAC explaining why the party voted against a foreign aid funding bill that includes $2.4 billion for Israel.
06-22-07 - Lebanese army rings refugee camp
06-22-07 - Jewish settlers fear Golan withdrawal A major water basin lies under the Golan Heights providing Israel with about a third of its water supplies. No kidding?!
06-22-07 - Senators ask Rice to press Egypt on smuggling A letter urging Condoleezza Rice to review Egypt's efforts to stop arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip garnered signatures from 32 U.S. senators.
06-22-07 - Jewish-Arab band to promote peace in Jerusalem
06-22-07 - Israeli attack was deliberate The order to abandon ship was given and life rafts were put over the side. The torpedo boats then closed and machine gunned all the rafts, sinking them.
06-22-07 - Clashes at Lebanon siege camp ease as clerics meet militants Lebanese troops used artillery, tanks and machine guns against Islamists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp on Friday despite the government saying the offensive had ended.
06-22-07 - Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S. The New York Times and The Washington Post gave space to Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas figure, on Wednesday to argue that the United States should not interfere in Gaza, where Hamas took control after six days of bloody fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah fighters.
06-22-07 - Romania to hire charter plane to repatriate its citizens from Gaza The Romanian government will hire a charter airplane to repatriate 31 Romanian citizens from the Gaza Strip whose security is endangered by the latest developments in the area, Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu- Tariceanu and Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu announced on Friday.
06-22-07 - Moment of Silence for Captive Johnston On Wednesday, June 20, thousands of BBC staffers around the world fell silent at festivals, in conferences and on air to mark the 100th day of captivity for BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.
06-22-07 - Alcohol, Middle East, animal fur Equitable Life feature in June Plenary In other votes MEP supported a decision to restart direct aid to the Palestinian Authorities and insisted that Israel pay back the customs duties owed to the Authority - something President Pöttering has repeated called for.
06-22-07 - Acclaimed Palestinian Actor Mohammad Bakri Faces Trial in Israel for Documentary ?Jenin, Jenin? Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri is one Israel?s most well-known citizens. But since producing a documentary on Israel?s 2002 assault on the West Bank town of Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually blacklisted in Israeli cinema, and now, he even faces possible jail time for making the film.
06-22-07 - Footlik gets Jewish backing in House bid Signatories include Mort Zuckerman and Shoshana Cardin, both former chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Alan Solomont, a backer of the Israel Policy Fund now leading fund-raising for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination; Steve Grossman, a past president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and now a lead-fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), also seeking the presidency; and Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and writer.
06-22-07 - Basketball Uniforms for Palestine The three teams with both Moslem and Christian Palestinian players are looking forward to the new threads, funding for which was raised by the Middle East Program of Santa Cruz's Resource Center for Nonviolence.
06-22-07 - Arab bourses "cautious" as investors monitor half-year results Palestinian stocks responded positively to the declaration by the United States and the European Union that they would be resuming financial aid to the Palestinian Authority after the formation of an emergency cabinet led by the US-educated economist Salam Fayyad
06-22-07 - USS LIBERTY - 'A lie told well is immortal' "If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of."
06-22-07 - Indonesia concerned about Palestinian conflict: spokesman The Indonesian government on Friday expressed a deep concern over the conflict situation in Palestine, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Kristianto Legowo said.
06-22-07 - Weiner: Cut Aid To West Bank And Gaza U.S Representative Anthony Weiner will introduce an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, banning all aid, including humanitarian aid, from the United States to the Palestinian Authority
06-22-07 - Christians? ?salvation? requires peace in the Middle East
06-22-07 - Jewish groups slam U.K. boycott Jewish organizations slammed the decision by Britain's largest trade union to support a boycott of Israel.
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