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Tuesday, July 03, 2007


News for 07-02-07

07-02-07 - IDF killed Zubeidi?s deputy in Jenin, Palestinians say Palestinian sources in Jenin reported in the early hours of Monday morning that a senior al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member was killed during exchanges of fire with IDF forces in the West Bank city.


07-02-07 - Gaza journalist looks to Norway for safety A Palestinian journalist for the Al-Arabiya TV network in the Gaza Strip applied for asylum in Norway last week after, he said, his family received death and kidnap threats from a Hamas-related group.


07-02-07 - A Declaration of Independence from Israel U.S. foreign policy, especially under the current Bush administration, has become little more than an extension of Israeli foreign policy. And if that doesn't change very soon - it will likely spell our demise, not from terrorism but from the exceedingly costly wars fought on Israel's behalf in the Middle East (as one example).


07-02-07 - IRAQ: UNHCR calls for evacuation of seriously ill Palestinian children The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called for an immediate evacuation of at least a dozen seriously ill Palestinians, mostly children who are stuck in Baghdad and in a makeshift camp on the Iraq-Syria border. The agency said the children could die if they are not evacuated.


07-02-07 - Israeli Hamas members detained in east Jerusalem


07-02-07 - Israeli army kidnaps a Palestinian child from Hebron city Sami Abu Ramliah, 14, was walking his dog near his home in Hebron old city, when a female Israeli settler from Ramat Ishai attacked the boy and tried to take his doge away. In the scuffle that ensued, the boy held onto his dog, refusing to allow the woman to take it from him.



07-02-07 - Palestinian Official Warns of Deterioration in Health Conditions An official source at the Palestinian Health Ministry warned of the deterioration in the health conditions of Palestinian patients stuck on the Egyptian side of Rafah Crossing Point between Gaza and Egypt which is closed by the Israeli Authorities since Three weeks.


07-02-07 - Aid to Palestinian Public Workers The Swedish government has decided to contribute nearly 3 million US dollars to support salaries to employees in the West Bank and Gaza.


07-02-07 - Hamas: the arrest of our official delegation crosses red lines Official Hamas sources said the Palestinian security forces in Nablus arrested an official Hamas delegation after the delegation members met with leaders of the security forces in Nablus at the PA headquarters on Monday.



07-02-07 - Israeli soldiers kidnapped 581 Palestinian in Hebron since the beginning of this year The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) issued an official report on Monday stating the Israeli soldiers kidnapped 581 residents, including 27 children and four women, from Hebron and its surrounding villages since the beginning of this year.


07-02-07 - Hamas TV to replace 'martyred' Mickey Mouse lookalike Farfur and a female co-host instructed their young viewers on Hamas's militant brand of Muslim piety and urged children to support armed resistance against Israel.


07-02-07 - One Palestinian kidnapped as Israeli army invades Qalqilia city


07-02-07 - Palestinians to pay staff with cash unlocked by Israel The Jewish state is to continue to transfer around 400 million dollars split over the next six months, together with monthly transfers of new duties.


07-02-07 - OPT: Concern for Gaza patients who cannot go abroad for treatment According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2003 some 7,844 cases were referred abroad, of which 62.5 percent were sent to Egypt for treatment via Rafah. Now, this option no longer exists.


07-02-07 - Hamas captures spokesman for Johnston kidnappers Hamas forces have arrested the spokesman of the group claiming to hold the BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston, according to Associated Press and Reuters.


07-02-07 - Palestinian militants receive Israeli death threats by SMS: report Gaza-based Palestinian militants with the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement received text messages of death threats on their cellular phones from the Israeli Air Force, Palestinian independent news agency Maan reported on Monday.


07-02-07 - Japan to provide $700,000 in aid to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon The aid will be disbursed through the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to provide the refugees with shelter and other basic necessities, the ministry said.


07-02-07 - Israeli-style airport checks urged Security experts have called for Israeli-style vehicle checkpoints at British airports in response to Saturday's attempted suicide bombing at Glasgow airport that brought chaos to terminals yesterday.


07-02-07 - Vanunu jailed again after talks with foreigners He was kidnapped in Italy and flown to Israel by agents of the Mossad, Israel's equivalent of MI6, after being persuaded to travel from London to Rome in a "honey trap".


07-02-07 - Israeli activists monitor military brutality at checkpoints in the West Bank. Mashom Watch, meaning checkpoint watch, was formed by a group of Israeli and international peace activists, the hope being to monitor and prevent cases of humiliation and abuse against those who must pass through the structures on a daily basis.


07-02-07 - AT-TUWANI REFLECTION: Not sexy enough for the media As we took shade under a tent in the late morning, one of the Palestinians spoke
to the gathered group about what has been happening in Susiya over the last 20
years: confiscation of land by the Israeli army for Israeli settlements and army
bases, house demolitions, violent attacks on Palestinians and their livestock by
Israeli settlers, the lack of response from the Israeli police to such attacks,
etc. Photos.


07-02-07 - U.S. Losing War on Terror, Say Americans That's because we're not fighting the war on terror. If we were, we'd get the Israelis out of our government. Iraq had nothing to do with 911, neither does Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, or Syria. But judging from the rhetoric coming from our legislators and media, you wouldn't know that. As we approach Independence Day, pay heed to George Washington's parting words.


07-02-07 - Saudi clerics warn against Palestinian concessions "Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up, and ward off the danger of those who are laying in wait,"


07-02-07 - How Leahy tried, and failed, to downgrade aid to Israel Today, when the National Jewish Democratic Council convenes some reporters in a conference call with Jewish legislators, they had better be prepared to answer questions not just about the Republican decision to oppose aid to Israel, but also about their own Democratic head of subcommittee, who tried to downgrade the aid in an unprecedented way......Leahy, truth must be told, was not going to hurt Israel financially. It would have gotten the aid one way or the other......Bottom line: Israel has many friends in this subcommittee.....Those friends, some alarmed by outside observers (AIPAC never sleeps), told Leahy they didn't like what they were seeing.....Democrats might say: Leahy is just one Senator. We, as a party, didn't try to harm Israel in any way, and some of our members were instrumental in blocking Leahy. Note the source.


07-02-07 - Palestinians Say Fatah Will Not Reach Gaza


07-02-07 - Tel Rumeida: A Water Delivery At approximately 2 pm a water tanker was on its way to refill the water tanks of the Palestinian Abu Heikel family, living in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. Since their house is on the opposite side of the illegal Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida, the truck had to take the road passing this settlement.


07-02-07 - Activists fight uphill battle for greater Efrat The move is part of the latest initiative by right-wing activists to push for increased construction in the West Bank. ......"If Israel doesn't build here, the Palestinians will," Thieves.


07-02-07 - Peace coalition appeals for Palestinians stranded at Rafah Crossing Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace coalition, has sent a strong protest to Prime Minister Olmert and Defence Minister Barak, and a letter to the European Union, warning about the extreme suffering of about 6,000 Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the closed Rafah Border crossing, unable to return to their homes.


07-02-07 - A special kind of relationship America is about to send an additional $40 million to the settlement of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Europe and other parts of the world to help them settle into the illegal sprawling settlement blocks in the West Bank ? settlement blocks built on stolen Palestinian land.


07-02-07 - Troops carried 248 attacks against Red Crescent personnel in six month The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported on Monday that Israeli soldiers carried 248 attacks against its ambulances and medics in the first half of this year, and in many cases barred the medics from transferring injured or sick residents to hospitals.


07-02-07 - Solana suggests Iran behind Gaza and Lebanon attacks


07-02-07 - Palestinians seek to end Lebanon camp siege


07-02-07 - Sneh: We must do more to isolate Iran Israel and the US, he said, do not have any joint plan to tackle the Iranian threat. "Some projects take longer than others?we don't have the necessary resources to meet this threat properly. A country under this kind of threat has to get its priorities straight," he added



07-02-07 - Be A Counterweight and The Change You Want To See in the World


07-02-07 - ?Sanctions Are Preferable to War?

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