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Thursday, July 26, 2007
07-25-07 - Palestinian boy, 14, says was attacked by two settlers A 14-year-old Palestinian youth said he was attacked by two armed settlers on Tuesday near the village Kafr Kusra, south of Nablus.
07-25-07 - Israeli army kidnaps six Palestinians from Nablus The Israeli army kidnapped six Palestinians early Tuesday morning during an invasion of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
07-25-07 - Presidential Guard attacks Barghouti's children Palestinian security forces in Ramallah attacked the children of former Fatah Secretary-General in the West Bank Marwan Barghouti, the Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper reported Tuesday
07-25-07 - Hamas leader claims UK has widened links Mr Haniyeh, who was the Palestinian prime minister until last month, claims that contacts between Hamas and Britain have increased since they worked together to free Alan Johnston, the BBC Gaza correspondent, who was held captive in Gaza for almost four months.
07-25-07 - Arab leaders hold talks in Israel on peace plan Foreign ministers from Jordan and Egypt held rare talks in Israel yesterday to present an Arab League peace plan for an independent Palestinian state.
07-25-07 - Arabs woo Israel over peace plan The proposal envisages the recognition of Israel if it leaves occupied Palestinian land.
07-25-07 - Report: Palestinian children in Israeli detention abused, tortured The report includes personal testimonies from children that expose physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the Israeli army and brutal treatment during lengthy periods of interrogation. At the end of the interrogation process the children were told to sign papers, despite not knowing what they were signing.
07-25-07 - Hamas warns Israel against targeting Islamic movement leaders The military wing of Hamas has warned Israel on Wednesday against targeting any leader of the Islamic movement in Gaza Strip.
07-25-07 - Palestinian president says he is close to calling new elections Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said he is close to calling new legislative elections, a move designed to freeze the Hamas militant group from power.
07-25-07 - Olmert wants talks on Palestinian state 'principles'
07-25-07 - Israeli army attacks Palestinian civilian in Hebron Palestinian sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron reported that Israeli soldiers attacked and injured a Palestinian civilian on Wednesday morning.
07-25-07 - Unidentified gunmen attack Palestinian local TV station in Nablus A group of masked unidentified gunmen attacked and damaged a local television station in the centre of the northern West Bank city of Nablus late Tuesday night.
07-25-07 - Israel blocks new wildcat settlement
07-25-07 - U.N. Mideast envoy warns of economic collapse in Gaza Strip if cargo crossing remain closed Michael Williams said the closure of the Karni crossing in early June has prevented the export of agricultural and industrial goods to Israel, the West Bank and elsewhere, as well as the import of materials needed for manufacturing and construction ? bringing the Gaza economy to a standstill.
07-25-07 - Hamas leader alleges Fatah involvement in corruption
07-25-07 - Israeli nabbed in Costa Rica drug bust Costa Rican police say they have arrested an Israeli citizen in connection with the largest seizure of the designer drug ecstasy in the country?s history.
07-25-07 - US favors 'constructive' Mideast efforts The United States welcomes Arab-Israeli talks on a Saudi-inspired Middle East peace plan but believes key issues were best left to the Israelis and Palestinians, the White House said Wednesday.
07-25-07 - Hezbollah leader suggests Israel may be behind attacks on U.N. peacekeepers "It will be very embarrassing for the Israelis, especially if they are thinking in the next war to launch a large-scale land invasion (of south Lebanon), to have UNIFIL troops there," Nasrallah said.
07-25-07 - Re-Targeting Syria, the "Ho Chi Minh Trail of Terrorists?" former Bush speech-writer and Christian rightist Michael Gerson complains that the administration?s military reaction to alleged subversion in Iraq by Iran and Syria has been "muted" but concedes that attacking Iran could be problematic. "Syria, however, is what one former administration official calls ?lower-hanging fruit,?"
07-25-07 - Lebanese army steps up shelling of Islamists
07-25-07 - Hamas uses charity for 'terror,' US court told Prosecutors contend that Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development sent more than 12 million dollars to committees in the Palestinian territories controlled by Hamas, which Washington calls a terrorist organization.
07-25-07 - Few Muslims 'back suicide bombs' However, 70% of Palestinians interviewed said they believed such attacks were sometimes justifiable. ......The survey also suggests that as countries and families grow richer, optimism increases, as well as support for ruling governments.
07-25-07 - Woman recounts West Bank travels In her view, Israeli settlements built in the occupied territories halt peace negotiations; similarly, the poor conditions of Palestinian roads and the 20-foot high wall Israel constructed along its territory add to the already strained relations
07-25-07 - Some Jews oppose land bill "It's not appropriate for the government of the State of Israel, which must serve all of its citizens, to take actions that discriminate against its non-Jewish minority, specifically its Arab minority." Right on.
07-25-07 - U.N. chief rebuked for Israel support Islamic states criticized U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for condemning the singling out of Israel by the Human Rights Council, according to a Geneva-based watchdog group.
07-25-07 - Obama, Clinton feud on talks with Assad and other despots The Obama-Clinton contretemps comes as the pro-Israel lobby has made isolating Iran its signature issue and after Republicans attacked U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in April for meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
07-25-07 - Archbishop: Church in the Holy Land must say ?enough? to violence's logic The Catholic Church in the Holy Land, in the face of ?painful suffering,? must ?raise our voices to say ?enough?? to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, to killings, to other human-rights violations and to ?the logic of violence,? said the coadjutor of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
07-25-07 - Israeli military court extends detention of head of women's society Al Huda Society for Women works to support hundreds of orphans and employs more than 300 countryside women in handicrafts.
07-25-07 - Congress mulls Jewish refugee cause Two resolutions currently before Congress aim at requiring that any international discussion mentioning Palestinian refugees refer to Jewish refugees as well. It is the latest attempt to bring greater attention to the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
07-25-07 - U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon A French peacekeeper working on a U.N. demining team was killed Wednesday when an unexploded shell from last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah blew up as he was trying to clear it, a U.N. official said.
07-25-07 - We've heard so many promises After 40 years of occupation, the idea that progress can be achieved with goodwill gestures such as tiny prisoner releases and the removal of a few checkpoints is misguided.
07-25-07 - America puts Israel's enemies on trial
07-25-07 - Public sector strike hits Israel Public sector workers in Israel have begun an indefinite general strike to demand higher pay.
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