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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
08-13-07 - One militant killed, seven wounded in clashes in southern Gaza A Hamas militant was killed and seven other militants wounded early Tuesday by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip, militants and Palestinian medical officials said.
08-13-07 - Israel detains 20 Palestinians in West Bank
08-13-07 - Israel, PNA reach deal on role of int'l observers in Hebron The two sides agreed that TIPH should be the neutral witness on the ground who monitors and reports on the situation. TIPH personnel has no military or police functions and does not intervene in disputes, incidents or activities conducted by the Israeli or Palestinian side.
08-13-07 - Gaza: IDF arrests 4 armed infiltrators Four Palestinians infiltrators armed with knives and a hand grenade were captured by IDF soldiers soon after they crossed through the security fence into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, the army said.
08-13-07 - UK blocks Israel arms deals for fear of rights violations The British government has blocked almost one third of British military exports to Israel this year, citing possible threats to regional stability and fears the equipment might facilitate human rights violations.
08-13-07 - Hebron: Settlers Suspected as Qurdoba School is Set Ablaze
08-13-07 - Hamas says ready for dialogue with West A spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Monday reiterated that his group was ready to open dialogue with Europe and hailed a call by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi for launching dialogue with the Islamic movement.
08-13-07 - A Prisoners Society calls for releasing a detainee from Hebron The Waed Society for Detainees and Freed Detainee in Israeli prisons called on several human rights groups and legal institutions to intervene for the release of detainee Maher Obeid, from Hebron, who was repeatedly kidnapped by the army is now detained in administrative detention without charges or trial.
08-13-07 - Abbas' Advisor: "Hamas wants to silence any voices that oppose it" Nimir Hammad, political advisor to the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated on Monday that the attack which was carried by members of the Executive Force of Hamas against a public protest in Gaza earlier this day is an attempt by Hamas to silence any voices that oppose the movement and its policies in the Gaza Strip.
08-13-07 - Peres proposes prisoner amnesty Monday's Ma'ariv quoted the Israeli president as saying in an interview that given the limited mandate of the Palestinian Authority after Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, the Olmert government should demand quiet in the West Bank rather than ceding physical control of the territory at this time.
08-13-07 - Egyptian aid trucks allowed into Gaza to relieve humanitarian crisis Fifteen Egyptian trucks carrying flour crossed into the Gaza Strip via the Karam Salem crossing on Monday, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
08-13-07 - Japan contributes 4.3 mln USD to UNRWA
08-13-07 - Fayyad government will ask Abbas to cancel all decrees issued after the Mecca Unity deal
08-13-07 - Eight Palestinians kidnapped in Hebron
08-13-07 - Gaza bank freezes Hamas accounts The Gaza branch of the Palestine Islamic Bank says it acted at the request of the Palestinian Authority. A spokesman for Hamas Islamist group described the move as illegal.
08-13-07 - Hebron: Israeli Military Shuts Down Palestinian Business in Old City Market
08-13-07 - Hamas cracks down on "unlicensed" rallies in Gaza The Hamas security men, shouting "filming is forbidden", confiscated news cameras and cellular phones equipped with cameras.
They also entered the office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya and seized a video camera and a tape after journalists working for the station refused to hand over a recording of the events at the square.
08-13-07 - Israeli ambassador slams British MPs' call to end Hamas boycott
08-13-07 - Japan seeks Mideast peace through economy: FM "In order to establish a Palestinian state, it must be economically viable, and we are presenting the initiative of the 'corridor for peace' as a means for this economic viability,"
08-13-07 - Japan resumes aid to Palestinian Authority Japan will resume direct aid to the Palestinian Authority after boycotting a previous Hamas-led government for more than a year, a Japanese official said on Monday.
08-13-07 - Israeli army demolishes animal sheds and farmers? huts in the Jordan valley The Israeli army stormed the Al Bak'a valley area, demolishing the huts and sheds, barring farmers from removing their belongings and forcing them to leave, local farmers stated.
08-13-07 - A Village Makes Its Own Protest "If we look at the wall, which has confiscated some of the main resources for the Palestinian villagers -- namely, the fertile land and the underground water tables -- the economic and social structures in the Palestinian areas are changing very rapidly," Jamal Jumaa, coordinator with the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign in Ramallah told IPS.
08-13-07 - Israeli forces abduct several Palestinians in Jenin and Qabatyia
08-13-07 - Hamas forces 'beat Gaza rivals' Baton-wielding Hamas security forces tried to disperse the protesters from rival Palestinian factions, gathered to denounce the Islamist group.
08-13-07 - Israeli forces abuse Palestinian workers near illegal Wall in Jerusalem
08-13-07 - Bid to deny tenure to Barnard prof More than 800 people have signed a petition seeking to deny tenure to a Barnard College professor accused of shoddy scholarship and a pro-Palestinian agenda. Another witchhunt by the Israeli Lobby.
08-13-07 - Israeli Arab group claims Jerusalem attack An obscure Israeli Arab terrorist group claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jerusalem.
08-13-07 - Israeli youths opt out of army service One trend that disturbs many Israelis is an increase in middle- and upper-class teens - considered the potential leaders and brains of the army - who seek health-related discharges to avoid military service.
08-13-07 - 'Gifts' that haunt U.S.
08-13-07 - Hamas optimism vs. Fatah despair "We've taken control, we've gotten rid of people who were collaborating with Israel, and we've restored order," says Khalil al-Haja, a mid-ranking member of Hamas Qassem Brigade militia. "Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] will eventually have to realize that we're hear to stay. In six months, we'll be reunited."
08-13-07 - The Middle East Peace Process Scam Since the failed Camp David summit of 2000, and actually well before it, Israel?s interest in a peace process ? other than for the purpose of obtaining Palestinian and international acceptance of the status quo ? has been a fiction that has served primarily to provide cover for its systematic confiscation of Palestinian land and an occupation whose goal, according to the former IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya?alon, is ?to sear deep into the consciousness of Palestinians that they are a defeated people?
08-13-07 - New Leader Picked to Run Arabic School
08-13-07 - UAE Red Crescent gives WFP US$100,000 to help Palestinians The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$100,000 donation from the United Arab Emirates' Red Crescent Society to help the UN food aid agency assist the growing number of impoverished people in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
08-13-07 - Lebanon villagers slowly rebuilding lives a year after war "Nothing has improved for me in the last year," Mokdad says bitterly as she chain smokes, holding back tears. "I used to have my dignity, my home and now look at me.
08-13-07 - Lebanese soldier killed in battle with Islamists
08-13-07 - Jordan bans sandwiches over salmonella outbreak Jordan banned restaurants across the kingdom from selling popular chicken "shawarma" sandwiches from Monday after more than 200 people were treated for salmonella-linked food poisoning.
08-13-07 - Mideast awaits end of Bush's term Nearly anyone you ask will tell you that things are better since Hamas took control in June. People can walk the streets without fear that a sudden burst of gunfire will catch them in a crossfire. While the economy continues to be squeezed, basic products are available. In daylight hours, stores are open, watermelon and tomatoes are piled high at street stalls and children play outside. At night, cars jam the streets and patrons crowd restaurants.
08-13-07 - Army Torturing Palestinian Refugees'
08-13-07 - Father claims fabrication in footage of Jerusalem shooting The Father of Ahmad Khatib, the Arab-Israeli killed in Friday?s shooting in the Old City of Jerusalem, has claimed that video footage released by the Israeli government is fabricated.
08-13-07 - US lawmaker slams Hamas payments US Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) sent a letter to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayad over the weekend demanding an explanation for his government's transfer of salary payments to Hamas a day after he assured a large delegation of Republican congressmen that his government would not seek reconciliation with Hamas.
08-13-07 - Israel asks EU not to host UN panel on Palestinians' rights Israel has asked the European Parliament not to provide space this month for a two-day UN panel meeting on the rights of Palestinians, saying the UN group co-hosting it has an anti-Israel record.
08-13-07 - UN official calls for improving living conditions of Palestinian refugees Panos Moumtzis, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Syria, made the remarks at an annual four-day conference of the General Authority for Palestine Arab Refugees at its headquarters in Damascus.
08-13-07 - Other Churchwide Assembly actions On August 11, the assembly passed a resolution calling for ongoing work for a two-state solution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine. The resolution calls for investment in the Palestinian territories, consideration of refusing to buy goods or invest in activities taking place in Israeli settlements, and a review of other economic options, according to Bishop Christopher Epting, the Presiding Bishop's deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations (EIR), who attended the assembly.
08-13-07 - Israeli, Palestinian men seek family unification
08-13-07 - Syria buys advanced anti-aircraft missiles: Israeli report Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has nevertheless refused to order the distribution of gas masks to civilians, fearing such a step would further escalate the heightened tensions between Israel and its northern neighbour, the report said, quoting sources in the military intelligence.
08-13-07 - New England Methodists: Divest from Israel The United Methodist News Service reported Friday that the denomination's New England Conference may consider divesting itself of holdings in 20 companies that do business in Israel.
08-13-07 - How much pain can one man take? WHAT do you say to a man who lost his first wife two days after the birth of his second child, and who has now lost his second wife and two more of his children? What do you say? What?
08-13-07 - Goodlatte delegation travels to Israel
08-13-07 - Paradise Now After it was nominated for an Oscar, a campaign sprung up to revoke the nomination. During the campaign a group called the Israeli Project charged that the nomination implicated the Academy Awards in a "chain of terroror" that justified the deaths of innocent people. The film lost the Oscar race to "Tsotsi."
08-13-07 - Lakewood family builds bridges for peace
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