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Sunday, August 19, 2007


News for 08-18-07

08-18-07 - Palestinian militant dies after West Bank clashes Mahmud Ashur Darwish, 25, suffered head wounds after a gunfight with Israeli forces in Kafr Dan near the town of Jenin on Friday. His comrade Nur Marai, 19, was killed outright in the clashes, which also wounded eight other Palestinians.


08-18-07 - Palestinian shot dead on Gaza-Israel border The Palestinian source named the victim as Mohammed Abid, a 17-year-old male civilian from El-Bureij refugee camp, and said he was not involved in armed activity.


08-18-07 - One Palestinian Killed and another wounded as Israeli army opens fire in eastern Gaza Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinians, seen collecting antiquities near a garbage collection plant in the Johr Eldik village, were fired by the Israeli army forces, just close to the Gaza-border line. The sources identified the dead as Nezar Raji, 20, of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.



08-18-07 - West Bank poverty spawns child beggars With unemployment in the West Bank topping 25 percent, the children often become their families' main breadwinners.


08-18-07 - 5 Palestinian infiltrators caught near Gaza fence IDF troops arrested 5 Palestinian infiltrators near the Gaza Strip security fence Saturday, Army Radio reported


08-18-07 - Military checkpoint and roadblocs impedes development of several aid projects in Beit Fourik


08-18-07 - Israel allows Gaza fuel delivery The territory relies on Israel for fuel but Israel says it stopped regular deliveries for security reasons.


08-18-07 - Israel is 'flag of Satan', Iranian President says


08-18-07 - Palestinian woman, Israeli soldier wounded in West Bank clashes An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian woman were wounded in the West Bank city of Nablus Saturday morning as Israel granted an amnesty to more Palestinian activists. Clashes erupted between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army when it stormed al-Ein and Balata refugee camps. The 30-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel in the head, medical sources said.


08-18-07 - Women forced into sex slavery in Ramallah In an unprecedented incident, an Israeli teen was forced to work as a prostitute in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli media website reported on Friday.



08-18-07 - 'More wanted Palestinians to be pardoned'


08-18-07 - Salah: Israel wants to divide Al-Aqsa between Jews, Muslims The head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, said on Saturday that Israel is trying to forcibly divide the Al-Aqsa mosque between Jews and Muslims, Israel Radio reported.


08-18-07 - Five injured, among them journalists, at the weekly non-violent protest of Bil'in


08-18-07 - Haniya urges Abbas to hold early elections among PLO body - Summary Meanwhile, Bahar called for a professional committee to investigate the circumstances that surrounded the death of President Yasser Arafat in 2004.


08-18-07 - Detainees facing harsh conditions, prepare for hunger strike Palestinian detainees in Petah Tikva Israeli interrogation center threatened to hold a hunger strike if the Israeli authorities continues to place them in solitary and continues to place them under harsh conditions which are affecting them mental and health conditions.


08-18-07 - Hamas rejects PA's right to make concessions to Israel


08-18-07 - Abbas sacks Hamas public servants


08-18-07 - Al-Faraheen's victims of Israeli pretexts "Fifteen dunums [four acres] of tomatoes along with 400 meters of irrigation pipes were crushed by the Israeli tanks during the invasion into our area, where myself and two other partners make our living," says Samir al-Naqa, a local farmer in the al-Faraheen area.


08-18-07 - IDF: Palestinian civilians have no business near border IDF notes increase in infiltration attempts from Gaza. Saturday's attempts end in 7 arrests, 1 casualty. 'We have no intention of harming Palestinian civilians, but must treat every attempt as a terror threat'


08-18-07 - Palestinian security forces arrests five Hamas member in northern West Bank


08-18-07 - Sheik: Israel murders those who oppose its policy Controversial Sheik Ra'ad Salah, who stands to be indicted on incitement charges, delivers sermon in E. Jerusalem marking '40-year occupation of al-Aqsa Mosque' and alleging that shooting carried out by Arab Israeli terrorist last week was fabricated


08-18-07 - Israeli army invades Nablus and injuries one civilian


08-18-07 - Berliners demonstrate against Israeli products The opening of "Israel Week at the Galeria Kaufhof department store in Berlin spurred a demonstration yesterday against Israeli food products originating in the territories. Protesters held signs reading "No to settlement products" and "Stop the Israel-EU Association Agreement."


08-18-07 - Book One book explores author's childhood The program aims, Dean of Academic Affairs Sam Ruhmkorff says, "to expose incoming students to a voice or perspective which they are not likely to have studied in high school," this year, the voice of a Palestinian women.


08-18-07 - Let's show that we mean business with Palestine Coming from America, where people are no longer separated based on race or religion, my sense of fairness was offended. But discrimination is a fact of life for Palestinians under Israeli rule. West Bank Palestinians drive on separate, decrepit roads and are routinely subjected to lengthy waits at checkpoints, while Israeli settlers living on confiscated Palestinian land speed by on modern freeways. West Bank Palestinians must ration water, while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools.


08-18-07 - Tossing Fuel on a Fire: US Military Aid to Israel Tops $30 Billion this is no basket case nation; this is one of the most technologically developed and wealthiest countries on earth we're talking about here.


08-18-07 - History in the (re)making Special Knesset session will reenact fateful United Nations vote that led to Israel's creation. The UN secretary general has been invited to preside over the session, which the event planners hope will include the participation of ambassadors from the 33 nations who voted in favor of the partition


08-18-07 - U.S.: No strings attached to new defense package for Israel The new $30 billion American defense package for Israel is not conditioned on diplomatic progress or concessions to the Palestinians, a top U.S. aide said Thursday as representatives from both countries signed the memorandum of understanding in Jerusalem.


08-18-07 - Iraq to Kishangarh: Palestinians' hunt for postal address on in city It has been a long and precarious journey for 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Thaiar. From Baghdad to Kishangarh village in the backyard of Vasant Kunj, via a bus ride through the sandy plains of Syria.


08-18-07 - Mandela lawyer: ?Israel continues its violations against the detainees?


08-18-07 - CAIR Says ADL Seeks to Hinder Legal Rights of U.S. Muslims The ADL's campaign of defamation was revealed when the Los Angeles Times wrote: 'Pro-Israel or Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Defense League and [Daniel Pipes'] Middle East Forum think tank have provided news organizations with reams of critical documentation on Muslim leaders in recent weeks.'

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