25/10/07

A life cut short by Yassmin Moor writing from Rafah, Gaza Strip
By annie(annie)
electronicintifada.net/v2/article9059.shtml. A life cut short by Yassmin Moor writing from Rafah, Gaza Strip, The Electronic Intifada, Oct 24, 2007. The author holding her cousin’s infant son, Eyad. Five-month-old Eyad is one of…

Israel kills two Palestinian boys in Gaza
Reuters – USA
An Israeli army spokeswoman said Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians who had just launched three rockets into Israel. In the occupied West Bank …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL24876620071024

ICRC activities in Israel and the occupied and autonomous …
ReliefWeb (press release) – Geneva,Switzerland
The ICRC’s family visit programme enables families from Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the occupied Golan to visit relatives held in Israeli places …
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db
900SID/SSHN-78AHL5?OpenDocument

Towards a faraway peace
Indian Express – New Delhi,India
Nonetheless, as Israel’s Ehud Olmert government and the West Bank-based, Fatah-led Palestinian Authority prepare for Annapolis, there is little consensus on …
www.indianexpress.com/story/231920.html

Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Military Attack in Gaza Strip
Voice of America – USA
In the West Bank Wednesday, at least one Israeli was wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire outside the Jewish settlement of Ariel. …
www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-24-voa42.cfm

Three Palestinian militants killed in IDF operations
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
… Three Palestinian militants wanted by the Israel Defense Forces were killed in two separate incidents yesterday in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916336.html

Palestinian ‘torture widespread’
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
The rights watchdog on Wednesday released a report criticising the Palestinian governments in both Gaza and the West Bank for harming civilians in their …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/069C3
EC6-8FD1-497F-9F5E-F3A0166BC7D2.htm

postpone break with Gaza
Ynetnews – Israel
The Israeli Shekel is the major currency used in Gaza and West Bank commerce; should both banks cut their ties with the Strip, it would create a cash-flow …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3463762,00.html

24/10/07

Closed borders, closed future in Gaza
Bay Area Indymedia – San Francisco,CA,USA
by via the Electronic Intifada Monday, October 22, 2007 :Nine-year-old
Najla Rajab, with her two brothers and mother, was among tens of
Palestinians …
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/24/18455704.php

Israeli Strikes Kill 3 Palestinian Militants
New York Times – United States
Palestinian officials condemned the killing of Mr. Ashkar, and hundreds of Palestinians rallied in cities in the West Bank and Gaza for the release of …
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/
middleeast/24mideast.html?ref=world

Notes on a Predictable Failure
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – Jerusaelm,Israel
… over the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to this agreement, Israel will accept the creation of a quasi-sovereign Palestinian state in …
www.alternativenews.org/news/english/no
tes-on-a-predictable-failure-20071023.html

Demonstration in West Bank After Prisoner Dies in Israeli Jail Riot
Voice of America – USA
Israeli forces frequently carry out raids in the West Bank to capture Palestinian militants. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft fired on a vehicle, …
voanews.com/english/2007-10-23-voa36.cfm

Amnesty censures Palestinians
Guardian Unlimited – UK
In the West Bank Fatah security personnel are accused of detaining, abducting and abusing hundreds of Hamas supporters, with help from Israel. …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2197765,00.html

Israeli air strike kills militant
Houston Chronicle – United States
Israeli forces also killed two members of the Islamic Jihad group in a West Bank raid. Mubarak al-Hassanat, 37, was driving in a black jeep on Gaza’s …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/5239645.html

Israeli Finance Minister asks World Bank to cease Gaza projects
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
“We must adopt a policy of isolating the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, from the West Bank, which is controlled by moderates,” Bar-On stated. …
www.imemc.org/article/51026

‘Man From Plains’ turns lens on Carter amid contentious book tour
The Canadian Press –
Jewish leaders were vexed over Carter’s assertions that Israel was harshly mistreating Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and his comparison of …
canadianpress.google.com/article/A
LeqM5j5Epd6ABXo64aIBOw2VC1WyNgllw

Palestinian Girl Seriously Wounded by Israeli Army on West Bank
Periódico 26 – Las Tunas,Cuba
… on of the themes of negotiations over the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel declined to comment on the assault …
www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/palstine102107.htm

Senior Palestinian militant killed in Israeli air strike
Brisbane Times – Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
Al-Ashkar’s death sparked rallies of several hundred Palestinians each in three West Bank towns and in Gaza City. “We want the prisoners, not negotiations …
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/senior-palestinian-
militant-killed-in-israeli-air-strike/2007/10/24/1192941098398.html

Abbas says yes to two states solution, but wants 1967 territory
Jakarta Post – Jakarta,Indonesia
Of course, Hamas has committed a coup d’etat and has taken over Gaza, but we control security on all the West Bank. We have made very good progress and we …
www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlin
es.asp?fileid=20071023.B08&irec=7

23/10/07

The show goes on … and on
By Dr Nasir Khan(Dr Nasir Khan)
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, Oct 17, 2007 The “Middle East Peace Process” is like one of those big budget Broadway extravaganzas; they go on for years, but with each revival the cast changes. What may seem like a tired …
nasir-khan.blogspot.com/2007/10/
show-goes-on-and-on.html

Gaza’s children deserve life by Rami Almeghari writing from Gaza …
By annie(annie)
Rami Almeghari is currently contributor to several media outlets including the Palestine Chronicle, aljazeerah.info, IMEMC, The Electronic Intifada and Free Speech Radio News. Rami is also a former senior English translator at and …
annies-letters.blogspot.com/2007/10/
gazas-children-deserve-life-by-rami.html

22/10/07

Palestine Today 102207
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
In the West Bank, Israeli forces kidnap three Palestinians across the region. In The Gaza Strip meanwhile, the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements have agreed …
www.imemc.org/article/51016

Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Mainstream – New Delhi,New Delhi,India
The Accords envisaged the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, existing alongside Israel, within a transitional period not …
www.mainstreamweekly.net/article376.html

The Deal on the Table
Washington Post – United States
… allow most of the Jewish settlers in the West Bank to be annexed to Israel while providing a Palestinian land corridor between the West Bank and Gaza. …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/10/21/AR2007102101370.html

Dozens wounded in Israel prison riot
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
Scuffles broke out in the West Bank city of Hebron when members of the Islamist group Hamas gathered to protest against the prison violence but were stopped …
africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnL22378845.html

All in favor / Barak supporters play down party colleagues’ criticism
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
“In terms of the West Bank, his issues were minor. Everything works like clockwork there. And even with regard to policy in Gaza, Israel has still not fully …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/915290.html

Peacemaking truths and lies
Jerusalem Post – Israel
In the West Bank and Gaza, not including the Palestinian diaspora, one of every two Palestinians is considered a refugee. Abbas’ largest opposition to any …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=119238062
5954&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Olmert to seek parliamentary vote for joint document with Palestinians
International Herald Tribune – France
While this has enabled the West to re-engage the Palestinian leadership, Abbas controls only the West Bank and has little influence over Gaza. …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/22/
africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Palestinians.php

US accused of training Palestinian terrorists
Ynetnews – Israel
The US since the late 1990's has been running bases in the West Bank City of Jericho to train militias from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3462521,00.html

21/10/07

Israel: Militants Planned To Kill Olmert
Guardian Unlimited – UK
It was not clear why Israel, whose military operates freely in the West Bank, left it to Palestinian security sources to apprehend would-be assassins if …
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7013030,00.html

Scepticism, anger on both sides of Mideast conflict
Reuters – USA
But even if Israel’s leaders agree to an independent Palestine, the Jewish settlers who believe they have a divine right to the West Bank and have built …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL21487037

Israel shaken by troops’ tales of brutality against Palestinians
Guardian Unlimited – UK
If they are allowed to operate in difficult circumstances, such as in Gaza and the West Bank, without training and proper supervision, the violence is bound …
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2196019,00.html

Israelis, Palestinian doctors team up to operate on Palestinian child
International Herald Tribune – France
Fifteen Palestinian doctors from the West Bank and Gaza were expected to watch the surgeries as they were broadcast live in the medical center’s main …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/21/
africa/ME-GEN-Palestinian-Surgery.php

Four months after Gaza takeover, disagreements in Hamas are laid bare
International Herald Tribune – France
After the fall of Gaza to Hamas in June, Abbas fired the Islamic movement from the government and set up a rival Cabinet of moderates in the West Bank. …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/21/africa
/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Divided-Hamas.php

PA’s intelligence chief: we won’t allow Gaza violence into West Bank
International Middle East Media Center – Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian Territories
Ranks among the West Bank-based Palestinian caretaker government of Fatah, have called on Gaza’s population to rebel against the Hamas-dominated government …
www.imemc.org/article/50999

Another Voice: Surrender on the Dotted Line; An Analysis of …
International Solidarity Movement – Palestinian Territories
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the policies employed therein are the root cause of the “conflict”. Any ‘peace’ agreement that …
www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/10/21/another-voice-
surrender-on-the-dotted-line-an-analysis-of-onevoices-10-pillars/

Long odds for Rice and peace
MiamiHerald.com – Miami,FL,USA
In a few days, Gaza fell to Hamas. Israeli security officials say Abbas could lose the West Bank as well. That would put most of the Israeli population …
www.miamiherald.com/851/story/277452.html

Sumud: One Million Voices for real peace in Israeli and …
MidEast Web Views – Israel
Yet this simple and honest expression of the yearning for peace was too
much for the hoodlums of the Electronic Intifada, ISM and the Palestinian
Campaign …
www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000633.htm

20/10/07

Israeli Attack Wounds Palestinian Girl in West Bank
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Ramallah, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) An 8 year-old Palestinian girl was wounded seriously in a Israeli Army raid in Tulkarem, the West Bank. …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B5BA5D063
-14F9-4E3E-B753-3476931CB301%7D)&language=EN

An Arab Initiative to Avoid a Failed Conference
Huffington Post – New York,NY,USA
The bottom line: Israel, it appears, feels no real compulsion to respond to Palestinian requirements for peace, or to alter its behaviors. …
www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/an-arab-initiative-to-avo_b_69187.html

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians off Gaza coast
Africasia – London,UK
An army spokesman said the three were all armed and were approaching the fence separating Gaza and Israel. This was disputed by a Palestinian medical …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php
?area=mideast&item=071020190306.3zdf1gb4.php

Life in Gaza: price hikes force reluctant smokers to quit or cut back
International Herald Tribune – France
Despite health warnings, 34.7 percent of males over the age of 10 in the West Bank and Gaza smoke, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/20
/news/Palestinians-No-Smoking.php

Dyer: Rice tries to resuscitate moribund Middle East ‘peace process’
Salt Lake Tribune – United States
How can Israel do a deal with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, when he only controls the West Bank and cannot deliver Hamas’s consent …
www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_7228363

Palestinian president seeks support from Muslim allies in Asia
International Herald Tribune – France
Abdullah added Malaysia believes the enmity between Abbas’ Western-backed Cabinet of moderates in the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza should be …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/20/
asia/AS-GEN-Malaysia-Palestinians.php