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New settlement road north of Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 1/31/2005
Dozens of military bulldozers started paving a new settlement road, north of Jerusalem in order to link Nabi Yacob settlement with the settlements of Anata, Hizma and El-Ezeriyya after the annexation wall is completed. In 2004, the Israeli authorities confiscated......more
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 13 - 26 Jan. 2005
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 1/27/2005
A Special Issue Covering Two Weeks Due to Eid al-Adha -Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) - Israel is continuing to construct the apartheid annexation wall in Jerusalem and the West Bank and create facts......more
Border Police plans to destroy Arab neighborhood in J''lem
Ha''aretz 1/30/2005
The Border Police is planning to demolish an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem to protect the separation fence built in the area. Commander Amitai Levy, the Border Police commander of the area enveloping Jerusalem, has announced that dozens of buildings of......more
Barak halts house razing close to Alfei Menashe
Ha''aretz 1/31/2005
High Court calls demolitions retribution for petition against fence -- Supreme Court President Justice Aharon Barak has issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the Civil Administration in the West Bank from demolishing homes in the village of Wadi al-Rasha, near Qalqilyah. The......more
New fence route to go to cabinet vote this week
Ha''aretz 1/30/2005
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present the changed route of the separation fence in two parts - Gush Etzion and south Mount Hebron - to the cabinet for approval this week. The cabinet deliberations are likely to take place two days prior......more
Israel tells U.S. it will look into East J''lem land seizure
Ha''aretz 1/31/2005
Israel has promised the United States that it will reexamine a decision made last summer to confiscate East Jerusalem property owned by Palestinians, who have been cut off from their land by the separation fence. The Americans expressed concern about......more
Peres, Fayad Agree on Need to Upgrade Wall Crossings
International Middle East Media Center 1/28/2005
Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres and Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad met Friday during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and agreed on the need to upgrade the crossings between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Palestinians are in principle......more
News Briefs, January 27 - 28, 2005
International Middle East Media Center 1/28/2005
Protest against the annexation wall in Salfit and Iskaka / Army announces Iskaka area a closed military zone / Curfew resumes over Saida, near Tulkarem for the fourth day / Body of a Gazan child identified / Army hands the P.A body of a......more
Ongoing Acts Of The Wall In Salfeet Disappoints PNA
International Press Center 1/26/2005
GAZA, Palestine, January 26, 2005 (IPC+Agencies) ---The Palestinian National Authority drew a rebuke for the Israeli restoration of building the Apartheid Wall. The Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, said "Israel send bad message to us as continuing the illegal settlement......more
Palestinian Agreement on Calmness, Israeli Forces Escalate Aggression
International Press Center 1/26/2005
GAZA, January 26, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - As Palestinian factions agreed with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) headed by President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to calm down the situation for several days and stop attacks against Israel, Israeli occupation forces continued......more
Irish American Humanitarian Arrested by Israel
International Solidarity Movement 1/24/2005
On Monday January 24, Israeli police arrested 41 year old Irish American ISM activist, Patrick O’Connor, on suspicion that he was carrying a fake passport. O’Connor was on his way to Jerusalem after planting olive tree seedlings with Palestinian, Israeli......more
IDF plans electronic fence on Egyptian border
Ha''aretz 1/26/2005
The Israel Defense Forces plans to build an electronic fence along the Israeli-Egyptian border, from Eilat all the way to Kerem Shalom, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. However, no budget has yet been approved for the project......more
Israeli Moves Threaten to Torpedo Abbas Peace Efforts
Palestine Media Center 1/25/2005
Israel Thrusts Wall Deeper in WB, Annexes Jerusalem Territory -- As the world remains preoccupied with the landslide electoral victory of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel is busy creating new facts on the ground as it thrusts its West Bank wall......more
Wall'' is latest addition to growing genre
Daily Star 1/24/2005
Moroccan-born Israeli director''s documentary is characterized by the real-life complexities of Israel''s controversial ''security barrier'' -- LONDON: "We saw the camera and thought it was a weapon," says one young girl interviewed in the Moroccan-born Jewish director Simone Bitton''s recent documentary......more
Palestinians to Ask for US Guarantees During Burns Visit
International Press Center 1/25/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, January 25, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)--Palestinian Negotiations Minister, Sa''eb Eriqat, asserted that the Palestinain side would ask for guarantees from the American administration upon the coming soon visit of US envoy to the Middle East peace process, Mr......more
Israeli barrier move sparks anger
BBC 1/25/2005
Israel has resumed construction of one of the most controversial parts of its separation barrier in the West Bank - deep inside the occupied territory. The attorney general approved the work near Ariel settlement on Monday, four months after a court......more
East Jerusalemites will need permits to visit Ramallah
Ha''aretz 1/25/2005
Starting in July, East Jerusalem Palestinians will be denied freedom of movement into Ramallah, Binyamin region brigade commander Col. Mickey Edelstein has confirmed to Machsom Watch, a voluntary women''s group that monitors checkpoints. By then, the separation wall in the......more
Israel plans big Jerusalem land grab
AlJazeera 1/20/2005
The Sharon government intends to strip thousands of West Bank Palestinians of their property in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Israeli press quoting newly released government documents. At stake are thousands of donoms of land belonging to Palestinians who......more
Three handicapped residents targeted by military fire in Qalqilia
International Middle East Media Center 1/24/2005
In less than a month, Israeli soldiers shot three handicapped residents in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia and the surrounding villages killing one and injuring two others. On Saturday, Israeli soldiers killed Taqi Ad-Deen Al-Khouli, 17, in the......more
Assassinations in Jenin
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2005
By ISM Nablus -- It''s been many months since I was last in Jenin. I took the opportunity of the relative quiet of the election period to visit friends in the town. Much has changed. The camp that was raised and......more
Village of Biddu to Plant Olive Seedlings in Wall’s Path on Monday
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2005
On Monday January 24 at 11:00 AM the community of Biddu in northwest Jerusalem will plant olive trees in the path of Israel’s Apartheid Wall.The peaceful protest, organized by Biddu’s popular committee, will also be joined by international and......more
Israel Expropriates Palestinian-owned lands in Jerusalem
International Press Center 1/24/2005
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, January 24, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-Israeli occupation authorities have expropriated recently large areas of Palestinian-owned lands in the occupied east Jerusalem, Israeli Daily Haaretz reported on Sunday. The "Absentee Property Law", which Israel used for many decades as......more
Israel Opens Pandora’s Box of Land Grab in Jerusalem
Palestine Media Center 1/24/2005
b>Expert: More Than Half of Palestinian Property Threatened in Holy City -- The Palestine National Authority (PNA) condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to apply the so-called Absentee Property Law of 1950 in occupied east Jerusalem as a violation of......more
Rafah: Israeli troops fire into crowd of shoppers
Rafah Today 1/22/2005
Last Sunday in Rafah, a simple shopping trip to the outdoor market turned dangerous. Umm Samier, 42, was in the open-air souk to get two kilos of tomatoes for her family, but she never brought them home. Israeli gunfire erupted......more
Handicapped Teenager Killed by Israeli Gunfire
International Press Center 1/24/2005
QALQILYA, Palestine, January 24, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on different parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, during the fourth day of Al Adha holy feast, in which a handicapped teen was killed in Qalqilya and......more
Israel resumes work on illegal wall
AlJazeera 1/24/2005
Israeli bulldozers have resumed work on one of the most controversial sections of the illegal separation wall deep in the northern West Bank. The work began on Monday after an eight-month pause when the construction was halted by a court......more
Land grab'' fears for Jerusalem
BBC 1/24/2005
Israel has reportedly begun seizing tracts of east Jerusalem land owned by Palestinians in the West Bank under a law not used for decades. The government is enforcing a law on absentee landowners passed in 1950, the Israeli daily Haaretz......more
Palestinian factions fuel cease-fire optimism
Daily Star 1/25/2005
Israel divided over response to Abbas -- GAZA CITY: Palestinian Islamist groups said Monday they had narrowed their differences with leader Mahmoud Abbas over his calls for a cease-fire but insisted Israel must reciprocate. In the West Bank, Israeli bulldozers resumed......more
The Writing on the Wall: Maha Abu Dayyeh
By Toine van Teeffelen, Electronic Intifada 1/24/2005
MAHA ABU DAYYEH: "AS LONG AS THERE IS A SOCIETY THAT RESISTS THERE IS HOPE."My office is close to my house—I just walk across the street. Now, the Wall ends just before the intersection of where I cross......more
The United Nations’ New Failure: Compensations Instead of Rights
StopTheWall.org 1/14/2005
PressRelease, Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared on January 11, 2005 that the United Nations intends to establish a register for damage caused by the Apartheid Wall being built by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank......more
Gaza watches and waits as Abbas tries to end violence
The Independent 1/20/2005
The green-bereted second lieutenant in charge of the Palestinian National Security service''s third infantry unit was giving little away yesterday - and certainly no information on the amounts of weaponry or men freshly deployed in northern Gaza. For if the Palestinian......more
Green Line kibbutzim demanding fence-line status
Ha''aretz 1/19/2005
The kibbutzim near the Green Line in northern Israel are demanding that the state recognize their status as peripheral communities, entitling them to special state support. The issue arose at a conference held last week at Kibbutz Metzer, which announced......more
Israeli Military Destroys Twelve Structures in Walaja
International Solidarity Movement 1/17/2005
The Israeli military destroyed five homes and seven chicken coops and barns today in the village of Walaja on the border of Bethlehem and Jerusalem districts.According to eyewitnesses, Israeli military and bulldozers entered the village at 7:00 AM today......more
Israeli Study: Jerusalem Wall (Barrier) Will Be Swamped
Palestine Media Center/Jerusalem Post 1/18/2005
The Jerusalem Post, Saturday January 16, 2005. -- As many as 130,000 Jerusalem Arabs will need to pass through the passages and checkpoints along the security barrier going up in and around Jerusalem on a daily basis, posing serious negative long-term......more
Anger in Israeli town under fire
BBC 1/18/2005
Hundreds of Israelis have marched to the border fence surrounding the Gaza Strip to demand stronger military action against Palestinian militants. Carrying mock Qassam missiles used by militants, residents of the town of Sderot were stopped by police from moving......more
Leading rabbis rule Temple Mount is off-limits to Jews
Ha''aretz 1/17/2005
Chief rabbis Yonah Metzger and Shlomo Moshe Amar, and a number of important rabbinical figures associated with the national religious world, have issued a halakhic ruling reiterating that it is forbidden for Jews to enter any part of the Temple......more
Soldiers at Wall Gate Denies 400 Villagers Passage to Their Homes
International Middle East Media Center 1/16/2005
Around 400 villagers of Azon Atmah, a seam area village near the west bank city of Qalqylia, were denied access to their homes on Saturday evening. Soldiers stationed at the separation wall gate held Saturday evening hundreds of villagers for......more
Alqidwa Says UN Registry Based on ICJ''s Advisory Opinion
International Press Center 1/15/2005
ALBEIRAH, Palestine, January 15, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)--Palestine Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Nasser Alqidwa, asserted on Thursday that the UN registry, regarding the damage inflicted by the Israeli Apartheid Wall in the West Bank has been intended at......more
Israeli Military Fails to Intimidate Izbit Al Tabib
International Solidarity Movement 1/16/2005
A West Bank village of 300 residents, Izbit Al-Tabib, was left without water for two days after an Israeli bulldozer damaged water pipes while constructing road blocks there on Friday.Located west of Azzoun in the Qalqilya district, the village of......more
PA wants road map implemented in full
Ha''aretz 1/16/2005
Newly elected Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said in his inaugural speech yesterday in Ramallah that the Palestinians would not agree to partial or temporary solutions in their negotiations with Israel. "The road map must be carried out......more
Yesha Council spokesman resigns over policy differences
Ha''aretz 1/17/2005
Yesha Council of Settlements spokesman and political secretary Yehoshua Mor Yosef resigned Sunday due to differences with fellow council leaders, most notably Pinhas Wallerstein, over how to combat Prime Minister Ariel Sharon''s disengagement plan.Mor Yosef opposed Yesha council calls to......more
Security forces fear bombers may learn how to bypass fence
Ha''aretz 1/16/2005
Terror organizations in the West Bank''s Samaria region carried out two terror attacks in Israel in 2004, killing 14 people - a sharp drop from the 12 attacks the same groups carried out the year before, in which they killed 74......more
High Court halts fence construction around Beit Surik
Ha''aretz 1/14/2005
The High Court of Justice yesterday ordered a halt to construction of large sections of the West Bank separation fence between Jerusalem and Maccabim after a petition was filed by Palestinian villagers. Residents of Beit Surik, northwest of Jerusalem, petitioned......more
Army Officer Wounded in Confrontation with Settlers
International Middle East Media Center 1/14/2005
An Israel army officer was lightly wounded overnight in a confrontation with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus. Three settlers posting flyers calling soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate settlements on the fence of army headquarters near......more
Human Rights Watch World Report 2005: Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories
Electronic Intifada 1/13/2005
a href=''http://hrw.org/wr2k5/''>Click for Full Report 2005 -- The human rights situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip remained grave throughout 2004, as armed clashes continued to exact a high price from civilians......more
US Congressmen: Apartheid Wall Robs Palestinian Lands
International Press Center 1/13/2005
GAZA, January 13, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Former United States congressmen, representing a human rights organization, called yesterday for the removal of the Israeli Apartheid Wall, pointing out that this wall was founded to rob Palestinian lands and natural resources.A delegation......more
Israel Steps Up Aggressions, Kills More Palestinians
Islam Online 1/13/2005
GAZA CITY, January 13 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation forces Thursday, January 13, gunned down a Palestinian as he drove his pregnant wife to hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip and killed another in an incursion into a......more
Three soldiers killed, 10 wounded in a double bombing in the northern Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 1/13/2005
Thursday at night, three Israeli soldiers were killed, at least 12 injured; three seriously, and two sustained in a double bombing in Karni Netzarim crossing, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli TV reported that two bombers......more
Compensations After Dismantling Separation Wall: Experts
Islam Online 1/13/2005
GAZA CITY, January 13 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Palestinian law experts poured cold water on a UN decision to register Palestinians'' complaints on damages caused by the Israeli separation wall, pressing, instead, for the implementation of the International Court of Justice......more
Israel asks U.S. for $180m in "aid for PA
Ha''aretz 1/13/2005
Israel is asking for a special $180 million aid package from the U.S. to pay for a "quality of life" plan for the Palestinian residents in the West bank whose lives are affected by the construction of the separation barrier......more
African Israelis / Ethiopians reject Israeli society, as it has rejected them
Ha''aretz 1/13/2005
On a rainy Friday night, hundreds of Ethiopian youngsters crowd into Allenby club on Tel Aviv''s Hamasger street. The stifling, smoke-filled club is underground, its walls are festooned with Bob Marley posters, but the loudspeakers are blaring hip-hop music. The......more
Israel wants the U.S. to Fund Wall Checkpoints
International Middle East Media Center 1/12/2005
Israel has requested that the United States help in financing the set up of new crossing points and upgrade existing ones along the separation wall. The estimated cost of the plan is $450 million. Israeli officials have already begun to......more
Jewish American Challenges Israeli Segregation Wall in January 16 Hearing
International Solidarity Movement 1/12/2005
On Sunday January 16 at 2:00 PM, US Jewish lesbian activist Kate Raphael Bender will go to court after five weeks in an Israeli immigration prison. Raphael Bender, a resident of San Francisco, CA, will argue that she should......more
UN registry of damage to Palestinians from Israeli barrier moves step closer
Electronic Intifada/UN News 1/12/2005
The establishment of a United Nations register of the damage Israel''s construction of a separation barrier is causing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank moved a step closer today when Secretary-General Kofi Annan forwarded a letter to the General Assembly......more
Yesha leaders accuse PM of demonizing settlers
Ha''aretz 1/5/2005
Leaders of the Yesha Council of Settlements on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of demonizing and de-legitimizing the settlers. According to senior Yesha officials, the confrontation between security forces and settlers during the evacuation of two trailers from a......more
Home Demolition in Tulkarem
International Solidarity Movement 1/5/2005
Today, we visited the village of Farun which is close to the town of Tulkarem in the West Bank. The sun was shining, the children were playing and some older women were sitting and chatting in the street. They watched......more
At least two resistance fighters killed in the Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center 1/5/2005
Wednesday morning, the Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa brigades, the military wing of Fatah claimed responsibility of attacking a military checkpoint at the Beit Hanoun Crossing “Eretz”, two resistance fighters were killed. Israeli......more
State readies opinion on Hague ruling
Ha''aretz 1/5/2005
The Justice Ministry is finalizing revisions on the state''s legal position regarding the International Court of Justice''s opinion on the separation fence and is expected to submit the document to the High Court of Justice in the next few days......more
Mustafa Barghouti’s Program: Main Objectives
International Press Center 1/1/2005
At the National Front: Ending the Israeli occupation of all the Palestinian lands Israel occupied in 1967. / Working on removing Israel’s Apartheid Wall in West Bank in accordance with the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion of February 2004. / Keeping......more
Child killed by a tank shell in Jabalia
International Middle East Media Center 1/1/2005
A Palestinian medical source in Jabalia stated that Israeli soldiers stationed near Abu Kas, east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, shelled dozens of homes, killing one child and moderately wounding her brother. Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the......more
Israel Only Accepts Jews Who Support Illegal Settlements
International Solidarity Movement 12/30/2004
An Israeli judge has agreed to a January 16 hearing on Jewish, lesbian activist Kate Raphael Bender''s appeal of her deportation from Israel. The judge''s decision comes at the same time that Israel''s Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra has said......more
Mobilization in Jayyous against the Destruction of Village Land
International Solidarity Movement 1/3/2005
Next Phase of Israel’s Colonization Policies -- Jayyous, Palestine- The people of Jayyous and the Jayyous popular committee of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign are calling for a day of action beginning at 12 noon on January 4, 2005. Participants will protest......more
Palestinian Non-Violent Peace Activists on Trial
International Solidarity Movement 1/2/2005
On Sunday January 2, Mohammed Khalil Mansour, a community organizer in the West Bank village of Biddu, faces trial at the Jerusalem Peace Court in the Russian Compound. On the 26 of June 2004, Mansour was attacked, severely beaten and......more
Talluza
International Solidarity Movement 1/2/2005
hi folks -- i spent the last couple of days in a small and beautiful village north of Nablus, called Talluza. it is high in the hills, possessed of exceptional sunrises, sunsets and general quality of light, especially good olive oil......more
Jayyous Reclaims Its Land
International Solidarity Movement 1/2/2005
December 31, 2004 -- Despite a large Israeli military presence, the people of Jayyous and Israeli and international activists today planted olive seedlings on Jayyous'' bulldozed land. 75% of Jayyous land was been cut off from the village by Israel''s Apartheid......more
Israeli Army''s Role in School Under Fire
Islam Online 1/3/2005
CAIRO, January 3 (IslamOnline.net) – A program launched jointly by the Israeli army and the Education Ministry to talk to high school students and their parents about the history of the army is being met with strong opposition by many, The......more
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