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High Court delaying fence
YNetNews 2/28/2005
Sharon: ''Settlers feel rejected'' - Prime Minister Sharon slams top court for slowing down construction of West Bank security fence, says judges employ proportionality test improperly. High Court currently facing 28 petitions against fence -- JERUSALEM - High Court judges are to blame......more
1000 Dunams annexed near Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 2/28/2005
Israeli soldiers handed Jaba’ village council, north east of Jerusalem, military orders to annex 1000 Dunams of family farmlands in erect to erect the annexation wall in the area. Abdul-Karim Bsharat, head of Jaba; village council reported that military engineers......more
Israel Plans to Electronically Fence Al Aqsa Mosque
International Press Center 2/27/2005
GAZA, February 27, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Palestinian sources in Jerusalem revealed that Israeli occupation authorities intends to surround the holy Al Aqsa Mosque with an electronic fence and surveillance equipment, along with the rooftop of neighboring houses and walls. Sheikh......more
Hamas: Israeli tactics threaten peace
AlJazeera 3/1/2005
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that a fragile ceasefire with Israel could collapse if Israel continued to ignore Palestinian concerns, including the illegality of building a gigantic separation wall inside the West Bank. "Israel must realize that this......more
Israeli Forces Conclude Advanced Stages of Apartheid Wall in Jerusalem
International Press Center 2/28/2005
JERUSALEM, February 28, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - Israeli occupation forces concluded yesterday the construction of advanced stages in the Apartheid Wall around the city of Jerusalem, along with a bypass colonial road between Jerusalem and the nearby town of Al Ram......more
Uzi Dayan says PM bears blame for Tel Aviv attack
Ha''aretz 3/1/2005
Former deputy chief of staff Major General (Res.) Uzi Dayan, who currently heads the Public Council for a Security Fence, placed indirect responsibility for the suicide bombing Friday night in Tel Aviv on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Speaking at a......more
Did you say the Israelis are withdrawing
By Y. Khellef, Electronic Intifada 2/27/2005
Bethlehem, Feb, 20th 2005 — Since the Sharm El Sheikh summit things have significantly improved in the Palestinian territories. The Army has stopped its incursions in Palestinian towns, Palestinian civilians are free to move, prisoners are about to be released and......more
Gush Shalom: “Sharon is planning to erect settlements in the WB
International Middle East Media Center 2/25/2005
The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, said that the Israeli government is continuing its planes and polices to erect settlements in the West Bank, which violates the assurances given by the US president to the Palestinian Authority. Gush Shalom revealed......more
Jerusalem Villages meet to plan anti-wall protests
International Middle East Media Center 2/25/2005
As the construction of the separation wall continues, residents of the Palestinian villages north of Jerusalem organized a meeting in the village of Bir Nabala on Thursday in which they discussed several plans for anti-wall civil protests. The villagers complain......more
Transforming reality
By Mustafa Al-Barghouti, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 2/25/2005
i>Sharon''s tactics will now focus on turning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into an internal Palestinian oneThroughout the Arab-Israeli conflict Israel has concentrated its energies on imposing its own version of events and its own version of a solution......more
IDF kills Palestinian trying to break through fence
Ha''aretz 2/25/2005
Israel Defense Forces troops shot and wounded a Palestinian man who attempted to break through the Gaza Strip security fence at the Sufa checkpoint before dawn Friday, Israel Radio reported. The man died of his wounds after being evacuated to......more
Gaza for the West Bank
By Graham Usher, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 2/24/2005
Israelis and Palestinians agreed: Israel''s latest Cabinet decisions were historic. But the reasons were entirely different -- They were "two of the most important decisions since the founding of the state", editorialised Israel''s Ha''aretz newspaper. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said......more
Women''s Resistance Sparks Confrontation at Saffa
International Womens'' Peace Service 2/24/2005
More than 100 villagers gathered early Tuesday morning on the olive groves of Saffa, a small village east of Ramallah, to watch and attempt to prevent the illegal destruction of their land. The city had received no official warning that......more
Health and the Wall: Human rights and art launch of a joint Palestinian-Israeli-French campaign on the health impact of the Wall
ReliefWeb 2/24/2005
Médecins du Monde - Date: 14 Feb 2005 -- Three health organizations, Médecins du Monde - France, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and the Palestine Red Crescent Society are launching a joint campaign on the health impact of the Wall. Based on the......more
Annexation wall; isolated and surrounded areas
International Middle East Media Center 2/23/2005
The annexation wall which Israel started to erect in the summer of 2002 created isolated and surrounded areas, which became surrounding by the wall, nearly from all directions. The village of Azzoun Atma , south of Qalqilia is one of the......more
Abbas Welcomes US Criticisim of Israel''s Apartheid Wall
International Press Center 2/23/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, February23, 2005 (IPC+ WAFA)--President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed yesterday the United States criticism of the Israeli Apartheid Wall, that is cutting deep into the Palestinian cities in the West Bank, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported. Abbas who, chaired......more
Israeli Violations of Cease- Fire Understanding by the Last 24 Hours
International Press Center 2/23/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 23,2005 (IPC+WAFA)---The Israeli occupation forces continued today and yesterday night its breaches of the cease fire understandings, clinched at the Sharm Al Sheikh Summit on the 8 February, wounding 20 peopels, cosntruction of the aparthied......more
State Department: the Israeli Wall Has Become a Problem
International Press Center 2/23/2005
GAZA, February 23, 2005 (IPC + Agencies) - - The US State Department asserted that the Apartheid Wall Israel is building in the occupied Palestinian territories has become a problem, as it expropriated Palestinian lands and lead to creating other problems.State Department Spokesman......more
State: Hague fence ruling based on erroneous data
Ha''aretz 2/24/2005
The ruling last year by the International Court of Justice on the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians was based on erroneous and outdated information, the State Prosecution said Wednesday, in the first official reaction to the Hague court''s......more
New Apartheid Wall construction in two villages near Ramallah - New Israeli measures to isolate and annex East Jerusalem
Palestine Monitor 2/23/2005
Three days ago Israel began building a new section of its illegal Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Saffa west of Ramallah. Six Israeli bulldozers along with Israeli occupation forces have started breaking ground on Palestinian private......more
Supreme court freezes construction of separation barrier near Ramallah
ReliefWeb 2/22/2005
JERUSALEM, Feb 22 (AFP) - Israel''s supreme court on Tuesday issued an interim order halting construction of the vast separation barrier near the West Bank town of Ramallah following an appeal by Palestinian residents of the area, Israel army radio reported......more
Israeli Troops Wound Several Residents
International Press Center 2/22/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, February 22, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-- Ten Palestinian residents from the West Bank village of Bal''een, west of the Ramallah City, were shot and wounded with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters, by Israeli troops on Monday, in......more
President Bush: A Palestinian state on scattered territory cannot work
Ha''aretz 2/22/2005
U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday placed achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement at the top of NATO''s list of priorities. Bush, speaking in Brussels on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe, called for the establishment of a......more
Israel''s Criminalization of Nonviolent Protest
By Pat O''Connor, Electronic Intifada 2/22/2005
14 February 2005 -- According to Israeli authorities, one reason for my arrest two weeks ago in Biddu and my denial of entry into Israel in 2003 is that I "organized and participated in illegal demonstrations." Israeli authorities frequently use the......more
20 hurt in anti-wall protest near Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 2/22/2005
Israeli High Court ordered Tuesday a freeze to the construction of the separation wall near the village of Safa, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The court decision came in response to a petition submitted by three villagers......more
Israel court halts wall construction
AlJazeera 2/23/2005
Israel''s Supreme Court has issued an interim order halting construction of the vast separation barrier near the West Bank town of Ram Allah. Tuesday''s decision followed an appeal by Palestinian residents of the area, Israel army radio reported. The order......more
Sharon says West Bank barrier not border for Palestinian state: interview
ReliefWeb 2/21/2005
CAIRO, Feb 19 (AFP) - The separation barrier Israel is building along the West Bank will not mark the definitive border of an eventual Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published in Cairo Saturday. Asked by......more
Bush stresses need for contiguous Palestinian state
Ha''aretz 2/22/2005
U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday placed achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement at the top of NATO''s list of priorities. Bush, speaking in Brussels on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe, called for the establishment of......more
Palestinians wounded by IDF in separation fence protest
Ha''aretz 2/21/2005
Ten Palestinians were wounded on Monday in clashes with Israel Defense Forces troops during a demonstration against the separation fence east of Modi''in. Several hundred Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters demonstrated in the Palestinian village of Bil''in against the construction......more
PLO Condemns The Israeli Decision To Continue Building The Wall
International Press Center 2/21/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 21,2005 (IPC+WAFA)The president Mahmoud Abbas chaired a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee in Ramallah to discuss the latest developments in the wake of the Israeli cabinet decision to re-rout the apartheid wall. In a......more
Israel to Annex 7% of West Bank, 2 Colony Blocs
Palestine Media Center 2/21/2005
Palestinian Expert Tufakji: New Wall Route Creates 3-colony Extensions -- Israel’s cabinet is expected on Sunday to endorse a change to the route of the Apartheid Wall, which the Jewish state is building on occupied Palestinian land, to incorporate 7%......more
PLO to Take Israel to UN Security Council over Wall
Palestine Media Center 2/21/2005
Beilin: No Justification Whatsoever for Israeli Cabinet’s Wall Decision -- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has slammed the Israeli cabinet’s decision on Sunday to resume the construction of the expansionist Wall as having “very dangerous strategic consequences”, while it called for......more
QUIT! premieres latest line of "Estee Slaughter" products on Valentine''s Day
Electronic Intifada 2/21/2005
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) premiered "Eternally Mine," "a stench beyond occupation," from Estee Slaughter at its Valentine''s Day Extravaganza at Macy''s Union Square in San Francisco. Eternally Mine joins Estee''s signature scent Occupation and Apartheid For Men in the......more
Analysis: Legal implications of new route
Jerusalem Post 2/20/2005
As this is being written, the precise route of the separation fence south and east of Jerusalem has not been officially revealed, but the facts and the general contours that have been published provide an adequate general picture of the......more
Separation fence budget to be determined shortly
Globes 2/21/2005
The Ministries of Finance and Defense have agreed to allocate NIS 5.8 billion for the separation fence. -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu, and Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz will have to soon determine the budget needed......more
Dichter: New fence route makes drivers `sitting ducks
Ha''aretz 2/21/2005
Shin Bet security service chief Avi Dichter warned yesterday that the new route of the separation fence could turn travelers on Road No. 443 into "sitting ducks." Speaking at yesterday''s cabinet meeting, at which the amended route of the barrier......more
Cabinet sets withdrawal for July 20
Ha''aretz 2/21/2005
The five-month countdown to the start of the historic withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank began yesterday with an overwhelming 17-5 vote by the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The date of the evacuation of the......more
European aid official urges Israel to suspend barrier work
ReliefWeb 2/17/2005
JERUSALEM, Feb 17 (AFP) - A European humanitarian official called on Israel Thursday to suspend work on its West Bank barrier in light of the truce deal reached with the Palestinians. "If the barrier is about security and there is now......more
Labor Ministers to support the new wall route
International Middle East Media Center 2/18/2005
Labor party ministers decided Thursday to vote in favor of the new wall route, proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in Gush Itzion, southern Hebron hills and Maalee Adumim regions. The new wall route would by de facto annex......more
Army surrounds a village near Nablus
International Middle East Media Center 2/18/2005
A local source in Nablus reported that soldiers surrounded the village of Qaddoum, east of Nablus and barred the residents from entering or leaving it, and closed the Gate which is erected on the entrance of the village locking the......more
Gov''t to okay key issues on `Super Sunday
Ha''aretz 2/18/2005
This coming Sunday is going to be "Super Sunday" in the cabinet. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will ask his ministers to approve two highly significant decisions - the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria, in accordance with......more
Testing times
By Graham Usher, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 2/17/2005
Abu Mazen faced down one test to his leadership this week but there are graver ones to come -- Flush from his success at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is about to take another step in translating......more
Soldiers bar residents from crossing to their lands behind the Wall
International Middle East Media Center 2/17/2005
Israeli soldiers based at Tzofim checkpoint, east of Qalqilia, barred dozens of residents from reaching their family farmlands located behind the annexation wall, north of Qalqilia. Soldiers claimed that the gate which the residents were previously allowed to pass had......more
Al-Mintar Neighborhood in Sur Baher: "Under Occupation …Under Demolition Threat
Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2/12/2005
When Israel commenced the building of the Segregation Wall in 2002 along the western parts of the West Bank, it also included occupied East Jerusalem, even though it has done so under a different naming and called it the “Jerusalem......more
Deluge-hit Palestinians Blame Israeli Separation Wall
Islam Online 2/17/2005
NABLUS, February 17 (IslamOnline.net) – "They have turned a blessing from God into a curse. They have deliberately left us prey to the deluge," said Bilal Al-Baz with tear-soaked eyes. The scene was not in one of the several Asian countries......more
Anti-pullout protestors cause considerable damage in prison
International Middle East Media Center 2/16/2005
The Israeli police released 33 out of 50 Israeli protestors, who were arrested on Tuesday during a violent anti-disengagement in Jerusalem. The Israeli police said that the protestors also caused damage in Al-Maskobeyya prison, after destroying sinks, light bulbs, beds......more
Yesterday: Three Palestinians killed in West Bank
Ha''aretz 2/16/2005
Three Palestinians were shot dead yesterday, including a 15-year-old boy. The incidents raised concerns over a renewal of tension in the territories that would overshadow negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, after a two-week period of relative calm......more
The Ultimate Barrier: Impact of the Wall on the Palestinian health care system (Acrobat format - PDF
Arabic Media Internet Network 2/14/2005
By Médecins du Monde -- Since June 2002, the construction of the Wall has steadily added another layer of obstacles isolating, fragmenting and thus deteriorating the Palestinian health care system. In order to address some of the health impacts of the......more
Two armed Palestinians killed by IDF troops in West Bank
Ha''aretz 2/16/2005
15-year-old Palestinian boy killed in West Bank during anti-fence protest, apparently by civilians -- Three Palestinians were shot dead Tuesday, including a 15-year-old boy. The incidents raised concerns over a renewal of tension in the territories that would overshadow......more
Days before the Sharm Al Sheikh Summit and following Al Jib: New Confiscation Orders in Beit Hanina to Devastate People’s Lives
StopTheWall.org 2/8/2005
The Occupation Forces gave on February 7th 2005, confiscation orders for the Wall in Beit Hanina village, northwest Jerusalem, four days after those given to Al Jib village, that will be put in the same ghetto together with Beit Hanina......more
Israel Seizes Palestinian Groundwater
WAFA 2/15/2005
Tulkarem, February 15, 2005, (WAFA)- Deputy Chairman of Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), Fadel Kawash, said that Israel controlled 900 million cubic meters of the Jordanian basin and it is now seizing groundwater of the western Palestinian basin. In a meeting......more
New Settlement in Beit Safafa: Further Isolation of Jerusalemites, further Settlement Expansion
StopTheWall.org 2/10/2005
PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign -- Occupation Forces revealed a plan for a new settlement in Beit Safafa, southwest of Jerusalem city. The core of the existing settlement of Giv’at Hamatos will now be made up of a new settlement comprising 1,850......more
PM to use pullout vote to neutralize criticism of fence
Ha''aretz 2/15/2005
The cabinet is slated to approve two major decisions on Sunday: the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon''s disengagement plan, and the route of the separation fence around Gush Etzion......more
Israel is failing the moral test
Ha''aretz 2/14/2005
According to Israeli authorities, one reason for my arrest two weeks ago in Biddu and my denial of entry into Israel in 2003 is that I "organized and participated in illegal demonstrations." Israeli authorities frequently use the term "illegal demonstrations......more
Israeli Troops Continue Attacks In OPT Despite Cease Fire
International Press Center 2/14/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 14, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)--Despite ongoing understandings between the Israeli and Palestinian sides on a ceasefire, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have launched more land expropriation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). IOF have continued to construct the......more
Bondevik Urges Final-status Talks ‘As Soon As Possible
Palestine Media Center 2/14/2005
Norway’s PM ‘Embarrasses’ Israeli Counterpart on Jerusalem, Wall -- Following talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city Sunday, visiting Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik met with his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon and embarrassed him with questions about the......more
Israeli ministers receive Jewish threats
AlJazeera 2/14/2005
Israeli security services are stepping up protection of public officials after death threats against cabinet ministers by Jews opposed to a planned pullout from the occupied Gaza Strip. Incitement and threats against officials in favour of the withdrawal have reached......more
Blocking Out the Sun
By Mike Odetalla, Electronic Intifada 2/14/2005
Writing from Beit Hanina, occupied Palestine -- My Palestinian mother has a favorite expression that she likes to use. Whenever she wants the curtains pulled back, a window or door opened to the outside world, or just wants to get out......more
Palestinian AG temporarily closes the “Egyptian Cement” file
International Middle East Media Center 2/11/2005
Thursday evening, Palestinian Attorney General, Hussein Abu ‘Assy, announced in a press conference that he temporarily froze the “Egyptian Cement” file, which is a case against some Palestinian companies which imported cement from Egypt and sold it to Israel to......more
Abbas uses prison assault to begin security reforms
Ha''aretz 2/11/2005
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas dismissed dozens of security officers in the Gaza Strip yesterday, following a raid by armed men on the main prison in Gaza. The dismissals included two of the three most senior security officials appointed by......more
Dahlan demands Israel to release detainees imprisoned since 1993
International Middle East Media Center 2/11/2005
Mohammad Dahlan, member of the Palestinian higher negotiation committee, told the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Sharon in the coming two weeks in Jerusalem or at Sharon’s home. The meeting will discuss the......more
More on US Aid for Checkpoint Crossings
Electronic Intifada/CNI 2/11/2005
Press Release, Council for the National Interest -- The modernization of checkpoints between Israel and the Palestinian Territories is now being ironically cast as a "humanitarian" project to be undertaken by the either the Israelis or the Palestinians as a way......more
The PA condemns “Israeli measures to silence the voices of truth
International Solidarity Movement 2/9/2005
Anna Nillson from Sweden and Anna Lenna Di Govani from Italy are the latest in a growing number ofhuman rights volunteers that Israel has denied entrance to as a way of preventing them from entering the West Bank and Gaza......more
Apartheid Wall Harms Health of %32 of West Bank Villages
International Press Center 2/10/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, February 9, 2005 (IPC +Agencies)Three health organizations asserted on Wednesday that %32.7 of the West Bank-based Palestinian villages have been going through harsh health situation due to continued Israeli construction of the Apartheid Wall and that such......more
High Court allows government to resume construction of fence near Jerusalem
Ha''aretz 2/9/2005
The High Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the government can resume construction of part of a segment of the separation fence between northwest Jerusalem and Modi''in. The court had earlier issued an injunction freezing the construction until it decided......more
Weekly report on human rights violations
Electronic Intifada/PCHR 2/10/2005
Report, PCHR, 10 February 2005 - 3 February - 9 February 2005 -- Despite ongoing understandings between the Israeli and Palestinian sides on a ceasefire, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have launched more attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). This......more
Analysis / Enough with the talk
By Danny Rubinstein, Ha''aretz 2/9/2005
Despite Palestinian fatigue after more than four years of the intifada and a strong desire to return to a routine of quiet and prosperity, there were no festivities in the territories yesterday to celebrate the Sharm el-Sheikh summit. There were......more
Hamas man is killed in `work accident
Ha''aretz 2/10/2005
A Hamas militant was killed and two hurt in an incident in Khan Yunis yesterday. IDF sources said the man may have been killed during a "work accident" while preparing explosives. Palestinian sources said it was a failed attempt to......more
Fence construction to remain frozen in east Jerusalem pocket
Jerusalem Post 2/9/2005
The High Court of Justice on Tuesday left intact an interim injunction preventing completion of the security fence in a small section of southeast Jerusalem, and instructed the state and an attorney representing 180 Palestinians to try to reach an......more
Israeli High allows the construction of the Wall north west of Jerusalem
International Middle East Media Center 2/8/2005
The Israeli High Court allowed, on Tuesday, the resumption of the construction of the annexation wall, North West of Jerusalem. The new decision cancels an interim injunction freezing the construction until the court reaches a decision on the residents'' petition......more
Israeli Court Allows Rebuilding Apartheid Wall in Jerusalem
International Press Center 2/8/2005
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, February8, 2005 (IPC+Arab48)-- An Israeli Court permitted on Tuesday resumption of construction works of the Apartheid Wall in northern occupied east Jerusalem, ruling out a previous verdict that ordered halt of such constructions. The wall''s segment that......more
Mara''ba: Qalqilia Lands Threatened by Israeli Settlement
International Press Center 2/8/2005
QALQILIA, Palestine, February 8, 2005 (IPC Exclusive)Coordinator of the Palestinian national committee for confronting settlement and the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank City of Qalqilia, Rafiq Mara''ba, told the IPC that the lands of Qalqilia are being threatened......more
1000 Dunams to erect a wall around Ariel settlement
International Middle East Media Center 2/5/2005
The Israeli authorities decided to erect a wall around Ariel settlement, the biggest settlement in the West Bank , inhibited by 18.000 settlers. Residents of Amateen, Dir Estia, Jensafout, and Al-Fondoq will lose thousands of Dunams of family farmlands if the......more
Anti wall protest in a village near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 2/5/2005
At least ten international peace activists joined on Friday hundreds of the residents of the village of Kharas near Hebron, south of the West Bank. Among the protesters were owners of Lands confiscated by Israel for the construction of the......more
News Briefs, Feruary 5 - 7, 2005
International Middle East Media Center 2/7/2005
Two arrested east of Tubas / Detainee from Nablus sentenced to 33 months / Girl arrested near Jenin / Carni crossing to remain crossing until after the Sharm Al-Sheikh summit / Army claims uncovering a 40kgm explosive charge / Child injured near Hebron as a......more
IDF kills two men in Gaza no-go zone
Ha''aretz 2/6/2005
IDF soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who approached a security fence in an off-limits military zone in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Apparently the two men, both in their 20s, were trying to enter Israel to find work......more
State to tell High Court: Hague ruling on fence is irrelevant
Ha''aretz 2/7/2005
The state prosecution plans to inform the High Court of Justice next week that the opinion of the International Court of Justice at the Hague on the separation fence is irrelevant. The prosecution will say it is based on partial......more
Expulsion of Israeli envoy covered up
Sydney Morning Herald 2/5/2005
Requires registration - free] -- Australia has secretly forced a senior Israeli diplomat to leave the country, for reasons that neither government will divulge. The effective expulsion of the Canberra-based diplomat - described as a "consul" in Israel - has been covered up for......more
Despite Calm in oPt , Israeli Troops Go on Rampage
International Press Center 2/7/2005
GAZA, Palestine, February 7, 2005 (IPC+WAFA)-Despite of the full calm from the Palestinian party, the Israeli occupation forces restlessly continued its onslaught against the Palestinian people under imposing a strict full siege. Three citizens were wounded differently on......more
Bush pledges $350m in "aid to PA
Ha''aretz 2/4/2005
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush pledged $350 million in aid to the Palestinians in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday. The goal of the Palestinian statehood "is within reach," Bush said. Bush''s aid pledge - bigger than expected - was......more
Palestinian Families will lose 6000 Dunams for "Ariel" Wall
International Middle East Media Center 2/4/2005
Palestinian sources reported that at least 6000 Dunams (1500 Acre) will be lost from Palestinians villages in the northern West Bank for Israel to build the wall around the Jewish Settlement of Ariel. At least 1000 Dunams will be consumed......more
Two Palestinians killed by IDF fire in northern Gaza Strip
Ha''aretz 2/5/2005
Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Friday shot and killed two Palestinians who approached a security fence in a off-limits military zone in the northern Gaza Strip. Soldiers began searching the area immediately following the incident, during the course of which......more
Weekly report on human rights violations, 27 Jan - 02 Feb. 2005
Electronic Intifada/PCHR 2/3/2005
8 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children and 2 mentally handicapped persons, were killed by IOF. / One of the victim was killed when the tent where he was detained in an Israeli prison burnt. / IOF conducted a series of incursions into......more
Peaceful Protest against Illegal Road Construction in Hebron
International Solidarity Movement 1/31/2005
Hebron, West Bank] Tuesday February 1 at 11am, Palestinians from Khalet Adar in the Qalqas area of Hebron, with the support of international and Israeli activists, will protest the construction of a new settlement bypass road by planting trees in......more
Israeli High Court approves land annexation for bypass road to Rachel''s Tomb
International Middle East Media Center 2/3/2005
Thursday, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition filed by Bethlehem and Beit Jala municipalities against the path of the annexation Wall surrounding Rachel''s Tomb. Lawyer Arieh-Cohen who represented the municipalities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala said that......more
IDF: Settlers still building in outposts
Ha''aretz 2/2/2005
The settlers are proceeding with construction in illegal outposts in the West Bank, even those earmarked for evacuation, according to the Israel Defense Forces Civil Administration. The settlers have built new structures in four outposts awaiting evacuation, according to the......more
Yesha still undecided about hunger strike
Ha''aretz 2/3/2005
The leaders of the Yesha Council of settlements are still deliberating whether to stage a hunger strike as part of their campaign for a referendum on the disengagement. Many of the settlers'' leaders support going on a hunger strike, such......more
Speaking out about Israel to save the Jewish soul
By Cecilie Surasky, Electronic Intifada 2/2/2005
Every time a Gazan father faints as he watches his family home demolished; every time a Jew, Muslim or Christian is violently attacked by armed Israelis because they are non-violently protesting the separation wall; every time a rain of Israeli......more
Ethnic Cleansing of Jerusalem
By MIFTAH 2/1/2005
On a Thursday morning like all others two weeks ago, Palestinians from Jerusalem woke up early, got in their cars and drove to their workplaces. The story is normal so far. As they approach the Qalandia checkpoint at the end......more
PA: Israel provoking Palestinians
By Khalid Amayreh, Electronic Intifada/Al Jazeera 1/30/2005
The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of seeking to frustrate Palestinian efforts to achieve a ceasefire ahead of the possible resumption of the Middle East peace process. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that the Israeli government will go ahead......more
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