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Israel
Kills 10 Palestinians, including 2 Teenagers, in one Day
Islam Online, January 12, 2003
Israel destroyed several houses and workshops -- GAZA CITY, January
12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israel killed two Palestinian
teenager on Sunday, January 12, in a failed assassination attempt
against two members of the Islamic resistance Hamas, on the same
day 8 other Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army.
Israel
Raids Gaza Strip Town and Camp
The Guardian, January 12, 2003
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops raided a Gaza Strip
town and a refugee camp early Sunday, killing a gunman and an apparent
bystander and destroying several metal workshops the army said were
used for making weapons. Fourteen Palestinians were wounded in exchanges
of gunfire.
Israel
Kills Two Teens In Botched Attack
CBS, January 12, 2003
"Sharon is trying to distract attention from the financial scandal
he is facing by sending his tanks into Palestinian areas." Palestinian
Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat -- (AP) Three missiles fired from an
Israeli helicopter Sunday missed their apparent target — Islamic
militants riding in a car — and killed two 15 year-old Palestinian
boys, seriously wounding another teen, Palestinian witnesses and
security officials said.
Palestinian
gunman kills Israeli in village near West Bank
New Jersey.com, January 12, 2003
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian gunman infiltrated an Israeli village
near the line with the West Bank on Sunday, shooting and killing
an Israeli, the military and rescue service said.
Sharon's
TV blackout complaint rejected
BBC, January 12, 2003
Israeli election officials have rejected a complaint by Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon over a controversial decision to cut off his live television
broadcast on Thursday.
Israeli
at US loan talks is implicated in massacre
By Robert Fisk, The Independent, January 12, 2003
Israel is asking the United States for $8bn (£5bn) in loan guarantees
– and has sent to Washington one of the former army officers
implicated in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre of Palestinian
civilians to persuade the Bush administration to grant the money.
The
Reporter: Sharon aims to exile Arafat after offensive against Saddam
The Jerusalem Report, January 27, 2003
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is planning to expel Palestinian Authority
head Yasser Arafat as soon as the anticipated American attack on
Iraq is over, The Report has been told.
Palestinian
children attack
NineMSN, January 12, 2003
AFP - Two Palestinian boys, apparently brothers aged eight and 13,
infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip to carry out an
attack this evening, but were wounded and captured by Israeli soldiers.
Rockets
from Gaza Hit Israeli Town after 2 Palestinians Die in Violent Incident
VOA News, January 12, 2003
Three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip fell into the Israeli town
of Sderot, slightly injuring one man. The incident followed a night
of violence in the Gaza Strip and Israeli military incursions into
several West Bank cities. The incident left at least two Palestinians
dead and 15 others injured.
Cheshin:
Sharon's aides misled me
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
Judge Mishael Cheshin, the chairman of the Central Elections Committee
(CEC), last night lashed out at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a
stormy meeting of the committee's presidium called to disuss Cheshin
pulling the plug on the prime minister's press conference.
“Israeli
Occupation Worse Than That of The Nazi's”: Dutch Activist
Islam Online, January 12, 2003
AMSTERRDAM, January 12 (IslamOnline) – The Dutch peace activist
wife of the European Central Bank (ECB) chief Wim Duisenberg was
given a warm reception from dozens of the Muslim community in the
Netherlands following her visit to the occupied Palestinian territories.
IDF
legal reform may inhibit accident probes
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon is promoting an IDF legal reform -
which is likely to be approved - that may bring far-reaching changes
to how the army investigates accidents. It is likely make military
police probes more difficult and could reduce the number of charges
pressed.
Video-conference
will `bring' banned PA team to London
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
Palestinian delegates will take part in a London meeting by video-conference,
bypassing an Israeli ban on their traveling, imposed after a double
suicide bombing killed 22 in Tel Aviv last Sunday.
Internationals
prefer to spend holiday taking risk for Palestinians
Jerusalem Times, January 9, 2003
Normally people spend their holidays on the beach or on a
safari in Africa; but not Daniele Sade, 31, an Italian statistician
from a town near Florence. Sade chose to spend his money this Christmas
holiday to travel to Israel, but not as a tourist. He came to Israel
only to reach the Palestinian areas and join its people in their
struggle against an Israeli military occupation of their towns and
villages that has made Palestinian life very difficult.
Ten
Palestinians, two Israelis killed as violence escalates
Jerusalem Post, January 12, 2003
Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in military strikes in the
Gaza Strip on Sunday, including two teenage boys hit in a botched
missile attack on Hamas fugitives, while in Israel's north, two
Palestinian infiltrators killed an Israeli in a Moshav next to the
West Bank before they were hunted down.
At
least 10 Palestinians, two Israelis killed in separate incidents
Al-Bawaba, January 12, 2003
At least 10 Palestinians and two Israelis were killed in various
incidents in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel-Egypt border
and northern Israel. In the latest incident, an Israeli man was
killed and a second person was wounded Sunday evening when two armed
Palestinians infiltrated the settlement of Gadish in northern Israel,
close to the border with the West Bank.
Shady
deals bring Israel's Bulldozer close to defeat
The Observer, January 12, 2003
It is a make-or-break weekend for Israel's hawkish Prime Minister,
who is fighting for his political life amid an explosive corruption
scandal.
The
iron leader who will never surrender
The Guardian, January 12, 2003
The credo of Ariel Sharon is always to raise the stakes when he
is under attack.
Born on the moshav - or collective farm - of Kfar Malal on 27 February,
1928, at 14 he was a volunteer in the Haganah, the Jewish defence
force.
Israel
plans to escalate measures against Palestinian groups as four Palestinians
killed in Gaza Strip, W. Bank
Al-Bawaba, January 12, 2003
Four Palestinian men were killed by Israeli fire late Saturday and
early Sunday while two boys were shot raiding a Jewish settlement
in the Gaza Strip.
Sharon
slams Arafat, rejects Blair request to let Palestinians attend conference
Al-Bawaba, January 12, 2003
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday rejected a written
request by his British peer, Tony Blair, to lift a ban on Palestinian
officials attending a Mideast conference in London this week, an
Israeli official said.
Recent
Polls of American Public Opinion Regarding 'Israel and the Palestinians'
PollingReport.com
CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll Sept. 2-4, 2002 / The Harris Poll Aug.
15-19, 2002 / The Harris Poll July 18-22, 2002 / CBS News Poll July
8-9, 2002
Israeli
army clashes with Palestinians
BBC, January 12, 2003
Three Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops,
reports say. One was reportedly killed as Israeli troops carried
out a massive operation in the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian
Affairs: Saving Kawasbeh
The Jerusalem Report, January 27, 2003
In the topsy-turvy world of one Jerusalem hospital, a brilliant
Israeli surgeon, famed for trauma work on victims of terrorist bombings,has
taken on as a project the treatment of a gravely injured Palestinian,
shot during the siege of the Church of the Nativity.
2
Palestinians Killed in Missile Attack
Miami Herald, January 12, 2003
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Israeli helicopter fired missiles at
a car in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two Palestinians and
seriously wounding a third, Palestinian hospital officials said.
Sharon
shuns UK's Palestinian plea
CNN, January 12, 2003
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has refused an
appeal to allow senior Palestinian officials to attend a British-sponsored
conference in London, diplomats said.
Israeli
Troops Raid Palestinian Towns
VOA News, January 12, 2003
Palestinians say two men have been killed and at least 15 other
people wounded by Israeli forces conducting overnight raids in two
Gaza Strip towns. Palestinians say fierce gunbattles erupted early
Sunday when dozens of Israeli tanks backed by helicopter gunships
entered the southern town of Khan Younis. Palestinians say one man
was killed and several people wounded during the exchange of fire.
AP
Corrects Egypt Abul Abbas Story
The Guardian, January 12, 2003
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Associated Press on Friday misquoted a spokeswoman
for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Ann Roubachewsky, as saying Washington
had asked Egypt to hand over a Palestinian wanted for instigating
the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship.
Court
petitioned on Shin Bet role in probe of Sharon affair leak
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
A former member of the Shin Bet security service, attorney Eitan
Peleg, petitioned the High Court of Justice on Sunday to prevent
a Shin Bet representative from participating on the committee of
inquiry into the leak of information on the affair involving the
Sharon family and South African millionaire Cyril Bern.
Cabinet
okays Sheetrit proposal for 'party primaries law'
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
Overruling Sheetrit, PM says Primaries Law can wait until after
elections -- By a slender nine votes to seven majority, the cabinet
on Sunday approved the proposed Primaries Law, initiated by the
committee headed by Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit.
Background:
Blackout of PM's broadcast boosts Likud among Russians
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
The decision by the chairman of the Central Elections Committee,
Justice Mishael Cheshin, to stop the broadcast of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's press conference on Thursday night for violating
restrictions on campaign propaganda is expected to increase the
Likud's support from immigrants from the former Soviet Union, bringing
the party one or two more Knesset seats.
The
fear and loathing of Shinui
Ha'aretz, January 12, 2003
Even in 1999, the party's success gave Haredim a sense of looming
disaster.
Islamic
University takes a huge leap
Jerusalem Times, January 9, 2003
The President of the Islamic University Board of Trustees, Jamal
Al-Khudari, recently confirmed that the university rejects the idea
of depriving any student of the right of education. It is for this
reason, he said, that the university has afforded one million dollars
in aid to students every semester, despite its poor financial crisis
and the yearly deficit it faces.
Gaza
Hamas leader calls for suicide attacks against US
Jerusalem Post, January 12, 2003
Gaza Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi made Hamas's first threat to
launch suicide attacks against the US, in an address to thousands
of supporters in Gaza City Friday. "I call on Iraq to prepare an
army of would-be martyrs and prepare tens of thousands of explosive
belts," Hamas official Abdel Aziz Rantisi declared at the pro-Iraq
rally.
Faiths
agree on Jerusalem as capital of Palestine
Jerusalem Times, January 9, 2003
The following is an interview with Archmendite Hanna Atallah Hanna,
official spokesman of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem and
the Palestinian territories.
Beit
El-Mal dissolves itself under US pressure
Jerusalem Times, January 9, 2003
US pressure resulting from its war against terrorism has forced
a local Palestinian financial company to dissolve itself and break
up into three new and different companies, said Mazen Sunnokrut,
chairman of the board of Beit El-Mal.
Lebanese
envoy criticised for comments
Jordan Times, January 12, 2003
OTTAWA (AP) — Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said he
wants to talk to Lebanon's ambassador to Canada about his reported
comments in an Arab-language newspaper that the Canadian government
was influenced by Zionists. Raymond Baaklini was quoted in the newspaper
as saying Canada decided to ban the Hizbollah group due to pressure
from a “Zionist party” that he said controls 90 per
cent of the Canadian media.
Lebanon
ambassador to Canada says media controlled by 'Zionist party'
Al-Bawaba, January 12, 2003
Lebanon's ambassador to Canada is under fire for comments he made
last week in an Arabic-language newspaper in response to the government's
decision to ban Hizbullah.
Turkey
Inmate Starves to Death in Protest
The Guardian, January 12, 2003
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Another Turkish prisoner has died on a hunger
strike, raising the death toll in the protest against Turkey's maximum
security prisons to 64 people, a prisoner support group said Sunday.
Kadhafi
says Libya, U.S. cooperate in war against terrorism
Al-Bawaba, January 12, 2003
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has said in a press interview his country
and the United States were exchanging intelligence information on
the al-Qaeda network, but acknowledged Osama bin Laden's growing
popularity in the Muslim world.
Libya
'gives US tips on al-Qaeda'
BBC, January 12, 2003
Libya is exchanging intelligence about the al-Qaeda network with
the United States, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has said. Colonel Gaddafi
said there were what he called Libyan terrorists in the US and Britain,
and they should be "wiped out".
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