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Israeli
attack on Nablus; five Palestinians killed in Nablus area, Gaza
Strip, scores arrested
Al-Bawaba, August 2, 2002 Israeli troops, backed by some 150 tanks, moved into the center of the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, killing at least three Palestinians. The Israeli army said it was launching a mission to root out a "local terror network." Big
Israeli Force Heads Into Nablus in Reprisal Raid
New York Times, August 2, 2002 ERUSALEM, Aug. 2 — A large Israeli Army force swept into the Old City of Nablus early today to hunt for Palestinian militants in what appeared to be the start of military retaliation for a bombing on Wednesday in a cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem that killed seven people — including five Americans — and wounded more than 80. Six
Palestinians killed in Israeli retaliation
The Independent, August 2, 2002 Podium - Yitzhak Frankenthal: We must not lose sight of our ethics Israeli troops backed by 150 armoured vehicles swept into the West Bank city of Nablus today, exchanging fire with Palestinians and arresting a dozen people in retaliation for the bombing of a Jerusalem university cafeteria. The
tragedy of Jenin
The Guardian, August 2, 2002 The long-awaited UN report into Israel's reoccupation of the main cities of the West Bank criticised both Palestinian militants and Israeli army tactics yesterday, but found no evidence to support claims that Israeli forces were responsible for a massacre in the Jenin refugee camp. Truth-seeking
in Jenin: Israel is still wanted for questioning AUDIO: Reading Up on Islam: Edward Said on NPR July 31, 2002 Israeli
Tanks Move Into Nablus
The Guardian, August 2, 2002 NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops traded gunfire with Palestinians Friday and arrested 50 suspected terrorists after the army swept into the West Bank City of Nablus backed by 150 armored vehicles in a retaliatory strike for several Palestinian attacks on Israel. Enter
the EU
Al-Ahram Weekly, 1 - 7 August 2002 Recent developments have allowed the EU to play a more pronounced role in the peace process. Soha Abdelaty reports Ever since the 1991 Madrid peace conference, the US has assumed a leading role in peace negotiations between the parties involved in the Middle East conflict. And for a long time, it refused to make room for other international actors, such as the European bloc and the United Nations (UN), to play a part. The birth of the Quartet -- the grouping which includes the US, the European Union (EU), the Russian Federation and the UN -- and Washington's willingness to channel its peace efforts through this grouping, is an indication that things are changing. Hamas
regrets death of Americans in Jerusalem; Reports: FBI to open investigation
Al-Bawaba, August 2, 2002 Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantisi expressed Friday regret for the deaths of the Americans in Wednesday's Jerusalem bombing at Hebrew University. "They are American citizens who just came here to visit," he told The Associated Press. "Our battle is against the occupation." However, he said he was referring only to "pure" American citizens, "not those who have dual (U.S.-Israeli) citizenship." UN
report details West Bank wreckage
Banned by Israel, Kofi Annan's fact-finders were left with only second-hand accounts of the spring invasion The Guardian, August 2, 2002 The UN released yesterday its report on events during the Israeli offensive in the West Bank last spring. The report is all that remains of what was originally intended as a detailed fact-finding mission backed by the UN security council. Israel
launches expulsion proceedings against at least two relatives of
Palestinian bombers
Al-Bawaba, August 2, 2002 Israel's Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein told senior security officials Thursday that it is legal to expel to Gaza Strip suicide bombers' relatives who have been proven to be involved in the attacks. Supreme
court issues historic judgement affirming collective rights of Palestinian
minority in Israel
Alternative Information Center, July 28th, 2002 On 25 July, the Supreme Court issued a historic 92-page decision on a petition filed in June 1999 by Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), against the mixed Arab-Jewish cities of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Ramle, Lod, Akka, and Natserat Illit. The petition demanded that these municipalities add Arabic to all traffic, warning and other informational signs in their jurisdictions. PA
rejects Jenin report
Arab News, August 2, 2002 GAZA CITY, 2 August — Palestinians yesterday called for an extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly to review a UN report that exonerated Israeli forces of perpetrating a massacre in the Jenin refugee camp. At
least four killed in Israeli raids
The Guardian, August 2, 2002 At least four Palestinians were killed and five houses destroyed by the Israeli army early today during overnight clashes and operations in the West Bank city of Nablus and elsewhere. IDF
enters Nablus to hit Hamas; five Palestinians killed Summer
2002 in the West Bank: Especially Severe Water Shortages Committee
to meet on expulsion of terrorists' family
Ha'aretz, August 2, 2002 Just hours before they are due to be expelled from the West Bank to Gaza, the two brothers of suicide bombers that the IDF believes were directly involved in their relatives' activities, are appealing the expulsion order to a special committee. Bomb
explodes near home of Fatah official in Lebanon Peres
says Israel seeks to ease burden on Palestinians
Ha'aretz, August 2, 2002 NEW YORK - Israel is trying to ease economic conditions for Palestinians as it works with the United States and key international players on a plan to achieve Mideast peace and an independent Palestinian state within three years, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said late Thursday night. U.S.
Students To Stay Despite Attack
The Guardian, August 2, 2002 JERUSALEM (AP) - A day after a bombing that killed seven people, including five Americans, U.S. students opened a new summer session at Hebrew University in mourning Thursday, saying they wouldn't be driven away by the attack. IDF
set to target Hamas networks
Ha'aretz, August 2, 2002 The Israel Defense Forces was yesterday preparing a military response to the latest wave of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. Military sources said that the response would be concentrated on Hamas's terrorist networks, with a focus on targeting those who dispatch the cells of suicide bombers. U.N.
Jenin Report "Seriously Flawed": Human Rights Watch
Islam Online, August 2, 2002 The U.N. report presents a 'watered-down account of very serious violations in Jenin,' said HRW NEW YORK, August 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The U.N. report on events in Jenin is seriously flawed, Human Rights Watch said Friday, August 2, 2002. The report, mandated by a U.N. General Assembly resolution after Israeli objections forced the Secretary-General to disband a U.N. fact-finding team, largely limits itself to presenting competing accounts of the events during the Israeli military incursions. US
delays a UN resolution demands Israeli withdrawal from PNA areas
Jerusalem Times, August 1, 2002 Faced with U.S. opposition, Arab envoys decided to delay a voting on a resolution that call for a withdrawal of Israeli armed forces to positions they held before the September 2000 start of the latest Palestinian Intifada immediate following last week's deadly raid in Gaza. They attempted last Tuesday to convince Europeans on the U.N. Security Council to support the resolution but obviously failed. News
In Brief: Peres Says Israel Cannot Fight Bombers
Palestine Chronicle, August 1, 2002 GAZA STRIP/WEST BANK: Arafat Says No Elections with Occupation; Peres: We Can’t Fight Bombers; Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies; Israeli Army Claims Bomb Attack in Gaza; Israel Welcomes Annan’s Report. Palestinian
American negotiations in Washington
Jerusalem Times, August 1, 2002 Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Nabil Shaath said in a press interview with the daily Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds, last Monday that the US Secretary of State Collin Powell informed them he intends to discuss the second part of George Bush’s speech which talked about the creation of a Palestinian state and ending Israeli occupation. Shaath added that PNA reforms would also be discussed in Washington. UN
Report: Israel Killed 497 Palestinians in 2 Months; Avoids the Word
'Massacre'
Palestine Chronicle, August 1, 2002 NEW YORK: A UN report due out Thursday on Israel's military assault on Jenin's refugee camp last March said Israel endangered Palestinian civilians by using heavy weaponry in densely populated areas, while it claimed Palestinian activists used the West Bank camp as a base. It also criticizes Israel for delaying aid and medical help to Palestinians in the camp, in a copy media sources obtained ahead of its release. LAW
Responds to Failures of Disappointing Kofi Annan Report
Palestine Chronicle, August 1, 2002 RAMALLAH (LAW): Following a request by the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today released a report on the events surrounding the Israeli military incursions earlier this year into the West Bank town of Jenin and other Palestinian cities. |
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