Israeli court delays expulsion ruling
BBC, August 13, 2002
Israel has begun targeting attackers' relatives: Israel's highest court has temporarily blocked the expulsion of two relatives of suspected Palestinian militants, saying it needed more time to consider the move.

Palestinian factions back away from unilateral ceasefire
Israeli court approves expelling 3 Palestinians; Sharon weighs snap poll
Jordan Times, August 13, 2002 
AN ISRAELI military court on Monday approved the expulsion of three Palestinian relatives of suspected resistance activists from the West Bank to Gaza, Israel TV reported.

Two Die In Lebanese Refugee Clash
Guardian, August 13, 2002
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - Palestinians and Lebanese militants fought with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades in the narrow alleys of a refugee camp Tuesday, leaving two men dead and seven wounded.

30 Israeli Soldiers Execute Jenin Man
Palestine Chronicle, August 12, 2002
JENIN: Ghazal Friehat was executed in cold blood in today's dawn hours when 30 Israeli occupation soldiers riddled his body with dozens of bullets after taking him outside his home near the occupied West Bank City of Jenin, eyewitnesses and Palestinian media revealed.

Israeli court delays expulsions; Barghouti trial to start Wednesday; Islamic Jihad rejects call to stop attacks
Al-Bawaba, August 13, 2002
The Israeli Supreme Court suspended the deportation to the Gaza Strip of two relatives of Palestinian activists until their cases are heard. The court banned the army from deporting Kifah Adjuri, 28, and Abdel Nasser Assidi, 34, and demanded it justify this action within two weeks.

IDF: Yasser Arafat's personal assets worth $1.3 billion
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002  
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has personal assets estimated at a value of $1.3 billion, IDF Intelligence Chief Major General Aharon Ze'evi (Farakash) said Tuesday.

Hamas rejects call to give up deadly attacks against Israelis
Toronto Star , August 13, 2002
Militants rebuff Palestinian plan to curb violence: JERUSALEM — The militant Islamic group Hamas last night rejected Palestinian efforts to rein in suicide bombers in the name of Arab unity, vowing instead to continue attacks on Israeli civilians.

Israel sets precedent by expelling families
The Independent, August 13, 2002
A military court set a new precedent yesterday by approving the expulsion of three relatives of suspected Palestinian terrorists from the West Bank to Gaza, Israel Television reported.

UN Will Continue Dealing With Arafat: Annan
Palestine Chronicle, August 12, 2002
NEW YORK: Reacting to comments in the Middle Eastern media, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan last weekend clarified that the United Nations will continue dealing with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, announced the United Nations Information Center here Sunday.

Palestinian refugee camp hit by clashes
BBC, August 13, 2002
Islamic militants clashed with members of Fatah: Two people have been killed and at least six others injured in factional fighting at Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp.

Despite Israel attorney general's presence, Palestinians beaten after checkpoint arrest
Jordan Times, August 13, 2002 
TEL AVIV — Despite the presence of Israel's attorney general at an army roadblock, three Palestinians arrested there were beaten in the area by occupation soldiers, according to an Israeli judge who ordered the Palestinians released.

Palestinian newspapers on government intention to strip citizenship from Palestinians
Alternative Information Center, August 13th, 2002 
Interior Minister Eli Yishai revealed last week that "he intends to strip the Israeli citizenship of two Arab citizens and also to cancel the permanent residency status of a third one, on the grounds that all three harmed state security. Yishai sent letters to all three - Kais Hassan Kamal Obeid in Lebanon, Haned Abu Kishak in Shikma Prison, and Shadi Shurfa in Nafha Prison - stating that he planned to move against their status, giving them the right to appeal the decision."

Haifa Mayor Running To Head Labor
Guardian, August 13, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna, an ex-general who supports dismantling some Jewish settlements as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians, announced on Tuesday his bid for Labor party leadership.

Mitzna: Sharon is leading us to disaster
Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2002
Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna began his quest for the Labor leadership this morning by issuing a fierce attack on the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti to go on trial Wednesday
Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2002
Marwan Barghouti, one of the most visible leaders of the Palestinian intifada, will go on trial Wednesday, facing charges of orchestrating attacks that killed or wounded scores of Israelis, his lawyer said.

Supreme court upholds travel ban on Sheikh Ra'ed Salah 
Alternative Information Center, August 13th, 2002 
Today, Sheikh Ra'ed Salah testified before the Official Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events, in response to the warning issued against him by the Commission.

Women Protest Annan Report in Syria
Palestine Chronicle, August 13, 2002
DAMASCUS: A number of Syrian women, along with women from other Arab and European countries staged a sit-in strike in front of the Damascus office of the United Nations, protesting a recently published UN report on Israel’s Jenin massacre.

Plan: imprison undocumented migrant workers in military camps 
Alternative Information Center, August 13th, 2002 
The police force is examining the possibility of converting Israeli military camps in the centre of the country to detention camps for undocumented migrant workers, or to place the workers in hotels. This information reached 'Yedioth Ahronot' from the police's Division for the Deportation of Illegal Workers. Intensive preparatory work is being  conducted within this division, which was set up under Commander Yaakov Ganot. The primary difficulty facing the police is locating places in which to hold the thousands of illegal workers who will be detained when this inter-office department commences its work.

Sharon to inaugurate 'Zeevi promenade' tens of metres from Al-Haram al-Sharif 
Alternative Information Center, August 13th, 2002 
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will visit East Jerusalem today to inaugurate a promenade named after the former Minister Rehavam Zeevi (who advocated the expulsion of Palestinians from both within Israeli borders and the occupied territories; AIC). The ceremony will take place only tens of metres from Al-Haram al-Sharif.

Israel set to lose $200 million in aid from U.S.
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002
With President George W. Bush expected to reject Tuesday a $5.1 billion anti-terror package approved by Congress last month, Israel is set to lose $200 million in additional aid authorized as part of the package.  The package was aimed at boosting airport security and funding other programs, officials said.

PM promises to ask treasury for cash to avert embassy closures
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002 
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promised to ask the Finance Ministry to add NIS 25 million to the Foreign Ministry's 2003 budget in order to prevent the closure of overseas embassies and consulates.

Refugees begin hunger strike in Jerusalem as Israel violates its international commitments
Alternative Information Center, August 13th, 2002 
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel 
A group of 20 recognized refugees started a hunger-strike yesterday (12 August) in Jerusalem, demanding that Israel grant them rights according to the 1951 U.N Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating the Status of Refugees (“the Convention”). Women with young babies and elderly people are standing in the punishing Jerusalem heat demanding to be heard. This morning, one of the strikers, an elderly man with heart problems, was rushed to the hospital.

PRESS RELEASE: Adalah to Attorney General: Cancel Registrar of Associations' Decision to Appoint an Investigator into Adalah's Activities
Adalah, August 13, 2002
Yesterday, Adalah sent a letter to Attorney General Elyakim Rubenstein seeking the cancellation of a decision by the Registrar of Associations ("Registrar") to appoint an investigator into Adalah's activities and calling for the opening of an investigation into the Registrar's actions. Adalah learned solely from journalists and media reports that the Registrar intends to investigate the organization on the grounds of undertaking activities beyond the scope of its mandate; affiliation with a political party; and financial mismanagement. Adalah adamantly denies these allegations and maintains that the organization is managed professionally, in accordance with the law.

Death toll in Hebrew University bombing rises to nine
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002  
The death toll in the bombing at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus rose to nine overnight Monday with Revital Barashi, 30, succumbing to injuries she sustained in the attack.

Barghouti to be indicted Wed. for 'incitement to murder'
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002   
The Justice Ministry said on Tuesday it would indict jailed Tanzim chief Marwan Barghouti, on charges linked to militant violence including "incitement to murder."  Barghouti, general secretary of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in the West Bank, has been in detention since the IDF arrested him on April 15.

Exiled Nativity Church gunman in Belgium lonely and bored
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002    
BRUSSELS - A Palestinian activist exiled to Belgium as part of a deal to end a siege of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity said in a newspaper interview he was lonely and bored.

Sharon to Knesset panel: Iraq is our greatest threat
Ha'aretz, August 13, 2002    
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that Iraq "is the greatest danger facing Israel."
Asked by Labor Party MK Ophir Pines-Paz and Shas MK Yitzhak Cohen if Israel plans to attack Iraq if Baghdad attacks Israel, Sharon said that "we don't know for certain if the U.S. will attack Iraq. Iraq is a great danger. It could be said it is the greatest danger. We aren't intervening in U.S. decisions." But he said that "strategic coordination between Israel and the U.S. has reached unprecedented dimensions."

Manley cool to Arafat's plea
Toronto Star , August 13, 2002
OTTAWA (CP) — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has created many of his own problems and it's up to him to break the stalemate in the Middle East, says Deputy Prime Minister John Manley.

Palestinians support uprising
The Daily Camera, August 13, 2002
Groups reject proposal to cease attacks within Israel: JERUSALEM — A broad range of Palestinian groups meeting in Gaza City on Monday pledged to continue their uprising against Israel and rejected a proposed halt to bombings and other attacks inside Israel's borders. The decision dashed earlier hopes that the Palestinian groups, including the radical Hamas movement, might take a stand against attacks on Israeli civilians.