Palestinian woman killed, Hamas leader arrested in Qalqiliya; Palestinian factions to resume talks on united leadership
Al-Bawaba, August 22, 2002
A bomb exploded Thursday at the farm of a fugitive Islamic Jihad member, killing a Palestinian woman and wounding her son.

Israeli army storms Gaza DP camp
Dawn, 22 August 2002 
GAZA CITY, Aug 21: Israeli forces blasted their way into a Gaza town on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding four more in an operation to root out militants, as fresh violence threatened to cripple the latest efforts to restore calm.

CIA moves forward with PA reform plan
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
The CIA is moving forward with its plans for an overhaul of the Palestinian Authority's security services, which is perceived by the U.S. administration as a necessary first step toward any political progress. Next week, the CIA officials who will oversee the reorganization of the PA security forces are due in the region. But first, CIA Director George Tenet is slated to meet with his counterparts from Jordan and Egypt to finalize their role in the plan.

Israel holds bomb suspects in city
The Independent, August 22, 2002
Israel claimed yesterday to have cracked a 15-man cell of Hamas bombers responsible for some of the deadliest recent attacks against civilians, which was operating in the heart of Jerusalem.

Israel Abducts Greek Orthodox Priest For Hours
Islam Online, August 22, 2002 
Father Hannah was removed from his post by the Jerusalem Patriarch, under Israeli pressure: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, August 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli police abducted Thursday, August 22, the former spokesman of the Greek Orthodox church in Jerusalem for questioning, claiming that he is lending support to “terrorist organizations,” then released him five hours later.

UK tightening embargo on Israel, Says IDF broke pledge not to use British equipment in PA  
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
Britain has embargoed the supply of various materiel to Israel, including pilot ejection seats used by the Israel Air Force for its F-4 Phantom warplanes.

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories August 15- 21, 2002
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Palestinians flee Israel's Gaza Strip raid
Jordan Times, August 22, 2002    
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Palestinians picked up sleeping children and ran through the dark to find shelter in back streets or a hospital on Wednesday after Israeli occupation forces raided a Gaza Strip refugee camp on a demolition mission.

Ex-jerusalem Mayor Wants City Split
Guardian, August 22, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - The longtime mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, said Thursday that the Palestinians should be given control over some parts of the city, including disputed holy sites in the Old City.

Study on 'Jerusalemite children under occupation' reveals grave Israeli violations of children's rights
Alternative Information Center, August 22, 2002
A study entitled ‘Jerusalemite Children Under Occupation’, prepared by the Jerusalem Center for Social & Economic Rights (JCSER), reveals grave violations by Israel against Jerusalemite children over the past two years, including killing, arrest, and denial of their educational, social and economic rights.

Blast kills Palestinian woman on West Bank chicken farm
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
A 55-year-old Palestinian woman was killed and her son was seriously wounded Thursday, when a bomb exploded at the chicken farm where they were working, Palestinian security officials said.

Pro-Palestinian congresswoman ousted
Guardian, August 22, 2002
One of the most controversial figures in the US Congress, Cynthia McKinney, was effectively booted out of Washington yesterday when she lost a primary for re-election in her home state of Georgia after a bitter campaign that focused heavily on her support for Palestinian causes. 

UNDP signs MOU with Italy on project for Bedouin in West Bank 
Alternative Information Center, August 22, 2002
The United Nations Development Programme / Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Italy and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on the development of Bedouins in the West Bank. The signing ceremony was attended by Mr. Gianni Ghisi, the Italian Consul in Jerusalem; H.E Mr. Rafiq Al-Natsha, Palestinian Minister of Agriculture; and Mr. Timothy Rothermel, the Special Representative of the UNDP/PAPP.

Book at bedtime is clue to Bush's thinking
Guardian, August 22, 2002
President reveals he is reading gung-ho study which argues that war is too important to be left to generals: The best clue to President George Bush's thinking on Iraq can be found not in the Oval Office, nor on any desk in the Pentagon, nor even in the regular leaks to the New York Times. It can be found on his bedside table.

Egypt denies existence of secret plan to release Israeli spy
Al-Bawaba, August 22, 2002
A senior Egyptian source denied earlier reports published in the Israeli press that a secret plan was underway to exchange an Israeli accused of spying against Egypt for eight Egyptians being held in Israel.

Netherlands to cut pensions of citizens living over green line 
Alternative Information Center, August 22, 2002
The Netherlands plans to reduce pension payments to Dutch Israeli single seniors who live over the Green Line by 20 percent starting in January, the Social Insurance Bank announced Wednesday. The bank said it no longer recognizes Israel's post-1967 borders, and will also stop other payments, including child benefits, to Dutch Israelis living in the territories.

Palestinians Talk To Palestinians
CBS News, August 22, 2002
Palestinian security chief Abdel Razek Yehiyeh was in Gaza Thursday again attempting to persuade Hamas and Islamic Jihad to halt shooting and bombing attacks in Israel, senior Palestinian officials said.

Palestinian Offers His Children For Sale
Islam Online, August 22, 2002
Palestinian children suffer under a deteriorating economy under the Israeli occupation: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, August 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Suffering under the Israeli occupation and curfew that led to a falling economy in the Palestinian territories, a Palestinian father of seven from Rafah published an advertisement in the paper offering his children for sale or adoption because he could no longer feed them.

57% Of American-Muslims Experienced Post 9/11 Bias: Poll
Islam Online, August 22, 2002 
WASHINGTON, August 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Nearly 57 percent of American Muslims polled by an Islamic organization in the U.S., say they have experienced bias or discrimination since the deadly September 11 attacks and 87 percent say know of a fellow Muslim who experienced discrimination.

Israelis, Palestinians to discuss joint projects in Berlin 
Alternative Information Center, August 22, 2002
One such project is a joint industrial park in the Jenin area, with support from the German government:  Ministry of Regional Cooperation director general Majallie Whbee left today on a visit to Berlin at the head of an Israeli delegation to discuss economic projects with senior Palestinian Authority officials. The Israeli delegation includes senior officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Industry & Trade, as well as businessmen.

Israeli aggression on Al Aqsa continuing
Gulf News, August 22, 2002
The Palestinian National Authority yesterday issued a fresh appeal to the international community to stand up against Israel's continuous aggression on the Palestinian people and the Islamic and Christian holy sites in the Occupied Territories.

Israeli prime minister plans September visit to Florida; Democrats question timing
Jordan Times, August 22, 2002   
MIAMI (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has scheduled a visit to Miami next month to rally American support for the Jewish state and meet with Gov. Jeb Bush, drawing the ire of Democrats who question the political motivation behind the trip. 

Habash call to step up attacks against Israel
Gulf News, August 22, 2002
In a rare public statement, the founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) yesterday called on Palestinian militants to step up attacks on Israel and wreck security deals to avenge a slain PFLP figure.

Q2 unemployment rate falls by 0.3%, Palestinian jobless rate reaches 44.7% 
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
Figures released Thursday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that there was a drop in the rate of unemployment in the second quarter of 2002. The figures show that unemployment dropped by 0.3 percent between April and July, and that the rate of unemployment now stands on 10.3 percent – some 260,500 people. The figures released by the CBS are seasonally adjusted.

Yishai begins moves to strip Hamas cell members of residency
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
Interior Minister Eli Yishai has begun moves to annul the residency status of the four residents of East Jerusalem who were at the heart of the Hamas terror cell captured Saturday night. The cell carried out some of the bloodiest attacks since the start of the intifada, killing 35 people in total.

Palestinians meet Quartet officials in Paris
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
Palestinian officials began talks Thursday with members of the 'Quartet' - U.S., Russian, EU and UN officials - in Paris to discuss reforms to be implemented in the Palestinian Authority.

Police arrest senior Greek Orthodox Church bishop
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
Police on Thursday released a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, after he was detained and questioned on suspicion of expressing support for terrorist organizations and illegally entering an enemy country.

Background: Mapping out Israel's future
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
In the absence of a Palestinian peace partner Israel must take unilateral moves to determine its borders. That is one of the key recommendations of a security assessment presented Wednesday to a forum of senior ministers by National Security Council chief Major General Uzi Dayan.

Four East Jerusalem men were in cell that killed 35
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
Fifteen members of one of the intifada's deadliest Hamas cells have been captured, with the Shin Bet attributing at least four attempts at "mega-terrorism" and the murders of at least 35 people and the wounding of more than 200 others to the group. Its four main members lived in East Jerusalem and carried blue identity cards that made it easy for them to provide logistics for suicide bombers from the territories.

IDF demolishes houses in raid in Khan Yunis; kills one man
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
One Palestinian was killed in a pre-dawn Israel Defense Forces operation in the Gaza Strip's Khan Yunis refugee camp yesterday. Two homes were blown up; seven were partially demolished, and about 30 residences were damaged, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency, which received reports of the damage from local residents.

Fuad divides Jerusalem and gives squatters' their rights 
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002, By Akiva Eldar
What would happen if one morning the residents of Ramat Eshkol, a neighborhood in united Jerusalem, were to find a document signed by Amos Yaron, director general of the Defense Ministry on the bulletin boards outside their homes that was headlined "Order for Land Expropriation"?

Gush Shalom demands probe of Shehadeh bombing
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
The Gush Shalom peace organization yesterday called on IDF Judge Advocate General Menahem Finkelstein to authorize an investigation of Air Force Commander Dan Halutz, along with the commander of the flight squadron and the pilot who dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential building in the Gaza Strip on July 23. In addition to killing Hamas military commander Salah Shehadeh, the bombing claimed 16 civilian lives (including nine children), and injured over 100.

Background: The collapse of a unified city
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002
The Palestinians have never reconciled themselves to the forced unification of Jerusalem. And despite the paternalistic gestures he has made toward the residents of East Jerusalem, Mayor Ehud Olmert has never been particularly popular with them. Olmert has not spared efforts to include them in the extended family of residents but they have politely turned down his overtures and remained locked up in their own neighborhoods.

Court rules French peace activists can stay here
Ha'aretz, August 22, 2002 
Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori ruled yesterday that 48 youths from France would not be forced to leave Israel, thereby overturning Interior Minister Eli Yishai's (Shas) deportation orders. The petitions against the deportation orders were filed by the youths and MKs Issam Makhoul (Hadash) and Yossi Katz (Labor).

Israel, Palestine resume talks, Hamas cell smashed
Times of India, August 22, 2002
GAZA CITY: Israeli and Palestinian officials held talks on Wednesday on an Israeli pullback from Gaza, as Israeli security officials said they smashed a Hamas cell in east Jerusalem which they accused of carrying out deadly attacks inside Israel.

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Intifada Update

LAW Weekly Roundup: 8 August - 14 August 2002
WEST BANK/GAZA STRIP: The residents of Nablus and surrounding villages entered the fifty-fifth day of curfew. Nablus and the four refugee camps are still surrounded by Israeli tanks and the city is under siege and curfew for three weeks. Since the re-occupation of Nablus, on August 2, 2002, the curfew has not been lifted except for four hours on August 9, 2002.

AUDIO: Nablus Enters Third Month of Curfew
NPR, August 21, 2002
NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus who have been under 24-hour curfew for months.