Israeli forces raid West Bank town, make arrests
Al-Bawaba, August 25, 2002
Israeli troops raided the Palestinian town of Salfit in the West Bank early on Sunday. An army spokesman said that at least five Palestinians had been arrested in the operation north of Ramallah which commenced before dawn and continued into the early morning. An additional five arrests were made elsewhere in the West Bank overnight.

Israel Freezes Security Deal; Persists in Aggression
Palestine Media Center, August 25, 2002
Israel put the newly-born "Gaza-Bethlehem First" security deal to a standstill as its occupation forces raided the West Bank town of Salfit near Nablus, in Sunday's pre-dawn hours, and embarked on a massive detention spree among Palestinian population centers, Israel Radio reported.

Intifada leadership calls on PA to halt security talks with Israel
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002    
In what appears to be a slap in the face to Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Raziq Yehiyeh, the joint intifada leadership called on the Palestinian Authority on Sunday to stop its security talks with Israeli officials.

Israeli Leader Wants Less Violence
Herald Tribune, August 24, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer cautioned the Palestinians Sunday that progress in a security agreement would not be possible if Palestinian security forces did not work harder to stop violence against Israelis.

Israel Steps Up Attacks, Scraps Pullout Deal
Palestine Chronicle, August 24, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel pressed on with its offensive, rounding up Palestinians and razing homes as it insisted there would be no new pullback from the West Bank or Gaza Strip until the Palestinian leadership cracked down more effectively on fighters.

Palestinians execute woman 'collaborator'
BBC, August 25, 2002
The alleged collaboration led to a militia chief's death: The body of a Palestinian woman accused of collaborating with Israeli forces has been found in the West Bank town of Tulkarm.

UN Envoy Stresses Seriousness of Crisis in Occupied Territory
Palestine Chronicle, August 24, 2002 
RAMALLAH (PMC): After meeting with top Palestinian and Israeli officials, the UN Secretary-General's humanitarian envoy to the region, Catherine Bertini, stressed the seriousness of the humanitarian crisis in Palestinian population centers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

200 suspected collaborators held in PA jails 
Alternative Information Center, August 25, 2002 
At least 200 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel are being held in Palestinian Authority prisons, according to informed Palestinian sources.

Abu Nidal sows chaos from the grave
The Observer, August 25, 2002
As confessions go it was spectacular, but little remarked on outside of the specialist circles that monitor these things. Youssef Shaaban, aged 29, and a self-confessed member of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, was on trial for his life in a Beirut court for murdering a Jordanian diplomat when he stood up and insisted that he be heard.

Israel Proposes Unilateral Borders
Palestine Chronicle, August 24, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel's National Security Council has submitted recommendations to its government proposing the unilateral determination of Israel's borders, with or without Palestinian input, media sources revealed Thursday.

The terrorist I knew, by Christopher Hitchens
The Observer, August 25, 2002
I wasn't exactly sad to see the paunchy cadaver of Abu Nidal, photographed so callously undraped in a Baghdad hospital bed. Presumably his torso was exposed so as to belie the unworthy suspicion that he had been machine-gunned by his hosts. The official story - that he had shot himself several times in the head - seems just as acceptable.

Report: Saddam ordered to kill Abu Nidal
Al-Bawaba, August 25, 2002 
Abu Nidal was shot dead on the orders of Saddam Hussein after refusing to train al-Qaeda fighters based in Iraq, The Telegraph reported in its Sunday edition.

Palestinian Militia Executes Woman
New York Times, August 24, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian militia shot and killed a Palestinian woman suspected of collaborating with Israel Saturday, then dumped her bullet-riddled body on a street in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, the militia said.

Highlights on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the era of military globalisation 
Alternative Information Center, August 25, 2002 
The political process in which Palestinians and Israelis found themselves at the end of the 1991 Gulf War was an aspect of the then US global policy to stabilize the post-Cold War world. The process in the Middle East was linked to similar processes in Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America of negotiating solutions to cold-war-conflicts.
 
Saddam killed Abu Nidal over al-Qa'eda row
Telegraph, August 25, 2002
Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist, was murdered on the orders of Saddam Hussein after refusing to train al-Qa'eda fighters based in Iraq, The Telegraph can reveal.

IDF to freeze its withdrawal until after the holidays
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002  
Taking the recommendations of senior IDF officers, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer yesterday decided that there will be no further Israeli pullback from the West Bank city of Hebron at least until the end of the Jewish High Holidays, some six weeks from now.

Israel Proposes Unilateral Borders Disregarding Palestinians
Palestine Media Center, August 24, 2002
Israel's National Security Council has submitted recommendations to its government proposing the unilateral determination of Israel's borders, with or without Palestinian input, media sources revealed Thursday.

IDF chief: Conflict with PA is 'cancerous' strategic threat
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002  
IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon views the conflict with the Palestinians as one of the two main strategic threats to Israel, along with the prospect of a hostile country attaining nuclear capability.

Arafat aide calls freezing IDF pullback 'dangerous action'
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002
Israel's recent decision to postpone a gradual military pullout from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas was a "dangerous action," a senior aide to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat warned Sunday.

Analysis: No timetable set for 'Gaza and Bethlehem First' plan
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002 
A week since the inception of the "Gaza and Bethlehem First" plan, the violence in the Gaza Strip is increasing and the Palestinians are not doing anything to contain it," Israeli military sources are saying. According to these sources, Palestinian Authority security forces are demonstrating greater goodwill in Bethlehem, but even there no action has been taken against the terror organizations.

New Academic Year in Light of Israeli Occupation
"At least 239 students were killed by Israeli occupation forces since September 2000… 2600 others were wounded "
Palestine Media Center, August 22, 2002
Dr. Na'eem Abu Al-Humuss, Minister of Education, stressed that his ministry is determined to overcome all the difficulties imposed by Israel's occupation and siege on most Palestinian cities and towns, in order to maintain the regularity of the educational process in the Occupied Territory.

Families of E. J'lem cell suspects brace for demolitions
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002   
A week after the arrest of four East Jerusalem residents who allegedly conducted terror attacks against Israelis as part of a Hamas cell, their families continue to insist that the men are innocent. But Aziz Abassi, the uncle of Wissam Abassi, who is accused of carrying out an attack in Rishon Letzion, says that he feels great shame.

Israel steps up attacks, scraps pullout deal
Arab News, August 25, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 25 August — Israel pressed on with its offensive, rounding up Palestinians and razing homes as it insisted there would be no new pullback from the West Bank or Gaza Strip until the Palestinian leadership cracked down more effectively on fighters.

Supreme Court orders pro-Palestinian activists back to France
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002   
The Supreme Court on Sunday upheld a decision by the Interior Ministry barring from Israel a group of French pro-Palestinian activists, a ministry statement and the group's lawyer said.

PA elections must include East Jerusalem, officials tell U.S.
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002    
Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council must also take place in East Jerusalem, as was the case in the previous elections in 1996, Palestinian representatives recently told their American counterparts.

Activists outraged over targeting of representative
Houston Chronicle, August 24, 2002
In the wake of Tuesday's ousting of Rep. Cynthia McKinney in a Georgia Democratic primary, some black political activists and leaders are expressing outrage at Jewish organizations that targeted McKinney because she had expressed pro-Palestinian sentiments about the Middle East crisis.

Court to hear deportation petitions; Sheetrit backs demolitions
Ha'aretz, August 25, 2002     
Nine High Court Justices will meet Monday to discuss petitions by three Palestinians slated for deportation from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, which ask the court to block the deportation order.

Palestinian Soccer Team Has Dreams
Palestine Chronicle, August 24, 2002
GAZA CITY (AP): The coach speaks only Polish, the team is broke and most players can't attend training sessions because of Israeli travel restrictions. Yet the ragtag Palestinian soccer team is determined to score big in its first international competition since Mideast fighting erupted two years ago — next week's tournament among six Arab nations in Syria.