Israeli
Police Detonate Car Bomb
Guardian, September 5, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Police
detonated a 1,300 pound
car bomb Thursday, one of
the largest ever discovered,
and Israel's foreign minister
said Israel averted a catastrophe
that could have changed
the face of the Middle East.
An
Israeli Merkava Tank Destroyed
in Gaza, Six Soldiers Wounded
Islam Online, September
5, 2002
GAZA CITY, Sept 5 (IslamOnline)
– Palestinian resistance
activists Thursday, September
05, 2002, destroyed an Israeli
Merkava tank in the southern
Gaza Strip, wounding four
Israeli occupation soldiers.
Brigades of Saladdin, affiliated
to the Public Resistance,
claimed responsibility for
the operation.
Israel
urged to ease Palestinians'
plight
Globe and Mail, September
5, 2002
United Nations — Warning
of a serious humanitarian
crisis among Palestinians,
a U.N. envoy said Israel
needed to do much more in
easing closures in the West
Bank and Gaza to arrest
sharply declining living
standards.
Barghouti
defies Israeli court
Guardian, September 5, 2002
A prominent organiser of
the Palestinian intifada
today told an Israeli court
it did not have the right
to try him, because he is
an elected political leader,
not a criminal.
Palestinian,
two Israeli soldiers killed
in Gaza Strip; Israel says
it foiled massive bombing
attack
Al-Bawaba, September 5,
2002
One Palestinian and one
Israeli officer were killed
and another soldier was
injured Thursday morning,
after two Palestinians opened
fire on troops in the northern
Gaza Strip, between the
settlements of Dugit and
Nissanit.
Amnesty
International: Forcible
Transfers of Palestinians
'a War Crime'
Palestine Chronicle, September
4, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PMC):
Forcible transfer of Palestinians
to Gaza Strip constitutes
"a war crime" and "a grave
violation of one of the
most basic principles of
international human rights
law," Amnesty International
said in a press release
late Tuesday.
Hebron
Survivor Recounts Murder
of His Brother, Three Others
Palestine Chronicle, September
4, 2002
HEBRON (IAP)- Ishaq al Halayka,
23, of the Palestinian village
of Shoyoukh, 10 kilometers
north east of Hebron, on
Wednesday accused the Israeli
army of deliberately murdering
four Palestinian quarry
workers, including his brother,
on 1 September.
Israel
expels 2 W. Bankers to Gaza;
Sharon rejects EU peace
plan
Jordan Times, September
5, 2002
ISRAEL EXPELLED two Palestinians
from the West Bank to Gaza
on Wednesday, driving them
blindfolded into the Gaza
Strip and dropping them
off in a deserted orchard,
the first time Israel has
forced relatives of resistance
activists to leave their
home areas.
Bush
asks for $200m. more aid
for Israel
Jerusalem Post, September
5, 2002
US President George W. Bush
asked Congress Wednesday
to approve roughly $1 billion
in additional spending for
2003, including $200 million
in supplemental aid for
Israel and roughly $50m.
for the Palestinians.
Sharon:
Israel concerned about Libya
efforts to acquire nuclear
weapons; Tripoli: Sharon
suffers from '\'hysteria'\'
Al-Bawaba, September 5,
2002
Libya may be the first Arab
state to have nuclear weapons,
Israel's Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon said Wednesday
night in an interview to
the public TV.
Arab
American leader pushing
for new lobby in US
Jordan Times, September
5, 2002
CAIRO (AFP) — Arab-American
leader James Zogby began
talks with Arab foreign
ministers here Wednesday
on creating an Arab lobby
in the United States, delegates
at the ministers' meeting
said.
Lebanese
soldier, three Palestinians
killed in Baalbek fighting
Jordan Times, September
5, 2002
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AFP) —
A Lebanese soldier and three
Palestinians were killed
in a clash Wednesday between
the army and the Abu Nidal
group at a refugee camp
in Syrian-patrolled eastern
Lebanon, sources from both
sides said.
Palestinian
university used as army
checkpoint
Guardian, September 4, 2002
A military checkpoint has
been established by the
Israeli army at the gates
of a West Bank University,
it emerged today.
Sources at the Palestinian
Birzeit University, near
Ramallah, said three Israeli
military jeeps approached
the university's main gate
at 10am yesterday, local
time, preventing students
and staff from entering
or leaving the building.
Israel
Tests Independence of Foreign
Aid Workers: MSF
Palestine Chronicle, September
4, 2002
RAMALLAH (PMC): French aid
group Medecins Sans Frontieres
(MSF) on Tuesday deplored
the living conditions in
the Occupied Palestinian
Territory as it released
a detailed report on its
work there since November
2000 to October 2001.
Doctors
Without Borders releases
the Palestinian Chronicles
MSF, Spetember 3, 2002
Jerusalem - Today, Médecins
Sans Frontières (MSF, 'Doctors
Without Borders') released
the "Palestinian Chronicles",
a report with first-hand
testimonies about the daily
life of Palestinian civilians
trapped by conflict in Hebron
and the Gaza Strip, and
whose suffering is generally
unknown.
Full report: Palestinian
Chronicles - Acrobat
format
Israel
neglects seriously injured
Palestinian prisoner
LAW Society, September 5,
2002
Israeli prison authorities
have refused medical treatment
for Hassan Mqasqas, a Palestinian
prisoner, who is held in
administrative detention
at the 'Ofer detention center.
Palestinian
Authority prevents LAW to
visit Ahmad Sa'adat in prison
LAW Society, September 4,
2002
On August 27, 2002, LAW
requested the Palestinian
Minister of Interior, Abdul
Razeq al-Yihia, permission
to visit Ahmad Sa'adat,
General Secretary of the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, who is being
held at the Jericho prison,
despite a High Court decision
for his immediate release.
Palestinian
Authority: from economic
crisis to humanitarian catastrophe
Al-Bawaba, September 5,
2002
The serious and mounting
humanitarian crisis in the
West Bank and Gaza may quickly
spiral out of control unless
Israel soon lifts or significanly
eases its closure regime,
concluded Catherine Bertini,
UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan’s personal humanitarian
envoy in the Middle East,
in her report.
Israeli
police discover 600kg car
bomb
Guardian, September 5, 2002
A 600kg car bomb, one of
the largest ever discovered,
was detonated by Israeli
police this morning as Israel
braced itself for a possible
new wave of attacks by Palestinian
militants during the weekend's
Jewish new year.
Barghouti
tells Israeli judges they
have no right to try him
Al-Bawaba, September 5,
2002
During the opening of his
trial, a leader of the Palestinian
uprising told an Israeli
court Thursday that it did
not have the right to prosecute
him because he is an elected
political figure, not a
criminal.
Sharon
offers Palestinians peace
talks
Independent, September 5,
2002
Ariel Sharon appeared to
shift ground yesterday by
saying he was willing to
talk with his adversaries,
having earlier spurned all
political negotia-tions
with the Palestinians until
their leadership was reformed
– and having declared
Yasser Arafat a terrorist,
a murderer and an irrelevance.
Libya
denies Sharon charge it
is developing nuclear arms
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
Libya on Thursday rejected
an Israeli charge that it
was trying to stockpile
weapons of mass destruction
and accused Israel of having
a nuclear arsenal it should
scrap before pointing the
finger at others.
Barghouti
trial begins in Tel Aviv
court
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
The trial of Marwan Barghouti,
accused by Israel of masterminding
deadly attacks, opened Thursday
in the Tel Aviv Magistrates
Court with the Tanzim chief
refusing to recognize the
authority of the Israeli
court.
Israeli
agents accused of posing
as Canadians
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
JERUSALEM - Canada has asked
Israel to respond to allegations
that two Israeli agents
posed as Canadians when
gathering intelligence for
the assassination of a Palestinian
militant in Gaza, a Canadian
diplomat said
Thursday.
Former
CIA and Mossad chiefs to
help fight terrorism in
New York
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
NEW YORK - New York City
has called on the former
chiefs of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency and
the Israeli Mossad to head
an anti-terrorism task force
within its fire department,
which, it says, functioned
below par when terrorists
attacked the World Trade
Center on September 11 last
year, news reports said
Wednesday.
British
Council official is 'cultural
terrorist,' Olmert charges
Jerusalem Post, September
5, 2002
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
on Wednesday charged the
deputy director of the British
Council in Jerusalem with
using "cultural terror"
by convincing two prominent
violinists to cancel their
participation in a major
concert in the capital later
this month.
IDF
officer killed in shooting
attack in northern Gaza
Strip
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
Two soldiers were killed
and four others wounded
in two separate attacks
Thursday morning in the
Gaza Strip.
Israel
Expels 2 of Nablus Militant's
Kin to Gaza
New York Times, September
5, 2002
GAZA, Sept. 4 — The
sister and brother of a
Palestinian militant accused
by Israel of organizing
a suicide bombing were expelled
today from the West Bank,
in an Israeli armored vehicle
that dropped them off on
the dunes south of Gaza
City.
Combat
officers petition court
to recognize refusal to
serve
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
Eight combat officers and
soldiers in the Israel Defense
Forces petitioned the High
Court of Justice on Wednesday
to recognize their refusal
to do reserve service in
the territories as legal.
A
Palestinian Senses an Opening
for Peace
New York Times, September
5, 2002
GAZA — With an Israeli
journalist, Muhammad Dahlan
falls into an easy bonhomie.
He banters fluently in Hebrew,
slapping the interviewer's
knee for emphasis, cracking
jokes.
Illegal
aliens' round-up proves
too sweeping
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
The illegal foreign workers
arrested in the massive
police round-up earlier
this week include the grandson
of a Righteous Gentile,
a glaucoma patient in an
experimental treatment program,
and the husband of an Israeli
woman, according to testimony
given in the statutory hearings
to which the workers are
entitled before being deported.
EU
rejects Israeli expulsion
policy against Palestinians
Arabic News, September 5,
2002
The Israeli forces continued
campaigns of arrest against
the Palestinians which target
six citizens from Taffouh
village in al-Khalil ( Hebron),
including Akram Abu Sininah,
one of the Fatah cadres
and the other five are among
his aides.
Feature:
King Saud and the issue
of Palestine
Arab News, September 5,
2002
The Palestine issue has
been a thorn in the side
of Saudi-American relations
since World War II. As a
world power with military
bases and interests in the
Middle East, the US began
to play its role in the
region as soon as Britain
ended its own.
PLO
in power struggle over envoy
to US
Jerusalem Post, September
5, 2002
A power struggle is shaping
up in Washington over the
PLO ambassadorship.
High
Court rejects Kleiner's
petition to visit Temple
Mount
Jerusalem Post, September
5, 2002
The High Court of Justice
on Wednesday rejected a
petition by MK Michael Kleiner
demanding that the police
allow him to visit the Temple
Mount because of his privileges
as a Knesset member.
Police:
Barak, IDF officials targets
of Kochav Ya'ir bombs
Ha'artez, September 5, 2002
Police sources said Wednesday
that the apparent targets
of two explosive devices
found in the Green Line
suburb of Kochav Ya'ir were
former prime minister Ehud
Barak and high ranking security
officials, who have homes
there.
University
Puts Wheeler Hall Protester's
Degree On Hold
Daily Californian, September
5, 2002
A UC Berkeley student charged
with university conduct
violations for participating
in last spring's pro-Palestinian
protest in Wheeler Hall
is having his bachelor's
degree withheld by the university.
