Israeli Police Storm Muslim Compound
The Guardian, October 4, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police stormed the main mosque compound in the heart of Jerusalem and fired stun grenades Friday after Muslim worshippers threw rocks at Jews praying at the Western Wall below, police said.

Israel rebuked for disrupting schools
The Independent, October 3, 2002
The United Nations Children's Fund accused the Israeli army yesterday of preventing 170,000 Palestinian children from going to school, in breach of the Geneva conventions and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

One Palestinian killed in Jenin, Israeli wounded at fence
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002 
A Palestinian street vendor was killed yesterday in clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinians near the Jenin refugee camp. Ahmed Astiti, 45, was caught between clashing IDF troops and Palestinian demonstrators. He was shot and killed by the soldiers.

Blair emphasizes commitment to Middle East peace
Virtual Jerusalem, October 4, 2002
British Prime Minister Tony Blair repeated Thursday his call for fresh peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians and reiterated that all nations were obliged to uphold United Nations resolutions.

Report: Israeli troops exercise Arafat expulsion
Al-Bawaba, October 3, 2002
The Israeli military staged a drill practicing the expulsion of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and commandos even visited the intended destination, a deserted area in a foreign country, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported Thursday.

Scuffles mar opening of Barghouti trial
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
A Tel Aviv District Court hearing about whether the state of Israel has the legal authority to put Marwan Barghouti on trial descended into an outright riot before and after the court session, with dozens of court guards needed to hustle Barghouti's lawyers out of the building safely.

Abu Mazen: PA wants guarantees before tightening Gaza security
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
The Palestinian Authority was ready to impose security in Gaza to help end violence but first wanted U.S. and Israeli guarantees its areas would not be attacked, a top Palestinian official said in remarks published on Friday.

Shock waves, uncertainty hit trade in foreign workers
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002 
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's surprise decision Wednesday to stop any further entry of foreign workers sent shock waves through a billion-shekel-a-year sector based on brokering workers to employers, a government bureaucracy spanning four ministries, and the industries that rely on foreign workers.

Israel to transfer NIS 70 million to PA finance minister
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Israel said on Friday that it will bow to U.S. pressure and transfer NIS 70 million in frozen Palestinian Authority tax money held in the treasury to Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayad in the next few days.

Day of rage in Palestine: Israeli police briefly storm into Temple Mount; Palestinian boy critically wounded in Nablus
Al-Bawaba, October 4, 2002
Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount on Friday, after dozens of Palestinian worshippers threw stones at the Western Wall plaza following Friday prayers, Israeli sources said.

Arafat appeals to Christians to oppose US law on Jerusalem
Jordan Times, October 4, 2002   
RAMALLAH (AFP) — Yasser Arafat called on Christians Thursday to join Muslims in rejecting a US congressional demand that Jerusalem be recognised as Israel's capital.

An unlikely dove
The Guardian, October 4, 2002
In the first intifada he was an army general who hammered the Palestinians; now he is the Israeli peace movement's best hope of toppling Ariel Sharon and ending the violence.

Al-Aqsa mosque 'may collapse'
The Guardian, October 4, 2002
Ariel Sharon risks provoking another Palestinian backlash over control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as he decides in the coming days what to do about a large and unstable bulge in a wall of one of Islam's holiest sites.

Israel, Palestinians Spar Over Wall
The Guardian, October 4, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel is moving toward fixing a huge bulge in a wall of the Old City of Jerusalem that archaeologists say is near collapse, threatening to set off a new explosion of Mideast violence.

UNICEF: thousands of Palestinian children denied access to schools
Arabic News, October 3, 2002
A month into the Palestinian school year, the UNICEF special representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, Pierre Poupard, on October 2nd expressed serious concern over the number of Palestinian children being prevented from attending school by Israel imposed restrictions.

Israels breaks to Tammoun village, close schools; Peres: Intifada fatigued Israel
Arabic News, October 3, 2002
UNICEF has asked Israel to permit the Palestinian children to go to school in implementation of the Fourth Geneva agreement and the Child Rights Agreement.

Palestinian killed in Jenin, Israeli injured; Stormy resumption of Barghouti trial
Al-Bawaba, October 3, 2002 
A Palestinian trader, Ahmed Hussein Stiti, 45, was killed and three people were injured by Israeli fire in Jenin, Palestinian sources said.

Police storm Temple Mount after worshippers stone Western Wall
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Jerusalem police stormed the Temple Mount, after dozens of Palestinian worshippers threw stones at the officers stationed meters away from the Western Wall plaza, following Friday prayers.

Benizri: Blanket ban on foreign workers will cause severe problems
Globes, October 4, 2002
Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Shlomo Benizri today criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decision to block the entry of new foreign workers.

Police won't pick up foreign workers who entered legally
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
From today, police will only detain illegal foreign workers who were either smuggled into Israel, or who entered on tourist visas.

More Jews moving into Arab Musrara
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
The police are preparing for another takeover by a Jewish family of a property in Arab Musrara in Jerusalem, between Damascus Gate and Hanevi'im Street, after a court ruled an Arab family claiming ownership does not have the rights to the property that was owned by Jews before the state was founded.

Israeli police enter al-Aqsa compound
BBC, October 4, 2002
Israeli police entered the Muslim mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif.

Scuffles at key Palestinian's trial
BBC, October 4, 2002
Scuffles erupted between Palestinian spectators and families of Israeli victims during the third day of the murder trial of Marwan Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian leader.

US rejects comparing Iraqi and Israeli WMD
Jordan Times, October 4, 2002   
CAIRO (AFP) — A visiting senior US official rejected comparisons here Thursday between Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and Israel's.

Man shot building security fence
Jerusalem Post, October 4, 2002
A 45-year-old Israeli was shot in the lower back near Baka a-Sharkiya around 11 Thursday morning while supervising construction of the security fence being built roughly along the Green Line. A Magen David Adom ambulance took him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, where he was in satisfactory condition.

Blix to meet Powell; Israel DM says attack on Iraq by end of November
Al-Bawaba, October 4, 2002
U.N. inspectors indicated Thursday they would not resume their work in Iraq until the Security Council decides whether to adopt a resolution that could give them broad powers.

Survey: 80% of Palestinian citizens of Israel want violence to end 
Alternative Information Center, October 3, 2002
More than three-quarters of Israeli Arabs living in the Triangle want the violence of the intifada come to an end, a recent survey has shown. Only 15 percent of respondents from the region, considered a stronghold of the fundamentalist Islamic Movement, felt that the intifada should continue.

Iran says long-range rockets directed to deter Israel
Al-Bawaba, October 3, 2002
The head of the Iranian missile development project said Thursday that Teheran's long-range rockets were meant to hit Israel in the event of an Israeli strike on Iran.

Israel to begin registering property claims by Jews from Arab countries 
Alternative Information Center, October 3, 2002
The Ministry of Justice and Jewish organizations will manage the international campaign. 
This Friday in New York, Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit will announce the opening of an international campaign to register claims for looted property by Jews from Arab countries.

Reporters sans frontières calls on Israeli army to return confiscated film 
Alternative Information Center, October 3, 2002
Reporters Without Borders protested on 1 October the seizure of a Reuters journalist's film by Israeli soldiers and suggested it was an attempt to cover up evidence about clashes with Palestinian demonstrators. It called for the confiscated videotape to be returned at once.

Sharon put out by Putin
Globes, October 4, 2002
Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to promise Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivery of IL-76 planes for the Phalcon AWACS. Opposition by Russian defense contractors could delay Israel’s Phalcon deal with India.

Ben-Eliezer: U.S. attack on Iraq will begin by end of November
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Speaking at a meeting of Labor Party ministers on Thursday, Defense Minister and Party Chairman Benjamin Ben-Eliezer estimated that a U.S. military attack against Iraq would begin at the end of November.

Hebron settler Federman arrested for violating house arrest
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Noam Federman, a former leader of the outlawed Kach movement, was arrested Friday morning for violating an administrative house-arrest order issued Thursday by the head of the IDF's central command, Major General Moshe Kaplinski.

Iraq urges opposition to U.S. draft, calls Bush 'the Hitler of Washington'
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi newspaper on Friday urged the U.N. Security Council to oppose a U.S. draft resolution that would authorize the use of force against Iraq, calling U.S. President George W. Bush "the Hitler of Washington."

Hamas trying to set up bomb labs inside Israel, says IDF
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
The radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas has been actively trying to set up weapons labs in Arab villages inside Israel in recent months, security sources say.

Hebrew U. closes its gates to all but staff, students
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Reacting to the terrorist attack on campus last July, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem adopted a policy this week restricting entry to its grounds to those holding identity cards proving their affiliation with the institution.

Nine were killed - but where are the suspects?
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
Nine Israeli Arabs have been killed by members of the security forces since the disturbances of October, 2000. They were not participating in demonstrations and were not armed.

Mired in the Muqata
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
How U.S. pressure ended the IDF's messy Ramallah operation: The British diplomat turned so red he seemed to be having a stroke. "You have to get out of there," he shouted, waving a finger at the nose of Aharon Yaakov, the deputy to the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

Washington briefs Israeli team about plans for Iraq war
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002
An Israeli security delegation arrived in Washington yesterday to consult with U.S. officials ahead of a possible war in Iraq.

Jordan to renovate pulpit at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ha'aretz, October 4, 2002 
AMMAN - Jordan has assigned a local firm to reconstruct the pulpit of Saladin, which was burned down in 1969, in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, the official Petra news agency said yesterday.

Debate hots up over two boycotts
Arab News, October 4, 2002
The pro-Israel Middle East Forum, headed by Daniel Pipes, launched a website this fall called Campus Watch that criticized eight professors and 14 universities for their views on Palestinian rights and political Islam.

New US Jerusalem bill alienates Muslims
Arab News, October 4, 2002
WASHINGTON, 4 October — US President George Bush on Wednesday angered the Arab and Muslim world and supporters for a Middle East peace when he signed into legislation a bill that requires the administration to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

85% drop in Muslim candidates in US polls
Arab News, October 4, 2002
NEW YORK, 4 October — The number of Muslims running for elective office across the United States has dropped by 85 percent in two years because potential candidates fear the post-Sept. 11 anti-Muslim backlash would doom their campaigns.

Arms Experts Spied on Iraq: Swede Inspector
Islam Online, October 4, 2002
STOCKHOLM, October 4 (IslamOnline & News agencies) – As some leaked U.N. reports revealed that Washington intends to use U.N. weapons inspections to occupy Iraq, a Swede who worked as an inspector said that some United Nations inspectors  looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in the 1990s probably spied on the Arab country for their governments.

Jordan Renews Opposition to Serving As Launchpad for Attacking Iraq
Islam Online, October 4, 2002
AMMAN, October 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu-Ragheb has reaffirmed that the kingdom will not be used as a launch-pad for any strike by the United States on Iraq, two countries with which Jordan has "strategic" relations.

Egyptian Women Protest U.S. Jerusalem Bill, Threats to Iraq
Islam Online, October 4, 2002
CAIRO, October 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Some 60 Egyptian women gathered in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo Thursday, October 3, to condemn the U.S. bill identifying occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Washington’s continued threats of war on Iraq.

Barghouthi rejects Israel's right to try him
Jordan Times, October 4, 2002
UPRISING LEADER Marwan Barghouthi was back in court Thursday on “terrorism” charges, rejecting in a turbulent hearing the Israeli occupation authorities' right to try him, and backed by a Jewish lawyer who compared him to Moses.

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