Palestinian
shot dead; Three Hamas members
arrested
Al-Bawaba, October 12, 2002
A Palestinian was shot in
the head and killed Saturday
by Israeli forces in the
Gaza Strip town of Khan
Yunis, hospital officials
said.
Two
Palestinian women die; Israel
says it captured Palestinian
would-be bomber in Tel Aviv
Al-Bawaba, October 12, 2002
Two Palestinian women died
of Israeli gunfire on Friday
- one as she sat on a balcony
in the West Bank city of
Nablus and another of wounds
suffered on Oct. 2 in the
Gaza Strip.
Israel
Bar Palestinians from Praying
at Al-Aqsa
Palestine Media Center,
October 12, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israeli
police yesterday blocked
Palestinians’ access
to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
for Friday prayers and used
force to drive back worshipers.
Palestinian
Olive Crop Hit By Israeli
Practices: Report
Islam Online, October 12,
2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank, October
11 (IslamOnline & News
Agencies) - The Palestinian
Authority's olive output,
one of its most important
agricultural products, was
reduced by more than 80%
in 2001, due to Israeli
military actions against
both people and groves.
Red
Cross President urges Israel
to abide by 4th Geneva Convention
Arabic News, October 12,
2002
President of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger,
said at the end of a six-day
visit to Israel and Palestine
that he is gravely concerned
about the current crisis,
Kuwait's News agency Kuna
reported. "The ICRC has
been present here since
1967, and this is the worst
humanitarian situation seen
since then."
Demolition
of Palestinian Homes a ‘War
Crime’: UN Expert
Palestine Media Center,
October 11, 2002
A United Nations expert
on housing and land rights
strongly condemned Israel’s
systematic and methodical
destruction of homes and
confiscation of land by
Israeli Occupation Forces
(IOF) in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory.
Blair's
Russian mission fails as
Putin questions UK 'propaganda'
The Independent, October
12, 2002
Tony Blair's mission to
win Russian support for
an attack on Iraq failed
yesterday when President
Vladimir Putin cast doubt
on whether Saddam Hussein
has weapons of mass destruction.
Reports:
Lebanon to limit use of
Wazzani project to drinking
water only and not for irrigation
Al-Bawaba, October 12, 2002
Lebanon will limit its plan
to pump water from the Hasbani
tributary of the Wazzani
River to drinking water
only, the Lebanese daily
A Nahar reported Saturday.
The plan initially included
the use of water for irrigation.
Two
Palestinians killed by Israel,
24 new settlement buildings
Arabic News, October 12,
2002
The Israeli occupation forces
bombarded with heavy artillery
houses of Beit Hanoun, to
the north of Gaza, and heavy
losses were inflicted as
a result.
Palestinian
Woman Killed in Nablus,
Her Husband, Son Wounded
Palestine Chronicle, October
11, 2002
NABLUS (PC) - Israeli troops
opened fire at a residential
home in Nablus, killing
a woman and injuring her
husband and son, Palestinian
sources reported.
Palestinians:
Man killed by IDF fire in
Khan Yunis
Ha'aretz, October 12, 2002
A 21-year-old Palestinian
man was shot dead Saturday
by IDF fire in the Gaza
Strip, Palestinian sources
reported.
Arafat
holds intensive talks to
form interim cabinet
Ha'aretz, October 12, 2002
Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat, under pressure
at home and abroad to reform
his administration, held
intensive consultations
on a new cabinet Saturday
ahead of elections early
next year, Palestinian officials
said.
Israelis
bar Palestinians from praying
at Al-Aqsa
Arab News, October 12, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 12 October
— Israeli police yesterday
blocked Palestinians’
access to Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound for Friday prayers
and used force to drive
back worshipers.
Suicide
bomber thwarted in Tel Aviv
BBC, October 12, 2002
Sharp-eyed security guards
near the US embassy in Tel
Aviv have foiled a suicide
bomb attack after a cafe
guard spotted a would-be
bomber and chased him away.
US
plans postwar occupation
of Iraq
Arab News, October 12, 2002
LOS ANGELES/BAGHDAD, 12
October — The Bush
administration is contemplating
a lengthy postwar occupation
of Iraq, in which a senior
US general would become
de facto governor of the
country, oversee the dismantling
of weapons of mass destruction
and retain US control over
Iraq’s most prized
natural resource, its oil
fields.
Iraq
'ready' for weapons inspectors
BBC, October 12, 2002
Iraq wants inspectors in
before a new UN resolution:
Iraq has told the chief
United Nations arms inspector
that it is ready to receive
inspectors in a week's time
- a move dismissed by the
US as another delaying tactic.
Iranian
Commander Calls for 100
Million World Militia to
Free Palestine
Islam Online, October 12,
2002
TEHRAN, October 12 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies) - An
Iranian military commander
called for the creation
of a 100 million strong
Islamic militia to free
Palestine, as some 10,000
protestors burned Israeli
and U.S. flags Friday, October
11, in the capital.
This
Year’s Palestinian
Olive Crop is Stained by
Blood
Palestine Media Center,
October 12, 2002
At this time of the year,
Palestinians usually rejoice
the olive harvest that brings
children and elderly men
and women, together to harvest
the newborn of their land.
This year, the globally
- renowned Mediterranean
olive oil is stained by
a darker shade of red, as
those striving to produce
and make a living are hunted
down by an increasingly
barbaric occupation army
and inhumane settler gangs
seeking to destroy what
is deemed the lifeline of
anything Palestinian.
Olive
harvest jeopardised by settler
attacks, with grave implication
for Palestinian economy
Alternative Information
Center, October 12, 2002
Olive production is deemed
one of the major agricultural
activities in the occupied
Palestinian Territory. Olive
trees cover almost 45.7%
of total cultivated Palestinian
areas and its products contribute
immensely to the social
and economic well being
of Palestinians.
Arafat in Intensive Talks
to Form Interim Cabinet
New York Times, October
12, 2002
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)
- Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat, under pressure
at home and abroad to reform
his administration, held
intensive consultations
on a new cabinet on Saturday
with an eye to elections
early next year.
The
Impact of Closure and Other
Mobility Restrictions on
Palestinian Productive Activities:
1 January 2002 - 30 June
2002
United nations, Office of
the United Nations Special
Co-ordinator
Palestinian
Rights Commitee Urges Sustained
International Pressure on
Israel for Full Implementation
of Security Council Resolution
1435
United nations
Iraqi
VP: Inspectors can search
Saddam palaces; Baghdad
ready to accept inspectors
next week
Al-Bawaba, October 12, 2002
Iraq said that it expected
UN weapons inspectors to
arrive next week. In a letter
sent by the Iraqi government
to chief UN arms inspector
Hans Blix, Baghdad authorities
said they were ready to
welcome an advance team
from October 19.
Reversion
to the systematic use of
illegal methods of interrogation
Alternative Information
Center, October 12, 2002
The Public Committee Against
Torture in Israel: Three
years after High Court of
Justice ruling prohibiting
torture in interrogation
there appears to be a reversion
to the systematic use of
illegal methods of interrogation.
Red
Crescent ambulances come
under Israeli fire
Alternative Information
Center, October 12, 2002
Palestine Red Crescent Weekly
Report For the period 5
- 11 October 2002: This
week observed yet further
Israeli army attacks on
ambulances. In Ramallah,
Bethlehem and Khan Younes,
PRCS ambulances were denied
access to evacuate death
and injury cases in addition
to routine calls to transport
sick cases to hospital.
Putin
demands proof over Iraqi
weapons
The Guardian, October 12,
2002
Blair dossier on weapons
of mass destruction scorned
as sceptical leader calls
for return of inspectors:
Vladimir Putin yesterday
rejected Anglo-American
claims that Saddam Hussein
already possesses weapons
of mass destruction and
told Tony Blair that the
best way to resolve the
conflict of evidence is
not war, but the return
of UN inspectors to Iraq.
French
Protest Against Iraq Invasion
The Guardian, October 12,
2002
PARIS (AP) - Several thousand
anti-war activists chanted
``no blood for oil'' as
they marched through Paris
Saturday, protesting possible
military action against
Iraq.
Israel
supporters rally on campus
ahead of pro-Palestinian
conference
JTA News, October 10, 2002
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 10
(JTA) — The headlines
may be going to a pro-Palestinian
conference set for this
weekend, but Israel backers
got a head start with a
large campus rally in support
of the Jewish state.
MBC:
Abdullah: the Hashimite
family has no ambitions
to ruling Iraq
Arabic News, October 12,
2002
The Jordanian King Abdullah
on Friday denied any Hashimite
ambitions in ruling Baghdad.
This was expressed in an
interview with the MBC TV
during which he directed
clear threats against the
parties which he said have
foreign links. He, in this
regard, noted the Communist
Party, the Baath party and
the Islamic Labor Front.
Abu
Mazin denies Israeli report
on using harsh words against
Arafat
Arabic News, October 12,
2002
The secretary general of
the PLO Mahmoud Abbas (Abu
Mazin) has denied what was
published by the Israeli
daily Maareve that he made
criticism to the Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat
during a special meeting
he had held with the Arab
ambassadors in Moscow. Abu
Mazin said in a statement
to the BBC he did not and
will not attack President
Arafat, in person or politically.
US
hawks target Middle East
BBC, October 12, 2002
Beyond the talk of Saddam
Hussein and weapons inspectors,
there is another factor
at play in the White House
war plans - ideology.
Ostracized
Palestinian children given
shelter
Toronto Globe and Mail,
October 12, 2002
Sons, daughters of suspected
collaborators are hounded
even by their own families:
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK --
Even in a group of orphans
and children from troubled
homes, two-year-old Ahmed
sticks out as the most needy.
Christian
Coalition Urges Faithful
To Vote
WRAL.com, October 11, 2002
WASHINGTON -- The Christian
Coalition is trying to fire
up the faithful -- and prove
it still has clout. The
coalition has opened a three-day
conference in Washington
aimed at raising its profile
and getting out the vote
in November.
Hashmira
partner reiterates: We requested
a plan for stopping work
in the Territories
Globes, October 12, 2002
Danish firm Group 4 Falck
requested that Israeli security
firm Hashmira formulate
a plan to withdraw workers
from the Territories for
presentation at the upcoming
board of directors meeting
on October 28.
Suicide
bomber nabbed next to U.S.
embassy in Tel Aviv
Ha'aretz, October 12, 2002
A security guard at a Tel
Aviv cafe prevented a major
terror attack Friday night
when a Palestinian suicide
bomber was apprehended near
the United States embassy
before he could detonate
the explosive belt he was
wearing.
Egypt,
Kuwait, Iran, Jordan May
Accept "Justified" War on
Iraq: Straw
Islam Online, October 12,
2002
LONDON, October 12 (IslamOnline
& News Agencies) - British
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
said Saturday October 12,
that Egypt, Jordan, Iran
and Kuwait may find military
action against Iraq "justifiable"
if authorized by international
law and seen as a last resort.
Lawyers
in Sharon Case Seek European
Parliament Support
Palestine Media Center,
October 11, 2002
BRUSSELS - Three lawyers
- Chibli Mallat, Luc Walleyn
and Michael Verhaeghe -
trying to bring Zionist
Premier Ariel Sharon to
trial in Belgium for the
massacres at Sabra and Shatila
in 1982 have asked the European
Parliament for support for
an end to impunity for war
crimes.
LAW
Weekly Roundup: 3 - 9 October
2002
Palestine Chronicle, October
11, 2002
"Israeli forces killed thirteen
Palestinians in one night
in Gaza; 18 month old Palestinian
baby was also seriously
wounded, shot in his home.
Settlers, living on illegally
confiscated Palestinian
lands killed a man harvesting
olives .."
Associated
Press Criticized for Distortions
Palestine Chronicle, October
11, 2002
NEW YORK (PC) - Associated
Press, one of the most influential
global news provider has
been openly criticized by
New York- based Palestine
Media Watch who complained
about both the distorted
and misleading nature of
the overviews and summaries
of any attacks on Israelis,
and the AP's ongoing failure
to provide a single overview
on Palestinian casualties.
U.S.
Politics Helped Drive Iraq
Vote
The Guardian, October 12,
2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - Over and
over, lawmakers said they
were putting aside partisan
politics to discuss war.
But it was next month's
midterm elections that framed
the congressional debate
on Iraq and helped turn
the tide in President Bush's
favor.
Muslim
Cleric Lashes Out at Falwell
The Guardian, October 12,
2002
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's
top Shiite Muslim cleric
lashed out Saturday at the
Rev. Jerry Falwell for calling
Islam's prophet a terrorist.
Homesick
Palestinian Boxer Wins Palestine
Its First Olympic Medal
Palestine Media Center,
October 11, 2002
For Palestinian boxer Munir
Abu keshek, this year’s
Asian Olympics in Busan
was a historical event in
all sense of the word.
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