14
die as Israel faces new
bomb threat
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
Suicide bombers in Israel
used a new and devastating
tactic yesterday, detonating
a car packed with explosives
next to a crowded rush
hour bus. At least 14
people were killed and
59 others were badly wounded
after the bus burst into
flames seconds later.
Following
bus bombing: Israel tightens
curfews on Palestinian
towns and villages; Houses
demolished
Al-Bawaba, October 22,
2002
The Israeli army is set
to tighten curfews on
Palestinian towns and
villages following the
attack on the bus near
the northern town of Karkur
Monday afternoon, which
was carried out by Islamic
Jihad and killed 14, Israeli
army spokeswoman said.
Palestinians
barred from picking olives,
drilling for water
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
The IDF issued a prohibition
Tuesday on Palestinians
picking olive harvests
in West Bank villages,
saying troops could not
protect pickers from Jewish
settlers.
Palestinian
Towns and Villages Raided,
New Curfews Imposed
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
HOUSAM, West Bank (PINA)
- Israeli forces carried
out arrest raids in various
villages and towns in
the West Bank, Palestinian
sources reported. Residents
in the village of Housam,
located west of the town
of Bethlehem in the West
Bank say that their village
came under a new curfew
at dawn.
Brutalized
villagers defy settler
violence and return to
their homes; praise role
of media and foreigners
Palestine Monitor, October
21, 2002
The stand-off over the
future of the Palestinian
village Yanoun in the
face of increasingly violent
Israeli settler attacks
took a new turn yesterday
when men from the village
refused to be scared out
of their homes.
Settler
Terror Campaign Persists
against Palestinian Olive
Pickers
Palestine Media Center,
October 22, 2002
Illegal Israeli settlers
in the occupied Palestinian
Territory have continued
their campaign of terror
against Palestinian civilians,
protected by the Israeli
Occupation Forces (IOF)
who failed to dismantle
a settler outpost that
was not authorized by
the Israeli government
in the past week, out
of more than 100 erected
since Israeli PM Sharon
came to power.
Israel
asks US for $10bn to halt
recession
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
Ariel Sharon is pressing
Washington for billions
of dollars of emergency
aid to revitalise the
Israeli economy, driven
deep into recession by
the two years of Palestinian
uprising.
Palestinians
forbidden from picking
olives
Muslim News, October 22,
2002
The Israeli army today
issued a new directive
forbidding Palestinians
from picking olives in
the West Bank. October
and November are the main
months for olive harvesting.
Masked
settlers torch cars of
olive-pickers
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Masked settlers yesterday
set alight seven cars
belonging to residents
of the Palestinian village
of Turmous-Aya, on the
Ramallah-Nablus road.
The incident was part
of the settlers' ongoing
attempts to prevent the
villagers from harvesting
olives in the groves between
the village and the settlement
of Adi'ad.
Locals,
Internationals Face Off
with Jewish Settlers as
Battle of Olive Harvest
Continues
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
LABAN, West Bank (PINA)
- A large number of Jewish
settlers continued their
raids of Palestinian farms,
under the protection of
the Israeli army in the
northern West Bank, Palestinian
witnesses said today.
Bus
bombing in Israel kills
14
Arab News, October 21,
2002
KARKUR JUNCTION, Israel,
22 October — A car
bomb ripped apart a packed
bus in northern Israel,
killing at least 14 people
and wounding nearly 50
others, jeopardizing the
latest peace push by Washington
and Europe.
Commander
charged with torturing
Palestinian boy
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
An Israeli army commander
has been relieved of his
post after being charged
with torturing a young
Palestinian boy in Bethlehem
while interrogating him
as to the whereabouts
of his father.
IDF
kills two armed Palestinians
in Gaza
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
The Israel Defense Forces
killed two armed Palestinians
near the Gazan settlement
of Kfar Darom early yesterday
morning. The soldiers
opened fire on the two
as they were heading toward
the settlement shortly
after midnight on Sunday,
the IDF Spokesman said.
Palestinians
Concerned over Proposed
$10B US Aid Package to
Israel
Palestine Media Center,
October 22, 2002
The United States has
offered Israel a huge
aid - package, a senior
official revealed Monday
as a Tel Aviv daily spoke
of an Israeli request
for loan guarantees totaling
10 billion dollars, despite
continuing Palestinian
protests that US aid to
Israel is financing its
occupation and settlement
of Palestinian Territory.
800
prisoners have no beds
to sleep on
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Every night some 800 prisoners
and detainees have to
sleep on the floor in
detention centers and
jails across the country
due to a shortage of beds,
deputy commissioner of
the Prisons Authority,
Daniel Avidan, told the
Knesset Constitution,
Law and Justice Committee
at a meeting yesterday
on prison conditions.
Hebron
pullback postponed several
days
Jerusalem Post, October
22, 2002
The IDF will not withdraw
from Palestinian-controlled
Hebron until later in
the week, military officials
told The Jerusalem Post.
PA
Slams Israel’s Hebron
Move as PR
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
RAMALLAH (PINA) - The
Palestinian Authority
(PA) has dismissed an
Israeli army ‘redeployment’
scheme as a media ploy.
Israel has earlier declared
its intentions of leaving
parts of the occupied
city of Hebron.
Israeli
Army Kills 2 in Gaza,
Demolishes 2 Homes in
WBank
Islam Online, October
22, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, October
21 (IslamOnline &
News Agencies) –
The Israeli occupation
army murdered two Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip Monday,
October 21, and demolished
the homes of two Palestinian
activists in the West
Bank.
Hadera
Deaths Up to 16, Israel
Blames PA
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
RAMALLAH, West Bank (PINA)
- The Palestinian Authority
condemned a bombing in
Israel Monday, which killed
16 people, including two
suspected Palestinian
bombers. The Israeli government
however said that the
PA is responsible for
the attack.
Egyptian
border policeman injured
by Palestinian weapon
smugglers
Al-Bawaba, October 22,
2002
An Egyptian border policeman
was injured in the right
shoulder on Monday during
a shootout with Palestinians
trying to smuggle weapons
over the border into the
Gaza Strip, police said.
US
denies visa to Afif Safieh,
Palestinian general delegate
to UK
Alternative Information
Center, October 21, 2002
Afif Emile Safieh, Palestinian
General Delegate to the
UK and to the Holy See,
was not given a visa to
the U.S.A where he was
supposed to be a speaker
in an International Conference
on the "Christians of
the Holy Land" to be held
on Friday and Saturday
18 and 19 October in the
National Presbyterian
Church-4101 Nebraska Avenue
NW-Washington D.C. 20016.
Patten:
Israel does not respond
to European efforts to
achieve ME peace
Arabic News, October 21,
2002
The EU commissioner for
foreign political affairs,
Chris Patten has stressed
the European Union (EU)
continued efforts to achieve
a just and comprehensive
peace in the Middle East
region, based on international
resolutions. He warned
against the continued
double- standard policy
in implementing the international
resolutions in the region.
Militants
bomb Israeli bus
BBC, October 21, 2002
An explosion has ripped
through a bus in northern
Israel, killing at least
15 people and injuring
more than 30 others in
what police say was a
suicide bomb attack.
Annan
'appalled' by Israel bus
bomb
BBC, October 22, 2002
United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan has
strongly condemned a suicide
attack on a bus in northern
Israel which killed at
least 15 people, including
the bomber.
Yishai:
U.S. interests to be considered
in bomb retaliation
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Interior Minister Eli
Yishai said Tuesday that
Israel would take into
account American interests
when planning its response
to Monday's lethal suicide
attack near Hadera.
25
still in hospital, 6 serious,
after car bomb near bus
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Twenty-five people were
still hospitalized Tuesday
morning after a suicide
attack Monday afternoon
next to a packed bus near
Hadera, Israel Radio reported.
Six of those still in
hospital are in serious
condition, the radio said.
Ben-Eliezer
wants head of Yesha rabbinical
council to stand trial
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Defense Minister Benjamin
Ben-Eliezer yesterday
called for the head of
the Yesha rabbinical council,
Rabbi Zalman Melamed,
to stand trial for issuing
a religious edict forbidding
settlers and soldiers
to evacuate the illegal
West Bank outpost of Havat
Gilad.
Top
Laborites urge exit from
coalition
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Senior Labor MKs are demanding
that the party withdraw
from the government following
Infrastructure Minister
Effi Eitam's verbal attack
over the weekend on Labor's
chairman, Defense Minister
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer.
No-confidence
votes defeated, despite
Labor
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
The government yesterday
handily defeated two no-confidence
motions, despite the Labor
Party's almost total boycott
of the votes.
Ben-Eliezer
wants head of Yesha rabbinical
council to stand trial
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Defense Minister Benjamin
Ben-Eliezer yesterday
called for the head of
the Yesha rabbinical council,
Rabbi Zalman Melamed,
to stand trial for issuing
a religious edict forbidding
settlers and soldiers
to evacuate the illegal
West Bank outpost of Havat
Gilad.
Israel
weighs 'harsh' strike
at militants
BBC, October 22, 2002
Israel blew up the homes
of two Palestinian suspects:
The Israeli interior minister
has said there must be
a harsh but precise response
to the bomb attack on
a bus in northern Israel
on Monday which killed
14 people.
IDF
chief: Soldiers protecting
outposts instead of fighting
terror
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Soldiers whose job it
is to fight terror have
been sent to protect settlement
outposts in the West Bank,
IDF Chief of Staff Moshe
Ya'alon told the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Security
Committee.
Jewish
settlers defy outpost
clearance
BBC, October 22, 2002
Troops met heavy resistance
on Sunday: A group of
Jewish settlers has defied
the Israeli authorities
and re-occupied an illegal
outpost in the West Bank.
IDF
surrounds house in Hebron,
demolishes another near
Nablus
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
An IDF force surrounded
the home a family connected
to the Islamic Jihad on
Tuesday, in the Ras al-Jura
neighborhood of Hebron.
Peres
seeks solution to trade
dispute with European
Union
Alternative Information
Center, October 21, 2002
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres sought to persuade
his European Union counterparts
Monday to delay a threat
to impose tariffs on $200,000
worth Israeli goods produced
in the West Bank, Gaza
Strip, Golan Heights and
East Jerusalem.
Peres
persuades Europe to delay
plans to tax Jewish settlement
goods
Jerusalem Post, October
22, 2002
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres has convinced the
European Union-Israel
Association Council in
Luxembourg not to tax
Israeli products from
Judea, Samaria, and the
Gaza Strip.
Petition
supporting right of education
for Palestinian children
Alternative Information
Center, October 21, 2002
The Right to Education
is Under Attack! We, the
undersigned, educators,
psychologists, social
workers --people who are
working for the welfare
of children -- decry the
violations being committed
against the well-being
and the basic right to
education of Palestinian
children.
Jewish
Group Demands Recall of
British Ambassador, Accused
of 'Holocaust Revisionism'
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
LONDON (PINA) - A leading
US-based Jewish group
is determined not to forgive
a statement made by Britain's
Ambassador to Israel,
Sherard Cowper-Coles,
who expressed an unprecedented
view on the Arab Israeli
conflict.
Israelis,
Palestinians discuss dividing
Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post, October
22, 2002
Israeli left wing activists
and Palestinian officials
met in Turkey over the
weekend for a conference
discussing ways of sharing
Jerusalem. The meeting
was organized by the Israel-Palestine
Center for Research and
Information.
Palestinians,
Jews clash during olive
harvest
Jerusalem Post, October
21, 2002
Police are searching for
those involved in clashes
that erupted between Palestinian
farmers from the village
of Turmas Aya, northeast
of Ramallah, and Jewish
residents of the Adei
Ad farm in Binyamin on
Sunday that led to the
torching of seven Palestinian
vehicles and a Jewish
agricultural plot.
Ben-Eliezer:
More illegal outposts
to go
Jerusalem Post, October
21, 2002
Three more illegal outposts
in the territories are
to be evacuated in the
next few days, Defense
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
informed the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee
on Monday.
Ben-Eliezer's
guard bolstered due to
assassination fears
Jerusalem Post, October
21, 2002
The Shin Bet detail assigned
to protect Defense Minister
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has
been bolstered on suspicion
that right-wing extremists
may attempt assassinate
him.
Report:
Unilateral Action in Jerusalem:
Making Two States Impossible
Palestine Media Center,
October 17, 2002
The building of the “security”
wall around Jerusalem
is the latest Israeli
measure in what has been
a systemic Israel initiative
to unilaterally close
the options for negotiating
Jerusalem and a viable
Palestinian state.
Shin
Bet warns `hill settlers'
pose risks
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
A Shin Bet report on the
"hilltop people" - the
settlers who set up the
illegal outposts in the
territories - says they
are "a few hundred youths,
some in their 20s, some
adolescents and a few
older people [with] an
ideology with its own
internal interpretations
of halakhic ritual, from
which flow dangerous conclusions
regarding criminal and
security risks."
Victims
of Bus Blast Mostly Soldiers,
Israel Demolishes More
Homes
Islam Online, October
22, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, October
22 (IslamOnline &
News Agencies) –
While the Israeli occupation
army continued Tuesday,
October 22, demolishing
homes of Palestinian activists,
Israeli sources said several
soldiers were among the
dead in the bus blast
Monday, October 21.
Abu
Ala says Arafat will present
new cabinet next week
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
RAMALLAH - Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat has
formed a new Cabinet that
will be presented to the
legislative council for
approval next week, the
Speaker of the Palestinian
Legislative Council, Abu
Ala, said Tuesday.
Background:
1st part of fence will
only be ready in July
2003
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
The IDF has completed
planning the route of
a new 42km segment of
the security fence, which
will run from Megiddo
Junction through to the
Gilboa mountains.
Progress,
but no end to general
strike
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Some progress toward ending
the 10-day-old strike
by municipal workers was
made during another round
of negotiations yesterday,
but the strike will nevertheless
continue today.
Palestinian
security officials doubt
Islamic Jihad acted alone
Jerusalem Post, October
22, 2002
The Islamic Jihad organization
could not have carried
out Monday's bus attack
without help from other
groups, Palestinian Authority
security officials said.
Official:
Israel to show 'maximal
restraint' _ but will
react to unconventional
Iraqi strike
New Jersey.com, October
21, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel
will use "maximal restraint"
in a U.S. war with Iraq
but retains the right
to strike back if Iraq
launches a "megaterror"
attack or uses chemical
or biological weapons
against Israel, a senior
government official said
Monday.
Sharon:
If Iraqi attack causes
casualties – we’ll
respond
Globes, October 21, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon:
We will support the US
decision and show sensitivity
to US needs, by showing
maximum restraint.
U.S.
Distributes New Iraq Resolution
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
The United States on Monday
distributed a revised
U.N. resolution on Iraq
to the other veto-wielding
members of the Security
Council that it said would
toughen weapons inspections
and ensure there will
be ``consequences'' if
Iraq fails to comply.
France
Praised for Iraq Stand
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
PARIS (AP) - It sounds
like political suicide:
alienate your most powerful
ally, risk looking soft
against an aggressive
dictator, argue for bureaucratic
deliberation over decisive
action.
Moscow
Hosts High-Level Iraq
Talks
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's
foreign minister played
host Tuesday to a senior
U.S. diplomat and the
chief U.N. weapons inspector
for talks on Iraq, while
news reports said that
Moscow was ``disappointed''
with a new U.S. draft
resolution on disarming
Saddam Hussein.
Allies
Bomb N. Iraq Command Site
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - Allied
planes bombed a military
air defense site in the
northern no-fly zone over
Iraq on Tuesday after
taking fire from Iraqi
forces, defense officials
said.
Martyrs'
heirs await the assault
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
Basra took a beating from
Iran and the allies -
now its people are preparing
for yet another attack:
There is no memorial at
Safwan. None in Saddam
Hussein's regime likes
to remember the humiliating
ceasefire signed here
on the Kuwaiti border
in 1991 ending the Gulf
war and crushing the Iraqi
president's imperial ambitions.
Moscow
''disappointed'' with
new U.S. draft resolution
on Iraq; Blix says Baghdad
can avoid war
Al-Bawaba, October 22,
2002
Russia's foreign minister
hosted Tuesday a senior
U.S. diplomat and the
chief U.N. weapons inspector
for talks on Iraq, while
news reports said that
Moscow was "disappointed"
with a new U.S. draft
resolution on disarming
Saddam Hussein.
US
anti-war groups flex their
muscle
The Guardian, October
22, 2002
Medea Benjamin has been
close to both President
Bush and his defence secretary,
Donald Rumsfeld, over
the past few weeks. So
close, in fact, that she
was arrested.
Bush
willing to give diplomacy
one more try; Apache helicopters
shipped to Kuwait
Al-Bawaba, October 22,
2002
U.S. President Bush said
on Monday he believed
Iraq could be disarmed
peacefully and he was
willing to give diplomacy
one more try.
Sharon
wants US immigrants to
Israel to receive same
aid as others
Alternative Information
Center, October 21, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
has told aides that he
wants to provide equal
financial aid to all immigrants
by abolishing the difference
between amounts offered
newcomers from poor and
wealthy countries, Deputy
Absorption Minister Yuli
Edelstein.
UN
Big-5 discuss new US resolution
on Iraq
Arab News, October 21,
2002
UNITED NATIONS, 22 October
— As the five permanent
members of the UN Security
Council met to discuss
a new "revised text" on
Iraq put forth by the
United States yesterday,
the White House said a
resolution appeared imminent.
Der
Spiegel: Jordanian King
does not rule out the
return of monarchy to
Iraq
Arabic News, October 21,
2002
The Jordanian King Abdullah
II does not rule out that
Iraq will be one day ruled
by a member of the Hashamite
family. In a press statement
to the German daily Der
Spiegel, he said that
the American government
will appoint a provisional
government in Iraq under
the leadership of an American
army officer.
A
time and place for them
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
`A play? In Gaza? About
feminism? With Palestinian
actresses? Unbelievable!':
GAZA - At the end, the
audience did not want
to leave. Well-dressed
people hung around, standing,
sitting, gossiping - talking
about anything - just
lingering in the atmosphere
of the grand theater at
the Palestinian Red Crescent
Cultural Center in Gaza.
Reform
rabbis' statement on Israel
reflects swing right
Jerusalem Post, October
21, 2002
More than 120 Reform rabbis
have signed a statement
on the Middle East which,
according the initiator
of the statement, represents
a shift to the political
right within the movement.
What's
illegal: occupation or
refusal to serve?
Ha'aretz, October 22,
2002
Tomorrow the High Court
of Justice will discuss
the petition of eight
men who refused to report
for reserve duty, who
want a ruling that their
refusal is legal, because
since the Al Aqsa Intifada,
the occupation and IDF
[Israel Defense Forces]
activities in the territories
are what is illegal.
Amidst
political storm, youths
rebuild Gilad Farm
Jerusalem Post, October
22, 2002
Young adults were busy
Monday peacefully rebuilding
the illegal outpost Gilad
Farm that soldiers and
police destroyed Sunday
after violent clashes
with protesters.
Eitam:
NRP staying in government
Jerusalem Post, October
21, 2002
The National Religious
Party has been instructed
by its rabbinical leaders
to remain in the government,
despite its anger over
the IDF's violation of
Shabbat to move soldiers
to the Gilad Farm illegal
outpost, party leader
Effi Eitam said on Monday.
No
UK plans to deal with
humanitarian impact of
Iraq war
Muslim News, October 21,
2002
London,IRNA - International
Development Secretary
Clare Short has declined
to say whether her department
has made any preparations
to deal with the humanitarian
consequences of the threatened
US war against Iraq.
Interview
with Islamic Jihad Leader,
10 Minutes at a Time
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
JENIN, West Bank (PINA)
- Responsibility for a
suicide bombing in Israel
Monday was claimed on
behalf of the Islamic
Jihad Movement. The Palestine
Chronicle interviewed
one of the top Islamic
Jihad Leaders in the West
Bank a few days ago, where
he discussed suicide bombings,
along with many other
issues.
Expelled
Students Deny Knowledge
of Suicide Bombing, Vow
to Go to Court
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
SAFAD (PINA) - The college
of Safad, in Israel has
denied two Palestinian
students the right to
continue their education,
the two students told
PINA. The decision to
expel them, they say,
is based on an order from
the Israeli intelligence.
Aspiring
Doctor’s Dream Cut
Short
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
TUBAS (PINA) - There is
an empty seat in the girls’
elementary school in Tubas.
Every morning, Palestinian
girls bring fresh flowers
and write poems to set
them gently on the abandoned
desk.
Palestinian
Group Warned from Attacking
Iraq, Demands Release
of its Secretary General
Palestine Chronicle, October
21, 2002
JENIN, West Bank (PINA)
- The Arab Liberation
Front, a Palestinian group
allied with Iraq’s
Ba’ath party warned
in a statement released
today of an “American
plot” to attack
Iraq and to destroy the
Palestinian uprising.
War
of Words Erupts as Israel
Restricts Freedom of Foreign
Press
Palestine Media Center,
October 22, 2002
Israel has sparked anger
from internationally -
renowned newspapers and
agencies after displays
of unequivocal racism
towards Palestinian journalists
and accusations that all
these media organizations
supposedly function “at
the direct instruction
of the Palestinian Authority.”
Occupation
Chronicle Events in Palestine
October 22, 2002
Palestine Media Center,
October 22, 2002
IOF Shell Deir Al-Ballah,
Demolish Palestinian-Owned
Homes in the West Bank
video
"The
Palestinian leader found
himself once again condemning
a Palestinian terror attack"
BBC, October 22, 2002
audio
Advisor
to Israeli PM Dore Gold:
"Israel is facing a difficult
situation"
BBC, October 22, 2002
audio
Yasser
Arafat advisor Nabil Abu
Redina: "I hope the Israelis
will resort to reason
instead of sending in
their tanks"
BBC, October 22, 2002
audio
"After
the violence on the ground,
now comes the political
storm"
BBC, October 22, 2002
