British UN worker killed in Jenin
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
A British man working with a UN aid agency was one of two people today killed in fighting in a refugee camp in the West Bank.

International Volunteer Shot and Wounded by Israeli Forces
International Solidarity Movement e-mail, November 22, 2002
Human Shielding Palestinian Children Cornered By Israeli Tanks and Armed soldiers:   [JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, JENIN]- Irish International Activist Coimhe Butterly came to the site of where about five or so small children were cornered by heavily armed Israeli tanks where soldiers at
around 12:00 PM had shot and killed an eleven year old Palestinian child, Mohamed Bilalo.

Briton Killed By Israeli Army, Shot Irish Activist Was Rescuing Palestinian Children
Islam Online, November 22, 2002
GAZA CITY, November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the British UN worker shot dead Friday, November 22, in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin was killed by Israeli gunfire, calling the incident a "new Israeli crime." And an Irish human rights activist shot and wounded Friday on the West Bank said she was trying to rescue Palestinian children who were being fired on by Israeli troops.

UN: IDF delayed ambulance while condition of slain UNRWA official deteriorated
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002 
Ian Hook, 50, an UNRWA official from Britain who headed a UN project to rebuild homes in the battle-scarred Jenin refugee camp, was killed Friday afternoon as IDF troops raided the hideout of an Islamic Jihad fugitive in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.

Israeli Army Kill Second Palestinian Teenager, Thrust into Gaza Strip
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002 
GAZA CITY - As the West Bank and Gaza Strip mourned the killing of seven Palestinians, including a teenager, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) murdered another Palestinian child in Tulkarem Wednesday, bringing the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers to eight in the past 24 hours.

Israeli Forces Reoccupy Bethlehem
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops reoccupied Bethlehem on Friday, searching homes and deploying tanks outside the Church of the Nativity after 11 bus passengers, including four youngsters, were killed in a Jerusalem suicide bombing.

Israel destroys Palestinian activists' houses in West Bank, Gaza Strip
Jordan Times, November 22, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli occupation army destroyed three houses belonging to families of Palestinian activists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip overnight, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said on Thursday.

Arafat: IDF redeployment in territories destroying prospects of peace
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002 
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat accused Israel on Friday of destroying peace prospects, "not only with the Palestinian people, but with all countries in the Middle East and Arab nations," as IDF troops reoccupied Bethlehem, searching homes and deploying tanks outside the town's Church of the Nativity.

Mofaz: No restrictions on IDF operations
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002 
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz says there are no restrictions on the IDF operations in the Palestinian Authority areas, Israel Radio reported. IDF troops are in all PA-controlled towns except Jericho.

Israeli Army Storms Jenin, Reoccupies Bethlehem, Gaza
Islam Online, November 22, 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Israeli occupation army invaded Jenin Friday, November 22, killing a Palestinian boy, as it reoccupied the West Bank town of Bethlehem and the southern Gaza Strip, killing a Palestinian policeman with tank fire.

Youths attempt to stab Arab-Israeli students in neighborhood of bus bombing
Jerusalem Post, November 21, 2002
Two Jewish youths attempted to stab three female Arab-Israeli students in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood on Thursday night, apparently in retaliation for the suicide bus bombing in the same neighborhood earlier in the morning that killed 11 people, Israel Radio reported.

IDF arrests 20 in Bethlehem
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002
IDF troops continue to operate in Bethlehem. According to Israel Radio, soldiers have thus far arrested 20 wanted terrorists.

Troops arrest 15 suspected terrorists
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002
The soldiers caught the suspects throughout Judea and Samaria, in towns including Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron, according to the reports:
IDF soldiers Thursday night arrested 15 terror suspects.

British aid worker killed in West Bank
BBC, November 22, 2002
Israeli forces surrounded Jenin refugee camp overnight: A British man working with the United Nations has been shot dead in the West Bank town of Jenin during an Israeli military operation.

Israeli forces move into Bethlehem; Palestinian, Israeli soldier killed in Gaza Strip
Al-Bawaba, November 22, 2002
Israeli forces moved into Bethlehem early Friday, one day after a suicide bombing attack in Jersusalem that left 11 passengers dead.

U.N. official shot dead in Jenin
Al-Bawaba, November 22, 2002
An international staff member of the main United Nations aid agency for the Middle East was shot dead in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, a spokesman for the agency said.

Witnesses: Senior UN relief worker killed in Jenin refugee camp
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
A senior official working for a United Nations relief agency was shot dead in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Palestinian hospital officials said.

NRP mentor Rabbi Eliyahu: No place for women in politics
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
"A woman's place is not in politics," he told Army Radio, "and certainly not in a national religious party":   Former Chief Rabbi Mordehai Eliyahu, considered the spiritual leader of the National Religious Party, said Friday that disagrees with the party's decision reserve fifth place on its Knesset list for a female candidate.

Labor votes to keep primaries
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
In an impressive display of unity, the Labor Party convention yesterday decided to retain the party primaries as the system for electing candidates to the next Knesset.

Terrorists' homes demolished
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
IDF soldiers yesterday destroyed the homes of two terrorists in the territories.

IOF Kill Second Palestinian Teenager, Thrust into Gaza Strip
Palestine Media Center, November 21, 2002
As the West Bank and Gaza Strip mourned the killing of seven Palestinians, including a teenager, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) murdered another Palestinian child in Tulkarem Wednesday, bringing the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers to eight in the past 24 hours.

PNA Condemns Jerusalem Bus Attack
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002 
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The Palestine National Authority (PNA) condemned Thursday’s bus attack, which took place in the Western part of Jerusalem and claimed the lives of ten Israelis.

Children killed in suicide attack on bus
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
Hamas claims responsibility for Jerusalem blast that leaves eight dead while dealing stunning blow to peace camp: Nael Azmi Abu Hilail had more than enough time to see those he was about to kill after he boarded the number 20 bus at the bottom of Mexico Street.

Bus bombing was carried out by both Hamas and Islamic Jihad
Jerusalem Post, November 21, 2002 
Israeli troops reoccupied Bethlehem early Friday, searching homes and deploying tanks outside the Church of the Nativity after 11 bus passengers, including four youngsters, were killed in a Jerusalem suicide bombing.

Barak expects lengthy struggle
San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2002  
Protesters characterize speech by ex-Israeli leader as propaganda:  In a Berkeley speech greeted by protests, Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday warned that a protracted global struggle with terrorism was just beginning.

U.S. Wouldn't Believe Iraq's Denials
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday the United States would not believe Saddam Hussein if he claimed Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

Iraqi Women Tell of Iraq Oppression
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
LONDON (AP) - Iraqi women from the country's different ethnic communities spoke out Thursday about what they termed as oppression under Saddam Hussein's regime, hoping to turn an international spotlight on the issue.

Nato backs UN on Iraq but avoids troops controversy
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
Nato yesterday pledged support for the UN in its quest to disarm Iraq but avoided reference to military measures by the alliance to enforce it. 

Putin: U.S. Should Not Wage Solo War
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
PUSHKIN, Russia (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned President Bush Friday that the United States should not wage war against Iraq on its own and suggested more needs to be done first in the fight against terrorism.

Over a barrel
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
The mother of all legal rows over who has the right to Iraq's lucrative oilfields is likely if the United States wins its war for the country itself: All the players in the current quarrel can agree on one thing - Iraq has the potential to become a great oil nation again. There is a huge gap between the trickle of oil coming out of Iraq today and its capabilities.

Blair meets chief UN weapons inspector
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
Tony Blair today told the UN's chief arms inspector, Hans Blix, that Iraq must be disarmed of its weapons of mass destruction - and it was "Saddam's choice" as to how this was achieved.

Top Islamists accuse US of leading new crusade
Arab News, November 22, 2002
DUBAI, 22 November 2002 — A group of more than 200 prominent Muslims have accused the United States of leading a crusade against Islam and warned that an assault on Iraq could provoke revenge attacks against Western targets.

Bush, Putin to discuss Iraq; Powell says U.S. can fight in summer
Al-Bawaba, November 22, 2002
NATO members have declared themselves united in backing U.N. attempts disarm Iraq, but the 19-nation defense alliance stopped short of promising to go to war over it.

U.S. Terrorism Cause of Anti-American Violence: Baghdad
Islam Online, November 22, 2002
BAGHDAD, November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – U.S. injustice and terrorism could only lead to more acts of violence against Americans around the world, a day after another round of U.S.-British air strikes, Iraq warned Friday, November 22.

Anti-NATO, War Protestors Arrested, Expelled for Prague Demo
Islam Online, November 22, 2002
PRAGUE , November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Czech police on Thursday, November 21, made several arrests during an anti-NATO and anti-war protest in central Prague and later expelled two of the protestors from the country.

Expanding the settlements
Al-Ahram Weekly, 21 - 27 November 2002
Israel is consolidating its reoccupation of Hebron following a guerrilla attack earlier this week.

A financial jihad
Al-Ahram Weekly, 21 - 27 November 2002
A historic gathering aimed at expanding and regulating the Islamic banking system in the face of American opposition, was recently held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Nasrallah: Sharon rejects new offer for prisoner swap deal
Al-Bawaba, November 22, 2002
Israel has rejected an offer by Hizbullah to swap one of three captured Israeli soldiers for a number of Lebanese and Arab prisoners held in Israel, the leader of the Lebanese group said Thursday.

As trial resumes Barghouti calls Israeli court 'joke'
Al-Bawaba, November 21, 2002
Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti's trial resumed Thursday at the Tel Aviv district court.

Court to rule on state's jurisdiction over Barghouti
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
Tel Aviv District Court judges are expected to rule on two issues by January - whether Marwan Barghouti can be held in remand for the duration of his trial, and whether the courts have the authority to judge him.

Barghouthi turns war crimes accusations back on Israel   
Jordan Times, November 22, 2002   
TEL AVIV (AFP) — Palestinian parliamentarian and West Bank Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi turned Israel's accusations of “terrorism” back on the Jewish state when his trial reopened Thursday in a Tel Aviv district court.

Riyadh does not rule out Saudis participation in Maan riots
Arabic News, November 22, 2002
The Saudi minister of the interior prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz said yesterday that he does not rule out the participation of Saudis in the acts of violence which took place last week in Maan.

US-based body slams US tracking of Iraqi-Americans
Arabic News, November 22, 2002
The Arab Anti-Discrimination Council (ADC) has slammed the tracking of Iraqi-American nationals for security reasons.

Need for current property appraisal delays tourist shop owner's release
Naples News, November 22, 2002
ORLANDO — The release from jail of a Palestinian-American businessman was delayed Thursday while his family obtained a current appraisal of the property that will be used to secure his $10 million bond.

Survey shows U.S. Jewry in favor of two-state deal
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
Most of American Jewry has a moderate view toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the results of a U.S. recent survey. The survey also found that the majority of American Jewry support a diplomatic solution based on the Clinton Plan.

Arab and Jewish Americans pan Bush's Mideast performance — poll
Jordan Times, November 22, 2002   
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Almost half of Arab Americans and a third of Jewish Americans disapprove of the Bush administration's performance in “furthering” Middle East peace, according to a poll released here Thursday.

Lebanese police say American missionary's slaying possibly linked to anti-US sentiments
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese investigators were on Friday examining a possible link between the killing of an American missionary and the rising anti-US sentiments in the Middle East. A Palestinian guerrilla official, meanwhile, said her murder was caused by her Christian evangelist activity in a Muslim town.

Two Israelis wounded in stone throwing near Hebron
Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2002 
Two Israeli citizens were wounded Friday afternoon when the car they were driving in was pelted with stones on a road north of the West Bank town of Hebron, Israel Radio reported.

Israel Procrastinates on Modified Roadmap
Palestine Chronicle, November 22, 2002
WASHINGTON - Israel says it wants to postpone scrutinizing a US-led ‘roadmap’ to peace until after its general elections late January, despite the ‘Quartet’ of peace mediators setting December 20 as the deadline for announcing the blueprint for peace in the Middle East.

Top Islamists Accuse US of Leading New Crusade
Palestine Chronicle, November 22, 2002
DUBAI - A group of more than 200 prominent Muslims have accused the United States of leading a crusade against Islam and warned that an assault on Iraq could provoke revenge attacks against Western targets.

50 Palestinian Artists Showcase Their Work in New York City
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002
NEW YORK CITY (PC) - To the average New Yorker, Palestinian creativity is no doubt an oxymoron. A city whose world view is now formed by the US’s biggest terrorist attack and the associated Islamophobia — take a bow, New York Post — may not, on the face of it, be an appropriate host for a month-long exhibition of the best in contemporary art from Palestine.

British Minister Calls for New Vocabulary to Describe ‘War on Terror’
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002 
LONDON - British Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien appealed Thursday for a new vocabulary to be used to ‘describe the terrorism of al-Qaeda’ to replace the offensive and insulting remarks about Islam.

US to Grant Israel $2.16 Billion in Military Assistance
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002 
WASHINGTON - The United States said it has pledged to give Israel $2.16 billion in military assistance next year, despite its ally’s use of American weapons in its war against the Palestinian people.

Arab Ministers Debate ME Peace
Palestine Chronicle, November 21, 2002 
DAMASCUS/GAZA - Arab foreign ministers kicked off talks in Damascus last night concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the US confrontation with Iraq.

Occupation Chronicle Events in Palestine, November 21, 2002
Palestine Media Center, November 21, 2002
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invaded the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday and demolished three homes located in Abasan village, near Khan Younis City. IOF also opened fire at Palestinian civilians wounding three of them, including a rescue officer, during the Gaza invasion.

Bus attack casts a shadow on GA meet in Philly
Ha'aretz, November 22, 2002
The Jerusalem bus bombing cast a shadow over the two-day U.S. General Assembly of Jewish community groups, which began yesterday in Philadelphia. Next year, the assembly has already decided that the annual conference will be held in Jerusalem.

Israel Fuel Truck Blast Injures 10
The Guardian, November 22, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - A fuel truck exploded Friday at a refueling station in the West Bank, just north of Jerusalem, injuring at least 10 people, police said.

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"The army wouldn't take responsibility for the death because there had been an exchange of fire"
BBC, November 22, 2002