Monday, October 22, 2007

Headlines for 10-21-07

One Palestinian killed in internal Gaza fighting


PA intelligence chief: We won?t allow Gaza violence to spread West Bank


Scepticism, anger on both sides of Mideast conflict "Rice comes, Rice goes, nothing happens," said Ashraf Methqal, a pharmacist in the West Bank city of Ramallah.


Israeli PM arrives in France for Sarkozy talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Paris Sunday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Middle East peace process and Iran's controversial nuclear drive.


Gaza hospital to stop surgery as runs out of gas He said the hospital had barely two canisters of gas left and would have to halt surgery soon.


Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) update and statement on Gaza Passage of Palestinian patients to any location outside Gaza for medical care unavailable there has been increasingly limited, and the number of patients refused for ?security reasons? is rising.


Hamas, Islamic Jihad renew clashes in Rafah, 12 wounded


Cautious calmness back in Gaza after clashes


Israel protests over release of 'assassins' Israel delivered an angry protest to Ramallah yesterday after the Palestinian Authority was said to have released three gunmen from Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement suspected of plotting to assassinate Ehud Olmert while the Israeli Prime Minister was driving to the first summit to take place in the West Bank since the intifada broke out seven years ago.


Annexation Wall threatens olive harvest of A'neen village Residents of the village of A'neen, located near the Green Line border between Israel and the West Bank, have expressed fear that their olive harvest will be lost after the annexation wall has prevented them from reaching their olive groves.


Brighter future for Arabs and Jews in the school that teaches peace There has been opposition, though now dwindling, to the school, in part from neighbours anxious about noise and traffic, and in part from rightwing rabbis opposed to the mixing of Arab and Jewish children. The


Citizen stuns congresswoman: "Why should we divide Iraq for israel?"


From Liver and Chianti to a President?s Barbecue The Carter documentary has scenes shot in the occupied territories in which ancient olive trees and the homes standing next to them are bulldozed, while Palestinians attempt to improvise a life among the fences, walls and strictures that derive from having a threatened Israel surrounding them.


Rushmore's Mideast forum extraordinary


Yesha Council: We'll fight to protect outposts The Yesha Council called on its supporters Sunday to "get ready for a long, determined fight to protect the settlements."


Hizbullah: US could turn Lebanon into another Iraq Hizbullah on Friday denounced a senior Pentagon official's call for a US "strategic partnership" with Lebanon's army, saying American attempts to boost military ties were a ploy for domination and could turn the country into another Iraq.


Palestinian diplomat visits Auschwitz


Hezbollah arms smuggling still going on: Israel


Harvesting the fruits of an unlikely alliance Ms Cohen, 59, who teaches art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is among dozens of volunteers dispatched by the group Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) to join the West Bank olive harvest. Their mission: to protect Palestinian farmers from attacks by extremist Jewish settlers who have used violence to keep Arabs from accessing their groves.


Israelis, Palestinian doctors team up to operate on Palestinian child

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