Headlines for 10-22-07

Israeli troops kill two Palestinian militants


Palestine expects to reach solution with Israel next year Palestine expected to achieve a real solution to the bloody-long conflict with Israel next year, President Mahmoud Abbas said here Monday.


Israeli allows entry of anaesthetic gas into Gaza Strip Israel allowed the entry of 151 cannisters of nitrous oxide for medical use into the Gaza Strip Monday, enough for several months, a spokesman for the Israeli army's District Coordination Office (DCO) said. Why do they act AFTER the international media catch whiff of this type of thing?


Islamic Jihad fires seven rockets at Israel


Iran's president warns against being "trapped" by U.S.-sponsored peace conference


Prisoners issue to be included in any final deal with Israel: Official


Palestinian Jihad member charged with involvement in 2005 terror attack


PLO member says Hamas talks with Israel via mediators


Israeli airstrike on Hamas police car wounds two An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a Hamas police car south of the Gaza City on Monday afternoon, wounding two Hamas policemen on board, witnesses and Hamas police sources said.


New Hamas-Islamic Jihad ceasefire announced after one Palestinian is killed in Rafah


Car carrying Hamas members explodes in Gaza Hamas said it believed the blast was caused by a roadside bomb. Tensions remain high in Gaza between Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups four months after Islamists took control of the territory.




Report: Israel denies access for urgent care The increased rejection of patients on unspecified security grounds has led to the deaths of at least five people since June, when Hamas seized control of Gaza, and several others have lost limbs or eyesight, according to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which helps Palestinians who have been refused exit for treatment.


Palestine ready for peace with Israel: Abbas Palestinians are ready to implement the road map for peace with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas has said during his visit to Indonesia.


U.N. watchdog: Iran not immediate threat Ehud Olmert slammed the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for downplaying the Iranian nuclear threat. Oh dear.


Israel accused after 30 injured in prison battle A Palestinian prisoner was in a serious condition in hospital last night after pitched battles between prison officers and detainees at the remote Ketziot prison left at least 30 people injured.


Persona non grata in Gaza Leaders of Hamas have always been clear in their support for Gaza's Christian community, but the murder of Rami Ayad has called into question their ability to protect that community and maintain law and order in general.


Palestinian child dies of wounds sustained during Israeli invasion of Tulkarem Zein Mare'y, aged eight-years-old, on Monday morning died of wounds sustained during an Israeli army invasion of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on Friday night.


Mideast agreement must pass Israeli vote Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has pledged to seek parliamentary approval for any significant agreement with the Palestinians, including the joint declaration of principles he is trying to reach ahead of a U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference later this year, according to a letter released Monday.


Bush asks for $46 billion more for wars The State Department is requesting $550 million to combat drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America, $375 million for the West Bank and Gaza and $239 million for diplomatic costs in Iraq.


Israeli police seize 500 Palestinian workers in Israel


Iran tops agenda as Olmert visits Europe Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert begins a European tour on Monday to meet the new leaders of France and Britain for the first time and to push his campaign against Iran's nuclear drive.


Detainee dies of wounds sustained during Negev prison attack


PLC slams treatment of Negev detainees The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), dominated by Hamas movement, issued a press release on Monday slamming Israeli attacks against the detainees in the Negev Detention Facility, and stated that at least 300 detainees had been injured, some seriously.


Spokesman for Abbas calls on U.S. to turn words into deeds


Hamas says former spokesman's criticisms fabricated The Islamic Hamas movement said Monday it was convinced a statement criticizing the movement's takeover of Gaza Strip in June was a forgery and had not been written by a former spokesman for leader Ismail Haniya.


Israeli pipeline spills 40 tons of oil About 40 tons of oil spilled Monday from a land pipeline carrying crude from the port of Ashkelon in southern Israel to refineries in the northern city of Haifa, a fire department spokesman said.


Mistrial in US Hamas funding case The jury forewoman admitted surprise at the action of the three jurors. "When we voted, there was no issue in the vote. No-one spoke up any different. I really don't understand where it is coming from."



GOP lawmakers want Syria attack info "If this event proves that Syria acquired nuclear expertise or material from North Korea, Iran, or other rogue states, it would constitute a grave threat to international security for which Syria and any other involved parties must be held accountable," said the op-ed appearing last week in the Wall Street Journal and signed by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.)


Evangelicals up payments to Iranian olim U.S. evangelical Christians are offering Iranian Jews $10,000 per person to immigrate to Israel. They know that the US is going to bomb Iran soon.


Giuliani cites Israel to evangelicals Rudy Giuliani cited his love for Israel and the Jewish roots of Christianity in appealing to evangelical Christians. Be wary of such a passionate attachment (<--truer words never spoken).


Ackerman, Boustany team on P.A. support A Jewish congressman and an Arab-American colleague are soliciting signatures for a letter urging greater U.S. funding for Palestinian Authority reforms.


Fla. governor: Kotel prayer saved state Crist, who governs the state with the nation's third-highest Jewish population, traveled to Israel in May to promote economic ties. He was criticized recently by the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union for hanging a mezuzah outside his office in Tallahassee.


Bush administration slams Lukashenko In an Oct. 12 broadcast, Alexander Lukashenko said of Bobruisk, a Belarusian port city: "This is a Jewish city, and the Jews are not concerned for the place they live in. They have turned Bobruisk into a pig sty. Look at Israel -- I was there."


King receives cable of thanks from Palestinian party leader in Israel His Majesty King Abdullah received a cable from the Pan-Arab Nationalistic Party leader in Israel Mohammad Hassan Kana'an expressing appreciation to the King's efforts aimed to safeguard Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.



Artist Emily Jacir awarded prestigious Golden Lion


David Miliband in effort to heal UK-US relations There has been disquiet within the White House, particularly among aides to Vice President Dick Cheney, about the rapid withdrawal of British forces in southern Iraq.


Nablus residents protest against treatment of Negev detainees


British Gas: Yaalon's assumptions are wrong British Gas denied Sunday former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe (Bugi) Yaalon's claim, that the government's decision not to engage in a ground operation in the Gaza Strip was somehow related to Israel's pending natural gas deal with the company.


Diary of Pax Christi visit to Israel and Palestine


Boat people risk all to reach Greece The infant and her mother, Deqa, were trying to sneak into Greece from the Turkish mainland when the smuggler's vessel ran into a storm and foundered. A Palestinian man, who was helming the dinghy, attempted to save the girl but by the time he reached Samos Island she was dead.


'West Bank, UK' New Musical by Safdie, Cohen Premieres 11/29 "In the new musical West Bank, UK, when Israeli ex-patriot, Assaf Ben-Moshe Benvenisti, breaks up with his German girlfriend and returns home to his rent-controlled flat on the West Bank of London, he discovers that Palestinian refugee, Aziz Hamoud, has taken over his lease. Their American landlord is torn between the two men, and urges them to work out their differences and learn to live together in harmony,"


Hezbollah hands over letter from missing Israeli airman Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has given Israel a photograph and poignant letter written by an airman missing for more than 20 years, as part of a rare prisoner swap, a newspaper said on Monday.