Thursday, February 7, 2008

Headlines for 02-06-08

Israeli aircraft pound Gaza Israeli aircraft pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following renewed rocket fire against southern Israel, wounding at least three people, a Palestinian medical source said.


Israel arrests father of West Bank suicide bomber


Bishop Kenney: Israel's Security Wall 'an insult to human dignity'


Israel rebuffs Egypt-Gaza border deployments Israeli leaders on Wednesday rejected proposals to secure Gaza's frontier with Egypt with additional Egyptian forces or international troops two weeks after militants blasted it open, officials said.


Israeli forces arrest 10 Palestinians in West Bank


Poll: Hamas gains in popularity after border breach


Israeli strikes wound Gaza militants, civilians: Hamas Earlier, four civilians were wounded by two air strikes on an unoccupied metal foundry and a caravan that was located outside a Hamas security position, the officials said.


DFLP calls for a national campaign to save the Plains areas continued annexation The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called for launching a comprehensive national campaign in order to save the Palestinian Plaines areas, in the Jordan Valley, from the ongoing Israeli settlement expansion and annexation which aim at removing the residents from their lands.



Iran annoyed with India's launch of Israeli spy satellite Iran has expressed its concern over India's helping Israel launch a spy satellite and has asked New Delhi to refrain from allowing other countries to launch spying operations from its territory, officials said Tuesday.


A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility


Canada's 'first gangster rapper' earns nominations for 2 awards The spotlight is shining on the Palestinian-born 23-year-old


Row in Israel over comments by member of 2006 war probe A member of Israel's Lebanon war commission sparked uproar on Wednesday by suggesting that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should stay in power because he supports the Middle East peace process.


Palestinian, Israeli talks still away from final status The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel did not start deep talks on final status issues, a PNA negotiator said on Tuesday


Palestinian, Jordanian, And Israeli Researchers Build A New Partnership To Monitor Regional Earthquakes


Demand answers about the Liberty incident More recently, reporter John Crewdson, in the Chicago Tribune, reported that the National Security Agency intercepts of the Israeli pilots? communications during the attack left no doubt that Israel knew that it was attacking an American ship. Crewdson, relying on recently declassified NSA records and interviews with people with first-hand knowledge of the intercepts, tells a story that backs up the survivors? long-dismissed claims.




Fair Witness Asks Methodists Not to Vote for Divestment 'Fair Witness'=Christian Zionists.


Israel approves Egyptian border fence Defense officials said it would seek the establishment a multinational force in Gaza modeled after the U.N. force in Lebanon as part of a broader final-status agreement toward an independent Palestinian state.



Crowds gathered for Gaza siege demo More than 100 people turned out for a rally in Preston against the siege in Gaza, Palestine.


Troops demolish a Palestinian-owned house in Jerusalem


High level donor delegation visits Nahr el Bared Camp The donor delegation began the day with a tour of Beddawi Camp, where they visited the office of the Palestinian Reconstruction Committee which, together with UNRWA, is working on the master plan for the reconstruction of Nahr El Bared.


Defining "hardship" - a new yardstick for Palestinian refugee aid The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, will adopt new criteria to identify hardship cases among the 1.9 million Palestinian refugees who benefit from its humanitarian assistance programme, according to an UNWRA official.


MKs petition justice minister to release Israeli Arab prisoners Lawmakers from United Arab List-Ta'al petition ask Daniel Friedmann to cut jail time for Israel-Arab prisoners convicted of offenses against state security


President Saleh discusses the current Palestinian problems before Arab Summit


Two Irish women trapped in Gaza The women crossed over into Gaza illegally from Egypt last Saturday after being refused legal entry by Egyptian authorities. They had been distributing money to disadvantaged Palestinians collected by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.



Blair calls for ?urgency? in Mideast talks


Refugee stories - Letters from Gaza (5) ?the lost generation For the first time, I'm afraid that the Palestinian society for all its innate pride and dignity is walking towards its end - the end of the Palestinian life. I say this simply because when a person loses his faith and hope, he loses everything.


EU envoy warns Gaza could become the next Somalia


Judges: City overreacted over Muslim principal Almontaser, a longtime New York educator and a Muslim of Yemeni descent, said she was forced to resign because of criticism she endured after discussing in the interview the word "intifada," an Arabic term commonly used to refer to the Palestinian uprising against Israel

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