UNRWA special appeal for Gaza making very slow progress A UN special appeal for the Gaza Strip has managed to bring in only a small percentage of the US$9.8 million needed for urgent food aid and cash assistance for the enclave's most vulnerable refugees.
The Hawks' Last Hurrah? Podhoretz, for his part, agreed: "Unless Bush realizes or fulfills my fading hope of air strikes, it is undoubtedly up to Israel to prevent" Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Jerusalem Diary: Monday 11 February Dr Shaheen lists the diseases children are suffering, directly as a result of the polluted water, including diphtheria and dysentery.
Israeli military kidnaps a Palestinian Security officer in Bethlehem
Israeli military intensifies blockade on Jenin and Huwara and kidnapped 6 across the West Bank
Israeli authorities demolish a Palestinian-owned house in Jerusalem
Israel arrests six Palestinians in West Bank raids
Gaza to be connected to Egyptian power grid in 19 months The Gaza Strip will be completely connected to the Egyptian electricity network in 19 months, a Palestinian official announced on Monday.
UNRWA concerned by impact of rising costs on aid deliveries The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it is concerned that rising prices of fuel and basic commodities will affect humanitarian aid deliveries to refugees in Jordan.
Hamas official warns Palestinians will breach Egypt border again if Gaza embargo not lifted Palestinians will breach the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip again if the blockade of the coastal territory continues, a senior Hamas member warned Monday, defying an Egyptian threat to «break the legs» of anyone who violates the frontier.
Israel to ban Gaza agricultural exports This follows the entrance of Egyptian agricultural products with no supervision or control into Gaza after the Rafah border was breached.
Report: Mubarak says continued US presence in Iraq to attract terrorists, threaten region That defiance stepped up after U.S. moved last year to put conditions on the US$2 billion in aid, including US$1.3 billion in military assistance, that Washington gives annually to Egypt, the second largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel.
The Israeli army kidnaps two Palestinians from Hebron
Two Palestinian patients die due to the Israeli siege on Gaza, death toll due to the siege hits 103 Medcial sources identified the two as Fathiyyia Abu Wardah, 40, and Khadijja Al Aqaad. The sources said that both died of cancer.
Hamas sources: "P.A Security arrests 13 Hamas members in the West Bank"
Kingdom Asks World Powers to Curb Israeli State Terror
12k Letters to Congress Appeal to End Gaza Blockade The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today it has collected and is delivering to Congress more than 12,000 letters calling for an end to Israel's "collective punishment" of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel sees Hamas gone from Gaza "in months" Israel's Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Monday a "combination of steps" could topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders within months.
Israel seen failing to keep road map promises Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad on Monday accused Israel of failing to keep its commitments to freeze Jewish settlement activity and to ease checkpoints that limit Palestinian mobility on the West Bank.
Soldiers indicted on abuse charges Three combat soldiers from the Haruv Battalion were indicted on Monday on charges of aggravated abuse, obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming following an investigation into allegations that the troops beat and mistreated 16-year-old Palestinian detainees.
Barak: U.S. unlikely to attack Iran nuclear installations
E. J'lem residents arrested after Court petition The police arrested five Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan this week, all within a day of their having petitioned the High Court of Justice to stop an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation under their homes.
Two Palestinians wounded in an Israeli air strike on Rafah Two Palestinian bystanders have been wounded on Monday evening after an Israeli air craft fired a missile on a car traveling on a southern Gaza road in Rafah city, witnesses said.
A Palestinian man dies of earlier wounds The sources identified the man as Saleh Nabhan, doctors said that Nabhan was admitted to on Friday to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza after sustaining critical wounds due to an Israeli air strile targeting Gaza city.
Lebanon charges 19 soldiers over protest shootings A Lebanese judge charged three army officers and 16 soldiers on Monday over the killing of opposition protesters last month in some of Beirut's deadliest street violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Students bring art supplies to Lebanon In Lebanon, on a trip bringing art supplies to a refugee school for Palestinian children, Steinhardt senior Frank Fredericks said he and his fellow NYU students encouraged the children to draw "their idea of peace."
Barak to promote Israeli satellite sale to Turkey Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak will promote the sale of a spy satellite to Turkey and other military deals during a visit to Ankara this week, Israeli security sources said on Monday.
Journalism's last line of defense 1) the Patriot Act appeared to silence a lot of pro-Palestinian opinion. I suddenly stopped hearing from people with Middle Eastern names. 2) The Passover bombing marked the first time in the Intifada that Israelis were killed in a specifically Jewish (as opposed to Israeli) circumstance. For many NPR listeners, that raised the existential threat of anti-Semitism and many pro-Israel and Jewish listeners responded passionately. Some of that passion was stoked by one particular lobby group, known as CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America). This group, based in Cambridge, Mass., was particularly effective in generating real anger around NPR's reporting
Education in the West Bank - the future begins here A new boys' school has opened its doors to 400 students attending the 5th to 9th grades in one of the villages of the West Bank. Built in partnership with World Vision and funded by USAID, the Azzun Basic Boys School was inaugurated in the village of Azzun in the West Bank on February 5, with members of the community and the Palestinian Minister of Higher Education present.
UAE president meets Abbas on Palestinian issue President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan met visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas here on Monday on the Palestinian issue, the official Emirates News Agency reported.
'I don't care if our pro-Zionist stance costs us' Anyone who doesn't more or less share Marty Peretz's views on Israel or U.S. politics has little hope of getting a job at The New Republic, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious U.S. journal told Haaretz while in Israel last month.
New guidelines for Israeli and Palestinian bank ties
ICFJ offers Arabic online course on building news Web sites The course, which will be led by Daoud Kuttab, veteran Palestinian journalist and founder of Ammannet radio, will take place between April 1 and May 13.
Delegates of the International Mission of United Methodist Churches visit Bethlehem
Egypt interrogates returning citizens while sending remaining Palestinians back to Gaza Egypt's border forces on Monday gradually sorted out the muddle of Palestinians and Egyptians trapped on the wrong side of the recently resealed border with the Gaza Strip, closely interrogating over a hundred returning Egyptians.
Israeli city demands that Google Earth erase Palestinian claim -- Google says no
Egyptians free Irish Gaza entrant However, Ms Ní Cheannabháin was immediately taken in for questioning.
Israel mourns Holocaust survivor Lantos Lantos "was a leader in promoting Israeli-US ties in Congress
No Manchurian Candidate Obama should resist such intimidation. I understand the immediate political calculus that makes a forthright statement of his pro-Israel sentiments critical. That is why, in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee last year, he did not even mention Jewish settlements.
India condemns use of force against Palestinians Concerned over renewed flare-up in West Asia, India today "condemned" the use of force on civilians in Palestine and sought immediate restoration of peace in the region, for which it is ready to help.
Spokesman: Rice not to visit Mideast
Settlers attempt to demolish a Palestinian house in Hebron The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees reported on Monday that an extremist settlers group attempted to demolish a Palestinian house in Bani Neim village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Refugee stories - A boy's journey from Baghdad to Damascus Then, when Thaer began to receive death threats from a Shia militia, he decided that living in the desert was safer than being a Palestinian in Baghdad.
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