Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Headlines for 02-19-08

Gaza boy shot dead during Israeli incursion A 10-year-old boy was shot dead during an Israeli incursion into the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medics said, as the army kept up near daily operations in the Hamas-ruled territory.


Israeli troops kill Palestinian militant in Gaza Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical workers and a militant group said.


UN holds conference on humanitarian assistance for Palestinians


BBC: UK police feared armed clash with El Al in 2005 BBC: UK police refrained from arresting Israeli general Doron Almog at Heathrow Airport in 2005, fearing potential clash with Israeli airline's armed security guards; El Al refused to grant police permission to board plane


Police feared 'airport stand-off' An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest in the UK because British police feared an armed confrontation at Heathrow airport.


Abbas and Olmert meet after deadly Gaza clashes


5 Qassams land in Gaza vicinity communities


Snowstorm hits Jerusalem for second time in recent weeks Residents of Jerusalem on Tuesday awoke Tuesday to find their city covered with snow, disrupting schools, keeping most drivers off the roads and sprinkling the city's holy shrines with white.


Haneya calls on Arab League to help Gazans under siege


Hamas rejects Abbas' remarks that Gaza takeover blocks peace process


House demolitions cause Palestinians to leave village


Israeli peace activists bring in food assistance to the besieged Gaza


Acting PLC head demands Abbas to stop meetings with Israeli officials


Israel, US discuss W. Bank NATO troops The United States is reviewing the feasibility of deploying a NATO force in the West Bank as a way to ease IDF security concerns and facilitate an Israeli withdrawal from the area within the coming years, defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post.


Despite PM's pledge, Israel still building in West Bank A new neighborhood comprising 27 trailers is currently under construction at the settlement of Eli, north of Ramallah, even though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed publicly after the Annapolis conference that any such building would cease....... Similar unauthorized construction has taken place in the settlement of Maskiot in the northern Jordan Valley.


Palestinian rights group and militants spar over blast Islamic Jihad criticised Palestinian human rights groups on Tuesday for saying they found no evidence Israel's military caused a blast that killed eight people, including a commander of the group, in Gaza last week.


Methodist Report Criticized By Anti-Defamation League A report on Israel produced by the United Methodist Church is "distorted and mendacious," the Anti-Defamation League has charged.




Israeli forces kidnap a female university student in Nablus


No solution in sight for Palestinian refugees stranded at border


For Palestinians, the power of mass non-violence would be undeniable


Israel complains to UN over Iranian general's remarks


German professors: Nazis helped establish Israel Approximately 160,000 Jews who were expelled from Nazi Germany ended up in Mandate-era Palestine and strengthened the Jewish presence here at the expense of the Arab population, they said.


Israel's 'hilltop youth' are settling in Israeli police officials have authenticated the Khalafs' land title but failed to make good on a promise in December that the settlers would be removed from the farm.

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