Headlines for 04-05-08

04-05-08 - Israeli fire kills Gaza farmer A Palestinian farmer was killed by an Israeli artillery round on Saturday as he worked in his fields near the border between the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Israel, Palestinian medics said. How many deaths by the IDF of Palestinian farmers does that make in the past month? Two months?


04-05-08 - Hamas won't free Israel soldier without prisoner release: report


04-05-08 - Hebron Urgent Action: Save the Hebron orphanages and schools


04-05-08 - Hamas: Sniper aimed for MK Dichter A Palestinian sniper shot at Public Security Minister Avi Dichter during a tour near the Gaza Strip border. Dichter was unharmed in the attack but his chief of staff, Mati Gil, was hit. He was taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon in good to fair condition. Hospital officials last night said Gil's condition was improving.



04-05-08 - Palestinian gov asks fugitives to return A senior Palestinian official urged a dozen fugitive Palestinian gunmen on Saturday to return to a local prison, where they had been serving time as part of an amnesty deal with Israel.


04-05-08 - Palestinian runner faces Israeli closure, tangled bureaucracies, to reach China


04-05-08 - Egypt urges Fatah to hold conference to regain political strength


04-05-08 - Abbas authorizes Egypt to talk with Hamas


04-05-08 - Palestinian FM believes to ink peace treaty with Israel by year end


04-05-08 - Ben-Eliezer warns of bi-national state National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on Saturday strongly criticized the ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians, warned of the establishment of a bi-national state in Israel and reiterated his call to free jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti.


04-05-08 - Israeli siege bears strange fruit Because Israel won't allow spare parts into Gaza, the Strip's antiquated sewage system, built to serve just a fraction of the 1.5 million people who now live there, is near to total collapse. It is kept working by pumps, which remove excess sewage and dump it straight into landfill sites or the sea. But Israel has cut back on electricity and fuel supplies too, so the pumps don't always work. And that's when the sewage rises in the streets of Zaytoun, where Dardar's family lives and farms.




04-05-08 - 2 rockets land outside Ashkelon


04-05-08 - U.S. supervising training of elite PA unit in Jordan He told the young officers, most of them in their 20s, that their objective, first and foremost, is to assist their people in contending with the threats of crime, terror and other problems


04-05-08 - 'Hamas won't let Palestinians starve'


04-05-08 - Canadian FM condemns attack on group in Israel The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) was in Sderot to "familiarize" themselves with goings-on in the region when an unidentified shooter fired at them, Bernier said.




04-05-08 - Hamas: Rocket attacks not aimed at Israeli women, children


04-05-08 - Abbas to push Olmert on state of peace talks-aide


04-05-08 - Open day held to remind people of Palestinian children Last week, Yemen celebrated ?the Day of Land?, commemorating the Palestinian homeland and open charity day was held at the New School in Sana?a with all revenues going to help Palestinian children. Children from the school performed both Yemeni and Palestinian songs and dances, showing the deep cultural bond between the two countries.


04-05-08 - Jordanian king to France for Mideast talks


04-05-08 - NY jury rejects Palestinian immigrant's claims in rights case A federal jury in Manhattan has rejected a Palestinian man's claims against the city that two police officers violated his constitutional rights by reporting him to immigration authorities.


04-05-08 - Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq fly to Chile


04-05-08 - Cdn. teen gets jail, 200 lashes The brothers, both of Palestinian origin, have been Canadian citizens since 2005


04-05-08 - From Jenin to Beijing Palestinian Olympic team struggles against PA's unwillingness to support athletes, Israel's begrudging of permits. With no money to buy shoes, no pool to practice swimming, how can athletes train for big event?


04-05-08 - Gaza Running on Near Empty Gaza needs 850,000 litres of fuel every week, says Mahmoud al-Khozendar, vice-president of the Petrol Station Owners Association in Gaza. Israel allows in just 70,000 litres of it. He said Gaza also needs 2.5 million litres of coal gas a week. Only 800,000 litres per week comes in.


04-05-08 - Rapper Belly leads way for Ottawans at Juno awards Belly, the Palestinian-born Ottawa rapper, won rap recording of the year for his debut disc, The Revolution.


04-05-08 - Obama, Clinton, McCain to vice-chair Israel 60th anniversary panel


04-05-08 - Shin Bet fears attack on Israeli plane


04-05-08 - There are No Checkpoints in Heaven "I am sick, son, I am sick," my father cried when I spoke to him two days before his death. He died alone on March 18, waiting to be reunited with my brothers in the West Bank. He died a refugee, but a proud man nonetheless.