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Satterfield meets with Quartet committee representatives
David Satterfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs met in Jerusalem on Friday with the representatives of the Quartet committee and briefed them on the talks he held with Israeli officials.
Palestine-USA, Politics, 8/31/2002

Israel storms Jenin; Yaloun threatens to exterminate Palestinians
The Israeli occupation forces on Friday one again stormed into Gaza camp and violent confrontations erupted with the citizens who hurried to defend themselves and houses. The confrontation resulted in wounding four Palestinians including two children, while an Israeli military source admitted that three Israeli soldiers were wounded in the confrontation.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/31/2002

UN figures show economic crisis leading to 'human catastrophe' in West Bank and Gaza
Releasing the first international economic statistics on the Palestinian economy since Israel reoccupied the West Bank earlier this year, the United Nations reported on Thursday that rising poverty and unemployment could spell a "human catastrophe" for the region.
Palestine-Israel, Economics, 8/31/2002

Danish peace plan: A Palestinian state by fall of 2005
Denmark which presides the current rotating presidency of the European Union has called for the foundation of an independent Palestinian state by the fall of 2005 in the context of a plan to revive the suspended peace process in the Middle East.
Palestine-Denmark, Politics, 8/30/2002

Israel kills five Palestinians, four from one family, Hamas vows revenge
Rami Shamlakh, the neighbor of the bombarded Palestinian family said "an Israel tank stormed into our area while opening fire in all directions and one house was at least hit by four shells." Officials at the central hospital in Gaza said that four members of al-Hajeen family were killed in the Israeli raid. They are Rweida ( 55 year old) and her two sons ( Ashraf 23 year old ) and Nuha ( 17 year old and a relative to the family ( Muhammad, 20 year old).
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/30/2002

Ben Eliezer cancels Israeli- Palestinian security officials meeting
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/29/2002

Two Palestinians shot by Israel, new incursions for Gaza, Jenin, Halhoul
The Israeli forces yesterday launched a land and air attack against the coast of Gaza and occupied most of it, and broke into al-Sheikh Ajloun village using scores of tanks and armored vehicles backed by Apache planes, isolated Gaza from its coast and besieged the headquarters of the Palestinian preventive security department.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/29/2002

Sharon will not recognize new council for Palestinian authority
Sources at the office of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said that Sharon will not recognize any new council in the Palestinian authority unless its establishment will be preceded by what he called genuine and fundamental reforms in security and fighting what he had called terrorism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/29/2002

Jewish Rabbi: Israeli practices against Palestinians contradicts Judaism
The Greater Israeli Rabbi for British Jews Jonathan Sacs has criticized the Israeli practices against the Palestinian people. He stressed that these practices are in contradiction with the real teachings of Judaism.
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/28/2002

Israel continues breaking in operations, arrests two leaders of the people's front
The Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested 11 Palestinians in the course of a campaign of arrest that covered on Tuesday Ramullah and Baqa al-Gharbeyah and Qalqilya. Among the arrested Palestinians is Ali Jaradat the official spokesman of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the member of its political bureau Bashir al-Kheiri.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/28/2002

Saadat observes hunger strike
The secretary general of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmad Saadat on Sunday evening started a hunger strike in prison in protest of his continued detention since May despite the decision of the supreme Palestinian court to release him.
Palestine, Politics, 8/27/2002

Israeli forces break into Jenin by tanks and helicopters, demolish homes
The Israeli forces on Monday broke by tanks into Jenin and its camp, and carried out a campaign of arrest and large scale detentions amid intensive fire. Among the detainees were Jamal Abu al-Haija one of the members of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas and his aide Islam Jarrar.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/27/2002

Al-Sharq al-Awsat: Palestinian embassy refuses to receive Abu Nidal's body
Palestine-Iraq, Politics, 8/26/2002

Al-Sharq: Abu Mazin stops his work in Palestinian authority
The Lebanese daily al-Sharq said in its Saturday's issue, quoting Palestinian sources, that member of the PLO executive committee and the closer to succeed the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazin has stopped working since more than one month.
Palestine, Politics, 8/26/2002

Israeli forces kill Arab youth; admit to robbing Palestinian houses before burning them
While one Palestinian young man was shot by the Israeli bullets in Jenin and other three wounded when an Israeli on foot patrol opened fire randomly against the Palestinians in one of the city's market, an Israeli force stormed into Marqa village near Jenin and arrested three of its citizens. The Israeli force also stormed into Salfeit town and arrested five Palestinians under the charges that they are members of the Palestinian activists.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/26/2002


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