Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 10/18/1999
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of October 18, 1999
- Egyptian - Jordanian - Palestinian meeting tomorrow in the West Bank
Egyptian Foreign minister Amr Moussa, his Jordanian counterpart Abdel- Elah El-Khatib and Palestinian minister of planing and International cooperation Nabeel Shaath are to hold a trio meeting in Ramallah city in the West Bank tomorrow Sunday. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 10/23/1999 - Palestinian journalists appeal to Arafat to reopen television station Palestine, Politics, 10/22/1999
- Lebanese president, premier denounce the killing of two Lebanese doctors in Russia Lebanon-Palestine-Russia, Local, 10/22/1999
- Hebron mourns blast victims
Palestinian observers expected Friday that President Yasser Arafat might dissolve the city council of Hebron in response to the tragic blast in an unlicensed factory that manufactured cigarette lighters. Palestine, Local, 10/22/1999 - Cairo conference to discuss Palestinian currency Palestine-Regional, Economics, 10/22/1999
- Palestine complains about new Israeli settlements
Israel's renewed settlement activities and the additional confiscation of Palestinian lands in the occupied territories was brought to the U.N.'s attention on Thursday by Palestine's permanent observer, Nasser Al-Kidwa. Palestine-UN, Politics, 10/22/1999 - Moussa, Arafat discuss peace
Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's political advisor, dismissed reports that Israel may consider military action against Syria, saying, "The threats of an Israeli military action against Syria are hollow and will not shake the Arab stance." Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 10/20/1999 - Palestinian - Israeli negotiations next week to release a third group of captives
Hisham Abed Alrazek, the Palestinian minister of state for the captives' affairs, said the joint Israeli - Palestinian committee on the captives' affairs will meet next week to discuss releasing a third group of captives in the occupation prisons before the coming month of Ramadan according to the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement's executive note. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/20/1999 - Dissolution of Israeli settlements starts
The leaders of the Jewish settlers started dissolving one of 12 settlements in the West Bank which they promised to demolish according to their agreement with the Israeli Premier Ehud Barak, which calls for removing only 12 settlements from 42 established by the settlers after the Wye River accord and which the Israeli government approved. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/20/1999 - Freed Hamas, El-Jihad captives served their full prison terms
Mahmoud El-Zahar, a leader of Hamas movement, stated that, "Some of the Palestinian detainees from the movement whom were released by the Israeli authorities spent their full prison sentences; some of them were even spending extra periods." Palestine, Politics, 10/20/1999 - Mubarak meets Arafat in Cairo
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met today in Cairo with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who arrived yesterday in Cairo. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 10/19/1999 - King Fahd meets with Arafat
King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia met on Monday in Riyadh with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Saudi Arabia-Palestine-Malaysia, Politics, 10/19/1999 - Israeli government wins confidence vote Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/19/1999
- Jewish settlement stronghold evacuated
Minutes ago the Israeli settlements council announced that it has quietly evacuated an Israeli settlement where evacuation was blocked earlier and that the work lasted a few hours. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/19/1999 - Abdul Meguid meets Jerusalem fund official
Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid received yesterday Wajih Hassan Qassem, the general manager of Jerusalem Fund (Bayt Al-Mal Al-Quds) in his first visit to Arab League headquarters since he assumed power in July 1998. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 10/19/1999 - Arafat arrives today in Cairo Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 10/18/1999
- A tense situation in Askalan prison
Palestinian sources reported over the weekend that a tense situation has spread inside Asqalan prison where Palestinian security prisoners are held. The tension, the sources said, followed a number of measures taken by the prison authority against the prisoners. Palestine, Politics, 10/18/1999 - Safe passage might open Monday
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators continued their contacts Sunday night trying to solve the remaining obstacles to opening the safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestine, Politics, 10/18/1999 - Secret contacts between Barak and Arafat
The Israeli daily Haartez said on Sunday that the Israeli prime Minister Ehud Barak is more inclined to run the negotiations himself with the Palestinian government in order to reach an agreement concerning the final settlement., through making contacts with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/18/1999 - Hamas does not target Israeli civilians
One of the Palestinian National Resistance movement ( Hamas ) leaders Mahmoud al-Zahar has asserted that the National resistance attacks do not target the civilians among the Jews, rather than the armed wing in the Israeli side. Palestine, Politics, 10/18/1999 - Disney retreats from commitment to establish Palestinian wing in Florida exhibition, Sobeah
Ambassador Mohamed Sobeah, the Palestinian delegate to the Arab League, accused the US Walt Disney Company of retreating from its commitment to establish a Palestinian wing in its exhibition in the US state of Florida on the occasion of celebrations of the third millenium. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 10/18/1999 - Palestinian women still seen as inferior by fellow men
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported Saturday that 68 percent of women who have inheritance rights were not to able to achieve those rights. Palestine, Culture, 10/18/1999