Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 9/24/2001
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of September 24, 2001
- Arafat to visit Damascus on Tuesday
Palestine's representative in Jordan Omar al-Khatib has stressed that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat will visit Damascus tomorrow ( Tuesday) via Amman and will be meeting with President Bashar al-Assad. Palestine-Syria, Politics, 9/24/2001 - Israel continues attacking the Palestinians
The Israeli tanks on Sunday incurred for hundreds of meters inside Rafah and opened its fire at Palestinian houses and cars and institutions of the Palestinian authority. This resulted in wounding five Palestinians including one woman and a child. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/24/2001 - Sharon cancels meeting between Peres, Arafat Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/24/2001
- Peres boycotts Sunday's meeting of the Israeli government
The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres on Sunday boycotted the session of the Israeli cabinet in protest to the decision made by the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon preventing the convening of a meeting between him ( Peres ) and the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/24/2001