Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 9/2/2002
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of September 2, 2002
- Two Palestinians killed by the Israeli bullets in Jenin Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/7/2002
- British Rabbi drops previous statements
Britain's chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks was obliged, under the pressure of the British Jewish community to give up his earlier statements. He said he was mistaken when he attacked the Israeli policy against the Palestinians during the interview he had granted to the British publication The Guardian two weeks earlier. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/7/2002 - Sharon: Oslo agreements are dead Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/7/2002
- Palestinian resistance kill two Israeli soldiers, tank destroyed; Barghouthi on trial
Barghouthi renewed his rejection to recognize the legality of the Israeli occupation courts or any help from the Israeli lawyer who was appointed by the court to defend him after he persisted to defend himself. He refused to listen to the list of accusation addressed by the occupation authorities against him. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/6/2002 - EU rejects Israeli expulsion policy against Palestinians
The Israeli forces continued campaigns of arrest against the Palestinians which target six citizens from Taffouh village in al-Khalil ( Hebron), including Akram Abu Sininah, one of the Fatah cadres and the other five are among his aides. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/5/2002 - Israel: bomb found near former house for Ehud Barak Israel-Palestine, Local, 9/5/2002
- Israel: One way ticket for Arafat if he leaves Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/4/2002
- Three Palestinians shot by Israel, one house destroyed on its inhabitants
the Israeli settlers started to build a new quarter in a settlement in the West Bank while others occupied a house in East Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/4/2002 - Israel permits convening of the Palestinian Legislative Council
An Israeli official said that Israel decided on Tuesday to allow convene a meeting for the Palestinian Legislative Council on September 9 in Ramullah but it reserved what he had called the right of preventing access of certain members from taking part in the said meeting. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/4/2002 - King Mohammed, chairman of al-Quds committee, calls for joint action to protect holy city
King Mohammed VI urged Islamic heads of state to conduct a joint action in the frame of their shared responsibility to save the holy city from the destruction danger looming on Islamic and Christian shrines and underlined the need to activate the implementation of the Al-Quds committee decisions, the statement said. Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 9/3/2002 - Palestinians presss for emergency UN security council meeting to halt bloodshed
"This escalation is designed to scare the Palestinian people and make them surrender. This is state terrorism," Oreikat said, adding, "The president of the United States said he'll fight terrorism, but Washington should know they are helping the biggest act of terrorism in the world, the Israeli occupation." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/3/2002 - Al- Quds: Donor states and the Palestinian authority
Al- Quds paper which is issued in the occupied Palestinian territories said that the representatives of the donor states asked a delegation representing the Palestinian Authority, during a meeting with the Quartet committee in Paris recently, to prepare qualification projects for the security elements so as to replace personnel working in the current security departments in the context of complete changes in the Palestinian security departments. Palestine, Politics, 9/3/2002 - Al-Qaddoumi 's advisor denies meeting with Israeli delegation in Johannesburg Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/2/2002
- Five Palestinians killed by Israel in Hebron, Jenin
The witnesses said the four Palestinians were working who were coming back to their houses at dawn after they had worked in a quarry. The four men are in their 20th. They are Alaa Ayeyda and the two brothers Hisham and Husam al-Haleyqa and their cousin Ateyah al-Haleyqa. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/2/2002