Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 9/16/2002
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of September 16, 2002
- Arafat appeals to Arab leaders; Mubarak says Israeli escalation encourages desperation
Palestinian authority chairman Yasser Arafat made telephone calls from his besieged headquarters in Ramullah with several Arab leaders during which he urged them to move to halt Israel's aggression and crimes. Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 9/21/2002 - Israel kills four Palestinians, destroys government premises, economic firms
The Palestinian army officer Muhammad Ismael Hamouda was shot to death on Friday as the Israeli army soldiers opened fire at him inside the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/21/2002 - UNRWA hands 97 houses to Palestinians after being destroyed by Israel
The UN Relief and Work Agency UNRWA has handed over 97 new houses it had built for families in Rafah to the South of Gaza, the Israeli army had destroyed their houses during the Intifada, noting that 529 houses were destroyed or damaged in a way that can not be renovated in Gaza since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000. Palestine-Israel, Economics, 9/20/2002 - An Israeli company installs an electronic fence around Jerusalem
The Israeli company ( Beit Systems) has stated it received a deal at 5 million dollars to install a "smart" electronic fence around a part of Jerusalem. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 9/20/2002 - Five Israelis killed, 63 wounded in Palestinian attack
One of the Hamas leaders in Gaza Ismael Henya said that Israel is "the last and first side responsible for the continued martyrdom operations." He added in an interview with al-Jazeera TV in Qatar that "Today ( yesterday)'s operation is an introduction for a series of coming operations that are in retaliation to crimes against the Palestinian people." Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/20/2002 - Palestinian suicide operation, three settlers killed, continued Israeli demolishing of Palestinian houses
The Israeli radio said Wednesday that one Palestinian detonated an explosive before the due time as he saw the Israeli forces approaching him, while eye witnesses said that the executor of the operation was killed after detonating the explosive. The witnesses said "we saw an Israeli military car hit by the explosion and wounded persons." Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/19/2002 - Israel fires at UN officials in Gaza strip
United Nations officials travelling in the Gaza Strip were forced to take cover yesterday when Israeli soldiers fired warning shots in the direction of a delegation headed by the senior UN relief official in the region. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/19/2002 - Nine industrial workshops, 6 Palestinian houses destroyed in a new Israeli breaking Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/18/2002
- UAE aid to the Palestinians, the Afghans
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Red Crescent society will shortly send foodstuffs and medical aids to the Palestinian and Afghani peoples in the framework of a relief campaign carried out by the society, said Ms. Sanaa Darwish al-Kutubi, the secretary general of the UAE Red Crescent United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Culture, 9/18/2002 - Quartet outlines three-phase roadmap for final settlement of Palestinian Israeli issue by 2005
Members of the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East - comprising the United Nations, European Union, Russian Federation and United States - today outlined a three-phase roadmap to achieve the shared vision of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side by side in peace and security. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 9/18/2002 - Foreign experts start training Palestinian police in Arieha
A source close to the Palestinian security department said that foreign army officers started on Monday training members from the Palestinian security police in Areiha in the West Bank. Palestine, Local, 9/18/2002 - Israel kill one Palestinian, foreigners show solidarity to Palestinians
The Palestinian Khalil Ibrahim al-Khazouqi (22 year old) was shot on when the Israeli soldiers opened fire on him while he was inside a car inonits way between the two check points of Abu Haul in Deir al-Balah and al-Matahain ( the mills ) in Khan Younis and prevented the ambulance from arriving to the site to take the body of the killed Palestinian to his family. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/17/2002 - Al-Sharq al-Awsat: An international highway between Amman, Jerusalem Jordan-Palestine, Economics, 9/16/2002