Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 9/30/2002
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of September 30, 2002
- Arab follow up committee to meet next week in Cairo Regional-Palestine, Politics, 10/5/2002
- Bin Ali calls for a new conception for international cooperation
Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has called on the international community to "crystallize a new conception for international solidarity that unites all efforts in order to limit the gap which has been widening between the north and the south." Tunisia-Palestine, Politics, 10/5/2002 - Mecca Cola to finance Palestinian charity works
A new soft drink under the name Mecca Cola will be launched in France in November, with part of the profit to be used for financing the Palestinian charity (Purely Humanitarian), according to the owner of the project Tawfiq Mathlouthi. Palestine, Politics, 10/5/2002 - Confrontations in all territories, Israel kills one Palestinian, detains scores
Six Palestinian were wounded including one child in a critical health condition when the Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinians performing their prayers at al-Aqsa mosque. This was followed by strong clashes between the Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians during which the Israelis threw tear gas bombs and used live bullets against the men while performing their prayers. Palestine-Israel, Military, 10/5/2002 - Israeli lawyer defends Palestinian leader Barghouti
"It's against our own heritage, it's betraying our very own ideas upon which this state was formed, to continue the harassment and the infliction of suffering," he said. "I hear it and it makes me cringe. How can Jews behave like that?" Leibowitz said the Israeli justice system was corrupt when it came to putting Palestinians on trial. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/4/2002 - Collapse of Palestinian industry if Israeli restrictions continue
The Palestinian industry is expected to totally collapse in the coming months if Israel does not lift closure and trade restrictions that have been strictly imposed on the occupied territories over the last two years. Palestine, Economics, 10/4/2002 - Israel continues oppression operations against the Palestinians
Sharon asked during a meeting he held on Wednesday evening, in the presence of the minister of the interior, and the general inspector of the Israeli police, from all Israeli farmers and businessmen to stop recruiting Palestinian workers. Palestine-Israel, Military, 10/4/2002 - Mahmoud Abbas paid secret visits to Amman, Doha Palestine-Regional, Politics, 10/4/2002
- ISESCO urges international community to press Israel stop excavations under al-Aqsa mosque
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) exhorted the international community to intervene urgently to stop the excavations Israel is conducting under Al-Quds' Al-Aqsa Mosque, says a release from the Rabat-based organization. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 10/4/2002 - UNICEF: thousands of Palestinian children denied access to schools
A month into the Palestinian school year, the UNICEF special representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, Pierre Poupard, on October 2nd expressed serious concern over the number of Palestinian children being prevented from attending school by Israel imposed restrictions. Palestine, Education, 10/3/2002 - Syria US Congress decision on Jerusalem violates international law, supports occupation
The Syrian foreign ministry has studied the decision taken by the US Congress, on that Jerusalem is a capital for Israel, and ratified by US President George Bush. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 10/3/2002 - Israels breaks to Tammoun village, close schools; Peres: Intifada fatigued Israel
UNICEF has asked Israel to permit the Palestinian children to go to school in implementation of the Fourth Geneva agreement and the Child Rights Agreement. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/3/2002 - Maher: Israel's policy against the Palestinian is futile Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 10/3/2002
- Abu Mazin: I did not meet with the chairman of the Israeli Mossad Palestine-Israel, Politics, 10/3/2002
- Arab, Islamic denunciation to Bush's ratification of bill on Jerusalem as capital for Israel; attacks against Palestinians
US President George Bush ratification of the Congressional bill which considers Jerusalem as a capital for Israel raised angry Arab and Islamic reactions which stressed that this decision is a "violation to the international law and a threat to the Palestinian people, the Arabs and to the Christians and Muslims." Palestine-USA, Politics, 10/2/2002 - Hamas denies halting political, media activity in Syria
The Jordanian weekly al-Majd reported Monday that high leading sources in the Hamas movement have denied press reports which claimed that Syria has recently asked the movement's leadership in Damascus to halt its political and media activities on the Syrian arena. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 10/1/2002 - Abu Mazin to visit Moscow Palestine-Russia, Politics, 10/1/2002
- Continued Israeli acts of killing in the occupied Palestinian territories
Eye witnesses said that a Palestinian teenager ( 13 year old) could not be identified because his skull was distorted by the Israeli bullets which also beat other ten. The Israeli forces, on the other hand carried out a campaign of arrest that covered several Palestinians in al-Khalil Aznah, Hazmeh and Rafah, where clashes took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and two Israeli positions. Palestine-Israel, Military, 10/1/2002 - Israeli government redeploys tanks in Ramullah, imposes curfew
the Palestinian Youth Qader Diab ( 24 year old) was killed in an explosion in Toulkarem. He is the local official for the People's Front in Nablus. A Palestinian patient died at Abu Hauli Israeli military check point to the south Gaza died of a heart attack. Palestine-Israel, Military, 9/30/2002