Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 3/3/2003
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of March 3, 2003
- Eight Palestinians killed; Al-Aqsa group rejects Abu Mazin for prime minister
al- Aqsa groups martyrs said "we do refuse and reject appointment of Mahmoud Abbas as a prime minister under American- Zionist pressure." The statement considered that Abu Mazin is not "a popular person." Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/8/2003 - Annan deeply deplores 'disproportionate and excessive' Israeli force in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday deeply deplored the use of "disproportionate and excessive force" by the Israeli military in a Gaza refugee camp, which reportedly led to the killing of 11 Palestinians and the injuring of more than 140. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/7/2003 - Mother of 10 children killed by Israel; 14 Palestinian dead
Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian woman mothering 10 children was killed yesterday at the courtyard of her house when the Israeli forces broke into one village near Jenin. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/7/2003 - Arafat chooses Abu Mazin as a prime minister, power is undefined
A Palestinian official announced yesterday that the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat appointed the secretary general of the executive committee for the PLO Mahmoud Abbas ( Abu Mazin) to hold the post of Prime Minister to is to be created. Abu Mazin said he will not accept a symbolic position, calling for defining the nature of authorities he will enjoy. Palestine, Politics, 3/7/2003 - World Bank on Israel's destruction of Palestinian economy: half the Palestinians live on less than two dollars a day
Israeli-imposed closures in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are continuing to cause severe economic problems for Palestinians, according to a new report from the World Bank. Palestine-Israel, Economics, 3/6/2003 - 15 Israelis killed in a Palestinian operation in Haifa, PA denounces it
The number of killed Israelis in an Israeli bus which was blown up in the coastal city of Haifa to the north of Tel Aviv yesterday increased to 15 persons, at least, with other 30 wounded, 10 of them are in critical conditions. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/6/2003 - Three Palestinians killed in confrontations with the Israeli forces
One Palestinian was killed in Toulkarem camp to the north of the West Bank and four others, in critical health conditions, were wounded as the Israeli forces opened fire at a group of citizens in the camp. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/5/2003 - UN dismayed by indiscriminate shooting of schoolgirl by Israeli forces
After a 12-year-old girl was shot in the head while sitting at her desk in a United Nations school in the Palestinian territory, a top UN relief official in the region has expressed dismay at the Israeli military's indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/4/2003 - Palestinians destroy five Israeli Tanks, more Palestinians killed by Israel
The Israeli forces yesterday, backed by scores of tanks and Apache planes broke into al-Nuseirat and al-Breij camps in the downtown of Gaza and this resulted in killing ten Palestinians including one woman and two children and wounding more than 29 citizens as well as destroying several Palestinian homes. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/4/2003 - Three Palestinians were killed, 25 homes by Israel
Three Palestinians were killed and more than other 46 wounded, two children among them are in critical health condition. Also, twenty Palestinian homes were demolished in an incursion by the Israeli forces yesterday into Khan Younis, and Rafah in Gaza, while two Israeli soldiers were wounded during confrontation between the Palestinians and the invading Israeli forces. Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/3/2003