Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 5/19/2003
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of May 19, 2003
- Hamas bomb explosion in Gaza; Sharon accepts the Roadmap
Powell said that Washington's commitment to dealing with these fears does not mean it will amend the Roadmap itself. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/24/2003 - Egypt: returning back the ambassador linked to approval of the roadmap
The Palestinian foreign affairs minister Nabil Shaath has stated that Egypt informed the Palestinian Authority and several regional and international sides that it will not invite the Palestinian groups to a new round of dialogue in Cairo before a clear and unconditional consent by the Israeli government to the Roadmap plan and to halt all forms of aggression against the Palestinian people. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 5/23/2003 - Some 624 Palestinian houses; Israeli helicopter crashed, One Palestinian killed
A Palestinian source at the office of Saeb Oreikat, the chairman of the negotiations departments, who resigned from the Palestinian authority, said that the Israeli authority refused to give him a license to enter Jerusalem to take part in a lecture in one of the faculties. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/23/2003 - Two Palestinians killed, Israel reoccupied Beit Hanoun; Abu Mazen to visit Washington, Sharon to follow
American sources said that the postponed meeting between the US President George W. Bush and the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon will be held next week, while Israeli sources noted that the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas ( Abu Mazin ) accepted Bush's invitation to visit Washington within the few coming days. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/22/2003 - Jibril: resistance escalate despite offices closure
Jibril added "I do not think that this ( Palestinian) people who during the past 24 hours carried several operations had received instructions from Damascus or Beirut or from anywhere else É resistance has become a popular phenomenon." In a statement to press, Jibril said that "the Palestinian question is much larger than a group of offices opened here or there," noting that "rather, the question is that a crime was committed against the Palestinian people since 50 years and 4 million Palestinians are in Diaspora." Palestine-Syria, Politics, 5/21/2003 - Israeli forces pull out from Beit Hanoun after they destroyed of infrastructure
Israel seemed yesterday handicapped before the escalation of "suicide " operations, using all its military means in confronting the Palestinian Intifada. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/21/2003 - Phone call between Bush, Mahmoud Abbas Palestine-USA, Politics, 5/21/2003
- Syrian Republic Mufti Israel decision to permit settlers into al-Aqsa Mosque Syria-Palestine, Politics, 5/20/2003
- A woman from al-Jihad movement kills 3 Israelis
In a fifth operation of its kind during the past 48 hours, a Palestinian woman belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine broke into a trade center in al-Afoula city inside the territories of 1948 and detonated herself and this resulted in killing three Israelis and wounding other 43. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/20/2003 - Al-Fahoum: Palestinian groups freeze media activity to avoid American pressure on Syria
Former chairman of the Palestinian national council, Khaled al-Fahoum, stressed that the Palestinian groups "voluntarily" froze media activities, their only activity in Damascus, because of their assessment of the American pressure on Syria. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 5/19/2003 - Three Palestinian operations in Jerusalem, Hebron, nine Israelis killed, 8 Palestinians killed
The Palestinian resistance retaliated to the daily massacres carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied territories by carrying out three operations in East Jerusalem and Hebron that resulted in killing 9 Israelis, wounding 22, while two Palestinians were killed after they had broken into a settlement in the West Bank near the Green light and other three in incursions operations by the Israeli forces in Gaza. Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/19/2003