Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 6/2/2003
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of June 2, 2003
- Mubarak phones Arafat Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 6/7/2003
- Meeting for the Palestinian leadership led by Arafat
A Palestinian official source said that the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat held a meeting on Friday with senior officials in the Fatah movement and the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO in order to discuss results of the tripartite summit which was held on Wednesday in al-Aqaba ( Jordan.). Palestine, Politics, 6/7/2003 - Israel continue killings of Palestinian opposition and resistance leaders; US criticizes Hamas for ending talks with Abbas
The US has criticized the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, and described it as an "enemy of peace" after the movement announced it will stop talks with the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas over ending its attacks against the Israelis. Palestine-USA, Politics, 6/7/2003 - Moussa denies Sharm Esh Sheikh, al-Aqaba summit targets resistance
The secretary general of the Arab League AL Amr Moussa has considered meetings of the summit took place in the region concerning the Palestinian issue as a chance through which hopes can be achieved for both the Palestinians and the Israelis through the Roadmap. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 6/6/2003 - Al-Aqaba summit: Bush reiterates support for Palestinian state, Israel's security, enforcement of Roadmap implementation
US President George W. Bush said it is possible to achieve peace in the Middle East, noting that there is great progress for achieving this goal. Palestine-USA, Politics, 6/5/2003 - Bush vows to support Israeli, Palestinian, Arab peace efforts
"We expect both parties to keep their promises," Bush said. Palestine-USA, Politics, 6/5/2003 - Hamas, al-Jihad, al-Shabeya will not drop their guns, will avoid inter- fighting
Al-Ranteisi considered that Abbas "has denied the sufferings of the Palestinian people and just remembered that the Palestinian people are terrorists, killing the Jews," adding "the sufferings before the world has become that of the Jews, and we do not have sufferings, and that the problem is about the Jews and Abu Mazin came to solve it for them." In remarks to the Israelis, al-Ranteisi said "we should cling to the 'right of return' of which Abu Mazin gave no mention." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/5/2003 - Thousands of Israeli settlers demonstrate in Jerusalem: dismantling settlements is a surrender to terrorism
The Israeli settlers vowed to confront any attempt aiming at eliminating any settlement, in the framework of implementing the Roadmap. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/5/2003 - Israeli forces release 91 Palestinian prisoners, arrest 10 others
The Israeli occupation forces yesterday released 91 Palestinian detainees most of them are administrative prisoners with the exception of Ahmad Jebera ( Abu al-Sukkar) who has been jailed since 1975. However, the occupation forces carried out new breaking in and arrest campaigns in the cities of the West Bank and Gaza that resulted in wounding scores of Palestinians, arresting scores and destroying one house. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/4/2003 - Israel tighten siege measures, hold hundreds of people at check points
The Israeli occupation forces yesterday tightened the siege imposed on the cities and towns of the West Bank and Gaza and intensified its measures on check points which cut and divide the Palestinian areas, in contradiction to reports already published on alleviating siege measures and providing facilitation to the Palestinians. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/3/2003 - Israel kill three Palestinians, symbolic lift of closure on West Bank and Gaza
The Israeli occupation forces said, three days before the al-Aqaba summit which will bring together the US President George W. Bush, the Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, that it had alleviated blocking measures imposed on the Palestinian territories. Palestine-Israel, Military, 6/2/2003