Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 11/10/2003
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of November 10, 2003
- Israel continues land-bulldozing campaign against Palestinians Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/15/2003
- Hamas representative left Sudan under American pressure
Hamas's representative had left Sudan in a move about which Palestinian sources said was the result of US pressure on Sudan for hosting the representative of the movement. Sudan-Palestine, Politics, 11/15/2003 - Sharon to meet with Qrei soon
Israel has announced that its prime minister Ariel Sharon will be meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Ahmad Qrei within the ten coming days. This came after the assertion made yesterday by Qrei on his readiness to meet with Sharon and his intention to start serious dialogue with Palestinian fighting groups to ensure reciprocated cease fire between the two sides. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/14/2003 - The seperation wall annexes 250 hectares, Israeli forces expel Palestinians from West Bank to Gaza
The occupation forces yesterday started building a new part of the separation wall near Ramallah where it will annex some 250 hectares of Palestinian lands, while the Israeli army expelled during the past 24 hours Palestinians from the West Bank to Gaza. Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/14/2003 - Canada bans three Palestinian organizations Palestine-Canada, Politics, 11/14/2003
- Israel destroyed Thursday morning five Palestinian houses in the refugee camp of Rafah Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/13/2003
- US National Council of the Churches deplores the Israeli separation wall
The General Assembly of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, in Mississippi has condemned the Israeli persistence on building the separation wall in the occupied Palestine and called for tearing it down. Palestine-USA, Politics, 11/13/2003 - Israeli policies hurting Palestinian children, UN expert on right to food says
The United Nations expert on the right to food said yesterday that Israel should be condemned for the effects that its policies of occupation are having on the nourishment of Palestinian children. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 11/13/2003 - Palestinian Supreme Judge arrested by Israel, Two Palestinian Children Die of wounds
"Two Palestinian teen boys died of wounds they sustained by Israeli fire as three others were wounded, while scores of others Êwere arrested in several cities of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Liath Mazen Subeih, 15, died Wednesday of his wounds he sustained last Saturday in Barqeen town of Jenin by the Israeli occupying soldiers, Palestinian medical sources confirmed," the Palestinian IPC news agency reported yesterday. Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/12/2003 - The pope denounces terrorism ( in all its forms)
Pope John Paul II denounced during his meeting in the Vatican yesterday with a delegation of the Christian members in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that he denounced "all forms of terrorism, because it does not only represent treason for our common humanity only, but because it is unable to found the political, moral and spiritual basics necessary for the freedom of people." Palestine-Vatican, Politics, 11/11/2003 - Qrei government will get parliament's confidence, easily
The new Palestinian government chaired by Ahmad Qrei is preparing to win the confidence of the parliament this week, but at the same time it will face problems in resuming peace talks with Israel. Palestine, Politics, 11/11/2003 - Israeli defense minister talks on kidnapping Nasrullah for information of missed pilot Arad
Israel's defense minister Shaoul Mofaz talked about the possibility of kidnapping Hizbullah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrullah, in order to get information about the missing Israeli pilot Ron Arad whose plane was downed in October 1986 in south Lebanon, whose name is not listed among those who will be exchanged among prisoners of the two sides. Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 11/11/2003 - Al-Ra'i al-Aam: Hashem legitimizes National Resistance against occupation
Former Rector of al-Azhar University, Ahmad Omar Hashem stressed on Friday that the national resistance against the occupation with its all forms is legitimate and can't be described as terrorism referring to the necessity for distinguishing between terrorism acts and the national resistance. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 11/10/2003 - Palestinian killed, Qrei government gets out of the bottleneck
The Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qrei has announced that he had completed the formation of the new government and he will submit it to the parliament for ratification later this week. Palestine-Israel, Military, 11/10/2003