Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 1/26/2004
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of January 26, 2004
- Guardian criticizes Britain rejection to file separation wall issue to ICJ
British Guardian Newspaper criticized the British government's rejection to submit the issue of the building the Israeli wall of separation in the West Bank to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) despite describing the wall as illegitimate. Palestine-UK, Politics, 1/31/2004 - Three Palestinians killed, Hamas plans to kidnap for exchange
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, founder of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, said that capturing Israeli soldiers and exchanging them with Palestinian detainees is the only solution for solving the question of the detainees, because "Israel only understands the language of force." Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/31/2004 - Resistance vow continued confrontation; al-Aqsa group claims Jerusalem operation
The secretary of Fatah in the West Bank, Hussein al-Sheikh, said that "the criminal series " of the occupation forces constitutes a fertile land for the resistance operations, noting in a statement the Gaza massacre and the continued operations of demolishing and continued building the wall of separation. Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/30/2004 - Wolf calls for summit between Sharon and Qurei'; resistance condemn al-Zeitoun quarters massacre
Concerning the conditions of the massacre, Palestinian medical sources said that medical test proved that five of the 8 Palestinians were killed by bullets fired from a very near distance in the head and the neck. Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/29/2004 - Egyptian Foreign Minister warns against Israeli practices against the Palestinians Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 1/29/2004
- Palestinian- Egyptian talks in Ramullah aims at a new truce
The Egyptian Foreign minister Ahmed Maher and the director of the general intelligence Omar Suleiman held talks with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Ramullah. Palestine-Egypt, Politics, 1/28/2004 - ad-Dustour: European official and the Israeli Separation Wall
Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department at the European Office of Humanitarian Aid ( EOHA) denounced the apartheid separation wall being built by Israel in the West Bank, describing it as one of the most atrocious, inhuman practices perpetrated against the Palestinian people. Palestine-European Union, Politics, 1/27/2004 - UNRAW: Israel demolished 14852 houses in Gaza
The commissioner general of the Palestinian Refugees Work Relief Agency UNRWA, Peter Hansen, criticized yesterday that the policy of demolishing houses of the Palestinians pursued by Israel, stressing that the current situation in the Palestinian territories will be conducive to more "destruction and damages." Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/27/2004 - Two Palestinians killed; Palestinian legislative council: the government did not attain security to citizens
The Palestinian legislative council held the government of the Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qurei' responsible for the failure to attaining security to the Palestinian citizen. A matter which pushed the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to give his instructions to the minister of the Interior and to the security departments to form operations room "immediately" in order to control internal security in the Palestinian territories. Palestine-Israel, Military, 1/26/2004 - Hamas proposes a ten- year truce Palestine-Israel, Politics, 1/26/2004
- Yemen and Israel's position towards ME peace Yemen-Palestine, Politics, 1/26/2004