Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 2/16/2004
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of February 16, 2004
- Two Palestinians killed, Washington accuses Palestinians of obstructing the Roadmap
One Israeli soldier was killed and other three wounded in Hebron, the West Bank. Israel said that the incident took place when one Israeli soldier opened fire at his colleagues, wrongly, on his assumption that a Palestinian fighter attacked an Israeli force. Palestine-Israel, Military, 2/21/2004 - Two Palestinian houses demolished, One Palestinian expelled from west bank; Hamas: no inter-fighting will take place
The Hamas movement has called for "inter- Palestinian national dialogue " to reach a comprehensive national document" stressing that no internal fighting will take place, as soon as the occupation forces withdraw from Gaza, while the occupation forces demolished two houses for Palestinian resistance men and expelled one Palestinian from the West Bank to Gaza. Palestine-Israel, Military, 2/20/2004 - Berri renews Lebanon's rejection of resettling the Palestinians where they do live Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 2/20/2004
- Red Cross: Israel's barrier violates humanitarian law
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday said that Israel's controversial West Bank separation barrier violates international humanitarian law because it cuts across Palestinian land. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 2/19/2004 - AL's concerns over Israeli digging under Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque Palestine-Regional, Politics, 2/18/2004
- ISESCO denounces excavations under Al Aqsa Mosque
The Rabat-based Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) on Monday condemned the excavations carried out by the Israeli occupying authorities under the Aqsa Mosque and which caused the collapse of the path leading to one of the main gates of this Mosque. Palestine-Regional, Politics, 2/17/2004 - One Palestinian killed by Israeli forces, an alternative plan to dismantle Gaza settlements
Palestinian medical sources in Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said that one Palestinian was killed yesterday as he was hit by a bullet by the Israeli occupation forces. Palestine-Israel, Military, 2/17/2004 - Hawatemah: Damascus expulsion of Palestinian groups is a debated issue
The secretary general of the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatemah, said that Syria's expulsion of several leaders of the Palestinian leadership from its lands is a debated issue," stressing that "this matter is in the hand of the Syrian leadership which decides it." Syria-Palestine, Politics, 2/16/2004