Arabic News Weekly Edition for Palestine, 6/14/2004
Weekly Edition, Palestine - Week of June 14, 2004
- Maher rejects any attempt to change Arafat status as PNA president
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is the legitimate elected president of the Palestinian National Authority, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said on Thursday. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 6/18/2004 - Mubarak meets with Qurei' today, Israel to besiege Gaza by water
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt meets today with the Palestinian prime minister Ahmad Qurei' in Cairo after he had on Thursday cancelled the meeting for unknown reasons amid news on the deterioration of health conditions of the Egyptian President. Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 6/18/2004 - Israel prepares a plan to intensify settlements in the West Bank; Al-Aqsa, al-Jihad claim responsibility for blowing up a car near Natsareim
Israeli security forces disclosed that Israel intends to intensify building of settlement in the major settlements aggregations in the West Bank, so as the settlers who will be evacuated from Gaza in the context of the separation plan, set by the prime minister Ariel Sharon. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/16/2004 - Erdogan deplores Israeli Practices Turkey-Palestine, Politics, 6/16/2004
- Arab League condemns the Israeli racial separation wall
The Arab League on Monday reiterated its strong condemnation of Israel's building the apartheid separation wall in the occupied Palestinian lands, warning against the repercussions of the wall on the human conditions of the Palestinian people. Regional-Palestine, Politics, 6/15/2004 - Israeli forces start annexation of Ariel settlement in the depth of the west bank, Israeli Apache assassinates one Palestinian
Two Palestinians were killed, one of them is a member in al-Aqsa group and other three wounded when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile that hit their car in Balatah camp for the Palestinian refugees near Nablus in the West Bank. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 6/15/2004 - Al-Shara confers with Palestinian minister
Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara Sunday received the Culture Minister in the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA ),Yahya Yakhlaf, and the Minister of the Palestinian Presidency Affairs, Ramzi Khouri. Syria-Palestine, Politics, 6/14/2004 - Al-Ibraheimi renews criticism for the Israeli occupation
The UN special envoy to Iraq, Elakhder al-Ibraheimi, yesterday considered that the Israeli- Palestinian conflict " affects what is taking place in Iraq." Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 6/14/2004 - Amman denies the expulsion of a Jordanian delegation from Jenin
The spokeswoman for the Jordanian government Asmaa al-Khuder on Saturday denied news that a Jordanian delegation was forced to leave the Palestinian town of Jenin under the threat of members of al-Aqsa group of the Fatah Movement. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 6/14/2004