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The UN security council said yesterday in a resolution the US refrained from voting to condemn Israel over killing the Palestinian civilians in Rafah area and called on Israel to stop demolishing the houses of the Palestinian in Gaza.
The US refrained from voting for the draft resolution which was supported by 14 of the 15 UN security council members, following Algeria which represents the Arab group at the UN security council. Diplomats said that the tone of the final resolutions script w...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 10:43am PDT
Our worst fears have been realized. At least eight civilians, most of them school children, were killed yesterday and dozens were wounded when a tank shell exploded in the middle of a demonstration by hundreds of Palestinians in Rafah. The pictures broadcast to the world were difficult to look at. This is a tragic incident which the Israel Defense Forces clearly did not expect to happen, but when an army wages warfare in a populated area, this is the result. This disaster follows on the heels...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 10:40am PDT
From ALJAZEERA:
A prominent rabbi has supported the killings of Palestinian civilians by Israeli occupation troops in the Gaza Strip, saying killing non-Jewish civilians is compatible with religious laws....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 10:37am PDT
In a classical trial of the "occupied" by the "occupier", a Tel Aviv court on Thursday convicted imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghuthi on five accounts of murder....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 10:34am PDT
Israeli forces have pushed deeper into southern Gaza, a day after the United Nations condemned Israel for killing at least eight Palestinian protesters....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 10:32am PDT
An offending military demolishing homes and killing civilians.
Foreign Aid to Israel in American Tax Dollars
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20040403062154205
www.aipac.org/documents/talkingpointsforeignaid.pdf...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 10:29am PDT
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' special human rights envoy for the occupied territories said on Wednesday that Israeli military strikes against a Gaza refugee camp were war crimes and a violation of humanitarian law....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 10:12am PDT
We go inside a Palestinian hospital minutes after an Israeli gunship bombed a demonstration in Rafah where Israel has been launching one of its largest offensive ever. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 9:48am PDT
At least eight Palestinians were killed and 35 others injured when Israeli forces fired on a crowd demonstrating against the invasion of a Gaza refugee camp today.
Witnesses and Palestinian security sources said tanks and a helicopter had fired on the crowd in Rafah. The wounded were taken to a nearby hospital in ambulances, private cars and donkey carts....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 9:47am PDT
In an alarming new development, the Israeli armed forces have ordered all males 16 or older in the Rafah neighborhood of Tel Sultan to gather in the local UNWRA Al Amariya school. The procedure is reminiscent of similar Israeli operations undertaken in the past in the West Bank whereby house to house searches of Palestinian neighbourhoods, round ups on the street and public announcements by the army for Palestinian males in a specified age range to come out of their houses and gather in a nea...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 9:45am PDT
WASHINGTON - President Bush delivered a strong message of support for Israel to a pro-Israeli lobbying group on Tuesday, saying that Israel has a right to defend itself from terrorism and again backing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
Bush was greeted with chants of "four more years" as he was introduced to the organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, whose members went on to cheer h...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 9:36am PDT
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday said that violence in the Gaza Strip was "troubling" while reaffirming his belief that Israel, which launched a massive attack there, had a right to target "extremists."
"The unfolding violence in the Gaza Strip is troubling and underscores the need for all parties to seize every opportunity for peace," he said in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Zionist body.
"The United ...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 9:34am PDT
Israeli helicopters have fired on Palestinians peacefully protesting against a massive raid in the occupied Gaza Strip, leaving up to 20 dead and dozens injured....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:56am PDT
A member of al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has been shot and killed by Israeli occupation troops during fierce battles in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:54am PDT
Opposition MKs demanded that the Israel Defense Forces immediately suspend its operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following the deadly missile strike on protesters that killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, many of them children....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:36am PDT
The Israeli army has opened fire on a crowd of Palestinian demonstrators in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:33am PDT
Israeli troops on a raid in southern Gaza have called for a mass surrender of male residents in part of the Rafah refugee camp....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:28am PDT
Helicopter gunship fires four missiles on non-violent demonstrators, killing and injuring scores of civilians in latest Israeli terror attack.
(BERKELEY PROTEST FRIDAY, MAY 21ST, 5 PM, DOWNTOWN BERKELEY BART)...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:05am PDT
Twenty Palestinians — the highest single-day death toll in more than two years — were killed on the first day of the army's "Operation Rainbow" offensive. The victims included a 13-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister.
Dr. Moawiya Hassanain, a senior Palestinian Health Ministry official, said at least 10 people were killed and 50 wounded. Of the wounded, 23 were critically hurt and 13 were in "hopeless" condition. Most of the wounded were children, he said.
The ...
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 8:03am PDT
Israel was accused yesterday of committing a war crime by its destruction of more than 3,000 Palestinian homes in Israel and the occupied territories since the intifada began three and a half years ago....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 5:53pm PDT