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US may sell up to $600 million to Israeli Air Force,
This week, the United States said it may sell up to $600 million in equipment and services to Israel for maintenance of the engines on the Israeli Air Force's F-15 and F-16 figher planes. The sale would cover support for Pratt and Whitney F-100 engines, spare and repair parts, testing, training, and other services for 10 years, the U.S. Defense Department said in a notice to the American Congress....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 11:37am PDT
Rice praises Abbas' efforts to clamp down on militants
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday praised Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to ensure security ahead of Israel's Gaza withdrawal and said both sides were coordinating efforts, but more needed to be done....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 7:41am PDT
Israel's " Gaza pullout " and evacuation of the Gaza settlers
Photos of Israel's internal struggle about the Gaza pullout (disengagement)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 3:11am PDT
Jobless in Gaza
If you would like to know what the Israeli occupation and life under it looks like, go to its “employment office,” several hundred meters past the Erez checkpoint, on the outskirts of the large prison of Gaza, from which Israel is supposed to disengage in a few weeks. Maybe you will also see here where the next wave of terror is growing....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 12:20am PDT
Israel raids Jenin amid Rice visit
Two Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli troops who entered Jenin....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:40pm PDT
Security Council turns down separation fence issue
The PLO's delegation to the UN failed on Friday to turn a Security Council briefing into a discussion about the Separation fence....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:39pm PDT
Remembering Farouk Abdel-Muhti: One Year Anniversary of Death of Palestinian Activist
A vigil is being held today in New York to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Palestinian human rights activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti. He was jailed for two years without charge. He died last summer just three months after being released. We play an excerpt of the documentary, "Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Political Prisoner....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:12am PDT
israeli war crimes (audio/mpeg 5.2MB)
This is a summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for the week ending 21 July 2005. 6mins, english...
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 8:41am PDT
Gaza: When Will it End?
Laila M. El-Haddad writing from Gaza City, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 18 July 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:33am PDT
Palestine: A truce or a fig leaf?
Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 20 July 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:31am PDT
Hamas-Fatah Clashes…"Risky Power Struggle"
GAZA, July20 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – At least seven Palestinians were injured Wednesday, July20 , in fresh clashes between Palestinian security forces and Hamas members despite an agreement between the two sides to end their escalating in-fighting....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2005 6:27am PDT
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip
What May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip: A Warning from Israel...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:28pm PDT
Lawyers Challenge EU and UK over Inaction on Palestine
Lawyers acting for campaigns group War on Want will today (Monday 18 July) send letters to President José Manuel Barroso of the European Commission and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw challenging them to provide evidence of any action they have taken to curtail human rights abuses against Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Israeli Police Confine Marchers to Village
Israeli police encircled thousands of Gaza withdrawal opponents Tuesday, confining them to a fenced-in farming village to prevent them from marching to the nearby Gaza Strip in protest....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 8:36am PDT
Hamas vows to observe truce accord
Hamas has confirmed its commitment to a truce agreed to in Egypt but has reserved the right to retaliate against any Israeli attacks....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 9:41pm PDT
Israel: 2 religious soldiers suspected of placing J'lem fake bomb
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers from an infantry regiment of ultra-Orthodox troops were arrested on suspicion of placing a fake bomb at the Jerusalem central bus station last week, it emerged on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:55am PDT
Three Women, Palestinian Christian, Muslim and Israeli Jew on Life Under Occupation
As Israel prepares for a possible ground offensive in Gaza and Hamas says it will halt attacks, we speak with three women: Dr. Jumana Odeh, a Muslim Palestinian who lives in Jerusalem and is the Director of the Palestinian Happy Child Center; Michal Sagi, a Jewish Israeli who is active with Checkpoint Watch, a women's human rights monitoring group and Rana Khoury, a Christian Palestinian who is Deputy General Director of the International Center of Bethlehem....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:49am PDT
Israeli-Palestinian tit-for-tat continues
Israeli occupation forces have raided the West Bank towns of Ram Allah and Tulkarim while Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip have kept up rocket and mortar fire on Israeli targets....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 6:12am PDT
Protests mark 1-year of ruling on Israeli wall
Protests rocked several Palestinian villages and towns July 9 to mark the first anniversary of the World Court ruling that Israel’s “separation barrier” is illegal and should be dismantled. At least one Palestinian, a 15-year-old boy, was shot dead by Israeli troops, and many more were injured....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:30am PDT
Israel-Palestine: The right to marriage
Israel's immigration policy will be decided, so it appears, by a panel of jurists appointed by Interior Minister Ophir Pines-Paz with the view to determining transparent regulations that will put an end to the maltreatment faced by any non-Jew wishing to live in Israel. But extremist opinions that prevail in the government could give rise to a draconian immigration law that would undermine the rights of Israeli citizens who wish to marry a non-Jew....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2005 11:23am PDT