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textAbbas Elected PLO Chief, Qaddumi Fatah Leader by IOL
RAMALLAH, November 11 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A few hours after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was officially declared dead on Thursday, November,11 , former premier Mahmoud Abbas was elected the new head of the PLO. "Abu Mazen (Abbas) has been appointed head of the PLO," said a source in the Palestinian presidency's office....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:54am PST
text Vanunu arrested by Israeli police by sources
The Israeli former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, released in April after 18 years in jail, has been re-arrested, police say. He was seized by armed officers and is being held on suspicion of passing on classified information, police say....
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:52am PST
imageYasser Arafat, 1929-2004
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by Electronic Intifada (repost)
10:07PM US Central Time/6:07AM Palestine Time -- Today, Yasser Arafat, Chairman of al-Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization and elected President of the Palestinian Authority, died in Paris from complications stemming from a blood disorder at the age of 75. Born Muhammad Abd al-Ra'uf al-Arafat al-Qudwa, Yasser Arafat was related to the Husayni family and had strong family ties to Gaza and Jerusalem. He first became active in Palestinian politics while an engineering student in Cairo...
Posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 9:49pm PST
textAction Alert: Demand Non-Violent Activist be Released by ISM
Non-Violence Threatens Israeli Army: Imprisons Non-Violent Community Leader Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance Violently Repressed by Israeli Army and Government...
Posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 10:34am PST
textPalestinians to continue struggle by Electronic Intifada (repost)
Palestinian Authority officials and opposition leaders have vowed to safeguard national unity in the wake of leader Yasir Arafat's death. Seeking to cope with the absence of the man who was at the helm of the Palestinian national struggle for nearly 40 years, leaders of the mainstream Fatah movement, which Arafat founded and led until his death, undertook not to allow his passing to impact the movement's ability to keep up the struggle against Israeli occupation....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:45pm PST
textPalestinian leaders choose Muqataa as Arafat burial site by Daily Star, Lebanon
ven before an official announcement of Yasser Arafat's death, Israeli and Palestinian officials held talks over where he would be buried, while Washington said it was willing to work with whatever leaders Palestinians choose in the event of the president's demise. A senior Palestinian official said a deal was reached between Israelis and Palestinians on funeral arrangements. "Senior Palestinian and Israeli officials have reached an agreement in principle on the arrangements to be m...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:43pm PST
textIsrael blocks care for Arab-Israeli baby by repost
By Agence France Presse (AFP) Wednesday, November 10, 2004 JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities are withholding treatment of a critically ill baby born to an Arab-Israeli father and Palestinian mother, over doubts about the baby's paternity, an international rights group charged Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:42pm PST
textHello from Occupied Palestine by Sarah Olson (reposted by friend)
Sarah Olson is an independent reporter travelling through and reporting in occupied Palestine. She is particularly concerned with the role of women in the resistence, and has been sending reports home to friends and family. She has agreed to have them reposted on various lists and websites - please forward on if you receive this!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 12:05pm PST
textUpdate from the ISM on Activities and Detention by International Solidarity Movement
1. "The Waiting Room" UK activist arrested Sunday, in Kufr Thulth, Salfit region remains in detention; Report from the detention center 2. The Meaning of Sumud, Budrus, November 1, 2004-11-09...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:24am PST
textArafat 'has hours to live': May Already Be Dead by sources
PARIS/MALTA, (di-ve news)--November 09, 2004 - 1650CET--World-wide news agencies have lately reported that according to unnamed Palestinian officials, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, ?has only hours to live'. Officials at the hospital near Paris where he is being treated have earlier said that Arafat's condition had worsened and his coma had deepened. Doctors have still not explained the reasons for his illness while Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei visited his bedside but left ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:50am PST
textIsraeli CP denounces Sharon’s Gaza plan by PWW
n the same day that the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, voted 67-45 to support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip, the leader of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) denounced the plan as a maneuver to block and “bury the very idea” of an independent Palestinian state....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 9:18am PST
text Occupation forces ban thousands of worshippers from al-Aqsa, kill two children by AN
The Israeli occupation forces tightened closure on the Palestinian territories on the fourth Friday of the holy month of Ramadan and prevented any Palestinian under age 50 from entering occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation forces were deployed in large numbers in the surrounding of al-Aqsa mosque, while tough security measures prevented scores of thousands of Palestinians from having access to al-Aqsa mosque to perform Friday's prayers which is of great importance in light of the det...
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 10:54am PST
textCrisis Over Eventual Burial of Arafat by Arab News (repost)
GAZA, 6 November 2004 — With the fate of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a mystery, an international crisis was brewing over the burial of his body in the event of his death....
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 10:12am PST
textPalestine: 'Accidents' or deliberate murder -- the assault on health and other war crimes by Derek Summerfield
Does the death of an Arab weigh the same as that of a US or Israeli citizen?...Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the killing of Asma al-Mughayr (16 years) and her brother Ahmad (13 years) on the roof terrace of their home in Rafah on 18 May, each with a single bullet to the head. Asma had been taking clothes off the drying line and Ahmad feeding pigeons. Amnesty noted that the firing appeared to have come from the top floor of a nearby house, which had been taken over...
Posted: Sat, Nov 6, 2004 5:41am PST
textIsraeli tank fire kills five Palestinians by ALJ
Five Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in central Gaza, Palestinian security sources say. The latest deaths were of two Palestinian children who were killed by an Israeli tank shell in the central Gaza Strip early on Friday, Palestinian hospital and security sources told reporters....
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 10:51pm PST
textArafat's departure brings uncertainty by Electronic Intifada (repost)
In the early hours of October 28, as dozens of journalists, mid-rung political officials and curious onlookers milled around outside President Arafat's Ramallah compound speculating on the health of their leader, one Palestinian reporter evoked critical minutes in the shaping of early Islam. Cynically, he recalled how the Prophet Mohammed's followers disputed the succession only hours after he lay dead. It was an acknowledgement of the moment's import (some believed the president had alrea...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 4:51pm PST
textFrench medical sources confirm Arafat in coma by Daily Star, Lebanon
CLAMART-France: Yasser Arafat is in a coma on life-support equipment in the intensive care unit of a Paris hospital, French medical sources said Thursday as confusion heightened over the Palestinian leader's condition. "He is still in a coma," the medical sources said....
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 7:49am PST
textBTL:Continuing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Poses Grave Risks for U.S. by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Interview with Clayton Swisher, author and Middle East analyst, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 3:45am PST
textJewish Settlers Assaults Bar Palestinian Children From Attending School by -- Ha'aretz Correspondents, Israel
Jewish fundamentalists and other 'redneck' Jewish settlers commonly throw stones at, sic dogs on, and otherwise attack Palestinian CHILDREN on their way to school!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 11:56am PST
textArafat possibly poisoned: doctors by repost
Medical tests on the ailing Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, have ruled out leukaemia or any other life-threatening condition. "The latest tests have found that President Arafat does not suffer from any life-threatening illness and what he has is curable," an aide, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said yesterday. Mr Arafat, 75, underwent tests and scans on Saturday at a French military hospital the day after being flown from his shell-battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 11:27pm PST
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