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UNRWA: IDF razed 45 buildings in Rafah during Operation Rainbow Israel Defense Forces troops destroyed 45 buildings during its six-day operation in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip - making 575 people homeless - the United Nations relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:12am PDT
Israel remains in Rafah, storms Nablus Israeli occupation forces have pulled out from some parts of southern Gaza's Rafah district, but remain in others as their siege of the area enters its seventh day....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:41am PDT
Clashes as Gaza buries its dead Thousands of Palestinians have attended funerals for 16 people killed during an Israeli raid in Gaza, the biggest in recent years....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:13am PDT
Arafat tells Egyptian intelligence chief PA is ready to take over in Gaza Strip General Omar Suleiman met in Ramallah on Monday with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat who told the Egyptian intelligence chief his forces were ready to take control of Gaza....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:06am PDT
Protest at Gaza Report and More 1) Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals Protest War Crimes in Rafah_ISM report
2) Caterpillar Should Do the Right Thing_Elizabeth Corrie
3) Haifa, Beirut and Beyond ..._ personal journal
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Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:21pm PDT
ECR Palestine coverage to run next Sunday... ECR will be broadcasting its Palestine segment next Sunday, the 31st of May, at 5:30pm on 90.7FM!...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 3:45pm PDT
After Rafah, Europe, Arabs have no excuse for inaction Things must be bad in Palestine when the United States allows a resolution to pass in the UN Security Council, as it did late on 19 May condemning Israeli actions. By 14-0, with the United States abstaining, the Council adopted Resolution 1544 "expressing its grave concern at the continued deterioration of the situation on the ground in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967," and "condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians that took place in the Rafah area." The...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:31pm PDT
Photostory: Israel's Rafah operation and its May 19th attack on a peaceful march 
Dutch photojournalist Johannes Abeling found himself in Rafah in the middle of a peaceful protest march by Rafah residents when Israeli combat helicopters and tanks opened fire on the demonstrators, killing at least 50, including many children. Abeling's series of photos is chilling and extremely disturbing....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:29pm PDT
Israeli F16 strikes local car in Nablus GAZA, May 23 (Xinhuanet) -- An Israeli F16 warplane on Sunday fired a rocket at a local Palestinian car driving in the center of the northern West Bank town of Nablus and killed at least two Palestinians, medical sources and witnesses reported....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 10:12am PDT
Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid: Demolition of Gaza homes must end Justice Minister Yosef Lapid on Sunday harshly criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip, saying it must end and warning that it could seriously damage Israel's standing in the world.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Lapid said Israel must halt the destruction. "The demolition of houses in Rafah must stop. It is not humane, not Jewish, and causes us grave damage in the world."...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:43am PDT
Eye to Eye / Palestine Look into my eyes
And tell me what you see.
You don't see a damn thing,
'cause you can't possibly relate to me. ......
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 4:45am PDT
Anger over razing of Gaza zoo "Some people accuse them of behaving like animals, but I cannot say this. Animals are beautiful and would never do anything like what has been done here."...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 4:16am PDT
Surveying the ruins of Rafah The high-level United Nations delegation was making its way down one of Rafah's ruined streets....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:57pm PDT
Israel proposes payment for homes razed in Gaza Strip Israel intends to offer compensation to the owners of hundreds of homes along the Philadelphi route, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, if the buildings are damaged in the framework of the Israel Defense Forces' operation to broaden the road. The IDF operation is aimed at increasing security and preventing the smuggling of weapons and other military material into the Strip through tunnels from Sinai....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:55pm PDT
Survey: 43% of Israeli teenagers support refusenik stance Nearly half of Israeli teens from both the left and the right support refusing certain military orders, according to a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute two months ago....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:49pm PDT
Palestinians Storm UN Aid Convoy After Israeli Raid RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinians, angry over Israel's bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in years, smashed the windows of a U.N. car Saturday and mobbed a shipment of humanitarian aid.
"Where have you been?" one man screamed as others pounded on the cars in the U.N. convoy as it entered a sealed-off neighborhood in Rafah refugee camp to survey damage and deliver aid supplies, including powdered milk....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:46pm PDT
Four year old Palestinian girl shot in the forehead by Israeli sniper 
Rawan abu-Zeid could not be resuscitated at a local hospital after she received two bullets in her head and neck during sporadic shooting in the Brazil refugee camp. Israeli forces had withdrawn some - but by no means all - of its forces from the camp on Friday....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:05pm PDT
Arafat appeals for international protection Arab leaders carried on with a summit in Tunis on Saturday despite a walkout by Libya's Muammar al-Qadhafi....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 3:58pm PDT
Two Exams-Three Months/ Right to Education in Palestine 
They had no alternative but to remain idle, with approximately 60% of the students having to leave Nablus and return to their homes in the different cities and villages of the West Bank. They had hoped that the curfew would soon be lifted and they could complete their exams. It hasn't happened....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 6:52am PDT
Dr. Adnan Idrees Refused Permission to Leave /Palestine 
The Israeli Supreme Court disallowed instructor Adnan Idrees his right to leave the country to visit the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Idrees was informed by the Court....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 6:46am PDT
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