NOVEMBER 2000

Thursday November 30, 2000

Main Headlines

• Three Palestinians were killed by the Israeli occupation forces yesterday, two of them died from injuries sustained earlier. The martyrs are: 14 years old boy Mohammed Mashharawi, Musa Mwafit 34 years, and Ashraf Basous Isleem 20 years. Tens others were wounded yesterday. The Israeli tanks placed in positions overlooking Palestinian cities towns and villages open fire on daily basis on Palestinian civilians and residential areas. The Israeli army opens fire on civilians and residential areas indiscriminately, tens of Palestinian civilians are being killed and thousands are wounded in clashes with the Israeli occupation army over the last few weeks. One of the Israeli army doctrines used most ruthlessly is the use of firepower to exact revenge from Palestinian civilians. Last night, Hebron, and Khan Younis refugee camps were the targets of Israeli tanks.
• A Palestinian boy was hit and killed today by a Jewish settler's car in Housan village near Bethlehem.
• Israeli occupation soldiers stormed a school in Al- Arroub refugee camp.
• Israel rejects Mary Robinson's report on Israel's violence and human rights abuse against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• President Arafat reiterates, the Palestinians will not surrender to the Israeli military machine, and the economic siege imposed on our people.
• On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people Kofi Annan pledges to realize a comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian cause.
• The PLO submits its resolution requesting international protection force to the Security Council.
• The Clinton administration will not put forward any new initiative to revive peace in the Middle East.
• In a letter to President Arafat, President Butin renews Russia's support for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
• The Consul General of France says, France is committed to help building Palestinian institutions.
• The Fact-Finding Committee investigating the Israeli occupation and violence will arrive in the Palestinian occupied territories and Israel on Dec. 12.
• Secretary General to the Palestinian Cabinet says, the Palestinian Intifada is subject to the realization of Palestinian national independence.
• President Arafat may meet Prime Minister Barak next week.
• The Palestinian leadership stresses the need to provide international protection to the Palestinian people.

Wednesday November 29, 2000

Main Headlines

• Three more Palestinian martyrs and tens of wounded throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli tanks and missiles continue bombarding Palestinian residential areas.
• Israeli occupation bulldozers destroy large areas of land in Bethlehem and the surrounding area.
• On the occasion of the international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people, Nov. 29, President Arafat demands the implementation of Security Council resolution 1322 and an immediate international protection for the Palestinian people.
• The Israeli occupation authorities devise new rules and conditions and tries to impose them on the Palestinian side with regard to the Crossing Points on the Palestinian Egyptian borders near Rafah.
• Iraq officially demands that the UN use some of its oil revenues to aid the Palestinian people.
• The Israeli Knesset decides to dissolve itself, and early elections are expected next May.
• The EU representative in Palestine says, Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are illegal and constitute a major obstacle to peace in the area. The EU representative added, the only way out of this crisis is just comprehensive peace based on implementing UN resolutions, self-determination and an independent state for the Palestinian people.
• Shops in Ramallah are nearly empty. Purchasing power amongst the Palestinian population declined to 40%. Cash is short, and many people are spending their last savings. Israel is closing the Palestinian territories on the world and closing Palestinian cities, towns, villages and parts on each other. Workers are unable to reach work places, and many businesses are closing down.

Tuesday November 28, 2000

Main Headlines

• Qalkilya says goodbye to five of its sons. Qusay zahran, Ziad Salma, Mohammed Odwan, Mahmoud el- Adl, and Mahdi jabr. All are in their late teens and early twenties. The Israeli occupation army assassinated the five on the night of Nov. 26. The Palestinian population throughout the occupied Palestinian territories is shocked and very angry. Many people say, the Israeli government must pay for this and other cold blood murder, the world community must face the reality, and should exact a price from Israel to deter it from continuing murdering and torturing the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian territories.
• The Israeli occupation troops bombarded Rafah, Khan Younis Refugee camp, areas close to al- Mintar crossing point and Biet Jala. Israeli tank and heavy machine gunfire injured eighteen Palestinians, homes were destroyed and properties are damaged.
• Two Palestinians died yesterday from wounds caused by Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinian civilian demonstrators. Walid Ja'afreh 35 years from Tarqumia died in Riyadh Saudi Arabia where he was receiving treatment, and Zakariya Al- Khore 17 who died in Gaza.
• UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson handed her report to Koffi Annan. Robinson spent eight days in Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories early this month investigating the conditions of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation.
  In her report Robinson calls on the UN to dispatch an international protection and monitoring force to the occupied Palestinian territories, and calls on Israel to stop expanding Jewish settlements and to remove Jewish settlements close to or inside Palestinian population centers. Robinson's report points to the bleak human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the need for measures to be taken to reduce the terrible violence. Robinson accused Israel of using excessive force against the Palestinian people.
• The UN sponsored Fact-Finding Committee will be travelling to the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel very soon. Its report is scheduled to be completed in March 2001.
• The Israeli Southern Front Commander Yom Tov samieh still tries to deny his occupation army killed the Palestinian boy Mohammed Al- Dorra. After he removed all the evidence and wiped the area where AlDurra was murdered clean, Yom Tov samieh, brought his Israeli experts, constructed a new site for the murder site, and came to the conclusion his forces might not have been the murderers.
• Israel speaks of possible steps to relax its siege on the occupied Palestinian territories.
• With blood, sadness and tears, the Palestinian people receive the holy month of Ramadan.

Monday November 27, 2000

Main Headlines

• Five Palestinians were assassinated in cold blood last night in Qalkilya. The Israeli occupation forces responsible for their murder prevented Palestinian ambulances from reaching them. Israeli helicopter gunships were flying over the area when the Palestinians were ambushed. Israel claimed that the Palestinians shot at Israeli cars earlier. Palestinian sources in the city refuted this Israeli claim.
• The Israeli officer killed in Gaza on Saturday was hit by Israeli 'friendly fire.' Israeli tanks and gunfire bombarded the people of Khan Younis refugee camp almost all night as the Israeli occupation forces were trying to avenge the death of the Israeli officer. A young Palestinian man was killed and scores of others were injured from the indiscriminate Israeli bombing. The Palestinian people, civilians and society are paying with their blood for their freedom and independence. Israel is getting away with murder, while the world is silent.
• Palestinian normal life is absent, the economy is coming to a rapid halt and all prospects are very grim.
• The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture reported that Israel uprooted 44,000 trees in the past eight weeks. The Israeli occupier of our land is uprooting olive trees, grapevines, palm trees, almond, oranges and other types of fruit trees.
• The Palestinian leadership is continuing urging the international community, and the Security Council to dispatch international forces to protect the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• Israel prevents the third mission of Amnesty International from entering Gaza.
• Aldhamir, a Palestinian human rights organization, demands Israel stop torturing Palestinian prisoners in its jails, and to allow families visit their sons in Israeli prisons.
• Israeli sources hint at a possible acceptance of international observer force in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• An Israeli soldier and three others were injured in occupied South Lebanon. Hizbullah announced its responsibility for the attack on the Israeli occupation soldiers.
• Today - Monday Nov. 27, 2000- is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan
• President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt met special advisor to Israeli PM Barak, Danny Yatom. President Mubarak called for ending the Israeli violence and aggression against the Palestinian people.
• Barak said to have a diplomatic plan to end the violence and return to the negotiation table.

Sunday November 26, 2000

Main Headlines

• Four more Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers gunfire yesterday Saturday, three in the West Bank and the fourth in KhanYounis. The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces so far according to the Palestinian ministry of health reached 302, and the wounded are ten thousands. The martyrs are: Amjad Azmi Hseneyeh 20 from Jenin refugee camp, Abdul Menem Ezziddin 18 years from Arrabah town near Jenin, Tayseer Adnan Abul Arraj 24 from Khan Younis and Foad Dwiekat 30 years from Balata refugee camp near Nablus. The Israeli occupation army unleashed its tank fire indiscriminately on Khan Younis, and other Palestinian residential areas inflicting serious injuries and more destruction.
• The Israeli occupation forces place more Palestinian towns and villages behind barricades and large concrete blocks, destroy roads by digging trenches in them, damaging in the process infra structure services such as telephone and electricity cables. The Israeli siege is reducing the amount of essential supplies in the occupied Palestinian territories, as more than 50% of the Palestinian work force are out of work, people are using their last remaining savings to purchase basic supplies, the purchasing power in the cities is reduced to 25%, and many families are doing with subsistence living particularly in remote villages and in the refugee camps.
• President Arafat requests President Clinton not to VITO a Security Council resolution calling for the dispatching of an international protection observer force to the occupied Palestinian territories.
• Mary Robinson, the UN human-rights commissioner, gave one response when she toured the Palestinian occupied territories last week. In Gaza she saw children in hospitals whose eyes had been blown out by Israeli bullets. In Hebron, she saw 40,000 Palestinians kept under curfew for six weeks so that 235 Jewish settlers, armed to the teeth, could go about their business. At a meeting of Palestinian human-rights groups in Gaza, Mrs. Robinson remarked that rarely had a people been in so obvious need of international protection.
• Amnesty International is worried because of Baraks statements on the Palestinian Intifada, and support dispatching international protection and observer force to the Palestinian occupied territories.
• The Israeli occupation forces and bulldozers destroy agriculture depots used for collection and sorting vegetables and fruits in the Dir el- Balah city in Gaza. The economic far-reaching losses are more than the immediate losses to equipment and building. The Israeli occupation is destroying the means by which the Palestinian people are trying to earn and make a living.
• Barak refuse permission for Peres to meet President Arafat, Russia supports sending international observer force to the occupied Palestinian territories, and Butin declares that Russia is prepared to be the first country to recognize the Palestinian state.
• Forty thousand Palestinians in the city of Hebron are under strict curfew, the curfew on H2 area of the city has been in place continuously since the beginning of the Intifada on Sept. 28, 2000. The Israeli occupation forces allow the Palestinians to move around for 2-3 hours every 48 hours, some times every 72 hours.

Saturday November 25, 2000

Main Headlines

• The Israeli occupation army bombard residential Palestinian areas and Palestinian civilians with tank fire, heavy machine gun and missiles. Armed Jewish settlers protected by the Israeli occupation army attack Palestinian villages and vehicles on the roads in the West Bank and Gaza. Seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli tank fire and heavy machine guns. A brother and a sister Samer Amer 32 and Nahedö Amer 26 were murdered by Israeli tank fire while in their home in their village of Kafer Kallil near Nablus late last night. The other martyrs were: Firas Abu Hatab 27 years from Jenin, Aysar Mohammed Hassis 14 years from Jenin, shot in the eye and died instantly, Ziad Khalid Abu Jazar 22 years from Rafah, Majdi Ali Abed 15 years from Shajaeyya refugee camp in Gaza, and Ghassan Quran 20 years from Qalkilya. Tens of other Palestinians were injured many seriously.
• Jewish settlers burn down Palestinian farms in Jericho. Palestinian losses due to this act of terrorism are US$ 4 million.
• An Israeli university professor calls on the Israeli government to massacre thousands of Palestinians, men woman and children in order to shock the Palestinian people and to bring an end to the Intifada. Ex- Israeli Prime Minister Netanayahu says, the Israeli army must take the initiative and attack the Palestinian people, its security forces and positions. In the mean time war criminal Sharon feels sorry for Barak and demands that the Israeli army starts 'elimination . Initiation , not response in order to undermine Palestinian self confidence and to force them to focus on self- preservation.'
• Efrime Sneh, the Israeli deputy minister of defense says, in Sharon's mind, assassination is both a tactic and a strategy, and achieving peace is not one of his options, nor is it on his agenda.
• Israeli occupation army in Jerusalem prevents Palestinian Jerusalemits and other Muslims under the age of 45 years from praying at Al- Aqsa Mosque. Palestinians pray in the streets and alleys of Jerusalem and the Old City.
• Israel said to have allowed a limited amount of fuel to enter into Gaza.
• President Arafat meets Butin and the Russian Federation is ready to submit a peace initiative. President Arafat spoke to Barak from Moscow, and both agreed on measures to reduce the level of violence.
• President Mubarak of Egypt says; we warned Israel the Use of force will not settle the problem, and if Arafat is gone, there will be a catastrophe.
• Special advisor to President Mubarak Usama El- Baz says; The Palestinian people are brave people struggling for their freedom, and will not end their struggle before achieving freedom and independence. El- Baz adds, Egypt will not allow the isolation of the Palestinian people.
• President Arafat arrived in Amman and will meet the Jordanian Monarch today. King Abdullah will travel soon to Cairo to meet President Barak and to discuss the Israeli escalation and attacks on the Palestinian people.
• An Israeli occupation army officer was killed In Gaza and a Jewish settler was killed in the West Bank.
• Israel said to have agreed to some Palestinian demand and promises to lift the siege on the Palestinian occupied territories.
• Israeli and other political and military analysts say: the Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people will not subdue the Palestinian Intifada, and the only viable solution is political.
• Experts meeting in Cairo warn of an Arab Israeli war.
• Israeli troops attack Palestinian prisoners in Shatta prison with clubs, Palestinian prisoners are hit in the face, in their eyes and suffered broken limbs. The Israeli forces fire tear gas bombs into their rooms. Nazi practices are used against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
• The Israeli army discusses the option of replacing the reservists operating in the occupied West Bank and Gaza with regular troops.

Thursday November 23, 2000

Main Headlines

• Israeli tanks fire their heavy machine guns on Palestinian cars in Gaza, four students travelling to their university were murdered in cold blood. Eight others were injured. The four murdered Palestinians had no guns, and the car they were traveling in was an ordinary saloon car. The Israeli occupation army said initially that the four were going to ambush Israeli soldiers, then changed their story saying one of the occupants was wanted to Israel. The fact of the matter, Israeli official spokesmen cover the lies spread by the Israeli army officers, and give them green light to murder more Palestinian civilians. As always to them, Palestinian blood is cheap, and Jewish blood is holly. Justifying the shedding of Palestinian blood will not bring Israel peace.
• Israeli tanks stationed at Bsagot Jewish settlement overlooking Ramallah bombard residential areas in Al- Bireh and Ramallah. Huge explosions and heavy tank machine guns were heard in the city of Ramallah last night. The Israeli shelling is discriminate and is bound to cause more severe massacres if not stopped immediately.
• Tulkarm and Suorif bury two more of their sons killed by the Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers.
• Jewish settlers attack and kill Palestinian civilians, injured and maimed others at Silat A-Dahr village near Jenin, at Ain-Yabrood near Ramallah, and at Hiwwara village near Nablus. The Jewish settlers killed at least two Palestinians and injured four others very seriously. Cars were destroyed and properties were damaged particularly at Hiwwara when a convoy of Jewish settlers protected by the Israeli occupation army attacked the village and its Palestinian civilian population.
• King Abdullah of Jordan calls for putting an end to the Israeli attacks and continuing aggression against the Palestinian people.
• President Arafat declares, Israel will not make the Palestinian people kneel and we will not surrender. Usam el- Baz, special advisor to President Mubarak says, Israel must know that we are ready to sacrifice ourselves for Palestine.
• Two Israelis were killed and 64 injured in a bomb blast in Khudiara inside Israel. The Israeli government accuses the PNA of being responsible for the blast and the PNA rejects the Israeli accusation holding Barak responsible for the escalations.
• The southern province of Gaza runs out of fuel. 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza suffer severe shortages of food, milk and medicine, cars are not moving and people are running out of cash. The situation in Gaza and the surrounding Palestinian cities and refugee camps are approaching catastrophe.
• President Arafat says, Israel is killing our children and imposing a siege on our cities using American guns and other instruments of death.
• Washington urges Egypt to revise its decision withdrawing its ambassador from Tel- Aviv. President Mubarak says, the return of the Egyptian ambassador is subject to Israel stopping its violence against the Palestinian people.
• The UN Security Council discusses the Arab group request for halting violence ion the Middle East and the PNA reaffirms its call for the dispatching of international force to protect the Palestinian people.
• Washington wants the investigation committee to begin its work soon, and the Israeli government wants it delayed. Israel also refuses the Palestinian request to send international force to the Palestinian occupied territories.

Wednesday November 22, 2000

Main Headlines

• Israel sends more tanks into the Palestinian occupied territories in Gaza. Israeli gunships bombard Palestinian positions, and heavy machine gunfire target Al- Bireh and various other Palestinian neighborhoods and positions. Five more martyrs and tens of wounded by Israeli occupation gunfire.
• The Palestinian people in Khan Younis , Rafah and Jenin bury their martyrs.
• The Israeli occupation forces destroy Palestinian homes, uproot more trees and flatten huge areas of fertile land in Gaza, in addition to demolishing factories and workplaces. METALKO Aluminum factory was completely destroyed by Israeli bulldozers yesterday.
• The Palestinian people say goodbye to their martyrs with songs of martyrdom and weep the uprooting of olive trees, symbol of life in Palestine.
• The Israeli occupation army arrests numerous numbers of Palestinians in the village of Huosan near Bethlehem.
• President Arafat calls on the international community and the United Nations to urgently move to stop the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people. Washington is asked to move quickly in order to save its shaky stand as a sponsor of the peace process.
• Secretary General of the Palestinian Cabinet Ahmad abdul Rahman says; Palestinian security forces will respond to any Israeli attack on the Palestinian people.
• The European Union demands Israel stops using its lethal weapons against the Palestinian people, withdraw its troops and end its siege on the Palestinian territories. The EU calls on stopping the violence and the implementation of Sharm- el- sheik understandings.
• In response to the Israeli escalation of atrocities against the Palestinian people, Egypt recalls its ambassador in Tel- Aviv and Jordan announces its intentions not to send its ambassador back to Tel Aviv. President Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan reaffirm their solid positions supporting the legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and independence.
• The Israeli occupation turns Gaza into huge prison, and divides the strip into two enclosed and divided areas, and freezes large sums of money collected by Israel and belonging to the PNA. The Red Cross Society criticizes Israel for restricting the movement of the Palestinian people.
• Palestinian permanent representative to the UN Naser Al- Qudwa meets with Kofi Annan and stresses the need for an international protection force to be dispatched to the Palestinian occupied territories immediately.

Tuesday November 21, 2000

Main Headlines

• Israeli navel and air attacks on Gaza. One hundred and twenty Palestinians, men, women and children were injured many of them very seriously. Three others were killed. The Israeli occupation army leashes its mighty force against unarmed Palestinian population. The Israeli occupation attacks are accompanied by an economic war and mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Gaza is fragmented further and fuel of any kind is prevented from entering the Gaza province. 1.2 million Palestinians in Gaza are facing an imminent catastrophe.
• The Israeli Prime Minister Barak accuses Fatah and President Arafat of violence and unleashes his occupation army to take its revenge on the Palestinian population, its infra structure and institutions.
• In the West Bank, two more Palestinian boys were murdered on the hands of Jewish soldiers, and the occupation enforces the siege on each and every town, village and city in the West Bank. The daily life of the Palestinian people throughout the West Bank, Gaza and Arab East Jerusalem is shuttered.
• The Palestinian leadership calls on the world community to intervene to stop the Israeli occupation forces massacring the Palestinian people and the economic siege placed on the occupied Palestinian territories immediately.
• Palestinian masses demonstrate in the middle of the night rejecting the Israeli nightly bombing of the Palestinian cities.
• President Arafat visit hospitals in Gaza and observe first hand the injuries and suffering of Palestinian civilians on the hand of the criminal Israeli government and occupation army atrocities against the Palestinian people.
• The American Secretary of State managed to call on the parties, the Palestinians and Israelis to restrain them selves.
• Two Jewish settlers were killed and 9 others were wounded near a Jewish settlement in Gaza. Four of the injured were school children. Another Israeli soldier died of his wounds.
• The European Union calls on Israel to lift its siege imposed on the Palestinian occupied territories and to halt violence.
• Gunfire fights erupt all over the occupied Palestinian territories last night. Armed Jewish settlers blocked roads and attacked Palestinian villagers near Tulkarm, Jenin and Nablus.
• Barak calls on Sharon and other Israeli extremist leaders to join his government.
• PLC speaker Ahmad Quria'a tours Bethlehem and the surrounding area to see first hand the damage caused by Israeli shelling of the city and neighboring towns.

Sunday November 19, 2000

Main Headlines

• The southern Palestinian province of Gaza ran out of heating and cooking Gas. Other types of fuel are dwindling fast. The Israeli occupation army destroys a Palestinian factory for electric components, the factory was destroyed completely by Israeli army bulldozers. Losses are in millions of US Dollars. Workers at the factory lost their work place at a time when the Palestinian economy is grinding into a halt. The Israeli economic war on the Palestinian people is intensifying.
• Confrontations between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli occupation forces are continuing, tens of Palestinians are injured. Four Israeli soldiers said to have suffered from Gas inhalation after their jeep caught fire in the Palestinian town of Biet Ommar.
• A Palestinian official source announced that instructions have been issued prohibiting shooting from Palestinian 'A' areas. President Arafat reinforced this order by declaring it in the official Palestinian and international media.
• A Palestinian from Shajaea refugee camp storms an Israeli military position in occupied Gaza, kill an Israeli soldier and injured two others, the Palestinian was killed in the attack.
• The Palestinian Central Council will meet soon and the Palestinian State will be declared on the night of Dec. 31, 2000.
• Amnesty International dispatches its third mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to investigate Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.
• Secretary General Kofi Annan appears to be contemplating sending 30 to 40 UN army and police investigators with the agreed upon investigation committee to the Palestinian territories.
• Suha Arafat arrived in Cairo upon an invitation from Mrs. Mubarak, wife of President Mubarak to participate in a summit for espouses of Arab leaders. In her speech to the summit, Suha Arafat addressed Israeli mothers and called on them not to send their (sons) soldiers to shoot Palestinian children.
  Mrs. Mubarak addressing the summit said, Arab women must raise their voices and demand that suffering and oppression inflected on the Palestinian people should stop immediately.
• President Mubarak of Egypt will meet the Israeli ex- president Weisman. It is to be noted that the current Israeli President Moshe ýkatsav is a right wing extremist, a position that would deprive him playing any constructive role in the peace process.

Saturday November 18, 2000

Main Headlines

• In addition to intensified Israeli bombing of Palestinian cities and neighborhoods, Barak's government is waging a starvation war against the Palestinian people under occupation. The closure and siege on the Palestinian territories is continuing and Israel refuses to hand Palestinian earned funds to the PNA. Israeli occupation forces armed with heavy machine guns, weapons and various other instruments of death hides behind newly constructed concrete barricades built in the midst of Palestinian neighborhoods to hunt Palestinian demonstrators against Israeli occupation. For any one wishing to see such Israeli concrete trenches, designed to hunt Palestinian demonstrators, they can be seen as one travels between Ram and Kalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, and all over Palestinian roads be they in Gaza or the West Bank.
• Arab East Jerusalem is closed to all Muslims and those citizens of Jerusalem under 45 years of age. Muslim prayers took place in the streets of the old city and outside its walls.
• Six Palestinians were murdered by Israeli occupation gunfire on Friday, as tanks and helicopter gunships bombard Palestinian neighborhoods. Israel prevents fuel from reaching Gaza, Gaza international airport is shut and many essential commodities in the Palestinian market are disappearing gradually.
• Israel confesses that its occupation troops injured an American photographer in Bethlehem. On Thursday and due to indiscriminate shooting and shelling by Israeli occupation army at the Palestinian town of Biet Jala, the German Doctor Harald Fischer was killed. In a huge procession, and wrapped by the Palestinian flag, Dr. Fischer was laid to rest in Biet Jala cemetery. The German government said to have lodged a compliant to the Israeli government and demanded an inquiry to investigate the Israeli killing of Dr. Fischer.
• President Arafat orders stopping any firing from Palestinian liberated territories in area A.
• The European Union intends to increase its efforts to stop the violence, particularly after the killing of the first European Dr. Fischer on the hands of the Israeli occupation forces near Bethlehem.
• The Palestinian leadership reiterates; the Israeli continuing aggression and attacks against the Palestinian people are undermining world peace and stability.
• The Israeli occupation army brings in his dogs to fight the Palestinian Intifada.
• US peace envoy Dennis Ross leaves Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories apparently without much to show for. President Clinton said not to have lost faith in the peace process and is continuing his efforts to bring about a peace agreement.
• Jewish settlers said to have lost faith in the Israeli occupation army stationed to protect them in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• The Palestinian official Radio station resumed its broadcasts after it was hit and damaged by Israeli missile attack.

Thursday November 16, 2000

Main Headlines

• The Israeli occupation army bombard Palestinian residential neighborhoods in Bethlehem, Biet Jala, Tulakarm, Bietin, Silwad and others. Eight Palestinians killed and more than one hundred injured. A German doctor working in the Bethlehem area was killed while trying to evacuate civilians injured by Israeli occupation bombing to the town of Biet Jala. Dr. Harry Fischer married to a Palestinian woman has been working and living in Bethlehem for the last fifteen years.
• Israeli under cover units shoot and seriously injured two Palestinian workers near Suorif village near Hebron. Four other Palestinians were shot and seriously injured after they were arrested by Israeli occupation soldiers in Dir- el- Balah near Gaza.
• Israeli under cover units in the occupied Palestinian territories are killing Palestinian workers searching for work to feed their families. Workers travel in vans and use dirt roads to reach possible areas of work, Israeli occupation soldiers, under cover and in uniform, have been murdering Palestinian workers in cold blood.
• The Israeli minister of communications Ben Eli Azar says, we will not restrain ourselves any longer, implying that the Palestinian people have not seen anything yet. Be Ami adds, Israel will not give in to violence and must prepare for confrontation. Yatom a special assistant to Barak says, the situation has changed and it is not possible to resume negotiations now.
• On the twelfth anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence, Palestinians flock to the streets in celebrations to this symbolic events and calling for the embodiment of this declaration on the ground.
• The Israeli mini cabinet takes more measure to escalate its military response to the Palestinian Intifada for freedom and independence.
• Encouraged by the Israeli occupation army, Jewish settlers go on the rampage against Palestinian villages near Nablus.
• A Palestinian senior official requests international protection for the Palestinian people.
• A senior advisor to President Yasser Arafat says; President Clinton's efforts are confronted by continuing Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people.
• UN Human Rights High commissioner says, she is worried from the escalating dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and accuses Israel of using excessive force against the Palestinian people. Mary Robinson also accuses Israel of lying and refutes their allegations that Palestinian children are being pushed to the forefront of confrontations by the Palestinian authority.
• Using bulldozers and tanks, the Israeli occupation army levels thousands of dunoms of Palestinian land planted with orange and olive trees in Rafah, and Dir el- Balah area in Gaza. Palestinian homes on this land were also destroyed and families are made destitute.

Tuesday November 14, 2000

Main Headlines

• Four Palestinians killed and tens wounded by Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers' fire in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli tanks bombard Palestinian neighborhoods in Biet Jala, Jericho and other places in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• Israel prevents food and medical supplies from reaching the occupied Palestinian territories, minimum amounts under very difficult situation are allowed in. NGO's in Palestine urge the world community to enforce the Fourth Geneva conventions and to call Israel into question, and to stop its occupation forces from its inhuman practices against the Palestinian people under occupation.
• Palestinian Minister of Health announces that Seventeen Palestinian children are clinically dead in hospitals and twenty-five others lost their eyes.
• The Islamic Conference Organization summit held in Doha - Qatar- issued a statement condemning Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people, and demands international protection forces to protect the Palestinian people under occupation.
• The Palestinian ministry of industry and Palestinian NGO's demand that Arab and Muslim countries boycott Israeli and American products.
• US $100 million are the losses of the Palestinian transport sector in a month of Israeli closure and siege imposed on the Palestinian occupied territories.
• Palestinian Minister of Economy says, Palestinian production capacity is at its lowest figures, and Palestinian purchasing power has declined drastically.
• Palestinian economic losses over the last eight weeks are estimated at US $ one billion.
• Many Israeli businesses are threatened with collapse, the Israeli deficit is increasing and the Israeli agricultural and tourism sectors are the worst hit in Israel.
• The Amir of Qatar suggests an Islamic move to ensure international protection to the Palestinian people.
• Clinton and Barak talks failed to produce any solution to break the current impasse in the peace process.

Monday November 13, 2000

Main Headlines

• A Palestinian martyr and dozens injured in renewed confrontations with the Israeli occupation army. The occupation bombard Palestinian residential areas, homes, schools, and government offices.
• Seven more Palestinian martyrs killed by the Israeli occupation forces were buried yesterday. Thousands of Palestinians participated in the funerals shouting down with the Israeli occupation.
• President Arafat discusses with King Abdullah II the deployment of international forces to protect the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• The Israeli occupation authorities are withholding hundreds of million of US dollars belonging to the PNA. The Israeli Electric Company threatens the PNA with cutting electricity supply to the Palestinian territories unless the PNA pays a bill of US $ 3.5 million to the Israeli company.
• Leaders of the Islamic nations at the Doha Summit condemn Israel and express support to the Palestinian people and Intifada.
• Human Rights High Commissioner holds Israeli occupation troops responsible for firing on her convoy while visiting the Palestinian city of Hebron. Mary Robinson is on a visit to the occupied Palestinian territories to investigate the Israeli human rights violations against the Palestinian people.
• A Palestinian ambulance transferring injured Palestinians was a target for Israeli tank fire. The shells landed in front of the ambulance and behind it. The ambulance was hit and damaged in the back.
• Palestinian national figures stress to the UN Human Right High Commissioner the need to have an international force to protect the Palestinian people. Such an international force will operate as a buffer zone between the Palestinian territories and Israel proper.
• The Popes envoy to Palestine criticizes Israel's dealing with the Palestinian demonstrators.
• Israeli soldiers fire at Jordanian students in South Lebanon and at Egyptians at the Egyptian side of the city of Rafah.
• Barak is in Washington for talks with President Clinton.
• Israel's regional cooperation Minister Shemon Peres is not happy with Barak's policies. Peres says that the differences between the Palestinian and Israeli territorial differences does not 3-4% and that can be settled.
• According to a Saudi newspaper, President Arafat postponed the declaration of a Palestinian state until a later date.
• Leah Rabin, wife of the late Israeli Prime Minister Itzhaq Rabin is dead. President Arafat conveys his condolences to the Rabin family and expresses his sorrow for her death, describing her as the widow of his partner to the peace of the braves. Itzhaq Rabin.

Sunday November 12, 2000

Main Headlines

• Israeli tanks fire indiscriminately at Palestinian civilians, homes and neighborhoods. Eight Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces Saturday in the West Bank and Gaza. Tens others are wounded. Several Palestinian cities were the target of Israeli tank artillery and missiles.
• The Israeli government, the Israeli army and the Israeli people have no consideration what so ever for the Palestinian people. The daily killings, the siege imposed on the Palestinian population in the occupied Palestinian territories, the sick, the wounded and the agony of Palestinians means very little to the Israeli public.
  The Israeli occupation army murders two Palestinian university students, uses robots to remove their bodies from their car, burns the car while the bodies of the two Palestinian youth are close to it and refuses to hand them back to the Palestinian side until 6 hours later. The two according to Palestinian official statement had nothing to do with the shooting at Israeli soldiers and where on their way to university.
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says, the Security Council will discuss President Arafat's request for an international protection force to protect the Palestinian people.
• Israeli tanks blocks her way while visiting Gaza, Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson says; Israel is using excessive force against the Palestinian people.
• An American journalist was hit and injured by Israeli gunfire near Bethlehem.
• A detailed report on Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights is being handed to the UN Human Rights High Commissioner.
• Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories increase their assaults on Palestinian civilians and their property. And Dr. Fathi Arafat calls for stopping Israeli attacks on Palestinian ambulances and medics.
• Israeli tanks fire at Al- Bireh cemetery, destroying and desecrating Palestinian graves. Even the dead is not safe in their burial places.
• The Islamic Conference begins its deliberations in Doha - Qatar- today. President Mubarak of Egypt and King Mohammed the sixth of Morocco are not attending the conference.
• Palestinian Legislative Council Speaker Ahmad Qura' says; we will not sit to negotiate with the Israelis while under our people and cities are bombarded by the Israeli occupation army.
• President Clinton assured President Arafat that he is determined to do his best efforts to end the conflict.
• The Syrian Foreign Minister calls on Islamic and Arab countries to cut diplomatic relations with Israel.
• Palestinian NGO's demand that General Motors refrain from sponsoring a scientific conference scheduled to be held at the Jewish settlement of Ariel built illegally on occupied Palestinian land. In her letter to the Management of General Motors, Dr Hanan Ashrawi said that General Motors' sponsoring of the conference at Ariel lend a hand to the illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Saturday November 11, 2000

Main Headlines

• Three Million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Arab East Jerusalem are hostages in one large concentration camp, bombed daily by Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and heavy machine guns. Palestinian daily losses in human lives average 6, and the injured are in hundreds. Palestinian school children , Palestinian teenagers, and other Palestinian civilians are targeted by the Israeli occupation army to be killed. Palestinian life is disrupted, funerals and human tragedies are reaching each and every Palestinian home. People do not have enough cash to purchase necessary food and medicine, and hundreds of thousands are out of work.
• For the sixth week running, the Israeli occupation army prevents Palestinian Jereusalemits over 45 years from praying in Al- Aqsa Mosque. Other Palestinians from any age are not allowed into Arab East Jerusalem for any purpose. Jerusalem's challenge the Israeli occupation army and have turned the streets and alleys in Arab East Jerusalem into Mosques in which they pray to God to help them get red of the evil Israeli occupation to our land.
• President Arafat addresses the UN Security Council and asks for a United Nation forces to protect the Palestinian people. The United States so far refuses to accept this Palestinian request and appears to prefer our people remain as a killing and testing field for the Israeli occupation army supplied by American weapons and instruments of death.
• President Arafat says, President Clinton has enough time to achieve progress in the peace process.
• The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak does not expect the resumption of peace talks and wants to concentrate on what he terms stopping the violence.
• Israeli occupation tanks and helicopters gunships attack and damage Palestinian schools, homes and government offices. Six Palestinians killed and three hundred wounded yesterday. A siege is imposed on Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin, Tulkam, Jericho, Qalkilya and other Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps. Palestinian fishing boats and crews are prevented from sailing into Gaza seawaters. Thousands of families in Rafah and Khan Younis are deprived from earning their living from fishing in the Gaza Sea.
• United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson visits the occupied territories and see for herself the tragedy befallen the Palestinian people on the hands of the Jewish occupiers. Mary Robison declines meeting the Israeli war criminal Sharon, and the racist Olmert as was demanded by the Israeli government and Ben Ami declines to meet her in protest. The UN Human Rights Commission is investigating the Israeli atrocities perpetrated against the Palestinian people and the killing of Palestinian children.
• Amnesty International condemns the barbaric behavior of the Israeli police. The US ambassador to the UN warns of a regional war in the Middle East.
• Islamic Foreign ministers meeting in Doha Qatar calls for severing all relations with Israel until it responds to the sound of reason and stops its massacres of the Palestinian people.
• The Israeli minister of justice approves and supports assassinating Palestinian political and military figures as has happened with the assassination of Fatah leader in Bethlehem Hussien Obayyat.

Thursday November 9, 2000

Main Headlines

• Another black day in Palestine, six more Palestinians were killed yesterday by Israeli occupation army gunfire. Tanks and heavy machine guns hit Biet Sahur, Al- bireh and Hebron. Alia hospital in Hebron was damaged in addition to Palestinian homes and residential areas. Fares Odeh and Raed Abdul Hamid both 14 years young from Gaza and Hares village respectively were killed yesterday. Mohammed Mesbah Abu Ghali and Ibrahim Kassas both 16 years old young from Khan Younis were also killed by Israeli gunfire yesterday. Mohammed Nimer Hani 24 years and Khalil Yousef Abu Sa'ed 18 years were also killed by Israeli occupation soldiers. Another Palestinian young man Ayman Salah wadi 19 years was reported clinically dead after he was shot by Israeli occupation soldiers in the head.
• Israel again closes Gaza International Airport. The Israeli occupation authorities also closed the Rafah crossing. An Israeli woman was killed near Rafah yesterday and the driver of the car she was riding in was lightly injured allegedly by Palestinian gunfire. Israeli occupation forces arrived in the scene firing heavily and selectively at anything Palestinian in site and subsequently closed the Rafah crossing.
• President Arafat will meet President Clinton in Washington today. The Israeli Prime Minister Barak informs the world that he will agree to a Negotiated Palestinian state, but declines to inform the Palestinian leadership. The Israeli regional cooperation minister Shimon Peres told Barak that President Arafat wants a day without funerals, and Barak answers, do not be fooled by Arafat. Right wing Jewish public opinion molders demand a military solution as an answer to the Palestinian demand for freedom and independence, while Sharon prepares to bring down Bark's government.
• Florida decides who is the next President of the United States. According to Israeli sources, Jewish votes in Florida will play a major role in the election of the President, and Jews decry the election of Hilary Clinton to the American Senates. Al- Gore is a first priority for the Jewish vote. The Palestinian people and the Arabs in general did not pay much attention to the American presidential elections, Palestinians perceive Bush and Al- Gore in the same light when it comes to Israel, and are not pinning any hope on either of them.
• Head of the Palestinian Preventive security apparatus in Gaza Mohammed Dhalan says, we need to go back to serious negotiations with Israel, negotiations that will lead to regaining our rights. Dahlan adds, we will protect our people with all means available to us.
• Fatah and other Palestinian political organizations call for the establishment of the independent Palestinian state and its enforcement on the ground. They also called for continuing the Palestinian Al- Aqsa Intifada until complete independence and the defeat of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and Arab East Jerusalem.
• The security Council discusses the Palestinian demand for an international protection force to protect the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• The Pope appeals to religious leaders in the holy land to work towards peace.
• Tony Blair receives President Arafat at Downing Street yesterday.

Wednesday November 8, 2000

Main Headlines

• Missiles, tank shells and heavy machine guns are used by the Israeli occupaton forces gainst Palestinian positions and residential areas. Two Palestinian young men were killed and tens wounded in the West Bank and Gaza.
• President Arafat calls a family in Biet Jala whose home was targetted by Israeli shelling last night. Israel deploys more tanks in Gaza, and an Israeli attempt to storm Al- Mintar crossing area was foiled.
• A Jewish settler ran over a Palestinian child and killed him. Ahmad Khoffash 8 years old from Mardah village near Nablus was returning with his brother from cultivating olive crops, while standing on the left side of the road, a Jewish settler steered his car at high speed towards them, killing Ahmad on the spot.
• Barak's government allocates US$ 300million in support to Jewish settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories.
• A German airplane transfers 23 Palestinians injured in confrontations with the Israeli occupation army to Germany for treatment.
• Deputy head of the Palestine National Council says, the declaration of the Palestinian independent state will not be postponed beyond Nov. 15, 2000.
• Erekat says, the Palestinian leadership will persist in its demand for an international protection force to protect the Palestinian people from the continuing aggression, attacks, and brutality of the Israeli occupation.
• Israel still prevents Palestinians from visiting their sons in Israeli jails.
• On a visit to Palestine, the Saudi Prince Walid Bin Talal donates US $ 5 million to Palestinian workers in Gaza.
• The Vatican calls on Palestinians and Israelis to return to the negotiations table.
• UN Secretary General Kofi Anan doubts whether an international protection force will be dispatched to the occupied Palestinian territories siting Israeli refusal to allow such a force.
• Dennis Ross will resign his position as a Middle East peace coordinator.

Tuesday November 7, 2000

Main Headlines

• The Israeli occupation army continues using tanks and heavy machine guns against Palestinians. Three more Palestinians were killed yesterday by Israeli gunfire, and bombs landed in Jericho and Jenin. A Palestinian teenager dies from his wounds while under treatment in Morocco.
• In Rafah city south of Gaza, 163 Palestinian homes were hit by Israeli tanks and missiles.
• Israeli occupation soldiers attempted to remove the headscarf of a Palestinian girl walking in the streets of Arab east Jerusalem. The girl spat in the face of the Israeli soldier, after which a group of those soldiers hit the girl with their gun butts. The girl was hit in the head, lost her eye site temporarily and collapsed on the floor. The girl was then taken to hospital for treatment.
• President Arafat stresses the importance of holding an Islamic summit in Qatar. The Qatari foreign minister says, we are preparing to cut ties with Israel.
• A Saudi national donates 10 ambulances to the Palestinian people, and Saudi Arabia urges the world community to support the Palestinian people defends them selves against the Israeli occupier.
• The Palestinian leadership says, Israel has one option to achieve peace with the Palestinian people, it must end its occupation of the Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967.
• Israeli army intelligence sources say, a regional deterioration is possible, and the probability for a regional war is increasing. They expect the Palestinian Intifada to continue for many more months in order to achieve political gains. The Israeli national security council advises Barak to go back to the final status talks.
• Dr. Nabil Aha'ath reiterate in Rome the need to provide international protection to the Palestinian people, and Barak says, President Arafat is trying to cool the situation down.
• The Palestine legislative Council demands an international protection force for the Palestinian people, and Barak prevents Yossi Biellin, the Israeli minister of justice from meeting Marwan Barghothy.
• The Lebanese prime minister Rafic Harriri defends the presence of the Syrian troops in Lebanon, his government got the vote of confidence from the Lebanese parliament.
• President Arafat will hold political discussions with President Mubarak before he leaves for Washington.
• Many foreign delegations refuse to attend a conference on 'technology' in Tel Aviv.
• An Israeli human right organization calls on Barak to stop violating Palestinian human rights.
• The brutal Israeli practices in the Palestinian city of Hebron are seriously affecting Palestinian children in the city.

Monday November 6, 2000

Main Headlines

• Israeli tanks and gunships exchange fire with Palestinian civilians throwing stones in defense of their hometowns.
• Two more Palestinian martyrs and tens of wounded in the West Bank and Gaza.
• Palestinian Islamic- Christian demonstrations united in their stand against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land.
• Forty thousand Palestinians in Hebron under curfew and under constant fire from Israeli occupation forces in the city. Water tanks on roof tops and electricity installations in Palestinian houses are another targets of Israeli gunfire. Palestinian children are unable to go to schools and families can not feed their children. An Israeli made catastrophe is unfolding in Hebron. Jewish settlers in the city not exceeding 400 in number are protected by the Israeli occupation army and are continuously attacking and damaging Palestinian property and are depriving the Palestinian population from being able to live free on their land and in their homes.
• Israeli occupation forces intensifies its presence in Arab East Jerusalem, while the city goes on a commercial strike in mourning of two of its sons killed by Israeli occupation soldiers.
• Barak's government builds a bypass road for its Jewish settlers north of Jericho.
• Minister of Information and Culture Yasser Abd Rabbo says, the Palestinian popular uprising will continue.
• The head of the Palestine National Council declares: Israel is withholding US $ 700 million belonging to the PNA. Israeli chiefs of intelligence say, President Arafat is in control of the situation in the Palestinian territories.
• Secretary General to the presidential office says, there will be no peace or stability in our region until our people realizes its independence and freedom. This can only be done by removing the Israeli occupation army and Jewish settlers from our land occupied by Israel in 1967.
• Two Saudi airplanes brought medical supplies to Gaza and took 12 injured Palestinians for treatment in Saudi Arabia.
• President Clinton will meet President Arafat this Thursday, and scheduled to meet Barak on Sunday.
• People around the world waiting the results of the American elections that will take place tomorrow. The Republican contender for the presidential elections George W. Bush says, one of my immediate priorities will be the Middle East peace process.

Sunday November 5, 2000

Main Headlines

• A little girl 23 days old from Hebron died from poisonous gas fired by Israeli occupation soldiers into Palestinian residential areas. Hind Nidal Quaider was suffocated by the poisonous gas and died in hospital. Many other Palestinians were wounded in clashes with the Israeli troops, many seriously. A 14-year-old girl returning from school was hit in the head and is in very critical conditions in hospital.
• Israeli tank fire and heavy machine guns hit Palestinian positions and residential areas in Hebron, Jericho, Tulkarm, Ramallah and Gaza.
• Israel warns the Palestinian National Authority from declaring the independent Palestinian state. Danny Yatum, an advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Barak said that Israel will take more military, political and economic measures. Such measures are already suffocating Palestinian men women and children.
• Jewish settlers near Hawwara village in the West Bank use live ammunition for their training on Hawwara land. The settlers are intimidating the Palestinian population in the area, and prevent Palestinian villagers from cultivating their olive crops.
• A study conducted by the Royal Jordanian Committee on Jerusalem says, Jewish settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories are bombs waiting to explode.
• Palestinian minister of health says, the number of Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers in the last five weeks is 195 people and the injured are 6409 persons. Dr. Za'noon adds that Israel's imposed closure on Gaza International Airport is increasing the awesome difficulties the Palestinian people are facing and prevents medicine from reaching Palestine. Also injured Palestinians can not be transferred to neighboring hospital for treatment and this has caused many deaths.
• Israel's economic gains since the Oslo agreement was signed are US$ 12 billion a year.
• The United Arab Emirates demands international protection for the Palestinian people and calls for intensifying the peace process.
• Women associations in Palestine express their revulsion at the Israeli attempts with regard to Palestinian children. Most of the Palestinian children were killed while in the vicinity of their schools, in their way or coming home from schools or inside their homes.
  The Israeli occupation army is on the gates of our cities and inside our towns, villages and refugee camps, in the so-called area B.
• Al- Quds newspaper publishes a map on its front page detailing the canton like Palestinian territories with Israeli existing and planned military checkpoints all around the Palestinian areas in the West Bank.
• Workers and Labor Unions throughout the world condemn the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Israeli practices and measures against Palestinian laborers and workers.

Saturday November 4, 2000

Main Headlines

• Fierce confrontations erupted between Palestinian demonstrators and the Israeli occupation forces in Arab East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. The streets and alleys in Arab East Jerusalem turned into prayer mosques for the Palestinian residents who were prevented by the Israeli occupation forces from entering the holy Mosque of Al-Aqsa. Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and hundreds wounded. The Israeli occupation army returns its tanks into confrontation areas in Gaza.
• Hundreds of Palestinian citizens pray in the vicinity of Belal Bin Rabah mosque on the northern entrance to Bethlehem.
• Arab East Jerusalem is isolated from its natural Palestinian environment, and the Israeli occupation army prevents Palestinians from praying in Al-Aqsa.
• An American human rights organization says, Israeli troops in the occupied Palestinian territories shoot to kill and maim Palestinian civilians.
• The Israeli tanks movement and redeployments from Palestinian areas are not real, they are theatrical as the movements of their tanks is not more than few hundred yards from their earlier positions.
• The Palestinian leadership refuses the Israeli threats, Abed Rabbo says, they have to swallow their threats.
• The Israeli occupation forces imposes again a curfew on the southern parts of Hebron were more than 40 thousand Palestinians live in addition to 400 Jewish settlers. The Jewish settlers are exempted from the curfew and move freely under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.
• The Israeli occupation army turned three Palestinian schools in Hebron into military basis and Palestinian children and their families are under curfew for more than five weeks now.
• A movement among Druze inside the green line calls for the Druse Arabs not to serve in the Israeli army.
• Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says, President Arafat accepted an invitation to visit Washington and meet President Clinton.
• President Arafat held two telephone conversations with President Chirac of France and with Romano Broady of the European Union. President Mubarak conducts intensive contacts with the Israeli and American leaderships to stop the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
• Six German medical officers will arrive in Gaza shortly to provide medical assistance and treatment to Palestinians injured by Israeli attacks.
• Sheik Ahmad Yasin speaks of having peace with Israel once it remove its occupation soldiers and settlers from the land it occupied in the war of 1967.
• The Israeli siege imposed on the Palestinian territories is not lifted. The Siege harms all sectors of the Palestinian economy.
• Palestinian NGO's are hard at work to provide social and health services to Palestinians injured and harmed by the Israeli occupation forces.

Thursday November 2, 2000

Main Headlines

• Amnesty International says, indiscriminate killings could ultimately leave Israelis open to war-crime charges.
• Israeli occupation forces bomb Palestinian residential areas in Bethlehem, Biet Jala, Biet sahur, Jericho, Ramallah and other Palestinian areas. Israel uses helicopter gunships, tank fire and heavy machine guns against Palestinian positions and residential areas. Youth clubs churches and homes have been damaged and some destroyed.
  Seven Palestinians mostly civilians were killed yesterday by the Israeli occupation forces and more than 100 injured. Today is the '83' anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration. (See opinion)
• Two Israeli officers were killed and 4 soldiers inujred in clashes with Palestinian security forces near Al- Khader. Previous to that, the Israeli soldiers manning the Israeli checkpoint near Al- Khader shot dead a Palestinian policeman.
• Barak warns his occupation army will hit harder unless the Palestinians stop their resistance to his occupation.
• Palestine's ambassador to the Arab league says, Israel is preparing to kill Palestinian leaders.
• President Arafat says, we expect a firmer German and European role to push the peace process forward, and the German Chancellor says, the Palestinian people have the right to their self determination.
• The Arab League meets in an emergency session in Cairo and calls for putting the Arab Summit decision into practice.
• Israeli forces prevented senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat from leaving his town of Jericho. Erekat was supposed to travel last night to the US for a meeting with US Secretary of State and UN Secretary General Kofi Anan.
• The Israeli authorities extended shutting down Gaza International Airport. And El- Areesh airport in Egypt- close to Gaza- receives airplanes destined for the Palestinian territories.
• Israeli occupation authorities prevent Palestinian civil organizations from providing regular services to the Palestinian population. Palestinian fire engines were prevented from distinguishing fire in the village of Sanoor and closes 4 schools in Al- Khader near Bethlehem.
• The Palestinian village oh Hiwwara suffers from continuing curfew, a siege and attacks against its people.
• Israeli occupation forces in Hebron order the inhabitants of two neighborhoods in the city to evacuate their homes within half an hour. And in the village of Silet Hartheyeh, Israel demand that Palestinians under the age of 35 should hand themselves to the Israeli soldiers surrounding the village.
• Minister of Information and Culture Yasser Abed Rabbo request UNICEF to declare an emergency situation in Palestine. And Palestinian NGO's call on the international community to provide protection to the Palestinian people.
• Saudi Arabia said to be angry because of the continuing American bias in favor of Israel. And Arab ministers for the environment demand Israel close Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev.
• An international conference in Turkey in support of the Al- Aqsa Intifada and the Palestinian people.

Wednesday November 1, 2000

Main Headlines

• Seven more Palestinian martyrs were killed and more than two hundred thousands injured in confrontations yesterday with Israeli tanks in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israeli shelling targets Holy places in Nablus. And Israeli tanks shell Palestinian homes in Biet Jala and Biet Sahur.
• The Israeli government again closes Gaza international airports. Bringing food and medicine to Palestinians under siege and transporting injured Palestinians out to neighboring hospitals constitute a security risk to Israel.
• Between neighborhoods in Arab East Jerusalem, a car journey lasts more than two hours. The Israeli soldiers manning checkpoints at Al- Ram prevents Palestinian cars- not Jewish cars- from travelling, thousands are stranded for hours, and schools kids and teachers and every thing else are not allowed in or out. When the Israeli soldier is asked why, he shrugs his shoulders and demands that you have to return back. Can some one ask Ben Ami or Barak why is he blocking ordinary Palestinians from travelling between their own neighborhoods and cities?
• The Palestinian leadership reiterates, our aim is to defend our people and our target is independence, freedom and a state.
• President Arafat tours Palestinian hospitals in Gaza and assures them our struggle for freedom will not be in vein Abu Mazen says, our people will not submit to the Israeli imposed solutions and Israeli gunships and tanks will not make us surrender.
• Abed Rabbo demands an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression against our people and the Palestinian leadership demands international protection for our children and civilians.
• American companies operating in the Middle East fears sanctions. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah warns that Washington's bias towards Israel will harm American interests in the Middle East.
• A Palestinian was mysteriously killed inside Israel, and Fatah organization raises its level of readiness in anticipation of Israeli occupation army storming Palestinian cities.
• The German Chancellor says, he will relentlessly work to end the violence in the Middle East.
• Palestinian ambulances work around the clock. One ambulance driver was killed by Israeli occupation soldiers and 40 medics were injured. 33 ambulances were damaged.
• CNN reporter in Gaza was shot and taken to Al- Shifa hospital in Gaza. Ben Wediman refused to be taken to Israeli hospitals and says that he is ashamed because his injuries are mild compared Palestinian youth injured and treated in the same hospital. He says, he was lucky, but many other Palestinians are not.
• Danny Yatom, an assistant to Ehud Barak says, we can inflict much more damages on the Palestinian people.
• Palestinian women stage a demonstration in front of the Swedish Consulate in Arab East Jerusalem to protest the Swedish queens' remarks on Palestinian mothers and children. Can this woman 'Queen' be excused? She should no better. Koffi Annan said to be raged for the fallen victims in the clashes between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli occupation army.
• Israeli occupation forces said to have lifted the curfew imposed on 40 thousand Palestinians in H2 area in Hebron. God knows for how long!