
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 ıkatsav 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!