Friday, May 25

Today in Palestine: The Headlines May 24, 2007

Occupation Arrests Minister of Education and 3 others in the West Bank: The Israeli occupation arrested some parliamentarians, the Minister of High Education Dr. Nasser Aldin Alshaer, the Quarters Manager Sheikh Fayyad Alaghbar, Nablus' Mayor, and the Mayor of the neighboring Beeta City. In a related context, the forces arrested the Parliamentarian Abdelrahman Zidan the previos Minister of Public Works. Also, they arrested 3 citizens and broke into Iqra Association in Bethlehem.

IAF strikes target near Haniyeh's Gaza home: The Israel Air Force struck close to the northern Gaza home of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas late Thursday, Palestinian security officials said.

Israeli gunboats kill Palestinian fisherman in northern Gaza: medics: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Thursday morning, paramedics said.

Fewer Qassams, but IDF still recommends maintaining military pressure on Hamas: Despite the sharp decline in the number of Qassam rackets fired from the Gaza Strip in the past two days, defense officials have recommended that Israel maintain military pressure on Hamas.

American Task Force on Palestine supports Lebanese army: Washington, D.C., May 23, 2007 - The American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL) and the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) today expressed support for Lebanon and condemned the 'Fatah al-Islam' group in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon for their assault on Lebanese sovereignty, stability and security, and for endangering of the lives of the innocent Palestinian camp refugees.

Electronic Intifada interviews As'ad Abukhalil on the Nahr al-Bared siege: Thousands of Palestinian refugees are fleeing from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as five days of fighting by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath al-Islam has left dozens of soldiers and fighters and an unknown number of civilians dead. As the situation of these Palestinian refugees worsens, 59 years after they were first expelled from their homeland into Lebanon, the world looks on in silence. Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah spoke with As'ad Abukhalil, the creator of the Angry Arab News Service blog. Abukhalil explained the origins of Fath al-Islam, the events that led to the violence and what it means for Lebanon and the region.

Fear and waiting for those left behind in Lebanon camp: Wounded, ill, too frightened or too obstinate to leave, thousands of Palestinians in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp waited nervously on Thursday for a threatened new Lebanese army assault on holed up Islamic fighters.
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Lebanon: Yousef Abu Radi, "On the way to the hospital I realised that my mother had died": Yousef Abu Radi, 12, was hit by shrapnel when a civilian bus fleeing Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, came under fire on Wednesday afternoon.

OPT: Gaza peacekeepers should be considered - UN envoy: Israel, the Palestinians and the United Nations should consider stationing international peacekeepers in the Gaza Strip, the U.N.'s newly appointed special envoy to the Middle East said on Thursday.

Abbas urges truce after Israel seizes Hamas officials: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called for a halt to rocket fire and a truce with Israel on Thursday after the army seized 33 senior Hamas figures in the latest crackdown against the Islamist group.

PCHR weekly report: "Army killed 32 Palestinians, including 7 children": The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza published its weekly report on the Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the occupied territories in the period between May 17 � May 23. The Center reported that soldiers killed 32 Palestinians, including 7 children, in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli army kills a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza: Israeli army killed Thursday morning a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza, confirmed medics. Officials at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, said that a gunshot has been fired at a Palestinian farmer by Israeli army boats, just 400 meters away from the security fence that separates Gaza from Israel.

Fateh Parliamentarian Bloc slams Israeli attacks against the Palestinians, abduction of officials : The parliamentarian Bloc of Fateh movement issued on Thursday a press release slamming the Israeli attacks, shelling and invasion against the Palestinian people, and slammed the recent military escalation after the army abducted several ministers and officials in the West Bank.

Palestinian patient dies after delay at Erez Crossing: PCHR strongly condemns the complicated and unjustified Israeli passage procedures at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, which led to the death of a Palestinian who had been granted permission to receive medical treatment at Israeli hospital as he was suffering from serious wounds.

Nonviolent resistance manages to stop bulldozers in Artas: The bulldozing of the land in Artas village near Bethlehem has temporary stopped after an Israeli court ruled a preemptive halt of work in the village on Wednesday and Thursday.


Ahmadinejad: Israel will be uprooted if it attacks Lebanon in coming summer: "If you think that by bombing and assassinating Palestinian leaders you are preparing ground for new attacks on Lebanon in the summer, I am telling you that you are seriously wrong," Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the city of Isfahan.

Israel sends Qassams to Europe: The Foreign Ministry sent Qassam rockets to Israeli embassies in Paris, London and the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Thursday evening. The ambassadors have been instructed to bring the rockets along to their meetings, in order to explain Israel's security challenges to the world.

Thank You to Shadi Fadda at Today in Palestine for his update
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