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ILA leasing Arab-owned land in Jerusalem to Ateret Cohanim
The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams ( 7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the association without a tender. Such is the claim outlined in a petition submitted two weeks ago to the High Court of Justice, and appearing in documents which Haaretz has received.
Land grab in East Jerusalem
It is difficult to escape the sense that the Israel Lands Administration, a governmental body, worked hand in glove with the settlers' non-profit organization Ateret Cohanim to take control of the 30-dunam ( 7.5-acre) plot in East Jerusalem known as Kerem Hamufti. (See article by Meron Rapoport, Page 4.) This plot, one of the most expensive and desirable in East Jerusalem, is located on the slopes of the Sheikh Jarra neighborhood, facing the ridge of Mt. Scopus.
Settlers steal Palestinian water in the West Bank
Residents of the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a water pipe carrying drinking water to the nearby Palestinian village of Dir al-Khatab, and the rerouted water pipe is being used to fill a swimming pool. So, the pipe brings fresh drinking water into the pool and drains dirty water back into the village's water system.
European Union responsible for shut-down of fourth power generator in Gaza Strip
Since Wednesday cut off from fuel supply by Israel for alleged security reasons, the Gaza Generating Company, which currently meets about half of the Gaza Strip's electrical power needs, shut down also its fourth generator, after it had been denied supplies from the Israeli Dor Alon Energy company. This time however, failure to deliver fuel is not for alleged security reasons, but because the European Union had notified Dor Alon that it would not pay the bill anymore.
Gaza suffers more power cuts after EU freezes funding
Parts of the Gaza Strip were still suffering blackouts on Sunday after the European Union suspended the financing of fuel deliveries for the impoverished territory's only power plant.
Israeli aircraft strikes car in Gaza
An Israeli aircraft hit a car near a Hamas position in the Gaza Strip on Monday, local residents said. Hamas said there were fatalities but it was unclear how many. The Israeli army was checking the report.
Haneyya asks Assad to help in ending tragedy of Palestinian refugees
Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, on Sunday called on Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad to help in solving the ordeal of Palestinian refugees fleeing persecution in Iraq and trapped at its common borders with Syria.
Cigarette ends found in prison foodfrom
The Nafah committee for Palestinian Prisoners' rights issued a report on Monday stating that Israeli soldiers manning the Howwara detention camp, located near Nablus city in the northern part of the West Bank, are dumping Cigarette ends in the food given to the Palestinian political detainees.
Details of Last Week's Demolitions in Al-Hadidya
On the 13th of August in Al Hadidiya, Jordan Valley, two bedouin houses and two farmyards were demolished by the IOF. The demolisions took place at 9 a.m. One bulldozer accompanied by six jeeps from the IOF and the police carried them out.
Peace now asks Israeli army to reveal cost of settler removal
Israeli media sources have reported that Peace Now has requested the Israeli army reveal the financial cost of the recent removal of illegal settlers from several areas in the West Bank.
ISRAEL: Bedouins demand improved access to health
A new legal petition to Israel's High Court demands the state connect 11 primary health care clinics in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Negev desert to the main power grid in order to provide better health services.
Hamas rejects PA's right to make concessions to Israel
"The Palestinian leadership does not have the right to violate the rights of Palestinians" in negotiations with Israel, Haniya told reporters in Gaza City, referring to a Middle East peace conference called by the United States for later this year.
Abbas boots loyalists of Hamas out of civil posts
In a belated move to erase the last vestiges of his short-lived partnership with the Islamic militant group Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, fired dozens of Hamas-affiliated senior civil servants, an official in his office said Saturday.
Palestinian parliament member threats to resign
The PLC, dominated by Hamas which has 76 seats out of the parliament's 132, has not convene since the Islamic movement seized control of Gaza Strip after it defeated and ousted its rival Fatah in June.
Hamas 'Very Active' In West Bank
Hamas has been establishing new armed cells in the West Bank, despite attempts by the Palestinian Authority to thwart them, it was reported. A PA security official told The Jerusalem Post Hamas' armed wing had become "very active" in some parts of the West Bank. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently ordered a crackdown on the group.
Give them the Temple Mount
The only way that Israel and the United States can affect the struggle in the Palestinian camp is to take away the main contentious elements preoccupying the religious extremists - the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and the problem of the 1948 refugees - and to hand them over to the moderate secularists. On the other hand, if Abbas emerges from the negotiations without sovereignty over the Temple Mount and without Israeli recognition of the issue of the refugees as proposed by the Arab League (an agreed solution on the basis of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194) - he might as well stay home.
Syrian newspaper: US pushing Israel to war
"The American regime, which prevented Israel from returning to peace talks over the last six years, is pushing it to a military adventure and is encouraging it after last year's defeat at the hands of the national Lebanese resistance," the newspaper said in reference to last year's war with Hizbullah.
Woman wearing veil refused entry into swimming pool
Bedouin family wishing to spend day in southern town of Ofakim told they would only be able to enter pool after mother removes her veil. Pool owner: I didn't want her to cause the other bathers to flee.
The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) is working together with the Ateret Cohanim association to wrest from Palestinian landowners control of 30 dunams ( 7.5 acres) of land in East Jerusalem and to transfer it to the association without a tender. Such is the claim outlined in a petition submitted two weeks ago to the High Court of Justice, and appearing in documents which Haaretz has received.
Land grab in East Jerusalem
It is difficult to escape the sense that the Israel Lands Administration, a governmental body, worked hand in glove with the settlers' non-profit organization Ateret Cohanim to take control of the 30-dunam ( 7.5-acre) plot in East Jerusalem known as Kerem Hamufti. (See article by Meron Rapoport, Page 4.) This plot, one of the most expensive and desirable in East Jerusalem, is located on the slopes of the Sheikh Jarra neighborhood, facing the ridge of Mt. Scopus.
Settlers steal Palestinian water in the West Bank
Residents of the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have cut a water pipe carrying drinking water to the nearby Palestinian village of Dir al-Khatab, and the rerouted water pipe is being used to fill a swimming pool. So, the pipe brings fresh drinking water into the pool and drains dirty water back into the village's water system.
European Union responsible for shut-down of fourth power generator in Gaza Strip
Since Wednesday cut off from fuel supply by Israel for alleged security reasons, the Gaza Generating Company, which currently meets about half of the Gaza Strip's electrical power needs, shut down also its fourth generator, after it had been denied supplies from the Israeli Dor Alon Energy company. This time however, failure to deliver fuel is not for alleged security reasons, but because the European Union had notified Dor Alon that it would not pay the bill anymore.
Gaza suffers more power cuts after EU freezes funding
Parts of the Gaza Strip were still suffering blackouts on Sunday after the European Union suspended the financing of fuel deliveries for the impoverished territory's only power plant.
Israeli aircraft strikes car in Gaza
An Israeli aircraft hit a car near a Hamas position in the Gaza Strip on Monday, local residents said. Hamas said there were fatalities but it was unclear how many. The Israeli army was checking the report.
Haneyya asks Assad to help in ending tragedy of Palestinian refugees
Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, on Sunday called on Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad to help in solving the ordeal of Palestinian refugees fleeing persecution in Iraq and trapped at its common borders with Syria.
Cigarette ends found in prison foodfrom
The Nafah committee for Palestinian Prisoners' rights issued a report on Monday stating that Israeli soldiers manning the Howwara detention camp, located near Nablus city in the northern part of the West Bank, are dumping Cigarette ends in the food given to the Palestinian political detainees.
Details of Last Week's Demolitions in Al-Hadidya
On the 13th of August in Al Hadidiya, Jordan Valley, two bedouin houses and two farmyards were demolished by the IOF. The demolisions took place at 9 a.m. One bulldozer accompanied by six jeeps from the IOF and the police carried them out.
Peace now asks Israeli army to reveal cost of settler removal
Israeli media sources have reported that Peace Now has requested the Israeli army reveal the financial cost of the recent removal of illegal settlers from several areas in the West Bank.
ISRAEL: Bedouins demand improved access to health
A new legal petition to Israel's High Court demands the state connect 11 primary health care clinics in the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Negev desert to the main power grid in order to provide better health services.
Hamas rejects PA's right to make concessions to Israel
"The Palestinian leadership does not have the right to violate the rights of Palestinians" in negotiations with Israel, Haniya told reporters in Gaza City, referring to a Middle East peace conference called by the United States for later this year.
Abbas boots loyalists of Hamas out of civil posts
In a belated move to erase the last vestiges of his short-lived partnership with the Islamic militant group Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, fired dozens of Hamas-affiliated senior civil servants, an official in his office said Saturday.
Palestinian parliament member threats to resign
The PLC, dominated by Hamas which has 76 seats out of the parliament's 132, has not convene since the Islamic movement seized control of Gaza Strip after it defeated and ousted its rival Fatah in June.
Hamas 'Very Active' In West Bank
Hamas has been establishing new armed cells in the West Bank, despite attempts by the Palestinian Authority to thwart them, it was reported. A PA security official told The Jerusalem Post Hamas' armed wing had become "very active" in some parts of the West Bank. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently ordered a crackdown on the group.
Give them the Temple Mount
The only way that Israel and the United States can affect the struggle in the Palestinian camp is to take away the main contentious elements preoccupying the religious extremists - the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and the problem of the 1948 refugees - and to hand them over to the moderate secularists. On the other hand, if Abbas emerges from the negotiations without sovereignty over the Temple Mount and without Israeli recognition of the issue of the refugees as proposed by the Arab League (an agreed solution on the basis of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194) - he might as well stay home.
Syrian newspaper: US pushing Israel to war
"The American regime, which prevented Israel from returning to peace talks over the last six years, is pushing it to a military adventure and is encouraging it after last year's defeat at the hands of the national Lebanese resistance," the newspaper said in reference to last year's war with Hizbullah.
Woman wearing veil refused entry into swimming pool
Bedouin family wishing to spend day in southern town of Ofakim told they would only be able to enter pool after mother removes her veil. Pool owner: I didn't want her to cause the other bathers to flee.
US Military Aid to Israel Tops $30 Billion, Tossing Fuel on a Fire
According to a new Associated Press report, the US is offering Israel a record $30-billion 10-year military aid package. Let's ignore for a moment the AP story's irony-free comment that "Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said the package was meant to back peace-seeking countries like Israel and moderate Arab states in the region to counter U.S. adversaries such as Iran." (Israel is a "peace-seeking" country?) We'll just focus on the amount of money that's being promised here.
Israeli army mulls how to spend its billions
Flush with an increase in American aid, the Israeli military -- the most powerful in the Middle East -- is mulling how to spend billions of dollars earmarked for its armed forces over the next decade. Army chiefs of staff convened a two-day workshop in Tel Aviv on Monday to discuss how to best allocate the military funding, which in 2008 is set to reach more than 14 billion dollars (10 billion euros).
High Court presses state to recognize mosques as holy sites
High c ourt asks state to justify failure to recognize mosques as religious sites, provide maintenance funds.
ADL leader fired for comments on Armenian massacres
Regional director of US Jewish group fired over comments that the organization's stance on this issue is 'morally indefensible'. A US Jewish group has fired its New England regional director after he said he wants the organization to recognize the World War I killing of Armenians as genocide, according to a published report Saturday.
Stumbling Toward Another War
INTRODUCING Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse. To a Hebrew ear, she sounds like a young beauty, like "Miss Israel". But Miss-Calculatsia, the Hebrew version of "miscalculation", is neither young nor beautiful, nor even female: just another pretentious foreign word taking the place of a perfectly good Hebrew one.
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