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IDF kills 15 Palestinians in Gaza,
W. Bank, including 4 children
An Israel Air Force helicopter attacked a police
roadblock near the home of Hamas Premier
Ismail Haniyeh, killing one person and wounding
four others, Palestinian officials said Thursday.
Israeli planes kill 10 in
Gaza after deadly rocket strike
GAZA CITY: Ten Palestinians, including at least
six militants, were killed in Israeli air strikes
Wednesday, while Palestinians rockets killed
an Israeli in a spate of attacks in and around the
Gaza Strip. The fresh violence came the day
after the UN urged Egypt, Israel and the
Palestinians to find a fresh strategy to end the
blockade of the Gaza Strip and halt rocket firing into Israel.
Israel kills seven in
Gaza by Wednesday evening
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a farmer while
he was near his home in al-Qarara village, north to the
town of Khan Younis. IOF also fired artillery into eastern
Bureij refugee camp. As a result, one Palestinian was
killed. The IOF also shelled two cars while they were
traveling on a road that linked the former Israeli
settlements in western Khan Younis.
A bloody day in Gaza: Israeli military
adds 3 children to list of dead
Three Palestinian children were killed and six
injured in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday
evening, in the Al Taw'am area close to the
Khazandar gas station, north of Gaza City.
Gaza infant killed in Israeli
airstrike on Hamas interior office
A 5-month-old infant was killed and three
civilians were wounded on Wednesday night
in an Israeli airstrike on a building belongs to
deposed Hamas government in Gaza, medics
and witnesses said.
Palestinians: 2 children
killed in IDF attack on Gaza
In response to ongoing Qassam rocket fire
on western Negev towns, IDF attacks central
Gaza Strip; Palestinians report raid results in
death of two children, another gravely injured.
ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza medical centre
damaged in Israeli air strike
A main office of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society
(PMRS) was severely damaged in an Israeli air strike
late on 27 February. A five-month-old baby was killed,
and a mobile clinic unit and other medical supplies
were destroyed in the attack. The Israeli military said
the air strike targeted a Hamas headquarters in the
western part of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas says Israel
bombs Gaza Interior Ministry
Israeli military aircraft bombed the Hamas-run
Interior Ministry in Gaza city on Wednesday, a Hamas
official said. There was no immediate word of casualties.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was
checking the report.
Two brothers kidnapped in
Ramallah by Israeli army
Israeli forces kidnapped two brothers in a
pre-dawn invasion of Beit Uniya,
west of Ramallah on Thursday.
Israeli military kidnaps
8 Palestinians in Jenin
Israeli forces invaded two villages in the northern
West Bank district of Jenin, kidnapping eight
Palestinians in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Israeli soldiers abuse Hebron resident,
demanding he dance naked
Israeli soldiers in Hebron in the southern West
Bank brutally beat a Palestinian man, forcing
him to dance naked, the Israeli daily newspaper
Ma'arev reported on Wednesday. When
26-year-old Ziyad Abu Snaina refused to dance,
the soldiers continued to beat and humiliate him,
detaining him for three hours. Abu Snaina
reported the incident, which took place four weeks
ago at a military checkpoint near Hebron, to the
Israeli humanitarian organization "Yesh Din.
Gaza Violence: Some Lives Worth
More Than Others--"Palestinians can be
killed without outrage"
Once again, we are learning that when it comes to
the conflict in Palestine/Israel, some lives are
worth more than others. Earlier today, dozens of
Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip fell on
Sderot, the Israeli town that has borne the brunt
of Palestinian rocket fire over the last few years.
This time, an Israeli man, "father-of-four" Roni Yechiah,
was killed in a car park by shrapnel.
Others have suffered injuries.
Israel Demolishes 8500
Palestinian Houses in Jerusalem
Since 1967, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
have demolished (8500) Palestinian houses in
eastern Jerusalem under several pretexts,
the Society of the Arab Studies said in a report
released on Tuesday.
Bodyguard of Israeli minister
injured by homemade Palestinian shells
The Palestinian resistance continued on Thursday
to launch homemade projectiles from the Gaza
Strip, targeting the nearby southern Israeli town
of Sderot. One Israeli woman, and the bodyguard
of an Israeli minister was injured.
Abbas: I oppose armed struggle,
but won't rule out option for future
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said
Thursday that while he opposes taking up armed
struggle against Israel at the present time,
he would not rule out the option for the future.
Tortured by Abbas's general intelligence
for allegedly trying to expose torture
Abbas's general intelligence on Tuesday kidnapped
a male nurse working in the Khaled hospital in
Ramallah accusing him of photographing the
torture marks on the body of Sheikh Majd
al-Barghouthi who was tortured to death by the
general intelligence. Informed sources told the
PIC reporter that PA intelligence elements
stormed the hospital and kidnapped Najeh
Asi and assaulted hospital staff, adding that
information leaked from the PA intelligence's prison
confirmed that Asi is being subjected to excruciating
torture more brutal than the torture inflicted
on Sheikh Barghouthi.
EU's Human Rights Subcommittee
concerned of the lives of
Palestinian Detainees
Members of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the
European Union met on Wednesday with the
Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Ashraf Al Ajrami,
and Fadwa Ibrahim, of the Free Marwan
Barghouthi Committee, and expressed concern over
the lives of Palestinian detainees held by Israel
and facing violations.
Hamas: Abbas is biggest obstacle
that hinders breaking of Gaza siege
The Hamas Movement has condemned on Wednesday
allegations of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas on the
presence of the Qaeda militant group in
Gaza Strip, affirming that those allegations were
false and baseless. Hamas unequivocally denied the
allegations, asserting that the success of the PA
police in Gaza to arrest the suspects behind the
bombing of the YMCA's library in a very short time
proves Hamas's credibility, describing Abbas as the
biggest hindrance that prevents lifting of the economic
siege on the 1.5 million individuals in the Strip.
Rice heads to Israel next week
amid Gaza violence
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit
Israel and the Palestinian territories next week in
a bid to push along U.S.-brokered peace talks
complicated by mounting violence in Gaza.
Barak: Hamas will pay
Defense minister warns situation in Gaza
will continue to escalate, says Israel 'not afraid'
of large-scale ground incursion.
Israeli PM rules out peace
negotiations with Hamas
Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
reiterated here Thursday that his country will
not negotiate peace with the Islamic Resistance
Movement (Hamas). Hamas is a
"terrorist organization" which is engaging in
"terrorist activities" every day,
Olmert told a press conference.
With no chlorine, Gazans must boil water
The Gaza Strip has run short of chlorine because
of an Israeli blockade and its 1.5 million people
should start boiling their drinking water to purify
it, the territory's water utility said Wednesday.
The Coastal Municipality Water Utility made the
announcement in radio and newspaper
advertisements, telling residents that the blockade
has left Gaza without enough equipment and supplies
needed to maintain the water system. Officials said
there have been no deliveries of chlorine, needed to
purify the water, since Jan. 21. More than one-third
of Gaza's water supply is now untreated, said Maher
Najjar, deputy director of the utility.
Unprotected among brothers
: Palestinians in the Arab World
INTRODUCTION: We don't even know how
many there really are of us. We have suffered
from the absence of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). We have
never received any assistance. And we were
deprived of every civil right enjoyed by Iraqis.
Why are we so neglected? (Palestinian Refugee,
Iraq) (Nabulsi 2006: 100)
UNRWA: Four out of each five
Palestinian refugees live below poverty line
Karen Abu Zeid, the UNRWA general commissioner,
has warned that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
are facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian
condition that necessitates extending urgent
assistance to them and lifting the siege on the Strip.
Abbas rules out naturalization
of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was
quoted Wednesday as rejecting the naturalization
of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
"We would never accept any settlement that
leads to naturalizing Palestinians in Lebanon,"
Abbas told pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat.
"We would not accept any settlements that would
lead to a demographic change in Lebanon.
PSL condemns attacks on
Christian property in Gaza
The Palestine Scholars League has condemned the
recent spate of attacks on Christian property in
the Gaza Strip and asked the PA caretaker
government to prosecute the culprits.
The PSL chairman Dr. Marwan Abu Ras and
board members received a delegation of
Christian priests in the Strip along with a
number of MPs, minister of health
Dr. Basem Naim, and other officials where
they discussed those attacks.
Abbas Needs a Miracle
Time is running out for Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas. Although both men are still
committed to their risky venture of marginalising
Hamas at any cost, the latter's obduracy and
recent events in Gaza point to the inescapable
conclusion — the undertaking was doomed from the start.
Jordan Denies Wanting West Bank Back
Jordan has begun supplying electricity to a town
in the neighboring West Bank, but insisted
Wednesday it is acting out of humanitarian
concern for the Palestinians and not seeking to
reclaim a foothold in the territory it once ruled.
Jericho was linked to Jordan's electricity grid
Monday for the first time since Israel seized
control of the West Bank during
the 1967 Middle East War.
Obama tells Jewish leaders
: I have never been a Muslim
For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has
doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew:
links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association.
U.S. pro-Israel evangelical leader
Hagee endorses McCain
(He also uses meth and frequents male escorts)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain won the
endorsement of pro-Israel evangelical leader John
Hagee on Wednesday, which could boost his standing
among religious conservatives who have been
reluctant to embrace the likely nominee.
Crossing the Line interviews
EI co-founder Ali Abunimah
This week on Crossing The Line: Presidential
hopefulls are traveling across the US addressing
issues like the economy, abortion, taxes and the
war on Iraq. While John McCain is running on a
platform similar to the policies of the Bush
administration, the biggest issue for the democratic
candidates is change. But when it comes to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are any of the candidates
addressing the offering a solution that is any
different from recent White House administrations?
Host Naji Ali* speaks with EI co-founder Ali
Abunimah about the US presidential candidates
and their views on the conflict in the Middle East.
Sunni Forces Losing Patience With U.S.
U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have
played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq,
are increasingly frustrated with the American
military and the Iraqi government over what
they see as a lack of recognition of their growing
political clout and insufficient U.S. support.
Wired publishes new photographs of
Abu Ghraib:
GRAPHIC: INCLUDES NUDITY AND DEATH
The following images, published today at Wired.com,
have been compiled so viewers can see them in their
entirety without having to reload pages. Wired obtained
them from an expert defense witness in the
Abu Ghraib case, psychologist Philip Zimbardo.
Iraqi leaders veto law Bush
administration hailed as
political breakthrough
BAGHDAD — Iraq's three-man presidency
council Wednesday announced that it's vetoed
legislation that U.S. officials two weeks ago
hailed as significant political progress.
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