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18 Feb. 2008:
Israel has cut off the northern West Bank
Since February 5, Israel has imposed severe restrictions
on the movement of Palestinians in the northern
West Bank (Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarm districts)
and prevents all Palestinian men between the ages of
16-35 from leaving this area without special permits,
which are rarely granted. Testimonies taken by
B'Tselem indicate that during some of this period,
these restrictions have also been imposed on
women of this age group. In the past few days,
similar restrictions have been imposed on Qalqilya.
Israeli Forces Kill 4 in Gaza Raid
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH — Israeli troops yesterday
killed four Palestinians in their latest assault on the
Gaza Strip as hard-line Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
unveiled plans to protect nearby homes from rockets.
Troops supported by helicopter gunships moved into
the southern Gaza Strip overnight, killing a civilian
and three militants from the armed wing of the
Islamist Hamas movement that has ruled the
Strip since June, medics said.
Gaza civilians die along with
assassinated leader
Human remains mix with debris following the latest
Israeli assault Friday on Bureij camp in Gaza Strip.
Early reports listed nine dead and more than 50
injured. A targeted leader was killed, but many
others were killed too. "It's very hard for us to
rescue, or even locate bodies beneath the building,"
said a medical relief worker from the local Bureij hospital.
Israeli forces kidnap a female
university student in Nablus
The media department of Nafha Society for Defending
Human and Prisoner Rights indicated on Monday
that Israeli military invaded the northern West
Bank city of Nablus and kidnapped a female
Palestinian from her home.
Israeli military kidnaps a
Palestinian in Jenin
Israeli army invaded the village of Kufur Ra'ii near
Jenion in the northern West Bank area and kidnapped
a Palestinian man, on Monday morning.
Three Palestinians injured in Hebron
Three residents of the southern West Bank city of
Hebron were injured on Monday, two seriously as
army assaulted them. The third was injured as a
suspicious device left behind by the Israeli army
detonated near him.
Two Palestinians kidnapped in
Tulkarem by Israeli military
Israeli military kidnapped two Palestinians from the
village of Thennaba near the West Bank city of
Tulkarem on Monday at dawn. Palestinian sources
reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles
invaded several homes in the village and kidnapped
two residents from their homes.
Patient dies due to inability to reach a
hospital - IOF impose stringent restrictions
on the movement of
Palestinian civilians in the West Bank
IOF have started enforcing stringent restrictions on the
movement of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank,
which hasn't witnessed such restrictions in years.
It has become noticeable that movement between
different West Bank governorates is nearly impossible.
This renewed siege has led to the death of a Palestinian
woman by heart attack after IOF prevented the
ambulance carrying her from reaching its hospital
destination. In addition, IOF prevented the woman's
relatives from reaching the ambulance.
PM: No new settlements to come;
existing blocs, J'lem to keep growing
Israel will not construct any new settlements but will
continue building in existing settlement blocs and
Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told visiting
North American Jewish leaders on Sunday. Olmert also
said he would make every effort to reach a peace
agreement with the Palestinians this year. He has said
the subject of Jerusalem would be the last item on the
agenda. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has
agreed to Olmert's suggestion, and is set to meet the
prime minister Jerusalem on Tuesday.
UN official warns against Gaza invasion,
says diplomacy only solution
The United Nations's undersecretary-general for
humanitarian affairs warned Israel against an invasion
of the Gaza Strip and said that the crisis in the South can
be solved only by diplomacy. "The only thing that will
make a lasting difference is a peace settlement," he
said. "You can't stop these problems militarily. They
have to be solved through negotiations."
Livni to Rice: Israel is to wage a
large-scale military assault on Gaza
Hebrew media reported that Israeli foreign minister
Tzipi Livni told her American counterpart Condoleezza
Rice during their last meeting in Washington that Israel
is preparing to wage a large-scale military operation
against the Gaza Strip.
Olmert says "everyone"
a target over Gaza rocket fire
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert said on Sunday the Israeli army had a "free hand"
to target anyone in the Gaza Strip, particularly ruling
Hamas Islamists, to bring an end to cross-border
rocket fire at the Jewish state.
Tha Gaza Ghetto: U.S.-Backed
Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
UN Aid Chief 'Shocked' by Gaza Conditions.vThe top
UN humanitarian affairs official, John Holmes, visited
the Gaza Strip on Friday and said he was "shocked
by the miserable things" he had seen. Holmes,
under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and
emergency relief coordinator, was in Gaza on the
second day of a five-day visit to the Palestinian
territories and Israel.
Olmert vows to continue reduction of
power, fuel supplies to Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday vowed to
continue the reduction of power and fuel supplies to
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, local media reported.
Israel will continue to limit supplies of power and fuel
to Gaza due to the ongoing Qassam rocket attacks, Olmert
was quoted as saying at the beginning of a weekly cabinet
meeting. "This isn't always popular, but it makes it more
difficult for terrorist organizations to operate," Olmert
told the cabinet meeting.
Israel criticises U.N.
envoy over Gaza comments
Israel on Monday criticised comments by a visiting
United Nations envoy, accusing him of equating
Israeli military operations in the Hamas-ruled Gaza
Strip with the rockets fired by militants into the Jewish state.
UN humanitarian chief assesses
impact of closures on West Bank residents
During a visit to the West Bank today, the United
Nations humanitarian chief saw the difficulties faced
daily by Palestinian residents due to restrictions on
the movement of people, goods and services.
Palestinians say Jerusalem
still high on agenda
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not agreed
to postpone talks on the future of Jerusalem, a senior
adviser said on Monday, disputing comments by
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert said
on Sunday that Abbas had consented to hold off
discussing Jerusalem until the end of the
negotiating process, a move that could anger
Palestinians but help the Israeli leader hold
together his fragile coalition government for now.
PA renewing Orient House activities
The Palestinian Authority is renewing activities in
several Orient House departments - the PLO's
east Jerusalem headquarters that was closed in
2001 - it was reported Monday. Israel Radio said
that although the departments were not actually
operating from the premises, officials were conducting
meetings in east Jerusalem with foreign officials and diplomats.
Israel's 'hilltop youth' are settling in
GIVAT HAOR OUTPOST, West Bank -- It was a festive
night for the teenage squatters in this renegade
hilltop camp. A rabbi was on his way, and they were
cranking up a generator, stringing light bulbs and
arranging benches, turning what had been a Palestinian
family's barn into a synagogue.
Hamas: Abbas Aides Plotted Assassination
Gaza's Hamas rulers on Saturday accused aides of
moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
of being behind an alleged plot to assassinate a top
Hamas official. Abbas' office denied the claims,
which set off an angry verbal exchange between the
bitter rivals and further dimmed already faint
prospects of reconciliation.
Hamas doesn't want a separate Gaza
Many Western observers, politicians and journalists
considered the recent breach of the Rafah crossing
between Gaza and Egypt a victory for the Hamas
movement. Some viewed it as the beginning of the
end of the siege imposed on the Palestinian people.
The statement by Luisa Morgantini, the vice
president of the European Parliament, was an example
of this. The breach in the wall and the thousands of
Palestinians crossing the border, she said, "are all true
acts of resistance and an affirmation of
the freedom of that people."
Report: Progress made in
Shalit prisoner swap deal
Israel and Hamas have agreed on the identities of
230 Palestinian prisoners, currently being held in Israeli
prisons, to be released in exchange for the freedom of
Gilad Shalit, who was abducted by Palestinian militants
in June 2006, Army Radio reported Monday.
Israel radio: a prisoners swap deal
between Israel and Palestinians likely
Israeli radio reported Monday that a prisoner
swap deal between Israel and holders of Israeli soldier
Gil'ad Shalit in Gaza is likely, as Israel gave consent
to the release of 230 Palestinian prisoners after
loosening stance over those with 'blood on their hands'.
Hezbollah: Revenge for Mugniyah killing
to be 'extremely costly' for Israel
"It won't be long before the conceited Zionists realize
that Imad Mughniyah's blood is extremely costly,
and it makes history and brings about a new victory,"
Hezbollah's head of the southern Lebanon region,
Sheikh Nabil Kauk, said Sunday at a memorial service
for the arch-terrorist who was killed in a car explosion
in Damascus last week.
Ben White: What lies beneath
An Israeli town is suing Google over a claim
that it was built on the ruins of a destroyed
Palestinian village.
Tehran: Israel has neither legitimacy
nor any role in the Middle East
Tehran on Monday said that even after 60 years,
Israel still has neither legitimacy nor any role in the
Middle East, ISNA news agency reported Monday.
"The West has tried to impose a fabricated regime
on the Middle East but even after 60 years, the Zionist
regime (Israel) has neither gained any legitimacy
nor played any role in this region," Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
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