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Israel Bars Arafat from Christmas Festivities
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 10:20 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israel Bars Arafat from Christmas Festivities for Third Year Two-track Talks for Reviving “Roadmap” in Jerusalem, Gaza More >>
Balata: Israel Invades Refugee Camp Shoots Dead 2
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 10:19 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Fifty armored vehicles of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), including tanks, invaded Balata refugee camp in the West Bank early Tuesday, a day after shooting dead two unarmed Palestinians and demolishing twenty two Palestinian buildings on Sunday, ... More >>
IOF Shoot Dead Two Palestinians Including Boy (11)
Monday, 24 November 2003, 9:09 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians, including an 11-year-old boy, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as two Israeli security guards were killed near Jerusalem by the Apartheid Wall Israel is building on occupied Palestinian ... More >>
EU Tells Israel To Dismantle Apartheid Wall
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 11:56 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The European Union has vehemently condemned Israel’s unilateral separation wall, which it is building on occupied Palestinian land. More >>
Palestine Seeks Meeting Between Qurei & Sharon
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 11:19 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) on Monday said that dates have not been set yet neither for a meeting between Palestinian and Israeli premiers Ahmad Qurei and Ariel Sharon nor for Prime Minister Qurei’s meeting with Palestinian factions in ... More >>
Parliament Rubberstamps New Palestinian Government
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 10:09 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestinian Parliament narrowly approved a new government headed by the second Palestine National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister, Ahmad Qurei, as President Yasser Arafat yet again extended an olive branch to Israel. More >>
EU Chief Blasts Israel Policy of Boycotting Arafat
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 11:49 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
European Union’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday sharply criticized Israel’s policy of boycotting officials who have met with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, saying it contravened the rules of diplomacy. More >>
Israel Claims Of Ease Refuted As Killings Continue
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 10:27 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
A Palestinian woman was killed early Thursday while at home when at least ten Israeli tanks and 30 military jeeps and trucks, backed by two US-made Apache helicopters, invaded the old town of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, as facts on the ground ... More >>
Israel slammed for Violating Freedom of Press
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 12:02 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
In another move seen as violating freedom of the press, Israel is to obligate all journalists seeking government accreditation to undergo a series of stringent scrutiny from the Shin Bet security agency, that will effectively see a significant reduction ... More >>
Israel Violates Roadmap Again Allowing Settlements
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 11:50 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
In yet another violation of the “roadmap” plan, Israel said it will provide services to eight “unauthorized” West Bank settlements, which it had previously pledged to dismantle as stipulated in the US-backed peace blueprint. More >>
Arafat, Roed Larsen Deplore Israel’s Demolitions
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 12:07 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Sunday slammed Israel’s demolition of three multi-storey residential buildings in the Gaza Strip as a “catastrophe” after more than 2000 Palestinians were rendered homeless. More >>
Rights Group: Hospital Raids Violate Int’l Law
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 12:07 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Meanwhile, the US-based rights group “Physicians for Human Rights” accused the Israeli army of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention for invading hospitals in the occupied territory. More >>
12 Palestinians dead 100 Injured in Israel attacks
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 12:30 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Twelve Palestinians were killed and more than 100, the majority of them women, children and other bystanders were injured when Israeli military jets and gunships carried out five consecutive air raids on Gaza City and a densely-populated refugee camp ... More >>
Gaza: Islamic Jihad's Al-Shami Survives F16 Strike
Monday, 20 October 2003, 11:50 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
A senior Islamic Jihad leader survived an Israeli extra-judicial assassination bid when an F-16 fighter jet bombed a residential building close to his in al-Shujaya neighborhood in Gaza City Monday morning. More >>
Palestine Authority Arrest 5 For Diplomat Killings
Friday, 17 October 2003, 9:09 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian leadership, President Yasser Arafat, PM Ahmad Qurei, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, condemned the Gaza bomb blast that killed three US nationals on Wednesday. More >>
US Vetoes Resolution Condemning Apartheid Wall
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 12:07 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Al-Kidwa: Washington Casts a Large Shadow on Its Role as Mediator of Peace Process More >>
US Acquiescence Slaughters Palestinian Civilians
Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 12:08 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) accused the United States of encouraging Israel to slaughter Palestinian civilians as Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Sunday redeployed around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and the adjacent refugee camp of Yubna, ... More >>
Intifada 3 Years On Mounting Fears, Distant Dreams
Monday, 29 September 2003, 11:07 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
With the Intifada for independence beginning its fourth year, Palestinians are bracing themselves for more bloodshed, fear and an inherent feeling that dreams are nothing but a distant figment of their imagination. More >>
IOF Kill 5 Palestinians, Raising Weekly Death Toll
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 10:53 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their extra-judicial assassinations early Thursday and killed five Palestinians including a 3-year-old girl, raising the Palestinian death toll—which included two teenagers and a newborn—in a week to eleven. This comes ... More >>
Israel Rejects Arafat’s Quartet Cease-fire Offer
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 11:56 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat declared a commitment to reaching a total cease-fire with Israel in a letter given to envoys of the peacemaking “Quartet”, but Israel rejected his offer, as the Palestinian Prime Minster-designate declared he intends ... More >>