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Palestine PM-designate Qurei Pledges Nonstop Talks
Monday, 22 September 2003, 10:06 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurei on Sunday announced he will resume national dialogue with opposition factions after forming his government to unify Palestinians before officially suggesting a truce to Israel, as the Hamas and Islamic ... More >>
World Bank Urges Focus on Palestinian Economy
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:53 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
PNA Finance Minister Salam Fayyadh said Saturday that the promise by the Group of Seven nations in Dubai to increase financial assistance to the Palestinians was “without conditions,” adding however that the package pledged by the G-7 was “insufficient.” ... More >>
UN Reports Warn of Humanitarian Catastrophe
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:52 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Meanwhile, a UN human rights expert is preparing to submit a report to the UN General Assembly that charges Israel of triggering a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the occupied Palestinian territory, newspaper reports said on Wednesday. More >>
PM-designate Renew Cease-fire Offer to Israel
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 10:49 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat welcomed on Wednesday Yemen’s call for an emergency Arab summit meeting in Sana’a to discuss the Israeli government’s decision last week to “remove” the elected Palestinian leader, and together with his Prime Minister-designate ... More >>
Israel Rejects Cease-fire Proposal Extended by PNA
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 11:59 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
As Israel's extra-judicial assassination of Palestinian resistance fighters persisted, the Palestine National Authority (PNA) extended its hand to the Jewish state with a new cease-fire proposal, which the latter rejected almost immediately. More >>
PNA Holds US Responsible for Consequences of Veto
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 11:58 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said Tuesday that the United States has lost credibility as an honest broker in the Middle East peace process and slammed the US veto, which aborted a draft resolution condemning Israeli government’s decision ... More >>
US Threatens UN Over Israel’s Assassinations
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 11:29 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The UN Security Council was scheduled Tuesday to vote on a Palestinian-drafted resolution condemning Israel for plans to “remove” President Yasser Arafat, under a US threat to veto the draft unless Washington sees a more “balanced” motion condemning so-called ... More >>
UN’s Big 5 Refuse Israel Decision to Expel Arafat
Sunday, 14 September 2003, 9:18 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The United Nations Security Council five permanent members were in the forefront of a worldwide objection to the Israeli government’s decision on Thursday to “remove” President Yasser Arafat as an “obstacle” to peace. More >>
A Child among 6 Palestinians Killed by IOF 24 Hrs
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 10:16 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestinian leadership on Tuesday strongly condemned the renewed Israeli assassinations and the two bombings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, saying it “will not tolerate them.” Both the leadership and the Prime Minister-nominee said that the deteriorating security ... More >>
Amnesty Slams Israel’s Collective Punishment
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 1:56 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The continuous choking Israeli policy has had a disastrous effect on the lives of Palestinians, who are struggling against sweeping closures and a crippled economy, Amnesty International said Sunday, while it slammed the unilateral “apartheid” wall ... More >>
Palestinian PM-nominee Seeks US EU Guarantees
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 1:55 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat has officially nominated the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmad Qurei (Abu Alaa) as the new Palestine National Authority (PNA) prime minister to succeed the caretaker premier Mahmud Abbas, who resigned on Thursday. ... More >>
PNA, EU Reconfirm Commitment to ‘Roadmap’
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 10:41 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
PNA, EU Reconfirm Commitment to ‘Roadmap’ Arafat’s CNN Remarks on Peace Plan ‘Inaccurately Quoted’: Abed Rabbo More >>
Arafat: Israeli Aggression Killed Roadmap
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 12:18 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat told CNN Tuesday that the United States let the “roadmap” for peace and a Palestinian state die and the plan was dead only because of Israeli aggression, which has escalated militarily and politically with Israel’s renewed ... More >>
‘Orr Panel’ Finds Decades Israeli Discrimination
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 12:17 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
In a landmark report, an Israeli commission of inquiry found on Monday a pattern of government “prejudice and neglect” and decades of discrimination against Israel’s more than one million Arab minority, or the Palestinians who were not forced out ... More >>
1.085m Palestinian Children Attend School
Monday, 1 September 2003, 9:46 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Some one million Palestinian students across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip attended school today in the first day of the academic year, while more than 75,000 children attended kindergartens. More >>
EU Rejects Severing Contacts with Arafat
Monday, 1 September 2003, 9:44 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Sunday rejected demands by Israel to sever contacts with the elected Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during talks with Israeli officials aimed at reviving the “roadmap” peace plan, as Russia intensified ... More >>
US Undercuts Arafat’s Call for Reinstating Truce
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 11:23 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat criticized US intervention in Palestinian internal affairs and called on all Palestinians to reinstate the Hudna (ceasefire) declared on June 29, a call hailed by the PNA government of PM Mahmud Abbas, but dismissed by the ... More >>
IOF Shoot Dead Palestinian Civilian in Bethlehem
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 11:22 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot dead a Palestinian civilian, claiming he was about to stab soldiers near Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque (Rachel’s Tomb) in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. More >>
Bush Backtracking On Peace Promises To Palestine
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 11:20 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday sounded to Palestinians as if backtracking on his promised vision of a two-solution of the Palestinian – Israeli conflict when he put the Palestinian anti-Israeli occupation resistance on the same footing with ... More >>
Elderly Killed In Failed Israeli Assassination
Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 9:43 pm | Palestine Media Center - PMC
An elderly Palestinian was killed and twenty-six more bystanders, including six children, were injured when Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car carrying Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, who escaped with moderate injuries, according ... More >>
