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Bush Waives Decade-old Law Banning Aid to PNA
Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:20 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President George W. Bush waived a decade-old law banning direct US aid to the Palestine National Authority (PNA), a show of confidence in the new administration of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the State Department said. More >>
PNA Crisis As Israel Fails to Release Detainees
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:47 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli government’s selective and fragmental policy to implement Israel’s obligations stipulated by the “roadmap” to Palestinian – Israeli peace has led to a crisis, which threatened Tuesday the survival of the Palestinian government of Prime Minister Mahmud ... More >>
IOF Shoot Dead Father of Three in West Bank
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 10:43 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli occupation soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man, a father of three children, and critically wounded his wife in Burqin village, near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, on Wednesday during a raid to arrest his brother, a local Fatah activist, ... More >>
286 Children 76 Women among 8000 Detained
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 12:43 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
IOF Wound 4 Palestinians, Detain 9 Others in Occupied Territory 286 Children, 76 Women among 8000 Detainees in Israeli Prisons: PNA More >>
PM Abbas Invited to Address Knesset
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 12:41 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was invited by the Shinui faction to visit the Israeli Knesset early next week amid a flurry of Palestinian-Israeli ministerial meetings. More >>
PNA Rejects Limited Israeli Release of Detainees
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 10:18 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said that the Israeli government’s decision for releasing a “limited” number of Palestinian detainees was “insufficient” and described the Israeli criteria set for their release as a “negative approach,” at ... More >>
Arafat Urges Real Not Cosmetic RoadMap Moves
Monday, 7 July 2003, 12:32 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
President Yasser Arafat called on the “Quartet” of international mediators to start a “real” implementation of the “roadmap” peace plan, describing what has been implemented so far as “cosmetic” steps, at a time when the Palestine National Authority’s (PNA) ... More >>
Segregation Wall Completely Isolates Palestinians
Monday, 7 July 2003, 12:29 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The residents of Nazlat Abu Nar, Nazlat Isa, and Baqa al-Sharqiya in the northern West Bank, say they have become completely cut off and isolated from the rest of the West Bank because of the segregation wall, which Israel is building east of the ... More >>
Palestinian Killed by IOF Explosive Device
Monday, 7 July 2003, 12:27 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
A Palestinian died and another was injured on Saturday in an explosion in the Gaza Strip, one day after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided the northern West Bank town of Jenin and shelled Palestinian residential neighborhoods in the central Gaza ... More >>
Israel's Persistent Assassinations Ruins Roadmap
Friday, 27 June 2003, 11:19 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israel Persists in Assassinations: Girl, Man Killed in Gaza Air Raid ‘Sharon Wants to Ruin any Chance to Implement the Roadmap’: Abu Rudeinah More >>
Israeli Assassination Policy Threatens Truce
Friday, 27 June 2003, 11:17 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Hopes of a breakthrough in efforts to start implementing the US-sponsored “roadmap” plan have been dispelled by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s insistence to continue its extra-judicial assassination policy, encouraged by the ... More >>
Bush’s Dismantle Hamas Call Would Cause Civil War
Friday, 27 June 2003, 11:08 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rejected Thursday US President Bush’s call to dismantle Hamas and other anti-Israeli occupation groups, saying such an attempt would ignite a Palestinian civil war. More >>
Israeli Raids, Killings Draw Palestinian Anger
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 11:30 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Palestinians condemned the mass detentions carried out by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Hebron and Nablus cities as an attempt to sabotage efforts to reach a truce declaration by the Palestinian factions to help push forward the peace process. More >>
5 Arab Israelis Indicted with Solidarity Intifada
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 11:29 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Haifa District Court on Tuesday charged the leaders of the largest political organization among Arab Israelis with funneling cash to the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” in the occupied Palestinian Territory, and having contacts with an Iranian ... More >>
Palestinian Refugees Face New Nakba in Iraq
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 11:28 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The United Nations refugee agency said that thousands of Palestinians have been expelled from their homes in the Baghdad since the end of the US-British war on Iraq and the fall of the Iraqi capital, a few months ago. More >>
Israeli Detentions, Assassinations Killing Roadmap
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 10:14 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) detained 160 Palestinians in Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah overnight as the Israeli government rejected talks held between the Palestine National Authority (PNA) and the Palestinian factions aimed at reaching a declaration of “Hudna” ... More >>
PLO: Israeli ‘Bloody Provocation’ Sabotages Talks
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 10:13 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reconfirmed that the withdrawal of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) from the Gaza Strip and Bethlehem-- as a first step towards a full Israeli withdrawal from reoccupied Palestinian territory-- “must be ... More >>
Four Palestinians Extra-judicially Killed by IOF
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 10:14 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
Despite international condemnation of Israel’s assassination policy, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) assassinated four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, less than 48 hours after an IOF undercover unit extra-judicially killed a ... More >>
Sharon Defies Quartet on Settlements and Killings
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 10:12 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
In defiance of the US-sponsored “roadmap” peace initiative and criticism by the US, UN, EU and Arabs, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisted Israel could still build illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory and would continue ... More >>
PNA blasts Sharon for settlements comment
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 10:11 am | Palestine Media Center - PMC
The Palestine National Authority (PNA) on Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “advice” to his cabinet ministers to “proceed quietly” with the illegal construction of Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory as a “political ... More >>