By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Sunday 11 June 2006, 14:08 Makka Time, 11:08 GMT Palestinian families have accused Israel of taking draconian measures, further restricting their freedom of movement.
According to Palestinian human rights organisations, the new restrictions involve barring Palestinians carrying foreign passports, including those married to a Palestinian spouse, from re-entering the West Bank after leaving for their adopted country of citizenship, even for a brief visit. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-12 15:38:58
JERUSALEM, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A senior Israeli lawmaker from the ruling Kadima party warned on Monday that Palestinian Prime Minister and senior Hamas leader Ismail Haneya might be targeted if Hamas continues its hardline stance and steps up attacks on Israel.
Tzachi Hanegbi warned that if Hamas didn't change its stance, Haneya might meet the same fate as former Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, both killed in Israeli air strikes in early 2004, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported. |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-11 23:31:44
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by Adel Zaanoun
AFP Sun Jun 11, 2006 GAZA CITY - Two Hamas militants trying to fire rockets into
Israel were killed in air strikes Sunday, as the ruling Islamists fought Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's referendum on coexistence with Israel. A third Palestinian militant from the Islamic Jihad faction was also killed while preparing a rocket attack, hours after an Israeli civilian was seriously wounded when a makeshift missile slammed into his home. |
by Veronique Kiss
AFP June 11, 2006 WASHINGTON - David Meredith was one of tens of thousands of American civilians who believed the high salary to be earned as a contractor in Iraq outweighed the risks.
"Before, I was a cool, laid-back, easygoing guy," said the 37-year-old truck driver and father of four. "Since I came back from Iraq, I have suicidal thoughts, angry outbursts, insomnia, flashbacks." Meredith, who spent one year in Iraq from 2004-2005, is among thousands of military and civilian veterans of the Iraq conflict to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. US soldiers get psychological treatment. Meredith says he gets no help from his former employer, Halliburton, which had major contracts in Iraq. Meredith earned 90,000 dollars a year in Iraq. "It is true, I earned nearly double what I could in the United States but now I feel like my country is turning its back on me," he told AFP by telephone. Comment: If things in Iraq are going as well as the Bush administration claims, why do these contractors seem to have experienced so much trauma??
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By Megan K. Stack and Louise Roug
LA Times June 11, 2006 BAGHDAD - Fears of an imminent offensive by the U.S. troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi intensified Saturday, with residents pouring out of the city to escape what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis.
The image pieced together from interviews with tribal leaders and fleeing families in recent weeks is one of a desperate population of 400,000 people trapped in the crossfire between insurgents and U.S. forces. Food and medical supplies are running low, prices for gas have soared because of shortages and municipal services have ground to a stop. U.S. and Iraqi forces had cordoned off the city by Saturday, residents and Iraqi officials said. Airstrikes on several residential areas picked up, and troops took to the streets with loudspeakers to warn civilians of a fierce impending attack, Ramadi police Capt. Tahseen Dulaimi said. U.S. military officials refused to confirm or deny reports that a Ramadi offensive was underway. Comment: "Liberation" is finally coming to Ramadi! Oh Joy! Soon there will be lots more living space for the Iraqis left alive. Thank you America! Thank you Israel!
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AFP
06/11/2006 NUREMBERG, Germany - Some 1,200 people joined a rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of a World Cup match .n this southern German city between Iran and Mexico.
Waving Israeli flags, the demonstrators attacked Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel rhetoric and repeated denial of the Holocaust at Sunday's protest organized by the local Jewish community and the German trade union alliance. |
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