Rory McCarthy in Gaza City
Thursday September 7, 2006 The Guardian Rights group says 197 civilians have been killed in military operation, including 48 minors
On a humid afternoon, an hour or two after lunch, Nadi al-Attar, 12, set off on a donkey-drawn cart with his grandmother Khariya and two of his young cousins to pick figs from a small orchard near their home in northern Gaza. Ahmed, 17, one of the cousins, remembers the moment when the shell struck, but pauses as he tells his story to nervously rub the muscles at the top of his thighs. The shell that hit their cart that afternoon sliced off his left leg just above the knee and his right leg halfway up his calf. He still has an aching pain in his bandaged stumps. |
Wednesday, 06 September 2006
Palestine News Network Impeding ambulances is among the ABCs of occupation. New ways to inflict agony are discovered, while old tricks are revisited. The eastern entrance to Qalqilia is the scene of ongoing violations of international law.
The northwestern West Bank city is closed on three sides by the Wall, with the fourth being a gate system. The Wall was built inside the West Bank and cuts off families from another, farmers from their land, and citizens from their schools and medical services. Such was the case last night. A Palestinian patient in the back of an ambulance needed treatment and was on his way to a hospital. He had papers proving marriage to his Palestinian wife who has Israeli citizenship. In addition to his need for care, the documents should have been enough to allow his passage. However, when the ambulance arrived at the military checkpoint at 9:00 pm, the patient and medics were laughed at. |
by Yana Dlugy
AFP Wed Sep 6, 2006 JERUSALEM - Israel will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon at 1500 GMT Thursday, having received international assurances over an arms embargo on Hezbollah, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office announced.
"US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, last night and this morning informed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that international forces are ready to take up control positions over Lebanon's seaports and airports," said an English-language statement from the office. "Therefore, it was agreed that tomorrow at 18:00 (local time), Israel will leave the aforesaid control positions and, at the same time, the international forces will enter," it said. |
Haaretz
06/09/2006 Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday slammed Israeli legislation that makes it difficult for Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs to gain legal status in Israel as a "terrible thing."
Speaking during a meeting with the deputy Knesset speaker, MK Ahmed Tibi, at his East Jerusalem hotel, Adams also criticized the law that restricts Palestinian appeals for compensation for damage resulting from military operations. Adams arrived Tuesday night for a visit to the Palestinian territories, following an invitation from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He is expected to meet Wednesday with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas. Israel had rejected Adams' request to meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Government sources told Haaretz on Wednesday that the Sinn Fein had been informed of this decision in advance. |
Created: 07.09.2006 13:57 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:48 MSK
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