October 13, 2006
The Guardian The Foreign Office came under fire yesterday after omitting any criticism of Israel's attack on Lebanon in its annual human rights report.
Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year's report. But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties. |
IMEMC
12/10/2006 The death toll, given in the report, since the beginning of the operation has reached 290 civilians, amongst them 135 children and 35 women. The number of injured is 4,350, out of these 750 are left permanently disabled, 117 injuries were to the upper body, 54 burns were sustained and 53 severe burns. 1700 injuries out of 4350 were to children.
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Haaretz
12/10/2006 The Shin Bet security service is systematically preventing Palestinians who need medical treatment unavailable in the territories from entering Israel... According to the organization, in many cases, patients have been denied urgent, life-saving treatment. The report says that the Shin Bet automatically refuses entry permits, and reconsiders its decisions only if legal action is begun.
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Reuters
12/10/2006 Five of those killed belonged to the same family -- bystanders 13-year-old Suheib Iqdah, his 40-year-old father Adel and three militants from the armed wing of ruling Islamist movement Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades. They died after an Israeli aircraft fired a missile into a group of people in Abassan, near the southern town of Khan Yunis, medical and security sources said.
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-13 06:45:52
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-13 18:58:07
GAZA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Senior Palestinian security officials on Friday expressed concerns that the current Israeli army escalation, which began on Thursday, could be a test operation apparently aimed at reoccupying the Gaza Strip.
"We received information that Israel is studying the idea of storming the Gaza Strip, but so far we have not known when exactly the operation would start," a high-ranking security official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. |
05:34:01 EDT Oct 13, 2006
Canadian Press: IBRAHIM BARZAK GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel pressed forward with a stepped-up offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least four people in a pair of attacks in the coastal area.
The fighting brought the death toll in the offensive to 13 Palestinians, including a young girl, over the past two days. The army has been operating throughout Gaza since June, when militants linked to the ruling Hamas militant group tunnelled into Israel and captured an Israeli soldier. The soldier remains in captivity. |
By Christopher True
Thursday 05 October 2006, 20:27 Makka Time, 17:27 GMT Efraim Halevy was head of the Mossad, Israel's intelligence and special operations agency, from 1998 to 2002. On leaving he assumed the role of national security adviser to Ariel Sharon, Israel's former prime minister, resigning a year later.
He played a significant role in negotiating Israel's peace deal with King Hussein of Jordan, the bringing of Ethiopian Jews to Israel and Israel's response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. |
LA Times
12/10/2006 Michael Phillips, 24, who teaches English in Palestinian refugee camps in Nablus, was unharmed, said Samah Atout, a manager for the nonprofit group for which the Louisiana resident has volunteered. "He's totally OK, and he doesn't want to leave Nablus," Atout said by telephone shortly after Phillips' release.
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Aviad Kleinberg
Published: 10.12.06, 09:26 I have noticed that over the years I have become impervious to the scenes and words coming from "over there," from the moral twilight zone we have been calling the "Territories" for the past 40 years. As with experienced athletes, our heartbeats quickly return to normal and we go on as usual.
The other day it hit me again for a moment while watching Channel 1 TV: In wake of the prolonged Israeli blockade, which has led to near destitution, Palestinians and left-wing activists were filmed trying to transfer crates of grapes grown by Palestinian farmers. It wasn't a particularly brutal scene: The violence wasn't anything irregular; on the contrary, it was predictable and standard: The grapes were thrown on the road, protestors were beaten, and nonsensical excuses regarding Israel's security were sounded. The threat to our existence was lifted, thank God. The Palestinian grape growers were refused entry. Next we saw news anchor Haim Yavin raise an eyebrow and go onto the next item. |
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