[ssf] Fw: Settlers burn olive fields and bulldoze land

Gerald Ali. gerald.ali at btopenworld.com
Wed Jul 8 06:29:24 BST 2009


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From: Gerald Ali. Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:14 AM
Subject: Settlers burn olive fields and bulldoze land


      Settlers burn olive fields and bulldoze land 
      [ 07/07/2009 - 09:38 AM ] 
      http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7c3MX26mHrJgm2IZKPpBMplEZvXumiczyfeNz%2fSuNYe%2fT283B%2fZVfA699Fy%2ftFqRH6K%2fPybZ8OJpC02HrDuwGj5%2bV2Hgm77U4t0Bzl1YfWcg%3d 
     



      NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers set fire to grazing and agricultural plots belonging to farmers in Iraq Bureen village south of Nablus on Monday night, local sources said.

      They added that 20 settlers attacked an area near the village and started fires in olive fields in particular.

      In the meantime, the Israeli occupation authority started bulldozing Palestinian lands in Kharbatal Mafqarah east of Yatta town, Al-Khalil district, in order to expand the settlement outpost of Avigal.

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            IOF troops advance in central Gaza, detain American activist in Bil'in 
            [ 07/07/2009 - 03:45 PM ]  
           



            GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) boarding armored vehicles on Tuesday advanced into east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip and bulldozed lands and erected sand barriers.

            Local and security sources reported that seven bulldozers escorted by five army tanks had advanced 300 meters east of the densely populated camp.

            IOF troops a few days ago shelled a civilian home in the same area killing a young woman and wounding three members of her family.

            In the West Bank, IOF soldiers rounded up 11 citizens at dawn Tuesday in central and southern areas.

            Local sources said that among the detainees was an American activist in Bil'in village where he used to take part in anti wall rallies witnessed weekly in the village, in Ramallah district.

            The Hebrew radio reported that IOF soldiers detained a Palestinian youth at a road block in the Jordan Valley at noon Tuesday, claiming that he was carrying a knife.

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                  Qassem: Kidnappings in West Bank linked to PA agreements with Israel 
                  [ 07/07/2009 - 11:18 AM ]  
                 



                  RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Professor of political science Abdelsattar Qassem stated Monday that the kidnappings taking place in the West Bank are related to the agreements signed by the PA with Israel especially the Oslo agreements, which stipulated the elimination of the Palestinian resistance.

                  In a press statement, Qassem said these kidnappings would continue as long as the PA in the West Bank remained dependent on the funds coming from the donor countries which chained it and made it hostage to the Israeli occupation authority and the external interventions.

                  He expressed belief that the PA security campaigns would go on even if Hamas and Fatah reached a reconciliation agreement during the coming days.

                  In his reply to a question about Netanyahu's condition of freezing settlements in exchange for Arab relations with Israel, the academic underlined that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu wants to normalize relations with Arabs publicly instead of the secret relations with some Arab countries.

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                        Ramahi: Jailed lawmakers are blackmailed by Israel to press Hamas 
                        [ 07/07/2009 - 09:36 AM ]  
                       



                        RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Dr. Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), stated that the Palestinian lawmakers imprisoned in Israeli jails are exposed to blackmail to pressure Hamas to make concessions regarding the prisoner swap deal and to accept a two-state solution.

                        In an interview with the PIC, Dr. Ramahi said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) tried to break the determination of the kidnapped lawmakers through maltreating them and practicing the policy of forced transfer from one prison to another, but it always failed to undermine their steadfastness.

                        Regarding the national dialog, he affirmed that some PA parties do not want reconciliation because they are associated with foreign agendas.

                        The lawmaker noted that the security leaders in the West Bank do not follow the orders issued by ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, but they receive orders from others, stressing that the issue of political arrests is still a stumbling block to the achievement of national reconciliation.

                        In another context, the independent committee for human rights in Palestine (the ombudsman office) said Monday that PA ministry of education in Ramallah still fires employees and teachers from their jobs or ends their recruitment process because of their affiliation with Hamas.

                        In a report on the PA violations of human rights in the West Bank during last June, the committee said it received during the month complaints against the PA ministry of education in this regard confirming that dismissal decisions were issued by Lamees Al-Alami, the PA minister of education.

                        The committee underlined that taking such measures violates the civil service law and the Palestinian basic law as well as the right of citizens to hold public office in the government on an equal footing and without discrimination.
                       

                 
           


     
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