Ma’an News, 3/9/14 – The last shipment of Qatar-donated diesel — used to fuel the Gaza Strip’s sole power plant — is expected to run out within four or five days, a Palestinian official said Sunday. The announcement comes after only around two months of steady electricity in the besieged coastal enclave, which suffers from […]
Ma’an News, 3/8/14 – Eleven Palestinian women were hurt by tear gas inhalation, Saturday, when Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration marking International Women’s Day. Dozens of Palestinian women rallied, early Saturday, near Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem to mark International Women’s Day, reports Ma’an News Agency. Israeli forces stationed at the checkpoint launched tear […]
IMEMC, 3/6/14 – Israeli authorities razed a land near Solomon’s Pools, in the village of Ertas, south of Bethlehem. Last week, Israeli authorities evacuated a military watchtower that was built on the land, to return yesterday and start razing the 102 dunums of Palestinian land, belonging to Abu Sway family, the PNN has reported. In […]
IMEMC, 3/5/14 – Israeli soldiers handed military orders to 21 families in the Wad Ebzeeq area, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, ordering them to leave as the army prepares for training. The army ordered the residents to stay away from the area on Wednesday, as the soldiers will be conducting training […]
IMEMC, 3/4/14 – An Israeli fighter jet reportedly dropped a missile, Monday night, near Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding three others, including a child. The two men killed in the attack were identified as Musab Moussa al-Zaneen, 21, and Sharif Nasser, 31. The two men wounded in the Israeli airstrike […]
IMEMC, 3/3/14 – Israeli occupation forces abducted, on Monday, eleven Palestinians from the West Bank. Four Palestinians from Hebron and two others from Tulkarem were taken, while another in Ein Yabrud village, north of Ramallah, was abducted by Israeli forces, according to a PNN report. Israeli troops also took one Palestinian from al-Jalzoun refugee camp, […]
IMEMC, 3/2/14, – Saleh Mlihat, 70, was killed on Sunday, after being run over by an Israeli colonial settler, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mosa Mlihat said that his father was run over during crossing the main street and transferred to hospital immediately, Al Ray reports. Local sources said that a settler ran […]
Ma’an News, 3/1/14 – A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip late Friday, witnesses and medics said. Witnesses said 57-year-old Aminah Atiyeh Qudeih was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis when she approached the separation barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Ambulances were not […]
Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ “Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000.” The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav […]
Library of Congress, 3/29/1990 – The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Savage] is recognized for 60 minutes. Mr. SAVAGE. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight to deal with the problem that occurred in my recent primary election, the one in which–let me just say that I was successful, […]
