Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Palestine Today 091708

IMEMC News | 17.09.2008 16:14 | Anti-racism | Other Press | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday September 17, 2008.

Palestine Today 091708 - mp3 3.7M


Israel reopened Gaza crossings after being closed for two days. Meanwhile, two Palestinians of Nablus were slightly wounded. These stories and more are coming up, stay tuned.

The News cast

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli authorities reopened on Wednesday morning most of Gaza crossings, except the Sufa commercial crossing in southern part of the strip.

The crossings were closed for the past couple of days, after homemade shells landed on nearby Israeli areas, as a Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire is swinging between failure and success.

Meanwhile, two Palestinian residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, were reportedly slightly wounded near the Israeli illegal settlement of Yitzhar. Media sources said settlers of Yitzhar hurled the two residents with stones, causing their injuries.

Settlers from Yitzhar rioted last week at the nearby Burqeen village following claims that a Palestinian stabbed a settler boy earlier. As a result of the settlers’ riot, four Palestinians were wounded, as the settlers invaded the village and painted David star on some of the houses. Eyewitnesses said, Israeli troops were watching the settlers throwing rocks at Palestinian homes, but moved no limb to stop them.

At the political level, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Ereikat, asserted that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has already rejected any partial solutions or agreements with Israel during the underway peace talks.

Ereikat said the latest offer by the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to reach a partial agreement by end of this year, contradicts the Washington-sponsored Annapolis peace conference of last year, which called for a two-state solution.

Internally, Hamas lawmaker, Mosheer Almasri, confirmed that his party will accept Cairo's invitation for national dialogue and that a delegation of Hamas will head for Cairo by early October.

Recently, representatives of Palestinian factions have been discussing in Cairo ways to end current division between Hamas and Fatah for the best of Palestinian national interests.

In Israel, members of the Israeli ruling Kadima party vote today to elect a new chief for the party to succeed the current chief and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert is expected to resign his post following the elections after a series of corruption charges were brought against him.

On this Day, Palestinians commemorate 26 years of the massacre in Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon. For around 40 hours in September 1982, members of the Israeli-allied Lebanese Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people inside the encircled and sealed Sabra and Shatila camps. The estimate figure of victims varies between 700, which is the official Israeli figure to 3,500 according to most human rights organizations. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was Minister of Defense then.

Conclusion:
Thank you for joining us from occupied Bethlehem. You have been listening to Palestine Today from the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org. This report has been brought to you by Rami Al-Meghari, Gorge Rishmawi.

IMEMC News
- e-mail: info@imemc.org

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech