Important News
- Amnesty International urges global rejection of Israel’s weaponized aid plan in Gaza
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- Israeli court extends detention of wife of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa who died in Israeli prisons
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- Israeli forces assault Palestinian civilian at Barta’a checkpoint north of Jenin
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- UN Rights Chief says attacks on starving civilians in Gaza are "unconscionable"
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- Cabinet urges immediate international action to end Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza
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- Colonists destroy dozens of olive trees near Ramallah
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- Health official: Over 3,000 hypertension and diabetes patients in Gaza deprived of treatment for more than three months
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- At least eight civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on displacement tents in central Gaza
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- Israeli forces raze large tract of land east of Ramallah
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- Several civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Gaza
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- "International support needed to establish Palestinian state," says French FM
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- Israeli forces raid archaeological sites in West Bank town
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- At least 10 killed, others injured in Israeli strikes on different areas across Gaza
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- Israeli forces assault farmers, seize tractors in Hebron’s Beit Ummar
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Arafat: Israel Must Recognize Palestinian Inalienable National Rights
RAMALLAH, April 29, 2004 (WAFA) – Addressing a Palestinian mass rally of at least 150,000 in his besieged Quarters in Ramallah on Thursday, President Yasser Arafat said that if Israel wishes to live in security, peace and coexistence it must recognize the Inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people in independence, freedom and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.... "Your steadfastness, sacrifices prove the impossibility of the continuation of the Israeli occupation, its colonies, and the Apartheid wall on our blessed Palestinian Land", Arafat said.... Arafat reaffirmed that there can never be a place for the Israeli occupation, nor can there ever be a place for Israeli colonies or for Apartheid Wall around Jerusalem with its Christian and Moslem holy sanctuaries.... Despite Israel's policy of massacre, assassination and repression against the Palestinian people and Leadership, we can not budge on independence, freedom and the independent Palestinian state, Arafat concluded....