Important News
- Israeli airstrikes kill five civilians in central and southern Gaza
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- Palestinian youth killed, others injured in colonists' attack on Ramallah-area town
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- Israeli strikes on Gaza leave dozens of civilians killed and injured
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- Fuel shortages push Gaza patients to the brink as hospitals struggle to operate
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- ASEAN urges ceasefire in Gaza, condemns attacks on civilians and humanitarian blockade
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- Occupation issues forced evacuation orders for areas in Gaza City
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- 10 injured, ambulances attacked in violent assault by colonists near Ramallah
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Notice at Kalandia Checkpoint: Al Ram is Now Israel
AL-RAM, March 26, 2006 (WAFA) - International Solidarity Movement said that Israel placed, on Saturday March 25, a notice at Kalandia checkpoint announcing that from March 27, 2006 only holders of a permit to enter Israel will be allowed to cross the checkpoint to the West Bank village of Al Ram.... By restricting Palestinian access in this way, an ISM press release said, the Israelis have effectively annexed the village minus its West Bank residents to Israel, cutting it off from the rest of the West Bank.... The restriction will also cement the illegal annexation of occupied East Jerusalem.... The Kalandia checkpoint is flanked on both sides by the annexation Wall. Olmert's Kadima party has admitted that the Apartheid Wall is not a temporary security measure as Israel originally claimed but will be Israel's "permanent border.... A.D. (22:30 P) (20:30 GMT)