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>JN July 24, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 125
Terrorist Camps For Arab Children
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is running camps in PA-controlled Gaza for 8-12-year-old children.
Israel's Channel 2 TV reported that the "Paradise Camps" train the children in military tactics and weapons operations, instilling the concepts of the significance of being a suicide bomber and dying as a martyr.
Israeli Police Kill Suspected Militant in West Bank
>YX By VOA News
Israel says undercover units of its border police have killed a Palestinian militant who was an accomplice in a bomb plot targeting the Israeli city of Haifa.
The Israelis say Mustapha Yassin, a member of Islamic Jihad, was shot Monday while trying to evade capture in a Palestinian village, Anin, near the West Bank town of Jenin. Israeli officials accuse Yassin of taking a would-be suicide bomber into Israel and putting him in a taxi to Haifa. Israeli police captured the bomber on Sunday before he carried out his mission.
Elsewhere, a Palestinian teenager was shot dead during a clash between Palestinians and Israeli troops at Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Doctors say the 15 year-old boy was shot in the back. The Israeli army says grenades were thrown at an army post and soldiers fired at the attackers.
Meanwhile, Palestinians are blaming an Israeli undercover unit for the attempted killing of a militant activist in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Monday. Masked gunmen shot and wounded a man affiliated with Islamic Jihad before speeding away in a car. Israel radio described the incident as a shoot-out between rival Palestinians.
Israel Returns Lebanese Pilot's Body
By VOA News
Israel has returned the body of a Lebanese pilot it shot down in May citing fears he was flying his small plane on a suicide mission. Red Cross officials handed over the body of Estephan Nikolian Monday at a border crossing on the Mediterranean coast.
Israel said the pilot failed to respond to several warnings before Israeli aircraft opened fire on May 24, a year after Israeli forces pulled out of southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said the pilot suffered from psychological problems.
Jerusalem Police Ban Jews from Temple Mount on 9 Av
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The Temple Mount Faithful organization has turned to the High Court of Justice seeking intervention that would permit Jews to pray on the Temple Mount on Sunday, the fast day of Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av.
On that day, the Jewish nation observes a day of fast and prayer, reflecting on tragic events that have befallen the Jewish people, including the destruction of the First and Second Temples.
Temple Mount Faithful officials are seeking an end to the religious discrimination against Jews whom are barred from praying on the Mount, the holiest site to the Jewish people. On Tisha B'Av, they also wish to lay a cornerstone for the Third Temple. Police, based on fears that Jewish prayer would spark Islamic violence, denied all requests as has been the case in the past.
West Bank Drought Increasing Palestinians' Hardships
By Art Chimes (VOA-Ramallah)
Years of drought in the West Bank are adding to the hardship of Palestinians. The area is mostly desert. But many Palestinians blame Israel for making a bad situation worse.
In his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Abdel Rahman Tamimi monitors the water situation as director-general of his consulting firm, the Palestinian Hydrology Group.
He sees two main problems made worse by the drought: an aging water supply infrastructure and Israeli policies that further restrict access to water for farming and domestic use through bureaucratic stumbling blocks.
"We used to submit the application to the Civil Administration in Israel, and they used to say yes or no. Now, you have to submit that to 22 addresses: archaeology, planning, settlement council, and [if] anyone says no, that means [the] project fails. And in most of the cases, the settlement council or Israeli regional planning council, they say no."
As a result, says Tamimi, water is in short supply in many places. The situation has been made worse by the Palestinian intifada, particularly in Arab villages where water has to be trucked in. A report by his office says road closures ordered by Israeli authorities and roadblocks set up by Jewish settlers prevent tankers from delivering water to isolated villages. Water prices have increased in many areas, sometimes dramatically so.
Gideon Levy, writing recently in Israel's leading daily newspaper, Ha'aretz, links the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising with the daily indignities suffered by Palestinians. The roots of violence, he writes, "are planted deep in the endless line of cars at the ubiquitous checkpoints, in the wells sealed up by the soldiers, and in the faucet that emits only air when turned on."
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