US vetoes motion on Gaza attack
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- Published: 11 November 2006 11 November 2006
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The draft, which also condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza, followed Wednesday's attack in Beit Hanoun.
The US ambassador at the UN, John Bolton, described the text as unbalanced and politically motivated.
Ten of 15 Security Council members backed the resolution. Four abstained - Denmark, Japan, Slovakia and the UK.
This was the second time this year the US used its veto on a draft resolution on Israeli military operations in Gaza.
Palestinian PM offers to resign
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- Published: 10 November 2006 10 November 2006
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His comments came after talks on a unity government with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Sanctions were imposed this year by Israel and Western countries, which see Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
"If we have to choose between the siege and myself, we must lift the siege and end the suffering," Mr Haniya said.
'I cannot see a day when we live in peace with them'
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- Written by Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun
- Published: 09 November 2006 09 November 2006
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[Photo: Sanaa Athamna lies dead with the bodies of her relatives Maysa and Maram. Eighteen members of the same family died in an Israeli artillery attack. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images]
Sanaa Athamna lay as if she slept, dead on a steel tray in the morgue of Beit Hanoun hospital. Across her forehead was a single, hairline fracture and beneath her eye a smudge of blood, the only visible marks of the destruction brought by the wave of Israeli artillery shells that struck her street in Beit Hanoun before dawn yesterday.
In her arms, hospital staff laid the bodies of her relatives: two sisters, Maysa, one, and Maram, three. Their mother Manal was also killed in yesterday's attack, but lay in a morgue at another hospital awaiting burial.
In all, 18 members of the extended Athamna family died when Israeli artillery struck their houses on Hamad Street. At least 14 of the dead were women and children. It was the biggest single Israeli strike in the Palestinian territories for four years and came only a day after the military had ended a six-day incursion in Beit Hanoun, a heavy battle which claimed more than 50 lives.
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Open Letter to Senate and House from Head of PLO Mission to U.S.
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- Written by Afif Safieh, Head of the PLO Mission to the United States Afif Safieh, Head of the PLO Mission to the United States
- Published: 09 November 2006 09 November 2006
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We overcame our fear: The unarmed women of the Gaza Strip have taken the lead in resisting Israel's
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- Written by Jameela al-Shanti in Beit Hanoun Jameela al-Shanti in Beit Hanoun
- Published: 08 November 2006 08 November 2006
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I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care. In the same raid
Israel's artillery shelled a residential district in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, leaving 19 dead and 40 injured, many killed
in their beds. One family, the Athamnas, lost 16 members in the massacre: the oldest who died, Fatima, was 70; the youngest, Dima, was one; seven were children. The death toll in Beit Hanoun has passed 90 in one week.