Annas [Archives:2004/743/Press Review]

24 May 2004
Main headlines
– An American security officer rapes a Yemeni child with help of a Yemeni officer
– The killing dose within two weeks
– Death sentence to a citizen who defended his honour
Columnist Talal Jamil says in his article that the Rafah camp of the Palestinian refugees was the scene of a massacre where more than Palestinian national were martyred and the entire Gaza Strip has also witnessed the fall of numerous martyrs and wounded while the Zionist war machine is perpetrating daily bombardment and demolition of residential complexes. Statistics indicate that the Zionist forces had demolished more than houses in the past few days, a matter leaving behind the operation a tragic scene depicting hundreds of Palestinian families living homeless. Moreover, a human rights report in Palestine mentions that 6424 donums of arable lands in Gaza Strip have been bulldozed and destroyed by the Zionist forces that also destroyed tens of irrigation networks and killed the people's animal wealth. The Palestinian forces demand the world to act in their support and the Arabs condemn and as usual the summit that end up in scenes of condemnation and the enemies legend continues killing, destruction and sabotage, the massacres of Rfah, Zaitoun area and Qaiem on the Iraqi borders.
Bloody scenes overshadowed the Arab horizon that concluded its Tunis summit with a long list of rejection, condemnation and denunciation and adding some concessions and ludicrous proposals. Reforms have remained the premonition that preoccupies them for fear of their seats, boycott imposed on Syria and the fear about safety of both Palestinian and Jewish civilians.
Opinion polls in Baghdad, Rafah and Gaza were before and after the convening the summit not paying attention to the official Arab trivial stands.
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