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A delegation representing the French Communist Party, headed by Marie George Buffiet, visited the Palestinian President, Yassir Arafat, in his besieged office in Ramallh yesterday. She condemned the Israeli policy of isolating the elected leader of the Palestinian people (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 7/8/04).


Intissar Al-Wazir or Um Jihad, the wife of the Palestinian leader Abu Jihad, Khalil Al-Wazir, who was assassinated by Israeli forces in Algiers. Now, the Palestinian Minister of Social Affairs, Um Jihad is visiting Beirut for the first time after the PLO had been forced to evacuate Lebanon in 1982. She is participating in a regional women's conference. (Assafir, 7/8/04).


A number of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists and parliamentarians joined the Palestinian member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Azmi Bishara, in his tent, protesting the building of the Apartheid Wall in the Jerusalem area. Bishara announced a hunger strike. (Annahar, 7/8/04).


Iraqi national guard soldiers carrying an injured guard during the fighting against the Iraqi resistance, which attacked the house of the interim prime minister, Allawi, yesterday (Annahar, 7/8/04).


US forces in the Shuhada Square in Baghdad, where a battle was fought between Iraqi armed opposition and Iraqi police, during which the house of the interim prime minister, Allawi, was attacked yesterday (Assafir, 7/8/04).


A US soldier jumping to open the door of an Iraqi home by force in Baghdad yesterday, during a campaign of house search after the fighting between the Iraqi resistance and the US-backed Iraqi national guard yesterday. (Annahar, 7/8/04).


Filipino workers wait with their belongings inside a departure lobby after airport officials stop them leaving for Iraq at Manila's international airport July 8, 2004. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered an immediate halt to the deployment of workers after the reported hostage-taking of a Filipino by Iraqi armed opposition demanding the withdrawal of Manila's troops. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters, 7/8/04).


Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, leaving a Munich hospital to Cairo after recovering from his backbone surgery (Assafir, 7/8/04).


Ethiopian Prime Minister, Millis Zinawi, meeting with the Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, during a break between sessions of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa yesterday. (Assafir, 7//04).


Quartet-Palestinian talks yesterday. Though the Quartet was not received by the Israeli government, its members exerted pressure on the Palestinian Authority. Israel is not pressured to stop building the Land-Grab Apartheid Wall or to withdraw from the Palestinian territories. (Al-Ayyam, 7/8/04).


Israeli occupation soldiers examining the ID of a Palestinian farmer near Qalqilya, yesterday. The West Bank city is totally surrounded by Israeli-constructed walls and barbed wires with a main gate for total control of the city residents. (Annahar, 7/8/04).


Shaikh Tamimi leading prayers in Azmi Bishara's Tent, which has become a symbol of protesting the illegal Israeli Land-Grab Wall. Here, the faithful are asking God to help the Palestinian people in dismantling the evil structure that is devastating their life (Assafir, 7/9/04).


An aerial view shows the concrete Land-Grab Wall, which cuts off parts of the occupied West Bank to annex them to Israel. This view was in east Jerusalem July 9, 2004. The World Court ruled that Israel's West Bank barrier, which has wrought hardship for thousands of Palestinians, violates international law and should be torn down.Read more about the World Court Ruling (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters , 7/9/04).


President of the World Court Shi Jiuyong of China, flanked by Vice President Raymond Ranjeva (L) from Madagascar, reads the ruling on the legality of the Land-Grab barrier Israel is building in the West Bank, during a public sitting of the International Court of Justice in the Peace Palace July 9, 2004 in The Hague. The International Court of Justice rejected on Friday Israel's contention that it did not have the right to rule on the legality of the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank. Judge Shi Jiuyong of China said the U.N.'s highest legal authority had the jurisdiction to give a non-binding advisory opinion requested by the U.N. General Assembly. (REUTERS/Paul Vreeker, 7/9/04).


President of the World Court Shi Jiuyong (2NDR) reads the verdict during the public sitting of the International Court of Justice in The Hague July 9, 2004. The International Court of Justice determined the legal consequences of the construction of the controversial Israeli wall in the occupied Palestinian Territory. The World Court ruled that Israel's West Bank barrier, which has wrought hardship for thousands of Palestinians, violates international law and should be torn down.Read more about the World Court Ruling (REUTERS/Paul Vreeker, 7/9/04).


Two Lebanese were killed and a third was injured from the Halbouni family in Tripoli yesterday during clashes between the Hassoun family and the Halbouni family. The fight developed when members of the Halbouni family accused members of the Hassoun family of being collaborators with the US, following the announcement about the kidnapping and release of US marine Wassef Ali Hassoun. Then, Muhammed Sa'id Hassoun fired at the Halbouni family killing two of them and injuring a third. The fighting also led to burning some stores in a street of the Al-Barraniya neighborhood in the northern Lebanese city. (Annahar, 7/9/04).


African Union Commissioner, Omar Konari (left) talking to South Africa's President, Mbeke, while Obasango of Nigeria is listening in the middle, in Addis Ababa yesterday. The AU decided to send troops to keep the peace in Darfur, western Sudan. (Annahar, 7/9/04).


Filipinos demonstrating in front of the Foreign Ministry in Manila demanding the return of the Filipino troops and workers from Iraq in order to rescue the Filipino hostage from being beheaded. (Annahar , 7/9/04).


The Social Democrat, Heintz Fischer, taking the oath in the Parliament as 8th President of the 2nd Austrian republic yesterday (Annahar, 7/9/04).


Rice meeting with Jiang in Beijing yesterday. Jiang asked Rice that the US stop selling weapons to Taiwan (Annahar, 7/9/04).


U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry (D-Ma), speaks at a rally in New York City, July 9, 2004. (REUTERS/Jim Young US ELECTION, 7/9//04).


A Palestinian child in the village of Masha watering flowers in the remaining yard in his home after the Israeli government surrounded the family by the illegal Israeli Land-Grab Wall (PMC, IPC, 7/10/04).


Palestinians in Jabalia in a symbolic funeral procession for the ten Palestinians who were killed in Bait Hanoon on Thursday, and whose corpses are still in the hospital freezers there. The continuous Israeli campaign in the town has prevented burying the dead, which is a violation of Islamic teachings (Annahar, 7/10/04).


Corpses the 10 Palestinians who were massacred by Israeli occupation forces in Bait Hanoon. Seven were killed early Thursday and three died of their wounds later. Bait Hanoon is still under siege and continuous terror campaign by Israeli occupation forces for the last 12 days. (IPC, 7/1-/04).


Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Amr Mousa, was quoted as saying that the ICJ’s ruling constituted the foundation for new international rules for the respect of the law, especially punishing those violating such a law. He made clear that the ruling was also a “strong message” to other countries that they must abide by the international law. (IPC, 7/10/04).


U.S. intelligence agencies overstated the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, relied on dubious sources and ignored contrary evidence in the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a Senate committee reported on July 9, 2004. A slide diagramming a purported Iraqi mobile weapons lab is shown from Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003. (Photo by State Dept. via Reuters, 7/10/04).


Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) holds the committee's report on pre-war Intelligence on Iraq as Committee Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) looks on during a news conference in Washington July 9, 2004. In a harshly critical report, the Committee took U.S. spy agencies to task for numerous failures in their reporting on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which helped President George W. Bush build a case for war. (Photo by Molly Riley/Reuters, 7/10/04).


Iraqi father, Sa'ad Sami crying during the funeral of his two young sons who were killed in a mortar attack the night before in Baghdad July 10, 2004. Mortars slammed into a house behind central Baghdad's al-Sadeer hotel often used by foreigners, killing two children and wounding three hotel guards, police said. (REUTERS/Ali Jasim, 7/10/04).


Indian Policemen arresting a human rights activists in Srinagar on Thursday, July 8, 2004, while they were trying to organize a demonstration at Lal Chowk (Photo by Altaf Zagar, 7/10/04).


Bulgarian hostages threatened to be beheaded if their government does not withdraw its troops from Iraq. (Annahar, 7/10/04).


Filipino children light candles outside the house of the released hostage Angelo de la Cruz in his hometown in Buenavista village in Pampanga province in northern Philippines July 10, 2004. The family of the Filipino driver kidnapped in Iraq appealed to the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to bring him home alive. President Arroyo responded by ordering (REUTERS/Erik de Castro 7/10/04).


US marines waiting for Wassef Ali Hassoun in Beirut airport. The US marine was released after negotiations that involved governments of the US, Syria, Lebanon, and Islamic clerics from Syria and Iraq. They negotiated with his captors, released him, and brought him to Lebanon through Syria. Then, he was flown to Germany. (Assafir, 7/10/04).	Muhammed Al-Rashdan, the Jordanian attorney who presides over the International team of attorneys to defend the captured Iraqi President, Saddam Hussain, implied that the only Arab country that is happy with the Saddam trial show is Kuwait. He also said that the red cross reported that Saddam is innocent of the Halabja massacre. (Assafir, 7/10/04).	A speech was delivered on behalf of Al-Sadr in the Kofa Mosque on Friday described prime minister Allawi as a Western puppet. He also thanked Syria and Iran for their public opposition of the US occupation of Iraq. Above, Al-Sadr followers chanting slogans in his support in a Baghdad mosque, on Friday (Assafir, 7/10/04).	Palestinians chanting: "No to the Wall" carrying an elderly man, whose land was confiscated by Israeli occupation forces to build the Land-Grab Wall. The International Court of Justice ruled that the Wall is illegal and should be brought down. The Palestinian President, Yassir Arafat, said that the Sharon Wall will crumble down just like the Berlin Wall (Alquds Alarabi, 7/10/04).


A South Korean demonstrator holding a poster saying to Condi Rice: "You are Not Welcome Here." (Annahar, 7/10/04).	The British imperialist regime of Tony Blair flexing its colonialist power through a submarine emerging in Gibraltar yesterday, which is a humiliating measure for Spaniards. (Annahar, 7/10/04).	About 40 Georgian policemen were released yesterday after their capture by the Austia autonomous region athority. (Annahar, 7/10/04).	Palestinians waiting behind the gate of the city of Qalqilia to be opened in order to enter or leave the city, after being examined by Israeli occupation soldiers. The Sharon government surrounded the city with walls and barbed wires with one gate to be open or closed at the will of the Israeli occupation soldiers/jailers. (IPC, 7/10/04).


An Israeli bulldozer destroying Palestinian olive trees in Bait Hanoon in a bloody day during which 10 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli occupation soldiers yesterday (Al-Ayyam, 7/9/04).	Corpses of Palestinians who were massacred by Israeli occupation forces in Bait Hanoon. Seven were killed early Thursday and three died later (Alhayat Aljadeeda, 7/9/04).	A Palestinian woman sitting over the rubble of her home which was destroyed by Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younis yesterday (Alquds, 7/9/04).


An Iraqi police pointing to the corpses of two Turkish truck drivers who were killed by Iraqi guerrillas yesterday (Annahar, 7/9/04).	Aisha Al-Qaddafi, daughter of the Libyan leader, volunteered to be part of the defense team of the captured Iraqi President, Saddam Hussain (Annahar, 7/9/04).	An Israeli occupation jeep, which was destroyed in a Palestinian roadside bomb that injured three Israeli soldiers near the squatterment (illegal Israeli settlement) of Morag yesterday (Assafir, 7/9/04).	An Iraqi child looking from the window of his home, which was broken during the fighting between the US forces and Iraqi national guard and the Iraqi guerrillas in Baghdad yesterday (Assafir, 7/9/04).

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