[Behind a whirlwind of words it's the facts which show: Sharon is mocking
us all.]

# UN relief agency suspending food aid in Gaza - following IDF
restrictions
# Activists arrested for resisting home demolition
# CO Ben Artzi, exempted but still persecuted, appeals to Supreme Court
# Gush Friday statement: Is Sharon mocking us all

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# UN relief agency suspending food aid in Gaza - following IDF
restrictions

By DPA

Last Update: 01/04/2004 17:15
 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/411471.html

Hebrew / raxiz
 http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/411528.html

d`e"m: dtqwpe glewz nfeo ltlyzip`im axverd

n`z qekpeiez dicirez

qekpez dqier ltlihim decird rl dtqwz dglewd ayl d`iqex diyx`li ldraix nkelez
xiwez ngeu lrfd


The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
announced Thursday it stopped distributing emergency food aid to some 600,000
refugees in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA said in a statement that the suspension followed restrictions introduced by
Israel on the sole commercial crossing into Gaza through which it is able to
bring in humanitarian assistance.

The agency said it had now completely run out of stocks of rice, flour, cooking
oil and other essential products.

"Under normal circumstances, UNRWA delivers some 250 tons of food aid per day in
Gaza alone as part of a wider program of emergency assistance to refugees,
initiated shortly after the outbreak of strife in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in
September 2000," the statement said.

Almost two out of three households in Gaza live below the poverty line and more
than half its workforce is unemployed.

UNRWA said it urged Israel to loosen its restrictions in Gaza in a joint
statement with other UN agencies on March, but thus far without success.




# Activists arrested for resisting home demolition

Six left-wing activists, ten settlers arrested in separate clashes with IDF

(...)
Israeli activists opposed to the policy of house demolitions arrived in Harbata
after teams from the Civil Administration destroyed an illegal structure in
Harbata. The activists situated themselves on the roof of [another] building the
army had slated for demolition.

more at:  http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/411353.html
Hebrew/ raxiz:  http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/411345.html
~~~

# CO Ben Artzi, exempted but still persecuted, appeals to Supreme Court

English
 http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=411530

Hebrew / raxiz
 http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=411515
~~~

# Gush Friday statement: Is Sharon mocking us all

Hebrew at request & soon at the site
raxiz rl ti awyd `e awxea a`zx

ad Ha'aretz, April 2, 2004

FATEFUL GAME

Is Sharon mocking us all?

Is the only aim of the "Disengagement Plan" to convince the Attorney General that
a Prime Minister - even a corrupt Prime Minister - should not be removed while
being engaged in a "historic enterprise"?

Are all his explosive initiatives - the assassination of Sheikh Yassin, the Likud
referendum etc. - intended to draw public attention away from his scandals and
gain time?

Is Sharon playing with the fate of the state in order to save his skin?


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