Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 652, 30 August 1990

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 561of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 1 December 1990, features the following topics: 1. A mass return of Palestinians from Kuwait and the Gulf, leading to a potential economic crisis in the Occupied Territories. 2. New Israeli measures to prevent exporting Palestinian products through Jordan to Iraq. 3. Clashes and confrontations with the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the continuation of curfews and combing operations in Rafah. 4. An essay by Abdel-Majid Hamdan entitled "The Nick of History Cannot be Twisted". 5. A statement on behalf of the political bureau of the Democratic Front in the Occupied Territories attacks the leaders of the Front in Damascus and accuses them of submitting to Syria. 6. Shaheeds of the thirty-eighth week of the third year of the Intifada. 7. An article featuring news about uprooting trees, demolishing houses, raising taxes, trade sanctions, and curfews. 8. Columns featuring news from Gaza, Jenin, Hebron, and Ramallah. News of Gaza include raids and taxes, an appeal by a worker who was arrested in administrative detention, news of the confiscation of a sum of money from a citizen. News of Jenin include incidents of looting and robbery in Jenin, and an Israeli plot to confiscate lands in the Jenin district. News of Hebron include insults to Arabs on Israeli TVs, Israeli Occupation soldiers collect taxes from Hebron residents as they pass through the entrances, colonizers injure a citizen of in the al-Aroub Palestinian Refugee Camp, transferring a detainee from the city of Dura to a hospital in Sarafand after his health deteriorated. As for the news of Ramallah, a resident of the village of Deir Ibzi faced Israeli colonizers. 9. A column entitled Israeli Affairs featuring the following news pieces, an article by Yitzhak Rabin dealing with the issue of the war and the Gulf crisis and its reflection on the world and Israel. A conference held by Nelson Mandela on Israel's unwillingness to end apartheid. An interview with the Israeli Defense Minister who wished the Gulf crisis would not end. President of the Van Leer Institute: The Gulf crisis does not revoke the legitimacy of the Palestinian demands. Ze'ev Schiff: The Middle East won't be the same. 10. Tourism agents abroad are facing difficulties in attracting tourists to Israel due to the Gulf crisis. 11. An article by Ali al-Jariry entitled "The Political Poster in the Face of the Destructive War". 12. Al-Haq Foundation for Human Rights issues its annual report under the title "People Under Siege". 13. A suffocating water crisis in the Bureij Palestinian Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip as a result of the thirsting policy the Israeli Water Company pursued in favour of colonies. 14. Water shortage and high prices are the worst problems facing Jalamah farmers. 15. The Israeli Occupation Forces raided 15 villages in Nablus. 16. An article entitled "Diaries of Night Curfew in Beitin and Ein Yabrud". 17. An article by Mahmud az-Zahar entitled "Where Were You When Palestine Was Swallowed?"