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"Israeli Military Convoy Leaves for Gaza"
Yahoo! News ^ | 8/16/2005 | By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer
Posted on 08/16/2005 9:17:01 PM PDT by F15Eagle
REIM, Israel
http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_2945226
"Heroism fatal for teenager"
Josh Kleinbaum, Staff Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NORTH HOLLYWOOD - When a group of gang members started roughing up his disabled friend, 15-year-old Samuel Salas stood his ground and tried to help.
His heroism cost him his life, police said Monday.
When Salas intervened, one of the dozen or so gang members involved in the attack pulled a handgun and fired, hitting the North Hollywood youth in the head, said Los Angeles Police Department homicide Detective Mike Coffey.
"Spineless cowards, that's what I would refer to them as," Coffey said. "It's incredible to me, it's unbelievable to me, that they would do that. But that's the typical gang mind-set, 12 against two."
Salas was found lying in an alley near the 11400 block of Tiara Street late Saturday, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He died Sunday at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.
"From the facts that we know right now, his friend was being attacked by several gang members," Coffey said. "(Salas) even walked up and asked them to leave them alone and tried to help his friend; ended up sacrificing his life."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165893,00.html
"UNDP Funds Palestinian Campaign"
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
GAZA —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "But FOX News has discovered that not all that cash is going to alleviate poverty. Instead, some of it is funding a Palestinian political campaign under the slogan, "Today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem.""
Thanks to F15 Eagle for the ping to this thread:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/17/gaza.pullout/index.html
"Israeli Troops begin forced Gaza evictions"
From Guy Raz
CNN
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Posted: 2:31 a.m. EDT (06:31 GMT)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "There are 21 settlements in Gaza, and the deadline for the settlers to leave voluntarily passed Monday, although they were given a 48-hour grace period. That grace period ended at midnight.
About half of Neveh Dekalim's residents have already left, but many of those remaining had said they were prepared to resist the Israeli pullout from Gaza. The settlement has 2,600 permanent residents, but that number has increased because of hundreds of protesters.
At least 1,000 settlers had shut themselves inside the synagogue, which could prove difficult for Israeli troops to evacuate. The streets of the settlement were almost completely deserted, as other settlers shut themselves inside their homes."