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26 Adar-1 5738 2 March 2008
Contents:
1. U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults,
Report Finds
2. Independent expert: IDF
bullets didn't kill Mohammed al-Dura
3. Arutz Sheva Sunday
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Mar. 02 '08, 25 Adar 5768
HEADLINES:
(1. HALF-DOZEN WOUNDED IN WEEKEND SHELLING OF
ASHKELON
(2. ATTACKS WIDEN: NETIVOT,
PSAGOT
AND JERUSALEM UNDER FIRE
1. U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults,
Report Finds
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/us/29prison.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=th&adxnnlx=1204279291-jGpAszAEJqoeLu7OeRJjZA
Extracts:
Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 adult
Hispanic men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One
in 15 adult black men is, too, as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34.
The report, from the Pew Center on the States, also found that one in 355 white
women ages 35 to 39 is behind bars, compared with one in 100 black women.
Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 adult Hispanic
men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15
adult black men is, too, as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34.
The report, from the Pew Center on the States, also found that one in 355 white
women ages 35 to 39 is behind bars, compared with one in 100 black women.
2. Independent expert:
IDF
bullets didn't kill Mohammed al-Dura
By Adi Schwartz Haaretz Last update - 06:03 02/03/2008
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959836.html
3.
Arutz
Sheva
Sunday
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Mar. 02 '08, 25 Adar 5768
(1. HALF-DOZEN WOUNDED IN WEEKEND
SHELLING OF ASHKELON
by Hana Levi Julian
At least 20 missiles were fired by Gaza terrorists at the coastal city of
Ashkelon between midnight and 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning with more fired later
in the day. By evening, six civilians were wounded and a number of others
suffered emotional shock in the attacks.
One rocket slammed into a house in the port city, sending the occupants into
severe shock. A car exploded in flames after being hit by another missile in the
city.
Early Sabbath morning, a woman and two children were lightly wounded and a
number of others suffered shock in one of the rocket attacks.
Later in the day, one civilian was moderately wounded and two others were
lightly injured in a rocket attack on the Ashkelon Marine Coastal Center.
Several other people were treated for shock.
All of the injured were taken to the city's Barzilai Hospital with shrapnel
wounds. The Health Department ordered the hospital to transfer its maternity and
neo-natal units to protected shelters.
The Home Front Command has instructed the Ashkelon municipality to open its
public bomb shelters in order to allow residents to take cover once a "Color
Red" alert sounds.
The rocket alert system was also expanded Saturday to include other communities
located near Ashkelon, including Kfar Silver, Berchya, Bat Kadar, Beit Shikma,
Mavki'im, Talmei Yafeh, Gaya and Mishan.
One third of the residents of Sderot have left the that city and more than 75
percent of its children suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a
result of the thousands of rocket attacks fired on the city in the past seven
years.
An eight-year-old boy lost a leg and his 19-year-old brother was also seriously
injured in a rocket attack on Sderot one week ago. A number of other Israeli
children were also hurt in rocket attacks in the past week, including one who
was hit by shrapnel as she huddled outside a locked bomb shelter seconds after
hearing the wail of the Color Red rocket alert siren.
(2. ATTACKS WIDEN:
NETIVOT,
PSAGOT
AND JERUSALEM UNDER FIRE
by Ezra HaLevi
The city of Netivot, in the western Negev, as well as the southern Jerusalem
neighborhood of Gilo came under fire Saturday night after midnight.
A Grad-type Katyusha rocket was fired from Gaza, landing in the Negev town of
Netivot before dawn Sunday morning. It landed near the grave of famed Morrocan
Jewish Kabbalist Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, the Baba Sali, in an open field. No
injuries or damage were reported, though the landing did christen yet another
large town, now within range of extended rocket fire from Gaza.
Posters around Netivot prior to the 2005 Disengagement warned residents that a
Gaza withdrawal would lead to their homes being shelled.
Gilo Back in the Firing Line
Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood was once again fired upon from PA-controlled Beit
Jalla. The attacks were a regular occurrence at the start of the Oslo War,
resulting in the construction of huge concrete barriers and the eventual
dismantling of PA infrastructure in the area during Operation Defensive Shield.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has revived the PA and authorized armed Fatah members
to operate in Bethlehem and the Beit Jallah suburb.
Terrorists Fire on Community of Psagot
Terrorists opened fire toward IDF soldiers near the Jewish town of Psagot in the
Binyamin region on Saturday night. No soldiers were injured in the attack.
Psagot is on the outskirts of Ramallah, the seat of power of the Fatah branch of
the Palestinian Authority. Fatah is controlled by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and
receives millions of dollars in funding and weapons training from the United
States.
Earlier Saturday, Arabs threw Molotov cocktails at soldiers in Hevron. An Arab
man who attempted to throw a bomb at soldiers in Beit Oumar was wounded when the
bomb blew up in his hand; he was taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
Gaza Expellees Get Warning Siren, Still No Shelter
Hundreds of Jewish families living in the temporary village of Nitzan have begun
hearing the "Color Red" warning system, which has been put into use in coastal
towns near Ashkelon. However, residents of the village continue to live in
caravans, and have no sheltered space to run to in case of missile or rocket
attacks.
?There is no protection in the area and no option to hide. We are exposed to
fire and to danger with no possibility to seek protection anywhere,? a spokesman
for the community said Saturday. A rocket that landed on a caravan last week
destroyed the caravan completely, he added.
Ashkelon Preemies Taken to Reinforced Rooms
Staff members in Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon moved all premature babies to a
protected room reinforced against rocket strikes on Saturday, at the request of
the IDF Home Front Command. The move was made just two days after several
Grad-type Katyusha rockets landed in Ashkelon, some near the hospital.
Several people were wounded in rocket strikes in Ashkelon on Saturday. The
decision to move some immobile patients to sheltered rooms was seen as a lesson
from the Second Lebanon War, when many rocket attack victims were taken to
hospitals that were not reinforced against rocket attacks.
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