Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue 437, July 17 1986

The four hundred and thirty-seventh issue of Attali'ah Newspaper which was published on July 17, 1986. Bashir al-Barghuthy is the issueʾs editor-in-chief, and it was printed in Salah ad-Din Press in al-Quds (Jerusalem). The 12-page issue covers the following: 1. The Jordanian government calls on the Village Leagues to change their name into the Rural Development Societies. 2. An article entitled “The Solidarity Campaign with Al-Mithaq and Al-Ahed Continues… A Press Conference in al-Quds (Jerusalem) and a Mass Sit-In at Al-Mithaq Headquarters”. 3. The Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir gets implicated in several land fraud cases. 4. From the chronicles of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Slogans in Nablus condemning King Husseinʾs regime, protestors burn effigies of King Hussein at the University of Hebron, a Palestinian woman is still denied a permit to visit her husband, the construction of an Israeli park in place of al-Qassam Park, the head of the Agricultural Engineers' Association is not allowed to enter Jordan, the head of the Muslim High Council sheikh al-Alami holds a press conference in response to the excavations beneath al-Aqsa Mosque, demands to investigate the director of the Shin Bet, Jordan hands a young man from the Jbail family over to Israel, the Israeli occupation authorities mount their campaign against Dheisha Refugee Camp). 5. A section on the Israeli military orders against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 6. The residents and traders of al-Quds (Jerusalem) protest against the attacks on al-Omari Mosque. 7. The persecution of former prisoners continues. 8. An article entitled “Birzeit Universityʾs Union of Teachers and Employees: Our Mission is to Defend the Existence, Future, and Identity of the University”. 9. Lawyers in the Gaza Strip reject Israeli meddling in judicial affairs. 10. The plan for a new settlement road in al-Khader will damage dozens of houses and encroach on hundreds of dunams of cultivated land. 11. A symposium on the status of Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 12. Rifidia Hospital operates without an ambulance. 13. A section on the news of workers and trade unions. 14. The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions issues a memorandum on the struggles of the working class. 15. Lawyers in the Gaza Strip protest the curtailment of judicial powers. 16. Tens of millions of dollars in support of Israeli agricultural settlements.