Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue No. 598, 17 August 1989

Printed in Ṣalah ad-Din Press with Bashir al-Barghuthy as the managing editor, this 12-page issue no. 598 of Attali’ah Newspaper, issued on 17 August 1989, features the following topics: - Thirteen detention centres in the Occupied Territories are not monitored. - Dozens wounded during confrontations, a strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and four houses demolished. - The Security Council calls for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. - A black-and-white photograph capturing a glimpse of arrests in Ramallah after a throwing Molotov cocktail. - Faulty information on hostages from Tehran. - Preparations and military reinforcements on the battlefront in Lebanon, continued artillery shelling and a new displacement movement from the Beqaa. - An American disappointment at the PLO's insistence to reject Shamir's plan. - Communications to reinvigorate the Tripartite Committee of the Arab Heads of State. - Attempts to demand Jerusalmite nurses in Jerusalem to obtain Israeli licenses. - Residents of Nur Shams and Tulkarm Palestinian refugee camps violate the curfew in search of bread. - Shaheeds of the eighty-eighth week of the Intifada. - Also in Egypt: a shaheed was buried under heavy security guard and many were wounded with bullets and rubber bullets. - The Israeli Occupation Forces obtain information about those who sprayed vineyards in Hebron with toxic pesticides. - 3500 Palestinian detainees await their turn to trial, high sentences without confessions and in the absence of lawyers. - Garang sets conditions for negotiating the putschists in Khartoum and accuses al-Bashir of seeking the division of Sudan. - Israeli officers meet with Christian militia leaders in Jezzine. - News from Jordan. - Electing a new president for the Iranian parliament.