Attali'ah Newspaper, Issue 649, August 9 1990

The six hundred and forty-ninth issue of Attali'ah Newspaper which was published on August 9, 1990. 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: - Raids on villages and the arrest of many young men. A house demolished in Gaza and several Palestinians injured. - Bush approves a military plan to attack Iraq. - A new development in the Gulf crisis: Iraq begins to annex Kuwait. - Mubarak threatens Iraq with a full-scale military strike on multiple fronts. - The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions mediates to solve the conflict at a hospital to keep it running while also protecting the rights of its workers and employees. - Threats of collective punishments against Palestinian refugee camps. Studying the possibility of the military closing off each area and isolating it. - The shuhadaʾ of the thirty-fifth week of the Intifadaʾs third year. - The Red Cross Society in Ramallah opens a new medical centre. - General Ben-Eliezer: An Israeli revolution just like the Palestinian Intifada. - Minister Levy: Israel is an asset to Washington. - The fruits of voluntary work that was reinforced by recent events. - How do Palestinians spend their days under curfew and strike? Physical and mental sacrifices to overcome their great burden. - Iraq owns the largest military arsenal in the region. - Kuwaiti assets in foreign countries are estimated at 100 million dollars. - In light of the Gulf crisis, a word for Arab leaders and Soviet friends.