Issue No 861 of Attali'ah Newspaper, 13-19 October 1994

Issued on 13-19 October 1994, this 8-page document contains the 861st issue of Attali'ah newspaper, under the supervision of the Editor-In-Chief Bashir al-Barghouthi. The issue was printed at the Salahuddin Press in Jerusalem and focused on several topics including: 1. Owners of property and real estate in the West Bank express their concern over their properties in Jerusalem as a result of the absentee property decision. 2. President Yasser Arafat offers condolences on the death of Khaled al-Hassan. 3. The Ramallah and al-Bireh Message (help suggestions to get out of the impasse at Birzeit University, a shortage of medicines and some necessary supplies in Ramallah Governmental Hospital, a meeting of a delegation from the Palestinian People’s Party with an Israeli delegation to discuss the future of the region, and the National and Islamic Institutions Committee meeting to discuss the issue proliferation of weapons among the citizens). 4. The Bethlehem message (the occupation forces prevent a school bus from entering Jerusalem because it does not have a permit, a sectarian problem in Bethlehem, and an attempt to thwart a theatre performance on the stage of Bethlehem University). 5. The Land and Water Foundation sent a letter related to the subject of the Ministry of Justice announcement regarding the registration of NGOs. 6. An article titled "Experimentation with Mahmoud Shukair: A Reading in the Poetic Collection (Rites of the Premiscious Woman)". 7. Israeli tourism companies are preparing to take advantage of the Arab countries' normalization with Israel. 8. The Palestinian Farmers Union organizes a study day on olive tree care and how to obtain excellent oil. 9. The Jerusalem Message (rainfall in Jerusalem leads to sewer floods, and citizens denounce the reasons for summoning the Israeli Occupational Forces and threatening them with assassination, a backlog of cases in the Sharia Court of Appeal in Jerusalem, new colonies on the pretext of searching for antiquities, a municipal committee in Abu Dis, and a threat to cut Water in al-Eizariya, demolition warnings in al-Isawiya, a lawsuit against demolition orders, and tear gas canisters on homes). 10. The Hebron Message (settlement expansion in Tal Rumeideh, closing the outlets of several villages for more than a month, colonizers attacking the homes of citizens residing near the colonizers’ homes, the IOF shooting at a citizen in cold blood, and rotten fish sold in the city centre). 11. The Nablus Message (a widespread wave of attacks on land in the northern West Bank).