TODAY IN HISTORY 09 July 2004 - The highest U.N. court condemned Israels occupation policies and declared that Israel must tear down the 425-mile-long security barrier in the West Bank. 2001 Israeli bulldozers demolish 25 Palestinian homes in the Shafat refugee camp near Jerusalem making about 300 Palestinians homeless. 2000 Israeli right-wing parties - Yisrael Baliyah (4 MKs), Shas (17 MKs) and the National Religious Party (5 MKs) resign from the government over PM Baraks offer of concessions to the Palestinians in the upcoming Camp David summit. 1992 Amnesty International releases report criticising Israels holding of 2,000 Palestinians in administrative detention without charge or trial and its unjustifiable killing of 90 Palestinians. 1984 - In Beirut, protestors demanded action to free kidnapped relatives. 1948 (9-18 July) IOF Carmeli Brigade fails to recapture the Zionist settlement of Mishmar ha-Yarden, south of Lake Tiberias, that had been occupied by Syrian troops.
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