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Al-Ahram Weekly 30 March - 5 April 2000 Issue No. 475 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 30 March - 5 April 2000 Issue No. 475
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A UN REPORT says that Israeli residency policy for east Jerusalem "dismembers" Palestinian families. It also charges that Israeli occupation practices adversely affect the natural environment of the occupied Palestinian territories, including the degradation of the infrastructure and depletion of natural resources in an irreversible method. The 20-page report, presented on Tuesday to the UN Human Rights Commission, Giorgio Giacomelli, an Italian expert, cited widespread abuses by Israeli authorities and said that between 1967 and 1999 Israel cancelled the identity cards of 6,264 Palestinians in Jerusalem, affecting more than 25,000 people, including family members. Palestinians are also subject to discrimination, double standards and actions disrupting their society throughout the territories occupied by Israel, AP quoted the report as saying. Giacomelli regretted a lack of cooperation by the Israelis in preparing his report and called for international monitoring and protection of Palestinians.ICE unveiled
THE EIGHTH International Congress of Egyptology (ICE), the biggest ever, opened Tuesday and will run until 3 April. Held in the shadow of the pyramids at the Mena House Oberoi, the congress is attended by more than 1,500 Egyptologists and scholars from 50 countries. Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni awarded distinguished scholars in the field with an inscribed Hathor mirror, designed for the congress and Gaballa Ali Gaballa, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, stressed that while archaeological concessions around the country will continue, future missions will be limited to Delta. As secretary-general of the congress, Zahi Hawass outlined trips organised for participants to the restored temple of Hatshepsut, the newly discovered "valley of gilded mummies" and Alexandria. With over 300 papers to be presented, the congress schedule is tight and the subjects diverse: from site management and conservation, to linguistics, museums, marketing and religion.
