15 feb 2015
Solar Panels in Gaza / Solar Gaza Lights Project
Gaza is in desperate need of power. One organization hopes to bring clean, renewable energy to Gaza with the installation of solar panels.
Over the past few months an international team of humanitarians have been organizing a project which would bring solar power to Gaza. Gaza engineer, Naji Abu Shaaban, along with his group of engineers in Gaza have been working around the clock to make this solar project a reality.
Outside of Gaza are a number of supporters of this project which include internationally recognized artist, Martha Tjoe Nij, who has supported the project from her home in Suriname. A Turkish webmaster, Hatice, volunteered her time to create a website for the Solar Gaza project, which has evolved from #SolarGaza when it was started on Twitter as an idea, to its new official title Solar Gaza Lights.
The goals of the project are aimed specifically at solar power restoration of electricity for the most needy in Gaza. The organization has teamed up with the Jerusalem Development Fund's office in Gaza to help with alleviating electricity shortages by donating solar power units. The project also intends on creating employment opportunities for project engineers in Gaza. Utilizing local talent is part of the strategy the group decided on from the beginning.
The group is looking to create partnerships with individuals, groups, and organizations who can assist with getting solar units installed, helping get the units imported into Gaza, assisting with funding of these projects, and publicizing the organization around the world.
Following Israel's devestating attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014, a health crisis was created when hospitals lost electricity, while the Israeli blockade continues to create a shortage of medical supplies and medicines. In addition to those issues, shortages of electricity are causing immense problems not just in hospitals, but in the lives of the people of Gaza. Some areas of Gaza are experiencing power cuts stretching up to 48 hours at a time. Abu Shaaban says that living under these conditions, "is unacceptable and a crime against humanity."
To find out more about Solar Gaza Lights visit their website at www.solargazalights.org or follow them on Twitter @solargazalights
Gaza is in desperate need of power. One organization hopes to bring clean, renewable energy to Gaza with the installation of solar panels.
Over the past few months an international team of humanitarians have been organizing a project which would bring solar power to Gaza. Gaza engineer, Naji Abu Shaaban, along with his group of engineers in Gaza have been working around the clock to make this solar project a reality.
Outside of Gaza are a number of supporters of this project which include internationally recognized artist, Martha Tjoe Nij, who has supported the project from her home in Suriname. A Turkish webmaster, Hatice, volunteered her time to create a website for the Solar Gaza project, which has evolved from #SolarGaza when it was started on Twitter as an idea, to its new official title Solar Gaza Lights.
The goals of the project are aimed specifically at solar power restoration of electricity for the most needy in Gaza. The organization has teamed up with the Jerusalem Development Fund's office in Gaza to help with alleviating electricity shortages by donating solar power units. The project also intends on creating employment opportunities for project engineers in Gaza. Utilizing local talent is part of the strategy the group decided on from the beginning.
The group is looking to create partnerships with individuals, groups, and organizations who can assist with getting solar units installed, helping get the units imported into Gaza, assisting with funding of these projects, and publicizing the organization around the world.
Following Israel's devestating attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014, a health crisis was created when hospitals lost electricity, while the Israeli blockade continues to create a shortage of medical supplies and medicines. In addition to those issues, shortages of electricity are causing immense problems not just in hospitals, but in the lives of the people of Gaza. Some areas of Gaza are experiencing power cuts stretching up to 48 hours at a time. Abu Shaaban says that living under these conditions, "is unacceptable and a crime against humanity."
To find out more about Solar Gaza Lights visit their website at www.solargazalights.org or follow them on Twitter @solargazalights
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, said the Israeli complaints submitted to the United Nations against Palestinian resistance are pretexts to hinder the reconstruction of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the Anadolu Agency, in a statement on Sunday, that the Israeli accusation that Hamas is preparing to “start a new war” is a pretext to cover Israel’s crimes and a justification for hindering the reconstruction of the damage resulting from the Israeli aggression on Gaza last summer.
Abu Zuhri said the international community should rather stop Israel’s nuclear arsenal and prevent its daily violations against the Palestinian people.
He stressed that resisting occupation is a right guaranteed by all international conventions.
Ron Prosor Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations submitted a complaint to the UN claiming that Hamas is re-arming itself in preparations to go into a new war with Israel.
In two letters addressed to the Chairman of the Security Council Ambassador Liu Jieyi and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Prosor claimed that “Hamas is working 24/7 for lunching an offensive operation by re-arming its members and re-building its terror infrastructure”.
The Israeli representative called on the United Nations to “address this issue before it is too late”.
On August 26, 2014 a long-term ceasefire agreement was signed by the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation under Egyptian mediation following the Israeli 51-day-aggression on Gaza.
The agreement articles included resuming the Israeli-Palestinian indirect negotiations within the first month of ceasefire.
However, resuming the negotiations has not been announced officially. Over the past months, however, sources said that talks were held in the West Bank and Israel by an official Egyptian delegation to confirm commitment to the agreement which has been repeatedly breached by Israel.
Israel Sends Letter of Complaint to UN, Claims Hamas is Planning "New War Against Israel"
According to reports, Israel has sent a letter to the United Nations claiming that Hamas is preparing for a new war in Gaza Strip, against Israel.
Israeli website Walla, reported that Ron Prosor Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations submitted a complaint to the Security Council and Secretary-General, claiming that Hamas is re-arming itself with missiles and building new tunnels, in preparation to go into a new war with Israel.
According to the PNN, the Israeli representative called in the United Nations and other countries of the world to unite and stop Hamas from starting a new war like the one that was waged 6 months ago, before it's "too late".
Prosor wrote in the letter that Israel wants to draw the UN's attention to what Hamas is doing on the Southern borders with Israel. Prosor claimed that Hamas is firing its arms and missiles into the sea which seems to mean that they are preparing for war.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the Anadolu Agency, in a statement on Sunday, that the Israeli accusation that Hamas is preparing to “start a new war” is a pretext to cover Israel’s crimes and a justification for hindering the reconstruction of the damage resulting from the Israeli aggression on Gaza last summer.
Abu Zuhri said the international community should rather stop Israel’s nuclear arsenal and prevent its daily violations against the Palestinian people.
He stressed that resisting occupation is a right guaranteed by all international conventions.
Ron Prosor Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations submitted a complaint to the UN claiming that Hamas is re-arming itself in preparations to go into a new war with Israel.
In two letters addressed to the Chairman of the Security Council Ambassador Liu Jieyi and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Prosor claimed that “Hamas is working 24/7 for lunching an offensive operation by re-arming its members and re-building its terror infrastructure”.
The Israeli representative called on the United Nations to “address this issue before it is too late”.
On August 26, 2014 a long-term ceasefire agreement was signed by the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation under Egyptian mediation following the Israeli 51-day-aggression on Gaza.
The agreement articles included resuming the Israeli-Palestinian indirect negotiations within the first month of ceasefire.
However, resuming the negotiations has not been announced officially. Over the past months, however, sources said that talks were held in the West Bank and Israel by an official Egyptian delegation to confirm commitment to the agreement which has been repeatedly breached by Israel.
Israel Sends Letter of Complaint to UN, Claims Hamas is Planning "New War Against Israel"
According to reports, Israel has sent a letter to the United Nations claiming that Hamas is preparing for a new war in Gaza Strip, against Israel.
Israeli website Walla, reported that Ron Prosor Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations submitted a complaint to the Security Council and Secretary-General, claiming that Hamas is re-arming itself with missiles and building new tunnels, in preparation to go into a new war with Israel.
According to the PNN, the Israeli representative called in the United Nations and other countries of the world to unite and stop Hamas from starting a new war like the one that was waged 6 months ago, before it's "too late".
Prosor wrote in the letter that Israel wants to draw the UN's attention to what Hamas is doing on the Southern borders with Israel. Prosor claimed that Hamas is firing its arms and missiles into the sea which seems to mean that they are preparing for war.
Heavy smoke billows following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City on July 29, 2014
By BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY
Israeli atrocity and imposed misery continues unchecked in Gaza. This summer’s wholesale slaughter did nothing to improve the lives of Palestinians. In Gaza, it’s much worse.
As explored in last week’s Press TV article, an examination of the list of crimes committed against the Gaza population, just since the advent of this New Year, shows clearly six obvious conclusions. 1) Horrific Israeli aggression against Gazans continues daily, 2) Israel has no intention of honoring the terms of the August, 2014 ceasefire agreement, 3) At the peace table, neither Israel, Egypt, nor the Palestinian Authority, is actually pursuing peace for Gaza, 4) Politicians across the globe continue to submit to Israeli pressure, not to their conscience, 5) Gazans are, this moment, suffering terribly and, 6) The world, comprised of something better: a sense of justice, a sense of right and wrong, one with actual morals, guts and true courage, has had enough of Israel’s excuses for embracing and promoting pure evil.
All these details lead ultimately to the two most important conclusions; by necessity Hamas is back; stronger than ever and, because all these first six have been deliberately and maliciously perpetrated by Israel: there will be war, again, in Gaza!
A bully such as Israel, filled only with the artificial bluster of unjustified, free stocks of US weapons and unfettered US support, understands only one message, a bare knuckled punch to the head, shocking the bully to his own single, shocking awakening: his opponent is now willing to fight back!
The bully, once defeated, rarely comes back for more.
A recent working example of this simple socio-military principle exploded only weeks ago. After an Israeli helicopter gun-ship massacred six Hezbollah fighters, including two of their commanders and an Iranian general, in the Golan Heights on Jan. 18, 2015, everyone knew that Hezbollah, as the only army to defeat (in the 2006 Lebanon war) the Israeli military, was certainly going to get even.
Indeed. On Jan. 28, Hezbollah scored a crushing victory while sending Israel an effective message in the only language this world-wide bully truly understands: Israeli army body bags, including that of a high ranking general.
In a single demonstrative act of revenge, Hezbollah fighters attacked, from their side of the Lebanon border, an Israeli military convoy destroying it and killing or injuring its passengers which included senior officials. The damage inflicted by Hezbollah was actually worse.
The Israeli Mossad-linked, DEBKA files, in a blistering commentary, summed up the disastrous the Israeli military’s security failure as merely threefold, stating, “One: [Hezbollah] agents were able to cross the border unnoticed; Two: they moved anti-tank rocket launchers right up to the border fence - undetected. And, three, astonishingly, they did not find it hard to strike and blow up the two command vehicles and inflict Israeli losses.” However, DebkaFiles left out the two, far more important conclusions: all the Hezbollah fighters disappeared unscathed, sight unseen, after taking pictures of their victory and, somehow, Hezbollah obtained detailed inside information about the arrival of the convoy and that it carried senior battalion commander major Yuhay Klinger, who was killed.
This means the worst of all results: Hezbollah sympathizers inside the Israeli military. Israelis with a conscience.
Following their victory, Hezbollah sent to the Israelis, via UN channels another equally simple message, this one on paper, meant to say, “enough is enough! Or else?” Israel, suddenly awakened, apparently did understand both of Hezbollah’s messages. Considering the pure statistics of the previous Lebanon war that left Israeli bodies and gutted, burned-out US military hardware all over northern Lebanon, Israel has shown repeatedly that its foreign policy of terror is indeed, as described by US Secretary of State John Kerry “chickenshit.”
As proof: to date, Israel has, again, left Hezbollah alone.
This example of success was also understood in Gaza where Gazans die daily from malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia as they suffer through a bitterly cold winter huddled in the remains of Israeli created concrete rubble that once were their 90,000 homes.
On Thursday Jan. 22, invisible Hamas supreme commander Mohammad Deif sent a personal letter of condolence to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. A recent article in Press TV showcased Deif, his tactics, his successes, and why Mohammad Deif is Gaza personified. Acknowledging Hezbollah’s intent and message, Deif suggested unity between Hamas and Hezbollah while apprising his mentor, “[The] duty of all the living resistance forces, which reject the slavery to the Zionist project, [need] to be united together in one project against... the Zionist enemy and its collaborators. It is either a jihad, victory, or martyrdom.” Any living Gazan would agree.
Now, any Gazan “yearning to be free...” is joining Hamas.
On Sunday, Feb 1, 2015, University students from the Gaza Strip decided to throw symbolic diplomas into the sea in protest against the jointly enforced Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza. One protestor said he had “lost confidence in the humanity of the world and its human rights councils.”
Indeed.
A senior UN official has expressed concern over the possibility of the start of a new conflict by the Israeli regime against the besieged Gaza Strip. “Right now, things are not going well, and we’re very concerned about the possibility of a further conflict,” James Rawley, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief for the Palestinian territories, said at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday Feb 12.
Palestinian Finance Minister Shukri Bishara said on Wednesday that Israel’s freeze on Palestinian tax revenue was costing the Palestinian Authority seventy percent of its budget, a toll he said could not be sustained by any economy in the world.
So, Israel has offered all of Gaza only two choices: suffer, or die. Predictably, Gazans have decided on their own alternative: resistance.
Hamas has been operating training camps almost daily. Relations with Hezbollah are strong and senior Hamas leadership has been cultivating stronger relations with Iran, whose President Hassan Rouhani, after a meeting last month said, “We believe that the root cause of problems in the region is the usurping occupation of Palestinian territories.”
Hamas recruitment is at the highest levels ever. Recently, Hamas began offering training for Gazan males aged 14-21. Of course, response to this call-to-order was dramatic. With many schools being used to shelter the displaced, and unemployment standing at forty-five percent, it was not difficult to attract youngsters to join the camps. “The Israelis killed my niece last summer. Now I want to kill them,” said a young recruit to Ma’an News Agency.
Understandable.
Hamas has reportedly trained over 17,000 young Gaza resistance fighters in the past five months to augment over ten thousand new adult recruits. The first garrison will likely be the Gaza seaport which Hamas has vowed to open. Reportedly, Hamas has previously offered training sessions to young Gazans for years, but the recent week-long camps were far more serious. Run for the first time by militants from the Qassam Brigades, there were no “fun” sessions.” They were trained intensively in “using light and heavy weaponry and were taught how to ambush, so they can lead the next battle for liberation,” the Brigades said on its website.
Predictably, human rights groups are accusing Hamas of exploiting children for political purposes.”We are not disputing the right of an occupied people to resist, but it must be done by adults, not children,” one human rights activist told AFP news service, speaking on condition of anonymity. Really? Well, you can grow up pretty damn quick when an Israeli tank shell turns your family into cement compost. “The camps are making young people aggressive instead of educating them and teaching them to abide by the law,” the activist continued to whine, reserving any comment on Israel’s lack of adherence to law. He added, “But the priority today should be to take care of their social and physical well-being.” Sure. Who, in the world, is going to provide this for Gazans? Only one challenger, the people’s army of Gaza: Hamas.
The dramatic increase in Hamas recruitment is, of course, not surprising since, literally, every single recruit knows at the least one Gazan killed by Israeli atrocity. For many it was a niece, maybe a cousin, a little brother, their mother or father, their wife, their grandparents, other family members. Some saw their entire families disappear forever, the instant the Israeli military deliberately turned their homes into piles of metal re-bar and concrete dust. A man will never forget such injustice. A man; picks up a gun.
Hamas has made it clear that they are training “resistance fighters.” Their purpose, as has always been the mission of Hamas, is purely defensive.
“The Western media accuse Hamas of militarizing society with their training camps, but what has the West done to stop the enemy from carrying out its crimes?” senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said.”What have we gained from 20 years of futile negotiations?”
Indeed. The day Israel abides by any treaty, honors any international law, or respects any of the true tenants of humanity and human decency, will be the day Gaza finally has a real chance for peace.
Hamas, during this summer’s war, showed that it was the only side that respected innocent civilian lives. Israel killed thousands of innocent Gazans in deliberately targeted killings, yet Hamas, despite crossing the Gazan border and inflicting heavy losses on their soldiers in Israel, did not at any time attack civilian Israelis in retaliation for the slaughter continuing on the other side of the wall. It is little wonder that Hamas waves the white hat to a civilized world; attracting thousands of those who still believe in a proper definition of humanity and freedom.
Here, the chance to stop the next episode of destruction and killing in Gaza lays open and obvious for all the world to see. Proponents of humanity have had all we can take of Israeli excuses for war crimes. We are sick of the lack of prosecution and of the Israeli controlled media trying to cover-up their endemic sociopathic behavior. As evidence, this week more than seven hundred international artists have announced a cultural boycott of Israel over what they call, the inhuman actions of Tel Aviv against the Palestinian people. Additionally, the Israeli military formally dismissed 43 members (ten officers and 33 soldiers) from the elite intelligence 8200 unit. In September, they wrote an open letter protesting the 2014 military operation in Gaza Strip, stating that they all, “refused to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the occupied territories.”
An example for this world to follow.
But Israeli actions clearly show that Hamas must follow another example, the one set last month by Hezbollah: it must blacken the bully’s eye so that forever Israel leaves Gaza alone and finally allows it to flourish. To the antiquated mind-set of Zion that would have the world collectively live and/or die by only Israel’s sword, it is not surprising that this bully only understands one single language. The language of war.
This must stop now. Israel is again forcing war upon Hamas. Only this world can stop it before it begins. How many more times will we allow Israel to destroy the lives and future of Gaza? When will enough of us realize our own understanding of another historic message, and stop this?
“From the language of war, comes the true meaning of peace.”
It is time. What, world, say you now?
Je suis Gaza? Je suis Hamas?
BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY Analyst Brett Redmayne-Titley spent his formative years with his family in Queensland, Australia, Ghana, West Africa, and the Bahamas. Visiting over fifty counties over four decades he has seen the world slowly destroyed by greed, capitalism and empire. Not content to watch from the side lines, Brett has taken up his pen to tell the truth about important stories. On-scene reporting is his specialty. Traveling to the story he has written in-depth, multi-part articles about the Keystone XL Pipeline, Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the police killing of Evan Kwik and many more. His articles have been published by dozens of on-line news services.
By BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY
Israeli atrocity and imposed misery continues unchecked in Gaza. This summer’s wholesale slaughter did nothing to improve the lives of Palestinians. In Gaza, it’s much worse.
As explored in last week’s Press TV article, an examination of the list of crimes committed against the Gaza population, just since the advent of this New Year, shows clearly six obvious conclusions. 1) Horrific Israeli aggression against Gazans continues daily, 2) Israel has no intention of honoring the terms of the August, 2014 ceasefire agreement, 3) At the peace table, neither Israel, Egypt, nor the Palestinian Authority, is actually pursuing peace for Gaza, 4) Politicians across the globe continue to submit to Israeli pressure, not to their conscience, 5) Gazans are, this moment, suffering terribly and, 6) The world, comprised of something better: a sense of justice, a sense of right and wrong, one with actual morals, guts and true courage, has had enough of Israel’s excuses for embracing and promoting pure evil.
All these details lead ultimately to the two most important conclusions; by necessity Hamas is back; stronger than ever and, because all these first six have been deliberately and maliciously perpetrated by Israel: there will be war, again, in Gaza!
A bully such as Israel, filled only with the artificial bluster of unjustified, free stocks of US weapons and unfettered US support, understands only one message, a bare knuckled punch to the head, shocking the bully to his own single, shocking awakening: his opponent is now willing to fight back!
The bully, once defeated, rarely comes back for more.
A recent working example of this simple socio-military principle exploded only weeks ago. After an Israeli helicopter gun-ship massacred six Hezbollah fighters, including two of their commanders and an Iranian general, in the Golan Heights on Jan. 18, 2015, everyone knew that Hezbollah, as the only army to defeat (in the 2006 Lebanon war) the Israeli military, was certainly going to get even.
Indeed. On Jan. 28, Hezbollah scored a crushing victory while sending Israel an effective message in the only language this world-wide bully truly understands: Israeli army body bags, including that of a high ranking general.
In a single demonstrative act of revenge, Hezbollah fighters attacked, from their side of the Lebanon border, an Israeli military convoy destroying it and killing or injuring its passengers which included senior officials. The damage inflicted by Hezbollah was actually worse.
The Israeli Mossad-linked, DEBKA files, in a blistering commentary, summed up the disastrous the Israeli military’s security failure as merely threefold, stating, “One: [Hezbollah] agents were able to cross the border unnoticed; Two: they moved anti-tank rocket launchers right up to the border fence - undetected. And, three, astonishingly, they did not find it hard to strike and blow up the two command vehicles and inflict Israeli losses.” However, DebkaFiles left out the two, far more important conclusions: all the Hezbollah fighters disappeared unscathed, sight unseen, after taking pictures of their victory and, somehow, Hezbollah obtained detailed inside information about the arrival of the convoy and that it carried senior battalion commander major Yuhay Klinger, who was killed.
This means the worst of all results: Hezbollah sympathizers inside the Israeli military. Israelis with a conscience.
Following their victory, Hezbollah sent to the Israelis, via UN channels another equally simple message, this one on paper, meant to say, “enough is enough! Or else?” Israel, suddenly awakened, apparently did understand both of Hezbollah’s messages. Considering the pure statistics of the previous Lebanon war that left Israeli bodies and gutted, burned-out US military hardware all over northern Lebanon, Israel has shown repeatedly that its foreign policy of terror is indeed, as described by US Secretary of State John Kerry “chickenshit.”
As proof: to date, Israel has, again, left Hezbollah alone.
This example of success was also understood in Gaza where Gazans die daily from malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia as they suffer through a bitterly cold winter huddled in the remains of Israeli created concrete rubble that once were their 90,000 homes.
On Thursday Jan. 22, invisible Hamas supreme commander Mohammad Deif sent a personal letter of condolence to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. A recent article in Press TV showcased Deif, his tactics, his successes, and why Mohammad Deif is Gaza personified. Acknowledging Hezbollah’s intent and message, Deif suggested unity between Hamas and Hezbollah while apprising his mentor, “[The] duty of all the living resistance forces, which reject the slavery to the Zionist project, [need] to be united together in one project against... the Zionist enemy and its collaborators. It is either a jihad, victory, or martyrdom.” Any living Gazan would agree.
Now, any Gazan “yearning to be free...” is joining Hamas.
On Sunday, Feb 1, 2015, University students from the Gaza Strip decided to throw symbolic diplomas into the sea in protest against the jointly enforced Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza. One protestor said he had “lost confidence in the humanity of the world and its human rights councils.”
Indeed.
A senior UN official has expressed concern over the possibility of the start of a new conflict by the Israeli regime against the besieged Gaza Strip. “Right now, things are not going well, and we’re very concerned about the possibility of a further conflict,” James Rawley, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief for the Palestinian territories, said at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday Feb 12.
Palestinian Finance Minister Shukri Bishara said on Wednesday that Israel’s freeze on Palestinian tax revenue was costing the Palestinian Authority seventy percent of its budget, a toll he said could not be sustained by any economy in the world.
So, Israel has offered all of Gaza only two choices: suffer, or die. Predictably, Gazans have decided on their own alternative: resistance.
Hamas has been operating training camps almost daily. Relations with Hezbollah are strong and senior Hamas leadership has been cultivating stronger relations with Iran, whose President Hassan Rouhani, after a meeting last month said, “We believe that the root cause of problems in the region is the usurping occupation of Palestinian territories.”
Hamas recruitment is at the highest levels ever. Recently, Hamas began offering training for Gazan males aged 14-21. Of course, response to this call-to-order was dramatic. With many schools being used to shelter the displaced, and unemployment standing at forty-five percent, it was not difficult to attract youngsters to join the camps. “The Israelis killed my niece last summer. Now I want to kill them,” said a young recruit to Ma’an News Agency.
Understandable.
Hamas has reportedly trained over 17,000 young Gaza resistance fighters in the past five months to augment over ten thousand new adult recruits. The first garrison will likely be the Gaza seaport which Hamas has vowed to open. Reportedly, Hamas has previously offered training sessions to young Gazans for years, but the recent week-long camps were far more serious. Run for the first time by militants from the Qassam Brigades, there were no “fun” sessions.” They were trained intensively in “using light and heavy weaponry and were taught how to ambush, so they can lead the next battle for liberation,” the Brigades said on its website.
Predictably, human rights groups are accusing Hamas of exploiting children for political purposes.”We are not disputing the right of an occupied people to resist, but it must be done by adults, not children,” one human rights activist told AFP news service, speaking on condition of anonymity. Really? Well, you can grow up pretty damn quick when an Israeli tank shell turns your family into cement compost. “The camps are making young people aggressive instead of educating them and teaching them to abide by the law,” the activist continued to whine, reserving any comment on Israel’s lack of adherence to law. He added, “But the priority today should be to take care of their social and physical well-being.” Sure. Who, in the world, is going to provide this for Gazans? Only one challenger, the people’s army of Gaza: Hamas.
The dramatic increase in Hamas recruitment is, of course, not surprising since, literally, every single recruit knows at the least one Gazan killed by Israeli atrocity. For many it was a niece, maybe a cousin, a little brother, their mother or father, their wife, their grandparents, other family members. Some saw their entire families disappear forever, the instant the Israeli military deliberately turned their homes into piles of metal re-bar and concrete dust. A man will never forget such injustice. A man; picks up a gun.
Hamas has made it clear that they are training “resistance fighters.” Their purpose, as has always been the mission of Hamas, is purely defensive.
“The Western media accuse Hamas of militarizing society with their training camps, but what has the West done to stop the enemy from carrying out its crimes?” senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said.”What have we gained from 20 years of futile negotiations?”
Indeed. The day Israel abides by any treaty, honors any international law, or respects any of the true tenants of humanity and human decency, will be the day Gaza finally has a real chance for peace.
Hamas, during this summer’s war, showed that it was the only side that respected innocent civilian lives. Israel killed thousands of innocent Gazans in deliberately targeted killings, yet Hamas, despite crossing the Gazan border and inflicting heavy losses on their soldiers in Israel, did not at any time attack civilian Israelis in retaliation for the slaughter continuing on the other side of the wall. It is little wonder that Hamas waves the white hat to a civilized world; attracting thousands of those who still believe in a proper definition of humanity and freedom.
Here, the chance to stop the next episode of destruction and killing in Gaza lays open and obvious for all the world to see. Proponents of humanity have had all we can take of Israeli excuses for war crimes. We are sick of the lack of prosecution and of the Israeli controlled media trying to cover-up their endemic sociopathic behavior. As evidence, this week more than seven hundred international artists have announced a cultural boycott of Israel over what they call, the inhuman actions of Tel Aviv against the Palestinian people. Additionally, the Israeli military formally dismissed 43 members (ten officers and 33 soldiers) from the elite intelligence 8200 unit. In September, they wrote an open letter protesting the 2014 military operation in Gaza Strip, stating that they all, “refused to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the occupied territories.”
An example for this world to follow.
But Israeli actions clearly show that Hamas must follow another example, the one set last month by Hezbollah: it must blacken the bully’s eye so that forever Israel leaves Gaza alone and finally allows it to flourish. To the antiquated mind-set of Zion that would have the world collectively live and/or die by only Israel’s sword, it is not surprising that this bully only understands one single language. The language of war.
This must stop now. Israel is again forcing war upon Hamas. Only this world can stop it before it begins. How many more times will we allow Israel to destroy the lives and future of Gaza? When will enough of us realize our own understanding of another historic message, and stop this?
“From the language of war, comes the true meaning of peace.”
It is time. What, world, say you now?
Je suis Gaza? Je suis Hamas?
BRETT REDMAYNE-TITLEY Analyst Brett Redmayne-Titley spent his formative years with his family in Queensland, Australia, Ghana, West Africa, and the Bahamas. Visiting over fifty counties over four decades he has seen the world slowly destroyed by greed, capitalism and empire. Not content to watch from the side lines, Brett has taken up his pen to tell the truth about important stories. On-scene reporting is his specialty. Traveling to the story he has written in-depth, multi-part articles about the Keystone XL Pipeline, Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the police killing of Evan Kwik and many more. His articles have been published by dozens of on-line news services.
14 feb 2015
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened that Israel might launch a new aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Speaking at a cultural event in Beer Sheva on Saturday, Lieberman said, "Another round of fighting against Hamas in Gaza is a matter of time; changing the current reality and living peacefully need changing the balance of terror with enemies”.
Lieberman renewed his castigation of the Israeli leadership’s performance during last summer’s aggression on Gaza, including both war minister Moshe Yaalon and premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the same context, Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman condemned the Israeli leadership for refraining from responding violently to Hezbollah rocket attack against an Israeli military force in southern Lebanon a few weeks ago, similar to the Jordanian severe response to the burning alive of the Jordanian captive pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State.
Speaking at a cultural event in Beer Sheva on Saturday, Lieberman said, "Another round of fighting against Hamas in Gaza is a matter of time; changing the current reality and living peacefully need changing the balance of terror with enemies”.
Lieberman renewed his castigation of the Israeli leadership’s performance during last summer’s aggression on Gaza, including both war minister Moshe Yaalon and premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the same context, Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman condemned the Israeli leadership for refraining from responding violently to Hezbollah rocket attack against an Israeli military force in southern Lebanon a few weeks ago, similar to the Jordanian severe response to the burning alive of the Jordanian captive pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State.
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman says Likud came to power twice thanks to his party, says there was option of forming alternative government without Netanyahu. 'The Likud forgot about this quickly'.
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman bashed Netanyahu's conduct during Operation Protective Edge, saying that the fighting in Gaza ended with no results: "We fought and were inside shelters for 50 days. What's the result? Hamas continues to fire at us. My position was clear during the operation and after it. If it was up to me, we wouldn't have left the bunker after 50 days, but rather remained underground."
Speaking at a cultural event in Be'er Sheva on Saturday, Lieberman said: "It cannot be that we counted 70 dead and dozens wounded, and the country is refraining from doing anything. My opinion on the matter was clear, and I voiced it and also voted for it in the cabinet. Just like we can't launch a military operation every two years, we can't hold elections every two years. It's impossible to live like this."
The Yisrael Bieteinu chairman continued on to say that there was an option of forming a government without Netanyahu in the past two elections. "The Likud came to power twice thanks to Yisrael Beiteinu," Lieberman said. "Our capability of establishing an alternative government was clear. The Likud party forgot about this very quickly."
Lieberman also clarified at the event that he was not afraid of any electoral damage to his party following the major corruption probe involving members of Yisrael Beiteinu, Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum.
"There is no corruption case, but there is a scandal involving sexual perverts in the Israel Police. If you want to cover up failures, you have to invent something. This is the sixth time in a row since the beginning of elections campaigns that a new case was opened involving Yisrael Beiteinu. It's an interesting coincidence."
In the recent scandal centering on Deputy Foreign Minister MK Faina Kirschenbaum, suspicions arose that coaltion funds were used by political officials to transfer financial subsidies that essentially functioned as part of a system of bribery.
Kirschenbaum, who is also the general secretary of Yisrael Beiteinu, is suspected of accepting money, which was not deposited into her personal accounts, but rather as salaries for associates and relatives (apart from the appointment of her daughter to the Beef Cattle Growers Association, which is under investigation).
Kirschenbaum is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in kickbacks. In contrast to the other suspects, her conversations were not secretly recorded because of her official government position, but there was surveillance of her activities. Kirschenbaum is a high-profile member of Yisrael Beiteinu and a close associate of Chairman Avigdor Lieberman. The bulk of the party's activities go through her, and she is involved in all its parliamentary and political moves.
Former minister of tourism Stas Misezhnikov is also suspected of accepting bribes, facilitating bribes, and cronyism.
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman bashed Netanyahu's conduct during Operation Protective Edge, saying that the fighting in Gaza ended with no results: "We fought and were inside shelters for 50 days. What's the result? Hamas continues to fire at us. My position was clear during the operation and after it. If it was up to me, we wouldn't have left the bunker after 50 days, but rather remained underground."
Speaking at a cultural event in Be'er Sheva on Saturday, Lieberman said: "It cannot be that we counted 70 dead and dozens wounded, and the country is refraining from doing anything. My opinion on the matter was clear, and I voiced it and also voted for it in the cabinet. Just like we can't launch a military operation every two years, we can't hold elections every two years. It's impossible to live like this."
The Yisrael Bieteinu chairman continued on to say that there was an option of forming a government without Netanyahu in the past two elections. "The Likud came to power twice thanks to Yisrael Beiteinu," Lieberman said. "Our capability of establishing an alternative government was clear. The Likud party forgot about this very quickly."
Lieberman also clarified at the event that he was not afraid of any electoral damage to his party following the major corruption probe involving members of Yisrael Beiteinu, Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum.
"There is no corruption case, but there is a scandal involving sexual perverts in the Israel Police. If you want to cover up failures, you have to invent something. This is the sixth time in a row since the beginning of elections campaigns that a new case was opened involving Yisrael Beiteinu. It's an interesting coincidence."
In the recent scandal centering on Deputy Foreign Minister MK Faina Kirschenbaum, suspicions arose that coaltion funds were used by political officials to transfer financial subsidies that essentially functioned as part of a system of bribery.
Kirschenbaum, who is also the general secretary of Yisrael Beiteinu, is suspected of accepting money, which was not deposited into her personal accounts, but rather as salaries for associates and relatives (apart from the appointment of her daughter to the Beef Cattle Growers Association, which is under investigation).
Kirschenbaum is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in kickbacks. In contrast to the other suspects, her conversations were not secretly recorded because of her official government position, but there was surveillance of her activities. Kirschenbaum is a high-profile member of Yisrael Beiteinu and a close associate of Chairman Avigdor Lieberman. The bulk of the party's activities go through her, and she is involved in all its parliamentary and political moves.
Former minister of tourism Stas Misezhnikov is also suspected of accepting bribes, facilitating bribes, and cronyism.
Hamas Movement has renewed Friday afternoon its strong rejection to surrender its weapons in exchange for Gaza reconstruction.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said in a Friday sermon that his Movement totally rejects to compromise on the resistance weapon and rejects the multiple pressures on Gaza Strip.
"We will not compromise on resistance weapons in return for the reconstruction of our homes", he said.
Radwan pointed to the Israeli-led siege imposed on the Strip for the past eight years which significantly affected the various sectors and human life aspects.
A real humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Gaza after experiencing three consecutive wars, he said.
The senior Hamas leader condemned the continued Arab silence over the deteriorated humanitarian situation and multiple crises in Gaza including power outages, employees crisis, closure of border crossings, and the delay of reconstruction.
He pointed out that more than 10,000 patients and injured persons are still waiting for the permission to cross the border to receive treatment abroad.
On the other hand, Radwan said that the international community turns a blind eye to the Israeli settlers’ systematic and daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque that aim to divide the holy shrine temporally and spatially.
"We call on the Palestinian resistance to defend al-Aqsa Mosque with all possible means", he urged.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Radwan said in a Friday sermon that his Movement totally rejects to compromise on the resistance weapon and rejects the multiple pressures on Gaza Strip.
"We will not compromise on resistance weapons in return for the reconstruction of our homes", he said.
Radwan pointed to the Israeli-led siege imposed on the Strip for the past eight years which significantly affected the various sectors and human life aspects.
A real humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Gaza after experiencing three consecutive wars, he said.
The senior Hamas leader condemned the continued Arab silence over the deteriorated humanitarian situation and multiple crises in Gaza including power outages, employees crisis, closure of border crossings, and the delay of reconstruction.
He pointed out that more than 10,000 patients and injured persons are still waiting for the permission to cross the border to receive treatment abroad.
On the other hand, Radwan said that the international community turns a blind eye to the Israeli settlers’ systematic and daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque that aim to divide the holy shrine temporally and spatially.
"We call on the Palestinian resistance to defend al-Aqsa Mosque with all possible means", he urged.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday evening opened fire at different populated areas to the east of the Gaza Strip, and luckily no Palestinian citizen was injured in the attacks.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli troops behind the security fence east of Gaza City opened fire at shepherds grazing their cattle in areas to the east of Azzeitoun and Shujaiya neighborhoods.
They added that other soldiers in a military post east of Khan Younis, south of the Strip, opened fire at agricultural lands in Abasan and Qarara neighborhoods.
A group of Gazan young men also said they survived an Israeli gunfire attack during their presence in an area east of Jabaliya district, north of the Strip.
Almost on a daily basis, the Israeli occupation army opens fire either at citizens along the borderline with Gaza or fishermen at sea in violation of its ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance, which was brokered by Egypt in August last year.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli troops behind the security fence east of Gaza City opened fire at shepherds grazing their cattle in areas to the east of Azzeitoun and Shujaiya neighborhoods.
They added that other soldiers in a military post east of Khan Younis, south of the Strip, opened fire at agricultural lands in Abasan and Qarara neighborhoods.
A group of Gazan young men also said they survived an Israeli gunfire attack during their presence in an area east of Jabaliya district, north of the Strip.
Almost on a daily basis, the Israeli occupation army opens fire either at citizens along the borderline with Gaza or fishermen at sea in violation of its ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance, which was brokered by Egypt in August last year.
13 feb 2015
Israeli soldiers opened fire, on Friday morning, on a number of Palestinian homes, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said the soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence, fired dozens of rounds targeting homes and lands, east of Khan Younis.
The shooting did not cause injuries, but caused damages to a number of homes, while local farmers had to leave their farmlands, fearing additional Israeli military escalation.
The soldiers frequently open fire on homes and agricultural lands, mainly in areas close to the border fence in the northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Navy also conducts frequent attacks against Palestinian fishermen in Gaza territorial waters, and even on the shore, in direct violation of all ceasefire agreements.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) said the soldiers, stationed on military towers across the border fence, fired dozens of rounds targeting homes and lands, east of Khan Younis.
The shooting did not cause injuries, but caused damages to a number of homes, while local farmers had to leave their farmlands, fearing additional Israeli military escalation.
The soldiers frequently open fire on homes and agricultural lands, mainly in areas close to the border fence in the northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Navy also conducts frequent attacks against Palestinian fishermen in Gaza territorial waters, and even on the shore, in direct violation of all ceasefire agreements.
12 feb 2015
Official urges Israel to lift blockade and Palestinians to end in-fighting; calls for additional $705 million in humanitarian aid.
A top UN official warned Thursday of another potential conflict in the Gaza Strip, urging Israel to lift its blockade and the Palestinians to end in-fighting to avoid further violence.
The United Nations also called for an additional $705 (622 million euros) million in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territories, most of it for Gaza which saw its bloodiest and most destructive conflict last year. "Right now, things are not going well, and we're very concerned about the possibility of a further conflict," James Rawley, UN humanitarian chief for the Palestinian territories, told AFP.
"But it's not inevitable... as long as several things happen. "To have a complete recovery of Gaza, even to go back to where we were in July (before the 50-day conflict) requires more than construction material going in. It requires a lifting of the blockade," said Rawley. "In parallel, we have to see a commitment from the militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at civilians in Israel... and Palestinian reconciliation moving forward" to reassure donors that building materials were not falling into the hands of militants, he added. Meanwhile the UN, at a news conference in Ramallah, said 75 percent of the additional aid it needs would be destined for Gaza, and the remainder for the West Bank.
The July-August war between Israel and Gaza rulers Hamas killed almost 2,200 Palestinians and 73 on the Israeli side, and left 100,000 Gazans homeless. Delivery of building materials to reconstruct damaged homes had increased significantly after a slow start, Rawley said, with "good cooperation" from Israel, which controls two of Gaza's three crossings. Egypt controls the third. He also stressed the importance of implementing a months-old unity deal between West Bank-based Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, which has seen disputes over who controls Gaza's internal checkpoints. But Palestinian deputy prime minister Mohammed Mustafa dismissed reconciliation as the principle concern for stability in Gaza. "I think reconciliation will help, but I don't think it's the problem today," he told the Ramallah news conference.
"The real test" would be to ensure funding and bring in more construction material, he added.
A top UN official warned Thursday of another potential conflict in the Gaza Strip, urging Israel to lift its blockade and the Palestinians to end in-fighting to avoid further violence.
The United Nations also called for an additional $705 (622 million euros) million in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territories, most of it for Gaza which saw its bloodiest and most destructive conflict last year. "Right now, things are not going well, and we're very concerned about the possibility of a further conflict," James Rawley, UN humanitarian chief for the Palestinian territories, told AFP.
"But it's not inevitable... as long as several things happen. "To have a complete recovery of Gaza, even to go back to where we were in July (before the 50-day conflict) requires more than construction material going in. It requires a lifting of the blockade," said Rawley. "In parallel, we have to see a commitment from the militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at civilians in Israel... and Palestinian reconciliation moving forward" to reassure donors that building materials were not falling into the hands of militants, he added. Meanwhile the UN, at a news conference in Ramallah, said 75 percent of the additional aid it needs would be destined for Gaza, and the remainder for the West Bank.
The July-August war between Israel and Gaza rulers Hamas killed almost 2,200 Palestinians and 73 on the Israeli side, and left 100,000 Gazans homeless. Delivery of building materials to reconstruct damaged homes had increased significantly after a slow start, Rawley said, with "good cooperation" from Israel, which controls two of Gaza's three crossings. Egypt controls the third. He also stressed the importance of implementing a months-old unity deal between West Bank-based Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, which has seen disputes over who controls Gaza's internal checkpoints. But Palestinian deputy prime minister Mohammed Mustafa dismissed reconciliation as the principle concern for stability in Gaza. "I think reconciliation will help, but I don't think it's the problem today," he told the Ramallah news conference.
"The real test" would be to ensure funding and bring in more construction material, he added.
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) said it supports the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate's decision to prosecute Israeli officials at international courts for committing war crimes against Palestinian journalists.
In a statement, the Federation said that it had named its conference that was held from February 9 to 10 in the Moroccan city of Tangier "The martyrs of the Palestinian press," to honor the journalists who had been killed by the Israeli occupation.
The statement expressed the Federation's solidarity with the Palestinian people and hailed their heroic steadfastness in the face of the Israeli occupation.
"The Federation of Arab Journalists condemns the state terrorism which the Zionist occupation authorities are practicing against the Arab Palestinian people, who have become in dire need for international resolutions ending the occupation and its terrorism," the statement underscored.
In a statement, the Federation said that it had named its conference that was held from February 9 to 10 in the Moroccan city of Tangier "The martyrs of the Palestinian press," to honor the journalists who had been killed by the Israeli occupation.
The statement expressed the Federation's solidarity with the Palestinian people and hailed their heroic steadfastness in the face of the Israeli occupation.
"The Federation of Arab Journalists condemns the state terrorism which the Zionist occupation authorities are practicing against the Arab Palestinian people, who have become in dire need for international resolutions ending the occupation and its terrorism," the statement underscored.
11 feb 2015
UN Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon warned Tuesday of the continued siege imposed on the Palestinian people in Gaza, calling on donor countries to fulfill their pledges made during Cairo conference for Gaza’s reconstruction in Oct. 2014.
Ban-ki Moon's remarks came during a meeting for the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Tuesday in New York.
The Committee would also address obstacles to peace requiring urgent action, such as illegal Israeli settlements, the situation in Jerusalem, the Gaza blockade, prisoners, and the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson vowed in a message from the Secretary-General.
Israel has imposed an unfair siege on 1.9 million people of Gaza since Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) was founded in 1975 by Resolution 3376 of the United Nations General Assembly. The CEIRPP was assigned to send reports and recommendations to the UN Security Council on annual basis.
However, the Council did not adopt any of the committee's recommendations due to the US veto.
The Secretary General urged donor countries to fulfill their pledges made during Cairo conference for Gaza’s reconstruction in Oct. 2014 to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On July 7, Israel carried out a bloody aggression on Gaza Strip that lasted for 51 days, killing more than two thousand Palestinians, and wounding about 11 thousand others, while 28,366 homes were partially or totally destroyed.
According to UN data, Israel's summer war on Gaza caused the displacement of approximately 100 thousand Palestinians, mostly are renting accommodation or staying with relatives, while about 15 thousand others are using UNRWA schools as “shelter” centers.
In October 2014, a donor conference in Cairo to raise money to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's summer aggression on Gaza ended with pledges of $5.4 billion for reconstruction purposes.
He voiced hope that 2015 would see advances towards peace and agreement on a Security Council resolution that included a time-frame to end the occupation, as well as a new negotiating mechanism that would join the two sides.
Despite the collective failure of Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to advance a political solution during the 2014 International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People aimed at catalyzing global action, “all good forces must now be mobilized”, he said.
“At a time when the entire region is facing the threat of terrorism and violent extremism, resolving this conflict is clearly a matter of international security,” he said, calling on the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to exert all efforts to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their rights.
The CEIRPP committee oversees "a program of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, to national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property."
Ban-ki Moon's remarks came during a meeting for the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Tuesday in New York.
The Committee would also address obstacles to peace requiring urgent action, such as illegal Israeli settlements, the situation in Jerusalem, the Gaza blockade, prisoners, and the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson vowed in a message from the Secretary-General.
Israel has imposed an unfair siege on 1.9 million people of Gaza since Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006.
The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) was founded in 1975 by Resolution 3376 of the United Nations General Assembly. The CEIRPP was assigned to send reports and recommendations to the UN Security Council on annual basis.
However, the Council did not adopt any of the committee's recommendations due to the US veto.
The Secretary General urged donor countries to fulfill their pledges made during Cairo conference for Gaza’s reconstruction in Oct. 2014 to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On July 7, Israel carried out a bloody aggression on Gaza Strip that lasted for 51 days, killing more than two thousand Palestinians, and wounding about 11 thousand others, while 28,366 homes were partially or totally destroyed.
According to UN data, Israel's summer war on Gaza caused the displacement of approximately 100 thousand Palestinians, mostly are renting accommodation or staying with relatives, while about 15 thousand others are using UNRWA schools as “shelter” centers.
In October 2014, a donor conference in Cairo to raise money to rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's summer aggression on Gaza ended with pledges of $5.4 billion for reconstruction purposes.
He voiced hope that 2015 would see advances towards peace and agreement on a Security Council resolution that included a time-frame to end the occupation, as well as a new negotiating mechanism that would join the two sides.
Despite the collective failure of Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to advance a political solution during the 2014 International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People aimed at catalyzing global action, “all good forces must now be mobilized”, he said.
“At a time when the entire region is facing the threat of terrorism and violent extremism, resolving this conflict is clearly a matter of international security,” he said, calling on the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to exert all efforts to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their rights.
The CEIRPP committee oversees "a program of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination without external interference, to national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property."
10 feb 2015
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot at a Palestinian man near al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday.
Medical sources told the PIC reporter that the man was moderately injured in the shooting by Israeli forces stationed to the east of the camp.
The injured man was taken to hospital in Deir al-Balah, whereas his condition was described as moderate, the sources said.
The IOF often opens fire and storms the eastern outskirts of Gaza Strip in violation of the truce agreement signed last summer between Israel and resistance factions in Gaza.
Medical sources told the PIC reporter that the man was moderately injured in the shooting by Israeli forces stationed to the east of the camp.
The injured man was taken to hospital in Deir al-Balah, whereas his condition was described as moderate, the sources said.
The IOF often opens fire and storms the eastern outskirts of Gaza Strip in violation of the truce agreement signed last summer between Israel and resistance factions in Gaza.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at noontime Monday opened machinegun fire at two peaceful rallies staged near Gaza’s eastern borders to push for lifting the blockade and pressing ahead with reconstruction.
The mass rallies were staged by the national committee to break the siege and launch reconstruction in eastern Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
“The IOF troops unleashed volleys of gunfire in an attempt to disband the rally-goers, who lifted Palestinian flags and banners calling for breaking the siege and launching reconstruction, a local activist told the Quds Press.
Israeli media outlets claimed the young protesters moved toward the border fence and raised Palestinian flags on it to the northeast of the Gaza Strip.
Observes said the attack is another episode in the series of Israeli violations of the Cairo-brokered truce accord signed on August, 26 last year between Palestinian resistance factions and the Israeli occupation.
The mass rallies were staged by the national committee to break the siege and launch reconstruction in eastern Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
“The IOF troops unleashed volleys of gunfire in an attempt to disband the rally-goers, who lifted Palestinian flags and banners calling for breaking the siege and launching reconstruction, a local activist told the Quds Press.
Israeli media outlets claimed the young protesters moved toward the border fence and raised Palestinian flags on it to the northeast of the Gaza Strip.
Observes said the attack is another episode in the series of Israeli violations of the Cairo-brokered truce accord signed on August, 26 last year between Palestinian resistance factions and the Israeli occupation.
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