21 aug 2011
Al Qassam Brigades mourns the death of Ashraf Azzam
Maher Said Dalul, 31
As Al Aqsa Intifada against the occupation assault on the Gaza Strip continues, Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades has its best men to be in the playground of death to defend their people from any attack by the enemy ... Today, Al-Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed: Maher Said Dalul [31 years old] from the Azzytoon neighborhood – Gaza city
The Mujahed martyred due to injuries sustained in Israeli air srike on 19-08-2011. He was martyred after a long bright path of jihad, hard work, struggle and sacrifice.
Al Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed, reaffirms the commitment and determination to continue the resistance against the belligerent occupation forces.
Finally, may Allah (swt) accept him and his blessed efforts for the path of Jihad and may Allah grant his family patience and solace for his lose.
"To God we belong and to him we shall return."
As Al Aqsa Intifada against the occupation assault on the Gaza Strip continues, Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades has its best men to be in the playground of death to defend their people from any attack by the enemy ... Today, Al-Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed: Maher Said Dalul [31 years old] from the Azzytoon neighborhood – Gaza city
The Mujahed martyred due to injuries sustained in Israeli air srike on 19-08-2011. He was martyred after a long bright path of jihad, hard work, struggle and sacrifice.
Al Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed, reaffirms the commitment and determination to continue the resistance against the belligerent occupation forces.
Finally, may Allah (swt) accept him and his blessed efforts for the path of Jihad and may Allah grant his family patience and solace for his lose.
"To God we belong and to him we shall return."
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Quoting from Haaretz:
“In response to the ongoing rocket fire, an IDF spokesperson stated that the military will not tolerate any attempt at harming Israeli civilians or soldiers, and will continue to “act with determination and strength against any source of terror.” The spokesperson also claimed that Hamas must be “held responsible” for the ongoing attacks.” Israel is quickly trying to shift the blame for the war crimes it is committing in Gaza to Hamas. Suddenly those firing rockets (after 10 were killed for no reason last night, now 15) are the bad guys and Israel is the good guy doing self defense in this equation. In times like this, what alternative would you give to the resistance groups other than fire rockets? |
Their families are killed, their children are either dying or becoming handicapped due to continuous raids. The 1.6 million population of Gaza is terrorized night and day, there isn’t any place in that open air prison safe from the random Israeli shelling, not even UNRWA schools as we have seen in 2009. Israel aims to collectively punish all those who live in Gaza for the crime of living in Gaza.
Let us keep in mind that for the past two years, al-Qassam and the majority of Gaza factions have respected the ceasefire treaty in order to maintain security in the besieged Gaza Strip. In fact, Hamas faced internal issues after it started suppressing armed groups who planned to launch rockets into Israeli cities. It was almost always Israel which would strike first or assassinate political figures which would prompt them to launch rockets in retaliation.
The blood thirsty leadership of Israel bombs Gaza for no reason other than their own self satisfaction. Another reason is that no one would interrupt them in their war crimes process, the US and EU leadership hurries to condemn Eilat attack while barely giving attention, if any, to those civilians slaughtered in Gaza.
And of course, let us not forget that Israel started bombing Gaza on Thursday for no reason. There is no evidence of any connection between Gaza militants and Eilat attack. The only proof the IDF claimed was that Eilat attackers used AK47, which is a weapon that only comes from Gaza (In fact the AK47 or Kalashnikov is the world’s most common firearm). This was literally said on the tongue of the IDF spokesperson Lt. Colonel Avital Leibovich interviewed by the The Real News Network’s Lia Tarachansky as This site has brought it to my attention.
Tarachansky: On what are you basing your conclusion that this group [the Popular Resistance Committees] is responsible for the terror attacks?
IDF Spokesperson: We did not say that this group was responsible for the terror attack. We based this on intelligence information as well as some facts that [we] actually presented an hour ago to some wires and journalists. Some of the findings that were from the bodies of the terrorists, and they are using for example Kalashnikov bullets and Kalashnikov rifles are very common in Gaza --
Tarachansky: Many terrorist groups use Kalashnikovs --
IDF Spokesperson: No, not many terror groups. I’m not saying — I’m referring to the terrorists that came from Gaza.
Tarachansky: Prime Minister Netanyahu said today that the group that was responsible for the terror attack was the one that was eliminated [in Gaza] and you’re saying that’s not the case?
IDF Spokesperson: I don’t know what he said [when speaking on Israeli national television] — I’m not Prime Minister Netanyahu. I’m saying that the group came from Gaza and I’m giving you proof why it came from Gaza — how we know it came from Gaza. This is all I’m saying.
Despite the continuing terror Gaza suffers, Israeli media is doing an even more horrible job. I spent yesterday going through almost all Israeli English news websites, non of those websites mentioned Gaza civilian deaths along with news on rockets coming into Israel. In the matter of fact, I kept reading news reports on Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, and Ynet to realize there is nothing about Palestinian civilian deaths, they only mentioned rockets, Israelis injured, and Gazan militants who were killed. Covering up the real news from the public is dangerous!
This tweet by +972 magazine’s Noam Sheizaf couldn’t describe it better:
"By reporting only rockets fired 2 Israel in its top stories & hiding news over dead in Gaza, Israeli media is making public want more blood"
http://electronicintifada.net/node/10297
Let us keep in mind that for the past two years, al-Qassam and the majority of Gaza factions have respected the ceasefire treaty in order to maintain security in the besieged Gaza Strip. In fact, Hamas faced internal issues after it started suppressing armed groups who planned to launch rockets into Israeli cities. It was almost always Israel which would strike first or assassinate political figures which would prompt them to launch rockets in retaliation.
The blood thirsty leadership of Israel bombs Gaza for no reason other than their own self satisfaction. Another reason is that no one would interrupt them in their war crimes process, the US and EU leadership hurries to condemn Eilat attack while barely giving attention, if any, to those civilians slaughtered in Gaza.
And of course, let us not forget that Israel started bombing Gaza on Thursday for no reason. There is no evidence of any connection between Gaza militants and Eilat attack. The only proof the IDF claimed was that Eilat attackers used AK47, which is a weapon that only comes from Gaza (In fact the AK47 or Kalashnikov is the world’s most common firearm). This was literally said on the tongue of the IDF spokesperson Lt. Colonel Avital Leibovich interviewed by the The Real News Network’s Lia Tarachansky as This site has brought it to my attention.
Tarachansky: On what are you basing your conclusion that this group [the Popular Resistance Committees] is responsible for the terror attacks?
IDF Spokesperson: We did not say that this group was responsible for the terror attack. We based this on intelligence information as well as some facts that [we] actually presented an hour ago to some wires and journalists. Some of the findings that were from the bodies of the terrorists, and they are using for example Kalashnikov bullets and Kalashnikov rifles are very common in Gaza --
Tarachansky: Many terrorist groups use Kalashnikovs --
IDF Spokesperson: No, not many terror groups. I’m not saying — I’m referring to the terrorists that came from Gaza.
Tarachansky: Prime Minister Netanyahu said today that the group that was responsible for the terror attack was the one that was eliminated [in Gaza] and you’re saying that’s not the case?
IDF Spokesperson: I don’t know what he said [when speaking on Israeli national television] — I’m not Prime Minister Netanyahu. I’m saying that the group came from Gaza and I’m giving you proof why it came from Gaza — how we know it came from Gaza. This is all I’m saying.
Despite the continuing terror Gaza suffers, Israeli media is doing an even more horrible job. I spent yesterday going through almost all Israeli English news websites, non of those websites mentioned Gaza civilian deaths along with news on rockets coming into Israel. In the matter of fact, I kept reading news reports on Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, and Ynet to realize there is nothing about Palestinian civilian deaths, they only mentioned rockets, Israelis injured, and Gazan militants who were killed. Covering up the real news from the public is dangerous!
This tweet by +972 magazine’s Noam Sheizaf couldn’t describe it better:
"By reporting only rockets fired 2 Israel in its top stories & hiding news over dead in Gaza, Israeli media is making public want more blood"
http://electronicintifada.net/node/10297
20 aug 2011
Egypt Urges Israel to Apologize for Soldiers
Egypt has condemned Israel's shooting of Egyptian soldiers on Thursday and asked for an official apology, state media said on Saturday.
A statement issued after an extraordinary ministerial meeting also attended by army commanders said Egypt will never give up the rights of its sons, official MENA news agency said.
The meeting entrusted Egyptian foreign minister to summon Israeli ambassador in Cairo to express Egypt's rejection of the shooting.
Egypt is calling for launching an official probe into the incidents and taking all legal measures on this score, it added.
On Friday, hundreds of Egyptians protested in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Protests are expected to continue on Saturday.
The Chief of Staff of Egypt's Armed Forces Sami Anan headed to Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths, Egyptian media reported.
An Egyptian army officer and four soldiers inside the Egyptian territory were killed and several others injured during clashes between Israeli security forces and armed groups inside the Israeli territories at the border sign No. 79, MENA said, quoting Egyptian Information Minister Osama Hikal.
The latest report of casualties contradicted previous reports of the agency which said three Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The Egyptian government has decided to recall the country's diplomatic envoy to Israel over the incident.
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/08/20/2561s654409.htm
Egypt has condemned Israel's shooting of Egyptian soldiers on Thursday and asked for an official apology, state media said on Saturday.
A statement issued after an extraordinary ministerial meeting also attended by army commanders said Egypt will never give up the rights of its sons, official MENA news agency said.
The meeting entrusted Egyptian foreign minister to summon Israeli ambassador in Cairo to express Egypt's rejection of the shooting.
Egypt is calling for launching an official probe into the incidents and taking all legal measures on this score, it added.
On Friday, hundreds of Egyptians protested in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Protests are expected to continue on Saturday.
The Chief of Staff of Egypt's Armed Forces Sami Anan headed to Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths, Egyptian media reported.
An Egyptian army officer and four soldiers inside the Egyptian territory were killed and several others injured during clashes between Israeli security forces and armed groups inside the Israeli territories at the border sign No. 79, MENA said, quoting Egyptian Information Minister Osama Hikal.
The latest report of casualties contradicted previous reports of the agency which said three Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The Egyptian government has decided to recall the country's diplomatic envoy to Israel over the incident.
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2011/08/20/2561s654409.htm
Israeli strikes leave four dead in Gaza
Israeli planes have killed four Palestinians and wounded another three in Gaza in retaliation for suspected Islamist militants killing eight Israelis near the Egyptian border.
And the Israeli military has promised to probe the deaths of Egyptian policemen killed the previous day as Israeli forces pursued the militants in the frontier zone.
Official Egyptian media said Cairo had complained to Israel over the incident.
While Israeli aircraft hit Gaza on Friday, Palestinians fired a steady hail of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, at least 25 since the start of the day, the military said.
Three Israelis were wounded in the city of Ashdod, police said.
An Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip killed a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees, which Israel blames for the ambushes on its citizens in the southern Negev desert on Thursday. The group named him as Samed Abed, 25.
It said a raid on the Gaza City neigbourhood of Zeitun took the life of PRC member 22-year-old Mohammed Enaya and medics said another person was injured there and two seriously hurt in nearby Tofah.
Palestinian medical officials said two more men were killed in a missile strike as they rode a motorcyle in the vicinity of the Bureij refugee camp.
The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the militant Islamic Jihad, said one of the men was their activist Emad Abu Abda. The identity of the second and his possible affiliations were not immediately known.
Israeli public radio said both were PRC members.
The Israeli military said in a series of statements that during the course of the afternoon and evening aircraft hit 'weapons manufacturing sites', 'terror activity' sites and 'a squad of terrorists ... shortly after they launched rockets at Israel'.
The strikes raised to 11 the total number of Gazans killed since Thursday evening, when Israel began retaliating for the Negev shootings. Medics said 40 were injured.
London-based rights group Amnesty International called for both sides to safeguard civilian lives.
'The escalating attacks underline the need for both sides to the conflict to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties,' it said in a statement.
Israel killed five PRC members in a punitive air raid on Thursday but a PRC spokesman on Friday denied responsibilty for the desert ambushes.
On Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that Thursday's raid on the PRC was 'just the first response'.
In Thursday's attack, at least seven gunmen armed with explosives, grenades and other weaponry, sneaked into southern Israel and fired at cars and buses, killing six Israeli civilians, a soldier and a policeman.
Several hours later Israel bombed targets in Rafah, killing the PRC leader and several more of the faction's top cadres, as well as a toddler. Another person died in an overnight air raid.
Israeli and Egyptian forces swept the frontier on Friday hunting for any gunmen who may have escaped.
An Israeli military spokesman, while not confirming or denying that an Egyptian complaint had been received, said events on the border would be closely investigated.
'The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) will investigate the matter thoroughly and update the Egyptians,' he said.
The Egyptian military said the policemen were caught in the line of fire as an Israeli helicopter targeted the militants.
Security officials, however, gave a higher toll, saying five policemen were killed by gunfire from unknown assailants.
Egyptian government officials and leading politicians condemned the killing of the policemen, insisting that there must be a reaction.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said on his Facebook page that 'Egyptian blood is too precious to be spilled without a response'.
'I am currently discussing available options regarding the deaths of noble Egyptian troops,' he said.
Amr Mussa, who has emerged as a leading presidential candidate after stepping down as Arab League chief earlier this year, lamented Thursday's deaths of up to five policemen and said 'there must be a reaction'.
'The blood of these conscripts is not cheap. All parties, including Israel, have to be warned against harming Egyptian soldiers,' he said.
16 Gazans killed in 2 days of airstrikes
Israeli planes have killed four Palestinians and wounded another three in Gaza in retaliation for suspected Islamist militants killing eight Israelis near the Egyptian border.
And the Israeli military has promised to probe the deaths of Egyptian policemen killed the previous day as Israeli forces pursued the militants in the frontier zone.
Official Egyptian media said Cairo had complained to Israel over the incident.
While Israeli aircraft hit Gaza on Friday, Palestinians fired a steady hail of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, at least 25 since the start of the day, the military said.
Three Israelis were wounded in the city of Ashdod, police said.
An Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip killed a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees, which Israel blames for the ambushes on its citizens in the southern Negev desert on Thursday. The group named him as Samed Abed, 25.
It said a raid on the Gaza City neigbourhood of Zeitun took the life of PRC member 22-year-old Mohammed Enaya and medics said another person was injured there and two seriously hurt in nearby Tofah.
Palestinian medical officials said two more men were killed in a missile strike as they rode a motorcyle in the vicinity of the Bureij refugee camp.
The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the militant Islamic Jihad, said one of the men was their activist Emad Abu Abda. The identity of the second and his possible affiliations were not immediately known.
Israeli public radio said both were PRC members.
The Israeli military said in a series of statements that during the course of the afternoon and evening aircraft hit 'weapons manufacturing sites', 'terror activity' sites and 'a squad of terrorists ... shortly after they launched rockets at Israel'.
The strikes raised to 11 the total number of Gazans killed since Thursday evening, when Israel began retaliating for the Negev shootings. Medics said 40 were injured.
London-based rights group Amnesty International called for both sides to safeguard civilian lives.
'The escalating attacks underline the need for both sides to the conflict to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties,' it said in a statement.
Israel killed five PRC members in a punitive air raid on Thursday but a PRC spokesman on Friday denied responsibilty for the desert ambushes.
On Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that Thursday's raid on the PRC was 'just the first response'.
In Thursday's attack, at least seven gunmen armed with explosives, grenades and other weaponry, sneaked into southern Israel and fired at cars and buses, killing six Israeli civilians, a soldier and a policeman.
Several hours later Israel bombed targets in Rafah, killing the PRC leader and several more of the faction's top cadres, as well as a toddler. Another person died in an overnight air raid.
Israeli and Egyptian forces swept the frontier on Friday hunting for any gunmen who may have escaped.
An Israeli military spokesman, while not confirming or denying that an Egyptian complaint had been received, said events on the border would be closely investigated.
'The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) will investigate the matter thoroughly and update the Egyptians,' he said.
The Egyptian military said the policemen were caught in the line of fire as an Israeli helicopter targeted the militants.
Security officials, however, gave a higher toll, saying five policemen were killed by gunfire from unknown assailants.
Egyptian government officials and leading politicians condemned the killing of the policemen, insisting that there must be a reaction.
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said on his Facebook page that 'Egyptian blood is too precious to be spilled without a response'.
'I am currently discussing available options regarding the deaths of noble Egyptian troops,' he said.
Amr Mussa, who has emerged as a leading presidential candidate after stepping down as Arab League chief earlier this year, lamented Thursday's deaths of up to five policemen and said 'there must be a reaction'.
'The blood of these conscripts is not cheap. All parties, including Israel, have to be warned against harming Egyptian soldiers,' he said.
16 Gazans killed in 2 days of airstrikes
Israel has launched another round of airstrikes targeting Gaza.
Another round of Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip has killed three people, raising the death toll to 16 in two days of attacks.
In one airstrike, Israeli warplanes struck a target in the town of Khan Yunis, but no casualties have been reported from that attack yet.
Medical sources say a five-year-old was among the fatalities of the attacks carried out late on Friday.
The Israeli airstrikes began on Thursday, shortly after eight Israelis were killed near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
Dozens of Palestinians have also been injured in the attacks.
Israeli officials have blamed a Gaza-based militant group called the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) for Thursday's attack and have vowed a “full force” response targeting Gaza.
Israel said the attackers had infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, although the PRC, which is not affiliated with Hamas, denied involvement in the incident.
Hamas has said that it had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194758.html
Israel continues deadly air strikes on Gaza
Fourteen people killed in Gaza over the past two days as fighters launch rockets into Ashdod, injuring three people.
Palestinian fighters in Gaza have launched more rockets into southern Israel, injuring three people.
The attacks against the coastal town of Ashdod on Saturday were in response to continued Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip that have now killed 14 people during the past two nights.
The violent exchanges follow coordinated deadly assaults by gunmen who targeted two buses, a car and an army vehicle in the area north of Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday.
Eight Israelis, including six civilians and two soldiers, were killed that day alongside seven of the attackers, among which were two suicide bombers who detonated near a bus and during a confrontation with soldiers. Over 40 Israelis were also wounded, local media reported.
Israel has vowed to "hunt down" the perpetrators who it said had infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials have blamed a Gaza-based armed group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) for Thursday's attacks, although the faction has denied any involvement.
The PRC is not affiliated with the Hamas.
Gaza hit
Three Palestinians including a five-year-old boy were killed and three passersby were injured in an attack on a vehicle in central Gaza City on Friday, Al Jazeera's Safwat Al Kahlout reported.
Previously, the latest air strike on the Gaza Strip hit Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza late Friday night, killing two men.
The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, confirmed that one of the men, Emad Abu Abda, was their member. The other man's identity and possible affiliations were not immediately known.
This was the Israeli air forces' sixth operation since beginning their raids in retaliation for Thursday's incidents.
Hours earlier, the Israeli air force targeted rocket launchers, "two weapons manufacturing sites in central Gaza" and "terrorist activity in the north and the south" of the strip", the Israeli military told Al Jazeera.
Five members of the PRC, including its leader, were killed in Thursday's overnight air strike in Gaza's southern city of Rafah and another killed on Friday, Al Kahlout reported from Gaza.
Abu Mujahid, a PRC spokesman, has said the group vows to take revenge "against everything and everyone" for its members’ deaths.
Medical sources said at least three civilians have also been killed, including two boys aged three and 13 who died early on Friday.
Rockets from Gaza
Over 24 rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel by Friday night, some reaching as far as the southern coastal city of Ashdod, the Israeli military confirmed.
Two rockets fired at Ashdod "caused damage and injuries at a synagogue and school", according to a military statement. Four Israeli civilians were injured in Ashdod, the Israeli medical service Magen David Adom told Al Jazeera.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said on Thursday that his country "will exact a price, a very heavy price" for those who "attempt to escalate terrorist war against Israel" and "believe that they can attack our citizens and get away with it".
While visiting the wounded at a medical center in the southern city of Beer Sheva on Friday, Netanyahu said Israel's ongoing retaliatory measures against Gaza is not Israel's "first reaction". He also pledged to "speed up" the construction of a bolstered barrier along its southern border with Egypt to cover 100km of the stretch by the end of the year.
The barrier currently runs for 45km of the full 200km stretch. The Israeli defence ministry had planned several months ago to complete the project by 2012.
Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military, said Israel does not seek to escalate the situation because it is "not the ones who chose to target civilian buses and vehicles".
Leibovich said Israeli forces were targeting "not only specific terror organisations in Gaza, but rather anyone who has some influence ... with terror", including groups of people it suspects of launching rocket attacks.
According to Gaza residents, three Hamas-controlled compounds in Rafah were among the targets hit in Thursday's late night air strikes.
Ghazi Hamad, Hamas' deputy foreign minister, denied any connection between Hamas or the people of Gaza with the attacks in southern Israel.
"From the first moment we are surprised that Israel started to target people. To target civilians, to target places, to target buildings before knowing who stands behind this operation. So, I think that Israel [always] considers Gaza a weak point that they can target them under any circumstances," he said.
Hamad called the rocket attacks from Gaza,"a kind of natural reaction against the Israeli aggression against our people."
He continued: "If they stop their aggression and attacks against Gaza, I think people here are interested in keeping Gaza calm and quiet."
Hamad also said that Hamas was "surprised" that members of the international community had not condemned Israel for "killing civilians".
http://fwd4.me/09TE
Gaza health ministry condemns attack on doctor
The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Saturday condemned Israel's killing of a Palestinian doctor overnight.
Dr Munther Qriqe, 32, a member of Shifa hospital's intensive care unit, was killed along with two others from the same family when an Israeli drone fired a missile at his car, medics said.
Qriqe was on his way home with his brother Mutaz and his young nephew Islam, the health ministry said, charging that the attack reflected Israel's "brutal escalation against medical staff."
"The Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza has increased dramatically," the ministry said in a statement early Saturday.
"Israel has crossed a red line," said ministry spokesman Dr Ashraf Alqudra.
The health ministry called for more protection for medical staff.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=414608
Criminal Zionism will bring about lasting disaster unto Jews
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East
Israeli leaders have nearly lost their composure, reacting to a rare resistance attack originating from the Sinai Peninsula near the southernmost town of Um al Rushrash, renamed by the Zionists as Elat.
Appearing existentially anxious and morbidly hypochondriac, Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu was behaving in a conspicuously convulsive manner.
He vowed to murder Palestinians, saying "we must kill those trying to hurt Jews." Netanyahu, an inherently dishonest and racist politician, thought that the only way Israel could prove her military might was by ganging up on nearly helpless and virtually undefended Gazans who are languishing under a lingering blockade that has made the coastal enclave very much a modern-day version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
But like the rest of the Zionist establishment, Netanyahu is living in a state of denial. He easily forgets or ignores the fact that Israel itself is a gigantic crime against humanity if only because that state happens to be the effect of the grandest land theft in history.
In fact, Israel not only occupies the ancestral homeland of another people, the Palestinians, but is also trying rather incessantly to ethnically cleanse the native Palestinians and obliterate the Arab-Islamic identity of their patrimonial homeland from time immemorial.
The resistance operation in southern Palestine was not thunder on a clear day. The brutal occupation of Palestine by East European Jews, shipped to the Holy Land in order to compensate them for the German holocaust, created a quagmire of problems that won't go away until the slate is wiped clean.
No one is against the principle of Jews living peacefully in Palestine. However, Jews or any other people have no right to lord it over the truly native people of the land or worse, enslave, torment, oppress, and murder them as Israel has been doing ever since its misbegotten birth sixty-three years ago.
The Palestinians are an integral part of the awakening Arab and Muslim world. They would never ever allow themselves to become the aboriginals of Palestine, nor the Seminoles, Cherokees, or Navahos of the region. Their attachment to the land is umbilical and their memories don't succumb easily to oblivion.
Hence, the latest incident near Elat should be viewed as a mere reminder to all concerned that no matter what level of insolence and arrogance of power Israel is maintaining or aspiring to reach, Zionists will continue to live a life of anxiety, insecurity and instability.
Israelis can't and won't have peace if the Palestinians are not granted justice. But true justice for the Palestinian people would effectively spell the end of the state known as Israel . In fact, this summarizes the conflict in Palestine in one small nutshell.
So, let the Zionist establishment not go euphoric about Jewish control over U.S. Congress, politics and policies, because even the mighty American empire will have to meet its days of demise sooner or later.
The Nazi-like Israeli state (Nazi-like because when Jews or anyone else think, behave and act like the Nazis, they effectively become Nazis themselves) is unlikely to change course until it is too late. This is why they will continue to murder Palestinians, steal their land, destroy their homes, and banish them away from their families and beloved ones. Israel will also continue to try to consummate Jewish fascism in the same manner the German Nazis had tried to consummate theirs. And, certainly, the Zio-Nazis will meet their ineluctable fate more or less the same way the German Nazis had met theirs.
One would have hoped that the voices of wisdom and reason would prevail among the Jewish community in this land. However, with Zionism, which is nothing less than Jewish Nazism despite efforts to portray a different image through its vast network of propaganda and hasbara, succeeding in transforming most Jews from basically decent people with a special concern for justice and fairness into land thieves, child-killers and hate-mongers, the face of world Jewry seems to have irreversibly changed to the worse.
This is certainly a bad omen for Jews, especially those who wouldn't stand up for justice, and opt just to go with the flow because Zionism represents the Zeitgeist or spirit of the time.
Jews had experienced such episodes several times when they incurred the disastrous consequences of their insolence, vanity, arrogance of power and criminality. But this time, they most likely will meet the mother of all disasters because the modern-day Golden Calf, which is Zionism, has succeeded in blinding the eyes and obliterating the senses of most Jews..
When the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, author of the "Jewish War," described the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans more than 2000 years ago, he spoke of a city that "deserved these terrible misfortunes on no other account than that she produced a generation such as brought about its ruin."
I am certain that future historians, Jewish and otherwise, would write more or less the same thing about the arrogant and conceited generation of Zionists who are going to bring about a lasting disaster to the Jewish people, thanks to their corruption, immorality and evil deeds.
Update: Medics: Drone strike kills 3 in Gaza City
Israeli warplanes killed three Palestinians in an airstrike in central Gaza City late Friday, medics said, raising the death toll to 14 in the coastal enclave since a deadly attack in southern Israel on Thursday.
The latest strike hit a civilian car killing three people from the same family including a 5-year-old boy and a doctor, Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said, adding that three others were wounded.
Israel has carried out more than a dozen airstrikes across the Gaza Strip following a series of deadly shooting attacks in the Negev desert left eight Israelis dead on Thursday.
Fourteen Palestinians have now been killed and scores injured after Israeli officials blamed Gaza-based militant group the Popular Resistance Committees, although the faction has denied any involvement.
On Friday evening, Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades called off a ceasefire with Israel and urged factions in Gaza to respond to Israeli attacks, Al-Aqsa Radio reported.
"There can be no truce with the Israeli occupation while it commits massacres against the Palestinian people without justification," a representative of the militant group was quoted as saying.
On Friday evening two Palestinians were killed in air raids near the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a medical official said.
Earlier, an airstrike killed Samed Abdul Mu'ty Abed while he was riding a motorcycle in the north, medics said.
Another Palestinian, a 22-year-old identified as Muhammad Enayeh, was killed in a separate attack. His body and another injured person were taken Shifa hospital in Gaza City, medics said.
Abu Salmiya said missiles also targeted a concrete factory in the same area seriously injuring two locals.
On Friday morning, Israeli warplanes struck An-Nuseirat refugee camp leaving one Palestinian lightly injured, he said.
Fighter jets bombed a generator near the camp, causing a power outage across the area and missiles hit a training camp of the armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, witnesses said.
The Israeli military said aircraft "targeted two weapons manufacturing sites in the central Gaza Strip and a terror activity site in both the northern and southern Gaza Strip."
"This is a response to the terror attacks executed against Israel in the last 24 hours," an army statement said.
At around 8 a.m. Friday Israel launched airstrikes on the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City causing damage but no injuries, medics said.
Just after midnight Friday, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids targeting Gaza City, the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, and Khan Younis in the south.
Abu Salmiya said an airstrike on a home near the former intelligence services headquarters in Gaza City killed 13-year-old Mahmoud Abu Samra and injured 18 others.
Elsewhere, Apache helicopters fired at least two missiles toward a Palestinian military site in the town of Beit Lahiya and a missile near Khan Younis landed in an open area and caused no injuries or damage.
The overnight strikes followed a day of violence in which gunmen unleashed bloody mayhem on on a desert road near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
Six Israeli civilians, a soldier and a police officer were killed in several hours of attacks on a desert road some 20 kilometers north of Eilat.
Israel officials were quick to point the finger at Gaza, although the territory's Hamas rulers denied any connection to the attacks.
But the Israeli military said it held the Islamist group ultimately responsible for violence coming from the territory it controls.
"If Hamas wants an escalation, it will pay a high price," Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai told public radio on Friday, saying some form of ground operation in Gaza was not out of the question.
"All options are open, including a pin-point [ground] operation," he said.
Shortly after the attack near Eilat, Israeli warplanes attacked targets in southern Gaza which killed six people, including a two-year-old toddler and five militants from the Popular Resistance Committees.
The PRC vowed bitter revenge for the attack, which killed its leader and three other top cadres, and on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at least seven rockets and mortars into Israel.
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Another round of Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip has killed three people, raising the death toll to 16 in two days of attacks.
In one airstrike, Israeli warplanes struck a target in the town of Khan Yunis, but no casualties have been reported from that attack yet.
Medical sources say a five-year-old was among the fatalities of the attacks carried out late on Friday.
The Israeli airstrikes began on Thursday, shortly after eight Israelis were killed near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
Dozens of Palestinians have also been injured in the attacks.
Israeli officials have blamed a Gaza-based militant group called the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) for Thursday's attack and have vowed a “full force” response targeting Gaza.
Israel said the attackers had infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, although the PRC, which is not affiliated with Hamas, denied involvement in the incident.
Hamas has said that it had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the Gaza Strip.
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Israel continues deadly air strikes on Gaza
Fourteen people killed in Gaza over the past two days as fighters launch rockets into Ashdod, injuring three people.
Palestinian fighters in Gaza have launched more rockets into southern Israel, injuring three people.
The attacks against the coastal town of Ashdod on Saturday were in response to continued Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip that have now killed 14 people during the past two nights.
The violent exchanges follow coordinated deadly assaults by gunmen who targeted two buses, a car and an army vehicle in the area north of Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday.
Eight Israelis, including six civilians and two soldiers, were killed that day alongside seven of the attackers, among which were two suicide bombers who detonated near a bus and during a confrontation with soldiers. Over 40 Israelis were also wounded, local media reported.
Israel has vowed to "hunt down" the perpetrators who it said had infiltrated from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials have blamed a Gaza-based armed group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) for Thursday's attacks, although the faction has denied any involvement.
The PRC is not affiliated with the Hamas.
Gaza hit
Three Palestinians including a five-year-old boy were killed and three passersby were injured in an attack on a vehicle in central Gaza City on Friday, Al Jazeera's Safwat Al Kahlout reported.
Previously, the latest air strike on the Gaza Strip hit Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza late Friday night, killing two men.
The Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, confirmed that one of the men, Emad Abu Abda, was their member. The other man's identity and possible affiliations were not immediately known.
This was the Israeli air forces' sixth operation since beginning their raids in retaliation for Thursday's incidents.
Hours earlier, the Israeli air force targeted rocket launchers, "two weapons manufacturing sites in central Gaza" and "terrorist activity in the north and the south" of the strip", the Israeli military told Al Jazeera.
Five members of the PRC, including its leader, were killed in Thursday's overnight air strike in Gaza's southern city of Rafah and another killed on Friday, Al Kahlout reported from Gaza.
Abu Mujahid, a PRC spokesman, has said the group vows to take revenge "against everything and everyone" for its members’ deaths.
Medical sources said at least three civilians have also been killed, including two boys aged three and 13 who died early on Friday.
Rockets from Gaza
Over 24 rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel by Friday night, some reaching as far as the southern coastal city of Ashdod, the Israeli military confirmed.
Two rockets fired at Ashdod "caused damage and injuries at a synagogue and school", according to a military statement. Four Israeli civilians were injured in Ashdod, the Israeli medical service Magen David Adom told Al Jazeera.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said on Thursday that his country "will exact a price, a very heavy price" for those who "attempt to escalate terrorist war against Israel" and "believe that they can attack our citizens and get away with it".
While visiting the wounded at a medical center in the southern city of Beer Sheva on Friday, Netanyahu said Israel's ongoing retaliatory measures against Gaza is not Israel's "first reaction". He also pledged to "speed up" the construction of a bolstered barrier along its southern border with Egypt to cover 100km of the stretch by the end of the year.
The barrier currently runs for 45km of the full 200km stretch. The Israeli defence ministry had planned several months ago to complete the project by 2012.
Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military, said Israel does not seek to escalate the situation because it is "not the ones who chose to target civilian buses and vehicles".
Leibovich said Israeli forces were targeting "not only specific terror organisations in Gaza, but rather anyone who has some influence ... with terror", including groups of people it suspects of launching rocket attacks.
According to Gaza residents, three Hamas-controlled compounds in Rafah were among the targets hit in Thursday's late night air strikes.
Ghazi Hamad, Hamas' deputy foreign minister, denied any connection between Hamas or the people of Gaza with the attacks in southern Israel.
"From the first moment we are surprised that Israel started to target people. To target civilians, to target places, to target buildings before knowing who stands behind this operation. So, I think that Israel [always] considers Gaza a weak point that they can target them under any circumstances," he said.
Hamad called the rocket attacks from Gaza,"a kind of natural reaction against the Israeli aggression against our people."
He continued: "If they stop their aggression and attacks against Gaza, I think people here are interested in keeping Gaza calm and quiet."
Hamad also said that Hamas was "surprised" that members of the international community had not condemned Israel for "killing civilians".
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Gaza health ministry condemns attack on doctor
The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Saturday condemned Israel's killing of a Palestinian doctor overnight.
Dr Munther Qriqe, 32, a member of Shifa hospital's intensive care unit, was killed along with two others from the same family when an Israeli drone fired a missile at his car, medics said.
Qriqe was on his way home with his brother Mutaz and his young nephew Islam, the health ministry said, charging that the attack reflected Israel's "brutal escalation against medical staff."
"The Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza has increased dramatically," the ministry said in a statement early Saturday.
"Israel has crossed a red line," said ministry spokesman Dr Ashraf Alqudra.
The health ministry called for more protection for medical staff.
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Criminal Zionism will bring about lasting disaster unto Jews
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East
Israeli leaders have nearly lost their composure, reacting to a rare resistance attack originating from the Sinai Peninsula near the southernmost town of Um al Rushrash, renamed by the Zionists as Elat.
Appearing existentially anxious and morbidly hypochondriac, Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu was behaving in a conspicuously convulsive manner.
He vowed to murder Palestinians, saying "we must kill those trying to hurt Jews." Netanyahu, an inherently dishonest and racist politician, thought that the only way Israel could prove her military might was by ganging up on nearly helpless and virtually undefended Gazans who are languishing under a lingering blockade that has made the coastal enclave very much a modern-day version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
But like the rest of the Zionist establishment, Netanyahu is living in a state of denial. He easily forgets or ignores the fact that Israel itself is a gigantic crime against humanity if only because that state happens to be the effect of the grandest land theft in history.
In fact, Israel not only occupies the ancestral homeland of another people, the Palestinians, but is also trying rather incessantly to ethnically cleanse the native Palestinians and obliterate the Arab-Islamic identity of their patrimonial homeland from time immemorial.
The resistance operation in southern Palestine was not thunder on a clear day. The brutal occupation of Palestine by East European Jews, shipped to the Holy Land in order to compensate them for the German holocaust, created a quagmire of problems that won't go away until the slate is wiped clean.
No one is against the principle of Jews living peacefully in Palestine. However, Jews or any other people have no right to lord it over the truly native people of the land or worse, enslave, torment, oppress, and murder them as Israel has been doing ever since its misbegotten birth sixty-three years ago.
The Palestinians are an integral part of the awakening Arab and Muslim world. They would never ever allow themselves to become the aboriginals of Palestine, nor the Seminoles, Cherokees, or Navahos of the region. Their attachment to the land is umbilical and their memories don't succumb easily to oblivion.
Hence, the latest incident near Elat should be viewed as a mere reminder to all concerned that no matter what level of insolence and arrogance of power Israel is maintaining or aspiring to reach, Zionists will continue to live a life of anxiety, insecurity and instability.
Israelis can't and won't have peace if the Palestinians are not granted justice. But true justice for the Palestinian people would effectively spell the end of the state known as Israel . In fact, this summarizes the conflict in Palestine in one small nutshell.
So, let the Zionist establishment not go euphoric about Jewish control over U.S. Congress, politics and policies, because even the mighty American empire will have to meet its days of demise sooner or later.
The Nazi-like Israeli state (Nazi-like because when Jews or anyone else think, behave and act like the Nazis, they effectively become Nazis themselves) is unlikely to change course until it is too late. This is why they will continue to murder Palestinians, steal their land, destroy their homes, and banish them away from their families and beloved ones. Israel will also continue to try to consummate Jewish fascism in the same manner the German Nazis had tried to consummate theirs. And, certainly, the Zio-Nazis will meet their ineluctable fate more or less the same way the German Nazis had met theirs.
One would have hoped that the voices of wisdom and reason would prevail among the Jewish community in this land. However, with Zionism, which is nothing less than Jewish Nazism despite efforts to portray a different image through its vast network of propaganda and hasbara, succeeding in transforming most Jews from basically decent people with a special concern for justice and fairness into land thieves, child-killers and hate-mongers, the face of world Jewry seems to have irreversibly changed to the worse.
This is certainly a bad omen for Jews, especially those who wouldn't stand up for justice, and opt just to go with the flow because Zionism represents the Zeitgeist or spirit of the time.
Jews had experienced such episodes several times when they incurred the disastrous consequences of their insolence, vanity, arrogance of power and criminality. But this time, they most likely will meet the mother of all disasters because the modern-day Golden Calf, which is Zionism, has succeeded in blinding the eyes and obliterating the senses of most Jews..
When the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, author of the "Jewish War," described the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans more than 2000 years ago, he spoke of a city that "deserved these terrible misfortunes on no other account than that she produced a generation such as brought about its ruin."
I am certain that future historians, Jewish and otherwise, would write more or less the same thing about the arrogant and conceited generation of Zionists who are going to bring about a lasting disaster to the Jewish people, thanks to their corruption, immorality and evil deeds.
Update: Medics: Drone strike kills 3 in Gaza City
Israeli warplanes killed three Palestinians in an airstrike in central Gaza City late Friday, medics said, raising the death toll to 14 in the coastal enclave since a deadly attack in southern Israel on Thursday.
The latest strike hit a civilian car killing three people from the same family including a 5-year-old boy and a doctor, Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said, adding that three others were wounded.
Israel has carried out more than a dozen airstrikes across the Gaza Strip following a series of deadly shooting attacks in the Negev desert left eight Israelis dead on Thursday.
Fourteen Palestinians have now been killed and scores injured after Israeli officials blamed Gaza-based militant group the Popular Resistance Committees, although the faction has denied any involvement.
On Friday evening, Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades called off a ceasefire with Israel and urged factions in Gaza to respond to Israeli attacks, Al-Aqsa Radio reported.
"There can be no truce with the Israeli occupation while it commits massacres against the Palestinian people without justification," a representative of the militant group was quoted as saying.
On Friday evening two Palestinians were killed in air raids near the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a medical official said.
Earlier, an airstrike killed Samed Abdul Mu'ty Abed while he was riding a motorcycle in the north, medics said.
Another Palestinian, a 22-year-old identified as Muhammad Enayeh, was killed in a separate attack. His body and another injured person were taken Shifa hospital in Gaza City, medics said.
Abu Salmiya said missiles also targeted a concrete factory in the same area seriously injuring two locals.
On Friday morning, Israeli warplanes struck An-Nuseirat refugee camp leaving one Palestinian lightly injured, he said.
Fighter jets bombed a generator near the camp, causing a power outage across the area and missiles hit a training camp of the armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, witnesses said.
The Israeli military said aircraft "targeted two weapons manufacturing sites in the central Gaza Strip and a terror activity site in both the northern and southern Gaza Strip."
"This is a response to the terror attacks executed against Israel in the last 24 hours," an army statement said.
At around 8 a.m. Friday Israel launched airstrikes on the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City causing damage but no injuries, medics said.
Just after midnight Friday, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids targeting Gaza City, the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, and Khan Younis in the south.
Abu Salmiya said an airstrike on a home near the former intelligence services headquarters in Gaza City killed 13-year-old Mahmoud Abu Samra and injured 18 others.
Elsewhere, Apache helicopters fired at least two missiles toward a Palestinian military site in the town of Beit Lahiya and a missile near Khan Younis landed in an open area and caused no injuries or damage.
The overnight strikes followed a day of violence in which gunmen unleashed bloody mayhem on on a desert road near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
Six Israeli civilians, a soldier and a police officer were killed in several hours of attacks on a desert road some 20 kilometers north of Eilat.
Israel officials were quick to point the finger at Gaza, although the territory's Hamas rulers denied any connection to the attacks.
But the Israeli military said it held the Islamist group ultimately responsible for violence coming from the territory it controls.
"If Hamas wants an escalation, it will pay a high price," Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai told public radio on Friday, saying some form of ground operation in Gaza was not out of the question.
"All options are open, including a pin-point [ground] operation," he said.
Shortly after the attack near Eilat, Israeli warplanes attacked targets in southern Gaza which killed six people, including a two-year-old toddler and five militants from the Popular Resistance Committees.
The PRC vowed bitter revenge for the attack, which killed its leader and three other top cadres, and on Friday claimed responsibility for firing at least seven rockets and mortars into Israel.
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