8 apr 2011
On 8 April 2011, a nine-year-old boy was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
On 8 April 2011, a nine-year-old boy was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Mahmoud al-Jarou 9
Nine-year-old Mahmoud lived with his parents and seven siblings in the ash-Shuja’iyeh area of Gaza City. At around 10:00 am on Friday, 8 April 2011, Mahmoud asked his father, Wael, to buy him sport shoes and a superman T-shirt. ‘He kept begging, so I finally agreed. We went shopping with my other son, Mohammad (14). I bought Mahmoud what he wanted and he was very excited. Then, we came home.’
At around 1:00 pm, after the Friday prayer, Mahmoud went to play in the cemetery near his grandfather’s house. ‘He often went there because he had many friends with whom he used to play football,’ explains Wael. At around 4:30pm, Wael heard people saying that ‘fighters were about to fire mortar shells from among the graves on the south side of the cemetery.’ He remembered that Mahmoud was playing there, so he rushed with his son Mohammad to bring Mahmoud home. When they arrived, they saw other children playing, but did not find Mahmoud. A drone place was circling overhead.
Mahmoud’s father shows pieces of the shirt Mahmoud was wearing when he was killed
Nine-year-old Mahmoud lived with his parents and seven siblings in the ash-Shuja’iyeh area of Gaza City. At around 10:00 am on Friday, 8 April 2011, Mahmoud asked his father, Wael, to buy him sport shoes and a superman T-shirt. ‘He kept begging, so I finally agreed. We went shopping with my other son, Mohammad (14). I bought Mahmoud what he wanted and he was very excited. Then, we came home.’
At around 1:00 pm, after the Friday prayer, Mahmoud went to play in the cemetery near his grandfather’s house. ‘He often went there because he had many friends with whom he used to play football,’ explains Wael. At around 4:30pm, Wael heard people saying that ‘fighters were about to fire mortar shells from among the graves on the south side of the cemetery.’ He remembered that Mahmoud was playing there, so he rushed with his son Mohammad to bring Mahmoud home. When they arrived, they saw other children playing, but did not find Mahmoud. A drone place was circling overhead.
Mahmoud’s father shows pieces of the shirt Mahmoud was wearing when he was killed
‘At that moment, there was a huge explosion about 40 metres away from me, and I saw heavy smoke and dust rising, as well as something like a human body flying in the air and landing on the ground. It was so horrifying that I sat down with my hands on my head for a few seconds. Then, I stood up and started running among the graves. (...) I ran for about 30 metres and kept searching among the graves, until I saw two legs on the ground. I realized they were Mahmoud’s because of the new shoes I had bought for him in the morning. I looked around and saw the rest of the body about five metres away. I ran to the body without knowing what to do. I will never forget what I saw. I saw his insides hanging out, and blood pumping from his stomach. I stood there shouting and hitting my head.’
Minutes later, an ambulance arrived. As the paramedic and a neighbour rushed toward Wael and his son’s body, there was another strike. ‘I saw dust rising, and we all threw ourselves on the ground. I stood up to see what had happened. I saw the paramedic on the ground. He then stood up and started running back towards the ambulance. I saw the other man on the ground. His head had been blown off and it was lying about five metres from his body. We all stood there shouting and crying waiting for another ambulance to arrive.’ Wael concludes: ‘I cry whenever I remember Mahmoud in the cemetery. It was a horrific scene. It’s really painful to see your son blown into pieces in front of you. When I said goodbye to him, his face was full of cuts and holes.’
Since the beginning of 2011, DCI has documented the deaths of six Palestinian children killed as a result of Israeli airstrikes and tank shells in the Gaza Strip. At least eight more have been injured. One of them, a three-year-old boy, is still in a critical condition.
Minutes later, an ambulance arrived. As the paramedic and a neighbour rushed toward Wael and his son’s body, there was another strike. ‘I saw dust rising, and we all threw ourselves on the ground. I stood up to see what had happened. I saw the paramedic on the ground. He then stood up and started running back towards the ambulance. I saw the other man on the ground. His head had been blown off and it was lying about five metres from his body. We all stood there shouting and crying waiting for another ambulance to arrive.’ Wael concludes: ‘I cry whenever I remember Mahmoud in the cemetery. It was a horrific scene. It’s really painful to see your son blown into pieces in front of you. When I said goodbye to him, his face was full of cuts and holes.’
Since the beginning of 2011, DCI has documented the deaths of six Palestinian children killed as a result of Israeli airstrikes and tank shells in the Gaza Strip. At least eight more have been injured. One of them, a three-year-old boy, is still in a critical condition.
7 apr 2011
Israeli Gaza assaults kill 1, injure 10
Israeli Gaza assaults kill 1, injure 10
Relatives of a Palestinian killed by Israel mourn the loss.
Israeli military has reportedly launched attacks on different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and inflicting injuries on 10 others.
One of the Thursday attacks targeted the Gaza City in the north of the coastal sliver, causing the fatality and injuring eight others, including a small child, AFP reported.
The Israeli military also injured two more people in a follow-up assault on the Jabaliya refugee camp, situated in the north as well.
Israeli warplanes also pounded the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza without leaving any casualties.
The Israeli military claimed that the first attack followed an alleged mortar shell that was launched 'from the direction of Gaza.'
The Tel Aviv regime has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6 billion on the region's already-stagnant economy.
The offensives are often launched under the usual pretext of responding to the purported firing of projectiles.
The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007 with the cooperation of the recently ousted regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most Palestinian children.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173581.html
Israeli military has reportedly launched attacks on different parts of the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and inflicting injuries on 10 others.
One of the Thursday attacks targeted the Gaza City in the north of the coastal sliver, causing the fatality and injuring eight others, including a small child, AFP reported.
The Israeli military also injured two more people in a follow-up assault on the Jabaliya refugee camp, situated in the north as well.
Israeli warplanes also pounded the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza without leaving any casualties.
The Israeli military claimed that the first attack followed an alleged mortar shell that was launched 'from the direction of Gaza.'
The Tel Aviv regime has been recurrently bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day war on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted a damage of $1.6 billion on the region's already-stagnant economy.
The offensives are often launched under the usual pretext of responding to the purported firing of projectiles.
The Israeli hostility rages on while Tel Aviv refuses to lift an all-out blockade it imposed on Gaza in mid-June 2007 with the cooperation of the recently ousted regime of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The siege has deprived the Gaza population of food, fuel and medicine, triggering stunted growth and malnutrition among most Palestinian children.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173581.html
Other killed Palestinians april 7th
Khaled Isma'il Hamdan al-Dbari, 17
IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at least 10 artillery shells and IOF helicopter gunships opened fire in the vicinity of Gaza International Airport, southeast of Rafah. A number of shells landed near 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, who were in the airport. Two of these civilians were killed and the third one died of his wound later.
IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at least 10 artillery shells and IOF helicopter gunships opened fire in the vicinity of Gaza International Airport, southeast of Rafah. A number of shells landed near 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, who were in the airport. Two of these civilians were killed and the third one died of his wound later.
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Tayseer Said Abu Snaima 27 (L)
Salah Tarabin 38 (C) Mohammed Ali Awaja 28 (R) |
an IOF drone fired two missile at 3 activists of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) who were walking on al-Nuzha road in Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of Rafah. Two activists were instantly killed:
The third activist was seriously wounded.
The third activist was seriously wounded.
6 apr 2011
Israeli official: We struck in Sudan
Official quoted by TIME Magazine confirms strike, says 'it's not our first time there.' Al-Jazeera says Palestinian, Iranian killed in Tuesday's bombing, later changes its report. Sudanese FM: We'll complain to UN.
A senior Israeli military official told TIME Magazine Wednesday that the Jewish state was behind a mysterious air strike in Sudan Tuesday that killed two people.
"It's not our first time there," the official was quoted as saying, apparently referring to the 2009 airstrike that demolished an arms convoy near the border with Egypt.
The Al-Arabiya news channel reported on Wednesday that one of the two men killed in the airstrike on Sudan, which some claim was carried out by Israel, was an Arab national who was responsible for arming Hamas.
The network later changed the report to say that police sources confirmed that both men were Sudanese arms dealers.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese government said it would file a complaint against Israel with the United Nations Security Council over the strike.
Al-Jazeera also filed its share of conflicted reports on the incident. The Qatari news network first cited an anonymous security source saying that one of the men who were killed was Palestinian, while the other was Iranian. Later, an Al-Jazeera reporter in Sudan said that both of the victims were Sudanese, and that one of them was a notorious arms dealer.
'Proof that Israel behind attack'
Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti accused Israel of carrying out the strike. He said in a press conference in Khartoum that his government "has proof Israel carried this attack. We are absolutely certain of it, but we don't know the reason."
Karti also claimed that Israel is attempting to harm Sudan's chances of being removed from the United States' list of terror-sponsoring nations.
According to Sudanese reports, a foreign aircraft entered the African nation's airspace around 10 pm on Tuesday from the Red Sea. Sudanese forces reportedly fired at the aircraft, chasing it away. Eyewitnesses said they heard loud explosions and saw two helicopters flying by.
In January 2009, a convoy of arms smugglers was hit by unidentified aircraft in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state, a strike that some reports said may have been carried out by Israel to stop weapons bound for Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4053277,00.html
Israeli warplanes violate Sudanese airspace, strike a car killing two
Israeli warplanes raided a car off the Sudanese Red Sea harbor of Port Sudan on Tuesday night and killed two men who were inside it, a Hebrew press report said on Wednesday.
Yediot Ahronot quoted foreign sources as saying that an Israeli warplane carried out the raid.
Mohammed Taher, the governor of the Sudanese Red Sea province, said that an unknown warplane blasted a car in the outskirts of Port Sudan, destroying the vehicle and killing its passengers.
He said that the unknown plane came from the Red Sea then returned via the same route at 10 pm local time (7 pm GMT).
A source at Port Sudan harbor told Reuters that he heard the sound of three explosions, and quoted an eyewitness as saying that he saw two burnt bodies one inside the car and the other outside it.
Israeli warplanes blasted a convoy in the same area in January 2009 killing 119 persons, claiming that they were smuggling weapons to the Gaza Strip.
Israeli official: We struck in Sudan
Official quoted by TIME Magazine confirms strike, says 'it's not our first time there.' Al-Jazeera says Palestinian, Iranian killed in Tuesday's bombing, later changes its report. Sudanese FM: We'll complain to UN.
A senior Israeli military official told TIME Magazine Wednesday that the Jewish state was behind a mysterious air strike in Sudan Tuesday that killed two people.
"It's not our first time there," the official was quoted as saying, apparently referring to the 2009 airstrike that demolished an arms convoy near the border with Egypt.
The Al-Arabiya news channel reported on Wednesday that one of the two men killed in the airstrike on Sudan, which some claim was carried out by Israel, was an Arab national who was responsible for arming Hamas.
The network later changed the report to say that police sources confirmed that both men were Sudanese arms dealers.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese government said it would file a complaint against Israel with the United Nations Security Council over the strike.
Al-Jazeera also filed its share of conflicted reports on the incident. The Qatari news network first cited an anonymous security source saying that one of the men who were killed was Palestinian, while the other was Iranian. Later, an Al-Jazeera reporter in Sudan said that both of the victims were Sudanese, and that one of them was a notorious arms dealer.
'Proof that Israel behind attack'
Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti accused Israel of carrying out the strike. He said in a press conference in Khartoum that his government "has proof Israel carried this attack. We are absolutely certain of it, but we don't know the reason."
Karti also claimed that Israel is attempting to harm Sudan's chances of being removed from the United States' list of terror-sponsoring nations.
According to Sudanese reports, a foreign aircraft entered the African nation's airspace around 10 pm on Tuesday from the Red Sea. Sudanese forces reportedly fired at the aircraft, chasing it away. Eyewitnesses said they heard loud explosions and saw two helicopters flying by.
In January 2009, a convoy of arms smugglers was hit by unidentified aircraft in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state, a strike that some reports said may have been carried out by Israel to stop weapons bound for Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4053277,00.html
Israeli warplanes violate Sudanese airspace, strike a car killing two
Israeli warplanes raided a car off the Sudanese Red Sea harbor of Port Sudan on Tuesday night and killed two men who were inside it, a Hebrew press report said on Wednesday.
Yediot Ahronot quoted foreign sources as saying that an Israeli warplane carried out the raid.
Mohammed Taher, the governor of the Sudanese Red Sea province, said that an unknown warplane blasted a car in the outskirts of Port Sudan, destroying the vehicle and killing its passengers.
He said that the unknown plane came from the Red Sea then returned via the same route at 10 pm local time (7 pm GMT).
A source at Port Sudan harbor told Reuters that he heard the sound of three explosions, and quoted an eyewitness as saying that he saw two burnt bodies one inside the car and the other outside it.
Israeli warplanes blasted a convoy in the same area in January 2009 killing 119 persons, claiming that they were smuggling weapons to the Gaza Strip.
5 apr 2011
Israeli troops shoot two Gazans dead
Mohammed Zeyad Khamis Shalha, 22
Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip near the Erez border crossing, witnesses say.
The troops targeted the Palestinians while they were collecting gravel in the area, a Press TV correspondent quoted witnesses as saying.
Medics also said that The ambulance service was being prevented from reaching them.
The Israeli army also confirmed that its forces opened fire at someone in the northern Gaza Strip."
Israeli troops often fire on Palestinians in the area along the Gaza border and locals risk injury or death along the border.
Early Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians and injured one in the south of the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, Israeli fighter jets fired several rockets at two Palestinians as they were riding a motorcycle on the road from Khan Younis to Rafah, killing one person and injuring another.
Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of "Operation Cast Lead" against the enclave.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air assault in the impoverished coastal sliver during the winter of 2008-2009. The attack inflicted $1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173169.html
Israeli troops shoot two Gazans dead
Mohammed Zeyad Khamis Shalha, 22
Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip near the Erez border crossing, witnesses say.
The troops targeted the Palestinians while they were collecting gravel in the area, a Press TV correspondent quoted witnesses as saying.
Medics also said that The ambulance service was being prevented from reaching them.
The Israeli army also confirmed that its forces opened fire at someone in the northern Gaza Strip."
Israeli troops often fire on Palestinians in the area along the Gaza border and locals risk injury or death along the border.
Early Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians and injured one in the south of the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, Israeli fighter jets fired several rockets at two Palestinians as they were riding a motorcycle on the road from Khan Younis to Rafah, killing one person and injuring another.
Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of "Operation Cast Lead" against the enclave.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air assault in the impoverished coastal sliver during the winter of 2008-2009. The attack inflicted $1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173169.html
3 apr 2011
Hundreds mourn for 3 Palestinians
Hundreds mourn for 3 Palestinians
Mohammed
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Abdullah
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Isma'il Ali Lobbad 35
Abdullah Ali Lobbad 44 Mohammed Mahdi al-Dayah 31 Hundreds of Palestinians have attended the funeral procession of three people killed by Israeli fighter jets in an overnight airstrike. |
The three lost their lives while driving in a car from the town of Khan Yunis to the Deir al Balah refugee camp early Saturday.
Medical sources say a fourth Palestinian has been injured in the incident.
The Israeli strike in southern Gaza created fears of an escalation into an all-out confrontation.
Hamas has identified the victims as members of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
The Brigades described the airstrike as a "serious escalation" and warned that Israel "will bear all the consequences."
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum described the airstrike as "a crime and a systematic continuation of murder, criminality and state terrorism."
On Tuesday, multiple attacks left at least 10 people dead, including 4 children in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172797.html
Medical sources say a fourth Palestinian has been injured in the incident.
The Israeli strike in southern Gaza created fears of an escalation into an all-out confrontation.
Hamas has identified the victims as members of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
The Brigades described the airstrike as a "serious escalation" and warned that Israel "will bear all the consequences."
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum described the airstrike as "a crime and a systematic continuation of murder, criminality and state terrorism."
On Tuesday, multiple attacks left at least 10 people dead, including 4 children in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172797.html
Murder is Israel 's modus operandi
By Khalid Amayreh
The unprovoked murder by the Israeli occupation army of three Hamas' resistance officers in the Gaza Strip on 2 April is a classical example of Israel's murderous mentality. The unprovoked assassination of the three, carried out from the air, came only a few days after Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups voiced their willingness to maintain the calm.
However, it seems that bloodshed is the perfect environment in which Israel thrives and prospers.
Israel claimed the three victims were planning to carry out a resistance operation against its murderous army. However, it is most likely that the claim has no iota of truth to it and that it is only meant as a media pretext to justify the murder.
Israel knows well that Palestinians in general can't just keep silent in the face of Zionist aggression and terror since doing so would only encourage the Nazi-like Zionist establishment to murder and maim more Palestinians.
Hence, it is only logical to argue that the latest atrocity in Gaza will only generate another cycle of violence and bloodshed which will cause the death of yet more Palestinian civilians.
The Palestinians have every right in the book to resist their Zionist occupiers and tormentors. The Zionists continue to illegally occupy the Palestinians' homeland, including Jerusalem , the soul and heart of the Levant . Moreover, Israel has been laying siege to Gaza Strip for more than three years, bringing the coastal enclave, with its 1.7 million inhabitants, to the brink of starvation and economic meltdown.
In light, the Palestinian struggle against Israel acquires perfect legitimacy because all people under the sun have an inherent right to freedom from foreign occupation.
The murder of three resistance fighters in Gaza is, of course, not the first and won't be the last of its kind. Israel, after all, is a murderous state par excellence.
However, the latest murder illustrates or re-illustrates a fact that some Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims tend to forget, namely that Israel and peace constitute an eternal oxymoron and that reaching a peaceful modus vivendi with this barbarian, cruel and hateful entity is a far fetched possibility at the very best.
Indeed, living with Israel is like living with a treacherous, venomous snake. Israel seems to love this kind of epithet on the ground that being feared guarantees security for the virulent entity.
However, Israel and its leaders must also realize that Israel is really more hated than feared, very much like a criminal outlaw who is at large but one who will be captured and eliminated sooner or later.
With this realization, the realization that Israel is an irredeemably and hopelessly criminal state, where pugnacity and aggression are an eternal and intrinsic character, Palestinians, especially the Palestinian Authority, must reach the ultimate conclusion that peace with Israel is a real impossibility.
Palestinians must also realize that in order to create a semblance of deterrence vis-à-vis Israel, they must start building a worldwide coalition to pressure the Zionist regime into stopping its nearly daily criminal aggressions against the Palestinian people.
More importantly, the Palestinians should abandon, once and for all, the illusive peace process under whose rubric Israel has been able to steal more Palestinian rights and build more Jewish expansion.
Then, of course, they should work diligently to restore their national unity on solid basis.
The Palestinians alone won't be able to fight both Israel and the United States. I say the United States because Israel relies on America's technological and financial capabilities in waging its protracted, genocidal colonial war on the Palestinian people who have the truth and justice on their side but unfortunately lack the military means to enforce their legitimate rights.
Hence, it is imperative that the Palestinian governments in both Ramallah and Gaza do their utmost to utilize the recent revolutionary changes in the Arab world, especially in Egypt, against the criminal Zionist entity.
Egypt, a country of eighty million people, has great potentials, and if utilized properly, can be made into a tremendous asset for the Palestinian cause.
At this juncture, we shouldn't appear as if we are pushing Egypt toward renewing actual hostilities with Israel, although this may be a forgone eventuality, especially if Israel continued to pursue an agenda based on aggression, occupation and expansion.
None the less, the Egyptian people must always push their government to show Israel the "red eye" on every occasion and opportunity.
Certainly, the Egyptian people are always expected to make sure that there is a zero warmth and a zero friendliness in whatever relations Egypt will still have with Israel .
In short, de facto hostility with Israel must be the order of the day all over the Arab world from Morocco to Bahrain . And Arabs and Muslims must search for every conceivable area to harm the Zionist regime, in order to undermine its ability to persecute and savage the Palestinians with immunity- from media and internet use to economic boycott.
Some countries which have peace treaties with Israel might object to this kind of aggressive activism. However, popular pressure must always be exerted on these obsequious regimes in order to keep relations with criminal Israel at the most minimal level.
In so doing, commemoration of important anniversaries should always be highlighted and immense awareness efforts should be constantly made in order to ensure that the regime's normalization agents remain isolated.
There is no doubt that Israel will meet the same fate that other similar criminal entities eventually met, entities such as Nazi Germany.
However, in order to effect and realize this ultimate goal, we need to exercise more steadfastness and determination. And we must never flinch from giving the necessary sacrifices for freedom.
Israel may be militarily strong for the time being. But our resolve for freedom must be stronger. Besides, justice and truth are on our side
By Khalid Amayreh
The unprovoked murder by the Israeli occupation army of three Hamas' resistance officers in the Gaza Strip on 2 April is a classical example of Israel's murderous mentality. The unprovoked assassination of the three, carried out from the air, came only a few days after Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups voiced their willingness to maintain the calm.
However, it seems that bloodshed is the perfect environment in which Israel thrives and prospers.
Israel claimed the three victims were planning to carry out a resistance operation against its murderous army. However, it is most likely that the claim has no iota of truth to it and that it is only meant as a media pretext to justify the murder.
Israel knows well that Palestinians in general can't just keep silent in the face of Zionist aggression and terror since doing so would only encourage the Nazi-like Zionist establishment to murder and maim more Palestinians.
Hence, it is only logical to argue that the latest atrocity in Gaza will only generate another cycle of violence and bloodshed which will cause the death of yet more Palestinian civilians.
The Palestinians have every right in the book to resist their Zionist occupiers and tormentors. The Zionists continue to illegally occupy the Palestinians' homeland, including Jerusalem , the soul and heart of the Levant . Moreover, Israel has been laying siege to Gaza Strip for more than three years, bringing the coastal enclave, with its 1.7 million inhabitants, to the brink of starvation and economic meltdown.
In light, the Palestinian struggle against Israel acquires perfect legitimacy because all people under the sun have an inherent right to freedom from foreign occupation.
The murder of three resistance fighters in Gaza is, of course, not the first and won't be the last of its kind. Israel, after all, is a murderous state par excellence.
However, the latest murder illustrates or re-illustrates a fact that some Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims tend to forget, namely that Israel and peace constitute an eternal oxymoron and that reaching a peaceful modus vivendi with this barbarian, cruel and hateful entity is a far fetched possibility at the very best.
Indeed, living with Israel is like living with a treacherous, venomous snake. Israel seems to love this kind of epithet on the ground that being feared guarantees security for the virulent entity.
However, Israel and its leaders must also realize that Israel is really more hated than feared, very much like a criminal outlaw who is at large but one who will be captured and eliminated sooner or later.
With this realization, the realization that Israel is an irredeemably and hopelessly criminal state, where pugnacity and aggression are an eternal and intrinsic character, Palestinians, especially the Palestinian Authority, must reach the ultimate conclusion that peace with Israel is a real impossibility.
Palestinians must also realize that in order to create a semblance of deterrence vis-à-vis Israel, they must start building a worldwide coalition to pressure the Zionist regime into stopping its nearly daily criminal aggressions against the Palestinian people.
More importantly, the Palestinians should abandon, once and for all, the illusive peace process under whose rubric Israel has been able to steal more Palestinian rights and build more Jewish expansion.
Then, of course, they should work diligently to restore their national unity on solid basis.
The Palestinians alone won't be able to fight both Israel and the United States. I say the United States because Israel relies on America's technological and financial capabilities in waging its protracted, genocidal colonial war on the Palestinian people who have the truth and justice on their side but unfortunately lack the military means to enforce their legitimate rights.
Hence, it is imperative that the Palestinian governments in both Ramallah and Gaza do their utmost to utilize the recent revolutionary changes in the Arab world, especially in Egypt, against the criminal Zionist entity.
Egypt, a country of eighty million people, has great potentials, and if utilized properly, can be made into a tremendous asset for the Palestinian cause.
At this juncture, we shouldn't appear as if we are pushing Egypt toward renewing actual hostilities with Israel, although this may be a forgone eventuality, especially if Israel continued to pursue an agenda based on aggression, occupation and expansion.
None the less, the Egyptian people must always push their government to show Israel the "red eye" on every occasion and opportunity.
Certainly, the Egyptian people are always expected to make sure that there is a zero warmth and a zero friendliness in whatever relations Egypt will still have with Israel .
In short, de facto hostility with Israel must be the order of the day all over the Arab world from Morocco to Bahrain . And Arabs and Muslims must search for every conceivable area to harm the Zionist regime, in order to undermine its ability to persecute and savage the Palestinians with immunity- from media and internet use to economic boycott.
Some countries which have peace treaties with Israel might object to this kind of aggressive activism. However, popular pressure must always be exerted on these obsequious regimes in order to keep relations with criminal Israel at the most minimal level.
In so doing, commemoration of important anniversaries should always be highlighted and immense awareness efforts should be constantly made in order to ensure that the regime's normalization agents remain isolated.
There is no doubt that Israel will meet the same fate that other similar criminal entities eventually met, entities such as Nazi Germany.
However, in order to effect and realize this ultimate goal, we need to exercise more steadfastness and determination. And we must never flinch from giving the necessary sacrifices for freedom.
Israel may be militarily strong for the time being. But our resolve for freedom must be stronger. Besides, justice and truth are on our side
31 mar 2011
Israeli settlers Kill Palestinian man by running him over
Occupied Jerusalem- A Palestinian citizen was killed in a cold blood when Israeli extremist settler ran over him with his car in the occupied city of Jerusalem Thursday March 31, 2011.
Israel radio said that "the car ran over a Palestinian and killed him immediately," while the victim's identity is still unknown until this moment.
Palestinian sources said that the Palestinian victim is in the thirties of age.
Israeli extremist settlers escalated their attacks against Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem during the last period, especially after the killing of an Israeli family at the hands of unknown persons in the illegal settlement of "Itamar" in mid-March, 2011.
These extremist settlers - deemed illegal by all standards of international law - are most religious fanatics who routinely kill Palestinians and destroy their property, and even attack Israeli troops in the cause to expel more and more Arabs and secure more and more land to Jews. They have no regard for any sense of rule of law or humanitarian compassion, instead they are infused with a fanatical ideology of hate and colonialism.
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Israeli settlers Kill Palestinian man by running him over
Occupied Jerusalem- A Palestinian citizen was killed in a cold blood when Israeli extremist settler ran over him with his car in the occupied city of Jerusalem Thursday March 31, 2011.
Israel radio said that "the car ran over a Palestinian and killed him immediately," while the victim's identity is still unknown until this moment.
Palestinian sources said that the Palestinian victim is in the thirties of age.
Israeli extremist settlers escalated their attacks against Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem during the last period, especially after the killing of an Israeli family at the hands of unknown persons in the illegal settlement of "Itamar" in mid-March, 2011.
These extremist settlers - deemed illegal by all standards of international law - are most religious fanatics who routinely kill Palestinians and destroy their property, and even attack Israeli troops in the cause to expel more and more Arabs and secure more and more land to Jews. They have no regard for any sense of rule of law or humanitarian compassion, instead they are infused with a fanatical ideology of hate and colonialism.
http://bit.ly/ggZEbf
30 mar 2011
Early morning air strike kills 1
Early morning air strike kills 1
Mohammad Abu Mu'ammer 24
Israeli forces launched an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip shortly after the dawn prayer on Wednesday, killing one militant and injuring a second.
In a statement from the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, officials identified the slain man as Mohammad Abu Mu'ammer, killed by an Israeli air strike near a mosque in the An-Nasser neighborhood in northeastern Rafah, near the refugee camp.
Spokesman of the higher committee of ambulance and emergency services Adham Abu Salmiya said the 24-year-old man died shortly after being taken to hospital. He confirmed that a second was being treated for critical injuries as a result of the strike.
Officials said a drone had carried out the attack.
Mu'ammer is the sixth member of the Al-Quds Brigades to be killed in the last ten days, as border violence increased following a 16 March airstrike which killed two Hamas members in the central Strip. Up to that point, Israeli strikes had targeted areas on the border.
An Israeli military statement said "aircraft targeted and hit a terrorist squad in the Southern Gaza Strip, which had launched rockets towards Israeli communities yesterday."
The statement said strikes also targeted a smuggling tunnel near Rafah, where goods are brought into the coastal enclave from Egypt.
Israel's military said it would "continue to respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the citizens of Israel," and added that it "holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip."
Since a barrage of nearly 50 shells toward four Israeli military targets on 19 March, which Hamas claimed as a response to the death of its two fighters days earlier, the military groups of Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Resistance Committees have claimed the majority of projectile fire.
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Israeli forces launched an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip shortly after the dawn prayer on Wednesday, killing one militant and injuring a second.
In a statement from the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, officials identified the slain man as Mohammad Abu Mu'ammer, killed by an Israeli air strike near a mosque in the An-Nasser neighborhood in northeastern Rafah, near the refugee camp.
Spokesman of the higher committee of ambulance and emergency services Adham Abu Salmiya said the 24-year-old man died shortly after being taken to hospital. He confirmed that a second was being treated for critical injuries as a result of the strike.
Officials said a drone had carried out the attack.
Mu'ammer is the sixth member of the Al-Quds Brigades to be killed in the last ten days, as border violence increased following a 16 March airstrike which killed two Hamas members in the central Strip. Up to that point, Israeli strikes had targeted areas on the border.
An Israeli military statement said "aircraft targeted and hit a terrorist squad in the Southern Gaza Strip, which had launched rockets towards Israeli communities yesterday."
The statement said strikes also targeted a smuggling tunnel near Rafah, where goods are brought into the coastal enclave from Egypt.
Israel's military said it would "continue to respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the citizens of Israel," and added that it "holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip."
Since a barrage of nearly 50 shells toward four Israeli military targets on 19 March, which Hamas claimed as a response to the death of its two fighters days earlier, the military groups of Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Resistance Committees have claimed the majority of projectile fire.
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The Israeli occupation forces' aggression on the Gaza Strip over the past ten days killed 14 people including five children and wounded 48, medical sources said on Monday evening.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, said in a statement that six children and six women were among the wounded.
He charged that the IOF targeted civilians, especially children, in its latest sweep of attacks in violation of the international humanitarian law, describing what happened as a war crime.
The IOF raids and bombardment also destroyed a clinic, a factory for soft drinks, a foundry, a bricks factory, a shop for car tires, a warehouse, and the former intelligence headquarters.
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Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, said in a statement that six children and six women were among the wounded.
He charged that the IOF targeted civilians, especially children, in its latest sweep of attacks in violation of the international humanitarian law, describing what happened as a war crime.
The IOF raids and bombardment also destroyed a clinic, a factory for soft drinks, a foundry, a bricks factory, a shop for car tires, a warehouse, and the former intelligence headquarters.
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27 mar 2011
Funerals after Israeli raid kills two in Gaza
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Sabri Hashem Mohammed 'Assaliya, 20
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Radwan Ahmed Mohammed al-Namrouti, 32
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Sabri Hashem Mohammed 'Assaliya, 20
Radwan Ahmed Mohammed al-Namrouti, 32 An IOF drone fired a missile at a number of activists of al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad), who had fired home-made rockets into Israeli town, near Hammouda fuel station in the east of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip. Two activists were killed by shrapnel throughout their bodies |
23 mar 2011
Israeli occupation killed 10 Palestinians and wounded 43 since Sunday
Israeli occupation force launched more than 17 airstrikes and fired more than sixty artillery missiles between Sunday 20 March to Wednesday 23 March killing ten Palestinians and wounded 43 others.
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza confirmed these figure and added that the number of martyrs is likely to rise as a number of those wounded are in critical condition.
Adham Abu Selmeyyah, spokesman for the emergency services said in a statement on Wednesday evening that the number of martyrs reached 10, five of them children and the number of wounded is 43 people, 15 of them are children and six of them are women.
He further said that more than sixty bombs were fired and 17 airstrikes were carried out against 30 civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli occupation killed 10 Palestinians and wounded 43 since Sunday
Israeli occupation force launched more than 17 airstrikes and fired more than sixty artillery missiles between Sunday 20 March to Wednesday 23 March killing ten Palestinians and wounded 43 others.
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza confirmed these figure and added that the number of martyrs is likely to rise as a number of those wounded are in critical condition.
Adham Abu Selmeyyah, spokesman for the emergency services said in a statement on Wednesday evening that the number of martyrs reached 10, five of them children and the number of wounded is 43 people, 15 of them are children and six of them are women.
He further said that more than sixty bombs were fired and 17 airstrikes were carried out against 30 civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.
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22 mar 2011
Gaza child dies 10 days after attack
Gaza child dies 10 days after attack
Mustapha Ahmad Sehwel 5
A five-year-old boy died Monday in the Gaza Strip, 10 days after he was attacked in the coastal enclave.
Mustapha Ahmad Sehwel’s parents said he went to buy fuel with his brothers when unidentified attackers poured fuel on his trousers and set fire to him.
His brothers put the fire out as quickly as they could, but the boy sustained serious burns and developed blood poisoning from the wounds, the family said.
Mustapha’s parents said police were investigating the incident but had not yet detained any suspects.
Four Killed, 31 Injured by Israeli Attacks Targeting Gaza
Gaza PNN Four Palestinian civilians, including two children, were killed and 12 others injured when Israeli tanks bombarded a house in Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon.
Local sources said that Israeli tanks stationed at the borders fired five shells at the house of Fayek al-Hilou and a nearby soccer playground, located in the al-Shoujaya neighborhood of Gaza City.
Medics said that four people were killed:
1- Mohammed Jalal al-Hilu, 11,
2-Yasser 'Aahed al-Hilu, 16,
3- Mohammed Saber Harara, 19, and
4- Yasser Hamed al-Hilu, 50
A five-year-old boy died Monday in the Gaza Strip, 10 days after he was attacked in the coastal enclave.
Mustapha Ahmad Sehwel’s parents said he went to buy fuel with his brothers when unidentified attackers poured fuel on his trousers and set fire to him.
His brothers put the fire out as quickly as they could, but the boy sustained serious burns and developed blood poisoning from the wounds, the family said.
Mustapha’s parents said police were investigating the incident but had not yet detained any suspects.
Four Killed, 31 Injured by Israeli Attacks Targeting Gaza
Gaza PNN Four Palestinian civilians, including two children, were killed and 12 others injured when Israeli tanks bombarded a house in Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon.
Local sources said that Israeli tanks stationed at the borders fired five shells at the house of Fayek al-Hilou and a nearby soccer playground, located in the al-Shoujaya neighborhood of Gaza City.
Medics said that four people were killed:
1- Mohammed Jalal al-Hilu, 11,
2-Yasser 'Aahed al-Hilu, 16,
3- Mohammed Saber Harara, 19, and
4- Yasser Hamed al-Hilu, 50
Mohammed Jalal
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Yasser 'Aahed
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Yasser Hamed
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Mohammed Saber
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Twelve other civilians were injured, including four other children in critical condition, medics told PNN.
Earlier on Tuesday at dawn, Israeli warplanes and unmanned drones struck several targets in the Gaza Strip, injuring 19 Palestinians, including seven children and two women. |
Israeli sources confirmed the airstrikes, which come in retaliation to Monday's home-made rockets attacks in southern Israel, claimed by Hamas. Local sources said a blacksmith, a plastic factory, and a Hamas-run police station were hit, while Israeli sources claimed the army targeted Qassam rocket sites and training grounds. At least one of the attacks was carried out by an unmanned Israeli drone.
Eyewitnesses said the wounded Palestinians were transported to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and Kemal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya for treatment. According to Palestinian state-run news wire Wafa, huge damage was reported to homes and property and school children were terrified.
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Eyewitnesses said the wounded Palestinians were transported to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and Kemal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya for treatment. According to Palestinian state-run news wire Wafa, huge damage was reported to homes and property and school children were terrified.
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The Palestinian center for human rights said Israel committed a new war crime when its army killed days ago two children from Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.
The rights center stated on Sunday that Israel used lethal and excessive force on Saturday evening, exactly at about 9:30, when its artillery bombed a civilian area east of Johr Al-Deek killing two children under age 18 immediately.
The center added that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kept shelling and bombing the same area until a late hour of the night and on Sunday morning, March 20, 2011, Israeli tanks and armored vehicles advanced 400 meters into the area.
At about 11:30 am, a Red Crescent ambulance, after the Red Cross intervened with the Israeli army, was able to enter the area and find the bodies of the two children, Imad Faraj Allah, 16, and Qasem Abu Eteiwi, 16, about 300 meters away from the eastern borderline.
The center demanded the signatories to the fourth Geneva convention to fulfill their obligations regarding the prosecution of war criminals and the protection of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
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The rights center stated on Sunday that Israel used lethal and excessive force on Saturday evening, exactly at about 9:30, when its artillery bombed a civilian area east of Johr Al-Deek killing two children under age 18 immediately.
The center added that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kept shelling and bombing the same area until a late hour of the night and on Sunday morning, March 20, 2011, Israeli tanks and armored vehicles advanced 400 meters into the area.
At about 11:30 am, a Red Crescent ambulance, after the Red Cross intervened with the Israeli army, was able to enter the area and find the bodies of the two children, Imad Faraj Allah, 16, and Qasem Abu Eteiwi, 16, about 300 meters away from the eastern borderline.
The center demanded the signatories to the fourth Geneva convention to fulfill their obligations regarding the prosecution of war criminals and the protection of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
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