- 11 apr 2011
Arab League seeks no-fly zone over Gaza
(1:41) Arab League seeks no-fly zone over Gaza - Press TV News
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa told an emergency meeting of Arab League ambassadors in Cairo that he will appeal to the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza, where repeated Israeli air strikes have left at least 18 people dead since Thursday.
Israeli and Palestinian authorities were on Sunday floating a ceasefire to end fighting in the coastal strip where Israeli air strikes have killed at least 19 people since Thursday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was also in cairo to meet with Amr Moussa, to discuss broader ties between the League and Turkey. He also stressed the need for reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions. Observers say the organization's request for a no-fly zone over Gaza may have been inspired by a UN-sanctioned aerial blockade for Libya to halt forces loyal to Moamer Gaddafi.
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Hamas: We won't surrender or violate truce
GAZA CITY (Ma%u2019an) %u2013 Hamas politburo member Salah Al-Bardawil said Sunday that Palestinian groups "will be committed to a truce as long as Israel is committed as well."
Palestinian factions in Gaza "do not want to drag the Palestinians to war amidst the changes taking place in Arab countries without media outlets focusing on Gaza, so they accepted the truce," he said.
However, "Palestinian resistance will not accept surrender," his statement said.
He noted that "the Palestinian factions agreed previously on a unilateral truce entitled committed as long as the enemy is but the [Israeli] occupation violated this truce by killing children and women, and the resistance responded in a limited way making the occupation hit back much more harshly in its aggression."
Al-Bardawil said that Israel had apparently approved the truce with Palestinian factions.
According to the Hamas political office member, "the Palestinian government in Gaza sent letters to a number of Arab and international parties including the UN, the Arab League, the Egyptian government and some European countries demanding that they curb the Israeli assault on Gaza."
The statement continued: "these parties contacted Israel demanding that it stop its attacks on Gaza, to which Israel had apparently responded by saying that it would stop shelling Gaza."
Palestinian sources reported that Israel and Palestinian movements in Gaza reached a ceasefire deal late Saturday night.
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Islamic Jihad says Israel truce 'meaningless'
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Islamic Jihad will not beg for a ceasefire from whatever party and will not and would not request that from anyone, truce means nothing, if war was imposed then we will fight, said the movement on Sunday.
Dauod Shehab, spokesman of the movement said in a statement that we clearly say that if war was imposed on us then we will fight, we do not have anything to be afraid of or to cry about, adding that the movement did not initiate the escalation that took place and at this stage we are not interested in escalation and the projectiles which we possess are defensive and fighting back means.
He went on saying that truce means nothing to us, because we do not trust neither the occupation nor its pledges, so what we are interested in is the situation in the field, if it was quite meaning that there is no escalation, the assault had stopped then we will appreciate that, but if an assault was carried out on our people, then nothing will possibly stop us from responding to the occupation, we will be totally free in choosing the appropriate way to respond in the way, the place, time.
He added that our understanding to calm or ceasefire as comprehensive and unconditional, meaning that we can't talk about calm with while being pursued and assassinated.
He affirmed that "many contacts were held, some of which we knew of others we did not, regardless of all of these contacts which we appreciated and respected, we thank all who honestly moves in stop shedding the Palestinian blood and to stop the offense on them, all of these contacts are appreciated but our position is related to the situation in the field.
Shehab said that what had happened over the past days is that the enemy had taken a decision on war and assault, we decided to defend our land and our people whatever sacrifices that would cost us affirming that the resistance with all that it possesses of power, potentialities and weapons is ready to confront the attack and to face this war, we manage this war, we are confident that the goals of the occupation will fail noting that the occupation will not succeed in passing its messages through our people in Gaza.
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Israel ordered assassination of resistance fighters
NAZARETH, (PIC)The militant Israeli government has refused to curb its aggression on the Gaza Strip, declaring that military leaders have been ordered to target Palestinian resistance fighters, a move that would be countered with a violent Palestinian response.
The Security-Political Cabinet has instructed the army to continue operations on resistance fighters who have been firing missiles from the Strip at targets in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 in response to Israel's earlier attacks.
The decision came after the cabinet, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, met noon Sunday, Israeli Radio reported.
We must strike Hamas bases and military arsenals, said Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai, after calling for a strict use of aerial force.
Meanwhile, Israeli minister Uzi Landau has urged for an assassinations policy against Palestinian resistance leaders in the Strip.
But, according to a fresh statement by the Gaza Interior Ministry, Israeli propaganda and psychological warfare will no longer affect the morale of the Palestinians and their resistance, as the ministry said it has been proven to be the back of the resistance on the field.
The home front is no longer expoed to the enemy, despite all the technology and military arsenal it possesses, said the ministry's spokesman Ehab al-Ghussein.
He pointed out that the ministry had not left the field as they had been serving the Palestinians from day one. A portion of those killed and injured in the attacks were from the ministry, he said.
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Israeli Army Predicts Escalation in Gaza
Tel Aviv - PNN - Despite relative calm on Sunday, and Palestinian unilateral truce, the Israeli army announced today that this calm might be followed by large-scale escalation in the Gaza strip.
Israeli army officials said that due to new types of rockets that Palestinian armed groups have aimed at Gaza, an escalation is highly likely to take place after this time of relative quiet, an army source told Israeli online source Ynet on Monday.
The army officials said that Hamas has been building its forces for the past two years and that this will lead surely to large-scale confrontation with the army.
After a week of Israeli attacks, which left 19 Palestinians dead and around 70 injured, the Hamas movement based in Gaza and other Palestinian factions in the coastal enclave announced a unilateral truce with Israel in an attempt to foil the Israeli government's escalations.
Last week's increase in violence started when Israeli fighter jets killed 3 Hamas fighters in Gaza City, followed by a series of air, sea and land bombardment targeting civilians and ambulance crews.
In Gaza, the Hamas government reiterated its position of continuing the truce; meanwhile other armed groups like Islamic Jihad and leftist groups said that they would respond if the Israeli army continues to attack Gaza. The Hamas government called upon the international community and the Arab League to intervene and stop the escalated attacks by Israel, which ended on Saturday with the killing of two fighters and one civilian.
On Sunday, the Israeli government said Israel will maintain its position on attacking Gaza if homemade shells and small scale rockets are fired from the strip, but reiterated its stance that a large scale operation is unlikely, though targeted assassinations might be used.
The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also said on Monday that working for a ceasefire with Hamas is a great mistake and that his government should "topple" the Hamas government in Gaza.
In an article published in Palestine Today newspaper in Gaza, Osama Hamdan, head of Hamas's International Relations bureau, warned that any new Israeli war on Gaza would be "the worse for Israel."
In the last large-scale offensive targeting Gaza, dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," the Israeli army killed 1,500 Palestinians and injured 6,000. During the 22-day attack, which began in December 27 2008, 14 Israeli soldiers and two Israeli civilians were killed; The Israeli army said that the 14 soldiers killed were victims of friendly fire.
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imPalestine Explosions reportedly hit the central area of Gaza City.
Now Israeli warships shell Palestinian fishermen's boats. Warplanes fly intensively to the West of Deir Al-Balah
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Israel carries out mock raids on Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes carried out on Monday afternoon a series of mock raids on different parts of Gaza, according to the Palestinian information center (PIC).
The PIC reporter said these raids were carried out amid cautious calm prevailing in Gaza and caused panic among children and women.
He affirmed that aerial attacks were carried out on Gaza city and the north in an attempt to terrorize the civilians and lure the resistance into counterattacking.
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Israeli police dogs attack Palestinian in Hebron
West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- A Palestinian was hospitalized Monday due to injuries inflicted his body as Israeli soldiers attacked him by police dogs during his way to work .
Local sources told SAFA News Agency that the injured identified as Raed Al-Najjar, 20, was attacked on Allafa road southern Hebron. Two similar attacks were reported in the same area.
Local sources confirmed that two Palestinians were injured today at the entrance of Al-Uroob refugee camp as Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets at them.
Several citizens of Beit Kahel town received notices to meet occupation intelligence following home raids, sources added.
Settlers also burned plastic materials and shoes in front of houses and shops in Al Dbuya area in Hebron.
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14 year old girl taken in the latest wave of Awarta arrests
20 arrested as curfew continues in Awarta
Israel extends isolation sentence on blind Palestinian
9 more detained in latest Awarta sweep
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US to give Israel $205mn military fund
(2:19) US to give Israel $205mn military fund - Press TV News
Washington will transfer a $205-million military fund to Israel, as the United States continues to struggle with one of the most remarkable budget cuts in its ongoing economic crisis.
The money transfer is aimed at funding the deployment of Iron Dome batteries for the Israeli Iron Dome Missile system that intercepts incoming rockets, a Press TV correspondent reported Tuesday.
US Congress has included the amount in its 2011 federal budget, in addition to the annual $3 billion military aid package that has been flowing to its Middle Eastern ally for decades.
We are giving aid to a country that is prosperous. How come it is more [of a] recipient of funds than all the developing countries combined, I do not understand! said political analyst Daoud Khairallah.
US lawmakers earlier agreed on a record $38 billion in spending cuts to avert a government shutdown that would seriously affect its troubled economy.
We are on course for a financial collision at this moment. So it is either going to be a greater austerity at this time or it will be forced upon us, said economist Rollin Amore.
Israel plans to boost the number of its operational systems to a total of 10 by 2015.
Well, I think this goes to show that even during bad times, the interests of Israel outweigh the interests of the United States, said political analyst Wayne Madsen.
I think we are going to obviously see a heightening of tensions in US relations with Turkey, Egypt, the incoming government in Lebanon, and also although the situation is fluid in Syria we are going to have problems with Syria. And also some of the other countries that are undergoing changes right now.
The military aid package to the Israeli regime is one of the few budget deals for which the majority of US Democratic and Republican lawmakers are in agreement.
A great majority of members of US Congress receive funds and perks from powerful pro-Israeli lobby groups. All new members of Congress are offered an all-paid visit to Israel to receive top-level briefings on the regime's security needs and concerns.
Israeli lobby groups in the US are notorious for organizing in fierce and expensive publicity campaigns against the re-election of any American lawmaker that dares to even speak unfavorably of the Israeli regime.
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Pakistanis protest Israeli attacks on Gaza
(2:12) Pakistanis protest Israeli attacks on Gaza - Press TV News
The Palestinian Foundation of Pakistan staged a demonstration in Karachi against the use of disproportionate force on Gazans and denounced the role of the West and Arab countries, who they say are undermining the Palestinian-cause.
These demonstrators are gathered here to denounce Israeli attacks against Palestinians and they are demanding practical steps from the United Nations to stop all Israeli attacks in the future.
Arab governments are planning to ask the United Nation's Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza in the near future. The recent string of attacks by the Zionist regime against Palestinians has been the source of international demonstrations against Tel Aviv.
Over twenty Palestinians have been killed in recent Israeli strike on Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174514.html
Sit-in before EU office in OJ demanding end to escalation against Gaza
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- National forces organized a sit-in before the offices of the European Union in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in occupied Jerusalem on Monday demanding an end to the Israeli military escalation against the Gaza Strip.
They asked the EU to intervene and curb the Israeli savage aggression, holding its member countries responsible for the Israeli crimes against women and children.
They handed a message to the operations manager at the EU office titled Stop the barbaric aggression on Gaza, charging Israel with committing war crimes and with violating international and humanitarian laws.
The message described the American and European silence toward the Israeli aggression as collusion, adding that Israel would not have dared to escalate its military attacks if the world did not remain silent.
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Israel criticizes Arab League call for a no-fly zone over Gaza
The Israeli government has expressed its disdain at the Arab League's decision to approach the United Nations Security Council with a request for a no-fly zone over the Gaza Strip to prevent Israel's military aircraft from flying over the besieged territory. The Arab League's move is a response to an escalation of Israeli military activity against Gaza in which 18 Palestinians have been killed and dozens have been wounded in just three days.
Israeli spokesperson Ofir Gendelman told the Palestinian Authority-owned news agency that the government's position on the Arab League's request is attributed to the fact that it comes despite a UN, American, and European consensus condemning Palestinian rocket attacks in the south of the 1948- occupied territories.
"Will the Arab League request a no-fly zone to block the missiles fired from Gaza on Israeli cities?" asked Gendelman.
An emergency session of the Arab League was held at its headquarters in Cairo to press for a special UN Security Council session to deal with the Israeli attack on Gaza, end the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and impose a no-fly zone to protect Palestinian civilians.
Commentators have ridiculed Gendelman for equating the rockets fired from Gaza with the massive firepower available to the Israeli air force, with its F-16 fighter bombers and Apache helicopter gunships. "That alone illustrates the failing grasp of reality which Israeli spokespeople have to peddle in their public pronouncements," said one.
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Israel condemned for targeting fresh water sources in Gaza
The Municipality of Gaza has criticized the Israeli occupation forces for targeting drinking water sources in the Gaza Strip as part of a deliberate policy. The municipality mentioned specifically the fact that Israeli forces attacked Al Mintar water tank and polluted its contents.
"Israeli tanks targeted Al Mintar water tank in Qibah, which supplies the eastern parts of the Shujaiyah neighbourhood," said a spokesperson in a press release. An artillery shell landed in the 12-metre long reservoir; this not only contaminated the water but also forced the municipality to stop pumping water from the tank, causing a water crisis in the district. Water is now being pumped from another tank in an effort to ease the crisis but the municipality said that there is still a severe water shortage.
Such an attack, claims the municipality, amounts to a "crime against humanity". It called on the international community to take on the responsibility of curbing Israeli aggression against Gaza.
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Israeli escalation in Gaza is a "cover-up for settlement activity"
A senior figure in Fatah has accused the Israeli government of escalating military activity against Gaza as a cover-up of continued illegal settlement expansion and building. Azzam El Ahmad said that Israel's objective includes the completion of the "racist separation wall and unleashing the settlers to destroy and ruin the properties of unarmed [Palestinian] citizens".
The head of Fatah's parliamentary bloc made his statements to a 54-member French delegation at the Palestinian Legislative Council on 10 April. The delegation was headed by the French senator Michel Pilote and comprised French parliamentarians, heads of municipalities and journalists.
Mr. El Ahmad praised the delegation's support, especially the programme for twinning French cities with Palestinian refugee camps inside Palestine and neighbouring countries. In his speech, which was broadcast through Palestinian Authority-affiliated media outlets, El Ahmad called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility for recognizing the Palestinian state by September and working towards ending Israel's military occupation.
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IOA holds MP Badr in administrative detention
8 detained, 2 receive summons from Israeli forces
Director of Jerusalem Media Center detained by Israeli troops
Teen girl among 71 held in Itamar case
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Clashes Reported In Silwan, Several Residents Wounded, One Kidnapped
Palestinian sources in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported on Wednesday morning that several residents were injured, one seriously, while one resident was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers and policemen following clashes that took place in the town.
The sources added that soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs at the Al Bustan neighborhood causing several residents to require treatment for the effects of teargas inhalation.
Soldiers attacked with clubs and batons four women in Al Bustan without any provocation.
Also, one resident suffered serious wounds and was moved to a local Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem.
Another resident was violently beaten by the soldiers while standing in front of his store, and lost consciousness; despite being unconscious, soldiers kidnapped him and took him to an unknown destination.
Also on Wednesday, soldiers broke into a home that belongs to the Shiokhy family, in Silwan. The attack came just one day after the army kidnapped Muath Shiokhy from his home.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, reported that soldiers violently searched the home of Muath Shiokhy, 18, sabotaging its property and even confiscated clothes.
The army claims that Muath was wearing the clothes in question during Tuesday clashes with the police and the army.
Muath's mother stated that the soldiers failed to locate the clothes allegedly worn by Muath during the clashes, but took a yellow shirt that belongs to his sister.
Shiokhy was kidnapped by the army on Tuesday while washing a friend's car that was parked outside a café where he worked. The attack against the Al Shiokhy family home is not the first of its kind as it was repeatedly attacked and had its property sabotaged.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61053
Nunu: Israel failed to achieve goals behind aggression
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Taher al-Nunu, spokesman for the Palestinian Government in Gaza, has said that Israel's recent aggression was aimed at foiling Hamas's efforts to reconcile with rival Fatah and at measuring the response from Egypt and the Arabs as the situation in the region unfolds.
[Israel] was eager to single out Gaza in light of the region being preoccupied with operations for liberation from regimes and with successive popular revolutions, Nunu told the Palestinian Information Center.
He pointed out that, as the Israeli aggression came to its conclusion, Israel failed to achieve its objectives, and the Palestinians earned a stronger sense of unity and rallying around the resistance program, and the Arabs became more aware of Israel's schemes.
The raising of the Palestinian flag in Tahrir Square in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo was a key reason why the aggression on the Gaza Strip stopped, after it became clear to the Israeli administration that Egypt, its leadership and people, reject any Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Nunu emphasized the role played by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in curbing the attacks, as well as the decision made by the Arab League asking the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza.
Concerning national reconciliation, Nunu said Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya's initiative to meet with Abbas is still in effect. He said that the government in Gaza is not against Abbas visiting the Strip, but he said, the visit must be preceded by arrangements in order to be successful.
He went on to say that the government has called for talks with Fatah based on a deadline before Abbas's visit to Gaza.
He added that talks will start from where they left off, saying that issues concerning the Palestine Liberation Organization and the government's political program are the two main topics that must be resolved during talks.
He emphasized that Haneyya has exerted major efforts towards Palestinian reconciliation, and pointed out that the chances for achieving reconciliation are more now than ever before.
Mahmoud Abbas has no choice but to reconcile and adhere to the will of the Palestinians to end the split. And we hope that this is his choice, Nunu said.
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Israeli warplanes launch mock raids on Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes launched a series of mock raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
The mock raids spread fears among the populace especially after the Israeli massacres that killed 19 people and injured dozens a few days ago.
In another context, Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Deit Estiye near Salfit city and roamed its streets then set up a roadblock at its entrance searching all those entering into or getting out of it.
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Children and youth under fire in Gaza: two killed and more than ten injured
Jaber Abu el-Kaass (12)
WARNING: Contains image some may find disturbing
On Friday April 8th at approximately 5.30 pm a drone dropped a bomb on a group of children and young people who were playing football next to a school in the Al-Shijaija neighborhood, east of Gaza City, near the border. People hurried to come to the rescue of the injured when a second bomb hit the exact same place. A child and a young man were killed, while 10 more civilians were injured, including a paramedic and six children.
It took a day to identify the brutally dismembered body of a young man after initially only a headless body was found. It belonged to 23 year old Bilal Mohammed Al A'arer.
Mahmoud Wa'el Al-Jaro is the name that goes with the other young face, drained of the joyous expression it had until the vicious attack. The bewildered dead darkness in his eyes and his half open mouth makes one feel and see the moment. A split second: the abrupt discontinuity of his activity, the inner alarm that causes panic, the anxiety that instantly swells to mortal fear and is immediately followed by death, mercilessly cooling the intensity of his last life experience. Ten years old he was and he has paid dearly for trying to enjoy his young life, playing football under Gaza's dangerous sky.
Mahmoud Wa'el Al-Jaro (10)
In the mourning tent, one of Mahmoud's cousins, Yasser el-Jaro, explains how this is not the first time that the Israeli army has targeted children. Ramadeen Mohammed el-Jaro was nine when in 2003 a bullet, fired from an Apache, hit him in the head. He was on his way home from school when he was killed.
They deliberately target children, it can't be an error. They have the most advanced technological weaponry. They kill civilians because they want the population of Gaza to rise up against the resistance. They want people to start hating the resistance, but it is not the resistance who kills our children. We ask the international community to protect our children and our women from Israel.
The injured were brought to Shifa hospital in Gaza City. 12 year old Jaber El-Kouss was one of the boys playing football when they were directly targeted by one of the drones, that have been buzzing loudly in Gaza's sky over the last two weeks. But life goes on, despite the constant threat of violence. This is our life. What else can we do?, sighs one of the men in the hospital room, indicating that life in Gaza is uncertain and the threat of destruction and violence is always there. Jaber's father, Salim, jokingly says the injured have themselves to blame as they have chosen to live despite the risks. While the people around him are laughing, Jaber misses the joke and feels accused. Softly he says: But daddy, I was only playing. His punishment for playing is severe: seven pieces of shrapnel pierced his chest and belly, while other pieces are stuck in his arm.
Osama Mahmoud El Ghoula (15)
Next to him lays Osama Mahmoud El-Ghoula (15), he wasn't playing football with his friends, but he heard the bomb and ran to the scene to see what was going on. While running a second bomb dropped from the sky, injuring young Osama. He went home, but was afraid to tell his parents what had happened and did not want to worry them. He said; Mom, I just want water and need some sleep. I saw the blood coming through his shirt and lifted it to see what had happened to him and then he lost consciousness, says his worried mother, Sana El-Ghoula. Osama is now waiting for surgery to remove the shrapnel from his belly.
In the third bed lays Riziq Said El Imalwi, an 18 year old university student. He was returning home after visiting the graveyard where his two brothers, who were martyred by the Israeli occupation forces, are buried. While walking, the ambulance stopped to ask for directions of the bombed place. He drove along with them to point out the place and when he got out, he was hit in the arms, chest and legs by shrapnel from the second bombing. Riziq lays silent in the hospital bed, while his saddened father Said says: These are crimes against humanity, they shoot civilians! We are all sad, but keep on hoping for peace in all of the country.
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Sudan: Israel behind air strike
(2:44) Sudan: Israel behind air strike - Press TV News
Sudan has said it has irrefutable evidence that Israel carried out the air strike that killed two people in a car near the city of Port Sudan last week. It is not the first time that Israel committed an act of aggression in Sudan. In 2009, a truck convoy was bombed by Israel and 119 people were killed in the attack. Sudan's foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti said the air strike last week was an attempt to damage Sudan's reputation. He said it was intended to disrupt the process of removing Sudan from the so-called list of states that sponsor terrorism.
Sudan has been on the so-called list of states sponsoring terrorism since 1993; but Washington said it would remove Sudan from that list after a peaceful January referendum, in which Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede from the north. Sudan government considered the strike carried out by Israel in the Red Sea state and targeting civilians as piracy and as aggression towards humanity. It said International Community must stop Israel's attacks and its violations of international law and human rights.
Some political analysts are wondering if the international community and the United Nations will remain silent against Israel's killings of innocent civilians. Analysts say Israel is not the only side responsible for the missile attacks. The US too on occasion has fired missiles at targets in Sudan. Israel has not yet reacted to the criticism of Sudan. The main issue now for Sudanese people is that will the Uniated Nations Secuirty Council put an end to attacks like this or not.
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Home front Command to hold a drill in Ashkelon
The Home Front Command will hold a drill in Ashkelon Thursday which will simulate a non-conventional event and population evacuation.
The drill will be held between 7:30 am and 4:00 pm during which heavy traffic of soldiers and security and rescue vehicles will be witnessed in the area.
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Army Kidnaps 14 Palestinians In The West Bank
Palestinian MPs sentenced to extra six months without indictment
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Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishing boats
Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli towers stationed at the eastern borders of Al-Qarqar town in Khan Younis city opened massive fire at Palestinian houses and agricultural lands in the area, according to local sources.
Sources added that Israeli navy opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats near Khan Younis shore without casualties reported following Israeli intensive over flight.
Israeli occupation forces along the borders regularly attack Palestinian farmers and fishermen despite ceasefire declaring by Palestinian factions in Gaza Strip.
Today, Israeli tank fired a shell at residential area in the east of Al-Shojia neighborhood in Gaza city. Also, Israeli forces accompanied by military vehicles invaded the north west of Beit Lahya town terrifying citizens and inflicting limited damage.
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Two hospitalized following Awarta raid
Despite Israeli media claims that a breakthrough http://fwd4.me/FdH in the murder investigation of the Fogel family is close, the village of Awarta continues to experience collective punishment. At about 2 AM on the night of 13 April dozens of soldiers entered Awarta as they have been for the past month. Soldiers targeted two homes, which were raided using force, arrested two men and caused the hospitalization of two women.
Two houses were raided by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the night tonight at the West Bank village of Awarta. The soldiers entered the houses violently, knocking down the doors and using concussion grenades. The two families were forced into one small room in the house belonging to Salim Awwad's family, while soldiers searched the houses in and out. Twenty people, among them children and the elderly the oldest 80 years of age and the youngest a mere six months old baby were denied access to water, food, toilet and other necessities for nearly 12 hours.
During the night two of the women experienced medical problems, one of them due to advanced pregnancy. Despite having repeatedly asked for medical assistance, the women were not allowed to see a doctor. Only hours later, when the pregnant woman s condition seriously deteriorated and when a second women lost consciousness due to dehydration, an ambulance was allowed access to the house. The two women were taken to hospital after another two hours delay.
Both the houses were ransacked and sustained substantial damages to their interior during the raid. Witnesses described one of the houses as rendered nearly uninhabitable%u201D. In the garden, the soldiers uprooted several olive trees claiming that they need to search beneath them.
Both Noam Sheizaf http://fwd4.me/zNC and Yossi Gurvitz http://fwd4.me/EtY have commented on +972 about the punishment that Awarta has been given since the brutal murder of the Fogel family nearly a month ago. Their points address the crux of the problem of collective punishment of Palestinians in the absence of blame or responsibility for the murders and highly recommend that you read their posts. Looking at the series of events that has led to the curfew of Awarta, I am left wondering what the Israeli army is looking to achieve by placing the small village under curfew, attacking pregnant woman and incarcerating an entire village. The Israeli army, an extension of the State, seemingly never misses an opportunity to exercise collective punishment the defenceless and occupied Palestinians under Israeli control.
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IOF opens fire at Gaza border areas
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened machinegun fire at Palestinian residential quarters to the north and east of Gaza Strip border areas at dawn Thursday, locals reported.
They said that the IOF troops launched a limited incursion in northern Gaza Strip areas.
IOF gunboats, meanwhile, fired at Palestinian fishermen off the southern Strip coast of Rafah and Khan Younis.
Eyewitnesses said that an artillery shell was fired at agricultural areas east of Gaza city.
The escalation is the biggest of its kind since the conclusion of an unofficial reciprocal calm with Palestinian resistance in Gaza on 10th April that followed three days of IOF onslaught that killed 18 Palestinians and wounded 70 including women and children.
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Israel tank 'enters disputed area' in Lebanon
ADAYSSEH, Lebanon (AFP) -- An Israeli tank briefly entered a disputed border area with Lebanon on Thursday after the alert was sounded over people picking thyme and thistle in the volatile zone, an army spokesman in Lebanon said.
"The Merkava tank entered a zone claimed by Lebanon," the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
A security official in the area said the tank advanced four meters into the disputed so-called Blue Line before withdrawing.
Lebanese army and troops from the UN force stationed in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, were at the site.
The alarm was sounded after several people were seen in the area and it was later determined they were picking thyme and thistle, both used in traditional Lebanese dishes.
The Blue Line is a UN-drawn border between the two countries established in 2000. Both Lebanon and Israel have challenged the accuracy of the Blue Line in several locations.
Thursday's incident took place near the village of Adaysseh, scene of a deadly border clash last August between Israel and Lebanon. That incident erupted after Israeli troops cut down several trees along the border, in an area claimed by Lebanon.
The clashes that erupted over the tree-cutting operation left two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist dead as well as a senior Israeli officer.
It later emerged that Israel had sought permission to cut down the tree, which was said to have obstructed observation of the area, but was told to wait to carry out the operation until UNIFIL officers were in the area. Israeli officials proceeded to cut down the tree, parking the violence.
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