- 27 nov 2011
Islamic Jihad will not renounce armed resistance
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Islamic Jihad movement said Sunday that it would support a Palestinian consensus on strategies to resist the occupation, but on condition that popular actions do not become a substitute for armed resistance.
“The Islamic Jihad movement, though not convinced that peaceful rallies are efficient against occupation, will not 'sing differently from the flock', but on condition that popular resistance does not nullify our right to practice armed resistance or replace it,” senior leader Sheikh Khalid al-Batsh told Ma'an.
“Popular resistance is acceptable despite the fact that our enemy must be faced with painful ways as peaceful rallies do not inflict casualties or cause pain to an enemy who mercilessly kills children,” he added.
The Sheikh said that factions had tried peaceful resistance to the occupation, but everyone saw how Israel had "killed children in Rafah."
Despite being convinced of armed resistance, the leader said that Islamic Jihad would discuss any new strategies with Fatah and Hamas.
Al-Batsh confirmed that Islamic Jihad would be interested in joining the PLO, but only on condition that it is restructured and its new agenda does not include any recognition of Israel.
The senior Islamic Jihad leader stressed that the group would never accept a Palestinian state on 1967 borders and said the "conflict will continue over the whole Palestine, and not over a portion."
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Resheq: The popular resistance is no substitute for the armed resistance
DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Member of Hamas's political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq said there was an understanding between his Movement and Fatah faction on the importance of the popular resistance, but this would not be at the expense of the armed resistance or replace it.
"The armed resistance is Hamas's unchangeable and uncompromisable program, and Hamas will remain adherent to the resistance of all forms including the armed one. It is the legitimate right of our people and all peoples under occupation," Resheq stated in a press release on Saturday.
The Hamas official also said that Hamas and Fatah along with other Palestinian factions will set the appropriate mechanisms to activate and expand the popular resistance as a kind of resistance against the occupation, the settlement and the apartheid wall.
The popular resistance is a kind of mobilizing other efforts to stand alongside the armed resistance against the Israeli occupation, he added.
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- Maria 8 dec 2011 confirmed
Group claims missile attack on Israel's Negev
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of Fatah said it fired a missile toward the Negev amid Israeli shelling in central Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike killed a member of the group and one other person in Gaza earlier on Thursday.
The Al-Aqsa Brigades said it fired a missile toward the Mishmar HaNegev kibbutz in response to "the assassination that took place today." It was only the group's initial response, a statement said.
Residents told Ma'an that Israeli tanks and warplanes fired on the Zeitoun area of Gaza City on Thursday evening. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage caused by either attack in Gaza or the Negev.
The escalation came after an Israeli airstrike killed two people in the central Gaza Strip. Two more were injured in the explosion, which witnesses said hit a parked car near Omar al-Mukhtar street.
A Ma'an reporter named those killed as Issam Subhi al-Batsh and Subhi Alaa al-Batsh.
Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam Bridges said in a statement it was mourning its operative Subhi Alaa al-Batsh, and the Ayman Juda Brigades, an Aqsa sub-division, said Issam Subhi al-Batsh was one of its members.
The Israeli army said it targeted al-Batsh and another person, who were "both affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to execute a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers via the western border."
Hamas, meanwhile, demanded that Israel cease the attacks and added that Israel's leader should be tried for war crimes, a spokesman for the group, Fawzi Barhoum, said in a statement.
Barhoum said “the enemy wants to export its internal and external crises to Gaza, and it wants to impose a new formula on the resistance after it won in the prisoner’s deal.”
He said Israel holds "full responsibility for today’s crime," and demanded that the Arab League and the international community intervene to stop attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza.
A spokesman for the Gaza government, Taher al-Nunu, also condemned the bombing and expressed concern about a series of threats made by Israel in the lead up to the strike.
Al-Nunu called on Egypt and the UN to intervene as soon as possible.
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Fatah armed wing claims Negev missile
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed Thursday to have fired a missile toward the southern Negev desert in Israel, in response to an airstrike that killed an Aqsa operative hours earlier.
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Envoy says Egypt mediating to restore Gaza calm
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Egyptian ambassador in Ramallah says Cairo is in continuous communication with Israel and factions in Gaza in order to restore calm following a deadly airstrike and renewed rocket fire.
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27 nov 2011
Israeli warplanes strike targets in the Gaza Strip
Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza
29 nov 2011
Israeli Army Opens Fire at Gaza Homes
Israeli forces 'ransack office in Nablus'
30 nov 2011
IOF soldiers raid central Gaza amidst intensive shooting
3 dec 2011
Rafah comes under Israeli occupation fire from land and sea
4 dec 2011
Israeli violent quelling wounds 15 Palestinians in OJ
Israeli navy harasses Palestinian fishermen, international observers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xkvhtLKQw
5 dec 2011
Israeli Army Launches Military Maneuvers in Jordan Valley
6 dec 2011
IOF troops enter northern Gaza, gunboats fire at fishermen
7 dec 2011
Palestinian Killed and Five Injured in Israeli Raids on Gaza
8 dec 2011
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
21 jan 2012, 18:05 , Respect -
Maria 9 dec 2011 not confirmed
Army: Rocket lands in south Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area in Israel's Shaar Hanegev Regional Council on Friday morning, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
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9 dec 2011
Gaza boy (12) succumbs to wounds from Friday airstrike
Israeli airstrikes kill 3, hurt 15 Gazans
Israel Holds Hamas Responsible For Latest Escalation
Egypt holds Israeli responsible for escalation
Gaza death toll rises to 4
21 jan 2012, 18:05 , Respect -
Maria 11 dec 2011
Hamas, Egypt deny presence of missile factories in Sinai
GAZA, (PIC)-- Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, has categorically denied building factories for manufacturing missiles in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
Barhoum told the PIC on Sunday that the Israeli news allegation aimed at driving a wedge between Hamas and Egypt.
He affirmed that Hamas’ battle against Israel was and will remain on the land of Palestine, charging Israel with planning to strike Egyptian targets in any future aggression on Gaza.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian source in Sinai has refuted the allegation, adding that no one would dare establish such installations on Egyptian soil. He described the Israeli media report as sheer lies.
He said that Egypt was having full control on each and every inch of its land, Sinai included, noting that multi-national forces were deployed in northern Sinai according to the peace treaty with Israel and were monitoring the commitment of both parties to that treaty and could not have ignored such installations if theydid exist.
The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post had claimed that Hamas was maintaining such factories and missiles bases in Sinai to avoid Israeli air strikes, adding that Tel Aviv had asked Cairo to boost its presence in and control of Sinai but the Egyptian military did not intervene to dismantle Hamas’s “infrastructure” in Sinai.
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21 jan 2012, 18:06 , Respect -
Maria 12 dec 2011
Report: Gaza rocket lands in southern Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Gaza militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Monday evening, the Israeli news site Ynet reported.
The projectile landed in an open area and no injuries or damage were reported, Ynet said.
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10 dec 2011
Mustafa Tamimi dies of wounds after Ramallah protest
Israeli warplanes blast Qassam position
Israeli war planes fire on south Gaza
Israeli missile hits poultry farm in north Gaza
Israeli Soldiers Batter Palestinian near Jenin
11 dec 2011
man and his baby girl wounded in Israeli air strike
Palestinian Civilian and his Two Children Wounded
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Jerusalemite Child, Injure 2 Palestinians
Funeral of murdered Mustafa Tamimi ends in more IOF violence
Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
12 dec 2011
Israeli ministers threaten new war on Gaza
21 jan 2012, 18:06 , Respect -
Maria 25 dec 2011
Israel: Rocket, mortar shell fired from Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli media reported Saturday that a rocket and a mortar fired from the northern Gaza Strip exploded in open fields in the Hof Ashkelon and Eshkol regional councils.
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13 dec 2011
Two Palestinians including child wounded in IOF incursion
After Fatal Shooting of Palestinian, Israeli Soldiers Defended Use of Force Online
14 dec 2011
Gaza man shot by soldiers 'critically wounded'
Israeli Soldiers Hold Palestinian Responsible for any Attacks Against them
17 dec 2011
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Gaza
Palestinian fisherman wounded by occupation navy
18 dec 2011
4 people injured in clashes outside Ofer prison
19 dec 2011
Palestinian worker dies during Israeli police chase
Three Palestinian Children Injured Due to Explosion of Israeli Remnant in Gaza
21 dec 2011
Palestinian worker hurt by Israeli gunfire
22 dec 2011
Israeli Tanks Raid Khan Younis23 dec 2011
Israeli artillery fire target the southern and northern Gaza Strip
Israeli gunfire injures Palestinian demonstrator
24 dec 2011
IOF troops shell Gaza areas
Israeli forces storm Azzun, say response to gunfire
Gunmen open fire on Fatah leader in Jordan Valley
25 dec 2011
Rights group calls for stop of Israeli shooting of activists
21 jan 2012, 18:08 , Respect -
Maria 27 dec 2011
Islamic Jihad Chooses Armed Resistance, Refuses Participation in Elections
Hamas security forces patrol Gaza City
On Tuesday, the Islamic Jihad renewed its rejection of the incoming Palestinian unity government and refused to participate in elections scheduled for May. Meanwhile, the Islamic movement Hamas agreed to continue reconciliation talks with the Palestinian Authority and consider popular, unarmed struggle.
A spokesman for Islamic Jihad said the group had adopted the path of armed resistance long ago and would remain loyal to it to ensure the liberation of Palestine.
Ahmad al-Mudalal, a leader in the Islamic Jihad, said that three years after the Israeli Operation Cast Lead, which resulted in the deaths of 1,400 Palestinians, the group could not in good faith disavow armed resistance.
“Since the establishment of the Islamic Jihad, we started to fight Israel with stones and knives, and everything we found available,” said al-Mudalal in a press release. “The Israeli occupation has only one criminal, bloody face, and in the memory of war, we say the occupation can never change the Palestinian resistance or break our will.”
Meanwhile on Monday, Hamas' political leader Khaled Meshaal told Palestinian television that he considered his recent meetings with PA President Mahmoud Abbas the beginning of a new opportunity, and said he agreed with popular struggle—a phrase that typically means unarmed protests—as a means of fighting Israel.
He called again for the end of Palestinian political divisions and blamed American bias for the current impasse in the peace process. He also condemned the Quartet for its attempts to hinder the formation of a Palestinian consensus government.
“We ask for an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right to return,” said Meshaal. “This is what Hamas accepts, and we must not be asked to recognise Israel.”
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21 jan 2012, 18:08 , Respect -
Maria 28 dec 2011
Rocket hits south following Gaza strikes
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Qassam fired from Strip lands in western Negev but does not explode; attack comes several hours after two IAF strikes leave at least one "terrorist" dead, others injured.
Palestinians in northern Gaza fired a Qassam rocket towards Israel's western Negev region Wednesday morning, several hours after two IAF strikes in the Hamas-ruled territory left one terrorist dead and at least 10 others injured.
The "color red" alert system was activated in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, but the rocket did not explode, and there were no reports of injury or damage.
Palestinians sources in Gaza said the first IAF strike killed Abdulla Talbani, a member of Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades. Two other people were wounded in the attack.
The second IAF strike, launched about two hours later, targeted a Global Jihad terror cell planning to execute a terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border. According to the Palestinians, the attack left eight people injured – two of them critically. However, the IDF said two Palestinians were killed.
The Maan news agency reported that a vehicle carrying the terror cell members was targeted by an Israeli aircraft as it was travelling in Gaza City.
The military said the terror cell included former Hamas operative Rami Daud Kufarneh, and Hazam Saadi al-Shuker, also a former Hamas operative.
Shortly after the attack a rocket was launched towards Israel, but it exploded on the Palestinian side of the security fence.
IDF sources told Ynet that the terror cell was part of an Islamic Jihad network operating from both Gaza and Egypt.
"The terrorists who had planned the border attack were well-known to Hamas. The Islamist group was aware of the plan to carry out an attack while taking advantage of the situation in the Sinai Peninsula," one of the sources said, adding, "Despite this, Hamas did not work to thwart the attack."
According to the source, Global Jihad and Salafist elements in Gaza and Sinai are continuing in their efforts to carry out terror attacks against Israeli targets. "Hamas can prevent these attacks, but it prefers not to confront them," said the IDF official.
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4 rockets fired at western Negev
Gaza terror groups fire Qassams at southern communities. No injuries, damage reported.
Four Qassam rockets were fired at southern Israel Wednesday.
Two of the projectiles were fired around 7:30 pm, landing in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council.
Two more rockets were fired around 11:30 pm, exploding in fields in Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council.
No injuries or damage were reported in either case. The Color Red alert sounded across the area in both cases.
Earlier Wednesday, IDF officials said that while 2009's Operation Cast Lead achieved the majority of its goal, the military will not hesitate to stage another Gaza campaign should the security situation in the sector deteriorate.
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Qassam fired at Israel; lands on Palestinian side of border
A projectile was fired at Israel shortly after the IAF struck a terror cell in Gaza City. The rocket landed on the Palestinian side of the border.
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27 dec 2011
Israeli raids kill 1, injure 10 in Gaza
13-year-old boy injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza
Israeli Forces Open Fire at Agricultural Land North of Gaza
Israeli Forces Storm Area South of Nablus
28 dec 2011
Palestinian Killed, 11 Wounded, As Army Bombards Gaza
Israel shells northern Gaza
Israeli Navy Ram into Olivia Boat, Injure International Activist
IDF chief: Gaza war against Hamas was an 'excellent' operation
Israel 'will launch significant Gaza offensive sooner or later'
21 jan 2012, 18:09 , Respect -
Maria 29 dec 2011
Hamas denies report of ceasefire
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas on Thursday denied an Israeli media report that the party's leader ordered the group's armed wing to cease attacks on Israel.
Citing senior Fatah sources, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Thursday that Khalid Mashaal had instructed Hamas militants not to fire at Israel, after reconciliation talks with Fatah leader and President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Ma'an the report was "worthless" and did not merit a response.
He said the article reflected Israel's confusion in the face of Hamas' success.
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