Three Injured By Israeli Fire In Khan Younis
Palestinian medical sources reported that three Palestinians have been injured, on Sunday evening, after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border, opened fire at them in Al-Faraheen area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
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Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid & Occupation
Jewish settlers attacked the village of Qasra, south of Nablus city, and destroyed vast areas of its farmland, local sources said.
A report issued by Hamas’ Media Office said that Israeli occupation is moving at an accelerated pace to legalize most of the outposts built on occupied West Bank lands and to encourage Jews to settle there.
Israel plans to Judaize names of Palestinian neighborhoods and streets
The Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem is going to hold a meeting today, Sunday, to discuss the proposal of changing the names of several Arab streets into Hebrew ones.
Israel to build Jewish tourist site south of Aqsa Mosque
The coalition of “Guided by Jerusalem” said the IOA decided to initiate the building of a Jewish tourist site adjacent to the southern wall of the Aqsa Mosque on 22 dunums of land.
Access to Al-Aqsa mosque compound restricted as third day of Egypt-mediated Gaza-Israel truce is tested.
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Taking shelter in a Palestinian refugee camp
In just over week of violence, at least 1,100 Palestinian rockets have landed in Israel, and more than 900 air strikes carried out in the Gaza Strip which killed at least 162 Palestinians. Al Jazeera spent the night with a family in an area often targeted by the bombing raids. Casey Kauffman reports from Jabalya Refugee camp.
Across the Gaza Strip there are hundreds of families made homeless by the latest Israeli attacks. For some, picking up the pieces is a new challenge; others have seen it all before. But the coming winter weather doesn’t make it any easier. Al Jazeera’s Nadeem Baba reports from Gaza City.
As part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Israel has eased restrictions on Palestinian fishermen. Restrictions are also being eased on children, who have gone back to school for the first time since the ceasefire started. Nadim Baba has more from Gaza.
Three Injured By Israeli Fire In Khan Younis
Palestinian medical sources reported that three Palestinians have been injured, on Sunday evening, after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border, opened fire at them in Al-Faraheen area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Associated Press photographer Bernat Armangué was in Gaza as Israel targeted the region during a war that claimed more than 160 lives in eight days.
43 children killed and 432 wounded during aggression on Gaza
43 children were killed while 432 others were injured during the 8-day Israeli occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip according to Palestinian medical sources.
“He only knew how to smile,” Jehad told me, as we both struggled to hold back the tears. ”He could say just two words – Baba and Mama,” his father went on. Also on Jehad’s phone is another photo. A hideous tiny corpse. Omar’s smiling face virtually burnt off, that fine hair appearing to be melted on to his scalp. Jehad’s sister-in-law Heba was also killed. ”We still haven’t found her head,” Jehad said. And his brother is critically ill in hospital with massive burns. His chances are not good.
‘Awad a-Nahal was killed in a bombing near his home in Rafah while trying to aid a wounded man, 17 Nov. 2012
A B’Tselem inquiry shows that on the morning of 17 November 2012, an Israeli attack targeted three armed men in Rafah. Two of them were killed on the spot and a third was wounded. Shortly afterwards, while ‘Awad a-Nahal, age 31, a resident of a nearby house, was trying to evacuate the injured man, a second attack killed both the armed man and the civilian trying to evacuate him.
IOF incursion ends in violent clashes
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the Zabuba village to the west of Jenin on Saturday night triggering violent clashes with young men, locals told the PIC.
Settler violence and IDF raids: For West Bank Palestinians, there is no ceasefire
While Israelis are breathing a sigh of relief that quiet has mostly been restored (for the time being), and life can supposedly just go back to normal, with Gaza out of sight and out of mind, the other elephant in the room – the West Bank and East Jerusalem – is all but quiet.
Past Israeli Terrorism
Nabatiyyah camp: erased by Israeli bombs, As’ad AbuKhalil
It occurred to me yesterday that we should have a special website to chronicle all Israeli crimes from the beginning of the Zionist colonization of Palestine. And just yesterday I thought about the Nabatiyyah refugee camp that does not exist anymore. This was a refugee camp near the city of Nabatiyyah in South Lebanon which housed thousands of Palestinian families who were kicked out from their homeland in 1948. In 1974-1975, the labor government of Shimon Peres and Itzhak Rabin ordered massive bombing raids against the camp and the bombing raids were so incinerating that it was bombed out of existence, literally. In December 1975, Israeli fighter jets bombed the camp and there was nothing left whatsoever. This is the other history of Israel that most Americans are ignorant about.
IOF soldiers arrest MP Mansour
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested MP Yasser Mansour after storming his home at dawn Saturday in Nablus city.
IOF arrests a Palestinian, sets military checkpoint
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn on Sunday a Palestinian young man during raids carried out in the village of Silat al-Harithiya west of Jenin, and took him to an unknown destination.
Hamas MPs demand Abbas to release political prisoners
A meeting was held between PA president Abbas and a delegation of MPs and former ministers from Hamas Movement on Saturday evening, at the Muqata in Ramallah.
Health condition from prisoner Qa’qour deteriorates
The Israeli occupation authorities prevented a medical committee from visiting the patient prisoner Hamza Sam Qa’qour, 32, from the city of Jenin, who is held in Megiddo prison.
Israeli police have extended the arrest of Intisar Al Hudra (35) from al Tour. She is accused of stabbing an Israeli soldiers in Salah Edin St. She will be presented to the Magistrate Court on Friday.
The administration at Galboa prison have delayed the released of prisoner Majedal Ja’ba from Jerusalem without providing an explanation. Al Ja’ba was supposed to released on Thursday after completing his 2 year sentence. Many of his family and friends spent the entire day waiting outside the prison to welcome him home. Al Ja’ba lawyer’s was also enable to elicit the reason for the delay in his release. Majed al Ja’ba (32) is married with 2 children. He was arrested on 27/12/10 after being charged for working with Hamas.
Doctors Worldwide delegation arrives in Gaza
The delegation of Doctors Worldwide organization arrived in the Gaza Strip, which has been experiencing Israeli attacks, on Saturday in a solidarity visit.
A delegation of 40 Libyan diplomats has arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on a solidarity visit. Members of the group include the deputy head of the Libyan National Congress, Saleh Al-Makhzoun, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Al-Siddiq Karim. They were received at the border by a number of Palestinian MPs who then accompanied the delegation to Al-Shifa Hospital to meet some Gazans wounded during Israel’s offensive.
Activists in Scotland today scaled and occupied the roof of the Scottish Parliament to protest the Scottish government’s failure to condemn Israel’s attack on Gaza and to demand sanctions be imposed on Israel.
“You can take action wherever you are:” G4S offices in London occupied over role in Gaza siege
Campaigners staged a sit-in demonstration at the central London offices of security company G4S yesterday afternoon to protest the company’s supply of services and equipment to Israeli prisons and checkpoints, including the Erez checkpoint that forms part of Israel’s siege on Gaza.
Thousands protest in London demanding an end to the Gaza siege
Thousands of British protestors marched in London, on Saturday, outside 10 Downing Street, demanding an end to the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and an end to the suffering of the Palestinians.
Photos by Lazar Simeonov Ramallah — On 1 November, the first biennale event of Qalandiya International Festival was launched and lasted for two weeks.
Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening, Ali Abunimah
“Maybe we should secretly add some means of birth control to Gaza’s drinking water,” to a warm audience reception.
The textbook calls Muslims “rabid fanatics” with “savage beginnings” and characterizes the Prophet Muhammad as a “rabid Jew-hater,” according to the organization’s letter.
Haniyeh Appreciates Iranian Support for Gaza
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday thanked Iran for the support for Gaza people in his statement after victory over the Israeli occupying regime in eight-day war.
Iran Congratulates Palestinian Resistance over Victory
Iran congratulated the Palestinian resistance and people for their victory against the Zionist entity, criticizing Arab and international silence.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Endorse Abbas’s Move At The UN
Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyya, senior Hamas official, Ahmad Bahar, and Islamic Jihad Leader, Mohammad al-Hindi, phoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, informing him that their movements endorse Abbas’s UN Observer Status application.
US Senators warn Abbas about upcoming UN bid
Democrats and Republicans say move could jeopardize American aid, and that negotiations are the only way to a Palestinian state.
Israel will negotiate with other Palestinian factors if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presses forward with his statehood bid at the United Nations this week, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned on Saturday. Speaking in an interview on Israel Radio, Ayalon said that other Palestinian groups exist with which Israel can negotiate, but the deputy foreign minister refused to specify to which organizations he was referring.
They seem desperate to convince the world of this: VIDEO: ‘Two state solution’ still an option
The President of Israel Shimon Peres tells HARDtalk in Jerusalem that a ‘two state solution’ is still an option for Israel and the Palestinians despite the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Iranian president says Israel knows Iran won’t ‘attack anybody’; world powers agree to seek renewed talks with Iran as soon as possible.
Lobbyists pay UK authorities to buy support for Israeli regime
An evangelical group says Hamas access to Twitter violates the United States’ ‘material support’ laws.
EU sponsored Israeli weapons fair on eve of Gaza attacks
It is shocking that Europe’s support for a Tel Aviv arms fair, held just before Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, has gone unnoticed by the media.
The Martyr Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades declared that they fired during the battle of “Shale stones”, which lasted for eight days, 1573 rockets, a number of them were used for the first time.
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Mohammad al-Daif, general commander of Hamas’ military wing, the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, has been conducting special operations against Israel since the 1980s, despite numerous attempts to capture or assassinate him.
By ingenious use of social media, Rana Baker and other citizen journalists were able to reach the world from Gaza as the bombs fell, and influence the way the Israeli attack was reported.
Israeli terrorism against Gaza: the context, As’ad AbuKhalil
“The Israeli government has referred to its siege policy as a form of “economic warfare.” In a Nov. 2008 cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv released by WikiLeaks, US officials wrote, “As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed . . . on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge” with the aim of having Gaza’s economy “functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.” This was achieved through an Israeli-imposed blockade that ended all normal trade. The result has been high and persistent unemployment, which stood near 30 percent by June 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund. Approximately 39 percent of Gaza’s people lived below the poverty line in 2011. The figure would be far greater without donor aid. Gaza’s economic decline is seen in the near collapse of its agricultural sector. One factor is the destruction of around 7,800 acres of agricultural land during Cast Lead. Consequently, approximately one-third of Gaza’s total arable land is out of production. Furthermore, Israeli-imposed buffer zones — areas of restricted access — now absorb nearly 14 percent of Gaza’s total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land. Similarly, the sea buffer zone covers 85 percent of the maritime area promised to Palestinians in the Oslo Accords, reducing 20 nautical miles to three, where waters are fouled by sewage flows in excess of 23 million gallons daily. Another critical constraint is water. Gaza’s aquifer has been ruined by prolonged over-pumping and sewage and contaminant infiltration.
Poll: Israelis dissatisfied with cease-fire
A poll shows about half of Israelis think their government should have continued its military offensive against Palestinian militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians, Oren Ben-Dor
Yet another massacre is unfolding in Gaza, the largest prison in the world. We are surrounded by familiar chatter: ‘Israel’s right to defend itself’; ‘Palestinians’ legitimate resistance to (the 1967) occupation’; ‘who started it this time?’ Most insidious, however, is the stale refrain, sung by a chorus which includes President Obama, that the violence is disastrous for the ‘peace process’ aimed at a ‘two-state solution’.
Overwhelming US support for onslaught was given in prejudicial disregard of Palestinian perspective — Scholars
We, the undersigned Directors of the International Council for Middle East Studies (ICMES), join the international community in condemning the recent Israeli military offensive, “Operation Pillar of Defense,” which has involved targeted assassination, attacks on non-military locations, and the killing or injury of at least 1,000 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip—all illegal acts under international law. These Israeli attacks primarily against an occupied, largely unarmed civilian population are neither warranted nor justified, whether in light of the facts or in view of the alternative avenues available for peaceful resolution to the regional conflict of which Operation Pillar of Defense is emblematic.
Hats off to Yousef Munayyer. Earlier this week the New Yorker published When the Smoke Clears in Gaza, advising “fundamental change” was needed in Israel’s approach to their relationship with Palestinians: “new paradigm.. based on equality”. Thanksgiving day, the New York Times published Munayyer’s wake up call to Washington. Will they listen?
The message sent from Palestinian resistance during the Israeli attack on Gaza, Hanan Abunasser
(Note: If you are not a citizen of Gaza, you may find it difficult to understand what I feel.) This time is different for me as a survivor of both Cast Lead and Pillar of Defense. Though it is heartbreaking that all Palestinians of Gaza are being collectively punished for trying to stay alive, this time the performance of the Palestinian resistance gave me, the oppressed and powerless, some balance in this struggle. We, in Gaza, do not only suffer from 65-years old occupation, but also 6 years old inhuman and medieval siege. Literally, the people of Gaza, after this, are left with no choice except resistance. I should make myself clear here saying we resist using all means of resistance but it such situation, when all of us are attacked, then armed resistance is the only solution left.
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/11/25/is-gaza-outside-israel/
Destruction
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Elimination Operation
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Shoot to Kill
In other news, days after meeting with US Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta and days before the Palestinian bid to upgrade its status to observer member of UN (with the added benefit of joining the ICC and prosecuting Israeli officials for war crimes), Ehud Barak announces that soon he will no longer travel abroad in an official capacity (that is, he’s retiring from politics). Even though Netanyahu is trying desperately to sink the Palestinian moves at the UN, perhaps some other Israeli leaders have figured out which way the international winds are blowing.