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Meshal: Hamas will not yield
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:23:21 GMT The head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Meshaal, has said that Hamas will not bow down to any conditions imposed by Israel to end the war on Gaza.
In a televised speech Meshaal broadcast from Damscus, he welcomed any efforts to end the war and lift the
siege on Gaza.
He noted that this war is not only against Hamas and Gaza but also against all Palestinians and the Islamic world in general .Meshaal emphasized the importance of cohesion between Hamas and their leading factional rival Fatah, calling for both sides to accept each other and adding that the common enemy for the Palestinians is Israel.
The Hamas leader made the plea in the full knowledge that elements within the Palestinian Authority are working with the Israelis to uproot and eliminate the duly elected government of Hamas administering the Gaza Strip, in tandem with Egypt and Israeli towards the same aim, abetted by the general compliance of key regional Arab kingdoms.
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Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:54:21 GMT
The US has given Israel free reign to send troops into the Gaza, insisting that a ceasefire is based on Israeli's demand for Hamas to halt rockets.
White House deputy press secretary Gordon Johndroe told reporters on Friday that they are in contact with Israeli officials and the US has asked to Israel to minimize the civilian casualties.
However, Johndroe said that "So I think any steps they are taking, whether it's from the air or on the ground or anything of that nature, are part and parcel of the same operation, those will be decisions made by the Israelis." 
situation in Gaza as "appalling".
"Israel has a right to defend itself from these rocket attacks, and so we'll see," Johndroe said when asked about progress toward a ceasefire.
Also on Friday Amnesty International berated the US government over its "lopsided" support for Israeli attacks on Gaza and urged Washington to suspend weapons deliveries to Israel.
"Amnesty International USA is particularly dismayed at the lopsided response by the US government to the recent violence and its lackadaisical efforts to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza," the rights group said in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Since Israel unleashed its air and sea campaign six days ago, at least 65 children are among the 430 Palestinians killed, the overwhelming majority of whom are ordinary civilians and not Hamas combatants or group members and 2,250 others wounded, according to Gaza medics.
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Gaza ground invasion may be imminent
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:54:05 GMT
Israeli leaders have held a meeting to discuss a ground offensive into Gaza, as the air force continues to pound the region for a seventh day.
A government spokesman said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert discussed the ongoing military operation on the Gaza Strip in a meeting with top ministers.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and top military and intelligence officials attended the meeting and mulled over an order for a ground offensive into the coastal sliver, Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev said.
At least 436 Palestinians -- the natives of the land -- have been killed in the Israeli strikes on Gaza, which started on Saturday. Some 2,250 other Gazans are reportedly wounded. 
In retaliation for the attacks on the Palestinian land, Hamas has launched rocket attacks, hitting targets some 25 miles (40 kilometers) into Israel, killing at least 6 Israelis and wounding some 16 others.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Hamas movement would agree to stop its rocket attacks if Tel Aviv agrees to lift its 18-month blockade on Gaza.
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since the Hamas movement won a majority in the 2006 Palestinian election and took control of the area in mid-June 2007.
As the death toll continues to rise on the seventh day of the air strikes, Israeli tanks and troops massed along the Gaza border are reportedly preparing for an imminent ground offensive.
"The forces are there, and they're ready for anything," said an Israeli military spokeswoman, Maj. Avital Leibovich.
Meanwhile, some say that the Israeli army may suffer exceptional casualties should it enter the beleaguered strip.
"There is no way to take Hamas out without going into Gaza. The problem is the price," Yaakov Amidror, a retired Israeli major general who headed the military's research and assessment division, was quoted by the Washington Post as saying.
"My feeling is that we should do it. All the other players in the region are wondering why we are hesitating if we are so strong," Amidror added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel's security cabinet rejected an international proposal for a 48-hour truce to allow humanitarian aid to enter the beleaguered strip, saying a cease-fire would strengthen Hamas.
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Written by ebrahimi
Friday, 02 January 2009 
According to IRIB, President Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a meeting of the Cabinet after the end of his provincial tour to the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
The President termed the Zionist regime's crimes unprecedented and said," Today the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are under the Zionist forces' air, sea and ground attacks while the regime has declared that it will continue its assaults on Gaza."
Expressing that the majority of the Palestinians who were massacred in the Gaza Strip were civilians including women and children he said," Medicine, food and all needs of the Palestinian people should be transferred to the Gaza Strip by any means and the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to adopt necessary measures in this regard."
At the beginning of the Cabinet meeting, the Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gave a report about latest developments in the Gaza Strip.
Rafsanjani: Send weapons to Gaza
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:00:39 GMT
A senior Iranian cleric has urged the Muslim states to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by sending them weapons to defend themselves.
"The oppressed Palestinian people can stand up to Israel if they receive political and financial support and also weapons," Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said in his Friday prayers sermons.
"Over the past week, the Palestinain people in the Gaza Strip have found a large number of supporters, many of who are interested in launching Jihad against Israel," IRNA quoted the former Iranian president as saying. 
He noted that Tell Aviv is suffering from delusions of grandeur, adding that Israeli tanks cannot break the resistance of Gaza.
"Israel thinks it is more powerful than Arab states and other regional countries, while it has no weapon but the weapon of brutality," said the chairman of Iran's Expediency Council.
Citing that Hamas' newly developed home-made rockets are capable of destroying Israeli tanks and hit targets deep in the southern parts of the occupied territories, Rafsanjani said that Israel is covered with fear and enjoys no peace of mind.
He also warned against any Israeli ground incursion into the strip, which he said would be repelled by Palestinian resistance.
Israel's aerial attacks on the costal sliver have entered their seventh day, leaving over 430 Palestinians dead and 2,250 others wounded.
Resistance fighters have responded to Israel's airstrikes by firing mortar shells and rockets into Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. Six Israelis have been killed and over a dozen have been injured since Saturday.
Tel Aviv, which used Palestinians' rocket firing as a pretext to launch the war, later said that the main objective of the military operations is to topple the democratically elected government of Hamas.
Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip say they fire rockets into Israel in retaliation for the blockade and the daily attacks carried out against them. Tel Aviv imposed a blockade on the strip after the movement took over Gaza in mid-June 2007.
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UN places Gaza Strip on red alert
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:43:49 GMT
UN envoy Robert Serry declares Gaza to be on red alert amid Israeli efforts to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
In a televised press conference on Friday, Serry said that Israel's saturation bombing has unleashed a serious humanitarian crisis against the Gazans.
He said it is highly important for UN member states to reach a unanimous consensus on a "way forward out of the crisis" and urged the Arab League in particular to show "enough unity" on the issue.
Tel Aviv launched Operation Cast Lead on Saturday allegedly to stop rocket attacks on Israeli communities and is mulling over an order for a full-scale ground offensive into the coastal strip.
The arbitrary Israeli attacks have so far left 436 Gazans dead and more than 2,250 wounded -- the vast majority ot whom are not members of Hamas or its military wing and and include yet unknown hundreds of women and children.
UN humanitarian coordinator Max Gaylard said Friday that the air strikes have left Gaza in a critical state of emergency.
"Schools are closed, the population is staying home, Gaza is experiencing a food crisis... hospitals and clinics are absolutely overwhelmed," he said, adding that there is "an air strike every 20 minutes on average, probably intensifying at night."
This comes as Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected French appeals for an emergency forty-eight-hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into the region.
"There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce," said Livni, adding that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is "completely as it should be".
Her remarks sparked an outcry among UN officials and aid workers. "The current situation in Gaza is appalling, and many basic food items are no longer available on the market," said the World Food Program representative in Gaza, Christine van Nieuwenhuyse.
More than half of the 1.5 million residents of the Palestinian territory are under 15.
UN spokesman Chris Gunness also condemned Israel for attempting to distort the reality about the abysmal humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.
"When you look at the Israeli assertions about the humanitarian situation, it is very hard to square this with the extraordinarily dire situation on the ground in Gaza,'' he said.
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JameJamOnline: Medical professionals from Iran are prepared to go to the Gaza Strip amid Israeli warnings of a ground incursion into the besieged region, according to Press TV.
"Over a thousand Iranian doctors and nurses have volunteered to go to the Gaza Strip [to treat those wounded]," announced Iranian Health Minister Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani
on Tuesday.
"Public and private hospitals are also prepared to hospitalize Palestinians injured in Gaza provided that Egypt opens the (Rafah) crossing," added the official. According to Baqeri-Lankarani, the Iranian Ministry of Health has been sending letters to officials from all over the world in the past 45 days to inform them of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to request help.
Iran has loaded 2000 tons of food, fuel and medicine onto a ship now en route to Gaza. The country has also sent several consignments of humanitarian aid to the strip via Egypt.
A representative of the Palestinian Hamas, Abu-Osama Abd-al-Moti, says Gaza needs at least 700 trucks packed with food and medicine to fulfill its basic needs.
"(On Monday) only 17 trucks entered Gaza," he added.
Israel has launched a barrage of air operations against Gaza since Saturday, saying it seeks to topple the Hamas movement, which took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after winning the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections in January 2006.
In retaliation to the attacks on Gaza, Hamas has vowed to launch rocket strikes against Israel. Six Israelis have died since Saturday and sixteen others have been reported wounded.
On the Palestinian side, however, over 1800 Palestinians have so far been injured and at least 386 killed -- scores of whom were women and children.
Despite international calls for Israel to halt the bloodshed in Gaza, Israel is reportedly preparing to launch a ground assault into the region.
The recent conflict is the latest in a series which started when world powers found a 'land without a people and a people without a land' in 1948 and created Israel.
tragedy of Gaza bloodbath in the hand of the Zionists, strongly condemning the heinous complicity of the criminal Bush’s regime with the Zionists, adding that the silence of some international bodies and some Arab
states provided for the crimes. Ayatollah Khamenei declared Monday as day of general mourning and called on all Muslim people and free men of the world to render their duty towards the tragic issue. The text of the statement is as follows.
Bismillah-e Rahman-e Rahim
“We belong to Allah, and to Him we return”
The horrific atrocity of the Zionist regime in Gaza in which hundreds of innocent men, women and children were massacred pushed the curtain of deception from the blood thirsty face of the Zionist wolves and noted the negligent about the presence of this warring infidel in the heart of the lands of Islamic umma.
The horrendous ordeal is very heavy and moving for any Muslim not to say for any free and noble human being in any corner of the world. However, the larger ordeal is the encouraging silence of some Arab governments which claim to be Muslims. Which ordeal could be larger than the fact that Muslim governments, otherwise expected to support the innocent Gaza people against the usurping and hostile regime, adopted a mood which encouraged the criminal Zionist authorities to impertinently consider them as in harmony with the large tragedy?
Which answer the heads of those countries have prepared to give to the Messenger of Allah (S.A.)? Which answer they have prepared to give to their own nations which are indeed mourning the tragedy? Indeed today the heart of the Egyptian, Jordanian and the people of other Islamic countries is overwhelmed with sorrow about the bloodshed as well as the protracted food and medicine embargos.
By his complicity in the large crime, the criminal Bush’s administration in the last days of his shameful rule more darkened the face of the American regime than ever and added to its dossier of war crimes. The European governments with their indifference and sometimes their complicity in the large tragedy once more proved that their claims of advocacy for human rights are false and also showed they are present in the front against Islam and Muslims. Now, I ask the scholars and Alims of the Arab world and the chiefs of the Egyptian al-Azhar center “isn’t it the time to feel the threat facing Islam and Muslims?” “Isn’t it the time to fulfill the mandatory act of standing against any bullying ruler?” Is an additional, more divulging scene of complicity between the warring infidels and the hypocrites of umma in repressing the Muslims than the current Gaza and Palestine developments is needed to prompt you to feel responsibility?
I have also a question to ask the media and the intellectuals of the world of Islam and especially the Arab world. For how long you have decided to remain indifferent regarding your media and intellectual responsibility?
Has there remained any more face for the scandal-hit human rights bodies of the west and the so-called ’security’ council of the United Nations to lose?
All the Palestinian Mujahid and other faithful of the world of Islam are supposed to defend the defenseless people of Gaza. Anyone who is killed in the legitimate and holy defense is a martyr and is hoped to be among the ranks of the martyrs of Badr and Ohud battles in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (S.A.).
The Organization of the Islamic Conference must fulfill its historical responsibility in the sensitive conditions and form a solid front, bereft of inaction and reservations, against the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime must be punished by the Muslim governments. The heads of the usurping regime must be tried and punished in person for their crimes and the protracted siege.
The Muslim nations are able to materialize the demands through firm resolve. The duty of politicians, Alims and intellectuals in this juncture is much heavier than others.
I declare Monday a day of general mourning in commemoration of the Gaza tragedy and instruct the country’s authorities to fulfill their duties regarding the sad incident.
“And those who do wrong shall surely know by what overturning they will be overturned”
Sayyed Ali Khamenei
December 28, 2008
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Education Minister in a letter to UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura asked him to condemn Gaza killings and declare the inhuman nature of this action to the world.
Ali Reza ali-Ahmadi wrote in his letter, "In a world that international bodies, human right, education right, the right to enjoy security, right of civilians to be safe from military attacks and many other rights are respected and honored, can anyone behave in such a barbaric manner with inhabitants of a small town?" We believe that if we do not resist against such acts today, tomorrow will be too late, he wrote.
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Gaza ground assault feared
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:21:59 GMT
Foreigners have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli army mulls over a ground offensive into the coastal sliver.
UN places Gaza Strip on red alert
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:43:49 GMT
UN envoy Robert Serry declares Gaza to be on red alert amid Israeli efforts to downplay the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
Israel urged against Gaza incursion
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:19:26 GMT
Egypt has advised Israel against launching a ground offensive on Gaza, calling for an immediate end to the military operation there.
UN blasts Israel for 'appalling' Gaza situation
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:14:18 GMT
The United Nations has disputed assertions in Tel Aviv that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza despite weeklong Israeli raids.
Gaza ground invasion may be imminent
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:54:05 GMT
Israeli leaders have held a meeting to discuss a ground offensive into Gaza, as the air force continues to pound the region for a seventh day.
Israel says truce would legitimize Hamas
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:19:21 GMT
Israel claims that declaring a truce in the wake of its weeklong incursion into the Gaza Strip would stack the odds in favor of Hamas.
Israel fears Hamas strike on Dimona nukes
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:42:45 GMT
Hamas retaliatory attacks have alarmed Israel with officials anticipating that the Dimona nuclear complex might become the next target.
Poll: Rulers less popular in Israel for Gaza war
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:38:19 GMT
The popularity of the Israeli ruling party has started to fade in the wake of Tel Aviv's military offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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