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Monday, January 5, 2009

Palestine: Major fightings begin in Gaza City



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Major fighting begin in Gaza City


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:34:40 GMT


A fierce battle has erupted in Gaza City as the Israeli army engages in heavy exchanges of fire with Hamas resistance fighters.


The fighting broke out in the vicinity of Gaza City on Monday for the first time since the Israeli military crossed over the border on Saturday, beginning an incursion into the costal sliver.


According to AFP, large explosions and heavy exchanges of fire rocked eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, as attacks on the densely-populated strip continues for a tenth day.


The Israeli army has reportedly prepared to face strong resistance in the city.


At least 50 Israeli troops have been wounded in the Operation Cast Lead; one has been killed and five others are reported in serious conditions.


Meanwhile, some 551 Palestinians have lost their lives, and at least 2,790 others are wounded -- most of whom are civilians.


Despite international calls for an immediate halt to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, Israeli Defense Minister Ehu Barak said earlier Monday that the ground incursion would be continued until the objectives are reached.


"Hamas has suffered a very heavy blow, but we have yet to reach the goals we set for ourselves, so the operation continues. International talks are being held simultaneously," Barak said.


Tel Aviv says through its military campaign, it aims to force Hamas stop its rocket attacks on southern Israel. Hamas, the democratically-elected government of the strip, is said to agree to stop its retaliatory attacks should Tel Aviv lift its 18-month blockade of the coastal sliver.


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. SB/MD


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Gaza wounded die waiting for ambulances
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:43:06 GMT

A growing number of wounded Palestinians in Gaza are succumbing to death as Israeli bombings have made it hard for ambulances to reach them.







"The situation is extremely dangerous and the coordination of ambulance services is very complex because of nonstop attacks and military operations," International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spokeswoman, Dorothea Krimitsas, said in Geneva.

She added, "Wounded people have died while waiting for Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances. In some other cases, ambulances cannot reach the wounded at all because of the ongoing fighting and shelling."

Gaza's health services are in dire need of supplies and many health workers are unable to reach their hospitals. Emergency rooms and intensive care units are overwhelmed and at least two hospitals were out of fuel for their generators.

The Red Cross has also voiced concern over water supplies in the densely populated enclave. Krimitsas said two out of the 45 wells in the Gaza Strip were out of action after having been hit during Israeli air raids, while the pumps on eight others were no longer working because of power cuts.

"Half a million people, that's about one third of the population of the territory, are threatened with being completely deprived of water," she said. The ICRC spokeswoman noted that technicians needed to gain access to the electrical installations damaged during the fighting.

Since Israel unleashed its air and sea campaign against Gaza on December 27, at least 555 Palestinians have lost their lives and more than 2,790 others have sustained injuries.

MP/MMA

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Chavez: US behind Israeli attacks in Gaza
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:53:13 GMT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that the US is behind Israeli military operations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"The ground invasion at the border of Gaza is supported and driven forward by the government of the United States," said Chavez on Monday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez


On the 11th day of the assault, at least 555 Palestinians have been killed and some 2,790 have been wounded in the impoverished area that is also under a strict Israeli blockade.

The Venezuelan president also on Monday urged Israel to stop its 'genocidal' attacks on Gaza.

"It is not known what plans they [US leaders] have to extend the war in the Mideast and other parts of the world," Reuters quoted Chavez as saying.

Meanwhile, the outspoken critic of Washington asked the United Nations and other countries to help end the Israeli offensive.

"It is necessary to denounce the Israeli government as a killer government, a genocidal government and the world should stand up - the United Nations, the governments of the European continent, of the Mideast, of Arabia, the Arab world, the great countries of the world - we should all state and demand - as Venezuelan demands - with our voice and our morality to cease the invasion on the Gaza border and the killing of thousands of innocents," he said.

Earlier, Chavez condemned Israel for its air raids, saying, "The US is the only government compliant in the attacks."

AGB/MMA


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3 Israeli soldiers killed in fierce Gaza fightings
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:15:33 GMT


At least three Israeli soldiers have lost their lives as Israel's ground forces and Palestinian resistance forces fought their first major battles in Gaza City.



Israeli soldiers raiding Gaza at night



The Israeli loss took place as tanks and assault helicopters launched a nighttime offensive against the besieged enclave on Monday. Massive explosions and heavy machine gun fire were heard in Shejaiya neighborhood in what was seen as the heaviest fighting since Israel's deadly campaign against Gaza.

Residents said that they could see assault helicopters buzzing overhead and firing at Palestinian resistance forces. Flares consequently were lighting up the skies over blacked-out Gaza neighborhoods. The Islamic Jihad movement stated that at least one of its members was killed in the fighting.

“The fighting is very intense at Shejaiya. The resistance drew Israeli forces into a trap and wounded seven. We have left a lot of explosives in their path,” a Hamas official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, there were reports of clashes in the nearby Zeitoun district. An unnamed Israeli military source said that the combat in Shejaiya and Zeitoun was very fierce.


On Saturday, Israel launched a ground operation on the besieged coastal sliver following a week of massive aerial and naval bombardments.

Since Israel unleashed its air and sea campaign against Gaza last Saturday, at least 555 Palestinians have lost their lives and more than 2,790 others - most of whom are civilians - have been injured.

Israel initially claimed that the military campaign was aimed at halting rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, however, Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon later revealed that the main goal of the attacks is to topple the democratically-elected Hamas government, which took over the coastal sliver in mid-June 2007.

Hamas resistance fighters on the other hand, continue shelling rockets and mortar shells into southern Israeli towns, in retaliation to the deadly blockade imposed on them as well as the recent attacks on Gaza.

MP/MMA

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Bush continues backing Israel, slamming Hamas
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:45:58 GMT


US President George W. Bush has continued to support Israel's attacks on Gaza, saying that the Hamas movement caused the disaster in Gaza.





Bush (L) meets Barak in Jerusalem



"I understand Israel's desire to protect itself and that the situation now taking place in Gaza was caused by Hamas," Bush said on Monday.

Earlier, the Bush administration blamed Hamas for provoking Tel Aviv by firing rockets into Israel from Gaza.

"In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe had said.

Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip say they fire rockets into Israel in retaliation for the daily Israeli attacks against them. Unlike the state-of-the-art Israeli weapons and ammunition, the home-made Qassam rockets rarely cause casualties.

At least 555 Palestinians have been killed and some 2,790 have been wounded since December 27, when Tel Aviv began its military campaign on Gaza.

This is while Israeli daily Haaretz said on its website that 55 Israeli soldiers had been injured in clashes with Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip since Saturday and reports say that some.

The outgoing president also said that Washington was concerned about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Gaza Strip on the 11th day of a relentless Israeli air and land assault against the impoverished strip.

The Pentagon said on Monday that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday, the day after Israeli ground forces pushed into Gaza.





Gates meeting with Barak


Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman would not comment on the substance of their conversation, but confirmed "Ehud Barak did phone Secretary Gates on Sunday."

Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, learned of the Israeli ground offensive, shortly before it began, from his Israeli counterpart, a US military official also said.

Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, relayed "an official notification of the commencement of the ground operation" through the Israeli defense attache in Washington, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

On Monday, Republican congressman Ron Paul said that Israel had received a green light from the US for the deadly blitz.

Paul went on to challenge the idea of Hamas threatening Israel's security and argued that "Palestinian missiles are so minor compared to the fire power of Israel, who also has nuclear weapons."

Later on Monday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino also suggested that the war would help create "a more stable and secure" life for the people of Gaza.

"We understand the need to try to create a more stable and secure area for themselves and also for the Palestinian people," she said.

AGB/MMA

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Hamas resumes talks with Egypt on Rafah
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:43:03 GMT


A delegation from the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) has arrived in Cairo to discuss the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.

The delegation consists of two prominent Hamas authorities namely Emad al- Alami as well as Mohamed Nasr. The visit to the Egyptian capital comes as Hamas reversed its earlier refusal to send delegates to Cairo.


Egypt, despite Palestinian and Muslim calls, has refused to open its border with Gaza.


A Hamas spokesman, Ayman Taha, said Monday that his organization had accepted an Egyptian invitation to send a delegation to Cairo to discuss 'the cessation of Israeli aggression and the lifting of the three-year old blockade of the Gaza Strip.'

Egypt is said to have put before them its proposal for ceasing hostilities with Hamas on the basis of a defunct 2005 accord, whereby the Fatah-ruled Palestinian Authority should take charge of the Gaza crossings and international monitors were to be also stationed at the Rafah crossing to Egypt.

Hamas has so far rejected the demand to redeploy forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas at the Rafah border crossing in accordance with a US-brokered agreement that was reached in 2005.

Hamas also ruled out the return of European monitors to the terminal, insisting that the border should be controlled only by Palestinians and Egyptians.

Syria-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has reportedly told the Egyptians that his movement would agree to the return of Abbas's loyalists to the Rafah border crossing on condition that Hamas, too, would be permitted to play a central role in running the terminal. Mashaal also expressed strong opposition to attempts to revive the 2005 agreement.

Abbas, for his part, dismissed the possibility that Hamas would be given any role in controlling the Rafah border crossing.

Egypt, despite Palestinian and Muslim calls, has refused to open its border with Gaza -- the Rafah crossing - amidst the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The refusal to open the crossing comes in the wake of an Israeli-imposed blockade of the impoverished coastal strip and Israel's recent incursion into the area.

The Israeli offensive along with the deadly blockade has so far claimed many Palestinian lives, and has left them in critical shortages of food, fuel and medical treatments.


Israel's deadly assault on Gaza has entered its 11th day


Israeli attacks on the blockaded costal sliver have entered their 11th day while on Saturday, Israel launched a ground operation into the besieged coastal sliver following a week of heavy aerial and naval bombardment.

Since Israel unleashed its air and sea campaign against Gazans last Saturday, at least 555 Palestinians have lost their lives and more than 2,790 others - most of whom are civilians - have been injured.

MP/MMA

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'Israel killing Gazans out of desperation'
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:09:42 GMT

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan NasrallahThe Hezbollah Secretary General says Israel is killing civilians in a desperate move after failing to fight Hamas in the Gaza Strip.


In a televised speech on Monday, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Israel has been 'disarmed' in its campaign against Palestinian fighters and that it can only overpower civilians.






The Hezbollah leader had earlier urged Hamas to fight Israeli troops and had drawn a parallel between the current situation in Gaza and the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon - which result in a humiliating defeat for Israel.
Tel Aviv launched Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip on December 27, to put an end to the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
The offensive which has so far left at least 555 people killed and over 2,700 others wounded, failed to stop rocket attacks to Israel.
Earlier in the day, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of Hamas, said the movement has enough rockets to continue the attacks on Israel, adding that "There are strategic places that can be targeted by our rockets."
The movement has recently extended the reach of its rocket attacks, hitting towns some 40 km (25 miles) east of the coastal Strip. SB/MMN
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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:22:28 GMT
At least 87 children have been among the victims of Israel's attacks on Gaza.World leaders express grave concern about the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as Israel tightens its grip on the impoverished region.
The Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, has been under fire since Israel launched Operation Cast Lead on December 27.
Despite the high civilian casualties, Tel Aviv continues rebuffing international requests for an immediate halt to the ongoing offensive.

At least 87 children have been among the victims of Israel's attacks on Gaza.


As Israeli troops and tanks enter the densely-populated Gaza city after a week-long aerial and naval offensive, the international society remains extremely concerned over the large number of civilians, killed or wounded in the costal area.

The tenth day of the assault brings the number of Palestinian casualties to 555 with over 2,700 others wounded.

In a telephone conversation with US President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao expressed his concern about the "humanitarian crisis".

Hu "expressed concern about the escalation in the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis and the worsening turbulence in the Middle East," Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Washington has blocked UN Security Council efforts to put an end to the ongoing violence in Gaza. Three UN draft resolutions seeking an end to the violence in the region have been blocked by the US.

Aid groups say the Gazans face a humanitarian crisis as they have no electricity, no water, and now suffer dire food shortages.

Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday said, It was "critical for Israel to meet its humanitarian obligations."

"Australia recognizes Israel's right to self-defense, (but) we call on all parties to avoid any actions which result in unnecessary suffering or increased suffering on the part of innocent civilians," Rudd said.

Jordan's Queen Rania, herself of Palestinian origin, on Monday called on governments to contribute to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA emergency appeal for 34 million dollars (25 million euros) to meet the immediate needs of Gaza's innocent civilians.

"The global humanity is incomplete when children become victims of military operations," she said. "Gaza's children, the dead and the barely living, their mothers, their fathers are not acceptable collateral damage, their lives do matter and their loss does count."

Sigrid Kaag, regional director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), warned against the humanitarian crisis hitting Palestinian children and women most, saying, "The children in Gaza are currently being deprived not only of the basic human rights any human being should enjoy, but are also being denied the fundamental rights specific to children..."

South Korea Monday offered 300,000 dollars in humanitarian aid for people in the Gaza Strip.

Japan -- which last week announced 10 million dollars in emergency humanitarian assistance -- said it was "gravely concerned" for the safety of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

"We are seeing violence against violence and hatred intensifying hatred. The Japanese government is gravely concerned that many victims are civilians as the violence escalates," Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura told a news conference. SF/MD



10-day-old Israeli offensive claims 555


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:21:54 GMT

The Palestinian death toll has hit 555, after another 50 people including 12 kids were killed in the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.



At least 2,700 people have also been wounded since Israeli Operation Cast Lead launched against the coastal region on December 27, Muawiya Hassanein, the head of the territory's emergency services told AFP Monday.


The casualties are expected to rise dramatically as the Israeli army has engaged in heavy exchanges of fire with Hamas resistance fighters in Gaza City.


The fighting has broken out for the first time since the Israeli military crossed over the border late Saturday after a week-long aerial and naval onslaught on the costal sliver.


Earlier in the day, the Army said its forces are gearing up for battles in heavily populated urban areas in the strip.


"This is what the troops have trained for and are designated to do -- to fight in densely-populated areas," The Jerusalem Post quoted an unnamed senior officer as saying.


Despite international calls for an immediate halt to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, tel Aviv reiterated that the ground incursion would be continued until the objectives are reached.


SB/MMN



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Unconventional weapons used against Gazans


Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:01 GMT





By Akram al-Sattari, Press TV, Gaza
Norwegian Doctor Mads GilbertDoctor Mads Gilbert is a member of a Norwegian triage medical team present in the besieged Gaza Strip.





The team has exposed that Israel has used depleted uranium weapons in its war on the impoverished territory which is home to 1.5 million Palestinians. He described the conditions inside Gaza in an exclusive Press TV interview.











Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert


Press TV: What can you tell about the uranium findings?




Dr. Mads Gilbert:The findings about the uranium I cannot tell you much about, but I can tell you that we have clear evidence that the Israelis are using a new type of very high explosive weapons which are called Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy.




These weapons have an enormous power to explode. The power of the explosion dissipates very quickly and the strength does not travel long, maybe 10 meters, but those humans who are hit by this explosion, this pressure wave are cut in pieces.




This was first used in Lebanon in 2006, it was used here in Gaza in 2006 and the injuries that we see in Shifa [Hospital] now, many many of them I suspect and we all suspect are the effect of DIME weapons used by the Israelis.




On the long term, these weapons will have a cancer effect on those who survive. They will develop cancer we suspect. There has been very little research on this but some research has been among other places in the United States, which show that these weapons have a high tendency to develop cancer. So they kill and those who survive risk having cancer.




Press TV: And what do you have to say about this?




Dr. Mads Gilbert:All that is happening in Gaza here now is against international law, it is against humanity and I think it is against what it means to be a decent person. You don't treat other people like this. Even if you disagree with him… maybe even if you fight with them, you don't treat civilians, children and women like this.




And I have an appeal to the Israeli doctors and nurses. They are my colleagues. We belong to the same international community, the medical community. I wish that the good doctors and nurses in Israel tell their government to stop these atrocities. We cannot continue with this. We may differ in opinions, but you cannot treat the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza in this way.


Today, they were bombing in Gaza City; we received 150 wounded and more than 50 killed.




Press TV: Only at Shifa?!




Dr. Mads Gilbert:Yes, here in Shifa. I treated a ten-year-old boy. He had his whole chest filled with fragments from the bomb. On his lap was another person's leg that had been cut off. We resuscitated him and did everything we could do to save his life but he died between our hands.




This is such a terrible experience and behind the numbers that you report all the time, there are human beings, families, women, grandmothers, children. That is in fact the reality in this situation. Those who are paying the price for the Israeli bombardments now are the common people, the Palestinian people.




Half of the population in Palestine are below 15 years and 80 percent of the people in Gaza live below the level of poverty defined by the UN. Now they don't have food, they don't have electricity. It's cold they don't have warmth and in addition to that, they are killed.




This must be stopped.




Press TV How many people did you see that are effected by this weapon? Dr. Mads Gilbert: Almost all of the patients we have received have these sever amputations. They seem to have been affected by this kind of weapon. Of course, we have many fragment injuries and burns but those who have got their limbs cut off, constitutes quite a large proportion.




You know we have a lot to do. Palestinian doctors, nurses and paramedics do an incredibly heroic job to save their people. Doctor Eric and I are just a small drip in the ocean, but we learn from them. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to do research, we have to save lives, but this question should be researched by the international community.




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White phosphorus added to Israeli fire
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:06:05 GMT

White phosphorus is classified as 'chemical weapon' by the US intelligence. Tel Aviv had previously used white phosphorus during the 2006 war with Lebanon.Israel is using controversial white phosphorus shells to push forward with a ground offensive against the densely-populated Gaza Strip.

White phosphorus, classified as 'chemical weapon' by the US intelligence, can cause horrific burns and severe injuries in anyone exposed to the element released from artillery shells.


White phosphorus is classified as 'chemical weapon' by the US intelligence. Tel Aviv had previously used white phosphorus during the 2006 war with Lebanon.


"The explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in," an Israeli security expert was quoted by the Times Online.

The shells were used by the artillery on Gaza City on Sunday, as Israeli tanks and ground forces pushed further into the region, tightening military grip on the city.

At least 555 Palestinians have been killed and some 2,790 have been wounded since December 27, when Tel Aviv began its military campaign on Gaza.

Earlier Sunday, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a member of a Norwegian triage medical team in Gaza, told Press TV that the medics have found depleted uranium in some Gaza residents.

The Gaza Strip, one of the world's densely-populated areas, 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.

According to Times Online, the use of unconventional weapons in Gaza is likely to ignite more controversy over the methods the Israeli army uses.

Tel Aviv had previously used white phosphorus during the 2006 war with Lebanon.

Israel says its latest military campaign aims to force Hamas to stop its rocket attacks on southern Israel.

Hamas has reportedly said it would stop retaliatory attacks if Tel Aviv lifts the 18-month blockade of the coastal sliver.

The Bush administration has expressed its support for the ongoing military campaign, saying Israel was provoked by Hamas.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Hamas movement has held hostage the Palestinians who live in Gaza and have had "a very bad daily life."

Congressman Ron Paul has, however, decried the Israeli raids, rejecting the idea that Hamas is threatening Tel Aviv's security; "Palestinian missiles are so minor compared to the fire power of Israel, who has nuclear weapons."

World leaders, meanwhile, have called for an immediate halt in the attacks on Gaza.

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Chavez: US behind Israeli attacks in Gaza

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:53:13 GMT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that the US is behind Israeli military operations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

3 Israeli soldiers killed in fierce Gaza fightings

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:15:33 GMT

At least three Israeli soldiers have lost their lives as Israel's ground forces and Palestinian resistance forces fought their first major battles in Gaza City.

Bush continues backing Israel, slamming Hamas

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:45:58 GMT

US President George W. Bush has continued to support Israel's attacks on Gaza, saying that the Hamas movement caused the disaster in Gaza.

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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:43:03 GMT

A delegation from the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) has arrived in Cairo to discuss the reopening of the Rafah border crossing.

'Israel killing Gazans out of desperation'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:09:42 GMT

The Hezbollah Secretary General says Israel is killing civilians in a desperate move after failing to fight Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

World fears humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:22:28 GMT

World leaders express grave concern about the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as Israel tightens its grip on the impoverished region.

10-day-old Israeli offensive claims 555

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:21:54 GMT

The Palestinian death toll has hit 555, after another 50 people including 12 kids were killed in the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

US troops 'monitoring Rafah crossing'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:17:54 GMT

US troops are helping Egypt prevent "arms smuggling" from tunnels in the Rafah border-crossing, as Israel continues its attacks on Gaza.

White phosphorus added to Israeli fire

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:06:05 GMT

Israel is using controversial white phosphorus shells to push forward with a ground offensive against the densely-populated Gaza Strip.

'Israeli soldier killed in Gaza City'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:03:25 GMT

An Israeli soldier has reportedly been killed in clashes erupted between Israel's ground forces and Hamas fighters in Gaza City.

UN chief criticizes UNSC over Gaza

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:56 GMT

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the Security Council's failure to reach a consensus on ending violence in Gaza is regrettable.

Major fighting begin in Gaza City

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:34:40 GMT

A fierce battle has erupted in Gaza City as the Israeli army engages in heavy exchanges of fire with Hamas resistance fighters.


Israel trained on model for Gaza assault

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:18:07 GMT

Israel's army had reportedly trained on a model of Gaza City for 18 months before starting the ground offensive in the densely-populated Strip.

Palestinian mother, children shot dead

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:57:56 GMT

A Palestinian mother and four of her children are killed as the Israeli forces continue their attack on the Gaza Strip for the 10th day.

Iraq slams silence of Arabs on Gaza

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:30:12 GMT

Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki condemns the silence of Arab countries regarding Israeli crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Hamas: Israelis walking into our traps

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:33 GMT

Hamas's military wing says its fighters are fully prepared to catch Israeli forces off guard in each corner of the beleaguered Gaza Strip.


Hamas: Israelis walking into our traps

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:33 GMT

Hamas's military wing says its fighters are fully prepared to catch Israeli forces off guard in each corner of the beleaguered Gaza Strip.

Gaza newborns in danger of hypothermia

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:25:06 GMT

Low temperature and a shortage in power supply have placed newborn Gazan babies at an increased risk of suffering from hypothermia.

More civilians killed in Gaza massacre

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:09:25 GMT

Israeli missiles pounding the Gaza Strip have destroyed buildings killing three more Palestinians and wounding at least 44 others.

Israel arrests 25 Palestinians in West Bank

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:49:13 GMT

Israeli security forces arrest 25 Palestinians in the West Bank as Israel continues its nonstop military attacks on Gaza for the 10th day.

Israel braces for fierce resistance in Gaza

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:03 GMT

The Israeli Army says it is gearing up for battles in heavily populated urban areas in the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians vow fierce resistance.

'Gazans are killed for change in equation'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:51:48 GMT

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says military operations in the Gaza Strip are aimed at changing the 'equation' in the region.

Poll: Gaza war aims to topple Hamas

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:54:51 GMT

A Press TV poll suggests that the main objective of Israel's attacks on Gaza is to topple the Hamas government and prevent its reelection.

'Three-state' modal for Palestine, Israel?

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:25:51 GMT

Former US envoy to the UN John Bolton says the Palestinian-Israeli conflict would be resolved through a solution that excludes a Palestinian state.

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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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US ok's Israeli Gaza ground attack

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."


The UN describes the humanitarian
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.

Israeli tanks and armored vehicles have been deployed near the Gaza Strip in areas where the army has declared as "closed military zone(s)."

Israel says it is targeting Hamas-linked compounds in the region to stop Hamas' retaliatory rocket attacks. Meanwhile, the UN has made the incredible statement that at least 25 percent of the victims are civilians--and one must wonder why the organization could tell such a lie given the well-known ratio that in war situations involving bombardments civilian casualties tend to run at a ratio of not less than 5-1 civilians versus combatant injuries.

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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Friday, 02 January 2009

Sample ImageIran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that all of the people around the world should help the Palestinians and prevent atrocities of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

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.


Israel has killed more than 430 Palestinians duringthe past week.


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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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.


A man kisses the head of a Christian Palestinian during her funeral in Deir al-Laten Church in Gaza on January2. More than half of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip are under 15.

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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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.

Islamic Revolution Leader issued a statement
Sunday on the horrendous tragedy of Gaza bloodbath in the hand
of the Zionists

Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei issued a statement Sunday on the horrendous
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



UNESCO urged to condemn Gaza killings


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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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