ImageGaza /PNN – Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip are unrelenting since the first bomb of this major operation was dropped on Saturday at 11:30 am. The death toll has reached 345 Palestinians with 1,450 injured at 6:00 pm Monday. Palestinian medical sources report that among the injured are 850 still in overflowing Gaza hospitals. As the sun set another seven passersby were killed in the northern Strip's Beit Lahia when Israeli forces shelled the home of Al Qassam leader Maher Zakout.
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IAF uses new US-supplied smart bomb
The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday. The missile, called GBU-39, was developed in recent years by the US as a small-diameter bomb for low-cost, high-precision and low collateral damage strikes.
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Fresh Israeli strike kills five sisters
Palestinian medical sources reported that that army shelled the house of Anwar Ba'lousha, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing five sisters, all children, while the rest of their family remain under the rubble and others were hospitalized. The sources added that the daughters of Anwar Ba'lousha "are now at the morgue and under the rubble".
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Israeli Air Force shells the Islamic University in Gaza
Kamaleen Shaath, Head of the Islamic University in Gaza said that the Israeli army does not hesitate in hitting any target in Gaza as the army shelled a mosque, hospital and several civilian facilities. The Qatar-based AL Jazeera Satellite news channel reported said that several buildings were shelled in the university including a residency for female students.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israel targets pharmacy in Rafah
Shortly before 7:00am local time, yet another Israeli missile strike hit the residential neighbourhood of Hi Alijnina in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. This time a pharmacy was targeted, totally destroying the building and causing severe damage to surrounding homes. Electricity lines were torn down during the blast and the street was littered with medicines. This footage was filmed within minutes of the attack as fire fighters battled to control the blaze. Shocked residents poured into the streets, some still wearing pyjamas.
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Gaza reports: 7 killed, among them baby
Israeli fighter jets continue to strike various targets in Gaza Sunday night. Palestinian sources say air raid in Jabalya refugee camp leaves four dead, including 14-month-old baby; Rafah strike kills three siblings. IAF also attacks near Haniyeh's home. Rocket fire continues throughout night, morning hours.
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Israeli army attack several protests in the West Bank injuring 55 civilians
Hundreds of Palestinians protested in several West Bank cities on Monday against the Israeli army attacks on the Gaza strip; Israeli troops attacked those protesting and injured 55 civilians.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Israeli Navy pull in towards Gaza Port-Heavy Israeli shelling of Gaza reported
International volunteers eyewitness Israeli bombings in Gaza 2:30am 29th December 2008-Canadian Human Rights Activist Eva Bartlett has reported that the Israeli attacks into the Gaza Strip have escalated again, with the Israeli Navy shelling Gaza. "The Israeli Navy have pulled in towards Gaza Port and are shelling the coastal area.
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Israeli forces kill resident of Ni'lin and leave another in critical condition during demonstration of solidarity with Gaza
Israeli forces have killed one Palestinian man from Ni'lin, while another is in critical condition, as they opened fire on a demonstration against the Israeli massacre of the people of Gaza. Arafat Rateb Khawaje, 22 years old, was shot in the back with live ammunition, he died at 2:45pm in Ramallah Hospital.
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Two civilians Injured by Israeli Army Fire Near Bethlehem
Local sources said that villagers marched to the nearby military post carrying flags and banners demanding the Israeli attacks on Gaza come to a halt. Israeli soldiers fired rubber coated steel bullets at protesters, injuring two civilians.
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Israeli Army Injures 20 Civilians in Hebron During Several Protests Against Attacks on Gaza
The protests were organized against Israel's continued attacks on Gaza, which started on Saturday morning and so far have left 286 Palestinians killed and at least 900 others injured. Doctors at the Hebron governmental hospital told media that the injures were caused, for the most part, by the Israeli Army's rubber-coated steal bullets and tear gas.
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Shalit may have been wounded in an Israeli occupation air strike
Sources in Gaza said that the captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit was wounded in one of the Israeli occupation air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
The Israeli army kidnaps ten Palestinian civilians from several parts in the West Bank
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army attacked several West Bank communities on Monday morning and kidnapped at least 10 Palestinian civilians.
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Soldiers detain three Palestinians north of Hebron
The West Bank-based Palestinian Prisoners' Society said Israeli soldiers detained several residents of a northern village near Hebron on Monday, according to a statement. Soldiers raided the area at dawn on Monday, seizing several Palestinians in the Hebron-area village of Beit Umar, the statement said. The group identified the seized as 20-year-olds Issa Muhammad and Issa Awad, as well as 21-year-old Yousef Ali Musleh Awad. Residents also claimed that Israeli soldiers broke into several houses in the area.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Israeli soldiers steal jewlery, money as Palestinian youth arrested near Nablus
Israeli soldiers on Monday morning stole the life savings of 47-year-old Mahir Al-Qit as they ransacked his home and arrested his son, 21-year-old Muhammad, in the northern West Bank village of Madama, south of Nablus on Monday. Mahir al-Qit told Ma'an that "at 2:00 am, Israeli soldiers knocked on my door in the eastern neighborhood of Madama. They detained all our family members, four girls and a boy, Muhammad who studies at An-Najah National University, near the staircase."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
A Palestinian man attacks and injures four settlers near Ramallah
Israeli sources reported that a Palestinian man attacked a group of settlers in Kryiat Sfer, an Israeli illegal settlement, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, injuring four on Monday.
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Israelis say killing of 290 in Gaza is "first phase of large-scale offensive"
The death toll from Saturday's massive bombing of the Gaza Strip has reached 290 people as of 8:00 pm Sunday and counting. The injured now number 900. Israeli F16s continue to swoop overhead, and residents are without adequate food, water or electricity as the sun sets.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Israeli media trumpets ruse used to surprise Hamas, kill more Palestinians
Israel took extraordinary care to lull Hamas into a sense of complacency ahead of its deadly onslaught of the Gaza Strip, officials and media said on Sunday. Disinformation and secrecy were essential elements that Israel took in the week before the bombardment to coax Palestinians into believing that no major attack was imminent, they said.
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Six months of secret planning-then Israel moves against Hamas
Even as Israel's F16s were aiming their first deadly salvoes at Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, questions were being asked at home and abroad, about what this "shock and awe" campaign was intended to achieve-and what Israel's exit strategy would be.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Armed groups call for retaliation, fire projectiles at Israeli targets
Resistance fighters stepped up rhetoric and retaliatory operations Saturday and Sunday launched at least 14 projectiles at Israeli targets following a day of airstrikes that killed more than 200 Gazans. Fatah's military wing announced that it will resume bombing operations inside Israeli cities and has threatened to hit and destroy the Israeli military and security entities. They also called a state of alert in order to retaliate for Israeli attacks in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Hamas increases range of rockets, but paucity of missiles surprises IDF
Palestinians have fired more than 140 rockets and mortars into Israel proper over the course of the last two days, far less than forecast by the Israel Defense Forces. Yesterday, Palestinians launched upgraded Katyushas with a maximum range of 40 kilometers. The rockets landed in moshavim adjacent to Ashdod. The two long-range Katyushas fired yesterday were made either in China or Iran. Their maximum range is just shy of 40 kilometers; those fired reached a maximum distance of 34.4 kilometers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hamas: Gaza hard to break
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--Hamas's spokesman in Khan Younis district, south of the Gaza Strip, Hammad Al-Rokob affirmed that the brutal Israeli aggressions on Gaza were meant to subjugate the Palestinian resistance and the Gaza Strip.
But he stressed that the Israeli efforts in this regard would fail despite the Arabs' feeble reaction towards the Israeli massacre going on in Gaza.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
In response to Gaza raids, Hamas threatens to assassinate Livni, Barak
Includes video of surviving Fatah men calling Hamas sons of bitches. Hamas on Sunday threatened to respond to an ongoing Israel Defense Forces assault on the Gaza Strip by assassinating senior Israeli officials. Senior Hamas official Fatah Hamad specifically threatened Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Nasrallah condemns Israeli assault, 'Arab collaboration'
Hizbullah secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah led a chorus of Lebanese condemnations of a massive Israeli air campaign on the blockaded Gaza Strip over the weekend that killed at least 296 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more. In a televised address Sunday evening, Nasrallah pointed the finger.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Nasrallah: Egypt accomplice in 'Gaza crime'
Egypt must open the Rafah crossing or be considered a 'partner in the killing of Palestinians the IDF,' Hizbullah chief says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hezbollah urges Egypt to open Rafah crossing as Gaza under intensive Israeli offensive
Hasan Nasrallah, chief of Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah, on Sunday urged Egypt to open Rafah crossing to allow food, water, medicine and weapons to reach Gaza where has been under intensive Israeli offensive, Al-Manar TV reported. "The Egyptian people should take the streets in millions to force the regime to open the crossings," Nasrallah was quoted as saying.
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Fayyad criticizes "incitement" against Arab countries
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Sunday described Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip as "a disaster to all Palestinians and Arabs," asserting that such behavior cannot be explained any other way.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Gazans flee Israeli attacks, break through border with Egypt
After Israeli forces began bombing the southern Gaza Strip's Rafah, an untold number of people attempted to flee. The Israelis bombarded the area of the tunnels built during the siege for smuggling food, fuel and supplies. Two people were killed in the attack and 22 wounded.
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Egyptians open fire on Palestinians
Egyptian border guards have opened fire on Palestinians who breached the border to escape Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the nine-mile border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in.
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Egypt police repel Palestinians on tense Gaza border
AFP-Egyptian police fired in the air near the Gaza border town of Rafah on Sunday to prevent Palestinians entering Egypt after Israel launched air strikes to destroy tunnels along the tense frontier.
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Egypt bars Libyan plane carrying aid to Gaza from landing in Al Arish Airport
The Egyptian Authorities officially barred a Libyan plane carrying aid to Gaza from landing in the Al Arish Airport in Egypt, in preparation to transfer humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
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Hannibal Gaddafi: Egypt is besieging Gaza
The Egyptian authorities refused to grant permit for a Libyan plane loaded with urgently needed medical and humanitarian relief material to land in Arish airport near to Gaza.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Sayyed Nasrallah: Time for Palestinians to Unite
Tens of thousands of Lebanese, Palestinians and Arabs responded Monday to Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and gathered in Beirut's southern suburb in solidarity with Gaza and to pay tribute to the 318 martyrs who fell so far in the Israeli barbaric attack on the Strip. One protester said that Arab leaders must unite and revolt against Israeli tyrants. "
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Israelis Say Strikes Against Hamas Will Continue
Israel, backed by the United States, Europe, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, has sought to isolate Hamas by squeezing Gaza economically, a policy that human rights groups condemn as collective punishment. Israel and Egypt, which control routes into and out of Gaza, have blocked nearly all but humanitarian aid from going in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
ANALYSIS /Key Arab states hope for weakened Hamas
The war in the Gaza Strip spilled over into Egypt Sunday when dozens of Gaza residents crossed the border only to encounter Egyptian gunfire aimed at driving them back. The ongoing closure of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt has become a symbol of Cairo's policy, which critics charge is one of collaborating with Israel to impose economic sanctions on the Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
In Case You Wondered Why...
Israel used a ceasefire to starve Gazans and turn them and others against Hamas, making Israel's goal of eliminating Hamas less objectionable to the international community and congruent to those of Abbas' PA, and the governments of Jordan and Egypt.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Gaza City hospital a gruesome scene; shocked families pick through body parts to identify loved ones
Twelve year old Ayaman is screaming at his father who tries to prevent him from seeing the bodies of his uncle and brother, torn to pieces under sheets. "I'm not afraid to see them," he screamed. In a rage as his father holds tight, Ayman catches the hand of a resistance fighter; "shell and kill them as they did to us."
http://www.maannews.net/en/
Blood and gunpowder odor expanded all-over Gaza
Mohamed al-Ashi, 28, was in a shock as he stood at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital's emergency room watching several relatives and police officers carrying the body of his brother, who died in the first Israeli airstrike carried out on Saturday at the main Hamas police headquarters.
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UN Security Council urges end to all military activities in Gaza
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The UN Security Council Sunday urged an immediate end to all military activities in the Gaza Strip, scene of deadly Israeli air strikes, and called on the parties to address the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
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Palestinian leaders in Israel declare strike, call for boycott
In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28 December 2008 a general strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against Palestinians in Gaza. The meeting called for the organization of demonstrations and marches in every Arab town in al-Naqab [Negev], the Triangle, the Galilee areas and coastal towns as a symbol of the rage and severe grief of the Palestinian nation upon the loss of hundreds of its citizens in Gaza.
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Lebanese citizens outraged by Israel attacks
Calls made for the Arab community to cut oil supplies to the world to protest the massacre.
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Opposition says Mubarak blessed Israeli attacks
Egyptian opposition has reacted furiously to Israel's deadly airstrikes on Gaza, and accused the government of President Hosni Mubarak of blessing the raids to weaken Hamas.
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Shiite leader urges support for Palestinians in Gaza
BAGHDAD /Aswat al-Iraq: Shiite leader Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim called on Iraqis on Sunday to "stand by" the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement by Hakim's office.
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Iraqi leaders discuss Gaza massacre
Airstrikes have woken them up after more than five years of silence on Palestinian situation.
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Israeli raids lead to divisions among Arabs
Hussain Megawir, a pro-government Egyptian MP, said in a debate on Gaza on Saturday: "There is an Iranian plan, with Hamas and some of the [Muslim] Brotherhood, to stir up trouble in Palestine and Egypt."
http://archive.gulfnews.com/
Hussein Assi, "Arab People, Not Regimes, Express Solidarity with Gaza"
For the second consecutive day, many Arab regimes maintained their deadly official "calm," or even worse, their "verbal denunciation" to the attacks. Yet, none of the Arab leaders took any "practical measure," except for calling for an "urgent" Arab summit on Friday, a week after the Israeli offensive that claimed the lives of more than 270 Palestinians in less than 24 hours! In contrast to the expected Arab official reaction to Zionist aggressions, Arab peoples have staged angry demonstrations across the Arab world to condemn Israeli barbarism and to express support for Palestinian resistance. Demonstrations also called on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards the Palestinians and the crimes against humanity committed by Israel.
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Chavez shocked by US' Gaza reaction
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned the United States' reaction to Israeli attacks on Gaza, calling Washington's response 'shocking.'
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Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel
Nancy Pelosi issued a statement concerning the Israeli operation in Gaza in which she wrote that "When Israel is attacked, the United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally."
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Collaborator asks to enter Israel
Gaza resident petitions High Court, says he was recruited by Shin Bet about a year ago, is now in danger. His wife, children live in Israel.
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Nasrallah: Israel could take this opportunity to attack Lebanon
"What is happening today is a Palestinian copy of the July war," Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday, drawing a comparison between the Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Gaza Strip and the 2006 Second Lebanon War, which Hezbollah waged against Israel in southern Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hezbollah fighters placed on alert
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, has told his fighters to be on alert for any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon following raids on Gaza that have killed nearly 300 Palestinians.
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Israeli Attacks Kill Over 310 in Gaza in One of Israel's Bloodiest Attacks on Palestinians Since 1948
Amidst worldwide protests, Israel is continuing its bombing campaign against Gaza for the third consecutive day and preparing to launch a possible ground invasion. Following months of a crippling blockade, this has been described as one of Israel's bloodiest attacks on Palestinians since 1948. Latest reports indicate that 310 people have been killed and 1,400 injured in the aerial strikes across the Gaza Strip since Saturday morning. The latest targets of the air strikes include the Hamas Interior Ministry building and the Islamic University. Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced today that Israel is in an "all-out war with Hamas and its proxies" in Gaza. Fears of a ground invasion are growing after Israel declared a military buffer zone around Gaza, closing off the strip and its 1.5 million residents to journalists and civilians. We speak to Dr. Moussa El-Haddad and Fida Qishta in Gaza, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti in Ramallah, Gideon Levy in Tel Aviv and Ali Abunimah in the US.
http://www.democracynow.org/
Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians
In one of its bloodiest military operations, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) initiated a wide-scale air strike operation against the Gaza Strip. Dozens of targets were attacked from the air simultaneously using heavy missiles and bombs. Mostly, the strikes targeted police and security installations across the densely populated Gaza Strip, which is indicative of IOF's disregard for civilian life and well-being.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Medical officials: Gaza runs out of medicine
Medical and healthcare services are struggling to cope with the outcome of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, while the bombing continues.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Toni O'Loughlin on the hospitals crisis in Gaza
Even before Saturday when dead bodies piled up outside morgues and people with missing limbs were forced to wait for surgery, Gaza's hospitals were in crisis. With power blackouts lasting up to 12 hours a day, 20% of drugs out of stock, medical equipment standing idle for want of spare parts and stores emptied of basic items, doctors had been turning patients away for months.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Cynthia McKinney and Sami al-Hajj to sail on Free Gaza boat
The Free Gaza Movement, having repeatedly sailed into Gaza from Cyprus since their first journey in late August, is now preparing to send an emergency shipment to Gaza. The boat will be loaded with three to four tons of urgently needed medical supplies, as well as four physicians, including Dr. Elena Theoharous, a surgeon and Member of Parliament in Cyprus.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
'The injured were lying there asking God to let them die'
Fikr Shaltoot is a programme coordinator for Medical Aid for Palestinians, a British non-governmental organisation that provides medical supplies in Gaza.
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Anne Penketh: Lack of condemnation as good as approval for Israel
Israel can also profit from the divisions in the Arab world, where states such as Egypt and Jordan share its concerns about the Hamas extremists, although the Arab "street" is unanimous in its support of the Palestinians as the demonstrations from Damascus to Baghdad showed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
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Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignored
We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more – providing we don't offend the Israelis. It's not clear how many of the Gaza dead are civilians, but the response of the Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel's side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs – who, as we all know, only understand force.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
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Killing a two-state solution
We do not know how many civilians died in the assault which Israel launched on Hamas in Gaza at 11.30am on Saturday, because Israel prevents foreign journalists as well as Israeli ones from entering the strip. But we do know that the air raids brought the biggest total loss of life on a single day in Gaza in 40 years: more than 230 Palestinians. The death toll by last night had climbed to nearly 290, with more than 700 wounded. This in reply to hundreds of rockets from Hamas militants which killed one Israeli in six months. But the equation is always like this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Talking, not force, is the only solution in Gaza
The near certainty that Israeli aggression against Hamas will end in failure is surely a compelling reason for negotiation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
'For the children, it is like living in hell'
As explosions echoed in the distance and Israeli aircraft roared overhead, many residents in Gaza City were hunkered down in their houses yesterday, praying the bombs would spare them and worrying about how to feed their families and keep them warm should they survive.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
We have no words left
"I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing." Those chilling words were spoken on al-Jazeera on Saturday by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defence official in the Sderot area adjacent to the Gaza Strip. For days Israeli planes have bombed Gaza. Almost 300 Palestinians have been killed and a thousand injured, the majority civilians, including women and children. Israel claims most of the dead were Hamas "terrorists". In fact, the targets were police stations in dense residential areas, and the dead included many police officers and other civilians. Under international law, police officers are civilians, and targeting them is no less a war crime than aiming at other civilians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
On the Gaza Border: Israelis Cheering On the Attacks
In the first 36 hours after the Israeli offensive against Gaza started, Hamas militants fired only 150 rockets, some with a range of about 22 miles, toward Israeli towns. That is below their capacity of up to 200 a day, an estimate by Israeli military sources. "They are keeping their heads down," says a senior military intelligence officer. "Their accuracy is very low right now because of the dense aerial presence by Israeli planes. They know that the chances that they a re being spotted by Israel surveillance and intelligence forces is very high." The officer adds, "The clear skies above the Gaza strip did not helped them also."
http://www.time.com/time/
Hanukkah Games in Gaza
I was surprised to learn on Saturday afternoon that Israel's latest assault on Gaza, though not even half a day old, already boasted a Wikipedia entry. I was even more surprised to learn the origins of the assault's codename.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Guernica in Gaza
My apartment in Gaza faces the sea, a panoramic view that's always done wonders for my mood, often challenged by all the misery that a life under siege can bring. That is, before this morning, when all hell broke loose at my window. This morning in Gaza we woke up to the sound of dropping bombs, and many of them have fallen a few hundred metres from my home. Some of my friends fell under them. So far the death toll is at 210, but it's bound to rise dramatically. It's an unprecedented bloodshed. They've razed the port facing my home to the ground, and pulverized the police stations. I'm told that the Western media have assimilated and are repeating the press releases issued by the Israeli military off by heart, according to which the attacks targeted Hamas's terrorist dens only, with surgical precision.
http://www.freegaza.org/index.
Gaza: where civilians become targets
Israel accuses Hamas of hiding 'terrorist infrastructure' among civilians, but does that justify the slaughter of innocent Gazans?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Israel's Belligerence and The Art of War
"My son is gone, my son is gone," wailed Said Masri, a 57-year-old shopkeeper, as he sat in the middle of a Gaza City street, slapping his face and covering his head with dust from a bombed-out security compound nearby. For many years, the last two most conspicuously, Gaza has been one gigantic prison.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Johann Hari: The True Story Behind This War is Not the One Israel is Telling
The world isn't just watching the Israeli government commit a crime in Gaza; we are watching it self-harm. This morning, and tomorrow morning, and every morning until this punishment-beating ends, the young people of the Gaza Strip are going to be more filled with hate, and more determined to fight back, with stones or suicide-vests or rockets. Israel's leaders have convinced themselves the harder you beat the Palestinians, the softer they will become. But when this is over, the rage against Israelis will have hardened, and the same old compromises will still be waiting by the roadside of history, untended and unmade.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
The longest night of my life
Here's an update on what's happening here from where I am, the second night of Israeli air (and sea) raids on Gaza. It's 1:30am but it feels like the sun should be up already. For the past few hours there's been simultaneous, heavy aerial bombardment of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. It feels like the longest night of my life. In my area it started with the bombing of workshops (usually located in the ground floor of private/family residential buildings), garages and warehouses in one of the most highly condensed areas in Gaza City, "Askoola."
http://electronicintifada.net/
'There's a strong likelihood that people are dying needlessly'
Even before Saturday when dead bodies piled up outside morgues and people with missing limbs were forced to wait for surgery, Gaza's hospitals were in crisis. With power blackouts lasting up to 12 hours a day, 20% of drugs out of stock, medical equipment standing idle for want of spare parts and stores emptied of basic items, doctors had been turning patients away for months.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The way out of Gaza
Let's leave aside for a moment, despite the difficulty in doing so, the ethical aspect of bombing residential neighborhoods. Political accounts between the ruling and opposition parties, both of which voted for bombing Gaza, can be postponed until February 10. Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak proved to the world that they are nobody's fools. Even Haim Oron showed that Meretz is not a bunch of wimps. And what now?Palestinians and Israelis must die until both sides stop shooting and sign a second cease-fire?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Amira Hass /'Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it's against all Palestinians'
At 3:19 P.M. Sunday, the sound of an incoming missile could be heard over the telephone. And then another, along with the children's cries of fear. In Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, high-rise apartment buildings are crowded close together, with dozens of children in every building, hundreds in every block.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
The Politics of the Gaza Massacre
If you're looking for the cause of the most recent Israeli aggression against the Palestinians – over 300 killed so far, and many more wounded – forget Hamas. The real casus belli is politics, in Israel and America.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/
Trying to 'teach Hamas a lesson' is fundamentally wrong
Channel 1 television broadcast an interesting mix on Saturday morning: Its correspondents reported from Sderot and Ashkelon, but the pictures on the screen were from the Gaza Strip. Thus the broadcast, albeit unintentionally, sent the right message: A child in Sderot is the same as a child in Gaza, and anyone who harms either is evil.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Israel's Blockade Becomes Blitzkrieg on Gaza, Proving Politically Expedient and Unstoppable
The media's emphasis on the retaliatory nature of Israel's air strikes on Gaza distracts from the more consequential, newsworthy elements--Israel's disproportionate use of violence and its upcoming Parliamentary elections. That Israel attacked Gaza is no surprise. Since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel ended on December 19, it was only a matter of time before Israel responded to the increasing number of rockets fired across the border.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Gaza: The Untold Story
December 29 2008, "Information Clearinghouse"---It's incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reductionist assumptions, convenient but deceptive, vacant of any relevant meaning, or even true analytical value. The fact is that there is more to the Gaza Strip than 1.5 million hungry Palestinians, who are supposedly paying the price for Hamas's militancy, or Israel's 'collective punishment' whichever way the media decide to brand the problem.
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Foreign journalists ask court for access to Gaza
JERUSALEM: Foreign journalists in Israel are petitioning the country's highest court to let them into Gaza to report on the heaviest fighting there in decades. The ban has been in place for about two months, and has been lifted only occasionially during that time.
http://www.iht.com/articles/
Video: Tunnel Trade
The tunnels have caused much friction among residents, especially after Israeli operations destroy both tunnels and homes
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, they built a wall alongside the Gaza border with Egypt, splitting the city of Rafah into two. Families found themselves divided by a high-security international border, though their houses often lay less than 100m apart. Frequent border closures by the Israeli's further isolated the Gaza Strip and Palestinian trade soon went underground.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
On Israel and Gaza: Interview with Amira Hass
This telephonic interview took place on December 12, when I spoke with Israeli journalist Mrs. Amira Hass from her house in Ramallah, the West Bank. Almost two weeks before, on December 1st, she was ordered to leave Gaza-where she had entered three weeks before on a boat-by Hamas. In this interview, we speak about the current state of Israeli journalism, the contradictions of Israeli society, life in the occupied territories, and the future of Palestinian politics.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Massacre in Gaza: The Paradox of Peace
Twice this year, the leaders of Hamas indicated their readiness to accept a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders. Khaled Meshaal, Hamas leader, informed former president Jimmy Carter of this decision in April 2008. In May 2008, it was revealed that Yves Aubin de La Messuziere, a retired senior French diplomat had held discussions with Ismael Haniyeh and Mahmoud Zahar, two prominent Hamas leaders who confirmed Hamas' readiness to accept a Palestinian State within the 1967 border, reflecting an unofficial acceptance of Israel.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Gaza: the logic of colonial power
I have spent most of the Bush administration's tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications. I have been interviewed by most major networks and I have even testified before the senate foreign relations committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush's final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with an educated secular Shiite Iraqi throwing his shoes at him, expressing the feelings of the entire Arab world save its dictators who have imprudently attached themselves to a hated American regime.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Re-learning the biblical 40 years in Gaza
God punished the arrogance and hubris of the Hebrews in the Old Testament by making them wander the wilderness for 40 years, before allowing a later, more humble, generation to enter Canaan. The current generation of Israeli Jews is not as proficient at learning these 40-year lessons, it seems, to judge from Israel's current ferocious attack on Gaza.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Conflict management-by Jeffrey Halper
Let's be crystal clear. Israel's massive attacks on Gaza today have one overarching goal: conflict management. How to end rocket attacks on Israel from a besieged and starving Gaza without ending the impetus for those attacks. How to end rocket attacks on Israel with 41 years of increasingly oppressive Israeli occupation without a hint that a sovereign and viable Palestinian state will ever emerge.
http://www.maannews.net/en/
It's time for a third intifada, say West Bank youths
Israeli snipers in ski masks crouched behind concrete blocks at the check-point between Jerusalem and the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank yesterday as young boys, faces masked by scarves, used slingshots to hurl chunks of stone at soldiers hunkered down on rooftops.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Israeli Conscientious Objectors, Shministim
Video: Shministim say why they refuse to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
To be in Gaza is to be trapped
Gaza. Always the suffering of Gaza, most potent symbol of the tragedy of Palestine. In 1948, during the Nakba – or "The Catastrophe" as Palestinians describe the war that gave birth to the state of Israel – 200,000 refugees poured into Gaza, swelling its population by more than two-thirds. Then Gaza fell under Egyptian control.
http://www.palestinemonitor. org/spip/spip.php?article737
16 year-old has administrative detention order renewed for a seventh time
[Ramallah – 27 December 2008] Sa'd Abu Khalil had his administrative detention order renewed on 24 December for the seventh time.
Sa'd, from Tulkarm in the north of the West Bank, was 16 when he was arrested on 28 February 2007. On or about the same day he received his first administrative detention order for four months for allegedly belonging to a banned organisation, Islamic Jihad. Sa'd denies the allegation. The evidence against him is contained in a 'secret file'.
http://www.dci-pal.org/
Palestinian Christians Plea For Help In A Letter To The Pope
Your Holiness, we are Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Haifa, Tiberius, Beit Jala and many other Palestinian cities, towns and villages. We have been completely uprooted from the place of our birth, our land and homes have been confiscated through Zionist terror since 1947/48 and today's Israelis are still in the process of emptying the country where Christ was born and which saw the first community who followed his teachings of its Christian population.
http://folsomtelegraph.com/
Rachel Shabi: the negative press faced by Israeli-Arab youth
"Drug abuse rampant among Arab youths," screamed the Ynet website, whose subeditors could only have come from the Daily Mail school of headline writing. The article, which appeared in Ynet last week, announced that Israeli-Arab youths use heroin, cocaine and cannabis more than their Jewish counterparts. The difference in drug usage between the two sectors varies between 4-12%, says the Israeli Anti Drug Abuse Foundation (IADAF).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Rice: I admire Sharon enormously
Outgoing US secretary of state asked in farewell interview which foreign leader really surprised her, immediately names former Israeli prime minister. 'He has is a very tough exterior, but he had a very charming side to him,' she says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Olmert cancels Majadele's trip over boycott
Prime minister expresses displeasure after science, culture and sports minister refuses to attend Sunday's cabinet meeting on Gaza operation, decides not to approve his trip to Jordan this week.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
A terrorist state, literally
""In the cabinet room today there was an energy, a feeling that after so long of showing restraint we had finally acted," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking of the weekly government meeting that he attended. Mark Heller, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that that energy reflected the deep feeling among average Israelis that the country had to regain its deterrent capacity."" What do you say about a state that it needs to attack a civilian population to recover its lost military self-esteem?
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Israel's Attempted Endgame in Gaza
The intensity of the bombings on Saturday, which left over 230 people dead and 800 wounded, many seriously, was what struck one witness, R., who claimed never to have heard so many explosions so close together and for such an uninterrupted period of time inside the Gaza Strip. One after another, the explosions sounded, most of them near heavily populated areas; and in one case only 30 meters away from his daughter's elementary school.
http://www.counterpunch.com/
What, Exactly, is Israel's Mission?
The first bombardment took three minutes and forty seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed fifty sites in Gaza, killing over two hundred Palestinians, and wounding close to a thousand more. A few hours after the deadly strike, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened a press conference in Tel-Aviv. With Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni sitting on his right and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on his left, he declared: "It may take time, and each and every one of us must be patient so we can complete the mission."
http://www.counterpunch.com/
The War Against Palestine
The war against the Palestinians arises from the merging of the Zionist view of Jewish exceptionalism with the view in the United States of American exceptionalism, which have focused their common root ambitions for domination and possession as a hostility to Islam, and this is the leading crusade in the "clash of civilizations," proclaimed by just-deceased Harvard historian Samuel P. Huntington, which is the war against the world's poor and dark-skinned people, the war of conquest carried out to enforce a rule of worldwide apartheid by a culturally Euro-American, racially white, highly industrialized capitalist elite.
http://www.counterpunch.com/
A Hundred Eyes for an Eye
Israelis and Arabs "feel that only force can assure justice," I. F. Stone noted soon after the Six Day War in 1967. And he wrote: "A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. The Others are always either less than human, and thus their interests may be ignored, or more than human and therefore so dangerous that it is right to destroy them."
http://www.counterpunch.com/
Pictures of the carnage in Gaza
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
http://picasaweb.google.com/
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
Video from Gaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Solidarity with Gaza from the West Bank and around the world
West Bank rises up in response to massacre in Gaza
http://stopthewall.org/
Popular anger rocks West Bank
http://stopthewall.org/
Massive Protests in the West Bank Slamming the Israeli Offensive
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Sit-ins and solidarity in East Jerusalem, commercial strike, clashes, arrests and injuries
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Video Solidarity with Palestinians, Montreal and Toronto
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/canada291208.html
Videos Emergency Protest to Stop the Massacres in Gaza, New York
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
People of Nablus take to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza
http://www.palsolidarity.org/
1,400 protest in Paris over Gaza fighting
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Video of Paris and Lille protests
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/france281208.html
Video of Manchester protests
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/uk281208.html
Three arrested at Israeli embassy protest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Video protests at Israeli embassy in Madrid
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/spain281208.html
Candlelight Vigil for Gaza, Copenhagen
http://mrzine.monthlyreview. org/denmark281208.html
Video tens of thousands protest Gaza attacks in Istanbul
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Video solidarity action with Gaza in Amsterdam
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Anti-Israel protests across Europe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Jewish Voice for Peace statement on Gaza attacks
http://www.
Sayyed Nasrallah Calls for Massive Rally Monday
http://almanar.com.lb/
Syrians stage mass demonstration to protest against Israeli raids on Gaza
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Abu Dhabi police violently stop Gaza solidarity protests
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Arab street angry over Gaza attacks
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Hundreds of Thousands Slam Arab Govt Silence
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Thousands of protesters in Middle East
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Israeli attacks on Gaza spark protests in Arab countries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Egyptian demonstrators call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Seven Israeli Arabs arrested for hurling stones in protest of Gaza op
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Students protest Gaza operation
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Solidarity in Mexico
http://www.kabobfest.com/2008/
Protests against the Egyptian consulate in Beirut
http://assafir.com/Article.
Tens of thousands of Lebanese protest assault on Gaza
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Monday: 5 Iraqis Killed, 9 Wounded
Excerpt: At least five Iraqis were killed and nine more were wounded during a light day of violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, Britain hopes to finalize a security agreement with Iraq before the U.N. mandate runs out. Also, Sweden demanded due process for a Swedish citizen held in custody by U.S. forces.
http://www.antiwar.com/
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