Wednesday, January 28

Today in Palestine! ~ Headlines Sunday, 25 January 2009 ~

Land theft

West Bank settlers seize farmland south of Hebron

Israeli settlers flanked by soldiers seized new land south of the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, Palestinian security sources said. Security officials in Hebron said that the settlers, from the nearby settlement of Karmel, near the Palestinian town of Yatta, erected a metal fence on land near the settlement and prevented local Palestinian resident from approaching the fence. The settlers appeared to be preparing to occupy the land. The confiscated farmland belongs to families from Yatta, including Abu Hamid, Qraeich, and Abu Fanar. The Palestinians who own the land are urging international intervention to save their land, as they say farming is their only source of income. Sources in Yatta say that there has been new construction in the Karmel settlement, and that new settlers have arrived to live in the community.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35286


US envoy worries settlers

The appointment of US Mideast Envoy George Mitchell is "very disturbing," Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan told Ynet Saturday evening. "Soon we will need to get Obama's request to have children," Dayan said, alluding to Mitchell's previously voiced objection to allowing natural growth in West Bank settlements.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661096,00.html


Gaza

Gaza toll rises to 1,337 after death of infant girl, arrival of two corpses from Egypt

An infant girl died in a Gaza hospital on Sunday after breathing in the chemical white phosphorus from Israeli shells in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said. Medics identified the girl as six-month-old Nancy Wakid, the last casualty of Israel's three week offensive on the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35285


Israeli army opens fire at resident homes in southern Gaza

The Israeli army opened fire at resident homes and farm lands located at Al Faraheen village located in the southern part of the Gaza strip on Saturday. The residents said that Israeli tanks stationed at the borders opened fire at their homes and farms; damage was reported but no injuries. Today's incident is not the first time Israel has violated its cease fire, On Thursday, Israeli Navy forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen just off the shore of Gaza City, injuring seven civilians. On day before, on Wednesday, the boats fired shells at the coastline, causing damage but no injuries.
http://imemc.org/article/58613


PCHR Weekly Report 15-21 January: Nearly 1300 Palestinians killed in three-week long Israeli assault

In its weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the Gaza Strip for the week of 15- 21 January 2009, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that whole families were wiped out in Israeli air strikes, large areas of infrastructure have been flattened, and that children and women constitute nearly half of the victims of the Israeli onslaught ... The civilian victims include 280 children and 111 women. 4,336 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 1,133 children and 735 women, were wounded. Dr. Nizar Rayan and Mr. Sa'id Siam, senior leader of Hamas, were extra-judicially executed by Israeli forces, together with a number of members of their families....
http://imemc.org/article/58610


IAF jets fly over Gaza, sparking fears of new Israeli offensive

Flights by Israel Air Force F-16s over Gaza on Sunday sparked fears in the coastal territory that a new Israeli military offensive was underway. A number of banks, government offices and schools in Gaza were closed as the warplanes flew through the Hamas-ruled Strip's skies. Shops were also closed in the center of Gaza City, and Gaza residents left the streets for the safety of their homes. Israel launched its 3-week offensive in Gaza last month with a devastating air raid on Hamas targets throughout the Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058525.html


Report: Zahar injured during Gaza op

A Palestinian source was quoted on Sunday as saying that senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar was injured during the final days of Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. A Kuwaiti daily quoted the source as saying that Zahar was evacuated by ambulance to an Egyptian hospital for medical treatment. The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report. Three of Zahar's bodyguards were killed by an IAF strike near his house in Gaza City.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643743535&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


De facto government denies appointing replacement for assassinated Interior Minister

Spokesperson of the de facto Ministry of the Interior Ihab Al-Ghusein denied Saturday rumors that a new minister had been appointed to replace the assassinated Sa'id Siyam. Siyam was killed in an Israeli airstrike near the end of the three week war on Gaza. He was Interior Minister in the de facto Hamas government, and controlled the Executive Forces. Rumors had been circulating for the past two days that Khalil Al-Haya had been appointed as the new Minster of the Interior. Al-Ghusein noted that "no decision has been made by the government in this regard, and no new information is available on this issue."
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35263


Mofaz threatens more assassinations if Shalit not freed soon; Al-Masri counters with spectre of more captives

Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz spoke with Israeli Radio Sunday, and assured listeners that the government intends to exhaust all the new possibilities for the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, which were made available during Operation Cast Lead.
"Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will not see the light of day," until Shalit does, said Mofaz, noting that the same threat applied to all senior leaders in the area. This threat comes despite a unilaterally declared ceasefire which took effect one week ago. Mofaz cited the assassinations of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and spokesperson Abdel Aziz Rantisi in 2004, as proof Israel could carry out the assassinations.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35272


Israel sends 41 Gazan 'illegal combatants' to desert prison camp

Forty-one Palestinians seized by Israel during its invasion of the Gaza Strip have arrived at the Negev prison camp in southern Israel, a prisoners' affairs expert reported on Friday. Researcher Abed An-Naser Farawnah said he has learned that the Gazan detainees have been remanded to Section Nine of the desert camp, far away from the other prisoners, and are being denied contact with other inmates. The existing prisoners were told that the Gazans are under the direct control of Shin Bet, the Israeli security service. The others in the camp are dealt with under a law dealing with "legitimate fighters." Farawnah said he fears that the Gazan detainees are being dealt with "harshly," but said that the conditions of their detention are unknown. Israel has refused to cooperate with either the Red Cross or the Palestinian Authority in this regard.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35242


Islamic University in Gaza estimates damage to campus at 15 million US dollars

The damage, caused by several airstrikes during Israel's operation Cast Lead, saw several buildings destroyed and others severely damaged. The University's board of trustees met with the president of the university Dr Kamalein Sha'ath Sunday and announced that the university will launch a fundraising campaign in order to pay for repairs.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35277


UN assessments call for urgent repair equipment for water lines

Four water wells in Beit Hanoun, Gaza and Jabalia were totally destroyed during the Israeli war on Gaza, and due to limited building supplies available in Gaza, have not yet been repaired. Beyond the well damage, the UN office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) there is also damage to several water carriers in Nusairat, Gaza City and Khan Yuonis. This means that while water is available, families must travel, often long distances, to collect water supplies. The waste water networks in Gaza, Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahia have also sustained serious damage.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35270


Vista of endless ruin

By Saleh Al-Naami. Bomb-pummelled sites look as if hit by a massive earthquake. Familiar streets seem odd, now blocked by the rubble of collapsed buildings. The Israeli army shelled some streets with bombs weighing one ton, turning them into a terrain of craters and mounds. I am told the tactic was a precaution against roadside bombs potentially planted by the resistance. Sewage streams past the wreckage, filling some of the craters. Electricity and telephone poles lie knocked down by bulldozers and smashed by tanks. Even the animals met a sad end. In the southeast of Zeitoun, there used to be some cattle and sheep barns. Israeli soldiers fired at the animals when they broke out of the barns, disturbed by the shelling. Now their carcasses litter the roads.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/931/re1.htm


Hamas fights to rebuild Gaza in new battle for hearts and minds

Peter Beaumont reporting from Gaza -- A bitter struggle is taking place over the right to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, even as the leadership of Hamas emerges from the rubble of areas that were devastated by 23 days of Israeli bombardment. The international community insists that it cannot channel billions of dollars in reconstruction aid to Hamas, and is calling for the involvement of the more moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. But Hamas is insisting on sole control of Gaza's rebuilding, as well as claiming moral leadership of the Palestinian people ... Sitting on huge cash reserves, Hamas has said that it will begin distributing emergency payments of €4,000 to those who have lost homes, and has already been handing out coupons for food as well as aid, some of it seized from foreign and international donors ... But as Faisal Abu Shalah, a Fatah member of the legislative council for Gaza points out, while Hamas insists on controlling the reconstruction, Israel will not lift its economic blockade. "They have the power and the money. They can give people money to rebuild," he said last week. "But with what? There is not a single bag of cement to be had on the Gaza Strip."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/25/gaza-hamas


Talks, factions, etc.

Egypt aims to cement ceasefire

Hamas and other Palestinian factions are in Cairo for talks with Egyptian and European mediators in an effort to cement the ceasefires that ended Israel's three-week war on the Gaza Strip. On Sunday, the Hamas delegation met Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief, who held talks with both Israeli and Palestinian officials throughout the fighting in an attempt to secure a lasting truce. Egypt's state MENA news agency said they discussed "Egyptian efforts to consolidate the ceasefire, reach a [permanent] truce, reopen Gaza crossings and resume Palestinian national dialogue". Hamas says it will resume fighting unless the border crossings into Gaza are reopened and Israel ends its 18-month economic blockade of the territory.
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2009/01/200912515420994166.html


Fatah: Cairo talks must be comprehensive; Rafah agreement of 2005 still stands

Gaza - Ma'an - Fatah prefers talks on ceasefire and unity as a package, rather than as separate issues, said senior Fatah official Ibrahim Abu An-Naja Sunday. He also announced that the party's delegation from Gaza will be joined by head of the Fatah bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Azam Al-Ahmad of the West Bank.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35287


Hamas: Israel proposes 18-month truce, but we insist on just one year

"Hamas listened to the Israeli proposal presented by [Defense Ministry official] Amos Gilad, and with it a proposal for a ceasefire for a year and a half, but Hamas presented a counterproposal of one year only," Ayman Taha told reporters in Cairo after talks with Egyptian intelligence officials. Taha reiterated the group's calls for a lifting of the blockade imposed on the impoverished and devastated Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt as a condition for the truce. "[Hamas] called for a complete lifting of the blockade and an opening of all the crossings," Taha said. Hamas proposed to Egyptian mediators that European and Turkish monitors be present at the border crossings, but rejected the presence of Israeli monitors, saying Israeli monitoring was "a large part of the problem," according to Taha.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058514.html


Time to rethink Hamas isolation: ICG

CAIRO (AFP) – A week after a fragile ceasefire began in Gaza, former US diplomat turned head of the International Crisis Group's Middle East programme Robert Malley looks at the 22-day conflict's impact on the region. Malley, who was distanced from Barack Obama's US presidential campaign for his contacts with Hamas, says that the largely Western boycott of the Islamists is a failure and discusses Obama's future role in the region.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090125/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazahamasicg


Palestinians say Abbas weakened; unsure on Hamas

RAMALLAH, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The standing of U.S.-backed leader Mahmoud Abbas might have been hurt over the war in Gaza, but many Palestinians in the occupied West Bank said it did not mean that Hamas had won more support. "We are restless. It's hard to trust Abbas after what happened in Gaza and even harder for us to believe in the Hamas project," said Abu Ahmed al-Nazer, 42, a schoolteacher in Hebron.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLP674710


Barak: Egypt stopping arms from getting to Gaza

Defense Minister Ehud Barak used his cabinet security briefing Sunday to praise Egypt for stopping arms from getting to Hamas operatives in Gaza Strip."There is an accumulation of weapons and equipment meant for Hamas in Sinai, but Egypt is preventing it from getting into the Strip," he said. As for Operation Cast Lead
, Barak said the Gaza offensive met all of its operational objectives in full: "We dealt Hamas a massive blow
, the harshest since its inception. We also managed to create deterrence where projectile fire into Israel is concerned."
Barak stressed that since IDF forces left the Strip last Tuesday, no rockets have been fired at the western Negev.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661471,00.html


Report: US Navy to fight arms smuggling from Iran to Gaza

An American naval taskforce in the Gulf of Aden has been ordered to hunt for suspicious Iranian arms ships heading for the Red Sea in a bid to deliver weapons to Hamas
in the Gaza Strip, the British Times
newspaper reported Sunday, quoting US diplomatic sources. According to the sources, Combined Task Force 151, which is countering pirates in the Gulf of Aden, has been instructed to track Iranian arms shipments.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661223,00.html


US military may install sensing equipment on Egypt's border with Gaza

A group of six US military officers and engineers, including the US military attaché in Cairo, toured Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip in the town of Rafah, the BBC reported. The men were reportedly looking into the possibility of installing high-tech sensing equipment to locate tunnels that are used to smuggle goods into Gaza. A team from the US Army Corps of Engineers has been in Egypt for months on a mission to help find and destroy the tunnels. US military personnel have also reportedly been in Egypt for 40 days training Egyptian security personnel to use the new sensing equipment.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35291


Arms will flow to Gaza despite security: Hamas

A senior Hamas official said on Sunday the Palestinian Islamist movement will continue to arm its militants in the war-battered Gaza Strip as well as on the West Bank even as a Hamas team was in Egypt for talks in a bid to clinch a lasting truce in war-battered Gaza. "We never failed to get arms into Gaza even during the (Israeli) war and under the bombardment," the Hamas representative in Beirut, Osama Hamdan, told a rally in the Lebanese capital. "We have the right to hold weapons ... Things might get difficult, but we will do whatever it takes to continue our resistance against Israel."
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/25/64987.html


Israel's Barak heads to US over Gaza arms smuggling
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is to travel to Washington next week to discuss the implementation of a bilateral agreement to halt arms smuggling into Gaza, a senior official said on Saturday. He will be the first top Israeli official to travel to Washington since the end of Israel's deadly 22-day offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on January 18 and since President Barack Obama took office. Barak, who will leave on Tuesday, was to meet Secretary of Defence Robert Gates "to discuss the implementation of the Israeli-US memorandum of understanding" aimed at halting arms smuggling between Egypt and Gaza, he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. The two would also discuss US arms sales to Israel, the official said, refusing to elaborate.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gI9gsoUD9RLV7T_W5f0NpDAWBbQw

Testimonies/Eyewitness accounts

The childhoods blighted by war

The interview was going badly wrong. Lara sat, serious and shy, on a tall chair in the centre of the living room and I simply could not bring myself to ask the right questions. How do you talk to an eight-year-old about a rocket attack that killed her mother, her sister and her four brothers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7845845.stm


Bowen diary: No ordinary school day

The first day back at school is always a rush for children and parents. Normally you can sort it out in a few minutes of frantic activity, and then the children get off to school, and peace descends again - for a few hours anyway. So imagine what it was like to be a 10-year-old girl called Mona in Gaza. Her school reopened Saturday morning, after the break for the war. She doesn't have parents to get her off to school, as they were killed by Israeli soldiers. Her brother took her back to their family house this morning, to find her school things.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7849376.stm


Children cope in Gaza

S., a teacher, is mother to two children, a 6-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. Their home near the beach was destroyed, and like tens of thousands of Gazans they've been crashing with relatives. The other day, her son came up to her and said, "When I grow up, I want to be a Jew." "What?" S. asked. "I want to be Jewish, so I can get a big tank," he said. "Why do you need a tank?" "I want to be strong. But don't worry, I won't use it to hurt you."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcb_nairobi/20090125/wl_mcb_nairobi/nairobi200901onethinghasbecomecleartomeintheweekivebeeningazareportingontheaftermathoftheisraeliwaronhamasrebuiht


Gaza children return to school after war

(AP) In one classroom, signs with the names of three 14-year-old boys killed in the fighting were set on their desks — and their deskmates sat with stunned expressions next to the empty seats as the teacher encouraged the class to talk about their experiences. "It's very hard when one used to see 30 students in class, and after what happened, I see 27," their teacher, Bassam Salha told the class at the U.N.'s Fakhoura Elementary school. "We lived three weeks in sadness. I want you students to help me to get out of the sad mood I am in now."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_919


Our friend's tragedy

By Brenda Sassoon-Rosmarin. Sitting in his home in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, a Hamas stronghold, surrounded by shelling and chaos, sat our Palestinian friend of over a decade, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish. Izzeldin was a featured character in the documentary film produced by my husband Isidore Rosmarin and me in 2007, Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Trained in Israeli hospitals, his work as an obstetrician/ gynecologist at Soroka Hospital has had him delivering the babies of Israeli settlers, as well as of Palestinians. He has been an outspoken advocate of peace, even while residing in a refugee camp rife with hostility and aggression against Israelis. He sent his daughters out of Gaza to "Peace Camp" in the United States, and in 2006 ran for political office against Hamas. ...while Izzeldin was giving a live phone interview for Israeli TV evening news about the situation in Gaza, an explosion rocked his home, instantly killing three of his daughters, ages 20, 15 and 13, as well as a niece, and injuring another daughter and son. It was the Israeli TV journalist, who, struggling to keep his composure, called for an ambulance. A phone call came in to my husband with the horrific news. He frantically tried to reach Izzeldin hoping it was not true.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643736079&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Philip Weiss: I should have questioned that 'Sophie's Choice' report

Last night I posted about a "Sophie's Choice" in Gaza,
in which five children were allegedly killed, according to Barbara Lubin of MECA
. A couple readers have questioned the veracity of the report and Leila Abu-Saba has written to Lubin. These readers are right to question it; it has the tone of a rumor. I'm not going to take the post down, but I want to put a big question mark after it, and I'll keep you posted.
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/01/i-should-have-questioned-that-sophies-choice-report.html


A Gaza diary

By Mohammed Dawwas. Thursday 22 January: I went to the burns department in Shifa hospital. I've never seen anything like this in my life. These phosphorus burns. Their bodies were black. One person has stitches everywhere. It's worse than killing people. They look like the living dead. I also went to the north, to Beit Lahiya. This was one of the most beautiful areas of farmland. Now it's gone, you can't recognise the place. I wanted to cry....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/a-gaza-diary-1515319.html


War Crimes


Olmert: Hamas turning victims into attackers
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
accused Hamas
on Sunday of "attempting to turn the victim into the attacker and the attacker into the victim through a spiral moral policy. Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Olmert addressed calls across the world to put Israel Defense Forces soldiers on trial over war crimes committed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead
.
... The prime minister stressed that the IDF was the most ethical army in the world.... Colonel Yigal Slovik, commander of the 401st Brigade of the Armor Corps, told
Ynet on Thursday, "I have no qualms about the manner in which I operated. At worst I'll be denied entry to a few European countries. My subordinates and I have chosen this profession out of faith in the righteousness of our path; we sacrifice much more than a trip to London."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661305,00.html


Palestinian National Archives seeks NGO cooperation in documenting rights violations

Palestinian National Archives is requesting that all organizations involved in cataloguing the human rights violations of Israel during the Gaza war coordinate with the institution in order to ensure complete and accurate information is gathered. The media department at the archives said any and all audio-visual documentation will facilitate the work of Arab and Palestinian human rights organizations that are currently collecting testimonials and will compile them by age categories.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35279


Reports of mass arrest [warrants] for Israeli war criminals

Berlin, Jan 25, IRNA - Dozens of arrests warrants have already been issued for Israeli war criminals, said the head of the Gaza Human Rights Center Raji Sourani in an exclusive interview with IRNA in Berlin on Saturday. "We have been targeting 87 people in six countries for whom arrest warrants have already been sent out," the Palestinian lawyer added. "One of the strategic issues at the Center of Human Rights (in Gaza) is to hold Israeli war criminals and military leaders accountable," Sourani stressed. The Palestinian human rights activist said his organization was collecting evidence, documenting Israeli war crimes. "We are now working day and night to document these war crimes and hopefully we will hold them accountable. We hope they (Israelis) cannot get away with crimes like these," Sourani said.
http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19576&Itemid=57


Prosecute Israeli war criminals

(with photo of phosphorus raining down on UN school0 The momentum of support that has been garnered among people in all parts of the world that have come together in solidarity with the Palestinians – the citizens of the world that support and respect human rights – must not come to a stop at this crucial point in time. Please sign this petition and join those in the international community that support justice for the Palestinians: http://www.petitiononline.com/EAFORD09/petition.html

http://imemc.org/article/58603


'Phosphorus wounds' alarm Gazans

['phosphorus wounds' in quotes?] Staring straight ahead and rocking steadily backwards and forwards in her hospital bed, Sabah Abu Halima lists the fate of each of her nine children. "Abed, 14 years old, was decapitated," she says. "Shaheed, one year and three months, was in my arms when the fire took her…" Sabah herself has suffered terrible burns on her arms, legs and torso and is considerable pain. "There was fire, and so much white smoke," she says. "The missile melted my children. My daughter-in-law melted in front of my eyes." Dr Nafiz Abu Shabaan, the head of the unit in which Sabah is being treated, says he has seen many victims with what he described as "strange burns". "These burns were very severe, very deep, and became deeper and wider over time," he says. "In some cases, smoke came out of the wound, even after hours."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7848768.stm


Video: Mark Regev on the ropes (war crimes)

"Jon Snow, top news guy at channel 4 interviews Mr Mark Regev, the Israeli government spokesperson. This about weapons used in civilian areas that contravene Customary International Humanitarian Law."
http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-mark-regev-on-ropes-war-crimes.html


B'Tselem: Sealing house in E. Jerusalem is forbidden collective punishment

On Monday, 19 January 2009, the Israeli army sealed off two floors in the family home of 'Alaa Abu Dahim, who committed the terrorist attack at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva on 6 March 2008. The house is located in the Jabal Mukabber neighborhood of East Jerusalem. This is the first time in four years that Israel has sealed the house of relatives of Palestinians who carried out terror attacks against Israelis.
http://www.btselem.org/english/Punitive_Demolitions/20090120_Army_seals_house_in_Jabal_al_Mukabber_East_Jerusalem.asp


West Bank and Israel

Israeli soldiers seize young vegetable seller from West Bank market

Israeli soldiers seized a young vegetable seller from a market in the West Bank village of Beita, south of the city of Nablus on Sunday. Witnesses told Ma'an that soldiers invaded the market and arrested 18-year-old Abed Zeidan Shaker Abu Ar-Radeh, accusing him of throwing stones at an Israeli settler's car. The soldiers said that a settler car had been damaged on the settler bypass road near the village.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35290


Mufti condemns Israeli court decision allowing sewage pipe to run under Muslim cemetery

Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine Sheikh Muhammad Hussein slammed the Israeli High Court decision to allow Israel's national water company Mekorot to install sewage networks inside the Ramla cemetery. Ramla is an ancient originally Palestinian town in Israel, and home to a large Islamic cemetery. The mufti said disturbing the graves by running pipe and tunnels beneath the dead was sacrilegious.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35274


Israeli forces raid resorts and restaurants in Ramallah area

Israeli forces stormed homes, restaurants, and resorts in several neighborhoods in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Sunday, with no arrests reported. According to security sources five Israeli military vehicles raided the Zein restaurant in the Resorts area, Sath Marhaba, Seriet Ramallah, and Ramallah park. Witnesses said soldiers stopped a number of citizens in the streets near Sath Marhaba and the Seriet Ramallah, checked their identity cards, and reversed traffic in the area.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35278


Israel army seizes four Palestinians at Za'tara military checkpoint near Nablus

Israeli army arrested four young men at the Za'tara military checkpoint south of Nablus Sunday.
Local witnesses told Ma'an that the soldiers stopped a Palestinian car and thoroughly searched it. The men traveling in the car were then arrested and taken to an unknown location. Their identities have not yet been revealed.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35282


Israeli army kidnaps five Palestinians from Qabatiya town near Jenin

During a pre dawn invasion on Saturday the Israeli army kidnapped five Palestinian civilians from the town of Qabatiya. Local sources said that Israeli troops and armored vehicles stormed the town; the soldiers searched and ransacked homes before kidnapping the five men and leaving. Witnesses identified the kidnapped as Mohamed Khazamia, 17, and Hamad Abu Ayisha, 19, Ahmad Fo'ad, 16, Osamah Abu Zied, 19, and Mohamed Hanayisha, 32.
http://imemc.org/article/58612


Jenin military leader: There are no political prisoners in Jenin; allegations are unfounded

The only men in prison in Jenin based on their political affiliation are four Islamic Jihad men who turned themselves in for protection against the Israeli army, said Palestinian military leader of the West Bank district of Jenin Radi A'seeda. A'seeda denied allegations Islamic Jihad made earlier this week that police had detained political prisoners. The allegation said the prisoners were on a hunger strike to protest the detainments. A'seeda said police had not arrested men from "Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Fatah, or the leftist parties." The men being held asked that they be included on the list of those seeking pardon from Israel, so they can stop being followed and stop fearing attack.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35259


Palestinian Bar Ass'n condemns attack on Ramallah lawyer, closes courts in protest

An unknown gunman attacked Ramallah lawyer Ahmed Awadallah in front of his house in the Al-Teereh neighborhood of Ramallah on Saturday. Awadallah sustained serious injuries in his left foot, and was taken to Ramallah's government hospital where doctors performed a series of operations on the foot. Medical sources described his condition as good. Attorney Ribhi Katamesh said that the Bar Association filed papers demanding the police fully investigate the attack on Sunday. Police have opened an investigation. The Bar Association condemned the attack and announced the suspension of work in all Ramallah courts.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35281


Hebron military court sentences collaborator to death by firing squad

A Palestinian court in Hebron sentenced to death by firing squad a convicted collaborator who assisted Israeli intelligence assassinate a Palestinian activist and arrest several others. The man convicted, MRJ, is from the Al-'Arrub refugee camp north of Hebron. He was an officer in the Palestinian Presidential Security Service before he was arrested in Bethlehem on collaboration charges.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=3528


Israel opposition candidate Netanyahu still leads in polls

Reporting from Tel Aviv -- Hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory in the Gaza Strip, the hawkish contender to succeed him paid a visit to wounded soldiers and insisted that the enemy had not been defeated. "We have a strong people and a strong military that dealt a harsh blow to Hamas, but unfortunately the work is still not done," Benjamin Netanyahu said before television cameras outside a hospital last week. "Hamas still controls Gaza."That was only the warmup. "We cannot show weakness against Hamas and its Iranian supporters," the opposition leader added. "We need a strong, unwavering, persistent hand until the threat is eliminated." Israel's election campaign, placed on hold during the 22-day military assault, is back in full swing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/mideastemail/la-fg-israel-vote25-2009jan25,0,4794458.story


Kadima: Netanyahu-led Israel would clash with Obama

Kadima is capitalizing on Washington's new administration in its campaign for the premiership against Likud chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that a Netanyahu government will lead to a clash between Israel and the United States. Livni said privately on Saturday that "people forget what happened to this relationship when Bibi was prime minister, and they have to be reminded."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058474.html


Gaza raids make Israel more ambitious

For as long as we can remember, it seems, Israel has said give us calm and we will do right by the Palestinians. For the moment, Israel appears to be failing the test. There are no immediate signs that it feels either more secure or more predisposed towards a settlement with the Palestinians. In fact, the unexpectedly low costs of "Operation Cast Lead" – one Israeli officer quoted in the left-leaning Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz called it a "training exercise" – has aroused the opposite: revanchist dreams of recovering lost territory and anachronistic hopes that its neighbours will take the Palestinian "problem" off its hands. The war, far from reviving talk of peace in Israel, seems only to have brought back its swagger. The results of opinion polls last week showed the renewed bravado.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090125/FOREIGN/820640901/1002/rss


Bigoted immigrant

By Jeff Barak. 'Here's another clown, another terrorist," said Israel Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, as Ahmed Tibi entered the Supreme Court last week. The United Arab List-Ta'al MK shot back at Lieberman: "There are fascist immigrants here who want to deprive the Arabs of their right to live and be represented." Only one of the MKs was telling the truth in this unparliamentary exchange, and it wasn't Lieberman. Thankfully, the High Court accepted the petition filed by Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, against a Knesset Central Elections Committee decision to bar two Arab parties, Balad and the United Arab List-Ta'al, from running in next month's elections on the grounds that they are a danger to the Jewish state.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232643745823&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


IDF adds antelope to its arsenal in fight against Hezbollah

In addition to infantry, armor and intelligence units, the Israel Defense Forces has also deployed eight Eland antelope to further secure Israel's tense northern border against Hezbollah. The antelope have been stationed in the zone between the security fence and the international border to clear problematic foliage that distorts views of the Lebanese side and within which Hezbollah guerillas could hide.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058506.html


Media

Gaza Notebook: The bullets in my in-box

By Ethan Bronner of the New York Times. Among Israel's Jews, there is almost no higher value than Zionism. The word is bathed in a celestial glow, suggesting selflessness and nobility. But go anywhere else in the Middle East and Zionism stands for theft, oppression, racist exclusionism. No place, date or event in this conflicted land is spoken of in a common language. The barrier snaking across and inside the West Bank is a wall to Palestinians, a fence to Israelis. The holiest site in Jerusalem is the Temple Mount to Jews, the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims. The 1948 conflict that created Israel is one side's War of Independence, the Catastrophe for the other.... Since the war started on Dec. 27, I have received hundreds of messages about my coverage. They are generally not offering congratulations on a job well done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25bronner.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast


Al-Jazeera drew US viewers on Web during Gaza war

DOHA, QATAR -- American viewership of Al-Jazeera English rose dramatically during the Israel-Hamas war, partly because the channel had what CNN and other international networks didn't have: reporters inside Gaza. But the viewers weren't watching it on television, where the Arab network's English-language station has almost no U.S. presence. Instead, the station streamed video of Israel's offensive against Hamas on the Internet and took advantage of emerging online media such as the microblogging Web site Twitter to provide real-time updates. Overall, the station's Web video stream saw a 600 percent jump in worldwide viewership during the Gaza offensive -- and about 60 percent of those hits came from the United States, according to the station's internal numbers. Outside figures also point to big gains in U.S. online interest, suggesting the war gave the Arab station its first significant chance to break into the American market. None of the biggest U.S. cable systems carries Al-Jazeera English, claiming viewer interest is not sufficient.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/mideastemail/la-fg-gaza-aljazeera25-2009jan25,0,2457999.story


Journalists' federation says Hamas intimidating reporters; de facto gov't denies charges

The de facto government's information office on Sunday expressed astonishment about declarations made by Secretary General of the international federation of journalists Aiden White after he visited the Gaza Strip. The statement says White accused the de facto government of suppressing freedom of press, which officials say is "completely null and false."
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35276


At the heart of BBC row, the homeless of Gaza

Peter Beaumont returns to Jabal Rayas to talk to the children whose desperate struggle to survive in bombed-out Gaza has led a leading charity to mount an emergency appeal - which BBC executives are refusing to screen. -- Safaa Salam is scared and cold. Last night the 10-year-old girl slept in the ruins of her family house in the Jabal Rayas area of eastern Gaza
. So did her four-year-old niece Ghavad. "It was cold last night," says Safaa. "And I'm scared of the packs of dogs." ... If you want to donate online to the Disasters Emergency Committee's Gaza Crisis, visit dec.org.uk/item/200

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/25/gaza-palestine-bbc-appeal


This cowardly decision betrays the values the [BBC] corporation stands for

By Tim Llewellyn. How is the BBC's impartiality to be prejudiced by asking others to raise money for the victims of an act of war by a recognised state, an ally of Britain, using the most lethal armaments it can against a defenceless population? What sly little trigger went off in her head when Thomson questioned whether the aid would reach the right people? What right people? Hamas, the elected representatives of the Palestinian people? The hospitals and clinics run by private charities and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency? The mosques? The citizens of Gaza, persecuted beyond measure not only by their Israeli enemies but by the western powers who arm and sustain Israel and defy the democratic vote of the Palestinian people?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/25/bbc-gaza-palestinians-appeal


Leading article: Weakness in the face of suffering

It is easy to criticise the BBC, but that does not mean that it is always wrong to do so. The corporation's refusal to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for aid to Gaza was a mistake. The Independent on Sunday is proud to carry the appeal on behalf of the group of 13 reputable charities. We accept that the intentions of Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, were honourable. Concerned to protect its reputation for impartiality, the BBC wanted to avoid "appearing to support one side rather than the other" in the Gaza conflict, as Caroline Thomson, the corporation's chief operating officer, said yesterday. This is a weak-minded interpretation of the BBC's duty of impartiality. The corporation seems to think it can avoid the charge of bias if it does nothing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-weakness-in-the-face-of-suffering-1515168.html


BBC left isolated as rival channels back aid appeal

Balance in the media: Has the BBC lost its nerve over Gaza? The BBC is used to being accused of anti-Israel bias, but in 2004 it was jolted by a study that said BBC1 and ITV news were guilty, if unthinkingly, of under-reporting the Palestinian cause. Worse, the Glasgow Media Unit found viewers thought the "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza referred to the Palestinians, not Israeli settlers. At the same time, the BBC fell foul of the Israeli authorities over an interview with the nuclear whistleblower Mordecai Vanunu, released in 2004 after 18 years in prison, which was smuggled out of Israel. The BBC's then deputy bureau chief, Simon Wilson, had his work permit withdrawn and was barred from the country. He was allowed back in after the BBC bowed to demands that he make a written apology to the Israeli government for dodging its censors. The BBC appointed a senior broadcaster, Malcolm Balen, to "take stock" of Middle East coverage, in his words. He drew up an internal report that has never been released, but one result appeared to be the appointment, in mid-2005, of Jeremy Bowen as the BBC's Middle East editor. His stated role was to supply context amid the footage of bloodshed and mayhem.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-left-isolated-as-rival-channels-back-aid-appeal-1515309.html


Gaza decision up to BBC - Burnham

The BBC is right to make its own judgement over whether to air a charity appeal for aid to Gaza, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7849943.stm


Sky TV's Waghorn: "They kept us out of Gaza and Israeli officials spun the war"

...The media control seems to have been a calculation made at the highest level in the Israeli government. We would do more harm reporting what was going on in Gaza than we would left outside complaining about restrictions on our press freedom. I am not sure it worked. There was enormous criticism of the campaign outside Israel, despite the draconian press controls. The news agency pictures and stories gave an account of the fighting and its consequences, however incomplete. And Israel's attitude has become a story. The country has been compared to the likes of China, Zimbabwe and Burma in the way it blocked efforts to report the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/waghorn-they-kept-us-out-of-gaza-and-israeli-officials-spun-the-war-1514999.html


Gaza journalists demand legal action after deadly Israeli attacks on media

Israel violated international law by attacking journalists during its assault on Gaza, the Palestinian Journalists' Bloc said on Saturday. In a statement the Bloc said that journalists rights are guaranteed under international conventions, and called for Israeli leaders to be charged with war crimes. The statement named journalists it said had been "deliberately" killed during the 23-day campaign: Omar As-Silawi, Basel Faraj, Ihab Al-Waheidi, Al'a Murtaja and Jalal Nashwan. During the war, Israel bombarded two clearly marked buildings used by international and local television networks and news agencies, as well as journalists' homes. In one case, an Israeli drone fired at journalists broadcasting live from the roof of an office tower in Gaza City. The group also renewed its demand that the rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza release all journalists currently held in their jails.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35257


Op-ed and Analysis

A shameful war: Israeli in the dock over assault on Gaza

By the time the shooting stopped, more than 100 Palestinians had been killed for every Israeli who died. Was every death lawful? And, if not, where does the fault lie? Raymond Whitaker and Donald Macintyre report. Did Israel – or its enemy, Hamas – commit war crimes during 22 days and nights of aerial assault, rocket launches and ground fighting in Gaza? In one sense the question is academic, because Israel will not recognise the conflict as an international one, and has not signed the 1977 Geneva protocol designed to apply to the victims of internal conflicts. But international lawyers say general principles can be drawn from the laws of war, which may have been violated in several ways. [proportionality, firing into urban areas, white phosphorus, DIME bombs and other unusual weapons, targeting of civilians, problems with humanitarian aid]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/a-shameful-war-israel-in-the-dock-over-assault-on-gaza-1515320.html


The war that wasn't

By Reuven Pedatzur. It is very dangerous for the Israel Defense Forces to believe it won the war when there was no war. The expressions of satisfaction and praise for the war's outcome voiced by the army's top brass may lead the IDF to draw the wrong conclusions. Contrary to the image portrayed by reports in the Israeli media - asserting that the IDF's performance in the war was near-perfect and that the army adopted the lessons from the Second Lebanon War - in reality, not a single battle was fought during the 22 days of fighting. The Hamas fighters did not even try to stop the IDF soldiers who entered the Strip, opting to withdraw without a fight.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058460.html


Foiling another Palestinian 'peace offensive': Behind the bloodbath in Gaza

By Norman Finkelstein. Early speculation on the motive behind Israel's slaughter in Gaza that began on 27 December 2008 and continued till 18 January 2009 centered on the upcoming elections in Israel. The jockeying for votes was no doubt a factor in this Sparta-like society consumed by "revenge and the thirst for blood,"[1] where killing Arabs is a sure crowd-pleaser ... Israel's "larger concern" in the current offensive, New York Times Middle East correspondent Ethan Bronner reported, quoting Israeli sources, was to "re-establish Israeli deterrence," because "its enemies are less afraid of it than they once were, or should be."[5] ... Beyond restoring its deterrence capacity, Israel's main goal in the Gaza slaughter was to fend off the latest threat posed by Palestinian moderation. For the past three decades the international community has consistently supported a settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict that calls for two states based on a full Israeli withdrawal to its June 1967 border, and a "just resolution" of the refugee question based on the right of return and compensation.
http://imemc.org/article/58611


On the wrong side

By Uri Avnery. ...This is the face of the new American nation – a mixture of races, religions, countries of origin and skin-colors, an open and diverse society, all of whose members are supposed to be equal and to identify themselves with the "founding fathers". The American Barack Hussein Obama, whose father was born in a Kenyan village, can speak with pride of "George Washington, the father of our nation", of the "American Revolution" (the war of independence against the British), and hold up the example of "our ancestors", who include both the white pioneers and the black slaves who "endured the lash of the whip". That is the perception of a modern nation, multi-cultural and multi-racial: a person joins it by acquiring citizenship, and from this moment on is the heir to all its history. Israel is the product of the narrow nationalism of the 19th century, a nationalism that was closed and exclusive, based on race and ethnic origin, blood and earth. Israel is a "Jewish State", and a Jew is a person born Jewish or converted according to Jewish religious law (Halakha). Like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, it is a state whose mental world is to a large extent conditioned by religion, race and ethnic origin ... Between Israel and the United States a gap has opened this week, a narrow gap, almost invisible – but it may widen into an abyss.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1232853498/


Zvi Bar'el / Without confidence building

The Obama administration cannot work magic. It cannot make peace where one of the partners prefers settlements and the other does not really rule. But what it can do is place the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into its Middle Eastern context; one in which the United States will not be only a mediator-adivser, who comes to put a few ideas on the table and leave a phone number for those interested, but a power with a vested interest, for whom the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is part of its national security alignment. Such an understanding might lead the administration to talk directly to Syria, begin a serious dialogue with Iran, ensure that a united Palestinian government in which Hamas will be a partner is not unacceptable to it, and decide that the Saudi peace initiative is not just one component of a diplomatic initiative, but its most important component.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058463.html


Gideon Levy / No moderates left

The three leading candidates for prime minister are extremists. Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak went to war in Gaza and are therefore as radical as can be. Benjamin Netanyahu is more radical in rhetoric only. We must not be led astray in this election campaign and consider both Livni and Barak as moderates, in contrast to the "extremist" Netanyahu. This is a deception. Kadima and Labor, the center and left-wing parties, have led Israel to two awful wars within two years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058462.html


Who will save the Palestinians?

By Mark LeVine. It was a hot September day in Gaza and I was sitting in the office of a Hamas-affiliated newspaper talking with a senior Hamas intellectual. "Off the record, lets put aside whether or not Palestinians have the moral or legal right to use violence against civilians to resist the occupation. The fact is, it doesn't work," I said. Suicide bombings and other direct attacks on Israeli civilians, I argued, helped to keep the subject off the occupation and in so doing allowed Israel to build even more settlements while the media focused on the violence. His response both surprised me with its honesty and troubled me with its implications.
"We know the violence doesn't work, but we don't know how to stop it," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/war_on_gaza/2009/01/2009119102548942367.html


Obama's inauspicious beginning

By Khalid Amayreh. I know it is premature to judge the man since he has been only a few days in the White House. However, the signs are not very encouraging. Obama has refrained from denouncing the recent Nazi-like crimes committed by the Zio-Nazi state in the Gaza Strip. Obama spoke elaborately about Israel's right to defend itself, but said absolutely nothing about the Palestinian people's right to defend themselves.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/01/25/khalid-amayreh-obamas-inauspicious-beginning/


Americans sympathetic toward Israel on Gaza

Sixty percent of Americans in the nationwide survey said they were sympathetic toward the Israelis, compared with 17 percent who supported the Palestinians, CNN reported today on its Web site
. The results indicate Israel successfully communicated in the U.S. its view that it had to defend itself against rocket attacks from the militant Hamas organization that controls Gaza and is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. and European Union. The CNN poll showed that 63 percent of Americans felt Israel was justified in taking military action, compared with 30 percent who disagreed. The poll of 1,245 adults was conducted Jan. 12-15. The findings largely echo those of a poll conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, which reported
that American sympathy with Israel was unchanged since its military campaign began with an aerial assault on Dec. 27. [On a brighter note, we have encountered many ordinary Americans who have started to have second thoughts about Israel since the Gaza offensive]
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXeOkLzNsybU&refer=home


Solidarity

Refugee stories: Syrians join hands with Palestinians through the 'For the Children of Gaza' campaign

Syria, January 2009 - It is mid-January and Damascus is not as cold as usual. Certainly the winter is at its height and the thermometer drops sharply after the daily Maghreb prayer, still the Syrian capital feels warm. Despite the chilly weather experienced during these days, every single person seems to be united by one cause: helping their brothers and sisters, victims of the terrible conflict in Gaza.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EGUA-7NKTMC?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P


Students stage sit-in at Cambrige over Gaza

Dozens of people, including several Israelis, refuse to leave British university's law faculty until management helps raise funds for Strip's residents, grants scholarships to Palestinian students
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3661267,00.html


Swiss first European delegation to visit Gaza after war; condemn destruction

The Parliamentarians are visiting Gaza after being invited by the Palestinian Legislative Council. The Swiss were also the only European country to support the draft UN resolution from the Human Rights Council that condemned Israel's "grave human rights violations in the Palestinian territories." The delegation reinforced their earlier stance during their visit, saying what they saw was evidence of war crimes.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35265


Munich rallies in solidarity with Gaza

More than two thousand people rallied on Saturday in Munich, Germany for the fourth consecutive week protesting the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35269


Boycott Israeli dance company on US/Canada tour

Call for Action: Israel's leading dance company, Batsheva, is touring the US and Canada starting January 28th through March of 2009. As cultural ambassadors and representatives of their country, Batsheva was asked to denounce the racist and brutal policies and crimes of their government against the Palestinian people, and refused. Activists across the country have been planning and organizing a boycott of Batsheva
Dance Company for several months.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/boycott-israeli-dance-company-on.html


Iraq

US raid kills Iraqi man, woman in their bed

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi couple was killed in their bed Saturday morning as their daughter slept between them when U.S. forces raided their home. The U.S. military said that the raid, in the area of Hawija, just west of Kirkuk, was an Iraqi government approved operation against a wanted man and that the killings were in self-defense. But the family described the slayings of a modest farmer, his wife and the wounding of their daughter by U.S. forces as the three slept.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/60696.html


Richard Holbrooke is the wrong man for the job

By Scott Ritter. The new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has appointed Holbrooke as the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan ... It is highly doubtful that Holbrooke will bring anything more to the table than cheerleading.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/24/richard-holbrooke-is-the_n_160623.html


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