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THE MURDER OF JOURNALIST RAMY RYAN BY ISRAELI/US MISSILES

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GILAD ATZMON


A graphic video showing the killing of journalist Ramy 
Ryan in Gaza and an attack on an ambulance and 
rescue workers, by Israeli air strikes has surfaced 
online.
Warning: This 6-minute video is very graphic, viewer 
discretion is advised.
The video uploaded onto YouTube by Abu 
shows two ambulances arriving urgently on the 
scene where Ramy Ryan is seen covering the situation. 
About 15 seconds into the video, the first missile 
strikes the ambulance. Fourteen seconds later, the 
second missile strikes.
For several seconds, all we see is smoke with residents 
yelling for help, “Ya Allah” (Oh God) followed by 
“Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) and La Ilaha Illa Allah” 
both common cries of desperation.
At 0:40 seconds, the third strike. 0:55, the fourth 
strike. 1:09, the fifth. The cameraman stands up and 
we see a dozen men lying on the ground, all 
seemingly injured and trying to escape towards the 
walls to take refuge. 1:20, the sixth strike. 1:32, the 
seventh. 1:47, the eighth. 1:57, the ninth. At 2:00 the 
cameraman moves again and crawls towards the 
injured men on his left. 2:07, the tenth strike. 2:20, the 
cameraman moves toward another injured man who's 
yelling “Ya Allah, Ya Mohammad”. At 2:40, he captures 
another man unconscious or dead. At 2:50, he takes 
cover with a group of injured men. The old man at 
3:00 is saying “I can't. I can't.” while limping. A 3:27, 
we hear another missile.
At 3:50, we see Ramy Ryan on the floor, lying over a 
pool of blood. He's dead. A man is telling us “Look, 
look. A Journalist. Look.” while showing us Ramy 
Ryan's “Press” insignia. The man then tells us angrily, 
“show the United Nations! Show the world! Show the 
Red Cross! Show the Arab traitors! They are all 
traitors!”.
The missiles have stopped and panic breaks. We hear 
people mourning their dead. From 4:20 onwards, the 
cameraman shoots the aftermaths of the Israeli strikes.

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Israeli airstrikes murder DFLP leader and his wife along with his 5 sons at home south of the Gaza strip

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KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- The leader in Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Wadah Abu Amer, was killed on Tuesday evening along with his wife and his five sons in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The DFLP strongly condemned Abu Amer’s assassination, stressing the importance of armed resistance option as the sole option to defeat and remove the occupation.
The DFLP said that Israel’s continued crimes against the Palestinian people require holding an urgent PLO meeting, and accelerating efforts to sign the Rome Statute in order to join the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israeli officials for committing war crimes.
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Israeli War Crime: Video Shows Sniper Killing of Wounded Gaza Civilian

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A video has emerged of the targeting and killing by a sniper of a Palestinian civilian in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood where Israeli shelling killed dozens of civilians and caused massive destruction early on Sunday morning.
The video, documenting a war crime, was uploaded to YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement, which described the incident in a 20 July press release:
The Israeli military just shot a Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shujaiya neighborhood.
“We all just watched a man murdered in front of us. He was trying to reach his family in Shujaiya, he had not heard from them and was worried about them. They shot him, and then continued to fire as he was on the ground. We had no choice but to retreat. We couldn’t reach him due to the artillery fire and then he stopped moving.” Stated Joe Catron, US International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist in Gaza. “Shajiya is a smoking wasteland. We just passed two bombed out ambulances.”
The Israel military has also shelled Red Crescent ambulances as they attempted to retrieve injured people in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. A ceasefire was announced, during which injured and dead people, could be evacuated from the area, in which at least 60 people have been killed today.
“They said we would be able to evacuate the injured from the disaster zone, but they have been shelling ambulances,” stated Dr Khalil Abu Foul of the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking from Shujaiya.
Now, the international volunteers, including some from the US, the UK, and Sweden, are in a rescue centre on the outskirts of Shujaiya.
Catron is also a frequent contributor to The Electronic Intifada.
This photo taken by Joe Catron shows the group of human rights defenders wearing yellow vests, and a young man in jeans and a green t-shirt. The same young man appears in the video above, shot.

Israeli war crimes have been documented on video with depressing frequency, including the 15 May sniper killings of two Palestinian teens in the occupied West Bank town of Beitunia.
However even such evidence rarely results in justice or accountability, due to the systematic impunity Israel affords perpetrators of crimes against Palestinians.
Relentless slaughter continues
Israel’s relentless slaughter continued on Monday for the fourteenth consecutive day, killing multiple members of three extended families as the death toll rose to over 500, Ma’an News Agency reported.
In Khan Younis, at least 26 members of the Abu Jami family were killed by Israeli shelling in the largest single atrocity so far. Democracy Now reporter Sharif Kouddous in Gaza captured these photos of the massacre’s aftermath.


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Do you feel safer now Israel after you bomb the hell out of a orphanage killing disabled kids

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GAZA, (PIC)-- Three little girls with special needs were killed during an Israeli airstrike at dawn Saturday on an orphanage for the disabled in Beit Lahiya district in the Gaza Strip.
Many nurses working for the orphanage also suffered serious injuries during the attack.
According to Quds Press, the air raid leveled the building of the orphanage to the ground.
In a separate incident, another aerial attack on a group of civilians in Gaza City killed three of them immediately and rendered others severely wounded, eyewitnesses reported.
The Israeli occupation army also waged dozens of air raids on several homes belonging to civilians in northern Gaza, Khan Younis, and Gaza City. No casualties have been reported so far.
Meanwhile, 22 Palestinian civilians were reportedly injured in indiscriminate artillery attacks on populated border areas in Gaza.
The Israeli artillery also bombed a house belonging to Isam Da'alis, who served as an advisor to former premier Ismail Haneyya, in Al-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza as well as three other houses and one mosque.
A charitable society in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and a military court in Gaza City were bombed as well.
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These Two Palestinians We're Assassinated By Israeli Missiles In Central Gaza

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Palestinian medical sources have reported that two residents have been killed, on Sunday evening, in an Israeli air strike on the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.

 The sources said that missiles were fired targeting a group of resistance fighters east of the refugee camp, killing two and wounding several Palestinians. 

Israeli drones can still be heard flying over the area, and over different parts of the besieged coastal region. 

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Ashraf al-Qodra, stated that the slain Palestinians have been identified as Mazin Faraj al-Jarba, 30, and Marwan Hasan Salim, 23. At least one Palestinian suffered a moderate injury. 

Also on Sunday evening, the Salah Ed-Deen Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, stated that a group of its fighters survived an assassination attempt in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Brigades added that the fighters managed to fire two missiles into an adjacent Israeli area. 

Israeli drones also fired missiles into a Palestinian land in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. 

The army also fired artillery shells into southern Gaza, including three shells fired into the eastern boundaries of Rafah city.
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Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge at border crossing

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Palestinian Authority and Amman demand investigation over incident at crossing between West Bank and Jordan
Riot police try to contol angry Jordanians as they protest in front of the Israeli embassy to demand the deportation of the Israeli ambassador in Amman, following the shooting dead by Israeli troops of Palestinian-Jordanian judge Raed Zeiter at at the Allenby Bridge crossing. Photograph: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP/Getty Images
Agence France-Press
Israeli troops at a border crossing shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge who allegedly tried to snatch a soldier's weapon, prompting Amman and the Palestinian Authority to demand an investigation.
The shooting took place on Monday at the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, with the Israeli military saying troops had opened fire after a man tried to snatch a weapon from one of its soldiers.
The Palestinian Authority sharply condemned the incident and Amman summoned the Israeli chargé d'affaires to protest, demanding an "immediate investigation".
An Israeli army statement said "a Palestinian attempted to seize the weapon of a soldier at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan".
It continued: "In response the forces at the scene opened fire towards the suspect. A hit was identified."
Palestinian security officials identified the man as 38-year-old Raed Zeiter, and Amman confirmed he also held Jordanian nationality.
A Jordanian security official confirmed that Zeiter worked as a judge in Amman and had left for the West Bank early on Monday. Jordan's justice ministry said he worked at a magistrates court in the capital.
Nazmi Muhanna, the Palestinian official in charge of border crossings, said authorities were questioning about 50 people who had been with Zeiter on the bus going from the Jordanian side to the Israeli side of the crossing.
"We are investigating with all the witnesses who were on the same bus. We will verify everything," he said.
"There are no surveillance cameras there so we cannot get to the truth without the witnesses who were on that bus."
"The Jordanian government is expecting a comprehensive report on the incident from the Israeli government. Jordan wants an immediate investigation without any delay," a statement quoted foreign minister Nasser Judeh as saying.
The Palestinian Authority also strongly condemned the incident and demanded an "international investigation" into the circumstances of Zeiter's death.
Palestinian security officials said Zeiter was originally from the northern city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but had left the territories in 2011 and not returned.
Zeiter, who leaves behind a wife and two young children – one of whom is in a coma in hospital – was to be buried in Nablus on Tuesday morning, his family said.
Around 200 people demonstrated outside the Israeli embassy in Amman, demanding the Jordanian government expel the Israeli ambassador.
"We don't want a Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory! Down with the peace agreement [between the two countries]," they chanted.
Zeiter's father said he was in shock over the shooting.
"We did not know that Raed was in the West Bank. I went to the court to check if he was working and I was told that he did not go to work today," said 70-year-old Alaa Zeiter, himself a former judge.
"My son is peaceful and professional. I am shocked," he said before breaking down in tears.
Zeiter and his wife left later on Monday to travel to Nablus for his son's funeral.
The shooting was a rare incident of violence at the crossing, which is located in the Jordan Valley, just east of the Palestinian oasis town of Jericho.
The crossing, which lies 30 miles (50km) west of Amman, is also known as the King Hussein Bridge.
The terminal was closed after the incident but reopened later, an Israeli official said.
Agence France-Press
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Death of Palestinian youth 'cold-blooded assassination', says Mahmoud Abbas

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A boy of 15 has died after being shot in the back apparently during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank

By , Jalazoun

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy apparently shot in the back as he ran away from Israeli soldiers was the victim of a "cold-blooded assassination" that damages the already faltering Middle East process, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leader has said.
Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi was shot outside Jalazoun refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, eye-witnesses said. He was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) says it is conducting an investigation into Saturday's incident, partly to establish whether Wajih was short by one of its soldiers.
Mr Abbas put the blame squarely on Israel.
"This was a cold-blooded assassination perpetrated by the occupation regime," he said in a statement issued by his office. "The Government of Israel bears responsibility for this organized terror against innocent children ... This policy is destructive for the peace process."
There were conflicting accounts of the death at a mourning ceremony on Sunday inside the camp, which is north of Ramallah.
The dead boy's father, also called Wajih, who works in the PA prime minister's office, said his son had been shot "like a bird" without pretext by an Israeli sniper outside a supermarket, where he had gone to buy Coca-Cola.
That was contradicted by several youths who said they had been present at the shooting. They claimed Wajih was among a group of 17 youths playing football in the yard of a nearby school, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The youths claimed they had left the school en mass to retrieve the ball after it was kicked outside the yard towards an army watchtower, which guards the nearby Jewish settlement of Beit El. They came under fire from one of a group of soldiers stationed below the tower who began shooting unprovoked, they said.
However, Abdul Aziz Abu Hadba, 29, owner of the Al-Amal supermarket, which is near the school, said the shooting happened during clashes between Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinian youths. The confrontations had forced him to close his store, he said, pointing to a bullet hole in the shop front.
"They were throwing stones at the army," he told The Telegraph, standing near a spot strewn with rocks and the ashes of a recent bonfire . "There are frequent clashes here and I close the door when it happens because the army shoots stun bullets in front of the shop."
Mohammed Ramahi, 15, the dead boy's cousin, acknowledged that Wajih "sometimes" threw stones at the army.
An IDF spokesman confirmed soldiers were in the area at the time "on a routine mission to stop Palestinian rock throwers".
Some 17 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed in violent incidents since peace talks, brokered by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, re-started in the summer.
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Arafat poisoned to death: Lancet medical journal

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A report by one of the world’s leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death nearly a decade ago.
According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210.
The journal published a peer review of last year’s research by Swiss scientists, who have been researching the suspicious circumstances surrounding Arafat’s death.
The earlier work “found high levels of the highly radioactive element in blood, urine, and saliva stains” on Arafat’s “clothes and toothbrush,” according to a report on al-Jazeera.
In July 2012, experts at Lausanne University, Switzerland, said they had evidence Arafat might have been poisoned with polonium.
The investigation into Arafat’s mysterious death led to the exhumation of his body in November 2012 for further testing.
The decision to exhume Arafat’s body was made after French prosecutors opened a murder probe into his death in August 2012 following the discovery of high levels of polonium on his personal belongings.
Arafat died in 2004 at the age of 75 in a Paris military hospital.
The analysis at the time was that he had a rare blood disorder.

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Yasser Arafat’s body to be exhumed: Was he poisoned by Polonium-210 & By Who?

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Was Yasser Arafat poisoned

by Polonium-210? His 

 death has remained a 

 mystery for many, and for

  quite some time there has

  been many around the 

 globe that believe he was 

 poisoned.

Bowing to the long-time claims made by Palestinian 

 officials that Arafat was poisoned by Israel and French

  authorities, a decision has been made to exhume the body of

  iconic Palestinian leader in an attempt to get answers.

 Arafat died in November 2004 in a Paris military hospital, a month after falling sick. Even if the medical records claim a stroke was the cause of death, the detection of polonium-210 left a inquiry with inconclusive answers.

 That all comes to an end tomorrow we hope says Tawfik Tirawi who will lead the investigation team as Swiss, French and Russian experts will take samples from Arafat's bones from the body that will be exhumed and buried the same day with full honors. It should be noted that Palestinians will be barred from witnessing anything that happens as selected officials will be performing the investigations from behind closed doors.

 This cause for re-investigation came on the heels of Arafat's wife handing over clothes to the Al-Jazeera News Agency who passed the clothes with the traces of Polonium-210 to a swiss lab for testing.

 Many believe that given the history of assassinations carried out by Israel that they are behind Arafat's death and like always they say they have done nothing.

 We shall wait and see what if any answers, if any, come from this exhumation of the departed Palestinian leader. 

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Israel thinks they can kill Resistance In Gaza - Think Again

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The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has launched a major bombing campaign aimed at crippling Hamas defence forces and to do more damage to the Gaza strip and it's people.
According to IDF a farce of a press releases, the top military leader in Hamas perished in the initial bombing. From the statement:
The first target, hit minutes ago, was Ahmed Al-Jabari, head of the Hamas military wing and involved in many previous operations defending against  terror  attacks from Israel.
The IDF says they will not tolerate any threat of resistance from Gaza, and will respond severely to any such attempts of people defending themselves from Israel. Hamas is seen as responsible for all forms of resistance emanating from the Gaza Strip.
The statement also says the goal of the strikes were "to severely impair the command and control chain of the Hamas leadership, as well as its resistance infrastructure."
Knowing he was a target, Ahmed Al-Jabari rarely made public appearances, and has claimed responsibility for numerous defence attacks on Israeli citizens. He also claimed responsibility for the high profile capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. It was at Shalit's exchange for nearly 500 Gazan prisoners that Jabari made his last known appearance.
The IDF calls the operation "surgical"  with use of air-tight intelligence from the Israeli Security Agency and use of "advanced technologies".
Yesterday Israel bombed several  sites across Gaza, the last time tensions really escalated between Gaza and Israel, in 2008, the IDF launched a ground operation where they claimed was 'aimed at stopping rocket attacks.' but we know it for what it was - The Gaza Massacre where over a 1000 Palestinians dies mostly who we're women and children.
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Israel assassinates Islamic Jihad member in Egypt

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A member of the Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad has been killed in an Israel drone attack inside Egypt, security sources say.


According Egyptian security sources in northern Sinai, Ibrahim Owida Nasser was hit by a missile fired by an Israeli drone on Sunday while riding his motorcycle in the Bedouin area south of the village of Al-Kasia, about 15 kilometers far from the Israeli-Egyptian border. 
Nasser had been detained briefly last week as part of a sweeping military crackdown in the Sinai Peninsula. The crackdown came after gunmen killed 16 soldiers and injured many others in an attack on a border outpost on August 5.

Palestinian sources have quoted Egyptian officials as saying that Tel Aviv decided to carry out assassination drone attacks inside Egypt after Cairo failed to counter gunmen in the Sinai region near Egypt’s border with Israel and was forced to agree a deal with them. 

Hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israeli drone attacks in Gaza. But Israel's targeted killings in Egypt are almost rare. 

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 825 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past five years. 

The group also said that most of the victims had been targeted mistakenly or caught in the shrapnel shower resulting from the strikes. 

On August 5, Eid Hijazi, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, was killed in an Israeli drone attack in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Another person was also injured in the attack. 
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Israel sniper to get 45 days over Gaza war shooting

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An Israeli soldier implicated in the killing of two Gaza women carrying a white flag faces a 45-day jail term under a plea bargain approved by a military court on Sunday, local media said.
The sniper, identified by Israeli media as "staff sergeant S," was charged with manslaughter in 2010 over the fatal shooting of an unnamed individual, which Palestinian witnesses linked to the killing of 64-year-old Riyeh Abu Hajaj and her daughter Majda Abu Hajaj, 37, during Israel's "Cast Lead" Gaza offensive.
But the Israeli military said the charge had on Sunday been reduced from manslaughter to using a weapon illegally.
"Following a mediation process and upon examination of the evidence with the recommendation of the military court, both sides have reached a plea bargain in which the indictment will be adjusted, and he will be convicted of using a weapon illegally," a military statement said.
Under the deal, "S" would be jailed for 45 days, media reports said.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem, said that if the military had been unable to prove that "S" fired the fatal shots at the women, who were carrying a white flag when they were killed, it must reopen its investigation and find the guilty party.
"If the military prosecution accepted the claim brought by the soldier's lawyers, that there is no connection between the shooting he admitted to, and the killing of the Palestinian mother and daughter, this means that the investigation into this incident was never completed," the group said in a statement.
"B'Tselem demands that the Military Police investigation unit reopen the file."
According to B'Tselem, on January 4, 2009, the Abu Hajaj family evacuated their home after it was hit by an Israeli tank shell.
"When they saw tanks about 150 metres (yards) from them, two of them waved the (white) flags, and the children in the group sat on the ground," B'Tselem said.
"Suddenly, and without warning, shots were fired at the residents, killing Majda Abu Hajaj on the spot. Her mother, Riyeh Abu Hajaj, was severely wounded by the gunfire," it said. She later died of her wounds.
The incident was one of those raised in the UN Goldstone report on alleged war crimes by both Israel and Gaza's rulers, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, during the offensive aimed at halting rocket fire from Gaza.
More 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the conflict.
The army dismissed dozens of other alleged incidents because "according to the rules of warfare, no faults were found in the forces' actions."
In other cases, the army said there was "not enough evidence proving that legal measures needed to be taken," in a statement issued when the sniper was charged in 2010.
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Israeli journalist convicted for revealing Palestinian assassinations

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Uri Blau, a reporter with Israel's Haaretz newspaper, was convicted on Tuesday under a plea bargain of possessing classified military documents that revealed deliberate targeted assassinations of Palestinian figures, an AFP correspondent said.
Blau was convicted at Tel Aviv District Court for possessing secret army papers that he received from a former soldier who was subsequently jailed on charges of spying.
As part of the plea bargain, which was agreed with the State Prosecutor's office on July 5, Blau agreed to admit to the charge of possessing secret information without intending to harm state security.
Sentencing will not take place until September.
"This is a precedent-setting prosecution of a journalist for doing his job," Jack Hen, one of his legal representatives told the paper's website, saying Blau should not have been indicted and that all of his reports had been approved by the military censor.
"According to it, the public's right to know and freedom of the press were seriously damaged by the decision to put a journalist on trial for these reasons."
Israel has tightened its censorship of Israeli media in recent years, ranking 92 in the latest global index on press freedom by Reporters Without Borders.
Court documents showed that former soldier Anat Kam handed some 1,800 documents to Blau who used some of them as the source for an article in 2008 which said troops had been ordered to carry out targeted killings of Palestinian militants in violation of a Supreme Court order.
Blau later handed over all the classified documents in his possession to the security establishment.
Kam was sentenced to four and a half years in jail in October 2011 after pleading guilty to leaking the documents.
She has said her actions were ideologically motivated and that she wanted to expose the army's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Israel Has Confirmed assassination of the Lebanese Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh

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The former head of Israeli National Security, Uzi Arad, has confirmed for the first time Israel's responsibility for the assassination of the Lebanese Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh four years ago. He was speaking in the wake of the attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. The Israeli government blames Hezbollah and Iran for the attack.
Arad remarked that "Israel is the attacking party as it targeted the terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, and Iran is the defending party." This is the first time that an Israeli official has confirmed Israeli responsibility for the car bomb which killed the Hezbollah leader in Damascus in February 2008.
Hezbollah has always accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of the killing.
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“Shoes and Tomatoes in Cairo – Bullets in Israel” for Clinton

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ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT VEHICLE (2012 MODEL)

Al-Alam and Reuters Report Hillary Clinton Convoy Attack in Israel

By Gordon Duff

Israeli radio and Reuters broke the story then went mysteriously silent, an assassination attempt inside Israel, on Secretary of State Clinton. 
Soon afterward, Iran’s national network, al Alam went public with a translated version which is being boycotted by news services.
Details on the unsuccessful murder attempt on America’s top diplomat below but first some background.
Possibly responsible for the assassination attempt on Clinton is this tale of deceit by Rep. Michelle Bachmann as outlined by CNN’s Andersen Cooper:
 
We see this as part of a pattern of escalation by Israel, carefully orchestrated terrorism which may well culminate in an attack on the London Olympics as has been predicted by many.  Nothing less could bring about the result Netanyahu desires, a massive US and NATO air attack on Iran, and note this carefully, not an attack on Syria.
The video below describes how Israeli contractors are sabotaging London Olympic security.  Highly credible source:
 
It is our opinion that this is a valid news story.  We believe the attack on Clinton is related to the current political upheaval in Israel, an attempt to kill Clinton, blame Iran and take the focus off the domestic political meltdown.
We also feel the bus attack in Bulgaria, killing 6 Israeli citizens is highly suspect for the same reasons as well.

Israeli radio broke the story Sunday night, midnight, but never mentioned it again.  This has been confirmed by sources inside Israel
The real story as we have been able to learn is this;  About 16 hours ago, Secretary Clintons convoy, traveling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, was attacked.  There would have been a minimum of 3 to 5 vehicles, with Clinton probably traveling in a bulletproofed Chevy Tahoe or Israel built Toyota Land Cruiser.
This follows the story earlier of an attack on a bus loaded with Israeli tourists that exploded in Bulgaria.  Six were killed.  Netanyahu said he would respond by attacking Iran.  It is our opinion that this was a Mossad “false flag” operation much as was the Clinton assassination attempt.  Bulgarian security services are trained by the Mossad.  There are dozens of Mossad agents operating in Bulgaria which still has in place massive Soviet era security services that follow all tourists and check on every “overnight” guest in Bulgaria.
In fact, you can’t leave Bulgaria without meal and hotel receipts being reviewed.  Bulgaria is considered, next to North Korea, the most “watchful” nation on earth.
There has never been evidence of any Iranian security personnel operating in Eastern Europe though Iran could, if they chose, claim retaliation for the murder inside Iran of a number of scientists and their families, acts openly admitted to by Israel.   Iran has, however, made no such threats.
Coincidentally, the attack on Clinton was within hours of her statement in support of Israel regarding the Bulgarian attack.  We do not believe in coincidences and find the timing of these events and the arrival of the USS Stennis, another American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, to be coincidental also.
Were Secretary Clinton murdered as intended, Iran would have been blamed also as would Iran have been blamed for the US Navy’s attack on a Dubai fishing boat which failed to sink, a boat the Navy said was “Republican Guard” but returned to Dubai with dead and wounded fishermen who were gunned down, unarmed by American .50 caliber machine gun rounds.
In making these statements, which will surprise none of the world’s intelligence community, we expect reprisals from Mossad based press management and intimidation groups, such as the one that suppressed the Clinton murder attempt.
A white Citroen DS, a French car built (assembly plant in Israel) drove alongside the convoy and opened up on Clinton’s vehicle with automatic weapons fire.
Normal security procedures should have prevented any vehicle on open regions from coming within 200 meters of Clinton.  Additionally, the Secretary of State would have traveled with Apache helicopter air support above while on open highway.
Thus, the concept of a cheap French sedan with plastic wheels and a 1 litre deisel engine escaping such an incident is fanciful.
ANALYSIS
The translation of the intercepted Reuter’s story from Israel is below.
We list probability of the story being high and that networks are being asked to suppress the incident as an embarrassment to Israel.
Reports are coming in, to Israeli blogs, radio and TV that red flares and illumination is seen at the “alleged ” site.
This is the first visit by Secretary Clinton to Israel in two years:
Israeli sources reported that the procession of Hillary Clinton Secretary of State was fired on yesterday, while passing through on the road to Jerusalem – Tel Aviv,” states Al-Alam News.
According to information published by the site ‘Reuters’, the car was a white‘Citroen’.
The assassition team approached the Clinton convoy and opened up with multiple automatic weapons.  
Secretary Clinton was not injured but members of the security staff spoke with press, leading to a news announcement in Israel which was quickly denied.
Citizens of the region noted the area under “illumination” used, either artillery or dropped from aircraft.
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Not a Conspiracy Theory Anymore, Arafat’s Assassin is…

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Certain topics refuse to die. On July 3, 2012, the death of Yasser Arafat on November 11, 2004, returned to the headlines of international media. Arafat was in good health until he suddenly fell ill on October 12, 2004. At the time he was besieged by Israeli tanks in the Palestinian Authority Ramallah headquarters. When his condition deteriorated, he traveled to Paris, where he died in a military hospital. The cause of his death remained mysterious, giving way to a plethora of rather insulting rumors; Israeli media rejoiced in them. Yesterday, al-Jazeera reported that the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland had found significant traces of polonium-210 in samples taken from Arafat’s personal effects, including his trademark keffiyeh. The report is considered credible, having been quoted even by the BBC in its Middle East section. “I can confirm to you that we measured an unexplained, elevated amount of unsupported polonium-210 in the belongings of Mr Arafat that contained stains of biological fluids,” said Dr Francois Bochud, director of abovementioned institute. Today, July 4, Suha Arafat, his widow, asked the Palestinian Authority to exhume her husband’s body from its grave in Ramallah. If tests show that his bones contain high levels of polonium, there would be a conclusive proof that he was poisoned.
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Rabin-Clinton-Arafat

Considering the reputation of the laboratory which conducted the tests, there is little doubt on the results. The exhumation will just provide corroboration to what has been discovered. The date of the poisoning is known. Due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli siege, the movements of Arafat are known from the poisoning moment onwards, until his death. Considering this, finding the assassin should not be difficult.

Polonium

Alexander Litvinenko
Alexander Litvinenko
The poison used is interesting since it is relatively available and yet very obscure; even in this case the checking institute admitted that the existence of polonium traces was tested only after all common poisons were discarded. Polonium is a radioactive element discovered by Marie Curie in 1898. Its first victim was her daughter, Irene. Until yesterday, its most famous victim had been Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian refugee in London who died in 2006 after polonium was slipped into his tea at a sushi restaurant. Now it appears, the Russians took this unusual poisoning technique from somebody else.
There is one scientific detail which is important. Polonium is highly radioactive, to the extent that air surrounding Polonium samples exhibits a blue-glow. However, the spectrum of the radiation it produces is unusual. It radiates very little gamma rays, most of its pollution is in the form of short-lived alpha-particles. As such it is difficult to identify it from the distance. In other words, this is a radioactive poison which is easy to move around, even through areas monitored for radioactive substances. One of the uses of this poison is in the nuclear industry, where it serves as an atomic bombs’ initiator. Unsurprisingly, two other known victims of it were two workers of the Israeli nuclear program. This has been confirmed by official sources, but no other details on the circumstances have ever been provided. Israel may have discovered then the flexibility of this substance as a killer. Could Israel have assassinated Yasser Arafat by slipping polonium in his food?

Not a Conspiracy Theory anymore

At first this seems impossible. After all, during the relevant period no Israelis had access to Arafat’s deathbed. The other side of the equation is not less baffling. No Palestinian locked up in the Ramallah compound had access to polonium. Palestinian markets seldom offer it. This looks as a dead-end; those who had access to the poison couldn’t deliver it, those who could deliver it, didn’t have access to the poison.
Yet, on August 7, 2011, top officials of Fatah issued a report claiming that Mohammed Dahlan sent poison disguised as medicine to President Yasser Arafat while he was in a Paris hospital, eventually killing him. I expanded on this event in Abu Fadi: A Credible Conspiracy. After Arafat’s death, Dahlan ordered to incinerate the vials he had brought and thus brought suspicion on himself. Yet, we know now, that regardless the content of the suspicious flasks, Arafat had been poisoned in Ramallah, prior to his arrival at Paris. Polonium kills slowly and painfully as the few known cases show. Can this complex picture be reconciled into a logical framework?
The Palestinian Preventive Security Force is the official security apparatus of the Palestinian National Authority, in other words the Palestinian Shin Beth, or what in other Arabic speaking countries is called the muhabbarath (spelling may vary). It was established in 1994 by President Yasser Arafat as result of the Oslo Accords. It provides intelligence to the political level, its duties including counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, and defending national economy. It is regarded as highly professional; its cadres are mostly university graduates who receive intensive training both domestically and abroad. Where did the PSS appear from? Its duties identify a Walsingham-state ideology, inherited from a country that adopted this system of underground political-police from the source: England. I am saying with the complete confidence of knowledge that the PSS structure was designed by the Shin Beth, under the approval and supervision of Yitzhak Rabin. Moreover, the Shin Beth trained many of the PSS officers, who in the past had served as low-level informants of the Shin Beth during the First Intifada. We are talking of sister organizations, which in more than one occasion had shared staff. The abovementioned Mohammed Dahlan, and many other Palestinians, were trained by the Shin Beth.
Palestinian inner wars are as bitter as their wars against the Jews. In 2007, Dahlan assisted an American plan to overthrow the elected Hamas government in Gaza, known as the Battle of Gaza. The coup failed when Hamas carried out a counter-coup that threw the Fatah forces out of Gaza, a fitting end to his ongoing violence towards Hamas (during the entire 1990s Dahlan forces were accused of torturing Hamas detainees, to the extent that Gaza became nicknamed "Dahlanistan”). His corruption was made public in the Karni scandal of 1997, when it was revealed that Dahlan was diverting 40% of the taxes levied at the Karni Crossing (an estimated one million Shekels a month) to his personal bank account (he had Israeli bank accounts also). Hamas has claimed that two Palestinians arrested in Dubai for suspected involvement in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (Ahmad Hassanain and Anwar Shheibar) are former members of a death cell which carried out violent suppression of Hamas members. Both work at a construction company in Dubai owned by Dahlan. A senior Hamas official told Al-Hayat newspaper that the two provided logistical aid to the Mossad hit team alleged to have carried out the assassination, renting them cars and hotel rooms. Dahlan denies the charges. When Dahlan led the PSS Gaza branch, the West Bank one was run by Jibril Rajoub, who later became a prominent Palestinian politician. The New York Times published an article named “Once Neighbors, Now Rival Palestinian Leaders,” by James Bennet on April 29, 2003, where Jibril Rajoub openly accused Dahlan of being an Israeli agent.
Israel could have given the poison to one of its Palestinian agents with access to Arafat’s food. There is little doubt that an agent willing to perpetrate the crime could be found.

Who is the assassin?

It is practically impossible to find out how states carry out assassinations, or the illegitimate rules governing them. As with polonium and other poisonings, Israel is also a leader in this field. On September 25, 1997, Khaled Mashal—a prominent Hamas leader—was the target of an assassination attempt carried out by the Israeli Mossad under orders of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Two Mossad agents carrying Canadian passports entered Jordan and injected Mashal with an unknown nerve toxin. A few days later, Netanyahu surrendered to international pressure and provided the antidote. Toxin and antidote were developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research (see Mossad, Sonic Weapons & Khaled Mashal). What is clear is that in such events the political level signs the death sentence and thus is morally responsible for the crime. By attacking Mashal, Netanyahu became a bio-terrorist.
In the case of Yasser Arafat the situation was different. The Mossad couldn’t have acted in Ramallah, which is under the jurisdiction of the Shin Beth. Such an operation would have been carried under the supervision of Avi Dichter—then Shin Beth Director—and signed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Looking at his Assassin
Looking at his
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