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7 Palestinian rockets hit Israel

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009

 

 

Palestinians have fired more rockets into Israel as Israeli forces continue shelling Gaza with white phosphorus on the 23rd day of its war on Gazans. 

On Sunday morning, Israeli media said seven Grad rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. 
PressTV

18th January

Reports say Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters also exchanged fire near Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. 

“We have had at least five launches from the Gaza Strip and four of them fell in the area of Sderot,” an army spokesman said referring to an Israeli town five kilometers from the Gaza border. 

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Israel shelling Gaza despite ceasefire

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009

 

 

PressTV

18th January, 2009

An Israeli helicopter hovering above the Gaza City continues to carry out fresh strike despite a unilateral ceasefire announced by Tel Aviv. 

Press TV broadcast live images of an Israeli helicopter hovering above the city and dropping its white phosphorous bombs on the city during a report by our correspondent Akram al-Sattari in the city. 

Columns of smoke could be seen rising from the targeted neighborhoods on the 23rd day of the Israeli offensive against the impoverished coastal silver which has so far killed around 1,200 Palestinians and injured 6000 others. 

A large number of the victims are women and children, according to figures by the UN and Palestinian medics. 

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Anti-Israel emotions run high in Britain

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009

 

A protester cries during a London protest as pro-Palestine emotions ran high.

PressTV

18th January,2009

London is beginning to witness major anti-Israel demonstrations with Britons coming to realize the role the UK plays in supporting Israel. 

Several hundred pro-Palestinians protesters, including a group of Jews, voiced their concern at London’s Trafalgar Square, where several pro-Palestinian protests have been staged since Israel renewed attacks on Gaza in December. 

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London- Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Gaza

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

MARIA STARTS HUNGER STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE OF GAZA 

Monday, January 12 2009 

Maria Gallastegui, founder of the Peace Strike, has started a hunger 
strike this morning in solidarity with the people of Gaza and to protest 

against the escalating military assault on the people of Gaza. 

Maria set up the Peace Strike in 2007 which urges people to go on 
‘strike for peace’ from their daily activities. She has since personally 
delivered over 400 daily petitions to No 10 Downing Street calling for 
peace and justice in the Middle East. 

Maria said, “I have food, drink, shelter, warmth, contact with my family 

and the rest of life’s necessities whenever I need; the people of Gaza 
don’t have these. They have almost no access to basic necessities and 
are living each day in dreadful fear for their lives and those of their 
families. I am starting this hunger strike in solidarity with the people 

of Gaza at this moment of extreme crisis. I urge everyone to go on 
strike for Gaza, take a day off work, come and join us on the Vigil for 
Gaza in Parliament Square or make a stand for Palestine where ever you 
are. Every single individual can make a difference.” 

Come and join the vigil, support Maria and let parliamentarians know how 

you feel about what is happening in Gaza. 

http://www.peacestrike.org.uk 
http://www.vigilforgaza.net 

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UK-3rd National Demo for Gaza – Starting at the BBC!

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

ASSEMBLE BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE 
PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, W1A 1AA (Nearest tube Oxford Circus) 
MARCH TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE 

ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA NOW: LIFT THE BLOCKADE 
3RD NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR GAZA 
SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 

ASSEMBLE BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE 
PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, W1A 1AA (Nearest tube Oxford Circus) 
MARCH TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE 

With over 1100 killed, 350 of them children, and over 5500 injured, the suffering in Gaza is beyond catastrophic. Israel is ignoring the worldwide clamour for it to stop now and is escalating its attacks. 

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UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza

Posted by alfied on January 17, 2009

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Hamas to Fight On if Israel Ceases Fire Unilaterally

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

 

17/01/2009 “This unilateral ceasefire does not foresee a withdrawal” by the 
Israeli army,” Hamas’s representative in Lebanon Oussama Hamdan said Saturday. He stressed the resistance group will fight on if Israel orders a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza.
“As long as it remains in Gaza, resistance and confrontation will continue,” he said.
Speaking at a conference in Beirut, also attended by European representatives supporting the Palestinians, Hamdan added that Israel’s proposal for a unilateral ceasefire, which was to be put to a vote of the security cabinet later on Saturday, was an “attempt to derail the Egyptian plan” for a reciprocal truce. “The different initiatives for a ceasefire were aimed at getting the Palestinians to concede things “which the enemy failed to achieve through the fighting,” he said. 
 
Hamas would only agree to a ceasefire if the conditions set by the organization are met.
“I would like to suggest to all the mediators to focus in their initiatives on halting the offensive and lifting the blockade and not to touch anything else.” 
 
He called on regional elements to stand by the resistance and warned Israel that “if we don’t hear what we want, we’ll return to the fighting arena.”
‘Don’t suggest that we surrender because we haven’t been defeated and we won’t be defeated. Our determination grows stronger every day, because our debt to the martyrs whose blood has been spilled is bigger. We shall continue fighting, so don’t suggest that we surrender,” Hamdan stressed. 
 
The senior Hamas official called on the Palestinian people to continue the struggle and addressed resistance fighters in Gaza. 
“Just like the resistance was victorious in Lebanon in 2006, you will win in January 2009.” 
 
“There are elements in the region which believe that the enemy treats them as a partner. They don’t understand that the enemy treats them like servants or like an improved image of the ancient slaves, but this is the 21st century,” he said signaling several leaders dubbed by the US as so called ‘moderate Arabs.’
 
He also criticized Mahmoud Abbas, whose term as PA leader ended in January 9, for not showing up at the Arab summit in Qatar. 
 
Hamdan stressed that Israel’s leaders should be put on trial for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. He told the Europeans that “the Zionist entity enjoys a special status in the European Union.” 
 
He also congratulated the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia for severing their diplomatic ties with Israel, and ridiculed Arab leaders who he said were letting Israel act without disturbances. 

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US Journalists Call Livni ‘Terrorist’, ‘Murderer of Civilians’

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

 

 

 

17th January, 2009

Al-Manar TV

 

17/01/2009 Shortly after signing “anti-smuggling agreement” with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel’s foreign minister Tsibi Livni came under journalists fire some accusing her of terrorism. 

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Hamas hits Israeli towns, Special Forces

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

“Ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel and continuing Hamas resistance has cast doubt on whether Tel Aviv can achieve its proclaimed goals with the deadly military operation it has launched in Gaza. 

At onset of the attacks against the coastal strip, Tel Aviv said that stopping rocket fire into Israel was one of its primary goals. 

Later on, it added toppling the democratically elected Palestinian government of Hamas to that list, despite backtracking on it as Operation Cast Lead unfolded”

Palestinian Grad missiles hit three Israeli towns as Hamas fighters fire mortars at Israeli Special Forces stationed in Northern Gaza. 

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Israel phosphorous bombs keep going to Gaza

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

PressTV

17th January, 2009

 

Israel continues its offensive on Gaza for a 22nd consecutive day, pounding the Zaytun district of Gaza City with white phosphorous bombs.

Hamas affiliated Al-Aqsa television reported on Saturday that many residential buildings have been hit by Israeli phosphorous bombs in the Zaytun district. 

The Israeli phosphorous bombs also hit a UN school in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza early Saturday. According to medics and witnesses, the strike on the school, where civilians were sheltering from the fighting, has claimed the lives of a woman and a child, injuring eleven others. 

Meanwhile, several explosions were heard as the Israeli army’s apache helicopters flew over Gaza and their tanks hit various locations in the outskirts of Gaza city

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Greece blocks US arms shipment to Israel

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009

14th January, 2009

Washington –APA. US Defense Department failed to send arms to Israel. Pentagon sources told AFP Greece didn’t allow to US arms shipment from its ports, APA reports.

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