Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Israel’s war on Gaza has left more than 700 Palestinians dead – nearly a third of them women and children – and more than 3,000 injured. But at the organisation’s headquarters in Damascus, 100km miles from the territory, Musa Abu Marzouq, the deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau, told Al Jazeera why he believes his organisation is on the verge of victory against Israel. |
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Gaza, January 8, 2009 (AFP photo/Mahmud Hams)January 8, 2009, 5:00
While politicians and diplomats continue to call the shots in the Gaza conflict, it’s ordinary people who suffer – from fear, deprivation and grief.Journalists are not being allowed into Gaza, but RT’s sister Arabic news channel Russiya Al Yaum is there.
According to their report, four people died when Beit-Lahia, a town north of Gaza City, was shelled recently. During a short period of calm which lasted for three hours, numerous casualties were found. Rescuers took them to the northern part of Gaza. Bodies were also found in the eastern part of Gaza. Entire families were found dead under the ruins of houses. Kassam and Grad rockets were fired at Israeli territory in response, according to Russiya Al Yaum.
Meanwhile, Palestinian citizens at the border with Egypt are in a deadlock, the report says:
“They have nowhere to go after receiving letters urging them to leave this territory and warning of upcoming shelling. More than 15% of Rafah City has been razed to the ground. There isn’t a single house left near the border. We know that more than 1,700 houses have been destroyed there as a result of this intifada. The question is what happens to those who live in the centre of Rafah City and where they will go when their houses are destroyed”.
People are trying to escape the shelling to save their lives. “But we also met people who’d prefer to die under the ruins of their own homes,” RT’s sister channel correspondent Saed Suerki said. “We talked to the elderly, children and women. They all said if death is even happening in schools and mosques, then where is there to find rescue? They’d prefer to die in their homes. They said it would be more honourable for them.”
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
“Remember, he was supposed to change the mood, tone, music with respect to America in the Arab and Muslim world,” said Miller, now apublic policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Institute.
“Well, guess what? This guy is coming into office against a backdrop of incredible bitterness and anger against Israel and, by implication, the United States,” Miller said
8th January, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) – When he becomes president in two weeks,Barack Obama will have little breathing room to deal with “the horrible mess” left by his predecessor George W. Bush over Israel’s war inGaza, analysts say.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Gaza – A driver bringing humanitarian supplies from the northern crossing point of the Gaza Strip into the territory was killed when the aid convoy was fired upon, a spokesman for the United Nations said.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Thousands of demonstrators marched to Parliament in Cape Town on Thursday to call for an end to Israel’s offensive in Palestine’s Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Abelardo Moreno, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations expressed this Wednesday at the Security Council the strong condemn of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to Israel for its attacks to the Gaza Strip.
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 7(acn) — Abelardo Moreno, in his speech in an open debate on the Middle East situation, highlighted the profound disappointment of the organization he represents for the incapacity of the Council to fulfil its responsibility of keeping international peace and security.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Amman – Hundreds of Jordanians, some of them carrying flowers, demonstrated outside the Venezuelan embassy Thursday to thank Caracas for severing ties with Israel in protest over the high casualty toll of civilians in the ongoing attack on the Gaza Strip.
The participants chanted slogans and raised placards praising the step taken by President Hugo Chavez and urging Arab countries with diplomatic ties with the Jewish state to follow Venezuela’s lead.
Jordan’s largest political party, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), has praised Venezuela’s rupture of diplomatic ties with Israel.
‘Your decision represents a spotlight in the middle of a wide area of black collusion by forces of arrogance and their subservient parties,’ IAF Secretary General Zaki Bani Ershaid said in a letter to Chavez.
He said that Venezuela’s move represented a ‘slam to those governments which maintain silence over the killing of children’ in the Gaza Strip.
Jordanian trade unions and opposition parties planned to stage a massive demonstration on Friday with the intention of proceeding to the Israeli embassy in Amman which has been under unprecedented security measures, since the start of the Israeli offensive 13 days ago.
Jordanian demonstrations have been pressing the government to sever ties with Israel and abrogate the peace pact Jordan concluded with Israel in 1994.
Prime Minister Nader Dahabi dropped strong hints earlier this week that the diplomatic ties with Israel could be affected as a result of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Gareth Porter
8th January, 2009
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) – Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Waving Syrian and Palestinian flags and brandishing photographs of Palestinian dead in Gaza, protesters unfurled banners demanding ” the end of aggression against our people in Gaza” and “the end of Israeli occupation,” an AFP journalist reported.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Several hundred protesters have gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in the Bosnian capital and have called for Washington to use its influence to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza.
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