Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
Sunday, Jan. 18, Hamas leader Mussa Abu Marzuk in Damascus declared an immediate ceasefire on behalf of all the Palestinian organizations conditional on Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza within a week. A few minutes later, two rockets exploded in two kibbutzim near the Gaza border, topping 15 fired earlier at Sderot, Ashkelon, Eshkol, Ashdod and Kiryat Gat.DEBKAfile‘s military sources report that armed Hamas units are moving to take control of the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces withdraw.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2009
19th January, 2009
Senior Hamas official Ismail Haniya explains why the Israeli offensive into Gaza was a failure for Tel Aviv and a victory for Palestinians.
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009
18th January, 2009
See also:
https://inthesenewtimes.com/2009/01/16/qatar-mauritania-suspend-ties-with-israel/
Can you imagine that even some Palestinians [or better to use Fatah in today’s terms] are saying:
Qatar is playing with fire, the Emir [of Qatar] crossed all the red lines.
Do you really want to see the outrage of the pro-Israel alliance? Then see this report on Al-Hariri newspaper Al-Mustaqbal saying:
The axis of resistance is a lie… the true name is “axis of Iran”.
I don’t know, how Hariri will explain this to the Emir of Qatar in the future?
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009
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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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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009
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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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Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2009
A protester cries during a London protest as pro-Palestine emotions ran high.
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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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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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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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Posted by alfied on January 17, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2009
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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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