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Dear Readers,
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Yours,
Shadi
On Shabbat, Settlers Escalate attaks on Palestinians and Internationals
Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) celebrated the shabbat yesterday by attacking several Palestinian children and international supporters. During the attacks, one 15 year old Palestinian was kicked, one 13 year old was punched in the face, and a 7 year old was kicked.
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/07/16/attacksrocks/
Palestinian elderly woman killed by Israeli shells in Rafah
A Palestinian medical source in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Sunday that an elderly woman died when an Israeli shells blasted near her house.
http://imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20059&Itemid=1
Report: 92 Palestinians killed, 326 injured, in last ten days of Israeli attacks on Gaza
Khaled Radhi, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, on Saturday announced that the Israeli invasion and the relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip have resulted in 92 Palestinians killed and 326 others wounded, many in critical condition, over the past ten days, as well as the destruction of a number of government buildings and all the power plants in Gaza.
http://imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20062&Itemid=1
Israel brings Hamas ministers, lawmakers to trial
Four Palestinian ministers of the Hamas-led government and 16 Hamas lawmakers will stand trial on Sunday before an Israeli military court.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4840825.htm
Detainees in Shatta on Hunger Strike for the fourth day
Palestinian detainees in Shatta Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day in protest to the bad living conditions and bad treatment they face. Head of the Tulkarem office of the Palestinian Prisoners society, Halima Parmalat, said on Saturday that the detainees conducted their strike after the Israeli soldiers broke into their room and attacks them using batons.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20053&Itemid=1
Israeli tanks are back in Gaza Strip
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has killed some 85 people. -- Israeli forces clashed with militants in Gaza on Sunday as tanks moved back into the north of the Strip on an offensive that has continued even as fighting with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas opened a second front.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/81F0A8E7-6FEC-468B-8F97-67A9C9C33B4E.htm
Hamas calls on captors to keep captive soldier alive
"The life of the soldier must be maintained before the enemy meet humanitarian and polit ical demands of the Palestinian people," said Salah Bardaweel, spokesman for Hamas parliamentary bloc. He said that prisoner swap was the only way toward the release of the Israeli soldier.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4841471.htm
Palestinian militants launch rockets at southern Israel
Since Sunday predawn, the border town of Biet Hanoun witnessed ongoing clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants after the Israeli army moved into the area. Three Palestinians were killed in the standoff.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4840609.htm
Palestinian Scholars League condemns Arab silence in the face of Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member, Sheikh Hamid Al-Betawi and head of Palestine Scholars League, has condemned the Arab silence towards the escalation of Israeli force attacks against Palestine and Lebanon. In a statement on Saturday, Sheikh Hamid also condemned those Arab countries that had criticised, what he called, " the honorable operations that Hezbollah has started.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=13265
Abbas calls on G8 for interference in Mideast crisis
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sent an urgent letter on Sunday to the current G8 summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, calling for interference in Israeli military escalation in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4841182.htm
Lebanon accuses Israel of using forbidden weapons
Lebanese cabinet said Sunday thatthe country faced "real annihilation," and accused Israel of using internationally prohibited weapons against Lebanon, Lebanese Future TV reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4840895.htm
IDF to step up bombing in Lebanon
Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the Israel Defense Forces last night to step up the rate of attacks against Lebanon. His orders were issued close to the time when Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Siniora made a national address and called for an immediate cease-fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=738729
Confrontation just starting: Hizbollah
"As long as the enemy pursues its aggression without limits and red lines we will pursue the confrontation without limits and without red lines," Nasrallah said. "The enemy doesn't know our capabilities or what we have."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060716/wl_nm/mideast_lebanon_nasrallah_dc_2
What Israel wants: Explaining Jewish army's return to Gaza
"Anybody who calls this operation disproportionate has no clue about the facts on the ground. We have been attacked and bombarded for months and weeks," Yitzhak Herzog, the Israeli cabinet secretary said commenting on increasing international concern over the Israeli invasion and the subsequent high death toll.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/July/opinion_July46.xml§ion=opinion&col=
Operation Peace for the IDF
The real appreciation is for the strong who don't immediately use their strength. Regrettably, the Israel Defense Forces once again looks like the neighborhood bully. A soldier was abducted in Gaza? All of Gaza will pay. Eight soldiers are killed and two abducted to Lebanon? All of Lebanon will pay. One and only one language is spoken by Israel, the language of force.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738739.html
UN rejects Lebanese call to intervene in conflict with Israel
U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday repeated that Israel had the right to defend itself in the Middle East, but did not back Lebanese calls for an immediate cease-fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=738922
Arab League chief Amr Moussa says Middle East peace process is 'dead'
"The Middle East peace process has failed. The whole process should now be sent back to the Security Council for a complete overhaul," said Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa. "We are going to the Security Council - this is a unanimous position - to discuss the whole situation from scratch," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738712.html
Strikes Are Called Part of Broad Strategy
The real appreciation is for the strong who don't immediately use their strength. Regrettably, the Israel Defense Forces once again looks like the neighborhood bully. A soldier was abducted in Gaza? All of Gaza will pay. Eight soldiers are killed and two abducted to Lebanon? All of Lebanon will pay. One and only one language is spoken by Israel, the language of force.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500957_pf.html
Destroying the 'Bridges' of Negotiations
Israel has launched an all-out war on Lebanon that is as massive as the 1982 incursion. It goes without saying that such a wide-scale war must have had the US green light. However, no matter how much US officials try to justify this war by calling it a reaction, in accordance with Israeli logic, what is happening on the ground is much more than that. This is not the first time that the US administration has taken a step, regardless of the consequences, which further complicates the situation. This has happened in Iraq and Palestine
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/07-2006/Article-20060715-7174bfc0-c0a8-10ed-01ce-4de80346636a/story.html
We deserve the Qassams and the Katyushas
The kidnapping of the soldiers was practically obligatory from someone who understands that "deterrence," a much-favored term used by many Israelis, was a kind of self-delusion, largely virtual, and that Israeli prisoners, for those who swore they would "not get down on the knees," are worth a few hundred terrorists.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738737.html
500 Israelis injured since fighting began
About 700 Katyusha rockets fired at Israel, 500 citizens injured, four killed since fighting in northern border began. Home Front Command prepares for worst scenario – rockets reaching center of Israel; Lebanese report of more than 100 killed, hundreds wounded in IDF strikes
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3276249,00.html
IAF strike kills 5 Lebanese-Canadians in south Lebanon
An Israel Air Force aircraft late Sunday destroyed a house in a south Lebanon village on Sunday, killing eight civilians, including five with dual Canadian and Lebanese citizenship, a health ministry official said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738699.html
Parents of kidnapped soldiers demand answers
The families of the soldiers captured on the Lebanese border are demanding to know what diplomatic moves are afoot to free the soldiers - and whether a prisoner exchange is in the cards. Addressing the media for the first time on Friday evening, the families urged the government "not to forget the abducted soldiers"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=738752
G-8: Israel has right to self-defense, must exercise restraint
In their statement, the G-8 leaders called for the Israel Defense Forces soldiers abducted in Gaza and Lebanon to be released unharmed; the shelling of Israeli territory to end; IDF military operations to cease and forces to withdraw from Gaza; and for arrested Palestinian ministers and legislators to be released.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/739021.html
Children die in convoy attack as Israel widens Lebanon assault
Israel steeply escalated its military campaign against Hizbollah in Lebanon yesterday with a series of air strikes that left more than 35 civilians dead, including a single strike on a convoy of families fleeing the fighting in a village near Tyre in the south of the country that killed more than 20 people, most of them children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1821726,00.html
Eight killed as Hezbollah rockets slam into Haifa
Police reported a total of 53 injuries in Haifa and its immediate surroundings. Rambam Medical Center in Haifa said it had received 27 patients, three injured seriously, two moderately and and the rest lightly. Following the strike, Israel Railways announced it was halting all train traffic north of Binyamina. Following the rocket strike, authorities closed the Haifa port and diverted ships to the Ashdod port.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738747.html
Mubarak: Egypt persuaded Israel against land attack on Beirut
"Egypt was keen not to let the Israelis into Beirut," Mubarak told reporters Sunday after talks with the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayid al-Nuhayyan. "If we hadn't stepped in, Beirut would have been destroyed," Mubarak said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738749.html
Italian planes evacuate 350 European nationals from Lebanon
Italian military planes evacuated 350 people to Cyprus Sunday as Western countries stepped up efforts to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon amid continued Israel Defense Forces bombardment.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738701.html
US readies plans to evacuate citizens stranded in Lebanon
The US State Department on its website in Beirut wrote that advance security and planning teams are already on the ground in Lebanon to help plan for a mass exodus of US nationals.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060716/pl_afp/mideastunrestusisrael_060716162302
The Road to War
There were many funerals last week, and this weekend there were more. At least 13 Lebanese villagers, including women and children, were killed yesterday in an Israeli air strike on a convoy of vehicles evacuating a village near the southern border. And few expect the funerals to stop soon.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1821635,00.html |
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