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THE 3rd DAY
ISRAEL: STILL SHOOTING
BUT NOT MOVING
(Today's headline in CNN World News Asia, midday edition)
First of all some summaries about the latest developments in the last 24 hours:
| Government orders freeze on IDF operation in north Gaza | |
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| Mubarak: Hamas offers terms for soldier's release |
(Haaretz, Israel, reported in the morning)
Read the full text here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732506.html
The Guardian, GB, published following in the midday(local time, CET):
Hope for captive as Gaza bombing goes on 
Officials inspect the damage to the Palestinian interior ministry building following
Israeli air strikes on Gaza city. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Jets and helicopters fired missiles at government buildings and roads while the army fired hundreds of artillery shells at northern Gaza. Israeli jets caused sonic booms over Gaza City through the night and morning.
Israeli officials said that military operations were continuing to maintain pressure on Palestinians holding Corporal Gilad Shalit, although a plan to take over the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza had been postponed.
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, said in a newspaper interview that Hamas had given conditional approval for the release of the 19-year-old soldier. He said that Israel had not yet agreed to the conditions, which he did not stipulate.
Cpl Shalit is believed to be in the custody of militants of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees, who are demanding that Israel free Palestinian prisoners in return for his release.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, said: "We are talking to the international community, such as the European Union and Egypt. If we can achieve the release of our soldier through international intervention, then we can de-escalate the situation."
He said that Israel's limited military action was an important factor in diplomatic activity. "We waited a full three days before we moved. Our limited operations have augmented the chances of success of diplomacy."
Israel has massed troops and armour in and around Gaza, carried out scores of air raids and fired hundreds of artillery shells. One man, a member of Islamic Jihad, has been killed and several people have received light injuries. However, the entire population of Gaza has been subjected to electricity cuts, fuel shortages and the constant threat of violence.
Since Sunday, Israel has closed all the terminals that supply Gaza with food and goods. John Ging, the Gaza operations director for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides services for refugees in Gaza, said that his organisation had stockpiled food in recent weeks and had reserves to last a couple of weeks.
"The main problem is fuel and electricity. We have limited reserves of fuel and we are facing increasing demands for the little we have. Fuel is needed for generators to power hospitals and water and sewage pumps. The electricity cuts are causing real hardship," he said.
Mr Regev said that Israeli action was also aimed at harassing Hamas and preventing the firing of homemade Qassam rockets at Israel. "There was a long period of time when Hamas was not involved in hands-on terrorism and we did not target them. If they are going to get back into terrorism, we have every right to respond," he said.
Israel today revoked the right of four prominent members of Hamas to live in Jerusalem. The four, Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs, and three Palestinian legislative council members, Mohammed Abu Teir, Ahmed Abu Atoun and Mohammed Totach, were among the 64 Hamas members arrested yesterday.
Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, which was annexed by Israel in 1967, have many of the same rights as other Israelis but are not citizens and do not vote in Israeli elections. The removal of the men's residency right means they and their family will be in effect exiled in the West Bank.
Israel also fired missiles at the individual offices of Hamas officials of the interior ministry in Gaza City. Senior members of Hamas have been in hiding for most of the week, fearing that Israel will assassinate them as it did with two other Hamas leaders, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, in 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1809847,00.html
Hamas says Israel is out to destroy its administration
In Gaza, Shelter Sought (Washington Post)
Just a short while ago Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth reported this(its includes a video report about last night's attack against the ministry of the Interior in Gaza City):
Haniyeh: We won't fall
Palestinian prime minister says in Gaza, 'when they kidnapped ministers they meant to hijack government's position, but we say no positions will be hijacked, no governments will fall'
In his first public address since Israel began its offensive into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday said his government would not cave into Israeli demands but said he was working hard to end a five-day-old crisis with Israel.
Though Haniyeh did not directly address Israel's demand that Palestinian militants hand over an abducted Israeli soldier, he implied that the government would not trade him for eight Cabinet ministers and 56 other Hamas officials arrested on Thursday.
"When they kidnapped the ministers they meant to hijack the government's position, but we say no positions will be hijacked, no governments will fall," he said. ..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3269456,00.html
I think there will be no more news anymore today, because the entire Friday for the (muslim) Palestinians is holiday and in Israel right now the Shabbath is beginning..
IDF is shelling the north of Gaza
One of the resultsof IAF attacks: the Ministry of Interior was hit last night
As usual: crowds are gathering at the scene..
Burning ministry..
Since two nights: living without electricity..
Perhaps tomorrow I'll write down some of my thoughts about the current "crisis" there..
LATEST "NEWS":
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel the Al Aqsa Brigades (a part of Abbas' Fatah) boasted themselves today with a new kidnapping of a Israeli soldier in the West Bank..
But actually especially Isreali sources didn't confirm it until now. Just two days ago Al Aqsa Brigades announced a similar thing... but in fact it was just empty prattle. The problem (or perhaps better said the luck): sometimes the Palestinian "resistance fighters" can't differentiate between their wishes and the reality.. Hopefully today it is the same!
Ynet news ticker right now is writing: "The Israel Defense Forces is looking into a claim made by a group belonging to the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades that its people have abducted an IDF soldiers in the West Bank area.
IDF officials said that there was no official confirmation of the Palestinian report at this stage, but the issue was being checked. Senior al-Aqsa members told Ynet that they were not aware of a soldier being kidnapped by the organization."
Already yesterday(6.29) the German(bourgeois) magazine Der Spiegel published following article:
"There Will be More Abductions"
As Israel worries about the well-being of a soldier held hostage in the Gaza Strip, an abducted Jewish settler in the West Bank has been found dead in Ramallah. Have militant Palestinians decided to copy the tactics used by Islamic extremists in Iraq? A visit with Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Brigade.
The office in Ramallah is sparsely furnished and unmarked outside. But the space on the seventh floor of this building in the center of the West Bank town belongs to Hamas. Over the past six months -- since the militant Islamic group took power over the Palestinian Authority -- it was possible to meet smiling and smirking Hamas politicians here, patting each other on the backs because they had finally come to power.
But these days, the situation is different. The tired eyes of Ziad Dayeh, a Hamas spokesman, are proof he hasn't gotten much sleep lately. He's been left to handle the group's PR efforts alone following Israel's arrest of two dozen Hamas parliamentarians. "Hamas isn't responsible for this escalation," he claims. "It's not our fault that Israel wasn't prepared from the outset to pay a price for the release of this soldier."
What the spokesman is trying to play down is actually an act of psychological and physical brutality. After two of his companions were killed, Palestinian militants kidnapped a 19-year-old Israeli corporal. For his freedom they demanded the release of some 300 Palestinians women and youths allegedly held in Israeli jails. A deal that Israel's government quickly rejected, even though such prisoner exchanges have taken place in the past. According to the Palestinians, some 12,000 of their people are held in Israeli custody.
Since the incident, the turbulent Middle East has become even more violent. The Israeli army has already moved into the Gaza Strip. Many in the region are asking whether militant Palestinians have developed a horrible new strategy after watching terrorists in Iraq carry out countless kidnappings. Such abductions have so far been rare in Israel and the West Bank. But on Thursday morning, the body of an Israeli settler who had been kidnapped was found in Ramallah. A group called the Popular Resistance Committees said the settler had been "executed," borrowing similar terminology used by Islamists in Iraq.
Two abductions only a few days apart have sparked concerns of a new form of terrorism. Hamas spokesman Dayeh, however, finds nothing wrong with the new tactics. "It's our right!" he says, rationalizing it with a claim that the Israeli army abducts people all the time. It certainly is true that Israeli commandos carry out raids and frequently arrest militant Palestinians by the dozens, holding them for months or longer without charges. But Dayeh won't accept the difference that the Palestinian "hostages" aren't killed in cold blood.
Kidnapping terror
Israel has traditionally been prepared to suffer heavy losses when its security is at stake -- just like the Palestinians. But a living hostage is a traumatic affair. No Israeli who has ever been abducted by Palestinian terrorists -- regardless whether by Hezbollah or leftist Palestinian nationalists -- has ever survived. That goes a long way toward explaining why Israel has threatened to retaliate hard to either free the hostage or extract revenge.
"We aren't afraid," say three young men on the main street of Ramallah. Bombings. Tanks. Curfews. "We've seen it all before and survived," the men, named al-Rahman, Thair and Wisam, say. They justify the kidnappings and murders with the same argument as that of the Hamas-led government, even though they themselves support the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas. Abductions of Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers in the occupied territories are fine, they argue, but not other civilians or foreigners like in Iraq. "That is forbidden, cowardly and inhumane. But everything else is part of our right to armed resistance."
Such kidnappings might even be organized in the future by a man who calls himself Abd al-Salam. Thin and in his mid-thirties, he's dressed in a white polo shirt and drives a white Fiat Uno. "There will be more of these kinds of abductions," the mid-level member of the al-Aqsa Brigade, the militant wing of Fatah, says. "We have also taken setters as hostages and killed them," he says, referring to the alleged death of a 62-year-old man from Tel Aviv. Israeli authorities claim the man died of natural causes. "They're just trying to calm their people -- pure propaganda," says the Palestinian militiaman.
"You could say we've developed a new tactic," says al-Salam, adding that abductions in the West Bank are likely to become more frequent. Over 100,000 Jewish settlers live in the occupied territories -- handy living targets for militants. Following the deaths of a dozen Palestinian civilians recently, many are ready to extract revenge. "We are sick of it, we must avenge ourselves," says al-Salam, adding that if kidnappings are so painful for the Israelis, the Palestinians should have started doing it earlier.
The scenario of mass kidnappings is the "ultimate nightmare of the Israeli army," according to Israel's press. In the worst case scenario, it could escalate the crisis in the Middle East as the advent of suicide bombings once did. But at the moment, it's impossible to tell whether the militants are simply using the threat of abductions as propaganda. They certainly aren't supported by Palestinian leaders. Both President Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh are opposed to taking hostages. As is the majority of the Palestinian population. "These idiots," complains an auto mechanic named Salih. "Now the West will think we're just brutal terrorists."
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And when I read/understand it well - just now IDF is intensifying its killing operations in Gaza.. And this might be (unfortunately) really true..
THE 2nd DAY..
Settler teen’s body found in Ramallah
(Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth today morning, CET)
IDF finds body of 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri in Ramallah; teen was kidnapped earlier in week by Popular Resistance Committees..
IDF soldiers discovered early Thursday the body of 18-year-old Itamar settler Eliyahu Asheri in Ramallah’s Tira neighborhood.
At around 5 a.m. Itamar settlement spokesman Rabbi Avi Ronsky informed the teen's parents that their son's body was found...
Wednesday’s arrest and interrogation of a senior Fatah member suspected of murdering Asheri led security forces to the body. The investigation revealed that the teen was shot in his head from short range...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268843,00.html
PRC: Kidnapping settler teen was easy
Spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committee says Eliyahu Asheri’s abduction, execution proves 'Israel’s security is paper tiger'; adds: Teen killed when Gaza offensive launched. We will kidnap and kill you and burn the earth beneath you. We promise to drown you in fear and terror,' spokesman says..
“We promise that this will not be our last attempt,” Abu Abir declared. “Operation ‘Cavaliers’ Wrath’ is continuing and there will be more kidnappings. I promise Olmert and Peretz that when they spill Palestinian blood, our only response is through our operation: We will kidnap and kill you and burn the earth beneath you. We promise to drown you in fear and terror.”...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3269003,00.html
Al-Aqsa Brigades: We're preparing deathtraps for IDF (Ynet)
While IDF is warming up the engines ahead of its entrance to northern Gaza, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member says: 'We are preparing suicide bombers, car bombs, explosive devices, tunnels, and booby trapped donkey'..
At a joint press conference held by armed organizations, the groups announced their joint preparations in order to repel the IDF operation.
They said that Israeli side should expect surprised and unprecedented resistance, which will cause many casualties among IDF soldiers...
..Palestinian fighters will use massive amounts of rockets and mortars against the IDF forces that will advance towards them. "We will use tonight and in coming days in weapons and rockets that have not yet been operationally used. The Israelis won't know from where they are being it. Northern Gaza will turn into one large cemetery for the invaders. We also commit to carry on firing rockets on Sderot and Ashkelon during the Israeli operation."
Both sides still ready for the final clash
Israelis batter Gaza and seize Hamas officials
(IHT/NYT)
Peretz: No Hamas member immune
(Ynet)
In the early morning: IDF arrested 64 Hamas cabinet ministers,
lawmakers and activists in the West Bank
Abducted West Bank Settler Found Dead
(Washington Post)
Israel denies tactical role of arrests
(Al Jazeera)
Israel rounds up Hamas politicians
(Guardian)
Gaza: Air strike targets senior terrorist
(Ynet)
Palestinian Militants Blow Hole in Wall
(AP)
Defense Minister okays next stages of Gaza raids (Haaretz)
Defense Minister Amir Peretz authorized the next stages of the Israel Defense Forces' incursion into Gaza, and ordered troops to monitor the humanitarian situation in the Strip.
Peretz told the defense establishment that despite the diplomatic standstill, a breakthrough was still possible in Israel's efforts to to pressure Palestinian militants into releasing the IDF soldier seized in an attack on a military position near the Gaza border...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732506.html
IDF delays entry into northern Strip
Soldiers stationed in field informed on cancellation of operation planned for Thursday night. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convenes security consultation; decision to delay entry to northern Strip possibly related to diplomatic efforts
Chance for diplomacy?
Following the entry of the Israel Defense Forces into the southern Gaza Strip, IDF soldiers stationed in the field were informed that the entry into the northern Strip has been postponed. The entry planned for the later hours of Thursday evening has been cancelled for now.
The decision was made following a security consultation held by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv and is possibly related to the tendency to give the diplomatic efforts one last chance.
However, any security escalation, such as the firing of Qassam rockets, or any other incident in which Israelis are hurt, may lead to a change in plans.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said earlier that "we are now in one of the most significant moments in terms of determining the rules of the game between us and the terror groups in the Palestinian Authority in the near future."...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3269183,00.html
Israel puts off further Gaza incursion
(Al Jazeera)
Meanwhile during the afternoon Palestinian Information Center, close to Hamas, reported this:
IOF invasion of Gaza escalates as Qassam Brigades fire back at IOF positions
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BTW.. around noon Haaretz reported that several Qassam rockets were shot in the direction of Sderoth. Actually without any real result. But the report said also that Al Aqsa Bigades(a part of Fatah, Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas is the boss of Fatah) announced that the group for the first time was using "chemical war heads". "Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades sources claimed Thursday they fired a rocket with a chemical warhead at Israel. The IDF said they did not identify an impact of any such rocket nor was there even evidence of a launch.", according to Haaretz.
A little earlier Haaretz new ticker quoted S. Erekat, one of the Palestinian top politicians: "We have no government, we have nothing!". Already yesterday morning in a telephone interview with BBC World he was screaming "War crime, crime against humanity.."... and until that time, even not until now, no Palestinian was injured or killed. What he will say when IDF really will commit war crimes(I'm 100 per cent sure, if the invasion will continue the Israeli military will commit war crimes!!!)? Perhaps then he will scream "GENOCIDE"
A WAR, CALLED "SUMMER RAIN"
While the main German newspapers this morning(local time/CET) were headlining "HAMAS IS RECOGNIZING ISRAEL", IDF was already crossing the border to Gaza to launch the operation called "Summer Rain".
How not other to expect IDF last night moved into the territory of Gaza. Now, after they bombed last night three bridges(to split Gaza in two parts) and the power plant, about 5,000 Israeli troops, including hundreds of tanks are stying two KM inside the southern part of Gaza and waiting for further orders.
Palestinian fighters, there are ten thousands in arms, already yesterday were building roadbolcks(but it seems more like sandbox games..) and promised "bloody resistance", but until now no real resistance was happen..
Right now, only few minutes ago, CNN reported that IAF was attacking a Hamas training camp.
Ok, here the latest news by international and Israeli agencies/newspapers:
Israel enters Gaza
Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday June 28, 2006
The Guardian 
A Palestinian boy walks over a bridge destroyed by an Israeli missile in the Gaza Strip.
Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
As tension mounted in Gaza, the Israeli army introduced checkpoints in the West Bank, fearing an 18-year-old man had also been abducted there. The Israeli police said today they still had no proof that Eliyahu Asheri had been kidnapped despite not being seen since Sunday.
A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees told al-Jazeera satellite TV that the group was holding Mr Asheri, who is from the West Bank settlement of Itamar. The spokesman, known as Abu Abir, said the man would be "butchered in front of TV cameras" if Israel did not stop its raid on the Gaza Strip.
Mr Asheri was last seen at a Jerusalem hitchhiking stop used by settlers heading into the West Bank. News agencies were told of the kidnapping by militants on Monday and his family called police about his disappearance yesterday.
The three bridges destroyed in the air strikes were the main links between north and south Gaza, crossing the Wadi Gaza, a valley filled with untreated sewage.
Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over Gaza several times, causing sonic booms. An Israeli army spokeswoman said: "During the night, the Israeli airforce hit three bridges in central Gaza and a power station south of Gaza City. Israeli forces entered the south of Gaza near the village of Dahaniya and the airport and they remain there at the moment."
She said the operations were designed to stop the kidnappers moving the soldier. However, security sources told Israeli media that the attacks were also motivated by revenge. "To exact a price for the kidnapping incident and to restore deterrence," one official told the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Aronoth.
The army was positioned about a mile from Rafah, the southern Gaza town that has witnessed much fighting in recent years. Residents living close to the town's outskirts fled their homes as militants began laying explosive devices and making barriers in anticipation of a full invasion.
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said Israel's military action had only just begun. "We won't hesitate to carry out extreme action to bring Gilad back to his family," he said. "We do not intend to reoccupy Gaza. We do not intend to stay there. We have one objective, and that is to bring Gilad home."
Speaking at an awards ceremony at his residence in Jerusalem, Mr Olmert insisted Israel would not negotiate for the soldier's release.
Security officials are debating the next step. Options include kidnapping an important Palestinian leader or assassinating Hamas leaders.
Haim Ramon, the justice minister, said Israel would try to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas leader based in Damascus, who Israel believes gave the order for the kidnapping. "He is definitely in our sights ... he is a target," Mr Ramon told Army Radio.
Mr Mashaal has always been an Israeli target. In 1997, Israeli agents injected poison in his ear in Amman but were caught by Jordanian police. Israel was forced to send a doctor with the antidote to Amman and free dozens of Palestinian prisoners including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader later assassinated by Israel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1807825,00.html
PHOTOS: Troops Move Into Palestinian Territories
Israel Launches Military Operation in Gaza Strip
(Washington Post)
Israeli troops move into Gaza
(IHT/NYT)
Israel launches Gaza offensive
(Al Jazeera)
Please check out also the Israeli media, such as
Haaretz
Jerusalem Post
Yedioth Ahronoth
..for the latest news on the battle field.
Meanwhile Arab activists opened a new front-line:
Major Israeli websites hacked
More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers
Unprecedented number of Israeli websites hacked: Hundreds of websites were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following IDF activity in the Gaza Strip. The hackers are members of the Moroccan “Team Evil” group, responsible for most of the website damage in Israel in the past year. This is the largest, most concentrated attack on Israeli websites in recent years.
A Ynet investigation revealed that more than 750 Israeli websites, on a number of different domains, were hacked into and damaged in recent days. Prominent among them were the Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Bank Hapoalim (not the main page), Rambam Hospital, the Society for Culture and Housing, BMW Israel, Subaru Israel, Jump Fashion, non-profit organization “Yedid,” Kadima’s youth website, and the Globus Group ticket center. Many of these sites have not yet returned to normal..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268449,00.html
The IDF, ready to take "extreme actions"(E. Olmert)
BBC World:
Israel warns of 'extreme' action
Hamas official: We'll kidnap more soldiers
If Israelis do not negotiate a prisoner swap, Palestinians militants will conclude that they should capture more IDF soldiers or "kill soldiers even if they have the opportunity to capture them,"...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732368.html
IDF: Green light to enter northern Gaza
Forces stationed in Strip receive approval to continue operation; entry expected to be slower, more complex, mainly due to terror cells' resistance
Green light to continue operation: The Israel Defense Forces received a green light to expand Operation Summer Rains in the Gaza Strip.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz approved the plans presented to him by the army. The next stage of the operation, which began Tuesday night, will include an entry into the northern Gaza Strip and taking hold of central posts...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268715,00.html
IDF operates in Ramallah in search of news on
missing teen
The Israel Defense Forces operated in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday in an attempt to obtain information on the fate of abducted Itamar settler Eliyahu Asheri.
PRC member presents picture of Eliyahu Asheri's ID card
Later in the day the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militant group declared they were holding an Israeli man. If the declaration were true, this would be the third kidnapping of an Israeli by Palestinians since Sunday.
The group said it was holding a 62-year-old Israeli from the central city of Rishon Lezion.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/731937.html
The very, nery latest news (pm 8:00 CET):
BREAKING NEWS (CNN)
Israeli warplanes flew over home of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, Israeli officials say..
(btw.. its not really clear, if this is true..)
Well, just few minutes later Israeli sources confirmed it:
IAF: Aerial flight over Assad's palace
While ground forces launch Gaza operation, Air Force conveys harsh message to Syrian president in aerial flight over his palace; Israel points finger at Syria as sponsor of Hamas leaders, headed by Khaled Mashaal, who Israel views as directly responsible for Kerem Shalom operation
Message to Assad: While ground forces launched an operation in Gaza early Wednesday, four Israel Air Force F-16 aircrafts carried out an aerial flight over Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace, near the city of Latakia...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268747,00.html
Finally, I think, the time of "funny games" is over.. definitely!!
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PS: The German newpaper Tageszeitung(a little similar with Hankyoreh) wrote in its today's edition "despite the threat of a invasion by the IDF a clear majority(of the Palestinians in Gaza) is in solidarity with the kidnappers of the Israeli soldier"..
http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/28/a0170.1/text
To be updated as soon as there are more news available..
YES WAR! NO PEACE!
While Israeli tanks and troops massed near Gaza since yesterday for a threatened offensive against Palestinan militants the "resistance" organizations are preparing for a real war with the "zionist enemy". Actually it seems that some of this groups are just welcome the (likely) near confrontation with IDF. And some groups are possibly thinking that it might be a good idea to exacerbate the current already dangerous situation by announcing more (hopefully empty) threats, for example to use chemical weapons adainst Isreali targets. Meanwhile, according to Israeli and intl news agencies, the "Popular Resistance Committees" in the West Bank kidnapped yesterday a Israeli settler.
PFLP fighter in Gaza,
ready for WAR
Al-Aqsa Brigades: Chemical warfare if Israel invades Gaza
Fatah’s armed wing says it has developed biological, chemical weapons. ‘We say to Olmert, Peretz: Your threats of invasion do not frighten us. We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now,’ Al-Aqsa Brigades says
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, announced that it has developed biological and chemical weapons, Palestinian news agency Ramattan reported.
“With the help of Allah, we are pleased to say that we succeeded in developing over 20 different types of biological and chemical weapons,
this after a three-year effort,” the group said in a leaflet it has distributed. “We say to (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert and (Defense Minister Amir) Peretz: Your threats of invasion do not frighten us. We will surprise you with new weapons you have not faced until now. As soon as an IDF soldier sets foot on Gazan land, we will respond with a new weapon.”
The organization said it would not hesitate to use the substances, adding that they can be placed on rockets similar to those fired at Israeli communities surrounding Gaza.
“If Israel invades Gaza, we will declare open warfare without limits, as long as that is what the occupier wants,” the Brigades said.
The full article(in Yedioth Ahronoth) you'll find here:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3267293,00.html
Al-Aksa claims chemical capabilities (J'Post, 6.25)
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced on Sunday that its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons.
In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group, which belongs to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party, said the weapons were the result of a three-year effort..
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885848200&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
There are 200 "talkbacks", just check it our..
Here very latest news(by AP) about the situation on the ground:
Palestinians Brace for Israeli Invasion
Israeli Leader Vows 'Broad' Gaza Offensive
With troops poised to invade Gaza, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday ruled out bargaining with the captors of an Israeli soldier and promised a ``broad and ongoing'' military offensive...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5913843,00.html
Israel may assassinate Haniyeh (Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth)
Palestinian president warns Palestinian prime minister Israel may hurt him, other Hamas ministers if crisis around Israeli soldier's abduction is not resolved soon, al-Hayat newspaper reports; Palestinian security sources believe Israel will prefer to target senior Hamas members in Damascus..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3267935,00.html
Gaza Palestinians prepare for IDF invasion
Organizations' members erect roadblock on main roads overnight, in bid to stall army forces' advancement in Strip..
And so on, and so on..
IDF: ready for 'broad and ongoing' military offensive, ready for WAR
And here the very, very latest news (reported just few minutes ago):
Hamas-Fatah to Implicitly Recognize Israel
The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations meant to lift crippling international aid sanctions.
``We have an agreement over the document,'' said Ibrahim Abu Najah, coordination of the ``national dialogue'' over the proposal.
Moderate President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah has been trying to coax his Hamas rivals into endorsing the document, which calls for a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
He has endorsed the plan as a way to end crippling economic sanctions against the Hamas-led Palestinian government and pave the way to reopening peace talks with Israel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5914262,00.html
BTW.. dead "leaders", smashed organizations.. they will recognize nothing
and no one! Sorry..
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Of course you should also check out the other side of the "conflict":
For example..
Palestine Chronicle
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/
IslamOnline
Palestine Information Center
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/
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Harrharr.. The Beat Goes On..
PRC forms ‘abduction unit’
Operation 'Cavaliers' Wrath': After abducting IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and allegedly kidnapping teen settler Eliyahu Asheri, organization threatens to continue: 'Our goal is to imprint in the Israeli consciousness that regardless even of more Palestinian deaths, the resistance will continue'
A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Abir, told Ynet on Tuesday that that his organization has formed special units in the West Bank whose sole purpose is to kidnap soldiers and settlers..
.."Our goal it to imprint the message in the Israeli consciousness that regardless of more Palestinian deaths, the resistance will continue to strike at you, until the occupation ends."..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268219,00.html
(I know, there is nothing funny.. Once again: SORRY!)
22 DAYS OF HUNGER STRIKE
by MOON JEONG-HEON
| 문정현 신부 단식 21일 만에 마무리 |
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"평택 주민들의 아픔을 호소하고 싶었다"
(Voice of People/민중의소리) |
For more infos pleae check out:
Right now, but one year ago, we - dozens of migrant worker activists, our Korean supporters and MWTV staff(..me^^) - were sitting in a restaurant near Kyobo B/D, in the center of Seoul, after we finished two rallies/demonstrations.
The first event was, in the early afternoon, the MTU(Migrant Workers Trade Union) rally in Myeong-dong where hundreds of migrants, Korean workers and students protested against the ongoing policy of manhunt and mass-deportation by the S. Korean govt against migrant workers in general and against the kidnapping and imprisonment, in the month before, of Anwar Hossein("Anwar-wiweonjang"), the chairperson of MTU.
About two hours later or so we joined the anti-war rally in Daehak-no and the following demonstration to Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul, aimed on one side against the collaboration of S. Korean troops in the ongoing war in Iraq. On the other side the rally/demo should remember the death of the S. Korean citizen Kim Seon-il who was kidnapped and later beheaded by Al Qaeda in Iraq one year ago(2004). Ha, here one of our representative, who held the speech on the opening rally called Kim Seon-il a S. Korean "migrant worker" in Iraq...^^ Btw.. on this rally/demo, when I remember well, much more people participated as on the event what was held two days ago(6.24) in Seoul..
Actually both rallies/demos were the last of such events I was able to join in S. Korea..
And it was also the last time for me that I was sitting together with many of my comrades to have a kind of after-demo-"party".
uhuu.. it's very strange for me to remember.. I miss everything..
More pictures about both demos you can see here:
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?pid=207
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?pid=209
Here:
in MWTV 4th edition(in the first third of the entire broadcasting) you can watch some of my (video) shots I did during this events. But actually I wasn't able to edit the stuff/complete my planned documentary.. and so you see mainly stuff what I never wanted to use..
Here just some impressions..
Sorry, but I don't know what was really going on y'day there. Well, actually since years I'm demanding to get informations.. NO WAY! Only when I was joining the stuff by myself I was able to report about it - and(of course^^) when I was in "duty" I was reporting about our latest activities as soon as possible, mainly at least in the early morning of the following day..
But today.. perhaps the comrades, who are in "duty", don't think that it is necessary to inform the public about our activities..
Wow, but a lot of representatives of the KTX struggle/strike group(2nd pic) joined the rally/demo!!
Source: 김지태(다함께)
..fragments..
Germany:
While "Germany is celebrating - dancing - and winning"(Der Spiegel, 6.25), the media there is writing that the "entire nation is euphorically celebrating the 2006 World Cup(WC)", govt and capitalists are celebrating "happy cuts" in the social services and kicking out thousands of workers out of their jobs... without any resistance from the side of the oppressed/expolited class. For example Allianz, this company is also active in S.K., made in the last years massive profits, announced in the last week that they will kick out about 7,000 workers in the next time.
Already some days ago several representatives of the German govt were "joking" that it would be good when it would be possible to extend the WC, because it would be a great opportunity to "modernize" (like that the ruling class is calling the destruction of the social system..).
The War In Iraq:
"We already spent $ 750,000,000,000(three-quarter trillion) for the war in Iraq.. on the end it will be more than one trillion $", Larry Wilkerson, ex chief of staff in the US foreign ministry(Berliner Zeitung, 6.24).
Many countries in Africa or Asia cold nourish their population for decades if they had this money. Or for example the DPRK would be able to re-construct the entire country within ten years or so (of course without to spend money for the military and the ruling class).
S. Korea/Anti-War Movement:
Despite the announcement of countries like Italy or Japan - Japan already started yesterday - to withdraw its troops from Iraq, the S.K. made it clear in the last week that its troops will stay there. The majority of the S.K. pupulation is against the collaboration in Iraq..
Seoul says its troops will stay in Iraq (Hankyoreh)
But more and more the S.K. anti-war movement is unable to bring the masses on the streets to protest the S.K. military collaboration in Iraq. Before yesterday(maximally) 500 people, according to Voice of the People, demonstrated against the ongoing war in Iraq and the presence of S.K. troops there. (^^allone in Seoul, where the demo took place, are living roughly 12 million people.. and organizations such as KCTU or DLP with thousands of members, they were calling for the demo, .......)
Philippines..
..bans death penalty.
Actally a good news.. But on the other side: allone since Arroyo is in power(in 2001) - hundreds of left activists, journalists, farmers..- were killed by death squads with, at least, connections to(or in collaboration with) the military. According to the human right org. Karapatan, around 680 people were murdered by death squads in the last 5 years.
Please check out more here:
http://www.philonline.com.ph/~krptn/index.html
http://www.philippinerevolution.org
Filipino journalists bite the bullet (Asia Times, HK/China)
And last but not least..
Before y'day, perhaps, the "real funny" part of 2006 WC was beginning(here in Stuttgart).
ATTACK->COUNTER ATTACK->ATTACK TO COUNTER THE COUNTER ATTACK..
..and so on, and so on..
Since today morning(CET) Isreali and intl news agencies are perorting about following new developments in the PA - Israel "relationship". And it seems that the new round of escalation is just in the beginning..
Ynet/Yedioth Ahronoth reported just a short while ago:
Gaza: 2 troops killed, 1 kidnapped
Terror cell infiltrates Israel from southern Gaza Strip, abducts soldier out of tank; initial inquiry reveals terrorists arrived at IDF post through tunnel, fired anti-tank missile at soldiers, activated explosive device
The IDF .. will recommend the government to launch a large-scale operation in Gaza in wake of the incident
Day of battle in Gaza Strip: A soldier and a tank commander, a second lieutenant, were killed Sunday morning, and another soldier was kidnapped after a Palestinian terror cell launched a combined attack on an Israel Defense Forces post in the southern Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.
Several soldiers were lightly to moderately injured in the incident and were taken by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.
Following the incident, IDF forces entered areas in the southern Strip, where they are currently operating. Sources in the Strip reported that different elements, including some in Egypt and Jordan, are mediating between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through the Palestinian security organizations in a bid to find out what happened to the kidnapped soldier.
Gaza Operation
Sources in the government added that talks are being held in the European Union and in the United States in a bid to locate the missing soldier. Government officials refused to say whether the PA answered their calls.
The IDF Spokesperson's Office said: "The terror attack was led by senior Hamas members in the Gaza Strip and was approved by the Hamas leadership. The IDF views the incident with severity and sees the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government responsible for the terror attack and for the fate of the missing soldier."
Defense Minister Amir Peretz reported to the ministers during Sunday's cabinet meeting that the attack in Kerem Shalom was mainly implemented by "hurling grenades at a tank."
Peretz said that according to reports received by the defense establishment, the attack was carried out by Hamas.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his ministers that "Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) and (Palestinian Prime Minister) Ismail Haniyeh are the people responsible for the attack."
IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz held a meeting Sunday morning to asses the situation in southern Gaza. The IDF views the incident as extremely severe, and according to estimates, the army will recommend the government to launch a large-scale operation in Gaza in wake of the incident.
The well-planned attack on the post started, at 5:40 a.m., according to the IDF. Eight armed Palestinians infiltrated Israel through a tunnel leading from the Strip into Israel's territory, and split into three teams once they came out. One team approached an armored personnel carrier stationed at the place and fired at it. The APC was empty and no injuries were reported in that attack.
Another group simultaneously fired a missile and hurled grenades at a tank standing nearby. The missile hit the tank's rear, hurting the four soldiers that were inside. Two were immediately killed, a third soldier sustained injuries and the fourth was initially reported missing. As the incident developed, security officials came to believe that the soldier has been kidnapped.
During the attack, a third terrorist team moved in the direction of a desert patrol army post and engaged in a shooting battle with the soldiers. An explosive device was also activated at the place. Three soldiers sustained light-to-moderate injuries as a result of the blast, and some of the terrorists were hurt as well.
From the moment the incident was first reported of, the Southern Command and the General Staff have held constant meetings to evaluate the situation, headed by Army Chief Dan Halutz, in a bid to track down the cell behind the kidnapping and return the soldier to Israel.
At the initial stage, heavy equipment was deployed in the area where the incident occurred and where the tunnel was located, in order to try and uncover the terrorists' path. Large forces, including special units, have gone on a state of alert and are preparing to enter Rafah in a bid to locate the abducted soldier.
The IDF has also asked the Egyptian policemen stationed on the border to secure the area and make sure the terrorists don’t try and transfer the solider to Egypt.
While the army has not completed investigating the occurrences in Kerem Shalom, difficult questions arise regarding the way the terrorists managed to infiltrate Israel and carry out the attack. One of the main questions is whether the deployment of the forces in the area was adequate. It is also unclear why no forces provided covering fire for the tank and APC at the post.
Three organizations claim responsibility for operation
A Palestinian security official told Ynet that the terrorists who launched the attack Sunday morning arrived from Sinai and not from the Strip. According to the source, the fact that the attackers were armed and managed to enter the post without disruption testifies to the fact that they may have arrived from the Egyptian, not the Palestinian side.
Sources at the Popular Resistance Committees(PRC) claimed that organization members, along with gunmen from Hamas and a new organization called "Army of Islam," fired an anti-tank missile at an IDF post in the southern Strip and exchanged fire with the troops.
According to the PRC, "this is an operation of high quality, during which some of the people were parachuted close to the crossing."..
A source at the PRC defined the operation as "the ongoing illusion operation." According to the source, "the operation was aimed at making it clear that the Israeli security is an illusion. Israelis will have no security as long as the Palestinians have no security."
A spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, claimed that there were no Palestinian casualties in the operation. The spokesman, Abu Ubaidah, said that "all the fighters who took part in the operation returned to their bases alive."
Sources at the PRC said that "the operation was a response to the assassination of the organization's leader, Jamal Abu Samhadana , who was killed by the IDF earlier this month, and a response to the killing of head of the group's military wing, Khalil al-Quqa , who was assassinated by the IDF about three months ago."...
Please read the full article - remember this is "just" the Israeli point of view.. (here you find also a video and three links to related articles):
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266818,00.html#n
The so-called left-liberal Isrealy daily Haaretz wrote this:
Two soldiers killed, one kidnapped in raid on IDF post
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and another was kidnapped when Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups attacked an IDF post within Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip border, in the pre-dawn hours Sunday.
"IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Sunday afternoon that the kidnapped soldier was alive. "Hamas is involved in this matter from head to foot, literally," Halutz told a news conference.
The soldier is alive, and therefore they bear responsibility for his fate."
Shortly after the early morning attack, IDF tanks and troops entered Gaza near the site of the incident, an IDF position close to the Kerem Shalom crossing. Military sources said the incursion was part of a manhunt for the missing soldier.
The two soldiers were killed when an anti-tank missile was fired at the tank in which they were located. The missing soldier and another who was seriously wounded were also inside...
More here:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/730994.html
AP:
5 Dead After Militants Attack Israeli Post
Al Jazeera:
Israeli soldier missing after Gaza attack
And right now: IDF is striking back..
압둘 사쿠르를 즉각 석방하라
'테러리스트' 딱지붙여 이주노동자
활동 탄압하는 경찰 규탄대회
2006.6.25(日) 오후 2시 30분
탑골공원 앞
1. 대회 명칭 「압둘 사쿠르를 즉각 석방하라!」 '테러리스트' 딱지붙여 이주노동자 활동 탄압하는 경찰 규탄대회 2. 주요요구 - 압둘 사쿠르를 즉각 석방하라! - 이주노동자는 테러리스트가 아니다! - 경찰청은 사과하라! - 살인적인 단속추방 중단하라! - 미등록이주노동자 전면합법화 하라! 3. 일시 : 2006.6.25(일) 오후 2시 30분 4. 장소 : 종로 탑골공원 앞 -> 행진 -> 명동성당 마무리 5. 주최 : 이주노동자 인권과 노동권 확보를 위한 시민사회단체 연대회의
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