CINA

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All the time the reactionary S.K. media, such as Chosun Ilbo, KBS.. etc, are denouncing the "progressive" forces to be the "fifth column" in behalf of the DPRK leadership/Workers Party of (North) Korea (aka Chosun Nodong-dang) by, for example, implementation of the N.K. "communist culture" in the S.K. society.

But the complete opposite is/may be the reality: It seems that the S.K. capitalist conglomerates (chaebol) are the vanguard to promote the unification (between N.K. and S.K.) under the "wise leadership" of Kim Jong-il!

One example is Samsung chaebol..
Samsung was/is creating a simplified copy of DPRK's dictatorship in its own "empire".. Including N.K. "cultural" traditions, such as the so-called mass games.

Samsung's "Arirang" (poor performance^^)

The original: Kim Jong-il's..

.."Arirang"

For more, please read:

☞ ..Samsung culture (Hankyoreh, 6.21)

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After six weeks of strike, thousands of  German Telecom (DT) workers participated, against the plan of DT to outsourcing of 50,000 employees with the effect that they have to work four hours more per week (without payment) and the wages will be reduced by 8 per cent, today the Labour Union (Ver.di) and the DT found an agreement. The final result: Four hours more work (without payment) and reducing of the wages by 6,5 per cent! Yeah, the new ways for the workers' movement: striking to accept lately very bad conditions/deterioration of the working and living conditions of the working class (eeh, I'm really sorry for my..)

Today's (bourgeois) magazine Der Spiegel: "Telecom workers are feeling betrayed by the Labour Union (oops, what a surprise!!) - At the stock market: PARTY TIME!"

WELCOME TO THE "BEAUTIFUL" NEW WORLD OF CAPITALISM(^^)!!

PS:

We always supposed (*): the capitalism never give up the attempt to make GOLD - alternatively Dollars, Euro, Won.. - even from SHIT.
The latest effort in Germany: Since two weeks Sat 1, one of the main private TV stations, is broadcasting the show (they call it "entertainment-documentary") "One Job - Your Chance". Here four, more or less talented, but "nice looking" candidates have to fight against each other. The winner is getting a job contract. Yesterday four women were fighting for to get the job as a household helper/nanny for a rich family..

NO FURTHER COMMENT^^!!

* Well, actually it's simply a fact..

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Since the end of last week (especially) in (at least) the west nearly all "main" news agencies/newpapers/TV stations are reporting about the liberation of hundreds of slave workers in central China (BTW.. originally it was reported by the Chinese media!!).

But how about the recent/current situation in the so-called developed capitalism?

Following article was published (but nearly unconsidered by the public) just few days ago:

☞ Illegal Romanian Workers Paid Slave Wages by Policeman (Der Spiegel, 6.15)

Already last April the German daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported about slave workers in NATO bases in Afghanistan. The young women there must work daily between 12 and 16 hours in the "Green Spa Beauty Parlor", owned by Koreans (!!!). In the night the Korean owners are driving the workers "home" in Kabul and lock them up there until the next day, according to the report. The workers are not allowed to leave their "home" (actually very small barracks without any comfort, just with beds and dry stinking toilets) before or after the work.
It continued that the workers get a contract until all the "expenses" (plane ticket, broker fee etc..) is paid back. "Ira, a married mother of two children, can't go to visit her children, even the 'contract' since weeks is expired" "When - but I really don't know when - I'll go back home, I will bring nearly no money with me" she said.. As far as I know, about this story only one newspaper was reporting!!

Another story, but this time slave workers in Europe:
Last August the police in Italy freed 113 field workers from Poland. According to the police they were beaten, tortured.. "In the middle of our country they were held as slaves", so the Italian authorities. They had to work daily 15 hours, sometimes without any breaks. They were held like in Nazi Camps. They were guarded by armed gangsters, according to the investigation agency.

Well (or better not well) those cases (in Europe) are no unique, not at all! The Council of Europe/www.coe.int (difinetely NOT a COMMUNIST organisation^^): "Slaves at the heart of Europe! Likeley up to 500,000 workers in Europe are held under conditions of modern slavery"

Capitalism - no matter if it's the "old-school" or the "brandnew", some are calling it "neo-liberalism" - is based on maximum profit, even it means to exploit workers like slaves. That's just the f.. reality!! (eeh, no question, of course we need to change this kind of reality!!)

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A bit late but.. y'day MTU published (the English version of) following statement, originally released 11 days ago in Korean (*):

The Ministry of Justice Must Admit the EPS is a Failure and Truly Revise the Migrant Workers System!

Since the Yeosu Detention Center fire tragedy occurred on February 10 the Ministry of Justice has been working tirelessly to cover up its anti-human rights and racist nature by talking about plans for the legalization of undocumented migrant workers and the improvement of conditions in detention centers. However, on June 4 it announced that it would institute a system of penalties for employers who hire undocumented migrant workers and begin a joint crackdown in August. This announcement clearly demonstrates the Justice Ministry’s intention to target undocumented migrant workers rather than truly address fundamental problems in South Korea’s foreign labor system.

The crackdown plan clearly demonstrates the Justice Ministry’s true nature, which it has been attempting to conceal. Even thought it failed in its attempt to blame the Yeosu fire on arson committed by an individual who could not even defend himself, the Ministry is still trying blame all the social problems related to migrant workers on undocumented migrant who are living in South Korea. However it is clear from looking at the chain of sad events that began with the February fire tragedy that the root of these problems is to be found in the government’s misguided policy on migrant workers, which it continues to ruthlessly enforce despite obvious faults. 

The number of undocumented migrant workers in South Korea has now reached over 210 thousand. Even though the government has implemented a vicious man-hunting crackdown and deported over 100 thousand undocumented migrants the number only continues to increase. What does this tell us? It tells us that, just like the Industrial Trainee System, the Employment Permit System only continues to create more and more undocumented migrants.   

It is not possible to solve the current problem of undocumented migrant workers through a crackdown. The barbaric and brutal crackdown can only lead to one human rights abuse after another while thrusting migrant workers into a state of terror. With the first three year period of the EPS will be over this August 17, it is now the time to officially evaluate the EPS. However, even if the Ministry of Justice recognizes the system’s faults and puts forward a plan for revision it is of little value in the face of the plan announced on June 4, which dumps all the responsibility on to undocumented migrants and calls for an all out attack against them. This plan is clearly racist disregard for the human rights and labor rights of minority ethnic groups in Korea. 

We hereby declare that we will firmly oppose the joint crackdown scheduled for August and struggle against the Ministry of Justice in order to win human rights and labor rights for migrant workers. If the Ministry does not immediately give up its plan and goes forth with its attack on migrant workers it and the administration must be prepared for the fierce struggle of migrant workers.

Our demands are as follows:

1. The Ministry of Justice must repeal its August crackdown plan and immediately legalize all undocumented migrant workers!

2. The Ministry of Justice must admit that the EPS is a failure and implement the Work Permit System!

3. The Ministry of Justice must stop its oppression of and attack on migrant workers and protect migrant workers human and labor rights!

2007.06.07
Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union
http://migrant.nodong.net

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* 법무부는 고용허가제 실패를 인정하고, 제도개선을 본격화하라!!

2월 10일 여수 외국인보호소 화재참사 이후로 지금까지 미등록 이주노동자에 대한 합법화 방안 및 외국인보호소 개선 방안을 내놓으며 사건으로 파헤쳐진 자신의 반인권적, 인종차별적 모습을 감추기 위해 무진장 애를 써온 법무부는 6월 4일 보도자료를 통해 사업주에 대한 미등록 이주노동자 불법고용 처벌 및 미등록 이주노동자에 대해 8월부터 강력한 관계기관 합동단속을 실시할 것을 발표했다. 이발표는 명백하게 미등록 이주노동자를 타겟으로 삼고 있는 것이다.

이는 자신들이 감추려 했던 자신들의 본질을 분명하게 드러낸 것이다. 2월 여수 화재참사를 불안정한 개인의 방화로 몰고가며 사건을 무마시키는 것이 실패했음에도, 모든 잘못을 한국에서 살아가고 있는 미등록 이주노동자에게 돌리려 노력하고 있는 것이다. 하지만 이미 2월 참사를 비롯한 일련의 사건들은 이 모든 문제의 원인이 잘못된 이주노동자 정책과 그 정책의 문제가 계속 돌출됨에도 무리하게 강행하고 있는 정부에 있음을 명백히 보여준다.

이제 미등록 이주노동자가 21만이 넘어섰다. 정부의 살인적인 인간사냥으로 10만명이 넘는 이주노동자가 추방했음에도 불구하고 그 수는 줄지않고 계속 늘고 있다. 이것이 말해주는 것이 무엇인가? 이는 고용허가제가 산업연수제와 마찬가지로 미등록 이주노동자를 계속해서 양산할 수밖에 없는 제도임을 보여주는 것이다.
현재의 미등록 이주노동자 문제는 단속으로 해결될 수 없다. 무자비한 살인적인 단속은 단지 미등록 이주노동자에 대한 인권 노동권 침해만을 불러올 뿐이며 죽음으로 내몰고 있을 뿐이다. 이제 8월 17일이면 3년 단위의 고용허가제가 3주년이 되는 날이다. 이제 본격적으로 고용허가제를 평가해야 할 시기이며, 현재 정책의 잘못을 시인하고, 이에 대한 개선책을 내놓아도 시원찮은 판에 모든 책임을 미등록 이주노동자에게 돌리고 공격을 강화하겠다는 법무부의 발표는 도저히 이해할 수 없는 행위이다. 이는 명백하게 타민족, 타인종에 대한 인권과 노동권을 모두 무시하겠다는 것이다.

우리 이주노조는 8월부터 자행될 합동단속에 대항하고, 이주노동자의 인권과 노동권을 쟁취하기 위해 법무부에 대한 투쟁을 선포한다. 지금 즉시 종전의 계획을 포기하지 않고, 계속해서 이주노동자에 대한 공격을 자행하겠다면 정부와 법무부는 이주노동자의 강력한 투쟁을 각오해야 할 것이다. 이에 이주노조는 다음을 요구한다.

1. 법무부는 8월 단속 계획을 철회하고, 지금 즉시 미등록 이주노동자를 전면합법화하라!

2. 고용허가제 3년, 고용허가제 실패를 인정하고, 노동허가제를 적극 도입하라!

3. 이주노동자에 대한 공격, 탄압을 중단하고, 이주노동자 인권과 노동권을 보장하라!

2007년 6월 7일
서울경기인천 이주노동자노동조합

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During the time when migrant workers in S.K. were fighting publicly, especially during our sit-in struggle in Myeong-dong (Nov. 2003 until Dec. 2004) the reports for example about the "Borderless Village" in Ansan (a city on the edge of Seoul), even in the bourgeois media were a kind of positive..

But now, it seems that the situation complete changed.. The S.K. bourgeois media, such as Korea Times, CBS, SBS.. are now increasing their reactionary, racist propaganda against migrant workers.

One really strange example is following article, published in the latest "Weekly Korea" (주간한국, the weekly magazine of Honkook Ilbo/Korea Times):

Foreigners Turning Urban Areas into Lawless Zones

Residential Neighborhoods with Many Foreigners, Lawless Zones when the Sun Goes Down: Scary Night Streets, Foreigner Crimes Rising Daily… High Crime Zones Devoid of Public Authority Appearing..

“I’m afraid to walk around at night.  With herds of foreigners swarming around frightening me, I’m also scared I might be harmed.  I firmly warn even my middle school daughter.”..

Mrs. Oh (46), a resident of Wongok-dong (in Ansan), a neighborhood that has become known as Korea’s “Borderless Village,” said that as the neighborhood fills up with foreigners, it has grown savage and desolate.  Choe In-song (82), who calls himself a Wongok-dong native, said, “As the number of foreigners grows, the neighborhood is growing increasingly disorderly and women are avoiding walking around at night.”..

Although there were differences in degree, most of the Wolgok-dong residents this reporter met were wary of foreign laborers. Some, citing panicky rumors of sexual crimes and violent crimes, expressed animosity [toward the foreign laborers]... etc..

Read the entire f.. sh.. here:

☞ 외국인 밀집 거주지역, 해만 떨어지면 '무법천지' (주간한국, 6.11)

Somehow related:

☞ 불법체류자 밀집된 천안·아산에 태국 '조폭' 활개 (CBS)

☞ 외국인 밀집지역서 강력범죄 잇따라 '불안' (SBS)

*****

Well, while I have been living in S.K. I visited many times Ansan and never I had the feeling that the citizens there had major problems with the "foreign"/migrant workers. On several occesions, for example when the immigration police was hitting the migrant community, representatives of Ansan's (Wolgok-dong) Korean community joined our demonstrations and even took the stage to express their solidarity with our struggle.

Just check out this:

☞ ..Borderless Village 2007 New Years Festival (MWTV)

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Last night Hamas declared its victory (*) in the "Battle About Gaza" (as I mentioned y'day - some hard-liners are calling it "just the first victory on the way to liberate entire Palestine").

☞ 'Only the gunmen are walking the streets'

☞ Gaza War Diary

☞ How war was turned into a brand (comment by Naomi Klein)

☞ Shin Beth&Fatah coordinate terror against Hamas.. (PIC)

Update (6.17):

☞ How Hamas turned on Palestine's 'traitors' (Observer, UK)

☞ Those who denied poll result were the real coup plotters

Today's latest developments:

Hamas calls emergency gov't illegal

The Hamas organization announced on Sunday that the Palestinian emergency government set up by President Mahmoud Abbas is illegal. (Ynet)

Abbas outlaws Hamas movement and its militias
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday outlawed the Islamic militant Hamas movement, his office said. A formal announcement was to be released shortly, said aides in Abbas' office. (AP)

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First of all: Sorry for to much stuff about Palestine, but I have been living there for a while.. And so I'm really sad/upset about the recent development there (even I'm not surprised, what's going on right now - not really..).

After Hamas' today's "victories" - they took over Gaza City, Khan Yunis, Rafah - it seems that tomorrow - possibly - the battle about the Gaza Strip will be over and, according to the propaganda of Hamas, a new Islamic State (eeh, Gaza more Islamic than before???) is born. According to informations I got just few hours ago Hamas activists are publishing leaflets like that: "That's just the beginning of the liberation of our home-land! Soon we will liberate the entire occupied Palestine! From Gaza to Ramallah, from the Red Sea to el-Quds (Jerusalem), from el-Quds to Haifa and Buhairet Tabariyya (Sea of Galilee/Yam Kinerreth).."
So if it goes after the ideas of Hamas, what we saw in the last days.. it's just the beginning (eeh, possibly they forgot to expect the IDF??!!).

Anyway.. here the latest developments:

Short before Hamas captured today in the morning Fatah's Preventive Security headquarters they announced: "We'll execute Fatah leaders" (Ynet)..

Hamas seizes intelligence service building in Gaza City (Haaretz/IL)
 
Hamas fighters captured the second of four major Fatah command centers in Gaza City on Thursday, bringing the militant group closer to their goal of complete conquest of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas gunmen planted the Islamic group's green flag on the roof of the intelligence services building shortly after taking control over the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Earlier in the day, Hamas overran the Preventive Security building, and witnesses, a doctor and Fatah officials said several Fatah fighters were shot in the head.

 
Witnesses said Hamas gunmen dragged Fatah militants from the building and shot them in the head.

The Islamist group later called on Fatah fighters to surrender another key security installation in Gaza City within the hour. The call to give up the National Security compound was broadcast on Hamas radio.

"We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return," Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas' militia, told Hamas radio. "The era of justice and Islamic rule has arrived."

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, heralded what he called Gaza's second liberation, after Israel's 2005 evacuation of the coastal strip.

"This time it was liberated from the herds of the collaborators," he said of Fatah, which has pursued peace negotiations with Israel. "Last time, it was liberated from the herds of the settlers."

Hamas gunmen broke through Fatah defenses at the compound in Gaza City on Thursday morning. They fired rocket-propelled grenades at the compound, provoking return fire from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' presidential guard.

The rival factions have been engaged in bloody battles since Sunday, resulting in the deaths of at least 70 people. By noon Thursday, at least eight people had been killed. Al-Jazeera TV reported early Thursday afternoon that the death toll had climbed to at least 16.

Fatah officials said seven of their fighters were shot dead in the street outside Preventive Security building. A witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said the men were being killed before their wives and children.

"They are executing them one by one," Abu Ayad said. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting."

Some of the Hamas fighters kneeled down outside the building, touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Others led Fatah fighters out of the building, some of them shirtless or in their underwear, holding their arms in the air. Several of the Fatah men flinched as the crack of gunfire split the air.

Abbas gives Fatah order to fight back

An aide to Abbas said earlier Thursday that the Fatah leader had issued the first orders to his elite guard to strike back against Hamas fighters.

Fatah forces had previously lashed out at Abbas, saying he left them with no directions and no support in the fight. Abbas' strongman in Gaza, Mohammed Dahlan, had been in Cairo for medical treatment. He returned to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday afternoon.

Numerically superior Fatah forces have been crumbling fast under the onslaught by the better-armed and better-disciplined Hamas fighters.

"There will be no dialogue with Fatah, only the sword and the rifle," Nezar Rayyan, a senior Hamas official, told Hamas radio Thursday. "God willing, we will lead the Friday prayer in the president's office, and transform the [Gaza City] security complex into a big mosque."

Before dawn Thursday, Fatah fighters abandoned positions in central Gaza, then blew them up rather than turn them over as Hamas forces advanced.

Gaza hospitals were operating without water, electricity or blood units. Even holed up inside their homes, Gazans weren't able to escape fighting that turned so many apartment buildings into battlefields.

Angered by the rout of their comrades in the Gaza fighting, Palestinian security forces in the West Bank allied to Abbas have arrested at least three dozen Hamas gunmen.

Fatah gunmen shot and wounded three Hamas activists after kidnapping them. One of the wounded was identified as a Hamas member of Ramallah's municipal council and a second as a Hamas preacher from a nearby village.

Fatah leaders said a decision was made by security commanders to crack down on Hamas in the West Bank, to prevent it from taking any positions in that territory, a Fatah stronghold.

Abbas met Thursday with the decision-making bodies of the organization and the PLO, and was to make an important announcement later, aides said.

One aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because no decision had been made, said Abbas was considering dissolving the governing coalition with Hamas.

Earlier in the week, Fatah ministers suspended their activities in the government due to the Gaza violence, but stopped short of dismantling the partnership.

The unity government was formed in March in a bid to stem a previous round of violence, and in the hopes of easing the international boycott imposed in the wake of the Hamas election victory in January 2006. Neither aim was achieved.

The fighting continued despite an agreement Wednesday night by Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas of the need to bring an end to the fighting between their respective parties.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/870763.html

Related articles/news:

☞ Fatah forces crumble in Gaza (Guardian/UK)

☞ Hamas tightens control in Gaza (al-Jazeera)

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For last Saturday the Palestinian community in Berlin organised a demonstration to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation (of the "67-territories"). Usually in occasions like that several thousand of Palestinians were taking the streets of downtown Berlin. But last Sat. only a handfull people, mainly German peaceniks, some political idiots and few neo-nazis fallowed the call for the demo..
Because of the increasing hostility (*) between the "resistance" organisations in the PA territories (Gaza/West Bank) the animosity between the Palestinians in Berlin is also increasing. So it's simply impossible for them to demonstrate (for "peace in Palestine" or alternatively death missions/suicide attacks..) together anymore!

And what's new on the battle field?

First of all al-Jazeera reported today in the morning(CET): "Fatah says it is suspending participation in the three-month old unity government

until street battles in Gaza end." (GOVERNMENT? WHAT GOVERNMENT??)

Meanwhile in Gaza, according to informations, I got today, at least 60 people - mainly Fatah fighters, but ("of course") also not involved civilians - were killed in the last 72 hours, so hospital sources in Jabalia said.

And while the fighters of the "resistance" organisations Hamas and Fatah are trying to decimate the population in Gaza the militants of Islamic Jihad are continuing the rocket attacks against communities in Israel. Today in the morning they attacked a school and yesterday a factory, usually exporting goods to Gaza (one worker there: "We send them groceries and they send us rockets..")

Following some of the latest from today:

Palestinians committing war crimes, says Human Rights Watch (Ynet, IL)

American human rights organization says feuding Gaza factions violating international humanitarian law by executing captives, shooting unarmed civilians and endangering journalists

American human rights organization, Human Rights Watch accused both Hamas and Fatah of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip in a report published Wednesday morning.

Palestinian gunmen turn hospital hallways and roofs to sniper posts, endangering patients and staff; clashes also prevent doctors, nurses, ambulances from geting to hospitals
Full Story
 
 
“These attacks by both Hamas and Fatah constitute brutal assaults on the most fundamental humanitarian principles,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch.

 
“The murder of civilians not engaged in hostilities and the willful killing of captives are war crimes, pure and simple.”

The report covered incidents involving both organizations in which innocents have been killed over the past three days, including the capture and execution of men not involved in hostilities, the storming of individuals' homes and battles in and around two Gaza hospitals, that amounted in the killing of patients, one reportedly shot at close range.

According to Human Rights Watch, all parties engaged in armed conflict are subject to international humanitarian law, which forbids deliberate harming of civilians and those who are not engaged in armed hostilities at the time.

Under international humanitarian law, all medical personnel and facilities are granted special protection, and military and civilian hospitals and medical units must be protected and respected in all circumstances.

 
The report also addressed the June 9 incident, in which four gunmen, from the al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of Islamic Jihad - and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Fatah's military wing, used a vehicle marked with "TV" insignia to break through Israel's border fortifications around Gaza in a possible attempt to kidnap an Israeli soldier.

“Using a vehicle with press markings to carry out a military attack is a serious violation of the laws of war, and it also puts journalists at risk,” said Whitson.

 
The Palestinian Journalists Union on Sunday criticized the use by armed factions of press insignia in a statement: “The use of vehicles that carry ‘Press,’ ‘TV’ or other signs ... exposes journalists’ lives to danger, gives the Israeli occupation a pretext to target and kill journalists and restricts their ability to perform their professional and national duties. … We demand all parties stop using these methods.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3412052,00.html

Possibly the fighters have their "fun"..

..but what about the children??

Related articles, reports, etc:

☞ Gaza clashes spread from streets to hospitals (Yedioth Ahronoth, IL)

☞ Hamas on the verge of a complete conquest of the Gaza Strip (Haaretz, IL)

☞ Hamas issues Gaza arms ultimatum (al-Jazeera)

☞ Hamas Seizes Fatah Security Headquarters (AP)

☞ Gaza Sinks Into Chaos (TV-Report/video, CNN)

☞ Violence Rages in Gaza (Pictures, CNN)

Not the result of IAF!

It's just home-made (street in Rafah after the first battles)

Also a kind of related:

☞ Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures (Guardian)

* Samih al-Madhoun, a senior figure in the Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said after his house was attacked: "If they've burnt my house, I have burnt 20 Hamas houses last night." "A house for a house and blood for blood ... I swear to God that I will kill every member of Hamas, be they civilian or military. I will kill them all," he told a Fatah radio station.

The very latest from the battle field:

15:00 (CET)
Gaza: 2 UN workers killed in clashes
Infighting in PA continues, two United Nations employees killed in crossfire.

Hamas bombs kill 22 Fatah members (Reuters)
15:20 (CET)
12 Hamas members kidnapped in Nablus
Armed operatives of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing kidnapped 12 Hamas members, including seniors of the organization. (Ynet)

16:00 (CET)
Palestinian security forces surrender to Egypt
The al-Jazeera network has reported that dozens of members of the Palestinian Security have escaped the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing and turned themselves in to Egyptian security forces.

16:50 (CET)

Hamas says southern Strip in its control
Hamas’ armed wing, Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said its members have taken control over the area along the Gaza-Egypt border. (Ynet)

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# 서울시의 기만적인 노점대책 규탄
및 노점상 10대 요구발표 기자회견
일시: 2007년 6월 13일 오전 11시
장소: 서울시청 앞

내용: 서울시와 경기도 지역에 노점상에 대한 탄압이 더욱 거세지고 있습니다. 서울지역의 경우 노점대책을 통해 노점상 단속의 명분을 더욱 강화 시키고 노점상을 쓰레기 취급하듯 노점물품 불매캠페인을 대대적으로 펼치고 있습니다. 또한 경기도 지역의 경우 최근 들어 더욱 폭력적이고 반인권적인 노점단속이 진행되고 있어 이에 항의코자 기자회견을 가지고자 합니다.

# 제20차 전국노점상대회 ‘단속과 차별의 벽을 넘어 희망의 길로!’
일시: 2007년 6월 13일 오후 1시
장소: 대학로

내용: 서울시 노점대책 규탄을 중심으로 하여 폭력적으로 진행되는 노점단속 철회, 노점생존권 보방, 사회 전반적 빈折??해결, 한미FTA 전면철회를 두고 전국의 10,000여명 이상의 노점상이 모여 항의하는 집회를 가집니다.

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Today in the early morning (CET) a comrade called me from Jabalia (refugee camp/Gaza) and told me that the all-out (civil) war "at least now is beginning". She informed me that "the leadership of Fatah (one part in the Palestinian 'Unity Gov't') is calling all members to attack and kill Hamas (the other part of the Palestinian 'Unity Gov't') militants and politicians.."

Haniyeh's(*) kitchen after Fatah's grenade attack in the morning

About 6 hours later Hamas told the Fatah "fighters" to leave all their positiones immediately. And just one hour ago Hamas "fighters" captured several positions from Fatah threatened to step up the offensive (according to some M.E. media)..

A kind of summary of the latest developments there you can read here:

Hamas attacks Fatah security compound in

northern Gaza (Haaretz, IL)
  
Hamas, stepping up a rapidly expanding power struggle in the Gaza Strip, launched an attack Tuesday on the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza, a key prize in the bloody conflict between the two sides.

About 200 Hamas fighters surrounded the compound, where some 500 Fatah gunmen were holed up. Hamas fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at the building.

"They are attacking from all sides," said one of the officers, Khaled Awad.

Hours earlier, Hamas demanded that security forces allied to the rival Fatah movement abandon their positions, threatening to attack those who remained in their posts.

Hamas-linked radio stations said Hamas fighters had already taken control of security installations in northern and central Gaza, as well as the southern town of Khan Yunis. The claim could not be verified independently.

Also Tuesday, Hamas gunmen seized control of the hospital in Khan Yunis, making it the third medical center to come under Hamas control in two days. Gunmen traded fire at the institution.

Hamas then warned over a mosque loudspeaker that it would attack the headquarters of the Preventive Security Service in Gaza City, which is loyal to Fatah.

"The warning which we have given you to surrender has ended, and we will attack this position of Zionist collaborators, the warning said."

On Monday, the Islamist movement took over Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and another in Beit Hanun, both in the northern Strip. The move was triggered by the killing of Hamas gunmen who had arrived at the hospitals for treatment. Both hospitals saw bloody fighting on Monday.

Israel Radio reported that exchanges of fire had resumed at Shifa Hospital on Tuesday.

The factional violence in Gaza continued unabated Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 17 in 24 hours, with an attack on the home of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.

Hamas branded the Tuesday strike with a rocket-propelled grenade an assassination attempt. Haniyeh and his family were in the house, but unhurt, in the second attack on his home in as many days.

In Khan Yunis, Hamas controlled the roof of the European Hospital and Fatah-allied security forces took up positions nearby. The two sides traded fire. About 15 children attending a kindergarten in the compound were rushed into the main building, hospital officials said.

On Monday, gun battles also raged at a hospital in northern Gaza and the
strip's main health facility, Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Hamas sources said the organization sent armed men to the hospital for fear that fatah gunmen would try to attack Hamas wounded under treatment there.

* Attack on Haniyeh's house

Describing the attack on Haniyeh's home, his son, Abdel Salam, said an RPG hit the side of the house in the Shati refugee camp, damaging it, while the family was inside. No one was hurt, he said.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused rival Fatah of targeting Palestinian institutions to bring down Hamas. "They crossed all the red lines," he said of Fatah.

Also Tuesday, Hamas said Fatah gunmen kidnapped a member of the Hamas military wing and executed him in the street. The dead man was identified as a cousin of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader assassinated by Israel in 2004.

Earlier in the day, three women and a child were killed when Hamas militants attacked the home of a senior Fatah security official with mortars and grenades, security officials said.

The gunmen seized Hassan Abu Rabi and killed his 14-year-old son and three women in the house, hospital officials said. Also, Fatah gunmen stormed the house of a Hamas lawmaker and burned it to the ground.

The simmering violence, which exploded into bloody clashes Monday morning, turned hospitals into battle grounds and streets into arenas of public execution.

Both Hamas and Fatah, on Web sites and in text messages to activists, called for the execution of the other side's military and political leaders. Both sides described the fighting, which is turning more brutal with each day, as all-out civil war.

The fighting disrupted final exams for university and high school students. The three universities called off final exams set for Tuesday.
High schools were trying to move test centers to areas out of the range of fire, said Mohammed Abu Shkeir, the deputy minister of education.

Fatah official slain in hail of bullets

On Monday night, gunmen thought believed to be from Hamas laid siege to the house of Jamal Abu al-Jediyan, the most senior Fatah official in northern Gaza, then dragged him outside and killed him, security officials said. Medics said he was hit with 45 bullets.

Al-Jediyan was a top aide to Gaza Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan. His brother was also killed, execution-style, by two shots from close range, hospital officials said. Fatah spokesman Maher Mikdad harshly denounced the killing. "What is this, if not a war," he said, pledging revenge.

Two others were killed in battles late Monday in northern Gaza, security and hospital officials said.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, an aide to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, said no end was in sight. "You can see for yourself there's no taste for a cease-fire right now," he told The Associated Press by telephone, blaming Hamas.

The frustrated head of the Egyptian security delegation, Major General Burhan Hamad, who has been trying to negotiate a truce, told Palestinian TV he would call the people out onto the streets to protest if the two groups do not agree to stand down.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/870095.html

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☞ Abbas responsible for bloodshed in Gaza

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