AP
08 November 2006 Israeli tank shells killed at least 18 people in their sleep when they landed in Gaza early today, witnesses report. Eight children were said to be among the dead.
Khaled Radi, a health ministry official, said of the 18 dead, 13 were from the same family. He said at least 40 more were wounded, all civilians after the attack on a residential neighbourhood north of Beit Hanoun. Palestinian hospital officials said there were several more injured. According to witnesses, all those killed were women and children. Four hospitals are treating the wounded across Gaza. Palestinian security officials said that five tank shells landed in the area within 15 minutes. Most the casualties were caused to a row of homes belonging to members of one family. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemned the attack. "This is a horrible, ugly massacre committed by the occupation against our children, our women and elderly in Beit Hanoun," he said in a statement. "We urge and call the security council to convene immediately to stop the massacres committed against our people and to uphold their responsibility to stop these massacres.". The Palestinian cabinet convened for an emergency meeting. Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad called for Israel to be expelled from the United Nations, calling it an "animal, brutal state." In a huge demonstration outside the morgue at the Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, thousands called for revenge. "We are going to fight against the so-called Israel. We are going to launch our rockets, our martyrs are going to sacrifice their lives in the depths of our occupied land," said Nizar Rayan, a Hamas leader in northern Gaza. "They will strike in Jaffa, in Haifa, inside Ashdod. The battle will continue. The rifle is not going to be set down. All of us are martyrs in waiting. revenge is coming." |
IMEMC & Agencies
08 November 2006 Eighteen Palestinian civilians, including seven children were killed and scores injured on Wednesday morning due to Israeli army shelling residents' houses in the Town of Beit Hannoun, north of the Gaza strip.
Palestinian sources reported that army tanks stationed at the borders betwen Israel and Gaza shelled residents' houses. Al Othmani family house that consists of four apartments, was leveled to the ground and the number of houses sustained heavy damage, causing a high number of deaths and injuries. According to medical sources, 5 of the 18 killed were moved to Kamal Adawan hospital and the other 13 were moved to Beit Hannoun Hospital. Doctors said that they were unable to identify most of the killed civilians because the bodes arrived severely mutilated. Doctors added that there are the critical among the wounded, which led the doctors to say the number of the killed may increase. Earlier at around 1:00 am on Wednesday, several tanks and army bulldozers invaded the town of Beit Hannoun, destroyed some farm lands and fired at residents' houses causing damage to their property, eyewitnesses reported. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya demanded an International investigation of war crimes committed against Palestinian civilians in Beit Hanouan and the all Palestinian areas. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli destroyed chances for peace saying that Israel is responsible for the consequences. The Israeli army has redeployed around Beit Hannoun on Tuesday morning after a six-day military operation that left 63 Palestinians dead and more than 150 wounded. |
Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun
Wednesday November 8, 2006 The Guardian Hours after the Israeli military pulled out of the town of Beit Hanoun yesterday morning, Talal Nasr was at the cemetery to search for a spot to bury the body of his 13-year-old daughter.
It was the first time for six days that any of the town's residents had been allowed out of their homes, the duration of Israel's biggest military operation in the Gaza Strip for months. The streets quickly filled and many headed out to mourn and bury their dead. |
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
Last update - 03:48 08/11/2006 A third of unarmed Palestinians killed during IDF operations in the Gaza Strip since the abduction of Gilad Shalit have been minors, according to a new report prepared by Physicians for Human Rights, to be published Wednesday.
Between June 27 and October 28, 247 Palestinians, including 155 civilians (63 percent) were killed by the IDF. Among the civilians killed, 57 were minors. This figure does not include minors who were armed. The report also claims that of the 996 Palestinians injured during the past four months, about a third, 337, are children. |
Helena Cobban at November 7, 2006 04:14 PM
I truly do not understand some of the decisions that my colleagues and friends at Human Rights Watch have been making. This week, to much fanfare, they rolled out a very well-funded study about domestic violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in which their main order of business is to blame the Palestinian Authority for having, "failed to establish an effective framework to respond to violence against women and girls."
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Amin Abu Wardeh
Wednesday, 08 November 2006 (Nablus)- Adnan is an Arabic language teacher who leaves his Nablus District village at 6:30 each morning. He has to pass through Huwara Checkpoint to reach another Nablus village by 8:00. Adnan has often spent hours detained at the checkpoint making him late for school.
As part of the occupation, Israeli forces impose checkpoints throughout the West Bank. Getting from one town to the next is often impossible. Adnan said, "A few years ago I was forced to walk across the bypass roads and climb mountains to reach the school. But these days new problems have arisen after the closure of the government schools." School did not start in September this year after government school teachers began a strike demanding salaries. They were unpaid for months due to the crisis that ensured when the US inflicted a political and economic blockade after Hamas won the elections. "I transferred my children to other schools so that they wouldn't have to pass through Huwara where the soldiers brandish weapons in their faces while the children cry." Adnan's daughter said, "I don't want to cross this barrier. The soldiers are insane and have so many weapons." Adnan is not alone among parents who have considered moving into the city of Nablus from outlying villages in order to avoid crossing checkpoints. "The suffering begins in the morning and continues in the evening when we must face humiliation and degradation at the hands of soldiers at Huwara Checkpoint." Adnan did move his family so now his children do not have to cross the checkpoint, but he does in order to reach the school where he teaches. Adnan said, "A soldier checked my identification card that lists my profession as 'teacher.' And I have a UNRWA card from the school. The soldier laughed at me and asked if I teach stone throwing. I said I did not and his smile twisted into ridicule and hate. He told me to go back." |
www.chinaview.cn 2006-11-08 03:42:38
BEIRUT, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli troops on Tuesday evening began withdrawing from areas around Ghajar, the last position occupied by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in this summer, Lebanese National News Agency reported.
The Israeli troops withdrew from an area on the edge of the village, said the report, without giving any further details. |
UK Independent
08/11/2006 Israel fired artillery shells containing white phosphorus in its recent conflict with Hizbollah militants in the Lebanon, according to an official investigation by the United Nations.
White phosphorus is banned under the Geneva Convention when used against civilians or in civilian areas, although Israel insists that the shells were directed against solely military targets. However, the UN team failed to find any evidence that Israel used depleted uranium, enriched uranium or any other radioactive material in bombs dropped on Lebanon during the month-long war, which ended on 14 August. Achim Steiner, under-secretary general and executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said that samples taken by scientists had confirmed the use of white phosphorus in artillery and mortar ammunition. Mr Steiner also said that the scientific analysis found no evidence of penetrators or other metallic bomb components made of depleted or enriched uranium, as claimed by two British activists in a report last month |
www.chinaview.cn
2006-11-08 GAZA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Tuesday urged, for the first time, to attack American targets and interests in the Middle East.
The threat came in a statement released by al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, following the death of 19 Palestinians in Israeli artillery shelling in northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in the day. "America provides political and logistical cover for the crimes committed by the Zionist occupation and it must be blamed on Beit Hanoun massacres prior to the occupation," said the statement. |
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