IMEMC
26/12/2006 A Palestinian farmer was shot and injured by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday morning.
Palestinian medical sources in the town reported that Isma'el Ghubun, 27, was shot in his knees and legs, and was transported to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment. His injuries were described as "critical", due to severe internal bleeding. Eyewitnesses stated that Ghubun was working on his land, adjacent to the northern Gazan-Israeli borders when Israeli troops opened fire on him from a nearby military position, which overlooks farm lands there. Also on Tuesday morning, a group of Palestinian resistance fighters fired two homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Sderot. A statement from the Al Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement said that these attacks come in response to the ongoing Israeli military attacks on the Palestinian people. Late on Monday night, Israeli soldiers controlling the Beit Hanoun crossing, which connects Gaza with Israel, detained a Palestinian ambulance for over three hours. Israeli troops alleged that a plastic bag inside the vehicle contained explosives, but after a controlled detonation, the bag the bag turned out to contain the clothes of the patient. Comment: Oh come on! It's gets boring in an Israeli army look out post! These proud fighters for Israel need some diversion now and again, so what's wrong with shooting the odd Palestinian farmer in the legs? Sure, he may well die, but so what? He's only a Palestinian, and Jews are, after all, the chosen people, (or so their leaders have tried to convince them) so they are allowed to shoot non-Jews, and especially Palestinians, who are little more than cockroaches, at least according to one of Israel's most decorated war heroes:
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983. Of course, then there is the honorable opinion of the honorable former Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin: "The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.And of course, how could we forget former Israeli PM Ehud Barak when he said: "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more..."The problem, you see, is that Zionist leaders just love to murder Palestinians, but they usually need a pretext, an excuse, to really get their teeth into it, and at the moment the best available excuse seems to be the more or less harmless "Qassam" rockets that "somebody" keeps firing into Israel... |
Ynet
27/11/2006There has been general confusion in the Palestinian Authority after a Qassam rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev. One of the cells of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military arm, has taken responsibility for the firing.
However, Abu Ahmad, one of the group's senior officials in the northern Gaza Strip, said to Ynet that he had no knowledge that his people carried out the shooting.
"As of now, we continue to be committed to the truce, but are reserving our right to respond to Israeli infractions," said Abu Ahmad.
Electronic Intifada
Rima Merriman
8 June 2006Rima Merriman, a Palestinian American living in Ramallah, wrote this series, "Portraits of Palestinian Resistance", telling the stories of the four Palestinians killed and one of the 57 wounded in Ramallah on 24 May 2006, as they struggled to protect a Palestinian activist and political prisoner from an Israeli undercover unit.
Palestinian men at Alsa'a Square, a few hundred yards from Al Manarah Circle. (Al-Quds Newspaper)
Palestinian resistance to the occupation comes in many shapes and forms, some of which involves armed resistance undertaken by organized groups with various ideologies. These groups are composed of barely trained young men who pit their meager and crude resources against one of the best trained and best equipped military body in the world, the Israeli Occupation Forces. Of the 76 Israeli soldiers who died in 2005, only six were killed as a result of Palestinian attacks. The rest died of illness or accidents. Thirty of them committed suicide.
The imbalance in the resources between the two sides of the conflict predictably yields a steady mowing down on the part of the Israelis of one young Palestinian martyr after another. Most Palestinian deaths, however, are of civilians (and children) simply going about their daily lives, getting caught up in Israeli ground and air attacks, Israeli indiscriminate fire and Israeli raids.
Israel's control of and entrenchment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, its continual attempts to stamp out Palestinian resistance to the occupation at any cost, relies heavily on intelligence gathered by Shabak, the 5,000-strong Internal General Security Service of Israel, whose motto is "Defender who shall not be seen".
Lu'lu'a Building, which houses the Internet Café on the sixth floor. (Rima Merriman)
With a cadre of well-trained, Arabic-speaking Israeli informants who are indistinguishable physically from the Palestinian population, Shabak has little problem gathering intelligence on a people whose every movement is regulated by hundreds of check points and by total Israeli control on their borders. These infiltrators prey on Arab innate hospitality and friendliness. The Palestinians call them "musta'ribeen", i.e., "those who appear to be Arabs". Palestinians are not surprised when someone, somewhere comes up to them and says: Got you!
Ha'aretz
11/30/2005Palestinian policemen opened fire at undercover Israel Defense Forces soldiers during an operation in Bethlehem yesterday. No soldiers were hurt during the incident, and the IDF said its inquiry revealed that no policemen were hurt. However, the Palestinians said one policeman was wounded. According to the army's initial inquiry, the Palestinian police had not been informed about the army operation. Thus, when the soldiers, who were disguised to look like Arabs, came to arrest a wanted man not far from City Hall, the policemen took them for members of an armed Palestinian gang.
Ynet
05/12/2006Palestinians say special IDF force raided café in town, shot to death Mahmoud Abed al-Al, Fatah activist from Gaza; witnesses report 12 year-old child critically injured
A special Border Guard police force killed a Fatah activist in the West Bank town of Tulkarm Monday evening. According to witnesses, the man killed is Mahmoud Abed al-Al, a Fatah member from Gaza who is currently residing in Tulkarm.
The Palestinians also reported that 12 year-old Muhammad Abu Shweish was critically injured in the operation, and that a seniorFatah activist - Annan Yaish, sustained moderate wounds.Comment: This is the work of the well-known Israeli military team who are called "musta'ribeen", i.e., "those who appear to be Arabs" by Palestinians. Ask yourself, what is to stop such teams firing rockets from Palestine into Israel and allowing the blame to fall on Palestinians? You think Israeli politicians would not sanction the murder of Israeli citizens to further their political goals?
Time to get real!
Sophie Claudet in Gaza City
AFP
December 9 2002A senior Palestinian security official says his services have uncovered an Israeli plot to create a fake al-Qaeda cell in the Gaza Strip, a charge Israel has dismissed as absurd.
The head of preventive security in Gaza, Rashid Abu Shbak, said Israeli agents posing as operatives of al-Qaeda recruited Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"Over the past nine months we've been investigating eight [such] cases," Mr Abu Shbak said.
His claims came after the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said al-Qaeda militants were operating in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon, raising fears of an intensification of Israeli military occupations.
Haaretz
25/12/2006 Last Tuesday, Doaa Abd al-Qadr, 14, left her home near Tul Karm and walked toward the separation fence. It was a spring day, her mother says, and she decided to visit relatives, Israeli Arabs who live on the other side. Doaa and a 12-year-old friend were walking in a ditch on the Palestinian side, about 100 meters from the fence, when Israel Defense Force soldiers spotted them and fired warning shots - as far as is known. When the two girls came out of the ditch, an IDF marksman fired another shot. Doaa Abd al-Qadr died on the way to the hospital.
The IDF responded harshly to the firing against orders; the marksman and his commander were suspended, and a military police investigation started. Urgency, however, did not typify the subsequent treatment of the mourning family. The custom of callousness to the suffering of the Palestinians is ingrained so deeply in the Israeli establishment that there was no basic human sensitivity that would have made it possible to treat the mourners in a manner concomitant with their suffering and with our guilt. When it became clear that Doaa's father had been held for two months in the Abu Kabir lockup for entering Israel without a permit, his lawyer requested that he be released to attend his daughter's funeral. Although no one claimed that the father, Nasser Abd al-Qadr, was involved in terror activities or that his early release would harm the security of the state, the courts, in three instances, were not persuaded that it would be possible, beyond the letter of the law, to allow a man who had lost his daughter due to an IDF mistake to take part in mourning her death. For three days of excruciatingly complicated and unnecessary legal procedures, the father remained incarcerated. Concern that Abd al-Qadr, who was suspected of stealing a car, would not return from his mourning to prison, hardened the hearts of the judges. |
IMEMC & Agencies
25 December 2006 During a session for Israel's "security Cabinet" on Sunday, several Israeli ministers warned that Israeli would carry a large military offensive in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian fighters continue to fire homemade shells into Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Minister of Transportation, Shaul Mofaz, stated that Israel will operate against the leaders of Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip if the firing does not cease. Mofaz added that Israel will carry all of the needed measures "to secure the lives of Sderot residents, and residents of other Israel town in the Negev". Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said that "the Israeli self-restraint policy" is weakening Israel" |
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