Hamas stopped the rockets and mortars, but Israel only tighten it’s death grip.
From Israel’s own website:
Rockets:
Mortars:
FOR the record, Israel broke the ceasefire:
Israel breaks Gaza ceasefire, assassinates six
Report,
5 November 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of six Palestinians carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip yesterday evening and this morning. The victims were all killed by air strikes. This escalation is the first of its kind since the tahdia (the Egyptian-brokered truce between Palestinian resistance groups and Israel) entered into force on 19 June 2008.
4 November, an IOF infantry unit moved almost 400 meters into Wadi al-Salqa village, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. IOF troops raided a house belonging to Mofeed Suleiman al-Rumaili. They held the family hostage in one room, and used the house as a military base. Additional IOF troops besieged a house belonging to Hassan Suleiman al-Humiadi, using a megaphone to order the 23 residents to leave the building.
snipAt approximately 10:30pm, an IOF aircraft fired a missile at members of the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, killing Mazen Nazmi Abu Sada (32). In the early hours of Wednesday, 5 November, IOF destroyed al-Humaidi’s house, razed 2.5 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) of agricultural land, and also arrested six members of the family, including four women.
In Khan Yunis, at approximately midnight on Wednesday, 5 November, an IOF aircraft fired two missiles at four members of the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades in the east of al-Qarara village, near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The four members of the Brigades were killed:
- Mahmoud Taha Abdul Rahman Balousha (21);
- Omar Saleem Khader al-Alami, (20);
- Wajed Nizam Hamza Muhareb, (19);
- Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Awadh, (26).
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9937.shtml
Beginning of Nov. Israel started starving people…to soften them up for another invasion that had been planned for 6 months.
Gaza: Power and water cuts and bread shortage
On 5 November, Israel closed the crossings into the Gaza Strip and blocked the entry of goods and supplies, including basic foodstuffs. Since 18 November, Israel has allowed the entry of goods, though much less than in October. LIES: According to government officials, the crossings were closed in response to the firing of more than 100 rockets and mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Prior to the closing of the crossings, on 4 and 5 November, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians who were taking part in the hostilities.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that, from 5-18 November, the Gaza power station received 24 percent of the industrial fuel needed to operate the station at full capacity. As a result, power supply to Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip was interrupted for 16 hours a day, leaving some 650,000 residents without electricity at any given time. The power breaks also affected water supply: 20 percent of all Gazans received running water once every five days, and then only for six hours; 40 percent received water once every four days; and the remaining residents received water once every three days.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Gaza_Strip/20081127_More_Sanctions_on_Gaza.asp
25 December 2008
The Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will soon be without its most basic commodity: bread.snip
Yesterday, after I finished my lecture at one of Gaza’s universities, my wife asked me to bring some bread from Gaza City. All bakeries in our area have stopped operating because of the lack of flour and cooking gas due to Israel’s 18-month siege of the territory.
I drove throughout Gaza City to try to find some bread for my four children, instead finding a miserable scene. On the drive back to my home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, I saw dozens of people lining up in rows to get bread from al-Yazji Bakery. I quickly realized that it would take one or two hours until it would be my turn in line, by which time I might not find bread at all. So I continued my drive back to Maghazi, without bread.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=49887
WHY you asked. Because Israel wants to provoke Iran into responding. Their temper tantrums DEMANDING that the United States bomb the shit out of Iran, just like we did in Iraq [per Jewish neo-cons] has not worked. And Hamas was close to controlling the chaos, [and stopping the rockets] that Israel had been creating by causing a civil war in Palestine. With a united Palestinian people, Israel would have been forced into a negotiated peace by the Obama administration. They had to act quickly to derail any chance the Palestinians had for peace.
Why…so they can keep the land they have stolen.
They stole it thousands of years ago, and they think it’s their god given right to steal it again, damn the rest of the world.
This is not what Americans are hearing. But thanks for the reality lesson.
Call talk radio. I had to beat back the hasbara nonsense already.
I found this yesteraay
Hamas arrests rocket squad for first time since truce
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=645673
Hamas arrests rocket squad for first time since truce
Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters Published: Thursday, July 10, 2008
GAZA — Hamas arrested three Palestinians who fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant faction said, in the first such detentions since the Islamist group and Israel agreed a truce last month.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group linked to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group, said Hamas men pursued its members after the attack and “abducted them” in Jabalya refugee camp. No one was hurt in the strike with two rockets on southern Israel.
“We demand their immediate release,” said Mr. Abu Qusai, a brigades spokesman.
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said: “We stress that all parties should maintain the national agreement that was reached with a consensus.”
Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip a year ago after routing forces loyal to the secular Fatah group, had previously said it would not use force against other militants who violate the truce.
Al-Aqsa said it launched the rockets in retaliation for the Israeli army’s killing of an unarmed member of the group as he tried to cross a border fence into Israel earlier in the day.
His death marked the first fatality along the Israel-Gaza border since a June 19 Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers shot the man after he ignored their calls to stop and only saw later that he had been unarmed.
The ceasefire deal calls on Hamas to prevent cross-border rocket fire and attacks from the Gaza Strip, and for Israel to halt its raids and ease an economic blockade.
“If a total cessation of fire from Gaza, as committed in the calm, is not implemented, the calm has no possibility to succeed,” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokesman, Mark Regev, said.
Israel tightened restrictions on the passage of people and goods to and from the impoverished territory after Hamas’s takeover. United Nations officials said Gaza’s goods crossings were still shut rather often despite the truce.
“There is not enough fuel, not enough food, there is not enough of anything,” John Ging, an official with the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that aids refugees, said in Gaza.
Although Israel has responded to cross-border rocket fire by frequently shutting Gaza’s crossings, records compiled by Western officials show up to a 44 percent increase in goods imports in recent weeks, including a 30 percent rise in fuel.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited the city of Nablus, where Israeli troops had raided several charity groups and a medical clinic and closed down a local television station, Palestinian officials said.
Over the past several days, Israel has raided 15 Nablus charities suspected of being linked to Hamas.
Speaking to shop owners inside a mall that Israel has ordered closed, Mr. Fayyad said: “It should be known clearly that the Israeli army orders and decisions are not valid and don’t have any basis. We will deal with them as if they don’t exist.”
“Shopkeepers are invited to open their stores and ignore the Israeli decision,” he added.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh accused Palestinian Authority officials of backing the Israeli operations.
But Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel-Razzak Yahya condemned the raids and said the Palestinian Authority would continue dealing with institutions that Israel ordered closed.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr. Fayyad visited a town where protests against Israel’s West Bank barrier led to a two-day Israeli curfew in the community of 5,000 that was lifted on Tuesday.
Mr. Fayyad travelled to Nilin, 20 km east of Tel Aviv a day after the fourth anniversary of a ruling by the International Court of Justice that termed the network of razor-wire tipped fences and cement walls illegal.
© Thomson Reuters 2008
And might Mr. O. still be thinking he’s soon going to make a triumphal entry into the capital of an Islamic country while millions cheer and adulate him as the chief priest of CHANGE and US righteousness?
That’s just one of the reason the Zionists had to cut him off at the knee.
…but I guess there’s still time for an assassination….they take loyalty to Israel very seriously.
I sometimes wonder why with all this talk about a ceasefire by the media why it’s never mentioned that the killing of Palestinians never stopped. In the first 3 months of 2008 alone several hundred Palestinians were killed/homes destroyed/people taken into custody and probably still not returned home/daily checkpoint violations and humiliations and that list goes on. Well I know why it isn’t mentioned but it’s not like with the ceasefire the killing stopped.
“As I watch Israel behaving in ever increasing savage and irrational ways, am reminded of this interview with Israeli military historian Martin van Crefeld”:
Interviewer: Some maintain that it is Israel’s foreign enemies that keep the country unified.
Creveld: That’s right. I only wish that there were foreign enemies, but that isn’t the case. We’ve fought our external enemies for so many years. Each time there was a war, we took a mighty hammer to our foes, and after being defeated a few times, they left us alone. The problem with the Palestinian revolt is that it doesn’t come from without, but rather from within. Therefore we can’t avail ourselves of the hammer.
Interviewer: Is the solution, then, to keep the Palestinians outside the borders?
Creveld: Exactly, and right now there’s nearly unanimous agreement on that. We ought to build a wall “so high, that not even a bird can fly over it.” The only problem is: where to put the border? Since we can’t decide whether the territories conquered in 1967 should be included, for the time being we improvise a little. We’re building a series of little walls, which are much more difficult to defend. From a military standpoint this is very stupid. Every supermarket has gradually acquired its own living wall of security guards. Half the Israeli population is guarding the other half-unbelievable. Aside from the fantastic waste, it’s almost totally useless.
Interviewer: Does that mean that the Palestinians stay within the borders?
Creveld:
Interviewer: Will that ever be possible?
Creveld: Sure, since desperate times give rise to desperate measures. Today there’s a fifty-fifty split on where the border should run. Two years ago 90 percent wanted the wall built along the old border. That has completely changed now, and if things continue, if the terror doesn’t stop, in another two years perhaps 90 percent will want to build the wall along the Jordan. The Palestinians talk of “summutt,” meaning hang tough, cling to the ground and the soil. I have enormous respect for the Palestinians. They fight heroically. But if we in fact want to strike across the Jordan, we would need only a few brigades. If the Syrians or the Egyptians were to try to stop us, we’d wipe them out. Ariel Sharon is leader. He never improvises: he always has a plan.
Interviewer: A plan to deport the Palestinians?
Creveld: I think it’s quite possible that he wants to do that. He wants to escalate the conflict. He knows that nothing else we do will succeed.
Interviewer: Do you think that the world will allow that kind of ethnic cleansing?
Creveld: That depends on who does it and how quickly it happens. We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force.
Interviewer: Wouldn’t Israel then become a rogue state?
Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under.
Interviewer: This isn’t your own position, is it?
Creveld: Of course not. You asked me what might happen and I’ve laid it out. The only question is whether it is already too late for the other solution, which I support, and whether Israeli public opinion can still be convinced. I think it’s too late. With each passing day the expulsion of the Palestinians grows more probable. The alternative would be the total annihilation and disintegration of Israel. What do you expect from us?
This interview was conducted by Ferry Biedermann in Jerusalem. [Source: http://www.de.indymedia.o rg/2003/01/39170.shtml]
To tell lies that can be proved lies with the click of the mouse. These guys operate on a whole new level. This administration has to condone the most blatant aggressions because they lowered the moral bar with the Iraq invasion. Thankfully this morally bankrupt and criminal administration will be leaving us. But looking the other way in respect to Israeli violence is a horrible way to go out. Even for this group of clowns. So congratulations to the Bush administration you ride out on a wave of chaos.
Free Gaza owns the relief ship Dignity —> Free Gaza
The condoning of blatant aggressions by Israel did not begin with this administration, and it will not end with this administration.
hello Hurria . . . quite right that!
& here, a minor response re: Ammiel Alcalay
Constellations
Thanks. I missed that response.
That’s odd about Ammiel. I corresponded with him for a while about ten or fifteen years ago, and I could have sworn I remembered he was Iraqi. I must have made an association in my mind because because I met him via Ella (Habiba) Shohat. I had also associated him incorrectly with the book Exile from Exile, which is an anthology of Iraqi Jewish writers. I think I confused it with Keys to the Garden.
I should try to dig out those old e-mails and see what else I have misremembered.