{"article":{"id":218263,"heading":"Cross Your Fingers: Israel Claims It's Decided Against Gaza Invasion","author":"Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation","created":"2008-06-13 00:01:31","modified":"2008-08-17 13:46:51","last_modified":"Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:46:51","article":"

Israel decides against Gaza Strip invasion

Girl, 6, killed in Israeli tank attack: Gaza medical officials

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | 12:50 PM ET

Israeli leaders decided on Wednesday not to launch a broad invasion of the Gaza Strip to give truce talks a chance with its militant Hamas rulers.

(Let's hope this holds true, since Israel has been preparing to attack Gaza for at least a year now, and this crisis was engineered in order to enable them to pursue these plans, without appearing the aggressor.)

The announcement came a short time after news emerged that a six-year-old Palestinian girl was killed in a tank fire attack in the southern part of the strip, according to Palestinian doctors and relatives.

Palestinian medical officials said Israeli shells aimed at a group of militants in the strip hit a nearby house, decapitating the girl in her backyard.

The Israeli military said troops opened fire at militants preparing to launch rockets into Israel, successfully hitting a rocket squad, but said they were unaware of any Palestinian casualties.

The dead girl was identified by Gaza health officials as Hadeel al-Smari. Two adult relatives living in her family's compound near the Israeli border were also wounded in the attack.

Hamas rulers also reported that one of their gunmen was killed in the ongoing Israeli operation in the area.

Doubts a truce can be reached

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's security cabinet met Wednesday to talk about whether to invade Gaza or pursue Egypt-mediated talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev, said the Israeli military will continue its preparations in case the truce talks fail.

(The only real way they can 'fail' is if one side rejects the offer.)

The two sides formally renewed talks late last year at a U.S.-sponsored conference in Annapolis, Md., where they set aside a year-end target for a final accord.

(This was all for show, however, as these talks took place under a backdrop of Israeli-US covert actions intended to overthrow the democratically-elected Government, Collective Punishment provoked a violent response, Israeli attacks against Palestinians increased dramatically, Israel deliberately destroyed Gaza's food production, and Israel ignored its promises to the contrary, and continued with its illegal construction in the West Bank.)

Issues such as Israeli concerns over Palestinian attacks and continued construction on land Palestinians claim for a future state have upset talks.

In a newspaper interview published Wednesday, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad added his voice to a growing chorus of doubt about whether a truce is possible this year.

He said he is \"absolutely certain\" a peace deal can't be reached by the end of the year.

'No one can sleep day or night'

A relative of the Palestian girl killed Wednesday told the Associated Press that she was in the backyard of her family's house when a shell struck.

\"I am sure that she was up because no one can sleep day or night because of the army fire and clashes near our homes,\" Hadeel's cousin, Ahmad al-Smari, said in a telephone interview from the hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.

Israeli military officials say Palestinian militants endanger civilians by using residential areas as cover from which to launch their attacks.

Also Wednesday, an Israeli was lightly wounded when a mortar shell fired from Gaza hit a paint factory at Nir Oz, an Israeli collective village near the Gaza border, the military said. An Israeli man was killed in a mortar attack there last week (and several Palestinians, including several small children, were also killed by Israeli soldiers).

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Girl, 6, killed by Israel tank fire in Gaza

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Warnings Pour in For Israel to Cease Collective Punishment

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Red Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment (the First Round)

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As Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned

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Probe: At Least Half of Palestinians Killed by IDF Were Civilians

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Israeli Attacks on Palestinians, Killings, Doubled Since Annapolis

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UN Condemns Collective Punishment of Gaza

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It's All Right, I'm Only Bleeding

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Israel, World Jewry Drift Apart

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Jewish Groups Condemn Collective Punishment of Gaza

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Poll Reveals Neo-Con Zionist Groups Unrepresentative

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An invention called 'the Jewish people'

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Zionism's Support Faltering

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Western Jews Revolt Against Zionist Bully Tactics

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1650 Illegal Settlement Spots Approved This Week Alone

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As Predicted: Israel Rejects Truce, Calls Offer 'Failure'

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Real Diplomacy: Carter Meets Hamas

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No Peace Without Hamas

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Hamas ready to accept Israel as its neighbour: Carter

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Hamas Offers Gaza Truce

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Calling Israel's Bluff: Hamas Offers Truce, Negotiations

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Israelis open fire on Gazan protesters

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As Predicted: Israel Delays Vote on Gaza Strip Cease-fire

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When Will Israel Quit Pretending It Wants Peace?

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Divide & Rule: Palestinians Stuck at a Crossroads

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Israel Storms SE Gaza, Razes More Farms

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As Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned

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Israel's Goals: Regime Change, Reoccupation

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Attack on Gaza Looking More Likely

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Israeli officials: We will invade Gaza before truce deal takes effect

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Only 90 minutes later did they confess to lying \r\nEfrat Weiss \r\n\r\nTwo settlers are suspected of having given a false report of their own kidnapping, resulting in the launching of a large-scale manhunt that included the participation of IDF, police and Shin Bet forces. \r\n\r\nThe two men began by entering the village of Ein Abus near Nablus. At around 4:00 am they called in a report and alleged that they were bound and trapped inside a car. \r\n\r\nIDF troops carrying out an arrest operating in Nablus were dispatched to the neighboring village and located the two settlers, though they were found to be unrestrained. \r\n\r\nWhen confronted by the soldiers, the settlers fabricated yet another story \u2013 they reported that there had been a third member of their party and that he had been abducted by the Palestinians. At this point reinforcement troops were summoned. An hour and a half into the search, the two finally confessed to have made up the claims. \r\n\r\nThe IDF handed the two over to the Ariel police and filed a formal complaint against them. \r\n\r\nThe army views the incident with grave severity, particularly in light of the efforts and funds invested in the launching the search. \r\n\r\n"This is a very serious incident," military officials told Ynet. "By entering a Palestinian village in such an irresponsible manner and falsifying that report \u2013 they not only risked their own lives but also put the troops in harm's way, troopers that would otherwise have been operating against terrorists." \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/Ext\/Comp\/ArticleLayout\/CdaArticlePrintPreview\/1,2506,L-3554658,00.html \r\n\r\nSettler-Terrorists Filmed Beating Elderly Palestinian Woman \r\nhttps:\/\/publish.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400996.html \r\nCross Your Fingers: Israel Says It's 'Decided Against' Gaza Strip Invasion \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400894.html\r\n\r\n","author":"Settlers Fake Kidnapping in Bid to Provoke Wa","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-15 01:37:42","modified":"2013-11-11 00:53:45","fileurl":""},{"id":218326,"heading":"it was teenagers","article":"it was teenagers. if they were "Palestinians", you'd be calling them "children"","author":"it was teenagers","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-15 14:57:15","modified":"2008-06-15 14:57:15","fileurl":""},{"id":218391,"heading":"Wish them Well","article":"They were Extremists, trying to provoke a war.\r\n\r\nIsrael's continued preparations for the massive assault on Gaza doesn't really bode well for this 'case-fire'. I hope they haven't agreed in the name of PR alone.\r\n\r\nIf so, this will be the last straw.\r\n\r\nThose 'link farms' are footnotes. Plant.","author":"Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-19 16:14:10","modified":"2008-06-19 16:14:10","fileurl":""},{"id":218464,"heading":"Pray Hard","article":"When the predictable False Flag or Provocation comes, will there be any investigation before Israel destroys Gaza?","author":"Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-06-22 21:27:27","modified":"2008-06-22 21:27:27","fileurl":""},{"id":218824,"heading":"Israel Attacks NGO's, Schools, Human Rights Offices Throughout W. Bank","article":"Israel has always wanted an excuse to attack any institutions whose purpose is to help the Palestinians, or minimize their suffering, since Israel's ruling Extremists WANT the Palestinians to suffer, and abandon their legal and moral rights. \r\n\r\nIsrael's ruling Extremists have also planned a massive reinvasion of Gaza for over a year, and were on their way to achieving it, aided by the International Community's silence on their deliberately-engineered crisis in Gaza, when certain players demanded a cease-fire to halt Israeli aggression, and the Palestinians' responses. \r\n\r\nNow, Israel is desperately attempting to goad the Palestinians into responding to its actions, in a fashion which will be big enough to hold out to the world as "proof" that the Palestinians don't want peace - in order to appear the victim, as it always does when it wants to attack the Palestinians. \r\n\r\nIt should be noted that several of the organizations affected were instrumental in the recording and reporting of several acts of racism and violence against Palestinian civilians - many of them children - by the IDF, Shin Bet, and Settler-Extremists. \r\n\r\n\r\nUnder the pretext of fighting Hamas: \r\nIsrael launches all-out war on Islamic institutions in the West Bank \r\nFrom Khalid Amayreh in Nablus \r\n\r\nLearning aids trashed at this Nablus school by IOF soldiers \r\n\r\n\r\nJuly 9, 2008 \r\n\r\nPalestinian Islamic leaders have called on Arab and Muslim states as well as "all human beings who believe in justice" to strongly condemn an ongoing Israeli campaign against Islamic civilian institutions throughout the occupied West Bank. \r\n\r\nThe Israeli army on Tuesday, 8 July rampaged through the northern town of Nablus, raiding schools, businesses, charities, sport clubs and a major medical center. \r\n\r\n(Funny. I see no coverage of this in any of the major media.) \r\n\r\nEyewitnesses said as many as 130 Israeli military vehicles and armored personnel carriers stormed Nablus\u2019s downtown shortly after forces loyal to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas were ordered by the town\u2019s nominal governor Jamal Muhesen to return to their barracks and stay there until a further notice. \r\n\r\nThousands of American-trained Palestinian "national security forces" are stationed in Nablus, but their tasks are confined to fighting anti-Israeli activists, particularly members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad organizations. \r\n\r\n(In other words, they are the Colonial Auxiliary of the Israelis and their American collaborators.) \r\n\r\nThe targets of the latest Israeli rampage include a girl's school, which was thoroughly vandalized, an important medical center which offers free or semi-free health services to the poor and the unemployed, a commercial mall, a recreational center, and an insurance company and the offices of a number of NGOs. \r\n\r\nOne of these NGOs is the Nafha Society which monitors Israeli treatment of Palestinian political and resistance prisoners in Israeli jails and detention camps. \r\n\r\nLocal sources said crack soldiers and Shin Beth agents confiscated dozens of computers and other office equipment as well as undisclosed sums of cash. The soldiers also seized a large amount of furniture. The Shin Beth is Israel\u2019s chief domestic intelligence agency (as the Gestapo was Germany's) which effectively controls all aspects of Palestinians in the West Bank. The operation which began shortly after midnight lasted for nearly four hours, witnesses said. \r\n\r\nBefore leaving the city, Shin Beth officers gave proprietors written statements informing them the ownership of their businesses and property had already been transferred to the Israeli army. \r\n\r\nThe statement also warned that any Palestinian venturing to enter the closed premises would be imprisoned for a minimum of five years. \r\n\r\nThe Israeli army claimed the targeted businesses and the medical facilities were part of Hamas\u2019 civilian infrastructure and might have been involved in transferring money to the movement. \r\n\r\nHowever, proprietors and PA officials vehemently deny the charges, saying they were ordinary businesses and institutions functioning within the confines of the law. \r\n\r\nA co-owner of a commercial department-store the Israel army said it confiscated and ordered closed down told reporters that "they are punishing us for being religious." \r\n\r\n"In any country in this world, people are innocent until proven guilty. Here, in the so-called only democracy in the Middle East, they arrest us, they destroy our homes, they confiscate our property and destroy our businesses, even without talking to us. \r\n\r\n"So what is the difference between Israel and Nazi Germany," said the man who asked that his name remain anonymous lest he be arrested. \r\n\r\nThe man who was visibly angry said "we are a religious people, we pray and we give charity and fast during the month of Ramadan, but we have nothing to do with Hamas or any other organization. Destroying our businesses and ravaging our lives on the mere suspicion that we might be affiliated with Hamas is a dirty criminal act." \r\n\r\nWar on Islam \r\n\r\nOne officials at the Tadamun Medical Center, which was closed down and confiscated, accused the Israeli state of waging an all-out war on Islam similar to the war the Third Reich declared on Jews during the Second World War. \r\n\r\n"I call upon all Muslims and Arabs in the world to respond to this naked aggression on Islam and Muslims. Israel is simply seeking to destroy Islam. They want to destroy our mosques, they want to destroy our life, they want to obliterate the Islamic religion from Palestine," said Munir S. Hanbali. \r\n\r\n"The terrorist state claims that Hamas is the target. Don\u2019t you believe these lies. Their target is the very religion of Islam, because Islam is the last-remaining obstacle impeding the liquidation of the Palestinian cause by Israel." \r\n\r\nHanbali called on the governments of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Mauritania and Turkey as well as other states that value justice and humanity to immediately sever ties with "this criminal entity which murders children and starves them to death and then claims to do this on behalf of western civilization." \r\n\r\n"I tell these Arab and Muslims countries ' shame on you.\u2019 You are watching these vile criminals destroy the Palestinian community slowly and step by step while you are looking on as if what is happening in Nablus and Hebron were happening on a distant planet. \r\n\r\n"Wake up! Kick their ambassadors out of your country. Show them that you care about Palestine." \r\n\r\nProvoking Hamas \r\n\r\nHani al Masri, a prominent journalist and columnist from Nablus, opined that the Israeli rampage in the city was aimed at provoking Hamas to "break the truce in Gaza." \r\n\r\n"Israel wants to show that the relative calm in Gaza doesn\u2019t mean that Israel\u2019s hands will be tied up in the West Bank. Israel simply doesn\u2019t want the Palestinians to have a moment of peace." \r\n\r\nAl-Masri said while the Israeli crackdown on Islamic institutions would undermine the "public service sector," in the city, it would also increase public sympathy and support for Hamas. \r\n\r\n"And it would also hurt the image of the PA because the very same institutions targeted by Israel last night have also been targeted by the Palestinian Authority. \r\n\r\n"This would make people think that the PA and Israel are colluding and collaborating against Hamas in broad daylight." \r\n\r\nHamas itself accused the western-baked regime in Ramallah of conniving with Israel to destroy the Palestinian society in order to enable Israel to impose capitulation on Palestinians and liquidate the Palestinian cause. \r\n\r\n"Hamas strongly condemns the unprecedented Zionist crimes against the Palestinian society and its economic interests and civilian constitutions," said a statement distributed by Hamas Tuesday. \r\n\r\nThe statement accused the PA of collaborating and closely coordinating with the occupation forces. \r\n\r\n"Even their food will be confiscated" \r\n\r\nOn Monday, the Israeli newspaper Ha\u2019aretz quoted an Israeli army spokesman as saying that the occupation army will target Islamic charitable and educational institutions in the West Bank. \r\n\r\nThe spokesman said the purpose of the occupation army campaign against Islamic institutions was to strengthen the American-backed PA and weaken the Palestinian Islamic opposition. \r\n\r\n"We are talking about strengthening the moderate elements, that is the Palestinian Authority, but actually the PA has little control over the area. The Palestinian public prefers Hamas, because they are less corrupt and more efficient." \r\n\r\nThe spokesman bragged about targeting boarding schools, health care centers, charities "and even soup kitchens and orphanages.." \r\n\r\n"Dozens of associations were shut down and food confiscated." \r\n\r\nEarlier this year, the Israeli occupation army carried out a particularly draconian campaign against orphanages and boarding schools in Hebron, closing several institutions and leaving thousands of orphans and poor children un-catered for. \r\n\r\nThe confiscated objects included several buildings, school buses, office furniture, educational aids, classroom seats, sewing machines, clothes and shoes. \r\n\r\nMany of the items seized by the Israeli army from the Hebron institutions, including children clothes, kitchen appliances, refrigerators, food and dairy products and computers, were later found at a waste dump outside the settlement of Kiryat Arba\u2019a. \r\n\r\nThe campaign was widely condemned by human rights organizations. However, Israel\u2019s guardian-ally, the United States, supported the Israeli measures. \r\n\r\nHowever, as usual in such circumstances, Israeli flew in the face of the world, saying that "no country can tell Israel what to do. We do what we want." \r\n\r\nThe visibly vindictive campaign against Palestinian institutions such as schools, hospitals, orphanages and businesses is generating a lot of hatred for Israel and Jews among a people who already have been through more than 41 years of a Nazi-like military occupation. \r\n\r\nNael Salameh is a Palestinian businessman from Nablus. He says that Israel is behaving like a mad bull. \r\n\r\n"An army that targets soup kitchens and orphanages and ordinary businesses doesn\u2019t differ much from gangsters and common criminals. A state that behaves like gangsters and criminals will not live for long." \r\n\r\nSalameh said Israel was pushing the Palestinian people to the edge. \r\n\r\n"Besides, who says that the suicide bomber is the product of the Palestinian society and culture? It is not. \r\n\r\n"The suicide bomber is first and foremost an inevitable by-product of Israel\u2019s Nazi-like terror and cruelty against the Palestinian society. This is what the world ought to understand." \r\n\r\n http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?p=m45557&hd=&size=1&l=e \r\n\r\nIsrael Throws Hundreds of Palestinian Students onto the Streets: The Tragedy of Hebron Schools and Orphanages Affiliated with the Islamic Charitable Society \r\nAhmad Jaradat and Sara Venturini, Alternative Information Center (AIC) \r\n\r\nThe Islamic Charitable Society sewing workshop in Hebron was among the buildings raided by the Israeli military, causing losses amounting altogether to US$418,000. \r\n\r\nJuly 8, 2008 \r\n\r\nThe international campaign to save the \r\nschools and orphanages in the city of Hebron which are affiliated with the \r\nIslamic Charitable Society (ICS) has had a strong impact, forcing Israeli \r\nembassies around the world to respond to requests for information and answers. \r\n\r\nRelying on information obtained from the Israeli military, embassies are working to \r\ncreate a climate of terror against the ICS, thereby justifying Israel\u2019s actions \r\n(For more on the ICS, click" target="_new">www.hebronorphans.blogspot.com\/">click \r\nhere). \r\n\r\nIsraeli embassies claim that the military never closed any school or institute operated by what they referred to as "the Hamas movement," even though, according to the Israeli authorities, these schools were used by Hamas to promote its goals and strengthen its power through force and terrorism. Embassies noted that the Israeli military indeed closed schools built for the children of Hebron, but that the schools had not yet been functional. However, the schools had been fully equipped and supplied, such that this distinction is meaningless, as there are also a closure orders for the remaining fully functioning schools and orphanages, orders that may be executed at any moment. \r\n\r\nOnly last week, the Israeli military raided \r\nand closed two additional branches of the ICS, in the Shyukh and Beit Ula \r\nvillages near Hebron. The military confiscated almost everything in the buildings, \r\nwhich hosted a school, kitchen, kindergarten and administrative offices. The \r\nestimated cost of the confiscated material is US$18,000, which is in addition to \r\nthe previous US$400,000 lost from the confiscation of equipment and damages \r\nfrom the last month. \r\n\r\nAccording to the Israeli embassies, the Israeli \r\nmilitary has proof that the ICS in Hebron is involved in recruiting activists \r\nfor the organization and in collecting funds for terrorist activities, all \r\nundertaken under the cover of civilian networks. In this way, the Israeli \r\nembassies contend, the ICS is trying to increase support for Hamas and \r\ndisseminate its radical ideology, which includes encouragement of Islamic Jihad \r\nagainst the "Zionism enemy." \r\n\r\nIsrael believes that the ICS educates youth \r\nwith the extremist doctrine of Jihad, supports martyrdom and provides financial \r\naid in Hebron to families of terrorists. The Israeli embassies noted that \r\nIsrael has confiscated documents which contain severe incitement against Jews, \r\nIsrael and the United States. \r\n\r\nBecause of this, it is stated, the Israeli \r\nmilitary operates against the economic resources of the Islamic charity \r\nassociations. These resources, they believe, serve as an income source for the Hamas terrorist movement, which uses this money to support its terrorist activities. \r\n\r\nTo date, absolutely no proof has been \r\noffered by Israel to the ICS, the local and international media or the numerous \r\nnon-governmental agencies involved in protecting the orphans to back up its \r\nmost serious claims. The fact that, however, that no evidence has been offered \r\nto the public\u2014and likely will never be\u2014points to the likelihood that no such \r\ndocuments have ever been confiscated and no such activities have ever been \r\nconducted by the ICS in these schools and orphanages. Under the cover of \r\n"security needs" the Israeli authorities are committing grave human rights \r\nviolations and throwing thousands of Palestinian students and orphans onto the \r\nstreet. \r\n\r\nAccording to the ICS lawyer, Mr. Jawad \r\nBulos, the Israeli High Court has refused to issue an order nisiwww.alternativenews.org\/news\/english\/israel-throws-hundreds- \r\nof-palestinian-students-onto-the-streets-the-tragedy-of-hebr ... title="_ednref1" name="_ednref1">[i], \r\nas he requested, and has scheduled a hearing on the case in October. The Israeli \r\nmilitary is now offering to negotiate if a management system acceptable to it \r\ncan be found. On the one hand this is good news, as it signals that the Israeli \r\nmilitary has noted the international interest and does not possess any credible \r\nproof. On the other, however, without the order nisi to halt the closures \r\npending the court hearing, the military can close the schools and orphanages \r\nany time it wishes if the Israelis believe that international interest has \r\nfaded. \r\n\r\n\r\nAccordingly, international support is most \r\nneeded. Following an \r\nappeal from the Christian Peacemaker Team, we are inviting all concerned to \r\nvisit the orphanages, to spend a night so that the buildings don\u2019t remain \r\nempty, to tour the buildings of the ICS, the one closed and seized and the one \r\nstill functioning and to tour the city of Hebron, where poverty and closures \r\nare destroying a once thriving economy. Hebron\u2019s old city has become a ghost \r\ntown, and, with all the buildings the Israeli military is now trying to close, \r\nit will become increasingly so. Hebron\u2019s al-Huda Mall, a very large building of \r\nthe ICS that once hosted several shops, a student library, offices for \r\ntherapists, dentists and lawyers, in addition to the administrative office for the \r\norphanages, has now been made empty. Only the library, which is also under \r\nthreat, and one clothing shop, which managed to escape the closure order, are \r\nstill open in a climate of fear and desolation. \r\n\r\nThe ICS provides schools, orphanages and a \r\nnetwork of support for thousands of people in Hebron while the Palestinian \r\nAuthority, which bears responsibility in the area, fails to protect its people. \r\nRemoving one of the most important safety nets from the thousands of families \r\nand children who depend upon the charities will increase devastation for Palestinian \r\nresidents of Hebron. \r\n\r\nThe Israeli actions against the ICS will \r\naffect the lives of thousands of people from Hebron and its surroundings, such \r\nthat they can be considered collective punishment, done to intimidate and crush \r\nthe local population. \r\n\r\nAttorney Bulos believes that a major part \r\nof the solution to this crisis is political. There is an explicit Israeli plan to \r\ntarget all Palestinian infrastructures that can be related in any way to \r\nIslamic organizations and movements. Yet, in a situation where the PA doesn\u2019t \r\nhave either ability or willpower to secure a livelihood for the Palestinian \r\npopulation, these Islamic charities represent some of the only institutions \r\nthat have demonstrated the capacity to support the social needs of the people \r\nin the area. \r\n\r\nWhen the official government fails to take \r\ncare of the needs of the Palestinians, we ask all of you to help in taking an urgent \r\naction. \r\n\r\nYou can find the schedule by clicking on this" target="_new">www.cpt.org\/cptnet\/2008\/06\/02\/hebron-action-alert-act-week-s \r\ntop-israeli-military-closing-orphanages-and-schools-">this \r\nlink. \r\n\r\n http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?p=m45553&hd=&size=1&l=e \r\n\r\nWarnings Pour in For Israel to Cease Collective Punishment \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10555S \r\n\r\nRed Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment (the First Round) \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8994S \r\n\r\nAs Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/01\/388658.html \r\n\r\nProbe: At Least Half of Palestinians Killed by IDF Were Civilians \r\n http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/944276.html \r\n\r\nIsraeli Attacks on Palestinians, Killings, Doubled Since Annapolis \r\n http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?p=m40008&hd=&size=1&l=e \r\n\r\nUN Condemns Collective Punishment of Gaza \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/01\/389757.html?c=on#c187937 \r\n\r\nIt's All Right, I'm Only Bleeding \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10557S \r\n\r\nIsrael, World Jewry Drift Apart \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10554S \r\n\r\nJewish Groups Condemn Collective Punishment of Gaza \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10877S \r\n\r\nPoll Reveals Neo-Con Zionist Groups Unrepresentative \r\n http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/12\/12\/ajc_poll\/index.html \r\n\r\nAn invention called 'the Jewish people' \r\n http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/959229.html \r\n\r\nZionism's Support Faltering \r\n http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/7472\/index.php \r\n\r\nWestern Jews Revolt Against Zionist Bully Tactics \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/regions\/world\/2007\/03\/364749.html \r\n\r\n1650 Illegal Settlement Spots Approved This Week Alone \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15847S \r\n\r\nAs Predicted: Israel Rejects Truce, Calls Offer 'Failure' \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/04\/397226.html \r\n\r\nReal Diplomacy: Carter Meets Hamas \r\n http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/8877\/index.php \r\n\r\nNo Peace Without Hamas \r\n http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/8876\/index.php \r\n\r\nHamas ready to accept Israel as its neighbour: Carter \r\n http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/8874\/index.php \r\n\r\nHamas Offers Gaza Truce \r\n http:\/\/www.www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/04\/397459.html \r\n\r\nCalling Israel's Bluff: Hamas Offers Truce, Negotiations \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?13920S \r\n\r\nIsraelis open fire on Gazan protesters \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15849S \r\n\r\nAs Predicted: Israel Delays Vote on Gaza Strip Cease-fire \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15846S \r\n\r\nWhen Will Israel Quit Pretending It Wants Peace? \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15845S \r\n\r\nDivide & Rule: Palestinians Stuck at a Crossroads \r\n http:\/\/www.winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?15854S \r\n\r\nIsrael Storms SE Gaza, Razes More Farms \r\n http:\/\/www.news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-06\/05\/content_8317222.htm \r\n\r\nAs Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/01\/388658.html llll \r\n\r\nIsrael's Goals: Regime Change, Reoccupation \r\n http:\/\/www.israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/8687\/index.php \r\n\r\nAttack on Gaza Looking More Likely \r\n http:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?16447S \r\n\r\nIsraeli officials: We will invade Gaza before truce deal takes effect \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400696.html \r\n\r\nIsraeli Settlers Bind Palestinian Teacher to Pole and Club Him \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/07\/402837.html \r\n\r\nWhen You Shoot the Messenger: Israel Brutalizes Palestinian Journalist \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/07\/402564.html \r\n\r\nAward-Winning Palestinian Journalist Brutalized by Israeli Shin Bet \r\n https:\/\/publish.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/07\/402401.html \r\n\r\nIsrael shaken by troops' tales of brutality against Palestinians \r\n http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2007\/oct\/21\/israel \r\n\r\n10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers \r\n http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?p=m45397&hd=&size=1&l=e \r\n\r\nPalestinians Catch Settler-Extremist Attack On Film \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400996.html \r\n\r\nIn Bid to Provoke Gaza War, Settler-Extremists Fake Kidnapping \r\n https:\/\/israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/9236\/index.php \r\n\r\nIsraeli Settler-Extremists Fire Mortars into W. Bank Village \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/07\/402398.html \r\n\r\nCross Your Fingers: Israel Says It's 'Decided Against' Gaza Strip Invasion \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/400894.html \r\n\r\nTruce or Dare: Israel Issues Ultimatum \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/06\/401482.html \r\n","author":"Israel Attacks NGO's, Schools, Human Rights O","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-07-10 22:12:37","modified":"2013-11-11 00:53:50","fileurl":""},{"id":219541,"heading":"Israel Trying to Undermine Cease-Fire","article":"Hamas blames \u201dIsraeli collaborators\u201d for launching rockets \r\n\r\nPosted: 12-08-2008 , 13:56 GMT \r\n\r\nThe Hamas rulers of Gaza Strip on Tuesday lashed out at gunners who fire rockets at Israel from the Palestinian territory in violation of a seven-week-old calm, calling them Israeli collaborators. "About the rocket-firing, I think those who are responsible are those who collaborate with Israel because there is a consensus by all Palestinian groups to respect the truce," said Dr. Mahmud Zahar, a senior leader of the Hamas movement.\r\n\r\nOn Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an empty field outside the southern Israeli city of Sderot, causing no casualty or damage.\r\n\r\nAccording to AFP, Zahar told a Gaza radio station that the party which fired the rocket was "linked to Israel as they provide a pretext to exercise pressure on the Palestinian people."\r\n\r\nAfter the latest incident, Israel on Tuesday closed the Nahal Oz crossing to Gaza Strip that is used to ferry in fuel and the Sufa passage for food deliveries to the impoverished and blockaded territory. On his part, MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, strongly denounced Tuesday the Israeli decision to close the crossings, noting that the Gaza commercial crossings are already paralyzed despite the calm.\r\n\r\nIn a press statement received by the PIC, Khudari underlined that the Gaza crossings especially Al-Mintar (Karni) crossing must remain open around the clock for more than a year in order to end the effects of the Israeli siege imposed on the Strip two years ago. The lawmaker also pointed out that Gaza needs more than 400 trucks laden with raw materials necessary for various industrial sectors.\r\n\r\n\u00a9 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.albawaba.com\/en\/news\/233996\r\n\r\nRed Cross Condemns Gaza Collective Punishment (the First Round) \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?8994S \r\n\r\nAs Predicted: Gaza Reoccupation Planned \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/01\/388658.html \r\nIsraeli Attacks on Palestinians, Killings, Doubled Since Annapolis \r\nhttp:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/?p=m40008&hd=&size=1&l=e \r\n\r\nUN Condemns Collective Punishment of Gaza \r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/01\/389757.html?c=on#c187937 \r\n\r\nIt's All Right, I'm Only Bleeding \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10557S \r\n\r\nRights Group: More than 50% of Gaza casualties were civilians \r\nhttp:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/960338.html \r\n\r\nIsrael's Goals: Regime Change, Reoccupation \r\nhttp:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/news\/2008\/03\/215188.php \r\n\r\nBay of Pigs in Gaza: Gaza Crisis Made in USA \r\nhttp:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/news\/2008\/03\/215187.php \r\n\r\nJewish Groups Condemn Collective Punishment of Gaza \r\nhttp:\/\/winnipeg.indymedia.org\/item.php?10877S \r\n\r\nCalling Israel's Bluff: Hamas Offers Truce, Negotiations \r\nhttp:\/\/israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/8898\/index.php#Comment-19179 \r\n\r\nOlmert Pays Lip Service to Peace Deal, While Planning Gaza Assault http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2008\/05\/399277.html \r\n\r\nAmnesty: Trapped \u2013 Collective Punishment in Gaza\r\nhttps:\/\/israel.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/9472\/index.php ","author":"Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-15 22:54:44","modified":"2013-11-11 00:54:06","fileurl":""},{"id":219550,"heading":"Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell?","article":"Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell?","author":"Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-16 13:36:53","modified":"2008-08-16 13:36:53","fileurl":""},{"id":219556,"heading":"Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell?","article":"no kidding.\r\nAs the previous list of links show, there is absolutly nothing that these creatures will not lie, invert and accuse others of doing while they proceed with the plan to annex the remainder of 'greater isreal' for a glaringly racist colonial state.","author":"Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-16 14:36:45","modified":"2008-08-16 14:36:45","fileurl":""},{"id":219564,"heading":"Glaringly racist state?","article":"Glaringly racist state? One that permits NO JEWS whatsoever? The way that the PA insists that any future 'Palestinian' state will be? One that forbids citizenship or property rights to anyone professing the Jewish faith, like Jordan?\r\n\r\nBe more specific","author":"Glaringly racist state?","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-16 17:03:47","modified":"2008-08-16 17:03:47","fileurl":""},{"id":219569,"heading":"Sadly, No.","article":""Is there any lie that these people WON'T tell?"\r\n\r\nNo, the Zionists are shameless. But they have to be. After all, they support an indefensible, violent, and racist political Cult, which is based upon a Revisionist Mythology.\r\n\r\nCan't really defend it by telling the truth, now, can you?","author":"Zionist Extremism Key Impediment to Peace","parent_id":218263,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-08-16 23:06:51","modified":"2008-08-16 23:06:51","fileurl":""}]}