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| yunus |
| 07/22/02 at 18:34:02 |
| i just say this news story this must have just happend 30 minutes ago. We cant let the US support these terrorists any longer we must speak out GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air raid in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians on Tuesday, hospital officials said. Witnesses said an Israeli F-16 warplane fired a missile that leveled five houses in a Gaza City neighborhood. Officials at Gaza's Shifa Hospital said at least 10 Palestinians, including three children, were killed in the attack and dozens of people were wounded. |
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| yunus |
| 07/22/02 at 20:03:35 |
| here is a update Israel Kills Head of Hamas Military Wing- Hamas Mon Jul 22, 6:54 PM ET By Shahdi al-Kashif GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed at least 10 Palestinians including the head of the military wing of the fundamentalist Islamic group Hamas, a senior Hamas official said. Reuters Photo "We have confirmation that the leader of the military wing of Hamas, Sheikh Salah Shehada, was killed in this attack," the senior official, Ismail Haniyeh, told reporters. Doctors at Gaza's Shifa Hospital said at least nine other people, including three children and four women, were killed in the air raid in Gaza City. They said some 90 were wounded. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Palestinian witnesses said an Israeli F-16 warplane fired a missile that brought down five houses, reducing them to rubble. Hamas has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupted in September 2000. Palestinian security sources said Shehada had been at the top of Israel's most-wanted list. At least 1,447 Palestinians and 559 Israelis have been killed in the violence which erupted after U.S.-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza stalled. Israeli troops have reoccupied seven of eight West Bank cities after suicide attacks last month killed 26 people. Although military reoccupation has curbed suicide bomber missions into Israel, violence in the Gaza Strip ( news - web sites) between Palestinians and Israeli troops guarding Jewish settlements has continued. Palestinian officials said two Islamic Jihad militants were killed overnight in a clash with Israeli troops near the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said a gun battle broke out after soldiers identified two "terrorists" seen near an army post and that two soldiers were lightly injured. |
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| yunus |
| 07/23/02 at 11:19:47 |
| GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/ Press release, Tuesday July 23 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Sharon answers cease-fire offer with carnage Rabin-Pelosof resigns from the government = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Less than twenty-four hours ago, the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahamad Yassin made an unprecedented public call for a cease-fire with Israel. That call was the culmination of long, patient negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas leadership, aimed at achieving a ceasefire between the Palestinians and Israel, putting an end to suicide bombings and paving the way to a resumption of some kind of political process Saudi Arabia, too, is known to have made direct approaches to the Hamas leaders in order to achieve the same result. A government of Israel caring even a little bit for the well-being of its own citizens would have welcomed the opening. Not so the Sharon Government, whose response was to send an F-16 fighter plane on a bombing spree in Gaza. The effect of attempting to assassinate a senior Hamas leader was a carnage whose victims included many women and children. Now, instead of offers of ceasefire the Hamas leadership is coming out with calls for revenge, which seems to suit Sharon much better. It is the PM, with his endless string of provocations, who bears the responsibility for this missed opportunity of ending the cycle of bloodshed. Deputy Defence Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosof resigned this evening, charging the Sharon government with destroying the life work of the late Yitzchak Rabin, her father. For more information: Adam Keller, Gush Shalom spokesperson +972-3-5565804 / +972-56-709603 / +972-56-709604 [We just received the following from George Rishmawi who lives under curfew in Beit Sahour] ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "abunimir" <abunimir@yahoo.com> Date sent: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 23:51:51 -0000 Subject: [pcraddressbook] Israeli terrorist airstrike kills 12 in Gaza [Gaza, on Tuesday July 23, 2002] Israeli F-16 fighters attacked a residential area to the east of the Al Yarmouk area in Gaza a couple of hours ago killing 12 Palestinian civilians and injuring more than 130, children, women, and old people among them. Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that Sheikh Salah Shehadeh (one of Hamas leaders) has been killed in the attack. Al Jazeera TV said that Shehadeh's wife and three of his children have also been killed in the same attack among the 12 dead. This terrorist attack comes hours after Hamas's leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin's declaration about the intention of Hamas to stop its military attacks in Israel if Israel withdraws from the Palestinian areas. (Some Palestinian sources say that Sheikh Salah Shehadeh is still alive.) Israeli and Palestinian officials met and there was a talk about withdrawing from two re-occupied cities if things will be quiet in the coming 24 hours or so. Now Israel assasinates a Hamas leader and Hamas is threatening to revenge. Thus, there will be no 24 hours of no attacks. This means that there will be no withdrawal from the cities. I think the message is clear by now. Israel wants to keep provoking the Palestinians so they keep their occupation alive in the midst of an American blessing for every Israeli crime against the Palestinians under the excuse of fighting terrorism. If what Palestinians are doing is terrorism, then Israel has to be blamed for creating it. The occupation is the maker of its and our suffering, therefore Occupation has to stop so that both peoples can live in peace. |
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| yunus |
| 07/23/02 at 14:59:57 |
| 15 killed, including Hamas chief, in Israeli missile attack By Justin Huggler in Jeruslaem 23 July 2002 At least 12 people including the leader of the military wing of Hamas, his wife and three of their children, were killed and more than 100 wounded last night in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. Nine children were thought to have died in the attack, which the Israeli military said was targeted at the head of the military wing of the Islamist militant group, Sheikh Saleh Shehada. This morning the group confirmed he had been killed. "Hamas mourns the hero, the leader, Salah Shehadeh," Hamas said in a statement. "Anyone who dreams of so-called peace is mistaken. There is nothing called 'peace with Israel' We will avenge the blood of the martyrs." Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, immediately condemned the attack and called on Israel to obey international law. A statement from the Palestinian Authority denounced the Israeli strike and called for international intervention to "stop these massacres." The statement charged that the aim was to "sabotage the international efforts to pressure the Israeli government to withdraw troops ... and to get back to negotiations." Israeli foreign ministry official Gideon Meir said the attack was a "strike against a known terrorist who is responsible for hundreds of attacks on Israeli civilians in recent years." He expressed regret for the loss of life. "To our great sorrow, in these operations, sometimes, and in military operations, civilians are also killed," he said. There were frantic scenes in the poor neighbourhood in Gaza as locals hoisted the blood-spattered wounded over their shoulders and bundled them into waiting cars. Jamal Halaby, a local police officer, said he saw the missile cross the sky, then heard the sound of a large explosion. "I fell out of my bed and I found myself a minute later covered in dust and stones, and the sounds of my children screaming and crying," he said. The Israeli military accused Mr Shehada of being behind hundreds of attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians in the past two years. Hamas has been claimed responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks that claimed scores of Israeli lives. It was not clear how many of the dead and wounded were connected to Mr Shehada or Hamas. Witnesses in Gaza City said several houses collapsed after being hit by a single missile, trapping many people under rubble. The air strike dimmed a faint glimmer of new hope after a day of renewed optimism. It came only hours after Hamas' spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, said the organisation would consider stopping attacks on Israelis if the Israeli army withdrew from West Bank towns it has reoccupied. That was after the Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, said the Israeli army was prepared to pull out of two of the West Bank towns it has reoccupied, Bethlehem and Hebron, if Palestinian security forces could take over there and prevent attacks against Israelis remarks that were greeted with scepticism by more hardline members of the Israeli government. Last night all talk of ending Hamas attacks was off. Ismail Haniyeh, a spokesman for Hamas, said: "Not only will Hamas take revenge for the martyrs, all the Palestinian people will unify to revenge for the blood of the martyrs." He was talking to reporters at Shifa hospital, where the wounded were being treated. The large number of casualties will cause fury among many Palestinians. Israeli security sources, quoted by the Israeli media, said among the attacks Mr Shehada was responsible for were a militant attack on a training course at a Jewish settlement for students about to enter the army in which five people were killed, and an attack on a military outpost in which four Israeli soldiers died. The Israeli army has not reoccupied Gaza, as it did with Palestinian towns in the West Bank, but there are frequent Israeli air strikes against targets in Gaza. In recent days, jets have struck twice at metal workshops where the Israelis said Palestinian militants were making bombs and mortars to use against them. Earlier yesterday, two Palestinians were killed in a gun battle outside a Jewish settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said the Palestinians were planning to attack a military outpost at Tel Katifa. In another development earlier yesterday, the Israeli government said it had released some $20m (£13m) of $600m of Palestinian tax revenues it has been withholding since the beginning of the current intifada. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are still deep in economic crisis an effect of many months of Israeli blockades and 24-hour curfews. |
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| yunus |
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