Palestinian man lost ability to talk after being tortured by Abbas’ PA

Independent Commission for Human Rights cites over 28 cases of torture last month in Abbas’ West Bank prisons & another 23 complaints of torture from Hamas police force in the Gaza Strip.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

 

A Palestinian man who was detained by the Palestinian Authority security forces in Hebron has lost the ability to speak as a result of severe torture, according to a report released by the Independent Commission for Human Rights.

Mohamed Abdel Karim Dar of Hebron was hospitalized after being tortured while in detention, the report, which documented 28 cases of torture in PA prisons in the West Bank last month, said.

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Hezbollah takes serious losses in Syria with 30 killed on Sunday

At least 30 members of Shiite terrorist group fighting alongside Assad’s troops killed in battles in Qusair.

 

IDF outpost observes shooting directed at Israel from Syria.

Yoav Zitun, Maor Buchnik

 

An IDF observation post in the border area in the Golan Heights reported detecting small arms firing from the Syrian side of the border at an open area in Israel. No injuries or damage were reported.

מאבק עז של המורדים בקוסייר (צילום: AP)

Rebels in Qusair – Photo: AP

A complaint was lodged with the United Nations. The army is checking whether fire had indeed been directed at Israel.

Meanwhile, Syrian activists reported that about 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels on Sunday in the town of Qusair. Continue Reading »

Lapid to NYT: I oppose construction freeze & Abbas isn’t partner for peace

Yair Lapid, in New York Times interview, addressed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for 1st time since becoming finance minister, suggesting that Abbas, as a founding father of the ‘victimizing’ concept of the Palestinians, isn’t a partner for peace.

 

Finance Minister Yair Lapid opposes a freeze on Israeli settlement construction as a gesture to jump-start negotiations with the Palestinians.

Yair Lapid

Yair Lapid poses for a portrait at his house, January 16, 2013. – Photo: AP

In an interview with The New York Times, Lapid admitted that he has not spoken to nor met with any senior Palestinian officials, but claimed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is not a partner for peace. Continue Reading »

Shots Fired at IDF from Syria Border…Again

IDF assessment was that the gunfire was spillover from fighting between Syrian forces & rebels. No one is hurt.

By Gil Ronen

 

IDF soldiers carrying out routine security assignments along the border with Syria reported that shots were fired in their direction from the Syrian side of the border Monday morning.

No one was reported hurt in the incident.

The IDF’s general assessment is that the gunfire is spillover from the fighting in Syria, between forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebels.

There have been several incidents of fire from Syria hitting Israel in the last few months, including mortar shells. Continue Reading »

15 yr-old submits a ‘Holocaust denial’ report called Holohoax, & gets an ‘A’

American educator gives an ‘A’ for a report that includes comments like this: “The Germans were against typhus, which was the real reason for shaving heads, fumigating buildings, and cremating corpses.”

By Martin Hill

 

A 15-year-old girl from Southern California who attends a public high school tells the story of how she recently became aware of questions concerning the holocaust. After hearing the establishment’s version of the ‘shoah’ in her history class for weeks along with persistent rumors that Obamacare included provisions for microchipping all Americans, she was very upset at all the frightening and traumatizing details. Continue Reading »

Hamas Values: Mother Raises Her Children & Grandchildren to be a ‘martyr’

I brought them up to be martyrs. To become martyrs for the name of Allah. There wasn’t a definite time in which they told me that they wanted to become martyrs. I instilled this in them and they followed it… and the ones who just started – they are going to continue.

– Umm Nidal (Mariam Farhat) in interview with National Geographic, 2009

Mariam Farhat, a former member of parliament for Hamas in Gaza, raised each of her six sons to commit terror attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. She hoped that each of them would die in the process – that each of them would become a ‘martyr’.

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14 Muslim Clerics from 10 counties including the PA, to visit Auschwitz

Islamic clerics will visit Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp as part of an anti-genocide, Holocaust awareness program.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Fourteen Muslim clerics from around the world will visit the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said Friday.

Auschwitz

Auschwitz – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind of hatred led to,” Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told AFP on Friday. Continue Reading »

Iran hangs 2 men for spying for Mossad and CIA

The two men executed allegedly provided the Mossad & CIA with classified information on Iran, but it’s unclear when the alleged espionage activity happened or about the information passed.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

Iran’s state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for the Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.

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CIA Director John Brennan makes unpublicized visit to Israel

Brennan & Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, talked about Israel’s intent to continue striking shipments of advanced weapons destined to Hezbollah from Iran or even Syria.

By JTA

 

JERUSALEM — CIA director John Brennan made an unannounced visit to Israel to discuss the situation in Syria.

CIA director John Brennan - AP Photo-Charles Dharapak

CIA director John Brennan – Photo: AP/Charles Dharapak

Brennan and Israel’s defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, in their meeting Friday reportedly compared intelligence assessments on Syria and its two-year civil war. They also talked about Israel’s intent to continue striking shipments of advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah from Iran via Syria.

Syria has threatened to strike back at Israel the next time it strikes a weapons system on its soil, Britain’s Sunday Times reported.   Continue Reading »

Hamas confiscates Fatah’s rockets in Gaza

Hamas arrests Aqsa Martyrs Brigade activists in Gaza and took possession of at least a 100 rockets and other assorted weaponry.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Hamas has confiscated rockets and other types of weaponry belonging to Fatah’s armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian sources revealed Sunday.

Palestinian gunmen from Al-Aqsa brigades of Fatah

Palestinian gunmen from Al-Aqsa brigades of Fatah – Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

The sources told the Fatah-affiliated Palestine Press News Agency that Hamas confiscated 100 rockets and 500 “combat units” when Fatah tried to move them from one location to another in the Gaza Strip.

The sources did not explain what they meant by “combat units.” Continue Reading »

France in talks with Israel to acquire IDF drones

Defense Minister Le Drian says France in dire need to introduce intelligence-gathering drones suitable for modern warfare into their arsenal.

Reuters

 

France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones to build up a modern fleet, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday.

Israels Eitan (UAV-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) – Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson’s Office.

France’s existing hardware is outdated and its military intervention in Mali this year has exposed its shortage of surveillance drones suitable for modern warfare. The United States provided French commanders with intelligence from its drones based in Niger.

“We need this capacity in the short term. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu: Mistake to think Israel prefers Assad to rebels

Israel’s Prime Minister corrects the Times of London report that quoted a senior Israeli intelligence officer saying, he ‘does not represent the gov’t’s position,’.

 

 

A Friday report in the Times of London, according to which Israel prefers the regime of Bashar Assad than see a takeover of the country by rebel Islamist militants, is untrue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a meeting of Likud ministers on Sunday.

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A man stands in a damaged street filled with rubble in Deir al-Zor, May 18, 2013. Picture taken May 18, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

 

“The statements attributed to an Israeli intelligence officer do not represent the Israeli government’s position,” Netanyahu said, according to a source present at the meeting. Continue Reading »

Security Chief to stone-throwers: ‘silk glove treatment is over.’

Security forces are ending their ‘silk glove treatment’ of Arabs who attack Israeli towns with stones & firebombs, said security chief Yehuda Dana.

By Maayana Miskin

 

The IDF is increasingly determined to stop Palestinian Authority-resident Arabs’ attacks on Israeli communities, and is willing to use live fire if necessary, says Yehuda Dana, security chief for the Beit El region.

Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Dana said there has been an escalation in Arab attacks on Israeli civilians in recent months. “Their brazenness has crossed the line – they are doing what they didn’t do for years, like reaching the fence of an Israeli community and throwing rocks into the community, causing injuries,” he related. Continue Reading »

Canadian P.M.: West needs to be more supportive of Israel

Canada’s Stephen Harper takes Western leaders to task for not sufficiently backing Israel, going on to caution the west against arming Syrian rebel groups.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Canada last week once again demonstrated its unequivocal support for and friendship with Israel when Prime Minister Stephen Harper took other Western leaders to task for not backing the Jewish state sufficiently enough.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Stephen Harper - Photo Sean Kilpatrick-THE CANADIAN PRESS

Benjamin Netanyahu and Stephen Harper – Photo: Sean Kilpatrick-THE CANADIAN PRESS

 

“There’s nothing more shortsighted in Western capitals in our time than the softening of support we’ve seen for Israel around the globe,” the Associated Press quoted Harper as saying during a visit to New York City last week. Continue Reading »

Large hole cut into Gaza’s security fence discovered

 

The Company commander in charge of the area of the northern Gaza Strip will be court-martialed for the ‘operational error’.

IDF officer from the Southern Command calls the incident a “Yom Kippur for the Northern [Gaza] Brigade.”

By Lilach Shoval

 

An Israel Defense Forces patrol recently discovered a large breach in the security fence between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel. Following the discovery, which could have potentially ended with terrorist cells infiltrating Israel and carrying out attacks, the company commander in charge of the sector will be court-martialed this week.

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