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| September 9, 2014
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4 Gaza fishermen arrested by Israel Naval Patrol

Israeli naval forces detain 4 Palestinian fishermen and seize their boats near Beit Lahiya, in the northern strip, after they crossed Gaza’s designated fishing zone.

By Associated Press

 

The Israeli navy has arrested four Palestinian fishermen and seized their boat after they crossed the zone designated for fishing, in one of the first instances of friction between the sides since the Gaza war ended last month.

Israeli Patrol watching Gaza fishermen along Gaza's border - Photo by Rosa_Schiano

Israeli Patrol watching Gaza fishermen along Gaza’s border – Photo: Rosa_Schiano

Nizar Ayyash of the Gaza Fishermen’s Union says the incident occurred on Tuesday off the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

The four were taken for questioning at the Ashdod naval base. Continue Reading »

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| September 5, 2014
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In rebuttal to Archbishop Tutu: Focusing on Israel to blame won’t bring peace

You missed the point: The Arab-Israeli conflict isn’t just a struggle for liberation, it’s for survival. It’s not apartheid-era South Africa redux, which is why your boycott ‘cure’ isn’t and won’t work.

 

Dear Archbishop Tutu,

Recently, you addressed the people of Israel in Haaretz (“My plea to the people of Israel: Liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine”) explaining why the methods of boycott and divestment used in South Africa should be applied to the situation in Israel-Palestine. You offered your own impressive personal testimony, grounded in your substantial contribution in the fields of religion, peacemaking, society building and more – to validate the growing movement aimed at isolating Israel in the international community.

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| September 1, 2014
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Egypt: Condition for Rafah crossing opened if Abbas’ Palestinian Authority troops guard it

Hamas has not dismissed the proposal outright, which indicates a willingness to consider Egypt’s demand.

Jerusalem has no objection to Cairo’s condition.

 

Egypt is conditioning an easing of transit restrictions at the Rafah checkpoint on the presence of a force from the Palestinian Authority’s Presidential Guard being stationed on the Gaza side of the crossing.

Rafah crossing.

Gazans wait, hoping to be given the permission to cross into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing, August 27, 2014.- Photo: AFP

Egypt has made this requirement clear to both Hamas and Israel in recent days. During the last weeks of the fighting, Hamas had indicated a willingness to consider the idea, but it hasn’t given a final answer. Continue Reading »

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| August 28, 2014
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Egyptian soldier shoots dead Gaza smuggler entering illegally via Hamas terror-tunnel

The Palestinian Ma’an news agency reports a 2nd Palestinian man escaped near Rafah.

Egyptian Authorities announced early this year it destroyed 1,370 of Hamas’ smuggling tunnels from Gaza.

 

Egyptian soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man Wednesday who was attempting to enter Egypt through a tunnel that exited near Rafah, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported.

Hamas operatives inside an underground tunnel in Gaza on August 18, 2014.

Hamas operatives inside an underground tunnel in Gaza on August 18, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

Citing Egyptian security sources, Ma’an said a second man escaped.
Egyptian border guards opened fire when they spotted two people exiting the tunnel, according to the report.

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| August 22, 2014
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Hamas chief accuses Israel of ‘replicating Hitler’ in committing Holocaust

Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief tells Turkish Andalou News Agency that Israel is carrying out a ‘holocaust’ in the Gaza Strip.

 

Hamas’ political chief Khaled Meshal has vowed to keep fighting Israel until the country meets its terms for a permanent truce, while accusing Israel of carrying out a Holocaust in the Strip and replicating Adolf Hitler.

Khaled Meshal, July 23, 2014.

Islamist Hamas movement chief, Khaled Meshal holds a press conference in the Qatari capital Doha on July 23, 2014. – Photo: AFP

“We are determined to realize the demands of the Palestinian people, especially lifting the siege and securing the release of [Palestinian] detainees,” Meshal, who is based in Qatar, told the Turkish Andalou Agency in an interview on Thursday.

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| August 20, 2014
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Hamas: Israel is ‘Opening the Gates of Hell’

 

Hamas says its rocket fire came in response to an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza home, vowing Israel will have no peace.

By Elad Benari

 

Hamas declared on Tuesday night that Israel had “opened the gates of hell”.

In a statement, the group’s so-called “military wing” said that it had resumed the rocket fire on Israel because the Israeli Air Force had launched an airstrike on a home in Gaza.

The group warned that “the price will be a heavy one”.

Senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq warned, according to AFP, “Israel will not enjoy security so long as the Palestinian people do not, and it started it.” Continue Reading »

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| August 15, 2014
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A Dutch recipient of Israel’s ‘Righteous Gentile’ award has returned it over Gaza

The prestigious Yad V’Shem award was returned after honoree’s family were allegedly killed in Gaza.

By Tova Dvorin

 

A Dutch man who received the prestigious Righteous Gentile award from Yad V’Shem has given back his medal, Haaretz reported Friday, in protest of the civilian casualties in Gaza.

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem – Reuters

Henk Zanoli, 91, hid a Jewish child in his home between 1943 and 1945, saving the child’s life. Zanoli and his mother, Johana Zanoli-Smit, received the medal for their actions in 2011.

But Zanoli returned the accolade earlier this week to the Israeli embassy in the Hague, citing the death of several family members of his great-niece’s husband, who is a Gaza native and whose family members died in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last month. Continue Reading »

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| August 15, 2014
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PA to UNESCO: Israel’s Targeting Gaza Mosques for Destruction is a War Crime

Although the IDF did not comment on the matter, it’s no secrete Israel has in the past mentioned how Hamas has stored weapons in the mosques.

 

The destruction of 41 mosques over the last five weeks during Israel’s military operation in Gaza is a war crime, the Palestinian Authority Tourism and Antiquities Ministry charged on Thursday.

A PALESTINIAN man walks past the remains of a Khan Yunis mosque.

A PALESTINIAN man walks past the remains of a Khan Yunis mosque in the southern Gaza Strip early this week, which witnesses said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike. – Photo: REUTERS

It added that another 120 mosques and shrines were partially destroyed. Continue Reading »

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| August 9, 2014
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Hamas Fired Rockets From Church Being Used to Shelter Gaza’s Christians

 

Priest based in Gaza acknowledges that Christians must obey Hamas orders with a Palestinian pastor saying those that dare speak out, may be killed.

By Israel Today Staff

Israel has been trying to drive home the point that Hamas fired many of the 3,500 missiles that targeted the Jewish state over the past month from either inside or within the vicinity of mosques, schools, hospitals and other civilian facilities.

 Archbishop Alexios and others share a meal in the courtyard of the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, as the war between Israel and Hamas rages just beyond its walls.

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| August 9, 2014
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Justice Minister Presents Her 6-Point Plan for Gaza Ceasefire on Israel TV News

Minister Livni’s new plan links a Gaza ceasefire with resuming the peace negotiations with Abbas and the PA.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has presented a six-point plan which links a ceasefire in Gaza with a return to peace negotiations with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Channel 2 News reported about the details of the plan on Friday evening. Livni has presented the plan to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu but he has yet to respond, the report said.

Livni’s plan includes the following steps:

  • A ceasefire.
  • Immediate humanitarian assistance to the residents of Gaza.
  • Measures that will meet both Israel’s security demands and the economic needs of the people of Gaza, equating the interests of the parties.
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| August 8, 2014
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Hamas Defector: Palestinian Children are Hamas’ Hostages of Terror

Son of Hamas founder says Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ is for the benefit of all free people.

By Israel Today Staff

 

In a to-the-point interview with CNN, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, said that the terror organization is not only the reason for the current war, but is holding the people of Gaza, and in particular its children, hostage to a violent Islamic ideology.

Yousef, who years ago converted to Christianity after betraying Hamas and aiding Israeli security, was asked why he decided to abandon an organization for whose leadership he was being groomed. Continue Reading »

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| August 5, 2014
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IDF soldiers exiting Gaza: We could’ve done more

 

As the soldiers on the Gaza border await further instructions, many contend the fighting is not done until Israel’s southern residents can sleep peacefully.

By Itay Blumental

IDF troops, who were highly motivated during the fighting in Operation Protective Edge, expressed disappointment as the army finished withdrawing its forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. “We could’ve done more,” some of them said.

IDF soldiers - Ynet screenshot

IDF soldiers – Ynet screenshot 

Tanks and APCs congregated in a gathering area on the Israeli side of the Gaza border, with troops waiting for further instructions and future deployment. Some of them were preparing to return to their posts in northern Israel and in the West Bank. Continue Reading »

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| July 28, 2014
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None of 160 children killed digging tunnels for Hamas were investigated by Gaza Police

Tunnels that lead into Israel & Egypt and dug using children’s “nimble bodies” were never stopped by police in Gaza, despite having over 160 fatal ‘work accidents’.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Hamas used children to help them dig numerous tunnels into Israel and Egypt, a 2012 paper written for the Journal of Palestine Studies reported.

Hamas camp in Gaza

Palestinian youngsters in Gaza take part in a Hamas military training camp. – Photo: REUTERS

The paper, titled Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel’s Siege says that little had been done to stop the phenomenon of child labor during the digging the tunnels by Hamas in Gaza.

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| July 28, 2014
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Israel’s Prime Minister seeks demilitarization of Gaza in 4 U.S. interviews

PM Netanyahu told news interviewers on Sunday that Hamas violated its own cease-fires & is responsible for Gaza’s civilian casualties.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his message to the American talk shows on Sunday, accusing Hamas of “violating its own ceasefires,” and asking how Americans would react if they were the targets of what he called a “terrorist operation.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at a Golani Brigade exercise.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Ministe Moshe Ya’alon watching a Golani Brigade exercise. – Photo: GPO

Interviewed by CNN, CBS, NBC and Fox, Netanyahu spoke repeatedly of achieving “sustainable quiet” on Israel’s border with Gaza. He did not deny that Israel intended to enlarge its incursion into Gaza, saying only that he would take “whatever action is necessary” to defend Israelis.

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| July 24, 2014
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Israel condemns and exposes the UNHRC as ‘kangaroo court’

UN council ignores Hamas’ firing rockets from hospitals & schools into Israel’s cities, but calls to probe Israeli “war crimes”.

The U.S. was the only country of 47-member states to oppose one-sided probe.

 

Israel attacked as a “travesty” a UN decision on Wednesday to probe its actions against Hamas in Gaza on the same day that the terrorist organization launched 80 rockets against it, targeting civilian areas.

OVERVIEW OF the Human Rights Council at the UNHRC – Photo: Reuters

“This investigation by a kangaroo court is a foregone conclusion,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The United Nations Human Rights Council ordered the probe after holding a special emergency session in Geneva on the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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