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| November 26, 2012
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Report provides details into Gaza’s smuggling operation

Before Assassinated by Israel, Top Hezbollah terrorist, Imad Mughniyeh, headed efforts to arm Gaza terrorists with rockets & missiles according to Lebanese news website.

By Roi Kais

 

A feature by the Now Lebanon news website describes the evolution of the Arab-Iranian weapons smuggling network to the Gaza Strip in the backdrop of recent discussion on the source of the rockets used by Palestinian terrorists against Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense.

Imad Mughniyeh – Photo: AFP

The report was prepared by Lebanese journalist and Hezbollah sympathizer Kassem Kasir.

According to the sources quoted in the article, Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon met with Syrian President Bashar Assad after 2006’s Second Lebanon War. Continue Reading »

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| November 26, 2012
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Hamas unexpectedly supports Abbas’s UN statehood bid

Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal calls PA president to back bid in unexpected change of heart Hamas spokesman Abu Zuhri says group backs any political gain Abbas can achieve at UN that is not “causing harm to the national Palestinian rights.”

By REUTERS

 

The Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it was backing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s attempt to win more clout for Palestinians at the United Nations, the latest sign of a rapprochement between the political rivals.

The Palestinians are registered as an observer entity at the UN and Abbas wants to see them upgraded to a “non-member state” in a UN General Assembly vote on November 29, giving him access to other international organizations.

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| November 25, 2012
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Israel eases Gaza security restrictions after cease-fire

State officials confirm Israel started to ease security restrictions on Gazans

Farmers allowed to visit land near security fence.

Sailing limit for fishermen extended.

Hamas’ Marzook says group won’t stop smuggling weapons into Gaza

By Attila Somfalvi, AP

 

Israeli state officials on Saturday confirmed that Israel has started easing restrictions on civilians in Gaza in accordance with the ceasefire understandings.

Mousa Abu Marzook Photo: Reuters

Mousa Abu Marzook – Photo: Reuters

Meanwhile, Hamas‘ Deputy Politburo chief Mousa Abu Marzook said Hamas won’t stop making weapons in Gaza or smuggling them to the territory

A cease-fire has held so far, and Abu Marzook told AP that more indirect talks between Israel and Hamas are set for Monday. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2012
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Mashaal says he’s Prepared for peace without blood and weapons

Hamas politburo chief says in CNN interview that he is willing to accept Palestinian state along 1967 borders, conditioning such a deal on end of ‘occupation,’ return of refugees & the dismantling of the security wall

Elior Levy

 

Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal said his Islamist movement Hamas is willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders or 22% of “historical Palestine.”

Mashaal: ‘I want my state’ – Photo: EPA

According to Mashaal, this has been Hamas’ mission and what it has been fighting for since its inception. In an interview aired this weekend on CNN, Mashaal said: “I accept a Palestinian state according to the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as the capital, with the right to return.” Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2012
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More Missiles for Hamas are on their way as Iran Loads Ship

Iran is dispatching a ship loaded up with more missiles for Hamas in Gaza.

Israel says they will destroy any attempt to smuggle weapons into Gaza.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Iran has loaded a ship with new missiles to replace those destroyed by Israel in Operation Pillar of Defense, the London Sunday Times reported.

IAF photo of Fajr site

IAF photo of Fajr site
IDF Spokesman’s Unit

The missile-laden ship was reportedly spotted by Israeli satellites. The report comes one day after de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh claimed that the ceasefire agreement hammered out last week does not prohibit Hamas from manufacturing new weapons and the smuggling of others, which he said Hamas needs for “defense.” Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2012
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Nasrallah to Israel: You lost with Hamas, so who can you defeat?

Nasrallah says Israel’s goal of ‘destroying Hamas’ leadership’ during IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense was not achieved, and compares conflict to 2nd Lebanon War

By Ynet

 

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah congratulated the Palestinians in Gaza on their “first victory” over Israel’s armed forces.

In a televised address on Friday, the ninth day of the Shiite Muslim festival of Ashura, Nasrallah said, “The first victory of the resistance was that it prevented the enemy from achieving his goals, the greater victory was that it did not let the enemy impose his conditions, and the greatest victory was that it imposed its own conditions. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2012
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CAROLINE B. GLICK: The trap that Arik built

By leaving Gaza, Israel was saying – as it had in Lebanon – that it had no right to be there. And if it had no right to be there, it had no right to return.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

The cease-fire agreement that Israel accepted Wednesday night to end the current round of Palestinian rocket and missile attacks is not a good deal for Israel by any stretch of the imagination.

At best, Israel and Hamas are placed on the same moral plane. The cease-fire erases the distinction between Israel, a peace-seeking liberal democracy that wants simply to defend its citizens, and Hamas, a genocidal jihadist terrorist outfit that seeks the eradication of the Jewish people and the destruction of Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2012
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Hamas polices border after IDF kills man in ‘no-go’ zone

In unusual move, Hamas enforce fragile 2-day-old truce by evacuating Gazans from IDF’s’no-go’ border zone.

Relative of man killed says he was ‘trying to put a Hamas flag on the fence’

By Reuters

 

Hamas Islamists enforced a fragile two-day-old truce on Friday by evacuating Palestinians from a “no-go” border zone after Israel shot dead a Gaza resident there in the first fatality since the ceasefire.

Gaza border (archives) – Photo: B’Tselem

The rare move by the group in control of the Gaza Strip followed intervention by Egyptian mediators who urged both sides to take steps to preserve the truce that ended eight days of fierce Israeli-Palestinian fighting on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2012
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1 Palestinian killed, several wounded by IDF fire on Gaza border

Hamas spokesman accuses Israel of violating the Egyptian-mediated truce, says Hamas will complain to Cairo

IDF spokeswoman says army investigating report.

By Reuters and Gili Cohen

 

Israeli gunfire across the Gaza border killed one Palestinian on Friday and wounded several others, medics said, two days after a ceasefire between the territory’s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel took hold.

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Palestinian youths gesture during a demonstration next to the security fence standing on the Gaza border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2012. – Photo: AFP

A Hamas spokesman accused Israel of violating the Egyptian-mediated truce and said the group would complain to Cairo. Continue Reading »

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| November 23, 2012
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IDF gunfire kills Palestinian near Gaza border fence

IDF reports: group of Palestinians tried to breach border fence prompting warning shots in air, and then at legs when warnings weren’t heeded.

Hamas accuses Israel of violating truce, vows to complain to Cairo

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, REUTERS

IDF gunfire across the Gaza border killed one Palestinian on Friday and wounded several others, Palestinians medics said, two days after a ceasefire between the territory’s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel took hold.

The IDF stated that a group of about 300 Palestinians approached the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip and held a violent disturbance along the border.

Dozens of Gazans hurl rocks on Gaza side of border fence (IDF Spokesman)

Dozens of Gazans hurl rocks on Gaza side of border fence (IDF Spokesman)

A number of the Palestinians attempted to break through the border fence into Israel.

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| November 22, 2012
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Gaza’s Hamas Gave Israel No Choice but to Strike

Negotiations leading to peace can be realistic with an adversary who shares that goal. But Hamas, whose covenant calls for the slaughter of Jews worldwide, is striving not to join peace talks, but to prevent them.

By MICHAEL B. OREN

 

CRITICS of Israel’s campaign to defend millions of its citizens from deadly Hamas rocket fire claim that it lacks a clear objective. Israel has bombed Gaza in the past, they argue, and received only rockets in return. Is there any logic, much less an end, to the cycle of violence? Can it lead to negotiations and peace?

Such questions can be answered only by going back to the origin of the campaign that we Israelis now call Operation Pillar of Defense. Continue Reading »

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| November 22, 2012
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Netanyahu: Ground Incursion May be Necessary After All

Responding to criticism on his Facebook page, PM Netanyahu said that ‘next time’ would be different if Hamas doesn’t keep the cease-fire

By David Lev

 

On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Israel was accepting the U.S.-Egypt brokered cease-fire with Hamas, saying that it would “provide an opportunity for the situation to stabilize and become calmer.” But on his Facebook page Wednesday night, Netanyahu wrote that despite the cease-fire, “it may be necessary for us to conduct a major and harsh military campaign” against Hamas – and if such a campaign would become necessary, Israel would follow through.

Netanyahu was responding to thousands of Facebook commenters who slammed him, along with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, for failing to fully rout Hamas and engage in a ground campaign to destroy the terror group for once and for all. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2012
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Gaza in possession of Iranian missile technology

Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari said Iran has supplied technology to Gaza for missiles to be produced ‘quickly’ reports Iran’s Semiofficial ISNA news agency.

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Iran has supplied Hamas in Gaza with the technology to “quickly” produce longer-range missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a report Wednesday that quoted the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.

An Iranian Fajr-3 missile.

An Iranian Fajr-3 missile. – Photo by AP

The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari offer some of the clearest insights on Iran’s weapons support for Hamas, whose Iranian-engineered Fajr-5 missiles have struck near Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during weeklong battles with Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2012
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Egypt intercepts 108 explosive warheads from Libya via Sinai & onto Gaza

Egyptian security officials confiscated trucks carrying a variety of small-arms ammunition and 108 explosive warheads for Soviet-designed Grad rockets, that were smuggled from Libya.

By the Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Egyptian security officials said Wednesday that authorities have confiscated trucks carrying explosive warheads and a variety of small-arms ammunition smuggled from Libya.

Grad rockets are fired at Israel by Palestinian and Sinai-based terrorist groups. [Illustrative] – Photo: Reuters

They said authorities seized the pickup trucks, carrying some 108 warheads for Soviet-designed Grad rockets, near Marsa Matruh, 430 kilometers (270 miles) northwest of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast.

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| November 21, 2012
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Gaza rocket hits house in Be’er Tuviya, none hurt

Terrorist shoot at least 180 rockets Israel in the past 24 hours.

Rocket hits house in Be’er Tuviya, none hurt.

IAF strikes 100 terror targets overnight, kills 31 Gazans

Palestinians report 1 dead in IDF drone strike in Jabaliya.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Gazan rocket fire at southern Israel resumed on Wednesday morning after a relatively quiet night on the Israeli side.

Smoke rises after IAF strike in Gaza

Smoke rises after IAF strike in Gaza – Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

Terrorists fired 23 rockets at various cities and communities in the South, with one person mildly injured according to Magen David Adom. One rocket hit a house in Be’er Tuviya directly.

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