Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

[TomT]

This appears to now be all out war?

Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

IDF soldier, 17 Palestinians killed in IDF raid in north Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, Aluf Benn, Mijal Grinberg and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed Thursday afternoon during an IDF operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia.

First Lieutenent Yehuda Bessal was seriously wounded when shot in the head by a Palestinian sniper who infiltrated the house in the Beit Lahia neighborhood of al-Atara where his Golani Brigade unit had taken position.

Bessal was evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, where he died of his wounds. Palestinian snipers continued to fire during rescue efforts, delaying the evacuation of the soldier to hospital.

Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyam, of the ruling Hamas party, issued the Palestinian government's first call to arms since Israel entered the Gaza Strip last week to press for the release of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

Siyam, who has nominal control of the Fatah-dominated Palestinian security forces, appealed to all security forces to fulfill their "religious and moral duty to stand up to this aggression and cowardly Zionist invasion."

Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal said Siyam had declared a state of emergency, something which only Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has the authority to do.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735455.html

[TomT]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

13 Palestinians, 1 Israeli soldier killed

By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - In the bloodiest day since Israel invaded Gaza over a soldier's capture, troops seized empty Jewish settlements Thursday and pushed toward densely populated towns, killing at least 13 Palestinians. One soldier was killed, the first Israeli fatality in the offensive.

.......A senior government official said Israeli troops would enter the densely populated towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun — which militants often use to launch rockets. Speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss military plans, he said the incursions would be temporary.

.....Palestinian medical officials said 13 people were killed in airstrikes and gunbattles throughout the day, including five people who died in two consecutive airstrikes west of Beit Lahiya.

Health ministry spokesman Khaled Radi said six civilians were among the dead, and 55 people were wounded, including 15 children. During lulls in the fighting, some women and young children fled their homes on foot.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060706/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[TomT]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

Cabel: PA order to attack IDF must have response

Minister Eitan Cabel (Labor), responding an order by the Palestinian interior minister for PA forces to open fire on IDF soldiers, said: "There's no doubt this is an escalation, and IDF forces will respond accordingly. Our political response must be discussed in the appropriate forum," Cabel said. (Ronny Sofer)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...272254,00.html

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Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

PA Interior Minister calls on armed forces to fight IDF troops

IDF soldier, 21 Palestinians killed in IDF raid in north Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, Aluf Benn, Mijal Grinberg and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/735455.html

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Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

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Jul. 6, 2006 21:35 | Updated Jul. 6, 2006 22:03

Report: Zubeydi killed in Jenin raid
By YAAKOV KATZ

The Aksa Martyrs Brigades' Jenin leader Zakariya Zubeydi was killed in an IDF raid in Jenin on Thursday, al-Arabiyya television network reported.

Soldiers surrounded a house of mourning that was attended by Palestinian fugitives, among them top operative Zubeydi.

[TomT]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

"TIME OF WAR"

The Palestinian death toll is the highest in a single day since Israeli forces killed 16 people in October 2004 in a raid on a Khan Younis refugee camp.

The flare-up in violence has dashed any lingering hopes peace talks might be revived.

Defense Minister Amir Peretz said that although Israel quit Gaza last year after 38 years of occupation, "no one should see that as a guarantee that we cannot reach territory in which we feel we have no choice but to operate."

"We have no intention of sinking into the Gaza swamp," he added.

Senior Abbas aide, Saeb Erekat, said the international community needed to protect Palestinians at a "time of war."

Tanks earlier pushed into the ruins of three of the 21 Jewish settlements evacuated when Israel left Gaza last year.

The military said Israeli forces would stay in the area, several kilometres (miles) inside northern Gaza, "until the completion of their mission

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060706/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-

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Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

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Jul. 6, 2006 14:12 | Updated Jul. 6, 2006 21:05
UN to send mission to W. Bank and Gaza

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday voted to send an urgent fact-finding mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the council deplored the IDF operations in the region as breaching international humanitarian law.

By a vote of 29-11 with five abstentions, the council approved the resolution proposed by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference after it was amended to suggest the Palestinians also had a responsibility to refrain from violence against civilians.

"It is absolutely unacceptable" that the resolution only names Israel, said Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon. "Obviously this resolution isn't even-handed. It's not equitable and it's not balanced. Everybody knows that. Even those that voted in favor, they did this for political reasons."

[Guest]

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hhmmmmmm..maybe the UN will suggest more land for peace. It has worked so well in the recent past. Not that the world seems to care about what's good for Israel. Sorry for the sarcasm but it gets so frustrating to watch these events unfold. At least we, the believers, know the Lord will step in when the time is right.

[TomT]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

So called "new" UN Human Rights Commission - same ole antics....

The resolution received considerable support from the non-Muslim members of the council, including India, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Cuba, the Philippines and Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Uruguay and Zambia, but a number of them said they thought the Palestinians should have been called to account as well.

Canada and European countries opposed it. Neither the United States nor Israel are members.

....The vote came in an emergency session of the U.N. body, which decided last week as one of its first acts to make it a priority to examine Israel's human rights practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

.....In Wednesday's session a UN human rights expert said it was clear that Israel was in violation of the most fundamental norms of humanitarian law and human rights law.

Dugard, a South African lawyer responsible for investigating alleged human rights abuses by Israel in Palestinian areas, said he had "every sympathy" with Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit, whose capture by Palestinian militants in Gaza sparked the latest Israeli military reprisals. But he said Israel's response has only increased its violations of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of occupied people.

Dugard, an anti-apartheid civil rights lawyer in the 1980s, was appointed by the now defunct commission in 2001 to investigate only violations by the Israeli side, prompting Israel and the United States to dismiss his reports as one-sided.

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[Biblenuggetlady]

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This "New" UN Human Rights Council has been "in office" since June 19, 2006....looks like the same face is on it though. It still ALL Israel's fault!

[TomT]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

Abbas' Associates: He wasn't informed of order to attack IDF

Palestinian sources close to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to respond to Palestinian Minister of Interior Said Siam's call to the security forces to open fire on IDF troops in Gaza.

According to the sources President Abbas was not even informed of the order. A senior Palestinian national security officer even denied that security forces have been ordered to actively participate in the attacks on IDF troops. (Ali Waked)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...272281,00.html

Sorry but IMO Abbas continues to prove just how totally worthless he is -....and the US and EU keep propping Abbas up - kind of like "Weekend at Bernie's".... starring Abbas as Bernie Lomax....

[Glorify Him]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

Unbelieveable, the missteps here. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a call for new elections in Israel very soon, even in the midst of all of this.

[wendyj]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

yeah Canada!!!Right on---Glad to see our country fianlly stand with Israel..

All the banana republic countries with their hands our NOT paying their way have all the Say in this Useless evil organization. I'd like to seee the western countries withteh money duck out and do their own thing and let the peaceful banana eaters and muslims peace themselves into oblivion.

[Biblenuggetlady]

Re: Breaking: Hamas Minister calls on PA security forces to fight IDF (18 dead so far)

Abbas' Associates: He wasn't informed of order to attack IDF



http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...272281,00.html

Sorry but IMO Abbas continues to prove just how totally worthless he is -....and the US and EU keep propping Abbas up - kind of like "Weekend at Bernie's".... starring Abbas as Bernie Lomax....

I know what you are saying Tom. Abbas is simply a bucket with holes being used in a sinking ship...he's simply a diversion for the world so they don't focus on the real problem. He gives them a false hope that they can save this ship from sinking.

What has happened to Querria (sp?)? I haven't heard his name in a LONG time? Is he lurking in the shadows to come out when Abba's is tossed out after this dust clears?