29 dec 2018
The Israeli occupation army at dawn Saturday waged an airstrike on a Palestinian resistance post in the east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
No one was hurt in the aerial attack, according to a local medical source.
The Israeli army claimed it launched the air raid after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area south of its territory on Friday night.
Earlier, Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian young man and injured six others during their participation on Friday afternoon in March of Return rallies staged in Gaza border areas.
The armed wings of the Palestinian resistance factions already warned the Israeli army of committing any folly against Gaza protesters and said they would respond to its crimes.
No one was hurt in the aerial attack, according to a local medical source.
The Israeli army claimed it launched the air raid after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area south of its territory on Friday night.
Earlier, Israeli soldiers killed one Palestinian young man and injured six others during their participation on Friday afternoon in March of Return rallies staged in Gaza border areas.
The armed wings of the Palestinian resistance factions already warned the Israeli army of committing any folly against Gaza protesters and said they would respond to its crimes.
12 dec 2018
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would target for sanctions Hamas resistance movement and Hezbollah over allegations of using civilians as human shields, guaranteeing that it will become law, JTA reported.
The bill describes Hamas and Hezbollah groups as “repeated” practitioners of an action that violates international law, claiming that Hamas routinely launches missiles at Israel from densely populated areas.
The US Senate unanimously passed the bipartisan bill in October.
The bill was authored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and was co-sponsored by 50 other senators. It was first introduced this past summer.
“This critical and timely legislation mandates new sanctions against Hamas, Hezbollah and foreign state agencies that use civilians as human shields or provide support to those doing so,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said in a statement Tuesday after the House passed the bill, which now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Last February, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act which condemns Hamas for the alleged use of civilians, including children, as human shields, sanctioning those who use them.
The act, however, emphasizes the efforts made by the Israeli occupation military to avoid civilian casualties, a claim that analysts said amounts to an attempt to whitewash Israeli crimes and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and unarmed protesters, including on the Gaza border.
The bill describes Hamas and Hezbollah groups as “repeated” practitioners of an action that violates international law, claiming that Hamas routinely launches missiles at Israel from densely populated areas.
The US Senate unanimously passed the bipartisan bill in October.
The bill was authored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) and was co-sponsored by 50 other senators. It was first introduced this past summer.
“This critical and timely legislation mandates new sanctions against Hamas, Hezbollah and foreign state agencies that use civilians as human shields or provide support to those doing so,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said in a statement Tuesday after the House passed the bill, which now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.
Last February, the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act which condemns Hamas for the alleged use of civilians, including children, as human shields, sanctioning those who use them.
The act, however, emphasizes the efforts made by the Israeli occupation military to avoid civilian casualties, a claim that analysts said amounts to an attempt to whitewash Israeli crimes and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and unarmed protesters, including on the Gaza border.
9 dec 2018
Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Abul Gheit said the failure of the the US-sponsored draft resolution seeking to condemn Palestinian resistance group Hamas at the United Nations General Assembly is a goal scored in favor of the Palestinians.
Speaking in a Sunday statement, Abul Gheit said the draft resolution is devoid of balance and objectivity, adding that it makes part of an attempt to pool the wool over the world’s eye as it avoids dubbing Israel an occupying power.
The 193-member UNGA voted 87-57 in favor of the US resolution Thursday while 33 members chose to abstain, leaving Washington with a plurality vote that fell short of the two-thirds requirement to adopt the resolution.
The resolution attempted to condemn Hamas for carrying out rocket attacks against Israel and using "airborne incendiary devices" against Israelis.
Speaking in a Sunday statement, Abul Gheit said the draft resolution is devoid of balance and objectivity, adding that it makes part of an attempt to pool the wool over the world’s eye as it avoids dubbing Israel an occupying power.
The 193-member UNGA voted 87-57 in favor of the US resolution Thursday while 33 members chose to abstain, leaving Washington with a plurality vote that fell short of the two-thirds requirement to adopt the resolution.
The resolution attempted to condemn Hamas for carrying out rocket attacks against Israel and using "airborne incendiary devices" against Israelis.
7 dec 2018
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A US-sponsored draft resolution seeking to condemn Palestinian resistance group Hamas at the United Nations General Assembly has failed to gain a majority vote on Thursday.
The 193-member UNGA voted 87-57 in favor of the resolution Thursday while 33 members chose to abstain, leaving Washington with a plurality vote that fell short of the two-thirds requirement to adopt the resolution. The US had originally called for a simple majority vote, but the world body opted for a two-third majority instead after a narrow 75-72 vote, with 26 abstentions. The resolution attempted to condemn Hamas for carrying out rocket attacks against Israel and using "airborne incendiary devices" against Israelis living in occupied Palestinian lands. The resolution came weeks after the Israeli military fired hundreds of rockets into Israel during a two-day flare-up of violence following a botched Israeli attack against a Palestinian anti-occupation commander. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said before the vote that the assembly could make history condemning Hamas, which she referred to as "one of the most obvious and grotesque cases of terrorism in the world." “The General Assembly has passed over 700 resolutions condemning Israel. And not one single resolution condemning Hamas. That, more than anything else, is a condemnation of the United Nations itself,” she claimed. China and Russia were among those voting the measure down. India abstained despite having recently forged warmer ties with the Tel Aviv regime. |
After the US draft’s failure, the UNGA voted 156-6 to adopt an Irish resolution that called for "the achievement, without delay, of a comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East" on the basis of UN resolutions, specially the December 2016 measure.
The resolution also reaffirmed "unwavering support” for a two-state solution along “the pre-1967 borders."
Tel Aviv tried to undermine the defeat, with Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon saying that a majority vote was within reach had the vote “not been hijacked by a political move of procedure.”
Following the vote, Hamas hailed the failure of the resolution as a “slap” to US President Donald Trump’s administration.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also commended the outcome.
“The presidency thanked all the states that voted against the American draft resolution, affirming that it will not allow for the condemnation of the Palestinian national struggle,” the PA’s office said in a statement.
The resolution also reaffirmed "unwavering support” for a two-state solution along “the pre-1967 borders."
Tel Aviv tried to undermine the defeat, with Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon saying that a majority vote was within reach had the vote “not been hijacked by a political move of procedure.”
Following the vote, Hamas hailed the failure of the resolution as a “slap” to US President Donald Trump’s administration.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also commended the outcome.
“The presidency thanked all the states that voted against the American draft resolution, affirming that it will not allow for the condemnation of the Palestinian national struggle,” the PA’s office said in a statement.
25 nov 2018
Dozens of Israeli young men, students and workers, who live in settlements near the Gaza border participated in a sit-in on Sunday morning to demand the Israeli government to preserve permanent calm on the Gaza front.
According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the sit-in was staged at the entrance to Eshkol regional council.
The demonstrators were protesting the volatile security situation on the Israeli-Gaza border and chanted slogans calling on the government to let them live peacefully and quietly.
Gaza has been under inhumane blockade for about 12 years, while Israel commits, every once in a while, systematic crimes against the population.
According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the sit-in was staged at the entrance to Eshkol regional council.
The demonstrators were protesting the volatile security situation on the Israeli-Gaza border and chanted slogans calling on the government to let them live peacefully and quietly.
Gaza has been under inhumane blockade for about 12 years, while Israel commits, every once in a while, systematic crimes against the population.
22 nov 2018
The Israeli-Palestinian peace plan being prepared by US President Donald Trump is “a waste of time,” extremist Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said, on Wednesday.
Speaking before hundreds of ambassadors and attachés, at the Jerusalem Post Diplomats’ Conference, in Jerusalem, Shaked added that the differences between Israelis and Palestinians are too great.
“I want peace like everyone else,” she said, “but, I do not believe an agreement can be reached. I would tell Trump: ‘Do not waste your time.'”
Days of Palestine further reports that Shaked also spoke about the demand made by her party, the Jewish Home, to appoint party leader Naftali Bennett as defence minister – an ultimatum that threatens the stability of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
“The prime minister needs a strong defense minister at his side,” she said. “Unfortunately, he thought otherwise. We are a strong country, and Hamas is just a terror organization. But, in recent years, we’ve lost our deterrence.”
On Gaza, Shaked predicted the cease-fire will only last a few months, and then, “there will be no choice but to fight Hamas with all means.”
Earlier at the conference, Strategic Affair minister Gilad Erdan said that Israel is “closer than ever” to controlling parts, or all, of Gaza.
Erdan said that “moving from defense to offense against Hamas means targeted assassinations of leaders of Hamas’ military wing.”
This, Erdan said, “means being ready to take control of the Gaza Strip and hold it until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, Today we are closer than ever – since the devastating disengagement plan – to having to control parts of the Strip, or all of it.”
Speaking before hundreds of ambassadors and attachés, at the Jerusalem Post Diplomats’ Conference, in Jerusalem, Shaked added that the differences between Israelis and Palestinians are too great.
“I want peace like everyone else,” she said, “but, I do not believe an agreement can be reached. I would tell Trump: ‘Do not waste your time.'”
Days of Palestine further reports that Shaked also spoke about the demand made by her party, the Jewish Home, to appoint party leader Naftali Bennett as defence minister – an ultimatum that threatens the stability of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
“The prime minister needs a strong defense minister at his side,” she said. “Unfortunately, he thought otherwise. We are a strong country, and Hamas is just a terror organization. But, in recent years, we’ve lost our deterrence.”
On Gaza, Shaked predicted the cease-fire will only last a few months, and then, “there will be no choice but to fight Hamas with all means.”
Earlier at the conference, Strategic Affair minister Gilad Erdan said that Israel is “closer than ever” to controlling parts, or all, of Gaza.
Erdan said that “moving from defense to offense against Hamas means targeted assassinations of leaders of Hamas’ military wing.”
This, Erdan said, “means being ready to take control of the Gaza Strip and hold it until we dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, Today we are closer than ever – since the devastating disengagement plan – to having to control parts of the Strip, or all of it.”
