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Israel declares unilateral Gaza cease-fire, Hamas says no deal, Gaza war dampers Inauguration, More Dead
Israel declares unilateral Gaza cease-fire
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will unilaterally halt its 22-day offensive against Hamas but keep troops on the ground in Gaza for the time being.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gaza-Strip-Gaza/photo//090117/photos_...
An Israeli soldier covers his ears as a mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza in the early … photo
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=Aqbh59EAc00Q16dUAm3I77YU...
Two dead when Israeli rocket hits Gaza school video
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=AruGR6pqwGkys7JUdCQhK9MU...
UN school shelled in Gaza video
Government leaders voted to stop the assault during an emergency security meeting Saturday. Shortly before the meeting began, Hamas vowed to keep fighting until Israel pulled its forces out of Gaza.
More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli offensive began on Dec. 27, according to Palestinian and U.N. officials. At least 13 Israelis have also died.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will unilaterally halt its 22-day offensive against Hamas but keep troops on the ground in Gaza for the time being. Government leaders voted to stop the assault during an emergency security meeting Saturday.
Israel to cease fire in Gaza, no deal for Hamas
by Paul Hanna
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Smoke-rises-during-Israel-offensive-G...
Smoke rises during Israel's offensive in Gaza City January 17, 2009. Israel plans to halt its Gaza offensive … photo
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel called off its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, saying it had achieved its objectives against the Hamas Islamist group in a campaign that killed more than 1,200 Palestinians.
Hamas warned that it was not ready to give up, however.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israelis in a televised address from the national army headquarters in Tel Aviv: "The conditions have been created that our aims, as declared, were attained fully, and beyond."
The ceasefire, which he said responded to an appeal from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, would start from 2 a.m. on Sunday (7 p.m. on Saturday), he said, but troops would remain for now in the Gaza Strip and Hamas would be "surprised again" if it attacked.
He said Hamas was "beaten badly" and its ability to fire rockets into southern Israel, the main stated goal of the assault launched on December 27, had been severely limited.
Nonetheless, rockets landed in Israel even minutes before he spoke and Hamas leaders said they would continue to fight for an end to Israel's closure of much of Gaza's trade and a withdrawal of the Israeli forces from their territory.
"A unilateral ceasefire does not mean ending the aggression and ending the siege.
These constitute acts of war and so this will not mean an end to resistance," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters in Gaza.
After weeks of frenetic diplomacy revolving around Egyptian mediation, Israel chose to shun a negotiated accord with Hamas and to simply hold its fire, denying the Islamists, who are committed to the destruction of the Jewish state, the deal they sought on easing Israel's punitive blockade on the territory.
"DETERRENCE"
Olmert said: "The campaign has proven Israel's power and strengthened its deterrence."
He also said he would work with Mubarak to tighten security on Gaza's Egyptian border -- a key goal of Israel which wants to prevent Hamas rearming through smuggling tunnels.
Despite the lack of any clear deal at this stage, Mubarak invited a pack of European leaders to a short-notice summit on Sunday that is meant to come up with ways to bolster the truce in Gaza and to ease the plight of the 1.5 million people penned in to the 45-km (28-mile) sliver of coast.
Most of those, their nerves shredded and sleepless with fear and bereavement, just want the war to be over: "We do not care how, we want a ceasefire. We want to go back to our homes. Our children need to go back to sleep in their beds," said Ali Hassan, 34 and a father of five, in the city of Gaza.
Figures from an independent Palestinian human rights group put the number of civilians killed in three weeks of aerial bombardment and a two-week-long ground offensive backed by tanks and artillery at over 700. Hundreds of fighters have also died.
Ten Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed.
Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said some 5,300 wounded had been treated, many at sanctions-hit and chaotic hospitals. It put the death toll to Saturday at 1,206, including 410 children.
Of these, two young boys were killed early on Saturday at a United Nations-run school where hundreds of people had taken refuge. U.N. officials called for war crimes inquiries and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it an "outrageous attack."
Israel accuses Hamas fighters of hiding among civilians and says its troops do all they can to avoid hitting the innocent in an territory where half the population is aged under 18.
Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip on December 27 and ground troops pushed into the coastal enclave a week later.
Without an accord with Hamas, diplomats said they feared Israel would let only a trickle of goods into Gaza, hampering reconstruction and creating more hardship for its people.
"There is no agreement with Hamas," the Israeli official said earlier, adding that Israel would reserve the right to act if Hamas continued firing or launched rockets across the border.
Mubarak urged Israel to end its Gaza operation immediately and said he planned to host a reconstruction conference, but did not say when.
Mubarak will also host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.N. chief Ban in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, along with the leaders of France, Britain, Germany, Turkey, Italy and Spain.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Israel Should Stop the War and Let US Enjoy the Inauguration;
Cease fire Mooted;
55 Palestinians Killed Friday, including Little Girls
There are rumors that the Israeli government may declare a unilateral cease fire Saturday. They had better. Because if they ruin the Obama inauguration by splashing the bloody bodies of dead Palestinian children all over the press during the next few days, no Americans, even the most pro-Israeli, are going to forgive them. The war has left 1,140 Palestinians dead, over 300 children, and over 5,000 wounded including many women and children, as well as 13 Israelis (4 of them civilians killed by rocket fire). We pay for these wars, we provide the fighter jets, bombs, and tanks. And we don't want our money used for this sanguinary purpose in the first place; we have enough to be guilty about all on our own. And we especially don't want to hear a peep from over there while we swear in our first African-American president.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Egyptians protested the continued war on Gaza. Crowds in Baghdad gathered to donate humanitarian aid to Gaza. There were demonstrations, as well, in a number of other countries.
Cont'd (click below or on "comments")
Wholesale food distributors in Jordan, the UK and the Scandinavian countries are quietly imposing an informal boycott on Israeli fruit, according to Ynetnews, in response to the war on Gaza. My guess is that if the Apartheid situation in the Occupied Territories becomes formalized, such boycotts will spread.
Israel pursued its attacks on Friday and on Saturday morning, killing 55 Palestinians, including a houseful of girls, daughters and a niece of a physician working in Israel who was being interviewed on Israeli television when the news reached him. AFP writes:
' At least 55 Palestinians were killed on Friday, including at least 10 people who died when a tank shell slammed into their house in Gaza City during a funeral wake, according to Palestinian medics . . . In the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the territory, three daughters and a niece of a Palestinian doctor working in Israel were killed in an Israeli air strike. "They were girls, only girls. I want to know why they have they killed them. Who gave the order to fire?" the children's sobbing father Ezzedine Abu Eish said on Israeli television. Palestinian militants meanwhile fired over 20 rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel on Friday, wounding five people, the Israeli military said. Over 700 such projectiles have been fired since the start of the war.'
The father of the dead little girls, Dr. Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish, appears to have been a sort of an Arab "Dr. Sanjay Gupta" who came on Israeli television frequently. He was about to do an interview on Israeli television when the word reached him of the atrocity against his family. His wife had earlier died of cancer, so his children were all he had left. He commuted to Tel Aviv from Gaza and told the girls to sleep near the stone walls to stay safe in his absence.
The Israeli anchors put his anguished lamentations on the air for over 3 minutes, which I take to be their own little protest against Olmert's Butcher Shop. The physician is heard repeatedly crying out, "Ya Rabb, ya Allah" (O Lord, O God!) as the image of the mangles small bodies invades his mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUJ4fF2HN4&eurl=http://www.juan...
Hamas leaders left Gaza for Cairo to nail down an Egyptian peace proposal.
Note that Israel is essentially negotiating with Hamas, if only via intermediaries.
Aljazeera English also reports on the aftermath of Israeli strikes on another civilian neighborhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSEipa9jWA&eurl=http://www.juan...
UK Members of Parliament Gerald Kaufman's eloquent denunciation of the Olmert government for war crimes is now available at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8&eurl=http://www.juan...
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will unilaterally halt its 22-day offensive against Hamas but keep troops on the ground in Gaza for the time being.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gaza-Strip-Gaza/photo//090117/photos_...
An Israeli soldier covers his ears as a mobile artillery unit fires a shell towards Gaza in the early … photo
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=Aqbh59EAc00Q16dUAm3I77YU...
Two dead when Israeli rocket hits Gaza school video
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=AruGR6pqwGkys7JUdCQhK9MU...
UN school shelled in Gaza video
Government leaders voted to stop the assault during an emergency security meeting Saturday. Shortly before the meeting began, Hamas vowed to keep fighting until Israel pulled its forces out of Gaza.
More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli offensive began on Dec. 27, according to Palestinian and U.N. officials. At least 13 Israelis have also died.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel will unilaterally halt its 22-day offensive against Hamas but keep troops on the ground in Gaza for the time being. Government leaders voted to stop the assault during an emergency security meeting Saturday.
Israel to cease fire in Gaza, no deal for Hamas
by Paul Hanna
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Smoke-rises-during-Israel-offensive-G...
Smoke rises during Israel's offensive in Gaza City January 17, 2009. Israel plans to halt its Gaza offensive … photo
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel called off its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, saying it had achieved its objectives against the Hamas Islamist group in a campaign that killed more than 1,200 Palestinians.
Hamas warned that it was not ready to give up, however.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Israelis in a televised address from the national army headquarters in Tel Aviv: "The conditions have been created that our aims, as declared, were attained fully, and beyond."
The ceasefire, which he said responded to an appeal from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, would start from 2 a.m. on Sunday (7 p.m. on Saturday), he said, but troops would remain for now in the Gaza Strip and Hamas would be "surprised again" if it attacked.
He said Hamas was "beaten badly" and its ability to fire rockets into southern Israel, the main stated goal of the assault launched on December 27, had been severely limited.
Nonetheless, rockets landed in Israel even minutes before he spoke and Hamas leaders said they would continue to fight for an end to Israel's closure of much of Gaza's trade and a withdrawal of the Israeli forces from their territory.
"A unilateral ceasefire does not mean ending the aggression and ending the siege.
These constitute acts of war and so this will not mean an end to resistance," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters in Gaza.
After weeks of frenetic diplomacy revolving around Egyptian mediation, Israel chose to shun a negotiated accord with Hamas and to simply hold its fire, denying the Islamists, who are committed to the destruction of the Jewish state, the deal they sought on easing Israel's punitive blockade on the territory.
"DETERRENCE"
Olmert said: "The campaign has proven Israel's power and strengthened its deterrence."
He also said he would work with Mubarak to tighten security on Gaza's Egyptian border -- a key goal of Israel which wants to prevent Hamas rearming through smuggling tunnels.
Despite the lack of any clear deal at this stage, Mubarak invited a pack of European leaders to a short-notice summit on Sunday that is meant to come up with ways to bolster the truce in Gaza and to ease the plight of the 1.5 million people penned in to the 45-km (28-mile) sliver of coast.
Most of those, their nerves shredded and sleepless with fear and bereavement, just want the war to be over: "We do not care how, we want a ceasefire. We want to go back to our homes. Our children need to go back to sleep in their beds," said Ali Hassan, 34 and a father of five, in the city of Gaza.
Figures from an independent Palestinian human rights group put the number of civilians killed in three weeks of aerial bombardment and a two-week-long ground offensive backed by tanks and artillery at over 700. Hundreds of fighters have also died.
Ten Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed.
Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said some 5,300 wounded had been treated, many at sanctions-hit and chaotic hospitals. It put the death toll to Saturday at 1,206, including 410 children.
Of these, two young boys were killed early on Saturday at a United Nations-run school where hundreds of people had taken refuge. U.N. officials called for war crimes inquiries and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called it an "outrageous attack."
Israel accuses Hamas fighters of hiding among civilians and says its troops do all they can to avoid hitting the innocent in an territory where half the population is aged under 18.
Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip on December 27 and ground troops pushed into the coastal enclave a week later.
Without an accord with Hamas, diplomats said they feared Israel would let only a trickle of goods into Gaza, hampering reconstruction and creating more hardship for its people.
"There is no agreement with Hamas," the Israeli official said earlier, adding that Israel would reserve the right to act if Hamas continued firing or launched rockets across the border.
Mubarak urged Israel to end its Gaza operation immediately and said he planned to host a reconstruction conference, but did not say when.
Mubarak will also host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.N. chief Ban in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, along with the leaders of France, Britain, Germany, Turkey, Italy and Spain.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Israel Should Stop the War and Let US Enjoy the Inauguration;
Cease fire Mooted;
55 Palestinians Killed Friday, including Little Girls
There are rumors that the Israeli government may declare a unilateral cease fire Saturday. They had better. Because if they ruin the Obama inauguration by splashing the bloody bodies of dead Palestinian children all over the press during the next few days, no Americans, even the most pro-Israeli, are going to forgive them. The war has left 1,140 Palestinians dead, over 300 children, and over 5,000 wounded including many women and children, as well as 13 Israelis (4 of them civilians killed by rocket fire). We pay for these wars, we provide the fighter jets, bombs, and tanks. And we don't want our money used for this sanguinary purpose in the first place; we have enough to be guilty about all on our own. And we especially don't want to hear a peep from over there while we swear in our first African-American president.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Egyptians protested the continued war on Gaza. Crowds in Baghdad gathered to donate humanitarian aid to Gaza. There were demonstrations, as well, in a number of other countries.
Cont'd (click below or on "comments")
Wholesale food distributors in Jordan, the UK and the Scandinavian countries are quietly imposing an informal boycott on Israeli fruit, according to Ynetnews, in response to the war on Gaza. My guess is that if the Apartheid situation in the Occupied Territories becomes formalized, such boycotts will spread.
Israel pursued its attacks on Friday and on Saturday morning, killing 55 Palestinians, including a houseful of girls, daughters and a niece of a physician working in Israel who was being interviewed on Israeli television when the news reached him. AFP writes:
' At least 55 Palestinians were killed on Friday, including at least 10 people who died when a tank shell slammed into their house in Gaza City during a funeral wake, according to Palestinian medics . . . In the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the territory, three daughters and a niece of a Palestinian doctor working in Israel were killed in an Israeli air strike. "They were girls, only girls. I want to know why they have they killed them. Who gave the order to fire?" the children's sobbing father Ezzedine Abu Eish said on Israeli television. Palestinian militants meanwhile fired over 20 rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel on Friday, wounding five people, the Israeli military said. Over 700 such projectiles have been fired since the start of the war.'
The father of the dead little girls, Dr. Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish, appears to have been a sort of an Arab "Dr. Sanjay Gupta" who came on Israeli television frequently. He was about to do an interview on Israeli television when the word reached him of the atrocity against his family. His wife had earlier died of cancer, so his children were all he had left. He commuted to Tel Aviv from Gaza and told the girls to sleep near the stone walls to stay safe in his absence.
The Israeli anchors put his anguished lamentations on the air for over 3 minutes, which I take to be their own little protest against Olmert's Butcher Shop. The physician is heard repeatedly crying out, "Ya Rabb, ya Allah" (O Lord, O God!) as the image of the mangles small bodies invades his mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUJ4fF2HN4&eurl=http://www.juan...
Hamas leaders left Gaza for Cairo to nail down an Egyptian peace proposal.
Note that Israel is essentially negotiating with Hamas, if only via intermediaries.
Aljazeera English also reports on the aftermath of Israeli strikes on another civilian neighborhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSEipa9jWA&eurl=http://www.juan...
UK Members of Parliament Gerald Kaufman's eloquent denunciation of the Olmert government for war crimes is now available at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8&eurl=http://www.juan...
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