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5 IDF Soldiers killed in an ambush in Ghaza-حماس تقتل 5 جنود إسرائيليين

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas ha killed 5 Israeli IDF soldiers in an ambush in Ghaza اعلنت كتائب القسام - الجناح العسكري لحركة حماس عن قتل خمسة جنود إسرائيليين وجرح آخرين

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7 Rockets hit Israel from Lebanon- إطلاق صواريخ على إسرائيل من لبنان

سقط عدد من صواريخ الكاتيوشا صباح اليوم من لبنان على شمالي إسرائيل, موقعة أربعة جرحى, في حين ردت القوات الإسرائيلية بقصف منطقة الإطلاق./nوقال مراسل الجزيرة في القدس إلياس كرام إن خمسة صواريخ أطلقت من قرب بلدة الظهيرة اللبنانية الحدودية باتجاه منطقتي نهاريا وشلومي شمالي إسرائيل./nبدوره أفاد مدير مكتب الجزيرة في بيروت غسان بن جدو أن الجهة التي أطلقت الصواريخ لا تزال مجهولة, مستبعدا أن يكون حزب الله وراء إطلاقها. ورجح أن يكون هذا التطور وراءه إما جهة تمكنت من اختراق جنوب لبنان تأييدا للمقاومة مع غزة, أو أن يكون عملا مشبوها./nتحركات وفي رده على إطلاق الصواريخ, قصف الجيش الإسرائيلي منطقة الإطلاق بخمسة قذائف مدفعية. كما طلبت قيادة الجبهة الشمالية بإسرائيل إقفال المدارس في المستوطنات المحاذية للحدود وحثت على البقاء في مناطق آمنة./nوأوضحت مراسلة الجزيرة في بيروت بشرى عبد الصمد أنه لم يبلغ حتى الآن عن وقوع أي إصابات على الجانب اللبناني. وأضافت أن الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي حلق بكثافة فوق القطاع الغربي بالجنوب./nوقالت مراسلة الجزيرة إن مصادر إسرائيلية استبعدت أن يكون حزب الله وراء عملية إطلاق الصواريخ./nكما بدأت القيادة العسكرية الإسرائيلية في شمال إسرائيل اجتماعا طارئا لبحث الموقف. وأشارت المصادر العسكرية إلى أن الصواريخ المستخدمة هي من الطراز القديم والقصير المدى./nنفي واتهامات/nوقد نفت حركة المقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) أي علاقة لها بإطلاق الصواريخ على شمالي إسرائيل. وقال مصدر بالحركة لوكالة الأنباء الألمانية إن حماس \تقاوم وتحارب داخل الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة\ At least three rockets fired from Lebanon struck near the city of Nahariya. CNN\s Christiane Amanpour reports./nFour rockets struck northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, Israeli police and emergency medical services said./nThe Lebanese Army issued a statement, saying the rockets were launched by \an unknown group\ and that the Israeli retaliatory fire inflicted no casualties./nThe rockets hit near the city of Nahariya, located about six miles from the Lebanese border, police said. The Israeli military said it returned fire toward the source of the rockets after the attack./nSchools and kindergartens were closed in Nahariya and the nearby town of Shlomi, the Israel Defense Forces reported./nThe Israeli military warned civilians in the western Galilee region to stay close to shelters in the aftermath of Thursday\s attack./nThe report comes as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the south, entered a 13th day./nIsrael fought a similar campaign against the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah in 2006, during which Hezbollah rained rockets on cities in Israeli\s north for a month before a cease-fire was reached./nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday\s attack. advertisement/nThe Lebanese Army\s statement also said its troops and the U.N. peacekeeping mission that patrols the border \have taken all necessary measures to protect the population and control the situation.\/nHezbollah has kept a tight rein on its forces in southern Lebanon since the cease-fire, however, and a number of Palestinian factions operate in southern Lebanon as well.

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a journey to ancient Arabia

Arabia is the name of the country to the west and south of Mesopotamia There are three main zones can be discerned in Arabia :/n1- the towns in the regions bordering on the Indian Ocean (modern Yemen and Oman) 2- the nomadic interior (modern day Saudi Arabia ,south syria,south Iraq ) 3-the northwestern part ( modern Jordan )/nThe Latin names of these three zones are: 1- Arabia Felix, (Happy or fortunate Arabia) 2- Arabia Deserta (Desert Arabia) 3-Arabia Petraea (stoney Arabia )./nin this video well see scenes for some cultures and civilizations in the part called Arabia Felix . the other two arabian zones, Arabia Desserta and Arabia Petraea will be presented in the other parts./nkingdoms and cultures of the south of Arabian peninsula wil be presented in this video ,this area used to be called Arabia Felix now yemen and Oman,/nThe history of Arabia Felix is especially important because itis one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its was recognized by some ancient Greek geographers like Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia ,(better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning fortunate Arabia or Happy Arabia./nBetween the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD,it was dominated by six successive civilizations which rivaled each other, or were allied with each other and controlled the lucrative spice trade: Main, Qataban, Hadhramaut, Awsan, Saba and Himyarite./nnot much was known about the ancient history of the pre-islamic Arabia untill about 50 years ago when a series of excavation works began in the area.

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A UN Spokeswoman Describes The Situation From Inside The Shelled UN Compound

A spokeswoman working for the UN in the compound hit by Israeli shelling describes what is going on at the moment./nIsraeli forces have shelled a hospital and UN compound as they continue to pound Gaza City while pushing deeper into densely-populated neighbourhoods./nThousands of fear-stricken Gazans fled the advancing Israeli trooops on Thursday, but observers said there was nowhere safe for them to take refuge in the territory that is under relentless Israeli attack./nOfficials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze./n\They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning,\ John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said./n\This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there.\/nBan Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said he was \outraged\ by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met Israeli officials in Tel Aviv./nIntense shelling/nAbout 500 people were inside the hospital in Tal al-Hawa when it came under attack. Many had taken shelter in the hope of escaping the onslaught./n\The last hit was on the Red Crescent\s operations building and destroyed the pharmacy. There\s a hole in the roof and a fire is still burning,\ Sharon Locke, a hospital volunteer, told Al Jazeera./nA building housing a number of international media organisations and several housing blocks were also reportedly hit on Thursday./nAl Jazeera\s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City, said that the Israeli shelling was the closest to the centre of the city that it had been during the Israeli offensive./n\There have, no doubt, been a series of air strikes that have destroyed so many of the buildings here in the heart of Gaza City, but this is the first time we have seen this kind of shelling,\ he said./n\We are getting some very horrific accounts from people trapped in buildings unable to leave.\/nMays al-Khatib, a Gaza resident, was speaking to Al Jazeera on the telephone when her building came under attack./n\The shelling is continuous since last night, we are here in this place, we are around 500 families here under bombardment,\ she was narrating, when the telephone went dead./nAl Jazeera sources said she survived, though her building collapsed./nIsrael also hit smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the southern Rafah area of Gaza./n\They used bombs that went deep into the tunnels and shook the whole Rafah refugee camp. The land trembled beneath our feet,\ Bassam Abdallah, a local Palestinian cameraman, said./nOne of Israel\s stated objectives is to stop the smuggling of weapons across the border to Palestinian fighters./nThe tunnels are also used to bring in basic supplies for the territory which has been suffering under an Israeli blockade./nAt least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip on December 27, medics said./nMore than 4,800 people have been injured in the violence./n\Unbearable\ toll/nBan told a news conference in Tel Aviv that the death toll was \unbearable\./n\The time has come for the violence to stop and for us to change fundamentally the dynamics in Gaza and to pursue again the peace talks for a two-state solution which is the only road for lasting security for Israel,\ he said./nThirteen Israelis have been killed in the conflict, including three civilians./nHowever, the two sides appeared to be inching closer towards a ceasefire deal on Thursday./nAmos Gilad, a senior Israeli envoy, was expected to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo after a Hamas delegation gave its view on the proposed agreement./nMeanwhile, a Greek-flagged vessel trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip with medical aid for the Palestinians was turned back to Cyprus by an Israeli naval vessel./nHuwaida Arraf, an organiser with the US-based Free Gaza Movement, said that the boat was intercepted about 100 miles northeast of Gaza./n\They got very close and they threatened that if we continued they would open fire on us,\ she told the Reuters news agency./n\They surrounded us with about four warships making it very difficult to navigate. They said they would use all means to keep us out of Gaza.\

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Ahmadinejad lashes out at arab leaders and USA - Israel shells hospital and the red cross

Israeli forces have shelled a hospital and UN compound as they continue to pound Gaza City while pushing deeper into densely-populated neighbourhoods./nThousands of fear-stricken Gazans fled the advancing Israeli trooops on Thursday, but observers said there was nowhere safe for them to take refuge in the territory that is under relentless Israeli attack./nOfficials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze./n\They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning,\ John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said./n\This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there.\/nBan Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said he was \outraged\ by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met Israeli officials in Tel Aviv./nIntense shelling/nAbout 500 people were inside the hospital in Tal al-Hawa when it came under attack. Many had taken shelter in the hope of escaping the onslaught./n\The last hit was on the Red Crescent\s operations building and destroyed the pharmacy. There\s a hole in the roof and a fire is still burning,\ Sharon Locke, a hospital volunteer, told Al Jazeera./nA building housing a number of international media organisations and several housing blocks were also reportedly hit on Thursday./nAl Jazeera\s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City, said that the Israeli shelling was the closest to the centre of the city that it had been during the Israeli offensive./n\There have, no doubt, been a series of air strikes that have destroyed so many of the buildings here in the heart of Gaza City, but this is the first time we have seen this kind of shelling,\ he said./n\We are getting some very horrific accounts from people trapped in buildings unable to leave.\/nMays al-Khatib, a Gaza resident, was speaking to Al Jazeera on the telephone when her building came under attack./n\The shelling is continuous since last night, we are here in this place, we are around 500 families here under bombardment,\ she was narrating, when the telephone went dead./nAl Jazeera sources said she survived, though her building collapsed./nIsrael also hit smuggling tunnels from Egypt into the southern Rafah area of Gaza./n\They used bombs that went deep into the tunnels and shook the whole Rafah refugee camp. The land trembled beneath our feet,\ Bassam Abdallah, a local Palestinian cameraman, said./nOne of Israel\s stated objectives is to stop the smuggling of weapons across the border to Palestinian fighters./nThe tunnels are also used to bring in basic supplies for the territory which has been suffering under an Israeli blockade./nAt least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip on December 27, medics said./nMore than 4,800 people have been injured in the violence./n\Unbearable\ toll/nBan told a news conference in Tel Aviv that the death toll was \unbearable\/n\The time has come for the violence to stop and for us to change fundamentally the dynamics in Gaza and to pursue again the peace talks for a two-state solution which is the only road for lasting security for Israel,\ he said./nThirteen Israelis have been killed in the conflict, including three civilians./nHowever, the two sides appeared to be inching closer towards a ceasefire deal on Thursday./nAmos Gilad, a senior Israeli envoy, was expected to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo after a Hamas delegation gave its view on the proposed agreement./nMeanwhile, a Greek-flagged vessel trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip with medical aid for the Palestinians was turned back to Cyprus by an Israeli naval vessel./nHuwaida Arraf, an organiser with the US-based Free Gaza Movement, said that the boat was intercepted about 100 miles northeast of Gaza./n\They got very close and they threatened that if we continued they would open fire on us,\ she told the Reuters news agency./n\They surrounded us with about four warships making it very difficult to navigate. They said they would use all means to keep us out of Gaza.\

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Ahmadinejad Urges IDF Troops To Refuse Orders

Video of Gaza street view from today : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the unusual step of addressing Israeli troops on his official website Thursday, and calling on them to disobey their commanders./nHe also urged esidents of occupied Palestine\, a reference to Israelis and Palestinians, to publicly protest the Israeli offensive in Gaza./nIsrael accuses Iran of providing weapon More..s to Hamas. Tehran insists it provides financial, humanitarian and moral support./n\You soldiers of the Zionist regime ... Why should you kill innocent women and children? The time has come for you to protest against your commanders and disobey their orders.\ He wrote./nIranian hardliners have staged a series of protests in support of Palestinians, in particular gathering outside the Jordanian embassy and Egypt\s diplomatic mission. Both Arab countries have peace treaties with Israel./nProtesters have focused on Egypt, which does not have full diplomatic ties with Iran, for closing its border with Gaza./nIn an interview with Iran\s Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Alam, Ahmadinejad urged Egypt to open the crossing./nEgypt sometimes allows wounded people and medical supplies through its border with Gaza but the crossing has been closed to ordinary traffic since Hamas seized control there in 2007./nCairo has also blamed Hamas for the Israeli assault on Gaza.

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Arrivée de Saddam Hussein en France - وصول صدام حسين إلى فرنسا

Arrivée de Saddam á laéroport Charles de Gaulle Hussein, Paris, France. Septembre 1975: visite de Saddam Hussein en France. Un accord, signé deux mois plus tard, est négocié sur la fourniture par la France d\un réacteur de recherche, Osirak

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BBC argues with Israeli Spokesman over UN School Bombing

nterview where Israeli spokesman Mark Regev is taken to task by Jeremy Paxman over the UN School bombing in Gaza. \You knew what you were doing didnt you?\ is Paxmans combative opening/nForty-two women and children were killed when an Israeli tank opened fire outside a UN-run school in Gaza today, the third such attack in 24 hours. Two tank shells exploded outside the al-Fakhora school in Jabaliya refugee camp, spraying shrapnel on those inside and outside the building, where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from Israeli shelling./nThose who died in the attack today were people sheltering in the school and local residents. Schools run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have opened their doors to provide shelters for thousands of Palestinians who have fled their homes. The Israeli government has been informed of this fact by the UNRWA representatives in Gaza. At least 17 schools are sheltering more than 5,000 people. Nine of the schools in the Jabaliya refugee camp are in the front line of fighting./nMax Gaylard, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said that Israel had the GPS co-ordinates of all U.N. buildings in Gaza including its schools. Neither homes nor U.N. shelters are safe for civilians, he said in a statement that reaffirmed UN ceasefire calls. These tragic incidents need to be investigated, and if international humanitarian law has been contravened, those responsible must be held accountable./nIsrael has a history of attacking U.N. shelters holding civilians. In Qana, south Lebanon, the Israeli army massacred hundreds of civilians when they bombed UN shelters in 1996. This deliberate war crime was repeated in 2006 when Israel again bombed U.N. buildings protecting civilians./nToday we call on the Canadian Government to condemn this grave war crime, as any justification for this despicable act perpetuated by the Israeli military will only signal that the Conservative government views Palestinian live as subhuman./nAlso at this moment, we can only reaffirm our commitment in the strongest possible terms to continue mobilizing friends and allies in other progressive social movements to respond to the call by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations for a comprehensive campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment/nOne by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling./nThe argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre-right Israeli intelligence think tanks./nThe Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31 report titled \Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report,\ confirmed that the June 19 truce was only \sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by ... ogue terrorist organisations\./nInstead, \the escalation and erosion of the lull arrangement\ occurred after Israel killed six Hamas members on November 4 without provocation and then placed the entire Strip under an even more intensive siege the next day./nAccording to a joint Tel Aviv University-European University study, this fits a larger pattern in which Israeli violence has been responsible for ending 79 per cent of all lulls in violence since the outbreak of the second intifada, compared with only 8 per cent for Hamas and other Palestinian factions./nIndeed, the Israeli foreign ministry seems to realise that this argument is losing credibility./nDuring a conference call with half a dozen pro-Israel professors on Thursday, Asaf Shariv, the Consul General of Israel in New York, focused more on the importance of destroying the intricate tunnel system connecting Gaza to the Sinai./nHe claimed that such tunnels were \as big as the Holland and Lincoln tunnels,\ and offered as proof the \fact\ that lions and monkeys had been smuggled through them to a zoo in Gaza. In reality, the lions were two small cubs that were drugged, thrown in sacks, and dragged through a tunnel on their way to a private zoo./nIsrael\s self-image/nThe claim that Hamas will never accept the existence of Israel has proved equally misinformed, as Hamas leaders explicitly announce their intention to do just that in the pages of the Los Angeles Times or to any international leader or journalist who will meet with them.

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BBC: The innocent victims of the Israeli massacre

A BBC report documenting the demographic which forms more than one third of all casualties in this barbaric war - children

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Bolivia severs Israeli ties over Gaza massacres-بوليفيا تقطع العلاقات مع اسرائيل

قال الرئيس البوليفي ايفو موراليس يوم الاربعاء ان بلاده قطعت العلاقات الدبلوماسية مع اسرائيل بسبب الهجوم الذي تشنه في قطاع غزة والذي أسفر عن مقتل مئات الفلسطينيين./nوقال موراليس في كلمة أمام الدبلوماسيين في مقر الحكومة \كانت لبوليفيا علاقات دبلوماسية مع اسرائيل. بالنظر الى تلك الهجمات الخطيرة على الانسانية.. ستوقف بوليفيا الارتباط بعلاقات دبلوماسية مع اسرائيل.\/nوموراليس ذو الاتجاه اليساري حليف وثيق للرئيس الفنزويلي هوجو تشافيز الذي طرد السفير الاسرائيلي من بلاده في السادس من يناير كانون الثاني احتجاجا على ما يحدث في غزة./nوأضاف موراليس قائلا \الجرائم التي ارتكبتها الحكومة الاسرائيلية تؤثر على السلام والاستقرار في العالم\ ثم وصف الهجوم الاسرائيلي في غزة بأنه \إبادة جماعية\/nBolivian Leader Evo Morales says his country has severed diplomatic ties with Israel in condemnation of Tel Aviv\s aggression in Gaza Strip./n\Given these grave crimes against life and humanity, Bolivia is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel,\ President Morales was quoted by AFP as saying on Wednesday.

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BREAKING NEWS! Israel targets TV station in Gaza-قصف تلفزيون غزة

BREAKING NEWS! Israel targets TV station in Gaza-قصف تلفزيون غزة

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British troops prepare Iraq withdrawal

British troops are training and mentoring the Iraqi army ahead of the final departure of the British Army on 31 July./nAs the UK announces its withdrawal from Iraq,an overall judgement of its deployment should be a favourable one. Although it has become clear that the softer British approach is no longer appropriate.

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Bush Hamas Must Back Off

President George W. Bush is repeating his long-standing call for creation of a Palestinian state and says Hamas must back off from its attacks on Israel./nAt a news conference Monday, Bush was asked how a ceasefire might be brought about to end the violence that has been running rampant in Gaza Strip./nHe replied that a \sustainable\ ceasefire can only be possible if Hamas retreats in its eff More..orts to launch attacks on Israel./nBush said that \Israel has a right to defend herself,\ but added that the Jewish state must be mindful of the risk of civilian casualties./nThe US leader continued to say that North Korea and Iran, whom he once dubbed part of an \Axis of Evil,\ remained dangerous and called on Pyongyang to honor promises made in nuclear disarmament talks./n\In order to advance our relations with Korea, the North Korean government must honor the commitments it made to allow for strong verification measures to be in place to ensure that they do not develop a highly enriched uranium program,\ Bush told his final news conference at the White House./nBush admits \mistakes\ in office/nHe said he regretted some of his rhetoric, in particular his \bring it on\ comment to those who carried out \terror\ attacks./nHowever, he defended his administration\s record on the Middle East, saying he felt he had \advanced the process\ despite the widely perceived failure of the Annapolis talks in 2007./nBush also used his final news conference to insist he remained \for a sustainable ceasefire\ in Gaza, but said Hamas must stop firing rockets into southern Israel./nAlso on Monday, Bush agreed to Obama\s request for congress to release the remaining $350bn of the $700bn bailout for the country\s financial sector./nThe request gives Obama the ability to access the money and also change the programme\s aims and conditions./nThe Bush administration was strongly criticised by congress and financial watchdogs for the handling of the first $350 billion of the bailout./nIraq question/nBush, whose popularity reached record lows in his second term, also defended his decision in 2007 to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Iraq in a bid to combat fighters opposed to the government and the US military presence./n\The question is, in the long run, will this democracy survive [in Iraq], and that\s going to be a question for future presidents,\\ he said./nHe also said the most imminent challenge Obama would face was the prospect of another attack on the US./n\I wish that I could report that [this is] not the case, but there\s still an enemy out there that would like to inflict damage on America - on Americans,\ he said./nHe also described North Korea and Iran as \still dangerous,\ saying Pyongyang may be enriching uranium for possible nuclear weapons./n\Standing for freedom\/nOn domestic issues, Bush defended the government\s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which decimated the city of New Orleans and parts of the US\s Gulf Coast./n\Don\t tell me the federal response was slow when there were 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed,\ he said./n\Could things been done better? Absolutely. But when I hear people say the federal response was slow, what are they going to say to those chopper drivers or the 30,000 who got pulled off the roof?\/nAnd he grew irritated when asked if the US\s moral standing in the world had suffered as a result of his presidency./n\I strongly disagree with the assessment of our moral standing has been damaged. People still understand America stands for freedom,\ he said./nHe said that keeping the US safe had been more important to him than personal popularity./n\I would not worry about popularity. What I would worry about is the constitution of the United States and putting plans in place that make it easier to [find out what ]the enemy is thinking.\

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calls for war crime investigation against Israel

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has said Israel\s actions in Gaza should be investigated as possible war crimes./nSpokesman Chris Gunness told the BBC that two children, aged five and seven, were killed when Israeli tank fire hit a UN school where hundreds had taken shelter in the northern town of Beit Lahiya./nUN officials have said war crimes may have been committed during Israel\s offensive in the Gaza Strip -- a suggestion Israeli officials reject out of hand./n\These claims of war crimes are not supported by the slightest piece of evidence,\ Yigal Palmor, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, said when asked if there was any chance of a case being brought to the International Criminal Court./nA United Nations official called for an investigation into possible war crimes after the Israel Defense Forces killed two people at a UN-run school in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday./nSpokesman Chris Gunness says the school was crowded with 1,600 people who had sought shelter from Israel\s three-week offensive in Gaza./nHospital staff said four other people had been killed by tank fire in another Gaza neighborhood on Saturday. Hamas said one of its fighters had also been killed./nAdnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said two brothers had been killed and 14 people had been wounded, including the boys\ mother, when Israeli tank fire hit the school run by UNRWA in the northern town of Beit Lahiya./nPalestinian medics had earlier put the death toll at six./nThis was the latest incident in which Israeli fire aimed at militants has struck a UN facility during the offensive. Gunness says Israel had the coordinates of the school and knew it was being used as a shelter. He says there should be an investigation into possible war crimes, and that anyone who is guilty should be brought to justice./nThe IDF said it was investigating the incident and had no immediate comment. But in similar cases, it has accused Hamas militants of staging attacks from schools, mosques and other civilian areas./nMeanwhile, an IDF spokesman said one Israeli soldier was moderately wounded in the Gaza fighting overnight./nIsrael Air Force warplanes returned to the attack on the Gaza Strip before first light on Saturday. Ending a night of sporadic gunfire, the roar of jet aircraft around 5:00 A.M. (0300 GMT) was followed by heavy explosions flashing over points to the south and north of the city of Gaza./nThe IDF said 50 targets here hit, including 16 tunnels, two mosques from which troops were fired on, three bunkers, eight rocket-launching pads and six mined areas including a booby-trapped building./nOn Friday, the Israel Air Force attacked about 40 targets across the Gaza Strip, on Day 21 of Israel\s offensive on the Hamas-ruled coastal territory./nPalestinian sources said a 14-year-old was killed and several other people were wounded during an IAF attack on the Shabura refugee camp in southern Gaza. Three militants were also killed in IAF attacks, medics said./nThe strikes came a day after the IAF killed Hamas Interior Minister Said Sayyam at the Gaza house where he was hiding./nAn official military statement said that the targets bombed Friday included smuggling tunnels along the Egyptian border, a rocket launcher ready for firing and a mosque that housed a tunnel entrance and was also used to store arms./nThe Israel Defense Forces also said that troops pinpointed a group of militants that had fired a mortar shell at Israel, and identified a hit./nMeanhile, the IDF announced that it would adhere to a four-hour humanitarian truce between 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. on Friday, to allow free flow of aid into the Gaza Strip./nMedics taking advantage of the pause said they had recovered 23 bodies on Friday from the previous day\s fighting in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City\s southwest, the scene of some of the most intense clashes on Thursday./nIDF troops backed by helicopter gunships and tanks on Thursday thrust further into Gaza City than ever before in the current operation, seeking out Hamas gunmen and carrying out the army\s most relentless shelling in Gaza yet./nChannel 10 television reported Thursday evening that troops were operating in the heart of the city, and had taken control of three of its neighborhoods. The television posed the question whether this could in fact be the delayed third stage of the IDF operation in Gaza./nThe IDF also shelled the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday, where hundreds of Gazans were seeking cover from the fighting among food and supplies meant for refugees. The attack infuriated the international body and drew words of caution from the United States.

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CNN - What American people don\t get a Chance to See

Israeli\ Lies Exposed by Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians. The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting militants is, in fact, a war crime./nMoreover, the people Israel claims are legitimate targets are members of Hamas, which Israel says is a terrorist organization. Hamas has been responsible for firing rockets into Israel. These rockets are extremely inaccurate and thus, even if Hamas intended to hit military targets within Israel, are indiscriminate by nature. When rockets from Gaza kill Israeli civilians, it is a war crime./nHamas has a military wing. However, it is not entirely a military organization, but a political one. Members of Hamas are the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people. Dozens of these elected leaders have been kidnapped and held in Israeli prisons without charge. Others have been targeted for assassination, such as Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas official. To kill Rayan, Israel targeted a residential apartment building. The strike not only killed Rayan but two of his wives and four of his children, along with six others. There is no justification for such an attack under international law. This was a war crime. Other of Israels bombardment with protected status under international law have included a mosque, a prison, police stations, and a university, in addition to residential buildings./nMoreover, Israel has long held Gaza under siege, allowing only the most minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies to enter. Israel is bombing and killing Palestinian civilians. Countless more have been wounded, and cannot receive medical attention. Hospitals running on generators have little or no fuel. Doctors have no proper equipment or medical supplies to treat the injured. These people, too, are the victims of Israeli policies targeted not at Hamas or legitimate military targets, but directly designed to punish the civilian population./nLie #2) Hamas violated the cease-fire. The Israeli bombardment is a response to Palestinian rocket fire and is designed to end such rocket attacks./nIsrael never observed the cease-fire to begin with. From the beginning, it announced a special security zone within the Gaza Strip and announced that Palestinians who enter this zone will be fired upon. In other words, Israel announced its intention that Israeli soldiers would shoot at farmers and other individuals attempting to reach their own land in direct violation of not only the cease-fire but international law./nDespite shooting incidents, including ones resulting in Palestinians getting injured, Hamas still held to the cease-fire from the time it went into effect on June 19 until Israel effectively ended the truce on November 4 by launching an airstrike into Gaza that killed five and injured several others./nIsraels violation of the cease-fire predictably resulted in retaliation from militants in Gaza who fired rockets into Israel in response. The increased barrage of rocket fire at the end of December is being used as justification for the continued Israeli bombardment, but is a direct response by militants to the Israeli attacks. Israel\s actions, including its violation of the cease-fire, predictably resulted in an escalation of rocket attacks against its own population.

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CNN\s Ben Wedeman Reporting from Gaza: House After Another Completely Destroyed

CNN\s Ben Wedeman gives a view from the ground in Gaza./nMore airstrikes rattled northern and southern Gaza early Friday morning as Israeli forces stepped up their campaign against the Palestinian territory\s Hamas leaders./nStreets were deserted after sundown in Rafah, along the Egyptian border, as Israeli airstrikes shook buildings a kilometer (0.63 miles) from the target. No running water was available Friday, and stocks of food were running low, CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman reported from Rafah./nThe latest strikes followed the heaviest shelling of the Palestinian territory since Israel launched its military operation nearly three weeks ago. Israel\s push deep into Gaza City triggered heavy battles with Hamas militants, and the third-ranking Hamas leader in the territory died in an Israeli airstrike Thursday, the Islamic militant group reported.

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Dr. Eric Fosse on Al Jazeera, from Gaza

Dr. Eric Fosse, Norwegian Aid Committee, interviewed by Al Jazeera in front of Shifa Hospital, Gaza./nDoctor in Gaza: Patients \lying everywhere\ * Story Highlights * Doctor: 30 percent of casualties at main hospital on Sunday were children * Doctor: Due to overflow of patients, \people were dying before they got treatment\ * At least 485 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in the military operation/nGAZA CITY (CNN) -- Gaza\s main hospital, already full of Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, reached critical mass on Sunday, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital/n\We\ve had a steady stream [of patients] every day, but the last 24 hours has [brought] about triple the number of cases,\ Dr. Erik Fosse told CNN. \So this day has been extremely busy.\/nFosse said he estimated that about 30 percent of the casualties at Shifa Hospital on Sunday were children, both among the dead and the wounded/nThe increase in casualties at Shifa followed Israel\s\s ground incursion into Gaza, which it launched on Saturday night. Fosse said 50 patients were \severely wounded\ when an Israeli airstrike hit a food market in Gaza City. VideoWatch Palestinians describe fearful life in Gaza »/n\We were operating in the corridors, patients were lying everywhere, and people were dying before they got treatment,\ he said/nPalestinian medical officials said Israeli forces have killed 37 Palestinians -- both civilians and militants -- since moving into the territory Saturday night. With those deaths, at least 485 Palestinians, including about 100 women and children, have been killed since the military operation began more than a week ago, officials said/nIn addition, 2,600 Palestinians have been injured, most of them civilians, officials said/nMost of the casualties are a result of the airstrikes that preceded Saturday night\s ground incursion. Shifa is the main hospital in Gaza City. Other hospitals were unable to treat the wounded because of a shortage of supplies and staff/nIsrael has said the military operation is a necessary self-defense measure after repeated rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas militants. Israeli leaders say they are trying to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza/nLast week, Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, a psychiatrist who runs Gaza\s mental health program, said Gaza is headed for \a major humanitarian disaster\ unless the fighting ends soon/nMeanwhile, at the Gaza-Egypt border, nearly 25 trucks carrying relief and medical supplies were unable to get into Gaza because they could not get through the Rafa border gate, CNN\s Karl Penhaul reported/nEgyptian authorities said the guards who were manning the Palestinian side of the border had abandoned their posts. Aid workers and drivers banged on the gate to protest the closure, but the gate remained shut. VideoWatch \absurd\ situation at border crossing »/nOn Saturday -- before Israel launched its ground incursion -- old Palestinian ambulances carried some of the wounded across the border, where patients were loaded onto modern ambulances. Most of those taken into Egypt were civilians, including a teenage boy with his arm blown off, as well as a 4-day-old baby, who was not injured but needed to be kept on a ventilator and in an incubator. iReport.com: Share reactions to the crisis in the Middle East/nAbout 10 truckloads of donations from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Greece also crossed into Gaza on Saturday.

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Egyptian police hits hamas leaderالأمن المصري يعتدى على قيادى من حماس

Egyptian police hits hamas leaderالأمن المصري يعتدى على قيادى من حماس

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Explosive Protest Between Pro-Palestine vs Pro-israel in Los Angeles

Explosive Protest Between Pro-Palestine vs Pro-israel in Los Angeles

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Farewell message from Chavez to Bush!

Chavez hopes Gaza situation improves under Obama/nPresident Hugo Chavez criticized the U.S. government for not stopping Israel\s offensive in the Gaza Strip and expressed hope the conflict will ease under the incoming administration./nChavez, who a day earlier expelled the Israeli ambassador to protest the Gaza offensive, said Venezuela hopes the situation will change once President-elect Barack Obama takes office./n\We are going to wait until Mr. Obama arrives, to see if he uses all the empire\s power to stop the aggression,\ he said, using the term he often employs to describe the U.S.

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