"Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas aide, rocket maker; Obama prodding Abbas to resume talks, says PLO" by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press | August 1, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes fired missiles that killed a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounded 11 people in five targets hit across Gaza overnight, the group and the military said yesterday.
The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to a powerful rocket fired from Gaza that hit the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing damage but no injuries.
See: IDF official says Hamas did not fire rocket that "justified" Israeli air strikes across Gaza
Also see: The Gaza Rocket Squads
Gaza’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers said their slain member was Issa Batran, 42, a commander of the group’s military wing and a senior rocket maker.
I'm sick of the coded word s***.
Are the war criminals ruling Israel ever described as Zionist militant Likud in my Zionist-controlled jewspaper?
Batran had survived several previous Israeli attempts to kill him, but his wife and five of his children were killed during Israel’s three-week war in Gaza that ended in January 2009.
Later yesterday, some 3,000 Hamas loyalists marched in Batran’s funeral procession, firing guns, waving the group’s green banner and Palestinian flags. Batran was buried in a grave next to his wife and children.
In a separate development yesterday, a senior PLO official said President Obama has warned Mahmoud Abbas in a letter that US-Palestinian relations might suffer if the Palestinian leader refuses to resume direct peace talks with Israel....
Did it also say that he is a complete tool of Zionist Israel?
I have to give him credit; he did a slick salesman's job winning the presidency in 2008.
Won't be falling for that again.
The cross-border violence in Gaza came after weeks of relative calm and raised concerns of further escalation.
And there is ONLY ONE SIDE that ever ESCALATES, sorry!
A Hamas spokesman said the militant group would avenge Batran’s killing. “Hamas will not be quiet over the blood of its martyrs,’’ said Hamad al-Rakab. “Israel is opening all the gates of fire. This blood will cascade into rage and fire,’’ al-Rakab said.
Hamas said eight of its supporters and three civilians were also wounded in the airstrikes.
The strikes hit a tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border used for smuggling weapons, the military said, as well as Batran’s shack in central Gaza, which was likely used to make rockets, and a Hamas military training camp in Gaza City.
Israel’s military says more than 400 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza since its assault in the Hamas-run coastal area ended 19 months ago.
Related: Shimon Peres denies calling British 'anti-Semites
It's called a Freudian slip.
The Islamic militants have been building crude rockets for the past decade and have fired hundreds at Israeli border towns.
Is that verbatim from the Israeli press release, or....?
However, Hamas has largely held its fire since Israel’s military offensive against Gaza, and most of the 400 rockets were pelted by smaller militant groups. They were mostly crude, short-range rockets. However in Friday’s attack, Ashkelon was hit by a military-grade Grad rocket that can travel longer distances and cause far more damage.
There was no claim of responsibility for the strike on Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 located 11 miles to the north of Gaza.
Hamas has ruled Gaza since seizing power in 2007, wresting control from its Fatah rivals.Related:
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006....
Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006....
In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections"
Yup, the AmeriKan MSM KNOWS THEY WON but keeps repeating the same garbage!
Btw, Hamas foiled a COUP ATTEMPT!!!!
Therefore, they are NOT TO BE BELIEVED on any matter -- especially ALL THINGS ISRAEL!!!!
--more--"
Especially when they come out with the most outrageous denials and lies:
"Explosion levels Gaza house; 32 hurt" by Associated Press | August 2, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A huge blast leveled the house of a Hamas commander in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp in southern Gaza early today, wounding at least 32 people, according to Palestinian security officials.
They said the blast was the result of an Israeli airstrike, but Israel’s military denied that, saying there was no Israeli activity in the area.
Like we are going to believe anything Israel and its MSM defense attorneys have to say!
The regional Hamas commander, Ala Adnaf, was missing along with another person, and rescue workers were digging through the rubble. Often, bombs being prepared in Gaza houses explode accidentally.
I really can't read this crap anymore.
Israel’s prime minister yesterday issued a stern warning to Gaza’s Hamas rulers after a weekend of rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory on Israeli communities.
Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet that Israel holds the Islamic militant group responsible for the rare flare-up in violence and would retaliate for any attack against its people.
“I see the Hamas as directly responsible for any attack that comes from the Gaza Strip toward the state of Israel, and the international community should see it this way as well,’’ Netanyahu said.
Yup, the WORLD should SEE THINGS ISRAEL'S WAY!
“Israel reserves the right to defend its citizens.’’
Translation: Israel reserves the right to commit war crimes.
The attacks, including a rocket fired Friday at an Israeli city 6 miles from Gaza, caused damage but no injuries. No Palestinian group took responsibility for the attacks.
EL-ZTINKOLA!
Israel responded with a series of airstrikes on militant targets in Gaza, including one that killed a senior commander of the Hamas military wing.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Netanyahu of trying to invent pretexts for new attacks on Hamas....
Hey, they have DONE IT BEFORE!
Years of rocket fire from Gaza has largely subsided since Israel launched a fierce offensive in the Palestinian territory in December 2008.
Related:
"Since fighting subsided in January, Hamas militants have held back from firing rockets, respecting an unwritten truce with Israel"
The removed Israeli government graph: 'Monthly distribution of rockets hits.'
On the 4th November, the day when Americans were watching the results of the Presidential election, the Israeli army broke the ceasefire by raiding the strip.
--MORE--"How many more lies can they tell in service to Israel, huh??
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What PoS, huh?
"Israel will cooperate with UN inquiry on flotilla; Prime minister says nation has nothing to hide" by Mark Lavie, Associated Press | August 3, 2010
JERUSALEM — Israel agreed yesterday to participate in a UN investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last spring, a surprising departure from its traditional distrust of the world body.
Israel expressed confidence the inquiry would find its actions justified. However, its decision to cooperate reflects the hit that Israel’s world standing has taken since the assault turned a spotlight on its three-year blockade of impoverished Gaza....
Yeah, poow widdle Iswael!
Its mandate is to oversee the separate investigations underway by Israel and Turkey and determine whether they are credible.
PFFFFT!
I'm sorry, but you can toss Israel's right into the Al Qaeda.
In a separate development yesterday, a string of rockets was fired toward the Israeli resort city Eilat, and one hit Aqaba in neighboring Jordan, killing one person and wounding four, officials in both countries said. No one was injured in Eilat.
The rockets appeared to have been fired from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, said Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman. Egypt denied the claim.
A similar volley was fired in April; Israeli authorities say it was also fired from Egypt. Israel has warned repeatedly of Islamic militant activity in the Sinai....
"This quote currently appears in the article (but will probably be changed quickly).
“The president did express concern that some people in Britain do not fully appreciate the difficulties of facing an onslaught of terror whilst adhering to democratic practice, as Israel does,” the statement read. “Israel civilians have endured over 10,000 missiles fired on them from Israel.”
Did Peres just admit that Israel is firing the rockets used to justify the attacks on the Palestinians?"-- Wake the Flock Up