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WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
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WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
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Read in this report
Israel Assassinates Hamas Military Chief (P5) Horrible Israeli Massacre in Gaza (P6)
Hamas Hits Israeli Aircrafts (P9) Palestinian Rockets Hits Tel Aviv (P9)
Hamas Welcomes Arab Delegations (P13) Malaysian Parliament Condemns Israel (P14)
We in Gaza Will Not Die in Silence (P18) If itrsquos Over Now Hamas Wins Gaza War (P19)
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
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Contents
Executive Summary
Summary of the war on Gaza 4
Israeli Aggression
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief 5
Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza 6
Israel bombs media offices in Gaza 6
Mosques and cemeteries targeted by Israelis 7
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers 7
Resistance Response
Hamas targets Israeli warships 8
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft 8
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem 9
Israelis killed by resistance missiles 9
At least 21 wounded in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv 10
Hamas armed wing interrupts Israeli broadcasts 10
Official amp Popular Interaction
Morsi recalls Egyptian ambassador from Tel Aviv 11
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey will defend Gaza whatever the price 11
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit 12
Hamas welcomes Arab delegation as a Powerful Response to US and EU pro-Israel bias 12
Morocco to set up field hospital in Gaza 13
West Bank protests against Israeli aggression in Gaza 13
Malaysian Parliament condemns Israel for Gaza attacks 14
End of The War
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect 15
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper Hand Truce a Mistake 15
Hamas Says Israel Failed In Its Goals 16
Articles amp Analysis
We in the Gaza Strip will not die in silence 17
Hamas finds greater support in a changed Middle East 18
If Its over now Hamas wins Gaza war 19
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Summary of the war on Gaza
Israeli occupation has launched its war on Gaza by assassinating Hamasrsquo military chief Ahmad
Aljaabari the war lasted for 8 days (14112012 ndash 21112012) resulted in 181 Palestinians killed (42
children 11 women and 18 elderly) and over 1300 injured
During 8 days of the war Israel ndash in a clear violation to the international laws- has targeted several
press offices killing 3 journalists at least besides targeting PM office a police station Islamic
National Bank 6 ambulance vehicles 3 medical centers 36 mosques 6 cemeteries and several
residential buildings
As a response to the Israeli deadly attacks on Gaza the resistance factions lead by Hamas have fired
over a thousand missiles that reached Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time killing 19 Israelis most
of them are soldiers Besides the resistance has exploded 2 Israeli military vehicles took down 3
aircrafts and targeted 2 warships and several tanks surrounding Gaza
The war on Gaza has attracted a great international interaction rallies have been organized in over 50
countries around the world official condemnation to the Israeli aggression by several leaders several
official delegations flowed to Gaza and an uprising in the West-bank in solidarity with Gaza
The Israeli occupation has begged a truce via the Egyptian mediator a ceasefire took effect on
21112012 at 9 pm after the resistance factions have imposed their conditions and demands on the
Israeli side The ceasefire agreement forced an immediate end of the attacks by both sides end of all
forms of aggressions by the Israeli occupation end of the Israeli assassination policy and targeting the
civilians and opening of all boardersrsquo crossings for Palestinian people and goods
Source PCOM + Agencies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief
Palestinian medical and security sources have
confirmed the assassination of Hamas military
chief by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Strip
today (14th Nov 2012)
Ahmed Al-Jaabari who ran the Hamas armed
wing Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades was
killed along with his guard after their car was
targeted by an Israeli rocket
Jaabari is said to have been the head of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam BrigadesHe co-ordinated
much of Hamas military capability its
military strategy and the transformation of the
military wing He also led the final
negotiations in Cairo that concluded the
prisoner swap between Hamas and Israelrdquo in
2011
Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC
Arabic This was a heinous crime that will
have repercussionsrdquoThe Palestinian
government will call for the trial of those
responsible for the crime and for hitting a
civilian area but the Palestinian factions have
the right to respond in a way they see fit He
added
Wednesdays attacks that left 6 Palestinian
martyrs comes after several days of Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip leaving at least seven
more Palestinians martyred and several more
wounded which sounds the alarm against a
new Israeli military operation against Gaza
strip
Source PCOM + Agencies
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
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Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
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Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
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this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Read in this report
Israel Assassinates Hamas Military Chief (P5) Horrible Israeli Massacre in Gaza (P6)
Hamas Hits Israeli Aircrafts (P9) Palestinian Rockets Hits Tel Aviv (P9)
Hamas Welcomes Arab Delegations (P13) Malaysian Parliament Condemns Israel (P14)
We in Gaza Will Not Die in Silence (P18) If itrsquos Over Now Hamas Wins Gaza War (P19)
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
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Contents
Executive Summary
Summary of the war on Gaza 4
Israeli Aggression
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief 5
Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza 6
Israel bombs media offices in Gaza 6
Mosques and cemeteries targeted by Israelis 7
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers 7
Resistance Response
Hamas targets Israeli warships 8
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft 8
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem 9
Israelis killed by resistance missiles 9
At least 21 wounded in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv 10
Hamas armed wing interrupts Israeli broadcasts 10
Official amp Popular Interaction
Morsi recalls Egyptian ambassador from Tel Aviv 11
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey will defend Gaza whatever the price 11
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit 12
Hamas welcomes Arab delegation as a Powerful Response to US and EU pro-Israel bias 12
Morocco to set up field hospital in Gaza 13
West Bank protests against Israeli aggression in Gaza 13
Malaysian Parliament condemns Israel for Gaza attacks 14
End of The War
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect 15
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper Hand Truce a Mistake 15
Hamas Says Israel Failed In Its Goals 16
Articles amp Analysis
We in the Gaza Strip will not die in silence 17
Hamas finds greater support in a changed Middle East 18
If Its over now Hamas wins Gaza war 19
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Summary of the war on Gaza
Israeli occupation has launched its war on Gaza by assassinating Hamasrsquo military chief Ahmad
Aljaabari the war lasted for 8 days (14112012 ndash 21112012) resulted in 181 Palestinians killed (42
children 11 women and 18 elderly) and over 1300 injured
During 8 days of the war Israel ndash in a clear violation to the international laws- has targeted several
press offices killing 3 journalists at least besides targeting PM office a police station Islamic
National Bank 6 ambulance vehicles 3 medical centers 36 mosques 6 cemeteries and several
residential buildings
As a response to the Israeli deadly attacks on Gaza the resistance factions lead by Hamas have fired
over a thousand missiles that reached Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time killing 19 Israelis most
of them are soldiers Besides the resistance has exploded 2 Israeli military vehicles took down 3
aircrafts and targeted 2 warships and several tanks surrounding Gaza
The war on Gaza has attracted a great international interaction rallies have been organized in over 50
countries around the world official condemnation to the Israeli aggression by several leaders several
official delegations flowed to Gaza and an uprising in the West-bank in solidarity with Gaza
The Israeli occupation has begged a truce via the Egyptian mediator a ceasefire took effect on
21112012 at 9 pm after the resistance factions have imposed their conditions and demands on the
Israeli side The ceasefire agreement forced an immediate end of the attacks by both sides end of all
forms of aggressions by the Israeli occupation end of the Israeli assassination policy and targeting the
civilians and opening of all boardersrsquo crossings for Palestinian people and goods
Source PCOM + Agencies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 5 | 20
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief
Palestinian medical and security sources have
confirmed the assassination of Hamas military
chief by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Strip
today (14th Nov 2012)
Ahmed Al-Jaabari who ran the Hamas armed
wing Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades was
killed along with his guard after their car was
targeted by an Israeli rocket
Jaabari is said to have been the head of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam BrigadesHe co-ordinated
much of Hamas military capability its
military strategy and the transformation of the
military wing He also led the final
negotiations in Cairo that concluded the
prisoner swap between Hamas and Israelrdquo in
2011
Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC
Arabic This was a heinous crime that will
have repercussionsrdquoThe Palestinian
government will call for the trial of those
responsible for the crime and for hitting a
civilian area but the Palestinian factions have
the right to respond in a way they see fit He
added
Wednesdays attacks that left 6 Palestinian
martyrs comes after several days of Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip leaving at least seven
more Palestinians martyred and several more
wounded which sounds the alarm against a
new Israeli military operation against Gaza
strip
Source PCOM + Agencies
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
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Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
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P a g e 7 | 20
Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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P a g e 8 | 20
Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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P a g e 9 | 20
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 3 | 20
Contents
Executive Summary
Summary of the war on Gaza 4
Israeli Aggression
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief 5
Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza 6
Israel bombs media offices in Gaza 6
Mosques and cemeteries targeted by Israelis 7
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers 7
Resistance Response
Hamas targets Israeli warships 8
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft 8
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem 9
Israelis killed by resistance missiles 9
At least 21 wounded in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv 10
Hamas armed wing interrupts Israeli broadcasts 10
Official amp Popular Interaction
Morsi recalls Egyptian ambassador from Tel Aviv 11
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey will defend Gaza whatever the price 11
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit 12
Hamas welcomes Arab delegation as a Powerful Response to US and EU pro-Israel bias 12
Morocco to set up field hospital in Gaza 13
West Bank protests against Israeli aggression in Gaza 13
Malaysian Parliament condemns Israel for Gaza attacks 14
End of The War
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect 15
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper Hand Truce a Mistake 15
Hamas Says Israel Failed In Its Goals 16
Articles amp Analysis
We in the Gaza Strip will not die in silence 17
Hamas finds greater support in a changed Middle East 18
If Its over now Hamas wins Gaza war 19
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 4 | 20
Summary of the war on Gaza
Israeli occupation has launched its war on Gaza by assassinating Hamasrsquo military chief Ahmad
Aljaabari the war lasted for 8 days (14112012 ndash 21112012) resulted in 181 Palestinians killed (42
children 11 women and 18 elderly) and over 1300 injured
During 8 days of the war Israel ndash in a clear violation to the international laws- has targeted several
press offices killing 3 journalists at least besides targeting PM office a police station Islamic
National Bank 6 ambulance vehicles 3 medical centers 36 mosques 6 cemeteries and several
residential buildings
As a response to the Israeli deadly attacks on Gaza the resistance factions lead by Hamas have fired
over a thousand missiles that reached Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time killing 19 Israelis most
of them are soldiers Besides the resistance has exploded 2 Israeli military vehicles took down 3
aircrafts and targeted 2 warships and several tanks surrounding Gaza
The war on Gaza has attracted a great international interaction rallies have been organized in over 50
countries around the world official condemnation to the Israeli aggression by several leaders several
official delegations flowed to Gaza and an uprising in the West-bank in solidarity with Gaza
The Israeli occupation has begged a truce via the Egyptian mediator a ceasefire took effect on
21112012 at 9 pm after the resistance factions have imposed their conditions and demands on the
Israeli side The ceasefire agreement forced an immediate end of the attacks by both sides end of all
forms of aggressions by the Israeli occupation end of the Israeli assassination policy and targeting the
civilians and opening of all boardersrsquo crossings for Palestinian people and goods
Source PCOM + Agencies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 5 | 20
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief
Palestinian medical and security sources have
confirmed the assassination of Hamas military
chief by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Strip
today (14th Nov 2012)
Ahmed Al-Jaabari who ran the Hamas armed
wing Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades was
killed along with his guard after their car was
targeted by an Israeli rocket
Jaabari is said to have been the head of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam BrigadesHe co-ordinated
much of Hamas military capability its
military strategy and the transformation of the
military wing He also led the final
negotiations in Cairo that concluded the
prisoner swap between Hamas and Israelrdquo in
2011
Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC
Arabic This was a heinous crime that will
have repercussionsrdquoThe Palestinian
government will call for the trial of those
responsible for the crime and for hitting a
civilian area but the Palestinian factions have
the right to respond in a way they see fit He
added
Wednesdays attacks that left 6 Palestinian
martyrs comes after several days of Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip leaving at least seven
more Palestinians martyred and several more
wounded which sounds the alarm against a
new Israeli military operation against Gaza
strip
Source PCOM + Agencies
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 6 | 20
Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
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P a g e 7 | 20
Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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P a g e 8 | 20
Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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P a g e 4 | 20
Summary of the war on Gaza
Israeli occupation has launched its war on Gaza by assassinating Hamasrsquo military chief Ahmad
Aljaabari the war lasted for 8 days (14112012 ndash 21112012) resulted in 181 Palestinians killed (42
children 11 women and 18 elderly) and over 1300 injured
During 8 days of the war Israel ndash in a clear violation to the international laws- has targeted several
press offices killing 3 journalists at least besides targeting PM office a police station Islamic
National Bank 6 ambulance vehicles 3 medical centers 36 mosques 6 cemeteries and several
residential buildings
As a response to the Israeli deadly attacks on Gaza the resistance factions lead by Hamas have fired
over a thousand missiles that reached Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time killing 19 Israelis most
of them are soldiers Besides the resistance has exploded 2 Israeli military vehicles took down 3
aircrafts and targeted 2 warships and several tanks surrounding Gaza
The war on Gaza has attracted a great international interaction rallies have been organized in over 50
countries around the world official condemnation to the Israeli aggression by several leaders several
official delegations flowed to Gaza and an uprising in the West-bank in solidarity with Gaza
The Israeli occupation has begged a truce via the Egyptian mediator a ceasefire took effect on
21112012 at 9 pm after the resistance factions have imposed their conditions and demands on the
Israeli side The ceasefire agreement forced an immediate end of the attacks by both sides end of all
forms of aggressions by the Israeli occupation end of the Israeli assassination policy and targeting the
civilians and opening of all boardersrsquo crossings for Palestinian people and goods
Source PCOM + Agencies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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P a g e 5 | 20
Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief
Palestinian medical and security sources have
confirmed the assassination of Hamas military
chief by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Strip
today (14th Nov 2012)
Ahmed Al-Jaabari who ran the Hamas armed
wing Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades was
killed along with his guard after their car was
targeted by an Israeli rocket
Jaabari is said to have been the head of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam BrigadesHe co-ordinated
much of Hamas military capability its
military strategy and the transformation of the
military wing He also led the final
negotiations in Cairo that concluded the
prisoner swap between Hamas and Israelrdquo in
2011
Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC
Arabic This was a heinous crime that will
have repercussionsrdquoThe Palestinian
government will call for the trial of those
responsible for the crime and for hitting a
civilian area but the Palestinian factions have
the right to respond in a way they see fit He
added
Wednesdays attacks that left 6 Palestinian
martyrs comes after several days of Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip leaving at least seven
more Palestinians martyred and several more
wounded which sounds the alarm against a
new Israeli military operation against Gaza
strip
Source PCOM + Agencies
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 6 | 20
Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 7 | 20
Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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P a g e 8 | 20
Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 9 | 20
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Israelrdquo assassinates Hamas military chief
Palestinian medical and security sources have
confirmed the assassination of Hamas military
chief by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza Strip
today (14th Nov 2012)
Ahmed Al-Jaabari who ran the Hamas armed
wing Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades was
killed along with his guard after their car was
targeted by an Israeli rocket
Jaabari is said to have been the head of the
Ezzedine al-Qassam BrigadesHe co-ordinated
much of Hamas military capability its
military strategy and the transformation of the
military wing He also led the final
negotiations in Cairo that concluded the
prisoner swap between Hamas and Israelrdquo in
2011
Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC
Arabic This was a heinous crime that will
have repercussionsrdquoThe Palestinian
government will call for the trial of those
responsible for the crime and for hitting a
civilian area but the Palestinian factions have
the right to respond in a way they see fit He
added
Wednesdays attacks that left 6 Palestinian
martyrs comes after several days of Israeli air
strikes on the Gaza Strip leaving at least seven
more Palestinians martyred and several more
wounded which sounds the alarm against a
new Israeli military operation against Gaza
strip
Source PCOM + Agencies
ISRAELI AGGRESSION
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Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
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Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Horrible Israeli massacres in Gaza
Israeli F16 jets bombed two adjoining
apartment buildings in An Nasr Street in Gaza
city last Sunday (18112012) killing 11
civilians most of them are children and
women all from the Al Dalou family
Emergency forces who rushed to the scene had
great difficulty locating and removing the
bodies from beneath the flattened buildings
ldquoIsraelrdquo has targeted several residential
buildings since the start of the war on Gaza
last Wednesday (14112012) killing 181
Palestinians most of them are civilians (42
children 11 women 18 elderly)
Source MEMO + Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israel bombs media offices
in Gaza
ldquoIsraelrdquo has bombarded two buildings that
include offices for several local and international
media outlets including the Marsquoan Palestinian
news agency two local radio stations Al-Aqsa
TV German ARD the Al Arabiya television
network Middle East Broadcast Center and
production companies that provide services for
Fox News Sky News CBS and Al Jazeera 8
journalists reported injured Two Al-Aqsa TV
cameramen have been also killed on Tuesday
(20112012) as the Israeli occupation continues
to launch deadly airstrikes on the blockaded
Gaza Strip where an Israeli Apache warplane
fired a rocket at a car belonging to al-Aqsa TV
channel
On the other hand the manager of Al-Quds
educational radio in Gaza was killed in an
Israeli attack on Deir Al-balah on Wednesday
(21112012) bringing the death toll among the
media personnel in Gaza to 3
Source Aljazeera AIC PIC
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P a g e 7 | 20
Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Mosques and cemeteries
targeted by Israelis
The Ministry of Endowment and Religious
Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli
military offensive has targeted mosques other
houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries To-
date said a ministry statement two mosques
have been destroyed completely during the
latest assault 34 others have been damaged
Six cemeteries have also been attacked with
body parts and bones being blown from the
graves
Palestinian Minister of Endowment Ismail
Redwan expressed his outrage at such
desecration of holy and sacred places This is
a criminal act which breaks all international
laws and conventions regarding places of
worship and holy places he said However
the international community allows Israel to
act with impunity
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
ldquoIsraelrdquo targets ambulances and medical centers
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on
Gaza last Wednesday (14112012) the Israeli
aircrafts have targeted 6 Palestinian
ambulances at least killing one of the medical
staff
Besides that the Israeli aircrafts have
bombarded 2 medical centers 1 clinic and
bombarded the foyers of European Gaza
hospital causing a great damage to its
facilities
Source Ministry of Health - Palestine
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Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
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Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Hamas targets Israeli
warships
Qassam Brigades have announced that they
targeted an Israeli warship by five missiles on
Sunday (18112012) Qassam Brigades also
adopted the bombardment of the Israeli
warship in Nusseirat Sea with 107 rockets
Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza
continue to fire missiles into ldquoIsraelrdquo in
response to the ongoing massacres committed
by the Israelis since Wednesday
Source PIC+ Agencies
__________________________________________________________________________________
Al-Qassam Brigades used ldquoSAMrdquo to hit Israeli aircraft
The military wing of the Islamic Resistance
Movement in Gaza has announced that it
targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza
Strip last friday (16112012) Al-Qassam
Brigade confirmed to have used a surface-to-
air missile which hit the target
If the hit is confirmed it would be the first
time that Palestinians have been able to attack
the advanced military aircraft used by Israel to
such devastating effect on the civilian
infrastructure of the Gaza Strip
Through 8 days of the aggression on Gaza the
resistance factions have announced the
downing of two Israeli war aircrafts and a
drone
Source MEMO + Agencies
RESISTANCE RESPONSE
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 9 | 20
Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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Palestinian rocket hits Tel-
Aviv and Jerusalem
Al-Qassam Brigades the military wing of the
Islamic Resistance Movement has claimed that
its home-made missiles hit Tel Aviv on
Wednesday night (14112012) as a response
to the assassination of Aljaabari It is the first
time since the beginning of the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict that Palestinian rockets have hit
the economic capital of Israel
Tel Aviv is 75km from the Gaza Strip and was
occupied by the Israelis in 1948 As more than
400000 Israeli live there
On the other hand Al-Qassam announced
targeting the occupied Jerusalem with home-
made missiles called (M75) last Friday
(16112012) and Tuesday (20112012) as a
response to the Israeli massacres committed in
Gaza
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Israelis killed by resistance missiles
6 Israelis soldiers reported killed last Tuesday
(20112012) by resistance missiles fired on
several Israeli targets
The Israeli occupation has previously
announced the death of an Israeli soldier in
ldquoAmanoel Settlementrdquo 2 soldiers in
ldquoSouthern Tel Avivrdquo 1 Israeli in Northern
Negev 1 Israeli in ldquoBeershebardquo and 1 Israeli
in ldquoAshkelonrdquo by the resistance missiles
attacks which brings the death toll among the
Israelis - during the 8-days war on Gaza- to 19
most of them are soldiers besides 650 injured
Source PIC
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
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Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
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Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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P a g e 20 | 20
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P a g e 10 | 20
At least 21 wounded in a
bus explosion in Tel Aviv
An explosion took place on a bus travelling on
King David Road in the Tel Aviv wounding at
least 21 passengers according to news reports
This was followed by another explosion in the
city the results of which is not known yet
Media reports on the blast put the number of
casualties from an initial ten casualties to 25
now wounded with some reports speaking
about two or three dead
Israeli police said that a man put an explosive
device in the bus then left it adding that
another device did not explode in the same
bus
No one has claimed responsibility for any of
the two explosions
Source PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas armed wing interrupts
Israeli broadcasts
Al-Qassam Brigades hijacked Israeli TV
channels on Tuesday evening and broadcast
messages warning against a ground invasion
of the Gaza Strip the group said
The Israeli news site Ynet said viewers
reported that broadcasts were interrupted by
short films with Hamas insignia showing an
Israeli army tank being hit by a missile
This is a message to the armored corps the
text read
Source Marsquoan Agency
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P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
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P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
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P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
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P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
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P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 11 | 20
Morsi recalls Egyptian
ambassador from Tel Aviv
Egypts President Mohamed Morsi has recalled
his countrys ambassador from Tel Aviv in
protest at the Israeli offensive against the Gaza
Strip Morsi asked Foreign Ministry officials
to hand the Israeli ambassador in Cairo an
official protest about Israel attack on Gaza in
which babies and children have been killed
The president has also asked his representative
at the UN to request a special meeting of the
Security Council to discuss the on-going
Israeli violence Commentators point out that
this would give the United States an
opportunity to apply its veto and protect Israel
from international censure On the other hand
the Egyptian authorities opened Rafah
crossing 24 hours a day since the first day of
the aggression to allow the injured Palestinians
to receive treatment in Egypt
Source MEMO + PIC
__________________________________________________________________________________
Erdogan Egypt and Turkey
will defend Gaza whatever
the price
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said that he will be discussing
the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President
Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt on
(17112012) He also affirmed his countrys
unwavering support for the Palestinian people
in the embattled enclave
Mr Erdogan told journalists in Istanbul that he
would be convening a joint press conference
with President Morsi in Cairo to announce
their joint position He added We will defend
Gaza whatever it costs us
Source MEMO
OFFICIAL amp POPULAR INTERACTION
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
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P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 12 | 20
Tunisian delegation arrives in Gaza for solidarity visit
The Foreign Minister of Tunisia has arrived in
Gaza at the head of a high-level delegation to
show solidarity with the people of Gaza
Rafiq Abdul Salam and twelve of his
ministerial colleagues entered the beleaguered
Palestinian territory through the Rafah
crossing from Egypt A number of Palestinian
ministers leaders and officials received the
delegates at the border from where they were
escorted to view the Council of Ministers
headquarters in Gaza City which was
destroyed by the Israelis overnight They also
visited Al Shifa hospital to witness at first
hand the number of civilian casualties
On Friday (16112012) Egyptian Prime
Minister Hisham Kandil also visited Gaza
Strip and met his Palestinian counterpart
Ismail Haniyeh at the same building Just
hours later Israeli missiles hit the building as
part of the rogue states assault on Gazas
civilian infrastructure
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas welcomes Arab
delegation as a Powerful
Response to US and EU pro-
Israel bias
Palestinian sources have confirmed that a
delegation led by the Secretary General of the
Arab League Dr Nabil al-Arabi has crossed
into the Gaza Strip from Rafah The delegation
includes the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu and other Foreign Ministers of the
Arab League
The distinguished delegation was welcomed at
the border by representatives of the Gaza
government They called for the development
of bold and responsible actions to provide
protection for the Palestinian people and
sanctuaries against Israeli aggression
It was stressed that the visit represented an
expression of Muslim and Arab unity and is a
powerful response to the American and
European bias towards Israel It was also
asserted that any aggression against Gaza was
aggression against Cairo and Ankara
Source MEMO
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 13 | 20
Morocco to set up field
hospital in Gaza
The King of Moroccan has instructed the
Moroccan army to set up a field hospital in
Gaza as soon as possible King Mohammed VI
gave the order following a serious escalation
in Israeli aggression against the beleaguered
Palestinian territory
A spokesman for the Royal Palace Abdul Haq
Almurini told the Moroccan News Agency
that the hospital will be made up of members
of specialist medical units of the Royal
Moroccan Armed Forces as well as civilian
doctors and medical teams The medical
teams will have multiple specialisms in
surgery he pointed out The hospital will
provide first-class services to those affected by
the Israeli violence and will work to enhance
the current medical facilities in Gaza
Source MEMO
__________________________________________________________________________________
West Bank protests against
Israeli aggression in Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed during
clashes between Israeli occupation forces and
civilians in two cities in the occupied West
Bank
West Bank cities and villages witnessed a
wave of demonstrations and protests in
solidarity with the Gaza Strip and against the
ongoing Israeli aggression which started last
Wednesday A number of Palestinians have
been wounded and detained during the clashes
Palestinians in East Jerusalem also took to the
streets in Babul-Amoud district Protesters
raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans
against Israelrsquos military occupation and the
bombing of Gaza They also called for
Palestinian reconciliation
National and Islamic forces called for
Palestinians across Palestine and the diaspora
to take to the streets in massive demonstrations
on Friday
Source MEMO
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 14 | 20
Malaysian Parliament
condemns Israel for Gaza
attacks
Malaysian Parliament today approved an
emergency motion to condemn and urge a halt
to Israelrsquos attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as
the death toll continues to rise in the armed
conflict
Among others the House resolved to
ldquocondemn strongly the Israeli military attacksrdquo
and ldquourge the full withdrawalrdquo of Israel from
Gaza and the West Bank
MPs from both sides of the political divide
agreed to the motion with some proposing
additional points Opposition Leader Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh)
said Israel should be called a ldquoterrorist staterdquo
adding that pressure should be imposed on the
US which he claimed had given space for
Israel to carry out the attacks Kamaruddin
Jaafar (PAS-Tumpat) proposed that Malaysia
cut off all ties with Israel including selling
palm oil to the state
In his winding-up speech Dato Seri Nazri
Aziz said that the PM had spoken to US
President Barack Obama over the attacks
On the other hand About 1000 people staged
a peaceful demonstration organized by
IKRAM in front of the United States
embassy in Jalan Tun Razak on Friday
(16112012) to protest Israels recent military
attacks on Muslims and civilians in Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad has called on Malaysians to
continue to provide aid in various forms to the
people of Gaza Palestine who are being
oppressed by Israel
Tun Mahathir said - during the launching of
Gaza emergency fund- that Israel is a
Terrorist State and the Palestinians have the
right to defend themselves by all means and all
weapons they have
Source Bernama + TheMalaysianInsider
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 15 | 20
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around
the Gaza Strip after Israel and Hamas agreed
to cease hostilities on Wednesday
(21112012)
Many Palestinians in Gaza City took to the
streets to celebrate the truce on Wednesday
night blasting car horns and setting off
fireworks from rooftops amid celebratory
gunfire
The Egyptian foreign minister announced the
ceasefire agreement hours before it took hold
at 1900 GMT on Wednesday Mohamed
Kamel Amr thanked all parties involved in
brokering the truce as he made the
announcement in a joint news conference with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the
Egyptian capital Cairo
Under the ceasefire terms Israel was to stop
all aggression against the Gaza Strip from
land sea and air including cross-border
incursions and targeted killings
Palestinian factions were to cease all rocket
fire and attacks from Gaza towards Israel
including along the border
Twenty-four hours after the ceasefire takes
effect Israel will also be committed to
opening of all border crossings and ease
restrictions on movements of people and
goods in and out of the enclave
Source Aljazeera
________________________________________________________
Mofaz Hamas Won Upper
Hand Truce a Mistake
Politicians to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahursquos Right and Left spoke out
against Wednesday nightrsquos cease-fire with
only Labor Meretz and others on the Left
supporting it
ldquoThe goals of his operation were not reached
and the next round is only a matter of timerdquo
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz said ldquoWe
should not have stopped at this stage Hamas
got stronger and we did not gain deterrence
Hamas has the upper hand He added
END OF THE WAR
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 16 | 20
Kadima MK Ronit Tirosh accused Netanyahu
of cynically using the residents of the South
and making the equation ldquothe higher the
number of victims the higher the number of
Knesset seatsrdquo
National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and
Arieh Eldad who will run in the next election
as the leaders of the newly created Strong
Israel party called the cease-fire a ldquowhite flag
and a surrenderrdquo
National Union leader-elect Uri Ariel called
Netanyahursquos press conference with Defense
Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister
Avigdor Liberman ldquoa sad performance meant
to give an excuse for the embarrassing
surrenderrdquo
Source The Jerusalem Post
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas Says Israel Failed In
Its Goals
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on
Wednesday (21112012) that Israel had
ldquofailed in all its goalsrdquo after a Gaza truce deal
came into effect while thanking Egyptrsquos
President Morsi for his support
ldquoAfter eight days God stayed their hand from
the people of Gaza and they were compelled
to submit to the conditions of the resistancerdquo
Meshaal said ldquoIsrael has failed in all its
goalsrdquo he told reporters in a Cairo hotel
Meshaal said his movement had ldquorejected
Israelrsquos conditionsrdquo for the ceasefire ldquoexcept
for stopping operationsrdquo And the Hamas
leader warned Israel against violating the
agreement If you commit we will commit If
you do not commit the rifles are in our
handsrdquo he said adding ldquowe will continue to
arm ourselvesrdquo
Source AFP
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 17 | 20
We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
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that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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We in the Gaza Strip will not
die in silence
By Dr Musa abu Marzouq
The latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip
has prompted several European countries and
the US to reaffirm their position of
unwavering support for the aggressor They
have all claimed that Hamass rockets were
responsible for the crisis and that it is the right
of Israel to defend its citizens Had they
checked the facts they would have realised
Israel started the attacks The escalation started
when an Israeli military incursion into Gaza on
8 November killed a Palestinian child That
was followed by other Israeli incursions and
attacks provoking a response by Palestinian
factions
Despite that there were serious efforts to calm
the situation and reach a truce But clearly
Israel had another agenda By targeting
Ahmed al-Jabari leader of the al-Qassam
Brigade it sabotaged Egyptian efforts to
conclude a truce between all Palestinian
factions and the Israelis This was confirmed
by Egypts president on Saturday
With the approach of the Israeli elections the
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
wanted to trade with the blood of the
Palestinians especially after his alliance with
the ultra-extremist Avigdor Lieberman failed
to boost his popularity in the polls as hed
expected This is not the first time the Israelis
have launched a war for electoral gain
Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and
the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza
in 2008 What is important here is the immoral
and short-sighted stance of the European and
US governments they have misconstrued the
facts and displayed complete partiality in
favour of the aggressor
The western position has given political cover
to the Israeli aggression and encouraged its
leadership to continue their attacks Thus in
the eyes of our people and those of the entire
region western countries are complicit
European governments in contrast to their
peoples whose majority support Palestinian
rights have demonstrated their double
standards and hypocrisy again
The right of people to resist occupation and
confront aggression is guaranteed to all
peoples but if Palestinians seek to exercise
ARTICLES amp ANALYSIS
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 18 | 20
this right it immediately becomes terrorism
and for this they must be persecuted
Hamas has decided to defend the rights of its
people with a measure of deterrence against
one of the most well-equipped (and western-
funded) armies As the world refuses to defend
Palestinians we will defend ourselves Our
people have the right to self-defence and we
will not die in silence anymore Hamas may
not be able to defeat Israel but we can stand
firm against it and paralyse life in a
significant part of the country This is the right
of any free people Gaza and Hamas are not
alone and the enemies of Israel are increasing
The Arab world is changing The Palestinian
people today see in Hamas hope and
leadership Israel has embarked on an
adventure it has not calculated properly It
must now bear the consequences A truce will
be on Hamass terms not Israels The first of
these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on
the Gaza Strip
Source the Guardian
___________________________________________________________________________________
Hamas finds greater
support in a changed
Middle East
By Abigail Hauslohner
As the conflict between Israel and militants
(Hamas) in the Gaza Strip intensifies Arab
governments are throwing their weight behind
the territoryrsquos long-isolated Islamist leaders in
a reflection of the regionrsquos shifting political
dynamics after nearly two years of upheaval
Hamas has found a new set of highly
influential friends mdash including the
democratically elected governments of Egypt
Tunisia and Turkey all US allies Those
backers give Hamas stronger standing
internationally and perhaps greater room to
maneuver as it faces the second major Israeli
operation in Gaza in four years
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi signaled
the extent of the shift on Friday when he sent
his prime minister to Gaza in a show of
solidarity with Hamas The move was a radical
break from the policy of Morsirsquos ousted
predecessor Hosni Mubarak and came as
Israel was attempting to turn up the heat on a
Hamas Morsi meanwhile warned Israel of a
ldquohigh pricerdquo for continued military operations
in the coastal enclave
ldquoEgypt will not leave Gaza alonerdquo Morsi said
in a speech to a crowd of worshippers at a
mosque on Cairorsquos outskirts ldquoI speak on
behalf of all of the Egyptian people in saying
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
P a g e 19 | 20
that Egypt today is different from Egypt
yesterday and the Arabs today are different
from the Arabs of yesterdayrdquo Morsirsquos words
were echoed Friday throughout the region
where Islamic movements with ideological ties
to Hamas have gained influence through
popular uprisings and elections
Hamas has run Gaza in relative isolation since
it seized control following a 2006 victory in
Palestinian elections fenced in by an Israeli
blockade and by the tacit consent of
authoritarian Arab regimes However newly
democratic Egypt and Tunisia along with
regionally influential Qatar and Turkey have
increasingly assumed the roles of Hamasrsquos
new allies
Source The Washington Post
__________________________________________________________________________________
If its over now Hamas wins
Gaza war
By Aaron Klein
Israelrsquos military operation in the Gaza Strip
may have had the unintended consequence of
turning Hamas into a player on the
international diplomatic scene
In the grand scheme of things while both sides
sustained losses and experienced some gains
Hamas emerges the victor of this latest
conflict
During the height of the fighting Arab
delegations from Sudan the Arab League and
even the Iraqi government went on solidarity
visits to Hamas in Gaza This was not the
diplomatic scene during previous Israeli
operations
The fighting further served to solidify Hamasrsquo
position as the dominant Palestinian faction
waging jihad against Israel To be sure Hamas
this last week suffered a major blow to its
military infrastructure inside Gaza Yet
throughout Israelrsquos campaign Hamas was able
to maintain daily rocketing of Israelrsquos central
and southern centers including reaching Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time
That rocket-fire establishes a new deterrent
posture for Hamas with Tel Avivians and
Jerusalemites understanding that any future
military incursion into Gaza will result in
missiles at Israelrsquos major population centers
and not just the Jewish communities near
GazaHamas would get a permanent official
presence at the Rafah border crossing which
lies on the international border between Egypt
and the Gaza Strip Besides Hamas is asking
for international guarantees against a further
Israeli military incursion inside the Gaza Strip
Any such deal would likely enhance Hamasrsquo
diplomatic position internationally
Source WND
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P a g e 20 | 20
WAR ON GAZA Special News Report
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