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Special News Report on the second war on Gaza (14/11/2012 - 21/11/2012)

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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)

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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)

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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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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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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

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

Page 3: War on Gaza (2)

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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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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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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Page 4: War on Gaza (2)

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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

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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

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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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P a g e 20 | 20

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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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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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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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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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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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WAR ON GAZA Special News Report

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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

Page 13: War on Gaza (2)

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

Page 14: War on Gaza (2)

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

Page 15: War on Gaza (2)

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

Page 16: War on Gaza (2)

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

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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

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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

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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

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