Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, meanwhile, said that since Wednesday, an average of 50 rockets had hit the South per day, including 13 Grad missiles in Ashkelon. He said about 100 Palestinians had been killed in the fighting and that, despite media reports that the majority were civilians, 90 were terrorists. "Israel wants to stop the rocket fire," one senior official said. "If it is done through diplomatic means, that's one way. But if it isn't, then we will have to do it militarily." The officials said that if Rice were able to bring about calm by getting Hamas to stop the attacks, it was unlikely that the government would go ahead on Wednesday and okay a widespread ground push into Gaza. Rice is scheduled to go to Egypt before coming to Israel on Tuesday. Since most of the international community does not talk directly to Hamas, Egypt is the mediator. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204473062920&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Gaza deaths surpass 100; hundreds injured Report, PCHR, 2 March 2008 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemns in the strongest possible terms the continuing Israeli Occupation Forces' (IOF) open war on the civilians of the Gaza Strip. Air and land bombardments have killed 101 Palestinians since 27 February, and injured hundreds of others. The Centre also denounces the continued international silence over the carnage which has effectively encouraged the IOF to commit additional war crimes against Palestinian civilians and their property. The Centre warns that deaths and injuries will undoubtedly rise if the IOF operation continues, and reiterates its demand that the international community act immediately and effectively to put an end to these crimes, and to protect the lives of Palestinian civilians. During the last 24 hours, another 39 Palestinians were killed throughout the Gaza Strip. Twenty-two of them were unarmed civilians, including nine children. Six of the victims were from one family, including three women and three men who were killed in an air strike in Gaza City. The death toll since 27 February currently stands at 101 victims, including 49 unarmed civilians. The civilians who have been killed include 25 children and five women. In addition, more than 250 other people have been injured, mostly unarmed civilians. IOF have also destroyed houses and property across the Gaza Strip. During the last 24 hours, the majority of IOF operations took place in and around the town of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. IOF continued to use disproportionate and excessive lethal force in residential districts, with utter disregard for the lives of civilians. Jabaliya is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and since yesterday morning (1 March), 55 people have been killed by IOF in Jabaliya, including 19 children and 11 other unarmed civilians, including an infant, two women, two young brothers, a brother and sister, and a father and son. In other crucial developments, at approximately 5:15pm on Saturday, 1 March, an IOF military plane dropped three bombs on the house of Abd al-Rahman Mohammad Ali Atallah (62), near al-Bokhari Mosque in Nafaq Street east of Gaza City. The aerial bombardment completely destroyed the house, killing six members of the same family, including three women. Another six members of the same family were injured. Four of the injured were children, one of them a two-day-old infant. The victims have been identified as: 1. Abd al-Rahman Mohammad Ali Atallah (62) 2. Su'ad Rajab Atallah (his 60-year-old wife) 3. Ibrahim Abd al-Rahman Atallah (the 38-year-old son) 4. Khaled Abd al-Rahman Atallah (the 34-year-old son) 5. Raja Abd al-Rahman Atallah (the 30-year-old daughter) 6. Ibtisam Abd al-Rahman Atallah (their 25-year-old daughter) At approximately 8:37pm, an IOF plane bombed a Palestinian police vehicle in Khan Younis that was parked opposite the Khan Younis Police Compound. Two policemen, Ra'fat Yassin Abd al-Aziz Hamad (38) and Hasan Ibrahim Abu Naja (24) were killed. A third policeman was seriously injured. At approximately 22:04, IOF planes dropped four bombs on Bader Mosque (under construction) near the Rafah Police Compound in Abu Baker al-Siddiq Street in Rafah. The mosque was completely destroyed. The raid targeted six police officers who had evacuated the police station and gathered inside the mosque. The raid dismembered their bodies. The victims have been identified as: 1. Samir Hamdi Asfour (36) 2. Khaled Ahmad Abu Eyada (31) 3. Emad Ibrahim al-Talla (34) 4. Sadiq Yusef al-Buleishi (26) 5. Mohammad Omar Abu Nema (21) 6. Sobhi Mofeed Awadallah (20) Thirty other civilians were injured, including six children and four women, who were inside houses near the mosque.. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9360.shtml Olmert is surly not disappointing you nazi boy.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak: "We pulled out of Gaza, we tore Israelis from their homes, just for quiet in the communities in the Gaza envelope. These were painful concessions that we made for quiet, and Hamas has continued its fire without reason," he said at the opening of the meeting. "They are firing on innocent civilians and have left us no choice. We will operate with force to change the situation, and we will change it," the defense minister vowed. Shin Bet chief: Hamas could stop rockets if it wanted He emphasized that if Hamas wanted to, it could halt the rocket fire entirely. "If Hamas were to understand that the continued fire endangers its assets, it would try to organize a cease-fire with the other organizations," he said. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959840.html
No failure to answer you question, I didn't bother to waste time with your foolish question, so there was no failure. Man, you really are a goon...
This is from an israeli peace group to further expose the lies uttered by our resident nazi boy dddooo; Shooting unarmed demonstrators on the Gaza border would be a terrible and unforgivable crime The Government of Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a pressure cooker and the biggest open-air prison in the world, through maintaining a siege in violation of International Law and depriving a poor population of a million and half of gasoline and basic products. Those who created this pressure cooker shouldn't be surprised that it now threatens to explode in their face. If the threat to open fire and kill unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on the Gaza Strip border is implemented, no one would be able to claim innocence of this heinous crime: neither the ministers and army commanders on top, nor those who pull the trigger on the ground said the Gush Shalom movement in a message sent tonight to the bureaux of PM Olmert, Defence Minister Barak and Foreign Minister Livni. âWhen Qassam missiles are shot, the Government of Israel is quick to accuse the Palestinians of violent terrorism. But now, also the possibility of mass non-violent protest is presented as a threat justifying the use of brute force. There have been many cases when the army faced rampaging settlers, who resorted to the worst of violent behaviour â and not a single drop of blood was ever shed. The light finger on the trigger is reserved only for Arab demonstrators â but tomorrow, the whole world will be minutely watching the behaviour of the State of Israel and its armed forces. Your acts tomorrow might cause many to feel ashamed of being Israeli, and lose Israel a large part of the few international friends it still has.â Contact: Adam Keller adam@gush-shalom.org
Your acts tomorrow might cause many to feel ashamed of being Israeli, and lose Israel a large part of the few international friends it still has.â Obviously not for the American zionist/ nazi fuckers who are the cause and the defenders of all of these war crimes in Palestine and throughout the Middle East. The day will come dddooo when you are dragged, like the nazis were dragged, to be punished for the war crimes you promoted and defended. The American people will one day wake up to the fifth column zionists among them.
A senior official in the Military Intelligence said Monday that militants in the Gaza Strip fired 20 Iranian-made Grad-type missiles at southern Israel over the course of the Israel Defense Forces offensive in recent days. He said that Israel Air Force planes had bombed the largest rocket-making factory in Gaza over the course of the operation, killing the rocket-maker and his family, who lived above the laboratory. a Grad-type Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit on a residential building in the southern city of Ashkelon on Monday morning, just hours after the Israel Defense Forces culminated pulled its ground troops out of the Gaza Strip, culminating days of intensive fighting. Another rocket struck Ashkelon on Monday, but it was unclear what type. Militants in Gaza also fired at least nine Qassam rockets at various locations in the western Negev on Monday. Palestinian militants in Gaza fired 33 rockets at southern Israel on Sunday, as the IDF continued its operation on the coastal territory. Of those 33 rockets that hit Israel on Sunday, three were Grad-type Katyusha missiles and the rest were Qassams. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/960262.html
Quote from WAEL012000: You son of a bitch. What people on this forum do not know is that you have been carrying a campaign of starvation against 1.2 million Palestinians in Gaza for almost a year. No medicine, no food, no fuel and no electricity. 3/4/2008 (Tani, Afghanistan) - A local cop is killed trying to prevent a suicide car bomber from plowing into a building. 3/4/2008 (Lahore, Pakistan) - A suicide bomber takes out four people in the parking lot of a naval college. 3/3/2008 (Khost, Afghanistan) - Two Afghan laborers are among four killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 3/3/2008 (Baghdad, Iraq) - Twenty-two Iraqis are blown to bits by a suicide car bomber along a city street. 3/3/2008 (Samarra, Iraq) - Jihadis manage to kill seven women and children with a truck bomb. 3/3/2008 (Ghadeer, Iraq) - A suicide car bomber kills four people near a police checkpoint.