By Mohammad Zaatari
SIDON, Lebanon: At the Khaled Ibn al-Walid Mosque (click here) in the southern Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp Friday, Hamas was accepting congratulations rather than condolences on the occasion of the deaths of three of its commanders.
Pictures of the Hamas leaders and other fallen heroes adorned the walls, while chants glorifying the assassinated leaders echoed throughout the mosque.
As the month-old Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued Thursday, Israel managed to assassinate three of Hamas’ top commanders by bombing a four-story building in Rafah....
The people of Gaza will change, it is up to Israel to stop the killing. Israel is killing families and innocent people. Who are the people of Gaza to turn to other than those that die for them? Hamas.
August 23, 2014
By Agence France Press
By Ibrahim Barzak
The people of Gaza will change, it is up to Israel to stop the killing. Israel is killing families and innocent people. Who are the people of Gaza to turn to other than those that die for them? Hamas.
August 23, 2014
By Agence France Press
GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike (click here) hit a house in central Gaza before dawn Saturday killing five family members, including two women and two children, Palestinian medics said.
Emergency services initially said three people were killed and five wounded, but later announced that two people had died of their injuries after the raid in Al-Zawayda near the Nusseirat refugee camp.
The air raid hit a family home, witnesses and medics said.
Doctors at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah said the five dead all came from the same family - a 28-year-old father, his 26-year-old wife and their two boys aged three and four.
The father's 45-year-old aunt was also killed, they said....
Abbas has to move forward the actions that will end the deaths of his people.
August 23, 2014Abbas has to move forward the actions that will end the deaths of his people.
By Ibrahim Barzak
GAZA CITY: Hamas (click here) has signed a pledge to back any Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court, two senior officials in the group said Saturday. Such a step could expose Israel - as well as Hamas - to war crimes investigations.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has debated for months whether to join the court, a step that would transform his relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile.
Last month, Abbas obtained written pledges of support from his Fatah movement and other factions in the Palestine Liberation Organization, and said he would also seek the formal backing of Hamas, his main political rival....
Hamas said for several weeks that it was studying the idea....
If Abbas doesn't act to stop Israel from killing Palestinians this will be the result forever until there are no more people in Gaza. This is outrageous and for the most part the people of Gaza have been abandoned as society of criminals by the West Bank. Hamas will continue to seek it's power where it can find it, including the death of their own.
August 23, 2014
By Agencies
If Abbas doesn't act to stop Israel from killing Palestinians this will be the result forever until there are no more people in Gaza. This is outrageous and for the most part the people of Gaza have been abandoned as society of criminals by the West Bank. Hamas will continue to seek it's power where it can find it, including the death of their own.
August 23, 2014
By Agencies
GAZA CITY: Gaza gunmen executed 18 Palestinians (click here) accused of collaborating with Israel Friday, including seven who were lined up behind a mosque with bags over their heads and shot in front of hundreds of people.
The killings came in response to Israel’s deadly airstrike against three top Hamas military commanders.The incident occurred after more than six weeks of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas.
In new violence, at least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, while a 4-year-old Israeli boy was killed by Palestinian rocket fire. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed a tough response to the killing.
In all, at least 2,092 Palestinians have been killed since July 8, of whom the U.N. has identified about 70 percent as civilians, and 68 people have died on the Israeli side, all but four of them soldiers....
