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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Israel has pulled back its troops from the Gaza Strip with an army spokesman saying that military operations in the territory were "winding down". The move came after an intense Israeli assault that killed eight more Palestinians overnight on Monday, adding to the more than 100 people killed in the past six days. The Israeli army spokesman said: "Almost all our forces have already returned to Israel." Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, said ...
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UN rights chief urges probe into Gaza killings
Monday, March 3rd, 2008APP The top UN human rights official, reacting to the recent violence between Israel and the Palestinians,has called for an investigation into the reported killing of dozens of civilians, including children, in Gaza by Israeli military. While recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour condemned the Israeli Defence Force’s “disproportionate use of force,” in a statement issued ...
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Saudi Arabia accuses Israel of ‘Nazi war crimes’
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Daily Mail US ally Saudi Arabia compared Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes on Sunday and called on the international community to stop what it called the "mass killings" of Palestinians. Israeli forces killed 61 people in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000. Almost half the dead were civilians, including children. "Saudi Arabia, which condemns the ...
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Israelis kill 60 in Gaza offensive
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008The death toll of the Israeli assault on Gaza rises to 60 people on Saturday, marking it the deadliest day of fighting in the coastal region. Palestinian IMEMC news website quoted head of Gaza's emergency services, Dr Muawiya Hassanein as saying that there were at least 26 civilians among those killed. The dead included 5 children, the youngest of whom was just 2 days old, he ...
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Israeli War Minister Threatens Palestinian Holocaust
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Paul Joseph Watson | Propaganda Matrix Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has provoked outrage after threatening Palestinians with a "holocaust," but the same media who obsessed about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "wipe Israel off the map" misquote are ...
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Israeli army won’t probe Gaza deaths
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Ed O'Loughlin THE Israeli army has decided not to order a disciplinary probe into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006. The dead men, women and children included at least 13 members of the Athamneh family, among them a one-year-old girl. Another 35 people were injured as 12 155-millimetre heavy artillery shells struck the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun for several minutes. Israeli rights groups yesterday claimed ...
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Israel is stealing Palestinian land, private or not
Thursday, February 21st, 2008By Amira Hass Not long ago the greengrocer in Ramallah recalled - between weighing locally grown zucchini and stripped hyssop leaves - that his family owns the land on which the gas station at the old entrance to the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank is located. He would not be surprised by the figure that the Peace Now movement has succeeded in officially extracting from ...
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VIDEO: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo[/youtube] A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described "brutal occupiers of a disputed land." Producer: Sat ...
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A genocide in numbers
Monday, January 21st, 2008
During the period Sept. 30 ‘00 -
Please note that all injuries figures are from PRCS field posts & EMS
operations. Misc. injuries are mostly due to bomb fragments and shrapnel....
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Israeli satellite to spy on Iran
Monday, January 21st, 2008Israel has successfully launched a spy satellite which will be used to gather intelligence on Iran's activities, a new report says. The TECSAR satellite is particularly important for Israel since it can be used to 'keep tabs on Iran's nuclear program', the report said citing unnamed Israeli officials. The officials revealed that the TECSAR satellite operates with an enhanced footage technology, allowing it to transmit images ...
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Girl hit in missile strike fights to stay in Israel
Monday, December 24th, 2007By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem Six-year-old Maria Amin races ahead of her father on the way to school. "Hurry up, papa. The bus will leave without us," she calls, steering her electric wheelchair with a mouth-stick towards the specially-equipped van.
Symbol of hope: Maria Amin's case has captured ...
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Intel: Israel to attack Iran ultimately
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007A former senior US intelligence official says Israel will ultimately attack Iran in order 'to defend its nuclear monopoly' in the region. "I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran," said Bruce Riedel, the former CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents, including George W. Bush, on Thursday. Riedel said his conversations with Israeli officials and ...
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Ex-CIA: War with Iran in the offing
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007A former senior CIA analyst says the United States and Israel are planning war against Iran before the next presidential election. Ray McGovern said Monday despite a recent National Intelligence Estimate conceding that Iran is not conducting a nuclear weapons program, a joint US and Israeli war on the Islamic Republic is likely to happen. The former analyst expounded that the close American relationship with Israel, ...
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Sealed Off by Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Scott Wilson GAZA CITY -- The batteries are the size of a button on a man's shirt, small silvery dots that power hearing aids for several hundred Palestinian students taught by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in Gaza City. Now the batteries, marketed by Radio Shack, are all but used up. The few that are left are losing power, turning voices into unintelligible echoes in the ears of Hala ...
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Prison interrogation techniques in Israel
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Gideon Levy "We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet interrogator said, launching four successive days of questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture. The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a fashionable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet. "I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's the ...
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