| Author | Message | | Guest-c651 | |  | | Guest-400c | | | | Guest-98a3 | | Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 3:36 am Post subject: |
| The awareness of these things is almost non-existent in America, where popular opinion is formed by the "One-Voice" Media Machine, and Fundamentalist churches. I fear where the ruling elite are taking us, but people have been conditioned to equate opposition to Israeli policies as Antisemitism. When ignorance is perpetuated upon the masses, the eventual outcome can only be tragic.  | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:44 am Post subject: Subj: Israeli Forces Kill 10 in Gaza Incursion |
| Israeli Forces Kill 10 in Gaza Incursion
Date: 1/25/03 5:40:09 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: BGJDAVID
I'll bet you won't hear any condemnation from the White House on this. As a matter of fact the only words you may get from the White House is how soon can they approve the $12 billion in aid package to Israel. I guess the Bush Administration simply ignores the conditions for receiving U.S. military aid that Israel has violated repeatedly. Under the Arms Export Control Act, military hardware provided by FNS funds can be used only for defensive purposes or to maintain internal security. Israel violates both conditions and therefore should be withdrawn from receiving further aid. No spin of the tongue can describe this crime as a defensive measure or to maintain internal security.
Israeli Forces Kill 10 in Gaza Incursion
By IBRAHIM BARZAK
.c The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli forces with tanks and helicopters moved deep into Gaza City early Sunday, killing 10 Palestinians in exchanges of fire, a large-scale assault just three days before Israel's election.
It was the highest toll in Gaza in five months, and the incursion was the deepest into Gaza City in more than two years of fighting. Tanks were seen a half a mile from Palestine Square, which marks the center of the city of about 300,000.
Late Saturday, Israeli tanks entered the city from three directions, as helicopter gunships fired machine guns at targets and at crowds of people in the streets, including gunmen, witnesses and security officials said.
Ten Palestinians were killed and 42 wounded, eight critically, hospital officials said. It was the bloodiest day in the Gaza Strip since August, when 13 people were killed in an Israeli attack on the southern city of Khan Younis. Casualties were being brought to Gaza's Shifa Hospital in cars and ambulances.
The Israeli military said its forces in Gaza came under heavy rifle and anti-tank fire, and soldiers returned the fire.
A missile fired by an Israeli helicopter started a huge fire in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, witnesses said. Firefighters were battling the blaze in the industrial area.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, said its fighters blew up three Israeli tanks with explosives. The Israeli military denied the claim.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, running for re-election, stood to benefit from an upsurge of violence as Tuesday's elections approached. His hard-line Likud party and its allies are ahead in the polls, and Sharon is expected to form a new government after the voting, but Likud leaders say they're concerned that they might still not have enough electoral strength to form a stable ruling coalition.
Israeli forces blew up the two-story house of a Hamas militant and were approaching the houses of two others involved in an attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza, Palestinians said.
Also, several metal workshop in the same area were blown up. Israelis charge that Palestinians use the workshops to produce weapons, including mortars and rockets.
Early Sunday, witnesses said nine Israeli tanks took up positions in the center of Beit Hanoun, a town at the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces blew up four bridges a day earlier. Palestinians have been firing rockets and mortars from Beit Hanoun at Jewish settlements and nearby Israeli towns in recent days.
As the Israeli incursion in Gaza City was in progress, Maj. Gen. Abdel Razek Majaidie, head of Palestinian security in Gaza, accused Sharon of ``adding a new page to his dark record. This crime against innocent civilians is another part of his continuous war against the Palestinian people and Palestinian homeland.''
The incursion began around 10 p.m. Saturday, with about 35 tanks moving toward the center of Gaza City from three directions, witnesses and security officials said.
Palestinian legislator Ziad Abu Amr said he saw 10 tanks drive through his street. Another resident, Mohammed Tafesh, 29, said electricity was cut to the neighborhood. From mosque loudspeakers across the city, gunmen were called into the streets to wage ``holy war'' against the Israelis.
Two helicopter gunships fired machine guns toward armed men. In one exchange, gunmen fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli armored vehicle, drawing Israeli tank fire. Tafesh said the gunmen got away. | | | | Guest-c651 | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
