Kerry visits Egypt to counter Iranian influence

Posted on March 3, 2013 |

John Kerry, Obama’s new Crypto-Jew foreign secretary, landed in Cairo on March 2. Ahead of his arrival, Obama called his Egyptian counterpart Dr. Muhammad Morsi. Both leaders talked about Syria, Israel, Gaza, local economy and country’s democratic process.

“The two Presidents discussed regional security, and President Obama welcomed Egypt’s continued role in advancing regional peace and maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza,” said the statement issued by Morsi’s office.

John Kerry, on his part, is expected to tell the regime in Cairo about the decision by the Rome conference of The Friends of Syria to provide non-military support to the Syrian rebels, and discuss the UN plans to convene an international conference on making the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. The conference was originally due to take place in December 2012, but was postponed because the Zionist regime refused to attend the conference. The Islamic Republic has already held two such conferences in Tehran.

Billionaire John Kerry’s main agenda, however, is to sell IMF to the new Egyptian regime in order to keep Cairo dependent on pro-Israel western powers. According to US source, Kerry will stress that if Cairo accept $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, that would bring more funds from the US, EU and oil-rich Arab ‘royals’ like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE – all western stooges.

Kerry met with Amr Moussa, top minister under former pro-Israel dictator Hosni Mubarak and current Arab League head Nabil Elaraby. However, former head of IAEA, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, a Nobel laureate, refused to meet Kerry. Kerry will meet president Morsi on Sunday.
I bet Kerry is going to warn Morsi never to equate Jews with vampires, apes and pigs, as he criticized his Turkish host Erdogan for equating Zionism with fascism recently.

During his first visit to Cairo in February 2013, Iranian president Dr. Ahmadinejad had renewed his country’s offer to provide a long-term loan to Egypt to help free herself of western economic slavery.

Washington-based columnist George Hishameh wrote at Jordan Times (February 21, 2013) that Obama will be visiting Israel in March just to please Jewish lobby groups at home even though he realizes that his chances of launching an urgently needed peaceful settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors is limited.

Egypt has always been the center of Arab politics.

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Jewish terror state breaches truce 820 times in three months

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Israel has breached its ceasefire agreement with the Palestinians on more than 800 occasions since it was signed last November.

Human rights organisations have revealed that Israel has breached its ceasefire agreement with the Palestinians on more than 800 occasions since it was signed last November. In stark contrast, the Palestinians have broken the truce just twice.

Data based on reports produced by the United Nations, the Israeli Legal Centre for Freedom of Movement (GISHA) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, as well as Israeli and Palestinian media outlets, found that the three months old ceasefire is not being taken seriously by the Israeli occupation authorities.

According to the data sources, four Palestinian civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since November and 91 have been wounded. In the West Bank, meanwhile, six Palestinians have been killed by Israel, with 618 wounded.

A breakdown of the statistics shows that 63 attacks and 13 incursions were carried out by the Israelis in several areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel detained nine people from Gaza during the incursions.
At sea off the Gaza coast, the Israeli navy has carried out 30 attacks on fishing boats belonging to Palestinian fishermen, resulting in several casualties. Thirty-nine fishermen were detained by Israel, including two children. Ten fishing boats were shot at, with 8 being damaged significantly. British Members of Parliament visiting the Gaza Strip last week at the invitation of London-based charity Interpal witnessed Israeli gunboats attacking Palestinian fishing boats well within the 6-mile limit agreed as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinians in Gaza launched just two mortar shells in the same period, causing little or no damage in Israel. The human rights groups say that no rockets were fired from Gaza during the three month period covered by the survey, from November 22, 2012 to February 22, 2013.

The ceasefire agreed between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel brought to an end the eight-day Israeli offensive on the besieged territory. Around 170 Palestinians were killed, including 43 children, 15 women and 18 elderly; more than 1,250 people were injured, including 430 children, 207 women and 88 elderly. Three Israelis were killed and about 240 were either injured or treated for psychological trauma. Research in the Gaza Strip claims that 86 per cent of Palestinian children there now suffer trauma at the sound of the Israeli F-16 fighter aircraft which overfly the territory frequently.

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Israel’s ‘self-defense’ argument against Hamas holds no water

فتوى حماس المحرمة للعمليات العسكرية ضد إسرائيل

Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas is holding, but unless Israel completely lifts its blockade and includes Hamas in two-state negotiations, renewed rocket attacks from Gaza are likely.

Should that happen, Israel would not be justified in arguing self-defense.

As part of a November ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has partially lifted its blockade of the Gaza Strip, at least allowing construction materials into the region pummeled by Israeli airstrikes. It’s a single, forward step that ends a five-year ban on such materials. But without progress in settling the overall conflict, Palestinian rocket or suicide attacks and heavy Israeli responses will almost surely resume.

 

If the past is any guide, even those who would criticize such Israeli attacks as “disproportionate” would hasten to add: “Of course, Israel has the right to defend itself.”

Israel, however, is not defending its homeland against unprovoked attack. Rather it is “defending” a nonexistent right to continue its occupation (direct or indirect) and repression of the Palestinians – and that is what provokes Palestinian attacks from Gaza.

 

The eight days of Israeli bombing and air strikes on Gaza last November were essentially a continuation – though on a much smaller scale – of “Operation Cast Lead,” the three-week Israeli attacks that began in late December 2008. Then as now, Israel and its supporters justified Cast Lead as a legitimate use of force in self-defense to end Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel’s civilian population.

After Cast Lead, a number of major human rights investigations – including the Goldstone Commission, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch – concluded that Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportional attacks against the Gazan population, economy, and societal infrastructures constituted war crimes. At the same time, none of these groups sought to refute Israel’s claim that it acted in self-defense.

Essentially, Israel and its supporters argue that even though Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005, Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israeli population centers have continued, and thus justify Israel’s right to defend itself.

Their argument is wrong on several counts. First, even though Israel withdrew its Jewish settlements from Gaza in 2005, it continued its indirect occupation of the strip – especially through its land and naval embargo that followed the violent takeover of the strip by Hamas in 2007.
 
Israel continues to wield great power over Gaza’s economy, water, electricity, telecommunications, and transportation networks. Among other measures, it has refused to allow Gaza a functioning airport, seaport, or commercial crossing on its border with Egypt, radically cutting Gazan trade and commerce with the outside world.

The stated reason is for security purposes, but the result is widespread hardship on ordinary Gazans, including heavily restricted movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza; inadequate imports of water used for drinking and irrigation; farmers prevented from tending to and harvesting their fields and crops in border areas, and inordinate harassment of Gazan fishing boats.

Additionally, Israel has continued to assassinate Palestinian militants and periodically attack Gaza’s governmental and police institutions, electrical generating system, roads, bridges, farms, and olive orchards – and many of its bombs and shells have fallen on schools, ambulances, and hospitals, whether intentionally or not.

It cannot be seriously maintained that Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel – even though morally wrong – are “unprovoked” or have nothing to do with this history.

A second reason that the self-defense argument fails is that even if Israel had genuinely ended its occupation and repression of Gaza, it has not ended its direct occupation over East Jerusalem and much of the West Bank. Instead, it has expanded the number of Jewish settlements and land-grabs in those areas.

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Gaza is not a separate country or people from the West Bank, and the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo agreement specifically states that Gaza and the West Bank are “a single territorial unit.”

Consequently, the Gazan people retain their right of resistance to occupation and repression.

To believe otherwise is like believing that, if the British had withdrawn from New Jersey in the 1770s but continued to occupy the other 12 colonies, New Jersey residents would no longer have had the right to take up arms to support American independence.

To be sure, the right of resistance does not include the right to employ terrorism. At the same time, it is certainly relevant that the Palestinians have no hope of gaining their freedom by defeating the Israeli armed forces. Nor is nonviolent protest and resistance likely to succeed, for Israel has either repeatedly ignored it or suppressed it, often meeting demonstraters (including Israelis) with beatings, rubber bullets, and sometimes real bullets.

The final flaw in the Israeli self-defense argument is that Western morality proscribes the use of force unless all nonviolent means of conflict settlement have been exhausted.

Israel, however, has repeatedly refused to negotiate long-term truces with Hamas, and it has even broken past agreements. While Hamas still refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist, since 2009 there has been substantial evidence that it is ready to go beyond ceasefires and join with the more moderate Palestinian Authority in the West Bank in supporting a two-state political settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Although Hamas’s position has been ambiguous and sometimes contradictory, this does not justify Israel’s refusal even to negotiate with Hamas to explore the peace possibilities.

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As long as the Israeli occupation, repression, and intransigence continue, Israel has no legitimate or persuasive claim that it is defending its homeland against unprovoked Palestinian attacks. To stop those attacks and make last year’s ceasefire permanent, it needs to fully lift its blockade and bring Hamas into the negotiation process.

Jerome Slater is professor emeritus of international politics, US foreign policy, and international security at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A longer version of this piece ran in the journal International Security.

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Jerusalem Big trail: Hamas betray Iran and Syria

درب أورشليم الكبير : حماس تخون إيران وسوريا
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عموميات

 

عندما وصل أمير دولة قطر، حمد، الى قطاع غزة على رأس وفد كبير يضم زوجته موزة، ورئيس وزرائه حمد –وهو شيخ وليس أميرا- استقبله رئيس حكومة حماس، إسماعيل هنية، ونظم حفلا كبيرا بهذه المناسبة. ووقف الرجلان جنبا إلى جنب عندما عـُزف النشيدان الوطنيان الفلسطيني والقطري. بالتأكيد، تم فرش سجاد احمر على شرفه، بعد ذلك استقبل حشد من مسؤولي حماس الأمير، منهم وزراء حكومة غزة وقيادي من الحركة في المنفى “صالح عروري” جاء إلى الأراضي الفلسطينية خصيصا لهذه المناسبة المجيدة جدا.(1).

وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، صرح السيد طاهر النونو، المتحدث باسم رئيس حكومة حماس في غزة، الذي ابتلع لسانه عندما قرأ الولاءات للأمير الجديد، أن الزيارة كانت ذات أهمية سياسية كبيرة، لأنه أول زعيم عربي –بالأحرى “عارب” حسب اصطلاحاتنا(2)- لكسر الحصار السياسي(3).

أطلقت صواريخ استبشار، بطبيعة الحال، في سماء غزة، المحاصرة منذ ألفية ونيّف على يد العسكرة الإسرائيلية والخيانة العربية.
 

في الشوارع، تعانقت آلاف الأعلام الفلسطينية والقطرية وعلقت صور عملاقة للشيخ حمد: “شكرا لقطر التي تصون وعودها”.. أو “مرحبا”.. يمكن أن نقرأها في لافتات على طول شارع صلاح الدين، في الأراضي الفلسطينية من الشمال إلى الجنوب.

وقال السيد هنية ان الأمير وافق على زيادة الاستثمار القطري من 254 الى 400 مليون دولار، وذلك خلال احتفال أقيم في خان يونس، بحضور الشيخ حمد، لوضع حجر الأساس لمشروع إسكان للأسر الفلسطينية المحرومة سيحمل ايضا اسم سعادته: حمد أو أمير دولة قطر.

 

لهذا التواجد الكلي لسعادته الذي سبق العملية العسكرية الإسرائيلية المسماة “دعامة الدفاع”، هذا التسارع المفاجئ للتأثير القطري في غزة، هذا الانتشاء من قادة حماس في معبر رفح الذي استثارته روح الاستبداد الظلامي العارب، صعود الأمير هذا في الوقت الذي ينحدر.. هذا الظهور في الوقت الذي يختبئ، هذا الصمت في حين يتحدث، هذا الضجيج بينما يصمت.. لم يكن ميزة طبع كما أعلن الامير ومتملقوه، ولا هلوسة جماعية، كم يقول ثالبوه، وليس مجرد خطأ في حسابات قادة حماس غداة خيانتهم البغيضة لسورية وإيران.

 

خيانة حماس لسورية وإيران

 

بدءا، إن ما افتقدته وسائل الإعلام “المقاومة” خلال الدورة الأخيرة من أعمال العنف في غزة هو الشجاعة ! ليس لشتم “عدوهم”، وهو هنا اسرائيل، بل الشجاعة لتشريح ما يسمى بـ”الحليف” عندما يتحول إلى دليلة، و “الحلف” معه شعرَ شمشون المشتهى(4). هذا ما لم تجرؤ وسائل الإعلام الموسومة بـالـ”مقاومة” على القيام به كرد فعل على خيانة حماس لسورية وإيران.

وعلاوة على ذلك، بعيدا عن ضجيج القذائف والصواريخ من كلا الجانبين، فرض سؤال بسيط جدا نفسه منذ اليوم الأول من العمليات العسكرية في غزة، لم يتكرم بالاجابة عنه اي من وسائل الإعلام العربية الـ”مقاومة” أو تلك التي لـ”إسرائيل”: أية بعوضة لسعت رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي، نتنياهو، حتى يعطي الضوء الأخضر لعملية عسكرية؟

بداية، بساطة سؤال كهذا، لا يستبعد صعوبة في الرد، في النهاية، وبـ”الاجابة” لا ننتظر، طبعا، هرجا اعلاميا أو مرجا، لا يؤدي الى تقديم حقائق موضوعية عن عملية كهذه أو “الإجابة” على السؤال المطروح. بعبارة أخرى، كل ما قيل، وكل ما نشر، وكل ما كان من وسائل الإعلام الإسرائيلية أو “أعدائهم”، الإعلام “المقاوم”، لا يشكل -من وجهة نظر تحليل الخطاب- أي مادة تحليلية لوقائع موضوعية، تفضي إلى عملية “عمود الدفاع”.. والخلاصة الوحيدة من الخطابين الإسرائيلي و”المقاوم” هو أن الطرفين سيطرا بشكل جيد خلال سير العمليات العسكرية، على فن الدعاية!

 

في الواقع، ومنذ بداية الحملة الامبريالية على سورية في مارس 2011، انزاحت حماس نحو معسكر ما يسمى “الثورة السورية” أو حتى الحرب الإمبريالية ضد سورية، بتبرير انتقال البندقية من كتف إلى أخرى”، وفقا لتعبير لبناني، كـ”خضوع لإرادة الشعوب العربية” في خضم ربيع العرب(5).

 

يكفي موازاة الزيارة التي قام بها رئيس وزراء حركة حماس الاسلامية الفلسطينية اسماعيل هنية الى القاهرة، يوم 24 فبراير 2012، عندما أشاد بما وصفه “سعي الشعب السوري الى الحرية والديمقراطية(6).

 ”أحيي شعب سورية البطل، الذي يتوق الى الحرية، الى الديمقراطية والى الإصلاح”، هكذا قال السيد هنية أمام حشد من مؤيديه تجمعوا في مسجد الأزهر، وذلك في تجمهر مخصص لـ”دعم المسجد الاقصى في القدس والشعب السوري”(7).

ومن المهم أيضا أن نعرف أن أول زيارة رسمية لرئيس الوزراء هنية، خارج غزة، كانت للإخوان المسلمين في حارتهم العامة “المقطم”، بالقاهرة، حيث علق هناك بأن حماس حركة جهادية لـ”الإخوان المسلمين بوجه فلسطيني”.

 

وتحدث السيد هنية أمام حشد من أنصار الإخوان المسلمين الذين هتفوا “لا إيران ولا حزب الله”، “سورية إسلامية”، “ارحل بشار، ارحل ايها الجزار”، في حين ظل قداسته، السيد هنية، كأنما قـُدّ من الرخام(8).

 

وعلاوة على ذلك، تجب الاشارة إلى أن حماس ليست مجرد حركة اسلامية فلسطينية، ولكنها أيضا سليلة ايديولوجية دقيقة، هي فكر الإخوان المسلمين، أسوأ أعداء السلطة السياسية في سورية. مؤسسوها الثلاث: أحمد ياسين، عبد العزيز الرنتيسي، ومحمد طه هم ايضا من جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، وهو ما يفسر انقلاب قادة حماس على الرئيس بشار الاسد، مؤيد القضية الفلسطينية التاريخي، بعد أن تلقوا سنوات عدة دعما من سورية في مواجهة إسرائيل، ليتحولوا فجأة 180 درجة الى التموقع في المعسكر الآخر المعارض لدمشق، ويخونوها بالوقوف في صف تركية ومصر والإمارات والسلطنات العاربة في الخليج الفارسي، ويضعوا أنفسهم في تناقض مع “محور المقاومة”، أو القوس الشيعي، وفقا لمعجم العاربين والامبريالية العالمية.

 

حماس على درب الى اتفاق أوسلو 2

 

قبل كل شيء، وحسب عاموس هاريل، محلل صحيفة هآرتس الإسرائيلية، فمنذ بداية العملية العسكرية الإسرائيلية في غزة، لم يكن لحماس ولا لإسرائيل مصلحة في في أن يتيها في مواجهة عسكرية تستمر طويلا، أو الارتهان من جديد في “مهزلة” مثل حرب غزة 2008- 2009. وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، أضاف هاريل أن تقييم الاستخبارات الإسرائيلية، المعد لمكتب رئيس الوزراء بنيامين نتنياهو، يفيد أن حماس تعتبر خارج المواجهة العسكرية، ولا مصلحة لها في التدخل. وقال ايضا انه كلما خـُيّرت حماس بين القيمة الفعلية للمقاومة والسلطة السياسية، اختارت الثانية دوما(9).

 

مؤشرات عدة تقودنا الى الاستخلاص هنا أن حماس تتجه إلى “أوسلو” جديدة، تفضي الى الاعتراف بإسرائيل.
 

أولا، بالتخلي عن “محور المقاومة”، بخيانة سورية وإيران، بتلقي نعمة الروح القدس العارب، بالتموقع في معسكر ما يسمى “المعتدلين العرب” أي في حضن الحرب الإمبريالية ضد سورية.. تفتح حماس، في الواقع، بابا لـ”أوسلو” جديدة، من شأنها أن تؤدي إلى الاعتراف بإسرائيل، برعاية إمارة قطر هذه المرة. تؤكد ذلك الزيارة “لفخيمة” لسعادة امير قطر في غزة ، خصوصا بعد اعلان الأمير تقديم مساعدة قدرها 400 مليون دولار لغزة(10) وملياري دولار لمصر(11).

 

ثانيا، هـَدَفَ اشراف مصر على اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار بين إسرائيل وقطاع غزة، وخاتمتها المفاجئة، الى قطع الطريق –اولا- عن المنظمات الفلسطينية الأخرى التي تتبنى خيار المقاومة دوما، والتي لم تتورط حتى الآن في التحالف المقدس ضد سورية، مثل الجهاد الإسلامي، والجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين.

يضاف الى ذلك ان تدخل مصر وتسرّعها لإعلان وقف إطلاق النار يهدف أيضا إلى الحفاظ على سلطة حماس في غزة في مواجهة حركة الجهاد والجبهة الشعبية.
وتجدر الإشارة هنا إلى أن حماس لم تشارك في المناوشات التي سبقت اغتيال الجعبري بين إسرائيل من جهة والمنظمات الفلسطينية من جهة أخرى، وبأن مقاتلي حماس لم يطلقوا رصاصة واحدة ضد إسرائيل خلال المناوشات السابقة. لم يرد قادتها الانزلاق الى مواجهة مع إسرائيل، حتى لا تتضرر خطتهم المتضمنة الدخول تحت عباءة أمير قطر، حمد. في وقت لاحق، اضطرت حماس الى المشاركة في العمليات العسكرية فقط بعد اغتيال أحد قادتها، الجعبري، وإلا لكان المقلب فضائحيا!

 

ثالثا، عند اقرار وقف إطلاق النار في القاهرة ، لم تصدر عن زعيم حماس خالد مشعل أدنى إشارة إلى دور سورية أو جمهورية إيران الإسلامية في دعم القضية الفلسطينية خلال سنوات عديدة، وخاصة حماس، ما دفع بالأمين العام لحزب الله، حسن نصر الله، الى التلميح إلى جحود قادة حماس ونكرانها جميل إيران وسورية(12).

 

رابعا، “مفاجأة المفاجآت” التي حضرها لنا قادة حماس، كانت الفتوى الاخيرة(13) التي تحظر، تكفيرًا، الهجمات ضد إسرائيل(14)! إن من شأن فتوى مثل هذه إرساء أساس وشرعية دينية من اجل اتفاق سلام مستقبلي بين إسرائيل وحماس، وعلى ثلاثة مستويات: مستوى العلاقات مع إسرائيل، مستوى العلاقات بين الفلسطينيين مستوى العلاقات العربية العربية.

 

فتوى حماس المحرمة للعمليات العسكرية ضد إسرائيل

 

أولا، على مستوى العلاقات مع إسرائيل، فإن مثل هذه الفتوى تسهل، في المستقبل القريب، إعلان غزة ارضا “مستقلة”، ليس عن إسرائيل، ولكن عن الضفة الغربية، حيث يُمضي زعيم السلطة الفلسطينية، محمود عباس، في رام الله بقية حياته في الكفاح -إذا جاز التعبير- مع سيمون بوليفار ضد الفراغ والملل، في مطاردة ذباب بطالته الشاقة الاخضر، في متاهاته(15).
وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، تؤكد هذه الفتوى، قبل أي شيء آخر، حدود “فلسطين” وترسيمها! ليس فلسطين 1948، ولا فلسطين 1967، ولا حتى فلسطين 1992، بل نوع مصغر ومجهري من اي فلسطين كانت، تمتد على طول ساحل البحر الأبيض المتوسط من شمال غزة إلى جنوب القطاع!

تهانينا حماس ! مادري دي ديوس، نوسترو سنيور(16)..

 

ثانيا، على المستوى الـ”بين-فلسطينيي”، فإن فتوى مثل تلك تحرم أي عمل عسكري ضد إسرائيل، تفرض، بذلك، حماس وكأنها السلطة العسكرية والسياسية والمدنية والدينية الوحيدة في غزة، التي من شأنها وحدها تقرير أمور اعلان الحرب أو تطبيع السلام مع إسرائيل. بيد أن “ارتقاء” حماس هذا الى مصاف الآلهة سيضفي الطابع الرسمي والمؤسساتي ليس فقط على قوتها في غزة بل أيضا على الانقسام الفلسطيني، ويعمل على تسريع إنشاء “كينونتين” اثنتين معزولتين ومنفصلتين عن بعضيها بإقليم إسرائيلي: إمارة حماس في غزة ومقاطعة منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية الضفة الغربية.

 

يا لها من مهزلة ! يا لها من مأساة ! كان الرب مع يسوع، حيث ذاع صيته في جميع أنحاء البلاد(17)..
 

ثالثا، على المستوى العربي، تنشئ الفتوى إقرارا من جانب حماس، واضحا مثل سماء بيروت الزرقاء في عز يوليو، مشيرا إلى قطيعة تامة مع بقية الدول العربية التي لا تزال تقاوم التطبيع مع إسرائيل، ومؤكدا أن المقاومة لم تعد خيارا، في خسارة كبيرة لخطاب النصر عند متباسلي الاعلاميين الفلسطينيين المتشدقين وهؤلاء المنتمين الى ما يسمى اعلام الـ”مقاومة” غداة إعلان الهدنة بين إسرائيل وقطاع غزة.

 

كما حدث مع الحاج نصر الدين جحا عندما قطع الغصن الذي كان يجلس عليه..

 

فقد كان الحاج نصر الدين جحا جالسا على فرع كبير في شجرة كرز، منفرج الساقين، سراويله الفضفاضة وبرنوسه الأبيض الطويل يلفان خصره، وساقاه تتأرحجان من جانب إلى آخر كلما لامس فأسه.

ناداه صوت من الاسفل :

ـ سلام عليكم، حاج نصر الدين حجا أفندي!

قال الحاج نصر الدين جحا الجالس متوازنا على الغصن. وقد ضع فأسه وأصلح عمامته التي مالت على جانب:

– وعليكم السلام، خالد أفندي !

حذره خالد:

ـ ستسقط عن تلك الشجرة ! انظر كيف تجلس !

رد الحاج نصر الدين جحا:

ـ ستفعل حسنا لو ابصرت طريقك، إن الناس الذين يحدقون في رؤوس الأشجار والغيوم واثقون من طرق أصابع أقدامهم..

فجأة، وُجد الفرع على الارض، ثم الفأس، ثم الحاج نصرالدين جا. لقد كان منشغلا جدا عن ملاحظة انه كان يجلس على الجانب الخطأ من الفرع الذي كان كان آيلا للانكسار.

ختاما، يبدو أن مصير حماس بعد القطيعة مع سورية وإيران، وبعد تسرع قادتها في الدخول تحت عباءة أمير دولة قطر، ليس أقل مأساوية من مصير الملا الحاج نصر الدين جحا في شيء عندما قطع الغصن حيث كان يجلس، وبقطع جبهتها الخلفية – إيران وسورية- يجد قطاع غزة نفسه الآن ضحية لأمزجة ملوك إسرائيل.

الدكتورة فداء دكروب

دكتوراه في الدراسات الفرنسية (جامعة ويسترن أونتاريو، 2010): فداء دكروب كاتبة وباحثة وناشطة من أجل السلام والحقوق المدنية.

ترجمة: خالدة مختار بوريجي

الموقع الرسمي للكاتبة

www.fidadakroub.net

هوامش:

[1] لوريون، لو جور. (23 أكتوبر 2012). « L’émir du Qatar, “premier dirigeant arabe à briser le blocus politique” à Gaza ». Récupéré le 15 novembre 2012

http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C3%80+La+Une/article/784187/Lemir_du_Qatar,_%22premier_dirigeant_arabe_a_briser_le_blocus_politique%22_a_Gaza.html

[2] نحن نميز بين “العربي” و”العَارب” أي ساكن شبه الجزيرة العربية، الذي –بالنظر الى أرضيته الثقافية- يتعارض مع الأول، أي العربي. هذا الأخير أنشأ في سوريا، وتحديدا في دمشق، وبتداخل الحضارتين السريانية واليونانية، أو المسيحية السورية، إحدى أعظم الحضارات في تاريخ البشرية، هي الحضارة العربية.

[3] نفسه.

[4] في نصوص الكتاب المقدس التي ألهمت الفنانين، نجد ملحمة شمشون ومغامراته المؤسفة مع دليلة. هذه القصة تظهر في كتاب الحكم (13: 1-16: 22).

[5] تستخدم المؤلفة تعبيرا ساخرا “ربيع العرب” بدلا من “الربيع العربي”

[6] فرانس 24. (24 فبراير 2012). “« Le Hamas officialise son divorce avec le régime de Damas ». معاد في 26 نوفمبر 2012 في:

http://www.france24.com/fr/20120224-leader-hamas-salue-resistance-peuple-syrien-contestation-ismail-haniyeh

[7] نفسه.

[8] نفسه.

[9] هاريل، عاموس (15 نوفمبر 2012). “Gaza escalation doesn’t necessarily mean Israel is headed for war”.، نشر في صحيفة هآرتس. معاد في 26 نوفمبر 2012 في:

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/gaza-escalation-doesn-t-necessarily-means-israel-is-headed-for-war.premium-1.478169#

[10] رودرون، جودي. (23 أكتوبر 2012). Qatar’s Emir Visits Gaza, Pledging $400 Million to Hamas”. ، نشر في صحيفة نيويورك تايمز. معاد 26 نوفمبر 2012 في

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/world/middleeast/pledging-400-million-qatari-emir-makes-historic-visit-to-gaza-strip.html?_r=1&

[11] هندرسون، سيمون. (22 أكتوبر 2012). « Qatar’s emir visits Gaza ». ، نشر في واشنطن انستيتيوت. معاد في 26 نوفمبر 2012 في

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/qatars-emir-visits-gaza

[12] إعلان عام للأمين العام لحزب الله، حسن نصر الله. معاد في 26 نوفمبر 2012 في:

http://audio.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=3674

[13] الفتوى، في الإسلام، هي حل قانوني يقدمه المتخصص في الشريعة الإسلامية بشأن مسألة معينة.

[14] كمال، سانا. (27 نوفمبر 2012): “حماس تحرم خرق التهدئة وتسير دوريات حدودية”. نشر في صحيفة الاخبار. معاد 26 نوفمبر 2012 (مع مراعاة فرق الزمن بين لبنان وكندا).

http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/172380

[15] إشارة إلى رواية غابرييل غارسيا ماركيز في “الجنرال في متاهة”.. حكاية رومانسية عن الأيام الأخيرة من حياة سيمون بوليفار، محرر وزعيم كولومبيا، تروي أيضا الرحلة النهائية لبوليفار من بوغوتا إلى الساحل الشمالي لكولومبيا في محاولة منه لمغادرة أمريكا الجنوبية الى منفى في أوروبا.

[16] والدة الله، ربنا. المخطوطة من كانتيغاس سانتا ماريا، هي واحدة من أهم مجموعات الأغاني الاحادية الصوت، في أدب العصور الوسطى في الغرب، كتبت في عهد ملك قشتالة ألفونسو العاشر المعروف باسم سابيو أو الحكيم وأو (1221-1284).

[17] سفر يسوع، 6: 27.

http://www.areen.info/?p=3424
 

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Ceasefire Means ‘Nothing’ to Gaza Fishers

December 17, 2012 by evabartlett
 

Mohammed Baker (70) has been fishing for half a century. He remembers the days when Palestinian fishers could go out to sea without fear of being attacked, arrested or killed.

 

first published at IPS -by Eva Bartlett

 

Shortly after Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement on Nov. 21, the Israeli navy abducted 30 Palestinian fishers from Gaza’s waters, destroyed and sank a Palestinian fishing vessel, and confiscated nine fishing boats in the space of four days.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that fourteen fishers from a single family, stationed just three nautical miles from the coast of the Gaza Strip, were all arrested on Dec 1.

Some fishers were only two miles off Gaza’s coast when they were attacked with machine gun fire and arrested by the Israeli Navy. Ranging from the ages of 14 to 52, the majority in their late teens and early twenties, these fishers hail from some of Gaza’s poorest families.

According to Mifleh Abu Riyala, a representative of the General Syndicate of Marine Fishers, the ceasefire has made no difference to Palestinian fishers.

Palestinians are allowed, under the current Israel-Hamas ceasefire, “to fish six miles out”, he told IPS, “but the Israeli gunboats still attack us, whether we are six or three miles out.”

The Oslo accords granted Palestinian fishers the right to fish twenty nautical miles out at sea, a right the Israeli navy has unilaterally vetoed, downsizing the fishing “limits” since the 1990s to a mere three miles, until this past November’s ceasefire allowed a slight increase, to six nautical miles.

 

“But there are no fish at six miles, the sea floor is still sandy. It is only after seven miles out that the sea floor becomes rocky and the fish are plentiful,” Abu Riyala stressed.

“It is our sea, in order to live we must be able to access it.”

Mohammed Baker (70) has been fishing for half a century. He remembers the days when Gaza’s sea was open to Palestinian fishers, and when there was no fear of being attacked, arrested or killed by the Israeli navy.

Two of his sons, Amar (34) and Omar (21), were among the 14 fishers attacked by Israeli gunboats on Dec 1. The Israeli navy has still not returned their “hassaka” (a small fishing boat).

Like many of Gaza City’s fishers, the Bakers live in the Beach Camp, one of the Strip’s most overcrowded refugee camps.

 

Amar, married with six children, was still being held by Israeli authorities on Dec. 5 when his father, Mohammed, recounted the events of that fateful day to IPS.

“Israeli gunboats and smaller zodiacs surrounded my sons’ hassaka and made them strip naked, jump into the sea, and swim to one of the Israeli boats,” Mohammed told IPS.

 

“They put a bag on Amar’s head and took him to Ashdod. Amar has asthma, I’m very worried about his health.” Mohammed has still not been able to speak with his son.

Four days after Amar’s abduction, Mohammed went to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose work includes visiting and monitoring Palestinian prisoners’ conditions in Israeli jails and detention centres.

 

“They told me Amar is forbidden from talking with anyone. He is under interrogation,” Mohammed said.

Amar now stands accused of “being part of the Palestinian resistance”, a charge based on his previous job of making coffee and tea for Hamas officers.

“My son was a ‘kitchen boy’. People who work for the government are still civilians,” Mohammed stressed, echoing the tenets of international humanitarian law.

 

Stripped of their only boat and a member of their family, the Bakers face even more dire circumstances than ever.

“There is no ceasefire for fishers. We’re ordinary people, we work to earn just 30 or 40 shekels (seven to 10 dollars) per day to feed our families,” Mohammed lamented.

Jamal Baker’s son Khadr was abused and abducted by the Israeli navy.

Khadr Baker (20) was lucky that he was not killed during an encounter with the Israeli navy on Nov. 28, during which his boat was gunned down as punishment for fishing just over three miles from the Beach Camp coast.

His father, Jamal Baker (50), spoke to IPS about Khadr’s arrest, explaining that Israeli gunboats appeared without warning and began firing at close range on Khadr’s small motorboat.

“The Israelis ordered the four fishers on Khadr’s hassaka to strip and jump into the sea, which is extremely cold this time of year,” Jamal told IPS.

“They made Khadr tread water for half an hour, and kept machine gunning around him,” said Jamal. The hassaka eventually caught fire and exploded, sinking soon after.

“The Israelis took Khadr on their boat, handcuffed him naked, and beat and interrogated him for three hours, accusing him of working with the Palestinian resistance,” the boy’s father told IPS.

Without their boat, the family of ten has no income. “I sold my nets so that we can eat,” Jamal said simply.

PCHR reported other attacks on fishers that day: in one case, the navy attacked and abducted five fishers from the al-Hessi family, damaging – and eventually confiscating – the large fishing trawler they were on. The boat has not yet been returned.

 

In February 2009, Rafiq Abu Riyala, then 23, was shot in his back – by an Israeli soldier standing less than 20 metres away – with a dum-dum bullet, which explodes on impact.

The hassaka fisher was only two miles off Gaza’s coast when attacked. One of two breadwinners in his family, Rafiq Abu Riyala cannot now fish in cold weather. “The shrapnel bits in my back make it too painful when it is cold out,” he told IPS.

Mahar Abu Amia (40) has sixteen people to provide for. “My wife fishes also,” he told IPS. “But we have no chance: we reach six miles and they shoot, we go only three miles and they shoot. What is this ceasefire? It means nothing for us.”

see also:

Israeli naval abductions and shooting at Palestinian fishermen: it’s routine

Israeli Navy Terrorism: Destroying Boats and Lives

Israeli naval abductions and shooting at Palestinian fishermen

one year later, young fisherman still trying to heal

musings from a fishing boat

River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian
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Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to kill & injure Palestinians

PCHR Weekly Report: 3 Palestinians dead, 14 wounded by Israeli forces this week

In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 29 Nov.- 05 Dec 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli Forces killed a Palestinian civilian in the southern Gaza Strip. In addition, a member of a Palestinian armed group died of wounds he had sustained in the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Forces also killed a Palestinian civilian in the east of Tulkarem.

Mosque demolished by Israeli forces this week in Hebron (PCHR photo)

14 civilians, including 4 children, were wounded along the border fence in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Forces abducted 20 fishers, including 5 children, and damaged a fishing boat’s engine.

Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip:

In the Gaza Strip, on 30 November 2012, the Israeli Forces killed a Palestinian civilian in the east of al-Shouka village, east of Rafah. The abovementioned civilian was killed when the Israeli soldiers along the border fence to the east of Rafah opened fire at dozens of Palestinians. As a result, a civilian was wounded by a bullet to the pelvis and was transported to Abu Yusef al-Najjar hospital. Due to his serious injury, he was transported to Gaza European hospital in Khan Yunis. However, he was pronounced dead on Saturday morning, 01 December 2012.

On 29 November 2012, medical sources in al-Salam hospital in Egypt pronounced declared that Husam al-Hams, 36, died of serious wounds he had sustained during the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza, when an Israeli warplane launched a missile at 2 members of an armed group near a playground, west of Rafah. As a result of that attack, one of them was immediately killed and al-Hams was seriously wounded.

During the reporting period, the Israeli Forces wounded 14 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, along the border fence while they were near the fence to challenge the Israeli decision to impose a buffer zone in the area.

On 29 November 2012, a 17-year-old boy was wounded when the Israeli Forces stationed along the border fence in the east of Beit Hanoun opened fire at group of Palestinian civilians and farmers near the fence.

On 30 November 2012, 10 civilians, including 2 children, were wounded when the Israeli Forces stationed along the border fence opened fire at them.

On 01 December 2012, 3 civilians were wounded when the Israeli Forces along the border fence opened fire at them.

On 03 December 2012, a Palestinian child was wounded when the Israeli Forces along the border fence opened fire at him in the east of al-Bureij refugee camp.

In the context of other shooting incidents, the Israeli Forces stationed along the border fence in the east of Beit Hanoun and Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian civilians and farmers, who headed to the border area to challenge the Israeli decision to impose a 300-meter buffer zone along the borders. It should be noted that hundreds of Palestinian farmers have been denied access to their lands in the mentioned area. These farmers decided to go to the border area in light of the announcement of the cease-fire agreement between Israeli and the Palestinian resistance groups.

In the context of targeting fishermen in the Gaza Strip, on 29 November 2012, the Israeli gunboats stationed off Beit Lahia shore in the northern Gaza Strip intercepted a fishing boat boarded by 6 fishermen, including a child, which was 5 nautical miles off the shore. The Israeli Forces abducted and questioned the 6 fishermen on board the gunboat.

On 01 December 2012, the Israeli gunboats surrounded and opened fire at a Palestinian fishing boat that was 3 nautical miles off Gaza City shore. They abducted 5 fishermen, including 2 children, and transported them to Ashdod Port, where they were questioned and then released.

On the same day, an Israeli gunboat attacked 2 fishing boats 2.5 nautical miles off the shore. The Israeli naval forces opened fire at the 2 boats and damaged the engine of one of them. None fishermen on board fishing boat were abducted and transported to Ashdod Port for questioning. Moreover, the 2 boats were kept in custody.

Israeli attacks in the West Bank:

Israeli Forces conducted 47 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and abducted 34 Palestinians, including 2 children and a woman with her son, in the West Bank.

In the West Bank, on 03 December 2012, the Israeli Forces killed a Palestinian civilian when his car hit an Israeli military jeep on Nablus-Ramallah road.

On 01 December 2012, a Palestinian child was wounded when the Israeli Forces moved into Dora village, southwest of Hebron, amidst firing sound bombs.

In the same context, the Israeli Forces continued to use excessive force against peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians and Israeli and international human rights defenders. As a result, dozens of Palestinians were wounded, suffered from tear gas inhalation or sustained bruises.

The Israeli Forces established dozens of checkpoints in the West Bank. At least 2 Palestinians were abducted at checkpoints in the West Bank.

In one example of this week’s 47 incursions, on Thursday November 29th, At approximately 02:30, the Israeli Forces moved into Beit Leqia village, southwest of Ramallah. They raided and searched a number of houses using sniffer dogs amidst firing bullets and sound bombs. They intentionally damaged the doors and contents of the houses. The Israeli Forces obliged the residents to leave their houses and stay out. An Israeli intelligence officer questioned Mohammed Rabah Shokri Asi, 27, under the pretext that he is wanted. They wrote down the names of the residents and their mobile numbers. The Israeli Forces raided a house belonging to Mohammed Ibrahim Qeddis Dar Qeddis, and damaged its contents. They also occupied the roof of the house and turned it into a military lookout. At approximately 06:30, the Israeli Forces withdrew and no arrests were reported. Dar Qeddis said that soldiers took his wife’s jewelry that is estimated at approximately 60,000 NIS.

In his testimony to a PCHR fieldworker, Mohammed Ibrahim Dar Qeddis, 33, said:
“At approximately 03:30 on Thursday, 29 November 2012, while I was sleeping with my 4 children, whose ages range between 4 and 11, on the second floor of our 2-storey house which is in the western part of Beit Leqia, I was surprised by having my door broken. I stood up and tried to reach the door, and found 10 Israeli soldiers. When they saw me, they asked in Arabic who was at home. I told them I had my wife and 4 children, who woke up at that moment. They ordered me to take everybody out, and more than 5 soldiers then came into the house and started searching. They asked many questions about my job and about Mohammed Rabah Assi. The Israeli Forces kept me and my children in the external storage room and continued searching the house. At approximately 04:20, the Israeli Forces withdrew. My wife checked the house and the bedroom and found that her jewelry that was in the wardrobe was not there. The jewelry is estimated at NIS 60,000.”

Israel continued efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem. The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem demolished a commercial building and forced a Palestinian civilian to demolish his own house.

Israeli attacks on non-violent demonstrations:

During the reporting period, Israeli forces used force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest at the construction of the wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were wounded, and a number of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation and others sustained bruises.

Following the Friday Prayer on 30 November 2012, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in Bil’ein village, west of Ramallah, in protest to the construction of the annexation wall. The demonstrators gathered in the streets of the village, chanting slogans calling for national unity. The protesters aimed to stress the need to adhere to national principles and the right of return, to resist the occupation and to call for the release of all Palestinian prisoners. The protesters raised Palestinian flags and made their way towards the wall. They called through megaphones for Israeli settlers in “Mitityahu” settlement to leave Palestinian land. Israeli soldiers stationed in the area fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators. As a result, a 21-year-old Palestinians was wounded by a bullet to the right hand, and a 40-year-old man was hit in his right leg with a gas bomb. A number of demonstrators also suffered from tear gas inhalation and others sustained bruises.

Also following the Friday Prayer on 30 November 2012, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in Ne’lin village, west of Ramallah, in protest at the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities. The demonstrators moved towards areas of the annexation wall. Immediately, Israeli soldiers stationed in the area fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators. As a result, some demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation and others sustained bruises.

Around the same time on Friday, 30 November 2012, dozens of Palestinian civilians and Israeli and international human rights defenders gathered in the Martyrs Square in Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah, to hold a weekly peaceful protest against the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities. The protesters walked towards the gate erected by Israeli forces near the entrance of the village, which leads to Palestinian lands that Israeli settlers from the nearby “Halmish” settlement are trying to seize. Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber-coated bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the protesters. As a result, dozens of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation. Israeli forces also abducted two Israeli human rights defenders and transported them to an unknown destination.

Also following the Friday Prayer, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in the center of al-Ma’sara village, south of Bethlehem, in protest at the ongoing construction of the annexation wall. The protesters raised banners saying, “In accordance with General Assembly resolution issued on 29 November 2012, you are in the State of Palestine, and occupation must be ended immediately.” As the protestors moved towards the gate of the village, the Israeli forces closed it to prevent the demonstration from gaining access to the confiscated lands. Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the protesters. Hassan Braijiya, coordinator for the Popular Movement against the Wall and Settlement Activities, said that a unit of the Israeli forces moved into the village in the early morning before the beginning of the demonstration and hid behind the school awaiting for the gathering to start. He also added that an intelligence officer accompanied the unit and questioned children present in the area about the persons who threw stones at the Israeli forces.

Israeli settlement activities:

The Israeli Forces have continued settlement activities in the West Bank, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

On 04 December 2012, the Israeli Forces demolished a mosque in Kherbet al-Mafqara area, south of Hebron.

On the same day, the Israeli Forces demolished a 20-square-meter room in the southeast of Nablus, in addition to a 50-square-meter barrack in the same area.

On 29 November 2012, dozens of settlers closed road linking Dora village, southwest of Hebron, with the bypass road (60) and prevented Palestinians from movement.

On 02 December 2012, a group of settlers in the east of Yatta, south of Hebron, set fire to a 306 Peugeot vehicle and wrote racist slogans on a house south of Dora.

At early morning hours on Monday, 03 December 2012, a group of settlers stormed a Palestinian five-storey building in Jabal al Mukaber, southeast of Occupied east Jerusalem. The settlers claimed that “Al’ad” association bought the building, located in al-Farouq neighborhood, two years ago. According to Israeli daily Haaretz, it is seemingly intended to build a new settlement outpost in the heart of the Palestinian neighborhood. It should be mentioned that the building, which was built many years ago, remained vacant of residents except for a family residing in the upper floor until a group of “guards” came in, changed the locks of the main gate and ceased the house. This building is several meters away from a building the settlers ceased in 2010 and changed it to a settlement outpost. Peace Now, an Israeli organization, described the settlers’ action as dangerous and provocative, as seizing houses in the heart of the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem raises tension in the city.

On 04 December 2012, Israeli forces bulldozed a commercial building in Jabal al-Tour, and forced a civilian to demolish his house by himself in Beit Safafa in occupied East Jerusalem.

At early morning hours on Tuesday, 04 December 2012, a group of the Israeli “Border Guards” and the Israeli police, accompanied by officers from the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem and a bulldozer, moved into Jabal al-Tour, east of the old city. They surrounded a commercial building, belonging to Mohammad Abul-Hawa, and started demolishing it. The 2-storey building was established on a 45-square-meter area. The first floor was used as a car rental office and the second one was used as a dentist clinic. According to Abul-Hawa, he had built the first floor in 2000 and added the second floor in 2009. He added that nearly a month and a half ago, he received a demolition notice from the Israeli municipality in the city, following that he started preparing the necessary paperwork to obtain a building license, but the municipality hastened in the demolition.

In the same context, the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem forced Moussa ‘Elian to destroy his house in Beit Safafa village, following an order issued by the mentioned municipality. ‘Elian said that he built his one-storey house on a 220-square-meter area six years ago, and he received a notice from the Israeli municipality to stop the construction and demolish it. Nearly a month ago, he dug a hole in the roof, but the Municipality refused to allow it and threatened him that they would demolish his house on his expense and force him to pay NIS 250,000 as a fee; therefore, he had to demolish it by himself to avoid paying the demolition fees.

Recommendations to the international community:

Due to the number and severity of this week’s attacks, the PCHR made several recommendations to the international community. Among these were a recommendation that the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention comply with their legal obligations detailed in Article 146 of the Convention to search for and prosecute those responsible for grave breaches, namely war crimes.

The PCHR calls for the immediate implementation of the Advisory Opinion issued by the International Court of Justice, which considers the construction of the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank illegal.

For the full text of the report, click on the link below:

http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_…focus

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Gaza conflict cost Israeli tourism sector USD 1.8 billion

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11:10AM Gilad Atzmon

 

At least we now know why Israel was so desperate for a ceasefire..

 

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First Palestinian Martyred by Israeli Fire Since Ceasefire

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In the first breach of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli occupation forces open fire on a group of Palestinians killing one and injuring seven others on Friday.

The Palestinian emergency service identified the martyr as Abdelhadi Qdeih Anwar, 21. They said he was killed in the southern Gaza Strip village of Khuzaa. Seven other Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds.

“The occupation forces opened fire on a group of farmers,” Gaza emergency service spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya said.

An Israeli occupation army spokeswoman could not confirm the incident, saying only that “disturbances” had broken out on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border early on Friday, “prompting Israeli soldiers to fire warning shots.”

Gaza ceasefire took effect late Wednesday after eight days of Israeli offensive against the besieged enclave.

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One killed, 19 wounded in Israeli breach of Gaza ceasefire

Al-Akhbar’s correspondent in Gaza said that Palestinian political parties, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, have reported the ceasefire breach to Egypt. But Mohamad Mursi MUBARAK is bussy with something else

“A Muslim Brotherhood office in Alexandria was set ablaze during ongoing clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi Friday, according to various media sources

“protesters are pouring into Tahrir square to demonstrate against Mursi’s seizing of new powers Thursday night, which grant him a significant degree of immunity from Egypt’s judiciary.”

Published Friday, November 23, 2012

 

Updated at 2:55pm: One person was killed and 19 injured in Gaza by the Israeli army on Friday, breaking a two-day old ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Strip and sparking critical responses by Palestinian officials.

A 21-year-old man, identified as Anwar Qadih by an Al-Akhbar correspondent, was shot in the head by Israeli gunfire as he and a group of Palestinians approached the security fence running along the border between Israel and Gaza near the southern city of Khan Younis.

There were conflicting accounts of the event, including the reason why of a group of Palestinians were near the border and whether warning shots were fired by the Israeli army.

According to the ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt, Israel may not fire at Gaza’s border area.
The eight-day conflict that pitted the Israeli army against Palestinian parties in the Gaza Strip ended Wednesday evening, triggering mass celebrations in the coastal strip with locals proclaiming a victory for Palestinian resistance groups.

Two Palestinians died on Friday morning as a result of wounds sustained during the Israeli offensive’s relentless airstrikes, medical officials told Ma’an news agency. Their deaths brought the death toll to 170 Palestinians and five Israelis.

The ceasefire involved an immediate cessation of violence, as well as talks with the mediating Egyptian state to negotiate a new border deal. Hamas has demanded a lift of the blockade on Gaza.
Gaza’s border has been unilaterally declared a buffer zone by Israel in the past, but the ceasefire talks may entail a revision of the area’s status.

The Palestinian foreign minister in Gaza Riyad al-Maliki said the Israeli attack was a “clear violation” of the ceasefire and should not be repeated, Lebanese news channel al-Mayadeen reported.
Al-Akhbar’s correspondent in Gaza said that Palestinian political parties, including Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, have reported the ceasefire breach to Egypt.

The parties said that they are ready to respond to the attacks, but are working through diplomatic channels first.

Two days after the end of the conflict, life was slowly going back to normal in Gaza. Work is expected to return to normal hours on Saturday, as Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh promised the government would help reconstruct homes destroyed by the numerous Israeli air raids.
(Al-Akhbar)
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Gaza Offensive between Ground Invasion and Truce Efforts

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As Israeli officials were mulling a possible ground invasion in Gaza, efforts to reach a ceasefire were going on with an Egyptian mediation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened an expanded offensive that might reach a ground invasion.
“The army is prepared to significantly expand the operation,” Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

But Israeli occupation military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich said no decision on a ground offensive has been made yet but confirmed it is ‘still an option’.

“We still have hundreds of targets in Gaza, including rocket launchers ready to fire rockets on Israel,” she said.

“The only thing of concern is how to stop the rockets threatening three million people – just under half of the total Israeli population,” Leibovich added.

For his part, US President Barack Obama said on Sunday it would be “preferable” to avoid an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.

Obama, weighing in with his first comments on the crisis, made clear he was firmly on the side of the Zionist entity against the Palestinian resistance, but he also seemed to appeal to Netanyahu to allow more time for Middle East leaders to “rein” in Hamas.

“There’s no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders,” Obama told a news conference during a visit to Thailand. “So we are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.”

For his part, British Foreign Minister William Hague warned the Zionist entity that a ground invasion to Gaza would cost Tel Aviv international support.

“The prime minister (David Cameron) and I have both stressed to our Israeli counterparts that a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation.”

Meanwhile, only 30 percent of the Israelis support a ground operation in Gaza, according to an Israeli daily Haaretz-Dialog poll taken on Sunday.


TRUCE EFFORTS

On the other hand, Egypt is at the center of efforts to broker a ceasefire; with Palestinian officials said it was possible a deal would be reached “today or tomorrow.”

Senior Hamas officials, who were in Cairo, said Egyptian-mediated talks with the Zionist entity to end the bloodshed were “positive” but now focused on the possible stumbling block of guaranteeing the terms of a truce.

Security officials in Cairo said an Israeli envoy also arrived in the Egyptian capital on Sunday for the talks.

Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi, meanwhile, met with both Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Islamic Jihad chief Abdullah Shalah to discuss “Egyptian efforts to end the aggression,” his office said without giving details.

But Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman insisted that “the first and absolute condition for a truce is stopping all fire from Gaza,” and that all resistance grous would have to commit to it.

Earlier, Netanyahu received French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius who said his country was willing to help broker a truce.

“War is not an option, it is never an option …There are two key words: urgency and ceasefire,” he told journalists in Tel Aviv.

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