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| Israel declares unilateral daily three-hour ceasefire for humanitarian corridor | Debka
DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel announced Wednesday, Jan. 7 a three-hour daily halt in military operations from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. as a goodwill gesture for the passage of humanitarian aid. Israel will suspend attacks in certain areas – though not the entire territory - to allow people to get supplies. The measure takes immediate effect. Hamas' missile fire continued. DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hamas appears to have preserved an unused stock of Iran-made Fajr rockets capable of hitting central Israeli towns, such as Rehovot and Rishon Lezion, 16 km short of Tel Aviv. | | January 07, 2009 12:45 |
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| US, Egypt, Jordan, Germany and Israel are working together on Gaza ceasefire package | Debka
DEBKAfile's Washington sources disclose that Washington, Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem are hammering out the lines of a ceasefire deal that will be contingent on the state of combat in the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem accepts the proposition that the ceasefire lines will follow the lines of combat reached in the Gaza Strip in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Egyptian and Jordanian forces will then enter the Gaza Strip. | | January 07, 2009 11:03 |
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| Sixth Israeli soldier killed in Gaza, UNWRA school used as Hamas firing position | Debka
1st Sgt. Alexander Mashvitzki, 19, from Beesheba, was killed Tuesday, Jan. 6, when his combat engineering unit came under Hamas fire in Gaza City. Four of his comrades were injured. In the past 24 hours, an Israeli paratroop officer and three Golani Brigade fighters have been killed accidentally by friendly fire, as Operation Cast Lead entered its third, crucial phase, of combat in populated areas of Gazan towns. An Israeli military spokesman said Israeli forces shelled the UNWRA-run school in Jebalya killing 40 Palestinians in response to mortar fire from the building. | | January 07, 2009 11:04 |
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| IDF: Gaza to see noontime pause in fighting | Ynet
Air Force, ground troops said to hold fire for few hours in order to allow Gazans to stock up on provisions; pause to elapse if looming rocket threat detected | | January 07, 2009 11:23 |
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| Blackwater men plead not guilty | BBC
Five employees of US security firm Blackwater plead not guilty in a US court to the manslaughter of 17 Iraqis in 2007. | | January 06, 2009 03:31 |
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| Baghdad bomb kills Shia pilgrims | BBC
A female suicide bomber kills at least 35 Shia pilgrims including Iranians near a shrine in Baghdad, Iraqi police say. | | January 04, 2009 03:59 |
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| Israeli Arab parliamentarian bewails loss of Arafat | Jerusalem Newswire
An elected member of Israel's Parliament (the Knesset) Tuesday mourned the loss of PLO arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat whose life's ambition had been the destruction of the Jewish state.
Ahmad Tibi, an Israeli Arab, was speaking in Ramallah on the fourth anniversary of Arafat's death.
According to Ynetnews he called on the killer to "rise from the grave and lead the Palestinians,"
"We miss your kaffiyeh - a symbol to all the revolutionaries and freedom-seekers worldwide" said Tibi, who had been an advisor to Arafat.
The Israeli lawmaker's views are believed to represent those held by a large but indeterminate number of Israel's Arab citizens who hate the country and openly support its destruction by the PLO and other Arab groups and states.
Israel, which magnanimously permits traitors of Tibi's nature to exercise their "freedom of speech" - has seen its often pacifistic permissiveness erode what was once one of its strongest assets: Arab respect for Israeli military might.
Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's successor at the helm of both the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, followed Tibi to the podium.
"The Palestinian leadership will continue to follow Yasser Arafat's path until a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital is established," he declared.
"The path of the [terrorist] martyrs - Arafat, George Habash (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine founder) and (assassinated Hamas spiritual leader) Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - is the path that we cherish; it is aimed at upholding the Palestinians' [sic] nationalist and sovereign resolutions."
Abbas told the listening crowd that the PLO would continue to follow in Arafat's path, and vowed that there would never be a peace agreement with Israel unless Jerusalem agreed to a "massive" release of imprisoned "Palestinian" terrorists.
| | November 11, 2008 08:00 |
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| Court asked to order end to Olmert-Syria talks | Jerusalem Newswire
Israel's High Court of Justice was petitioned Monday to stop disgraced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from pursuing "peace" talks with Syria in the last weeks of his premiership.
Likud Party Knesset Member Limor Livnat asked the court to intervene a day after Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz ruled that there was nothing illegal about Olmert overseeing negotiations or carrying out any other prime ministerial duties despite his having resigned.
The Israeli press has abounded with reports in recent days alleging that Olmert has indicated a willingness to hand the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for that country's readiness to make peace. This follows unverified reports that US President George W. Bush promised Syria he would squeeze Israel into relinquishing the heights if Syria agreed to move out of Iran's orbit.
"We are dealing with processes whose implications could significantly affect the country for many years to come," Livnat wrote in her petition, according to Ynetnews.
"Such negotiations must not be conducted by a resigning prime minister."
Olmert reportedly faces imminent indictment on corruption charges. He has already been replaced as the chairman of the Kadima Party and only remains in office because Israel has decided to go to early elections next February.
| | November 05, 2008 10:00 |
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