Israeli occupation forces,at dawn today, Wednesday,Breached the declared truce with the Palestinians, and shelled open areas north of the Gaza Strip,without reporting about casualties .
Eye witnesses said that occupation’s tanks, which is stationed on the northern border of Gaza,have launched several misiles towards open areas in the town of Beit Lahia, causing strong sounds of explosions created a state of fear and panic among the citizens.
This comes within the framework of the multiple violations committed by the occupation forces since the ceasefire came into effect last Sunday
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And they continued to fire until at such a point Israel decided to respond
Please understand both sides of the story before starting up posts whose only purpose is to rail against Israel and not engage in logical debate
I agree that we need to see the both sides.
But tell us one thing,
a few years ago when there was no Hizbollah or Talibaan sort of organizations - the time when Palastinians literally used to have stones to throw, they had no weapons etc, - Israel army used to attack those harmless citizens. What was the excuse back then?
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Actually both Hezbollah and Taliban existed a few years ago.
As to the question about Israel
Israel is occupying the West Bank, East Jersualem and Golan Heights
It must return these lands to the Palestinans and Syrians for there to be peace. It must dismantle its settlements.
But the problem is the West Bank is a strategic buffer and if Israel gives up this territoriy, its major cities such as Haifa and Tel Aviv will be within range of mortar attacks from the Green Line.
If Israel committs such a withdrawl, its safety has to be guaranteed.
But when you have Hamas and Hezbollah pledging to destroy Israel, what incentive is there for Israel to withdraw?
If Israel withdraws from the West Bank, Hamas and Hezbollah will say we want to liberate all of Palestine and will continue to attack Israel and now that Israel's major cities will be under direct threat from Hamas and Hezbollah rocket fire.
For there to be peace. Hamas and Hezbollah and others need to give up their genocidial notion of driving the Jews back to the sea. It will never happen. Learn to live with it.
Accept reality and accept the fact the best you can get is West Bank and East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip as a future Palestinian state and work from there.
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I will tell u a realistic fact over that issue
the truce was broken already by the israeli army on gaza and the rockets came as a response .... ( u cant be killed and sit and watch )
i do agree that Hammas have some ideas that is not accepted in Tel Aviv and it will never be accepted .... so i think Hamas can only be a defender of the palestininan rather than being in the government ...
but i want to add to this ... that .... how u r asking a government for peace and u r making economical and political restrictions on it ???
Hamas want to negotiate with israel but this is seems to be impossible
becoz israel have broken many international agreements and peace process has been stopped by the isrealis themselves since the year of 2000
At the end i wanna say that " we people wanna peace but the israeli kiling nature is not willing for that ... "
and one impotant thing
"being there and seeing the issue by u eyes .. is quite different from hearing or seeing it on medica or news witch have been totally controlled by jewish Lobby ... but now channels like Aljazeera english are making a different !!"
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And they continued to fire until at such a point Israel decided to respond
Please understand both sides of the story before starting up posts whose only purpose is to rail against Israel and not engage in logical debate
yeah well thats a very baseless maybe you have. so there isnt really a story to understand apart from the fact that even though israel said they wouldnt break it, they very well did. The rest is your imagination working overtime.
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they broke it because palestinian groups continued to fire rockets into israel forcing israel to respond
I stated this right when the truce happened, that it will be the palestinians that will break the truce and start firing on israel and again i was proven right
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i have explained that the rockets came as a response to the crimes commited in gaza ... and the truce was broken by the israeli ... havent u seen the news??
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UN: Israel breaks border agreement
By Laila El-Haddad at the Rafah crossing
A UN report has accused Israel of breaking all provisions in a year-old US-brokered agreement on Gaza’s border crossings, as Condoleezza Rice visits the region.
The Agreement on Movement and Access, signed last November after the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, was meant to facilitate the movement of Palestinians and goods in and out of Gaza.
It also promised Palestinian control over the Rafah crossing into Egypt by November 2006, after a transitional year of EU monitoring and Israeli video surveillance. At the time, the border agreement was hailed by Rice, the US secretary of state, as a breakthrough.
She said the agreement would “give the Palestinian people freedom to move, to trade, to live ordinary lives”.
But according to the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Palestinians are worse off than they were a year ago, in terms of their freedom of movement and their overall economic situation.
**Restrictions on access
**The report said that access restrictions remained at the Gaza crossings.
"The ability of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to access either the West Bank or the outside world remains extremely limited and the flow of commercial trade is negligible.
Movement within the West Bank is also more restricted. There has been no peaceful economic development as envisaged by the AMA but rather a deterioration in the humanitarian situation and an increase in violence overall," the report says.
According to the report, unemployment in Gaza has risen from 33.1 per cent to 41.8 per cent over the course of the year. Rice is expected to bring up implementation of the agreement in discussions with Abbas and Olmert.
Violations
The UN report accuses Israel of violating every provision of the borders agreement to which it signed up, including the operation of the Rafah crossing.
Under the terms of the Agreement on Movement and Access, Israel had agreed to operate the Rafah crossing and other Gaza commercial crossings continuously, and to not close passages because of security incidents unrelated to the crossing itself.
Rafah, which is the only passageway for Gaza’s 1.4 million residents, was shut down indefinitely by Israel on June 24 after Palestinian fighters attacked an Israeli military base, killing two soldiers and capturing another.
According to the UN report, it has been open for only 21 days since - 14 per cent of the scheduled operating days. A military document leaked to the Israeli daily Haaretz in August suggested that the continued closure was intended to apply pressure on Gaza residents until progress was made in returning the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.
Israeli officials provided no comment on the matter to Al Jazeera despite numerous attempts.
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The rockets never stopped. The Palestinians were in violation of the agreement from the get-go.
It is so easy to accuse others of seeing the issue from one-side only. It is not however, as easy to see one’s own biases.
**GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Rocket fire from Gaza died down Sunday after a daybreak cease-fire, raising hopes for an end to five months of bloody destruction and a new opening toward peace talks. **
The surprise truce was supposed to take effect at 6 a.m., but in the four hours that followed, 11 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israeli towns and villages and some Palestinian militants threatened to keep up the attacks.
Israsel did not retaliate, saying it wanted to give the truce a chance. “Even though there are still violations of the cease-fire by the Palestinian side, I have instructed our defense officials not to respond, to show restraint, and to give this cease-fire a chance to take full effect,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a ceremony at a high school in southern Israel.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Israel) has warned that the Jewish state was losing patience over Palestinian rocket attacks that have continued to violate a tentative four-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Wednesday’s warnings come amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to shore up the truce, with Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in Israel and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Condoleezza+Rice) to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Thursday.
“The test period accorded by the prime minister to the Palestinians is nearing the end,” said Tzahi Hanegbi, a key ally of premier Ehud Olmert and chairman of parliament’s influential defence and foreign affairs committee. “The prime minister said the policy of restraint will only last a few days,” the MP added, speaking on public radio.
Militants in Gaza fired isolated rockets towards southern Israel on each of the first three days of the truce, violating an accord brokered after 400 Palestinians and three Israelis were killed in Gaza in five months.
A source in Olmert’s office similarly emphasized that “Israel’s patience has limits”, in comments to AFP on Wednesday. "The prime minister ordered the army not to respond although since the start of the ceasefire 12 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory," added the official on condition of anonymity.
At talks with EU ambassadors on Tuesday, Olmert, who has outlined a vision of peace with the Palestinians, said “Israel will continue to show restraint” but “will react” if the rockets continue, said spokesman Miri Eisin.
Olmert also said he was “disappointed by the continued firing” of rockets.
“I very much hope that the Palestinians will honor their commitments and that the ceasefire will continue as we are doing,” he said, according to Eisin.
The latest projectile landed on Tuesday in the cemetery of Sderot, Defence Minister Amir Peretz’s home town that has borne the brunt of many thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel over the past six years.
One of the nebulous cells of the radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is linked to Abbas’s Fatah party, claimed the attack, which it charged had targeted the sprawling Israeli city of Ashkelon.
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Militants in Gaza fired isolated rockets towards southern Israel on each of the first three days of the truce*,* violating an accord brokered after 400 Palestinians and three Israelis were killed in Gaza in five months.
Poor Israeli's. How many of these rockets did anything notable, and u have to understand there r different groups around palestine and not every1 is on the same page, but i applaud olmert for not using this as an excuse, u have to show sum patience. And dont pretend that Israel hasn't broken truces b4. And r they actually doing anything that will work long-term? Or is this another temporary thing, that just halts the fighting for a little bit, and in the end the same problem remains, Israeli occupation and oppression, is that biased? Make no mistake, the violence will never end until the Israeli occupation and oppression does.
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Whether a rocket does a damage or not, it still is not acceptable for any population to see rockets flying in their direction, if Palestinians want to have 'truce' with Israel then ALL groups must agree, they must sit together and work together, otherwise they will lose any credibility in 'truce' they have left.
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A Realistic Report ... Every point was a fact on the ground ...
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the truce was brokered after the massacare in Beit Hayoun
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u have already said it " Massacare in beit hanon "
thats what israel have done ...
No need to Hide the fact that the Tel Aviv Leaders are a big terrorist of human kind ... not caring for the international nor local agreements !!
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the violence will never end until the Israeli occupation and oppression does.
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You are totally right .. nothing will be reached without ending the occupation and withdrawl of israeli forces behind the green-line and ending the restrictions on gaza stripe land and sea and air ... this is the realistic solution ... but can Tel Aviv terrorist understand this ??
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Whether a rocket does a damage or not, it still is not acceptable for any population to see rockets flying in their direction, if Palestinians want to have 'truce' with Israel then ALL groups must agree, they must sit together and work together, otherwise they will lose any credibility in 'truce' they have left.
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y u r concentrating on rockets and not tanks and F16 fighters that is flying daily on the gaza air ... !!!
the only solution is to end up the ocuppation and giving us our rights ... not going on a time pass and lyings ... israel has always broken all the agreements ...
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Wow.
Captain I never expected you to defend Israel
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it is not a thing to be proud of !!
dont forget that No one can say no for israel .. just give em any one can stop it?? but at least we palestinian are not accepting this unfairness and cant give up for taking our rights ...
We have given the hand for peace ... but israel kiling nature are cutting this hand ... i guess so
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who represented palestine in the whole truce thing, who was responsible for it, and no not all palestinians want to have a truce, that is the thing, they just want freedom, anyways the firing has gone down at least, so there is sum advantage to it, but what r long term plans from olmert, is he gonna do sumthing that will work, cuz we all know the truce is gonna end, if there is no end to occupation/oppression, the palestinians will keep fighting, if israel dont let palestine become a sovereign country, they will get attacked and attacked, and without the end of occupation and oppression, the only solution for israel is to wipe out all palestinians or most of them, maybe a massive mistake and technical failure by the israeli military. OMG 400 palestinians killed, and 3 Israelis killed, o sum1 help the vulnerable state of Israel who is defending itself from a massive military. M2k and Seminole how do u defend that or justify it? Lets hear it, come on. Palestinian fault, right, Israel is defending itself in illegal settlements and illegally occupied lands.
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