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Lay that to the Hamas Islamic extremist terrorist vermin and the Islamic GOD's feet. They are ultimately responsible for every innocent palestinians death!
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Lay that to the Hamas Islamic extremist terrorist vermin and the Islamic GOD's feet. They are ultimately responsible for every innocent palestinians death!
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They don't? So in you mind someone with no fear cannot be terrorised? What a stupid and idiotic notion!
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At least I have a brain unlike you!
Seriously? Comparing your brain, your own words, head in your pants with anyone else?
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Could we maybe stick to actual news and if you have to offer opinions, offer opinions on the conflict itself?
it's just a complete poop-flinging thread ...... needs to be cleaned up.
it's just a complete poop-flinging thread ...... needs to be cleaned up.
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Sorry this Islamic extremist is giving me a hard on!
Shame you really aee frustrated arent you!
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Says it all. No wonder you cant stick to the issue and filled with such hate. Go play some games rated your age. Might help.Waiting for you to remove your teeth!I will burst with pleasure!
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EGYPTIAN MILITARY BLOCK ACTIVIST AID CONVOY TO GAZA: AFP
Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said.
An army officer at the Balloza checkpoint, one of many along the desert highway to Rafah, told an AFP correspondent that the security situation in the restive peninsula was too unstable to allow the convoy of 11 buses and 500 activists to pass.
There was a brief scuffle between some activists and soldiers but no arrests were made.
Egypt usually keeps the crossing closed, citing a counter-insurgency operation against militants in north Sinai, but has allowed entry to Palestinians wounded in the 12-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.
At least 333 Palestinians and three Israelis have died in the unrest, the third conflict to erupt in and around Gaza in seven years.
The Egyptian military had earlier said it was sending 500 tonnes of food and medical aide to the besieged enclave.
Hamas, militant Islamist rulers of Gaza, have refused to accept a ceasefire with Israel until it receives guarantees that border crossings to Gaza -- all but one under Israeli control -- will be opened.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 14:37
Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said.
An army officer at the Balloza checkpoint, one of many along the desert highway to Rafah, told an AFP correspondent that the security situation in the restive peninsula was too unstable to allow the convoy of 11 buses and 500 activists to pass.
There was a brief scuffle between some activists and soldiers but no arrests were made.
Egypt usually keeps the crossing closed, citing a counter-insurgency operation against militants in north Sinai, but has allowed entry to Palestinians wounded in the 12-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.
At least 333 Palestinians and three Israelis have died in the unrest, the third conflict to erupt in and around Gaza in seven years.
The Egyptian military had earlier said it was sending 500 tonnes of food and medical aide to the besieged enclave.
Hamas, militant Islamist rulers of Gaza, have refused to accept a ceasefire with Israel until it receives guarantees that border crossings to Gaza -- all but one under Israeli control -- will be opened.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 14:37
LazyLion
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GAZA TOLL PASSES 330 AS UN CHIEF HEADS TO REGION
by Adel ZAANOUN
Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza Saturday, taking the death toll from a 12-day bombardment to 333, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to join truce efforts
His peace push came as Israel was poised to intensify a ground operation inside the besieged Palestinian territory it says is necessary to stop militants tunnelling into the Jewish state.
Despite the pounding, Palestinian commandos succeeded in infiltrating Israel, sparking a deadly skirmish with an army patrol, as Gaza's bloodiest conflict since 2009 showed no let-up.
The United States urged its Israeli ally to do more to limit the high civilian death toll from the operation while supporting the Jewish state's right to defend itself.
President Barack Obama said Washington was "deeply concerned about the risks of further escalation and the loss of more innocent life."
He added that Washington was "hopeful" that Israel would operate "in a way that minimises civilian casualties".
But Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, said the army was "expanding the ground phase of the operation."
"There will be moments of hardship," he warned in a briefing to the military, anticipating further Israeli casualties.
Troops killed a Palestinian militant who tunnelled into southern Israel but others managed to withdraw back into Gaza, an army statement said.
"Several terrorists infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the central Gaza Strip," it said, adding that they fired a machine gun and anti-tank missile at an army patrol.
Troops "returned fire, killing a terrorist and forcing the rest back into Gaza."
Hamas's military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters had carried out the raid.
"The Qassam Brigades carried out an operation behind enemy lines," it said in a statement. "Heavy fighting is ongoing with the forces of the occupation."
In a separate incident, the army said, militants had strapped explosives on to a donkey in an attempt to attack troops.
"Yesterday (Friday) evening, there was at least one such attempt, in which a donkey suspiciously began to approach forces," it said.
"The forces engaged the donkey and it exploded at a safe distance."
There have been three Israeli deaths so far since the July 8 start of the Operation Protective Edge campaign to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza.
A Bedouin was killed Friday and four of his family wounded -- including two young children -- whan a rocket hit their desert campsite near Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, police said.
Another civilian died Tuesday when a mortar round exploded in Israel and a soldier was killed by friendly fire inside Gaza on Friday.
Israel has said the aim of the ground operation launched on Thursday night is to destroy Hamas's network of tunnels which are used for cross-border attacks on southern Israel.
Military spokesman Lieutenant General Peter Lerner told journalists Saturday that during the past 24 hours the military had seized 13 tunnels into Israel.
The UN said Ban would leave for the region Saturday to help Israelis and Palestinians "end the violence and find a way forward," under secretary general for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to be ready for "a significant broadening of the ground activity."
He said the ground operation was necessary to deal with the tunnels, but admitted there was "no guarantee of 100 percent success."
In Gaza, after a relative lull Friday, violence picked up again in the evening, with intensifying tank shelling and air strikes killing more than a dozen people.
A six-year-old child and five members of a single family, including girls aged six and two, were those killed on Saturday, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA has opened 44 of its schools to shelter those fleeing homes in the most heavily bombarded areas.
It said on Saturday there were more 50,000 Gazans seeking sanctuary so far.
The World Food Programme said it had already distributed emergency food rations and food vouchers to more than 20,000 displaced people.
It said it was gearing up for a huge increase in the coming days and hoping to reach 85,000 people with food distributions.
Gaza was also struggling with a 70 percent power outage after electricity lines from Israel were damaged, officials said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who was also in Cairo to join peace efforts, called for an urgent truce.
"The absolute priority is a ceasefire, but it must guarantee a lasting truce," he said, adding that it should take into account "Israel's security" and Palestinian demands.
Hamas has rejected Egyptian proposals for a truce, demanding an easing of a harsh Gaza blockade imposed by Israel in 2006 and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas drove out loyalists of Abbas two years later but to the dismay of Israel reconciled with the Palestinian president after US-brokered Middle East peace talks collapsed earlier this year.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 13:56
by Adel ZAANOUN
Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza Saturday, taking the death toll from a 12-day bombardment to 333, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to join truce efforts
His peace push came as Israel was poised to intensify a ground operation inside the besieged Palestinian territory it says is necessary to stop militants tunnelling into the Jewish state.
Despite the pounding, Palestinian commandos succeeded in infiltrating Israel, sparking a deadly skirmish with an army patrol, as Gaza's bloodiest conflict since 2009 showed no let-up.
The United States urged its Israeli ally to do more to limit the high civilian death toll from the operation while supporting the Jewish state's right to defend itself.
President Barack Obama said Washington was "deeply concerned about the risks of further escalation and the loss of more innocent life."
He added that Washington was "hopeful" that Israel would operate "in a way that minimises civilian casualties".
But Israeli army chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, said the army was "expanding the ground phase of the operation."
"There will be moments of hardship," he warned in a briefing to the military, anticipating further Israeli casualties.
Troops killed a Palestinian militant who tunnelled into southern Israel but others managed to withdraw back into Gaza, an army statement said.
"Several terrorists infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the central Gaza Strip," it said, adding that they fired a machine gun and anti-tank missile at an army patrol.
Troops "returned fire, killing a terrorist and forcing the rest back into Gaza."
Hamas's military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters had carried out the raid.
"The Qassam Brigades carried out an operation behind enemy lines," it said in a statement. "Heavy fighting is ongoing with the forces of the occupation."
In a separate incident, the army said, militants had strapped explosives on to a donkey in an attempt to attack troops.
"Yesterday (Friday) evening, there was at least one such attempt, in which a donkey suspiciously began to approach forces," it said.
"The forces engaged the donkey and it exploded at a safe distance."
There have been three Israeli deaths so far since the July 8 start of the Operation Protective Edge campaign to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza.
A Bedouin was killed Friday and four of his family wounded -- including two young children -- whan a rocket hit their desert campsite near Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor, police said.
Another civilian died Tuesday when a mortar round exploded in Israel and a soldier was killed by friendly fire inside Gaza on Friday.
Israel has said the aim of the ground operation launched on Thursday night is to destroy Hamas's network of tunnels which are used for cross-border attacks on southern Israel.
Military spokesman Lieutenant General Peter Lerner told journalists Saturday that during the past 24 hours the military had seized 13 tunnels into Israel.
The UN said Ban would leave for the region Saturday to help Israelis and Palestinians "end the violence and find a way forward," under secretary general for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to be ready for "a significant broadening of the ground activity."
He said the ground operation was necessary to deal with the tunnels, but admitted there was "no guarantee of 100 percent success."
In Gaza, after a relative lull Friday, violence picked up again in the evening, with intensifying tank shelling and air strikes killing more than a dozen people.
A six-year-old child and five members of a single family, including girls aged six and two, were those killed on Saturday, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA has opened 44 of its schools to shelter those fleeing homes in the most heavily bombarded areas.
It said on Saturday there were more 50,000 Gazans seeking sanctuary so far.
The World Food Programme said it had already distributed emergency food rations and food vouchers to more than 20,000 displaced people.
It said it was gearing up for a huge increase in the coming days and hoping to reach 85,000 people with food distributions.
Gaza was also struggling with a 70 percent power outage after electricity lines from Israel were damaged, officials said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who was also in Cairo to join peace efforts, called for an urgent truce.
"The absolute priority is a ceasefire, but it must guarantee a lasting truce," he said, adding that it should take into account "Israel's security" and Palestinian demands.
Hamas has rejected Egyptian proposals for a truce, demanding an easing of a harsh Gaza blockade imposed by Israel in 2006 and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas drove out loyalists of Abbas two years later but to the dismay of Israel reconciled with the Palestinian president after US-brokered Middle East peace talks collapsed earlier this year.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 13:56
LazyLion
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ISRAELI BOMBING KILLS NINE IN GAZA, TOLL NOW 333: MEDICS
Nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing across the Gaza on Saturday afternoon, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 333, medics said.
The new deaths included a fifth member of the Zuweidi family killed in northern Gaza's Beit Hanun, and three men killed in nearby Beit Lahiya, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Another man was killed in a separate air strike in Beit Lahiya, along with one person killed in the Qarara area of southern Khan Yunis. And three men were killed in an air strike in central Gaza, he said.
Four other members of the Zuweidi family had been reported killed earlier -- Mahmud, 23, Dalia, 37, and two girls aged six and two.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 13:25
Nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing across the Gaza on Saturday afternoon, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 333, medics said.
The new deaths included a fifth member of the Zuweidi family killed in northern Gaza's Beit Hanun, and three men killed in nearby Beit Lahiya, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Another man was killed in a separate air strike in Beit Lahiya, along with one person killed in the Qarara area of southern Khan Yunis. And three men were killed in an air strike in central Gaza, he said.
Four other members of the Zuweidi family had been reported killed earlier -- Mahmud, 23, Dalia, 37, and two girls aged six and two.
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 13:25
LazyLion
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LENK SHOULD LEAVE SA: ANCYL
Israeli ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk should leave the country, the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape said on Saturday.
"We call upon ambassador Arthur Lenk to pack his bags and prepare for travel to avoid unnecessary trauma," provincial convenor Muhammad Khalid Sayed said in a statement.
"We will support our leaders while they take necessary action and recall our ambassador to Israel [Sisa Ngombane] and expel Israeli's ambassador to South Africa."
The ANCYL said it welcomed the ANC's parliamentary caucus statement that Ngombane be recalled, and that Lenk be removed from the country with immediate effect.
Lenk was summoned to the department of international relations this week and told to inform his government about South Africa's stance on the Israel-Palestine unrest.
Department spokesman Clayson Monyela said Lenk met with deputy international relations iminister Nomaindia Mfeketo, and was asked to explain the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Monyela said Mfeketo expressed South Africa's "grave concern" over the escalating violence between Israel and Palestinian territories.
Mfeketo demanded the immediate halt to the construction and expansion of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli government.
On Wednesday, The New Age newspaper reported that South Africa was due to recall Ngombane, who had also been summoned to the department.
Unnamed sources said Ngombane was seen in meetings at the department in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Monyela said no decision had yet been taken on whether Ngombane would be recalled.
The Citizen newspaper reported that Ngombane was back in the county for safety reasons.
French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Israeli air strikes had killed 20 people in Gaza on Saturday, taking the death toll to more than 300.
On Friday, Israel had warned it could broaden a Gaza ground assault aimed at smashing Hamas's network of cross-border tunnels.
In the face of Israel's land, sea, and air offensive that has sent civilians running for cover, the Islamist movement Hamas remained defiant and warned the Jewish state it would pay for its attacks.
Source : Sapa /mr/mar
Date : 19 Jul 2014 12:34
Israeli ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk should leave the country, the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape said on Saturday.
"We call upon ambassador Arthur Lenk to pack his bags and prepare for travel to avoid unnecessary trauma," provincial convenor Muhammad Khalid Sayed said in a statement.
"We will support our leaders while they take necessary action and recall our ambassador to Israel [Sisa Ngombane] and expel Israeli's ambassador to South Africa."
The ANCYL said it welcomed the ANC's parliamentary caucus statement that Ngombane be recalled, and that Lenk be removed from the country with immediate effect.
Lenk was summoned to the department of international relations this week and told to inform his government about South Africa's stance on the Israel-Palestine unrest.
Department spokesman Clayson Monyela said Lenk met with deputy international relations iminister Nomaindia Mfeketo, and was asked to explain the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Monyela said Mfeketo expressed South Africa's "grave concern" over the escalating violence between Israel and Palestinian territories.
Mfeketo demanded the immediate halt to the construction and expansion of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories by the Israeli government.
On Wednesday, The New Age newspaper reported that South Africa was due to recall Ngombane, who had also been summoned to the department.
Unnamed sources said Ngombane was seen in meetings at the department in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Monyela said no decision had yet been taken on whether Ngombane would be recalled.
The Citizen newspaper reported that Ngombane was back in the county for safety reasons.
French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Israeli air strikes had killed 20 people in Gaza on Saturday, taking the death toll to more than 300.
On Friday, Israel had warned it could broaden a Gaza ground assault aimed at smashing Hamas's network of cross-border tunnels.
In the face of Israel's land, sea, and air offensive that has sent civilians running for cover, the Islamist movement Hamas remained defiant and warned the Jewish state it would pay for its attacks.
Source : Sapa /mr/mar
Date : 19 Jul 2014 12:34
LazyLion
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TROOPS KILL PALESTINIAN RAIDER INSIDE ISRAEL: ARMY
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant who tunnelled into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, an army statement said.
"Several terrorists infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the central Gaza Strip," it said.
Troops "returned fire, killing a terrorist and forcing the rest back into Gaza."
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 12:17
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant who tunnelled into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, an army statement said.
"Several terrorists infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the central Gaza Strip," it said.
Troops "returned fire, killing a terrorist and forcing the rest back into Gaza."
Source : Sapa-AFP /ns
Date : 19 Jul 2014 12:17
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Well done Egypt! Sad Sacks in South Africa! Israel do not need useless brainless ANC South Africans so no loss at all!
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And well done Egypt for imprisoning reporters for doing their job.
TV journalist removed for tweeting critical comments about Israelis cheering strikes on Gaza.
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I believe it's because Gaza isn't so much a town or neighbourhood, but more of a rabbit warren of buildings connected to one another in all sorts of strange ways - much like the infamous favelas of Brazil. It's very difficult to do a thorough sweep of such an environment.
I... what? Just, what?
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What I posted as well. Its a case of saying an abused/raped victim deserved it. Or the abuser saying "see what you made me do".
Blaming Hamas for the IDF atrocities is clearly nonsensical.
Is Hamas in turn right in their actions? No.
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