WELL SOME CERTAIN MURDERERS ARE GETTING A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE. ISRAEL SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS 7 YEARS AGO. NOW WATCH THE ARABS - MUSLIMS GO CRY TO THE UN AND THE WORLD THAT ISRAEL IS KILLING THEM OFF, MEANWHILE THESE ARAB MURDERERS SHOOT HUNDREDS OF ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL EACH WEEK. GO ISRAEL GO GOD IS WITH USE, GET MORE OF THE LAND PROMISED USE BY GOD. AND YES AS USUAL THE MEDIA CRY WOMEN AND CHILDREN DEAD WHILE ISRAELI WOMEN AND CHILDREN DEAD GET NO MEDIA ATTENTION AT ALL. IF THESE ARAB MURDERERS WOULD LEARN AND MOVE TO IRAN OR EGYPT WERE THEY BELONG AND GET OFF ISRAELS GOD GIVIN LAND THERE WOULD BE PEACE.
Palestinians' bloodiest day as Israel kills 61 By Nidal al-Mughrabi MAR 01,08
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 61 people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since an uprising against Israeli occupation began in 2000. Almost half the dead were civilians, including children.Israel, which lost two soldiers, seemed ready to press home its fiercest air and ground assault since it pulled troops back to the borders of the coastal enclave in 2005. It blamed rocket attacks by the Islamist Hamas movement for provoking four days of fighting, in which 96 Palestinians have been killed.
The U.N. Security Council prepared to meet in emergency session. A U.N. official in Gaza appealed for international action to end the inhuman suffering of its 1.5 million people and said killing women and children would not help Israel.U.S. President George W. Bush sounded more supportive of his Israeli allies. While regretting all loss of life, his spokesman said: There is a clear distinction between terrorist rocket attacks that target civilians and action in self-defence.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a sworn enemy of the Islamist militant group Hamas which took control of Gaza from his forces in June, called the attack more than a holocaust.
Aides to Abbas said fighting could wreck new U.S.-backed peace talks. Israeli officials said Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmed Qurie called his Israeli counterpart, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, to call off a meeting due on Monday. But Abbas's aides said no decision to suspend the process had been taken.Bush hopes for a deal on founding a Palestinian state before he leaves office in January. Many view that as very optimistic.At least 30 of the dead were civilians, among them women and children, said Palestinian doctors who worked round the clock.Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded, the army said -- its first deaths in Gaza since October. As troops backed by tanks pushed deep into areas from where rockets are fired, they met heavy gunfire and landmines, residents said.Another 48 rockets hit Israel, wounding several people. An Israeli civilian was killed on Wednesday, the first since May.Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Israel was not happy civilians were being hurt but blamed Hamas for firing rockets from built-up areas and said it would pay the price.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to visit Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said: If Israeli aggression continues, it will bury the peace process in the rubble.A spokesman for Israel's chief negotiator said: What Israel is doing in Gaza is fighting terror and it will be continued.At least 30 gunmen were killed, medical staff and Hamas said. Among targets was the empty office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, whom Abbas fired as his prime minister after the Islamists routed his Western-backed forces in Gaza.
Medical staff said four people living nearby were wounded.
Uncle, I don't want to die. I want my dad, a toddler screamed as doctors tried to treat burn wounds across her body in Gaza's main Shifa hospital. The girl had been in a house which the Israeli army said was used to store and make weapons. One of the dead civilians was a mother who was preparing breakfast for her children when she was hit by gunfire, relatives and medical workers said. One missile slammed into a crowd of Palestinians, killing four civilians, medics said. In Damascus, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said: I say to the Zionist leaders, if they decided to raid Gaza, they will be fought not by dozens ... but ... by 1.5 million people.
A senior U.N. official in Gaza, John Ging, appealed to world leaders to stop the fighting: Killing Palestinian women and children will not bring security to the people of Israel, said Ging. He also said Hamas's rocket fire would not achieve Palestinians' goals. Daily rocket fire for months has put Olmert under pressure from voters to act. But the government, chastened by a costly war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon in 2006, is wary of an outright invasion of the densely populated coastal region. Olmert's deputy, Vice Premier Haim Ramon, said: We need to act with all our might, but without taking steps that will hurt us more than help us -- by which I mean reoccupying Gaza.He said the main targets would be those directly involved in firing rockets and the broader Islamist leadership in Gaza. Washington has urged Israel to consider the consequences.Abbas's power is now restricted to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While he would shed few tears if Israel destroyed Hamas, he risks losing already patchy support in the West Bank if he is not seen to be speaking out against the Israeli military action. Reflecting the depth of factional rifts among Palestinians, Abbas rejected a charge by Meshaal that he was giving cover to Israel. He declared Sunday a day of national mourning.(Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch, Adam Entous, Avida Landau and Alastair Macdonald in Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta and Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah) (Writing by Alastair Macdonald, editing by Ralph Gowling)
US urges end to violence in Mideast: White House MAR 01,08
CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) - The United States on Saturday called for an end to violence in the Israel-Palestinian conflict but said Israel had a right to defend itself, a national security spokesman said.
The United States regrets the loss of life by Israeli and Palestinian civilians. We call for an end to violence and all acts of terrorism directed against innocent civilians, said national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe.There is a clear distinction between terrorist rocket attacks that target civilians and action in self-defense, he said at President George W. Bush's Texas ranch.
The comments came after Israeli forces killed 61 Palestinians in a land and air blitz in the Hamas-held Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to medics, amid warnings that the violence had buried the peace process.It was the deadliest day since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in September 2005 and one of the most lethal Israeli operations since the Palestinian uprising erupted in 2000.Israel said it was fighting to halt Palestinian rocket attacks on towns in southern Israel.Fifty-four Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza, and two others in an air strike in the south of the territory which is ruled by the Islamist movement Hamas, medics said.At least 13 civilians, seven of them women and including children, were among the dead and more than 150 people were wounded, Dr Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, told AFP.
Johndroe said the US administration remains deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and southern Israel.The spokesman said rocket attacks on Israel were an attempt to undermine peace negotiations between the two sides.There is a political process, he said. There is a path to peace and Palestinian statehood and these terrorist rocket attacks are deliberate attacks to derail the process.
