'Israel exploiting attacks to sway UN'

Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:16PM GMT

 

A Palestinian professor believes that Israel is using the attacks on its soldiers in a bid to prove to the UN that the Palestinians do not deserve a state of their own. 

 

“This [attack on Israeli soldiers] is going to give Netanyahu enough time to launch a diplomatic attack on the Palestinians and that the Palestinians do not deserve a state of their own as a result of the attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians in Eilat,” Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a professor at al-Azhar University, told Press TV.

Israel mounted its airstrikes on the impoverished Gaza Strip, immediately after the attack on Israeli buses and a military vehicle near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, which left eight Israeli forces dead.
Tel Aviv has accused Hamas of being behind the Thursday rocket attack on Israel.

Hamas, however, has strongly denied the allegations and warned against any act of aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The renewed Israeli violence against Palestinians comes at a time when the Palestinian Authority is heading to the UN for a statehood bid in September.

Experts say instability and possible violent attacks by Israel and counter attacks by Palestinian factions will likely hamper Palestinian efforts for statehood.

More than 100 countries have so far officially recognized Palestine as a sovereign state based on the 1967 borders.

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Israel arrests 120 Palestinians in WB

Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:59AM GMT

 

Israeli military forces raided the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), arresting at least 120 Palestinians on August 21, 2011. (File photo)

 

Israeli military forces have arrested at least 120 Palestinians, including members of the Islamic Hamas movement, in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

At least 100 Israeli jeeps and military vehicles raided al-Khalil early on Sunday and launched a massive arrest operation, a Press TV correspondent reported on Sunday.

Most detainees belong to Hamas, including members of the Palestinian Legislative Council Mohammed Abu J'heisha and local leaders of Hamas' social committees.

The Israeli forces have closed all entrances to the city and have been stationed on the streets.

Israel launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Thursday immediately after assaults targeted two Israeli buses and a military vehicle near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, killing eight Israeli forces.

Tel Aviv has accused Hamas of being behind the Thursday rocket attack on Israel.

Hamas, however, has strongly denied the allegations and warned against any act of aggression against the Gaza Strip.

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Settlers raid Nablus village

Published yesterday 14:21

 

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Sunday stormed a Palestinian village near Nablus and uprooted 80 olive trees, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas said dozens of residents of the illegal Esh Kodesh outpost raided Qusra and destroyed trees belonging to locals Rabi Abu Bakr, Samir Hasan and Jabali Abu Reida.

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A gang of Jewish settlers attack Palestinian boy with iron bars

[ 21/08/2011 - 12:42 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A 10-year-old Palestinian boy sustained moderate wounds after he was assaulted with iron bars by some 15 masked Jewish settlers near the West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron. The boy was ambulanced to a Ramallah hospital after receiving blows to the head and other parts of the body causing deep wounds. Israeli media outlets say Israeli police have arrested 13 youths suspected to have been involved in the incident. They said the suspects have not been cooperative with police, adding that the circumstances surrounding the incident are still unclear. Sources said settlers in that area attacked three farmers before, leaving them with critical wounds. Meanwhile, Jewish settlers from the Aish Kodesh settlement uprooted some 80 olive tree saplings in nearby Qasra http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/

Health ministry warns of medical crisis as Israeli attacks escalate

[ 21/08/2011 - 10:48 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf Al-Qudra warned that 310 types of medicines and medical consumables are no longer available in the Gaza Strip and will result in serious consequences especially in light of the escalating Israeli aggression. "In light of the repeated Zionist attacks on our people in the Gaza Strip, we appeal to those who have living conscience to provide the health sector with its needs of medicines and medical consumables," Qudra said in a press release on Saturday. He noted that the limited amount of anesthetic drugs are about to run out completely from emergency and surgery units because of the increasing number of causalities admitted into Gaza hospital. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk