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Thursday, August 03, 2006
08-02-06 - Israel mounts new Gaza incursion Two of the people killed by Israeli missiles were Palestinian militants, security sources said. The identity of the other was unclear.
08-02-06 - Israel resumes bombardment of southern Beirut At least seven people were killed, including an 80-year-old couple, as Israel renewed its air, sea and land bombardment of the southern Tyre region, police said. All died when their homes collapsed.
08-02-06 - Daring Israeli raid provokes rain of Hezbollah rockets; UN meets Police said the Israelis snatched five people in the raid, carried out within sight of three ancient Roman temples that rise dramatically from the valley floor. Eleven civilians, one of them a Syrian, died in the attack, they said.
08-02-06 - Israeli air raids resume in Tyre A couple in their 80s died when their house at Tair Harfa collapsed after being hit and five people were crushed to death under the rubble of a three-storey house in the village of Yarun.
08-02-06 - Hizbullah rockets threaten West Bank as Israeli troops pour into Lebanon One Israeli riding his bicycle was killed near Nahariya and another 21 were injured. Forests blazed on the hillsides near the border.
08-02-06 - Israel admits mistakes in deadly raid The Israeli military's inquiry on the bombing of a building in the south Lebanese village of Qana that killed 56 civilians admits a mistake but charges that Hezbollah guerrillas used civilians as human shields for their rocket attacks, a statement early Thursday said. This after they tried to claim the photos were faked. 'Yes we did it, but but but, it's really all Hezbollah's fault for using civilians as human shields!'
08-02-06 - Ali Bajouk, 39, lies in a Beirut hospital bed, his body wrapped in bandages to cover the burns caused by an Israeli air strike
08-02-06 - Aid convoys head to Lebanon's needy
08-02-06 - The south Lebanon town where 'we are all terrorists' Half of its inhabitants have fled northwards, Badreddin says.
The remainder opted to stay so they could "die with dignity rather than die on the roads" in Israeli attacks
08-02-06 - Israeli forces storm humanitarian and media organizations in Tulkarem ?By ransacking media centers, the forces are trying to discourage journalists from telling the truth and exposing the Israeli crimes against humanity to the international community.?
08-02-06 - Gaza 'crisis as bad as Lebanon' Thirty aid agencies backed the appeal, and one charity spoke of a sense among aid agencies that Gaza's population was being terrorised.
08-02-06 - Believing bombing over, Lebanese paid high price Ali Bajouk set off to deliver supplies to elderly relatives in the village of Aita al-Shaab thinking Israel had suspended its aerial bombardment of southern Lebanon. He was wrong. Bajouk now lies in a hospital bed in Beirut, his body, head and face wrapped in bandages to cover the burns caused by an air strike which scorched half his skin.
08-02-06 - Help save the children, victims of war Donate by visiting www.savethechildren.org.uk/independent
08-02-06 - World has forgotten about Gaza suffering, UN says Aid agencies say that the food supplies allowed into Gaza by the Israelis are barely enough to prevent starvation for the population of 1.5 million. The UN says Israel is firing 150 shells into Gaza every day.
08-02-06 - UN calls for action after Lebanese slick spreads to Syria
08-02-06 - Khamenei says Iran will continue to support Lebanon
08-02-06 - In Land of Jesus, Christians Struggle "Beit Jala is a small town, mostly Christian, and we own most of the undeveloped land," he said. "That is our only chance to flourish and develop, but now it is under confiscation because of the wall. If you lose all opportunities, what will happen? You will go."
08-02-06 - US, Britain should take back seat over Lebanon: Annan deputy
08-02-06 - A Christian Jordanian holds a candle during a vigil, held in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people
08-02-06 - Did Israel really need to savage the beauty of Beirut? The long-term trend should be obvious: Israel's violence, no matter how its leaders justify it, fails to provide its citizens with a sense of security. The Israeli army might beat back Hezbollah temporarily, only to create more numerous and radicalized foes than had existed before.
08-02-06 - Police brace for clashes in Jerusalem over shrine visit The Israeli High Court has allowed these Jewish extremists to visit this place in the first place. Why? This is reminiscent of Ariel Sharon's September 2000 visit to the same place, which sparked riots during witch Israeli forces gunned down a dozen unarmed Arabs. This is what sparked the second intifada. Israel is quite possibly looking to start the third intifada.
08-02-06 - Tens of thousands call for immediate ceasefire An urgent petition signed by over 35,000 people and backed by 16 leading agencies, including War on Want, was handed in today to Tony Blair, pressing him to call for an immediate ceasefire in the current Middle East crisis.
08-02-06 - Palestinian militants launch rockets at Israel Israeli sources said that at least one rocket landed in Sderot, causing damage but no casualties.
08-02-06 - Widening war complicates US policy goals The war is also raising questions about the limits of U.S. support for Israel.
08-02-06 - Saudi Arabia criticizes US policy over Lebanon He said Washington was morally obliged to prevent Israel from using U.S.-made weapons in attacks against civilians
08-02-06 - Lebanon crisis deepens Israeli Arabs' rift with the state
08-02-06 - Bush's Embrace of Israel Shows Gap With Father "There is a danger in a policy in which there is no daylight whatsoever between the government of Israel and the government of the United States," said Aaron David Miller, an Arab-Israeli negotiator for both Bush administrations, who has high praise for James A. Baker III, the first President Bush's secretary of state. "Bush One and James Baker would never have allowed that to happen." Put Bush Sr. and Baker back into the White House. We could turn this thing around right now.
08-02-06 - Palestinian gunmen clash in Gaza hospital Gaza - Gunmen clashed with members of the Hamas-led police force in a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday, wounding at least five people, medics and witnesses said.
08-02-06 - Detainees accuse Israel of abuses
08-02-06 - Bombing damage worth billions, says Lebanon The Lebanese Government says three weeks of Israeli bombardment has inflicted $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) of damage on Lebanon's infrastructure.
08-02-06 - Human Rights Watch puts Qana death toll at 28 The group said its own researchers who visited Qana on July 31 did not find any destroyed military equipment in or near the home. "Rescue workers recovered no bodies of apparent Hezbollah fighters from inside or near the building," Human Rights Watch said.
08-02-06 - Why Do They Hate Us? All morning when Arab channels were showing the crushed building in Qana, and the Red Crescent workers extracting from under it more than 60 bodies, mostly children, embalmed in blood and dust, Israel was showing family movies on its main television networks.
08-02-06 - War crimes and Lebanon
08-02-06 - MPs attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel Margaret Beckett was yesterday threatened with legal action unless she bans the supply of British military equipment to Israel. Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, has written to the foreign secretary saying the sale of arms to Israel is unlawful and makes Britain complicit in breaches of international law by Israel.
08-02-06 - UN on brink of brokering ceasefire agreement
08-02-06 - Blair: You've misunderstood me over the Middle East
08-02-06 - US feels the pressure for quick ceasefire in Lebanon US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who since the start of the fighting has opposed calls for an immediate ceasefire, indicated some impatience with the Israelis late Tuesday when she insisted an end to the fighting should be achievable within "days, not weeks". Condi grows a cojone, albeit an embryonic cojone, but a cojone nonetheless. Congratulations.
08-02-06 - Syrians Give the Lebanese VIP Treatment Bouthaina Shaaban, the government's minister for expatriates, said her son broke his piggy bank to buy 22 shirts for Lebanese families, and her daughter's friends have postponed their wedding this month to offer their newly furnished apartment to a Lebanese family.
08-02-06 - Israel and 'Moral Equivalence' - The Qana massacre reveals the true face of Israel's aggression
08-02-06 - Rafah crossing with Egypt to reopen for two days A spokesman for the European Union monitors who observe the terminal also confirmed that the crossing would be reopened on Wednesday.
08-02-06 - Legal action plan over arms flights Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar said he was pursuing six different options to stop weapons flights from the US to Israel being routed through British airports. He said that by doing so the authorities were allowing the indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians in Lebanon, thereby making them complicit in war crimes.
08-02-06 - Rumsfeld decides to testify on Iraq war In other comments, Rumsfeld and Pace, citing intelligence concerns, sidestepped a question about whether they have seen evidence that Iran is supporting Hezbollah in its fight against Israel.
08-02-06 - Pope Benedict, 'full of pain,' renews appeal for peace in Middle East Clenching his fist and his voice filled with emotion, Benedict said: "Our eyes are filled with the chilling images of torn bodies of so many people, especially children - I am thinking in particular of Qana."
08-02-06 - Diplomat offers friendship of Palestinians No protest targeted the appearance, and the audience listened intently and applauded his words.
08-02-06 - Chuck Hagel: Opposition Senator Hagel offered one of the sanest statements heard on the floor of the Senate in the whole debate over the Middle East crisis: "Our relationship with Israel is special and historic," the Nebraskan said. "But it need not and cannot be at the expense of our Arab and Muslim relationships. That is an irresponsible and dangerous false choice."
08-02-06 - Israel bombs buildings in Gaza, no casualties
08-02-06 - At-Tuwani Update: 18 - 31 July 2006 During this period on several occasions (22 and 27 July), Israeli soldiers
responded to settler invasions of Palestinian land by removing or trying to
remove the Palestinians from their own land.......The soldier acknowledged that the shepherd was on Palestinian land but
thought that the Palestinians should leave because their presence made the
settlers upset. The soldier said that the Palestinians should avoid the
area because the settlers may hurt them These Christian Peacekeeper Teams report on just who is terrorizing whom.
08-02-06 - Islamic Charity Fundraiser Released Hamdan, who was convicted of overstaying a student visa issued 27 years ago, has acknowledged traveling around the country as a Holy Land fundraiser. But "I was never a terrorist fundraiser," said Hamdan, who was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank.
08-02-06 - ANALYSIS - U.S., Britain risk much in Lebanon gamble Bret Stephens, editorialist at the conservative Wall Street Journal, said: "If it (the war) continues as it is, Israel is headed for the greatest military humiliation in its history."
08-02-06 - Christian Arabs Announce Press Conference Regarding Recent Crisis in the Middle East A group of Christian Arabs from the greater Detroit Arab American community is calling a press conference to express its outrage and address the horrific events and injustices in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq.
08-02-06 - World Jewish Congress Protests Abuse of Human Rights Body in Geneva How dare that human rights organization criticize Israel! The audacity!
08-02-06 - Going the Distance - A longtime CIA official says Hezbollah wins the battle with Israel simply by surviving.
08-02-06 - 'If It Bleeds, It Leads' Approach Skews Media Coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict, Say a Panel of Experts on KRLA's Newsroom Confidential Panel of Israel-defenders bemoan the fact that Israel's atrocities in Lebanon are reaching American audiences and they can't propagandize enough to cover it up. Americans have a right to know what Israel is doing with their hard-earned tax money. That's TS if these folks don't like it.
08-02-06 - A Palestinian holds goats with portraits of U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, during a protest
08-02-06 - America will attack Iran, Syria in October: Gul The former chief of ISI, Maj. Gen (R) Hameed Gul has "predicted" that America would definitely attack Iran and Syria simultaneously in October.
08-02-06 - Arab, Jewish women unite to call for peace in Mideast
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