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Cast Lead Déjà vu as Israel won't rule out Gaza op
Published: 09 December, 2011, 07:09
Edited: 09 December, 2011, 16:00
Hamas policemen inspect a destroyed car in Gaza City on December 8, 2011, after an Israeli air strike on the car killed two Palestinians (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)
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Israel’s refusal to rule out a new operation in Gaza has raised the specter of a re-run of the assault which killed more than 1,000 Palestinians three years ago. Fresh violence has seen one Palestinian killed and dozens wounded in 24 hours.
The warning came from Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, in an address to journalists in Moscow on Friday.
"I do not think that a state is prepared to put up with the reality where the past five years saw 12,000 rockets fired at its south,” said Lieberman. “We do not want to aggravate what is happening in the region, but we must be capable of defending our territory,"the head of Israeli diplomacy explained.
However, what looks like an incipient campaign is putting more innocent lives in the firing line, as RT’s Mideast correspondent, Paula Slier, reports.
Early on Friday, a male civilian was killed and conflicting reports suggest from 13 to 25 others, women and children among them, were injured in Israeli air strikes in Gaza, a Palestinian health official told AP. According to rescue services, Israel launched three air strikes against Hamas training facilities, one of which reportedly set a nearby house on fire, killing an elderly man. Fire and shrapnel are also reported to have damaged other houses. Gazan officials say another air strike targeted a Hamas training facility in the south of the Palestinian strip, but no casualties were reported.
An earlier round of fighting erupted on Thursday when an Israeli air strike targeted a car close to a crowded park in Gaza. Two Palestinian men who Israel said were planning attacks on its civilians and soldiers, were killed.
According to the information received by RT’s Paula Slier, the two dead men appear to be high-ranking members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, killed by an unmanned Israeli drone. Palestinian medics at the scene say their bodies were burnt beyond recognition, and a number of passers-by were also badly injured. Various factions in Gaza are now calling for further retaliation against Israel. Fearing an escalation in Israeli attacks on the area, Hamas has warned its members to keep a low profile and remain extremely cautious.
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air strike.
A prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas which saw Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit swapped for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners was viewed by many as a breakthrough in the troubled relations between the two sides. But as RT’s Paula Slier reports, the resumption of violence is causing many to highlight an inconsistency in Israeli policy.
Professor Hani Al-Basoos of the Islamic University of Gaza says Israel strikes at Palestinians with no respect for international law
“The Israeli army has targeted the Gaza Strip many times. I think it’s their continuous policy – to keep the situation as it is, to kill as many people as they can in the Gaza Strip.”
Al-Basoos believes this is not the way to deal with Palestinians, even if they are responsible for the deaths of the Israelis.
The professor told RT, “the Israeli army has killed thousands of Palestinian people – and no one has convicted them; they haven’t been tried.”
09.12.2011, 01:28
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Emails expose watchdog's dollar dealsRussian news website Life News has published emails it claims show correspondence between the US State Dept. and the Russian election watchdog Golos discussing payments for work done to discredit the results of Russia’s parliamentary vote. Parliamentary Elections 2011 |
09.12.2011, 09:28
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Sorry, Johnny, we had Tahrir 20 years agoForeign observers are viewing Russia’s post-election protests as a Slavic version of the Arab Spring. But domestic analysts say Russia had its pro-democracy protests 20 years ago, and the middle class they ushered in is in no hurry to see a repeat. |
Yes ....it`s hopeless....the human race is hard wired to self destruct once we have overpopulated the world.....and now we have got to that point all hope of a reasonable rational compromise will be extinguished by our instinctive tribal territorial homicidal to murder anyone we perceive to be a threat to our children`s survival.
The Jews are our sacrificial tribe. They have returned to their homeland to goad the Islamists into the war to end all wars.
No amount of political or economic or social engineering or individual intellectual effort can stop us self destructing......we are DOOMED!
RT is a joke! Condemming Israel for a surgical operation that sadly did kill prox 1000 Palestinians ... many of which were terrorists dressed in civilian clothing ... and for condemming Israel for considering an op to stop the contant barrage of rockets from Gaza while backing the Kremlin's support of Assad who has killed 4000 fellow Syrians who are protesting for FREEDOM from his Tyrannical band of thugs. RT, take a stand for the Russian PEOPLE and the Syrian PEOPLE rather than being an international mouthpiece for the Kremlin.
50otis50 give me a break! Terrorists dressed in civilian clothing! The problem with people like you is that you still think that the world hasn't wished up to your lies. People no longer listen to CNN & NBC only ( I am not gonna even go near media outlets like fox & the like!)the proof of that is us here reading RT! Palastinian casualties have on average been 4:1 compared to Israeli ones at the very least in any conflict. Yet we are still asked to believe the propaganda about the Israeli army's purity of arms!!!