Hamas Ceasefire Violations Watch #001
Hamas Ceasefire Violations Watch | 18.01.2009 12:35
At 0000 GMT on Sunday, 18th January, Israel declared a ceasefire in Gaza. But they reserve the right to retaliate if either Israeli civilian targets or IDF forces are attacked. Guess what? Hamas has already fired missiles at civilian targets in Israel and shot at IDF forces.
Hamas shatters Gaza ceasefire, shoots at Israeli troops, fires rockets into Sderot
DEBKAfile Special Report
January 18, 2009, 11:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Five Hamas launched five missiles against Sderot after opening fire on an Israeli tank force in northern Gaza early Sunday, Jan 16, seven hours after Israeli troops carried out government orders to cease hostilities. Israeli ground troops returned the fire and engaged Hamas operatives in battle after which its air force struck Gaza targets.
The Israeli security cabinet in a special meeting Saturday night, Jan. 17, approved a unilateral halt in fire in the Gaza Strip from 0200 hours while leaving Operation Cast Lead forces in Gaza to test Hamas' response.
DEBKAfile: Israeli forces will hold to their positions in the Gaza Strip for no more than days. Meanwhile, although prime minister Ehud Olmert assured the nation that all the Gaza operation's goals had been reached, Hamas promised to keep on fighting and shooting rockets, while neither Washington nor Cairo guaranteed action to end the flow of weapons to Gaza.
As the cabinet voted, Hamas fired rockets against Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beersheba - 40 in all Saturday.
Sunday, a large group of European leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic descends on Jerusalem. DEBKAfile's sources report they are coming ostensibly to show the flag for Israel, but they will also be on hand to ascertain that the Israeli military quits the Gaza Strip – even without the operation's goals being met – and also lean hard on Israel to open the six Gaza crossings as demanded by Hamas. They will also meet Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm e-Sheikh.
The plan the European leaders have developed with Egypt provides a $1.6 billion aid package for the Gaza Strip's reconstruction.
The millions of tons of cement and supplies will be shipped to Israeli ports and delivered through the Gaza crossings over a period of years. Israel, they believe, will not be able to refuse to reopen the crossings, thereby bringing its embargo of the Gaza Strip to an end.
DEBKAfile Special Report
January 18, 2009, 11:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Five Hamas launched five missiles against Sderot after opening fire on an Israeli tank force in northern Gaza early Sunday, Jan 16, seven hours after Israeli troops carried out government orders to cease hostilities. Israeli ground troops returned the fire and engaged Hamas operatives in battle after which its air force struck Gaza targets.
The Israeli security cabinet in a special meeting Saturday night, Jan. 17, approved a unilateral halt in fire in the Gaza Strip from 0200 hours while leaving Operation Cast Lead forces in Gaza to test Hamas' response.
DEBKAfile: Israeli forces will hold to their positions in the Gaza Strip for no more than days. Meanwhile, although prime minister Ehud Olmert assured the nation that all the Gaza operation's goals had been reached, Hamas promised to keep on fighting and shooting rockets, while neither Washington nor Cairo guaranteed action to end the flow of weapons to Gaza.
As the cabinet voted, Hamas fired rockets against Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beersheba - 40 in all Saturday.
Sunday, a large group of European leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic descends on Jerusalem. DEBKAfile's sources report they are coming ostensibly to show the flag for Israel, but they will also be on hand to ascertain that the Israeli military quits the Gaza Strip – even without the operation's goals being met – and also lean hard on Israel to open the six Gaza crossings as demanded by Hamas. They will also meet Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm e-Sheikh.
The plan the European leaders have developed with Egypt provides a $1.6 billion aid package for the Gaza Strip's reconstruction.
The millions of tons of cement and supplies will be shipped to Israeli ports and delivered through the Gaza crossings over a period of years. Israel, they believe, will not be able to refuse to reopen the crossings, thereby bringing its embargo of the Gaza Strip to an end.
Hamas Ceasefire Violations Watch
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MOSSAD posting on Indymedia?!!
18.01.2009 12:55
For those who haven't heard of "DEBKAfile" website, it is connected to the notorious Israeli Secret Service "Mossad".
olly
Nah mate I swear on my dear old mother's grave!
18.01.2009 13:02
Honest Dave
Hamas has no intentions of peace
18.01.2009 13:08
To say that Hamas is innocent in all this is a lie.
From up north
What ceasefire?
18.01.2009 13:14
Incidentaly the BBC are reporting that Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire today at approx 1pm GMT as long as Israel retreat from Gaza within 7 dsys (they were asking for the borders to be opened but I guess they've decided they'd prefer to starve than be bombed any further).
Ashley
nor does Israel
18.01.2009 13:40
Israel has been breaking it's own 3 hour daily break in any case, so it's a bit rich to day Hamas have now and they're all to blame. Plus the article talks about rockets fired whilst the cabinet debated, but so to was the IDF, but we all know that article's well biased.
And saying they fired first, no they did, is just more of the playground behaviour we're seeing cause this problem. I'm of course not saying that Hamas doesn't do bad things, but that doesn't justify IDF bad things.
And yeah, to what Ashley says.
doh
Struth Guvnor
18.01.2009 13:42
Of course we had to kill over 1200 people almost all civilians, one third of them children... because it woz the Hamas that were strapping babies to their backs as human shields innit, they were cleverly disguising battle formations as schools and hospitals.
Of course, it was Hamas that broke the ceasefire when Israel blew up several Hamas people during the ceasefire... and Israel was starving the local civilians in flagrant disregard for the Geneva Conventions.
Yup it was the Hamas wot did it all. Honest!
Can I have me fifty knicker now?
New rule of Zionsit propaganda: just keep repeating the name Hamas and deflect any scrutiny away from the mass murder of civillians by Israel.
SAD PATHETIC EXCUSES FOR HUMANITY YOU LOT ARE!
Honest Dave
The blame game in Gaza: Covering for Israel, concealing war crimes
18.01.2009 13:47
This historical analysis gives an accurate picture of what actually has happened:
The blame game in Gaza: Covering for Israel, concealing war crimes
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Balancing the media
18.01.2009 14:05
The facts havn't changed but World opinion has certainly been affected and the Israeli butchers have lost a lot of points. Hamas started firing their fireworks at Israel as an act of defiance in response to being starved.
They are still being denied the basic food shipments they need just to stay alive.
Calls for both sides to cease the hostilities were some what ambiguous as one side was responsible for 99.999 % of the hostile action. After suffering two weeks of cowardly bombardments from aircraft and artillery and bearing in mind that Hamas have no anti aircraft guns I guess the only thing that they can offer the Israelis is another act of defiance. Like fuck you and all your high tech yankkkee hard ware we are still not going to give up, and for that you have to admire their spirit. As for all the lies that the Israeli PR machine is vomiting onto the Internet here's to you scum bags a rocket up your arse !!
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