Actualité - Israel’s ‘State Terrorism’ Kills 3 Kids, 3 Medics and 3 Bystanders
Franc-Parler publie un rapport du Palestine Media Center sur la situation actuelle en Palestine où l'armée israélienne multiplie les attaques et les provocations contre le peuple palestinien. Israël continue de mener des opérations de terrorisme d'État à l'encontre de la Palestine aidé par les États-Unis. Franc-Parler salue le courage de la résistance du peuple palestinien à l'occupation illégale et aux attaques sionistes et appel toutes et tous à soutenir fermement la lutte du peuple palestinien.
President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as “state terrorism,” which claimed the lives of three children, three medical workers, three civilian bystanders and a leading anti-occupation activist among eleven Palestinians killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The activist killed was identified as Hamoud Wadiya of the Islamic Jihad.Separately an undercover unit of the IOF, hours later, extra-judicially killed anti-occupation activist Mohammad Subhi Naji al-Wahsh Abu Satour in the northern West Bank refugee camp of Jenin overnight Wednesday.
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's eight weeks in power have proved to be the bloodiest, deadliest and the most criminal period of the 58-year-old state of Israel.
Since he was sworn in as the 12th prime minister of Israel on April 14, the Israelis have killed more than 50 Palestinians and injured around 200 almost at a rate of 1 killed and 4 injured per day.“
Olmert has set a record, surpassing the one established by his predecessor Ariel Sharon during the bloodiest days of the Palestinian uprising or Intifada against the 39-year old Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” a commentator wrote.
Olmert’s new “Defense” Minister, Amir Peretz, said on Tuesday that Israel will no longer show restraint toward Palestinians involved in anti-Israel operations, regardless of civilian casualties, adding: “We will act with all our might and use all our means against any group that acts against us.”The IOF on Tuesday admitted killings of Palestinian civilians.
The IOF Head of Operations Directorate, Brigadier General Gadi Eisencott, confirmed that Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli rocket strike targeting Palestinian activists, Ynet reported.
Eisencott gave details of the preliminary investigation into Tuesday’s strike:“This afternoon an Islamic Jihad cell got into a car very near the launch site, with the intention of firing long-range Grad missiles at Israel.
The vehicle was located and munitions were fired at it. Simultaneously, nearby civilians ran towards the car and were hit by a second missile that was fired. When the second missile was fired, no civilians were identified at the target location. As in earlier incidents in which civilians not involved in terrorism were hit, we express deep regret over the incident,” he said.
Tuesday’s strike killed nine civilians and wounded more than 35, all of them civilians and some of them critically injured.
Abbas: ‘State Terrorism’
President Abbas condemned the air raids as “state terrorism,” he told reporters at his office in Gaza.Abbas said Israel is trying to “wipe out the Palestinian people.”
“Every day there are martyrs, there are wounded people, all of them innocents, all of them bystanders,” he said, adding: “They want to eliminate the Palestinian people, but we are going to sit tight. We are sitting tight on our land. We want to establish our state and live in peace.”“What Israel is committing is state terrorism,” he said.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, demanded an international commission of inquiry “to investigate the brutal crimes and the bloody Israeli massacres of our people.”
Chief Palestinian negotiator of Fatah, Saeb Erekat, called for restraint, adding: “We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, this Israeli military escalation. Nine Palestinians have been killed this morning and I'm afraid to say that violence will continue to breed more violence.”
Spokesman of the ruling Hamas and lawmaker, Mushir al-Masri, described the deaths in Gaza as “war crimes,” adding that Israel was in, what he called, “open war” with “innocent Palestinian people.”
The Islamic Jihad swiftly vowed revenge. “God willing, the resistance groups ... will deliver a harsh response. All options are open,” said Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza.“
What happened today is a brutal massacre committed against innocent civilians and fighters from our group,” said Habib, adding: “This massacre is similar to the one that took place on Friday.”
Habib was referring to an Israeli shell that killed a family of seven who were picnicking on a northern Gaza Strip beach and to a separate Israeli air strike that killed three civilians on the same day.Huda Ghalia, 12, lost most of her family on Friday.
UN ‘Arab Group’ Moves
In New York City, the Arab Group at the United Nations agreed late Tuesday to set up two different teams to meet separately with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the President of the Security Council, Ellen Margrethe Loj of Denmark, to discuss the “explosive” situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters that the meetings will take place “as soon as we coordinate with Annan's and Loj's offices, today or tomorrow.”
The first team, Mansour said, would be composed of the chairmen of the Arab group, Algeria; the Non-Aligned group, Malaysia; the Islamic Conference, Yemen; the head of the UN Palestinian Rights Committee, Senegal; and himself to meet “urgently” with Annan.
The second team would be made of the same members plus Qatar, the only Arab member of the UN Security Council, and the coordinator of the NAM caucus in the council, Ghana, to meet with Loj.
Annan on Tuesday said he was “shocked and saddened” by the Israeli missile attacks earlier in the day that killed nine Palestinians and injured 40 more. He also said on Friday he was “deeply disturbed” at the killing of a family on a Gaza beach and called for an investigation of the massacre.
Separately, Mansour wrote a letter to Loj earlier Tuesday in which he said: “The international community must continue to strongly condemn Israel's escalation of extra-judicial killings and deliberate and indiscriminate military attacks against civilian areas and, furthermore, the international community must take immediate action to bring a halt to these grave human rights violations and crimes against the Palestinian people,” according to Kuwait News Agency, KUNA.
Israel justifies its ongoing attacks by the firing of primitive home-made Palestinian rockets at Israeli targets.At least 38 missiles launched by Palestinians in Gaza have landed in Israel during on Monday, bringing the total since June 9 to 100, the IOF said.
However, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, had a different point of view on Tuesday.Warning Palestinians not to fall into the Israeli trap, he said: “Israel aims at maintaining the tension, keeping Gaza a war zone to prevent sustaining the (16-month old and unilaterally declared Palestinian) Hudna (truce) by all means, and to invite retaliation by some parties in order to justify its unilateral policies.”
Israel also aims at widening the inter-Palestinian gap, he added.
(Palestine Media Center - 14 June 2006)
President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the ongoing Israeli air strikes in Palestinian civilian areas as “state terrorism,” which claimed the lives of three children, three medical workers, three civilian bystanders and a leading anti-occupation activist among eleven Palestinians killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The activist killed was identified as Hamoud Wadiya of the Islamic Jihad.Separately an undercover unit of the IOF, hours later, extra-judicially killed anti-occupation activist Mohammad Subhi Naji al-Wahsh Abu Satour in the northern West Bank refugee camp of Jenin overnight Wednesday.
The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's eight weeks in power have proved to be the bloodiest, deadliest and the most criminal period of the 58-year-old state of Israel.
Since he was sworn in as the 12th prime minister of Israel on April 14, the Israelis have killed more than 50 Palestinians and injured around 200 almost at a rate of 1 killed and 4 injured per day.“
Olmert has set a record, surpassing the one established by his predecessor Ariel Sharon during the bloodiest days of the Palestinian uprising or Intifada against the 39-year old Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” a commentator wrote.
Olmert’s new “Defense” Minister, Amir Peretz, said on Tuesday that Israel will no longer show restraint toward Palestinians involved in anti-Israel operations, regardless of civilian casualties, adding: “We will act with all our might and use all our means against any group that acts against us.”The IOF on Tuesday admitted killings of Palestinian civilians.
The IOF Head of Operations Directorate, Brigadier General Gadi Eisencott, confirmed that Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli rocket strike targeting Palestinian activists, Ynet reported.
Eisencott gave details of the preliminary investigation into Tuesday’s strike:“This afternoon an Islamic Jihad cell got into a car very near the launch site, with the intention of firing long-range Grad missiles at Israel.
The vehicle was located and munitions were fired at it. Simultaneously, nearby civilians ran towards the car and were hit by a second missile that was fired. When the second missile was fired, no civilians were identified at the target location. As in earlier incidents in which civilians not involved in terrorism were hit, we express deep regret over the incident,” he said.
Tuesday’s strike killed nine civilians and wounded more than 35, all of them civilians and some of them critically injured.
Abbas: ‘State Terrorism’
President Abbas condemned the air raids as “state terrorism,” he told reporters at his office in Gaza.Abbas said Israel is trying to “wipe out the Palestinian people.”
“Every day there are martyrs, there are wounded people, all of them innocents, all of them bystanders,” he said, adding: “They want to eliminate the Palestinian people, but we are going to sit tight. We are sitting tight on our land. We want to establish our state and live in peace.”“What Israel is committing is state terrorism,” he said.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, demanded an international commission of inquiry “to investigate the brutal crimes and the bloody Israeli massacres of our people.”
Chief Palestinian negotiator of Fatah, Saeb Erekat, called for restraint, adding: “We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, this Israeli military escalation. Nine Palestinians have been killed this morning and I'm afraid to say that violence will continue to breed more violence.”
Spokesman of the ruling Hamas and lawmaker, Mushir al-Masri, described the deaths in Gaza as “war crimes,” adding that Israel was in, what he called, “open war” with “innocent Palestinian people.”
The Islamic Jihad swiftly vowed revenge. “God willing, the resistance groups ... will deliver a harsh response. All options are open,” said Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza.“
What happened today is a brutal massacre committed against innocent civilians and fighters from our group,” said Habib, adding: “This massacre is similar to the one that took place on Friday.”
Habib was referring to an Israeli shell that killed a family of seven who were picnicking on a northern Gaza Strip beach and to a separate Israeli air strike that killed three civilians on the same day.Huda Ghalia, 12, lost most of her family on Friday.
UN ‘Arab Group’ Moves
In New York City, the Arab Group at the United Nations agreed late Tuesday to set up two different teams to meet separately with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the President of the Security Council, Ellen Margrethe Loj of Denmark, to discuss the “explosive” situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters that the meetings will take place “as soon as we coordinate with Annan's and Loj's offices, today or tomorrow.”
The first team, Mansour said, would be composed of the chairmen of the Arab group, Algeria; the Non-Aligned group, Malaysia; the Islamic Conference, Yemen; the head of the UN Palestinian Rights Committee, Senegal; and himself to meet “urgently” with Annan.
The second team would be made of the same members plus Qatar, the only Arab member of the UN Security Council, and the coordinator of the NAM caucus in the council, Ghana, to meet with Loj.
Annan on Tuesday said he was “shocked and saddened” by the Israeli missile attacks earlier in the day that killed nine Palestinians and injured 40 more. He also said on Friday he was “deeply disturbed” at the killing of a family on a Gaza beach and called for an investigation of the massacre.
Separately, Mansour wrote a letter to Loj earlier Tuesday in which he said: “The international community must continue to strongly condemn Israel's escalation of extra-judicial killings and deliberate and indiscriminate military attacks against civilian areas and, furthermore, the international community must take immediate action to bring a halt to these grave human rights violations and crimes against the Palestinian people,” according to Kuwait News Agency, KUNA.
Israel justifies its ongoing attacks by the firing of primitive home-made Palestinian rockets at Israeli targets.At least 38 missiles launched by Palestinians in Gaza have landed in Israel during on Monday, bringing the total since June 9 to 100, the IOF said.
However, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, had a different point of view on Tuesday.Warning Palestinians not to fall into the Israeli trap, he said: “Israel aims at maintaining the tension, keeping Gaza a war zone to prevent sustaining the (16-month old and unilaterally declared Palestinian) Hudna (truce) by all means, and to invite retaliation by some parties in order to justify its unilateral policies.”
Israel also aims at widening the inter-Palestinian gap, he added.
(Palestine Media Center - 14 June 2006)
Libellés : L'État sioniste d'Israël, La lutte de résistance du peuple palestinien
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