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August 8, 2008 The Hamas Movement on Tuesday
condemned the statements of Israeli war
minister Ehud Barak in which he talked about
intentions to wage a large-scale military
operation in the Gaza Strip as foolish and
reflecting the bankruptcy of the Israeli
government before the fortitude of the
Palestinian resistance.
In a statement received by the PIC, Fawzi
Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said that these
threats come within the framework of the
electoral campaigning of Barak and his party
in light of the various divisions and rifts
inside the Israeli political and military
institutions.
The statement warned the Israeli leaders
that they would pay dearly if any military
follies were committed in Gaza, adding that
any act of aggression and terrorism against
the Palestinian people would never bring
security and safety to the Israeli occupation.
Speaking at a labor party meeting in
occupied Jerusalem on Monday evening, Barak
threatened to resume military operations in
Gaza after the scheme to stir up chaos there
failed. These threats were issued despite the
Israeli truce with Hamas.
"Anyone who misses the military operations
in Gaza mustn't worry, they will come," the
Israeli war minister said.
These threats coincide with PA reports
saying that Israeli premier Ehud Olmert and PA
chief Mahmoud Abbas will meet soon to discuss
the positions tabled during the last
negotiations in Washington.
Palestinian security sources had revealed
that the success of the Palestinian interior
ministry in dismantling the troubling security
quarter east of Gaza foiled a big scheme aimed
at destabilizing the state of security in Gaza
and irritating the street until the situation
there explodes leading to deployment of
international or Arab troops in the Strip.
IOF troops kidnap
journalist, violate truce in Gaza
Israeli occupation forces kidnapped
Palestinian journalist Muaz Mishaal, 24, from
his hometown of Silwad to the northeast of
Ramallah city at a late hour on Sunday night,
locals reported.
Muaz's father Ziyad, 46, who is a member of
Silwad's municipal council, is imprisoned in
Israeli occupation jails and had served six
years in Israeli captivity.
Rahma Hamed, the wife of Ziyad, said that
the IOF soldiers savagely broke into their
home and terrorized all family members before
taking her son Muaz.
In Nablus city, local sources reported that
IOF troops rounded up four citizens at dawn
Monday including two brothers.
In Yasuf, Salift district, IOF soldiers,
escorting settlements, broke into and
ransacked civilian homes on Monday, locals
reported, adding that the settlers were firing
at random.
In a fresh violation of the calm agreement
in the Gaza Strip, IOF soldiers advanced into
Qarara town east of Khan Younis, south of the
Strip, on Monday evening.
Local sources told PIC reporter that
soldiers in armored vehicles escorted two
bulldozers 100 meters into Qarara and
bulldozed cultivated lands.
In the first such incursion since the calm
went into effect on 19th June, the soldiers
blasted an explosive device planted by
Palestinian resistance in the area. |
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