| July 8, 2008 The Israeli occupation authority
on Tuesday closed down all Gaza commercial crossings at the
pretext that two mortar shells fell from Gaza on the Karni
crossing on Monday.
Hebrew sources said that war minister Ehud Barak ordered the
closure on Tuesday after the mortar shells fired by unknown
armed men from Gaza, blasted near the crossing without
inflicting any casualties or damage.
This is the sixth time that the IOA closes down the crossing
ever since the calm agreement went into effect on 19/6/2008 at
the same pretext of falling missiles or projectiles.
The IOF troops, however, violated the calm on 30 occasions as
recorded by local observers other than the closure of crossings.
Hebrew media claimed that Barak ordered the opening of the
crossings in the afternoon hours after appeals from Egyptian
intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.
Israeli closure of charities "humanitarian
massacre"
Hamas Movement on Monday described as a "humanitarian massacre"
the Israeli occupation authority's forced closure of a number of
charities in Nablus in the West Bank.
Fawzi Barhoum a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said that the
"ferocious" campaign against those charities is meant to subdue
the Palestinian people into acquiescing to Zio-American
dictates.
He told Al-Bayan press center that the "racist and terrorist
campaigns falls in line with a systematic plan to liquidate the
Palestine cause".
The spokesman did not rule out that the campaign was in unison
with the illegitimate government of Salam Fayyad in Ramallah.
The Israeli occupation forces earlier Monday stormed Nablus in
more than 40 armored vehicles and ordered closure of four
charities in Nablus for three years after confiscating money and
computers found in their premises.
Dr. Hafez Al-Sadr, the director of the Tadamun clinic affiliated
with Tadamun charitable society, said that the IOF troops
wreaked havoc in the clinic and confiscated all its property
along with the money that was in its safe box that was destroyed
by the soldiers.
Sadr said that the storming operation was the worst ever since
the clinic was opened. He denied Israeli claims that the clinic
was one of Hamas's infrastructure, explaining that the clinic
was established in 1977 ten years before Hamas was established.
The Tadamun society caters for orphans and the needy in addition
to sons of martyrs, wounded and prisoners.
The IOF had endorsed a plan to crack down on Hamas's
infrastructure in the West Bank, according to Hebrew press
reports. The IOF alleges that charitable societies were the
backbone of Hamas's infrastructure. |
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