BREAKING NEWS : Israel will expand his war in the Middle East within 48 to 72 hours – Israel Commits Genocide on Tuesday, Strikes Schools – Mubarak: Hamas Must Not Be Allowed to Win in Gaza – Israeli fighters penetrate into Lebanon – Hezbollah on full alert in wake of Gaza war
BREAKING NEWS :
Israel will expand his war in the Middle East within 48 to 72 hours
The israeli agression against civilians, called by Zion-west, a” war against hamas”, according to several of our sources, will expand in the Middle East within 48 to 72 hours, probably in Lebanon and Syria. French Prsident Sarkozy’s turn is a Zion-strategy to fool Arab states to believe that the Western states under Zion control are moving for peace. Syria and Lebanon must prepare to face Zion attack.
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Israeli fighters penetrate into Lebanon
Israeli warplanes have reportedly overflown southern Lebanon amid speculation that Tel Aviv may be seeking to provoke Hezbollah.
The warplanes overflew the Lebanese port city of Sidon on Tuesday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Tel Aviv has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of making preparations to attack Israel to avenge the murder of its commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Mughniyeh was killed in a car bomb attack in Damascus last year.
This comes as Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Hoballah has affirmed that the Lebanese movement has no intention to go to war despite “the recent propaganda against it”.
He warned, however, that Hezbollah would defend Lebanon if Israel were to invade his country.
Tel Aviv launched a massive onslaught against the Gaza Strip on December 27 and put its army personnel stationed along the Lebanese border on high alert earlier this week.
Israeli forces crossed the border into the Gaza Strip late Saturday night and launched a ground incursion into the densely populated region. The offensive has so far left over 584 Palestinians killed and 3000 others wounded.
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Hezbollah on full alert in wake of Gaza war
An Israeli army artillery battery fires a smoke bomb into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli war on the populated strip began on December 27.
Hezbollah has stepped up security measures on the Lebanese border in response to the full-scale Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip.
Citing an unnamed Lebanese official, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that the Lebanese resistance is fully prepared not to allow “Israel a chance to avenge its defeat in the July 2006 war and has therefore raised its alert level for defense purposes.”
Israel is expected to take advantage of the transition in the White House “to embark on a new adventure” and change the status quo on the Lebanese border, the Al-Hayat report adds.
In a recent report, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy revealed that Israel’s determination to curb Hezbollah’s military and political prowess has strengthened the likelihood of another Israel-Lebanon war.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Lebanese army announced that at least six Israeli warplanes had flown over several regions of the country in violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which put an end to the 33-day war in the summer of 2006.
The Israeli overflights come as Israel has called up thousands of its reserve troops and put some of them along its northern border with Lebanon earlier this week.
Author of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy report Nicholas Blanford told Press TV correspondent Ali Rizk in an October interview that UN Resolution 1701, which ended the second Israeli war on Lebanon, would never be sufficient to maintain calm.
“Yes, 1701 stopped the war obviously in 2006. It stopped the fighting. I mean it saved the Israelis, the Israelis were obviously in deep trouble as various internal investigations and reports and commissions have elaborated,” said Blanford.
“It was kind of an unfinished war in many respects. Hezbollah, for their part, recognized Israeli unease and unhappiness with the outcome of the war,” he continued.
According to Blanford, the US presidential elections as well as the upcoming elections in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran are key political developments that could easily ‘trigger a war’.
Other political analysts also believe that a third Israeli war against Lebanon may be in the offing.
“This is not the first time that the Israelis threaten Lebanon. There have been a lot of threats ever since the end of the July war in 2006 and its humiliating defeat has been a blow to the whole Israeli military institution,” says political analyst Ibrahim Moussawi.
While Israel claims it has no intention to open another front during its war on the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah has announced that the Lebanese nation must maintain vigilance and be prepared to repel any possible attack by Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah has, however, dismissed Israeli allegations that it has plans to go to war with Israel.
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Sarkozy urges Syria to act on Gaza
Tony Blair, left, said Hamas must work towards a ceasefire to stop ‘appalling suffering’ in Gaza AFP
Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, has called on Syria to help convince Hamas to co-operate in international efforts to end the Israeli assault in the Gaza Strip during talks with Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus.
Sarkozy told the Syrian president on Tuesday that he “didn’t have any doubt” that Syria would help convince Hamas to agree to a deal.
Sarkozy said: “I know the importance of Syria in this region and its influence on a number of players.
“I don’t have any doubt that President Bashar Al-Assad will throw all his weight to convince every one to return to reason. Those who can work for peace must do it immediately.”
Syria, along with Iran, is a main backer of Hamas and hosts members of the group’s exiled leadership, including Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’ leader.
Truce ‘not far’
Following the trip to Syria, Sarkozy visited French United Nations peacekeepers in south Lebanon and said that a deal to end the Israeli offensive in Gaza was “not far” away.
He said: “I’m convinced that there are solutions. We are not far from that. What is needed is simply for one of the players to start for things to go in the right direction.”
Sarkozy said he was returning to Sharm el-Sheikh to meet with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, to work out the details of a peace plan.
“I do not know if it will work. I am telling you that I am trying and if I am going back there Sharm el-Sheikh it is because there is a small hope,” he said.
The president had said on Monday that he was working on an intitiative with Egypt but declined to give details because of “extremely complex negotiations”.
‘War crimes’
During Sarkozy’s visit to Syria, Al-Assad said that any initiative for a truce must stop what he described as Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and lift the blockade in the besieged territory.
Al-Assad said “We have only a few hours between one massacre and the other being perpetrated and carried out in the Palestinian territories.
“And we don’t have days or weeks. Unless the situation is remedied swiftly we will face a very dire situation.”
“We have to immediately stop the barbaric Israeli aggression in Gaza. Thirty percent of the victims are children under the age of ten and Gaza is now a concentration camp.”
Diplomats in the Syrian capital said that France wanted Syria to exert its influence with Hamas to make sure that any ceasefire sticks, but Syria has been careful not to be seen as acting as a guardian of Israel’s security.
Israeli ’savagery’
Sarkozy’s peace-brokering mission in the region is just one of many diplomatic efforts around the world aimed at ending the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Erdogan said Israel’s leaders were leaving a ‘black stain… on humanity’ EPA
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has completed a week-long tour to Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudia Arabia, in which he outlined a two-stage proposal to end the conflict.
The proposed agreement would secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and
then work to end the division of the Palestinians.
Erdogan condemned Israel’s offensive as “savagery” on Tuesday and said it was a bid by the Israeli leadership to score points ahead of general elections in February.
Referring to the Israeli ministers of defence and foreign affairs, Erdogan said: “I am telling Ehud Barak and (Tzipi) Livni to forget about the elections, because history will judge them for the black stain they are leaving on humanity.”
Israel “has suffered much in history and should know best the sanctity of human life, especially that of women and children… and the importance of the culture of co-existence”.
Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy for the Quartet comprising the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, has met with several Israeli and Palestinian officials in recent days, and has called on Hamas to work towards a ceasefire to stop the “appalling suffering” in Gaza.
The former British prime minister said that the international community wanted dialogue with Hamas, but they had to end violence first.
Speaking to BBC radio in Jerusalem, he said: “There are circumstances in which we could get an immediate ceasefire.”
“Those circumstances focus very much around clear action to cut off the supply of arms and money through the tunnels that go from Egypt into Gaza.
“The Egyptians, in principle, are prepared to do this, they want to do it, they recognise it’s in their own interests as well”.
Israel rejected European proposals for a ceasefire and the deployment of international observers following talks on Monday with a high-level EU delegation in Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, will address the UN Security Council in New York later on Tuesday, but as diplomatic efforts continue UN staff on the ground say time is running out.
They say Gazans have little food and water left and that the injured are dying because of the lack of medicine.
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Israel Commits Genocide on Tuesday, Strikes Schools
…It’s the eleventh day of the Israeli offensive on Gaza and the fourth day of the ground operation. 11 days have passed and Israel has so failed to achieve any clear objective; a reason to dump all calls for ceasefire. On the ninth of January, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s term ends and on the twentieth of January US President Barack Obama takes the oath. Time is not in Israel’s favor as elections are a few weeks ahead. The political confusion has been reflected recently on the battleground in Gaza. Israeli elite soldiers are getting killed, at least 3 on Monday night alone and settlers are still haunted by Palestinian resistance rockets. Practically, nothing has changed in Gaza for Israel to save face. The stigma of Israel’s blood thirst in Gaza, however, adds another paragraph to the books of Israel’s reference to massacres.
Few hours before the planned UN Security Council meeting scheduled for late Tuesday afternoon to discuss adoption a resolution to halt the aggression against Gaza, Israeli occupation army committed genocide against the Palestinians who were taking refuge inside the UNRWA schools in different areas in the Strip after they had thought that they could be safe under the “UN umbrella”.
Over 65 people were martyred and dozens injured only on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to at least 635 martyrs and more than 2,900 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Strip
In its last but not least crime, Israeli occupation forces killed at least 42 people, mostly children, who had taken refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in the third such attack in a day. The strike hit near a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in the northern town of Jabaliya.
At least 60 Palestinians were killed in shelling up and down the Gaza strip early on Tuesday. Israel’s drastic bombardment east of Gaza killed an entire family of 12 members, including seven children, and a passerby.
The bodies of the Daya family were pulled from the rubble of a four-storey house in Gaza City’s Zeitun Neighborhood region which was hit by two Israeli missiles overnight, according to witnesses. They included seven children aged one to 12 years, three women and two men.
A passerby was also killed in the strike and at least nine other people were believed to be still buried under the rubble.
Israeli strikes hit two separate schools Tuesday run by the United Nations in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, medics and UN officials said. Two people were killed in a strike on a school in the southern of Khan Yunis and three people were killed in an air strike on a school in Gaza City, they said. Both schools are run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Palestinian medical sources earlier said that 10 Palestinian civilians were killed in Deir al-Balah when an Israeli ship fired shells at their house. Officials confirmed that of Tuesday’s 23 martyrs, only two were identified as resistance fighters. On Monday, more than 33 civilians, including children, were killed in the Israeli ground offensive, medics said.
Meanwhile, four Israeli soldiers from the elite Golani Brigade have been killed in Gaza Monday night according to Israeli media, bringing the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the ground offensive according to Israeli media sources to 5. 24 other soldiers were injured including the Golani Brigade commander Col. Avi Peled, whose injuries were described as serious, according to Israeli media. The Israeli story was that the soldiers came under friendly fire.
Tactically, elite soldiers being killed by friendly fire has less impact than elite soldiers being killed by a few resistance fighters.
However the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, confirmed that at least ten soldiers have been killed and more than 30 others were injured in an ambush for resistance fighters. Qassam Brigades source said resistance fighters have brought gradually an elite unite of the Golani Brigade to a booby-trapped house in northern Gaza. The source added that when soldiers rammed into the house, it was blown up and resistance fighters then rained the trapped soldiers with bullets and grenades. Israeli helicopters evacuated the trapped soldiers under the cover of heavy fire and bombardment. The Qassam Brigades said it will unveil the details of this “special operation” later.
“We have prepared thousands of brave fighters who are waiting for you at each corner of the street and will welcome you with fire and iron,” Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas armed wing the Ezzedine
Al-Qassam Brigades, said in a broadcast Monday.
“We tell you in all confidence that your defeat in the Gaza Strip is approaching with every hour,” he said. “As long as the aggression intensifies, your losses will increase and you will sink further into the Gaza quagmire. “God willing, we are at the gates of victory and the Zionists will suffer only defeat and humiliation. The Qassams still have many means and have up to now used only a small part of their forces,” Abu Obeida said.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told lawmakers that Hamas had been dealt a heavy blow: “But we cannot say that its fighting capabilities have been harmed,” he said. “Difficult moments lie ahead in this operation and the main test could still be ahead.”
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Mubarak: Hamas Must Not Be Allowed to Win in Gaza
Once again, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak insists on holding Hamas responsible for the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a closed conversation Monday, he told a delegation of European foreign ministers that Hamas must not be allowed to win the war with the Israeli army, Haaretz said.
Mubarak’s comment came after Egypt invited Hamas to discuss available proposals for a ceasefire. Hamas announced it will dispatch representatives only to listen to the proposals. Following a meeting with Egyptian intelligence officials, Hamas representatives said they had received an Egyptian proposal and would consider it.
Also Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was visiting Tel Aviv, that Israel would not honor a cease-fire imposed by the UN Security Council without its consent. Arab states are currently pushing for a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.
European foreign ministers, headed by Karel Schwarzenberg of the Czech Republic, whose country currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, came to Tel Aviv after visiting Cairo, and briefed Israeli Foreign Minister Tsibi Livni on their meeting with Mubarak. They reportedly told her that Mubarak had said Hamas “must not be allowed to emerge from the fighting with the upper hand.”
The Egyptian cease-fire proposal would require Israel to end its military offensive and withdraw from Gaza, while Hamas would have to end rocket fire into the occupied territories. The crossings into Gaza would reopen, but PA officials would be stationed at the Rafah crossing with Egypt. In addition, Egypt is demanding that Hamas resume reconciliation talks with Fatah.
Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas’ political wing, said that Hamas was open to a truce, but said that any proposal must guarantee an Israeli withdrawal and an end to the blockade of Gaza.
