Israel en Palestina #66: Vredesproces wordt op de proef gesteld

Hezbollah amasses thousands more weapons throughout Lebanon

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Israel: Hezbollah Arsenal Many More than 40,000 Rockets

Iranian generals increasingly regular visitors to Lebanon" says Israel
Hezbollah hides weapons among civilians in southern Lebanon
Fears that Hariri report will implicate Hezbollah, bring civil war


Har Adir, Israeli-Lebanese border, Nov. 25 The buildup of rockets by Iran-backed Hezbollah is more substantial than media reports have suggested, The Israel Project has learned. In line with reportage, Israeli intelligence understands that Hezbollah has amassed in excess of 40,000 rockets in the immediate vicinity of the Israeli-Lebanese frontier.
However, in Israels assessment the Shiite Hezbollah also has a considerable stockpile in other parts of Lebanon. The 40,000 weapons are located in hiding places in villages throughout southern Lebanon in contravention of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701. The resolution, which led to the 2006 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, calls for the Lebanese government to be the sole bearer of arms in the south of the country.

Israel fears Iran is playing an ever-larger role in Lebanon. There has been a noticeable increase in visits by Iranian military and political leaders over the last two years according to Israeli officials. Tehran is spreading its sphere of influence to include both Hezbollah and Beirut.

Hezbollah gets short- and long-range missiles in three main ways: by sea, by air and via the Syrian border. Iran and Syria are the main suppliers of Hezbollahs weaponry, while Hezbollah has also obtained Russian rockets, in Israels estimation.

"Iran and Syria both pose significant conventional security challenges and these conventional challenges intersect with the asymmetrical threats posed by Hezbollahwhose rockets indiscriminately target Israeli population centers," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew J. Shapiro in July 2010.
The Lebanese border towns that face Israel are heavily Shiite. Hezbollah stores weapons in underground bunkers and in buildings among the civilians there. Public buildings doubly serve as Hezbollah lookout points.

United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is not allowed to enter private properties, making it difficult for UNIFIL to monitor weapons smuggling.

The Israel Defense Forces has published videos filmed by drones and from fixed positions showing explosions at three weapons depositories close to the frontier.

Israel is watching the border particularly closely at the moment fearing that Hezbollah may choose to launch rocket attacks in the next few weeks. Jerusalem believes it may do so in order to deflect attention away from the eagerly-anticipated publication of the findings of the U.N. inquiry into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

Reports have circulated implicating Hezbollah in the assassination. Drawing Israel into a military campaign Hezbollah believes would move attention quickly away from the Hariri report

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Op maandag 27 december 2010 02:26 schreef JellieVrolijk het volgende:

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Ik geef een beschrijving van wat verdediging inhoudt. Met zwaar geschut aanvallen op een dichtbevolkt gebied is geen verdediging, punt. Israel heeft alles op oorlogsgebied en kunnen zeer simpel de raketjes die op hen zou worden afgeschoten onderscheppen. Daar is geen moordpartij voor nodig.
Daarnaast ben ik gelovig. En als dat het volk van God moet zijn, dan gooi ik mijn Bijbel in de open haard. Gelovigen staan namelijk niet achter moord en doodslag en onderdrukking.

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Report: Hamas torturing 250 Eritreans in Egypt
NGO reports Eritreans traveling to Israel to seek asylum are being held captive by terrorist group in northern Sinai. 'Extortion, organ trafficking fund Hamas and al-Qaeda," EveryOne co-President Roberto Malini says Menachem Gantz

Approximately 250 Eritrean refugees have been held captive and tortured for the past month by Hamas in northern Sinai, human rights organization EveryOne reported.

The Italian-based organization sent an urgent plea to the Egyptian government last Thursday, claiming that the refugees, who were making their way to Israel to seek asylum, were captured by human traffickers.

The issue of illegal refugees infiltrating through the Egyptian border has been dominating the news in Israel in recent months, but it appears that many meet a dreadful fate even before reaching the Jewish state.

The humanitarian aid group reported that the refugees in question encountered Hamas operatives along the route, who promised to smuggle them into Israel for a payment of $2,000. Instead, they were placed in a detention facility on the outskirts of Rafah, an Egyptian town on the Gaza border, demanding their families in Eritrea pay a $10,000 ransom for their release.

'Refugees target of organ trafficking'
It was further noted in the statement that eight of the immigrants were killed, and four have gone missing allegedly being the subject of human organ harvesting and trafficking. About 100 of them were transferred to a 'concentration camp' at an unknown location, perhaps in the Palestinian territories. The captives are beaten, the women and children raped.

"The prisoners eat poor food and are forced to drink their own urine," the statement reads. "Most of the migrants are contemplating suicide."

According to Roberto Malini, who heads EveryOne, the NGO is able to communicate with the Eritreans, some of whom arrived in Italy a few months ago but were sent back to Libya, where they were held for three months. During their stay in Italy they were given cell phones so that they can keep the humanitarian aid group updated along the journey. The captors let the prisoners use the phones to request money from their families.

The refugees were thus able to relate the poor conditions in which they were being held, and describe their location a house located near a government building, surrounded by a fruit orchard and even send photographs of the detention facility.

'Egypt took no action'
According to refugees who survived similar journeys and reached Israel, once the ransom is paid, the traffickers escort the prisoners to certain points along the border. Those who are unable to gather the funds will meet a bitter end.

EveryOne officials claim that despite their repeated efforts to inform the Egyptian authorities of the dire situation, no action has been taken to remedy it, primarily because terrorist groups are behind the atrocities.

"The authorities have still not carried out any inspections of the locations that have been pointed out to them (in the town of Rafah)," the statement reads. "The reason is quite clear behind the crimes that serve to fund terrorism and to make huge profits for unscrupulous people is a criminal organization so powerful that it is able to challenge and defy governments: the Muslim Brotherhood (the organization Hamas belongs to) and al-Qaeda."

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 21:21 schreef YellowBlacks het volgende:

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4005541,00.html

Ze zijn daar weer lekker bezig.

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 14:51 schreef zoalshetis het volgende:

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als je van te voren weet dat je met je raketten niemand gaat raken of mensen die een schuilkelder hebben, wat is dan het nut van het continue afvuren? zeker als je weet dat israel alle installaties kapot gaat maken. installaties die in woonwijken, scholen en ziekenhuizen gebouwd zijn? is dat misschien omdat dode palestijnen het lekker doen op het wereldtoneel?

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 22:12 schreef sneeuwvrouw het volgende:
dat is toevallig 250 incidentjes op dezelfde dag.

Religie van de vrede

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 23:19 schreef zoalshetis het volgende:

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er zijn sowieso bijna geen 'palestijnen' meer. ze zijn overgenomen door hun buurlanden... en dan bedoel ik niet israel.

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 22:11 schreef C_N het volgende:

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en de Eritreans die politiek asiel aanvragen zijn Sunni Islam.
lang leven de lol

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Op woensdag 29 december 2010 00:10 schreef bastibro het volgende:
Eigenlijk is het allemaal heel simpel.

Geert Wilders heeft laatst de oplossing nog geopperd

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 23:14 schreef moussie het volgende:

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Heb je gelezen wie die raketten af heeft gevuurd, de Islamitische Jihad? Je weet dat dat geen Palestijnen zijn maar extremisten uit de omliggende landen, hoofdzakelijk Egypte? Je weet ook dat de Islamitische Jihad geen vrede wil, en ook geen vredesonderhandelingen? Het kan hun geen moer schelen hoeveel Palestijnen er dood gaan dankzij hun raketten, alles wat die lui willen is vrede met Israël voorkomen.

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Op dinsdag 28 december 2010 23:32 schreef moussie het volgende:

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En waar lees je dat? Ze vallen in de handen van mensensmokkelaars, vaak nadat ze aan de grens weg zijn gestuurd. Je hebt het nieuws van de laatste maanden gemist, die van dat hekje dat er moet komen tegen de Afrikaanse vluchtelingen, en de gevangenis waarin zij vast moeten worden gezet voor de deportatie?

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Op woensdag 29 december 2010 05:27 schreef C_N het volgende:

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en gesteund door ??als de hamas zeg geen rakette de Islamitische Jihad stop gelijk,, is een pot nat maat. en waar haal jij vandaan dat het geen palestijnen zijn?

en je heb gelijk de hamas wil vredesonderhandelingen.

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Op woensdag 29 december 2010 05:34 schreef C_N het volgende:

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waar lees je dat . eh al de vlugtelingen in israel zijn suny moslims . .

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2 er word idd naar die mogelijkheden gekeken zoals in Nederland ja . wand ja niet iedereen is een politiek vluchteling . eh sterker nog haast niemand . .
en Israel is geen toe Vlugst oord , zou een lekker zooitje worden zeg.
en waar lees je dat ze na het weg stuuren in handen vallen van de hamas .
lees nog eens goed .voor dat je jou eigen visie weer eens neer gooi . Toda.

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Iran calls US, UK, Zionists ominous triangle of terrorism, warmongering
12-28-2010

ISNA - Tehran
Service: Foreign Policy

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi called the US, Britain and Zionist regime the ominous triangle of terrorism and warmongering in the world.

He also criticized recent anti-Iranian remarks of British and the US defense ministers who have visited regional countries recently to create discord and said, "successive trips of the US military officials to regional countries and their belligerent remarks clearly reveal their plots to plunder sources and wealth of regional nations."

He warned that the US and America would face a fate even worse than those of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hossein if they do not make a change in their attitude.

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Op woensdag 29 december 2010 19:49 schreef sneeuwvrouw het volgende:

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Dat kan alleen maar een dreigement met atoomwapens zijn anders kan zo een achtergesteld land geen bedreiging zijn voor US of America.
Ze zijn nog dom ook US een America zijn hetzelfde wat een dombo