7 Palestinians, including 3 children, killed and 52 injured.

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Funerals in Gaza as Israel announces it may be escalating this madness. As per usual mainstream narrative Israel acts 'in response', but who started this latest round of violence and when?

This summary from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights gives details on all that have been killed so far, and clarifies that this recent round of violence began when 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was killed on Thursday:

Over the past 72 hours, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated their aerial and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip. Five Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, have been killed, and 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded. Four of these deaths and 38 of the injuries resulted from an Israeli attack on a football playground in al-Shoja’iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Additionally, 2 members of the Palestinian resistance were killed, and some civilian facilities were destroyed or damaged.

According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 15:30 on Saturday, 10 November 2012, Israeli military vehicles stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at a number of Palestinian children who were playing football at al-Mentar Hill east of al-Shoja’iya neighborhood, which is east of Gaza City and nearly 1,500 meters away from the border. As a result, 2 children were instantly killed:

1- Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16); and

2- Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).

Following this attack, a number of Palestinian civilians, who were in the consolation house of the Harara family, rushed to the area, where the IOF immediately fired another 3 shells. As a result, 2 Palestinian civilians were instantly killed:

1- Ahmed Kamel Al- Dirdissawi (18); and

2- Matar ‘Emad ‘Abdul Rahman Abu al-‘Ata (19).

Additionally, 38 civilians, including 8 children, were wounded; the wounding of 10 of these civilians was described by medical crews as being serious.

Earlier, on Thursday evening, 08 November 2012, the IOF killed a Palestinian child during an incursion in the ‘Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 16:30 on Thursday, as a result of the indiscriminate shooting by IOF military vehicles that had moved into the ‘Abassan village, 13-year-old Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen. At the time he was shot, Ahmed had been playing football with his friends in front of his family’s house, located nearly 1,200 meters away from the area where the IOF were present. He was evacuated to the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, but he was pronounced dead 15 minutes later.

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Hamid Younis Abu Daqqa died after Israeli forces targeted houses and farms east of Khan Younis, according to Ashraf al-Qidra, a medical spokesman in Gaza.

Medics said the boy was hit by machine gun fire, either from Israeli helicopters or tanks that took part in the incident.

Israeli military vehicles briefly penetrated the southern Gaza Strip earlier Thursday morning, leading to clashes with Palestinian militants.

The Popular Resistance Committees said its gunmen had confronted an Israeli force of four tanks and a bulldozer involved in a short-range incursion beyond Israel's border fence with the Gaza Strip.

"Terrorists opened fire at IDF (Israeli army) soldiers while they were performing routine activity adjacent to the security fence," an Israeli military spokeswoman said in Jerusalem. She said reports of Palestinians injuries were being checked.

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Abu Daqqa's funeral was Friday the ninth:



Funeral of Hamid Younis Abu Daqqa, shot the day before by the Israeli army with a machine gun from an helicopter, in 'Abassan al Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, gaza Strip, November 9, 2012. (Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

And now there are reports that Israel may escalate as Hamas joins Gaza clashes with a possible ground invasion into Gaza. We will continue to update the story as more information becomes available.

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De Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Avigdor Lieberman waarschuwt de Palestijnen voor 'harde en ernstige gevolgen' wanneer zij hun plannen doorzetten om volgende week aan de Verenigde Naties (VN) erkenning te vragen voor een Palestijnse staat.

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The Palestinian Authority risks retaliation from Israel and the United States if it goes ahead with a planned vote in the United Nations General Assembly by the end of the month to have Palestine become a UN observer state.

Such a designation would give Palestine the right to control its airspace and territorial waters and to press charges against Israelis before the International Criminal Court.

As 132 nations having already recognised Palestine as a sovereign state, with some having exchanged ambassadors with Palestine, a simple majority vote of 97 countries is certain in the 193-nation Assembly, where the United States does not have veto power as it does with matters before the UN Security Council.

Israel and the United States appear determined to punish Palestine if it goes ahead with the vote.
Israeli officials say the Palestinians stand to lose US$100 million (Dh367m) a month in tax revenue. "If the Palestinians continue to advance their unilateral move they should not expect bilateral cooperation," Israel's finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, told a town-hall meeting in Beersheba, Israel on Saturday. "We will not collect their taxes for them and we will not transfer their tax revenues."
The US Congress has threatened to cut off $500m in security and economic aid to Palestine if it becomes an observer state. Congress cut off funding last year to Unesco, the UN's cultural agency, when it accepted Palestine as a member.

The Palestinians would have to look for alternative funding, either from Europe, oil-rich Gulf nations or elsewhere if it calls the vote and the Israeli and American threats are realised.
Mohammed Shtayeh, a senior Fatah official, told reporters in Ramallah yesterday that the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which Fatah controls and which is leading the UN effort, would not back down from pressure exerted by the US and Israel.

"The train has left the station," Mr Shtayeh said. "We will ask members of the General Assembly to vote on a resolution no later than the 29th of November."
Arab states, Mr Shtayeh said, were prepared to provide the West Bank's Palestinian Authority (PA), which suffers from a deepening financial crisis, $100m a month in emergency support in case of punitive measures imposed by other countries.

Mr Shtayeh said the "most important thing we intend to achieve" with the UN bid is a two-state solution. It would also create "new terms of reference" for any future peace negotiations with Israel that would replace any previous ones - such as the road map introduced by the United States in 2002 - with "international law" and the backing of the UN.

"We consider this a peaceful means through a multilateral forum," Mr Shtayeh said. "No one can claim the UN is an umbrella for war."

Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, has denounced the proposed vote as a "unilateral action" that would undermine the chances to revive Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at achieving US and Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state.

But the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas, believes that becoming a UN non-member state would spur a resumption of talks with Israel.

Mr Abbas would not oppose future peace talks with Israel as long as they were no longer "humiliating", Mr Shtayeh said.

Israel had to commit to a full freeze on settlement construction and agree to use the boundaries that prevailed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war as a basis for negotiating the contours of a Palestinian state, he said.

As an observer state in the UN, Palestine could participate in Assembly debates, but could not vote, sponsor resolutions or field candidates for Assembly committees. But more importantly, the observer status would allow Palestine to accede to treaties and join specialised UN agencies, such as the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Criminal Court, officials said.

If Palestine joins the Law of the Sea Treaty it would gain control of its national waters off Gaza, a highly contentious move as those waters are currently under an Israeli naval blockade. The Palestinians could then theoretically challenge the Israeli blockade at the International Court of Justice as well as dispute Israel's claim on a gasfield off Gaza.

Even more troubling for Israel and the US would be Palestine joining the International Criminal Court. Liechtenstein's UN ambassador, Christian Wenaweser, president of ICC Assembly of State Parties, said in an interview a Palestine observer state could join the ICC and ask the court to investigate any alleged war crimes Israel committed on Palestinian territory after July 2002, including Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead war against Gaza that killed 1,400 Palestinians.

Faced with the American and Israeli threats, the Palestinians, however, could still back down, diplomats say. Last year, Palestinian leaders withdrew a bid to become a full UN member after the US said it would veto the move in the UN Security Council.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:10 schreef De_Guidance het volgende:
Volgens onze kersverse MinBuza is het alleen zielig voor Israël.

http://www.nu.nl/politiek(...)eld-vanuit-gaza.html

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:19 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:

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Dat durf ik niet te zeggen en dat zou ook veroordeelt moeten worden. Het liefst eens met sancties als Israël zich echt zo slecht zou gedragen.

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Wat ik er van begrijp is dat de VS niet tegen een 2 staten oplossing zijn, alleen tegen het doorduwen wat de Palestijnen nu doen.

Die zullen dan ongetwijfeld zeggen dat Israël en de VS lopen te rekken om verder nederzettingen te bouwen en dat het als het aan hun ligt nooit zal gebeuren, maar dat is niet wat de VS op dit moment zeggen.

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Natuurlijk niet. Maar de financiële sancties kan ik op zich wel inkomen en dat is ook helemaal niet ongebruikelijk of expliciet tegen Palestijnen gericht.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:20 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Wat vooraf ging aan Israelische aanvallen:

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:30 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Hamas is tegen die aanvraag vriend omdat Fatah het doet en niet Hamas.
Daarnaast voeren splinterbewegingen deze aanvallen uit op Israel en niet Hamas.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:29 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:

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Waarschijnlijk omdat het niet zo simpel is als het lijkt.

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Te idioot voor woorden inderdaad, als hij het zo bedoeld als er hier staat en al helemaal als het ook gebeurd (wat ik betwijfel), maar wat was de context van deze uitspraak?

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De Palestijnen zijn uit op een 'ongekend bloedbad' wanneer ze volgende maand de VN gaan vragen om erkenning van de Palestijnse onafhankelijkheid. Dat meent althans de Israëlische minister van buitenlandse zaken Avigdor Lieberman. Hij spoort Israël dan ook aan om de banden met de Palestijnse regering rap te verbreken.

"Ze zeggen dat ze geen geweld willen gebruiken, maar de Palestijnse Autoriteit is uit op ongekend bloedvergieten", aldus de woordvoerder van Lieberman. "Ze gaan een golf van mensen sturen om wegversperringen te bestormen. Israël zou alle banden moeten doorsnijden."

Lieberman heeft verder geen enkel bewijs voor zijn beschuldiging, maar volgens zijn woordvoerder baseert hij zich op informatie van de inlichtingendiensten en openbare verklaringen van Palestijnse regeringsfunctionarissen.

Uit een rapport van het Israëlische parlement dat vorige week het opdook bleek nog dat een geweldsuitbarsting niet heel waarschijnlijk is, de Palestijnen zouden dat eerder als contraproductief beschouwen.

http://www.spitsnieuws.nl(...)op-ongekend-bloedbad

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Wat er ook vaak gebeurt namelijk is het expres misquoten van een politicus, bijvoorbeeld iemand zegt: Als de staat erkent wordt kunnen we de havens niet meer dichthouden. Hierdoor zijn er meer wapens in Gaza kunnen komen. Als deze gebruikt worden tegen Israël zal dit een bloedbad kunnen betekenen want wij zullen onze grenzen verdedigen.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2012 09:53 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Als het ook maar iets te maken heeft met die aanvraag is het niet echt logisch om Hamas aan te vallen, ik reageer slechts op wat jij zegt, de splinterbewegingen laten zien dat Hamas bijna niet Gaza kan controleren. De reden dat deze aanvallen worden uitgevoerd is vanwege die machtsstrijd in Gaza en ik denk dat Israel het weinig uitmaakt of de ene fundamentalistische beweging is of de ander en daar reageert Israel op.

Als die groepen ophouden met aanvallen houdt Israel ook op.
Zo simpel is het eigenlijk haha.

Het is vrij duidelijk waarom het gebeurt en dat heb ik je laten zien.
Het heeft niets met die hele aanvraag te maken.

http://www.idfblog.com/20(...)-in-golan-heights-2/

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