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An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that aircraft had "attacked three terrorist sites in the Gaza Strip as well as an arms factory in the south of the territory".
A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip late on Wednesday at an area near Ashdod in southern Israel, without causing any casualties, a military spokeswoman said earlier.
The firing of the Grad rocket and the subsequent air raids were the first incidents since Israel and Hamas reached an agreement last week under which Israel agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for its captured soldier Gilad Shalit.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Hmmm
They fired 1 rocket, and Israel does 3 air raids...........interesting......
Youd think with those odds Hamas would get the picture...........
Originally posted by Awen24
define "occupation"?
I don't understand how people continue to argue that Gaza and the West Bank are occupied... when Israel unilaterally withdrew...?
The action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force
- the Roman occupation of Britain
- the Nazi occupation
Yet in contrast, the Israelis are not in Gaza at all.
Originally posted by randomname
reply to post by Awen24
germans weren't in every little city, town and farm in france, but no one denies the germans occupied france.
they're just in the outskirts in gaza
and the armed forts and outposts that they call "settlements" that dot the west bank landscape are backed by the full might of the israeli military and are illegally occupying palestinian land.
not to mention when they kick out hundreds of palestinians in the arab parts of jerusalem, bull doze their homes, then construct houses in which only israeli's can live in and own, is a violation of basic human dignity and rights.
it's no different than the south african whites did to black people in johannesburg. so keep waving your israel is the best flag.
This is where you differ. You claim this to be Palestinean land. The Israelis do not. This, despite being a point of contention, does not amount to occupation.
Originally posted by backinblack
Will be interesting to see if they claim responsibility for the rocket launch..
This is where you differ. You claim this to be Palestinean land. The Israelis do not. This, despite being a point of contention, does not amount to occupation.
The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. They consist of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and much of the Golan Heights and, until 1982, the Sinai Peninsula. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are also referred to as the Palestinian territories or Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Palestinian Authority, the EU,[1] and the UN Security Council[2] consider East Jerusalem to be part of the West Bank, a position disputed by Israel. Israel has annexed East Jerusalem by the Jerusalem Law. Israel prefers the term "disputed territories" in the case of the West Bank.[3][4]
The Israeli position is that Gaza is no longer occupied, inasmuch as Israel does not exercise effective control or authority over any land or institutions in the Gaza Strip.[31][32] Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel Tzipi Livni stated in January, 2008: “Israel got out of Gaza. It dismantled its settlements there. No Israeli soldiers were left there after the disengagement.”[33] Israel also notes that Gaza does not belong to any sovereign state. Immediately after Israel withdrew in 2005, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated, "the legal status of the areas slated for evacuation has not changed."[31] Human Rights Watch also contested that this ended the occupation.[34][35] The United Nations, Human Rights Watch and many other international bodies and NGOs continues to consider Israel to be the occupying power of the Gaza Strip as Israel controls Gaza Strip's airspace, territorial waters and controls the movement of people or goods in or out of Gaza by air or sea.[9][10][11]
it's time the USA removed them 200 illegal nukes you gave these religious nut jobs because a time might come where you loss control
There are disagreements over what the Palestinian territories should be called.
The United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the European Union, International Committee of the Red Cross and the government of the United Kingdom all refer to the "Occupied Palestinian Territories"
But I guess we should all just listen to what a few Israelis think instead.