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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Wednesday afternoon, Israel launched a wide-scale attack on the densely-populated Palestinian Gaza Strip. In a scene reminiscent of the start of the December 2008 War on Gaza, in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed, Israeli fighter jets struck over 500 targets in the besieged Strip in the course of 48 hours, killing 21 Palestinians and wounding at least 235. Retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza killed four Israelis. Air raids have continued for a third consecutive day.
Al-Akhbar will continue to post live updates on the situation in Gaza.
Summary:
■ Hamas military chief Ahmad Jaabari and Ahmad al-Zahar, the brother of Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar, were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
■ Israeli fighter jets have reportedly made 500 aerial attacks on Gaza since Wednesday afternoon
■ Retaliatory rockets from the Gaza Strip struck Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time; as well as Beersheba, Ashkol and Dimona, home to Israel's main nuclear power plant.
■ 21 Palestinians have been killed and at least 235 have been injured
■ Four Israelis were killed when a Grad rocket from Gaza hit an apartment building in Kiryat Malachi
Published Friday, November 16, 2012
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah Thursday called on all Arab and Muslim countries to use all means possible to stop Israel’s vicious assault on the Gaza Strip, including raising oil prices.
Nasrallah urged Arab nations to suspend relations with Israel and the US, saying the only solution is for the world to pressure the United States, which will press Israel to end its blockade on Gaza.
He advocated the use of financial levers such as limiting oil production to push the West into stripping Israel of economic and political support.
"Some say the Arabs don't have the courage to stop oil production," he said.
"Decrease your oil exports … you will shake the United States, you will shake Europe ...Put on some pressure. No one is calling for armies or tanks or planes."
The Hezbollah leader also hailed the firing of long-range rockets from Gaza into Israel as a “very significant development” for the Palestinian struggle.
"The firing of Fajr 5 rockets on Tel Aviv today shows the maturation, the wisdom and strength, and the courage of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip," Nasrallah said. He added that Israel had not expected retaliatory fire on Tel Aviv, the Jewish state’s economic center.
He reaffirmed solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, saying "we in Lebanon are concerned about events in Gaza, because this is not only the battle of Gaza but of all of us."
(Al-Akhbar)
Originally posted by thorfourwinds
"Some say the Arabs don't have the courage to stop oil production," he said.
"Decrease your oil exports … you will shake the United States, you will shake Europe ...Put on some pressure. No one is calling for armies or tanks or planes."
The Hezbollah leader also hailed the firing of long-range rockets from Gaza into Israel as a “very significant development” for the Palestinian struggle.
"The firing of Fajr 5 rockets on Tel Aviv today shows the maturation, the wisdom and strength, and the courage of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip," Nasrallah said. He added that Israel had not expected retaliatory fire on Tel Aviv, the Jewish state’s economic center.
He reaffirmed solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, saying "we in Lebanon are concerned about events in Gaza, because this is not only the battle of Gaza but of all of us."
(Al-Akhbar)
Originally posted by thorfourwinds
Evidently, BBC is now in touch with Harry and going to put him on...
Ben Brown of BBC will interview
www.bbc.co.uk...
Palestinians now looking for pilots of F-16 downed...
edit on 16/11/2012 by thorfourwinds because: going live
Originally posted by sueloujo
There was this one from CNN (not harry)
mashable.com...
And this one with harry
www.youtube.com...
On November 15th the BBC finally ventured out and made its way to the region of Israel under rocket fire. In this interview, which appears to have been broadcast on television news, the BBC’s Ben Brown interviews an officer from the Home Front Command about the tragic incident in which three people were killed in Kiryat Malachi by a direct missile hit on an apartment block.
But Ben Brown’s interest in Israelis killed, injured or constantly menaced by rocket attacks soon wanes. Only one minute and 45 seconds into the interview, he launches into the following diatribe:
“I mean people are clearly terrified here – you can’t blame them – erm –but people equally, Palestinians, are terrified inside Gaza when they see your war planes coming in carrying out air-strikes and killing people. We know that the Hamas military leader was killed yesterday, but there were children killed as well.”
There’s ‘BBC reporting from Israel’ for you.
But Ben Brown wasn’t the only BBC journalist in Kiryat Malachi that day. Yolande Knell of the BBC Jerusalem Bureau was also there, although BBC Radio 4 did appear to think she was somewhere else as its ‘Today’ programme presenter described her as being “on the Israeli – Gaza border” – which is in fact some 33 kilometers away from Kiryat Malachi.
But that report from Israel – which can be listened to here – did not shed much light on what it is like for Israeli civilians under rocket fire either. In fact it rapidly turned into yet another BBC story about a BBC journalist: a report on Yolande Knell under incoming rocket fire.
Knell’s description of the ‘Colour Red’ alert is bizarre to say the least for a woman whose profession deals with words: [emphasis added]
“..the sirens sort of usually indicate that there are rockets coming in from Gaza..”
During part of Operation Cast Lead in 2009 I happened to be in the UK and of course followed the news on the BBC closely. I often remarked then that any BBC viewer who is not familiar with Israel must believe that only politicians, government spokesmen and army personnel live there – because I never saw an ordinary Israeli citizen interviewed by the BBC.
Old habits seem to die hard: two BBC reports from a town in which three people were killed only hours earlier and not one ordinary Israeli voice is given air-time.
Can you just imagine how confused the animals are in the area? (