Video Update: IAF Strike On Rocket Launch Pad Hidden In Family Housing Tract – Egypt Sides With Israel!
Dec 28, 2008 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
** VIDEO UPDATE:
Israeli Jet Destroys Rocket Launching Pad Purposely Located in Residential Area
Might be nice if just once the world and the f-ng useless UN would call on Hamas to stop the violence …
The Israel Ministry Of Foreign Defense has bird’s-eye views of the key Hamas terror infrastructure target areas struck. Well worth checking out if you are seriously following this story.
It is also being reported that in the breakdown of the number of dead being reported by the MSM … upwards of 94% of them were/are … terrorists. Now THAT’s a “surgical strike” …
Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs:
Egyptian Foreign Minister lays blame for fighting squarely on Hamas
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit harshly censured Hamas today (27 Dec), placing responsibility for the current situation on Hamas. At a noon press conference broadcast on Egyptian television, he said that Egypt had repeatedly cautioned against continuing the situation and that whoever did not listen (Hamas) should assume responsibility and not blame others. He added that Israel had publicly warned that continued rocket fire would lead to military action. Prime Minister Olmert said just two days ago in an Al Arabiya TV interview that if Hamas did not stop the rocket fire, Israel would respond militarily. The Egyptian foreign minister added angrily that right before Foreign Minister Livni’s arrival in Egypt on Thursday, 60 rockets were fired, meant to foil Egypt’s efforts to achieve quiet.
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Russia asks Israel to end Gaza attacks, let in aid
MOSCOW, Dec 28 – Russia urged Israel on Sunday to end military attacks that had killed nearly 300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and allow humanitarian supplies into the territory, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov conveyed Moscow’s position during a telephone conversation with Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni held at her initiative, the ministry said in a statement.
“Our side expressed Russia’s position in favour of an immediate end to military actions in the Gaza Strip, which have already led to numerous victims among the Palestinians,” the statement said.
“It was underlined that it is necessary to restore the regime of ceasefire, which would ensure the security of the civilian population in Israel’s south. Russia stressed the importance of letting humanitarian cargo into Gaza.”
On Sunday, Israel destroyed Hamas’s main Gaza security complex in an air strike on the territory run by the Islamist Hamas group.
Israel is also preparing for a possible invasion of the Gaza Strip after killing more than 280 Palestinians in the first 24 hours of a powerful offensive.
Israeli leaders said the campaign was a response to almost daily cross-border rocket and mortar fire that intensified after Hamas ended a six-month ceasefire a week ago.
(Reuters)
U.N. Calls on Israel, Palestinians to End Violence
UNITED NATIONS  The U.N. Security Council early Sunday expressed serious concern at the escalating situation in Gaza and called on Israel and the Palestinians to immediately halt all violence.
Libya, on behalf of Arab nations, called the late night council meeting after Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Gaza on Saturday and early Sunday, killing at least 230 people. Israel said the bombardment  one of the Mideast’s bloodiest assaults in decades  was aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Gaza that have traumatized southern Israel.
The statement issued by the council after more than four hours of emergency consultations behind closed doors made no reference to either the Israeli bombings or the rocket attacks by Hamas militants.
Instead, “the members of the Security Council expressed serious concern at the escalation of the situation in Gaza and called for an immediate halt to all violence. The members called on the parties to stop immediately all military activities.”
The council also stressed the need for the restoration of “calm in full”  diplomatic language for the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s Islamic Hamas rulers that ended last week. It said a new cease-fire would open the way for a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Without mentioning Israel by name, council members also called for the parties “to address the serious humanitarian and economic needs in Gaza,” including by opening border crossings, to ensure a continuous supply of food and fuel as well as medical treatment.
Israel has maintained a strict blockade of Gaza since the rocket fire resumed more than six weeks ago, allowing only small quantities of essential goods and fuel into the Palestinian territory.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. observer, said the Palestinians and their international supporters would return to the Security Council if Israel did not stop the attacks.
“We will be waiting tomorrow to see if Israel (is going) to comply with the position of the Security Council  to stop their aggression and attacks by honoring and respecting the cease-fire call,” said Mansour. “We hope that that will be the case.”
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said Israel had “no choice but to go on a military operation” in the face of rocket attacks, and said only Hamas was to blame.
“Israel wants peace,” Shalev said. “We wait and see if the Hamas is really going to abide by the … statement of the Security Council, and we’ll draw the conclusions.”
U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Israel’s closest ally on the Security Council, urged all parties to end violence and address the humanitarian needs of the people of Gaza.
“We believe the way forward from here is for rocket attacks against Israel to stop, for all violence to end,” Khalilzad said.
He said the long-term answer was to create a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel.
The final text of the statement, drafted by Russia, dropped initial references to numerous Palestinian deaths, including among civilians. The statement reflects the views of the U.N.’s most powerful body.
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the council had sent a message to try to stop the situation from “slipping into the vicious circle of violence once again.”
(AP)
Meanwhile, Amydidherdad and Iran can’t keep their filthy mouths shut, considering they are partly responsible for the Hamas problem, and call for more violence from the bastards who would kill everyone and blow up the world just for 72 FUGLY virgins …
Protesters demonstrate against Israel’s attack on Gaza, on the streets of Khartoum December 28, 2008.
Iran leader orders Muslims to defend Palestinians
TEHRAN, Dec 28 – Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians in Gaza against Israeli attacks “in any way possible”, state television reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also declared Monday a day of public mourning in Iran after Israel killed more than 280 Palestinians in two days of air strikes on Gaza.
“All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenceless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible,” Khamenei said.
“Whoever is killed in this legitimate defence, is considered a martyr,” he said in a statement.
A religious decree is an official statement by a ranking religious leader that commands Muslims to carry out its message. While there is no religious and legal force behind it, Khamenei is respected by many Iranian and non-Iranian Shi’ites.
Iran refuses to recognise Israel, which accuses Tehran of supplying Hamas Islamists with weapons. Iran denies the claim, saying it only provides moral support to the group.
Israeli leaders said their campaign was a response to almost daily rocket and mortar fire by Gaza militants that intensified after Hamas ended a six-month ceasefire a week ago.
Khamenei criticised some Arab governments for their lack of response towards the Israeli raids.
“The even greater catastrophe is the encouraging silence of some Arab governments who claim to be Islamic,” he said, also accusing the West of being indifferent to the killing of Palestinians.
Khamenei, Iran’s most powerful authority, urged Muslim countries to punish Israeli leaders.
“The officials of this regime … should be tried and punished for this crime by Islamic governments.”
Khamenei’s remarks were interpreted by some oil traders as a hint that Iran was calling on oil-producing Arab countries to disrupt energy shipments to Israel.
The West accuses Iran of covertly trying to build nuclear bomb, a charge rejected by Tehran.
But Israel’s insistence that the Islamic state must not be allowed to develop atomic weapons has fuelled speculation that the Jewish state, widely assumed to have the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal, could mount its own pre-emptive strike.
Various protests were held in Tehran on Sunday, including one by Iranian lawmakers chanting “Death to Israel”.
Iran is ready to receive Palestinians wounded in the raids, foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said.
Tehran denounced Israel’s attacks as “unforgivable” on Saturday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the raids showed Israel’s “weakness”.
(Reuters)
