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  • Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
     OP - July 02, 2014, 07:13 AM

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    The Israeli air force has launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip, hours after the bodies of three settlers were found in the occupied West Bank.

    The Israeli military said it launched 34 raids in the early hours of Tuesday, in response to 20 rockets fired into Israel from the strip.

    A Palestinian was also shot dead on Tuesday in an Israeli operation in Jenin, in the West Bank. The Israeli military said the dead man was a member of Hamas and was attempting to throw a grenade, although this information cannot be independently verified.

    The attacks came hours after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, promised that the Gaza-based group Hamas "will pay" after the discovery of the young settlers' bodies near the West Bank village of Halhoul on Monday.

    They disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking home from a religious school in Kfar Etzion, an illegal settlement between Bethlehem and Hebron, and were last heard in a brief emergency call to police.


    Their disappearance set off the largest military operation in the West Bank since the end of the second Intifada. More than 400 Palestinians were arrested in the 18-day search, thousands of homes raided and five people killed by Israeli gunfire.

    Hamas blamed

    On Monday night Israel demolished the homes of Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha, two Hebron-area residents who the Israeli government has named as suspects.

    The use of punitive demolitions revived a practice that was almost entirely discontinued in 2005.

    The Israeli security cabinet also held an emergency meeting on Monday night, which ended with no major decisions on further actions, according to a government source. The cabinet will reconvene on Tuesday.

    Some politicians have called for harsher steps against Hamas, including targeted assassinations. "I don’t know how many leaders of Hamas will remain alive after tonight," said Tzachi Hanegbi, the deputy foreign minister.

    The group dismissed the accusations in a statement, calling them propaganda.

    "The (Israeli) occupation's accusations against us deserve no comment, because the problem is with the occupation which continues its crimes and escalation," Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, told Al Jazeera.

    "The occupation shoulders the responsibility for any escalation."

    The PLO's Hanan Ashrawi told Al Jazeera that the "Israeli escalation already took place, and now they have an excuse of further escalation."

    Tuesday's events prompted the United Nations' human rights office to urge Israelis and Palestinians to "exercise maximum restraint and to prevent the situation from worsening further".

    "We reiterate our call for strict adherence to international law by all relevant actors to avoid further loss of life, injuries and negative impact on human rights," UN human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in Geneva.

    "We urge all parties to refrain from punishing individuals for offences they have not personally committed or by imposing collective penalties."

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/israel-bombs-gaza-after-settler-bodies-found-20147171631852351.html

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    More than 400 Palestinians were arrested in the 18-day search, thousands of homes raided and five people killed by Israeli gunfire.

    aaaaand there goes any sympathy I had.

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  • Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
     Reply #1 - July 02, 2014, 07:53 AM

    From Jerusalem Post

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    Arab youth found dead in Jerusalem forest, kidnapping suspected

    Authorities looking into links to kidnapping report; police investigating nationalistic, criminal motives of murder; riots break out in Beit Hanina.

    The body of an Arab youth was found in the Jerusalem Forest near a gas station on Wednesday morning, following police reports of a kidnapping in the area of Beit Hanina.

    Though the cause of death was yet unknown, police stated that they were looking into connections between the body found and the reported kidnapping.
    The young man was reportedly a 16-year-old from Shuafat.

    Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that authorities received reports of a possible kidnapping early on Wednesday morning and that after finding the body, police were looking into two possible motives for the murder: criminal or nationalistic.

    "Police forensics teams are examining the body in the forest to search for evidence of who may have done this," said Rosenfeld.

    Meanwhile, Rosenfeld said since word of the murder spread, police have been dispatched to Beit Hanina to deal with rioting by area residents.

    Police have also erected roadblocks in the vicinity and security has been heightened in the Jerusalem area with additional police forces having been called to the area.

    Police were investigating clan conflicts in Beit Hanina and previous attempts to carry out a kidnapping against the same family to which the murdered Arab boy belonged.

    Police were also probing nationalistic motives related to revenge for the recent kidnapping and murder of Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, the three Israeli teens who were laid to rest on Tuesday after terrorists kidnapped and murdered them two-and-a-half weeks ago.


    In a statement issued by the Jerusalem Municipality Wednesday morning, Mayor Nir Barkat condemned the "horrible and barbaric" murder.

    "This is not our way and I am fully confident that our security forces will bring the perpetrators to justice. I call on everyone to exercise restraint," Barkat said.

    Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel also came out harshly against the killing of the youth.

    "The murder of a young man and burning his body is a disgusting act. I hope police uses all means to find the murderers as quickly as possibly and to bring them to justice," he said.


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  • Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
     Reply #2 - July 02, 2014, 08:10 AM

    I found this article at Al-Monitor interesting:

    Only partially copied here as I get an "Internal Server Error" when posting beyond what is below, so read it at the link above.

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    Accused kidnappers are rogue Hamas branch

    On June 26, the Shin Bet allowed the release of the names of the two men suspected of orchestrating the kidnapping of the three yeshiva (religious high school) students in the Etzion settlement bloc. The suspects are Marwan Qawasmeh and Amar Abu Aisha.

    According to Palestinian sources, Palestinian security forces had already reported to Israel that these two suspects had disappeared from Hebron within 24 hours of the abduction. That was the first clue in the investigation and the reason why Israel pointed an accusatory finger at the Hamas infrastructure in Hebron. But while Israel continues to accuse the Hamas movement and its leadership of being responsible for the abduction, Palestinian security forces attribute the abduction to the Qawasmeh clan of Hebron specifically. Though the clan is known for identifying with Hamas, it also has a well-earned reputation as troublemakers. Not only does it tend to ignore the movement's leaders. It even acts counter to the policies being advocated by the movement.

    That is why officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA) were shocked by the timing of the three boys'abduction, just two weeks after the establishment of a Palestinian unity government. After all, the very creation of this new coalition came with the assumption that the Hamas leadership had come to terms with reality and moderated their positions.

    Enter the Qawasmeh clan. The total number of people belonging to the clan is estimated at about 10,000, making it one of the three largest clans in the Mount Hebron region. At least 15 members of the family were killed during the second intifada, nine of them while committing suicide attacks against Israel. All of the terrorists lived in the Abu Qatila neighborhood, within a radius of less than 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) from one another. Whenever the head of the terrorist organization within the clan was assassinated or arrested by Israel, one of his brothers or cousins was selected to replace him.

    For instance, when the head of the group, Abdullah Qawasmeh, was assassinated during the second intifada, he was succeeded by his cousin Basel Qawasmeh. When Basel was assassinated by Israel, the person selected to succeed him was Imad Qawasmeh, who was apprehended by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in October 2003.

    Marwan Qawasmeh, the man behind the abduction, emerged as a dominant figure in the clan after Israel arrested Imad Qawasmeh and sentenced him to life in prison.

    Each time Hamas had reached an understanding with Israel about a cease-fire or tahadiyeh (period of calm), at least one member of the family has been responsible for planning or initiating a suicide attack, and any understandings with Israel, achieved after considerable effort, were suddenly laid waste. If there is a single family throughout the PA territories whose actions can be blamed for Israel's assassination of the political leadership of Hamas, it is the Qawasmeh family of Hebron.



    If true, that clan surely seem to be troublemakers.

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  • Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
     Reply #3 - July 02, 2014, 08:11 AM

    test

     Huh?

    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Israel bombs Gaza after settlers found killed
     Reply #4 - July 02, 2014, 08:13 AM

    Got some issues posting - keep getting a server error so I am posting the article in bits - screwing up the encoding finmad

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