PNA urges for international intervention to stop Israel's escalation in Gaza

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PNA urges for international intervention to stop Israel's escalation in Gaza
English.news.cn 2011-08-20 03:39:33



GAZA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian National Authority ( PNA) in Ramallah decried Friday the ongoing Israeli attack on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, calling for an international intervention to stop the Israeli escalation against the impoverished territory.

"This is a blatant violation of international laws and norms and a collective punishment of the people of Gaza," the PNA's ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.

It also said Israel's preplanned attacks were meant to escape the internal Israeli crisis as well as to undermine the Palestinian plan to get a statehood recognition from the United Nations in September.

"The international community needs to move swiftly to provide the Palestinian people with protection. The world can not stay silent anymore," said the statement.

At least nine Palestinians, including two children, were killed and around 35 others were injured since Israel stepped up its air strikes against Gaza Thursday.

Israel mounted its attacks on Gaza shortly after accusing Palestinian activists of taking part in deadly shootings and blasts in the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel where eight Israelis were killed.

None of the Palestinian armed groups, including the Hamas movement which rules Gaza, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Editor: Mu Xuequan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/20/c_131062142.htm

[Aspiring Humanist]

Why does the world community not recognize the hypocrisy of sending an international coalition to stop Gaddafi from "killing his own citizens" but turn a blind eye to Israel which over the years has killed many more times more civilians than Gaddafi?

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Barghouti: Domestic Israeli politics behind Gaza escalation
Published today 13:26



RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The escalation in violence by Israel against the Gaza Strip was planned in advance by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, a Palestinian lawmaker alleged Saturday.

Mustafa Barghouti said Israel "planned for the attack on the Gaza Strip to escape a social crisis, which Israel is currently going through, and from a political crisis with the United States."

Now is the time for Palestinians to complete a factional reconciliation agreement signed earlier this summer in Cairo, said Barghouti, a former information minister and presidential candidate.

Palestinians should unite in order to campaign for sanctions against Israel, he said.

In Ramallah, meanwhile, a few dozen Palestinians in Manara Square condemned the continued operations in Gaza, which have killed 14 people since a deadly series of attacks in Israel on Thursday.

Protesters carried Palestinian flags and banners demanding that the international community intervene to stop the attacks and Israel's "crimes against the Palestinian people in the Strip."

The demonstrators also called for wrapping up the unity deal, which was signed in May.
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Spokesman: Fatah will be first to defend Gaza
Published today (updated) 20/08/2011 17:06

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) – Fatah said Saturday it would be in the forefront of the forces defending the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by all means, calling upon other factions to unite in order to face Israel’s aggression and to implement a reconciliation agreement.

"The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip is institutionalized and plotted early," said Fatah spokesperson Fayiz Abu Aita.

"The catalyst behind this is for the Israeli government to get past its political crisis, and to thwart the Palestinian reconciliation agreement,"
Abu Aita said in a statement.

He reiterated that the Palestinian Authority would go ahead with its political struggle against occupation at an international level.

“The pure Palestinian blood being shed in the beloved Gaza Strip requires that we all fight a battle united against occupation,” he added.

Fatah's leadership in Gaza, meanwhile, condemned the attacks and described Israel's ongoing operations as a "massacre against children, women and the elderly."

Fatah leader Abdullah Abu Samhadana said the "aggression will drag the region to an explosion."

He stressed that Benjamin Netanyahu's government was escalating violance "after seeing an opportunity to escape from its internal crises, especially with the growing protest movement."

He added that "the occupation seeks to export this crisis" to Gaza.

Expect similar events up until September, when Netanyahu will use security concerns as a pretext to stop the Ramallah leadership's drive for recognition of statehood at the UN, he added.

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MENA: Israel entered Egypt, committed violations
Published today (updated) 20/08/2011 17:13
CAIRO (AFP) -- A monitoring force stationed in the Sinai in keeping with the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel said Israel violated it when its troops entered Egyptian territory and fired on security personnel, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. ......
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