That fire polished
taken from TV that looks like a harmless
of fireworks, it all seems
a party, and those clusters
falling on the ground, a death that rains from the sky
almost like a game,
images terrible
ruthless, and these mothers
tired, hungry
,
they do not have the bunkers to hide, it is easy and cowardly
overwhelm the poor brother ...
close Gaza by Israeli forces. UN: Nowhere is safe
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 22:26 by Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - The most senior commander of troops Israel said there was still "work to do" in the eighteenth day of an offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The number of Palestinian deaths rose to 971, said the health ministry, speaking to 400 women and children among the victims. The chief UN adviser in the Gaza appealed to the international community calling for the protection of civilians in Gaza, saying that the territory inhabited by a million and half people there is nowhere that is safe, before a conflict became "a test of our humanity."
"All the people, the first thing and last thing I say is: please we need protection, not you're safe anywhere, "said John Ging, head of UN relief operations in a videoconference to reporters in Geneva.
According to Israel's 10 soldiers and three civilians were killed by Hamas rockets.
Israeli forces have strengthened their grip on the outskirts of Gaza City.
The sound of explosions echoed in Gaza City, a city of 500,000 inhabitants, after Israeli tanks came closer and closer without getting in its densely populated center, refer residents.
Health workers have said that 12 Palestinian militants, some of them members of Hamas, were killed in clashes this morning.
Hamas said its forces have detonated explosives under Israeli armored vehicles and fought against Israeli forces supported by fire ships and helicopters.
Gaza
Bush supports Israel,
killed over 900 Palestinians
Monday, January 12, 2009 10:02Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel today received the renewed support of the United States, with President George W. Bush said the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip depends on Hamas to stop rocket attacks on Israel.
As the Palestinian death toll has exceeded 900 deaths , including many civilians, troops have strengthened their presence around urban areas in search of militants, and Prime Minister Ehud OImert said Israel will continue the war - that going for 17 days - as long as necessary.
Troops and tanks, backed by planes and helicopter gunships have carried out over 25 raids, fighting around Gaza, alert for snipers and booby traps. The Hamas fighters launched rockets at Israel.
While international diplomats were working with Egypt to plan for a ceasefire, a military spokesman said the army has yet to launch "Phase 3" of the conflict, after the air raids and the advance by land.
But the reservists took to the field, to maintain the positions and leave the regular troops so they can advance, explained the spokesman.
The leader of the Hamas government in Gaza has made a rare television appearance from an undisclosed location, promising that "victory is at hand."
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, oil power and one of the Arab governments whose proximity to the United States is unpopular among citizens, accused Israel of "racist extermination" and said he hoped that Bush's successor, Barack Obama, work quickly to resolve the Palestinian issue, which goes on for 60 years.
"The extermination of Israel is doing on the Palestinian people in Gaza has deprived Israeli leaders of humanity and place their policies in terms of racial extermination," he said in a statement on the Saudi government.
Obama had no comment on this specific political conflict, which began Dec. 27.
BUSH CALLS FOR HAMAS TO CHOOSE
Bush said the Islamic militants of Hamas must put an end to rocket attacks may be terminated because the conflict in the enclave of one million and half Palestinians.
"I support a sustainable cease-fire and establishment of a sustainable ceasefire that Hamas stop firing rockets into the territory Israeli ... I think Hamas is forced to choose, "Bush said.
Speaking of the" lead time ", the U.S. president also said that Israel has the right to defend itself, but should bear in mind that there is" innocent people "in the Gaza Strip.
According to medical sources, the Palestinian dead are at least 909. The Ministry of Health in Gaza speaks about
400 killed women and children.The doctors say that the Israelis have now killed nine Palestinians including at least five civilians.
says that Israel since the conflict has killed seven of his soldiers and three civilians.
talks in Cairo after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held today, the envoy for the Middle East Tony Blair said that "there are elements of an agreement on an immediate ceasefire and is working hard on these."
Egypt, another Arab government close to Washington with a strong Islamic opposition, is trying to broker a truce. A major Western diplomat and an official of Hamas have called positive talks today.
According to political sources, the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also president of the centrist Kadima Party and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, leader of Labor, would halt military operations as soon as possible.
But the outgoing premier Ehud Olmert would not agree and prepare to assert its point of view in the next cabinet meeting, which relies on different pads.
"We want that Hamas understands that there will be opportunities to smuggle weapons into Gaza, because any such attempt will be welcomed with the iron fist of the Israeli people," said Olmert. "Nothing more, nothing less. If it takes time, it takes time."
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