Wednesday, 7 January 2009

FASCISTS SPEAK MORE LIES...BUT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ARE TOO CLEVER TO FALL FOR IT

DO NOT FALL FOR THE FASCISTS LIES. THEY ARE HITLERS SONS...JUST TRYING TO GET SUPPORT FROM INNOCENT JEWS, WHO DO NOT DESERVE THE ATTACKS THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING IN ANY WAY.

http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2009/01/neo-nazi-british-national-party.html

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Neo-Nazi British National Party Supports Israeli Attack on Gaza

No don’t adjust your eyesight. You don’t have double vision. That’s right. Yup, that's right. The fascist British National, whose leader believes that the Nazi holocaust is a hoax, is overjoyed at the genocide in Gaza. And why not? They're killing Muslims so it can't be bad.

For all the nonsense about it being ‘anti-Semitic’ to support the Palestinians, it is the Holocaust denying British National Party, founded by devoted Hitler lover, John Tyndall, that has come out most fulsomely in support of the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza.

Under the title Europes Jews Face Marxist Wrath Over Gaza with a sub-heading ‘Rise In Attacks On Europe's Jews’ we read that:

Attacks on Jews in Britain and Europe are rising as the violence in Gaza continues.’ It quotes the Zionist Community Security Trust, a group of mainly ex-Israeli military dedicated to protecting Jews from the influence of anti-Zionism that ‘there have been 24 incidents in Britain since December 29.

We are told, in horrified tones, that ‘This includes an arson attack on a synagogue in London.’ something the BNP would never have dreamed of doing! The Thurrock Patriot goes on to quote the CST’s Mark Gardner:

There has been a significant rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents, especially when compared with what is usually a very quiet time of year for racist, anti-Jewish attacks," spokesman Mark Gardner said.... In the attack on the synagogue in Brondesbury north west London, arsonists tried to smash a window.

Fortunately ‘They failed because of the toughened protective glass.’ And it goes on to describe a series of similar attacks, all with suitable disapproval.

We are told of a number of similar incidents across Europe and they quote Lib Dem spokesperson, Chris Hune MP thus:

I am deeply concerned by the evidence in the Community Security Trust's report that the Israeli invasion of Gaza is being used as a pretext for threats against the Jewish community in Britain.

But this is nothing new. On April 10th 2008, the Guardian carried a story ‘BNP seeks to bury antisemitism and gain Jewish votes in Islamophobic campaign’.· Ruth Smeed of the Board of Deputies of British Jews explained that

The BNP website is now one of the most Zionist on the web - it goes further than any of the mainstream parties in its support of Israel.

For those who are still mystified the BNP’s fuhrer, Nick Griffin is more than willing to explain:
When the overwhelming majority of the instinctively patriotic people of our nations feel threatened by an alien force which is self-evidently evil by Christian and democratic secular values alike, to place oneself in the position whereby our political opponents can portray you as an enemy sympathiser, a collaborator, a traitor, is political suicide.However there are some fools and clowns who haven’t got the message. One is Israel Shamir, a virulent anti-Semite and according to Gilad Atzmon a ‘unique and advanced thinker’. He was most
upset with the BNP’s support for Zionism.

I do not feel at ease accusing you and your comrades of betraying the Britons and joining with the Jews, but if I'd keep mum, stones won't. I'd publish your response, and I hope you'll spread mine among your readers and members.

But although the Thurrock Patriot and the grass-roots of the fascists are all in favour of Israel murdering as many Palestinians and Muslims as possible, the BNP’s Chairman Nick Griffin has been slightly more circumspect. In an article Israel and Gaza on 5th January 2009 he purports to take a neutral stance, which in fact is anything but neutral:

We have said nothing, quite simply, because it’s nothing to do with Britain, and therefore nothing to do with the British National Party…. The fighting in Gaza is not a proper concern for a British political party… unless there are clear issues of our own national interest to give us the right, and our government the duty, to interfere....

endless television coverage of dead or injured Palestinian children (the anti-Israeli bias of the leftist BBC is particularly marked) will inflame Islamist extremists against not only Israel but also against other Western states, including the UK and our soldiers currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Most of us were under the impression that the BBC had been wholly supportive of the arguments in favour of Israel's attack on Gaza, endlessly repeating the spurious arguments about an Israeli 'reaction' to Hamas's rockets. Griffin continues:

Indeed, the destruction of Israel (which is the generally stated aim of all the far-left and Muslim demonstrators screaming and on occasion rioting outside the Israeli Embassy in London, and the generally unstated aim of the far smaller number of neo-Nazi cranks siding with them on the Internet) would most definitely not placate a single hardline Muslim.

The destruction of Israel would not send Islam back into a peaceful slumber, but would merely inspire and radicalise a whole new generation of Jihadist fanatics with the idea that the hour of their final triumph against the ‘Crusaders’ had been signalled by the collapse of the latter’s ‘Zionist outpost’ on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean.

And Griffin proceeds to outline the horrific scenarios that might result, including a Muslim India and the colonisation of the United States!

While Israel’s no-holds barred self-defence undoubtedly gives Islamist recruiters good material with which to radicalise some of their less motivated brethren, Israel’s extinction would provide them with even stronger arguments in favour of Jihad. The most elementary study of their rhetoric shows that they do not regard Israel as the great enemy, merely as the catspaw of Christendom….

Thus while we would oppose any move to entangle Britain in war on behalf of Israel, it is in our clear national interest that it should survive. Whether that survival is made any more or less likely by responding on such a scale to the cynical provocations by Hamas is another matter, but that judgement is for Israelis to make at the ballot box, and not for us….. Our people must understand that Islam is not a mutated version of Christianity with a pacifist core in which the Meek will inherit the earth; it’s a creed of War and the Sword.... Nor is it about guerrilla warfare successes of the kind seen in Afghanistan and Lebanon, which may yet emerge in Gaza.
But in June 2006 Lee Barnes, the BNP's head of legal affairs
wrote on the party's website:As a Nationalist I can say that I support Israel 100% in their dispute with Hizbullah. In fact, I hope they wipe Hizbullah off the Lebanese map and bomb them until they leave large greasy craters in the cities where their Islamic extremist cantons of terror once stood. [the link was http://www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/brimstone2.php?leeId=80 but the article has been removed].

So despite all the nonsense from the Zionists and their echo chambers in the press it is quite clear. The main fascist and neo-Nazi party in Britain supports Israel's attack on Gaza! So much for anti-Semitism.
Tony Greenstein

YOUNG MUSLIMS ADVISORY GROUP...ADVISE THE GOVERNMENT ON GAZA

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/index/press.php?pr=259

Israeli killings ‘state terrorism,’ Brown told by advisory group

The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG) has raised concerns in a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the failure by the Government to condemn Israel’s killing of more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza as an ‘act of state terrorism.’

“By not doing so, we are in grave danger of sending a message to the youth today that the mass murder of civilians can be justified if the right grievances are cited,” said the group in a copy of the letter obtained by The Muslim News.

“In the current political climate there is a real danger that young people who witness the impotence of institutions that are supposed to be protecting innocent life, will turn to other organisations in an effort to make their voices heard and the violence stop,” Brown was also warned.

The YMAG was launched in October last year by the Government and consists of a selected group of 22 young Muslim leaders from different parts of the country. It is aimed to voice the views and opinions of young Muslims in four key areas identified by the Government – on discrimination, increasing employment levels, Preventing Violent Extremism and boosting civic participation.
“As a group, we have defined 'violent extremism' as being the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, wherever and by whoever this is perpetrated,” the group said in their letter.
“With over 450 innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Government, the British Government must see this as an act of 'state terrorism' and as a form 'violent extremism', it must be clearly condemned,” the Prime Minister was told.

“Our failure to take clear action also jeopardises our efforts to achieve the objectives of the PREVENT agenda, as we will be seen to be inconsistent and hypocritical in our approach,” he was warned. YMAG said it looked forward to working with the Government in the future, to help prevent all acts of violent extremism and to create a cohesive and harmonious society both in Britain and across the wider world. It expressed hope that Brown would “take decisive action to assist us in achieving this goal.”

For further information contact us on 020 8863 8586 or 077 68 241 325 .
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http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8710170510

Advisory Group Terms Israeli Killings State Terrorism
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG), set up by the British government last year, has raised concerns to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the failure to condemn Israel's killing of more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza as an "act of state terrorism".

"By not doing so, we are in grave danger of sending a message to the youth today that the mass murder of civilians can be justified if the right grievances are cited," the group said in a letter to Brown, Muslim News reported. "In the current political climate there is a real danger that young people who witness the impotence of institutions that are supposed to be protecting innocent life, will turn to other organizations in an effort to make their voices heard and the violence stop," the letter further warned. T

he YMAG was launched in October 2008 to voice the views and opinions of young Muslims in four key areas identified by the government - on discrimination, increasing employment levels, Preventing Violent Extremism and boosting civic participation.

"As a group, we have defined 'violent extremism' as being the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, wherever and by whoever this is perpetrated," said the group, composed of 22 young Muslim leaders from different parts of the country.

"With over 450 innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Government, the British Government must see this as an act of 'state terrorism' and as a form 'violent extremism', it must be clearly condemned," the letter told the prime minister.
"Our failure to take clear action also jeopardizes our efforts to achieve the objectives of the PREVENT agenda, as we will be seen to be inconsistent and hypocritical in our approach," it warned. YMAG said it looked forward to working with the government to help prevent all acts of violent extremism and create a cohesive and harmonious society both in Britain and across the wider world. It expressed hope that the British prime minister would "take decisive action to assist us in achieving this goal."


http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2009/1/6/governments-failure-to-condemn-israeli-state-terrorism-under.html

Government's failure to condemn Israeli state terrorism undermines PREVENT agenda, says YMAG

The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG) has raised concerns in a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the failure by the Government to condemn Israel's killing of more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza as an "act of state terrorism". "By not doing so, we are in grave danger of sending a message to the youth today that the mass murder of civilians can be justified if the right grievances are cited," said the group in a copy of the letter obtained by The Muslim News.

"In the current political climate there is a real danger that young people who witness the impotence of institutions that are supposed to be protecting innocent life, will turn to other organisations in an effort to make their voices heard and the violence stop," Brown was also warned.

"As a group, we have defined 'violent extremism' as being the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, wherever and by whoever this is perpetrated," the group said in their letter.

"With over 450 innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Government, the British Government must see this as an act of 'state terrorism' and as a form 'violent extremism', it must be clearly condemned," the Prime Minister was told. "Our failure to take clear action also jeopardises our efforts to achieve the objectives of the PREVENT agenda, as we will be seen to be inconsistent and hypocritical in our approach," he was warned.
Muslim News, 6 January 2009

http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2643
Muslim group asks Brown to condemn ’state terror’
by Ala on 6th January, 2009 at 11:14 am
The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG) has
warned Gordon Brown that if he doesn’t condemn the killing of civillians in Gaza as an “act of state terrorism”, the government will jeopardise its initiative to prevent violent extremism at home. The YMAG was launched in October last year by the Government to voice the views and opinions of young Muslims in four key areas identified by the Government: discrimination, employment, Preventing Violent Extremism and civic participation.

In its letter to the PM, the group said:
By not doing so [condemning 'state terrorism'], we are in grave danger of sending a message to the youth today that the mass murder of civilians can be justified if the right grievances are cited.


In the current political climate there is a real danger that young people who witness the impotence of institutions that are supposed to be protecting innocent life, will turn to other organisations in an effort to make their voices heard and the violence stop.
As a group, we have defined ‘violent extremism’ as being the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, wherever and by whoever this is perpetrated.


With over 450 innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Government, the British Government must see this as an act of ’state terrorism’ and as a form ‘violent extremism’, it must be clearly condemned.

Our failure to take clear action also jeopardises our efforts to achieve the objectives of the PREVENT agenda, as we will be seen to be inconsistent and hypocritical in our approach.

MORE DEMONSTRATIONS

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1) There is a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy on High Street Kensington, London between 5.30 and 7 tomorrow, Wed the 7th.

2) There is a UK wide NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION on SATURDAY 10TH OF JAN at 12pm assembling in HYDE PARK London and marching to the Israeli Embassy. Here is the event, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56528633376
Invite all your contacts, last week we got 50 000, if we each bring one more person that is 100 000.

Information on coaches to the demonstration:

DERBY
There will be a coach from Derby organised by Stop the War on Saturday contact 01332382321.

BIRMINGHAM
8.30am, opposite Moor St Station, Call Nick Burke for more info or to buy tickets on 07977 057 902 .

LEEDS
coaches leave at 07.15am Leeds University parkinson steps Harehills Pakistani Centre and West Yorkshire Playhouse Please phone early to book: 01274 666799 or 01924 442000 Mobile 07980 294410

BRADFORD
Bradford coaches leaves at 07.15am outside the Old Building, Bradford College, Gt Horton Road.Please phone to book: 01274 666799 or 01924 442000 Mobile 07980 294410

MANCHESTER#
1Chorlton Library 7am Manchester Rd.Salle on 0161 861 8491 salle_e_dare@yahoo.co.ukTickets £25/20 waged, £15 unwaged, £10 unwaged.#2 North Manchester Against Wars7am Brideoak Street/Cheetham Hill Rd (outside Al Kizra Mosque),Alice 07896 593 813 alice498@btinternet.com£20 waged - £10 concessionswww.mancsagainsttanks.org

HUDDERSFIELD
The Huddersfield coach will be leaving:7:30amSt Georges Sq,Huddersfield
Tickets cost £20 / £10 concessions
For tickets or more information call Roger 07814709853
Huddersfield will also be having a local protest:3pm, Market CrossHuddersfield Town Centre (near McDonnalds)

BURY
Whitefield coach Starts Bury Art Gallery, 7am Rose 01706 821 910 or Geoff 07857 610 426 burystw@googlemail.com £20 waged/£10 unwaged

RUSHOLME
7am Jaffa Cafe, Wilmslow Rd/Park CrescentNahellla 07988 572 976 nahella_ashraf2002@yahoo.co.ukTickets £25/20 waged, £15 unwaged, £10 unwaged

SALFORD
7am - pick ups to be confirmedContact Sufiya 07813 276 913 or email sufiya1@hotmail.com

BOLTON
For more details contact Neil on 07931 382 398

CHELTENHAM
A car share will be organised for those travelling from Cheltenham. Cars leave at North Place carpark 8.45am. Contact Jo at olgaismycat@yahoo.co.uk, 07931 532519 .

NAILSWORTH
A car share will be organised at Nailsworth to bring people to the demo. The cars leave at 8.30 from Somerfield Carpark. Contact Jo at olgaismycat@yahoo.co.uk or 07931 532519 .

STROUD
Car share leaves 9am from train station car park. Contact Jo at olgaismycat@yahoo.co.uk or on 07931 532519

SWANSEA
Swansea leaving Uplands for national Demo in London. Contact me Ally on 07969556592 or Fred 0779270667.

CHESTERFIELD
Chesterfield coach leaves Town Hall, Rose Hill at 8.00am. Tickets£20 & £10 (unwaged)URGENT APPEAL TO JOIN THIS VITAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST ISRAELI WARCRIMES IN GAZA.PLEASE LET US KNOW ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE TO ATTEND. We need to get a sense of likely numbers in the next day or so. Phone / text07778480484, or 01246203552 or by email stopthewarchesterfield@tesco.net

YEOVIL AND SHERBOURNE
We intend to run transport. Leave Yeovil about 8:15, Sherborne 8:30am £10 ~ £12 per person, time (These details are provisional at the moment) If you are interested please reply to this message or contact 07855 320041 .

PRESTON
Coaches will leave from three locations in Preston (Deepdale, Frenchwood,University of Central Lancashire) at 6am. Tickets cost £20 (children under15, travelling with an adult £5)To book a place on the Deepdale bus phone Zubir on 07525040913To book a place on the Frenchwood bus phone Mohammed on 07707724468To book a place on the Central bus (leaving from Uclan) contact eitherAbdul on 07878725871 or Michael on 07739729214.

LIVERPOOL
Monday, 05 January 2009Coach tickets are now on sale at News From Nowhere Bookshop, in Bold St, Liverpool City Centre priced £20 & £15 (concessions)

BRISTOL
Coaches from Bristol leave at 8.15am from Anchor Rd(opposite @Bristol)For a map see: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GBbs1%205dbTickets£14 waged, £7 unwaged. To reserve a ticket please emailbristolstopwar@hotmail.com as soon as possible, giving your name, address & phone number. Or phone 07810 000083 . CARDIFFCoaches stopping 8 am, Museum Steps, Cardiff & 8.30 Bus Station, NewportTickets - £16 waged / £10 unwagedContact - Adam Johannes, cardifftroopsout@googlemail.com or 07940108146 to book

SOUTHEND
Phone Tim or Pam on 07748 686581 or email southendcoalition@blueyonder.co.uk3) Sign the petition: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Israel-Sanctions/?signed=dc6501d.b28f1d#detail, write to your local MP: http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/commons/l/, email the foreign secretary: private.office@fco.gov.uk. 4) Forward this message to all your contacts and all groups you administrate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For more information:http://www.actionpalestine.org/http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42463811529For those unsure of who Hamas is, Harvard University Academic Dr. Sara Roy, daughter of Holocaust Survivors on Hamas:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ReH3D1lrB0Y

Letter to the Egyptian Taghoot

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To the Egyptian Government and Affiliates,I would say “asalam Alaykum”, but I do not believe that your government is worthy of that title.
I write this because your actions in the last few days are not befitting of a human being, let alone a muslim. To imply as you do that you are a muslim government whilst muslims are being slaughtered on a gross scale just over the border in Gaza is a claim that cannot be accepted by any rational human being.

In the last few days, over 500 muslims in Palestine have been killed through mass attacks upon the civilian government by Israel. The targets have included Schools, Universities, Hospitals and other elements of infrastructure. Israel has shown no mercy in its shameless destruction of a muslim population.

Your government, on the other hand, has been in a position to help. You have closed the border at Gaza for some time, and when the bombardment started instead of opening this to allow civilians to flee, you have opened fire on them.Your government has not even uttered one word of condemnation, and indeed seems to be tacitly supporting the attack on Gaza by Israel. You could help financially, militarily, and by simple words, yet instead you have shown yourselves to be as impotent, oppressive and vindictive as the muslims around the world and in Egypt perceive you to be.

I call on you to have some self-respect as a nation and as an inhabitant of this earth to stop the slaughter of innocent men and women in Palestine. I for one and I am sure many others will not visit your country and spend our western currency to prop up an ailing dictatorship that not only oppresses and victimises its own population, but in addition to this oppresses and victimises the muslims of Palestine.I urge you to stand up to the shameless oppression of your government, and I urge you to help the muslims of Palestine.

May Allah(swt) be the witness that I have spoken the truth to one of the tyrant rulers of taghut, and may Allah(swt) give the people of Egypt and Palestine something better than you offer them, ameen, ameen, ameen.
Regards,

SEND TO :-
Cultural Office: Egypt.culture@btconnect.com
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CNN clip proving Israel broke the ceasefire

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KntmpoRXFX4

Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/gaza-israel-death-un

Israeli missiles hit a UN school being used as a shelter from the ongoing Gaza assault

The civilian death toll in Gaza increased dramatically today, with reports of more than 40 Palestinians killed after missiles exploded outside a UN school where hundreds of people were sheltering from the continuing Israeli offensive.

Two Israeli tank shells struck the school in Jabaliya refugee camp, spraying shrapnel on people inside and outside the building, according to news agency reports.

The medical director of the hospital in Jabaliya told the Guardian 41 bodies had been brought in so far and more could be on the way. Reuters journalists filmed bodies scattered on the ground amid pools of blood and torn shoes and clothes. In addition to the dead, several dozen people were wounded, hospital officials said. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
A United Nations official in Gaza said the school was clearly marked with a UN flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities. John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said that three artillery shells landed at the perimeter of the school where 350 people were taking shelter. "Of course it was entirely inevitable if artillery shells landed in that area there would be a high number of casualties," he said.


Asked whether there were Hamas militants in the area at the time of the attack, Ging said it was the scene of clashes "so there's an intense military and militant activity in that area." He said UN staff vetted Palestinians seeking shelter at their facilities to make sure militants were not taking advantage of them. "So far we've not had violations by militants of our facilities," he said. Ging called for an independent investigation of the strikes near UN facilities.

"I saw a lot of women and children wheeled in," Fares Ghanem, a hospital official told the Associated Press. "A lot of the wounded were missing limbs and a lot of the dead were in pieces."
Majed Hamdan, an AP photographer, who rushed to the scene shortly after the attacks, said many children were among the dead. "I saw women and men parents slapping their faces in grief, screaming, some of them collapsed to the floor. They knew their children were dead," he said.


"In the morgue, most of the killed appeared to be children. In the hospital, there wasn't enough space for the wounded."

Elsewehere, at least 12 members of an extended family, including seven young children, were killed in an air strike on their house in Gaza City. The bodies of the Daya family were pulled from the rubble of a house in Gaza city's Zeitoun district after it was hit by two Israeli missiles. The dead included seven children aged from one to 12 years, three women and two men. Nine other people were believed to be trapped in the rubble.

Hours earlier, three young men – all cousins – died when the Israelis bombed another UN school, the Asma primary school in Gaza City. They were among about 400 people who sought shelter there after fleeing their homes in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

The UN, which said the school in Jabaliya was clearly marked, said it was "strongly protesting these killings to the Israeli authorities and is calling for an immediate and impartial investigation".

"Where it is found that international humanitarian law has been violated, those responsible must be held to account. Under international law, installations such as schools, health centres and UN facilities should be protected from attack. Well before the current fighting, the UN had given to the Israeli authorities the GPS co-ordinates of all its installations in Gaza, including Asma elementary school."

The killings take the total toll in Palestinian lives since the Israelis launched their assault on the Gaza Strip 11 days ago to above 600. Doctors at Gaza hospitals say that at least one-fifth of the victims are children and a large number of women are among the dead.

Israel continues to insist that the bulk of those killed are Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, although its claim to be going to extraordinary lengths to target only "terrorists" has been undermined by one of its own tanks firing on a building being used by Israeli troops, killing four.
The sharp spike in the number of civilian casualties came as Israeli troops and tanks moved into Gaza's second largest city, Khan Younis, for the first time today, supported by intensive artillery strikes as the military pledged to press on with its attack.


In a separate attack earlier in the day, three Palestinians were killed in an air strike on another school run by Unwra, the UN relief agency.

Nine Israelis, including three civilians hit by rocket fire, have been killed in the conflict. At least five rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel today, including one that hit the town of Gadera, 17 miles from Tel Aviv, police said. A three-year-old girl was wounded.

The heaviest fighting has been in northern Gaza, with witnesses reporting wave after wave of bombing strikes across the north of the territory accompanied by gunfire from helicopters and artillery from land and sea. Thousands of Palestinians have been ordered to leave their homes or forced to flee the fighting.

In Shajaiyeh, east of Gaza City, Israeli troops seized control of three apartment blocks and set up gun positions on the rooftops. Residents were locked in their homes and soldiers confiscated their mobile phones, neighbours said.

Three of the four Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire died when a tank mistakenly fired on a building where the soldiers had taken up positions. There was heavy artillery fire to cover the evacuation of 24 soldiers who were injured, including the commander of the Golani infantry brigade, one of Israel's key fighting forces.

Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, said his country's troops would continue their operation despite mounting Palestinian casualties and growing international calls for a ceasefire.
"Hamas has so far sustained a very heavy blow from us, but we have yet to achieve our objective, and therefore the operation continues," Barak said.


The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, said the offensive was intended to change permanently the shape of Israel's conflict with Hamas. "When Israel is targeted, Israel is going to retaliate," she said. Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire.

The military said it had bombed more smuggling tunnels across the border with Egypt, in the south, and hit more than 40 other sites across Gaza including buildings storing weapons and rocket launching areas.

In Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, the most senior leader of Hamas in the strip and a hardliner in the movement, appeared on the party's al-Aqsa television station and gave a defiant speech threatening attacks not only in Gaza but elsewhere.

"The Zionists have legitimised the killing of their children by killing our children. They have legitimised the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people," Zahar said. He urged Hamas fighters to "crush your enemy".

Another Hamas figure, a recognised military spokesman called Abu Ubaida, said thousands of Hamas fighters were waiting in Gaza to take on the Israeli military, and that rocket attacks would increase. More than 40 were fired into southern Israel yesterday, including one that landed in an empty kindergarten, which, like all schools near the Gaza border, has been closed since the conflict began.. Israeli police said a total of 520 rockets had been fired in the past 11 days of fighting.

Israeli troops are now deployed in and around the major urban areas of Gaza, particularly to the north, in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and Jabaliya. Using leaflets, telephone calls and radio announcements, they have ordered residents in many areas to leave their homes, forcing at least 15,000 Palestinians to flee to safety elsewhere. At least 5,000 are staying in 11 different UN schools and shelters.

The UN said more than 1 million Gazans were still without electricity or water and that it was increasingly difficult for staff to distribute aid or reach the injured. It said more industrial diesel was needed to reopen the strip's sole power plant, which has been shut for a week. Ten transformers have been damaged in the fighting.

More wheat grain is needed for food handouts, and the UN said Karni, the main commercial crossing, should be reopened to allow it in. Four ambulances and three mobile clinics were destroyed when bombs hit the headquarters of the Union of Health Care Committees in Gaza City.

John Holmes, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said Gaza represented an "increasingly alarming" humanitarian crisis, and that the territory was running low on clean water, power, food, medicine and other supplies since Israel began its offensive. Israeli leaders claim there is no humanitarian crisis.

SIGN THE PETITIONS

Dear All UK residents or/and residents,Please sign the petition to sanction Israel, Israeli must be punished for its failure to adhere to the Geneva convention concerning the collective punishment of the citizens of Gaza. Israeli tactics are cruel, malicious and demonstrate that Israel is not interested in the peace process or a Palestinian State. They are creating the ideal breeding ground for extremism, sabotaging peace efforts and squandering the good will they have been given.
Here is the link:http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Israel-Sanctions/?signed=dc6501d.b28f1d#detail

Kindly forward to all your networks,

ALSO - WHEREVER YOU ARE...SIGN

http://www.petitiononline.com/gaza2812/petition.html