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14 Oct 2003 07:47:17 PM |
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Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless |
Rafah camp hit again by Israeli bulldozers
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
15 October 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=453392
Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved back into the Rafah refugee camp in
the Gaza Strip yesterday, just days after the Israeli army destroyed
about 100 houses, leaving some 2,000 people homeless and eight,
including two children, dead.
At the same time, the Israeli army ordered 15 Palestinians being held
without trial to be permanently deported from the West Bank to Gaza - a
move denounced by Israeli and international human rights groups as
illegal.
Rafah refugee camp was already reeling after a three-day incursion in
which the Israeli army crushed entire rows of houses with bulldozers as
homeless Palestinians loaded their possessions on to carts. And
yesterday the bulldozers returned.
The Israeli army claims the aim is to find and destroy tunnels under the
nearby Egyptian border which are used by Palestinian militants to
smuggle in guns and ammunition. But after the last incursion, in which
the Israelis destroyed as many as 100 houses to find just three tunnels,
they were accused of inflicting collective punishment on the
Palestinians of Rafah.
The Israeli army at first disputed the number of houses destroyed. But
after the figures were confirmed by the UN agency for Palestinian
refugees, UNRWA, and by independent news reports, the Israeli commander
in the region, Colonel Eyal Eisenberg, said: "I want people to ask how
many houses we have not demolished, not how many we have."
There were no reports of any fatalitiesyesterday, but six Palestinians
were said to be wounded. The Israeli army sealed off the refugee camp
from the outside world, as it did in the first raid. The raid began with
helicopters firing into the camp before dawn, witnesses. said. Then some
40 tanks and armoured bulldozers advanced and snipers took up positions.
There was less resistance than in the first raid, when militants fired
shoulder-launched rockets and threw grenades, the Israeli army reported.
The army said the incursion could last several days, but there are fears
that troops may stay longer. That would follow a pattern over the past
18 months in which it has advanced into Palestinian cities, then
withdrawn, only to return to stay a short time later.
Palestinian militants do use tunnels to smuggle small arms across the
border. But the Israeli army has for some time been demolishing houses
in an effort to create a buffer zone, and the raids have allowed it to
accelerate the destruction.
Yesterday's expulsion of 15 alleged militants from the west Bank to Gaza
could be the forerunner of further deportations. The army said it wanted
to do the same to more Palestinian prisoners.
The move has been denounced as a breach of the Geneva Conventions.
Although Article 78 allows an occupying power to "assign residence" to
defuse security threats, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said it
referred only to cases of immediate danger. "This doesn't sound to me
like a clear danger to state security," said a B'Tselem spokesman, Noam
Hoffstater. "It looks like they're trying to push the boundaries
further."
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| User: "scott" |
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14 Oct 2003 08:02:45 PM |
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Old news, come on now TOP poster.
"news2note" <news2note@freedmwatch.net> wrote in message
news:3F8C99BA.3EB7@freedmwatch.net...
Rafah camp hit again by Israeli bulldozers
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
15 October 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=453392
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| User: "InsuranceBroker" |
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| Title: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless |
14 Oct 2003 08:20:10 PM |
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Subject: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless
From: "scott"
Date: 10/14/2003 9:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <loadnYIqqJYpARGiU-KYuA@intertex.net>
Old news, come on now TOP poster.
*****. They just did it last weekend. It is interest how you like to lie
and try to discredit someone instead of making a case for the disgusting nazi
tacits of the IDF.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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| User: "scott" |
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| Title: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless |
15 Oct 2003 12:02:04 PM |
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Dumb ***** you made the same post 3 days ago.
"InsuranceBroker" <insurancenj@aol.com> wrote in message
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Subject: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians
homeless
From: "scott"
Date: 10/14/2003 9:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <loadnYIqqJYpARGiU-KYuA@intertex.net>
Old news, come on now TOP poster.
*****. They just did it last weekend. It is interest how you like to
lie
and try to discredit someone instead of making a case for the disgusting
nazi
tacits of the IDF.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
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| User: "Horatio Fudruckerton" |
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| Title: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless |
15 Oct 2003 07:59:25 PM |
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On 15 Oct 2003 01:20:10 GMT, (InsuranceBroker)
wrote:
Subject: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless
From: "scott"
Date: 10/14/2003 9:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <loadnYIqqJYpARGiU-KYuA@intertex.net>
Old news, come on now TOP poster.
*****. They just did it last weekend. It is interest how you like to lie
and try to discredit someone instead of making a case for the disgusting nazi
tacits of the IDF.
Doing Insurance business in the Garden State
A jew hating poster who adds spam to the bottom of his posts.
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| User: "$$DISCOUNT$$ " |
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| Title: Re: Israel destroys 100 houses, leaves 2000 Palestinians homeless |
14 Oct 2003 08:40:33 PM |
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news2note wrote:
Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved back into the Rafah refugee camp in
the Gaza Strip yesterday, just days after the Israeli army destroyed
about 100 houses, leaving some 2,000 people homeless and eight,
including two children, dead.
Cool.
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