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Israelis quit Gaza after worst clash in over a year
Nidal al-Mughrabi
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:35am EDT
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks left the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said, after the bloodiest clash in the Hamas-ruled enclave in 14 months killed two soldiers and a Palestinian.
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The violence underscored the deadlock in U.S.-mediated contacts between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose peacemaking bids have been sapped by Hamas hostility along with continued Israeli settlement construction on occupied land.
Resisting U.S. pressure in what analysts called a bruising encounter with President Barack Obama in Washington this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not stop building in West Bank areas it annexed to East Jerusalem.
Obama wants Israel to halt settlement in East Jerusalem, an issue that created new friction when a plan to build 1,600 more houses was published as Vice President Joe Biden visited to urge "proximity talks" with U.S. mediation.
The Arab League, which had given its blessing to indirect Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, signaled a major review in strategy.
"We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure," League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told Arab leaders gathered in the Libyan town of Sirte.
"It's time to face Israel. We have to have alternative plans because the situation has reached a turning point," he said.
The impasse has triggered sporadic rocket attacks this month from Gaza which drew Israeli airstrikes. On Friday, Palestinians ambushed soldiers who, the army said, had crossed the border to dismantle a mine. Two infantrymen were killed and two wounded.
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The clashes, in which the army said it believed it had killed two gunmen, was the fiercest since the three-week Gaza war of early 2009. Some 1,400 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and 13 Israelis, mainly troops, died in that conflict.
Islamist Hamas spurns the Jewish state but has largely held fire since the war. It said its men took part in Friday's fighting, but only in order to repel the Israeli incursion.
"We have been used to seeing breakaway (Palestinian) groups doing the firing, and Hamas trying to calm things down. Possibly it is loosening its grip, for all sorts of reasons," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a television interview.
"Should that indeed prove to be the case, then there will also be ramifications for Hamas," he said, but added: "We have no interest in returning the region to what was in the past."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who during a visit to the region this month urged Israel to lift a Gaza embargo tightened after Hamas took over in 2007, also voiced concern.
"I reiterate my appeals ... for maximum restraint and an end to all violence, in particular at this critical time when we are engaged in efforts to revive peace talks," he said in Sirte, on the sidelines of the Arab League summit.
Gazan doctors said a 23-year-old Palestinian was killed in the clash near the town of Khan Younis, and five others wounded.
The dead man, identified as a civilian, was given a hero's funeral on Saturday, with scores of masked gunmen marching among the hundreds of mourners. "Martyr, rest in peace, and we will continue the struggle," they chanted.
Israel captured Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Egypt and Jordan in a 1967 war. It withdrew from Gaza in 2005 but has expanded Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians want statehood in all the territories.
(Additional reporting by Lamine Ghanmi in Sirte; Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Diana Abdallah)
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Mar 27, 2010 4:36am EDT
ISRAEL WILL NOT STOP BUILDING. AMERICA WILL CONTINUE TO CRITICIZE BUT WILL SUPPORT ISRAEL. PALESTINIANS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PAWNS – THE SACRIFICIAL LAMBS – FOR HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, IRAN AND OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS. NOTHING WILL CHANGE FOR ANOTHER 25 YEARS.
g11427
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Mar 27, 2010 4:53am EDT
Hamas hostility??!! How would you call then Israelis attacks on Gaza (just more than 1000 palestinians killed, 100’s injured, nothing left…)
servus
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Mar 27, 2010 5:23am EDT
There will be continual bloodshed until this brutal occupation is ended.
With Obama’s trenchant attitude towards recalcitrant Israel, there is now real hope.
Palestinians are people just like you and me. They must not be dehumanised as has been happening. Europe, in particular, must stand up and be counted. The EU is the most important trading block in the world and must ensure that a two state policy is imposed upon Israel without delay.
colindale
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Mar 27, 2010 5:25am EDT
Each day fear is propagating hate.
Religion has had it’s time of killing.
No God gives a Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a man-made city for a fanciful ideal and humans to die in its shadow.
The father and mother who closes a blind eye to their military killing another’s child because of their fear,
dooms their child and their grandchild to wear the uniform of the same killer when their year comes to enlist.
Stop the fear, stop the Religious posturing, stop the aggression.
Tell the Government that minorities are staining you with blood.
Return to a being human without an excuse to do what has been done to you in the past.
Enough of lying and fooling the global community.
Make a decision: War or Peace!
If you choose war, then let us make it fair.
We cannot embargo one side and arm the other.
Perhaps equal power will stop this need to kill because one fears the other and the other hates not being free!
Ray_d
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Mar 27, 2010 6:05am EDT
“If you choose war, then let us make it fair. We cannot embargo one side and arm the other.”
Send this message to every congressman and senator in America, and also to every democratic government worldwide.
colindale
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Mar 27, 2010 6:45am EDT
Yeah right, Palestinian muslim terrorists are the pawns. Poor Poor Palestinian muslim terrorists backed by Hezbollah and Iran who want to kill Israel, same-sex couples, convert everyone to their lies of religion or kill them (spread the lies of their religion by the sword), tell people how to cut their hair, tell people what kind of music they can listen to, threaten and kill people for printing drawings that those muslims deem censored, institute abusive behaviors towards women (if she gets raped she is the criminal), Implement Sharia law to oppress freedoms and truth.
No one owns land. It is contended that all people likely originated from the same land mass many thousands of years ago. The question comes down to: Based on the choices people make toward how they are going to treat others around them through rituals, ceremonies, attitudes and behaviors, whose side are you on?
Take the control of land away from the most unreasonable.
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