BREAKING #Hamas analysis of Truce breach - #Israel soldier - fate currently unknown - Terms - Aug 2 2014

Press release by Al-Qassam Brigades regarding the breach of the humanitarian truce, the alleged capture of an Israeli soldier and the clashes at Rafah Crossing:

Following the Israeli army’s breach of the humanitarian truce on the morning of Friday 1st August 2014 and its incursion into Eastern Rafah and its on-going shelling and deployment of snipers in Gaza, a massacre, which is still on-going, was committed against innocent civilians in Rafah which led to the death of tens of Palestinians. The justification for this massacre was the alleged capture of an Israeli soldier.

We, Al-Qassam Brigades, after carrying out an internal investigation, would like to confirm the following:

1. Since Friday dawn what happened was that the Israeli forces led an incursion 2 kilometres into Eastern Rafah at night, taking advantage of talks regarding the suggested humanitarian truce. We believe that clashes took place as a result between the enemy and our ambush at the site at the time. The clashes began at 7.00am, before the proposed truce was in effect, while the enemy launched its attack on civilians at 10.00am, blatantly violating the truce in aims of finding a missing soldier.

2. We have lost contact with our members at the ambush and believe that they have been martyred in the attack and that the missing soldier was killed, that’s on the assumption that he was captured.

3. Al-Qassam Brigades have no knowledge regarding the soldier missing in action or his location or the circumstances of his disappearance.

4. We have notified mediators which arranged the humanitarian ceasefire that we agree to ceasefire on Israeli territories, but for all practical purposes we cannot ceasefire against advancing enemy troops which are on the move all the time as they engage with our forces and
that leads to scrimmages.

Al-Qassam Brigades 
Palestine
Saturday, 2nd August 2014

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BREAKING NEWS - #Israel and #Hamas agree to unconditional 72-hr ceasefire - DETAILS

BREAKING NEWS July 31 2014:

 and  agree to unconditional 72-hour ceasefire - will begin at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) on Friday, Aug. 1 - forces on ground to remain in place - Israeli and   delegations will begin negotiations in   for a more permanent ceasefire mediated by the   “The parties will be able to raise all issues of concern in these negotiations,” the two international leaders said.A representative of Hamas independently confirmed the ceasefire agreement.    http://rt.com/news/177144-un-us-israel-hamas-ceasefire/  

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Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Cease-fire Announcement in Gaza
Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJuly 31, 2014
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From the U.S. Department of State:

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United States Secretary of State John Kerry announce that the United Nations Representative in Jerusalem, Special Coordinator Robert Serry, has received assurances that all parties have agreed to an unconditional humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.

This humanitarian cease-fire will commence at 8 am local time on Friday, August 1, 2014. It will last for a period of 72 hours unless extended.

During this time the forces on the ground will remain in place.
We urge all parties to act with restraint until this humanitarian cease-fire begins, and to fully abide by their commitments during the cease-fire.

This cease-fire is critical to giving innocent civilians a much-needed reprieve from violence. During this period, civilians in Gaza will receive urgently needed humanitarian relief, and the opportunity to carry out vital functions, including burying the dead, taking care of the injured, and restocking food supplies. Overdue repairs on essential water and energy infrastructure could also continue during this period.

Israeli and Palestinian delegations will immediately be going to Cairo for negotiations with the Government of Egypt, at the invitation of Egypt, aimed at reaching a durable cease-fire. The parties will be able to raise all issues of concern in these negotiations.

We thank key regional stakeholders for their vital support of this process, and count on a continued collaborative international effort to assist Egypt and the parties reach a durable cease-fire as soon as possible.

The children of #Gaza - Jon Snow of Channel 4 News July 26 2014 [3mins]

Channel 4 News

Published on Jul 26, 2014

Jon Snow recounts the scene in Gaza's al-Shifa

hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults

and children wounded by Israeli attacks.

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How It Started - #OperationProtectiveEdge #Hamas #GazaUnderAttack #Israel - July 26 2014

Posted by Diane V. McLoughlin

An account from a young Palestinian man encapsulating the recent history of Israel - Palestine; how 'Operation Protective Edge' - Israel's most recent military assault on Gaza - began; and his experience of life under Israel's military occupation - as discovered in readers' comments on the Facebook page for Haaretz, a major news publication in Israel, on July 26, 2014:

                           Destruction in Gaza July 26, 2014 (Haaretz.com)



Bashar Ahmaro:

Hamas isn't and has never been the problem.  It's the consecutive Israeli 
governments, you wished for a more peaceful Palestinian government and
assumed things would be a lot better if it existed, the problem is that there 
is one!!! 

Hamas doesn't control all the Palestinian territories, 
Hamas only controls the Gaza strip, while the other main and bigger territory for
us is the West Bank, 
and its under the Palestinian Authority that is controlled predominantly by the 
Fatah faction. 

The government there has been so eager for a peaceful solution
 for the Palestinian people as the building of new
 illegal settlements on our lands and the
 killing of our people continued. Our President, Mahmoud Abbas, has expressed
thousands of times that he doesn't want to take the violence route, and he said
 that he prefers negotiations for a lasting and just peace. 

For 20 years he, and
 his Fatah faction have been negotiating for a Palestinian state that is only 22% of 
the old historical Palestine before Jewish people from around the world migrated 
and lived in these lands in the 40's; the Palestinian state would be established on 
the West Bank and Gaza.  

But what did Israel do since the Oslo Accords in 1993
 that preluded and made a foundation for peace between the two nations, which
 contained a mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel? 

There were only 
100,000 settlers living illegally in settlements in the West Bank; 20 years later the
 number has reach 600,000 new settlers through constant building of new illegal
 settlements. 

Israel didn't stop at that, it built a wall that runs through the middle
 of our Palestinian towns and villages which made it even seen from most houses
 in our towns like what I used to see from my school windows everyday, making
 me feel like am living in a prison while I was growing up, annexing another 10%
 of our lands in the West Bank, separating friends and families from each other
 and making our daily life - education; business; transportation - a
 nightmare. 

Israel kept killing Palestinian children on a rate of 1 Palestinian every
 3 days for 13 years, the last sequence of deaths happened in the previous 2 
months:

-In 15/5/2014, 2 Palestinian teenagers were killed by the Israeli army: Nadeem
 Nowara, 15 years old, and Mohammed abu Thaher, 16, in the West Bank -
 A MONTH  BEFORE THE THREE SETTLERS WENT MISSING 
[link: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.598304. ].
This incident was
 even captured by the CNN reporters on the minute an Israeli soldier shot his rifle
 in the heart of one of the teenagers, this is the link for the CNN report if you
 would like to take a look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
o29CJRZEf4... ;

-Plus the 5 killed in the manhunt for the three Israeli settlers - a 13 y/o child and
 a handicap among them [http://www.theguardian.com/.../palestinians-shot-
dead... ];

-Then Mohammed abu Khdeir that was burned alive by Israelis after the fate of 
the three settlers was revealed!  [http://www.theguardian.com/.../reported-
confessions... ]

Israelis had already killed 8 Palestinians before (which means Israel started)
 and after the death of the three settlers, and notice that all these killings took
 place in the WEST BANK where there is no Hamas and no rockets being fired at
 Israel nor any violent movements like Gaza!!


All this leads you to a conclusion that Israel is a brutal occupation, and has been
 making our lives miserable, through killing, torturing, and arresting our children,
 and illegal settlements and walls, ((((whether there is Hamas or not!))) Israel
 had the opportunity to make a long-lasting peace through 20 years but never 
chose to, it chose occupation and land grabbing!

After 60 years of occupation violence met violence, Hamas gained strength and
 decided to retaliate! It retaliated after the death of our two teens in Ramallah,
 Nadeem Nowara 15 , and Mohammed abu Thaher 16, a month before the three
 Israeli teens went missing ... that's how everything escalated, and that's why 
Hamas is firing "primitive homemade" rockets into Israel ...

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