Israeli Occupation Forces Get US Anti-Missile Aid

Israel Gets US Anti-Missile Aid

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,

November 12, 2007 (WAFA)-

The United States has given the Israeli occupation government 155 million dollars to develop an advanced missile interception system, Israeli sources said.

The sources added that this amount is $17 million more than the designated sum for these projects in the 2008 fiscal year, and $75 more than the original White House proposal.

The money, which Congress approved on Wednesday, will help advance the development of a multi-layered anti-missile system that Barak presented to his US counterpart Robert Gates in Washington last month.

The system is allegedly intended to counter projectiles ranging from rudimentary rockets to long-range missiles.

The Israeli occupation forces have already tested and deployed the so-called Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed with the United States, which is said to be able to deflect most missile strikes against the occupied territories.

The aid package is part of the US Defense Appropriations Bill for the 2008 fiscal year. The bill will require the approval of both houses of Congress, but this will be given as a matter of course (as the US Congress has a history of rubber-stamping any amounts of direct or indirect aid to the Israeli occupation government).

The bill will then be presented to President George W. Bush, who will most likely (rubber-stamp) sign it before the end of November (as all his predecessors except Eisenhower did), ahead of the Annapolis peace conference.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap two Palestinian lawmakers, 21 others in West Bank

Date: 12 / 11 / 2007 Time: 10:46

Bethlehem – Ma'an–

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped Palestinian lawmakers Maryam Saleh and Khalid Tafish Monday morning.

Saleh's son said Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the family home in Ramallah at 1am, detaining Saleh and confiscating a computer.

Aesha Thwaib, Tafish's wife, said that Israeli occupation forces ransacked their home in Bethlehem, seizing Tafish.

Both are members of Hamas' "Change and Reform" bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

Tafish was released from the Israeli occupation prison system this year after serving several years. He was nominated and elected to the PLC while in prison.

The Israeli occupation government held 44 PLC members in prison since the summer of 2006. Among those detained PLC speaker Aziz Dwaik

Also in Ramallah, the Jayyousi family said Israeli occupation forces broke into their home, kidnapping Majid Hassan. Hassan's wife, Nada Jayyousi is already jailed in Israel.

In the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, Israeli forces kidnapped 19 activists affiliated with Hamas, Fateh, and Islamic Jihad.

Palestinian security sources said dozens of Israeli occupation vehicles invaded the city and surrounding refugee camps and villages.

Israeli occupation soldiers injured in Gaza Strip clash, Al-Quds Brigades say

Date: 12 / 11 / 2007 Time: 12:40

Gaza – Ma'an –

Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility on Monday for launching a rocket –propelled grenade at an Israeli watchtower at the Kisufim military post in the southern Gaza Strip.

The group claimed that Israeli soldiers were wounded in an ensuing skirmish, including a soldier in the tower.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap Palestinian man at Jordanian border

Date: 12 / 11 / 2007 Time: 11:18

Nablus – Ma'an –

On Sunday Israeli occupation border guards kidnapped Khaled Salama, a technical advisor in the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works, Salama's family said.

Salama was returning from Jordan, where he was accompanying his brother for medical treatment. The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped him at the King Hussein bridge, the main crossing point between Jordan and the West Bank.

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