Israeli flash bombs in the skies of Gaza 

Date: 14 / 09 / 2007 Time: 09:46

Gaza – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday evening launched several flash bombs in the skies of the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses told Ma'an.

They said that the flash bombs were fired over the evacuated illegal  Israeli settlement which was once called Netsarim in the southern Gaza Strip. The said the intensity of the flash bombs was so bright it seemed like it was daylight.

Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip are worried that the flash bombs indicate an expected Israeli assault since the area in which they were fired is strategically crucial for any Israeli assault.

Another eyewitness told Ma'an that flash bombs were also fired over the evacuated settlement of Kfar Darom, north of Dair Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, other eyewitnesses stated that flash bombs along with and reconnaissance planes were also seen over the evacuated settlements of the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation army fires flare bombs over Gaza amidst fear of imminent attack 

Thursday September 13, 2007 23:16 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies rami at imemc dot org

Israeli occupation forces fired Thursday night flare bombs on different areas of the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

IMEMC’s correspondent in Gaza said that a number of these flare bombs lit the skies of central and southern Gaza Strip, mainly on areas of previous illegal Israeli settlements of Nitsarim and Kfar Darom.

The firing of these bombs came amidst fears by the Gaza Strip’s population of an imminent Israeli occupation forces massive attack on the costal region, after many senior Israeli occupation military officials hinted at the possibility of attacking Gaza, in a bid to ‘ halt homemade rocket fire’.

On Thursday, Palestinian resistance groups including Hamas’s military wing, Ezziuddin El-Qassam, warned of unprecedented confrontation with the invading Israeli forces, once Israel makes its threats into effect.

Witnesses in northern and southern Gaza Strip told IMEMC that the Israeli army tanks and armored vehicles have been heavily present on Gaza-Israel border line.

Tension has been recently on rise after the Islamic Jihad group’s homemade shells landed on an Israeli army base in southern Israel, wounding slightly many Israeli soldiers, casuatlities that are considered to be unprecedented in a Gaza-based rocket attack.

About sixty Palestinians including several children have been killed during Israeli attacks on both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past three months, say Palestinian sources.

Meanwhile, 12 Israelis have been killed due to Palestinian attacks over the past three years, according to Israeli sources.

A five-month-old ceasefire between Palestinians and Israel broke down in April,2007, after Israel killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The ceasefire was reached in November2006 following an Israeli army massacre in northern Gaza, where at least 19 civilians were killed inside their homes.

 

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Note to Readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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