Israeli occupation government shuts down Gaza crossings for 27th day, power plant shuts down too

[ 01/12/2008 - 10:24 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government announced on Monday that the Gaza Strip's commercial crossings with Israel would remain closed for the 27th day today as Gaza's sole power plant was shut down due to lack of fuel, spare parts.

The Hebrew radio reported that war minister Ehud Barak ordered the continued closure of all crossings with Gaza at the pretext that locally made missiles and mortars were still being fired from the Strip at Israeli targets.

The Israeli occupation forces said that a missile was fired Sunday night at the Sderot settlement causing material damage.

Palestinian resistance factions declared adherence to the calm with the IOF but said would respond to any IOF incursion or shelling.

The Gaza power plant was shut down on Sunday night after it ran out of fuel that was supplied by the IOA in limited quantity last week.

The plant's technicians managed to operate the station using locally made spare parts after the IOA refused to allow entry of original ones.

Nassif: What is happening in Gaza is a war crime, genocide

[ 01/12/2008 - 06:59 PM ]

TULKAREM, (PIC)--

Ra'fat Nassif, one of Hamas's political leaders in the West Bank, has described what is happening in the Gaza Strip as a war crime and genocide being committed against unarmed civilians whose only crime is their insistence on their legitimate rights and their rejection of "cheap blackmail".

Nassif, in a press statement on Monday, said that the crime is being implemented by a number of local, regional and international parties either deliberately or through silence.

He said that the Arab countries are not excused for not seriously acting to lift the siege, especially Egypt that continues to close the Rafah crossing.

The Hamas leader charged that Arab and Islamic silence could be only explained as participation in and approval of those crimes against Gaza.

He urged the Arab and Islamic organizations, movements and institutions along with religious scholars to act alongside the masses to force their regimes into acting to end "this brutal massacre against the innocent in Gaza".

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