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Israel said it hit "two terror operatives", thwarting an attack which was in "a very advanced stage of planning"...Two weeks ago, six Palestinians, who Israel said were preparing attacks against it, were killed in air strikes in Gaza. Several Israelis and at least two Palestinians were hurt in rocket attacks on Israel, and further air strikes on Gaza, which followed. Hamas named the two men killed in the latest strike as border guards ...were "on their routine daily business of inspecting and securing the southern border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt" when they were hit late on Wednesday night.
BBC News - Israeli air strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza
This Week in Palestine
September 07
Non Violent Protests:
...Palestinian protesters marched after the prayers from the mosque of the village towards the confiscated lands. Israeli troops attempted to stop the protestors, by firing rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters at them causing several of them to faint, but were treated by field medics. Israeli soldiers also used waste water against the protestors. Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops abducted 11 International protestors including journalist who were trying to enter the village to participate in the protest. Israeli soldiers surrounded the village and blocked all entrances and exits...
Military Attacks
... in Gaza, three Palestinians were killed when the Israeli Air Force fired missiles into an area east of the Al-Boreij refugee camp on Wednesday. The Minister of Health in Gaza stated that an Israeli drone fired missiles targeting a group of residents, killing three, and seriously wounding another. Additionally, Israeli soldiers stationed at military towers across the Gazan border, opened automatic fire at Palestinian shepherds killing approximately 30 sheep. This week witnessed a rash of Palestinian kidnappings by Israeli soldiers across the West bank including one resident from Jenin, five residents from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a young woman and her 12-year-old brother living in Hebron...
Hunger Strikers:
..Administrative detainees Samer al-Barq and Hassan Safadi remain in “imminent danger” after hunger striking for 106 and 76 days respectively...
This Week in Palestine week 36 2012 - International Middle East Media Center
This Week in Palestine
September 14th, 2012
Non Violent Protests:
...At the villages of Bil’in and Nil’in protesters and their international and Israeli supporters reached the Israeli wall before soldiers attacked them with tear gas and sound bombs. Many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation. Meanwhile at the village of Al Nabi Saleh one man was injured by a rubber-coated steel bullet when soldiers attacked protesters. Troops attacked the protest before it even left Al Nabi Saleh, witnesses reported. In northern West Bank, at the village of Kufer Qadom Israeli troops attacked the protest at the village entrance and arrested four men among them an Israeli solidarity activist. Elsewhere on Friday, Israeli soldiers stationed at the village entrance of Al Ma’sara, southern west Bank, forced people back into the village using rifle-buts and batons...
Military Attacks
...Israeli warplanes launched 4 air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip. As a result, two rooms and a container were destroyed, 26 houses were damaged and 7 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and two women, were slightly injured. ... (a) series of airstrikes and shelling left seven Palestinians dead last week. ...Israeli naval forces continued to fire at Palestinian fishing boats... Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats... ...a Palestinian civilian was wounded and arrested by Israeli soldiers in the center of Hebron city southern West Bank...
...the Israeli military and ... Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday ...confiscate(d) 675 thousand squared meters of privately-owned Palestinian lands in the Nablus district, in the northern part of the West Bank. Palestinian sources said the Israeli military handed over confiscation orders to the residents of Burin and Awarta villages, southeast Nablus early Wednesday. Most of the land... is olive orchards. ...the Israeli government approved the upgrade of an Israeli college in the illegal settlement of Ariel into a university, a decision that created uproar among Palestinian, International and Israeli academics...
This Week in Palestine, September 14th, 2012 : Indybay
eao: I don't believe all Israeli soldiers act like Nazis. Maybe some do, but most are civilian conscripts, doing mandatory military service. The OP is inflammatory and I don't share that opinion regarding the IDF.
I support people knowing more details of this conflict than just what makes our news and drawing their own conclusions.
IMO, This is an ethnic cleansing war where one group of people are removing another group off the land and in the process horrific acts are committed by both sides. Canada should not align itself with one side or the other. We should remain distant and neutral. We should be consistent regarding war crimes and human rights violations.
Other people obviously have other opinions regarding this conflict.
Another observation I have is that Israel's collapse is inevitable based on current trends. (That's not a wish, as I believe all civilians should be protected from war, including Israelis and Palestinians)
I support Canada absorbing refugees (civilians) from this conflict provided they have not committed any crimes. Soldiers who do their duty while respecting international laws and treaties and their families should be welcomed to Canada, provided they leave this conflict behind them. Those individuals who commit war crimes should not be allowed into Canada.