Updates Israel - IDF kills Two
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Israel would not be able to avoid a wide military operation in the Gaza Strip , unless Palestinian militants cease firing rockets and carrying out terror attacks on Israelis. Barak passed this message on to Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who arrived in the region on Monday to present Cairo's proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza. Das wochenede über kam es zu teils schweren Raketenangriffen auf israelische Grenzanlagen und zivile Ziele. At least 21 Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip struck the western Negev on Saturday, lightly hurting five people. Several rockets damaged buildings in Israeli towns, including a home that was hit while family members were inside. None of them were injured. Another rocket fired from Gaza shattered the windows of a Sderot synagogue. + Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired three rockets at the western Negev on Sunday , one of whiche exploded next to a schoolbus carrying children. + Two Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants hit Ashkelon on Monday morning . One of the rockets struck an area that contains many schools and kindergartens at 7 A.M., only a few minutes before the area is usually filled with children. [...] PM Olmert is expected to visit Egypt in the coming weeks, where he will meet with President Hosni Mubarak to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, the framework for a cease-fire agreement and the continuing negotiations with the Palestinians on the core issues of a permanent settlement. Olmert's visit to Egypt was agreed to in principle during a conversation with Mubarak on April 30, before the Talansky Affair broke. Mubarak had told Olmert that he is interested to talk in private about the situation in Gaza and the negotiations with the Palestinians, and the two agreed that the PM would visit Egypt in the wake of President George W. Bush's visit to Israel and the summit with the Arab heads of state at Sharm el-Sheikh next week. [...] Negotiations for the release of captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit have been at a standstill for months , officials told Army Radio Monday, adding that the cease-fire agreement with Hamas that is being brokered by the Egyptians is "an opportunity" to further the cause of Schalit's homecoming. [...] More than 800,000 people in the Gaza Strip are spending the second consecutive night without electricity on Sunday. The Gaza Strip's sole power plant shut down due to a lack of fuel on Saturday afternoon, Kan'an 'Ubaid, the deputy chair of the Palestinian power and natural resources said service. According to recent data is the fuel delivery have been this morning resumed. [...] On Sunday morning, shot and killed a Hamas observation post in the Al-Qarara area by the IDF. wounded on Wednesday in Khaza'a died a young man [Status unknown] on Monday morning in the hospital. Otherwise, only minor incidents reported. [...] A top Egyptian mediator said on Monday he had "high expectations" that a ceasefire deal could be reached between Israel and Hamas Islamists controlling the Gaza Strip. Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief, held talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on a truce, ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Asked by reporters about his expectations, Suleiman held up his thumb in a gesture of optimism and replied in English: "High expectations ." Barak said he hoped Suleiman's visit would "produce productive discussions."
A series of articles dealing with the Olmert affair Talanski of PM Ehud, and me personally are no significant new issues noticed. Morris Talansky, the central figure in the new investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "emphatically denies " that he bribed Olmert. [...] The current police investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "will eventually lead to to indictment," former senior police Yaakov Borovsky officer said Monday. Major-General (ret.) Borovsky, who headed the anti-corruption department at the State Comptroller's Office, is familiar with details of the probes against Olmert. [...] Some important reversal of Israeli opinion on the one with 59% forecast calls for Olmert to resign and the other election results can be surprising: If Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni were to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as Kadima's Minsiter leader she would win a future election against Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud and Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Labor party, according to a poll published by Yediot Aharonot on Monday. What is astonishing is the slap in the face of Avoda Guide Barak, who can not even beat out of this stressful situation of the Kadima Capital: The poll predicted that Kadima with Livni leading the party would receive 27 seats in the Knesset, as opposed to 23 for Likud and 15 for Labor. Since Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu andie partners as a carrier of an Israeli right-wing government, with Avgdor Lieberman rather a PM Netanyahu advocates and tendered as a new War Minister -which is absurd because he is not the Likud can govern-dawning on the right-most right-wing government which in Israel had ever had. Self-blame: Barak would be to keep his word and should withdraw from the coalition Cabinet with Olmert. Now he is with the under. [...] Although some of Kadima's Seemed top ministers Sunday to show initial signs of positioning to take over the troubled party, Kadima rank-and-file said that none of the top-ranked members of the party had begun to Actively build blocs of support. While some Kadima MKs attributed to the disorganization of absence of leadership ability on the part of the party's top officials, others chalked up the lack of active bloc formation to a pragmatic decision made by each one of the would-be leaders. [...] For more news and articles: One thing police investigators hope to accomplish in their investigation of the Ehud Olmert, Morris Talansky affair is to break the long-standing bonds of loyalty between the prime minister, attorney Uri Messer and Olmert's former office manager, Shula Zaken. +++ The investigation into Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's alleged illegal receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars from American businessman and fund-raiser Morris Talansky is currently focused on Olmert's tenure as industry and trade minister in the Sharon government - not on the mayoral election campaigns in which Olmert participated, the funding for which he said he had received from Talansky, sources involved in the probe told Haaretz. [Incl. Interview mit Talansky] +++ People around the prime minister are claiming that political rivals are behind the allegations against him in the latest investigation. According to this version, Ehud Olmert is a victim of persecution by certain elements on the right who seek to remove him from office to foil his diplomatic initiatives toward the Palestinians. + + + Uzi Benziman, " He can not continue " + + + Revealing the identity of the primary witness, Morris Talansky, Ehud Olmert In the last affair raises questions that go beyond the prime minister. Serious questions need to be asked about the relationship between American Jewry and Israel. + + + Akiva Eldar, " Bush should stay home "
is in the West Bank for more ordinary massive disputes in all relevant areas: About 27 Pälästinenser be injured in operations by the IDF arrested seven, while it also concluded abuse at a checkpoint. The Palestinian Association of Journalists called on the government ramallahnsichen the release of several imprisoned journalists who are detained for months in part because Hamas nearby. more arrests by the convicted PHCR . About 6 Hamas members were arrested in addition by the PA. Has a well brutal demonstration ended in Tulkarem I try to take first dates together. is now identified a tote you auffand front of a mosque in Abu Dis: Gaza refugee with temporary residence in East Jerusalem. The detailed circumstances of death could not yet be determined, or the PA had to do better. Obviously, after settlers protest degraded in Hebron by the IDF roadblock again established. + Hundreds students at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem staged a mock wedding on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from most of historic Palestine. + Incomprehensible but true: Jibril Rajoub has been appointed as the new Päsident of the Palestinian Football Association, having previously observed that FIFA will have a "choice".
Lally Weymouth's interview with Salam Fayyad in Ramallah .
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