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=== News Update ===
ISRAEL ACCUSED OH "STATE TERRORISM"
The Arab league has called for an immediate ceasefire (File)
A Palestinian official has accused Israel of state terrorism after an
attack in Gaza that killed 18 civilians, and said Israeli apologies for
such incidents were insincere and no longer acceptable.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN observer, told an emergency UN
Security Council meeting on Thursday: "This is terrorism, this is state
terrorism.
"These are war crimes for which the perpetrators must be held
accountable under international law."
But an Israeli diplomat insisted that Wednesday's deadly shelling in
Beit Hanoun had been accidental.
Israel was "deeply saddened" by it and doing its utmost to avoid a
repetition, Israeli envoy Daniel Carmon said.
The council met at the request of the 22-member Arab League, the 57-
nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the 116-nation Non-
Aligned Movement after what Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister,
referred to as "a technical failure" but which Palestinian leaders have
called a massacre.
The 18 dead, including seven children and four women, were buried at a
mass funeral in Gaza on Thursday.
Since the end of June, more than 450 Palestinians had been killed in the
Gaza Strip, "making death, mourning and grief a near-daily ritual for
the people of Gaza", Mansour said.
Immediate ceasefire
A draft Security Council resolution put forward by Arab states would
call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a UN observer force to
enforce the ceasefire, as was done in southern Lebanon after the 34-day
war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah that ended in August.
But the US, Israel's closest ally and one of five permanent council
members with veto power, typically opposes council intervention in the
Middle East conflict as ineffective in ending the Arab-Israeli cycle of
violence.
John Bolton, the US ambassador, said: "Despite all of the emotion in the
air, we must have an honest and even-handed discussion of recent events
in Gaza".
He urged Israel to quickly look into the artillery attack and take steps
to avoid a repetition while stressing the responsibility of the Hamas
government, which refuses to recognise Israel and reject violence, "to
prevent terror and take the necessary steps to stop attacks from within
Gaza".
"Progress requires a commitment to peace from both sides of the
conflict," Bolton said.
Angela Kane, the UN assistant secretary-general for political affairs,
also pressed Israel to do more to avoid civilian casualties and the
Palestinians to try harder to prevent rocket attacks on Israel from
Gaza.
"We hope that both Palestinians and Israelis will pause and reflect on
the fact that the conflict between them will not be resolved by force
and that ways must be found to bring about negotiations," she said.
Condemnation
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain denounced the killings on
Thursday as a number of Islamic foreign ministers prepared to meet to
discuss Israel's deadly offensive.
A Saudi government spokesman denounced what he called the "carnage".
"An urgent international conference needs to be convened, with the
participation of all the parties [concerned with the Middle
East problem] to put an end to these massacres and protect
the Palestinian people," he said.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, telephoned
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to "denounce Israeli
aggression in Beit Hanoun and the human losses they have caused", the
official QNA news agency said.
And in Manama, Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, the Bahraini foreign
minister, said the attacks by Israel constitute a "disappointing
reversal that is leading the region towards a dangerous precipice with
grave consequences".
Ministers from Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal and Yemen will gather along with Palestinian representatives on
November 18, the 57-member OIC said on Thursday.
Abbas requested the meeting in a telephone conversation with Ekmeleddin
Ihsanoglu, OIC secretary-general, the bloc added.
source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9DB7DCAA-C83A-42CF-A2A8-
D77602AD2051.htm
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