Kekerasan terus mengulangi karena ke dua pihak saling membalas
dendam. berlangsung membalas dendam apakah telah dapat disebutkkan
bangsa biadab? Padahal mereka dapat melihat ketabahan dan mendukung
penyelesaian solusi.
Cara seperti ini belum tentu dapat diterima olehNya selama
pembalasdendaman dan kekerasan tanpa melalui penyelesaian. Jangan ada
yang paling benar dalam keputusan saja, bukankah caranya penyelesaian
konflik adalah terbaik?
wallahu allam,
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18 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Clashes
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israeli helicopters pounded this refugee camp on
the border with Egypt with missiles and machine gun fire Tuesday,
killing at least 18 Palestinians as troops searched houses in an
offensive that drew worldwide condemnation.
The United States said it was seeking clarifications from Israel
about the operation, the biggest in Gaza in years. Officials said it
would last at least a week.
The army said most of those killed were gunmen. Palestinians said six
civilians were among the dead, including a brother and sister, ages
13 and 16, who were killed by shots from a nearby army position while
taking down laundry from a rooftop.
The death toll was expected to rise, with doctors saying they had
reports of two bodies that ambulances were unable to collect.
In the West Bank, two Palestinians were killed by army fire � one in
the city of Nablus and one near Jenin.
Trapped Rafah residents huddled in the innermost rooms of their homes
as bullets rained outside. Others tried to flee to safer ground;
since the weekend, thousands of Rafah residents have left their
homes. At least 42 Palestinians were wounded, including 12 who were
in serious condition.
Israel says it is targeting the Rafah refugee camp to destroy arms-
smuggling tunnels and hunt Palestinian militants. Security officials
said earlier this week the army also plans to widen an Israeli patrol
road between the camp and Egypt, which would entail demolishing rows
of nearby houses.
However, army officials said Tuesday there would be no systematic
demolitions.
Last week, Israel destroyed about 100 houses near the patrol road,
making more than 1,000 Palestinians homeless and drawing condemnation
from around the world.
A report released Tuesday by Amnesty International said Israel is
guilty of war crimes for its destruction of thousands of Palestinian
homes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (news - web sites).
The human rights group called on Israel to halt the practices
immediately, saying the destruction was disproportionate to Israel's
security needs and represented "grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva
Convention and are war crimes."
Responding to the report, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said
Palestinian militants use houses in civilian neighborhoods to attack
Israeli forces and as cover for weapons-smuggling tunnels.
The first phase of Israel's offensive, "Operation Rainbow," struck
the Tel Sultan neighborhood on the outskirts of the Rafah camp
Tuesday, about two miles from the patrol road.
Bulldozers began tearing up a road to separate the neighborhood from
the rest of the camp, home to about 90,000 Palestinians, witnesses
said. Soldiers backed by about 70 armored vehicles went house-to-
house in the neighborhood.
Ahmed Mughayer, 13, and his 16-year-old sister Asma were on the roof
of their three-story apartment building when they were hit by army
fire, said their older brother, Ali. The shots were fired from an
Israeli army position on the sixth floor of the neighboring building,
Ali Mughayer said.
He said that when he heard the shots, he raced upstairs and saw his
siblings lying on the ground. Mughayer said that as he tried to pull
the bodies, he himself came under fire. "I was crawling on the roof
because of the fire, and with great difficulty, I finally got them
out," he said.
The army had no immediate comment on the deaths.
In all, 18 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire � 10 in two
separate missile strikes, and eight by machine gun fire, said Dr.
Moawiya Hassanain, a senior Palestinian Health Ministry official. A
19th man was killed while handling explosives.
The raid began before dawn Tuesday with two missile strikes the army
said were aimed at gunmen. A missile hit a group of gunmen outside a
mosque in Tel Sultan, killing three. Two more missiles were fired,
killing three more people who rushed to help. The mosque caught fire.
In another airstrike, four Palestinian civilians were killed,
according to hospital officials.
Troops also demolished four houses in Tel Sultan, witnesses said. In
all, more than 11,000 Palestinians in Rafah have been made homeless
by Israeli demolitions since the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian
fighting in 2000.
With the dead streaming to Abu Yousef Al Najar Hospital in Rafah, the
morgue filled up and bodies wrapped in white cloth were laid on the
ground in a storefront next to a falafel stand.
Palestinian ambulance drivers reported coming under fire and many
were unable to evacuate wounded.
Dr. Wael Burdeini said troops besieged a clinic in Tel Sultan, with a
tank and an army bulldozer parked outside, and there was heavy
shooting in the area. "Two pregnant women called for urgent medical
care, and one of them delivered at home," Burdeini said.
The Israeli military denied besieging the clinic, saying gunmen were
firing from nearby at Israeli troops and drawing return fire. The
army also said it was permitting some ambulances to drive to a larger
hospital in neighboring Khan Younis.
Israeli army chief Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon said Israel has no choice
but to act because Palestinian militants have succeeded in smuggling
rocket-propelled grenade launchers into Rafah, with the help of Iran
and the Iranian-funded Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon.
Paul Patin, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, said the
United States has asked Israel for clarifications regarding the Rafah
operations.
Arab nations asked for a special session of the U.N. Security Council
about the situation in Gaza, and Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news -
web sites) denounced the Israeli operation. Amr Moussa, the secretary-
general of the Arab League, condemned the destruction and described
Israeli actions in Rafah and Gaza as "war crimes."
Jordan called on Israel to stop its assault and return to
negotiations with the Palestinians. In a statement carried by the
official Petra news agency, it said home demolitions and the killings
of unarmed Palestinians "represent flagrant and direct aggression
against thousands of citizens and threaten directly the stability of
the Palestinian territories in particular, and the region in
general."
European Union (news - web sites) foreign policy representative
Javier Solana said the destruction of homes "goes very much against
the letter and the spirit of the road map" plan for Israeli-
Palestinian peace. An EU enovy, Marc Otte, was in Israel for talks
with Israeli leaders, his aides said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) has proposed a
unilateral pullout of soldiers and settlers from Gaza, but his party
turned down the plan in a nonbinding referendum. Officials said
Monday that he would make minor revisions in his plan over the next
two weeks and present it to his Cabinet.
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