TEL AVIV - After the bloody day yesterday, in which 60 Palestinians were killed in an attack on the Gaza Strip, the president of the Abu Mazen has officially suspended all contact with Israelis in protest. And while the government of Ehud Olmert has made clear that "Israel has no intention of suspending the fight against terrorism, the United Nations Security Council urged Israel and Palestinian militants to put an end to all violence. But the raids and bombings do not stop and continue to make victims among the civilian population of the strip.
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Olmert raids will continue. Opening the session of the Council of Ministers Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the criticism of the operations in the Gaza Strip and announced that the Jewish state "has no intention" to suspend the raids against the positions of the militants, who continue to be affected "inexorably". Olmert also rejected criticism from the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon who has denounced "excessive use of force" by Israel. "We must remember that Israel is protecting its own citizens in the south of the country and nothing will prevent us from continuing to do our duty. No one has the moral right to preach to Israel on its right to self-defense," said Olmert.
Barak: We must prepare for escalation. "We will continue our action with all the force and we must prepare for an escalation," he said on the radio shortly before the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, saying that large Israeli ground operation in Gaza "is real and tangible." Barak had previously explained that Israel "does not crave" to such an operation and that there are considerations other than the timing of its implementation.
UN urges end of violence. Meanwhile, after an emergency meeting lasted five hours, the UN Security Council urged Israel and Palestinian militants to put an end to all violence in Gaza. "The members of the Security Council are deeply concerned about the loss of lives in southern Israel and Gaza and condemn the escalation of violence," the statement announced by the Russian Embassy to the United Nations Vitaly Ciurkin, current president on duty. "These events - the text continues - stress the need that all parties cease immediately all acts of violence. "
I continued Israeli raids in Gaza. During the day, Israeli forces have returned to attack Gaza. Three people including a civilian and a Hamas militant, were killed in two separate joint Air Force and the army of the Jewish state. Two other Palestinians were shot to death in and around Jabaliya. In the morning many demonstrations of solidarity for the Palestinian people of Gaza were held in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. There were also clashes with Israeli soldiers, the hardest to Hebron, where about forty protesters were bruised or poisoned by tear gas. local medical sources report that a 12-year-old shot dead in the chest by a bullet fired by the military to disperse the demonstration.
Pope to stop violence in the Holy Land. Benedict XVI during the Angelus, he renewed his "urgent appeal to the authorities, both Israeli and Palestinians, why not stop this spiral of violence, unilaterally and without conditions. Only by showing absolute respect for human life, even that of the enemy, we can hope to give a future of peace and coexistence to the younger generations of those peoples that both have their roots in the Holy Land. "
D'Alema, just military blitz. Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, joins the call for the halt to violence by either side. Italy at this time maintains extensive contacts with key partners for initiatives of the international community to address the need for dialogue and not to interrupt the peace process relaunched with the Annapolis conference.
(March 2, 2008) - The Republic
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