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Read In This Report 4 martyrs of resistance elements while blocking Israeli incursion P4
Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers inside the Khan Younis Tunnel
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Resistance in Gaza downs an Israeli drone P7
“Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others
“Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied Jerusalem
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Fourteen suicides in Israeli army in 2012
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Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use By: Dr. Elias Akleh
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CONTENTS News of Palestine
Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers inside the Khan Younis Tunnel Resistance in Gaza downs an Israeli drone Knesset to approve a bill to divide al-Aqsa mosque “Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others Netanyahu urges Obama to continue financial aid to Cairo Power outage across Gaza as fuel runs out “Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied Jerusalem Prison administration threatens sanctions on administrative prisoners Syrian army kills Palestinian refugee family
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Fourteen suicides in Israeli army in 2012
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Articles & Analyses
Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use
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News of Palestine
4 martyrs of resistance elements while blocking Israeli incursion
Hamas sets a trap for Israeli soldiers inside the Khan Younis Tunnel
1/11/2013 An Israeli Military source has revealed on Friday that the tunnel which was dug previously by the Palestinian resistance and discovered by the Israeli occupation two weeks ago was used by Hamas as a trap to kill or kidnap Israeli soldiers. The source said that, Hamas fighters were hiding at the entrance of the tunnel ready to attack the Israeli force once entering the tunnel. According to the source, if this scenario took place, Hamas would be able to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
by the head of Gaza-brigade in the Israeli army and equipped by tanks and bulldozers advanced 100 meter into the Gaza strip aiming at destroying the discovered tunnel from the top, and once the digger started digging in the ground to destroy the tunnel, it hit a bomb that was implanted by Hamas fighters inside the tunnel; the bomb exploded causing many injuries among the Israeli soldiers.
ian resistance confronted Israeli soldiers to block the Israeli incursion, where four Palestine resistance elements were killed in the shelling according to AlQassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. Al-Qassam said that Khaled Mohammad Abu Jom’a, 35, Mohammad Rasheed Daoud, 26, Mohammad Omar Al-Qassam, 23, Rabee’ Baraka, 23, were killed during ensuing clashes with invading Israeli soldiers. The Israeli authorities admitted the injury of 5 Israeli soldiers during the clashes.
Following the operation, dozens of Israeli soldiers advanced into Khan Younis using armored vehicles, firing a number of missiles and dozens of rounds of Source: Safa + PIC However, an Israeli force led live ammunition. The Palestin4 |
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Resistance in Gaza downs an Israeli drone
3/11/2013 Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip declared, on Sunday, that it managed to down an Israeli drone flying over the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The fighters managed to control the drone and downed it in an open area in northern Gaza, while Israeli sources admitted that the drone did not drop due to a technical error. The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters managed to down the drone. This is the second time armed groups in Gaza manage to down an Israeli drone, as the Al-Qassam Brigades declared during the latest Israeli war on Gaza, a year ago, that it managed to down an Israeli drone, and documented the incident. An Israeli military spokesperson stated Sunday that the drone fell inside the Gaza Strip, effectively falling in the hands of the resistance. He said that the drone landed and crashed due to a “malfunction”, an issue that the resistance challenged.
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Israeli settlers continue to storm al-Aqsa daily
Knesset to approve a bill to divide al-Aqsa mosque
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The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said that Israeli Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs will submit to the Knesset on Monday a bill to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially between Muslims and Jews. The bill came in harmony with an Israeli media campaign aiming to introduce it to the local, regional and international public opinion. The Foundation warned of the seriousness of the bill especially that it was proposed by the parties participating in the coalition government including Jewish Home and Likud parties in addition to number of MKs representing other Israeli parties. The Foundation revealed two weeks ago a detailed copy of the proposal according to which Jews would be able to visit al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Talmudic rituals. It has also made several reports
in different languages concerning the issue. The Foundation stressed the urgent need to save alAqsa mosque from the Israeli schemes and dangers, calling for intensifying the Palestinian presence in the Islamic religious site. In a related context, Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli soldiers continued to storm al-Aqsa Mosque aiming at creating a new reality on ground and paving the way for dividing the mosque; where 33 settlers broke into the holy Islamic site and toured its various courtyards on Tuesday besides over 50 Israeli school students also broke into and desecrated the Aqsa Mosque. On Wednesday, more than 30 Israelis broke into the holy site in groups, while on Thursday, around 30 settlers including women and children entered the holy site via the Maghareba gate led by a Source: Agencies rabbi.
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“Israel” releases 26 Palestinian prisoners, kidnaps 50 others
30/10/2013 The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) released 26 Palestinian prisoners, who were serving life sentences, after midnight Tuesday. Five of those released arrived at Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing, north of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Wednesday to a popular welcome ceremony. Dozens of relatives waited for the released captives despite the delay in their arrival, waving flags and banners of various factions.
work for the release of all prisoners. The release of those prisoners was part of a deal between the PA in Ramallah and Israel to renew negotiations that also included PA’s approval not to join international institutions and to give a blind eye to Israeli settlement activity.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces have launched an arrest campaign against leaders and members of Hamas in the West Bank on the eve of the release of Hamas, in a terse statement, 26 Palestinian prisoners. Promiwelcomed the release of pris- nent Hamas leaders, Jamal Aloners, renewing its pledge to Taweel, Hussin Abu Kwaik, Faraj
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Abu Rummaneh, Adnan Abu Tabbaneh and Maher Bader were among over 50 Palestinians arrested. On the other hand, the Palestine center for studies said in its monthly report that the Israeli occupation forces rounded up 390 Palestinians in October including 65 children. It pointed out that IOF soldiers launched more than 240 raids into various West Bank cities, towns, and refugee camps in addition to occupied Jerusalem.
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Netanyahu urges Obama to continue financial aid to Cairo
Power outage across Gaza as fuel runs out
1/11/2013 A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of Hamas-led government.
31/10/2013 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked US President Barak Obama not to cut or delay American aid to Egypt amidst fears that the Camp David peace treaty may collapse. Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that one of the key issues Netanyahu discussed with Obama when the two met at the White House on 2 October was US aid to Egypt. According to the newspaper, Netanyahu told Obama that cutting the aid could undermine the US brokered peace treaty. Netanyahu explained that aid cuts would put the Egyptian government under popular pressure, which could lead to a violation of the peace treaty. Netanyahu, the newspaper claimed, also told Obama that US aid to Egypt plays a central role in maintaining order in the region.
Source: MEMO
«We have completely stopped the operation of (Gaza›s sole) power plant this morning at 6 a.m. because we don›t have a single litter of fuel,» Fathi el-Sheikh Khalil, the authority›s deputy chairman, told AFP. An AFP correspondent in the Gaza Strip said the electricity supply had been cut off across most of the territory. Khalil blamed the power outage on Egypt›s destruction of tunnels used for bringing fuel to Gaza. «Less than 50 percent of the needs of the Gaza Strip are currently covered by electricity from “Israel” and we can no longer get Egyptian fuel due to the destruction of tunnels from Egypt, we tried to get fuel from Israel via the Palestinian Authority, but it has imposed prohibitive taxes « he said. The Gaza plant supplies about a third of the electricity the territory of 1.75 million people needs. «The plant will remain shut until fuel supplies resume from Egypt through the tunnels or the Rafah border crossing, or from Israel if the Palestinian Authority agrees not to impose the heavy taxes,» said Khalil. In September, the Gaza energy authority warned of an impending shortage of fuel and called on Egypt to resume deliveries to the Strip.
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While negotiations continue
“Israel” approves 1,500 new settlements in occupied Jerusalem 30/10/2013 Immediately after the release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, Israel announced plans to build 1,500 new settlements in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, as well as the construction of a new park near Silwan. As part of a deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA), earlier this week Israel released the second batch of Palestinian prisoners who were jailed before the 1993 Oslo agreement, numbering 26 out of the 104 prisoners in total who will eventually be released. Only hours after celebrating their release in Ramallah, where the PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech promising not to leave any Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the occupation authorities announced the new settlement plans. The decision to build new 1,500 units in the Ramat Shlomo settlement is part of an agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu and his Interior Minister Gideon Sa›ar to advance four construction areas in different parts of occupied Jerusalem. According to Israeli media, the agreement includes establishing another tourist and archeological centre, as well as a national park, on the eastern side of the Hebrew University campus near Wadi Al-Hilwa in occupied Jerusalem. Last week the Associated Press reported that an Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, revealed that the Americans and Palestinians were both aware of Israel›s intentions regarding the new settlements, which were made clear before talks resumed.
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Israel›s Channel 10 television reported that Netanyahu is planning to carry out similar steps when other prisoners are released. The report said that the settlements are intended to compensate extremist Israeli officials for agreeing to the prisoner release. Many right wing Israelis have rejected the release of prisoners calling them «murderers». According to Channel 10, Netanyahu hopes to build 4,000 to 5,000 new settlements in return for the release of 104 Palestinians prisoners, who have been suffering in Israeli jails for more than 20 years.
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Prison administration threatens sanctions on administrative prisoners
2/11/2013 Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said that the administration of the Israeli Negev desert prison on Saturday morning threatened the administrative prisoners to deprive them of the canteen and all their rights if they continued their protest steps. The prisoners told the center that few days ago the prison administration gathered all the administrative captives and put them in one section, then doubled the number of soldiers 10 |
guarding the section to facilitate imposing sanctions against them in case they continued their protest steps to end the administrative detention. They added that the administration is continuously threatening to impose tough sanctions against them, including depriving them of the canteen.
boycotting the prisons’ clinics. For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Center warned of a real danger threatening the lives of administrative captives because of the escalation of their steps and the occupation ongoing threats against them, and called for supporting them by all means. It also appealed to international organizations to intervene to protect the detainees and to assist them in achieving their just demands.
The prisoners pointed out that this new threat came after the administrative prisoners in Israeli jails began on Friday their second protest steps represented Source: PIC in stopping taking medicines and
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Syrian army kills Palestinian refugee family
2/11/2013 Four members of a Palestinian refugee family in Syria were killed on Friday night whilst trying to flee the continuous shelling of Palestinian refugee camps by Bashar al-Assad›s army, Action Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria said. According to Action Group, a number of other Palestinian refugees were wounded in the same incident. «They were targeted by a rocket whilst they were leaving Al-Sabeenah Refugee Camp,» the group said. It also added that the Assad regime forces broke into several refugee camps on the outskirts of Damascus, and «that caused a large number of families to flee at night.» According to the Action Group, Palestinian refugees who remain in those camps are «worried.» They ran out of all kinds of food because of the two-month siege and shelling by the regime army. Meanwhile, Action Group said that the Syrian regime released a number of Palestinian refugees it had arrested in different incidents earlier. Some of them were asked to pay a ransom. A number of Palestinians refugees are being killed daily by the Syrian regime attacks on the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. Most of the refugee camps, mainly in the outskirts of Damascus, are under strict siege imposed by the Syrian regime›s army. Some of them have been under siege for more than six months.
Source: MEMO
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Fourteen suicides in Israeli army in 2012
28/10/2013
Data provided by the Israel Defence Forces has revealed that 14 serving soldiers committed suicide in 2012. It is said that just around a third of the suicides were recent immigrants to Israel. The figures were discussed by the absorption and immigration committee of the Knesset (parliament) on Monday. The focus of the discussion was the suicide rate among newly-arrived migrant soldiers. General Eyal Brechter, the Chairman of the IDF›s Psychological Health Department, warned that «revealing such sensitive data would encourage suicide among soldiers». He said that of the 4 soldiers who committed suicide and were recent migrants, two were from the former Soviet Union, one was from Ethiopia and the other was from New Zealand. The Director of the Studies and Information Centre; Dr. Shirley Avrahami, insisted that it «is important to raise the debate about the issue while the subject of suicide among soldiers is not a state secret». The Centre›s representatives were quoted as saying that the suicide rate among immigrants is «worrying». Apart from the 14 suicides in 2012, 8 Israeli soldiers died in road accidents, 7 died from disease, 5 died due to «excessive training» and 3 were killed in accidents which occurred during exercises; two more drowned.
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Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use By: Dr. Elias Akleh The UN chemical weapons inspectors, who went to Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, should have stopped on their way at Occupied Palestine (Israel), where Israeli government has the largest stockpile of chemical and other WMD in the entire Middle East. They would have found a lot of evidence and witness accounts of Israeli use of chemical, as well as biological and nuclear, weapons against the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors. The attacks started in May 1948 and are still going on in one form or another. The Zionist gangs under the directive and leadership of David Ben-Gurion, who became the first Israeli Prime Minister, had adopted a military policy of genocide, extermination and total destruction of the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants and their towns in order to evacuate the land for outsider Zionist Jewish occupiers. The first WMD they used was biological weapons as documented by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In May 1948 the Zionist gangs besieged the well-fortified Palestinian city of Acre, which
could stand the siege for a long time. The city water supply came from a nearby village name Kabri through an aqueduct. To shorten the siege and to enter the city, the Zionist gangs injected typhoid in the aqueduct. Many Palestinians and some 55 British soldiers, who were in the city, got infected. This crime was called operation “Shlach Lachmecha” as described by the Israeli military historian Urin Milstein [Wendy Barnaby’s “The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare”, London, Vision Paperbacks, 1997, pp 114116]
Arab civilians, who refused to evacuate the city as ordered by the Zionists. Some of them were captured by the Zionist terrorists and were forced at gun point to drink cyanide; the case of Mohamed Fayez Soufi is one example as documented in “The Palestinian CatastroThe ICRC delegate Mr. De Meu- phe” by Michael Palumbo. ron, sent a series of reports under the reference of G59/1/GC, G3/82, This crime of poisoning Acre’s from 6th to about 19th of May water supply leading to the fall 1948 describing the conditions of of the city, the forceful evacuthe city population as struck by a ation of its inhabitants, and the sudden typhoid epidemic and re- looting of its treasures, whetted quested efforts to combat it. The the appetite of the Zionists to minutes of an emergency meet- repeat the crime. They tried it ing between Mr. De Meuron and again in Gaza against the Egypthe British Medical Services offi- tian forces, but failed. The two cers stated that the infection was Zionist infiltrators, who were “water borne”. Burdened by the sent on this mission, were capepidemic the city fell easy prey to tured by the Egyptians. The the Zionist gangs, who went into following cable was sent from a killing spree and a systematic the commander of the Egyptian looting campaign as reported by Forces in Palestine to the GenLieutenant Petite, a French UN eral Headquarters in Cairo: observer. He reported the cold“15.20 hrs, 24 May [1948]. Our blooded murder of at least 100
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Intelligence forces captured two Jews, David Horeen and David Mizrahi, loitering around army positions. They were interrogated and confessed they had been sent by officer Moshe to poison the army [and the peoples’] water supply. They carried with them water bottles divided in the middle. The top part has potable water and the bottom part has a liquid contaminated with typhoid and dysentery, equipped with a rear opening from which the liquid can be released. They confessed they were members of the 20-strong team sent from Rehovot for the same purpose. Both have written their confession in Hebrew and signed it. We have taken the necessary medical precautions.” In his book “War Diary” Ben Gurion confirmed the attack in an entry found on 27th of May 1948 where he stated: “[Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin] picked up a cable from Gaza saying they captured Jews carrying malaria gems and gave instructions not to drink water.” The Israeli author Yeruham Cohen wrote more about this cable in his book “In Daylight and Night Darkness”; Tel Aviv, 1969, pp66-68 (in Hebrew). The two Zionist agents; Horeen and Mizrahi, broke out of prison but were captured again and executed. The Zionist crimes did not stop then, but targeted Egypt and Syria. On 22nd of July 1948 the [Palestinian] Higher Arab Committee (AHC) submitted a 13-page report to the UN accusing the Jews (the term Israelis was not used then) of using “in14 |
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During the summer of 1947 the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was sent to Palestine and its neighboring Arab states proposing the partition of Palestine giving about 54% of the land to new Jewish immigrants who controlled only 6% of Palestine
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the center of Arab resistance to foreign occupation of any Arab country. Syria has established training centers in Qatana to prepare Arab volunteers to join the Arab Rescue Army in Palestine. Egypt and Syria, thus, became the main targets of Zionist gangs. In his 220-page continually updated report under the title “Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents since 1900” Dr. W. Seth Carus of the Center for Counter proliferation Research, National Defense University, Washington, DC, lists the following subtitle p. 87: “Case 1947-01: Zionist Terrorists 1947-1948.” He mentioned that the cholera outbreaks in Egypt and Syria had received extensive attention in the press. The first report about the cholera in Egypt was published in the Times of London on 26th September 1947 p.4. By the time the final cases appeared in January 1948 about 10,262 people had died.
humane” weapons and waging a genocidal war against the Arabs through the use of bacteria and germs. The report accused the Jews of spreading Cholera in Egypt and Syria in 1947/48. The award-winning journalist, ThomThe cholera outbreak in Syria as J. Hamilton of the New York was first reported by the New Times picked up the story and York Times on 22nd of Decempublished it on 24th of July 1948. ber 1947 p. 5, but was limited During the summer of 1947 the to only two towns, Carus statUnited Nations Special Com- ed. The Syrian army formed a mittee on Palestine (UNSCOP) cordon sanitaire and the casualwas sent to Palestine and its ties were limited to 44 includneighboring Arab states propos- ing 18 deaths. Soon after, the ing the partition of Palestine Orient; a Lebanese Frenchgiving about 54% of the land language newspaper reported to new Jewish immigrants who that several Zionist agents, who controlled only 6% of Palestine. employed the cholera germs to Their proposition was met with disrupt the mobilization of the fierce opposition from the only volunteers army were arrested. two strong Arab countries; Egypt Assi, the son of Israeli Generand Syria, recently freed from al Moshe Dayan, wrote in his the French Mandate. Syria was memoir published in Yediot
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Issue No : 68 that during the war his father brought home tubes containing typhus. He explained that the intent was to drop these tubes into the water supply of the Jordanian Legion. Before the plan was implemented one of the tubes broke and Assi got infected. Naeim Giladi is an Iraqi Jew, who was lured to Israel by Mossad agents in early 1950s. He was a zealot Zionist, who later on left Israel after discovering its barbarism and immigrated to the US. He told the editor of The Link in New York that he discovered that within the Israeli Ashkenazi establishment “there was not much opportunity for those of us who were second class citizens. I began to find out about the barbaric methods to rid the fledgling state of as many Palestinians as possible. The world recoils today at the thought of bacteriological warfare, but Israel was probably the first to actually use it in the Middle East. Jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their population often by threats, sometimes by gunning down a half-dozen young men so that the Arabs could not return. The Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria in the water wells to prevent the refugees from returning.” [The Link, Vol. 31 Issue 2, April-May 1998] Avner Cohen, a senior member at the Center for International and Security Studies, and the Program on Security and Disarmaments at the University of Maryland, wrote a comprehensive paper on Israel’s chemical and biological weapons. His paper titled “Israel and Chemical/
4th November, 2013 way to Tel Aviv carrying three crewmen, one passenger and 114 tons of freight. The crash was considered the worst air disaster in Dutch history killing Cohen stated that Israel’s chemi- at least 47 and destroying the cal weapon started with David health of 3000 Dutch residents. Ben Gurion’s doctrine: “the de- Cases of mysterious illnesses, struction of the Palestinian so- rashes, difficulty in breathing, ciety in Palestine is a necessary nervous disorders and cancer condition for the establishment of began to sprout in that neighthe state of Israel on its ruins. If borhood. After several years of Palestinians cannot be removed deep investigation Karel Knip, by massacres and expulsion, they the science editor in the Dutch shall be removed by extermina- daily NRC Handelsbland, pubtion.” To accomplish this exter- lished in November 1999 the mination Ben Gurion wrote a most detailed and factual report letter to Ehud Avriel; a member about the workings of the IIBR. in the Jewish Agency in Europe, ordering him to recruit East Eu- Knip revealed that the plane ropean Jewish scientists, who was carrying a shipment from could “either increase capacity Sokatronic Chemicals of Morto kill masses or to cure masses; risville, Pennsylvania to IIBR, both are important.” Experts in under the US Department of microbiology such as Ernst Da- Commerce license, in violavid Bergmann, Avraham Marcus tion of the Chemical Weapons Klingberg and the brothers Aha- Convention (CWC). Among ron and Ephraim Katachalsky, the shipment there were 50 galwere recruited to form the Sci- lons of DMMP; a substance ence Corps in the Haganah which used to make a quarter ton of later was named HEMED. Later the deadly nerve gas Sarin, 20 a new branch within HEMED, times as lethal as cyanide. He devoted to biological weapons discovered that at least 140 biowas formed and called HEMED logical weapon scientists from BEIT. This branch is publi- the IIBR have strong links with cally known as Israel Institute Walter Reed Army Institute, for Biological Research (IIBR) the Uniformed Services Uniand it expropriated the mansion versity, the American Chemiof Shukri Al Taji; a Palestinian, cal and Biological Weapons near the settlement of Nes Ziona Center in Edgewood and the as its research center. University of Utah. He also discovered close cooperation For years the IIBR center was between IIBR and the Britishdeveloping chemical and bio- American biological weapons logical weapons in secret until programme, as well as exten4thOctober of 1992 when El Al sive collaboration on biological Flight 1862 crashed into a high- weapon research with Germany rise apartment complex in Bi- and Holland, which explains jlmer, Amsterdam while on its the reason for the Dutch of-
Biological Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control” was published in the Non-Proliferation Review in autumn of 2001.
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ficials keeping silence over the crash over Amsterdam. The numbers and details of the Israeli chemical and biological attacks against Palestinians are many and require large volumes to document. During the Palestinian Intifada the Palestinian youths were used as test subjects for new chemical weapons; toxins and incapacitates. James Brooks of “Just Peace in Palestine/Israel” gave detailed accounts of these attacks on civilians day by day as they happened; describing the severe convulsions, the burning sensation, the difficulty to breathe the vomiting and pain the victims of these attacks had suffered. The documentary “Gaza Strip”, shot by the American filmmaker James Longley, documents Israel’s use of chemical weapons on Gaza residents. Such attacks were repeated in the West Bank cities of Al-Bireh and Nablus. Dr. Khamis Al-Najjar, the director of Cancer Research Center of the Ministry of Health in Ramallah, Palestine, highlighted in his February 3rd. 2003 report an alarming increase in cancer cases, especially among women and children. The report covers the period between 1995-2000 and shows 3,646 cases, mostly women. Israel’s continuous use of chemical/biological weapons against Palestinians was most prominent in March 2001, October 2003, and June 2004 as investigated by these reports. Israel also used poison gas attacks against unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza in February 2001 as documented here. Israeli Mossad agents had also used chemical 16 |
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Will Obama turn a blind eye to the Israeli criminal chemical attacks and the largest stockpile of WMD, like his many predecessors???
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weapons in their assassination attacks against Palestinian leaders such as Hamas Leader Khaled Mesh’al, and Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, and are highly suspected of using nuclear poison in assassinating Yasser Arafat. The whole world knows very well that Israel has been manufacturing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and has the largest stockpile of these WMD in the Middle Eastern region. In March 2003 the BBC television presented the documentary “Israel’s Secret Weapon” investigating Israel’s development of chemical/biological/nuclear (CBN) weapons. The successive American administrations are very well familiar with Israel’s CBN weapons. The US Congress Office of
Technology Assessment titled “Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risk”, pages 63-65, records Israel as a country possessing an offensive biological warfare capability and a long-term, undeclared biological warfare program. In 1983 The CIA produced a special report on Israel’s weapons program, but deleted this page dealing with the chemical weapons. With Syria giving up its chemical weapons, now is the perfect opportunity to enforce the chemical weapons convention on all the countries in the region, including Israel, to free it from this WMD. Contrary to what Obama said, the convention does not specifically refer to just the use of chemical weapons, but also to its production and storage. Will Obama, the peace-prize winner, prove that “the United States has been the anchor of global security … for nearly seven decades” as he claimed in his speech and demonstrate that the Americans are really “exceptional” as he boosted, or will he turn a blind eye to the Israeli criminal chemical attacks and the largest stockpile of WMD, like his many predecessors??? Dr. Elias Akleh is an Arab writer from a Palestinian descent born in the town of Beit-Jala. His family was first evicted from Haifa after the “Nakba” of 1948, then from Beit-Jala after the “Nakseh” of 1967. He lives now in US and publishes articles on the web. This article was originally published by GlobalResearch and appeared in JUST
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