Showing posts with label Gaza Ceasefire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza Ceasefire. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hukum Regim Zionis Israel Di Mahkamah Antarabangsa

Sumber : Harakahdaily.net

Usaha hukum Israel di Mahkamah Antarabangsa mesti dilancarkan!
Harakahdaily Thu Jan 29, 09 9:26:37 am MYT

KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Jan (Hrkh)- Empat Badan-bandan bukan kerajaan (NGO) Islam di Malaysia menggesa satu usaha drastik dilaksanakan bagi membawa Israel ke muka pengadilan di Mahakamah Antarabangsa sekaligus menghukum rejim itu yang secara biadap membunuh lebih 1,300 umat Islam tidak berdosa di Gaza, Palestin.


Pembunuhan rakyat Palestin di Genting Gaza
Ngo-ngo terbabit terdiri daripada Teras Pengupayaan Melayu (Teras), Sekretariat Himpunan Ulama Rantau Asia (Shura) Jaringan Muafakat Pertubuhan Islam Perak (JAMA'IY) dan Center for International Muslim Minority Affairs (CIMMA) dalam kenyataan bersama mahu tindakan paling tegas ke atas Israel seperti memutuskan semua perhubungan dan mengharam penjualan atau pembekalan sebarang senjata kepada Israel.

Kenyataan media bersama yang dihantar ke Harakahdaily itu ditandatangani oleh Pengerusi Shura Ustaz Abdul Ghani Samsudin, Presiden Teras dan Kordinator CIMMA, Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid serta Timbalan Pengerusi JAMAI'Y Zulkifly Ibrahim.

Dalam masa yang sama NGO terbabit mahu tidakan undang-undang diambil ke atas mana-mana Negara dan syarikat yang menjual senjata kepada Israel selain mendesak semua Negara OIC , EU , NAM dan Komenwel supaya memutuskan semua perhubungan ekonomi, politik dan budaya dengan Israel dan membatalkan semua perjanjian dengan Israel.

" Kami mahu persidangan antarabangsa untuk menghakimi jenayah perang ke atas kemanusiaan yang dilakukan ke atas Gaza termasuk yang dilakukan di Lebabon pada 2006.

"Dan kami juga menegaskan kembali Resolusi PBB 3379 yang mengklasifikasi Zionism sebagai rasis dan memecat keanggotaan Israel dari PBB di samping melancarkan kempen antarabangsa untuk membangunkan Gaza , menamatkan sekatan ke atas Gaza dan membebaskan semua tahanan politik dikalangan rakyat Palestin di Israel," kata wakil-wakil NGo terbabit.

NGO terbabit menegaskan sudah sampai masanya Israel mesti diheret ke mahkamah antarabangsa untuk didakwa atas tindakannya melakukan jenayah perang ke atas Gaza yang mana Israel secara paling biadap masih menafikan bahawa senjata yang diguna dalam serangan 21 hari ke atas Gaza adalah menyalahi undang-undang antarabangsa.

Ini sangat bercanggah dengan dakwa kumpulan Hak Asasi Manusia iaitu Amnesty international bahawa Israel secara terang-terangan telah menguna munisi fosforus putih ke atas kawasan yang padat dengan penduduk di Gaza secara rambang dan melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa. Ini adalah asas yang kuat untuk mendakwa Isreal telah melakukan jenayah perang.

Bom fosforus putih
Pada hari yang sama fosforus putih digugurkan ke atas hospital al-Quds di Gaza City, yang menyebabkan kebakaran dan memaksa seluruh kakitangan dan pesakit dikeluarkan dari kawasan tersebut untuk menyelamatkan nyawa .

Kesan bom fosforus putih

Ketika itu , PBB menuduh Israel mengguna fosforus putih dan sepatutnya boleh didakwa di mahkamah antarabangsa terhadap keganasan yang dilakukannya ke atas Gaza sejak 27 Disember 2008 serangan bermula .
Wakil-wakil NGO Islam itu mahu supaya semua pencipta keadilan dan keamanan melancarkan kempen di peringkat antarabangsa agar dapat mendakwa Israel di atas kesalahannya serta kezalimannya dimahkamah antarabangsa.
"Tindakan ganas serangan Israel secara rambang ke atas populasi Gaza sangat ketara melanggar hampir keseluruhan undang-undang antarabangsa . Ia termasuk prinsip keseimbangan (proportionality) dan pengasingan ( antara anggota tentera dan rakyat awam) ketika melancarkan perang.

"Kami berpendirian bahawa bahasa kecamaan semata-mata yang kerap dilaungkan oleh pelbagai pihak tidak akan memadai untuk menangani keganasan Israel yang terbaru ini.

"Sudah sampai masanya anggota tentera secara individu dibicarakan. Pembicaraan ini nanti akan menghentikan tuduhan-tuduhan yang tidak berasas dari pelbagai pihak .

"Dengan cara ini dapat dihantar mesej yang jelas bahawa kini semua individu mesti bertanggungjawab terhadap setiap tindakannya . Pembicaraan itu juga dapat menghalang keganasan yang dilakukan ke atas Gaza atau mana-mana kawasan dan dengan itu dapat memulakan proses pendamaian," demikian antara petikan kenyataan bersama NGO Islam terbabit. - azm _

Monday, January 19, 2009

Israel to pull out of Gaza by Obama inauguration

By AMY TEIBEL and IBRAHIM BARZAK,
Associated Press Writers Amy Teibel And Ibrahim Barzak,
Associated Press Writers – 46 mins ago




Reuters – Israeli soldiers return to Israel early morning January 18, 2009 after a combat mission in Gaza.


JERUSALEM – Israel plans to pull all of its troops out of the Gaza Strip by the time President-elect Barack Obama is inaugurated Tuesday, but only if Hamas militants hold their fire, Israeli officials said.

Thousands of troops have left Gaza since Israel declared Saturday its intention to unilaterally halt fire after a devastating, three-week Israeli onslaught. Gaza's Hamas rulers ceased fire 12 hours later. Large contingents of Israeli soldiers have kept close to the border, prepared to re-enter the territory if violence re-ignites.

A swift troop withdrawal would reduce the likelihood of clashes between militants and Israeli forces that could rupture the truce.

By getting its soldiers out before the Obama inauguration, Israel hopes to pave the way for a smooth beginning with the Obama administration and spare the incoming president the trouble of having to deal with a burning problem in Gaza from his first day, the Israeli officials said.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the plan.

Israel has been quietly concerned about possible policy changes by the incoming administration after eight years of staunch support from President George W. Bush. Obama has said Mideast peace will be a priority even as he grapples with a global economic crisis and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Israel made its troop withdrawal plan known at a dinner Sunday with European leaders who came to the region in an effort to consolidate the fragile cease-fire, the Israeli officials said.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his guests that his country had no desire to stay in Gaza, a Mediterranean strip of 1.4 million people that Israel vacated in 2005, while retaining control of its airspace, coastal waters and border crossings.

"We didn't set out to conquer Gaza. We didn't set out to control Gaza. We don't want to remain in Gaza and we intend on leaving Gaza as fast as possible," Olmert told the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic, according to the officials.

Israel also holds elections next month, and polls show Israel's wartime leaders have been strengthened by the offensive that drew overwhelming support at home even as it attracted widespread condemnation across the globe because of the high Palestinian casualties.

At least 1,259 Palestinians were killed in Israel's air and ground onslaught, more than half of them civilians, according to the United Nations, Gaza health officials and rights groups. Thirteen Israelis died, including four soldiers killed inadvertently by their own forces' fire.

Neither side has reported a violation of the truce since Hamas halted its fire. But the quiet remains tenuous because neither side achieved its long-term goals.

Israel won a decisive battlefield victory but did not end Hamas' rocket fire into the southern part of the country or solve the problem of smuggled arms reaching Gaza militants.

Hamas remains firmly in power in Gaza, but Palestinian casualties were steep and large swaths of the tiny seaside territory were devastated by the Israeli air and ground assault. Gaza municipal officials said an initial assessment showed some 20,000 residential and government buildings were severely damaged and another 4,000 destroyed. Some 50 of the U.N.'s 220 schools, clinics and warehouses were battered in shelling and crossfire.

Before arriving in Jerusalem, the European officials met with Arab leaders in Egypt to discuss ways to cement the truce. Delivering humanitarian aid to rebuild Gaza and opening borders blockaded by Israel emerged as key goals.

Gaza's border crossings have been sealed since Hamas violently took over the territory in 2007, deepening the already grinding poverty there and trapping the residents inside.

The gathering failed to deliver a specific plan to stanch the flow of arms into Gaza by sea and through tunnels built under the 8-mile border Gaza and Egypt share. Israel wants international monitors, but Egypt has refused to have them on its side of the border.

The truce brought relief to Gaza's citizens, who took stock of the devastation in relative safety for the first time since Israel launched the offensive on Dec. 27. And it brought more trauma, as rescue workers in surgical masks ventured into what were once no-go areas and pulled 100 bodies from buildings pulverized by bombs.

"We've pulled out my nephew, but I don't know how many are still under there," Zayed Hadar said as he sifted through the rubble of his flattened home in the northern town of Jebaliya.

Despite losses suffered, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh claimed "a heavenly victory" in remarks broadcast on Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel.

Tension eased in southern Israel, even though Hamas launched nearly 20 rockets in a final salvo before announcing a cease-fire. Three Israelis were lightly wounded, while two Palestinians were killed in last-minute fighting, medics said.

In the rocket-battered Israeli town of Sderot, residents went back to their routines, after sitting out the war locked inside their homes or in safer parts of the country. One man sat on a sidewalk in the sunshine, eating a chicken sandwich.

"We want it quiet here," said 65-year-old Yoav Peled. "And if it isn't, our army is ready to continue."
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Teibel reported from Jerusalem, Barzak from Gaza City.

Gazans dig bodies from rubble as cease-fire begins

By IBRAHIM BARZAK and ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU,
Associated Press Writers Ibrahim Barzak And Alfred De Montesquiou,
Associated Press Writers – Sun Jan 18, 3:19 pm ET





AP – Palestinians inspect the rubble of buildings in the eastern
area of Jebaliya after Israeli troops withdrew …

JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip – For Palestinians searching the rubble of this devastated refugee camp, the mounds of concrete and metal hid all they desperately wanted and needed: the bodies of dead relatives, belongings and — bitterly — scraps of bombs now valuable enough to sell as recycled aluminum.

Destruction was everywhere on Sunday, in churned up farmland, dangling electricity poles, charred bodies of cars abandoned on pulverized roads, and broken pipes overflowing with sewage. The stench of rotting corpses, both human and animal, hung in the air.

For three weeks, Israeli airstrikes targeted Hamas militants who have been firing missiles at Israel for the last eight years, smashing much of Gaza's already shabby infrastructure and turning neighborhoods into battle zones.

The fragile cease-fire and first troops withdrawals on Sunday allowed families and medics to intensify the search for bodies — with more than 100 dead recovered Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials. The number of Palestinian dead now stood at more than 1,250, half of those civilians. Thirteen Israelis were killed in the fighting.

For two weeks, ground combat kept residents of Jebaliya like Zayed Hadar from their homes. On Sunday, Hadar searched through his family home with most of his 10 children. The three-story building had been flattened.

"We've pulled out my nephew, but I don't know how many are still under there," Hadar said, as several Israeli tanks rolled in the distance.

A mosque nearby lay entirely flattened save for a lone minaret that loomed over the dusty concrete.

In the same area, Palestinian boys, both cynically and desperately, mined for shards of aluminum from the missiles that had killed so many. "This big bit can bring back 1 shekel" or 25 cents, said Youssouf Dardoum, holding out a large chunk of twisted missile case.

Meanwhile, neighbors frantically dug through mounds of dirt to free a bleating sheep, trapped among duck carcasses.

Hamas policemen also emerged for the first time since fighting began in their dark blue uniforms, directing traffic. Others prevented looting, at one point firing volleys into their air as Jebaliya residents tried to lynch a youth accused of stealing belongings in a ruined house that wasn't his.

In the northwest Gaza Strip farming community of Atatra, where ground fighting raged between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants, medics wearing white face masks to block the stench pulled five bodies from a smashed house, including a woman in a long blue robe, then the leg of a child.

"We don't know if they are human or animal, it's a shame! By God, we are human!" said a medic who gave his name only as Ahmad, pushing down the cloth covering his face. "We need specialized emergency teams, we are digging with our hands."

Khadija Radi, 83, watched as her great-grandchildren to picked through the remains of her damaged home. She sat on a pile of concrete, holding prayer beads, her walking stick beside her.

"These are the only things left from my belongings," she said, pointing to a pillow and a slipper. Her daughter Sadia salvaged dusty mattresses and loaded them onto a donkey cart.

Like many other residents from damaged zones, Sadia Radi said her extended family of 27 would sleep at a relative's home until they could find money to repair their own. Britain on Sunday announced it was tripling its aid to Gaza, with an additional 20 million pounds, or about $29 million, going toward rebuilding damaged homes and helping the injured.

The cease-fire remained shaky as drones buzzed overhead Sunday. Hamas militants fired 16 rockets before their Gaza leaders announced their own cease-fire. Plumes of smoke from an Israeli missile also rose over Gaza City's outskirts in the afternoon, and Israeli snipers blocked access through the Strip's main north-south road.

Around 50,000 Gazans sought refuge in U.N. compounds and schools converted into shelters throughout Israel's military operation. It is not clear how many of them remain homeless.

In an initial indication of damage, Gaza municipal officials said a first count showed some 20,000 residential and government buildings were severely damaged and another 4,000 destroyed.
Some 50 of the U.N.'s 220 schools, clinics and warehouses were battered in shelling and crossfire.
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Omar Sinan reported from Rafah, Egypt, Ben Hubbard reported from Sderot, Israel, and Diaa Hadid and Ian Deitch from Jerusalem.