{UAH} For new ceasefire, Israel agrees to shrink Gaza buffer zone, for Hamas demilitarization, a seaport
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Godfrey Kasiriba
There is no cease fire, the only people recognizing this cease fire is Hamas but Israel has been bombing all along sir, only that we only hear noise when a Hamas rocket goes in. So what kind of agreement is Israel talking about here? This is yesterday Saturday where Israel launched 30 air strike into Gaza and only Saturday, we still do not have the numbers of attacks they have done today Sunday yet.
Israelis are still killing children and women to today sir.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Israel-Gaza conflict: Dawn air strike kills three in mosque after ceasefire breaks down
Rescue workers retrieve one of the bodies found after the Al Qassam mosque was bombed yesterday
EPA
Despite a warning from the military, men had been inside preparing for dawn prayers
Nusseirat
Saturday 09 August 2014
Israeli bombing this morning destroyed one of the largest mosques in central Gaza, killing at least three Palestinians preparing for dawn prayers, including the father of a severely injured ten year old boy blinded in an earlier strike on their home a week ago.
Two bulldozers are searching through the mountain of rubble left by the F16 air strike on the Al Qassam mosque in the heart of the crowded Nusseirat refugee camp for the last of four men who had been in a room set aside for customary washing before prayers when the bomb struck shortly after 3am.
Among the three bodies recovered was that of Nidal Badran, 44, who had been desperately hoping that his son Mohammed, who is currently in Gaza City's Shifa Hospital suffering from serious cranio-facial injuries, including the loss of his sight, would be transferred for urgently needed surgery to Europe. Six others of Mr Badran's children were also injured in the earlier strike.
With continuing deadlock in efforts to reach a peace deal, the air strike was one of 30 launched today by Israel, another of which killed two men on a motorcycle, and militants launched at least 15 rockets at towns in the south of Israel. A third Israeli strike on a Hamas security complex created a large cloud of smoke in Gaza city but caused no casualties.
The three men died unaware that a warning had been telephoned by the Israeli military to a local resident warning that the mosque was about to be destroyed and that they should leave their building immediately.
The local Imam Mohammed Ali Mousa, 45, said he had just arrived at the mosque after leaving home at around 3.05 am and that a neighbour had rushed into the mosque to warn him but that he had been unable to alert the other worshippers before leaving. "I was about four minutes away as it was bombed," he added.
Yahya al-Tawil, 53, the resident who received the telephone call —and immediately alerted neighbours including his married brother— said that he had been fast asleep when the phone rang. "A man's voice said in Arabic, using my name: 'Yahya. This is Mousa from the Israeli Mukhabarat (intelligence). I want to warn you that you have five minutes to leave the house because we are going to hit the mosque."
Mr al-Tawil, the frontage of whose house abutting the mosque was also demolished in the strike, said that he and his brother had then frantically woke up the entire family group of 35 including 19 children out of their beds and got them out of the building. The other dead men were named as Tareq Jadallah and Moadh Zayed while the one still buried under the rubble was said to be Zuhdi Abu Alrus, 24, who neighbours said had recently married and had a one month old child.
As neighbours gathered nearby to pay their condolences to the Badran family, struck by their second tragedy during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, the dead man's brother Kemal Badran, 45, who works for the information office of the UN refugee agency UNRWA, said that his brother had had 20 years' service as a policeman in Gaza, and had been injured early in the second intifada which started in 2000. "He was a religious man," he added, saying that he frequently went early to the mosque before dawn prayers to wash and read the Koran. "Maybe [the Israelis] did not know that there would be anyone at the mosque at this time," he said.
Mr Badran said that his brother had "of course" been extremely worried about the injuries suffered by his son Mohammed, whose mother Tagorid, 40, has been constantly at his bedside but left today to attend her husband's funeral. Mr Badran added: "Her mood is not good. But now she must travel back to Gaza City because Mohammed has been calling for her."
Israel regularly explains the abnormally large number of mosques hit during the current conflict by saying that it has uncovered a "vast number" of tunnel shafts, weapons caches, and sometimes rocket launching sites in their precincts. But the Imam Mr Mousa denied that the mosque had been so used by the militants and the neighbour, Mr al-Tawil, said that its basement was used as a preschool kindergarden.
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Subject: {UAH} For new ceasefire, Israel agrees to shrink Gaza buffer zone, for Hamas demilitarization, a seaport
For new ceasefire, Israel agrees to shrink Gaza buffer zone, for Hamas demilitarization, a seaport
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 10, 2014, 11:10 PM (IDT)
An Israeli tank convoy heading for Gaza
In response to Egyptian mediation, Israel is ready to shrink the security zone inside the Gaza Strip by 200 meters, provided the Palestinian Hamas observes a further 72-hour ceasefire going into effect at midnight Sunday, Aug. 10, debkafile's intelligence sources report.. And if the truce holds overnight, Israeli negotiators will return to Cairo Monday morning to resume the talks interrupted by Hamas rocket fire Friday.
debkafile further reports that Israel may allow Gaza Strip to have a seaport at some time in the future, in return for the territory's demilitarization – but not an airport. These concessions, say our sources, are not yet on the table, but part of a potential future deal that depends on Hamas holding to its side of the bargain, including disarmament and a permanent ceasefire.
But, most of all, it depends on the Hamas' real decision-maker. Egyptian and Israeli intelligence believe that the elusive Muhammed Deif, commander of the Hamas military wing, is the organization's final arbiter and have reason for presuming that he has decided that the time has come to halt hostilities with Israel.
If they have got this wrong, then the seventh ceasefire in the six-week long conflict will last no longer than the previous six.
These developments come in the wake of the steps reported by debkafile earlier Sunday.
Cairo sent a secret message to Jerusalem Saturday night, Aug. 9, saying that Egypt had been unable to bring Hamas around to any compromise because "you [Israel and the IDF] haven't hit them hard enough." This is revealed by debkafile's exclusive military and intelligence sources. Therefore, there was no point in sending Israel's envoys back to the Egyptian capital for negotiations on a durable ceasefire, because they would be coming on a fool's errand.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cancelled their departure, after understanding the import of the message: The Egyptian ceasefire initiative proposed by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi had nowhere to go, until Israel's armed forces clobbered Hamas' military wing, Ezz e-Din Al-Qassam, into submission.
After their price for a ceasefire was rejected, Hamas and Islamic Jihad considered dropping out of the negotiating track. But meanwhile, on Friday, Aug. 8, they went back at their old practice of shooting rockets at the Israeli population, while also reserving the option to ramp the barrage up or down as it suited their plans.
By Sunday morning, Aug. 10, the short 72-hour respite for southern Israeli was over and the diplomatic impasse in Cairo had evolved into a diplomatic void.
From the first week of the IDF ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Israel's leaders had been groping for a way out of the hostilities. Half a dozen ceasefires were declared – and violated by Hamas, who viewed the effort as a sign of Israeli weakness.
The prime minister and defense minister Moshe Ya'alon had counted on the 72-hour ceasefire, which expired Friday morning, providing Hamas commanders with a chance to come out of their bunker hidey-holes and view the devastation on the Gaza Strip surface. They would then be shocked into throwing in the towel – or so it was hoped.
But instead, Hamas commanders immediately seized on the ruins as an opportunity to parade the Palestinians of Gaza to the world as victims of "Zionist" inhumanity, of which they hands were entirely clean.
By now, Netanyahu and Ya'alon appear to be stumped for a policy.
All their military and political maneuvers, including their decision to limit the IDF ground incursion in the Gaza Strip last month to a depth of no more than one kilometer, failed to wrest the tactical initiative of the war from Hamas or bring harm to its military wing.
Friday, when Hamas resumed its rocket barrage Friday, it was in good shape, unlike the Gazan population, to embark on a war of attrition and keep it going for weeks, if not months.
The inhabitants of the communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip were cast into a depressing uncertainty. After living under rocket attacks of varying intensity for 14 years, many decided to finally pull up roots, when promises by the prime minister and army leaders, that the bane was finally over and they could live in peace and safety, went out the window.
IDF generals warned Sunday morning of the dangers to the Gaza communities of a protracted period of indecision. They recalled the situation on the eve of the 1967 Six Day War, when the army stood ready, day after day, to rebuff Arab aggressors around its borders, while the late Prime Minister Levi Eshkol dithered and the Chief of Staff, the late Yitzhak Rabin, couldn't take the suspense.
Today, too, IDF divisions stand at their staging posts, ready and willing - just as soon as they get the order - to drive deep into the Gaza Strip and finally dislodge the fundamentalist Palestinian orchestrators of the senseless violence emanating for so many years from this sliver of territory.
If this order goes out, then, perhaps, Egypt may find Hamas more amenable to negotiating some sort of durable cessation of hostilities and an end to the destruction.
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