Ramping up pressure on Hamas, Hamas leaders, and the Palestinian Authority, eleven Palestinian human rights organization are demanding that they endorse the U.N. Goldstone Report recommendation to investigate Palestinian violations of international law allegedly committed during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza from late December 2008 through January 2009.

According to the report in Ha’aretz, the Palestinian organizations urging the probe include:

• Adallah
• the Arab Association for Human Rights
• the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
• Al-Haq
• the Adameer prisoner’s rights group, and
• the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling.

The Goldstone Report criticized, in part, terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on Israeli civilians, violent attacks and internal repression, like summary executions in the Gaza Strip, as well as arrests and torture in the West Bank

Hamas’ Gaza smuggling tunnels may soon have the capability to smuggle long range missles and rockets into Gaza in one piece, according to a senior IDF official who spoke with the Jerusalem Post.

The terrorist group’s operatives and contractors would need to widen new tunnels or old ones that weren’t destroyed during Israel’s recent Operation Cast Lead campaign http://ukviagras.com/ed/viagra-uk/.

The U.S. State Department’s chief spokesman said Obama’s administration will spend the majority of some $900 million in aid promised to the Palestinian Authority for use in the West Bank.


Robert Wood, the State Department spokesman, said that Palestinians in the Hamas-led Gaza will not see the aid, according to a new report in the Los Angeles Times.

“We cannot funnel money through Hamas,” Wood said over the weekend.

The Israeli Air Force hit five (5) smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza, a rocket launch site, a Hamas outpost, according to the IDF.


The IAF hit the targets after a Grad missile from the Gaza Strip hit the Israeli port city of Ashkelon. The Hamas facility targeted was in Abassan village (inset) just east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

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