Date: 12:05 PM 12/4/01 +0100
From: azad
Subject: romigrantsocialforum- palestina
ultimora: missili contr
Dal sito de L'Unit (Fonte Ansa)
Ramallah, missili israeliani contro gli uffici
di Arafat
Anche gli uffici di Arafat a Ramallah, in
Cisgiordania, sono stati attaccati marted mattina dopo che ieri a Gaza erano
stati distrutti gli eleicotteri che il presidente palestinese usa per i suoi
spostamenti. Almeno quattro missili sono stati tirati da elicotteri israeliani
contro la sede di Arafat. Non si hanno per il momento notizie di vittime.
Sharon: L'Anp organizzazione terrorista.
Peres minaccia di uscire dal governo
Frattura nel governo israeliano tra i ministri
di destra e quelli laburisti, che marted notte hanno lasciato la riunione del
gabinetto per non votare una documento che chiedeva la distruzione
dellAutorit nazionale palestinese, definita dal governo israeliano entit
che sostiene il terrorismo e organizzazione terroristiche la guardia
presidenziale di Arafat e la milizia Tanzim, vicina allorganizzazione Fatah.
Ma lAnp ha respinto con sdegno la posizione dei ministri ebrei. La fonte del
terrorismo ha detto il ministro dellinformazione palestinese Yasser Abed
Rabbo loccupazione ebraica dei territori palestinesi.
A denunciare la pericolosa deriva
dellesecutivo israeliano il ministro degli Shimon Peres. Il suo consigliere
politico, Yoram Dori, ha detto che alcuni ministri hanno proposto al governo
di basarsi nei confronti dei palestinesi esclusivamente sul ricorso alla
forza, senza alcuna prospettiva politica. Di conseguenza, ha concluso Dori, i
ministri laburisti hanno deciso di non partecipare al voto che ha concluso la
seduta del governo e nei prossimi giorni valuteranno la situazione. Comunque
termine della riunione di governo, l'esecutivo israeliano ha dichiarato
l'Autorit nazionale palestinese entit che sostiene il terrorismo e definito
la milizia Tanzim, vicina all'organizzazione Fatah di Arafat, e Forza 17, la
guardia presidenziale, organizzazioni terroristiche.
Latteggiamento del governo Sharon rischia di
precipitare ulteriormente la gi drammatica crisi mediorientale, lasciando alle
armi e alla violenza il compito di risolvere il contenzioso tra israeliani e
palestinesi. Ieri Arafat aveva accusato Israele di volere la distruzione
dellAnp, lunica voce politica palestinese in grado di essere un interlocutore
credibile e moderato degli israeliani. Anzi, l'Anp ha rimandato al mittente
tutti gli addebiti affermando per bocca di Yasser Abed Rabbo, ministro
dell'Informazione, che la fonte del terrorismo l'occupazione ebraica della
Cisgiordania e della Striscia di Gaza, e che l'atteggiamento assunto da Israele
dopo i sanguinosi attentati del fine settimana a Gerusalemme e a Haifa
renderanno le prospettive di pace persino pi remote di quanto mai lo siano
state, anche dopo quattordici mesi ininterrotti di violenza: da quando, a fine
settembre 2000, la provocatoria passeggiata proprio di Sharon sulla Spianata
delle Moschee scaten la attuale rivolta palestinese chiamata Intifada di
al-Aqsa.
La presa di posizione del governo ha creato
forte tensione anche nel partito laburista israeliano. Avraham Burg, presidente
della Knesset (il parlamento israeliano), candidato alla guida dei laburisti,
ha detto che Sharon dimostra di non avere la minima prospettiva politica per
una soluzione del conflitto con i palestinesi. Oggi il partito laburista
prender in esame la possibilit di abbandonare il governo. Ma non si prevedono
decisioni immediate in quanto il ministro degli esteri Shimon Peres in
partenza per la Romania, dove incontrer il Segretario di stato americano Colin
Powell, e anche il ministro dei trasporti Efraim Sneh, che ieri ha criticato il
bombardamento dell'eliporto di Gaza, in partenza per l'estero.
Israel pounds Palestinian targets
December 4, 2001 Posted: 5:43 AM EST (1043
GMT)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- Israeli warplanes
and helicopters have launched a fresh round of attacks on Palestinian targets
in the West Bank and Gaza.
The strikes against five targets -- two in
Gaza and three in the West Bank -- come after weekend suicide bombings in which
25 Israelis died and hours after the Israeli Cabinet said the Palestinian
Authority was "a terrorist supporting entity."
At least two people were reported killed in
the attacks on targets in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Scores have been injured, Palestinian sources say.
The strikes on Tuesday began with two Israeli
Cobra helicopters firing rockets which struck a building adjacent to the
headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of
Ramallah. Officials said Arafat was unhurt.
CNN's Matthew Chance then reported a
"ferocious" assault by warplanes and helicopter gunships on targets
in Gaza City. He said Palestinian officials said missiles had hit the
Palestinian Offices of Preventive Security.
Chance saw missiles fired and heard heavy
machine gun fire. Palestinian sources said the Khan Yunis refugee camp had also
been hit.
He said there was "widespread
pandemonium" in Gaza City, with people running out of buildings and
ambulances "screaming through the streets." He said there was no
information on whether there had been casualties.
He said Palestinian officials said Arafat's
presidential compound in Gaza had also been hit.
Earlier, Arafat spokesman Nabil Adu Rudieneh
said four missiles struck the building in Ramallah used for Palestinian
interior affairs, only separated by a wall from Arafat's offices.
Rudieneh said the Palestinian Authority
considers the strike an escalation and said it proves Israel is looking for
targets to weaken the Palestinian infrastructure.
Israel military sources said the target of the
missile strike in Ramallah was the Hamas and Islamic Jihad apparatus linked to
the recent terror attacks in Israel at the weekend.
CNN's Jerrold Kessel said Israel had confirmed
it had launched strikes on five targets, two in Gaza and three in the West
Bank.
Earlier Tuesday, Israel moved tanks to within
striking distance of the office where Arafat was working, an aide said. Tanks
had already entered Gaza City International Airport in Gaza, followed by
bulldozers that began ripping up parts of the runway, said Palestinian chief
negotiator Saeb Erakat.
Erakat said tanks have also entered the
Palestinian town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, the town of Al Bireh in
Ramallah and the town of Nablus in the West Bank.
Ten Israeli tanks also were positioned near
Arafat's Ramallah office while he was inside, Erakat said.
There was no immediate confirmation of the
tank movement from the Israel Defense Forces.
Israeli air attacks at dusk Monday destroyed
the residences of Arafat's guards in Gaza City as well as two of Arafat's
helicopters and the landing pad, Palestinian Cabinet member Nabil Sha'ath told
CNN.
Gaza hospitals said at least 15 people were
treated for injuries -- none serious -- while Palestinian medical relief
organizations reported dozens of injuries.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed
Arafat for the weekend bombings that killed 25 Israelis, all but one of them
civilians and many of them young people, and wounded hundreds in Jerusalem and
Haifa. Three Palestinians blew themselves up in a pedestrian mall and on a bus.
"Israel does not open wars," Sharon
said at a news conference. "We know who has brought it on us -- Arafat is
responsible for everything that is happening here."
Following the news conference, Israeli F-16s
attacked the civil police headquarters and Palestinian Authority offices in the
West Bank town of Jenin, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Palestinian security sources said the
Palestinian police headquarters was destroyed but there were no injuries
because the building had been evacuated before the attacks.
Palestinian security sources also said an
intelligence officer was killed in an explosion in the West Bank town of
Bethlehem. That explosion is still under investigation. The Israeli military
denied it struck any targets in Bethlehem.
Also in the West Bank, a Palestinian man was
killed by Israeli gunfire overnight, a Palestinian source told CNN Tuesday
morning.
The Nablus governor's office identified the
man as Amjad Toubasi.
Responding to Sharon's speech, Erakat said
Sharon had issued a declaration of war.
"He is saying 'war, war, war now, peace
later.' I think he is making the mistake of his life," said Erakat, who
called on the United States and European leaders to "stop Sharon."
In Gaza, Arafat's nearby headquarters were not
hit in Monday's attacks, Sha'ath said. The Palestinian leader was in the West
Bank town of Ramallah at the time of the Gaza attacks.
Sharon would not say if Israel was planning to
remove Arafat from his role as Palestinian Authority president, saying the
government would "take the necessary steps to decide in due time."
In Gaza, Israeli helicopters fired as many as
10 missiles on Monday, according to witnesses, and video of the scene showed
machine gun fire from the choppers.
Sharon's spokesman, Ra'anan Gissin, said
Arafat's headquarters and residence in Gaza City were not the target.
"We had no intention of striking his home
or his compound. ... These were not targeted, I want to make that very
clear," Gissin told CNN. "We have destroyed his helicopter and we
attacked the landing pad ... and the garage of the helicopter, just a very
clear signal that he will have to pay a price if he doesn't comply and stand by
the agreements he signed."
Palestinian security forces arrested two Hamas
leaders Sunday, as well as dozens of other members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
after Arafat declared a state of emergency following the bombings.
Erakat denounced Monday's attacks, saying they
would just breed more violence.
"Stop finger-pointing and accusing
Arafat, " Erakat said. "There are more than 200 ... Palestinians who
were arrested because we are following up and pursuing those who planned the
attacks on Israel."
But Gideon Mayer of Israel's Foreign Ministry
called the arrests "a fairy tale, Arafat-style."
"(Arafat) is not really arresting,"
Mayer said. "You don't do it in front of the cameras. This was a show to
all of the world because he wanted a two-day quiet (period) after the massive
terrorist attacks in Israel."
In Washington on Monday, a senior Bush
administration official involved with the Middle East told CNN that Israeli
attacks on Palestinian Authority facilities were a "clear message to
Arafat that not only is Israel fed up, we are fed up as well."
The official said that the United States is
"not urging restraint" in response to this weekend's four bombings
against Israel but is merely cautioning the Israelis to "avoid civilian
causalities and think of the day after."
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to
directly endorse Sharon's statement that Arafat is entirely to blame for the
recent violence, but he said Arafat must show more of a commitment to peace.
"The president thinks this is the chance
now for Yasser Arafat to demonstrate real leadership that is lasting, that is
enduring, that puts people responsible for this away, and does so in such a way
that they can't get out again and commit more terror," Fleischer said.
"The president thinks it is very important that the Palestinian jails not
only have bars on the front but no longer have revolving doors at the
back."
Fleischer shied away from endorsing Sharon's
direct comparison between Israel's retaliation and the United States' war on
terrorism.
"The president has made clear all along
that there can be no good terrorists and no bad terrorists, and I'll leave it
at that," Fleischer said.
CNN Producer Larry Register contributed to
this report.
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