بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الشهيدة امنة ابو عودة و الشهيدة انتصار علي ……وكفى …لقد قالوا ما لم يقوله الرجال لقد روت دمائهم الذكية دفاعا عن ابنائهم واخوانهم وازواجهم وابائهم.. لقد هبوا دفاعا عن الرجال,,

لم تعد الكلمات معبرة ولا الدموع مطهرة …اخشى انني لا اقدر على التعبير وانا مثلكم من قتلهم وتركهم وحدهم فلم يجدوا من رجال ليدافعوا عن الرجال …فخرجوا هم ليبقى على قيد الحياة من يقول لا للظالمين ومرحبا بالجنة وعدل الرحمن…

وهذا كلام قد يكون معبرا وشارحا لما حدث فاعذروني فانا لا اقبل في ان انقل او ان ارثيهم فهم اشرف من ان نرثيهم نحن من نحيا حياة الهوان..

هذه اجزاء مما قالته النيويورك تايمز و البي بي سي والاندبندنت…

November 3, 2006

Israel Kills 2 Women During Mosque Siege

By GREG MYRE

JERUSALEM, Nov. 3 — Israeli troops fired at a large crowd of unarmed Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip today as the women approached a mosque to help Palestinian militants holed up inside. Two women were killed and about 10 were injured, according to hospital workers.

The shooting provoked widespread outrage among Palestinians.

The Israeli military said its fire was directed at Palestinian gunmen who were hiding among the women as they marched toward the Um al-Nasir mosque in Beit Hanun, the town in the northeastern Gaza Strip where Israeli troops and militants have been battling for the past three days. The Israelis said eight militants were shot, and that they were not aware that women were hit, but were investigating.

Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, angrily called on the international community to “come here and witness the daily massacres that are being carried out against the Palestinian nation.”

Mr. Haniya also praised the women “who led the protest to break the siege of Beit Hanun.”

The shooting, which was captured by television cameras, was the most dramatic episode so far in the fighting in Beit Hanun. Israeli forces entered the town early on Wednesday in an attempt to stop Palestinian militants from firing rockets from the area into Israel.

As Israeli forces pursued the militants in the town on Thursday, an estimated 60 gunmen dashed inside the Um al-Nasir mosque, initiating a standoff that lasted through the night.

Israeli troops in armored vehicles surrounded the mosque. For several hours, soldiers used loudspeakers to call on the militants to surrender, and several did, according to the military. The Israelis also fired tear gas and stun grenades into the mosque in an attempt to force the gunmen out.

Around 3 a.m. today, the gunmen in the mosque began firing on the Israeli soldiers, who shot back, and heavy exchanges ensued, the military said.

The Israeli army called in an armored bulldozer and used it to knock down one wall of the mosque compound, the military and Palestinian witnesses said.

Early this morning, a Palestinian radio station called on women in the town to march to the mosque and support the gunmen inside. A short time later, hundreds of women, dressed in flowing black abayas and wearing head scarves, headed to the the scene.

As they approached the mosque, shots rang out, but the women continued marching. A moment later, a number of women were hit, and the crowd scattered. Some of the wailing women turning back, while others kept advancing toward the mosque, climbing over improvised dirt barriers set up by the Israeli forces.

“We heard the call for women to help the fighters, and we decided to go,” said Mona Abu Jasir, 37, who was hit by a bullet in the right leg. “We had no weapons, and we were walking toward the mosque when I was shot.”

Television footage showed at least one man in the crowd, though there was no indication that he had a weapon. The man was shot and fell to the ground, and was surrounded by women until rescue workers arrived.

One marcher, Suhad el-Masri, 28, said she and several of her relatives were carrying abayas — long flowing gowns — and scarves to give to the men.

“We took them so they could disguise themselves as women and escape,” said Ms. Masri. Her sister, Hiba Rajab, 20, sustained serious injuries when she was shot in both legs and her left arm.

In the ensuing chaos, some women reached the mosque, and the gunmen managed to slip away, the Israeli military and Palestinian witnesses said. It was not clear whether the gunmen dressed as women to facilitate their escape. Shortly after the standoff ended, the roof of the mosque collapsed, apparently from the cumulative damage sustained in the fighting.

Palestinian hospitals identified the two women who were killed as Amna Abu Oudah, 42, and Intissar Ali, 40.

Later in the day, about 1,000 women marched outside Egypt’s diplomatic mission in Gaza City, denouncing the Israeli actions and calling on Egypt to intervene.

Also in Beit Hanun, two young Palestinian males, ages 15 and 18, were killed by Israeli fire, Palestinian medical workers said. Over the past three days, more than 20 Palestinians have been killed, including militants and civilians, as well as one Israeli soldier.

So far, the Israeli incursion has not reduced the Palestinian rocket fire, which has continued for the past three days. Militants fired several more rockets from northern Gaza into southern Israel today, but there was no damage or injuries, the Israeli military said. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian minister for housing and public works, Abdel Rahman Zaidan, who belongs to Hamas, the radical Islamic group that leads the Palestinian Authority. Israel has arrested more than two dozen Palestinian legislators and cabinet ministers from Hamas in the West Bank over the past four months.

The crackdown began after Palestinian militants, including those from Hamas, staged a cross-border raid and captured an Israeli soldier, and then took him into Gaza. That event also prompted the Israeli military to return to Gaza, which the army had left in September 2005.

Taghreed El-Khodary contributed reporting from Gaza.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/04mideastcnd.html?ei=5094&en=59140c6081ad22a0&hp=&ex=1162616400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

Israeli troops kill Palestinian woman who went to shield militants

By Yakub Ralwah, AP

Published: 03 November 2006

Israeli forces opened fire today on a group of women who streamed to a Gaza mosque to serve as human shields for gunmen holed up there, killing one and wounding 10, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

The dead woman was one of several hundreds who heeded a call by Hamas militants to ring the mosque in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Their presence there allowed the gunmen inside to escape, ending their 19-hour standoff with soldiers parked outside in tanks and armored personnel carriers, the army and militants said.

Troops seized Beit Hanoun on Wednesday in their fiercest bid in months to halt Palestinian rocket fire on nearby Israeli communities. More than 20 Palestinians, most of them gunmen, have been killed since the offensive began, including an unidentified 22-year-old man killed today.

The mosque became the focus of the fighting in the town after gunmen — estimates ranged from one dozen to several dozen — sought refuge from troops there yesterday. Most were thought to belong to the military wing of the ruling Hamas party.

Armored vehicles quickly surrounded the building, and the two sides began exchanging fire that lasted throughout the night, the military and Palestinian security officials said.

Israeli soldiers trying to pressure the gunmen to surrender also threw stun and smoke grenades, and knocked down an outer wall of the mosque with a bulldozer, causing the ceiling to collapse.

With sporadic shooting persisting this morning, Hamas radio broadcast a call to women to go to Beit Hanoun to shield the militants. Dozens of women left their homes to hurry to the mosque, and en route, came under Israeli fire, witnesses and officials said.

One woman, about 40, was shot dead, and 10 others were wounded, they said.

The army said troops spotted two militants hiding in the crowd of women and opened fire, hitting the two.

By mid-morning Friday, a large group of veiled women protesters gathered outside the mosque, where troops were positioned in tanks and armored personnel carriers. The army said the gunmen inside the mosque were able to take advantage of the demonstration to escape because there weren’t enough infantrymen to block the protesters from approaching the building, and troops didn’t want to shoot into the crowd.

But live ammunition was fired in the course of the demonstration, wounding a Palestinian cameraman and an unidentified woman.

"The criminal enemy campaign against our people will collapse and fail, like previous campaigns," vowed Ismail Radwan, a Hamas spokesman.

Loudspeakers across Gaza called on people to come to demonstrations after Friday prayers to express solidarity with Beit Hanoun. By late morning, two rallies were already in progress in Beit Hanoun, and militants in the crowds were firing at soldiers, the army said.

Elsewhere in Beit Hanoun, Israeli troops lowered their visibility, after two days of fierce fighting.

No airstrikes were reported, and residents said infantrymen had stopped patrolling the streets. Tanks and armored personnel vehicles were in sight, however, and snipers were positioned on about two dozen rooftops.

The army said it targeted Beit Hanoun because it was a major staging ground for rocket attacks. But Israeli officials have said the takeover of the town did not signal the start of a wider-scale military offensive in Gaza.

Militants have been undeterred by the offensive, however, and have continued firing rockets, including two that landed in southern Israel on Friday, slightly wounding two people.

The incursion into Beit Hanoun was launched as Abbas, a moderate, tried to form a new government with Hamas. A top Abbas aide said Thursday that the Palestinian president would seek new elections if talks do not produce results in about two weeks.

Abbas has been trying to end a punishing aid cutoff by setting up a government acceptable to the West, either in a power-sharing arrangement between Hamas and his Fatah movement, or by appointing independent professionals agreeable to the ruling party. Hamas has balked at demands that it recognize Israel, however, and no solution to the deadlock has emerged.

Independent legislator Mustafa Barghouti, who has been shuttling between the two sides, said Thursday that an agreement on a new government is close, but he would not disclose details. "We have made good progress. We are almost there," Barghouti said after meeting with Haniyeh.

In other news:

* A 65-year-old Palestinian woman was wounded in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, caught in crossfire between militants holed up in a house and Israeli soldiers on an arrest raid, hospital officials said. Witnesses had reported earlier that she was killed.

The army said forces were operating in Bethlehem, but had no other details.

* Israeli troops opened fire at two Palestinians preparing a car bomb in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday morning, killing one and wounding another, the military said.

Palestinian officials identified the wounded man as a senior militant from a violent faction affiliated with the military wing of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party and the dead man as his teenage brother.

* Israeli troops arrested a Palestinian Cabinet minister in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday, Palestinian security officials said.

The officials identified him as Public Works and Housing Minister Abdel Rahman Zidan of the Palestinians’ ruling Hamas party. Dozens of other Hamas ministers and lawmakers have been arrested in previous Israeli sweeps after Hamas-linked militants killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third in a cross-border raid on June 25.

The Israeli army said only that it arrested a Hamas activist.

Israeli forces opened fire today on a group of women who streamed to a Gaza mosque to serve as human shields for gunmen holed up there, killing one and wounding 10, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

The dead woman was one of several hundreds who heeded a call by Hamas militants to ring the mosque in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Their presence there allowed the gunmen inside to escape, ending their 19-hour standoff with soldiers parked outside in tanks and armored personnel carriers, the army and militants said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1951750.ece

Gaza women killed in mosque siege

Two women have been killed as Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of women gathered to help besieged gunmen flee a Gaza mosque, witnesses and doctors say

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6112386.stm

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