Abbas refuses to resume negotiations without comprehensive cease-fire
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel launched a new incursion into Gaza Tuesday, overshadowing a new peace push by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice even as she was holding talks with Premier Ehud Olmert. Rice had earlier met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who broke off all contacts with Israel Sunday after a previous incursion killed over 120 people, including dozens of civilians and 22 children, and who responded to her call for a resumption of talks with a demand for a comprehensive cease-fire.
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A Voice from Gaza Camps: Gaza and the holocaust
3 March 2008
But the death toll in the past two days alone reached a hundred; the vast majority of whom are civilians. The pictures of Mohammed Nasser Al burai aged 5 months, Abdallah Abed Rabbo 4, Jakleen Abu Shbak 12, Safa Abu Saif 12, Ghada Saleh 16, Attalah family consists of Suad, Abdelrahman, Ibrahim, and Khaled, aged 60, 65, 33 and 30 are keep flashing into my mind. What else can holocaust mean but killing and bombardment civilian population prisoners in their largest open air prison since almost 18 months? What does holocaust mean but denying people rights of movements, medical treatment and basic necessities such as food, water, electricity and fuel?