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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137742.html IDF kills Palestinians behind murder of settler
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters
Tags: West Bank, Israel News, IDF
Six Palestinians were killed early Saturday in fighting with Israel, shattering a long period of relative calm in the territories.
In pre-dawn raids in the West Bank city of Nablus, Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed three Palestinian operatives belonging to the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The men were known by Israeli authorities to be responsible for carrying out a shooting attack in a West Bank settlement Thursday which killed Rabbi Meir Hai.
Also on Saturday, Israel killed three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
An IDF spokeswoman said three Palestinians were killed in an air strike and ground fire on suspicion they were trying to infiltrate from Gaza.
A Hamas security source said the three shot in Gaza were apparently civilians collecting scrap metal in an industrial zone near the Israeli border.
The Nablus operation ended an extended lull during which the IDF refrained from any activities in the heart of Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
IDF troops entered the casbah of Nablus as well as the Ras al-Ayin region.
One of the dead Palestinians has been identified as Anan Subeh, 33, of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The other two Palestinians who were killed are Raed a-Sarkaji, 38, and Raghsan Abu Sharah, whose brother was regarded as a top commander with the organization.
During the operation, a-Sarkaji's wife was wounded and was later transferred to hospital for medical care.
Palestinian security sources report that IDF troops surrounded the Nablus casbah at around 4:00 A.M. on Saturday. Then, the IDF surrounded one of the homes in the area before proceeding to forcibly enter. The Palestinians had refused Israeli soldiers' calls to surrender.
Israeli defense officials said that the Palestinians were implicated in various terrorist actions in recent years, and that the IDF moved against them after they had refused to cease their activities as part of the pardon agreement.
One of the Palestinians was said to have maintained contact with terrorist operatives abroad, including those belonging to Hezbollah.
The IDF operation is considered unusual given the calm that has taken hold in the West Bank over the course of the last two years.
The raid occurred less than two days after an Israeli from the West Bank settlement Shavei Shomron was killed in a shooting attack near his home.
Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have claimed responsibility for the attack, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.
An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Israeli actions on Saturday, accusing Jerusalem of escalating the violence.
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, the aide, told Reuters after the killing of three militants of Abbas's own Fatah movement and three Gaza men "this grave Israeli escalation shows Israel is not interested in peace and is trying to explode the situation."
"Israel is torpedoing international and American efforts to restart peace talks," which stalled a year ago, Rudaineh said. Israel has insisted it was ready to resume negotiations immediately. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre èëè âòîðàÿ ðåäàêöèÿ Çàáóãîðíîâà
The Iron Dome short-range missile defense system passed a series of tests over the last few days with flying colors, successfully shooting down Qassam rockets, Grad rockets and mortar shells one after the other.
It even succeeded in determining which missiles to shoot down - those whose trajectory made them likely to land in a populated area - and which to ignore.
This was the first test of the system as a whole rather than individual components.
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The results are a feather in the cap of the developer, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which succeeded in transforming the highly complex system from an idea into an almost fully operational product in just two and a half years. The first operational battery is expected to be deployed in May.
Credit also goes to Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his ministry's outgoing director general, Pinchas Buchris, for pushing the project.
It is hard to exaggerate the importance of the successful tests. Iron Dome is supposed to provide protection against missiles with a range of between four and 70 kilometers. That covers everything from mortar shells through Hamas' Qassams, Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets and even Iranian Fajr rockets, which have apparently made their way to the Gaza Strip. As such, it radically improves Israel's strategic position.
Nevertheless, protection of Israel's home front remains far from complete. First, Iron Dome has yet to be tested in a genuine attack. Second, Israel still lacks any additional missile batteries beyond the prototype just tested. Third, the intermediate layer of Israel's missile defense system - Magic Wand, which is supposed to handle missiles with longer ranges than those covered by Iron Dome but shorter than the long-range ballistic missiles covered by the Arrow - has yet to reach a similarly advanced stage of development, and is not expected to do so until 2012.
The first Iron Dome battery will be delivered to the air force in about six weeks and is slated, if all goes well, to become operational in May. A single missile battery is enough to protect a medium-sized city like Sderot.
The question is how many batteries the Israel Defense Forces will ultimately acquire, and when. It would take about 20 batteries, each costing some NIS 50 million, to defend the entire northern and southern border regions. That will require either diverting substantial funds from other defense projects or significantly increasing the defense budget.
Rafael is expected to profit handsomely, both from sales to the IDF and, later, overseas. The United States, for instance, might want to purchase the missile protection system to defend its army bases in the Middle East against terror attacks.
Will Iron Dome make Israel more likely to launch another war in Gaza? It may do just the opposite, by increasing Israel's deterrence against Hamas, thereby stabilizing the situation. If Hamas knows its ability to harm Israel has been substantially reduced, it may be less likely to engage in provocations.
However, the Palestinians will almost certainly put the system to the test, if only in the hope of scoring a symbolic victory by breaking through Israel's technological shield.
But for all the praise this achievement deserves, one criticism must be leveled: It should have happened much sooner. For years, the IDF refused to invest the necessary funds in developing Iron Dome, until former defense minister Amir Peretz finally forced it to do so. Had this been done sooner, not only would Israeli lives have been saved, but it might have been possible to avoid last winter's war in Gaza altogether and significantly reduce the damage from the Second Lebanon War in 2006. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre èëè âòîðàÿ ðåäàêöèÿ Çàáóãîðíîâà
PMO officially announces internal Gaza flotilla raid probe panel
Commission of inquiry to include two foreign observers 'world renowned in legal, military and human rights fields.'
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Israel will set up its own, public independent investigation into the events surrounding its raid last month on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced on Sunday.
Israel had rejected a United Nations proposal for an international panel to investigate the deadly May 31 interception of the flotilla, but it agreed to include two foreign observers in its own inquiry.
The observers will be Iranian Nobel Prize laureate David Trimble, and Canada's former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces Ken Watkin.
According to the Prime Minister's Bureau announcement, the members of the commission of inquiry, to be headed by former Supreme Court justice Yaakov Tirkel, will be international law professor Shabtay Rosen, Israel Prize laureate and former Technion president Amos Horev.
In the official announcement, the Prime Minister's Bureau said that "in light of the unique international aspects of the event, it was decided to enlist two foreign observers who are world renowned in the legal, military and human rights fields." The observers will take part in the commission's hearings and meetings.
The final decision on the internal probe will be voted on by the government on Monday, Netanyahu's office said in a statement. _________________ A la guerre comme a la guerre èëè âòîðàÿ ðåäàêöèÿ Çàáóãîðíîâà
PMO officially announces internal Gaza flotilla raid probe panel
Commission of inquiry to include two foreign observers 'world renowned in legal, military and human rights fields.'
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Israel will set up its own, public independent investigation into the events surrounding its raid last month on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced on Sunday.
Israel had rejected a United Nations proposal for an international panel to investigate the deadly May 31 interception of the flotilla, but it agreed to include two foreign observers in its own inquiry.
The observers will be Iranian Nobel Prize laureate David Trimble, and Canada's former Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces Ken Watkin.
According to the Prime Minister's Bureau announcement, the members of the commission of inquiry, to be headed by former Supreme Court justice Yaakov Tirkel, will be international law professor Shabtay Rosen, Israel Prize laureate and former Technion president Amos Horev.
In the official announcement, the Prime Minister's Bureau said that "in light of the unique international aspects of the event, it was decided to enlist two foreign observers who are world renowned in the legal, military and human rights fields." The observers will take part in the commission's hearings and meetings.
The final decision on the internal probe will be voted on by the government on Monday, Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
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