Israeli forces have targeted the office of Press TV and the Iranian Arab-language satellite channel al-Alam in the Gaza Strip.
There were two people wounded in the Israeli attack, a Press TV correspondent said Friday, adding that Press TV’s sister channel, Al-Alam, which was also based in the building has been affected by the attack.
According to our correspondent Hamoudi Gharib, the building was targeted even though the staff had kept light projectors working on the roof of the building 24 hours a day to mark the building.
The journalists working in the building had been given safety assurances that the building would not be targeted by mistake, after its coordinates were handed to organizations responsible for the journalist safety, including the UN.
The Press TV team said they received no warnings ahead of the Israeli strike, which only targeted journalists and news crew who were in the building.
The team’s equipment, including satellite transmission devices installed on the roof, have been damaged.
Press TV has been one of the few news networks which has provided extensive coverage of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of some 783 Palestinians.
Alex Thomson from Channel 4 news on 08.01.2009 @ 8pm (London news) shuts up Mark Regev about Israel’s appalling satanic lack of human-rights!!! Not even sparing the babies!!!
Israeli Ground Forces Cross Border Into Gaza Strip
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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Jan. 3, 2008: Israeli tanks reposition themselves along the Gaza Strip border before carrying out a ground offensive.
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DEVELOPING: Israeli ground forces began moving across the border into the northern Gaza Strip in an escalation late Saturday night of the weeklong offensive against Hamas.
The incursion was confirmed to FOX News by Israeli defense officials, and witnesses in the Gaza Strip reported seeing troops moving in — a development that Reuters described as a small column of Israeli military vehicles backed by combat helicopters.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip had intensified Saturday evening as tanks began repositioning themselves around the border despite international efforts to secure a cease-fire and avert a ground war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel launched the aerial campaign a week ago in a bid to halt weeks of intensifying Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. The offensive has dealt a heavy blow to Hamas, but failed to halt the rocket fire.
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Early Saturday, Israel dropped leaflets in downtown Gaza City ordering people off the streets.
Most of Israel’s latest airstrikes hit empty buildings and abandoned sites, though a mosque also was hit, killing 10 people, as artillery units joined the Gaza offensive for the first time Saturday.
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Palestinian militants fired six rockets into southern Israel, causing no injuries. One rocket struck a house in the city of Ashkelon, police said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting the region next week, and U.S. President Bush and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon both spoke in favor of an internationally monitored truce.
President Bush, in a radio address taped Friday, accused Hamas of an “act of terror” in its rocket attacks into Israel and suggested that no cease-fire would be acceptable without monitoring to halt the flow of weapons to terrorist groups.
But Hamas, in its first reaction to the proposal on Saturday, seemed cool to the idea of international monitors
From 2001 through May 2008, Hamas launched more than 3,000 Qassam rockets and 2,500 mortar attacks against Israeli targets, and on Friday, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said from Damascus that his group was prepared for an invasion and may attempt to abduct soldiers, as it has in the past.
Israel launched the new round of airstrikes on Gaza in response to renewed missile attacks by Hamas after the two sides’ six-month cease-fire ended last month.
The United Nations estimated Friday that around 100 civilians have been killed in Gaza in the past week, around 25 percent of the 400 estimated killed in the bombing campaign.
Three Israeli civilians and one soldier have also died in the Hamas rocket attacks, which have reached deeper into Israel than ever before, bringing one-eighth of Israel’s population of 7 million within rocket range.
FOX News’ Mike Tobin and the ociated Press contributed to this report.
Jon Stewart and his guest, NBC’s David Gregory, somewhat explain the one-sided view of the current Gaza conflict from American politicians and media in the clips I include from last week’s “The Daily Show,” but they still cannot explain the Fox News journalistic bias towards Israel in the clips I also include in this video.
You can see the entire January 5, 2009, episode of “The Daily Show” from which I took two clips for my video at http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=213378
You can see the full Decmber 30, 2008, Greg Jarrett interview with Palestinian legal advisor Diana Buttu from which I took a clip for my video on the FoxNewsChannel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa6VsMeKefY
You can see the full January 12, 2009, Greg Jarrett interview with Israeli cabinet minister Isaac Herzog from which I took a clip for my video on the FoxNewsChannel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKWY6hxw20
And, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast
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JERUSALEM – The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army ault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.
When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem’s hospital earlier this month, there was no way to verify the story he told about how his wife had died, until Israel’s Channel 2 broacast the tape last weekend”
What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.
09.01.2009
A FOX news report about the Israeli 911 terrorism ties. Israelis caught but later shipped to Israel as “art students”.
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Alex Thomson from Channel 4 news on 08.01.2009 @ 8pm (London news) shuts up Mark Regev about Israel’s appalling satanic lack of human-rights!!! Not even sparing the babies!!!
Israeli Ground Forces Cross Border Into Gaza Strip
Jon Stewart and his guest, NBC’s David Gregory, somewhat explain the one-sided view of the current Gaza conflict from American politicians and media in the clips I include from last week’s “The Daily Show,” but they still cannot explain the Fox News journalistic bias towards Israel in the clips I also include in this video.
From the CBC Website:
