Ordeal of a Palestinian

A very well-known Twitter user @Gazamom has been stuck at the Cairo airport for over 6 hours with her children. The Egyptian officials have detained her there and are not allowing her to cross into Palestine.

 

According to her posts on Twitter, her visa for the US had expired and she hasd come down to Egypt to travel into Palestine. The official are telling her she may be deported to some place else. And for some weird reason, the Egyptian officials are allowing Israelis to enter into Palestine!

 

She is well known for her coverage of the December Gaza incursion wherein she updated the world on the ongoing events from Twitter with help from her father, who is a doctor in Gaza. She has appeared on CNN for the same.

 

Follow her on http://twitter.com/gazamom and pray for her safe passage into Palestine.

 

 Updated on: 9th April, 2009 [23:05 GMT]

Subhanallah! @Gazamom has been stuck at the Cairo airport for over 24 hours. And the worse thing is some of the official papers which she had submitted seem to have been misplaced!

If there is anyone out there who knows any Egyptian official who can help, now is the time to come forth.

 Updated on: 14th April, 2009 [21:56 GMT]

@Gazamom has put up a detailed account of her ordeal on her blog. She was deported back to the US from Egypt,  and was allowed to enter the US. 

Read it here: I was born Palestinian

IDF fashion 2009 – Dead Palestinian babies

 

A T-shirt printed at the request of an IDF soldier in the sniper unit reading 'I shot two kills.'

Subhanallah!!! Is this how Israel talks about supporting peace?

After an infamous incursion into Gaza, killing scores of people and razing hundreds of buildings to the ground, the people are printing T-shirts with derogatory slogans for the Israeli Defence Force.

Read the whole story here: Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009

And watch the news report by Al Jazeera English here:

May Allah [swt] protect the Muslims in this fitnah and destroy the falsehood perpertrated during this incursion.

‘Ambitious’ Turkish project aims at modernising the Hadeeth

The Qur'an Mushaf

 

A project being spear-headed by Ankara University’s divinity school, aims at modernising the 1400-old sayings of the Prophet Muhammad [saw].  The process consists of comapring the hadeeth with the Quran anddisarding any that conradict.

Another process invloves that of scrutinizing hadeeths based on how it approaches modern-day problems.

Well, if the hadeeths being discarded atually belong to the Shaeeh colltion, then we have a problem.

This  project seems to be another way towards showing the secular colours of the country. Can’t sy wat the intention actually is though.

Read the whole story here[covered on March 2008]: Turkish scholars aim to modernize Islam\’s Hadith

Israeli jet strikes Hamas’ weapons factory

 

Jerusalem, Jan 29 : Israeli Air Force jet has struck a Hamas’ weapons manufacturing facility in the Rafah area in response to a Kassam rocket being fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel.

The air strike was the Israel’s first attack on a building inside the Gaza Strip since the end of Operation Cast Lead.

“As the sole authority in the Gaza Strip, Hamas bears full responsibility of all terror originating from within its area of control,” the Israel Government said in a statement.

The Kassam rocket was fired at southern Israel on Wednesday night. It came a day after Gaza operatives breached the cease-fire with a deadly bomb attack along the border, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The rocket hit an open area in the Eshkol region, causing no casualties or damage.

Following the attack on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Israel would respond to every act of aggression, also to rockets fired at open areas.

In an official statement released overnight Wednesday, the government reiterated Livni’s words, saying that “the IDF will respond to any terror attacks in accordance with decisions made by the Israeli Government.”

Haim Yalin, head of the Eshkol Regional Council, said that the rocket represented a moment of truth for the government, and called for a firm response to avert the next war.

“During Operation Cast Lead, I and other local authority heads sat with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and told them: `It does not matter at what stage the military operation ends, what matters is what Israel does after the first rocket is fired,’” Yalin said.

“We have now reached that stage. If the government fails to respond, and says the rocket was fired by a marginal group; we will be faced with another war soon. If we respond as we should, then we can hopefully spare ourselves another war,” he added. (ANI)

U-Turn! Israel accepts using White Phosphorous

 

The incident being investigated is believed to be the firing of white phosphorous shells at a UN school in Beit Lahiya on January 17 (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

 

This is turning out to be a really interesting after-math topic.

After denying to allegations of using white phosphorous, the Israeli government has confirmed the usage of the banned chemical substance in the Gaza offensive.

Subhanallah…

And as the news piece reported in The Times goes, the Israeli government is denying that they tried covering it up in the first place! Can it get more idiotic than this??? Read it here: Israel admits using white phosphorous in attacks on Gaza

The same was posted on this blog: Gaza Special – Controversial Chemical used

The Times did a brief timeline on the White Phosphorous Expose:

CHANGING TUNE

January 5 The Times reports that telltale smoke has appeared from areas of shelling. Israel denies using phosphorus

January 8 The Times reports photographic evidence showing stockpiles of white phosphorus (WP) shells. Israel Defence Forces spokesman says: “This is what we call a quiet shell – it has no explosives and no white phosphorus”

January 12 The Times reports that more than 50 phosphorus burns victims are taken into Nasser Hospital. An Israeli military spokesman “categorically” denies the use of white phosphorus

January 15 Remnants of white phosphorus shells are found in western Gaza. The IDF refuses to comment on specific weaponry but insists ammunition is “within the scope of international law”

January 16 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters are hit with phosphorus munitions. The Israeli military continues to deny its use

January 21 Avital Leibovich, Israel’s military spokeswoman, admits white phosphorus munitions were employed in a manner “according to international law”

January 23 Israel says it is launching an investigation into white phosphorus munitions, which hit a UN school on January 17. “Some practices could be illegal but we are going into that. The IDF is holding an investigation concerning one specific unit and one incident”

Source: Times database