Posted on 11/08/2006 8:31:07 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Israel police will be on highest alert Thursday around the country following the fatal shelling attack on Beit Hanoun which killed 18 Palestinians and wounded dozens more.
All of the Palestinian factions, with no exceptions, threatened terror attacks to avenge the lethal strike.
Head of the Police Operations Division Barti Ohayon told Ynet, “We have over 80 general warnings of intentions to carry out terror attacks.” Fifteen of the warnings were specific.
Thursday morning Police Chief Moshe Karadi will convene officials for a decisive discussion on whether or not to allow the Jerusalem gay pride parade, slated for Friday, take place as planned.
Following rumors that the Jerusalem Open House was prepared to delay the gay pride parade slated to take place in the city Friday, representatives of the organization clarified that the police had not approached them on the issue at all.
The Open House further noted that "on Friday there will be a pride march which is an exhibition of human rights, one of the most important Israel has known."
Most of the terror warning were from Gaza and the West Bank and concerned a variety of scenarios: suicide bombings, shootings, rocket attacks, and kidnapping. Following the events in Gaza alert levels were raised nationwide.
Regarding police preparedness, Ohayon said that “police will focus on crowded places, there will be more road blocks, activity on the seam line, and deployment of traffic police will increase.”
In addition to the terror threats, protests are planned among the Arab sector which may reach the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Ohayon said police received five requests for rally permits from the Israeli Arab sector. “From out perspective, this news changes the picture. If up until now the emphasis was on the pride parade, now there are additional factors,” Ohayon noted.
Ohayon assessed the Jews and Arabs would try to enter the Temple Mount in protest of the gay pride parade. He noted that if the parade does indeed take place, police will raise alert to emergency level, which is reserved for extreme circumstances.
As of now, police appear likely to request of Attorney General Menahem Mazuz to prevent the parade due the to difficulty of securing it while simultaneously preventing terror attacks and attending to disruptions of the peace in the Arab sector and Temple Mount.
ROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
'Gaza readying for war'
Weapons flowing, Palestinians training for battle
Posted: October 2, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – Hamas has succeeded in smuggling "hundreds of tons" of weapons from Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a large-scale conflict with Israel, according to a report by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.
The report, drafted by Fatah's General Security Services and obtained by WND, stated Hamas has smuggled from the Egyptian Sinai desert between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets; anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles; rocket propelled grenades; raw explosives; rifles; ammunition; and other heavy weaponry.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52231
DAMNNN 80 alerts whoa something major up in Israel
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I hope they cancel it.
Israel had to be really concerned with what happened in the United States last night.
A lot of it is threat flooding by the terrorist factions. The sad thing is that they will eventually get one through.
All one can hope for is that the operation is small in nature, or as has happened so many times in the past, an alert Israeli citizen prevents a terrorist from boarding a bus or entering a nightclub.
The Hamas call for strikes against U.S. targets is a very significant development, and it remains to be seen if they (Hamas) back down on it.
There's no question Iran is the puppet master behind all of this. The Israelis are expecting more problems from Hezbollah and Syria in 2007. Palestinians in Gaza are only too happy to pile on.
And so another chapter begins..........
I remember hearing that the matchbook is open and all that is waiting is the strike of the first match to set of a chain reaction of fires. I fear that our loss yesterday could very well have been that match. What the world was waiting for.....
The gay pride parade whether allowed to go on schedule or postponed adds further provocation to the mix. I guess I'd better not say any more on that. Regardless, I hope they are successful in thwarting any attacks.
Your post gives me chills.
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.....and your screen name doesn't?
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and unless the americans give their head a shake, it will be one of the last chapters. rest asured if israel falls to iran,ummm... gets wiped..... then europe and then america.
I agree with you here...And the last thing they need on there plate is a Gay Parade. Just another reason for the ARAB world thinking Israel is just a corrupt heathen nation that needs to be destroyed.
I'm far from an alarmist. In fact, I laughed at the hoopla and speculation Iran would pull something this past August 22nd. However, I do not like what I'm seeing here at all.
"The gay pride parade whether allowed to go on schedule or postponed adds further provocation to the mix. I guess I'd better not say any more on that. Regardless, I hope they are successful in thwarting any attacks."
Yes, and i would go further, in light of the threats the Muslims have made in regard to this abomination parade, to say it is incitement.
There was also the suicide attack in Pakistan that killed 42 (probably more) soldiers today. "Pakistani Taliban" has taken credit.
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