Posted on 06/30/2006 5:34:36 PM PDT by blam
Palestinian PM is defiant as Gaza runs out of water
By Harry de Quetteville in Gaza
(Filed: 01/07/2006)
The Palestinian prime minister emerged from hiding yesterday, vowing to defy Israeli military pressure which has left the Gaza Strip facing a humanitarian crisis.
Ismail Haniya: 'No concessions' to the barrage
Ismail Haniya, who has already survived one Israeli assassination attempt, has been under cover since a 19-year-old Israeli soldier was captured by Palestinian militants on Sunday.
Israeli public television reported yesterday that Cpl Gilad Shalit was alive and had been treated by a Palestinian doctor for his injuries. But until he is released, Israel has promised that no one will be immune from its military response.
Mr Haniya, leading prayers at the main mosque in Gaza City yesterday, said there would be "no concessions" to the air and artillery barrage.
He said he was working with Egyptian negotiators, as well as the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to reach a deal which would end the hostage crisis and, with it, Israel's military build-up around Gaza. "The situation is very difficult and critical," he said.
With columns of Israeli tanks waiting on Gaza's northern border, and others in position on the disused airstrip to the south of the territory, Gaza is awaiting an armoured pincer movement.
Airstrikes and an embargo on the movement of fuel into Gaza are taking their toll.
Yesterday morning Mohammed Abdel-Al, a leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group, became the first fatality of the Gaza confrontation when he was killed in an airstrike.
In the centre of Gaza City, Israeli aircraft sent a more symbolic message to the Hamas government, destroying the fifth floor office of the interior minister, Said Siyam, with a precision strike. While the rest of the interior ministry building was untouched, the office of Mr Siyam, nominally in control of Palestinian armed forces, was destroyed.
Many Gazans have grown so used to the sonic booms from Israeli jets that they now just smile unperturbed. But the shortages of electricity and water are a new crisis.
With electricity off for six hours at a time, and queues for filtered water, Gaza is starting to feel like Baghdad.
"I went out last night and the city was in total darkness," said Gaza City's mayor, Majid Abu Ramadan. He said that since Israel had destroyed the main power station earlier this week, Gaza was using an emergency generator to power water wells.
"But the generator consumes a lot of fuel and our reserves only last three days. We have enough for one more day. Then there will be no more water."
It's not like they bathe
...dumb bastard
These corrupt terrorist leaders are so captive to Arab schill money, they risk it all, just for the bucks -- they care less about the Pals, really.
Pretty irresponsible for a government, I say.
Do sand fleas need water?
"But the generator consumes a lot of fuel and our reserves only last three days. We have enough for one more day. Then there will be no more water."
Um, it's not like they couldn't have thought ahead but they
ARE Palestinians.
Note to Palis: Maybe some of the jihadi money should have went to a good filtration system......
Cholera, do yo' stuff!
(I don't plan on running for office any time soon.)
Needs a keyword: IT'SONLYAFLESHWOUND
(I don't plan on running for office any time soon.)
LOL!
If they're so desperate, RETURN CPL. SHALIT
But they can't do that, they already killed him 10 minutes after he was captured.
Well, too freaking bad.
Suffer, @$$holes.
You got that right.
But that would require the Palis to engage in forward planning that involves something other than killing innocent people.
What about the sewage system? The smell must be horrible.
Gotta love it... its a real candygram moment!
I hope the U.N. doesn't march in to help the terrorists.
LOL! The "Think Ahead" chemical makeup is missing from these people. Must be a gene mutation going back 1000's of pre-Muhammedan years...
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