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Peace talks: Palestinian views

With planned indirect Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on hold after a row over settlement building in East Jerusalem, Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank give their views on the prospects for peace.

ADEL HASSAN RASHED, 81, UNEMPLOYED, NABLUS

Adel Hassan Rashed, Palestinian, Nablus

We should never go back to negotiations. The solution is always in the hands of the US, but we expect nothing from them. They are the only power in the world - and the Israeli have no-one standing against them.

The idea of the two-state solution is like morphine [ie used to anaesthetise the Palestinians]. There is nothing called a solution. They just keep taking the land from us and building for themselves. Israel took everything from us and the Americans are backing them up, even with weapons.

The only option we have is to take back with force what they took from us. When we have the real power to fight, we will - but not now, we have no power.

KHADER SAMARITAN, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH CENTRE, 55, NABLUS

Khader Samaritan, Palestinian, Nablus

I think it's better for us to have direct negotiations with Israel, because there is no-one to talk on our behalf in indirect ones.

Face to face talks are better, but the condition for these should be to stop the settlement activity. - and not just for eight months.

East Jerusalem is internationally known as the capital of the future Palestinian state and west Jerusalem is the capital for the Israelis - this should be the two-state solution.

Peace is the key to everything. I'm not convinced about military resistance. The people are already suffering from the economic situation and the first and second intifidas. The people of the world have heard our voices, and all the world is standing behind us - to have a third intifada now would just hurt our own people.

RUBA ZAGHMOURI, 24, ARTS CENTRE WORKER, RAMALLAH

Ruba Zaghmouri, Palestinian, Ramallah

It's not about whether Mahmoud Abbas should go into talks or not. Whether he does or doesn't go into them, I don't think the result will satisfy the Palestinian people.

I don't want a two state solution. Definitely not. A two-state solution could be done when we have equal grounds, both the Palestinians and Israelis, but without us Palestinians having basic rights, you can't discuss a two-state solution.

I have never believed in a two-state solution. I want to be free. I want to live in peace. I want to be able to live here in Ramallah without going back and forth to Jerusalem for my ID problems. I don't want to have to go to Amman just to use an airport. I don't want anyone to be killed, and I don't want anything to be stolen from us.

What I want is so confused at the moment. I feel like Palestinian and Israeli leaders are all lying to us. It's becoming really difficult for the new generation to weigh what's right and wrong and what we actually want out of all of this. We know we want peace, but how it could be achieved - this is what we don't know.

AYMAN AL-NAZER, DENTIST, 48, RAMALLAH

Ayman al-Nazer, Palestinian, Ramallah

I believe that all the negotiations with Israel should be stopped. The Arab street should take a different way. We've been negotiating for 20 years now, for nothing.

I still support peaceful resistance, but everyone knows what the other option is, and the other option will happen if the Israelis don't sit down for real negotiations.

Unfortunately the Jewish people don't want peace. You can see the facts on the ground. The whole world can see what's going on on the ground. There is no way to achieve peace with these people.

AMINA AL-HASANAT, SALES DIRECTOR, 22, GAZA

Amina al-Hasanat, Palestinian, Gaza

I believe that negotiations are the only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, but must be done in the right way. To take steps to improve the conditions for negotiations, the Arab leaders should maintain pressure on Israel to accept negotiations based on international legitimacy and United Nations resolutions. Israel must stop settlement activity in Jerusalem and the West Bank and recognise the rights of the Palestinian people.

I dream of a two-state solution which is based on a viable independent Palestinian state, side-by-side with Israel. We must find a unified Palestinian strategy to support the position of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, because Israel is taking the division between the Palestinians as an excuse to stop negotiations and continue attacks against the Palestinian people.

MOHAMMED OMAR TAHA, ACCOUNTANT, 32, GAZA
Mohammed Omar Taha, Palestinian, Gaza

Negotiations would be a waste of time. We have negotiated for more than 15 years, but we got nothing but siege and settlements, killing and destruction. The Arab leaders should take a decision to stop negotiating and go for the military option against Israel, which knows only the language of force. The two-state solution is a big lie. We must end the division [between Palestinians] first and then take a clear decision to stop the negotiations and security co-ordination with Israel, and go to the option of resistance by all means - popular resistance and armed resistance if necessary.

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Thirteen Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip

Thirteen Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip

The BBC's Jon Donnison says the strikes were on a "relatively small scale"

Israeli planes have carried out 13 air strikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources have told the BBC.

Four of the strikes took place near the town of Khan Younis, where two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Palestinian fighters last week.

Israel says the operation was targeting four weapons factories. Reports say three children were injured.

The latest violence is the most serious since the end of Israel's assault on Gaza in January 2009.

Palestinians and rights groups say more than 1,400 Gazans died in the conflict, while Israel puts the figure at 1,166. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, were killed.

Witnesses and Hamas officials said the latest Israeli raids targeted metal workshops, farms, a milk factory and small sites belonging to the military wing of Hamas.

The director of ambulance and emergency, Muawiya Hassanein, said that three children including an infant were slightly injured by flying debris.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has called on the international community to intervene in the latest cycle of violence between Gaza and Israel in order to avoid a possible escalation.

"We are contacting the other Palestinian factions in order to reach an internal consensus as to the measures we may take in order to protect our people and strengthen our unity," Mr Haniya said.

'Retaliation'

Israel says there have been at least 20 rocket or mortar attacks in the past month that have landed on its territory, one of which killed a farm worker.

The BBC's Jon Donnison, in Jerusalem, says Israel appears to be sending a signal that whenever there is militant activity inside Gaza it will respond.

ANALYSIS
Tim Franks
Tim Franks, BBC News, Jerusalem

The air strikes were not a surprise. Israeli officials say there is an equivalence: if it is quiet within Israel's borders, then it will be quiet in Gaza.

Among Gaza's leaders there was a slight difference in emphasis. Ismail Haniya, the top Hamas man in the territory, condemned Israel's "escalation". But Ayman Taha, a spokesman, also said that Hamas was "working hard to deter any faction from acting individually".

So both sides are insisting that they want calm. But it is dangerous - and historically inaccurate - to imagine that violence can be neatly calibrated in and around Gaza.

In any case, the received wisdom among Gazans and Israelis is that another major clash is inevitable at some point: there are just too many sources of tension, too many triggers across the region.

It makes the job of pushing ahead with Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, and a wider resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict all the more difficult, and all the more pressing.

In a statement released to the BBC, the Israeli military said Israel would "not tolerate terroristic activity inside Gaza that threatens Israeli citizens".

Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told public radio: "If this rocket fire against Israel does not stop, it seems we will have to raise the level of our activity and step up our actions against Hamas."

Correspondents say this kind of rhetoric has been heard in the past and should not be taken as a cue for imminent military action.

But tension is growing between Israel and Hamas, and some analysts view wider operations against Hamas as inevitable.

Palestinian news agencies reported that Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over parts of Gaza on Thursday warning residents of retaliation for last Friday's killings of the soldiers in Khan Younis.

They were the first Israeli soldiers to be killed in hostile fire in Gaza in over a year. The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for those attacks.

Over roughly the same period, about 90 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in a mixture of Israeli military operations and border clashes, according to the UN.

Hamas said police stations and training facilities were among the targets of Israel's overnight raids.

Khimar Abu Sada, professor of political science at al-Azhar university in Gaza City, told the BBC he had heard a number of explosions in the city.

The site of a destroyed factory in Gaza City 2 April 2010

In pictures: Aftermath of raids

"[On Thursday] the Israeli army distributed a number of leaflets in Gaza City warning the Palestinians to expect some kind of Israeli retaliation for the killing of two Israeli soldiers... so we were expecting something on Friday but not Thursday night," he said.

Tensions in the region are running high after a recent Israeli government announcement of plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish people in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as a capital of a future state.

The US has criticised the Ramat Shlomo project, which prompted the Palestinians to pull out of US-brokered indirect peace talks.

The row has caused one of the worst crises in US-Israeli ties for decades, and the US is reportedly considering abstaining from a possible UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlement expansion. The US usually blocks Security Council resolutions criticising Israel.

Rocket fire

Militants in the Gaza Strip have recently stepped up rocket fire directed at Israel.

On Wednesday, they fired a rocket into an empty field in southern Israel, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, military sources said.

Map of the area

In December 2008, the Israeli armed forces launched a 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, bombing Palestinian cities before sending in ground troops - in response, Israel said, to Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel.

After this, Hamas launched its rockets in increased numbers at Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, before agreeing to a ceasefire.

Our correspondent says that Hamas has tried to rein in rocket fire from Gaza, and that there has been a reduction in attacks in the last year.

Israel would say that is a result of its military operations, our correspondent says.

But there are many militant groups in Gaza and Hamas does not control all of them, our correspondent adds.

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a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza

April 4, 2010

Istanbul, Turkey – Following months of preparation, a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza was announced yesterday in Istanbul. The coalition, comprised of the Turkey-based IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) organization, the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), the Greek Ship to Gaza campaign, the Swedish Ship to Gaza campaign and the Free Gaza Movement, will launch a flotilla of ships laden with cargo, media, parliamentarians, celebrities and activists to Gaza next month.

The flotilla includes at least eight vessels, including three cargo ships, and will set sail from European ports beginning May 3, reaching the port of Gaza later in the month. Over 500 passengers from more than 20 countries will take part, and 5,000 tons of cargo, including cement, prefabricated housing, other building materials, medical equipment, and educational supplies will be delivered to Palestinians in Gaza.

The Free Gaza Movement has been launching ships to Gaza since August 2008, partnering with organizations and activists around the world on these missions. In December 2009, IHH led a land convoy to Gaza that brought tons of humanitarian aid and other supplies. In January 2010 the European Campaign brought 50 parliamentarians to Gaza in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to witness the devastation wrought by Israel’s illegal policies. Ship to Gaza/Greece and Ship to Gaza/Sweden meanwhile have had ongoing campaigns in their countries to raise awareness and funds for this effort and for materials to be brought to Gaza.

“Through this coalition, these organizations will be able to maximize resources, experience and commitment to ending the illegal siege on Gaza. Even as Israel continues its daily persecution of Palestinians, we will use this action to wake the world’s consciousness about the crimes committed against Palestinians,” said IHH President Bulent Yildirim.

The coalition invites organizations and individuals from around the world to join the effort by providing supplies for Gaza and contributing financial support for the mission.

Contact:

Free Gaza Movement – Greta Berlin – +33607374512; www.freegaza.org

ECESG – Arafat Madhi – +44 7908 200 559; www.savegaza.eu

IHH – Ahmet Emin Dag – +90 530 341 1934; www.ihh.org.tr

Ship to Gaza / Greece – Vangelis Pissias – +30 697 200 9339; www.shiptogaza.gr

Ship to Gaza / Sweden – Dror Feiler - +46702855777; www.shiptogaza.se

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