General Information

News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation (April 28-May 5, 2009)

This week several shooting attacks occurred against local communities in the western Negev, and an explosive device was detonated near the Erez Crossing. IDF Air Force fighters attacked several tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip. In a speech given for the Preparatory Committee of the Palestine Youth Parliament, Abu Mazen reiterated his objection to the
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 21-27, 2009)

This past week quiet continued in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. An important counterterrorism activity was the detention of a Palestinian terrorist from Khirbet Safa in the Mt. Hebron region who is suspected of stabbing a child to death in the community of Bat Ayn. This week as well the Egyptians carried out intensive
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 15-21, 2009)

This past week as well terrorist attacks of various types were carried out in different locations, apparently by lone terrorists not organized or directed by Palestinian terrorist organizations. On the diplomatic front, American envoy George Mitchell visited Jerusalem and Ramallah. During his stay, the fundamental disagreement over the two-state solution was again raised. At the
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict April 7-14, 2009

Terrorist events this past week focused on the prevention of an attempted terrorist naval attack opposite the Gaza shore. In the Sur Baher neighborhood of Jerusalem there was another hit and run terrorist attack. The western Negev was completely quiet, with no rocket or mortar shell fire. A Hezbollah network was exposed in Egypt. It
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Examination of the number of Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead indicates that most were armed terrorist operatives and members of Hamas’s security forces involved in fighting against the IDF.

Hamas has adopted a policy of concealing its casualties and attempts to include them in the overall number of civilians killed.
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Using civilians as human shields

Additional evidence shows Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip established bases, military installations and rocket and mortar shell launching positions near schools, some of them run by UNRWA.
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