Envoy urges Ukraine to act over disappeared Palestinian
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

The Palestinian ambassador in Ukraine on Thursday denied that a Palestinian man who went missing in Ukraine and is now being held in an Israeli jail was a member of Hamas. The family of engineer Dirar Abu Sisi, who managed the main power plant in Hamas-ruled Gaza, says he was abducted by Israeli agents on board a train last month and spirited away to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Abu Sisi was a Hamas member who had given "valuable information". [ID:nLDE72T29J]

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Rights group calls for inquiry into internal projectile fire
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 31, 2011 - 12:00am

The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a statement of concern Tuesday, in the wake of the fall of several projectiles on a house and soft-drinks factory in the northern Strip, in which six civilians were injured. A report from the organization said it was the third home-made projectile to land on civilian property in Gaza in the past week, and called on government officials to investigate.

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Early morning air strike kills 1
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 30, 2011 - 12:00am

Israeli forces launched an air strike on the southern Gaza Strip shortly after the dawn prayer on Wednesday, killing one militant and injuring a second. In a statement from the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, officials identified the slain man as Mohammad Abu Mu'ammer, killed by an Israeli air strike near a mosque in the An-Nasser neighborhood in northeastern Rafah, near the refugee camp.

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Militants Put Gazans in Danger, Group Says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Fares Akram - March 30, 2011 - 12:00am

A Palestinian human rights group in Gaza took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said that it had investigated recent rocket explosions and found that locally produced projectiles had fallen on homes in Gaza or exploded in factories where they were made or stored. Shrapnel severely wounded several people, including a 22-year-old woman and her 7-month-old baby.

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Militants Put Gazans in Danger, Group Says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Fares Akram - March 30, 2011 - 12:00am

A Palestinian human rights group in Gaza took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said that it had investigated recent rocket explosions and found that locally produced projectiles had fallen on homes in Gaza or exploded in factories where they were made or stored. Shrapnel severely wounded several people, including a 22-year-old woman and her 7-month-old baby.

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Israeli tanks accompany bulldozers into Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
March 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Several Israeli military tanks crossed the border into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning near the Kissufim military post north of Khan Younis. Witnesses northeast of the town of Qarara, close to where the military action was reported, said three tanks and four bulldozers were operating inside the coastal enclave. Gunfire was reported, but no injuries, and onlookers said the bulldozers began leveling agricultural areas around the Kissufim military base.


New Shin Bet chief wrote: IDF could've destroyed Hamas in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Yitzhak Benhorin - March 29, 2011 - 12:00am

Yoram Cohen, who was named next director of the Shin Bet security service on Monday, wrote that Israel did not take advantage of its military superiority to destroyed Hamas' military capabilities during Operation Cast Lead. During his time as a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Cohen published a paper in which he contended that during the war in Gaza the IDF "undoubtedly could have destroyed Hamas' capabilities" had it employed all of its military force.

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The Shama family, stuck between the anvil of Hamas and the hammer of Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National
by Hugh Naylor - March 27, 2011 - 12:00am

It has now become a foregone conclusion for the Shama family. Every time a rocket or mortar is fired into Israel, the land at the back of their house in the Twam area of the Gaza strip will be attacked in retaliation.

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Reality Check: Last thing we need is a 2nd round in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Jeff Barak - (Opinion) March 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Let’s say Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decides to unleash Operation Cast Lead 2 following the recent wave of rocket attacks from Gaza.

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Two Palestinians killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
March 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Another Palestinian died on Sunday hours after being wounded in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip, which had killed one of his colleagues and injured two others, witnesses and medical sources said. The 26-year-old Palestinian had spent half an hour at the hospital's morgue before people found he was still breathing and took him back to the operation room. He died shortly afterwards. Israeli pilotless drones had fired a missile at a car carrying activists, killing one on the spot, wounding one seriously and two others moderately.

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