Israel army showed 'intent to kill' in Gaza shelling
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
by Jared Malsin - November 21, 2010 - 1:00am

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (Ma’an) -- On 13 September, a day after Israeli tank shells decapitated his 16-year-old son, Walid Abu Oda went back to his family's northern Gaza farm in a vain search for the head. Asked how he was coping with the loss, he said, "How do you think it feels to lose a son, to see your son without his head?"

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Gaza militants fire Grad rocket, barrage of mortar shells at western Negev
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yanir Yagna - November 19, 2010 - 1:00am

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a long-range Grad rocket and seven mortar shells at western Negev on Friday, following a night-long barrage of Qassam rockets fired from the coastal enclave. Eshkol Regional Council was hit by 3 mortar shells Friday afternoon. Another 4 bombs hit Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. No injuries or damages were reported. Earlier on Friday Gaza militants fired a long-range Grad rocket into the western Negev.

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Gazans shocked at how many neighbors, coworkers, officials are 'spying' for Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Kristen Chick - November 19, 2010 - 1:00am

Gaza City, Gaza To citizens of Gaza, the Hamas government’s campaign to uncover and uproot the network of collaborators with Israel has been shockingly effective. It began with a warning: the execution of two convicted collaborators in May. Then Hamas government officials, who were convinced that a wide network of spies was undermining their government, made an unprecedented offer: a two-month amnesty campaign. Collaborators could turn themselves in and be forgiven, their identities kept secret.

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Israeli air strike kills two Islamist militants in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News
November 18, 2010 - 1:00am

An Israeli air strike has killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The men, who were brothers, belonged to the Army of Islam - a radical group which Israel says is affiliated with al-Qaeda. Israel said one of the men had been involved in a plot to kidnap its citizens in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It is the second time this month that Israel has targeted the group. The Israeli army said the two men were killed when their car was stuck by a missile in Gaza City.

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Qaeda-linked group threatens Israelis, in Hebrew
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Mahmoud Habboush, Dan Williams - November 18, 2010 - 1:00am

DUBAI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group issued a Hebrew threat on Thursday to avenge Israel's killing of two Gaza militants, in what an expert said was the first use of the language for such propaganda. In the half-minute-long recording posted on a website used by declared al Qaeda affiliates, a hoarse male voice tells the "aggressor Jews" they will not be safe from rockets and other attacks until they "leave the land of Palestine". The speaker identifies himself as a member of the group Jemaa Ansar al-Sunna or "Community of Sunna Supporters", which has a presence in Gaza.

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IDF officer suspected of blocking probe into Gaza civilian death
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Anshel Pfeffer - November 18, 2010 - 1:00am

An Israel Defense Forces officer is being probed for obstructing an investigation into the death of a Palestinian civilian during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip while he was serving as batallion commander. The officer is suspected of failing to submit the results of an inquiry regarding the woman, who was killed when she and a group of civilians approached a station of the Givati Brigade in January 2009, during Israel's three-week offensive on the Gaza Strip.

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Israeli airstrike kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
November 18, 2010 - 1:00am

Two Palestinians were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a local car Wednesday evening in central Gaza City, medical sources and witnesses said. An Israeli war jet targeted a white Subaru car in central Gaza City, said witnesses, adding that ambulances arrived at the scene and evacuated the casualties to Shifa Hospital in the city. Adham Abu Selmeyah, spokesman of medical services in the health ministry of the deposed Hamas government, told Xinhua that Islam Yassin and Mohamed Yassin, who were in the targeted car, were killed.

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Half Netanyahu's party against new freeze
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
November 17, 2010 - 1:00am

JERUSALEM (DPA) -- Around half of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 27-member parliamentary caucus have signed a petition rejecting a new temporary freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, Israeli media reported Wednesday. The temporary freeze, proposed by the US, is aimed at enticing Palestinians back to the negotiating table, but at least four Likud Party cabinet ministers are among the signatories to the petition.

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Behind an Israeli Strike in Gaza, Help from Egypt
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Time
by Karl Vick - November 10, 2010 - 1:00am

The Nov. 3 assassination of Mohammad Namnam looked pretty much exactly like the fiery deaths of a lot of other Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip over the years. He was making his way in broad daylight through the tattered streets of Gaza City when his sedan turned into a fireball. The missile arrived from an Israeli helicopter hovering so far away that onlookers at first thought the explosion was a car bomb.

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Hard times drive Gazans into perilous 'buffer zone'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC World News
by Jon Donnison - November 9, 2010 - 1:00am

Basam and Mustapha Adwan make for a sorry sight. In their small, cramped house in northern Gaza, which they share with 12 other family members, 24-year-old Basam sits in a wheelchair. His younger brother Mustapha sits on the floor, his crutches by his side. Both men have heavily bandaged right feet. They say they were shot by Israeli soldiers while working close to the border. "Normally they give a warning shot," says Basam, who says he was shot a month ago. "But this time there was no warning. The bullet went right through my foot." He winces as he remembers the pain. Trade flourishing

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