Thursday, March 24, 2011

Several rockets fired from Gaza falling on southern Israel

The first strike hit a former headquarters of the intelligence services of the Palestinian Authority in the north of the Palestinian territory, and several people wounded, witnesses said. The second raid targeted a group of Palestinian fighters who were preparing to fire mortar shells at Beit Hanun, near the border with Israel, the sources said.

The third strike destroyed a rocket launcher in the Zeitoun neighborhood, on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City. Finally, the fourth raid targeted a training ground for al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas to power in Gaza, in the refugee camp in Beach Camp, also in the northern territory.

Nato, tearing of Germany withdrew from the Mediterranean Marina

BERLIN - Germany's Clamorous tear Angela Merkel and Guido Westerwelle against the partners of NATO and the European Union in crisis Libyan Berlin tonight announced the withdrawal of a cold shower Bundesmarine, that the Navy Federal, the operations of the Atlantic Alliance in the Mediterranean. And some sources and observers, including even the choice comes down to the extreme, that is, the physical removal of heavy Bundesmarine two modern frigates, support ships and personnel of the German military in the Mediterranean.

Syria promises to lift state of emergency in force since 1963

Syria promised to lift the state of emergency in force since 1963 and to introduce political reforms to meet the demands of protesters shortly before threatened to intensify protests held for six days. ''I'm happy to announce the decisions taken by the Baath Party, under the auspices of President Bashar al-Assad, including studying the possibility of lifting the emergency law and licensing of political parties,''said an adviser to the Syrian president .

WHO recommends that food from Fukushima veto

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Japan to ban the sale of food from Fukushima and three neighboring provinces due to high radiation levels. WHO reported that the impact of radiation is more serious than initially thought. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's worst nuclear crisis caused by 25 years due to constant breakdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

U.S. command transfer operation in Libya

.- The attacks against Libya could decrease in coming days and the United States quickly transmitted to other control of the operation. "My feeling is that unless something unusual or unexpected, we see a decrease in seizure frequency "said General Carter Ham, who leads U.S. forces in the Libyan operation, told reporters in Washington.

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, said his country, whose air campaign have joined Britain, France, Canada and Italy, among others, planned to transfer the military leadership in the short term. Britain and France led the intervention orders. "We anticipate that this transition will take place in days, not a matter of weeks," Obama said at a news conference in Chile, where he is on an official visit.

The escalating violence in Gaza stirs fears of Israel incursion

A week of intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestinian rockets rain on Israel, civilian deaths in Gaza, accompanied by an increase in threats from armed groups and policy makers have woken up in the last hours of Operation Phantom Cast Lead, the Israeli incursion that left 1,400 Palestinians killed as they pass through the Gaza Strip during Christmas 2008.

Israeli aircraft launched an attack today against the northern fringe, where he claims to have destroyed an arms cache belonging to Hamas, hours after two Grad rockets fired from Gaza slammed into Israeli territory. This is the most serious clashes in the Gaza Strip two years ago and produced in a time when negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis are at a standstill for seven months and in which the international community's attention is focused in the Arab revolution.

General Apicella: "In Libya, the situation at risk stalling"

"In Libya there is a risk stalling. And then a stall comes only with the intervention by land. " E 'opinion of Franco Apicella, Italian Army General no longer in service. "Even if we now talk about no-fly zones or assistance to the population, the current one is already a war. Targeted neutralization of Gaddafi's air defenses, at first, and then the neutralization of its potential logistical conventional deployments of units on the ground ".