"The European Union and the United States, which have the
same classification of Hamas, froze all direct aid to the
Palestinian government.
The West and Israel are demanding that the group renounce
violence, recognize the Jewish state and agree to abide by
past peace deals."
Israel asking others to renounce violence?? Israel asking others to abide by
deals??
This is the pot calling the mirror black.
EU troops are deployed in the wrong place (Lebanon). Where they are needed is
inside Israeli territory, along all the borders. This would protect the world
from Israel, and give the Israeli government the security it pretends to want.
rkm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060920/wl_afp/mideastconflictisrael_060920095107
Israel seizes million dollars in bank raids across West Bank
by Nasser Abu Bakr
Wed Sep 20, 6:12 AM ET
Israel has confiscated more than one million dollars during a series of pre-dawn
raids on money exchange shops and banks across the West Bank, the latest
crackdown on the beleaguered Palestinian territories.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said Wednesday about one million shekels (1.15
million dollars, 910,000 euros) and 170,000 Jordanian dinars (240,000 dollars,
189,000 euros) were seized, along with computers and documents, during the
raids, which were carried out simultaneously across the West Bank.
The operation targeted "Palestinian financial infrastructure financing
terrorism" and was carried out by the army in cooperation with the Shin Beth
internal security service and Israeli police, she said.
Palestinian security sources told AFP that "millions of dollars, documents and
files were stolen" when Israeli troops raided 24 banks and money exchange shops
in several towns, including Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem and Jenin.
According to the sources, one civilian was injured during exchanges of fire
between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen in Nablus, where a branch of the
Jordan National Bank was apparently targeted by mistake.
Khalil Nasr, general manager for the International Division at the Jordan
National Bank in Amman, told AFP that Israeli forces stormed the two-story
Nablus branch, destroying furniture, using explosives and confiscating the "main
server" but no cash.
The Israeli West Bank military governor had said the bank was not meant to be
targeted and promised to return the server, Nasr said.
"The Israeli military governor has spoken to our manager in Palestine and
apologized over the incident... and that they will return our main server within
two hours," Nasr said.
The Israeli military governor told bank officials that the raid targeted money
exchange shops in the area, particularly one located across the street from the
Jordan National Bank.
According to Israeli security sources, the money seized from the institutions
had been transferred from Syria and Iran to the headquarters of Hamas and the
Islamic Jihad in Syria and Lebanon and from there sent to the West Bank and
Gaza.
The radical Islamic Jihad movement was behind the last seven suicide attacks
inside Israel, although the armed wing of the ruling Hamas party has not claimed
responsibility for any attacks inside Israel since January 2005.
Israeli sources told AFP that two money exchangers were arrested after pistols
and hunting rifles were found in their offices.
The raids were the latest crackdown by Israel on Palestinian targets since the
radical Islamist Hamas movement formed a government in March.
Israel, which considers Hamas a terrorist organization, has stopped transferring
custom duties collected on goods destined to the Palestinian territories on
behalf of the Palestinian government.
The European Union and the United States, which have the same classification of
Hamas, froze all direct aid to the Palestinian government.
The West and Israel are demanding that the group renounce violence, recognize
the Jewish state and agree to abide by past peace deals.
Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse.
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