UPDATES DO LESTE MÉDIO DO GPL DE. JUNHO 19 NO. 118

HAMAS CONFIRMA O TRUCE OPERA-SE JUNHO DE 19:
Cinco mataram no grupo que sequestrou Schalit
Um spokesman de Hamas confirmado em terça-feira onde cometeu a um truce Egyptian-mediado com jogo de Israel para entrar no efeito em 6 a.m em quinta-feira junho 19, embora o ministro Israeli Ehud Barak da defesa o advertiu que estava “demasiado adiantado” dizer que um negócio estaria no lugar perto então.

ESTADOS UNIDOS. O PROTETOR DE COSTA BOARD NAVIOS DO IR: - Lago Eli (sol de New York)
O protetor de costa começou a procurarar toda a embarcação do transporte que acoplar em um porto Iranian dentro de cinco chamadas portuárias da vinda às costas americanas. A designação de Irã na lista do terrorismo de protetor de costa é provável punir todas as linhas de transporte principais que incluírem ainda Irã em suas rotas de comércio a América

ALTURAS DE GOLAN: GROUNDSWELL DA OPOSIÇÃO: por Hana Levi Julian
O número dos Israelis que se opõem render as alturas de Golan a Syria está crescendo, de acordo com uma votação nova de Teleseker publicada ariv no miliampère do jornal da Hebrew-língua' em terça-feira. Um 85 por cento do público Israeli são opostos a toda a planta para cede a área a Syria.

HAMAS FALA O `CALMO' E ATEIA FOGO AINDA A KATYUSHAS: por Hillel Fendel
Hamas martelou Israel com tarde poderosa junho 17 de terça-feira de dois foguetes de Katyusha do Grad. O primeiro foguete aterrado em Ashkelon do sul. Mayor de Ashkelon dito: “Realiza-se sobre o tempo que o governo acorda e compreende-se que nós estamos na guerra.” Menos do que uma hora mais tarde, um outro foguete do Grad foi ateado fogo por terroristas de Hamas em Gaza, e explodiu na área de Sdot Negev. Mais tarde na tarde, em dois foguetes de Kassam aterrados no Negev - sul de Sderot e em Kfar próximo Aza, respectivamente.

TRUCE DE GAZA DE FATO POR SUNRISE QUINTA-FEIRA JUNHO 19:
As milícias do Terror entregam o sopro do último do `' com barrages do foguete
Os oficiais do Israeli e do Hamas confirmaram em quarta-feira onde os dois foes estão prontos para aderir a um jogo informal do truce para começar em 6 A.m. amanhã, embora as últimas horas vissem milícias Palestinian do terror tentar entregar o sopro do último do `' ateando fogo a até 50 foguetes e almofarizes em Israel.

PREENSÃO INQUIETA DAS TOMADAS DO TRUCE EM GAZA:
Olmert chama o ceasefire última possibilidade para Hamas antes que invasão do IDF
A rare calm settled in along the Gaza border on Thursday morning as both Israel and Hamas kept to the scheduled start of an Egyptian-brokered informal truce at sunrise, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned today this was the terror militia’s last chance to avoid a major IDF incursion.

UK BANK LEUMI CHIEF SUSPECTED OF MASSIVE FRAUD: by Avi Tuchmayer
Micky (Menachem) Friedman, CEO of Bank Leumi in England, was arrested Tuesday June 17, on suspicion that he oversaw a massive fraud ring during his tenure as director of the bank’s main branch in Tel Aviv. Friedman is suspected of providing NIS 25 million in loans to local entrepreneurs in violation of bank regulations.

US, ISRAEL PURSUE TALKS WITH LEBANON OVER SHABA FARMS :
In bid to rob Hizbullah of a pretext for remaining armed , the Bush Administration has begun mediating between Israel and Lebanon in an effort to resolve the Shaba Farms dispute in hopes of opening peace talks between Lebanon and Israel and weakening Hizbullah

ASSAD AND OLMERT TO ATTEND PARIS CONFERENCE:
Syrian, Israeli leaders to sit at same table
Syrian President Bashar Assad has accepted an invitation to a regional conference of Mediterranean states in Paris on July 13 and will be seated beside Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner confirmed on Tuesday.

THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN ISLAMIC JIHAD’S CHIEF ROCKET ENGINEER: - Martin Chulov
Awad al-Keek, the chief rocket engineer of Islamic Jihad and an UNRWA teacher, was killed in an Israeli air attack on Apr. 30. He was fingered by Saleh Awad, who had worked in PA intelligence and started working with the Israelis after the Hamas takeover of Gaza, according to his taped video confession

HIZBULLAH HAS BUILT UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOUTH LEBANON: - Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)
Since the end of the Second Lebanon War, Hizbullah has built a massive underground infrastructure south of the Litani River under the noses of UNIFIL, Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of Military Intelligence’s Research Division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday June 17. Despite UN Resolution 1701 (which ruled that no military forces could be deployed south of the river and that Hizbullah must disarm), Hizbullah has maintained and even strengthened its presence in the very areas from which the IDF sought to remove them in summer 2006. According to Baidatz, the Iranian-sponsored terror group has smuggled tens of thousands of rockets and has brought thousands of fighters to the area.

ARMY OF ISLAM TERRROISTS KILLED IN AIR ATTACKS:
IDF aerial attacks were carried out Tuesday June 17,against Army of Islam terrorists in Gaza involved in recent attempts to execute a large-scale terror attack against Israeli targets. Among the terrorists killed were Ma’ataz Dagmesh, 29, Mahmud Shandi, 25, and Muhamad Asaliya, 21. Dagmesh, whose brother is the organization leader, was the leader and planner of the thwarted terror attack. Asaliya served as a terror attack planner. The Army of Islam is an extreme Islamist organization that represents al-Qaeda and preaches worldwide Jihad. (IDF Spokesman)

FOREIGN ARAB FORCES MAY BE DEPLOYED IN GAZA:
Israel to decide on initiative during last stage of truce
Israel is considering a proposal by Egypt to deploy a multinational Arab force in Gaza as a final stage of the cease-fire agreement with Hamas that went into effect this morning, according to a senior IDF official involved in the truce negotiations.

IDF KILLS ROCKET-LAUNCHER MOMENTS BEFORE TRUCE:
Moments before the cease-fire in Gaza went into effect this morning, a Hamas operative was killed and two others were wounded during an IAF strike, said Palestinian reports. The IDF said that it had targeted a Qassam rocket squad preparing to fire near the Bureij refugee camp in Central Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza fired 30 Kassam rockets at Israeli communities on Wednesday, wounding one woman.Meanwhile, at least 12 terror suspects in the West Bank were arrested overnight and an IDF officer was wounded when he was shot during an arrest in Nablus.

HAMAS TV TEACHES YOUTH TO KIDNAP IDF SOLDIERS: by Hana Levi Julian
While Gaza terrorists replenish their arms and ammunition during the temporary truce that began Thursday morning June 19, Hamas TV was broadcasting a training video that teaches its youth how to kidnap an IDF soldier

SOUTHERN ISRAEL COUNCIL HEAD: ‘CEASE-FIRE IS A MISTAKE’ : by Baruch Gordon Ashkelon Coast Regional Council Head Yair Farjoun says that Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire with the Hamas terrorist organization is a mistake. Farjoun, who represents the very Israelis who are being bombarded daily by Hamas, says, “We obviously want quiet. We want this to end. But, this is a fake ceasefire. The army shouldn’t have agreed to this. The army should have continued until the enemy gets tired.”

KNESSET COMMITTEE PASSES GOLAN BILL IN FIRST READING : by Hillel Fendel
By an 8-4 vote, the Knesset House Committee passed on Wednesday morning June 18, an early version of a law requiring a popular referendum before the Golan could be given away. The proposal is now ready to be voted on in the full Knesset plenum for its first reading. If it passes, it must be transferred back to the Committee for last-minute changes and a vote, and if it passes that hurdle, it will be voted on for a final time in the Kneset. The bill states that no referendum is necessary if at least 80 MKs - two-thirds of the Knesset - support the retreat. If a majority of less than 2/3 supports a withdrawal, the retreat must be approved in a popular referendum before becoming law.

LEBANON REJECTS BILATERAL TALKS WITH ISRAEL: - Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern
“There is no place for bilateral negotiations between Lebanon and Israel,” Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora’s media office said in a statement Wednesday June 18. (Ha’aretz)

IRAN SAYS READY TO NEGOTIATE ON NUCLEAR INCENTIVES: - Frank Nyakairu and Wangui Kanina
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday that Iran was ready to negotiate over a new package of economic incentives put forward by major powers seeking to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear work. “We have informed them of our readiness to negotiate. Mottaki said. “We also have what we call the Iranian package which we have sent to the P5+1 countries and we hope they consider it as we consider theirs,” added Mottaki. “We will review the package but not the part about an enrichment freeze,” an Iranian official said on Thursday. (Reuters/Washington Post)

TRYING A TRUCE FIRST: - Ari Shavit
According to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Israel and Hamas are on a collision course and apparently, in the end, there will be no getting around a military operation in Gaza. However, since the repercussions of an operation could be grave, it is necessary first to try the other alternative - so that every mother of an Israeli soldier, every Israeli civilian in the Gaza envelope, and Egyptian President Mubarak will know that Israel did not choose a military move before giving a chance to a diplomatic move. The Israeli leadership had to try the truce before opening fire. (Ha’aretz)

THREE ISRAELI HIKERS WOUNDED IN TERRORIST SHOOTING NEAR RAMALLAH :
While an uneasy calm continued on the Gaza border on Friday June 20, three Israelis were seriously wounded, one seriously, in a terrorist shooting attack on a group of hikers in a valley northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank. According to the hikers, two masked terrorists approached them in a vehicle, fired at them from close range and then sped away.

IN AN ATTEMPT TO EMBARRAS ISRAEL, HAMAS UNILATERALLY EXTENDS CEASE-FIRE TO THE WEST BANK :
Hamas tries to impose new rules of engagement on Israel
The shaky truce along the Gaza border lasted into its second day on Friday June 20, but Hamas added a new twist by saying it will extend the ceasefire to its forces in the West Bank as well, a move that Israel has opposed in the recent Egyptian-brokered truce talks

IAF SAID TO HAVE HELD A N DRILL FOR STRIKE ON IRAN:
US officials have told The New York Times that Israel carried out a large military drill during the first week of June that appeared to be a rehearsal for a bombing mission against Iran’s nuclear sites. At least 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets were involved in the exercises carried out over the eastern Mediterranean and Greece, which focused on long-range air skills. The exercises were so extensive, Washington believes they were meant to be picked up by other Western intelligence agencies as a demonstration that Israel was prepared to act militarily if diplomatic efforts to stop Iran from developing a uranium nuclear weapon fail. “They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know,” one Pentagon official said.

HIZBULLAH PLANNING ATTACKS ON JEWISH TARGETS IN CANADA:
According to US and Canadian intelligence reports on Thursday June 19, Hizbullah had activated four ’sleeper cells’ in Canada and top terror operatives have left Lebanon for the US, Canada and Africa in what might be an imminent attack on global Jewish targets. Apparently the United States is not a prime target because Iran, which gives orders to Hizbullah, is afraid it would give American President George W. Bush an excuse to attack Iran’s nuclear facility under construction.

HOMEMADE ROCKET FIRED FROM JEWISH HILLTOP AT AN ARAB VILLAGE: by Hillel Fendel
Recently a yeshiva student in the north-central Samaria town of Yitzhar fired a homemade Kassam-like rocket at a hostile Arab village; no one was hurt.

EFFORTS AGAINST THE GAY PARADE INCLUDE PLEA TO THE HIGH COURT : by Hillel Fendel
Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky has asked the Supreme Court to issue an injunction against the holding of a homosexual march on Thursday June 26, in the Holy City. He and city manager Yair Maayan explained that the march “offends public sensibilities.”

OLMERT WILL FIRE LABOR IF IT VOTES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT : by Hillel Fendel
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert informed the Cabinet ministers of the Labor Party that he intends to fire them if they vote on Wednesday June 25 to dissolve the Knesset and bring about new elections. However, when the Labor ministers received notes from Olmert stating that he intends to fire them, the Labor ministers quickly left the Cabinet meeting to consult once again with Barak about their next steps. Such a development would leave them out of the government during the crucial months preceding new elections.

LABOR APPROVES BARAK’S PLAN TO FORCE OLMERT’S HAND:
Will vote for new elections in hopes Kadima will replace PM
At the urging of party chairman Ehud Barak, a divided Labor faction reluctantly decided on Monday afternoon June 23, to vote in favor of Likud MK Silvan Shalom’s bill to disperse the Knesset and set a November election date when the bill comes to a vote in a preliminary reading on Wednesday June 25.

TERORISTS WOUND THREE JEWS IN SAMARIA : by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Arab terrorists shot and wounded three people hiking between the Jewish communities of N’vei Tzuf and Nachliel in Samaria, northwest of Ramallah, Friday afternoon June 20. Two of the victims are in moderate and very serious condition from bullet wounds in the back and stomach, and a third hiker suffered lighter wounds.

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS: CONCESSIONS TO PA HELPS TERRORISTS ATTACK JEWS : by Hana Julian
Two civil rights groups have slammed the government for its ongoing gifts and security concessions to the Palestinian Authority, following a terrorist attack on five young hikers in Samaria last Friday afternoon. Ten roadblocks were removed in the area of Ramallah this week,” read the statement. “One hundred roadblocks were removed so far in the region of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley as part of the relief plan authorized by the Minister of Defense and the IDF Chief of Staff which has been implemented in recent months

SARKOZY PLEDGES TO STAND BY ISRAEL AGAINST IRAN” :
‘Anyone trying to destroy Israel will find France blocking the way’
Paying a three-day visit to Israel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a special session of the Knesset on Monday June 23, that France would defend Israel in the face of any existential threat, including a nuclear Iran. However, in the same breath, he promptly called for the division of Jerusalem and for the expulsion of the Jews from Judea and Samaria.

OLMERT MEETS WITH OSIRAK PLANNER :
The same day that The New York Times broke a story about what it claimed was a massive Israeli air force drill meant to simulate an attack against nuclear installations in Iran, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Colonel (res.) Aviam Sela, who is said to have been the architect behind Israel’s 1981 attack against Iraq’s nuclear reactor,

HARVARD POLL SHOWS 77 % OF ARABS VALUE LIVING IN ISRAEL :
At least 77% of Israel’s Arab citizens would rather live in the Jewish state than any other country in the world, including fellow Arab countries, according to a study conducted by Harvard University titled “Coexistence in Israel.”

COURT : GAZA CROSSING REMAIN CLOSED FOR NOW by Hana Levi Julian
The High Court of Justice has ordered the government to keep the Gaza Crossings closed for the time being and told Major-General (res.) Amos Gilad, head the of the Defense Ministry’s Security-Diplomatic Bureau, to meet with the Shalit family. The Shalit family petitioned the Court over the weekend to block implementation of the ceasefire agreement and keep the Gaza crossings closed until their son is freed by Hamas and other terrorists, who kidnapped him near the Kerem Shalom Crossing two years ago.