Israel Breaches UN Truce

Beirut – Israel violated a UN-imposed truce with Lebanon Saturday, August 19, after a warplane and commandos raided a Hizbullah stronghold in eastern Lebanon and struck a power plant in the village of Bodai.

Lebanese security source said warplanes and helicopters attacked unidentified targets during an air drop of commandos at dawn around Bodai, west of the ancient city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Reuters reported.

Israeli security sources confirmed that the army had carried out a raid in Lebanon on Saturday, Israel radio said..

Israeli warplane blasts Palestinian home in northern Gaza

 An Israeli F-16 warplane at dawn Sunday shelled a Palestinian home owned by one of the Qassam Brigades’ activists in northern Gaza Strip reducing it to rubble, local sources reported.

Eyewitnesses told PIC that IOF phoned Ashraf Al-Seelawi, member of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, and told him that he had to evacuate his home within half an hour.

Israel Breaches UN Truce

Beirut – Israel violated a UN-imposed truce with Lebanon Saturday, August 19, after a warplane and commandos raided a Hizbullah stronghold in eastern Lebanon and struck a power plant in the village of Bodai.

Lebanese security source said warplanes and helicopters attacked unidentified targets during an air drop of commandos at dawn around Bodai, west of the ancient city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, Reuters reported.

Israeli security sources confirmed that the army had carried out a raid in Lebanon on Saturday, Israel radio said..

Intifada

Palestinian uprising, Most of the Palestinians people active between 1987 to 1993 in attacks on armed Israeli troops in the occupied territories of Palestine. Their campaign for self-determination included stone throwing and petrol bombing.

Hamas

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)

Rantese, Abdul Aziz and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Hamas leaders

Islamic organization , Founded on August 1988 . Its militant wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam unit, played a major role in the Intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli occupied territories. Responsible for attacks on Israeli soldiers , the group gained a reputation for unpredictability. It opposed the Sept 1993 peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and maintained a campaign of attacks within Israel .

Arab-Israeli War chronology

First Arab-Israeli War , 15 May 1948

Arab opposition to an Israeli state began after the Balfour Declaration 1917, which supported the idea of a Jewish national homeland. In the 1920s there were anti-Zionist riots in Palestine, after the British mandate government allowed thousands of Jews to immigrate to Palestine from all over the world.

In 1936 an Arab revolt led to a British royal commission that recommended partition (approved by United Nations 1947), but rejected by the Arabs.

When it became clear that the British intended to leave by May 15, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim) to implement that part of the partition plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state. In Tel Aviv on May 14 the Provisional State Council, formerly the National Council, “representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the World Zionist Movement,” proclaimed the “establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Medin

West Bank

West Bank, territory in southwestern Asia, in the Middle East, located west of the Jordan River, occupied by Israel since 1967 . It covers an area of about 5879 sq km and supports a population of about 973,500. All of the people are Palestinian Arabs. There is some Jews who have settled in the area since 1967. The West Bank was part of the British League of Nations Palestine mandate from 1922 to 1948, after the first Arab Israeli war in 1948 , Jordan took control of the region in 1949 . In 1967 the area was seized by Israel during the Six Day War.

Gaza Strip

Gaza, (Arabic Ghazze), city and port near the Mediterranean Sea, about 32 km north of the Egyptian border. This ancient city has given its name to the Gaza Strip , a territory that was occupied by Israeli forces from 1967 until 1994. The Gaza Strip covers about 378 sq km (about 146 sq mi) and extends northeast from the Sinai Peninsula along the Mediterranean for about 40 km (about 25 mi).