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Hamas: End Gaza raids or Shalit will become another Ron Arad
By Amos Harel, Yuval Azoulay, Avi Issacharoff and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Hamas, Gaza Strip, Israel 

A senior Hamas official warned on Wednesday that the ongoing Israel Defense Forces raids on the Gaza Strip could turn negotiations over the release of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit into "a Ron Arad affair."

The warning was in reference to the Israel Air Force navigator who has been missing in action since his plane went down over Lebanon in 1986.

In an interview aired on Channel 1, Hamas official Ismail El-Muzeini, who is overseeing the Shalit matter for the group, said that if the raids continued, Hamas would cut off all contacts with Israel over the release of Shalit, who the group has been holding captive since 2006.
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Earlier Wednesday, Hamas' exiled leader Khaled Meshal that IDF raids on Gaza would hurt chances of the Palestinian militant group releasing Shalit.

Meshal told reporters that recent IDF operations in the coastal strip also made Hamas less likely to negotiate any truce with Israel.

Speaking to Israeli leaders, Meshal said: "What you are doing will deny you of any plan you could be betting on: No exchange for Gilad Shalit and no truce."

The militant leader's comments at a news conference in Damascus, where he lives, came as IDF troops continued a second day of raids in Gaza, which has been under Hamas' control since the group's forces ousted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement from the strip in June.

Israel Air Force aircrafts fired repeatedly at Palestinian rocket squads Wednesday in northern Gaza, killing five people, including three civilians, as rockets and mortars sailed across the border into Israel.

On Tuesday, 19 Palestinians were killed in the bloodiest day of fighting since Hamas took control there.

At the news conference, the exiled militant leader said, "Palestinians blood won't save Israel's leaders, but will drown them."

Meshal also criticized Abbas' response to the Gaza fighting. The Palestinian president has condemned Israeli incursions into Gaza, but senior Abbas aides have said he will not halt peace talks with Israel.

"A genuine response to the massacres would be to halt the futile negotiations [with Israel]," Meshal told reporters.

Officials Israel's defense establishment earlier voiced concerns that Tuesday's fighting in the Gaza Strip, which left at least 19 Palestinians dead, will impact negatively on the efforts to gain the release of Shalit.

In fighting Tuesday, 19 Palestinians were reported killed, 15 of whom were confirmed to be armed militants. A volunteer from Ecuador working near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, was shot and killed by a Palestinian sniper.

Tuesday's fighting had left officials in Israel's defense establishment pessimistic about the important progress in the negotiations for the release of Shalit.

Contributing to this assessment is the fact that one of the Palestinian militants killed Tuesday is Hussam Zahar, son of the former Palestinian Authority foreign minister in the Hamas-controlled government, Mahmoud Zahar.

Mahmoud Zahar is considered to be a firebrand and one of the leaders of the more extremist wing of Hamas, with close ties to the military wing of the organization.

Security sources emphasized Tuesday that Hussam's killing had not been planned. He was among a group of Hamas gunmen who sought to prevent an elite unit of the Golani Brigade from entering the neighborhoods of Saajiye and Zeitoun in Gaza City, and he was killed in the exchange of fire.

The same sources said that, at this stage, the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet do not consider the senior figures in Hamas as targets, and stressed that the Hamas militants killed Tuesday lost their lives in fighting with IDF forces or because they had been targeted while they tried to launch rocket and mortar attacks against Israeli towns.

Following news of his son's death, Zahar told Al-Shams, a Nazareth-based radio station Tuesday that "there is no immunity to a nation that provides support and legitimacy to a government that murders children and the elderly and agrees to besiege an entire people."

The Hamas leader blamed the Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah for what is taking place in the Gaza Strip: "There are people in that government who parachuted upon us in American parachutes and there are people linked to the United States by their umbilical cord, and I expect Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] to condemn the murder of his people and demand the lifting of the siege, but he is not doing this."

Like other Hamas leaders, Zahar claimed that the IDF attacks in the Gaza Strip were the result of a "green light" given to Israel by President George Bush during his visit in Israel last week.

Zahar also blamed Egypt of collaborating with the U.S. and Israel in refusing to allow Palestinian pilgrims to Mecca from reentering the Gaza Strip through the Hamas-controlled Rafah crossing.

Fighting begins Tuesday
The fighting began Tuesday when an elite unit of the Golani Brigade infiltrated the environs of the neighborhood of Zeitoun, and took up positions there. At first light, Palestinian gunmen were seen in the area and they were attacked by the IDF unit, resulting in a gun battle that lasted most of the day.

At approximately 8:30 A.M., the air force targeted a vehicle moving in the area of the fighting with five gunmen. At about 9 A.M., the air force attacked another group of Palestinians preparing to fire mortars at the IDF troops in the area.

At 9:45, a Palestinian sniper shot and killed a volunteer from Ecuador who was working in a potato field near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha.

At 3 P.M. the Palestinians fired a Katyusha against Ashkelon. An hour later the IDF units operating near the Zeitoun neighborhood began their withdrawal into Israel, which was followed by extensive rocket and mortar attacks.

Close to 6 P.M., the air force attacked a crew firing Qassam rockets, killing at least two.

The immediate Hamas response to the fighting in the Gaza Strip, has been the launching of Qassam rocket and mortar attacks against Israel. SEE Story Page 2.

Four residents of Sderot suffered light injuries as a result of the rocket barrage and significant damage was caused to houses in the town.

Also Tuesday, Hamas fired a Katyusha rocket which landed south of Ashkelon.

More than 20 rockets and some 30 mortars were fired Tuesday.

Defense establishment officials said Tuesday that they do not believe Hamas is interested in escalating the situation at this time, drawing the IDF into a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip that would result in the reoccupation of the Strip.

Inside the organization, a disagreement is evident over whether to pursue intensive efforts to resume suicide bombings. However, Israeli security sources say that, for now, it appears that most of the attacks will continue along the border of the Gaza Strip.

The IDF is also not planning to alter its current modus operandi, characterized by ground forces raids, limited in both time and scope, and in assassinations of militants in the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, as well as Hamas Qassam-rocket crews.

Senior sources in the defense establishment said Tuesday that the current timing is not conducive for an extensive ground operation, but it may be in a few months if the escalation in rocket attacks continues.

The firing of the Katyusha rocket at Ashkelon, the second instance in as many weeks, is evidence the city is permanently within the scope of Hamas and that attacks depended on decisions made by the radical Islamist group.

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      1.   IDF provoked this - staged an ambush for no reason 03:44  |  One State solution 16/01/08
      2.   combat versus murder 03:48  |  Shmuelshachor 16/01/08
      3.   Weak Israeli government 04:21  |  Jon 16/01/08
      4.   Shalit deal 04:21  |  geoff 16/01/08
      5.   HAMass can`t kill IDF,instead they kill a volunteer 04:47  |  Cristo 16/01/08
      6.   The babling of lunatics 04:50  |  Mark Lincoln 16/01/08
      7.   amos harel 04:51  |  billusa 16/01/08
      8.   So why the bloody hell did they do it? 05:09  |  peacelover 16/01/08
      9.   generals and gaza 05:22  |  marcel 16/01/08
      10.   Shalit is a Soldier 05:36  |  Yosef ben Shalom 16/01/08
      11.   zion is domned! you got no leaders, all you got is welfare 05:42  |  muslim 16/01/08
      12.   So end all mail, visits, Red Cross access to jailed Hamas killers 05:44  |  Dr. L. Brnd 16/01/08
      13.   As long as war is profitable and peace is costly 05:59  |  Natallie Durson 16/01/08
      14.   Hamas 06:02  |  alan 16/01/08
      15.   Senior Hamas Figures Are Not Considered A Target! 06:34  |  Eli 16/01/08
      16.   Gaza Raids Counter=productive? 07:23  |  Jose` 16/01/08
      17.   One State solution: I am for this solution, where you live - Mars 08:02  |  Dan 16/01/08
      18.   One state solution good commentary How are the windstorms on Mars 08:04  |  Dan 16/01/08
      19.   To Cristo: Yes and what else is new? 08:05  |  Dan 16/01/08
      20.   Who`s In Charge 08:19  |  Mark of Lewiston 16/01/08
      21.   maybe israel WANTS terrorists to STAY in jail 08:40  |  matt 16/01/08
      22.   THIS IS BS. NEGOTIATIONS HAVE 09:18  |  Robert 16/01/08
      23.   Shalit just bandied around... 09:37  |  Esther 16/01/08
      24.   what about the civilians? 09:59  |  Leona 16/01/08
      25.   For The Haaretz Picture Editor 10:07  |  Clickfool 16/01/08
      26.   Fearful IDF`s officials have failed to defend Israel 10:36  |  Absolute Sweden 16/01/08
      27.   Galid Shalit 10:42  |  Moses 16/01/08
      28.   Don`t you mean "hope" rather than "fear"? 12:55  |  Murray 16/01/08
      29.   A bit late in the day...! 13:28  |  Stephen. 16/01/08
      30.   # 25 Clickfool..youre now the copy reader for Haaretz. 13:33  |  Stephen. 16/01/08
      31.   #25 13:46  |  Moshe 16/01/08
      32.   #30 13:49  |  Moshe 16/01/08
      33.   # 31 Moshe. You are right. 14:12  |  Stephen. 16/01/08
      34.   TO CLICKFOOL #25 14:15  |  dovale 16/01/08
      35.   given much more time you will get muslim revert back 14:18  |  now they think 16/01/08
      36.   western peace, is not muslim peace! 15:03  |  Joe 16/01/08
      37.   Arabs can`t afford peace 15:44  |  Denise Thompson 16/01/08
      38.   For Dovale # 34 15:45  |  Clickfool 16/01/08
      39.   Some advice for the IDF 17:54  |  Natallie Durson 16/01/08
      40.   zion says they want peace and practice war, want shalit back 18:07  |  muslim 16/01/08
      41.   until the zionist cannot afford war there will be no peace 18:20  |  muslim 16/01/08
      42.   Thank you General Durson. A new appointment!? 18:21  |  Taszilo 16/01/08
      43.   #37 RE: Arabs Can`t afford peace, Denise 18:24  |  Arab 16/01/08
      44.   These raids have nothing to do 18:29  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      45.   "Hamas truce" 18:34  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      46.   25 Click the fool, No pen and IDF T-shirt..sergeant stripes 18:34  |  The Equalizer 16/01/08
      47.   The kidnappers make more threats... 18:38  |  Avi 16/01/08
      48.   Blood on hamas hands 18:38  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      49.   Gazans security is their government business 18:40  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      50.   there is no immunity? 18:44  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      51.   Shalit versus Lots of Other Israelies: Stupid Hamas 18:47  |  Brad 16/01/08
      52.   Great job, IDF 18:48  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      53.   The IDF should not get into pal territory 18:50  |  KUTW 16/01/08
      54.   Mishal is right,if the quisling abbas really meant it,he would 19:01  |  lakshmi 16/01/08
      55.   #1 It certainly looks that way 19:09  |  Outsider 16/01/08
      56.   # 39 Soner or later , Fatmah, same advise will be good for pal`s. 19:10  |  Misha 16/01/08
      57.   translation: pal prisoners aren`t going anywhere 19:21  |  matt 16/01/08
      58.   Tuesday`s Fighting in the Gaza Strip Impact Positively 19:32  |  Joseph E . 16/01/08
      59.   A genuine response to Arab Terror would be 19:36  |  Joseph E . 16/01/08
      60.   Arab Terror Won`t Save Arabs Leaders But will drown them 19:39  |  Joseph E . 16/01/08
      61.   What Arabs are doing will deny them of any plan arabs could be 19:41  |  Joseph E . 16/01/08
      62.   There is no immunity to arabs with the left that provides 19:44  |  Joseph E . 16/01/08
      63.   Meshal ready to let 1000 Hamas rot in Israeli jails 19:48  |  Joe Sittizen 16/01/08
      64.   #12 Dr. Brnd - I wish Olmert read your posting! 20:00  |  Giora 16/01/08
      65.   Reverse Psychology 20:04  |  George W. Bush 16/01/08
      66.   Natalie 20:06  |  MArc 16/01/08
      67.   KILLING NOT A SOLUTION.STOP IT 20:11  |  gustave gavis md 16/01/08
      68.   Intelligence 20:15  |  George W. Bush 16/01/08
      69.   Ungrateful Zahar and Meshal are kaffirs 20:23  |  Real Muslim 16/01/08
      70.   Manipulation of the Naive by the Malevolent 20:25  |  American Jew 16/01/08
      71.   63. so joe you telling me that now you want to make that deal? 20:32  |  muslim 16/01/08
      72.   65. yes george its working real well for you too 20:36  |  muslim 16/01/08
      73.   The fighting in Gaza would be over if tomorrow Hamas and other 20:51  |  Smadar 16/01/08
      74.   To N° 1 One State Solution 21:02  |  Daniel 16/01/08
      75.   BS, if they wanted they would have made a deal long ago 21:13  |  Taszilo 16/01/08
      76.   blackmail 21:30  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 16/01/08
      77.   #54 quisling Lakshimi ? Dah? 21:37  |  Words 16/01/08
      78.   It`s an unfair Pocker game 21:41  |  Buzaglow 16/01/08
      79.   #65 and #68 - The imposter GWB 21:42  |  GPS 16/01/08
      80.   Yes, peacelover........ 21:56  |  Dave from Chicago 16/01/08
      81.   Meshal lies! QASSAMS and other kinds of violence hurt chance 22:03  |  Vittorio 16/01/08
      82.   PALS are not mature enough to participate in PEACE PROCESS. Foget 22:07  |  Vittorio 16/01/08
      83.   Misha - I have a better idea...You don`t need to send them to 22:17  |  viking 16/01/08
      84.   to # 8 It is just you, fake peacelover 22:20  |  Real Peace Lover 16/01/08
      85.   Smadar 22:24  |  ODP1 16/01/08
      86.   empty threat 22:29  |  vik 16/01/08
      87.   "We`ll cut off Shalit contacts" 22:31  |  Pedro 16/01/08
      88.   #1 the brilliant one from Chicago 22:37  |  Uzi 16/01/08
      89.   Pals go on attacking civilians, then promise more of the same... 22:37  |  Tom 16/01/08
      90.   simple solution :) 22:39  |  Denise Thompson 16/01/08
      91.   73 Smadar,wake up,your posts are so unreal! 22:46  |  lakshmi 16/01/08
      92.   Can`t mossad assassinate that bastard??? 22:47  |  akiva (zionist) 16/01/08
      93.   Clickfool is actually a computerised random word generator 22:52  |  Transparent 16/01/08
      94.   simple solution - you idiots 22:52  |  rl 16/01/08
      95.   Hamas won`t agree to a truce? 22:55  |  JL 16/01/08
      96.   No Deals With People Shooting At Us 22:57  |  dyinglikeflies 16/01/08
      97.   time to put hamas their prisoner list on notice stop being nice 23:05  |  ralph 16/01/08
      98.   Response 23:05  |  Ron 16/01/08
      99.   Meshal in a panic 23:06  |  Denise Thompson 16/01/08
      100.   hamas showing what has really happened 23:08  |  Adrian de Klerk 16/01/08
      101.   end kassams, or gaza will be like dresden 23:09  |  bernardo 16/01/08
      102.   #38 clickfool 23:12  |  Adrian de Klerk 16/01/08
      103.   Mark Lincoln, (the man in the MOON),i.e., lunatic! 23:13  |  akiva (zionist) 16/01/08
      104.   96. flies? you want to make deals only w/people kissing you? 23:15  |  muslim 16/01/08
      105.   gaza raids/shalit 23:15  |  hf 16/01/08
      106.   Israel wants to gid rid of Shalit...Meshal dont! 23:15  |  Qassami 16/01/08
      107.   # 11 muslim ...not to be rude, 23:17  |  Lynn 16/01/08
      108.   Time to cut all unconditional supplies to Gaza. 23:20  |  Figaro 16/01/08
      109.   Is he even still alive 23:20  |  Jackie 16/01/08
      110.   no talks at all with terrorists 23:21  |  Ryan 16/01/08
      111.   Denise is probably right 23:26  |  Jackie 16/01/08
      112.   HAMAS AD GAZA: ANATOMY OF AN EVOLVING DESERT 23:27  |  Stash 16/01/08
      113.   need i say 23:31  |  bernard 16/01/08
      114.   TO CLICKFOOL #38 23:34  |  dovale 16/01/08
      115.   TRANSLATION.Arabs allowed to bomb Israel but if Israel responds 23:34  |  PETER SM 16/01/08
      116.   TRANSLATION.Arabs allowed to bomb Israel but if Israel responds 23:34  |  PETER SM 16/01/08
      117.   Why is Barak so ruthless? 23:37  |  Esther 16/01/08
      118.   A message to the anti Israel crowd........ 23:38  |  Dave from Chicago 16/01/08
      119.   A sign of the deterioration in the Palestinian school system 23:45  |  Jacob Blues 16/01/08
      120.   JL are there virgins left in the zionist heaven? 23:45  |  lakshmi 16/01/08
      121.   #91 lakshmi - and you are still talking of resol. 181, get real 23:45  |  Smadar 16/01/08
      122.   This is how barbarians behave. Treat them as such. 23:52  |  B`Galil 16/01/08
      123.   15 Eli,unlike the cowardly thugs in the israeli governement and 23:54  |  lakshmi 16/01/08
      124.   Murdering children and the elderly 23:55  |  B 16/01/08
      125.   IF Shalit become another Arad- Gaza becomes Hiroshima 23:59  |  * BEN JABO 16/01/08
      126.   shalit may not come home 00:01  |  marv 17/01/08
      127.   well perhaps they could send you an ear as token of good faith? 00:03  |  muslim 17/01/08
      128.   chicago 00:07  |  marv 17/01/08
      129.   step it up 00:17  |  peter 17/01/08
      130.   These guys are hilarious! 00:19  |  Rudy 17/01/08
      131.   Poor Poor Israeli Parents 00:21  |  Tobia 17/01/08
      132.   Dr.L Brand 00:23  |  Nurse Betty 17/01/08
      133.   These bandits are real filth 00:23  |  Shlomo from Tel-Aviv 17/01/08
      134.   Hamas Threatens to Violate Humanitarian Law, What Else is New? 00:25  |  Tom 17/01/08
      135.   Israel: End Rockets or El-Muzeini will become another Zahar 00:27  |  Tom 17/01/08
      136.   a blood curdling thought and may shalit be blessed 00:32  |  a e housman 17/01/08
      137.   to lakshmi 00:41  |  dovale 17/01/08
      138.   Israel defends to its citizens 00:45  |  Abner 17/01/08
      139.   To JL 00:49  |  dovale 17/01/08
      140.   # 72 Muslim "A million dead"? Inshalla 00:51  |  I wish 17/01/08
      141.   OR....... 00:55  |  Danite 17/01/08
      142.   #20 Mark of Lewiston 01:07  |  Boycott 17/01/08
      143.   As long as Natalie thinks Qassems are harmless.. 01:10  |  Avi 17/01/08
      144.   #76 Margie 01:16  |  Boycott 17/01/08
      145.   #94 rl 01:19  |  Boycott 17/01/08
      146.   12 Dr.Burnd,it`s no picnic for the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners 01:21  |  lakshmi 17/01/08
      147.   Or Shalit`s Fate becomes Like Ron Arad 01:24  |  Joseph E . 17/01/08
      148.   Must Israel be destroyed becausePals have Shalit? 01:35  |  Alan 17/01/08
      149.   Olmert Gov`t all the Time Say that the timing is wrong for 01:39  |  Joseph E . 17/01/08
      150.   If Qassams are harmless, why not house Pal prisoners in Sderot? 01:42  |  MaryRose 17/01/08
      151.   Thousands of Palestinian terrorists sitting in Israel`s jails 01:42  |  Jon 17/01/08
      152.   As if 01:43  |  Edifice 17/01/08
      153.   Haartez staff, can you please post my response to lakshmi #91 01:48  |  Smadar 17/01/08
      154.   Haaretz talkback trademarks: Margie, Clickfool 01:48  |  Arab 17/01/08
      155.   As Olmert has made it clear 02:05  |  Mark Lincoln 17/01/08
      156.   What`s Wrong with Israel ? Why Can`t It Take Out Meshal ? 02:06  |  Tod Zuckerman 17/01/08
      157.   To the Leadership of Hamas 02:12  |  Natalie Durson 17/01/08
      158.   DESTROY HAMAS FOREVER 02:25  |  Steve 17/01/08
      159.   TO UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE OF MONSTERS 02:27  |  indrajaya 17/01/08
      160.   PAL blackmailers are responsible for the safety of POW Cpl Shalit 02:32  |  PETER SM 17/01/08
      161.   FREE SHALIT BY MARCH 1st.OR DIE 02:33  |  Patrick Hammel 17/01/08
      162.   Joe - Western peace is not muslim peace!! 02:53  |  The Gentile 17/01/08
      163.   rather hamas better fear they and their children are next target 03:09  |  ralph 17/01/08
      164.   From the God of Israel to Hamas:Bless My People... 03:59  |  From Far Away Land 17/01/08
      165.   Conspiracy theory regarding Slowman 04:26  |  Avi Issacharoff 17/01/08
      166.   If they don`t return Shalit 04:50  |  Gordon Appleman 17/01/08
      167.   #114 Patrick Hammel is so right!!!! 04:57  |  Robert 17/01/08
      168.   Let Shalit go back to his parents 05:22  |  hala 17/01/08
      169.   HAM ASS MONSTER VS IDF MONSTERS 06:14  |  Cristo 17/01/08
      170.   HAMAS BLACKMAILERS should know that Israel watches.LEADERSofHAMAS 06:17  |  Vittorio 17/01/08
      171.   Hamas: End Gaza raids or Shalit will become anothr Ron Arad 06:28  |  Martiin List,M.D. 17/01/08
      172.   #114 Petrick - Unfortunately, the Jewish people are 07:02  |  Giora 17/01/08
      173.   Hamas, you are responsible for Shalit 07:32  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 17/01/08
      174.   we r supposed to be held hostage now!!!!! 07:51  |  Ben Uziel 17/01/08
      175.   Tahnk you Martin #126 07:54  |  Comonsense 17/01/08
      176.   If Shalit harmed, Hamas leadership are next 07:55  |  B 17/01/08
      177.   To #114 08:01  |  Commonsense 17/01/08
      178.   # 124, CRISTO 08:08  |  indrajaya 17/01/08
      179.   Shalit is already Ron Arad 08:18  |  Ron 17/01/08
      180.   INDRAJAYA Why just chop off fingers?Islamists behead,cut throats& 08:20  |  PETER SM 17/01/08
      181.   For Tom on violation of Humanitarian law # 112 09:50  |  Clickfool 17/01/08
      182.   Arab, funny I don`t remember you 09:52  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/01/08
      183.   Boycott always gets the wrong end of the stick 09:54  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/01/08
      184.   A deal is available for Shalit`s release 09:55  |  Clickfool 17/01/08
      185.   Shalit another Ron Arad 10:08  |  MJ 17/01/08
      186.   END ROCKETS OR GAZA WILL BECOME A PARKING LOT LIKE SOUTH BEIRUT 10:11  |  Joel Stein 17/01/08
      187.   For Cipora # 173 10:34  |  Clickfool 17/01/08
      188.   For Joel Stein # 186 10:36  |  Clickfool 17/01/08
      189.   Cluck FOOL 10:36  |  Star of David 17/01/08
      190.   Hamas" true colours 10:39  |  Star of David 17/01/08
      191.   For Smadar # 73 10:52  |  Clickfool 17/01/08
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