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March 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Despite condemnation from the United Nations and the EU, the muscular rhetoric
coming from the Israeli government suggests it has no intention of ending
its current offensive on Gaza. Ehud Barak, Israel’s minister of defence,
acknowledged in a cabinet meeting on Sunday that Hamas was not directly
responsible for the rocket fire but insisted it has not done enough to
prevent it.
“This round [of attacks] in the Strip is still far from completion,”
he warned.
Having announced its step away from violent resistance late last year, Hamas
has struggled to rein in smaller militant groups operating in the Gaza
Strip, including the Popular Resistance Committee thought to be responsible
for launching the majority of missiles in the current wave of fire.
On Saturday, a Hamas delegation headed by Mahmoud Zahar, the movement’s
co-founder, travelled to Cairo to enlist Egyptian support to call on Israel
to halt its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Speaking with Palestinian news
agency Ma’an, Yasser Othman, Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian
Authority, said that Cairo is doing all it can to mediate an end to the
crisis.
“Egypt is in a race against time in order to halt hostilities as soon as
possible to avoid further escalations,” Mr Othman said.
Israel claims that Mr Mussah, whose death in a targeted assassination on
Friday sparked the escalation in violence, had been planning to wage a
series of terror attacks within Israel. They claim the militant leader was
responsible for plotting the terror attack near Eilat in August, in which
eight people were killed, and the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit.
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