Amnesty International: Israël et territoires palestiniens occupé. Rival Palestinian factions agree to form coalition government | A boy waves a Palestinian flag as people in Gaza city celebrate the agreement between Hamas and Fatah to form a government of national unity. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images Rival Palestinian factions meeting for crisis talks in Saudi Arabia last night agreed to form a coalition government, but there was no immediate guarantee that it would be enough to lift an international boycott on the Palestinian government. After two days of talks in Mecca, the leaders of Hamas and Fatah agreed a list of ministers for a new national unity cabinet and called for a halt to factional fighting that has claimed more than 100 lives in the occupied territories in recent weeks.
The deal appeared to have averted a slide into civil war. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, described it as a new era. Hamas, the Islamic militant movement voted into government a year ago, appeared to have the upper hand in the agreement. Hamas vows to kidnap more Israeli soldiers - xinhua. Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing al-Qassam Brigades vowed on Monday to kidnap more Israeli soldiers during the ongoing Israeli air and ground large-scale military operation carried out against Gaza. Abu Obeida, the group's spokesman, during a news conference broadcasted by the pro-Hamas Television of al-Aqsa, addressed the Israeli soldiers that "Your colleague Gilad Shalit is missing you and wants to see you and we promised him to get him some of his friends. " Hamas captured Shalit in the summer of 2006 during an armed attack on an Israeli army base southeast of the Gaza Strip.
Shalitis still captive and the talks on his release were stopped before Israel began operations into Gaza. Meanwhile, Abu Obeida said they will also enlarge the areas of the rocket attacks. "We are ready to enlarge the circle of our rocket attacks and target more cities deep into southern and central Israel," he said as a map of Israel was hanged on the wall behind him. Source:Xinhua. Hamas refuses to free Israeli soldier in return for lifting Gaza. Hamas has flatly rejected Israel's demand that it free a captive soldier in return for lifting the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian movement called instead for international pressure on Israel to force the borders open to relieve the humanitarian crisis after last month's war. Mousa Abu Marzook, the deputy leader of Hamas, accused Israel of backtracking over a truce agreement and warned that Corporal Gilad Shalit would only be released in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
"We will not change our position," he told the Guardian in Damascus yesterday. On Wednesday Israel's security cabinet agreed to maintain the blockade and to hold back from any truce until the release of Shalit, who was captured in June 2006 near the Gaza boundary fence. Until then it seemed a new truce was imminent. Hamas and Egypt, which is mediating between the Palestinians and Israelis, had been treating the two issues as separate. Le Hamas "regrette" la mort de civils israéliens pendant la guer. Le Hamas assure ne jamais s'être excusé pour la mort de civils - Le gouvernement Hamas à Gaza est revenu, samedi 6 février, sur les excuses qu'il avait formulées pour la mort de trois civils israéliens tués par des roquettes tirées depuis la bande de Gaza pendant la guerre de l'hiver 2008-2009. Dans un rapport remis à l'ONU en réponse au rapport Goldstone, les rapporteurs du Hamas écrivaient notamment : "Nous regrettons toute nuisance qui a pu être causée aux civils israéliens".
Le mouvement expliquait ces "erreurs" de cibles par le manque de technologie de son arsenal militaire. Des déclarations inédites qui n'avaient convanincu ni le gouvernement israélien ni les organisations de défense des droits de l'homme. Ni apparemment le Hamas lui-même. A l'annonce du rapport, un responsable du Hamas avait assuré que son mouvement continuerait de mener des "opérations martyres". Le Hamas a également subi les foudres du Fatah, le parti du président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas, après ces regrets.