Gaza Truce Collapses; Death Toll

SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014 SHAWWAL 6, 1435 AH No: 16242 Powerful gas Shrimp ﬁshing Scotland mine blasts kill 25 resumes in more gold; Bolt, in southern international Daley enter Taiwan12 city waters14 Games48 fray Gaza truce collapses; death toll hits 1,509 Max 48º 150 Fils Saudi King blasts Israel • Israeli captured, 50 dead in Rafah shelling Min 30º GAZA: Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over yesterday, saying Hamas militants breached the truce soon after it came into effect and apparently captured an Israeli officer while killing two other soldiers. Renewed Israeli shelling killed more than 50 Palestinians and wounded some 220, hospital officials said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his security cabinet into special session and publicly warned Hamas and other militant groups they would “bear the consequences of their actions”. The 72-hour break announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was the most ambitious attempt so far to end more than three weeks of fighting, and followed mounting international alarm over a rising Palestinian civilian death toll. Kerry called on Hamas, which has neither confirmed nor denied it is holding the soldier, to release him immediately and unconditionally. He said he had asked Qatar, which is close to Hamas, and Turkey to help free him. “We have urged them, implored them, to use their influence to do whatever they can to get that soldier returned,” a senior State Department official told reporters travelling with Kerry. “Absent that, the risk of this continuing to escalate, leading to further loss of life is very high.” Ban condemned Hamas’s reported violation of the ceasefire and demanded the release of the soldier. The ceasefire, which began at 8 am, had prompted Palestinian families to trek back to battle-devastated neighbor- hoods where rows of homes have been reduced to rubble. It was to be followed by Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Cairo on a longer-term solution. A senior Egyptian Foreign Ministry official said the talks would start on Sunday, and that Cairo “expects the two sides to cease fire before the launch of negotiations”. Searching for tunnels The Israeli military said that 90 minutes into the truce, mili- GAZA: Injured Palestinian children receive medical treatment at Al-Najar hospital in Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip, tants attacked soldiers searching for tunnels in the southern following an Israeli military strike yesterday. — AFP Gaza Strip used to infiltrate fighters into Israel. “Out of a tunnel access point or several, terrorists came out of the ground. At least one was a suicide terrorist who detonated himself. There was an exchange of fire,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, a Town vs town, faction vs military spokesman. Two of the soldiers were killed. “The initial indication suggests that a soldier has been abducted by terrorists during the incident,” he said told reporters. Mark Regev, a faction as Libya burns Netanyahu spokesman, said Hamas was responsible for the attack. TRIPOLI: Booms of outgoing artillery the debris of the airport terminal, dark the passenger terminal sports a gaping Asked if the ceasefire was over, Lerner replied: “Yes. We are shaking the ground, militia fighters smoke billowing from a nearby blast. hole in its roof. Grad missiles roar over continuing our activities on the ground.” He said Israeli forces from the remote Libyan mountain “They want to take the airport, and the city. Fighters have closed off parts were mounting an “extensive effort” to locate the officer, town of Zintan hunker down in the when you take the airport you take of southern Tripoli with blockades and Second-Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23. Kerry said the international passenger terminal to defend Tripoli Tripoli.” Across the city at his Tripoli earth barricades. Apartment blocks on community “must now redouble its efforts to end the tunnel airport, the biggest prize in the capital. base lined with tanks and trucks the airport road bear bullet and blast and rocket attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel and the suffering Across the city a few kilometers away, a mounted with cannons, Hassan Shakka, marks. Zintan fighters have set up and loss of civilian life”. White House spokesman Josh Earnest commander of a brigade from the port a commander of Misrata’s Central checkpoints on the empty highway described the soldier’s apparent capture as “a rather barbaric city of Misrata rallies his men to take Shield brigade, said his forces were where blackened grassland marks violation of the ceasefire agreement”. the airport back. Three years ago, “completing the revolution”. “We are recent shelling. More are dug in by the The Gaza Health Ministry said more than 50 people were Zintani and Misratan rebel brigades not fighting the Zintanis: we are fight- airport with anti-aircraft canons. killed and 220 wounded by Israeli shelling after the incident near descended simultaneously on Tripoli ing the remains of Gaddafi’s army,” he “It can still be contained. There is the southern town of Rafah. There was no immediate word from from east and west to storm the said. “There will be no ceasefire until room to negotiate. But it is a very deli- militant groups on whether any were holding the officer. Sami palaces of Muammar Gaddafi. Now, they leave Tripoli.” cate situation,” said one Libyan govern- Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the dominant Hamas movement in fighters from the two towns are wag- Two weeks of shelling have knocked ment official. “We are trying to negoti- Gaza, said Israel was trying to mislead the world and “cover up ing open war in the capital. Tripoli International Airport out of com- ate to slow things down. If it spins too its Rafah massacre”. Netanyahu spoke by telephone with Kerry “This war is harder than the revolu- mission. A control centre is damaged, much, you can’t stop it and it becomes and told him “the Palestinians had blatantly breached the tion,” said Mohammed, a fighter in a nearly 20 jets parked on the tarmac a hurricane.” humanitarian ceasefire” and attacked Israeli soldiers. unit allied to the Zintanis, standing in have been hit, burned or destroyed and Continued on Page 14 Continued on Page 14 LOCAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014 Two dead, children injured in accident KUWAIT: Two women were killed while nine children were Work mishap in Salwa late Thursday night. The Kuwaiti woman was reportedly driv- injured in an accident reported Thursday at the Subahiya road. A worker died at a construction site in Andalus Wednesday ing back home from a family visit when a car carrying four men Paramedics and police rushed to the scene in response to an night. The Indian man had succumbed to his injuries by the approached her vehicle. The suspects tried to talk to the woman but emergency call reporting an accident involving a sports-utility- time paramedics arrived to the scene with police in response to she ignored them and kept driving. They hit her car eventually and vehicle carrying eleven members of one family. The driver, a an emergency call. Workers on the site said that the man lost forced her to stop, then came outside their car and opened her vehi- 47-year-old Kuwaiti woman, was pronounced dead on the balance while working at a high place then fell to the ground. cle’s door. The suspects then offended the woman and ran away, scene, along with her 19-year-old daughter. Nine children were An investigation was opened. according to her statements to police. The woman was able to snap taken out of the car that was turned upside down, and taken to pictures with her cell phone for the suspects’ car, showing the license the Adan Hospital. An investigation was opened to determine Search for harassers plate number. The woman went with her husband to the Salwa police the circumstances behind the accident. Search is on for four men who terrorized a mother and her children station and filed a case. investigations are ongoing. Jail security supervisor arrested for smuggling By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: A supervisor at the women’s prison was arrested on charges of attempting to smuggle cell phones and cigarettes inside. The woman was busted by one of her colleagues during routine inspections. A total of 3 cell phones, 2 chargers, 3 memory cards, 2 earphones, 1 SIM card and 80 cigarettes were found hidden in the woman’s underwear. She was taken to the proper authorities for further action. No injuries in fire A municipality truck caught fire while driving in Khaitan yesterday. Firefighters arrived at the scene in response to an emergency call, and tackled the blaze before it could spread from the cabin to the rest of the truck. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, Farwaniya firefighters tackled a blaze which gutted a laundry in the area Thursday night. Firemen managed to put the flames under control and before they could spread to a nearby restaurant. No injuries were reported in the incident. Three hurt in fight Three people were hospitalized with stab wounds following a fight reported under the Sixth Ring Road Bridge. Paramedics and police arrived to the scene Thursday morning in response to an emergency call, and found three injured men. One of them suffered a stabbed in his back, another on his thigh with a suspected broken nose, and the third was stabbed on his shoulder. Furthermore, it was discovered that the three were drunk. They were taken to the Farwaniya Hospital, and case was filed. ‘Harasser’ beaten A man was beaten up inside an Ahmadi mall after a group of brothers caught him harassing their sister, according to the attackers’ statements.

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