Monthly Archives: August 2006
The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One rocket struck home 70kms into Israel, hitting the town of Beit Shean, the furthest strike so far. Hezbollah said the Khaibar-1, which the Israelis claimed to...
IPSWICH Hospital, in Suffolk, has been deprived of £2.5m because it provided much-needed care for its patients too quickly. This was discovered by accountants PriceWaterhouseCoopers when it went over the hospital’s books to establish why it had a ‘deficit’ of £16.7m last year. Hospitals up and down the country...
THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to enter southern Lebanon, to try to carve out an Israeli security zone from the border to the Litani River. The 48 hour bombing ceasefire was forgotten...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah bloc, has condemned the role of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in developing and extending the war on the Lebanon. Fadlallah, speaking last Monday evening....
YESTERDAY the leaders of the NHS trade unions were in their own words ‘raising the heat over the future of the NHS’. What resolute and decisive measures were the trade union leaders taking to safeguard the future of the NHS, which we all know the Blair government intends to completely...
HAMAS has issued a statement headed: ‘Open letter to legal and international organisations: Let all efforts and energies unite to bring the Zionist war criminals to trial and to launch an effective legal movement against the crimes of the Zionist occupation’ This was carried by the pro-Hamas Palestinian Information...
Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack on Qana provoked outrage. Peretz said in a speech to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, that Israel must not agree to an immediate ceasefire in the almost three-week long conflict, despite...