Passenger jet makes emergency landing in Israel

Jerusalem - Israeli rescue services said an El Al jet with 260 passengers and infirm of landing safely made an emergency landing at the international airport of Israel.

Zaki Heller rescue services spokesman, said the jet made a landing successfully at dawn Monday as dozens of medical teams that stood and local hospitals were put on alert.

Earlier, media have reported that the Boeing 777 had been en route to Newark, New Jersey, when the problem was discovered and he was forced to back up. The spilled jet fuel in the Mediterranean for landing.

Heller said that more than 70 rescue teams were waiting at the airport outside Tel Aviv, where a State of emergency was declared.

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Jerusalem (AP) - the rescue services Israeli say an El Al jet with 260 passengers and infirm of landing safely made an emergency landing at the international airport of Israel.

Zaki Heller rescue services spokesman, said the jet made a landing successfully at dawn Monday as dozens of medical teams that stood and local hospitals were put on alert.

Earlier, media have reported that the Boeing 777 had been en route to Newark, New Jersey, when the problem was discovered and he was forced to back up. The spilled jet fuel in the Mediterranean for landing.

Heller said that more than 70 rescue teams were waiting at the Tel Aviv airport, where a State of emergency was declared.

Palestinian demonstrations of the border: the model of Arab spring with Israel

After more than 100 border Palestinians chipped of Israel with Syria on Sunday, struck by a fence and striding in a village in the Golan Heights, surpassed the security forces Israeli scrambled to glean what they could from the protesters who had, without as much a pistol, entered the country than any army in a generation later.

Questioned closely, the infiltration has filled the gap of information with a shrug of the shoulders and a single word: Facebook. The operation which had taken Israel touted military and intelligence complex myself was announced, fed and triggered on the social networking site occupies a place in each uprising throughout the Arab world - and is to help young people that Palestinians change the terms of their fight against Israel. (See photos of tempers flaring across the Middle East).

Sunday headlines are due to the violence of the day: at least four people was shot dead by Israeli forces on Syrian fence line, and up to 10 were killed by Israeli or Lebanese Army fire during a similar demonstration on the southern border of the Lebanon nearby. The number of deaths, with accounts of throwing of stones and tear gas, be compatible with the familiar story of the conflict, was built in the years of Israel describing efforts to defend themselves. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu encouraged this narration Sunday, arguing that the demonstrators were undermining the existence of the State of Israel.

But those closest to the events are the makings of a new story in the day. Syria, the Lebanon Palestinians and Palestinian enclaves occupied Gaza and the West Bank approached positions Israeli gun Sunday without weapons are. If some teenagers threw stones, a protest leader said that was apparently not to attend workshops on non-violence, organizers arranged in what they call a new paradigm for the conflict. The goal, what appears to be building support, aims to reformulate the Palestinian Israel conflict under the same conditions that brought down the dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia.

Massive non violent protests are winning international sympathy for the Palestinian point of view, and thereby forcing Israel to withdraw his army from territories occupied since 1967. As the dust result Sunday, Israeli officers acknowledged their vulnerability to the approach that is consistent with the strategy of Palestinian leaders to ask the General Assembly of the United Nations to recognize a Palestininian State in September. (See "a new Palestinian movement: young, networking, nonviolent.")

"What we saw today was the promo for what we can see in September on the day of the United Nations said a State: thousands of Palestinians walking toward Israeli checkpoints, the Israeli settlements and the fence along the West Bank and the Palestinians in Gaza with their bare hands for." show "an Israeli officer indicates time." "It's a huge problem." Well have to study this only happened today to do better. ?

Sundays protests marked the anniversary of the Declaration of 1948 Israels of a State, a day known as the Nakba, or catastrophe, of Palestinians who have lost their land to the Jewish State. The day is always the opportunity to protest and Israel had prepared for the disorders. But in the Golan Heights, Israel took of the Syria in 1967, heights only 30 to 40 soldiers were service where hundreds of Palestinians began arriving by bus and walking towards the fence. Troops have been ordered to shoot to maim. Four demonstrators were killed, and at least 100 scrambled in Majdal Shams, a Druze village so close to the Syrian border, he is known for Cree Hill, where separated families by closing get together to exchange news by shouting through non-mans land.

Less clear is how the demonstrators sailed through the Syrian security usually maintains strict control over the border area. Facilitated interpreted Israeli officials similar demonstrators access to a military zone as proof of sponsorship by the Government defeated President Bashar al-Assad. With the street protests threatening his regime in cities around the Syria, the reasoning goes, Al-Assad, found in the Nakba protests against an ideal opportunity to move the focus to Israel.

But Fadi Koran, an organizer of Ramallah in the movement of young Palestinians who made the promotion of the marches, said that his contacts in Syria were actually terrified at the idea of the Government of Bashar, who has taken steps to prevent some to go to the manifestations of camps for refugees near Damascuswhere they lived since who flee their homes in what is now the North of Israel. (See pictures of young Palestinians in the age of the wall).

Apparently, the Governments of other neighbouring States hosting large Palestinian populations, were aware of the plans of protest and responded with their own interests. The Egypt and the Jordan, which are treated with Israel, hinder the demonstrations. Those who are hostile to the Lebanon, facilitated their way into military zones. But Damascus appeared to be occupied with its own internal unrest, according to the Qur'an. "I honestly believe that a very large extent they took the Syrian Government by surprise," he said in time.

Demonstrators also gathered in Gaza and the West Bank. Even here, on a March toward the control point Qalandia near Ramallah, the Qur'an insists no stones were thrown until Israeli troops fired tear gas and then only by adolescents. But overall the crowd composition, featuring more old women and men as students, was a change from previous years, according to Shawan Jabarin, Al Haq human rights group.

"They say Arab spring gives people of encouragement and makes people feel that they can make a difference," said Jabarin. "The conscience of the people, you feel that it is something different." (See "Palestinians Mark Nakba with violent demonstrations.")

Also to encourage people in the street: the complete collapse of peace talks with Israel. If the Palestinians necessary additional callback, the resignation of former US Senator George Mitchell as President Obamas Special Envoy for peace was announced two days before the Nakba day.

"We have to come up with an improvement of non-lethal weapons," explained without doubt, an aide to an Israeli Minister. "But if we have a new approach to the peace talks and then we will have to deal with in September non-lethal weapons".

For their part, Palestinian demonstrators feel that they have found a winning formula. The main political factions, Hamas and Fatah, have been forced from their embrace by the same movement of non-violent youth who now ordinary Palestinians to unite shame of Israel in concessions.

"They include the path to freedom will be long," Koran says "but were will continue training to non-violence and would continue to walk in nonviolence until it is very clear in the international media who violate human rights."

A third Intifadeh? Nakba Deadly protests Spark fears of escalating the border of Israel and Lebanon

South Lebanon Sunday witnessed its deadliest day since the month-long 2006 Israel-Hizballah war when 10 Palestinian demonstrators were reported shot dead and another 112 wounded as Israeli troops opened fire on protests along the border fence. The casualties came as a massive crowd of Palestinians gathered at Maroun er Ras, a small hilltop village overlooking the border with Israel, to commemorate the 63 rd anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when the state of Israel was established.

By Sunday night, the militant Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah was on alert and United Nations peacekeepers, known as UNIFIL, and Lebanese troops were planning heightened security measures along the border to prevent the retaliatory firing of rockets into Israel and a continuing escalation of cross border violence. (See photos of today's violent intifadeh.)

The protests were not an isolated event. Other Nakba demonstrations were held in Jordan, Egypt and Syria, where up to four Palestinians were killed in a rare infiltration of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria. (Israel said that one infiltrator was killed.) Some organizers of the Nakba commemoration had hoped that it would herald the onset of a "third intifadeh" of peaceful mass protests to compel Israel to honor the rights of Palestinians living under occupation or whom were expelled from their homes during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

The biggest of the border protests by far was in Lebanon, where an estimated 50,000 Palestinians were bussed from refugee camps scattered around Lebanon to Maroun er Ras. The huge turnout surprised even organizers. "I was expecting 21.000 at the most." "We ran out of nozzles to carry everyone," said Mahmoud Zeidan, a protest organizer from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. "ain al hilweh looks deserted." "I haven't seen it so empty since the 1982 Israeli invasion when everyone evacuated," he said. (See photos of flaring tempers between Palestine and Israel on the Nakba.)

With the narrow winding road leading to Maroun er Ras blocked by parked buses, entire families from toddlers to stooped and wrinkled old men began climbing the steep northern slopes of the hill to reach the village. Across the verdant flower-speckled hillside, thin rivers of humanity defied gravity to steadily flow uphill, red, green and black Palestinian flags fluttering in the balmy spring breeze. Stout grandmothers wearing thick cotton dresses and white headscarves panted and wheezed, red faced, as youngsters scrambled past them. The vast majority of those participating in the event were born after 1948 and have never seen their original homeland, let alone visited their ancestral homes in what is now Israel. On cresting the hill at Maroun er Ras, a vast expanse of western Galilee - forested hills and belts of apple orchards - could be seen stretching away to the south. "I am lost for words," said Tarek, the 28-year-old owner of a laundry business in Beirut.

The atmosphere on the climb up the hill to Maroun er Ras was cheerful and friendly, almost like a picnic outing. Purpose on the southern side of the hill overlooking the border, the situation quickly grew tense. Hundreds of Palestinians scrambled down the rocky slope to reach the frontier fence. A crowd of some 300 to 400 reached the fence and began hurling stones at Israeli soldiers. Lebanese troops moved quickly, recognizing that perhaps a disaster could unfold if the thousands of Palestinians gathering on the hilltop could reach the fence. Troops fanned out along a dirt track about 400 yards from the border fence and forcefully prevented anyone from going further. Short sporadic bursts of machine gun fire echoed across the hillside as Israeli soldiers opened fire on the crowd at the fence. A steady trickle of casualties was ferried by stretcher from the fence to an awaiting fleet of ambulances.

One man writhed in pain on the ground as medics treated him. Another young man was shot in the thigh, blood seeping through the bandages. Another man appeared to have been shot in the stomach as he was helped into an ambulance by several men whose clothes were smeared with the victim's blood. (See pictures of young Palestinians in the age of the wall.)

"allah u-akbar" (God is great), intoned a solemn-looking man as he and other wide-eyed onlookers gazed at the casualties being treated on the ground. A forest of raised arms clutching camera-fitted cell phones recorded the scene.

As more were wounded, dozens more ambulances began to arrive on the scene. The silhouettes of Israeli troops could be spotted on the ramparts of a border outpost watching the protest. Inside the outpost, a tank revved its engines and emitted a thick cloud of smoke, partly obscuring the position. Other soldiers hurried along the border patrol road as showers of stones cascaded around them. Some Palestinians hunting for stones began straying perilously close to the minefields that Israel planted along most of the border inside Lebanon more than 30 years ago.

Checked by the thin line of Lebanese soldiers, Palestinian tempers frayed as the young men attempted to push through to reach the border. A group of Islamic Jihad supporters chanted "god is great" and "we will liberate Palestine with the Kalashnikov". Every few minutes, the surging crowd of Palestinians gained sufficient momentum to push past the angry Lebanese soldiers, cheering and whooping as they dashed toward the border fence to join their comrades. The scattered machine gun fire and casualties did little to deter the Palestinian demonstrators. If anything, each shooting appeared to galvanize them further. (See pictures of the flourishing Hizballah youth.)

The Israeli army said that the protests in south Lebanon and the Golan Heights boron the fingerprints of Iran and served Syria's interests. However, the Iran-backed Hizballah took a back seat at the Maroun er Ras demonstration, even though the village, scene of a key battle in the 2006 Israel-Hizballah war, staunchly supports the Shi'ite group. Hizballah men helped marshal the busloads of Palestinians, but Palestinian officials from Lebanon were clearly in charge of the event.

Still, agent provocateurs were not required to Burns Palestinian passions at Maroun er Ras. The presence of tens of thousands of dispossessed Palestinians standing on the edge of their former homeland on the emotional anniversary of the Nakba was more than enough to ignite tensions.

Before the 2006 war, Sunday's high casualty count almost certainly would have led to some form of military response by Hizballah. But Hizballah has remained quiet in the past five years, unwilling to goad Israel into another unwanted conflict. Less certain is the response of extremist Palestinian groups suspected of past rocket firings into Israel. UNIFIL and the Lebanese army were expected to expand their "rocket watch" patrols in the coming days to prevent the possibility of the deadly Nakba commemoration sparking a tit-for-tat escalation along the Lebanon-Israel border.

Israel rejects Palestinian Government with Hamas

 Israeli leaders Thursday rejected the Palestinian agreement of Union between Hamas and Fatah, saying: it could destroy the prospects for peace and to exclude negotiations with any Palestinian Government that includes the rival Islamic militant group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his Security Cabinet to discuss the transaction, such as the Israeli President Shimon Peres called the Palestinian agreement "a serious mistake."

The comments came a day after Hamas and Fatah reached an initial agreement of unity in Cairo to end a four-year conflict which has left the Palestinians with the rival Governments: an administration dominated by Fatah in the West Bank and the Hamas regime that controls the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians say the two territories for a future independent State.

While the Palestinian announcement did not address several key issues, the agreement negotiated by the repeated Egyptian hope to end to bitter infighting which weakens the Palestinians politically and killed dozens of violent clashes and repressions.

The Palestinian plan calls for the joint formation of an interim Government to prepare the way for elections next year. The Palestinians say that the move is a step towards independence. With a breakdown in the peace talks with Israel, the Palestinians have campaigned for the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian State in September, with or without a peace agreement.

Including Hamas - that Israel, the United States and the European Union consider a terrorist organization - the Palestinians have rejected essentially the Israel peace negotiations and put them hundreds of millions of dollars in us and European money aid at risk.

In the West Bank, President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, a proponent of peace with Israel, stressed he would retain total control on foreign policy. He said it remains ready to talk peace with Netanyahu if Israel stops its construction of the settlement on occupied land.

Seeking to blunt international criticism, he said that the interim Government would not understand the Hamas activists.

"People will be independent, technocrats, not affiliated with the factions," Abbas said at a meeting with a former moderate Israeli businessmen and heads of security group.

Abbas said that it was "too early to say" if its Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, should remain in position. Fayyad, an economist U.S. educated, is well regarded in the West and was the main reason that the international community now sends nearly one billion dollars a year in aid to the Palestinians. Losing Fayyad could jeopardize this money.

Israel is adamant that it will engage not Hamas, which sent dozens of suicide bombers and thousands of rockets into the Jewish State and is committed to the destruction of Israel.

"We would like to see the Palestinian people to unite, but for the sake of peace," said Peres, a Nobel Prize for peace. "" "". "The world cannot support the creation of a State that part of his regime is a terrorist organization."

Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman warned that the Palestinian agreement opens the door to Hamas take foot in the West Bank controlled by Fatah.

"The importance of the agreement, is that terrorists will take hold of the West Bank." "Hundreds of terrorists will flood the West Bank and therefore we need to prepare for a different situation", he told the Army Radio station.

Blast rocks Egypt gas Terminal near Israel

An explosion shook a terminal near border with Egypt with Israel of natural gas, on Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the air in the early hours of the morning and forcing the closure of the country's export pipeline.

It was the second attack just last month on al-Sabil terminal near the town of El-Arish just 30 miles (50 km) of Israel. On 27 March, armed men have planted explosives in the terminal, which did not detonate.

Gas flow rate of the main terminal at Port said on the Mediterranean coast has been closed to smother the 65 feet (20 meters) flames, cutting exports of gas for Israel, the Jordan and the Syria. The fire continued to rage well past dawn.

"Those who carried out the explosion have harmed people more than any other Sinai," said Abdul-Wahab Mabrouk, the Governor of the Northern Sinai, by inspecting the site. He said the explosion also damaged the local power plant and the leakage of gas people forced to evacuate their homes.

He complained that the security situation was still weak and there is not enough police.

Maya Etzioni, a spokesman for the Ministry of infrastructure of Israel, confirmed that the gas supply was cut early Wednesday.

Tribes in the region have attacked the pipeline in the past, including the February 5, when a different section was destroyed, export to Israel and the Jordan a month. They also attempt to sabotage the pipeline in July 2010.

Security forces often clash with Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula, who complain of being neglected and oppressed by the central Government. Tribes are trying to draw attention to their grievances by blocking roads, burning tires, or attacking the infrastructure.

On Tuesday, the news agency reported that the main road in the area was temporarily closed by protest against the families of the detainees until the army reopened it. Attacks by militants on resorts in the South of the Sinai between 2004 and 2006, thousands of Bedouins were arrested, increasing the local resentment of the central Government.

Egyptian forces in the Sinai are regulated by the peace treaty of 1979 with Israel which used to prohibit military forces, in the peninsula, leaving security in the hands of lightly armed police and border guards.

After the popular uprising in January and February, which forced the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and disintegration of the police force, security has deteriorated further in the Sinai until the army was brought - with Israeli acquiescence.

Israeli infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told Israeli Army Radio that Israel had allowed the Egyptians to lead military forces over Sinai to protect the pipeline beyond the number of troops authorized by the peace agreement.

"There are a lot of importance to the protection of the peace agreement with the Egypt, and the contract of gas with Israel is perhaps the most important agreement between us and the Egyptians, who founded the peace on a written document"but also on important economic interests "he says.

Asked if Israel has other alternatives if the natural gas supply is not resumed, said, "we are obviously preparing for these things." Israeli gas field known as "tamar" will begin to produce gas in 2013, he said, and will be able to provide gas to Israel needs. In the meantime Israel can produce electricity with coal, diesel and natural gas, it produces already, he said.