JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car in this Palestinian refugee camp Tuesday, killing a teenager and two children and wounding nine other people, the military and hospital officials said.

 GAZA, June 20, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) - - The array of barbaric statements made by Israeli officials and military generals against the Palestinian people continued today, by demanding to decapitate the heads of the Hamas movement, targeting the infrastructure of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) or considering the killing of civilians legal under international law.

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz met on Monday with the Foreign and Security Committee at the Israeli Knesset, in order to discuss the steps to be taken against the leaders of Hamas in case the firing of makeshift "Qassam" rockets did not stop.

 The screaming of 11 year old Palestinian Huda Abu Ghalia from Gaza seems not to have reached American officials. Huda's parents and five siblings were killed before her eyes last week when Israeli artillery crashed onto the beach as they picnicked. The US was the only major power which not only refused to condemn the incident, but described it as "self defense." Afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israel's army the "most moral" in the world.

 Leaving the Truth Buried in Gaza's Sands

 f you keep lying long enough and with enough conviction, people start to believe you -- or at least doubt the evidence in front of their own eyes. And so it has been with the Israeli army’s account of how seven members of a Palestinian family were killed, and dozens of other Palestinians injured, during shelling close by a beach in Gaza.

Damascus - A senior Hamas official stressed on Tuesday that his group has reached an agreement with the rival Fatah movement on most items of the "prisoners' document" that is the basis of a pending referendum that would effectively recognise Israel's right to exist.

In meeting at Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Defense Minister Peretz says 'Israel operating to convey diplomatic messages to Hamas leaders, but if that doesn’t help we definitely plan to step up operations'.

 Some weeks ago I heard Jan Wijenberg, a retired Dutch Ambassador, speak about what the International Community could do to break with its complicity to the ongoing violations of international law and human rights by the Israeli regime. Wijenberg served over a decade as an ambassador for the Dutch government in Jemen, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia. He regularly writes to Dutch ministers and politicians to remind them of the responsibility of the international community, and specifically of the Dutch Government and the European Union, to hold Israel accountable to international law. His views are expressed in this article.

We Jews are a strange people. Buffeted and battered by the forces of history, we survive with our senses intact. Our story is perhaps the saddest of all, yet we have helped to give humour to the world! A race that was being systematically slaughtered by Nazi brutes in Europe was, at the same time, entertaining America on stage and screen. A people who have, on the world stage, produced the highest proportion to size of Nobel Prize winners have been persecuted and reviled and forced into Jewish ghettos. A folk who provided Gentiles, in Jesus of Nazareth, with their saviour and inspiration are tortured and killed in the name of the same man.

The Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA) began debating Friday the issue of divesting from companies doing business with Israel because of Israel's policy in the Palestinian territories.

The church, which represents 2.3 million followers in the US, is expected to vote this week on reconsidering its 2004 resolution which approved the divestment measures.

In federal court in Chicago Tuesday, chilling stories about the torture of political prisoners by Israeli police. Testimony came during a hearing in the case against Muhammad Salah, who is accused of laundering money for Palestinian terrorists.