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|  | St. Mary oil mircale Portsaid Egypt.. this icon dripping oil since year 1990 and and from that year she still giving us oil every year .. it happening at middle of Feb. every year since 1990 untill now at every February...this icon at a small coptic orthodox church (St.Bishoy church ) in a city called Portsaid at Egypt
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 | this icon dripping oil since year 1990 and and from that year she still giving us oil every year .. it happening at middle of Feb. every year since 1990 untill now at every February...this icon at a small coptic orthodox church (St.Bishoy church ) in a city called Portsaid at Egypt
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 | Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab, عمرو دياب, born October 11, 1961, in Port-Said city , EGYPT.
Diab has become one of the highest selling Middle Eastern artists of all time,as he was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 and 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer. |
|  | The Egyptian Police brutality hit christians and arrest 7 in the street in port said city because they open cafe in the feast time in ramadan,you can find many cafes open in egypt in ramadan but the owner always muslims ,in this case because they are christians so they brutality hit and the police told them u are want corrupt the muslims by making them eating and drinking!! the christians in this cafe was respect the muslims and use Curtain on the door to noone can see the people eating or drinking,but no way,please pray for the christians christian persecution in egypt
الشرطة المصرية تسحل اقباط اصحاب مقهي في بورسعيد لفتح المقهي في رمضان سبتمبر 08 |
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 | An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.
CNN Correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed.
The Dignity was carrying crew and 16 passengers -- physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and human rights activists, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory.
The captain of the Dignity said the Israelis broadcast a radio message accusing the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity. But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the radio message simply warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area.
Palmor said there was no response to the radio message, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision.
Penhaul said at least two Israeli patrol boats had shadowed the Dignity for about half an hour before the collision, moving around the vessel on all sides. One of the patrol boats then shined its spotlight on the Dignity while the other, with its lights off, "very severely rammed" the boat.
The captain of the Dignity told Penhaul he received no prior warning. Only after the collision did the Israelis come on the radio to say they struck the boat because they believed it was involved in terrorist activities.
The captain and crew said their vessel was struck intentionally, Penhaul said, but Palmor called those allegations "absurd."
"There is no intention on the part of the Israeli navy to ram anybody," Palmor said.
"I would call it ramming. Let's just call it as it is," McKinney said. "Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side.
"Our mission was a peaceful mission to deliver medical supplies and our mission was thwarted by the Israelis -- the aggressiveness of the Israeli military," she said.
The incident occurred in international waters about 90 miles off Gaza. Israel controls the waters off Gaza's coast and routinely blocks ships from coming into the Palestinian territory as part of an ongoing blockade that also applies to the Israel-Gaza border. Human rights groups have expressed concern about the blockade on Gaza, which has restricted the delivery of emergency aid and fuel supplies.
The collision was so severe, Penhaul said, that the passengers were ordered to put on their life vests and be ready to get in lifeboats. The Dignity began taking on water, but the crew managed to pump it out of the hull long enough for the boat to reach shore.
Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.
The boat was carrying boxes of relief supplies, volunteers and journalists to Gaza, the Palestinian territory now subject to an intense Israeli bombing campaign.
Israel launched airstrikes against Gaza on Saturday in what Defense Minister Ehud Barak called an "all-out war" against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has ruled the territory since 2007.
The Palestinian death toll has topped 375, most of them Hamas militants, Palestinian medical sources said Tuesday. At least 60 civilians have been killed in Gaza, U.N. officials said.
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Hamas has responded with volleys of rocket fire aimed at southern Israeli towns, which have left six Israelis dead -- five of them civilians.
Hamas has vowed to defend Gaza in the face of what it calls continued Israeli aggression. Each side blames the other for violating an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, which formally expired December 19 but had been weakening for months. |
|  | A senior leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Nizar Rayyan, has been killed in the latest air assault by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Rayyan is the most senior Hamas official killed since Israel unleashed its massive bombardment on Gaza, in what Israel argues is a response to persistent rocket fire from the enclave.
Medics say 10 people, including Rayyan, his wife and three children, were killed and about 30 were wounded in the air attack on Rayyan's home in the northern Jabalya refugee camp on Thursday.
Rayyan, 51, had allegedly refused to take security precautions despite Hamas figures being at risk of assassination. He held a PhD in Islamic studies and lectured at the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip.
Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said the killing of Rayyan comes at a time when international organisations are saying Israel's policy of targeting the homes of Hamas leaders is against international law.
"While they may be targeting senior members of the factions and military wings, these orgnisations say there is no doubt that there are families there and they are in residential neighbourhoods," he said.
"As we have seen in this particular strike, it was a direct hit in the heart of the Jabalya camp, the most densely populated in Gaza, home to 70,000 Palestinians."
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At least 400 people have been killed and 2,000 injured since Israel's aerial bombardment of the coastal strip started six days ago.
The UN has said at least 25 per cent of the dead are civilians.
The 1.5 million people living in Gaza are unable to flee the bombardment as crossing points remain closed for most of the time.
Earlier on Thursday, Israel launched attacks from drones, manned aircraft and navy vessels on a number of buildings in Gaza, including the parliament building and the justice ministry.
Palestinian officials said attacks on government offices left four people dead and at least 25 people injured.
Meanwhile, at least 10 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel.
The Israeli town of Beer-sheva, which lies about 40km from the boundary, was hit and the Israeli army said one rocket hit a residential building in the port city of Ashdod - more than 30km from Gaza.
لم يخف نائب رئيس الحكومة الإسرائيلية حاييم رامون سعادته بنجاح الجيش الإسرائيلي في قطاف حملة "الرصاص المسكوب" بعد ستة أيام من انطلاقها عند التأكد من نجاح عملية اغتيال القيادي في حركة المقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) الدكتور نزار ريان.
وقد سارعت صحيفة هآرتس بدورها إلى بث خبر استشهاد ريان (50 عاما) على موقعها الإلكتروني بوصفه "أرفع قيادي في حماس" يسقط منذ انطلاق الحملة الإسرائيلية.
ويشير بعض الشهود إلى أن مقاتلة من طراز "أف 16" قصفت منزل الشهيد بصاروخين أحدهما يزن طنا أدت قوة انفجاره إلى قذف جسمه إلى خارج المنزل المكون من أربعة طوابق في مخيم جباليا للاجئين.
وأكدت مصادر في حركة حماس أن ريان لم يستمع إلى نصائح الحركة بإخلاء منزله كما فعلت قيادات الحركة الأخرى وتمسك بالبقاء في منزله وبجانب أطفاله
وظهر نزار ريان في أكثر من مناسبة يرتدي الزي العسكري ويحمل سلاحه برفقة ناشطين فلسطينيين وهو يحثهم على الجهاد ويقدم لهم الماء والطعام في الاجتياح الإسرائيلي لمخيم جباليا شمال قطاع غزة خلال الأعوام الماضية.
وريان هو ثاني ضحية يستهدفها الطيران الإسرائيلي بهذا النوع من القنابل بعد القيادي في حماس صلاح شحادة في حي الدرج بمدينة غزة قبل عدة أعوام. |
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 | Speculation is mounting that Israel is preparing to launch a ground offensive on Gaza, after it announced it would briefly open the Erez crossing to let about 440 foreign residents to leave.
Friday saw continuing air raids on the Gaza Strip, a day after the Israeli army began clearing landmines along the boundary in apparent preparation for a possible ground invasion.
Tanks, armoured vehicles and troops have been massing along the boundary for several days.
With the Israeli offensive on Gaza in its seventh day, the death toll now stands at more than 428 dead and 2,100 injured. Among Friday's dead were three girls who had been playing outside.
In response Hamas fighters launched more than 20 rockets into southern Israel on Thursday and seven on Friday, some landing as far as the port city of Ashdod, more than 30km from Gaza. An Israeli woman was injured in Friday's rocket fire, the Israeli army said.
This is two days of very heavy bombing, particularly in the north now, which has made people wonder whether this could be a foretaste of a ground offensive.
It could be that Israeli forces are trying to clear any obstacles, notably landmines that could potentially lie i the path of advancing tanks if and when the ground offensive begins.
But the real question now is not if, but when. Many people in Israel are wondering 'what are we waiting for'."
In the strikes on Gaza on Thursday, Israeli jets pounded the border town of Rafah in the south of the territory and the Jabaliya refugee camp to the north.
A senior Hamas official was among more than a dozen people killed when a single one-tonne bomb dropped from an Israeli jet destroyed his home.
Nizar Rayyan is the most senior Hamas official killed since Israel unleashed its massive bombardment on Gaza seven days ago.
Palestinian medics said 13 members of Rayyan's family, including his four wives and 10 children, were killed in the attack.
Hamas officials hit back at Israel after the attack saying the assault on Gaza would fail.
"The blood of Sheikh Nizar Rayyan and the blood of other martyrs will never be wasted and the enemy will pay a heavy price for the crimes it has committed," Ayman Taha, a Hamas official, said.
"The blood of Sheikh Nizar Rayyan and the blood of other martyrs will never be wasted and the enemy will pay a heavy price for the crimes it has committed," Ayman Taha, a Hamas official, said.
Rayyan, 51, had refused to take security precautions despite Hamas figures being at risk of assassination. He held a PhD in Islamic studies and lectured at the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip.
The killing of Rayyan comes at a time when international organisations are saying Israel's policy of bombing the homes of Hamas leaders is against international law.
"While they may be targeting senior members of the factions and military wings, these organisations say there is no doubt that there are families there and they are in residential neighbourhoods," he said.
"As we have seen in this particular strike, it was a direct hit in the heart of the Jabaliya camp, the most densely populated in Gaza, home to 70,000 Palestinians."
Israel says its assault on Gaza is aimed at ending persistent Hamas rocket attacks from the enclave, but its offensive has sparked international condemnation and protests around the world.
In Jerusalem on Thursday, a coalition of left-wing parties and peace groups voiced their opposition to the raids with a protest in front of the Israeli prime minister's home.
The protesters called for an immediate end to the assault, saying the escalation of violence was a disaster for both sides.
Meanwhile Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has called for an immediate ceasefire from both sides.
"Our call to Israel now is to halt its fire and to the other side to stop firing rockets and other attacks," he said after talks with Egypt's president in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. |
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