Israeli Plan to Depose Haneyya's Government Disclosed

29 February 2008

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli political and military analysts have disclosed Thursday a military plan of the Israeli occupation government to weaken and depose the PA legitimate government under Premier Ismael Haneyya.

Ronnie Daniel, the well-known military analyst in the Israeli TV, unveiled that the Israeli political and security echelons endorsed the plan without reservations, adding that the plan calls for relentless and concentrated IOF aggressions against Hamas.

He added that the plan aims at weakening Hamas before toppling it, rendering Hamas incapable of firing home-made missiles on Israeli colonies, stopping of [the alleged] weapon smuggling through the Rafah terminal, and to completely separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank.

One of the Qassam home-made rockets fired on Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the IOF vicious military onslaught resulted in the wounding of a bodyguard of the Israeli public security minister Avi Dichter. Dichter himself who visited the colony later had to run for cover upon hearing and air raid siren.

Following Dichter's experience, the landing location of the helicopter transporting the Israeli President Shimon Peres had to be changed when he visited the colony of Sderot.

Other Israeli military analysts including Ehud Yaari said that at least 160,000 Israeli settlers became within the range of the Palestinian home-made rockets and mortar shells after the Palestinian resistance succeeded in upgrading its rockets.

For his part, Matan Velnai refused calls for negotiating a truce with Hamas from the Israeli settlers and mayors of the affected Israeli colonies, stressing, "Hamas's strategy was to destroy Israel, so, Israel must strive hard to destroy Hamas".