<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Yousef Al-Helou: The Israeli Escalation is to Sabotage&nbsp;Unity]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>11.04.11 &#8211; 17:55 | PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network</p>
<p>Bethlehem- C. Martín/PNN Exclusive &#8211; Yousef Al-Helou  is a Gazan journalist and PressTV correspondent. His reporting during  the Operation Cast Lead exposed to the world the real dimmension of the  War on Gaza and its aftermath for the civil population.</p>
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<div class="mosimage_caption" style="text-align:center;">Yousef covering the Israeli war on Gaza</div>
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<p>Yousef  lost three members of his family on an Israeli air strike the last 23rd  of march, including two of his fifteen-years-old cousins.  “They were  playing outside their home in eastern Gaza city” told yesterday  interviewed by PNN. That makes Yousef to believe that civilians are  being targeted by the Israeli Army, adding He “the Israeli response is  disproportionate”.</p>
<p>Yousef, who covered the war on  Gaza back in December 2008 and January 2009, thinks that judge  Goldstone´s retraction has given Israel the green light to a new  offensive. “The latest Israeli escalation in Gaza is a prelude to a  massive Israeli attack on Gaza” told PNN. He believes Goldstone “has  pardoned Israel from war crime  with his change of mind or re-think.”</p>
<p>After  a week of Israeli attacks, which left 19 Palestinians dead and around  70 injured  this Journalist thinks that the escalation of the violence  aims to sabotage any effort by Palestinians to end the division between  Fattah and Hamas. Also Yousef Al-Helou  says that intesification of the  violnce seeks to maintain the power of deterrence by Israel against  Palestinian factions and it also aims to put an end to Hamas rule in  Gaza.</p>
<p>Yousef is not optimistic about the recent developments: “ordinary people are again paying a heavy price.”</p>
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