Photos of Gaza Attacks by Israel

Gambar Serangan Israel di Gaza 

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Shila Amzah Rangkul Lagu Terbaik AIM 19

Shila Amzah Rangkul Lagu Terbaik AIM 19

Shila Amzah menjulang trofi Lagu Terbaik dan Lagu Pop Terbaik di Anugerah Industri Muzik ke-19 menerusi Patah Seribu. - Foto oleh SHAARI CHE MAT

SHAH ALAM: Lagu Patah Seribu nyanyian Shila Amzah diangkat sebagai Lagu Terbaik dalam Anugerah Industri Muzik 19 (AIM 19) yang berlangsung di Stadium Melawati di sini malam Sabtu.

Shila mencipta sejarah untuk dirinya sendiri apabila kali pertama menerima pengiktirafan di negara sendiri selepas menjadi juara dalam pertandingan Asian Wave 2012 pada 17 September lalu.

Lebih bermakna apabila karya berkenaan adalah hasil ilham Shila sendiri daripada penulisan lirik sehingga penciptaan lagu.

"Saya amat terharu dengan kemenangan ini. Ia adalah kejayaan pertama saya di negara sendiri " katanya selepas menerima trofi kemenangan daripada penyanyi terkenal, Datuk Hattan.

Patah Seribu turut dinobatkan sebagai pemenang dalam kategori Lagu Pop Terbaik menewaskan karya lain seperti Jagalah Diri (Jaclyn Victor) dan Terukir Di Bintang (Yuna).

Sementara itu bagi kategori Album Terbaik jatuh kepada kumpulan Salam Musik menerusi album sulung mereka berjudul Salam.

Jac turut membawa pulang tiga trofi menerusi lagu Counting Days ciptaan komposer Aubrey Suwito.

Mereka menewaskan calon lain seperti Stacy, Nora, Hujan dan Pesawat.

Penyanyi bersuara lantang, Jaclyn Victor turut merangkul dua anugerah pada malam itu menerusi kategori Persembahan Vokal Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu (Wanita) melalui laguCounting Days dan Lagu Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik.

Manakala penyanyi veteran, Jamal Abdillah merangkul trofi Persembahan Vokal Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu (Lelaki) dan turut diumumkan sebagai penerima trofi menerusi kategori Lagu Hip Hop Terbaik gandingannya bersama Malique (Too Phat) melalui lagu Aku Maafkan Kamu.

Bagi kategori Artis Baru Terbaik, AIM 19 menobatkan kumpulan Mojo sebagai penerima anugerah tersebut sementara Lagu Rock Terbaik diterima oleh Azlan The Typewriter melalui lagu Idola.

Kumpulan Forteen merangkul anugerah bagi kategori Persembahan Vokal Berkumpulan Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu menerusi Seperti Dulu.

Penerima anugerah lain adalah Noraniza Idris untuk kategori Lagu Pop Etnik Terbaik menerusi lagu ciptaan Edrie Hashim dan Ahmad Fedtri Yahya iaitu Kuasa Cinta.

Anugerah Sri Wirama AIM18 diberikan kepada kumpulan Alleycats atas sumbangan dan kejayaan mereka dalam bidang muzik selama 43 tahun.

Trofi tersebut disampaikan oleh Pengerusi RIM, Norman Abdul Halim dan Naib Presiden Bahagian Perniagaan Melayu ASTRO, Khairul Anwar Salleh.

Manakala penyanyi bertaraf antarabangsa, Mizz Nina diangkat sebagai pemenang Anugerah Kembara atas kejayaannya menempa nama di luar negara.

Acara tersebut dihoskan oleh Aznil Nawawi dan Adibah Nor.

Mizz Nina merangkul Anugerah Kembara AIM19 atas kejayaannya menempa nama di peringkat antarabangsa.

AIM 19 turut menampilkan persembahan hebat pada malam itu seperti Datuk Siti Nurhaliza dan Hafiz menerusi lagu Muara Hati, GX4, Nirwana, Stephen Rahman Hughes dan Forteen.

Berikut adalah senarai penuh pemenang AIM 19:

1. Artis Baru Terbaik

Mojo (Andai Ku Bercinta Lagi)

2. Persembahan Vokal Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu (Lelaki)

Jamal Abdillah (Bahagia Sementara)

3. Persembahan Vokal Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu (Wanita)

Jaclyn Victor (Counting Days)

4. Persembahan Vokal Berkumpulan Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu

Forteen (Seperti Dulu)

5. Kulit Album Terbaik

Even Odds Sdn. Bhd. - MizzNina (Take Over)

6. Rakaman Album Terbaik

Rahmad Ayob - Nora (Hikmah)

7. Video Muzik Terbaik

Quek Shio Chuan - Yuna (Sparkle)

8. Lagu Pop Etnik Terbaik

Kuasa Cinta (Edrie Hashim/Ahmad Fedtri Yahya) - Noraniza Idris

9. Lagu Nasyid Terbaik

Doa (Gjie 6ixth Sense/Lukhman S) - Nora

10. Lagu Rock Terbaik

Idola (Audi Mok/Dark) - Azlan & The Type Writer

11. Lagu Pop Terbaik

Patah Seribu (Shila Amzah) - Shila Amzah

12. Lagu Hip Hop Terbaik

Aku Maafkan Kamu (Malique/Jamal Abdillah/Tripdizs/Malique) - Jamal Abdillah & Malique

13. Lagu Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik

Counting Days (Aubrey Suwito/Aubrey Suwito/Lin Li Zhen) - Jaclyn Victorr

14. Lagu Bahasa Melayu Terbaik Yang Dipersembahkan Oleh Artis Luar Negara

Sudah Cukup Sudah (Nirwana Band)

15. Susunan Muzik Terbaik Di Dalam Lagu

Aubrey Suwito (Counting Days - Jaclyn Victor)

16. Album Terbaik

SalamMusik (Salam - SalamMusik)

17. Lagu Terbaik

Patah Seribu (Shila Amzah)

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Gaza under attack

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels.

The new attacks, which Gaza officials say left 10 dead, followed an unprecedented rocket strike aimed at the contested holy city of Jerusalem that raised the stakes in Israel's violent confrontation with Palestinian militants and extended the battlefield.

Israeli aircraft also kept pounding their original targets, the militants' weapons storage facilities and underground rocket launching sites. They also went after rocket squads more aggressively. The military has called up thousands of reservists and massed troops, tanks and other armored vehicles along the border with Gaza, signaling a ground invasion could be imminent.

Militants, undaunted by the heavy damage the Israeli attacks have inflicted, have unleashed some 500 rockets against the Jewish state, including new, longer-range weapons turned for the first time this week against Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv heartland. Following those attacks, the military deployed an Iron Dome rocket defense battery in central Israel on Saturday. The system, devised precisely to deflect the Gaza rocket threat, was deployed two months earlier than planned, the Defense Ministry said.

Ten people, including eight militants, were killed and dozens were wounded in the various attacks early Saturday, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said. In all, 40 Palestinians including 13 civilians and three Israeli civilians have been killed since the Israeli operation began.

The violence has widened the instability gripping the Mideast. At the same time, revolts against entrenched regional regimes have opened up new possibilities for Hamas. Islamists across the Mideast have been strengthened, bringing newfound recognition to Hamas, shunned by the international community because of its refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence.

A high-level Tunisian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem, drove that point home with a visit to Gaza on Saturday. The foreign minister's first stop was the still-smoldering ruins of the three-story office building of Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.

"Israel has to understand that there is an international law and it has to respect the international law to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people," Abdessalem told The Associated Press during a tour of Gaza's main hospital, Shifa, later Saturday. He said his country was doing whatever it can to promote a cease-fire, but did not elaborate.

It was the first official Tunisian visit since Hamas's violent 2007 takeover of the territory. Egypt's prime minister visited Friday and a Moroccan delegation is due on Sunday, following a landmark visit by Qatar's leader last month that implied political recognition.

Israel had been incrementally expanding its operation beyond military targets but before dawn on Saturday it ramped that up dramatically, hitting Hamas symbols of power. Israeli defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential decisions, said military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz personally ordered the scope of the airstrikes to be increased.

Haniyeh's three-story office building was flattened by an airstrike that blew out windows in neighboring homes. He was not inside the building at the time.

The building's security chief said Hamas scored points despite Israel's military superiority.

"Hamas responded to the Zionist aggression and hit them in the depth of their land," he said, referring to rockets aimed Friday at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Another airstrike brought down the three-story home of a Hamas commander in the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City, critically wounding him and injuring other residents of the building, medics said.

Missiles smashed into two small security facilities and the massive Hamas police headquarters in Gaza City, setting off a huge blaze that engulfed nearby houses and civilian cars parked outside, the Interior Ministry reported. No one was inside the buildings.

The Interior Ministry said a government compound was also hit while devout Muslims streamed to the area for early morning prayers, although it did not report any casualties from that attack.

Air attacks knocked out five electricity transformers, cutting off power to more than 400,000 people in southern Gaza, according to the Gaza electricity distribution company. People switched on backup generators for limited electrical supplies.

In southern Gaza, aircraft went after underground tunnels militants use to smuggle in weapons and other contraband from Egypt, residents reported. A huge explosion in the area sent buildings shuddering in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, 45 kilometers (30 miles) away, an Associated Press correspondent there reported.

The Israeli military said more than 800 targets have been struck since the operation began.

The widened scope of targets brings the scale of fighting closer to that of the war the two groups waged four years ago. Hamas was badly bruised during that conflict, but has since restocked its arsenal with more and better weapons, and has been under pressure from smaller, more militant groups to prove its commitment to fighting Israel.

The attack aimed at Jerusalem on Friday and two strikes on metropolitan Tel Aviv showcased the militants' new capabilities, including a locally made rocket that appears to have taken Israeli defense officials by surprise. Both areas had remained outside the gunmen's reach before.

Just a few years ago, Palestinian rockets were limited to crude devices manufactured in Gaza. But in recent years, Israeli officials say, Hamas and other armed groups have smuggled in sophisticated, longer-range rockets from Iran and Libya.

Israeli leaders have threatened to widen the operation even further if the rocket fire doesn't halt. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said options included the possible assassination of Haniyeh, the prime minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in emergency session with Cabinet ministers Friday and they approved mobilizing up to 75,000 reservists, more than doubling the number authorized earlier this week. That would be the largest call-up in a decade. At a parking lot in central Israel, uniformed reservists waited to board buses. One prayed, covered in a Jewish prayer shawl.

Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokeswoman, said 16,000 reservists were called to duty on Friday and others could soon follow.

She said no decision had been made on a ground offensive but all options are on the table.

President Barack Obama spoke separately to Israeli and Egyptian leaders Friday as the violence in Gaza intensified. In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he reiterated U.S. support for Israel's right to self-defense. To Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, he praised Egypt's efforts to ease regional tensions.

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