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(Euronews) – The Israeli army has been accused of deliberately targeting Palestinian refugees, after 30 people died in one house in Zeitoun. The United Nations said 110 people were told by Israel to shelter there last weekend, but the building was bombed by Israeli forces 24 hours later. Rescuers said the victims had no chance.
“Several bombs hit the house,” said one man. “Some people managed to escape, but others were trapped. Most of them were children, too young to flee. We managed to collect the bodies. Some of them were completely blown apart.”
Only now have the remains been moved to the morgue. The UN said survivors were forced to walk to the nearest hospital – three children, one just five months old, died on the way.
(ElectronicIntifada) – Furthermore, IOF aircrafts raided UNRWA’s Asma School the Beach refugee camp. This school was used by UNRWA to shelter civilians who were displaced from the areas where they live in the eastern areas of Gaza City as well as the al-Atatra and al-Salatin areas in Beit Lahia town. The attack killed three youths who were identified as: 27-year-old Rawhi Jamal al-Sultan, 23-year-old Hussein Mamoud al-Sultan, and 19-year-old Abed Samir al-Sultan.
At approximately 6am on the same day, Israeli aircrafts bombarded the four-story house of 60-year-old Fayiz al-Daya, in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. The attack destroyed the house completely while its residents were in inside it. Eyewitnesses and survivors reported that 30 members of the al-Daya family were killed. Four bodies had been taken out from under the rubble and sent to al-Shifa Hospital at the time this release was issued. Al Mezan has also received the names of 26 other members of this family, who are believed to be under the rubble.
Red Cross criticises Israel for blocking access to Gaza injured
The Crimes of War – Between Al Zeitoun (Gaza) and Rafah
Therefore I must conclude that the Israeli Army interest is entirely different: To demonstrate its supreme force and scare the civilian Palestinian population.
The tide is turning.
Times of London, UK
UN warns Israel over Gaza family ‘herded’ into shelled house
Fatah, the former old enemy
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Article in Vanity Fair
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
[links are mine – Oui]
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Didn’t Ben Gurion say that he was glad that the Palestinians were terrorized?
Something like “they would be running screaming Deir Yassin”
MSNBC via AP
Too bad Israel, but Truth is sometimes painful and shocking.
I’d say it’s more like the Warsaw Ghetto than a concentration camp.
Israel’s propaganda lies exposed. This update from Ha’aretz, Israel:
I don’t believe for one nanosecond that the attack on the UN site was unintentional any more than I believe the attack on Qana was unintentional. Do you?
a give back for all those anti-Israel resolutions at the UN.
The tide is turning indeed.
This time it will be different.
And if the Wall Street Journal is printing opinion pieces saying Israel is guilty of war crimes, then things are definitely far different than before.
If people start calling Israel’s actions in Gaza “war crimes”…and they now are, publicly…how long before the world starts connecting these crimes to the US, as BooMan has suggested?
How much danger are we now in because of Israel’s actions?
Jews should have been made whole in the land they were driven from.
The creation of the state was a crime.
Thus…
When the Chief Military Prosecutor (Colonel Einat Ron) eventually responded to researchers at B’Tselem, she informed them there was no reason to open a criminal investigation, as she had found that the soldiers had acted properly, opening fire when confronted by rioters. Unfortunately for Col. Dan, the supporting documents that her office sent to B’Tselem (.pdf link) inadvertently included internal army documents, never intended for release to the public, showing that Col. Dan had actually found there was no riot going on at the time Khalil was shot, that his killing was unjustified, and that she had experimented with various phony explanations for B’Tselem before settling on the “killed in a riot” scenario:
http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/
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Earned the prestigious Dutch Geuzen Penning 2009, named after renowned Dutch freedom fighters in the 80 years of Spanish occupation during the Middle Ages.
Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq and the Israeli B’Tselem Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories have jointly won this year’s Geuzenpenning award. A Dutch foundation commemorating the resistance movement of the Second World War has been giving this award since 1987 to acknowledge outstanding work for democracy and against dictatorship, racism and discrimination.
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian group which attempts to document the stories of victims and eyewitnesses of human rights abuses. The Ramallah-based organisation was founded in 1979 by a group of Palestinian lawyers.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I don’t understand the U.N. at all. Holding 1.5 million human beings under a two year, ever-tightening siege that deprives them of all basic needs, and most of their basic human rights (as laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Convention om the Rights of the Child, etc.), deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe and not allowing the people escape it by going outside the Gaza Strip, periodically bombarding them – in other words, instituting years of horrific collective punishment against 1.5 million human beings – is not clearly a war crime?! And now, suddenly after decades of barely even clucking its tongue over Israel’s daily multiple war crimes in Gaza, In the West Bank, in Lebanon, the U.N. decides that Israel should be investigated because it failed to assist people it wounded?
This is a bizarro world.
I told a talk show host about the Samouni family. A hasbara caller followed mine and said I was a Nazi liar.
The talk show host looked up the article and read it on the air.
Things are changing.
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ASTAKOS, Greece (Reuters) – In the tender documents, the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) said the ship was to carry 325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed as “ammunition” on two separate journeys from the Greek port of Astakos to the Israeli port of Ashdod in mid-to-late January.
Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, said he would not comment on shipping routes for security reasons but confirmed a shipment of ammunition to Israel was planned.
“The delivery of ammunition is to a pre-positioned U.S. munitions stockpile in Israel in accordance with a congressionally authorized 1990 agreement between the U.S. and Israel,” Ryder said.
“This previously scheduled shipment is routine and not in support of the current situation in Gaza.”
The shipment originated in the United States, Ryder said. He provided no further details on the intended cargo.
A “hazardous material” designation on the manifest mentions explosive substances and detonators but gives no other details.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."couldn’t possibly be in preparation for this…
nah.
Interesting what has gone under the radar:
They deal they are trying to force on Hamas is that Abbas and Fatah come back to lead Gaza.
I’m not making it up.
Yep! Regime change was one of their goals.
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(Times Online) – The plan would allow a return of the Palestinian Authority, led by the secular Fatah faction, to the territory 18 months after it was expelled by the Islamist Hamas. Diplomats are considering taking a triangle at the southern end of Gaza, including the Rafah crossing to Egypt and the Kerem Shalom crossing to Israel, to be policed by Turkish and French military monitors to stop arms smuggling into Gaza.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Hell no. No one else should step in to do the dirty work of Israel.
They will. They always do.
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Paper War Propaganda Leaflets
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I hope the international labor unions block any ship that tries to load or sail with those weapons.