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Palestinian civilians in Israel's sights?
Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses have dismissed Israel's assertion that its forces are not deliberately targeting civilians in ongoing army operations in the northern Gaza Strip.
At least 65 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 injured in the five-day onslaught, ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in retaliation for the death of two Israeli children in a Hamas missile attack on the Israeli settler town of Sderot, east of Gaza, last week.
"The number of civilian victims exceeds by far the number of resistance fighters killed. As for the injured, I can say that 99% of them are innocent men, women and children who had no connection with the hostilities," Issa Dhaher, deputy mayor of Jabalya, said.
In an interview with Aljazeera.net on Sunday, Dhaher accused the Israeli army of "knowingly and deliberately" targeting civilians, particularly children.
"An army that is equipped with state-of-the art technology can easily distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. An army that can strike and assassinate a person driving in a small car through a crowded street, can easily distinguish children and women from resistance fighters."
Fighters blamed
Daher says the Israeli army killed as many as 35 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, since the current campaign in northern Gaza began five days ago.
When asked why Israeli troops do not use their technological advantage to minimise civilian deaths, an Israeli army colonel blamed Palestinian fighters for the high civilian death toll.
"The terrorists are using Gazans as human shields and the civilians are paying the price for this," Yoav Mordechai of the Israeli District Civil Liaison Office told Aljazeera.net earlier this week.
An Israeli military spokesman acknowledged that "some civilians" were killed but insisted that the Israeli policy was to refrain "as much as possible" from targeting civilians.
The spokesman, Eitan Arusi, said that with the exception of some 10 civilians and a 65-year-old man, all Palestinians killed in northern Gaza since Wednesday were in their 20s and 30s.
Arusi gave no answer, however, when asked if Israeli military policy considered every Palestinian male in the 20-40 age bracket a legitimate target for liquidation just because he happens to be within a bracket typically associated with military recruitment.
For his part, Arusi accused Palestinians of using UNRWA vans to transport Qassam missiles, saying the Israeli army was in possession of aerial photographs to corroborate the claim.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen denied the charge, saying the Israelis mistook a medical stretcher for a Qassam rocket and that it was not the first time such accusations have been made.
Civilians killed
Earlier, the commander of an Israeli brigade in Gaza admitted that Israeli troops fired a tank shell at a "group of people" in retaliation for an ambush of an armoured Israeli bulldozer.
The high-ranking officer told the Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, that "we are sorry that these civilians were killed".
On Friday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported the Israeli army was instructed to be a little bit "light on the trigger" in order to punish the Palestinians and consequently force them to rise up against the resistance fighters.
In a radio interview on Sunday, one Israeli Knesset member proposed Israel issue an ultimatum to all Gaza inhabitants to leave their homes and towns after which the Israeli army would lay waste to the entire area.
"Suppose a volcano erupted in Gaza ... . Wouldn't they flee for a few days? Let them think of us as a volcano for a while ...," Yehuda Yatom, who is a Likud law-maker, said.
Yatom was barred by an Israeli court from assuming any security post after he was convicted of murdering two Palestinian men in detention nearly 20 years ago.
Demolition tactic?
Palestinian analysts claim the Israeli army has been instructed to demolish dozens of civilian homes in Bait Hanun, Bait Lahya and the Jabalya refugee camp in the hope that this would exert pressure on the Palestinian Authority.
Home demolition has been Israel's established punitive policy in dealing with the Palestinians.
According to UN estimates, the Israeli army has destroyed more than 4500 homes since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada four years ago. Independent sources put this figure at 8000 and cite partially-damaged homes at more than 70,000.
International law classifies home demolitions as a war crime.
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7B0A2779-BDE4-4ACA-B455-E2E608A4D9BF.htm
"The number of civilian victims exceeds by far the number of resistance fighters killed. As for the injured, I can say that 99% of them are innocent men, women and children who had no connection with the hostilities," Issa Dhaher, deputy mayor of Jabalya, said.
In an interview with Aljazeera.net on Sunday, Dhaher accused the Israeli army of "knowingly and deliberately" targeting civilians, particularly children.
"An army that is equipped with state-of-the art technology can easily distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. An army that can strike and assassinate a person driving in a small car through a crowded street, can easily distinguish children and women from resistance fighters."
Fighters blamed
Daher says the Israeli army killed as many as 35 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, since the current campaign in northern Gaza began five days ago.
When asked why Israeli troops do not use their technological advantage to minimise civilian deaths, an Israeli army colonel blamed Palestinian fighters for the high civilian death toll.
"The terrorists are using Gazans as human shields and the civilians are paying the price for this," Yoav Mordechai of the Israeli District Civil Liaison Office told Aljazeera.net earlier this week.
An Israeli military spokesman acknowledged that "some civilians" were killed but insisted that the Israeli policy was to refrain "as much as possible" from targeting civilians.
The spokesman, Eitan Arusi, said that with the exception of some 10 civilians and a 65-year-old man, all Palestinians killed in northern Gaza since Wednesday were in their 20s and 30s.
Arusi gave no answer, however, when asked if Israeli military policy considered every Palestinian male in the 20-40 age bracket a legitimate target for liquidation just because he happens to be within a bracket typically associated with military recruitment.
For his part, Arusi accused Palestinians of using UNRWA vans to transport Qassam missiles, saying the Israeli army was in possession of aerial photographs to corroborate the claim.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Peter Hansen denied the charge, saying the Israelis mistook a medical stretcher for a Qassam rocket and that it was not the first time such accusations have been made.
Civilians killed
Earlier, the commander of an Israeli brigade in Gaza admitted that Israeli troops fired a tank shell at a "group of people" in retaliation for an ambush of an armoured Israeli bulldozer.
The high-ranking officer told the Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, that "we are sorry that these civilians were killed".
On Friday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported the Israeli army was instructed to be a little bit "light on the trigger" in order to punish the Palestinians and consequently force them to rise up against the resistance fighters.
In a radio interview on Sunday, one Israeli Knesset member proposed Israel issue an ultimatum to all Gaza inhabitants to leave their homes and towns after which the Israeli army would lay waste to the entire area.
"Suppose a volcano erupted in Gaza ... . Wouldn't they flee for a few days? Let them think of us as a volcano for a while ...," Yehuda Yatom, who is a Likud law-maker, said.
Yatom was barred by an Israeli court from assuming any security post after he was convicted of murdering two Palestinian men in detention nearly 20 years ago.
Demolition tactic?
Palestinian analysts claim the Israeli army has been instructed to demolish dozens of civilian homes in Bait Hanun, Bait Lahya and the Jabalya refugee camp in the hope that this would exert pressure on the Palestinian Authority.
Home demolition has been Israel's established punitive policy in dealing with the Palestinians.
According to UN estimates, the Israeli army has destroyed more than 4500 homes since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada four years ago. Independent sources put this figure at 8000 and cite partially-damaged homes at more than 70,000.
International law classifies home demolitions as a war crime.
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7B0A2779-BDE4-4ACA-B455-E2E608A4D9BF.htm
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ZioNazi Lunatics Fire Tank Shells Into Crowded Market
Ambulance driver Ahmed Abu Sal, one of the first to evacuate casualties after an Israeli tank started to shell Jebaliya’s market. In a blatant Slaughter of women and children shopping, “ I threw the wounded children in the back of the ambulance with the body parts, because I had no choice it was horrific. ” he said.
Hundreds of the wounded were given emergency treatment at two small clinics in Jebaliya, including the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was closest to the fighting.
Desperate for extra space to treat the wounded, officials opened the hospital cafeteria and the doctor's private quarters for operations. Some were even treated on the floor.
Ten scorched bodies of infants were carried in on one stretcher.
"There is no hospital in the world that can handle the arrival of a group of hundreds of wounded and dead in less than three minutes," said Dr. Mahmoud Asali, the hospital director.
Several hours after the start of the army's attack on the civilian market in Jebaliya camp, all hospitals in northern Gaza declared a state of emergency. Health officials called on all doctors to report to work, and radio stations asked listeners to donate blood.
The bloodiest incident was the Israeli tank fire into the Jebaliya market.
The army said soldiers fired shells into the crowded market area. Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the army's Gaza commander, said, “ I enjoy Murdering People because I am a lunatic of Zion and that kind of thing is normal to us Jews, its very fun, I most Like killing the little babies".
Abu Sal, the ambulance driver, said the scene of flying body parts and charred corpses was the worst he has witnessed in four years of fighting. Abu Sal said he put wounded children in the back of his ambulance together with all the body parts he had collected.
"To avoid being murdered by the Zionazi lunatics, I threw the wounded children in the back of the ambulance with the body parts, because I had no choice it was horrific.The zio-fascists are going on a blood guzzling binge in Gaza it must be close to one of there satanic ritual fests and they need to collect enough blood for their ceremonies" he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3707738.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3706224.stm
Ambulance driver Ahmed Abu Sal, one of the first to evacuate casualties after an Israeli tank started to shell Jebaliya’s market. In a blatant Slaughter of women and children shopping, “ I threw the wounded children in the back of the ambulance with the body parts, because I had no choice it was horrific. ” he said.
Hundreds of the wounded were given emergency treatment at two small clinics in Jebaliya, including the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which was closest to the fighting.
Desperate for extra space to treat the wounded, officials opened the hospital cafeteria and the doctor's private quarters for operations. Some were even treated on the floor.
Ten scorched bodies of infants were carried in on one stretcher.
"There is no hospital in the world that can handle the arrival of a group of hundreds of wounded and dead in less than three minutes," said Dr. Mahmoud Asali, the hospital director.
Several hours after the start of the army's attack on the civilian market in Jebaliya camp, all hospitals in northern Gaza declared a state of emergency. Health officials called on all doctors to report to work, and radio stations asked listeners to donate blood.
The bloodiest incident was the Israeli tank fire into the Jebaliya market.
The army said soldiers fired shells into the crowded market area. Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, the army's Gaza commander, said, “ I enjoy Murdering People because I am a lunatic of Zion and that kind of thing is normal to us Jews, its very fun, I most Like killing the little babies".
Abu Sal, the ambulance driver, said the scene of flying body parts and charred corpses was the worst he has witnessed in four years of fighting. Abu Sal said he put wounded children in the back of his ambulance together with all the body parts he had collected.
"To avoid being murdered by the Zionazi lunatics, I threw the wounded children in the back of the ambulance with the body parts, because I had no choice it was horrific.The zio-fascists are going on a blood guzzling binge in Gaza it must be close to one of there satanic ritual fests and they need to collect enough blood for their ceremonies" he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3707738.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3706224.stm
>>>At least 65 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 injured in the five-day onslaught, ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in retaliation for the death of two Israeli children in a Hamas missile attack on the Israeli settler town of Sderot, east of Gaza, last week.<<<
Death of two Israeli children
Any normal Peace loving Government would have had an investigation, found the ones who killed the 2 children, tried him/her/them and put them to death or life in prison.
But of course Israel is not satisfied with killing two people for the two people who died, but instead killing over 60 people, half of them innocent people and 16 of them under 18 years of age.
Wake up World Israel is the real terrorist that only goes to provoke the Palestinians to continue their fight for their land and freedom.
Death of two Israeli children
Any normal Peace loving Government would have had an investigation, found the ones who killed the 2 children, tried him/her/them and put them to death or life in prison.
But of course Israel is not satisfied with killing two people for the two people who died, but instead killing over 60 people, half of them innocent people and 16 of them under 18 years of age.
Wake up World Israel is the real terrorist that only goes to provoke the Palestinians to continue their fight for their land and freedom.
Not that "Peace loving" Palestinian Authority ANGEL is apologizing for and deliberately refraining from sounding an outrage over its refusal to do so.
Who is the terrorist apologist, the "person" who dares question the murder of two Jewish children being terror or the people who defend the killing of non-innocent Palestinians and express their horror at the murder of innocents?
Only an Einstein wannabe like ANGEL could rant imagining that Israel could have launched a police investigation to reveal who exactly murdered the 2 Israeli children, sent police officers into an area too dangerous for police clad in traditional Arab atire to operate in, grab the perps and put them on trial.
The vast majority of the killed Palestinians were armed terrorists.
If a psychiatrist is reading these lines, I suggest s/he tries to contact ANGEL to give him/her a sedative.
Who is the terrorist apologist, the "person" who dares question the murder of two Jewish children being terror or the people who defend the killing of non-innocent Palestinians and express their horror at the murder of innocents?
Only an Einstein wannabe like ANGEL could rant imagining that Israel could have launched a police investigation to reveal who exactly murdered the 2 Israeli children, sent police officers into an area too dangerous for police clad in traditional Arab atire to operate in, grab the perps and put them on trial.
The vast majority of the killed Palestinians were armed terrorists.
If a psychiatrist is reading these lines, I suggest s/he tries to contact ANGEL to give him/her a sedative.
The Palestinian terrorists are using ambulances to transport explosives, even UN ambulances.
Anyway, according to internacional analysts, the intifada has entitled Israel to use force.
since the arab gun men and morter crews surround themselves with children of their followers while they shoot at and kill Jewish children it makes it very difficult for the IDF to shoot back and not hit these human shields.
It has become a tradition of Arab fighters to hid amongst their civilian poplulation with masks on. They are cowards.
It has become a tradition of Arab fighters to hid amongst their civilian poplulation with masks on. They are cowards.
And so if some Palestinian child is it they use them for propaganda purposes. I don't thik those people are normal, they don't have feelings.
"child is it"
It should read:
"child is hit"
It should read:
"child is hit"
you zio Nazi scum are pathetic shit,
shooting children in there class rooms,
sniper fire at preschoolers playing in the sand,
running over disabled old people in wheel chairs with tanks,
firing tank shells into market full of women and children
you are moraly bankrupt the most deisgusting vile creatures that exist on this planet.
the phoney criminal state of israel is a vile horrable place on this planet
shooting children in there class rooms,
sniper fire at preschoolers playing in the sand,
running over disabled old people in wheel chairs with tanks,
firing tank shells into market full of women and children
you are moraly bankrupt the most deisgusting vile creatures that exist on this planet.
the phoney criminal state of israel is a vile horrable place on this planet
If the Palestinians are committing terrorist attacks, they have to stop doing so. Israel has the right to defend itself.
>>>If the Palestinians are committing terrorist attacks, they have to stop doing so. Israel has the right to defend itself.<<<
If Israel would stop confiscating Palestinian land and demolishing Palestinian homes and destroying Palestinian Olive and Fruit trees, etc.etc.etc.....The Palestinians would not have to spend all their energy defending themselves and instead they could spend their time building homes, schools and doing other activities to make life better for themselves.
And of course to get to this point, we have to start with a Viable Palestinian State in the Whole of the West Bank and Gaza, That is called for in the Road Map to Peace.
We keep forgetting that it is the Israelis who are going into the West Bank and Gaza to demolish homes.
Not the Palestinians going into Israel Proper to demolish homes.
For a few very important facts:
CLICK HERE > http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/homes.html
If Israel would stop confiscating Palestinian land and demolishing Palestinian homes and destroying Palestinian Olive and Fruit trees, etc.etc.etc.....The Palestinians would not have to spend all their energy defending themselves and instead they could spend their time building homes, schools and doing other activities to make life better for themselves.
And of course to get to this point, we have to start with a Viable Palestinian State in the Whole of the West Bank and Gaza, That is called for in the Road Map to Peace.
We keep forgetting that it is the Israelis who are going into the West Bank and Gaza to demolish homes.
Not the Palestinians going into Israel Proper to demolish homes.
For a few very important facts:
CLICK HERE > http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/homes.html
Note how this has not been removed by Bay Area Indymedia because they clearly AGREE with these neo-Nazi views.
Wendy does make antisemitic posts, but the "ritual murder" post was not one of them.
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