Israeli provocations which led to bombing and VIDEO of child killed by Israeli booby trap

About 21 Palestinians (five of whom were children) were killed by Israelis during the so-called "period of calm" preceding this bombing (Source: http://www.palestinercs.org/Database/Date/). Two more Palestinian children were killed yesterday (Source: http://www.whowillsavethechildren.com/children_remembered.html).

Palestinian deaths are almost always ignored by the media. So no one knows how many Palestinians were really killed without checking obscure sources (like human rights reports).

For instance, according to ifamericansknew.org, during the first six months of this current intifada, 93 Palestinian children were killed and there were stories about 5 of them in the San Francisco Chronicle. In that same time period, 4 Israeli children were killed and six stories were written about them (in other words, stories on the same children were repeated for effect). The result is an impression that there is some sort of symmetry in this conflict which is really an Occupation.
Source:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/chron/chron_report.html

Since the beginning of the Intifada, 101 Israeli children and 460 Palestinian children have been killed. From listening to the media, you'd think it's the other way around.

Some of the deaths of the children were caused by bombs planted within toys and left in the streets of the refugee camps by Israeli soldiers. James B. Longley's "Gaza Strip" documents an incident in which two Israeli tanks passing through dropped boxing gloves in the street and a boy who ran to pick it up got blown to bits.

Basically, Israelis leave booby trapped toys out for Palestinian children. Even though this has been documented, no one in the media dares mention it.

Were Palestinians to do the same, the media would repeat it over and over in order to demonize them. But in this case (Israelis leaving booby-trapped toys out for Palestinian children), we have total silence...Were these incidents to be mentioned at all, they would be met with bitter denunciations and contemptous denials.

The following video clips are from James B. Longley's "Gaza Strip."

This one shows the Palestinian victim of an Israeli booby trapped toy.
VIDEO FILE DOWNLOAD:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/video_clip.mpg
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Filmographer James B. Longley discusses what he heard from eyewitnesses about this atrocity (which is not considered an atrocity because it was never shown or mentioned in the mainstream media and therefore "never happened").
VIDEO FILE DOWNLOAD:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/james_longley__s_description.mpg
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"Gaza Strip" shows many other horrors Palestinians have to live through daily like schools being shot up while Palestinian children play outside around them.

James B. Longley's "Gaza Strip" can be purchased here:
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/202/

Among the seven Palestinian children killed this month (five of whom were killed during the media's "relative period of calm"), two were killed by "Israeli explosive device[s]" left behind by Israeli soldiers in or near Palestinian towns according to Who Will Save the Children.

It doesn't specifically say they were booby trapped toys, but given the fact that this is documented in this video, it's a safe bet that that is what they were.

"2 August 2003
Ahmad Hindi, 13,
of Deir el Balah,
killed by an Israeli explosive device he found near the refugee camp and carried home.

5 August 2003
Munir Abu Hayn, 14,
of Gaza,
killed by an explosive device left by Israeli forces which exploded in his hands after he took it home."

Source:
http://www.whowillsavethechildren.com/children_remembered.html

Also, in this "relative period of calm," one Palestinian child was run over by a settler and another was killed at a checkpoint when Israeli soldiers fired on his car. Both of course were "accidents," Israeli style.

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From "Recipe for the Destruction of a Hudna"
"Min?" (who) they ask, looking as though they know the answer.

"Faez." The name travels rapidly through the crowd, heads go into hands among those digging and those scavenging and those collecting cloths and other salvageable items in makeshift sheet parachutes of brought from neighboring houses.

This is not, of course, the first time the Israelis have broken the Hudna. There was the murder of little Machmoud Quabaya and the severing of his sisters arm by an`accidental' burst of machine gun fire into their car at the Notorious checkpoint at Barta, a village trapped between the wall and the green line.

He is one of 11 palestinians killed in July, including extrajudicial asasinations, the 280 wounded the 316 quietly arrested even as a few hundred others were released in the full glare of the flashbulbs. That is not even to mention the 100 house demolition orders in East Jerusalem alone, the land confiscations and the unconscionable progress of the suffocating apartheid wall through the farmlands and villages of the West Bank.

And yet the resistance faction, these godless bands of savages and terrorists have held their hudna even as the most moral army in world wreaks its calculated havoc.

So as the world rubs its eyes and finds no `terrorism' to splash across front pages with which to nullify and marginalize the reality of occupation, some people began to notice the wall, under construction for a year, and the brazen theft of yet more vast tracts of Palestinian land as well as almost the entire western aquifer.

And what is the only democracy in the middle east to do when `the terrorists' will not cooperate as distractions from their crimes?

Here is what to do. Early in the morning on Friday August 8 (Nagasaki day) enter Askar refugee camp with 3 tanks, 15 jeeps, several personel carriers and an apachee helicoper and suround the house of a leading figure of Hamas. Fire a tank shell into the 4 story house and cause an explosion that kills the `wanted' man and shatters every window around throwing matresses and couch cushions into neighboring trees. Next, drag his body out onto the pavement and leave it there in the hot sun for 7 hours before loading it into a military ambulance and stealing it from his grieving family. Leave only a bloody print behind.

In the meantime pump thick gas down the narrow alleys of the camp so that all anyone can see through their own teary eyes this morning is glimpes of others in the street obove the hands cupped over noses and eyes and all one is aware of is slivers of onion pressed into hands and the sound of gunfire beyond the blindness.

To really ensure maximum provocation pump sufficient gas through for one more death from suffocation and kill a stone throwing boy for good measure.

Now run over the ravaged house for two hours in a bulldozer waving a large blue and white Israeli flag , make sure nothing is salvageable form this home. And always, always hold back the ambulances by whatever means necessary to ensure a maximum number of shaheeds.

Now pull the army back and leave the 4th body to be discovered under the rubble by family and friends clutching meager almost delicate scooping tools.

This is how to end a ceasefire when everyday prolonged brutality and the occasional murder just wont do, the pragmatic occupier must use a recipe of grand scale, flagrant and outrageous provocation. We'll see what they manage to cook up.
-Juliana Fredman
http://www.counterpunch.org/fredman08192003.html