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IOF - Occupying ForceIn Gaza, civilians are dying in alarming numbers from disproportionate attacks on non-military targets such as hospitals and other civilian structures. They are dying from precision weapons like missiles from aerial drones as well as heavy artillery. Repeatedly, the Israel Defense Forces purposely fail to distinguish between military targets and civilians, as the laws of war strictly require.
Israeli warplanes target northern Gaza
Israeli warplanes have launched airstrikes on the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, a spokeswoman in the Israeli military says.
The unnamed Israeli military official claimed that the warplanes attacked north of the impoverished coastal sliver early Wednesday in retaliation for rockets that Palestinians fired at occupied lands, AFP reported.
No casualties or damage have been reported yet.
The attack comes two days after two Palestinians were injured in Israeli air raid on the southern areas of the Gaza Strip, east of Khan Yunis.
The Wednesday raid is the sixth attack on the besieged enclave in eight days.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Palestinian medics reported another airstrike, which injured seven people. However, the Israeli army denied the report.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip, saying the actions are being conducted for defensive purposes. However, disproportionate force is always used, in violation of the international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.
see the 7 min - 8 min mark in this video
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Originally Posted by Scott
jews must be dealt with 1st OR none of us shall be free.
Once they are expelled/isolated, then everything else will very nearly take care of itself.
The primary goal on this website is to expose the jews, ALL aspects of their agenda, and to speak up for ALL of their victims.
It's Thursday am in Israel, Airstrikes target Gaza City
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft fired on Gaza City early Thursday, witnesses said.
Two air raids targeted military sites including one belonging to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, a Ma'an correspondent said.
There were no immediate reports of injury or damage following the attacks.
An Israeli army spokeswoman did not return a call seeking comment but the reports from Gaza came soon after Israel's army said two Grad rockets landed in Israeli territory without causing injury.
One rocket landed in Kiryat Gat, near Tel Aviv, a police official said.
The airstrikes were the first since Tuesday, when Israeli warplanes struck two targets in the northern and southern parts of the enclave. No injuries were reported.
The army said those attacks were in response to rocket fire that injured one person.
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Originally Posted by Scott
jews must be dealt with 1st OR none of us shall be free.
Once they are expelled/isolated, then everything else will very nearly take care of itself.
The primary goal on this website is to expose the jews, ALL aspects of their agenda, and to speak up for ALL of their victims.
3 Palestinians, including a child wounded in Israeli occupation airstrikes
The daily attacks continue..... 3 Palestinians, including a child wounded in Israeli occupation airstrikes
08.05.11
GAZA, (PIC)-- Three Palestinians, including a child, were wounded in one of five airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation airforce at dawn Friday against various targets in the Gaza Strip.
Adham Abu Selmeyyah, spokesman for the emergency services in Gaza said in a statement on Friday morning that three Palestinians, including a child were wounded when an Israeli occupation airstrike targeted an open area in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
He added that the three were taken to the Kamal Adwan hospital and that two of them lost lower limbs.
The Israeli occupation airforce carried out 4 other airstrikes against targets in the Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis in the central and southern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
Local sources told PIC correspondent that occupation aircraft fired two rockets at a chicken farm to the east of Deir al-Balah before targeting resistance training grounds to the west of the town.
Meanwhile, sources in Khan Younis said that occupation aircraft targeted a container used as mobile accommodation to the west of Asda’a Media City.
The sources added that occupation tanks fired artillery shells at agricultural fields to the east of Qara town, in Khan Younis district.
Abu Selmeyyah said in the statement that the airstrikes on Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah did not result in human casualties, adding that the air raids cause a lot of distress to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.
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Originally Posted by Scott
jews must be dealt with 1st OR none of us shall be free.
Once they are expelled/isolated, then everything else will very nearly take care of itself.
The primary goal on this website is to expose the jews, ALL aspects of their agenda, and to speak up for ALL of their victims.
GAZA, (PIC)-- Three Palestinians were injured, one critically, medics said, after Israeli warplanes struck in Beit Hanoun on the northeastern edge of the Gaza Strip.
The injured were transported to the local hospital to be treated, said the Higher Committee of Emergency Medical Services in Gaza.
Aug.19 2011
Palestinians count casualties as Israeli warplanes hit targets in Gaza in retaliation for attacks that claimed eight Israeli lives.
The Gaza boy newspapers omitted
‘Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his legs were missing. His kidney was in a bad condition…we need people to stand with us.’ These were the words of an exhausted man as he described the condition of his dying son in an interview with The Real News, an alternative news source.
Ibrahim Zaza was merely a 12-year-old boy. He and his cousin Mohammed, 14, were hit by an Israeli missile in Gaza, fired from an manned drone as they played in front of their house.
The story started on August 18. The next day, the British Telegraph reported: “Israel launches fightback after militant attack on Egypt border,” The whitewashing of the recent Israeli strikes at besieged Gaza leaves one wondering if all reporters used Israeli army talking points as they conveyed the story. Palestinians were punished for an attack at Israelis that reportedly accrued near the Israeli border with Egypt. There is no evidence linking Gaza to the attack, and Egyptian authorities are now disputing the Israeli account altogether.
“At least six Palestinians were killed in the first wave of bombing. Israel said they were members, including the leader, of the militant group known as the Popular Resistance Committees it accused of responsibility for the attacks,” wrote Phoebe Greenwood and Richard Spencer (The Telegraph, August 19).
The Popular Resistance Committees had dissociated themselves from the attack, as had Hamas and all Palestinian factions. But that was hardly enough to spare the lives of innocent men and women in Gaza, already reeling under untold hardship. Among the dead in the first wave of attacks that targeted ‘militants’ were two children, one aged three and the other 13.
In the media, Palestinian casualties only matter when they amount to a sizable number. Even then, they are placed within a context that deprives the victims of any sympathy, or worse, blames Palestinian militants for indirect responsibility (pushing Israel to resort to violence to defend its security). In fact, the term ‘Palestinian security’ is almost nonexistent, although thousands of Gazans have been killed in the last three years alone.
Even the news of Palestinian children killed in the August strikes was reported with a sense of vagueness and doubt. News networks downplayed the fact that the majority of Palestinian victims were civilians. The Telegraph reported that: “Hamas, which runs Gaza, said that two children were also killed in the air raids…” Quoting Hamas, not human rights groups or hospital sources, is hardly shocking when the reporter is based in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
Neither was it shocking when the boy, Ibrahim Zaza, died. His heart was the only organ that had continued to function for nearly thirty days after the drone attack. The father, who was allowed to accompany Ibrahim and Mohammed to an Israeli hospital, was then prevented from leaving the hospital for he constituted a security threat. He kept circulating around his son’s frail body, hoping and praying. He appealed to people to stand by his family, stressing his lack of means to buy a wheelchair, which he thought Ibrahim would need once he woke up again.
There is no need for a wheelchair now. And Mohammed’s unyielding pain continues. His legs are bare with no skin. His belly area is completely exposed. His screams are haunting.
Ibrahim’s death seemed to compel little, if any, media coverage. There were no New York Times features, no Time magazine pictorials of the weeping mother and the devastated community. Ibrahim’s existence in this world was short. His death was mostly uneventful outside the small circle of those who dearly loved him.
There will be no debates on Israel’s use of airstrikes that kill civilians, and no urgent UN meetings over the incessant killings caused by Israeli drones, which in themselves constitute a highly profitable industry. Clients who have doubts about the effectiveness of the Elbit Systems Hermes 900 UAV, for example, need only view Israeli Air Force videos of the drone gently gliding over Gaza. According to sUAS News, it “can reach a higher altitude of 30,000 feet…(and) can be quickly and easily converted for the operator’s needs, without the need to adjust the operating infrastructure for every mission” (June 6, 2011).
Israel has been testing its drones on Palestinians for years. In Gaza, these vultures can be observed with the naked eye. Whenever the glider draws near, people scramble for cover. But it took a WikiLeaks report to verify Israel’s use of drones for the purpose of killing. According to a recently leaked document, Israeli army Advocate-General Maj. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit had, in February 2010, informed previous US Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, of Israel’s use of weaponized unmanned aircrafts to kill suspected militants.
In The Real News video report, Lia Tarachansky spoke to Lt. Col. Avital Leibowitz, a spokesperson for the IDF, to try and understand why Ibrahim and his cousin were targeted.
Lia Tarachansky: “There was only one missile shot, according to witnesses, and it was at two children, one 12 and one 14, sitting outside of their house.”
Avital Leibowitz: “The logic is that when someone is trying to launch a rocket at you, then the logic is – we better target that person before he targets us.”
The one photo I could retrieve of Ibrahim Zaza showed him posing shyly for the camera, his hair brushed forward. My heart breaks now as I think of him, and all the other victims of Israel’s “logic”.
- Ramzy Baroud (Ramzy Baroud: Books, Articles, News, Images and More) is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, London), available on Amazon.com
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Originally Posted by Scott
jews must be dealt with 1st OR none of us shall be free.
Once they are expelled/isolated, then everything else will very nearly take care of itself.
The primary goal on this website is to expose the jews, ALL aspects of their agenda, and to speak up for ALL of their victims.
Whats left of Palestine is fenced in a kill box, so they can systematically terrorize and torture the the Palestinians only because they have the nerve to deny Israel's claim to their territory. They teach us in schools of such behavior in the past, used examples and made the ones doing it appear to be villainous, but we are then told differently in the case of Israel, where the ones being exterminated are made to appear the villains, and the real tyrants are made out to be heroes.