Gaza 2008 war

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Death

• 1300 +

27/12/2008: Tamer Hassan Al-Akhrass Boy 5

29/12/2008: Samar Anwar Baaloosha Girl 6

30/12/2008: Haya Talal Hamdan Girl 8

31/12/2008 :Assaad Nizar Rayyan Boy 2

01/01/2009: Mohammed Al-Adham Boy 1

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200911591418168902.html

• 7/12/2008Ibtihal KechkoGirl10 Ahmed Riad Mohammed Al-SinwarBoy3 Ahmed Al-HomsBoy18 Ahmed Rasmi Abu JazarBoy16 Ahmed Sameeh Al-HalabiBoy18 Tamer Hassan Al-AkhrassBoy5 Hassan Ali Al-AkhrassBoy3 Haneen Wael Mohammed DabanGirl15 Khaled Sami Al-AstalBoy15 alaat Mokhless BassalBoy18 Aaed Imad KheeraBoy14 Abdullah Al-RayessBoy17 Odai Hakeem Al-MansiBoy4 Allam Nehrou IdrissBoy18 Ali Marwan Abu RabihBoy18 Anan Saber AtiyahBoy13 Camelia Al-BardiniGirl10 Lama Talal HamdanGirl10 Mohammed Jaber HoweijBoy17 Nimr Mustafa AmoomBoy1029/12/2008Ismail Talal HamdanBoy10 Ahmed Ziad Al-AbsiBoy14 Ahmed Youssef KhelloBoy18 Ikram Anwar BaalooshaGirl14 Tahrier Anwar BaalooshaGirl17 Jihad Saleh GhobnBoy10 Jawaher Anwar BaalooshaGirl8 Dina Anwar BaalooshaGirl7 Samar Anwar BaalooshaGirl6 Shady Youssef GhobnBoy12 Sudqi Ziad Al-AbsiBoy3 Imad Nabeel Abou KhaterBoy16 Lina Anwar BaalooshaGirl7 Mohammed Basseel MadiBoy17 Mohammed Jalal Abou TairBoy18 Mohammed Ziad Al-AbsiBoy14 Mahmoud Nabeel GhabayenBoy15 Moaz Yasser Abou TairBoy6 Wissam Akram EidGirl1430/12/2008Haya Talal HamdanGirl831/12/2008Ahmed KanouhBoy10 Ameen Al-ZarbatleeBoy10 Mohammed Nafez MohaissenBoy10 Mustafa Abou GhanimahBoy16 Yehya Awnee MohaissenBoy10 Ossman Bin Zaid Nizar RayyanBoy3 Assaad Nizar RayyanBoy2 Moaz-Uldeen Allah Al-NaslaBoy5 Aya Nizar RayyanGirl12 Halima Nizar RayyanGirl5 Reem Nizar RayyanBoy4 Aicha Nizar RayyanGirl3 Abdul Rahman Nizar RayyanBoy6 Abdul Qader Nizar RayyanBoy12 Oyoon Jihad Al-NaslaGirl16 Mahmoud Mustafa AshourBoy13 Maryam Nizar RayyanGirl501/01/2009Hamada Ibrahim MousabbahBoy10 Zeinab Nizar RayyanGirl12 Sujud Mahmoud Al-DerdesawiGirl10 Abdul Sattar Waleed Al-AstalBoy12 Abed Rabbo Iyyad Abed Rabbo Al-AstalBoy10 Ghassan Nizar RayyanBoy15 Christine Wadih El-TurkBoy6 Mohammed MousabbahBoy14 Mohammed Iyad Abed Rabbo Al-AstalBoy13 Mahmoud SamsoomBoy16 Ahmed TobailBoy16 Ahmed Sameeh Al-KafarnehBoy17 Hassan HejjoBoy14 Rajeh ZiadehBoy18 Shareef Abdul Mota ArmeelatBoy15 Mohammed Moussa Al-SilawiBoy10 Mahmoud Majed Mahmoud Abou NahelBoy16 Mohannad Al-TatnaneehBoy18 Hani Mohammed Al-SilawiBoy1001/01/2009Ahmed Al-Meshharawi Boy16 Ahmed Khodair SobaihBoy17 Ahmed Sameeh Al-KafarnehBoy18 Asraa Kossai Al-HabashGirl10 Assad Khaled Al-MeshharawiBoy17 Asmaa Ibrahim AfanaGirl12 Ismail Abdullah Abou SneimaBoy4 Akram Ziad Al-NemrBoy18 Aya Ziad Al-NemrGirl8 Ahmed Mohammed Al-AdhamBoy1 Akram Ziad Al-NemrBoy13 Hamza Zuhair TantishBoy12 Khalil Mohammed MokdadBoy18 Ruba Mohammed Fadl Abou-RassGirl13 Ziad Mohammed Salma Abou SneimaBoy9 Shaza Al-Abed Al-HabashGirl16 Abed Ziad Al-NemrBoy12 Attia Rushdi Al-KhawliBoy16 Luay Yahya Abou HaleemaBoy17 Mohammed Akram Abou HarbeedBoy18 Mohammed Abed BerbekhBoy18 Mohammed Faraj HassounaBoy16 Mahmoud Khalil Al-MashharawiBoy12 Mahmoud Zahir TantishBoy17 Mahmoud Sami AssliyaBoy3 Moussa Youssef BerbekhBoy16 Wi'am Jamal Al-KafarnehGirl2 Wadih Ayman OmarBoy4 Youssef Abed BerbekhBoy1005/01/2009Ibrahim Rouhee AklBoy17 Ibrahim Abdullah MerjanBoy13 Ahmed Attiyah Al-SemouniBoy4 Aya Youssef Al-DefdahGirl13 Aya Al-SersawiGirl5 Ahmed Amer Abou EishaBoy5 Ameen Attiyah Al-SemouniBoy4 Hazem AlewaBoy8 Khalil Mohammed Helless Boy12 Diana Mosbah SaadGirl17 Raya Al-SersawiGirl5 Rahma Mohammed Al-SemouniGirl18 Ramadan Ali FelfelBoy14 Rahaf Ahmed Saeed Al-Azaar Girl4 Shahad Mohammed HijjihGirl3 Arafat Mohammed Abdul DayemBoy10 Omar Mahmoud Al-BaradeiBoy12 Ghaydaa Amer Abou EishaGirl6 Fathiyya Ayman Al-DabariGirl4 Faraj Ammar Al-HelouBoy2 Moumen AlewahBoy9 Moumen Mahmoud Talal AlawBoy10 Mohammed Amer Abu EishaBoy8 Mahmoud Mohammed Abu KamarBoy15 Marwan Hein KodeihGirl6 Montasser AlewahBoy12 Naji Nidal Al-HamlawiBoy16 Nada Redwan MardiGirl5 Hanadi Bassem KhaleefaGirl1306/01/2009Ibrahim Ahmed MaaroufBoy14 Ahmed Shaher KhodeirBoy14 Ismail Adnan HweilahBoy15 Aseel Moeen DeebBoy17 Adam Mamoun Al-KurdeeBoy3 Alaa Iyad Al-DayaGirl8 Areej Mohammed Al-DayaGirl3 months Amani Mohammed Al-DayaGirl4 Baraa Ramez Al-DayaGirl2 Bilal Hamza ObaidBoy15 Thaer Shaker KarmoutBoy17 Hozaifa Jihad Al-KahlootBoy17 Khitam Iyad Al-DayaGirl9 Rafik Abdul Basset Al-Khodari Boy15 Raneen Abdullah salehGirl12 Zakariya Yahya Al-TaweelBoy5 Sahar Hatem DawoodGirl10 Salsabeel Ramez Al-DayaGirl6 months Sharafuldeen Iyad Al-DayaBoy7 Doha Mohammed Al-DayaGirl5 Ahed Iyad KodasBoy15 Abdullah Mohammed AbdullahBoy10 Issam Sameer DeebBoy12 Alaa Ismail IsmailBoy18 Ali Iyad Al-DayaBoy10 Imad Abu AskarBoy18 Filasteen Al-DayaGirl5 Kamar Mohammed Al-DayaBoy3 Lina Abdul Menem HassanGirl10 UnidentifiedBoy9 Unidentified Boy15 Mohammed Iyad Al-DayaBoy6 Mohammed Bassem ShakouraBoy10 Mohammed Bassem EidBoy18 Mohammed DeebBoy17 Mohammed EidBoy18 Mustafa Moeen DeebBoy12 Noor Moeen DeebBoy2 Youssef Saad Al-KahlootBoy17 Youssef Mohammed Al-DayaBoy107/01/2009Ibrahim Kamal AwajaBoy9 Ahmed Jaber HoweijBoy7 Ahmed Fawzi LabadBoy18 Ayman Al-BayedBoy16 Amal Khaled Abed RabboGirl3 Toufic Khaled Al-KhahlootBoy10 Habeeb Khaled Al-KhahlootBoy12 Houssam Raed SobehBoy12 Hassan Rateb SemaanBoy18 Hassan Ata Hassan AzzamBoy2 Redwan Mohammed AshoorBoy10 Suad Khaled Abed RabboGirl6 Samar Khaled Abed RabboGirl2 Abdul Rahman Mohammmed Ashoor Boy12 Fareed Ata Hassan AzzamBoy13 Mohammed Khaled Al-KahlootBoy15 Mohammed Samir HijjiBoy16 Mohammed Fareed Al-MaasawabiBoy16 Mohammed Moeen DeebBoy17 Mohammed Nasseem Salama SabaBoy16 Mahmoud HameedBoy17 Hamam IssaBoy108/01/2009Anas Arif Abou BarakaBoy7 Ibrahim Akram Abou DakkkaBoy12 Ibrahim Moeen JihaBoy15 Baraa Iyad ShalhaGirl6 Basma Yasser Al-JeblawiGirl5 Shahd Saad Abou HaleemaGirl15 Azmi DiabBoy16 Mohammed Akram Abou DakkaBoy14 Mohammed Hikmat Abou HaleemaBoy17 Ibrahim Moeen JihaBoy15 Matar Saad Abou HaleemaBoy1709/01/2009Ahmed Ibrahim Abou KleikBoy17 Ismail Ayman YasseenBoy18 Alaa Ahmed JaberGirl11 Baha-Uldeen Fayez SalhaGirl5 Rana Fayez SalhaGirl12 Rola Fayez SalhaGirl13 Diyaa-Uldeen Fayez SalahBoy14 Ghanima Sultan HalawaGirl11 Fatima Raed JadullahGirl10 Mohammed Atef Abou Al-HussnaBoy15

• 6/1/09(P): killed in Chujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City with 4 siblings and mother

1/1/09: Sisters, Lama, Haia, from Hamdan Family, killed at Baithanon.

Israeli warplane attacked their house while playing.

Injured

• 5300+• Injuries include:

Missing Legs

• Split skulls• 27/12/08 (p) After Israeli airstrike

Crushed Bodies

Missing Eyes

• Skin peeled off

Missing faces• 27/12/08 (p) After Israeli airstrike

...amongst many others1/1/09 (p): Al-shifa hospital, after Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Attacks on Clinics and Hospitals• Clinic in al-Meghazi area, ‘completely destroyed’, 9/1/09, 20

nearby houses damaged.• Clinic by Christian Aid, demolished in air strike; 10/01/10-

warned 15 minutes before• Al-Aqsa hospital, Gaza City, Tel al Huwa neighbourhood Hit by

shells four times according to international volunteers. • Ash-Shifa Hospital, largest in the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes

bombed the offices of the Health Committees, about 400 meters from the hospital.

• Al-Awda hospital, Jabaliya, northern Gaza, parking lot shelled by Israeli Forces

http://bodyontheline.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/on-getting-away-with-murder/, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-clinicshttp://bodyontheline.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/nowhere-is-safe-in-gaza/-destroyed-by-raids-1332022.html

http://bodyontheline.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/on-getting-away-with-murder/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-clinics-destroyed-by-raids-1332022.html

Alberto Arce Hospital

• Spanish human rights worker at the hospital (…):

“Two consecutive shells just landed in the busy car park 15 meters from the entrance to the emergency room of the Al Awda hospital. The entrance of the emergency room was damaged. At the time of the shelling Ambulances were bringing in the wounded that keep pouring in. Medical teams and facilities are being targeted. Nowhere is safe.”

Sharon Locke, Australian volunteer, Al-Quds Hospital

• When one family approached the hospital, Israeli snipers started firing at the family:

‘“They shot a young girl in the face and abdomen. She is now being operated on. The father of the family was shot in the leg and fell to the ground,”

“The mother was screaming that one of her daughters was still outside, behind a bush, too scared to move. Mohammed, a medic I have been working with, ran outside and carried her to the hospital,”

http://bodyontheline.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/gazas-genocide-israels-suicide/

Attacks on Schools and Universities

• 28/12/08: Islamic University in Gaza bombed• 3 UNRWA schools attacked, Jabalia and Rafah, after

IDF was informed of presence of civilians• Al-Fakhora school, Jabalia, 45 civilians killed, 100

injured. Israeli rockets exploded inside and outside the school. IDF claims response to mortar attacks. UN denies fighters were in the school

• 35 public schools bombed, 24 completely destroyed.

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=35243

Massacres

• Palestinian family, father, mother and their five children, killed by shells fired from Israeli Navy ships in the Al-Shati refugee camp.

• 22 Palestinians from Shamalkh and Samouni families, killed under the rubble of their house, 35 were injured after bombing of mosque in the area.

• All members of Al-Daya family were killed. The victims: the father, the mother, their children Fayez, the daughter in law Rawan, Muhammad, aged 6 months, Sharaf Al-Din, aged of 5 years, Ala, aged 8 years, Rania, aged 12 and Doha, aged 3 years.

Zeitoun Massacre

• Zinad Samouni:"We had been in our houses for days worried about the

airstrikes when the soldiers came early on the morning of Sunday 4th January,'‘

"There was shooting outside and we were all afraid so we all hid in this one room.''

"We were terrified as shells hit the roof in other parts of the house but we thought we were lucky because they did not hit our room.’’

"Eventually we heard soldiers coming in and banging on the door at around 6.30am.’’

"Atiyeh went to the door with his hands raised holding his ID but they shot him in the doorway and he fell forward.''

Zeitoun Massacre

"I shouted 'children, children' in Hebrew but they started shooting,'‘

"Ahmed was hit two times. His sister Amal was hit in the head and she is still in hospital.''

"I carried him in my arms still bleeding and we had to step over the body of his father,''

"We had to leave Atiyeh but I hoped to save Ahmed.’’

"He died as I carried him.''

Zeitoun Massacre

Israeli soldiers occupied a four-storey house next door, leaving a collection of racist graffiti.

Most was written in Hebrew but Israeli soldiers had also marked the walls in English, with messages such as:

"ARabs need 2 die'‘ "Arabs are pieces of shit'' "1 is DOWN 999,999 TO GO''.The house was the only large property allowed to stand All

the other buildings in Zeitoun were flattened including homes, the mosque and a chicken farm.

• House was used as an observation post. Dead in ruins left to rot.

Zeitoun Massacre

• Next door was house of Wael Samouni:Survivors claim Israeli forces collected about 110 members of

the Samouni family inside and they then shelled it. At least 30 bodies were recovered.

• House was flattened by the Israeli armed forces.• The International Committee of the Red Cross (…) found

children in Zeitoun clinging to the corpses of their mothers. The children had been out in the open for two days and nights but Israeli forces, less than 100 yards away, did nothing.

• …similar accounts of watching loved ones dying of their wounds and coming under fire after emerging from their homes carrying white flags.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5601177.ece


Anonymous Israeli soldier:

(were ordered to) “Fire on anything that moves in Zeitoun”

‘’We were to shoot first and ask questions later’’

“We pounded Zeitoun into the ground,”

The Israeli army has denied acting improperly in Zeitoun.



Other weapons

• White phosphorus• Psychological warfare

White phosphorus

• Use first initially reported in January the 5th

• Denied by Israeli sources


3 hour ‘cease fire’

• Implemented bi-daily

• ICRC: ‘The creation of humanitarian corridors will in no way alter the fact that civilians living outside them must also have access to humanitarian aid and medical care at all times’

• UN OCHA: ‘Any mechanism that facilitates the distribution of assistance is welcomed. However, the needs of the population are so great at this time, that humanitarian assistance programs need to operate round the clock’

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/87061

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10270.shtml

Criminal NegligenceIDF military plannings:- Did not include a field hospital- There are no medical teams on standby - International teams have not been allowed in. No tents

have been brought(for people who lived for years in tents)- nor blankets- nor portable toilets- nor clean water containers- nor field kitchens-- nor any basic subsistence necessities for the civilian

population. - Emergency clinic opened at Erez crossing only after the end

of the conflict. Seen by foreign press as publicity stunt, was closed after treating 5 patients



Prisoner Abuse• Many detainees -- minors as well as adults -- were held for many hours –

sometimes for days -- in pits dug in the ground:• exposed to bitter cold and harsh weather• Handcuffed• Blindfolded

• Pits lacked basic sanitary facilities • food and shelter, when provided, were limited, and the detainees went

hungry.

• some of the detainees were held near tanks and in combat areas, in gross violation of international humanitarian law which prohibits holding prisoners and captives in areas exposed to danger.

Prisoner Abuse• Inappropriate treatment of the detainees continued after they were

removed from the pits • some were held overnight in a truck, handcuffed, with one blanket for

every two people• some were held for a long time in the rain • a lack of blankets, food and water• incidents involving extreme violence and humiliation by soldiers and

interrogators

• Detainees continued to be held in humiliating conditions even after being transferred to an [Israeli army] prison facility …where, for example, they were not provided with toilets or showers.


House Demolitions

Palestinians in Jabalia

International Crimes

• 30th December, Israeli gunboats attack a boat carrying aid and supplies in international water.

• Boat was carrying the flag of Gibraltar.• Israel claims, boat failed to respond, initially thought to be

a terrorist boat, crushed on its own on the gunboats. Even though:

-contents and crew of the ship were made known to Israel in advace

-Israel knew enough to know where it sailed from -boat was in contact with Israeli navy


History repeating itself

2006: Invasion of Gaza after hostilities renew, after Israel violates the 2005 cease fire.

2004: Massive Israeli offensives before the withdrawal to shape the post-withdrawal Gaza

2003: Demolitions in Rafah (13000 homeless)

2000-2004: Violence in 2nd Intifada

Withdrawal?

• Israel controlled:- the air and sea space- movement to and from Gaza- the population registry- use of sea resources- family unification- the crossing of goods and humanitarian aid- fuel, electricity, and gas supplies- Crossings for workers

- Israel is still an occupying power under international law

• Dov Weissgias: ‘Arik [Sharon] doesn’t see Gaza today as an area of national interest. He does see Judea and Samaria as an area of national interest… The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem.’

Constant Violence

• Shells

(more than 140000)

Constant Violence• Sonic Booms Meg Audette, World Vision Jerusalem's Design: ‘’ I was outdoors in a nice outdoor

restaurant in Gaza City. Children were playing, parents were watching over them and things seemed normal when suddenly, out of nowhere there was a deafening noise. Suddenly, the children were screaming and every part of me was clenched into tightened nerves. Logically I knew it was the sonic boom, but I couldn't control the effects it had on my body ‘’

• Gideon Levy, Israeli Journalist: ‘’Parents in Gaza speak about the fears their children have suffered in recent weeks, the nightmares and bed-wetting. Husbands tell about pregnant women who have experienced panic attacks. The windowpanes in homes shatter one after another… The fact that the air force is employing this weapon mainly late at night, or early in the morning, when masses of pupils are making their way to school, only makes its wickedness more conspicuous.’’

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that, "thousands of residents in southern Israel live in fear and discomfort, so I gave instructions that nobody will sleep at night in the meantime in Gaza ."

http://www.btselem.org/English/Gaza_Strip/Supersonic_booms.asp ,

http://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/pdf/gaza.pdf, http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/16105.htm

Targeted killings

• A more ‘humane’ form of agression by the IDF.

• Almost half the dead are not the intended target.

• Illegal under international law.

http://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing

• Targeted killing: Hamas leader Nizan Rayan 2/1/09

Siege and cease fire?

During the siege and ‘cease fire’• All gazans completely imprisoned• Massive unemployment• Limited fuel• Limited electricity• Very limited supplies• Limited medicine• Thousands of children suffering from stunted growth due

to malnutrition.• Death due to starvation and easily curable decease• No sewage treatment• No garbage services

Donated food, UNRWA school Jabalia

Psychological Impact

Palestine Trauma Centre For Victims Welfare (PTC):• 99% had suffered humiliation (to themselves or family

member)• 97% exposed to the sound of explosions/bombs• 85% had witnessed a funeral• 84% had witnessed shelling by tanks• 41% suffered from PTSD

53.3% of Gaza population are non-adults305 195 in urgent need of psychological, social and medical

serves

Hatem Shurrab – writing for the Lancet:‘At the school I met 11-year-old Yasmin. As I was talking

to her she hit another child and started a fight with a boy the same age as she was. I was shocked and saddened to see such young children behaving like this. When I spoke to her father he explained that three weeks ago she was calm and innocent, but is now aggressive and angry.’

‘Momen, the three-year-old son of one of my colleagues has also started to act in violent ways. For three weeks the family would hear explosions day and night and now Momen’s personality has completely changed. He has destroyed his toys, constantly shouts and screams, and refuses to leave his mother’s side’

Al Shifa hospital 1/1/09

A decades long humiliation - By 2005:

- 8000 Jewish settlers/1.4 million Palestinians- Land controlled by settler: 25%- Arable land by settlers: 40%- Water allocation per person: <settlers

- Deliberate de-development- Gaza workers as a majority forced to work in Israel- Active Impediment of local economic development

- Gaza reduced to a pool of cheap labour for Israel, and captive market for its goods.

• 1/3 of the world refugees (7000000)• Hundreds of Strategically placed Jewish only

settlements and Jewish only Roads• Most fertile land has been annexed or is being

annexed• Illegal prisoners. 650 000 since 1967, 10 000

as we speak. Children treated identically to adults.

• Destroyed economy by deliberate policies (Average Income in West Bank: $750, Gaza: $550, Israel: $20500. Negative Growth rate in Palestinian territories)

• Water: majority originates from Palestinian territories. 90% given to Israel 10% to Palestinians. WHO recommended liters per capita per day: 150. Average Palestinian: 100. Average Israeli: 353.

Hundreds of Palestinian wells have been destroyed, and only 13 have been allowed to be drilled from 1967 to 2000.

Settlements

Ariel, Illegal settlement on Palestinian Land

Settler Extremism

Roadblocks

Humiliation

Stolen Land

The Cease Fire Now

Israel has declared a unilateral cease fire in the Gaza strip:

-10 hours later a farmer, 24-year-old Abd As-Samad Abu Rejlieh, was shot, went to inspect damage to his lands

-Mother and daughter injured in their bouse, Beit Hanoun, by Israeli fire.

Since the recent cease fire

*Israeli forces killed a Palestinian farmer in Khuza'a east of Khan Yunis on Jan 18* Israeli forces killed a Palestinian farmer east of Jabalia on Jan 19* Israeli naval gunboats shelled the Gaza coast line, causing damage to civilian structures on Jan 21* Israeli troops shot and injured a child east of Gaza City on Jan 22* Israeli gunboat fire injured 4-7 Palestinian fishermen on Jan 22* Israeli shelling set a Palestinian house on fire on Jan 22* Israeli tanks fired on the border town of Al Faraheen, causing damage to homes and farms on Jan 24

http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/01/28/israel-violated-cease-fire-7-times-no-media-reports/

Recent breaking of the 6 month cease fire

‘’Hamas was careful to maintain the ceasefire’’

‘’Limited attacks carried out in defiance of Hamas by Fatah and Al-Qaeda related groups’’

‘’erosion of the lull arrangement,(from) November 4 to the time of this writing, December 17’’

‘’ most of the (attacks) during the month and a half after November 4.’’

Was the cease fire ever upheld by Israel?

‘’The cessation of the fighting was supposed to lead to the opening of the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel

discussions about the opening of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt .’’

None of this happened while the people of Gaza remained starving and dying.

http://www.rightsidenews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=3157

Who breaks the ‘‘cease fires’’?

Joint Tel Aviv University-European University study, Israeli violence responsible for ending 79 per cent of all lulls in violence since the second intifada, compared with only 8 per cent for Hamas.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/war_on_gaza/2009/01/2009110112723260741.html

Israeli propaganda

No reporter can work unless getting an Israeli permit, gives personal information so that he can be contacted at any time.

Hundreds of media representatives available at all times.

No access to Gaza at all.

No access to Hamas spokesmen, while exposed to constant Israeli ‘media reports’.

Propaganda website for internal usage.

Is Israel only targeting militants?

Who are the terrorists?

What you can doIs at least to remember Gaza

http://friendsofpalestine.wordpress.com/

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