Israel kills some more children

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Medical workers evacuate a family after their house was hit in an Israeli air raid in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, 1 March 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

GAZA CITY, 1 March (IPS) - Tamer was nine, and no child soldier. He did not live in the area from where homemade rockets are launched into Israeli territory. The day he was killed, he was at least two kilometers from the place Israeli troops had entered Gaza, and met with return fire by Palestinian resistance.

His tragedy was that the family home was near Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip, close to the area the Israelis have set up as their Kussfim base.

"We were all inside the house when shooting started," Tamer's aunt Etaf tells IPS. "It was right after members of the Palestinian resistance stopped shooting at Israeli troops," she said, pointing towards the scene of those clashes a couple of kilometers away. But the Israelis marched into this area as well, hardly for the first time.

Members of the family decided to crawl out into the rain after a bullet hit a gas cylinder, Etaf said. "But Israeli soldiers continued to fire on us from a tank and Hummer military jeep." After some time, seeing that the gas cylinder had not exploded, Etaf said she crawled back into the house. Tamer followed, but never made it. "I saw Tamer shot, with a bullet in his head."

"He wanted to become a doctor when he grew up," says his mother Sabah Abu Shaar.

Like Tamer, other children are dying, and their mothers' dreams with them. A six-month-old infant named Mohammed al-Bor'i was killed when an Israeli missile crashed into the house Wednesday this week, moments after he'd been fed. The family house happens to be close to the offices of Gaza's ministry of interior, and to the house of de facto Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Hanyieh.

The same day, three other Palestinian children were killed in an air strike. The following day, four Palestinian children were killed near the Jabaliya refugee camp while playing soccer. Two of the boys, all aged 7 to 14, were from the same family. A child's body was found in eastern Gaza, a victim of Israeli shelling.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs says in a Gaza fact sheet that 80 Palestinians were killed in January of this year, and 82 were injured. The January deaths included four children and five women. The Israeli casualties through the month were nine injuries from homemade rockets.

Just over the past three days, Israeli air strikes have killed at least 35 Palestinians, among them nine children. Many more are injured, and some are in critical condition.

Following Friday prayers, tens of thousands of Gazans came out on the streets in protest against the Israeli air strikes. Matan Vilnai, Israeli deputy defense minister, has said that Gaza faces a "holocaust" if the homemade rockets do not stop. Since May 2007, these rockets have killed one Israeli.

Emergency medical care is now threatened. The head of the ambulance department at Shifa hospital says he has just 20 liters of fuel left in stock for the ambulances. Once this runs out, little help will be available to victims of the next Israeli attacks.

Israeli attacks and firing are now so continuous that many in Deir al-Balah say they cannot sleep. "We can't feel safe here," says Tashaeel, one of Tamer's elder sisters. "If we'd also left with Tamer, their bullets would have made a harvest of us all."

The family has tried in vain for UN help in moving to another area. "Bullets chase us day and night," says mother Sabah. "We can't go out, and we have nowhere else to go. No money to move to a safer place where I could save the lives of my children.

"Last week Israeli soldiers had attacked out house, and ordered my seven daughters, two sons and myself into the rain, with their dangerous dogs scaring us away," Sabah said. "Then they ransacked our house for several hours, leaving it in total chaos before we were allowed back in." Such raids are common, she said.

Tamer was killed in the next one. The grieving family is now without water after bullets punctured the overhead tank. The walls of the house are pock-marked with bullet holes. And all the time they fear that Israeli bulldozers will bring down this too.

As Palestinians in Gaza wait for more Israeli attacks, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has expressed strong concern. "These events underscore the urgent need for a calming of violence, and must not be allowed to deter the continuation of the political process," he said. But such statements mean little on the ground, and people in Gaza see no international action to stop Israel.

"Gaza today faces a real war, a crazy war," Haniyeh said during Friday prayers near the Shati refugee camp. He also criticized the US for accepting Israeli claims of "legitimate self-defense." Despite Israel's best attempts at ostracizing Haniyeh, his popularity seems only to have increased.

All rights reserved, IPS - Inter Press Service (2008). Total or partial publication, retransmission or sale forbidden.

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Israel kills at least 31 Gazans today, including 8 children
Report, Al Mezan, 1 March 2008


Paramedics evacuate the body of a woman moments after an Israeli missile struck her house during an operation in the east of Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, 1 March 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated the attacks and ground incursions against Gaza today. Many attacks hit civilian homes and other objects, killing 31 Palestinians, including eight children. Among the civilian casualties are 13 civilians who were killed inside their homes. Since Wednesday 27 February 2008, IOF killed 61 persons and injured approximately 120. Most of the casualties are civilians. IOF has killed 182 Palestinians in Gaza since the start of 2008.

According to Al Mezan's monitoring, Gaza's hospitals face serious difficulties dealing with these casualties. In particular, hospitals in northern Gaza are suffering shortages in medicines and other medical materials. More seriously, these hospitals are running out of fuel as they are forced to use electricity generators for long times. Ambulances also suffer troubles collecting the victims owing to the lack of benzene.

In the early morning hours today, IOF troops entered the eastern suburbs of Jabalia under the cover of helicopters. Helicopters opened heavy machine gun fire at ambulances as they tried to collect the injured.

Al Mezan documentation shows that 13 persons were killed inside their homes in this area, six of whom were children. Two other children were killed near their homes in the same area; their is not yet known.

IOF's attacks still escalate now under mounting statements from the Israeli government threatening that the Israeli army would intensify its operations and launch large ground invasions.

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights strongly condemns IOF's conduct in Gaza. The arbitrary attacks on residential areas and the targeting of civilian objects, including homes and medical teams, represent war crimes according to the provisions of international humanitarian law. The center also condemns the indiscriminate, excessive use of force by the occupying forces, which has killed and injured dozens of civilians during the past four days.

Al Mezan condemns the inaction of the international community and demands it to uphold its moral and legal obligations and bring to an end Israel's crimes.

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I made a comment on this on this story on ATS.com got banned for making bad statements about the isrealites.

well im on CC now so fuck you isreal lousy POS country that should be destroyed.

the sooner someone nukes isreal the bette roff the world will be.

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Time for INTIFADA!

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There are war posting on other message boards:

ISRAEL TO 'TAKE ADVANTAGE' OF SEMINARY MASSACRE
For the past 60 years Israel has conducted a reign of terror on the entire nation of Palestine... just in the past week the following pictures were taken in Gaza...of dead infants.... do you see Palestine taking advantage of that?
Posted Mar 7, 2008 07:58 AM PST
Category: ISRAEL
IT'S KOSHER TO KILL PALESTINIANS
'Thou shalt not kill'....are obviously alien words to certain members of the 'tribe'.... they changed those words to 'Thou shalt not kill unless it's a Palestinian'..... killing any hopes of obtaining peace in the region as well.
Posted Mar 7, 2008 07:57 AM PST
Category: PALESTINE
VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE
I'm sad today. So many horrible things are happening in the middle east. I've been watching the developments in the Gaza strip for quite some time. The people there are suffering... dying... silently. What has been happening there is despicable, criminal behavior on the part of the Israeli government.
Posted Mar 7, 2008 07:53 AM PST
Category: PALESTINE



Some wars a cool and some are hot:

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