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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #40 on:
January 05, 2009, 09:28:50 AM »
By Saud Abu-Ramadan and Jonathan Ferziger
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Akram al-Ghoul gave up his job as a military judge for the Palestinian Authority 18 months ago. A supporter of the Fatah movement, which favors negotiating peace with Israel, al-Ghoul was forced to abandon his legal career when Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
Tending the cows, chickens and lemon orchards on his familys farm at Gazas northwestern tip was supposed to keep him out of trouble with Hamas, which is committed to Israels destruction. Trouble found him anyway: He was killed Jan. 3 when an Israeli plane bombed his farmhouse, hours before tanks rolled into the seaside territory to stop militant groups from shooting rockets over the border at Israeli towns and cities.
Al-Ghoul, 48, is among the more than 530 Palestinians who have died since Israel began its military campaign Dec. 27. He believed in peace and was depressed that his work as a judge was finished because of the Hamas takeover, said Bassel al-Ghoul, his 19-year-old son. He should not have been killed.
Israel says it has sought to avoid hitting civilians in its targeting of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other hostile groups in the coastal enclave. Israeli officials say 12 percent of the fatalities so far are civilians; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency puts civilian deaths at 25 percent. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are designated terrorist groups by Israel, the U.S. and European Union.
Unlike al-Ghoul, who traveled to the farm 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of his home in Gaza City to make sure his animals were fed,
most Palestinians have stayed inside their homes since Israel opened its ground offensive on Jan 3.
Deserted Streets
With tanks and troops moving in from Gazas northern and eastern borders, Palestinians closed their shops and the streets were deserted. Supplies of food and fuel were already sporadic during the frequently violated six-month cease-fire between Hamas and Israel that expired Dec. 19, as Israel limited the flow of goods into Gaza in response to rocket fire. They were reduced further after Israel bombed tunnels used to smuggle goods from Egypt.
The International Committee of the Red Cross called on Israel and Hamas to respect the conventions of international humanitarian law.
In a conflict situation, the only legitimate distinction is between civilians, who are protected by the law, and fighters, who can be attacked,
the ICRCs director of operations, Pierre Krähenbühl, said yesterday in a statement posted on its Web site.
As many as 3,200 rockets were fired at Israel in 2008. About 500 have struck in the past nine days, with at least 31 today, down from 76 on the first day of hostilities.
The offensive has left the 1.4 million residents of Gaza without electricity and heat. In mid-winter, with temperatures falling to 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, families sleep in wool hats, bundled under sweaters and blankets, keeping windows open so they arent shattered by the shock waves of Israeli air raids.
We hear everything outside and its impossible to sleep, said Zakeya al-Hour, 45, a mother of five in central Gaza City. When I see the Israeli planes in the sky, I feel like this is the end and were going to die.
The bombardment has obliterated almost all the government buildings and police stations administered by Hamas. The number of dead has overwhelmed Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and other medical facilities.
Psychological Scars
Close encounters with death and feelings of helplessness have been especially difficult for families as children awake crying from nightmares and wet their beds from fear,
said Loaiy Zaqoot, a Gaza City psychologist.
The physical wounds from this war can be treated but the emotional scars are going to hurt them for a long time,
he said.
Israeli army officials said they were checking why al- Ghouls farmhouse was bombed. They suggested he should have known it was dangerous to be in the area a week into the military operation.
The northern parts of Gaza, including the land owned by al- Ghoul, were frequently used to launch rockets, even though his son said he objected. Proximity to the border enabled the more powerful Russian-designed Grad rockets to hit Israeli cities such as Ashkelon, Beersheba and Ashdod, a port city 40 kilometers north.
With the Israeli offensive into its second week, diplomatic efforts are proliferating to try to end the fighting.
Kamal Abu Aasi, an Al-Quds University political scientist, said that in spite of the large loss of life, Israel has failed to uproot the resistance. Eventually, he said, there will be a cease-fire, and then it will be violated and there will be more fighting. Gaza is an area of conflict, and this conflict is endless.
To contact the reporters on this story: Saud Abu Ramadan in Gaza City through the Tel Aviv newsroomt ; Jonathan Ferziger in Sderot through the Tel Aviv newsroom at
David Rothscum
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
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January 05, 2009, 09:32:11 AM »
Reports suggest Israeli forces using cluster bombs in Gaza.»
Haaretz reports that, as Israeli ground forces entered Gaza yesterday, hundreds of shells were fired, including cluster bombs aimed at open areas. FireDogLakes Siun writes, The use of cluster bombs which have a large footprint when initially dropped and then remain a threat for decades in a location like the Gaza Strip which is so packed with people is horrifying. (FDL notes that video footage seems to confirm the use of cluster bombs.) Last summer, a former Israeli defense official said that the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government. At the time, the UN decried the use of the bombs as completely immoral.
Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #42 on:
January 05, 2009, 09:36:42 AM »
Well, it's kinda convenient that all of this is occurring RIGHT BEFORE obama's "unpopular decision-making" due to an "international event", dontcha think?
It makes one wonder if maybe they're just gonna blame all this slaughtering on Bush and Obama will sweep in and "make everything better" with a new ceasefire agreement.
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
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January 05, 2009, 09:57:55 AM »
Fallujah by the Sea: Aping America, Israel Unleashes Chemical Weapons in Gaza
Chris Floyd
Jan 5, 2009
The Israeli military is reportedly using napalm-like white phosphorus shells in its all-out attack on Gaza, according to the conservative Times of London. The phosphorus in the smoke-emitting shells causes agonizing, unquenchable burns, sometimes searing flesh right down to the bone.
These savage tools of terror are "legal" when used as smokescreens to mask military operations, although their use as an offensive weapon is war crime. This is a rather ludicrous distinction when the shells are fired into heavily populated civilian areas, exploding and spraying phosphorus in all directions. Anyone who orders their use on cities and refugee camps knows with iron certainty that civilians will be burned, maimed and killed by this chemical weapon. That is to say, they know they will be murdering and mutilating innocent people in the most gruesome manner -- and they give the order anyway.
America's leaders also ordered the murder and mutilation of innocent civilians with chemical weapons in the brutal razing of Fallujah in late 2004 (among many other places). There, in addition to the wide use of "Willy Pete" in the city -- where tens of thousands of people had been sealed off after more than 300,000 had been driven from their homes -- American forces also poured in massive amounts of depleted uranium munitions, thermobaric explosives and jellied gasoline. The Pentagon also declared the entire city a free-fire zone, giving soldiers carte blanche to shoot and kill anyone they saw.
Fallujah was a new Guernica for the 21st century, an abominable crime that should have shamed the country for generations -- yet it passed virtually unnoticed by the American press and public, except for a couple of weeks of stories about the great military victory, and the occasional follow-up from embedded parrots of the powerful telling us how swell life is in the city these days, as America helps it rise from the ashes of its destruction by, er, America. (You can read similar reports in the slavish Russian press about the "new flowering" of Grozny. Apparently, the bones of slaughtered civilians make excellent fertilizer.)
Now it's Gaza's turn for the chemical weapon treatment, as the Times reports:
Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.
As the Israeli army stormed to the edges of Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll topped 500, the tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops' advance. "These explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in," said one Israeli security expert. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.
The use of the weapon in the Gaza Strip, one of the world's mostly densely populated areas, is likely to ignite yet more controversy over Israel's offensive, in which more than 2,300 Palestinians have been wounded.
Meanwhile, on the ground, behind the smokescreens of chemical weapons and media lockouts, the killing grind goes on. From the Guardian:
Palestinian medical officials said that at least 12 civilians have been killed this morning. Some of the heaviest fighting was reported to be east of Gaza City, in the Zeitoun district, where three Palestinian children were killed by an Israeli tank shell. Israeli forces also killed seven members of a Palestinian family in a strike on their home in Beach refugee camp...
Palestinians flooded into the heart of Gaza City in the hope of finding shelter, but they faced a mounting humanitarian crisis. The UN said all hospitals in the city, straining to deal with hundreds of wounded Palestinians over the past few days, had been without mains electricity for 48 hours and were depending on back-up generators, which were close to failing....
As Israeli forces pushed into the towns of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and Jabalya in northern Gaza, the civilian toll among Palestinians rose rapidly. Five died on Sunday when an Israeli artillery shell landed in Palestinian Square, a shopping centre in central Gaza City; five more were killed outside a mosque in northern Gaza. The dead also included a Palestinian paramedic working for an Oxfam-funded organisation after an ambulance was hit by an Israeli shell in Beit Lahiya. The paramedic was working for the Union of Health Work Committees. Another paramedic lost his foot and the ambulance driver was injured in the same incident. The paramedics were trying to help evacuate an injured person in the Beit Lahiya area, when the shell struck the ambulance, Oxfam said.
John Prideaux-Brune, Oxfam's country director for Israel and Palestine, speaking from Jerusalem, said: "The incident shows yet again that trying to fight a military campaign in the densely populated streets and alleys of the Gaza Strip will inevitably lead to civilian casualties."
The charity said the ground offensive was preventing urgently needed supplies of medicine, food, water and fuel from reaching 1.5 million Palestinians. Prideaux-Brune said: "Hospitals in Gaza are overflowing with dead and wounded while facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies and spare parts."
The story notes that the population of Gaza is more than 1.5 million -- more than half of them children -- packed into an area a little more than twice the size of Washington D.C. Here, one the world's most powerful militaries is attacking from land, sea and air, with bombers, missiles, artillery and chemical weapons. The result is inevitable: a "pipeline of blood," as Gideon Levy notes in Haaretz (via the Angry Arab):
The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at the Technion to draw up a plan for constructing a pipe to transport blood from Haifa to Eilat. The obedient students did as they were told. Using logarithmic rulers, they sketched the design for a sophisticated pipeline. They meticulously planned its route, taking into account the landscape's topography, the possibility of corrosion, the pipe's diameter and the flow calibration. When they presented their final product, the professor rendered his judgment: You failed. None of you asked why we need such a pipe, whose blood will fill it, and why it is flowing in the first place.
Regardless of whether this story is legend or true, Israel is now failing its own blood pipeline test. As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why. Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the process, as a Chechnyan laborer working in Sderot proposed to me, one can assume that there would be no protest.
They liquidated Nizar Ghayan? Nobody counts the 20 women and children who lost their lives in the same attack. There was a massacre of dozens of officers during their graduation ceremony from the police academy? Acceptable. Five little sisters? Allowed. Palestinians are dying in hospitals that lack medical equipment? Peanuts. Whatever happened to the not-so-good old days of Salah Shahadeh? When we liquidated him in July 2002, we also killed 15 women and children. At least back then, moral qualms were raised for a moment.
Here lie their bodies, row upon row, some of them tiny. Our hearts have turned hard and our eyes have become dull. All of Israel has worn military fatigues, uniforms that are opaque and stained with blood and which enable us to carry out any crime. Even our leading intellectuals fail to speak out on what havoc we have wreaked. Amos Oz urges: "Cease-fire now." David Grossman writes: "Hold your fire. Stop." Meir Shalev wants "a punitive operation." And not one word about our moral image, which has been horribly distorted.
The suffering in the south renders everything kosher, as if the horrible suffering in Gaza pales in comparison. Everyone is hungry for revenge, and that hunger is excused by the need for "deterrence," after it was already proved that the killing and the destruction in Lebanon did not achieve it....
It is doubtful whether Hamas will be cut down to size as a result of this wretched war. Yet, the face of the state has been cut down to size, as have civilian elites who are apathetic and scared. The "peace camp," if it ever existed, has been cut down to size. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz authorized the Ghayan killing, regardless of the cost. Haim Oron, the leader of the "new left-wing movement," supported the launch of this foolish war.
Nobody is coming to the rescue - of Gaza or even of the remnants of humanity and Israeli democracy. The statesmen, the jurists, the poets, the authors, academe, and the news media - pitch black over the abyss. When the time comes for reckoning, we will need to remember the damage this war did to Israel: The blood pipeline it laid has been completed.
You will never read anything remotely like this in the pages of the New York Times -- or anywhere else in the "respectable" mainstream American media. But you can read it in Israel. Levy is right: no one is coming to rescue Gaza: not the UN, not the kowtowing Arab tyrannies (read the "Angry Arab" for the most scathing revelations of the cowardice and betrayal of these regimes), and certainly not the Suddenly Silent One who will be the president of the United States in a few days. [For more on this silence and its implications, see another excellent piece from Arthur Silber here
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #44 on:
January 05, 2009, 12:42:58 PM »
MURDERING ZIONIST NAZI SCUM!!!!!!!!! Its illegal but the just do what the f**** they want!
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #45 on:
January 05, 2009, 01:11:23 PM »
Rain of fire indeed, Drudge...
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #46 on:
January 05, 2009, 01:40:40 PM »
Napalm and white phosphorous, are inhuman.
W.P. Willy Peters, were designated to burn out metal , not humans.
Why not burn them at the stake, there is no difference.
We have stepped into the world of the NWO, what do you think of it. It has been in the shadows for decades and we could not see, only those seeking the light of truth could dispell the darkness.
Those who have rebeled against genocide dating back over 30 years have been labeled by our NSM, and will continued to be.
W.P> will burn though an the engine of a truck and out the other side, imagine what it will do to human flesh and bone.
The flag wiggling sheeple, those who have lost their minds to the demigods on high, our rulers. I ask them in all humility to go and visit these war torn genocidal abominations and wiggle their flags over the bodies of the innocents.
It may be happening OVER THERE, but hang on , its happening here, in another form, but the results will be the same.
Is this to be the legacy , the epitath of this nation. Genocide is our game, America is our name.. The skull and bones forever.
If we had not supported the Israely leaders and MOSSAD, if we had not given them weapons of destruction and billions of dollars, this would not be happening. What would,............... PEACE....Without profits, there would be no wars. let us not forget domination and controll,= POWER....
Freedom can not be taken for granted, for tyrany would replace it.
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #47 on:
January 05, 2009, 01:52:56 PM »
Pure scum, and these are pictures from times of london. Chemical weapons against kids, that is uk/usa/israel for you guys.
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #48 on:
January 05, 2009, 02:09:53 PM »
its the bbc video
The doctor on the video is saying that they only seen like 2 or 3 militants that have been received by the hospital
basically saying they are targeting civilian's and not hama's militants
just watch the video
come back and post if you believe what he is saying is true or false.
also why do you think that after 2000 people have been injured and killed, there are not tons of civilians with ak 47's out in the streets fighting with isreal ground forces?
EDIT-- not sure if this has been posted, just um, drop this into the topic post if this link has already been posted.
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Sieg Heil!
Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #49 on:
January 05, 2009, 02:45:08 PM »
White phosphorus added to Israeli fire
Israel is using controversial white phosphorus shells to push forward with a ground offensive against the densely-populated Gaza Strip.
White phosphorus, classified as 'chemical weapon' by the US intelligence, can cause horrific burns and severe injuries in anyone exposed to the element released from artillery shells.
"The explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in," an Israeli security expert was quoted by the Times Online.
The shells were used by the artillery on Gaza City on Sunday, as Israeli tanks and ground forces pushed further into the region, tightening military grip on the city.
At least 555 Palestinians have been killed and some 2,790 have been wounded since December 27, when Tel Aviv began its military campaign on Gaza.
Earlier Sunday, Dr. Mads Gilbert, a member of a Norwegian triage medical team in Gaza, told Press TV that the medics have found depleted uranium in some Gaza residents.
The Gaza Strip, one of the world's densely-populated areas, has been under an Israeli blockade since the Hamas movement won a majority in the 2006 Palestinian election and took control of the area in mid-June 2007.
According to Times Online, the use of unconventional weapons in Gaza is likely to ignite more controversy over the methods the Israeli army uses.
Tel Aviv had previously used white phosphorus during the 2006 war with Lebanon.
Israel says its latest military campaign aims to force Hamas to stop its rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Hamas has reportedly said it would stop retaliatory attacks if Tel Aviv lifts the 18-month blockade of the coastal sliver.
The Bush administration has expressed its support for the ongoing military campaign, saying Israel was provoked by Hamas.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Hamas movement has held hostage the Palestinians who live in Gaza and have had "a very bad daily life."
Congressman Ron Paul has, however, decried the Israeli raids, rejecting the idea that Hamas is threatening Tel Aviv's security; "Palestinian missiles are so minor compared to the fire power of Israel, who has nuclear weapons."
World leaders, meanwhile, have called for an immediate halt in the attacks on Gaza.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle
"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." J. Edgar Hoover
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #50 on:
January 05, 2009, 04:06:15 PM »
Operation Cast Lead (the name of the IDF operation) says they are to exterminate everyone in Gaza. The Zionists are beyond evil!!!
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #51 on:
January 05, 2009, 04:18:36 PM »
Quote from: creat3d on January 05, 2009, 01:11:23 PM
Rain of fire indeed, Drudge...
woah, that also shows the degree of chemical munitions involved, not just one or two we see in the photo but a whole neighbourhood blanketed in thick 3 story high mixture of smoke and chemical mist from the burn off of WP and any gas weapons they have used to pacify the popuation (e.g. non lethal tear gas or calmatives like valium to make them surrender without a fight)
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #52 on:
January 05, 2009, 04:28:51 PM »
Its now at 65%..... Press.tv
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #53 on:
January 05, 2009, 06:48:00 PM »
Its not like we didnt use Napalm and phospherus during vietnam. Yea it's in humane but our GOV is no one to critisize.
"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate It will purge the rottenness out of the system..." - Andrew Mellon, Secretary of Treasury, 1929.
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Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #54 on:
January 05, 2009, 08:15:27 PM »
We should also temper ourselves to accuracy in assuming all the defects we see are from DU. Although it is probable that IDF is using DU, the defects from DU can be different than what we see in everyday claims. Some of the pictures may be a possible Thalidomide generated birth defect. Here is a link to research:
And along with that link, here is a good link that gives more detail about DU and its effects, along with our notorious history of using and selling DU ammunition:
I'm not dissin' anyone. Not at all. We can safely assume Israel is using DU as they have done so before, and by witnessing the dehumanisation and utter destruction of Gazans by haenous weaponry. We have a certain amount of dignity in our quest to expose the truth, and in that, we discipline ourselves to seek truth. Sometimes, we just gotta dig a little deeper for the root of the truth.
Many photos could quite possibly be radiation induced abnormalities, as it is a fact that Iraqi birth defects soared during and after our military presence there.
My apologies. I'm not trying to troll anyone, but we tend to get deeply involved and passionate about what we discuss, and occasionally we have to audit ourselves to keep us on task.
Life is like a box of chocolates.....until some Neocon clubs you with your own leg and steals it.
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January 05, 2009, 08:50:10 PM »
Can anyone verify that those 80 supply trucks actually made it into Gaza? Are the Gazans getting it, or is it just a re-supply for the troops already in Gaza?
Life is like a box of chocolates.....until some Neocon clubs you with your own leg and steals it.
Re: Israel kills aid suppliers, uses illegal weaponry and White Phosphorus to torture civilians to death
Reply #56 on:
January 05, 2009, 09:10:49 PM »
Israeli troops have clashed with Palestinian militants on the edge of Gaza City on the third night of Israel's ground assault on Gaza.
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups say fighters engaged Israeli soldiers with machine guns and rocket fire.
Three Israeli soldiers were also killed by "friendly fire" in northern Gaza.
Some 500 Palestinians are thought to have been killed and 2,500 wounded in the 10 days since Israel moved to end rocket attacks from within Gaza.
Palestinian medical officials say at least 90 people have died since the ground assault began while Israel has lost four soldiers and four civilians over the 10 days.
Aid agencies in Gaza speak of appalling conditions for treating casualties of the continuing Israeli bombardments.
Rejecting international appeals for a ceasefire, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the operation would continue until it met its objective.
Foreign diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis have borne little fruit so far.
Single shell
An Israeli army spokesman said three soldiers from the elite Golani Brigade had been killed accidentally by a single tank shell, with a further three severely wounded and 20 suffering lighter injuries.
The shell had hit a "structure" where the soldiers were located, he said
At nightfall on Monday, Israeli troops were reported to be battling Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the Shujaiya district of Gaza City.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters had engaged Israeli soldiers with machine-guns and rockets. Residents reported hearing loud explosions and heavy gunfire.
Israel's Haaretz newspaper, quoting Israeli army sources, reports that says Hamas lobbed mortars at the soldiers.
Artillery and helicopter gunships were reportedly brought in to drive back the Palestinian fighters.
Israeli tanks were also reportedly moving towards the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and Beit Hanoun and the Jabaliya refugee camp saw clashes on Monday.
Information about what is happening inside Gaza is limited as Israel has barred foreign reporters from entering.
'Serious hunger'
Living conditions in Gaza are reported to be deteriorating sharply, with supplies of fuel, food, water and wheat running desperately low.
Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, one of two foreign doctors working at Gaza's biggest hospital, al-Shifa, said operating rooms were full and people were dying because of a lack of supplies.
Israel says it is not targeting civilians but Dr Gilbert said he had only seen two fighters among hundreds of casualties.
The UN says a million people in the territory are without electricity and many are facing "serious hunger" within days.
Dominic Nutt, of the aid agency Save The Children, told the BBC that workers in the territory were reporting rapidly deteriorating conditions:
"They don't have any water most of the day, there is no electricity, they are freezing cold, the windows have to be left open to stop them smashing when the bombs fall.
"Children are at risk from hypothermia, they are malnourished, there is not enough food, the situation is getting desperate."
Thousands of Gazans are reported to have fled their homes, despite the dangers of moving around outdoors in the territory.
Israel says it has allowed a convoy of 80 lorries carrying food and medicines through Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
Peace bid
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to travel to Damascus on Tuesday along with an EU delegation in a bid to persuade Syria to influence Hamas leaders to accept his plan for a ceasefire.
He held talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the region on Monday.
Accusing Hamas of acting in an "irresponsible and unforgivable manner" by firing rockets into Israel, he appealed to Israel for a halt to the violence to allow in humanitarian aid.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is due to attend a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, along with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France and Britain, in an attempt to put pressure on the Security Council to act decisively.
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January 05, 2009, 09:18:27 PM »
Warnings Not Enough for Gaza Families
The Samouni family knew they were in danger. They had been calling the Red Cross for two days, they said, begging to be taken out of Zeitoun, a poor area in eastern Gaza City that is considered a stronghold of Hamas.
No rescuers came. Instead, Israeli soldiers entered their building late Sunday night and told them to evacuate to another building. They did. But at 6 a.m. on Monday, when a missile fired by an Israeli warplane struck the relatives house in which they had taken shelter, there was nowhere to run.
Eleven members of the extended Samouni family were killed and 26 wounded, according to witnesses and hospital officials, with five children age 4 and under among the dead.
Hundreds of members of the clan flooded in to Shifa Hospital, all from Zeitoun, many in shock.
Masouda al-Samouni, 20, lost her mother-in-law, her husband and her 10-month-old son. She said she had been preparing food for the baby when the missile struck. He died hungry, she said.
Ten days into Israels offensive against Hamas, the militant Islamic group that governs Gaza, the civilian toll was rising alongside that of the militants.
As the fighting closed in on the city, Gazans began accusing Israel of deliberately aiming at civilians, to turn them against Hamas. Israel blames Hamas, saying it focuses the battle in the densely populated areas of this narrow, crowded coastal strip and uses residents as shields.
We have no intention of harming civilians, said Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman. Hamas cynically uses civilians by operating in their midst, she said, adding, Sometimes there can be situations where civilians get hurt.
Israel began its campaign on Dec. 27 with the primary intention of breaking Hamass military infrastructure and its ability to launch rockets at southern Israel. About 550 Palestinians have been killed so far, medical officials in Gaza said, with at least a quarter of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Hospital officials in Gaza said that at least 93 people had been killed and more than 370 wounded since Saturday, when Israeli ground forces joined the campaign.
In the crowded Shati refugee camp, near the coast, another family was wiped out early Monday when a shell fired from a navy ship hit their house while they slept.
In the Tuffah district, another poor neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israelis fired tank shells into a house, witnesses said. A neighbor drove Mumin Alawi, 13, to the hospital. When Muhammad Alawi, Mumins father, came looking for his son and found that the boy had died, he was beside himself and wanted to jump from a balcony, until relatives held him back.
He died a martyr, said Muhammads mother. At least this body is whole.
A Red Cross official in Gaza said there had been many cries for help. In the case of the Samouni family, she said, the organization was told by the Israelis that it would be too dangerous to go into the Zeitoun neighborhood.
A study about to be published in Israel by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, an independent research group that has close ties to the Israeli military establishment and is supported by the American Jewish Congress, presents Hamas as having methodically built its military infrastructure in the heart of population centers.
The study presents photographs of militants manufacturing and storing weapons inside houses and of Israeli soldiers finding weapons hidden in a mosque in northern Gaza during a military incursion in March 2008.
Hamas not only hides among the population, the study contends, but has made a main component of its combat strategy channeling the army into the most densely populated areas to fight a model that is now playing out.
Shireen Shihab, 30, a resident of Gaza City, said Monday that she had seen Hamas fighters firing rockets toward Israel from a site two blocks away from her home.
She said she and others could not express any opposition for fear of being labeled spies.
Ms. Shihab, a former supporter of Fatah, the secularist rival of Hamas, said that the Israelis and their pro-Western Palestinian allies from Fatah were using the people, killing them to make Hamas pay a price.
Among the survivors of the Samouni family, opinions were divided. Some blessed the resistance.
But Hamada Al-Samouni, 28, who was lightly wounded by the Israeli rocket and was clearly still in shock, said this was all happening because of the rockets fired by Hamas.
He said he had seen the bodies of eight Hamas fighters dressed in civilian clothing lying in the streets around Zeitoun. They had been lying there for two days and nobody had come to collect them,
he said.
Taghreed El-Khodary reported from Gaza City, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem.
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Wanted to add this link also since it is an international organization to ban DU
Life is like a box of chocolates.....until some Neocon clubs you with your own leg and steals it.
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Quote from: OldSchool on January 05, 2009, 08:15:27 PM
We should also temper ourselves to accuracy in assuming all the defects we see are from DU. Although it is probable that IDF is using DU, the defects from DU can be different than what we see in everyday claims. Some of the pictures may be a possible Thalidomide generated birth defect. Here is a link to research:
And along with that link, here is a good link that gives more detail about DU and its effects, along with our notorious history of using and selling DU ammunition:
I'm not dissin' anyone. Not at all. We can safely assume Israel is using DU as they have done so before, and by witnessing the dehumanisation and utter destruction of Gazans by haenous weaponry. We have a certain amount of dignity in our quest to expose the truth, and in that, we discipline ourselves to seek truth. Sometimes, we just gotta dig a little deeper for the root of the truth.
Many photos could quite possibly be radiation induced abnormalities, as it is a fact that Iraqi birth defects soared during and after our military presence there.
My apologies. I'm not trying to troll anyone, but we tend to get deeply involved and passionate about what we discuss, and occasionally we have to audit ourselves to keep us on task.
DU is completely safe according to some people here:
Of course I myself am being sarcastic, but I'm just pointing this out because apparently the government wants to make sure that every possible aspect of their wickedness is defended by some shitbag lying anti-American pieces of trash who work for CENTCOM, or the NRO or some psy-op contractor
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January 05, 2009, 09:43:54 PM »
Quote from: Anti_Illuminati on January 05, 2009, 09:27:30 PM
DU is completely safe according to some people here:
Of course I myself am being sarcastic, but I'm just pointing this out because apparently the government wants to make sure that every possible aspect of their wickedness is defended by some shitbag lying anti-American pieces of trash who work for CENTCOM, or the NRO or some psy-op contractor
A little sarcasm is good I guess. I'm guilty of it myself on occasion
I have come to the complete understanding that 99% of everything on TV is misleading and propagandized. The only TV I watch is a DVD from time to time. I'm usually on the net 10 or so hours a day surfing around the web looking for reliable info. It's tough, but when you learn to sift out the bullsh*t, it's a lot clearer.
Life is like a box of chocolates.....until some Neocon clubs you with your own leg and steals it.
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.
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Beyond Treason
T h e C o l l a t e r a l C h i l d r e n
Depleted Uranium:
Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret SF Bay View
Photos of Iraqi babies whose mothers were exposed to depleted uranium.
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.
Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Korényi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.
This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.
Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular and a matter of concern."
This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.
In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."
Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.
Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.
The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.
They brought it home
Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.
In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.
"Severe deformity of arms. This child was born to a US Gulf veteran."
"Extreme hydrocephalus; deformity of face, body and ear.
The line running down the right hand side of the head would appear to show that potentially two heads were forming."
How did they hide it?
Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.
Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.
Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.
They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.
The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.
The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.
Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.
Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.
The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.
Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.
Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.
"It isn't clear what has happened to this child, and I have no explanation for the dark nature and condition of the skin."
"Child with unknown white substance covering almost the whole body."
Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing overseas nothing political."
Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.
Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.
How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."
"Child with almost total deformity of the face; no recognisable features at all,
and what appears to be one eye situated in the middle of the forehead."
The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret
A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.
The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.
Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.
When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
- Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"
Kissinger: Bush's original choice to head the 911 comission.
He is fighting extradition to Spain and Chile to be tried for war crimes.
MOW insert (whitehouse.org ) :
In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.
A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!
No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."
Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.
In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.
To learn more:
Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:
American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn. Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime Against Iraq, Humanity,"; Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked,"
August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret: "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"
August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death,"
World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2004
International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan. Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat
"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War" by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret
Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at
"..There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival..."
Fadel, 7 years old, came from Basra, South of Iraq.
Depleted uranium, with it metal toxicity and radiation, has damaged her liver and kidneys.
A needle was injected into her body to draw out the abdominal dropsy.
She died soon after the painful injection.
A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present,
and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed. "
- Philip Berrigan
"I think the level of casualties is secondary. I mean, it may sound like an odd thing to say,
but all the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that
we are a warlike people and that we love war. . . . What we hate is not casualties but losing."
- Michael Ledeen, the American Enterprise Institute Breakfast, March 27, 2003
"The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective.
Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals.
Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.'
- Harold Pinter
"The United States has conducted two nuclear wars.
The first against Japan in 1945, the second in Kuwait and Iraq in 1991."
- Dr. Helen Caldicottc
"Depleted-uranium weapons are an unacceptable threat to life,
a violation of international law and an assault on human dignity. "
- Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the U.S.
At last the military alchemists have succeeded in compressing the gap between nuclear and conventional weapons.
The United States has used these nuclear weapons in Iraq and in Yugoslavia-
- a violation of international law--but there will be no trial.
"International law? I better call my lawyer!
I don't know what you're talking about, about international law."
- W's response to questions about the administration's handing out
of reconstruction contracts in Iraq, Dec.11, 2003
by Father Philip Berrigan
Diagram of a D.U. shell
LEST THE READER BE MISLED BY THIS ARTICLE'S TITLE, LET IT BE SAID: There WAS no trial of depleted uranium. The four of us who took action last December to protest this horrific evil were indicted, charged, convicted, and imprisoned. As for depleted uranium itself: No indictment, no trial. Nor is there likely to be.
Yet depleted uranium has been part of the U.S. arsenal for over ten years. A byproduct of nuclear reactors, depleted uranium is only slightly less radioactive than raw uranium. As a heavy metal, it has so dense a structure that bullets coated with it can pierce protective covering, and shells containing a depleted uranium rod can penetrate tanks and armored vehicles. Upon impact, these shells pulverize, scattering radioactive particles up to twenty-five miles-- to be breathed or ingested--or to contaminate the soil for the next 4.2 billion years.
At last the military alchemists have succeeded in compressing the gap between nuclear and conventional weapons. The United States has used these nuclear weapons in Iraq and in Yugoslavia--a violation of international law--but there will be no trial.
No trial, despite a staggering total of dead in Iraq--as high as two million since 1991--the harvest of U.S.-led international sanctions and depleted uranium. No trial, despite the deaths of over four hundred U.S. veterans of Desert Storm--victims of cancer, or of respiratory, liver, or kidney failure.
No trial, despite the chronic illnesses of 110,000 veterans, none of them told about the deadliness of depleted uranium.
No trial, despite the pitiable appearance of grossly deformed babies, born to Iraqi, British, and American soldiers exposed to depleted uranium.
No trial, despite the Pentagon's refusal to clean up an estimated three hundred to eight hundred tons of depleted uranium in Kuwait and Iraq.
No trial, despite U.S. giveaways of depleted uranium to a score of "friendly" nations--a blank check to build their own nuclear weapons, fight their own nuclear wars, and further contaminate the planet with radioactivity.
No trial by the media, no trial in pulpits, no trial on campuses, no trial by politicians, no trial by public opinion. A little noise over depleted uranium from veterans' groups and the peace movement, but overall, no trial. And especially, no trial by widespread nonviolent civil resistance. The volume of silence over these hellish weapons is surreal, numbing, stupefying. How to explain it?
Certainly, in their fifty-five-year love affair with the bomb, Americans have not measured the cost of this idolatry: spiritual numbing, social denial, moral paralysis. A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present, and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed. ("Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.")
The War Department has become a master, as far back as the invasion of Grenada, at suppressing the media. ("Control the media and win the war.") We continue to bomb Iraq--monasteries, grain fields, shepherds and their flocks--but few of us know about it. The war-makers understand that suppression of key facts, along with dissemination of lies and disinformation, leaves the public uncertain and confused--especially about what to do.
What to do, there's the rub. Something that will witness to Christ's victory over death and God's sovereignty over life. How about enacting the "swords into plowshares" prophecy of Isaiah 2:4, which states that only the weaponless can climb God's mountain and achieve union with God?
How about "loving enemies" as Christ did, even as we realize that we must protect our enemies in order to love them? How about reminding sick and dying Gulf War veterans, in fact all GIs, that the Pentagon judges them expendable?
How about allowing our actions to speak our conviction of the absolute necessity of disarmament? How about a public expression of faith and sanity in a society that appears to have lost both? Such concerns impelled four of us to cut into the Warfield Air National Guard base in East Baltimore on December 19, 1999, to symbolically disarm, with household hammers and our own blood, two A-10 Warthog fighter planes. These "tank busters" fired 95 percent of the depleted uranium munitions during our twin wars in Iraq and Yugoslavia, using a twenty-millimeter, seven-barrel Gatling gun that spews out thirty-nine hundred shells per minute.
In a battlefield context, Warthogs are arguably the most devastating weapons system yet fashioned. Even in the company of other terrible engines of war, they are a monstrosity. Imagine one of them strafing a village: It makes a pass and leaves a trench--people dead, buildings blasted, trees and vegetation splintered, the air, soil, and water infected with radioactivity. The Warthog is an engine of hell. It has no right to exist.
Therein lies the bottom line: Who will protest its existence? Who will resist this killing by others? Millions of decent people will not kill, but few will prevent others from killing, especially when those others lurk in governments and the military, in transnationals and banks--the quiet, well-manicured terrorists who kill under the law.
Do we desire a taproot for peace? Then we must stop the killing--killing in war, killing on death row, killing the weak and the powerless. The commandment "Thou shalt not kill!" is absolutely elementary and pivotal. Until we honor the image of God in the neighbor, until we eliminate our sins of omission (our failure to protect others), until we understand that we can't believe or love unless we stop the killing, then the pursuit of disarmament, justice, and peace is a melodrama of contradiction and futility.
Perhaps depleted uranium requires no trial. God's law has already found it guilty. International law has already found it a war crime. When Americans find the faith to stop the killing, the prophecy of Isaiah and the Sermon on the Mount will become the ultimate political statement. Only then will we outlaw depleted uranium, dumping it, along with other nuclear weapons, into the dust-bin of history.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death."
- Solomon
"Once alienated, an 'unalienable right' is apt to be forever lost, in which case we are no longer
even remotely the last best hope of earth but merely a seedy imperial state whose citizens are
kept in lineby SWAT teams and whose way of death, not life, is universally imitated."
- Gore Vidal, The New Statesman Interview, 15th October 2001
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."
-"Devout Christian" George W. Bush
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately
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Quote from: Sane on January 05, 2009, 10:13:36 PM
Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets
A death sentence here and abroad
by Leuren Moret SF Bay View
Photos of Iraqi babies whose mothers were exposed to depleted uranium.
Looks like the alphabet agency felons went and scrubbed that site--it says "Not found." Big surprise. There's several backups though, one here: (don't know if the original had more photos or not though.)
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January 05, 2009, 10:31:27 PM »
DAMN good post Sane!
Life is like a box of chocolates.....until some Neocon clubs you with your own leg and steals it.
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Atrocities in Gaza: Piecing Together the Story
As Europe calls for a ceasefire, Israel is accused of cruel tactics and use of deadly white phosphorous in its blood-soaked assault on Gaza.
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on January 6, 2009, Printed on January 6, 2009
A week ago, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that "Operation Cast Lead," as the current bombing of Gaza has been dubbed, "will continue until all its goals are met."
Whatever those goals are, exactly, they are clearly incomplete; Barak told Israel's Army Radio, the strikes would intensify "as much as needed to meet the goals we set for ourselves, to bring quiet to the south."
Over a week after the start of this blood-soaked chapter in the Israel/Palestine saga, there is no quiet but the silence of the dead -- over 530, and counting. On Sunday, Israeli ground troops entered Gaza, escalating the violence. "At least 75 Palestinians have been killed since Saturday," the AFP reported on Monday, "when Israel upped a weeklong bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza by pouring in ground troops into the densely populated territory."
More recently, it has been reported in the UK Times Online that the Israel Defense Forces is using white phosphorus in its attacks, a controversial substance that can cause excruciating burns, but nevertheless is not illegal if it is only used as a smokescreen. Banned by the Geneva conventions, white phosphorus has been used by the U.S. military in Iraq:
"...[T]he tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops' advance. "These explosions are fantastic looking, and produce a great deal of smoke that blinds the enemy so that our forces can move in," said one Israeli security expert. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon."
After a week of doing pretty much nothing, Western leaders have started to respond to the crisis, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and (otherwise MIA) Middle East special envoy Tony Blair arriving in the region on Monday.
"We in Europe want a cease-fire as quickly as possible," Sarkozy said. " The guns must fall silent, there must be a humanitarian truce. Everyone must understand that what is at stake here is not just an issue of Israel and Palestinians, it is a global issue, and it is the whole world which will help you find a solution."
Israeli officials continue to deny that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "There is no humanitarian crisis in the Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said during a visit to Paris on New Year's Day.
Reports out of Gaza prove otherwise. As of Sunday, local hospitals were relying on generators for electricity. "The U.N. has warned that power networks were down in large parts of the Gaza Strip on 4 January, with hospitals relying on generators," reported the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "Without power for pumps, 70 percent of Gazans are estimated to be without tap water."
According to IRIN:
Israel has been blocking fuel supplies, and stocks are dwindling, the latest (Jan. 4) report by the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories said.
The Israeli Gisha organization, a nongovernmental organization, said seven of the 12 electricity lines in the enclave (the 12 lines normally supply about 70 percent of Gaza's electricity) were down and warned that the lack of power was causing sewage to flood into populated areas and farmland. There continued to be a risk of sustained flooding.
"The water and sewage system in Gaza is collapsing, cutting people off from the water supply and causing sewage to flood the streets," said Maher al-Najjar, deputy director of Gaza's water utility, CMWU. He also said 48 of Gaza's 130 wells were not working at all due to lack of electricity and damage to pipes. "At least 45 other wells are operating only partially and will shut down within days without additional supplies of fuel and electricity," al-Najjar said.
The question of whether there is a humanitarian crisis was further debated on Democracy Now on Monday morning, in a heated debate between Christopher Gunness of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency -- called in from Gaza, where he works to provide aid to some 750,000 refugees -- and Meagan Buren, a spokeswoman for the Israel Project in Washington.
Host Amy Goodman also interviewed Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies, who described the happenings over the weekend at the United Nations:
Bennis: As we've seen so many times before, we have an instance of the United States preventing the Security Council from taking any action in the crisis in Gaza, whether it would be an actual move to impose a cease-fire, but they even went further than that to prevent even a statement from being issued, the sort of the lowest level of response from the Security Council. The U.N. diplomats essentially said exactly what Condoleezza Rice said two years ago at the time of the Israeli attack on Lebanon, when she went before the council and said, "We don't want a cease-fire yet," essentially telling the world, there is not enough dead people yet. We want more dead people before we will call for a cease-fire. And that has been the consistent position of the Bush administration, including President Bush himself on his weekly radio address, and it was the same position taken this weekend.
Also on the program was Sameh A. Habeeb, a Palestinian journalist who has a blog, gazatoday.blogspot.com. Habeeb described the dividing of Gaza by the Israeli military:
Gaza yesterday was being cut into two pieces. The north of Gaza and Gaza City are being cut from the south and the middle areas of the Gaza Strip. No one is allowed to go out or in
In the area where I live, in the east of Gaza, the artillery shelling is still taking place. And a few minutes ago, around three shells landed in my area. And one guy was killed, and two were injured in hitting two houses. And this was one family.
Meanwhile, Israel's ban on foreign reporters from Gaza is raising protest. "Israel has never restricted media access like this before, and it should be ashamed," said Ethan Bronner, the New York Times bureau chief in Jerusalem. "It's betraying the principles by which it claims to live."
Not that the corporate U.S. media has been particularly balanced in its reporting to begin with. Over at the Huffington Post, Max Blumenthal examines the coverage since the start of the raids:
Almost as soon as the first Israeli missile struck the Gaza Strip, a veteran cheering squad suited up to support the home team. "Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life," Charles Krauthammer claimed in the Washington Post. Echoing Krauthammer, Alan Dershowitz called the Israeli attack on Gaza, "Perfectly 'Proportionate.' " And in the New York Times, Israeli historian Benny Morris described his country's airstrikes as "highly efficient."
Despite this, Blumenthal notes that Americans don't seem to be showing the same lockstep support of Israel as the media is:
"So what accounts for the surprising trend in American opinion on Gaza? The proliferation of progressive online media and social networking sites could be a factor, but I have another theory: The same pundits who are cheerleading Israel's assault on Gaza once sold the occupation of Iraq to America, and with a nearly identical set of arguments."
Meanwhile, Barack Obama has been coming under fire for his silence on the Gaza attacks. Chris Hedges recently wrote, the president-elect's "only comment on the one-sided slaughter under way in Gaza was: 'If my daughters were living in a house that was being threatened by rocket attacks, I would do whatever it takes to end that situation.' "
If self-defense applies to Israel, why doesn't it apply to the Rayan family? -- while still-President George W. Bush seems hardly capable of mustering the energy to sound sincere about his hopes for a cease-fire (which he calls a "noble ambition"). "I understand Israel's desire to protect itself," Bush said Monday. "The situation now taking place in Gaza was caused by Hamas."
At the same time, the media is littered with accounts of family members desperately worrying about their loved ones in Gaza (if you know where to look), from Laila al-Arian writing about her grandfather in the Nation to Sousan Hammad's "Phoning Home to Gaza" in Counterpunch. Fares Akram, a correspondent for the Independent lost his father last week.
Of course, not all the victims fall under the category of innocent civilians. Over at Truthdig, Hedges writes about the death of a Palestinian who made no apologies for his support of suicide bombs.
"I often visited Nizar Rayan, who was killed Thursday in a targeted assassination by Israel, at his house in the Jabaliya refugee camp when I was in Gaza. The house is now rubble. It was hit by two missiles fired by Israeli F-16 fighter jets. Rayan, who would meet me in his book-lined study, was decapitated in the blast. His body was thrown into the street by the explosions. His four wives and 11 children also were killed.
Rayan supported tactics, including suicide bombings, which are morally repugnant. His hatred of Israel ran deep. His fundamentalist brand of Islam was distasteful. But as he and I were students of theology, our discussions frequently veered off into the nature of belief, Islam, the Quran, the Bible and the religious life. He was a serious, thoughtful man who had suffered deeply under the occupation and dedicated his life to resistance. He could have fled his home and gone underground with other Hamas leaders. Knowing him, I suspect he could not leave his children.
Many have pointed out the layers of hypocrisy that have surfaced in this conflict. As well as a mosque (reportedly hiding Hamas rockets), among the more shocking targets of Israel's attacks was the Islamic University of Gaza, which was bombed last week, to the condemnation of virtually no one, a least not in U.S. academic circles. As Neve Gordon and Jeff Halper point out:
"Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an effort by British academics to boycott Israeli universities in September 2007 have raised his or her voice in opposition to Israel's bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza earlier this week. Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, who organized the petition, has been silent, as have his co-signatories from Princeton, Northwestern and Cornell universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most others who signed similar petitions, like the 11,000 professors from nearly 1,000 universities around the world, have also refrained from expressing their outrage at Israel's attack on the leading university in Gaza. The artfully named Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, which organized the latter appeal, has said nothing about the assault."
As many others are pointing out, Israel's actions are violently shortsighted when it comes to the lasting effects. As Robert Dreyfuss writes for the Nation:
"The outcome of Israel's action is likely to be to strengthen, not weaken, Hamas. It will also have the following collateral effects: it will undermine the moderate wing of the Palestinian movement, perhaps fatally. It will weaken the government of Egypt, boosting the power of the radical-right Muslim Brotherhood there to the point where Egypt's regime could collapse, with incalculable consequences. It will boost radicalism across the region, especially its Islamist variant, in Lebanon and Iraq in particular, and help Iran gain traction among otherwise-unreceptive Arab populations.
Hamas is unlikely to seek a deal now. Having watched Israel blunder into Lebanon two years ago in a futile effort to eradicate Hezbollah, only to see that movement emerge victorious and take control of part of Lebanon's government, Hamas is not going to sue for peace.
Israel's objectives aren't clear. Israeli hawks, including Benjamin Netanyahu -- appearing Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition" -- insist that Israel cannot stop its action until Hamas is utterly defeated, whatever that means.
Despite Israel's intractability, Western diplomats are reportedly seeking a "four-point agenda":
Stopping arms smuggling into Gaza
Financial support for Egypt in controlling the border and detecting tunnels
International monitoring, with the United Nations, European Union and Arab forces assisting Egypt
Reopening of all crossing points into the Gaza Strip -- a key Hamas demand
Liliana Segura is an AlterNet staff writer.
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Top 5 lies about Israel's assault on Gaza
The increased barrage of rocket fire is being used as justification for the continued Israeli bombardment.
By Jeremy R. Hammond
(AFP) There is no justification for such an attack under international law.
Lie #1: Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.
The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of fighters within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting fighters is, in fact, a war crime.
(Watch video: Israeli guns bombard Gaza in escalation of Hamas war) :
Moreover, the people Israel claims are legitimate targets are members of Hamas, which Israel says is a terrorist organization. Hamas has been responsible for firing rockets into Israel. These rockets are extremely inaccurate and thus, even if Hamas intended to hit military targets within Israel, are indiscriminate by nature. When rockets from Gaza kill Israeli civilians, it is a war crime.
Hamas has a military wing. However, it is not entirely a military organization, but a political one. Members of Hamas are the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people. Dozens of these elected leaders have been kidnapped and held in Israeli prisons without charge.
Others have been targeted for assassination, such as Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas official. To kill Rayan, Israel targeted a residential apartment building. The strike not only killed Rayan but two of his wives and four of his children, along with six others. There is no justification for such an attack under international law. This was a war crime.
Other of Israels bombardment with protected status under international law have included a mosque, a prison, police stations, and a university, in addition to residential buildings.
Moreover, Israel has long held Gaza under siege, allowing only the most minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies to enter. Israel is bombing and killing Palestinian civilians. Countless more have been wounded, and cannot receive medical attention. Hospitals running on generators have little or no fuel. Doctors have no proper equipment or medical supplies to treat the injured. These people, too, are the victims of Israeli policies targeted not at Hamas or legitimate military targets, but directly designed to punish the civilian population.
Lie #2) Hamas violated the cease-fire. The Israeli bombardment is a response to Palestinian rocket fire and is designed to end such rocket attacks.
Israel never observed the cease-fire to begin with. From the beginning, it announced a special security zone within the Gaza Strip and announced that Palestinians who enter this zone will be fired upon. In other words, Israel announced its intention that Israeli soldiers would shoot at farmers and other individuals attempting to reach their own land in direct violation of not only the cease-fire but international law.
Despite shooting incidents, including ones resulting in Palestinians getting injured, Hamas still held to the cease-fire from the time it went into effect on June 19 until Israel effectively ended the truce on November 4 by launching an airstrike into Gaza that killed five and injured several others.
Israels violation of the cease-fire predictably resulted in retaliation from militants in Gaza who fired rockets into Israel in response. The increased barrage of rocket fire at the end of December is being used as justification for the continued Israeli bombardment, but is a direct response to the Israeli attacks.
Israel's actions, including its violation of the cease-fire, predictably resulted in an escalation of rocket attacks against its own population.
Lie #3) Hamas is using human shields, a war crime.
There has been no evidence that Hamas has used human shields. The fact is, as previously noted, Gaza is a small piece of property that is densely populated. Israel engages in indiscriminate warfare such as the assassination of Nizar Rayan, in which members of his family were also murdered. It is victims like his dead children that Israel defines as human shields in its propaganda.
There is no legitimacy for this interpretation under international law. In circumstances such as these, Hamas is not using human shields, Israel is committing war crimes in violation of the Geneva Conventions and other applicable international law.
Lie #4) Arab nations have not condemned Israels actions because they understand Israels justification for its assault.
The populations of those Arab countries are outraged at Israels actions and at their own governments for not condemning Israels assault and acting to end the violence. Simply stated, the Arab governments do not represent their respective Arab populations. The populations of the Arab nations have staged mass protests in opposition to not only Israel's actions but also the inaction of their own governments and what they view as either complacency or complicity in Israel's crimes.
Moreover, the refusal of Arab nations to take action to come to the aid of the Palestinians is not because they agree with Israels actions, but because they are submissive to the will of the US, which fully supports Israel. Egypt, for instance, which refused to open the border to allow Palestinians wounded in the attacks to get medical treatment in Egyptian hospitals, is heavily dependent upon US aid, and is being widely criticized within the population of the Arab countries for what is viewed as an absolute betrayal of the Gaza Palestinians.
Even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been regarded as a traitor to his own people for blaming Hamas for the suffering of the people of Gaza. Palestinians are also well aware of Abbas' past perceived betrayals in conniving with Israel and the U.S. to sideline the democratically elected Hamas government, culminating in a counter-coup by Hamas in which it expelled Fatah (the military wing of Abbas' Palestine Authority) from the Gaza Strip. While his apparent goal was to weaken Hamas and strengthen his own position, the Palestinians and other Arabs in the Middle East are so outraged at Abbas that it is unlikely he will be able to govern effectively.
Lie #5) Israel is not responsible for civilian deaths because it warned the Palestinians of Gaza to flee areas that might be targeted.
Israel claims it sent radio and telephone text messages to residents of Gaza warning them to flee from the coming bombardment. But the people of Gaza have nowhere to flee to. They are trapped within the Gaza Strip. It is by Israeli design that they cannot escape across the border.
It is by Israeli design that they have no food, water, or fuel by which to survive. It is by Israeli design that hospitals in Gaza have no electricity and few medical supplies with which to treat the injured and save lives. And Israel has bombed vast areas of Gaza, targeting civilian infrastructure and other sites with protected status under international law. No place is safe within the Gaza Strip.
-- Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal (
), a website dedicated to providing news, critical analysis, and opinion commentary on US foreign policy from outside of the standard framework offered by government officials and the mainstream corporate media, particularly with regard to the "war on terrorism" and events in the Middle East. He has also written for numerous other online publications. Contact him at:
. This article appeared in the PalestineChronicle.com.
-- Middle East Online
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January 06, 2009, 04:48:04 AM »
Gaza hospitals under fire
Israeli forces fired in the immediate vicinity of three hospitals in the Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses and medical personnel told Ma'an.
The Al-Wafa Hospital eastern Gaza Strip received warning that they would be shelled, but the hospital administration and staff refused to evacuate on account of the number of injured people being treated there. Some of the wounded have been injured so severely that they cannot be safely transferred.
At Ash-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes bombed the offices of the Health Committees, about 400 meters from Ash-Shifa hospital. Last week warplanes bombed the Ash-Shifa Mosque, which is part of the medical compound.
Israeli forces also shelled the parking lot of Al-Awda hospital in Jabaliya in northern Gaza.
Spanish human rights worker at the hospital Alberto Arce reported, "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 emrgency rooml 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."
On Sunday, at least three paramedics were killed by two consecutive Israeli airstikes while they attempting to rescue the wounded from an earlier strike.
The international aid agency Oxfam has also reported that personnel working for its affiliates in Gaza have been killed, their ambulances coming under attack.
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Three killed as Israel bombs UN school
At least three people have been killed in an Israeli bombing raid on a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of terrified Palestinians were taking shelter in the building after fleeing fierce fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters.
The latest fatalities in the 11-day-old conflict come after Israel warned that fighting in Gaza could get worse before its mission against Hamas is complete.
Palestinian witnesses said Israeli forces have pushed into Khan Younis in southern Gaza as the army widened the ground assault it launched four days ago against Hamas militants.
More than 700 Palestinians, including 130 militants, have been killed since Israel began its campaign ten days ago.
At least 26 people are reported to have died in the latest attacks, including ten killed by naval shells along the beach in the central Gaza Strip.
Nine Israelis, including three civilians hit in Palestinian rocket attacks, have died in the conflict.
Many of the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million people lack food, water or power and hospitals are struggling to cope with the casualties of the conflict.
Save the Children has called for aid to be let in to the stricken area and said that 50,000 children are already suffering from chronic malnutrition.
More than 2,000 families were displaced prior to the launch of the ground offensive on Saturday with charities expecting the number to increase significantly as fighting escalates.
Politicians led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown have united to urge both sides to reach an immediate ceasefire. Mr Brown said it was vital that the international community, including the Arab League, worked together to find a workable solution to the problem.
He said: "This is a very dangerous moment, I think everybody around the world is expressing grave concern. What we've got to do almost immediately is to work harder than we've done for an immediate ceasefire."
US President George W Bush has insisted that any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions to prevent Hamas from continuing to use the coastal strip to fire rockets into Israel.
Mr Bush made it clear while he is concerned about deteriorating conditions for Palestinians living in Gaza that he puts the onus on Hamas. He stopped short of calling for an immediate halt to the fighting as some European leaders have done.
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1 word
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Gods army is real..join up..
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January 06, 2009, 04:54:41 AM »
Bush isnt gonna call for an end to the killing, he gets high off it..he's a genocidal murderer..
one man with courage makes a majority..TJ
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'Israel hits 2 UN schools in Gaza'
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:43:45 GMT
At least five Palestinians have been killed after Israeli strikes hit two separate schools run by the United Nations in the Gaza Strip.
According to medics and UN officials, two people were killed in a strike on a school in the southern of Khan Yunis and three people were killed in an air strike on a school in Gaza City on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Palestinians have taken refuge at UN schools to escape the raining fire on Gaza.
The identities of the victims have not been revealed yet.
Both schools are run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Israel remains defiant of mounting calls for an end to its attacks on the populated coastal strip where an Israeli blockade has starved 1.5 people almost to death despite pro-Gaza protests across the world.
Israeli forces have killed at least 25 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The Israeli army says it has killed 130 Hamas fighters since its ground invasion of Gaza that started over the weekend.
Hamas on the other hand says it has killed and injured over 40 Israeli soldiers only on Tuesday.
Tel Aviv however says that the conflict has only killed five soldiers and injured 79 others.
A total of 590 Palestinians have so far been killed and 3000 people wounded including women and children in Israeli gunship fire and plane bombings in the Gaza Strip.
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January 06, 2009, 05:16:37 AM »
Yep, they've gone nuts.
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January 06, 2009, 05:31:34 AM »
Quote from: sociostudent on January 06, 2009, 05:16:37 AM
Yep, they've gone nuts.
Understatement......... They are genocidal maniacs! Geez..... Where will it all end up?
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January 06, 2009, 05:50:22 AM »
Quote from: GlobalCordon on January 06, 2009, 05:31:34 AM
Understatement......... They are genocidal maniacs! Geez..... Where will it all end up?
I'd rather not know right now...doesn't look good.
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The Sky is My Home
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January 06, 2009, 07:29:36 AM »
IDF definition of SURGICAL STRIKES= bomb the hell out of schools and then let the doctors do the surgery.
When will someone help the Gazans?
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Quote from: larsonstdoc on January 06, 2009, 07:29:36 AM
IDF definition of SURGICAL STRIKES= bomb the hell out of schools and then let the doctors do the surgery.
When will someone help them?
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G.C., was that reported by Press TV?
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===> Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting with Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up
===> Documentaries / Video / Audio / Documentation
===> Pentagon
===> Flight 93 / Shanksville
===> First Responders
===> War Games / Foreknowledge
===> Hijackers / Patsies
===> Insider trading / Moneytrail
===> The Cover-Up
=> Frozen CIA Operative Tim Osmon/Osama bin Laden is re-killed for another fake narrative
===> CASE STUDY: CIA's Fake Bin-Laden Videos
===> NWO/Jay Rockefeller infiltrating the Truth Movement
===> Rockefeller/Brzezinski's Obama puppet's Secrecy of Government is worse than Stalin + Hitler
===> Sibel Edmonds
===> Pat Tillman
=> Other False Flags Throughout History
===> 7/7
===> Columbine
===> MI6 Mumbai False Flag
===> NATO's Simultaneous False Flags on Norway exposes how ruthless the New World Order is
===> Katrina/FEMA/Tsunami/Weather FF
=> Whistleblowers
=> 9/11/11 - Ten year anniversary of the False Flag Terrorist attacks
===> Past 9/11 Anniversary Events, News, Pictures, Videos!
=> Faux Controversies and Case Studies
Globalization and the plan for NWO
=> Financial Crisis Forum
===> ***Stimulus Plans are meant to cause Federal Reserve Implosion***
===> ***Staged Financial Crisis Part of Socialist/Global Banking Coup
===> *Audit the Fed
===> G20 Pittsburgh - Rothschild/Rockefeller Plans to push world into total slavery with a New World Currency
===> Economical Crises - Solutions - Philosophical debates and Loads of (Self) Educational Info
=> US Sovereignty and Border Crisis
===> Unfair Trade Agreements-NAFTA/GATT/WTO/EU
===> LOST - Law of the Sea
===> Mexican/US border violence is off the charts
===> Swarzenegger and the Nazification of California
=> Eugenics/War on Family
===> Abortion is a key part of the eugenics agenda
=> Chemtrails/Geo-Engineering
=> Missing Children/Torture/Rape/Satanic Ritual Abuse
===> CASE STUDY: Baby Cheyenne and the CPS Terrorist Network
=> Mind Control
=> Vaccine information
=> Depopulation
=> Dehumanization
===> Census is only to find out number of citizens for distribution of congressional representatives
=> Technology
=> Alternative Energy
=> Project Blue Beam
=> Fluoridation
=> Microwave Weapons
=> Space Based Weapons Technology
===> CASE STUDY: US Nuclear Missle Defense Space Weapon Test
=> NWO Cultish Foundations/Symbolism/Networks/Hijacked Religions
===> Wars, Revolutions and Genocide
===> Discussions concerning religious texts
===> Genuine philosophy discussions
=> Alt Health/Natural Food/Survival
=> FAKE WARS:Terror/Drugs/Education/Pandemic/Peak Oil Lies
===> The war on Drugs is complete BS
Multimedia and other resources
=> Video
=> Audio
=> Books / Literature / Declassified Documents
=> The Official Stanley Kubrick Movie Forum
=> South Park
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