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Subject: Israeli Army Kills 14 in Gaza



Fourteen Palestinians killed in Israeli Aggression on Gaza

by Alaqsaintifada.org*, February 11th, 2004



The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) today launched ferocious attacks on Gaza City and Rafah, killing 14 Palestinians. The assaults were the deadliest in Gaza since 14 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in October.



The death toll since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising for liberation, Alaqsa Intifada, in September 2000, has climbed to 3759, including 2816 Palestinians and 875 Israelis.



Gaza City



The fiercest fighting occurring in the Al-Shojaiya neighborhood, in the eastern part of Gaza City, where it erupted at 5:00 a.m. and continued for several hours.

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, an undercover unit of Israeli occupying forces moved into Al-Shojaiya, exchanging fire with a Palestinian security post and killing Mohammed Kamal Abu ‘Armana, 22, and injuring 2 other Palestinian security men.



A few minutes later, the IOF, reinforced by heavy military vehicles and covered by intense shelling, moved further into Al-Shojaiya neighborhood. Backed by military vehicles, the IOF surrounded a house belonging to the family of Ashraf Abu Hassanain, 22, who was reportedly wanted by the IOF. Israeli soldiers ordered the 3 families (17 people) living in the house out, and opened fire at the house in which Ashraf and 2 of his colleagues were hiding. Ashraf and his colleagues returned fire, and Israeli forces then destroyed the house with the 3 men inside. When the IOF withdrew from the neighborhood, the bodies of Ashraf and his two colleagues – Ayman Nasser al-Sheikh Khalil, 22, and Mohammed al-Hayek, 25 – were found near the house. Reports indicate that some of the residents were arrested.



During the fighting, dozens of young men stood in the streets watching as gunfire whizzed by. Masked gunmen took up positions in front of a building and ordered civilians out of the area. At one point, a gunman picked up a young schoolboy by his backpack and whisked him out of the battle zone.



By the end of the raid, twelve people were killed, including Mohammed Hilles, 18, the son of Ahmed Hilles, the top leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in Gaza, and senior Hamas activist Hani Abu Skhaila. Hamas said Abu Skhaila survived two previous Israeli attempts to kill him, including a June missile strike on his car in which he suffered shrapnel wounds.

More than 50 Palestinians were wounded, nine of them in critical condition, Palestinian doctors said. Almost half of the wounded are children.



There were no reports of Israeli casualties. After the fighting subsided, three small rockets were fired into Israel, causing no damage, Israel Army radio reported.



Rafah





At 4:00 a.m., more than 10 IOF tanks and several armored bulldozers, reinforced by helicopters, moved into Block J of the Rafah refugee camp. They moved forward towards Abu Baker al-Siddiq Street, which links Rafah refugee camp and Tal al-Sultan neighborhood. Israeli forces closed the road and took up positions on the roofs of a number of houses, opening fire at the street below.

A Palestinian civilian, Ibrahim Mohammed Zo’rob, 27, was killed by a live bullet in the head while he was standing on the balcony of his house, and Muhammed Tantawi, 17, was killed by a bullet in the chest. In addition, 7 civilians, including 3 children, were injured. Two of the injured were described as being in a serious condition.



The IOF have so far maintained their presence in the area, opening fire sporadically in the neighbourhood. The IOF also demolished three houses and razed citrus and olive groves, claiming that they were searching for tunnels used to smuggle arms.



Rafah is the small town on the Gaza-Egypt border where American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that purposely ran her over in March 2003 while she was trying to defend a Palestinian home. Thousands of homes have been demolished during ongoing raids and the lives of the inhabitants of Rafah are under continuous disruption and danger.



"We are talking about a tragedy of a very grave magnitude. The Israeli army uses strategies that result in the area looking like the aftermath of a powerful earthquake," said Aljazeera correspondent.



Late last month, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian civilian woman during a massive invasion into Rafah. Another five civilians, including teenagers, were injured, according to witnesses and medical sources. A day before that, Israeli bulldozers demolished a mosque and 13 Palestinian homes in a similar raid.



Palestinian Reaction



The latest Israeli raids have provoked an angry reaction from Palestinian negotiations minister Saib Ereikat, who is currently in Italy with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya, to rally opposition to Israel's controversial separation barrier.



"We strongly condemn this aggression, this massacre, while efforts are being made to revive the peace process," Ereikat told AFP by phone from Rome. "We urgently call on the quartet to come forward and work on pushing the peace process forward," he said.



Meanwhile, Hamas has vowed strong retaliation. The group's militant wing called on all of its cells to carry out "huge martyrdom operations," saying "all options are open."



Israel and the United States



Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon again stated that he will take unilateral steps if the peace process does not move forward. His plan includes completing the Apartheid Wall and possibly removing 17 of the 20 illegal settlements in the Gaza Strip. Troops would still be positioned in the Gush Katif block of settlements in Gaza, the Ha'aretz newspaper reported Wednesday.



The Bush administration and Israel's Military Intelligence yesterday issued concurrent statements warning that Sharon's plan to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza could be interpreted by Palestinian militants as a victory for terrorism, and will strengthen Hamas.



In other news …



In preparation for the upcoming deliberation about Israel’s Apartheid Wall at the International Court of Justice later this month, an Israeli organization has secured approval for transporting an exploded Israeli bus to the Hague. The Jerusalem bus number 19, that was blown up on January 29th, has been selected for the purpose. A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people aboard that bus during morning rush hour. Because of the tight timetable, the hulk of the bus will be cut in two and sent by air.



Israel's Foreign Ministry public relations wizards have also come up with another idea to tone down the damage to Israel's public image from the separation fence: paint it in gay colors. A Foreign Ministry official said Sunday that the “Palestinians use the fence for propaganda… A colorfully painted barrier would be more aesthetic, resulting in less damage to Israel’s public image.”



* Based on reports from Aljazeera, Associated Press, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (Gaza), and Ma'ariv.



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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040211/481/jrl12302112014

A masked Hamas militant sets up a makeshift mortar launcher against Israeli forces, unseen, as Palestinian youths try to cover him from the sight of the forces during an incursion in a Gaza city's neighborhood, Wednesday Feb. 11, 2004. Israeli troops moved into a neighborhood at the eastern edge of Gaza City early Wednesday, killing atleast 14 Palestinians and wounding at least 27 others in exchanges of fire, residents said, sparking the bloodiest fighting in Gaza in four months. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

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What do you call a combatant shielding himself among non-combatants?

A war criminal.

Looks like some of those "human shields" the coward is hiding behind are children, too.

nonanarchist

People do not just move into thier neighbor'as homeland, take over, steal what they can, MURDER anyone who resists the theft (or is just in the wrong place, as defined by the invadors), route bereaving widows and orphans into the wilderness, 20 years later, invade the wilderness too, and start up with ethnic cleansing afresh, and really expect peace.

Zionists do not want peace. Zionists want to steal the Palestinian's homeland. Zionists chose thier war of conquest in Palestine, and they reap that wich they sowed. And scapegoating the victims of ZIonist offenses doesn't change anything. Palestinians are acting in responce to the extreme duress of the Zionist's continuing bloodsoaked offenses in Palestine.

Abraham chose NOT to sacrifice his child for his own gain. Zionists do, and then they use the children they sacrificed for public relations. Kind of of like how the ghouls used our pain and lose for PR on 911.

It would suprise me more if Palestinians didn't resist the ZIonist's bloodsoaked crusade in the Palestinians homeland. Palestinians just rolling over to die so the foriegn invadors can steal more and more of thier land would be unreal to even imagine. If ZIonists were destroying American's lives and lifes, they would get much of the same thing. Looks like becoming murderous thieving crusaders invading thier nieghbor's homeland and destroying thier lives and lifes wasn't such a hot shit idea after all. ZIonists know where the exits are located. If Zionists want peace with thier Palestinian nieghbors, ZIonists can end thier bloodsoaked war of conquest and get the hell out of Palestine. And not just out of Vichy Palestine, but all of palestine.

The US military has been using the "human shield" lie for over a hundred years.

That was the excuse given for the 1906 massacre of 600 “Moros,” who were Muslim Filipinos living in a very primitive state, refusing to be taken over by the U.S. Army. Whereupon they were attacked with the most modern weapons that the U.S. Army had at its command, while the Moros had knives and daggers and stones, and they were assaulted by guns, rifles, machine guns, and 600 were wiped out, every single one of them, man, woman, and child. When asked why the women and children were massacred, the commander of the cowardly forces claimed that the desperate Moro men were using them as "human shields". The massacre lasted four days.

I bet you're real proud of that particular part of our last fling with imperialism, huh doggie doo?

First of all, there is not now, nor has there ever been a "palestine" as you call the area of concentration of arab terrorism and violence in Israel.

Until you learn geography, there's really no point in you posting anymore.

Hit the books.

I am all for an end to the settlements, the end of Sharon and the end of Israeli military occupation.

But only if and when "palestinian" terrorism is utterly eradicated. And we both know that ONLY the "palestinians" can do that.

And human shields in "palastine"...you bet. There are no bigger subhuman cowards than the savages of Hamas et.al. In fact a large percentage of the "palestinian" deaths that somehow Isarel gets credited with are at the hands of these very same pieces of human shit.

funny, I read the exact same article as the one above on Yahoo, except this person deleted the part where two of the militants they went after blew up a building full of grannies in thier Intifada/Pogrom.

A corrupt government, a violent nature, and many wars which caused the growing Jewish population to defend itself (NONE OF WHICH WERE STARTED BY ISREAL THANKYOU!) by pushing people who were alighned against them back.

Anyone who denies that Jews have Indigenous Ancestry to the region and have generations there that at least go back to the times of the pyramids is lacking in historical knowledge. It has nothing to do with biblical knowledge.

The Zionists, the originals, bought their land.

Some Zionists believe they have thr right to all of Israel and way beyond, they are a small faction and do not represent Israel proper.

The attacks by Arab countries on Israel in the past wars of racist agression from Rome until now have been consistently recorded.

So is the relationship of Hitler to Arab leaders.

The land won in blood is shared with a myriad of foreign workers, refugees from famine, communal farms, schools for peace, hospitals and ambulance drivers Israeli and Arab who treat all races regardless.

These happy diverse and peaceful places are under constant attack, like the bombing at a raver club called the Dolphinarium.

These men hide in Palestine.

They force their women to be martyrs instead of honour killings.

Bethlehem has no tourism because it is too dangerous to reach it.

In Hebron, the busses have bullet proof glass.

Some of the holiest sites, thousands of years old, are vandalised and shot at.

What is this violence good for, either way?

Jews feel like victims, foreign workers feel like victims, imagine if someone was blowing up busses full of Mexican, Russian, and Jewish nurses on their way to Olive View Hospital for work.

You would call that an honorable revolution?

You would call men who fire from behind children honorable?

What do you think a Latino gangster would do if you blew up his mom coming home from a nursing night shift?

YOu bet your ass he'd come after the terrorist punk who did it.

Blaming Jews alone or your idea of a Zionist for all of this is just jaded and racist.

It is a continuous cycle of racism, perpetuated upon Jews all over the world.

Only now in America do we finally see how pervasive, with no consideration for what Jewish people have done for civil rights as a whole or what they have endured at the hands of their Arab neighbors that caused hem to fight back for Israel in the first place.

A sollution does not come from destruction of either peoples over a piece of land.

And each side is equally culpable.

The Palestinian people supported racist and segregationalist ideals. A thousand times you can find AArafat and others saying they will "push the Jews into the sea."

I have never heard anything of the sort from the Israeli side.

But here goes.

If the Palestinians wish to push the Jews into the sea, they may provoke the Jews and Christians and foreign workers and famine survivors to push them into Iraq.

Neither side would be right to implement either plan, yet one side seems decidedly determined and been quoted to say so. While Sharon speaks of moving Jews, Terroists talk of kidnapping soldiers.

Israeli Arabs don't even want to be a part of Palestine because of the extent of the corruption, and that says something when you compare to Sharon. When Palestinians recognise that they have to live in Peace with the diverse cities in Israel which will never be Islamist, there may be peace.

best post here on this subjectfor a long time. You really nailed it.

Shalom.

"That was the excuse given for the 1906..."

And how, exactly, does this bit of history tie into today's situation?

Hint: it doesn't. There is NO ONE serving now who was involved in the Moros massacre. Really. Do the math. Ask a child for help.

Pathetic, actually...your attempts to smear today's military with events from a hundred years ago.

Tell me, Chicken Boy...are you willing to take responsibility for the actions of your family from a century ago?

Further, the thread is about the Middle East, where Palestinian terrorist regularly use their own as human shields. Doesn't involve the US military AT ALL. So your little "US babykillers" routine is quite the non-sequitor, isn't it?

"...our last fling with imperialism..."

Wait a minute! I thought we were building an Empire in the Middle East right now!

You bozos need to get your stories straight.

nonanarchist

http://www.humanityonhold.com/sharon/massacres.html

11:10 2001-06-22

⌠POBEDA■ TURNS 55

55 years ago today, the first ⌠Pobeda■ car was manufactured in Russia. ⌠Pobeda■ means ⌠victory,■ and it is not accidental. The car▓s first tests were conducted at Gorkovski Car Plant in 1943, when a the victory in the Great Patriotic War (this is how WWII was called within Russia▓s boundaries) was dawning. The plant was later heavily bombarded, but the work did not stop for a moment

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/06/22/8416.html

[just thought I'd let you know]

Jesus Christ, Fido, do you know how to fuckin' READ....US Military SOP for over a century...blame the victims...get a clue dingleberry...

"US Military SOP for over a century"

Sure. Whatever.

Anything that leads to American victory will always be anethma to you.

By the way, your heroes in Iraq sure are killing alot of each other. Saves us the bullets.

...if you ever start using rational thought instead of mindless profanity, you might be interesting to talk with.

You'll understand if I don't hold my breath.

"...US Military SOP for over a century..."

Well, then, you won't mind proving it by posting a credible source, then, huh? Seeing as it's written down for people to read and all.

Can't wait for this one.

nonanarchist

Fido, whaddaya, fuckin' thick or what? They used the "human sheild" bullshit 100 years ago on the Moros....there still using it today....sounds like SOP to me....what proof do you need?

now, shitpile, if wantonly killing women and children is claimed as an "American victory", then you are almost right...it will always be AN anathema to me...

...idiot.

Thanks for ONCE AGAIN proving your total ignorance of all things military.

As if further proof were needed...

nonanarchist

In growing numbers it's the civilians who are starved displaced or ripped apart. Carnage and grief as a song in the wind.

...Fido, don't tell me you were looking for an actual document number...were you?

I mean, really, you can't be that naive, can you?

Really?

In other words, all you have to back up your ridiculous assertion is your ridiculous opinion.

Pardon me while I laugh in your face.

I know you'd prefer to see more and more of our troops (you know, those fine folks serving their country in the manner you don't have the courage for) killed over there, but the sad (for you) truth is, the bad guys are losing. Have you seen this?

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/zarqawi_document_040209-1.html

**The document reads like an annual report. There is little flourish, just a cold assessment of what the writer believes is going well in Iraq and what is not.

It reads: "There is no doubt that our field of movement is shrinking and the grip around the throat of the mujahedeen has begun to tighten. With the spread of the army and police, our future is becoming frightening."

The writer says he is having a difficult time gathering forces. "Iraq has no mountains in which to seek refuge, or forest in which to hide."

And the writer concedes, "Our enemy is growing stronger day after day, and its intelligence information increases. By God, this is suffocation."**

Poor li'l jihadis. The big bad Murkans are kicking their sorry behinds all over the place, and for once, they're not too stupid to recognize it.

Gosh, Chicken Boy. Looks like you backed the losing side.

But you should be used to that, shouldn't you?

nonanarchist

Fido: "Poor li'l jihadis."

Um...isn't that a typo....didn't you mean to type "hadjis"?

....fuckin' racist.....