8 November 2006 - United Nations officials voiced shock and dismay at Israel's shelling of a residential area in the occupied Gaza Strip in which 18 Palestinian civilians were killed, including eight children and seven women, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling on the Israeli Government to cease its military operations there forthwith.

In a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr. Annan took note of the reported announcement by Israel of a full investigation and said he looked forward to its early results. He also called on the Palestinians to halt attacks against Israeli targets.

The Security Council President for November, Ambassador Jorge Voto-Bernales of Peru, summoned the 15-member body for urgent consultations on the situation, including today's shelling of the residential area in Beit Hanoun.

"Only last Friday, the Secretary-General expressed his deep concern about the rising death toll caused by the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza, given that such operations inevitably cause civilian casualties," Mr. Annan's spokesman said. "The Secretary-General reminds both sides of their obligations under international humanitarian law regarding the protection of civilians in armed conflict."

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ami Almeghari writing from occupied Gaza, Live from Palestine, 7 November 2006

"The Israeli army soldiers are now blockading the mosque; while a number of resistance fighters are inside, where they have taken sanctuary for fear of being attacked. Dozens of women made their way into the mosque, to make a defensive shield for the helpless men inside," Faten Sehwail of Beit Hanoun told me by cellphone while huddled inside her home, unable to go outside because of the Israeli army-imposed curfew.

Beit Hanoun is a small Palestinian city in the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli-created "autumn clouds" are now over the heads of its residents, making their days as black as their nights. Such clouds are poisonous ones, as they have killed, up to the moment of this article, about 50 Palestinian women, men and children and wounded about 200 others.

"Autumn Clouds" is the code name of the Israeli attack currently underway in Beit Hanoun, an offensive that is considered to be the most severe of the past few years. Israel claims that the pretext for the invasion is to "prevent the Palestinian resistance from firing rockets into the nearby Israeli town of Sderot." Such a pretext has always been the claim for every invasion into Gaza, invasions which have claimed thousands of innocent lives in the last six years of open conflict.

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It was the Israeli IDF who first began using Palestinian civilians to shield their tanks and APCs as they performed murderous 'incursions' into the occupied ghettos. Blow me, naziboy.

Speaks the truth. You know he's doing good work when the zio nazis attack him every chance they get.