Conflict flares up in Gaza again

[Saba'a]

pro-peace-protests-are-sweeping-israel-right-now-and-israeli-jdl-fascists-are-freakin

Trust I am posting this correctly. Got it on facebook so not sure how to credit. PS wasnt aware posting link only is trolling

Below link about pro peace demonstrations in Israel. Interesting if true. Bit unclear how big it is although implications are its quite large numbers involved.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/...ow-and-israeli-jdl-fascists-are-freaking-out/

 

[Lightscribe]

Gaza Youth’s Manifesto for Change

The Manifesto

“Fu*k Hamas. Fu*k Israel. Fu*k Fatah. Fu*k UN. Fu*k UNWRA. Fu*k USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!

“We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our souls in order to release this immense frustration that consumes us because of this fu*king situation we live in…

“We are sick of being caught in this political struggle; sick of coal-dark nights with airplanes circling above our homes; sick of innocent farmers getting shot in the buffer zone because they are taking care of their lands; sick of bearded guys walking around with their guns abusing their power, beating up or incarcerating young people demonstrating for what they believe in; sick of the wall of shame that separates us from the rest of our country and keeps us imprisoned in a stamp-sized piece of land; sick of being portrayed as terrorists, home-made fanatics with explosives in our pockets and evil in our eyes; sick of the indifference we meet from the international community, the so-called experts in expressing concerns and drafting resolutions but cowards in enforcing anything they agree on; we are sick and tired of living a ****ty life, being kept in jail by Israel, beaten up by Hamas and completely ignored by the rest of the world.

“There is a revolution growing inside of us, an immense dissatisfaction and frustration that will destroy us unless we find a way of canalising this energy into something that can challenge the status quo and give us some kind of hope.

“We barely survived the Operation Cast Lead, where Israel very effectively bombed the **** out of us, destroying thousands of homes and even more lives and dreams. During the war we got the unmistakable feeling that Israel wanted to erase us from the face of the Earth. During the last years, Hamas has been doing all they can to control our thoughts, behaviour and aspirations. Here in Gaza we are scared of being incarcerated, interrogated, hit, tortured, bombed, killed. We cannot move as we want, say what we want, do what we want.

“ENOUGH! Enough pain, enough tears, enough suffering, enough control, limitations, unjust justifications, terror, torture, excuses, bombings, sleepless nights, dead civilians, black memories, bleak future, heart-aching present, disturbed politics, fanatic politicians, religious bull****, enough incarceration! WE SAY STOP! This is not the future we want! We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask?”

http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/...ans-both-must-read-this-gaza-youth-manifesto/

Peace comes at a price. Channel your frustration, yes. Remember the Arab Spring. Seems winter is about to give way to spring in Gaza. Take on hamas and negotiate a brighter future with Israel and your lost lives will not be wasted.

 

[Glingfram]

Alot of "ENOUGH"s and no solution. Why is the world indifferent? Because you are indifferent. If you want to do something, stand up to your bullies (Hamas), stop them from detaining, torturing and conrtolling you. Stop them from firing rockets into Isreal and causing them to bomb the hell out of you.

Once you've stopped the extremists in your own country, as little as it is, you MIGHT find Isreal a little easier to deal with. If not, at least you've put an end to your own country's problems.

This should apply to Islamists across the world (I'm looking at you Nigeria). Society needs to keep the radicals in check.

 

[Naks]

Once you've stopped the extremists in your own country, as little as it is, you MIGHT find Isreal a little easier to deal with. If not, at least you've put an end to your own country's problems.
This should apply to Islamists across the world (I'm looking at you Nigeria). Society needs to keep the radicals in check.

1. Palestine is not a country.
2. I'm sure you also meant to include should extremist Zionist in the radical mix
3. Sounds very much like you are telling a battered woman not to provoke her abuser

 

[Cray]

Alot of "ENOUGH"s and no solution. Why is the world indifferent? Because you are indifferent. If you want to do something, stand up to your bullies (Hamas), stop them from detaining, torturing and conrtolling you. Stop them from firing rockets into Isreal and causing them to bomb the hell out of you.

Once you've stopped the extremists in your own country, as little as it is, you MIGHT find Isreal a little easier to deal with. If not, at least you've put an end to your own country's problems.

This should apply to Islamists across the world (I'm looking at you Nigeria). Society needs to keep the radicals in check.

It's very easy to sit in a safe country a world away and tell an oppressed people to stand up against people with guns.

Some people regard life as more important than freedom...

 

[AthenianOwl]

In Gaza, burying those killed by Israeli airstrikes is getting more dangerous

GAZA CITY — More than 560 Palestinians have been killed in the 14-day battle with Israel. Burying the bodies has become more difficult and dangerous with each passing day.

Movement can be a risky sprint not only for ambulances but also for the beat-up vans that ferry the dead to cemeteries. The central morgue in Gaza City is overflowing, its wheezing refrigerators losing the struggle against the smell. The graveyards are filling, and mourners dig their own holes.

In the early days of the current Israeli offensive against Hamas, the militant movement that controls the Gaza Strip, people took bodies to the mosque and gathered afterward in mourning tents. There were parades and battle flags. Clerics gave defiant speeches.

No more. Funerals are now rushed, anxious family affairs that take place under the sound of Israeli artillery and drones.

The two Hamdeiah brothers were dug out of the ruins of their home in the besieged Shijaiyah district of east Gaza City on Monday morning, not long after an Israeli airstrike killed them. Moataz, 18, and Ahed, 23, were found alongside the bodies of a cousin, Yussef, 22, and three passing neighbors.

A friend of the brothers said in an interview that another member of the Hamdeiah clan was “wanted,” meaning he was a known fighter and the likely target of the strike, which killed six. Israel launched its offensive to stop Hamas from firing rockets and digging tunnels that could be used to kill or abduct Israelis.

The brothers arrived at Shifa Hospital gray and lifeless, their clothes matted and darkened by soot and cement dust. Their family members gathered, and while the bodies were still on the metal gurneys in triage, they wrapped them in muslin cloth and zipped them into white body bags.

Then they tried to figure out where to bury them.

At the entrance of the morgue, Mohammed Jindeya, a teacher, stood watch over the body of his aunt, which was on the floor. She was one of the neighbors killed in the Israeli strike.

“She was just walking by and then . . . ” Jindeya pointed to the bundle wrapped in a blanket at his feet. “There’s no room in the refrigerators,” he said.

Asked how much longer he thought the hostilities would last, Jindeya shrugged.

“Days? Weeks? I don’t think the Israelis are finished killing us yet,” he said. He said he also wasn’t sure where his aunt would be buried.

“We are asking permission to go back into Shijaiyah to bury them close to home, but I do not think it will be possible,” he said. The Israeli military is still bombing the neighborhood.

He looked exhausted. Shijaiyah has been the scene of the most intense Israeli barrage of the offensive, as well as running street battles between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters, who have used land mines, booby traps and antitank missiles to counter the Israeli advance.

Eventually, the six bodies emerged from the morgue to be stacked into a Volkswagen van, a taxi and a small truck.

As is traditional in Gaza among religious families, the women would not attend the burials, so they approached the van to get a last look. They were possessed by grief. Several collapsed in a near faint and had to be carried away.

The Israeli military has warned residents in wide stretches of Gaza to evacuate their neighborhoods, so many graveyards have become off-limits.

As the van, taxi and truck sped off with the six corpses, family members inside were still making cellphone calls to find a place for them to go.

They eventually arrived at a cemetery in Jabalia, north of Gaza City, and because the area nearby was being bombarded, the family members rushed to dig graves. A dozen other groups were also interring their dead in the sand.

The prayers were abbreviated and quick. Relatives scrawled the brothers’ names on pieces of cardboard and pushed the temporary headstones into sand wetted with buckets of water. By the time they were leaving, one of the markers had already blown away.

Islam Abdul-Karim contributed to this report.

The international community doesn't give a **** about this situation. What a world we live in!!! Congrats, your pet Israel just creates a new generation of enemies. Another 9/11 attack is in the making.

 

[Cray]

Article about human shields...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-the-myth-of-hamass-human-shield-9619810.html

Some Gazans have admitted that they were afraid of criticizing Hamas, but none have said they had been forced by the organisation to stay in places of danger and become unwilling human-shields. The Bani Sobeila area, near Khan Younis, where the Abu Jamaa deaths took place received leaflets dropped from the air last week warning them to leave.

 

[Saba'a]

An ANC guy wrote a letter to the Chief Rabbi about Gaza. Anybody have a copy to share?

 

[yebocan]

In Gaza, burying those killed by Israeli airstrikes is getting more dangerous



The international community doesn't give a **** about this situation. What a world we live in!!! Congrats, your pet Israel just creates a new generation of enemies. Another 9/11 attack is in the making.

Welcome to the depravity, that is humanity!! It is sickening, no one gives two hoots...- no one learns from history. Blood of innocence is pouring, ...know they not, that a equal recompense will have to be paid...on goes the merry go round....Again, what a pathetic species we are!!

 

[LazyLion]

WORLD PUSHES FOR TRUCE AS ISRAEL BATTERS GAZA

The UN chief and Washington's top diplomat were in Cairo on Tuesday to push for an end to two weeks of violence in Gaza that has killed 583 Palestinians.

As the conflict entered its 15th day, neither side showed any sign of willingness to end the violence, with Israel pursuing a relentless campaign of shelling and airstrikes, and militants hitting back with rocket fire and fierce attacks on troops operating on the ground.

Gaza medics say the dead include many women and children, while in Israel, 27 of the 29 victims were soldiers killed since the ground assault began late on July 17.

World powers have urged Hamas to accept an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire and stop raining rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip, demands it has so far resisted.

Ahead of a meeting with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that the Islamist Hamas movement agree to end the fighting to spare further bloodshed, in a call echoed by the Arab League.

"Only Hamas now needs to make the decision to spare innocent civilians from this violence," he said, pledging $47 million in humanitarian aid for the battered Gaza Strip.

Ban also demanded a complete halt to the bloodshed. "Violence must stop, it must stop now," he said late Monday.

Last week, an Egyptian truce proposal collapsed after it was accepted by Israel but rejected by Hamas, with US officials admitting that ceasefire efforts could prove trickier than before as Cairo, the regional mediator, now has little leverage with the movement after the army overthrew its Islamist ally, president Mohamed Morsi, last year.

Although Kerry defended Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas attacks, he voiced Washington's concern over the growing body count.

"We are deeply concerned about the consequences of Israel's appropriate and legitimate effort to defend itself," he said.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon also demanded Hamas "immediately" halt its cross-border rocket attacks, adding that while he understood Israel's military response, "there is a proportionality and ... most of the death toll (has been) Palestinian."

Meanwhile there was no halt to the bloodshed on the ground with 23 people killed in fresh Israeli strikes on Tuesday, raising the death toll since Israel launched its operation on July 8 to 583, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

Five of those killed on Tuesday were members of the same family who died in a strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Four of the victims were women, he said.

Another 3,640 people have been wounded.

Israel has said Operation Protective Edge is to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza, and on July 17 it sent in ground troops with the aim of destroy cross-border tunnels used by Hamas militants to infiltrate southern Israel.

Since the offensive, more than 100,000 Gazans have fled their homes, seeking shelter in 69 schools run by the Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).

Early on Tuesday morning, the Israeli army said another two of its troops had been killed in clashes in Gaza a day earlier, raising Monday's toll to nine soldiers.

Overall, 27 soldiers have died in the past four days, with 13 killed on Sunday alone in what was the bloodiest single day for the Israeli military since the Lebanon war of 2006.

Two Israeli civilians have also been killed by rocket fire.

Hamas's main condition for halting its fire is a lifting of Israel's eight-year blockade on the enclave, but it is also looking for "the release of those recently detained" in the West Bank, Ismail Haniya, the movement's top Gaza-based official, said late on Monday.

"The conditions of the Palestinian resistance constitute the minimum required for a truce. The resistance and the sons of our people who have made such sacrifices in this mad war cannot accept anything less," he said.

Meanwhile, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held talks in Doha, pledging to work together for a ceasefire and to lift the blockade on Gaza.

"Hamas and Abbas agreed that all Palestinian factions should work as a team towards a ceasefire," Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior official in Abbas's Fatah party, told AFP.

"It was decided that there should be a ceasefire first, and we will continue discussions with Egypt and all regional and international sides until we crystallise the content of a final peace agreement."

But there has been no let-up in cross-border rocket fire since the operation began, with 116 rockets hitting Israel on Monday, one striking the greater Tel Aviv area, and another 17 shot down.

Violence also broke out in the West Bank, where an Israeli shot dead a Palestinian who had been throwing stones at his car, Palestinian security sources said. The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli was seriously wounded after a Palestinian opened fire at him from a travelling car, the army said.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 22 Jul 2014 09:12

 

[Polymathic]

[video=youtube;K9KDhsFFfGU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KDhsFFfGU&list=UU1yBKRuGpC1tSM73A0ZjYjQ[/video]

 

[LazyLion]

ISRAEL AIR STRIKES KILL 7 IN GAZA: MEDICS

A series of Israeli air strikes early Tuesday killed seven people in Gaza, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

The deaths hike the total Palestinian toll to 583 since the Israeli military launched Operation Protective Edge on July 8 in a bid to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza.


Source : Sapa-AFP /kd
Date : 22 Jul 2014 07:33

 

[Hiro ZA]

Interesting video from an American :

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hvi...=b8cea2f88d5ec7df788b200ca1d0277e&oe=53CF744A







Sense of racial superiority. Check.
Sense of divine entitlement. Check.
Arrogance and cruelty. Check.
Membership open only to a very specific white demographic. Check.

The above statements could easily describe the the Nazi's, the KKK, or the criminal entity of Israel.



Finally, as most of you know, Judaism does not equal Zionism!

http://www.nkusa.org/

http://www.truetorahjews.org/

 

[LazyLion]

ISRAELI AIRCRAFT HIT MORE THAN 70 TARGETS IN GAZA

A police spokesman says Israeli aircraft have hit more than 70 targets in the Gaza Strip, including the home of the late leader of Hamas' military wing, five mosques and a football stadium.

Ayman Batniji says tank shells damaged several houses along the eastern border of the territory early Tuesday and that at least 19 fishing boats were burned by navy shells fired from the Mediterranean.

The Israeli military says two soldiers were killed, bringing the number of troops killed in two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting to 27. A Palestinian official says more than 570 Palestinians have been killed since then.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Cairo in a new attempt to broker a cease-fire. Prospects are slim because wide gaps remain.


Source : Sapa-AP /nsm
Date : 22 Jul 2014 06:19

 

[LazyLion]

TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED IN GAZA: ARMY

Two Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday, raising the number of troops killed in the 15-day conflict with Hamas to 27.

"Yesterday, Monday, two IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers were killed during battles of Operation Protective Edge," a statement from the army read.


Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 22 Jul 2014 05:07

 

[AthenianOwl]

TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED IN GAZA: ARMY

Two Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday, raising the number of troops killed in the 15-day conflict with Hamas to 27.

"Yesterday, Monday, two IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers were killed during battles of Operation Protective Edge," a statement from the army read.


Source : Sapa-AFP /nsm
Date : 22 Jul 2014 05:07

Oh noes! 2 died!? .... What about Palestine women and kids who were senselessly killed by "God's children"???!!!!

 

[Alan]

Alot of "ENOUGH"s and no solution. Why is the world indifferent? Because you are indifferent. If you want to do something, stand up to your bullies (Hamas), stop them from detaining, torturing and conrtolling you. Stop them from firing rockets into Isreal and causing them to bomb the hell out of you.

Once you've stopped the extremists in your own country, as little as it is, you MIGHT find Isreal a little easier to deal with. If not, at least you've put an end to your own country's problems.

This should apply to Islamists across the world (I'm looking at you Nigeria). Society needs to keep the radicals in check.

Their solution is a Palestinian state run by Hamas. It's the western democratic state called Israel that must go!

 

[zippy]

Their solution is a Palestinian state run by Hamas. It's the western democratic state called Israel that must go!

Israel isn't a western democratic state. Its a middle eastern democratic state.

 

[AthenianOwl]

Israel isn't a western democratic state. Its a middle eastern democratic state.

Backed by a lot of western democratic powers.

 

[LazyLion]

Oh noes! 2 died!? .... What about Palestine women and kids who were senselessly killed by "God's children"???!!!!

My advice is that they should have accepted the first cease fire that was offered to them days ago.