[wvns] IDF Bulldozer Crushes Teen
Palestinian sources report Israeli operation in central Strip leaves
17-year-old boy dead, several injured. IDF says has no knowledge of
incident
Report: Gaza youth killed by IDF bulldozer
Ali Waked
09.20.07, 10:52
Israel News
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3451633,00.html
A 17-year-old Palestinian was crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer in
the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinians sources reported.
The youth was transferred to al-Aqsa hospital in the Strip, and
hospital officials reported many signs of trampling on his body.
Palestinians reported that IDF choppers participated in the operation
in which the youth was killed, and were firing at Palestinians gunmen.
Hamas sources said the operation was an attempt to abduct a senior
member of the movement and that bulldozes remained in the area.
Sources also reported that at least seven Palestinians were arrested
during the operation and that several were injured.
The IDF said in response to the report, "The incident is not known,
but is being examined."
Military sources added that IDF forces have been operation in the
northern Gaza Strip in the past 24-hours, and that a number of
incidents of fire clashes with gunmen broke out. The army said that in
one of the incidents a gunman was injured.
IDF forces have been operating in Gaza over the past few weeks in a
number of ways in an attempt to hit terror activists in the Strip.
Most of the activities were carried out with relatively small ground
forces who would exit the Strip shortly after entering.
On Wednesday, ministers declared Gaza a hostile entity, and it was
decided that economic sanctions would be imposed on the Strip,
including decreasing supply of fuel and electricity.
Movement of people and goods will also be limited.
It was unanimously decided in the meeting that "Hamas is a terror
organization that has taken over the Gaza Strip and turned it into a
hostile entity. This organization is carrying out hostile activities
against the State of Israel and its citizens".
Efrat Weiss contributed to this report
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Gaza: The Auschwitz of our Time -- Largest detention camp in the World
Khalid Amayreh
Palestinian Information Center
Aug 13, 2007
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=1658
In 1940, several months after invading Poland in September 1939, the
Nazis forced about 500,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto, surrounding it
with a high wall. Tens of thousands died from hunger and disease.
Eventually, 300,000 were sent to death camps, mainly Treblinka in
eastern Poland.
Similarly, Israel is now incarcerating nearly a million and a half
helpless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip into a hell similar in nature
to the Warsaw Ghetto. The Gaza concentration camp is not only fitted
with a wall, but also with every conceivable tool of repression, such
as electric fences and watch towers manned by Gestapo-like
trigger-happy Jewish soldiers who shoot first and ask questions later.
Moreover, thousands of Israeli soldiers, are surrounding Gaza in a
hermetic manner, shooting and killing any Palestinian trying to
escape, e.g. enter Israel to search for work or even food.
Palestinian kids survive on bread and tea
Even Palestinian kids playing soccer near the hateful fences, are
routinely riddled with bullets or reduced into pieces of human flesh
by the "most moral army in the world."
As a result of these genocidal designs, Gazans in the thousands are
dying of malnutrition and illness resulting from anemia. Moreover,
Children in great numbers are surviving on a meager and totally
inadequate diet consisting mainly of bread and tea.
This week, this writer contacted several Gaza families and asked to
speak with the kids. The answers I received were truly horrifying. I
did speak with 10 kids and was shocked to find out that aseven of the
kids told me their diet during the previous week consisted mainly of
bread and tea in addition to some tomatoes.
The grown-ups, especially the parents, wouldn't reveal the extent of
the unfolding tragedy they are facing. They would only say a terse
"al hamdulillah" (thank God). But the tone of their voices tells us
that they are in real distress.
The Gaza Strip into the largest detention camp in the World
The harsh blockade of Gaza didn't start in mid June when Hamas took
over the small seaside region after defeating and ousting the
American-backed Fatah forces led by Muhammed Dahlan and cohorts who
had been planning, with American dollars and arms, to murder the
Hamas leadership in order to receive a certificate of good conduct
from the Bush Administration and Israel.
In fact, Gaza has been effectively under siege since 2000 when the
second Palestinian intifada or uprising broke out. Since, then Gazans
have been barred from exporting their products and produces.
Moreover, Israel, which has been telling the world that it had ended
its occupation of Gaza, still retains full control of the Rafah
border crossing with Egypt, thus reducing the Gaza Strip into the
largest detention camp in the world.
To make a long story short, Gazans are being pushed into a situation
very similar to that which prevailed at the Ghetto Warsaw. They are
not allowed to work (unemployment in Gaza stands at more than 70%),
they are not allowed to travel abroad, they are not allowed to enter
Israel for work, they are not allowed even to go fishing offshore
since Israeli gunboats would open fire at any fishing-boat daring to
go more than a mile off the shore.
The criminal and draconian measures are meant to further impoverish
Gazans to the extent that they won't be able to purchase food.
The declared Israeli goal behind starving and tormenting the people of
Gaza is to force them to revolt against the democratically-elected
government, led by the Hamas movement, and settle for a quisling-like
government that would sell-out Palestinian national rights, including
the paramount right of return for Palestinian refugees uprooted from
their homes and villages by Jewish gangs in 1948, when Israel was created.
It is believed that up to two thirds of the inhabitants of Gaza are
refugees. Hence, the intensive repression and coercion being meted out
to these people in order to force them to give up their right to
return to their homes and villages in what is now Israel.
It is crystal clear that Israel is steadily but certainly
effecting a Nazi-like approach toward the people of the Gaza Strip.
The PR-conscious Israeli government, however, is hoping that the
world will not take proactive measures to expose the creeping
genocide in Gaza . This is why Israel is allowing limited shipments
of food products , such as flour and cooking oil, into Gaza , to avoid
a possible international outcry.
However, the supplies are conspicuously meager and don't meet the
basic nutritional needs of the vast bulk of Gaza children.
Unfortunately, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) seems
to be conniving and colluding with Israel to keep the unfolding Gaza
tragedy as silent as possible.
UNRWA officials do make idle statements from time to time, warning of
an impending "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza. However, the UN agency
often refrains from "saying it as it is," probably for fear of
upsetting the Israelis and the Americans, who apparently don't like
to hear words like "starvation, and concentration camps" with regard
to the situation in Gaza find their way to the international media.
Israel is undoubtedly the central culprit in this man-made tragedy in
Gaza, since it is up to her to allow Gazans to obtain food and export
their products and especially their produces to the West Bank. Such a
step, which would cost Israel nothing, would help Gazans obtain some
meager income to feed their children.
However, Israel, as always, has apparently chosen to be faithful to
long traditions of callousness and moral depravity, not unlike the
way the Nazis treated their victims.
US administration, Abbas as guilty as Israel
But Israel is not the only guilty party in this tragedy. The US is
actually as criminal as Israel, since the Bush administration is
urging Israel to keep up the pressure on Gaza.
In fact, American officials keep congratulating their Israeli
colleagues on the "success" of the blockade against Gaza. I wonder
what kind of politicians are those who enjoy watching children starve
to death? Are they human beings or cannibalistic beasts? This
question ought to be directed to Condoleezza Rice whose behavior
toward the Palestinian people is probably a thousand times worse than
the behavior of the worst American white slave masters toward here
forefathers.
Maybe it is naive to appeal to Rice's sense of justice and morality
since her manifestly criminal record with regard to the Palestinian
cause leaves no doubt as to the woman's unethical and evil character.
But if the Bush administration, which has been carrying a holocaust in
Iraq, and Israel, which has been effecting ethnic cleansing in
Palestine in the name of Jewish nationalism, can be "excused" on the
ground that only evil can be expected from evil governments, the
Palestinian regime of Mahmoud Abbas has no excuse whatsoever to
collude and connive with Israel against the very people it is claiming
to serve.
Such behavior, including the tacit and implicit encouragement of
Israel to tighten the blockade of Gaza, and keep hundreds of thousands
of encircled Gazans hungry and thoroughly tormented, characterizes
quislings and agents of a foreign occupation.
Clearly, Abbas and his aides have much to explain to the Palestinian
people. They also have much to atone for. This is if they still
possess any sense of shame.
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