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Over 50 Killed In Gaza As Israel Shelling Is "Fiercest Since 1967 War"
While the world's attention is focused on the tragic events in Ukraine, the fighting in Gaza has entered its 13th, and most deadly day, with at least 50 Palestinians killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighborhood, where "bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled for shelter to a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said." Reuters reports that the mass casualties in Shejaia, in northeast Gaza, were the heaviest since Israel launched its offensive, since expanded to a land offensive including tanks and troops. This has brought the total dead count on the Gaza side to over 400.
A few hours later, Israel agreed to a two-hour humanitarian truce in Shejaiya. The ceasefire was supposed to last from 13:30 to 15:30 local time an Israeli military spokesman said. But a BBC team on the ground reported an exchange of fire less than an hour after the truce began.
According to elderly locals, today's Israeli shelling was the fiercest they had seen since the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured Gaza. Shifa hospital's director, Naser Tattar, said 17 children, 14 women and four elderly were among the 50 dead, and about 400 people were wounded in the Israeli assault.
Gaza's Health Ministry officials said at least 385 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in the 13-day conflict and about 2,600 have been wounded.
On Israel's side, two civilians have been killed by cross-border fire and five soldiers have died in fighting. More than 50 Israeli troops have been wounded, hospital officials said.
Thousands fled Shejaia, some by foot and others piling into the backs of trucks and sitting on the hoods of cars filled with families trying to get away. Several people rode out of the neighborhood of 100,000 in the shovel of a bulldozer.
Video given to Reuters by a local showed at least a dozen corpses, including three children, lying in rubble-filled streets, though the footage could not be verified independently.
An AFP reporter comments on the ground:
Just back from #Shejaiya, horrible scenes. Burnt bodies in the streets, buildings destroyed. Ceasefire a joke. Shelling, gunfire throughout
— Sara Hussein (@sarahussein) July 20, 2014
Meanwhile the IDF is denying all responsibility for the mass killings of civilians, instead saying it had warned the locals to evacuate in advance:
Days ago, we warned civilians in Shuja'iya to evacuate. Hamas ordered them to stay. Hamas put them in the line of fire.
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 20, 2014
Furthermore, the IDF released the following schematic to explain the layout of local militants and rockets within Shejaiya.
Take a look inside: Hamas uses Shuja'iya as a fortress for its weapons. pic.twitter.com/gX5MC8DXCw
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 20, 2014
In other developments surrounding Gaza, the BBC reports that:
- Hamas claims it carried out a major attack on Israeli forces in Gaza, causing multiple casualties. There is no comment from the Israeli military on this
- There has been almost constant shelling by Israel in the past few hours, with tanks and troops reported on the move
- Hamas is continuing to fire rockets into Israel, with one landing in the city of Ashkelon
- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Qatar later to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Perhaps most disturbing, and something which has gotten zero coverage compared to the ongoing chaos in Donetsk, is that Israel's Government Press Office on Saturday warned foreign journalists it was not responsible for their safety in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state has launched an offensive against Palestinian militants.
"Gaza and its vicinity are a battleground. Covering the hostilities exposes journalists to life-threatening danger," an e-mailed Government Press Office (GPO) statement said. "Israel is not in any way responsible for injury or damage that may occur as a result of field reporting."
The GPO, which accredits journalists based in Israel, many of whom also cover events in the Palestinian Territories, charged Islamist group Hamas was using journalists as human shields and advised reporters to take "every possible precaution."
In other words, if there are no foreign journalists covering the atrocities in Gaza, that would be ideal. In the meantime, it is best to distract the public's attention with some speculation that the Separatist rebels in Ukraine are doing the same, and try to provoke fury there, but not here.
Below are some photos documenting the sheer destruction in Shejaiya:
Shejaiya, during a brief ceasefire. Horrendous scenes of destruction. pic.twitter.com/J1nXiumfVq
— Paul Adams (@BBCPaulAdams) July 20, 2014
Massive destruction in Shaja’ia after intense bombardment by #IDF this morning. v @janisctv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine pic.twitter.com/c8bBCnIwy7
— Rami (@RamiAlLolah) July 20, 2014
The district of Shejaiya came under heavy Israeli bombardment overnight, Palestinians say
The Israeli military says the ground offensive has been expanded to destroy a Hamas tunnel network
An air strike early on Sunday morning killed four people, including two children, according to medics
Israelis who support the offensive faced off with those against it in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening
Finally, the reason why it is all about to get much worse, is that in an interview with Cannel 2 TV, the Israeli Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz said the military may take control of Hamas-controlled territory for several months to “dismantle the terror army.” Needless to say such an act would provoke a firestorm, literally, of desperation from Hamas which would almost certainly lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent bystanders in the latest sharp escalation of a conflict that goes back countless years.
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if the US miltary upheld the oath that all members swear upon joining we wouldn't have any of the Amerinightmare what we live with today including the "modern" military and all it's spin offs, paranoia, entitlement complex etc ........... be a damned shame to treat each other with respect now that I think about it
This is not a war.
This is and has been genocide.
It will never be forgotten.
Even for very rational people like some of us, it's inevitable.
Not because we're against jews, but because Israel and those behind it are against Humanity; However, it's Israel which is gonna be blame and it earns every day the right to qualify as the worst, in the worst pages of History.
It will never be forgotten.
What happened in Palestine since 1947 has never happened before, in terms of the combination of the elements: brutality and racism of the occupier, the injustice of granting one peoples land to others, duration of this injustice, complicity and apathy of the civilized world as well as Palestinian people’s will to resist all that against all odds.
Palestine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dkdGgRaqWM
Shayne Ward - What About Me? - With Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM5xACiY7_k (3:18)
What About Me
Oh, there's a little boy waiting at the counter of a corner shop
He's been waiting down there, waiting half the day
We never ever see him from the top
He gets pushed around, knocked to the ground
But he gets to his feet and he says
What about me? It isn't fair
I've had enough, now I want my share
Can't you see I wanna live?
But you just take more than you give
Well there's a pretty girl serving at the counter of the corner shop
She's been waiting back there, waiting for her dreams
Her dreams walk in and out, they never stop
Well, she's not too proud to cry out loud
She runs to the street and she screams
What about me? It isn't fair
I've had enough, now I want my share
Can't you see I wanna live?
But you just take more than you give
So take a step back and see the little people
They may be young but they're the ones
Who make the big people big
So listen, as they whisper, "What about me?"
Now I'm standing on the corner of the world's gone home
Nobody's changed, nobody's been saved
And I'm feeling cold and alone
I guess I'm lucky, I smile a lot
But sometimes I wish for more then I go
What about me? It isn't fair
I've had enough, now I want my share
Can't you see I wanna live?
But you just take more
What about me? It isn't fair
I've had enough, now I want my share
Can't you see I wanna live?
But you just take more, you just take more
You just take more than you give
What about me?
What about me?
What about me?
Nam was enough for me. It takes two to draw blood. Neither of these two have innocence natures in them after blood is drawn. The stain never goes away for those who draw and see the blood…
Are you shocked at the level of geopolitical beliefs on this website?
Here is 1 thing for you to comprehend so you can understand why.
1. Most posters here are Nazi symphatiser.
Regarding 1.: Being Nazi symphatiser means these people automatically side with the rag-heads, Muslims/Islam, Arabs. Now if this in itself is not shocking, don't forget that these people hate America with a passion, they want blood, they want to kill. Yet these western posters side themselves with these violent Muslim suckers. It's seems a bit suicidal to me to say the least.
These people therefore side with Hitler and the Nazi Germany. Islam has clearly taken over from Nazi Germany in it's mission to kill and hate the Jews. Islam succesfully has taken on this role, and these symphatisers side with them. So, Israel not only fights with Islam/Arabs/Muslims now, but it has a large enemy in these neo-Nazi symphatisers. Basically large chunk of western people, and people who post on ZH are siding with with Nazisim in their hate against the Jews. So for Israel to live in peace they would not only have to wipe out all the Arabs/Islam, but they would also have to wipe out neo-Nazi symphatisers that West is full of. This is clearly impossible.
This means there will never be peace, thanks to neo-Nazis like ZH posters, and thanks to violent religion of Islam.
When you understant all this first, you can comprehend why some of the posts here are so retarded that these people say "Hitler was onto something...." These fuckers will face the same end as Hitler, karma to you.
There are stupid zioqueers and then there's you. You get the academy award for stupidity. Applause all around.
You know its true, you know you are Nazi.
Fuck you stupid Nazi symphatiser, truth hurts doesn't it.
ROUGH---If anyone here is a NAZI it would be you with your complete lack of tolerence.
Look in the mirror ace. You're the ashkeNAZI, not me. I find it ironic that the zioqueers, who cooked up one of the greatest hoaxes in world history after slaughtering 100m or so Russians then tried to spread the Bolshevism into Germany and suffered severe blowback are now, again, hiding behind "oh my god, we're the victims, poor poor pitiful us, please give us another $100bn in aid, please."
Go fuck yourself and your fraudlent backstory. The world has woken up and you're on the run.
Frankly, because the Middle East has been bat crazy since I was born, death in the Middle East has become numbed. Ukraine though, from the times I have been there, is filled with very nice people that live a hard life bravely, but are not crazy, and will eventually find a solution.
The potential for the human race is questionable. The catalyst for war has not been diminished as many people have hoped it would once the world matured. National pride, political agendas, religious and ethnic hatreds are some of the biggest roadblocks to world peace.
Often we seem to forget as we look back to World War II and past a dozen "lesser Conflicts" peace has been the exception rather then the rule for hundreds and thousands of years. The true reality is that across the world few mothers want to see their children killed and most farmers want to be left along to raise their crops and earn a living. More on the subject of war as a solution to conflict in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/war-and-what-is-it-good-for.html
Israelis put down seat for rocket bombardment
(google trans from Dutch) http://tinyurl.com/q6jk7yr
ORG WITH PICTURES http://www.joop.nl/kijk-nou/detail/artikel/27728_israelis_zetten_stoeltje_neer_voor_raketbeschieting/
http://www.joop.nl/uploads/RTEmagicC_StandtentSderot.png.png
Israel has bombed the beach club yesterday. There were about 20 people watching football #. Nedarg 9 dead
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsLtcH-CIAMYk9U.jpg
ORG https://twitter.com/RGjournalist/status/487212793091727360
The Nazi - Muslim - Satanists are out in force today. I don't understand how people overlook the fact that Israel is defending itself. The only thing that makes sense is their own hatred for the Jews.