elixt 34 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Are they still at it? C'mon now... this is getting f*cking stupid. Will they ever stop or will this continue right through the year until the whole country is wiped out? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Gaza: 8 journalists killed by Israeli bombing The crime of attacking journalists by Israel is not a new practice, during the war on Gaza in 2008-2009 and in November 2012, several attacks and deaths of journalists were documented.(http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/20/israelgaza-unlawful-israeli-attacks-palestinian-media ) During Israel’s current war on Gaza, the atrocity of assaults on journalists has gone beyond. Since the beginning of the assault, on July 7th, Palestinian journalists and media institutions were massively targeted by Israeli shelling, 8 journalists* were killed and more than a dozen injured, over 15 media headquarters, media vehicles and houses of Journalists were shelled. If that is not a deliberate attack on media, then what is? Here is the list of Journalists killed by Israeli Military in Gaza during the latest assault, may their souls rest in peace: http://abirkopty.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/gaza-8-journalists-killed-by-israeli-bombing/ FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolev 867 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Top Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: Jews Use Blood in Their Passover Matzos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDe1h3hJ6c Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 How Israel helped create Hamas Hamas has the Jewish state to thank for its existence. Hamas launched in 1988 in Gaza at the time of the first intifada, or uprising, with a charter now infamous for its anti-Semitism and its refusal to accept the existence of the Israeli state. But for more than a decade prior, Israeli authorities actively enabled its rise. At the time, Israel's main enemy was the late Yasser Arafat's Fatah party, which formed the heart of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Fatah was secular and cast in the mold of other revolutionary, leftist guerrilla movements waging insurgencies elsewhere in the world during the Cold War. The PLO carried out assassinations and kidnappings and, although recognized by neighboring Arab states, was considered a terrorist organization by Israel; PLO operatives in the occupied territories faced brutal repression at the hands of the Israeli security state. Read rest here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/ Hamas History Tied To Israel Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years. Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East a--lyst for the Center for Strategic Studies. Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official. According to documents United Press International obtained from the Israel-based Institute for Counter Terrorism, Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. Islamic movements in Israel and Palestine were "weak and dormant" until after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel scored a stunning victory over its Arab enemies. After 1967, a great part of the success of the Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood was due to their activities among the refugees of the Gaza Strip. The cornerstone of the Islamic movements success was an impressive social, religious, educational and cultural infrastructure, called Da'wah, that worked to ease the hardship of large numbers of Palestinian refugees, confined to camps, and many who were living on the edge. "Social influence grew into political influence," first in the Gaza Strip, then on the West Bank, said an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity. According to ICT papers, Hamas was legally registered in Israel in 1978 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement's spiritual leader, as an Islamic Association by the name Al-Mujamma al Islami, which widened its base of supporters and sympathizers by religious propaganda and social work. According to U.S. administration officials, funds for the movement came from the oil-producing states and directly and indirectly from Israel. The PLO was secular and leftist and promoted Palestinian nationalism. Hamas wanted to set up a transnational state under the rule of Islam, much like Khomeini's Iran. What took Israeli leaders by surprise was the way the Islamic movements began to surge after the Iranian revolution, after armed resistance to Israel sprang up in southern Lebanon vis-�-vis the Hezbollah, backed by Iran, these sources said. "Nothing provides the energy for imitation as much as success," commented one administration expert. A further factor of Hamas' growth was the fact the PLO moved its base of operations to Beirut in the '80s, leaving the Islamic organization to grow in influence in the Occupied Territories "as the court of last resort," he said. When the intifada began, Israeli leadership was surprised when Islamic groups began to surge in membership and strength. Hamas immediately grew in numbers and violence. The group had always embraced the doctrine of armed struggle, but the doctrine had not been practiced and Islamic groups had not been subjected to suppression the way groups like Fatah had been, according to U.S. government officials. Jon Snow (@jonsnowC4) Divide and Rule? Did Israel really once fund Hamas to try to split the PLO?: See this 2002 article: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10456.htmhttps://twitter.com/jonsnowC4/status/495650775142789120http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10456.htmyou reap what you sow... FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolev 867 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Spanish Journalist on Why Hamas Never Photographed in Action: ‘If Ever We Dared Point Our Camera on Them They Would Simply Shoot at Us and Kill Us’ http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/31/spanish-journalist-on-why-hamas-never-photographed-in-action-if-ever-we-dared-point-our-camera-on-them-they-would-simply-shoot-at-us-and-kill-us/ Journalists receive death threats after reporting Hamas uses human shields www.examiner.com/article/journalists-receive-death-threats-after-reporting-hamas-uses-human-shields https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1-4x8-59E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Israel’s Propaganda on “Terror Tunnels†After Palestinian fighters attacked a military staging area on the night of Monday, July 28, killing several Israeli soldiers, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said, “We will not complete [Operation Protective Edge] without neutralizing the tunnels, the sole purpose of which is the destruction of our civilians and the killing of our children.†In a New York Times report from the same day, Lt. Col. Oshik Azulai of the Israeli army’s Southern Gaza Division told journalist Jodi Rudoren that Hamas militants “want to use these tunnels to attack women and children.†The existence of these so-called “terror tunnels†have become the alleged impetus behind Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, which began on July 8. Israeli officials are unwilling to say how many of these tunnels they believe Hamas has built, but a vague estimate of “several dozen†has been given. The tunnels did not, however, trigger Israeli’s latest operation in Gaza. Instead, Netanyahu’s pretext for the invasion was the alleged Hamas-sanctioned kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. Despite initial claims by the Israeli government, the incident was almost certainly not a Hamas operation. But any excuse was a good excuse, it would seem. Since the bombing first began, the objectives of Operation Protective Edge have notably shifted, as journalist Gregg Carlstrom has pointed out. First, Israel sought to achieve a “quieting†of Hamas rockets, then the destruction of the alleged tunnel threat (the tunnels themselves have been known about for years), and now the complete disarmament of Hamas. As Carlstrom argues, Israel’s operation in Gaza has become “an open-ended military campaign yoked to the ever-more-difficult political objective of sustaining an unsustainable status quo.†Use of the “terror†label is but one of many tactics the Israeli government has yet again employed to drum up support among its citizens and the international community for its war in Gaza. The U.S. media has openly embraced Israel’s problematic “terror tunnel†narrative; CNN’s Wolf Blitzer even paid a visit to these subterranean structures to show just how much effort went into building them. In compiling his report, Blitzer allowed Lt. Col. Azouli to go unchallenged in his claims that the tunnels facilitate attacks on “regular people, children, women, men†in Israel. Thus far, the U.S. media has willfully failed to mention or even notice the obvious lack of evidence showing the tunnels have ever been used for terrorism. Virtually all international organizations that deal with the conflict in Israel/Palestine recognize that rocket fire from Gaza is illegitimate because of its inherently indiscriminate nature. Failing to distinguish between civilian and military targets means rocket attacks violate the laws of war. To date, however, no civilians have been killed via incursions launched from the tunnels, which run from Gaza into Israel. Nor does Hamas appear to be using the tunnels to target Israeli civilians in any way. Hamas’ first known use of the tunnels came in 2006, when it exploited the passageways to capture Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, during a flare-up of hostilities before Israel’s military campaign against Lebanon. Since the start of the latest conflict, all those killed as a result of Hamas’s tunnel attacks have been combatants (i.e. Israeli soldiers), who are permissible targets under the laws of war. Despite the rhetoric and many distorted media reports on the topic, there is no evidence Hamas has used the tunnels to attempt an attack on civilians or civilian objects. The website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs currently lists four incidents of alleged Hamas violence attempted from these tunnels, none of which were successful. In all its descriptions of these incidents, the website includes the distance between the opening of the tunnels and the nearest kibbutz. This information is ostensibly given to make it appear the tunnels are being used to target particular civilian villages. Gaza’s border with Israel is, however, lined with small Israeli kibbutzim, making it difficult for Hamas fighters to emerge anywhere but near one of these areas. As the government website claims, on July 17th, militants emerged “only 1.5 km (less than a mile) away from Sufa, a kibbutz,†where the tunnel opening was just 250 meters from the border. While Israeli President Shimon Peres claimed Hamas had planned a “wholesale slaughter†of the kibbutz, the video of the incident released by Israel fails to show the gunmen more than a few meters away from the tunnel’s opening. Israeli military sources claimed – without evidence – that “the gunmen evidently planned to attack the kibbutz, killing and possibly kidnapping civilians.†In its report, “Trouble Underfoot on Israeli Kibbutz Near Border,†The New York Times seemed to take the Israeli military at its word, although the article acknowledged the attacks were only “presumably†planned against Sufa. Even the normally careful writer Greg Mitchell appeared to believe that a “planned attack by a handful of men on the kibbutz had been thwarted.†Contrary to the Israeli government’s claims, all evidence indicates combatants have been the only targets of Hamas’ tunnel operations. In an incident on July 21st, just days after the alleged Sufa attack, several militants struck an Israeli army vehicle before being killed themselves. Footage of the incident showed Hamas members laying an ambush for the IDF, and not heading toward a kibbutz. The most recent attack on July 28th was more successful for Hamas fighters, who killed several soldiers before returning to Gaza through one of the tunnels. In an about face, a senior Israeli intelligence officer is now claiming that “Hamas operatives aim primarily to abduct soldiers and not to penetrate into civilian communities along the border with Gaza,†according to the Times of Israel. In a revealing admission, the officer pointed out that none of the tunnels actually reaches civilian communities, even though they could easily do so. Indeed, Hamas is likely seeking to attack and/or capture Israeli soldiers through these tunnels. Captured soldiers are an incredibly powerful bargaining chip for the group, as demonstrated by the release of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit in 2011. But this Hamas strategy cannot justify the pummeling of Gaza’s civilian population and infrastructure. Combatants are lawful targets during war. In an attempt to minimize or end these attacks, the Israeli government has no grounds for pursuing civilians, private homes, schools, hospitals, power plants and other civilian and humanitarian installations, which cannot be lawfully targeted under humanitarian law and which Israel has indiscriminately bombed. In its framing of the “terror tunnels,†the Israeli government has essentially claimed that all military action by Hamas, including attacks against Israeli soldiers, are inherently illegitimate and illegal. This is precisely why Israel is demanding the demilitarization of Gaza, even though this would be a non-starter in any negotiations for a sustainable ceasefire. Without a shred of evidence, much of the U.S. media has repeated Israeli government claims about the nature and purpose of these tunnels. In part, it is because of the media’s failure to challenge this propaganda that a majority of Americans blame Hamas for this round of violence and continue to support Israel even as its bombs kill Palestinians by the hundreds and render them homeless by the hundreds of thousands. http://muftah.org/israels-propaganda-terror-tunnels/#.U94ZO_mSw10 FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adakam 2 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Dr.Bassel Abuwarda (@DrBasselAbuward) PIC OF THE DAY Just need to be human to stand up for #Gaza Jews & Muslims hand in hand in solidarity with Gaza in USA http://twitter.com/DrBasselAbuward/status/495824730964758528/photo/1 https://twitter.com/DrBasselAbuward/status/495824730964758528 beautiful picture :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Didymus 34,380 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Confirmed by the Israel government: the "captured" soldier just died in one of the military operations on the ground. I can't believe they bombed another UN school. Unacceptable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Kate Benyon-Tinker â€@katebt3000 .@UNICEF says nearly 300 children have been killed in #Gaza since start of offensive - 30% of civilian casualties. Over 200 were under 12. Kate Benyon-Tinker â€@katebt3000 IDF announces the officer it had reported as captured near Rafah is now believed to have been killed in battle #Gaza Pat Mullally â€@patmullally 5h @katebt3000 So the bombing retaliation and so called breech of ceasefire was all a ruse. Such barbarism should not be tolerated. Genocide Trishy â€@trishysunflower 3h @katebt3000 @cristinaprkr The IDF razed Rafah 2the ground knowin they were killing their own soldier.So it's said. They killed their own. Kate Benyon-Tinker â€@katebt3000 #PT over 100 people died in Rafah and many more injured during Israeli response to capture of soldier now believed dead #Gaza Kate Benyon-Tinker @katebt3000 BBC Middle East Producer, based in Egypt. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 ISM Palestine â€@ISMPalestine A #Gaza cameraman records his own death next to two ambulances via @AqsaTVChannel #GazaUnderAttack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_5ViLlpno FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UC PiXELVISION 353 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 ISM Palestine â€@ISMPalestine A #Gaza cameraman records his own death next to two ambulances via @AqsaTVChannel #GazaUnderAttack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_5ViLlpno Oh my... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterMum 2,532 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Spanish Journalist on Why Hamas Never Photographed in Action: ‘If Ever We Dared Point Our Camera on Them They Would Simply Shoot at Us and Kill Us’ There are youtube docs and more footage tho. Like here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6nLrUg_bzs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 34,380 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 ISM Palestine â€@ISMPalestine A #Gaza cameraman records his own death next to two ambulances via @AqsaTVChannel #GazaUnderAttack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_5ViLlpno That's awful. Very frightening to see. Do you know a bit more about what exactly happened here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandemiya 61 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Israel’s Propaganda on “Terror Tunnels†False. Stop trying to spread false information. This is what the true terror tunnels look like. They lead to a labrynth of 15+ other tunnels that were going to be used to launch a full heavy-on terrorist attack on Israel's most holy holiday- Rosh Hashana. Israel was forced to give them concrete. Why? Because they refused to before because they knew they would use the materials for something else rather than what they said they would. "Schools" and "homes" but no. They used reinforced concrete to build terrorist tunnels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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