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National Day of Emergency Mass Action: Saturday, January 10

Mass March in Washington, D.C.
White House (north side) @ 1:00 pm

There will be a major regional demonstration on Saturday, January 10. Gather at the White House (north side, Lafayette Park) at 1:00 PM. The protest will be located between the Bush White House and the Hay Adams Hotel, where President-Elect Obama is now residing, which is located on the north side of Lafayette Park. Calling by: The ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, National Council of Arab Americans, and Al-Awda - International Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for more information, contact: A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition http://www.answercoalition.org/
e-mail: info@internationalanswer.org
National Office in Washington DC: 202-544-3389

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Israeli strike hits outside UN school, 34 dead!

1/7 LATEST! French President Sarkozy says Israel accepts Gaza "truce"

[al Jazeera] Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has said that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted a Franco-Egyptian truce plan for Gaza >> Read More

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Israeli F-16 Attack Kills Father of Palestinian Journalist; Israel Bombs UN School, Killing Three

(1/6) The UN says around a quarter of the dead are civilians, but that figure only counts women and children, excluding adult males. Today, we will look at one of those men killed. I am joined by Fares Akram. He is the Gaza correspondent for The Independent of London. His father was killed in an Israeli F-16 attack on Saturday. His wife is nine months pregnant. We also speak with UNRWA's Christopher Gunness on the Israeli bombing of an UN school that killed three people.

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U.S. MUSLIMS CONDEMN ISRAELI MASSACRE OF 60 IN ONE GAZA FAMILY

Telegraph: Incident may be bloodiest single Israeli attack on Palestinian civilians

By: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/6/2009) A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned a reported Israeli massacre of more than 60 members of an extended Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) cited a report in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, which states:

“[A]s many as 60 members of the extended Samouni family were killed near their homes in the Gazan town of Zeitoun while nine more died in hospital. Dozens of bodies are believed to remain under the rubble of a large house hit repeatedly by Israeli shelling in the incident. The International Committee of the Red Cross has formally requested permission from the Israeli army to visit the scene of the attack to establish the exact scale of the slaughter.”

SEE: Israel Strike Kills Up to 60 Members of One Family (Telegraph)

“Unfortunately, this unimaginable carnage is being carried out with the political support of our own government,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “Elected officials must stand up for justice and demand an end to Israeli war crimes.”

Hooper noted that President-elect Barack Obama today broke his silence on the Gaza crisis to express deep concern about civilian deaths and vowed to push for Middle East peace.

SEE: Obama Breaks Silence on Gaza, Voices Concern (Reuters)

Earlier today, CAIR demanded that the Bush administration condemn the “massacre” of more than 40 Palestinian civilians who sought shelter from Israeli attacks at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip.

SEE: Israeli Shelling Kills Dozens at UN School in Gaza
SEE ALSO: Israeli Tank Fire Kills 42 at U.N. School

More than 600 Palestinians, including whole families, have already been killed in Israeli attacks.

Israel has barred journalists from entering Gaza to report on the results of its attacks or on the humanitarian crisis caused by its blockade of food, medicine and other essential supplies.

SEE: Israel Puts Media Clamp on Gaza (New York Times)

Yesterday, CAIR outlined 10 positive, pro-active steps American Muslims and other people of conscience can take to help end Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, restore the cease-fire and the flow of humanitarian aid and promote a more balanced U.S. policy in the Middle East.

CAIR’s “10 Steps to Help Gaza” included taking part in the upcoming “Let Gaza Live” National March on Washington this Saturday in Lafayette Park outside the White House (http://www.answercoalition.org) and signing CAIR’s online petition urging American leaders to speak "in favor of peace and justice for all parties in the current humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Gaza Strip” (http://petition.cair.com/).

SEE: 10 Steps You Can Take to Help Gaza

CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

CONTACT: CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com ; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com

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Report from Gaza:

Day 11 of Israeli War On Gaza
Palestinians flee their houses but Israeli rockets kill them in schools

By: Sameh A. Habeeb
 
Dear Editors, Journalists and Friends,

The ground military operation started 72 hours ago. Below is a new report for the 11th day of Gaza War and the outcomes of Israeli invasion. For more  reporting, breaking news, interviews and accounts in Gaza, you could reach me on my contact info below. Please try both numbers below because there is a big problem in communication resulted in Israeli power cuts.

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Day 11 of Israeli War On Gaza
Death toll 620, injured 3000 and most of them Civilians

By Sameh A. Habeeb, A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist in Gaza Strip.

*Numbers and Figures of Israeli War on Gaza:

*Total death toll: 620   while Wounded: 3000.

*Civilians: 220 children  and   130 women killed since the start of this War. Many old men  and young people were killed and the number is estimated of 80  and this is all according to the Medical sources.

*Thus, we could say so far: Around 430 civilians killed and  190 are policemen and militants.

* More than 1 thousand child among the wounded!

*11 Ambulances bombed and 4 vans for civil defense hit.

*30 paramedics wounded and 7 killed.

Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation:

1-Bombings in Jabalia Refugee Camps, 5 killed and several wounded. Many houses were damaged in the camp while hundreds of people leave their houses into some schools and safer places.

2-Israeli F16s bombarded two adjacent houses for Al Shorafa family in Toffah area. The houses were hit without previous notification. Many people killed and several wounded.

3-A massare against house of Al Daya family southern east of Gaza City. The father was killed, the mother, his son Fayez,  his daughter in law Rawans, infant 6-month-baby Muhammad, 5-year-old Sharf Al Din, Ala' aged 8 years, Rania aged 12 and Doha 3 years. Other 5 people were killed in the same house while many still under the rubbles of the 4-floor-house.

4- Marzouq Family hit in Al Toffah area. Many wounded and no news if there are victims or not!

5-Israeli drone killed 3 young guys refugee to one of the schools in Al Shati' Refugee Camp. They were hit by a rocket while they were drinking water inside the school.

6-Medical sources: 13 palestinian women and children arrived to Al Shifa' hospital due to Israeli shelling in Al Toffah quarter.

7-Gaza Local Radios: Thousands of Palestinians shelter to UNRWA schools mid of Gaza as Israeli army threatened of a genocide against them. Some of theose at schools are wounded and unable to reach hospitals.

8-F16s rebombarded Al Saraya security compound last night. The place totally turned rubbles.

9-Bombings target Al Baurej centeral market. Many wounded and 2 killed.

10-Bombings targeted Abu Ghanima family in Al Zaytoun area. The house includes around 12 people. Some injured, some killed and some others under rubbles.

11-A horrendous massacare: 45 civilians! Killed due to heavy Israeli bombings targeted them at Al Fakhora school in Jabalia town. The families and victims took this school a shelter from Israeli strikes. Around 100 wounded and many in critical conditions now!

12-A house for shamalkh family bombed to rubbles due  bombings targeted a  mosque in the area. Two palestinains killed, 10 wounded and 5 in critical conditions.

13-A house destroyed due to air raid in Khan Yonis town of Abasan.

14-Bombings in Al Shati' camp claimed the life of one civilian and many wounded in the place.

15-Israeli rockets hit Qlaibo area north of Gaza and no wounded  to be reported in the raid.

16-A house for Isi family hit in Al Toffah area.

17-A house hit near Mus'ab Bin omair Mosque and many houses burnt due to the shelling north of Gaza.

18- One Palestinian killed and 6 wounded in the Israeli air raids in Absan town in Khan Yonis.

19-Al Samouni Family: around 20 members of our family killed and another 25 under the rubbles of the house.

20-Power Transistors destroyed in the northern area.

21-Artillary shell kills a child, Merwan Ubaid, in Abasan town east of Kgan yonis.

22-Around 25 houses damaged due to artillery shells in Rafah City.

23-A house for Al alool family destroyed at Bait Lahia twon.

24-Five wounded  in a rocket hit Khoza'a family.

25-Heavy bombings in the agricultural and farms in the northern areas.

26-A woman  from Ghomaida family killed and her husband wounded in the northern areas of Gaza.

27-Mass bombings in Al shijaya area and many wounded and arrived at Al Shifa' hospital.

28-Rockets targeted a house in Al Sheikh Ridwan and 5 wounded, one in critical conditions.

29-Pycatcrics: thousands of children turned traumatized due to the ongoing bombings.

30-Palestinian militants fire 30 rockets into the Israeli settlements.

31-Rockets hit the main Market of Gaza with heavy F116s rockets.

 

Day 10 of Israeli War On Gaza

Death toll 600, injured 2800, New "Nakba" & Refugees

By Sameh A. Habeeb, A Photojournalist, Humanitarian & Peace Activist in Gaza Strip.

Gaza Strip,5, January, 2oo9- Israeli War on Gaza still rise up in various points through the occupied Gaza Strip. More civilians killed in opposition of Israeli announced aim of hitting the Hamas militants. Monday morning a massacre  happened in Al Zaytoun Quarter as Israeli army gathered around 30 persons in one house and then bombed them. Medical sources said that 14 killed and 60 injured. Around 10 of them children some are women and some other youth old people.

 

The heaviest ongoing bombing of Air forces and artillery shells pushed thousands of civilians to internally I migrate to the western areas of the Strip. Ironically, the western areas are not safer to be taken a shelter by those new refugees as Israeli naval gunboats await for them. Many bombs were fired from these vessels killing family in Al Shati' camp and injured sveral other in Al Nusairat Refugee Camp.

In the north of Gaza, thousands of Bait Hanon residents of and eastern Jabalia  are leaving their homes into the western areas.

Humanitarian conditions  severely exacerbated. Civilians don't have drinking water nor any kind of water for daily use. Add to that, basics of food like bread, cocking oil, rice, beans and sugar are no longer available in the markets.

Meanwhile, medical sector is totally paralyzed due to lack of human resources from cadre and doctors and a severe shortage in medicines and medical tools. The amount of victims is obviously huger than the abilities of the already arduous hospitals which suffer a siege of 18 months. 

Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation:

1- Israeli air force bombarded many houses at Al shati' Refugee Camp. Medical sources said that 35 Palestinians wounded.

2-Israeli Air strike from Apache helicopters targeted a 3-floor-house for Al Ghandour family in Al Daraj area. An Atmosphere of fear and panic through put residents of the area.

3-Air strike on Omar Bin Abd Al ziz mosque and many people injured in the area.

4-Two Palestinians wounded as Israeli air raid targeted a house in Al Zaytoun area. Another air raid hit a workshop in Al daraj area and many people injured.

5-A number of casualties and wounded as Israeli air force targeted a house near a mosque in Al Zaytoun quarter.

6-Many houses burned and destroyed in a heavy bombing in Al Zaytoun Area.

7-Israeli airforce retargeted Al Uma College in Al Nasir Quarter west north of Gaza Strip.

8-One Palestinian killed and 5 wounded in an air raid on civilian car in Al Shati' Refugee Camp.

9-A rocket destroyed to rubble "Light society" which is a charity working in support of orphans and needy Palestinians. The society includes a physical therapy section for the poorest. The society is linked to Al Jihad Islamist movement.

10-Three Palestinians killed, 9 wounded in an Israeli air raid due to a bomb turned a house to rubbles in Al Nusairat Refugee Camp.

11-A house for the Popular Front key leader, Jameel Mizhar, partially destroyed in Al Nusairat Refugee Camp.

12-A group of civilians bombed in Al Nusairat Refugee Camp. Many injured but mostly with light wounds.

13-Israeli soldiers occupied most of civilians houses in Juhr El Dik.

12-Three Palestinians died due to their injuries in Egypt. They were lately wounded in Gaza and referred to Egypt.

13-Two civilians wounded due to an air raid targeted a house for Al Samoni family in Al Zaytoun Quarter.

14- A Massacre: Samuni family says: Israeli soldiers gather 30 persons from Al Samoni family in one house. Ten families were in the house from the same clan. Many civilians were killed as artillery shells bombed the house. The number of victims around 14, most of them are children and women. Some are in critical conditions!

15-Two wounded due to a rocket hit the house of Othman Ghaleb in Al Nusairat Refugee Camp.

16-A house of Sayed Baroud in the Al Nusairat Refugee Camp hit. The house was damaged and many neighboring houses too. The houses based in a densely populated Refugee camp.

17-Three Palestinians killed from Abd Al Dayim family due to a bombing in Bait Hanon town north of Gaza Strip.

18- Airstrike from drones near AL huda mosque in Yibna in Rafah town.

19-Israeli tanks and after launching new bases; its soldiers open fire and artillery shells on  buildings of Al Zahra' City. Many buildings partially damaged and burnt.

20-A body of a woman killed three days ago still unreachable  due to Israeli heavy fire on Bait lahia town. The killed woman from Abu Samaha family.

21-A new sky rocket destroyed the house of  Ibrhaim Abu Al Naja in Rafah City.

22-Israeli soldiers stormed into Abu Khosa house and many people  wounded due to Israeli gunfire.

23-A fire ignited in a cement factory near Zimo Crossings east of Jabalia City. The fire resulted in Israeli artillery shells.

24-Israeli soldiers took a school shelter and many civilians in the same school.

25- Air raid targeted a shop of money exchange in Remal quarter mid of Gaza City. Shrapnel hit many shops around and some lightly injured.

26-Doctors in Al Shifa' hospital: Many burnt bodied arrived to Al Shifa' hospital and some bodies torn to pieces.

27-Medical statistics: 90 civilians mostly women and children killed with the start of military operation 48 hours ago.

28-Rockets hit some farming and populated spaces in Khan Yonis City. Several trauma cases arrived to Nasir hospital in the city.

29-Two houses bombarded in Al amal quarter. One of the houses belongs to Yasir Hamadan and the other one belongs to Nedal Kollab.

30- A house belongs to Khail family destroyed by an Aritliary shell in Al Zaytoun area. Residents of the house were directky injured in the bombings.

31-Four families trapped in their houses in Jabal El Kashif area north of the occupied Gaza strip.

32-50 people wounded on the ongoing deadly shelling from the Israeli tanks east of Gaza City, Jabal al rayis area. The shelling targeted Mahalh family and many children are being wounded.

32- A five-year-old girl and her grandfather from  Al Helu family killed in Israeli shell. The Some of family members are in critical conditions including the mother.

33- A number of tunnels hit in Rafah City south of Gaza Strip.

34-Israeli army destroyed a house to rubbles into Jabalia town near  Al salam mosque.

35-Israeli army gets closer and closer to the densely populated area in al zayoutn area east south.

36-Three Palestinian militants killed  due to Israeli rockets targeted them in Gaza City.

37-Three children and their mother killed during a shell hit their house in Al shija'ya area east of Gaza. The victims were in their house during the shelling. Their bodies were torn to pieces.

38-A Palestinian bleeds near Al zayotun quarter and paramedics not able to reach him. No news of he is still alive or he died.

39-Abd Al salam hilis, wounded near Jabalia, he is still in the same place and unreachable due to the Israeli heavy fire.

40-A number of civilians wounded and maybe injured due to a bombing targeted their house in Al Zaytoun area. Victims still unreachable due to the flaming situation in that Quarter.

41-A rocket targeted house of Al harzaeen family in Sika area between Al Shij'ya and Zaytoun Quarter.

42-A Palestinian woman killed in her house in Al Moghraqa quarter mid of Gaza City.  Three civilians wounded in his area  which is out of resistance as Israel occupied it yesterday.

43-Naval gunboats raided on Al Nusairat Refugee Camp and many people wounded in the action.

44-Two Palestinians killed 2 days ago in Bait Hanon, paramedics unable to reach them till now.

45-Two Palestinian women from Hajaj family killed in Juhr El Dik town east sout of Gaza City.

46-Fuel  stockpile runs out from Al Awda hospital northern Gaza Strip. Medical Paramedics of the hospital were targeted many times by Israeli fire.

43-Palestinian killed while driving his motorcycle in Gaza due to an Israeli rocket fire by a drone.

44-Bloody clashes between Palestinian factions and Israeli organized army east of Gaza City. Israeli army is firing back using Apache and heavy artillery shells. Many people wounded and no upcoming news if militants are being targeted.

45-Israeli air force targeted many houses in Gaza Strip.

Sameh A. Habeeb, B.A.
Photojournalist & Peace Activist
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News Headlines:

(Compiled by: Citizens for Legitimate Government, information clearinghouse, Peace NO War Network Information Service, Palestine Watch, The Electronic Intifada and others)

Gates estimates 2009 war costs at $136 billion 06 Jan 2009 Defense Secretary Robert Gates says [illegal] military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan would cost almost $136 billion for the 2009 budget year that began Oct. 1 if they continue at their current pace. Gates told top lawmakers in a New Year's Eve letter that the Pentagon would need nearly $70 billion more to supplement the $66 billion approved last year.

Israeli 'eyes' fixed on Lebanon 06 Jan 2009 Tel Aviv has warned Hezbollah against intervening in the war on Gaza after Israeli fighter jets conducted overflights into Lebanon. In a veiled reference to Hezbollah on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tel Aviv is on high alert to respond to any threat coming from its northern fronts. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak also issued a strong warning to Hezbollah.

Israel shells houses, schools in 11th day of offensive 07 Jan 2009 Israel pressed on with its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday by shelling houses and a school run by the United Nations, killing 82 Palestinians, the majority women and children, in the eleventh day of violence. An Israeli air and ground strike on al-Fakhoura school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday evening killed 46 people and wounded 150 others, medics said.

 

Israel hits UN-run Gaza schools --Palestinian death toll hits 635 as Israel keeps pounding Gaza Strip indiscriminately. 06 Jan 2009 Israeli tanks and troops surged into towns across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday striking three UN-run schools killed at least 45 people sparking urgent new ceasefire calls. Troops fought Hamas fighters around the back alleys of Gaza's main city in the heaviest fighting of the 11-day-old offensive aimed at halting rocket attacks, but Hamas still made its deepest rocket strike yet into Israel.

 

U.N. official says Gaza school was clearly marked 06 Jan 2009 A U.N. official in Gaza said a school where dozens of Palestinians were killed by tank shells on Tuesday was clearly marked with a U.N. flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities. John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said the death toll in the Israeli artillery strike near the school in Jabalya refugee camp was 30 dead with another 55 people injured. Medical officials on the spot have said more than 40 people were killed.

 

Israel splits Gaza in three as soldiers battle Hamas [and civilians] 05 Jan 2009 Israeli tanks and infantry battalions swept up to the edges of Gaza City yesterday, battling Hamas fighters and sealing off the bomb-scarred capital city from the rest of the coastal territory. With the civilian death toll rising by the hour and diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting making no headway, the head of the UN refugee agency called the situation a catastrophe. Israel made clear that it was not about to heed calls for a swift ceasefire.

 

Four Israeli soldiers die in friendly fire incidents 05 Jan 2009 Israel's Golani Brigade 13th Battalion suffered heavy casualties on Monday in the army's Cast Lead offensive. Three soldiers were killed and another 20 were wounded, including brigade commander Colonel Avi Peled when fired on by an Israeli tank.

 

IDF ban on reporters in Gaza Strip combat zones leading to limited coverage 07 Jan 2009 The Israel Defense Forces' refusal to allow reporters into the combat zones in the Gaza Strip is making it difficult for journalists, including television stations interested in broadcasting video from the field, to cover the fighting in Gaza. The IDF ban is forcing journalists to rely on reports from Israeli soldiers and the IDF spokesman.

 

Israel bombs Gaza media installations; two journalists killed 06 Jan 2009 Israel deliberately targeted Hamas-run media installations in its bombing campaign on Gaza and is practising media censorship, a journalist rights group said Monday. The installations in question include Al-Aqsa television, Al-Resalah newspaper and Sawt Al-Aqsa radio, which the Israeli army bombed on December 28 and over the weekend respectively, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign said in a statement, citing a Palestinian media non-governmental group. The press group also condemned the recent deaths of two journalists as a result of Israeli attacks.

 

Egypt bars doctors from entering Gaza Strip 06 Jan 2009 Frustration is mounting at Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, where many local and foreign doctors are stuck after Egyptian authorities denied them entry into the coastal area now under an Israeli ground invasion. Anesthesiologist Dimitrios Mognie from Greece idles his time at a cafe near the border, drinking tea and chatting with other doctors, aid workers and curious Egyptians. "This is a shame," said Mognie, who decided to use his vacation time to try help Gazans.

 

MAP: On the Ground in Gaza --The Injured Out of Reach 06 Jan 2009 MAP [Medical Aid for Palestinians] staff in Gaza report that over 70 Palestinians have been killed so far today including 40 in a UN school. Heavy Israeli fire continues to hit buildings across Gaza although it seems that the brunt of the actual fighting occurs at night. Although medical aid has been able to reach the central stores in Gaza city at present Israeli internal military checkpoints have prevented it reaching parts of the middle area and the south.

 

Wounded Gaza family lay bleeding for 20 hours 05 Jan 2009 Three hours after the Israel Defense Forces began their ground operation in the Gaza Strip, at about 10:30 P.M. Saturday night, a shell or missile hit the house owned by Hussein al A'aiedy and his brothers. Twenty-one people live in the isolated house, located in an agricultural area east of Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood. Five of them were wounded in the strike: Two women in their eighties (his mother and aunt), his 14-year-old son, his 13-year-old niece and his 10-year-old nephew. Twenty hours later, the wounded were still bleeding in a shed in the courtyard of the house. There was no electricity, no heat, no water. Their relatives were with them, but every time they tried to leave the courtyard to fetch water, the army shot at them.

 

Peres: Israel not worried by international image [Obviously.] 06 Jan 2009 Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday blasted European efforts to seek a halt to the Gaza conflict insisting that Israel was not worried about its international image, his office said. "Europe must open its eyes. We are not in the business of public relations or improving our image. We are fighting against terror, and we have every right to defend our citizens," the Nobel Peace Prize winning leader told an EU ministerial delegation.

 

Top 5 Lies About Israel's Assault on Gaza By Jeremy R. Hammond 03 Jan 2009 Lie #1 Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians. The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting militants is, in fact, a war crime.

 

Iran bans companies with suspect Israel ties 06 Jan 2009 Iran announced on Tuesday that it would ban international companies in which Israelis may have shares from work in the country. The move was meant as a gesture of support for Hamas - a top Iran ally which is under an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. The official IRNA news agency reported that Industry Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian issued the order in response to Israel's assault on Gaza.

Israel Kills 40 Palestinian At UN School
By Aljazeera: Earlier in the day, two people were killed when an artillery shell hit a school in the southern town of Khan Yunis and three people were killed in an air strike on a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, medics said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21650.htm
  

Uncensored Video Report From Dr. In Gaza Hospital
 "This is an all-out war against the civilian Palestinian population" 
Dr . Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells Sky News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21654.htm

 

Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells 05 Jan 2009 Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen. As the Israeli army stormed to the edges of Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll topped 500, the tell-tale shells could be seen spreading tentacles of thick white smoke to cover the troops’ advance. Burning blobs of phosphorus would cause severe injuries to anyone caught beneath them and force would-be snipers or operators of remote-controlled booby traps to take cover. Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.

Israel Stocks Rise With Global Equities as Investors Ignore War 05 Jan 2009 Investors in Israeli stocks are disregarding a war less than 60 kilometers (37 miles) away from the commercial center in Tel Aviv, helping the TA-25 index rebound from its worst year since 1983... The benchmark TA-25 index has climbed 7.4 percent since Dec. 27 when Israel started its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, tracking a rise in global equities.

Israel drives deeper into Gaza, rebuffing diplomatic efforts 06 Jan 2009 Israeli troops commandeered high-rise buildings in three eastern districts of Gaza City on Monday, expelling residents and shooting militants civilians in the streets in its furious effort to break Hamas's fighting ability as European diplomats poured into the region seeking a cease-fire. The 10th day of Israel's war on the Islamist rulers of Gaza also killed more civilians, including about 12 children, pushing the total death toll to 550, and severely strained fuel and water supplies for hundreds of thousands.

Olmert rebuffs Sarkozy call for Gaza ceasefire 05 Jan 2009 French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Israel on Monday to halt its war in Gaza, but was rebuffed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who rejected any truce that fails to end the Islamist group's rocket attacks on Israel. Sarkozy met Olmert after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the architect of a six-month truce whose expiry on December 19 unleashed a series of events that resulted in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

 

Israeli army moves on Gaza City as war toll passes 510 05 Jan 2009 Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battled at dawn in Gaza on Monday amid tank, artillery and air strikes, as the death toll from the offensive to end rocket attacks passed 510. Israeli forces moved into the fringes of Gaza City as families fled or remained hidden after a second night of combat.

 

Israel intensifies violations of Lebanon's airspace 06 Jan 2009 Israel's air force stepped up reconnaissance flights over Beirut on Monday after a senior Israeli intelligence chief warned politicians that Hizbullah could launch an attack across the Lebanese border. Several Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace on Monday, flying over Hizbullah's political strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Israeli killings 'state terrorism,' Brown told by advisory group 06 Jan 2009 The Young Muslim Advisory Group (YMAG) has raised concerns in a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the failure by the Government to condemn Israel’s killing of more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza as an 'act of state terrorism.'

 

70,000 Iranian suicide bombers ready to fight Israel --Tens of thousands of Iranian students said to respond to hardliners' call to avenge Israeli offensive in Gaza 05 Jan 2009 More than 70,000 Iranian student volunteers have registered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel because of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. According to the official IRNA news agency, hard-line student leader Esmaeil Ahmadi said the students want to fight Israel in support of Hamas – Gaza's Islamic militant rulers.

 

Keeping out the cameras and reporters simply doesn't work By Robert Fisk 05 Jan 2009 What is Israel afraid of? Using the old "enclosed military area" excuse to prevent coverage of its occupation of Palestinian land has been going on for years. ...[T]he Israelis are so ruthless that the reasons for the ban on journalism may be quite easily explained: that so many Israeli soldiers are going to kill so many innocents – more than three score by last night, and that's only the ones we know about – that images of the slaughter would be too much to tolerate. Not that the Palestinians have done much to help.

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12/30: Israel’s lie machine is working flat out + PR Statements from Pro-Israel group defending attack Gaza >> Read More

12/30: Jewish Opposition to Israeli Attacks >> Read More

12/30: Reports form Worldwide Protests Against Massacre in Gaza >> Read More

12/29 Latest News from Gaza: Over 364 Palestinians Dead As Israel Attacks Gaza >> Read More

12/28: Latest News from Israel Attack Gaza (Part Two) >> Read More

12/28 New York, NY: Thousands Rally in Rockefeller Center Against Israeli Aggression + Update: Video >> Read More

1/28 Analysis: Israel had planned the attack for 6 months, mount PR Campaign, and Israeli far rights gain support from the attack >> Read More

12/28: Activist Across the World Statements Against the Israeli Attack on Gaza >> Read More

12/28: Israel launches new wave of Gaza attacks, facing international condemnation, UN call to halt attack >> Read More

12/27: The President of the UN General Assembly on Gaza Airstrikes >> Read More 

12/27: Media Release, International Response and Analysis on the Latest Israeli Attacks on Gaza >> Read More

12/27 Palestine Watch: Gaza Massacre! Latest News on Israeli war planes attacks Gaza Strip >> Read More

 

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