"They're wiping out entire families"

[subsuelo]

Haidar Eid is a professor, an activist for Palestinian national rights and a resident of Gaza City who has been speaking with SocialistWorker.org throughout the attack. On Friday, he talked again with Eric Ruder to describe the living nightmare that Gaza has become.

THINGS ARE getting worse--really much, much worse. We can't find food. We're surviving on canned food. We have a serious water crisis. We still haven't seen any electricity. And we don't know what to do.

A friend of mine--a comrade actually, who is a one-state activist--told me earlier that his wife's brother was shot dead five days ago. And his body is still in the apartment in the Jabaliya refugee camp.

It was an execution. They entered the house and shot him in the heart, in front of his wife and his children.

...I live in a high-rise building. There's another tower building nearby, and this week, a rocket hit the roof. The day before yesterday, one block from where I live, a rocket hit an apartment at the level of the 11th floor. It killed a journalist who works for Palestine TV, his mother and his wife.

So they are targeting apartments and houses. Five days ago, they targeted a three-floor home in another refugee camp. The man, his wife and six children were killed on the spot. He's a teacher. They're wiping out entire families.

http://socialistworker.org/2009/01/12/theyre-wiping-out-entire-families">Haidar Eid / SocialistWorker.org - read more

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Who do we petition..who do we write to, en masse? or call?

edit:

meaning: who in our country will listen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1?????????????

[Lorien]

2. That's horrifying

there is little else that can be said. :cry:

[YOY]

3. This is what happens when you let religious goons take on religious goons

and innocents are stuck in between.

[subsuelo]

5. Possibly, although religion sometimes seems to me just an excuse for hatred

[Idealism]

4. Rule number one of subjugation:

Kill those who will raise their voices against you.