Carnage in Gaza

[Resistance]

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/re1.htm

The end of a bloody week of destruction and terror in Gaza has left people dead, maimed and homeless, writes Khaled Amayreh

Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles into a crowd of civilians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Monday evening, 20 October, killing at least eight people and injuring and maiming as many as 100. A few minutes previously, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at "an unknown target" in the camp, which turned out to be a civilian vehicle. The two passengers, whom Israel initially claimed were "militants" but later admitted were civilians, were incinerated beyond recognition.

While crowds gathered around the vehicle to try to extinguish the fire and remove the charred remains, an Apache helicopter fired another missile into the crowd. Medical sources said as many as eight people were killed and more than 90 injured, and that many of the injured sustained critical wounds and burns. By Tuesday morning, the death toll had risen, as at least six more people died of their injuries.

One of those killed was Zain Shahin, a medical doctor who rushed to the scene to treat the wounded. Eyewitnesses said he aided some people on the ground before he was killed.

An Israeli Peace Now official described the Gaza attacks as "calculated and deliberate", saying that "Sharon and Mofaz knew quite well what they were doing." The attacks on the Nuseirat camp were preceded by four other air strikes on densely populated areas of Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army finished the "first phase" of a wide scale and brutal rampage of terror and murder in Rafah at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, in which entire neighbourhoods were reduced to rubble. For more than 72 hours, Israeli tanks and bulldozers were busy demolishing hundreds of homes at the Yibna and Brazil refugee camps in Rafah, adding to the estimated 2000 men, women and children rendered homeless in the last 10 days, some for the second or third time. Hundreds of residents were seen fleeing on donkey carts piled-up with blankets and whatever meager possessions they were able to salvage.

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[denverbill]

1. Sharon may get a war crimes trial yet.

He won't stop until all of Palestine has been 'cleansed' of Arabs.

[Sesquipedalian]

2. you only get a trial if you lose

Sad fact of life.

He might wind up as persona non grata everywhere on the planet except the US but the powerful don't get trials for their war crimes.

[Saudade]

3. Amazing

The cruelty and brutality of the Sharon government is astonishing and truely sickening.

Yet somehow, they are able to get away with calling it "self-defense," a incredible lie that seems to work at least in the United States.

[Resistance]

4. It is amazing

the number of people in the United States who are so stupid to believe that the cruelty and aggression of the Sharon government is only "self-defense" and all in the name of "security" ... then again the U.S. is flooded with an enormous amount of racist, right-wing propaganda. I guess maybe people aren't stupid, just brainwashed and ignorant.

Still, it's very sad because we pay for Israel's ethnic cleansing and their terrorist attacks.