Rafah counts cost of Israeli onslaught

[Dover]

Rafah counts cost of Israeli onslaught

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3FC0B866-BC06-43C7-856F-B6C6401EAB17.htm


Muhammad Juma was still trying to make sense of what had just happened. Incensed as he was, he sat sipping a cup of mint tea next to a caged, limping coyote, and a bouncy kangaroo.

Spread out in the field in front of him was an array of rotting carcasses, with the imposing stench that only death imparts. Two gazelles lay facing each other, the look of fear frozen on their faces.

Besides the carcasses, the only indication that a zoo once occupied this empty field was a rusty welcome sign that had fallen to the ground. Everything else had been brutally ploughed over with military tanks and bulldozers.

This was to be the fate of the animals in Gaza's only zoo - some of the first victims in last week's now infamous "Operation Rainbow", which ravaged the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah in the occupied southern Gaza Strip.

Indiscriminate killing

Animals, of course, were not the only casualities of the Israeli raid, but their death and the Israeli destruction of the Rafah zoo provides a glimpse of the indiscriminate nature in which it was carried out.

At least 1650 Rafah residents were made homeless here within a span of 72 hours. Fifty-five Palestinians, mainly civilians, were killed and at least 200 others injured. Almost all were unarmed.
Such wanton destruction has left many residents of Rafah wondering just how Israeli occupation troops are justifying their largest invasion yet of the refugee camp...cont'd >

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3FC0B866-BC06-43C7-856F-B6C6401EAB17.htm

[maddezmom]

1. there is no justification

:( And the outrage goes ignored.

[keithyboy]

2. US should stop any more aid to Israel immediately and rebuild homes

for these people. This is the most inhumane event in the history of Israel. Maybe they don't deserve to have a state. What would the US or the rest of the world be doing if any other FE country did this one of its neighbors? It's simple: Israel is a terrorist nation, unlike Al-qaeda which has no nation-state. Why aren't we at war with Israel? I am outraged!!