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Thread #147734 Message #3454528
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
19-Dec-12 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
Subject: RE: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
""Over a thousand targets hit from land, sea and air in a densely populated urban area, but less than a hundred civilian deaths, and some civilians willing shields and martyrs according to Hamas.""
You well know that the ""willing martyrs"" quote is Islamic rhetoric. They have always classified non combatants killed as martyrs to the cause.
""Seemingly after a while the dead and dismembered are just part of the day job.
The eight day blitz killed one hundred and sixty two Palestinians in what were merciless attacks on families with nowhere to hide. Nine hundred and ninety nine were injured. Eight hundred and sixty five houses are damaged or destroyed.
Six health centres are damaged, thirty schools, two universities, fifteen NGO offices, twenty seven mosques, fourteen media offices, eleven industrial plants, eighty one commercial stores and a UNRWA food distribution Centre.
In addition seven Ministry offices, fourteen police or security stations, five banks, and two youth clubs. The sports complex where the Palestinians athletes and paralympians trained for the 2012 London Olympics is reduced to rubble, as is the beautiful and most necessary Gaza Interior Ministry.
On Universal Children's Day, 20th November, an air strike destroyed the Oxfam-supported Al Bajan kindergarten school and damaged the Al Housna kindergarten. Oxfam's Sara Almer commented that more than one hundred and fifty children attended these kindergartens. "The children are safe, but the places where they learned and played are now in ruins." This in an area: "where they already suffer a high level of trauma …"
The Oxfam project was as a result of the devastation caused by "Operation Cast Lead" between 27th December 2008-17th January 2009, when they also repaired the now re-fractured water and sanitation facilities.
There is a shortage of two hundred and thirty schools in Gaza, the Agency points out – and a ban on importing construction materials, which means the further thirty two damaged, the two universities and all else may well stay that way.
Ironically, on the day of the nurseries' destruction, the UN Secretary General announced, that marking Universal Children's Day, the launch of a major UN initiative: "Education First." The day commemorates the adoption of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1959 and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. The 1989 Convention entered in to force on September 2nd 1990, under a month after the UN embargo on Iraq, with even baby milk formula importation denied.
"The child … needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth" is included in the preamble to a fine document.
Four year old twins, Suhaib and Muhammed Hijazi will never learn of the "protection" they are entitled to by the United Nations. They were killed when their home was bombed as the dawn of Universal Children's Day approached. Their parents, Fouad and Amna died in hospital.
Saraya, eighteen months, won't grow to read the fine words either, she died of a heart attack, literally frightened to death by the bombardment.""
1161 casualties of Israel's attempts to avoid collateral damage in eight days of bombardment of a densely populated urban environment.
And which of those four year old twins, or their parents are you claiming were either shielding or participating in the firing of missiles in the dead of night Keith, or was it the eighteen month old baby?
Israel kills, in eight days, eight times as many Palestinians as Hamas has killed Israelis in ten years.
Yet we agree that Hamas is trying hard to kill Israelis, while you insist that Israel is doing its best not to kill Palestinian civilians.
Neither is all that successful are they?
But, of course, we've already heard from Israeli soldiers that ""At the briefings everyone we killed is a terrorist"".
Now, I really would like some sensible comment from you Keith as to how those 1161 casualties could possibly be terrorists, especially as about half of them are children.
Don T.