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I Tevet 5768, 28 December 2009
Contents:
1. Israeli Attacks
Hamas
Entrenchments in Gaza
2. MUSLIM TERRORISTS IN MUMBAI SEXUALLY MUTILATED THEIR NON-MUSLIM VICTIMS,
RABBI AND PREGNANT WIFE
3. Israeli Official Announcements re Gaza War
1. Israeli Attacks
Hamas
Entrenchments in Gaza
Israel attacks Gaza City: 'It is war, look at the smoke, look at the bodies'
By Fiona Gray
http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Israel-attacks-Gaza-City-39It.4825792.jp
Extracts:
Published Date: 28 December 2008
THE first strike came without warning, just before noon, as children were
walking home from school for lunch and their mothers were waiting on the
doorsteps.
Inside the police headquarters of Gaza City, new recruits in black uniforms with
red berets were standing in ranks in the sunny courtyard of the security
compound, receiving medals at a graduation ceremony.
Minutes later, 15 of them were lying
Nearby, their surviving colleagues shrieked in terror as more waves of Israeli
rockets hit their targets. It was the beginning of an onslaught.
Yesterday's bombing of Gaza City and the towns along the Israeli border was
unprecedented in its severity, as Israel's warplanes and helicopters dropped an
estimated 100 tonnes of bombs on the densely populated area in a few hours.
The Israeli attack obliterated more than 30 of Gaza's security compounds across
the city and surrounding towns, killing at least 225 and injuring about 700.
Israeli officials insisted the attacks, which continued throughout the
afternoon, targeted "terrorist infrastructure" following days of rocket attacks
from Gaza on southern Israel that caused some damage but few injuries.
Hamas estimated at least 140 members of its security forces had been killed,
including Gaza police chief Tawfiq Jabber and the head of Hamas's security and
protection unit.
But in one of the bloodiest days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the death
toll was almost doubled by civilian casualties as bodies piled up outside the
hospitals and children disappeared in the chaos and rubble of the attacks.
Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, was in the middle of
several attacks. He said: "A series of explosions were heard over Gaza City.
From where we were, there were at least seven different clouds of smoke from the
strikes. We were seeing some casualties being evacuated in cars."
A missile hit the town of Netivot, about a mile west of Gaza City, killing an
Israeli man and wounding four people. Dozens of stunned residents gathered
around the house that took the deadly rocket hit. Many wept openly. The crowd
broke up after an alert siren went off and sent the onlookers running.
On a construction site in Jabaliya, north of Gaza City, Tamer Kahrouf, 24, said
he saw his two brothers and uncle killed when the Israeli planes bombed a
security post nearby. Kharouf, wounded and bleeding from the head, had been
working on the site when the bomb hit.
Closer to the Israeli border, in the town of Sderot, which was pummelled hardest
by the rockets, the streets were nearly empty.
A few cars carried panicked residents out of the city, and dozens congregated on
a hilltop to watch the Israeli aerial attacks as columns of thick black smoke
rose from the nearby towns and sirens rang out.
At a hospital in Rafah, a large town on the border of Israel and Gaza, friends
and relatives dragged their loved ones into wards and demanded treatment for
them.
Hospitals in Gaza City also struggled to cope with the large numbers of injured,
piling three children on a single bed while a constant stream of wounded arrived
in cars and vans.
Inside Shifa Hospital, Gaza's main treatment centre, relatives carried a
five-month-old baby who had suffered a serious shrapnel wound to the head.
Overwhelmed hospital staff seemed unable to offer help.
One doctor said: "We are treating people on the floor, in the corridors. We have
no more space. We don't know who is here or who to treat first."
Outside the front of the hospital, scores of dead bodies were laid out waiting
for family members to identify them. For many it would be a horrible, even
impossible, task: many corpses were dismembered and some were headless.
Health officials appealed for outside help. "We lack everything, medical
equipment, anaesthesia, bandages, fuel for ambulance vehicles, medicine,
everything," cried Muawiyah Hassanein, head of Gaza's ambulance and emergency
department.
"What happened was unexpected and our hospitals were neither ready nor prepared
to receive such huge numbers of casualties."
But Israeli warplanes kept up attacks on targets in Gaza after darkness fell,
striking at a metal foundry and other sites in the south of the coastal strip.
Women braved the streets as evening fell, wailing as they searched for their
relatives among the dead. Sawsan Al-Ajab, 50, made her way to the main police
station in Gaza City looking for two sons, aged 32 and 24, who both worked
there.
Umm Mohammed went back to the office she had been working in. "It is a war. Look
at the smoke, look at the bodies and the body parts, it is like Afghanistan or
Iraq," she said as she looked over one flattened Hamas office.
In the wake of the worst offensive Israel has ever delivered on Gaza, Hamas
quickly vowed revenge, ordering "all fighters to respond to the Israeli
slaughter".
It did not say what form this action would take but one fighter, maddened by the
sight of the mangled bodies of his comrades, said suicide bombers would blow
themselves up in Israeli restaurants, caf? and streets.
Yesterday, Hamas said all its security installations were hit, and fired at
least 50 medium-range Grad missiles at Israel in response, reaching deeper into
its territory than in the past.
One Israeli was killed and at least six people were wounded in the rocket
attacks yesterday, a count that is likely to increase over the next week.
Hamas leaders released a statement about future retaliation, saying: "All
options are open to the Palestinian resistance to strike the Zionist enemy. One
leader will be replaced by a hundred leaders."
Defiant Hamas leaders said they "will continue the resistance until the last
drop of blood", while Israel told its civilians near Gaza to take cover as
militants began retaliating with rockets.
Brit-Am Commentary:
Hamas was firing rockets into Israel killing and maiming and
destroying property. Whole cities and townships were paralyzed.
It was only doe to open miracles that casualties were not much greater than they
were.
Israeli could not just absorb these attacks and hope that the daily miracles of
there being very few physical casualties
continue indefinitely. Apart from this every Jewish life is important. No
self-respecting nation can allow its citizens to be attacked and have rockets
fired at its children and civilians.
Hamas deliberately locates its operational centers and attack amongst civilians
and near schools and hospitals etc.
It wants casualties.
A major aspect of the overall strategy of Hamas is to arouse world opinion
against Israel.
For this reason Hamas is willing (even eager) to sacrifice its civilians.
The only real solution is to evacuate
ALL THE ARABS OUT OF GAZA
AND FLY THEM OVERSEAS
TO SOME PLACE SAFE, FAR AWAY FROM ISRAEL.
See:
Movement of Arab Populations (MAP)
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesMAP.html
2. MUSLIM TERRORISTS IN MUMBAI SEXUALLY
MUTILATED THEIR NON-MUSLIM VICTIMS, RABBI AND PREGNANT WIFE:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/12/muslim-terroris.html
Religion of Peace Update: 'Muslim terrorists in Mumbai sexually mutilated
non-Muslim victims'
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/12/religion_of_pea_10.php
Very disturbing photographs from police sources indicate that several of the
guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the siege November 26 were sexually
humiliated by the terrorists and then shot dead. Even the Rabbi and his pregnant
wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated.
Islam actively seeks the subjugation or destruction of everything that is not
itself. While non-Islamic religions may seek the conversion or evangelization of
others, and their devotees may employ force against others from time to time,
Islam is the only religion whose basic animating principles pit it against the
rest of the world, ensuring that war is the natural and obligatory state of
affairs.
3. Israeli Official Announcements re
Gaza War
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Israel strikes back against Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza
December 28, 2008
MFA [Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs] Website
Since 11:30 Saturday morning, the IDF attacked dozens of targets affiliated
with the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. The targets included
command centers, training camps, various Hamas installations, rocket
manufacturing facilities and storage warehouses. The vast majority of the
casualties are terror operatives, most of whom were wearing uniform and
working on behalf of terror organizations.
The Air Force activity came as a result of the continuation of terror
activity by Hamas terror organization from the Gaza Strip, and the duration
of rocket launching and targeting Israeli civilians.
The targets that were attacked were located by intelligence gathered during
the last months and include Hamas terror operatives that operated from the
organization's headquarters, training camps and weaponry storage warehouses.
The Hamas government leaders and operatives, which activate terror from
within civilian population centers, are the sole bearers of responsibility
for Israel's military response. This response is crucial for preserving
Israel's security interests.
The IDF Spokesperson wishes to emphasize that anyone sponsoring terror,
hosting terror in his house, housing terror in his basement and sending his
wives and children to serve as human shields- is considered a terrorist.
IAF aircraft struck a number of terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip,
including a mosque in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city, from which many
terrorist operations emanated. The mosque served as a base for terrorist
activities. The IDF will continue to strike at any target that serves as a
base for the terrorist activity against Israeli citizens. Those who are
responsible for the attacks against residents of the south will not find
refuge in any facility.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak convened a press conference on Saturday
afternoon to formally announce the beginning of the IDF's operation against
Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Barak laid out the three objectives of the
offensive: dealing Hamas a forceful blow, fundamentally changing the
situation in Gaza, and bringing to the cessation of rocket attacks against
Israeli citizens.
FM Livni briefing to foreign press: "This is the translation of our basic
right to self defense. Hamas cynically abuses its own civilian population
and their suffering for propaganda purposes. The responsibility for harm to
civilians lies with Hamas. Israel expects the support and understanding of
the international community, as it confronts terror."
At a noon press conference broadcast on Egyptian television Egyptian FM
Gheit harshly censured Hamas, placing responsibility for the current
situation on Hamas.
PM Olmert: "The lives of Israelis are not forfeit, and Israel will not
hesitate to respond to any acts of aggression against it. We want to bring
back peace and quiet and give residents of the south the opportunity to live
normal lives. Israel is not fighting against the Palestinian people, and the
targets attacked today were chosen with the intent of avoiding civilian
casualties."
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
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