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Israel Massacres Women and Children in Gaza Attack
(BBC News, 8 November 2006)
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by Israeli tank fire in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian sources have said. . . . Palestinian officials said a barrage of tank shells hit civilian homes, and women and children were among the dead. . . . Palestinian leaders have called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to force Israel to stop military raids. . . . The Palestinian prime minister, Hamas's Ismail Haniya, denounced the Israeli attack as an "awful massacre" and said talks on forming Palestinian unity government would be suspended. . . . Palestinian hospital officials said 13 of the dead belonged to the same family, and two of them were women and six were children. . . . The Israelis withdrew from the town on Tuesday following a major offensive centred in Beit Hanoun. . . . More than 60 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a week-long operation that Israel says was aimed at stopping militant rocket fire into Israel from Gaza. [COMMENT by Lorenzo: So the Zionists are killing 60 Palestinians for each soldier they lose . . . SAVAGES they are!] . . . TV footage from Beit Hanoun showed the victims being taken to hospital in their sleeping clothes, some with terrible injuries. . . . "It is the saddest scene and images I have ever seen. We saw legs, we saw heads, we saw hands scattered in the street," 22-year-old eyewitness Attaf Hamad told Reuters news agency. . . . "I saw people coming out of a house covered in blood. I started screaming to wake up the neighbours." . . . A local Hamas leader has called for the group to resume suicide bombings inside Israel, a policy suspended two years ago by the main militant faction. . . . "Israel should be wiped from the face of the Earth. It is an animal state that recognises no human worth. It is a cancer that should be eradicated," said Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas-led government. . . . Israeli forces also killed a 17-year-old civilian near Jabaliya refugee camp, hospital officials in Gaza said. . . . Earlier, in a separate incident, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli army raid near the West Bank town of Jenin.

posted by LoZo 7:27 AM

 

Israel committing war crimes in Gaza
(Roee Nahmias, yNetNews, November 3, 2006)
Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List – Ta'al) met in Cairo Thursday with Palestinian Liberation Organization Politburo Chief Farouk Kaddoumi to discuss, among other things, the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip. . . . Following the meeting the two said Israel was committing war crimes in Beit Hanoun and called on the international community to intervene. . . . "We dealt mainly with the IDF activity in Gaza," Tibi told Ynet. "Kaddoumi described it as war crimes, and I agreed with him." . . . The recent appointment of Minister Avigdor Lieberman was also raised during the meeting. "Kaddoumi asked where the extreme Israeli government is headed," Tibi said.

posted by LoZo 10:34 AM