Israel admits it is deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza

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Israel is deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

The UN says 77 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip have been civilians.

A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs details Israel’s current assault, now it in its sixth day.

With over 150 killed, including an alarming number of women and children, and the death toll in Gaza rising by the hour, Israeli officials insist they are doing all they can to avoid civilian casualties.

Using precision guided missiles, the Israeli army claims it is only bombing people and infrastructure “affiliated with Hamas terrorism” — and the international community is buying it.

What is not being discussed, however, is who and what constitutes a Hamas affiliate.

Hamas is more than just a militant organization, it is the political party that was democratically elected in 2006 to govern the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Hamas’s control means that almost everyone and everything in Gaza can be considered a Hamas affiliate. This unchallenged loose definition has enabled Israel’s war architects to widen the definition of legitimate targets to include civilians and civilian infrastructure, includingmosques, schools, hospitals, banks, electricity lines and residential homes, all of which have been targeted.

Aside from a weak condemnation issued by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,Navi Pillay, the international community has largely accepted Israel’s methodology, completely abandoning defenseless Palestinian civilians as they’re being maimed and slaughtered by one of the world’s most powerful armies.

Israel admits to targeting civilians
Even as Israeli officials openly admit that they are deliberately and systematically bombing the family homes of suspected militants, the international community has raised little objection.

Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s so-called defense minister, boasted to Israel Army Radio: “We are destroying arms, terror infrastructures, command systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, terrorists’ houses, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command.”

This explains why entire families have been wiped out by US-supplied Israeli bombs.

Israel has tried to absolve itself of responsibility for these massacres by sometimes warning its victims over the phone to evacuate their homes and “roof knocking” — hitting the roof of a home or building with a small mortar shell prior to bombing it.

But as one raw and terrifying video captured by a Palestinian in Gaza demonstrates, Israel’s airstrike follows within seconds of the warning, giving residents little time to flee, especially children, the elderly and disabled.

Another hasbara (or propaganda) tactic deployed by Israel has been unsubstantiated accusations that Hamas stores weapons within civilian buildings.

But Israel has failed to provide any evidence to corroborate this claim beyond grainy aerial footage and photos that prove nothing.

Everyone is a terrorist
Eighteen people were killed and dozens injured in a single Israeli airstrike on Saturday night targeting the home of Gaza’s police chief, Taysir al-Batsh.

This was not Israel’s first time intentionally targeting Gaza police officers, who the Israeli army classifies as militants despite their civilian status. To kick off “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s murderous three-week assault on the Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-2009, the Israeli army rained down bombs on a graduation ceremony for Gaza police cadets, killing 255 people.

Prior to Saturday, Israel bombed a care facility for people with special needs in Beit Lahiya, killing two physically and mentally disabled women as they slept.

Another family was killed after fleeing their home in accordance with a “warning call,” bombed while taking shelter with their neighbors under a tree. The homes, however, were not hit.

Following Knesset deputy speaker Moshe Feiglin’s demands that Israel cut off electricity to Gaza’s dialysis patients, Israeli bombardments have repeatedly damaged Gaza’s electricity lines, leaving 75 percent of Gaza City in the dark.

Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Ze’ev Elkin recently recommended cutting off water and electricity to Gaza. Gaza-based journalist Mohammed Omar reports that Israeli airstrikes have since targeted Gaza’s already vulnerable water and sewage system, destroying wells and at least five water pipelines, in clear violation of international law. And it is no accident.

The Dahiya doctrine
This isn’t the first time Israel has targeted civilians on a mass scale, but rather a repeat of war crimes committed in Lebanon in 2006 and perfected in Gaza in 2008-2009 and again in 2012.

The Dahiya doctrine (which refers to the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut that Israel purposely decimated in its 2006 assault on Lebanon) is Israel’s preferred method of warfare. Under this doctrine, the Israeli army deploys overwhelmingly disproportionate force against civilian infrastructure to restore Israel’s deterrence and turn the local population against its enemy, i.e. Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

In the lead up to Operation Cast Lead, senior Israeli army General Gadi Eisenkot disclosed Israel’s plans to expand the Dahiya doctrine, telling an Israeli newspaper, “We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases.” He added, “This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized.”

Two months later Israel pulverized the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,400 people, including almost 400 children, some of whom were deliberately murdered while raising white flags.

Deliberate
Based on statements such as Eisenkot’s combined with Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, better known as The Goldstone Report, determined that “The Israeli military conception of what was necessary in a future war with Hamas seems to have been developed from at least the time of the 2006 conflict in southern Lebanon. It finds its origin in a military doctrine that views disproportionate destruction and creating maximum disruption in the lives of many people as a legitimate means to achieve military and political goals.”

The report continued (emphasis mine), “Statements by political and military leaders prior to and during the military operations in Gaza leave little doubt that disproportionate destruction and violence against civilians were part of a deliberate policy.”

Israel employed this same strategy in its November 2012 Gaza onslaught, which killed 162 Palestinians. Less than two years later, the international community is again witnessing the deliberate slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and has by and large sided with the butcher.

How much longer will the world allow Israel to wipe out Palestinian families with impunity? How many Palestinian children’s lives will be cut short before the world demands and end to Israel’s war crimes?

 

[Dubious]

@500

 

[ephone]

Don't pretend to be innocent.

Why aren't you crying when you shield hamas and allow them firing rockets from your places???

You get what you deserved.

When you hide, provide support for hamas terrorists, you are the same as terrorists.

Israel is deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

The UN says 77 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip have been civilians.

A report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs details Israel’s current assault, now it in its sixth day.

With over 150 killed, including an alarming number of women and children, and the death toll in Gaza rising by the hour, Israeli officials insist they are doing all they can to avoid civilian casualties.

Using precision guided missiles, the Israeli army claims it is only bombing people and infrastructure “affiliated with Hamas terrorism” — and the international community is buying it.

What is not being discussed, however, is who and what constitutes a Hamas affiliate.

Hamas is more than just a militant organization, it is the political party that was democratically elected in 2006 to govern the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Hamas’s control means that almost everyone and everything in Gaza can be considered a Hamas affiliate. This unchallenged loose definition has enabled Israel’s war architects to widen the definition of legitimate targets to include civilians and civilian infrastructure, includingmosques, schools, hospitals, banks, electricity lines and residential homes, all of which have been targeted.

Aside from a weak condemnation issued by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,Navi Pillay, the international community has largely accepted Israel’s methodology, completely abandoning defenseless Palestinian civilians as they’re being maimed and slaughtered by one of the world’s most powerful armies.

Israel admits to targeting civilians
Even as Israeli officials openly admit that they are deliberately and systematically bombing the family homes of suspected militants, the international community has raised little objection.

Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s so-called defense minister, boasted to Israel Army Radio: “We are destroying arms, terror infrastructures, command systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, terrorists’ houses, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command.”

This explains why entire families have been wiped out by US-supplied Israeli bombs.

Israel has tried to absolve itself of responsibility for these massacres by sometimes warning its victims over the phone to evacuate their homes and “roof knocking” — hitting the roof of a home or building with a small mortar shell prior to bombing it.

But as one raw and terrifying video captured by a Palestinian in Gaza demonstrates, Israel’s airstrike follows within seconds of the warning, giving residents little time to flee, especially children, the elderly and disabled.

Another hasbara (or propaganda) tactic deployed by Israel has been unsubstantiated accusations that Hamas stores weapons within civilian buildings.

But Israel has failed to provide any evidence to corroborate this claim beyond grainy aerial footage and photos that prove nothing.

Everyone is a terrorist
Eighteen people were killed and dozens injured in a single Israeli airstrike on Saturday night targeting the home of Gaza’s police chief, Taysir al-Batsh.

This was not Israel’s first time intentionally targeting Gaza police officers, who the Israeli army classifies as militants despite their civilian status. To kick off “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s murderous three-week assault on the Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-2009, the Israeli army rained down bombs on a graduation ceremony for Gaza police cadets, killing 255 people.

Prior to Saturday, Israel bombed a care facility for people with special needs in Beit Lahiya, killing two physically and mentally disabled women as they slept.

Another family was killed after fleeing their home in accordance with a “warning call,” bombed while taking shelter with their neighbors under a tree. The homes, however, were not hit.

Following Knesset deputy speaker Moshe Feiglin’s demands that Israel cut off electricity to Gaza’s dialysis patients, Israeli bombardments have repeatedly damaged Gaza’s electricity lines, leaving 75 percent of Gaza City in the dark.

Israel’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Ze’ev Elkin recently recommended cutting off water and electricity to Gaza. Gaza-based journalist Mohammed Omar reports that Israeli airstrikes have since targeted Gaza’s already vulnerable water and sewage system, destroying wells and at least five water pipelines, in clear violation of international law. And it is no accident.

The Dahiya doctrine
This isn’t the first time Israel has targeted civilians on a mass scale, but rather a repeat of war crimes committed in Lebanon in 2006 and perfected in Gaza in 2008-2009 and again in 2012.

The Dahiya doctrine (which refers to the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut that Israel purposely decimated in its 2006 assault on Lebanon) is Israel’s preferred method of warfare. Under this doctrine, the Israeli army deploys overwhelmingly disproportionate force against civilian infrastructure to restore Israel’s deterrence and turn the local population against its enemy, i.e. Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

In the lead up to Operation Cast Lead, senior Israeli army General Gadi Eisenkot disclosed Israel’s plans to expand the Dahiya doctrine, telling an Israeli newspaper, “We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases.” He added, “This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized.”

Two months later Israel pulverized the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,400 people, including almost 400 children, some of whom were deliberately murdered while raising white flags.

Deliberate
Based on statements such as Eisenkot’s combined with Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, better known as The Goldstone Report, determined that “The Israeli military conception of what was necessary in a future war with Hamas seems to have been developed from at least the time of the 2006 conflict in southern Lebanon. It finds its origin in a military doctrine that views disproportionate destruction and creating maximum disruption in the lives of many people as a legitimate means to achieve military and political goals.”

The report continued (emphasis mine), “Statements by political and military leaders prior to and during the military operations in Gaza leave little doubt that disproportionate destruction and violence against civilians were part of a deliberate policy.”

Israel employed this same strategy in its November 2012 Gaza onslaught, which killed 162 Palestinians. Less than two years later, the international community is again witnessing the deliberate slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and has by and large sided with the butcher.

How much longer will the world allow Israel to wipe out Palestinian families with impunity? How many Palestinian children’s lives will be cut short before the world demands and end to Israel’s war crimes?

 

[RFS_Br]

Why aren't you crying when you shield hamas and allow them firing rockets from your places???

Israel's human shield accusations have never been verified by independent investigators - quite the contrary, when such investigations are made, it's Israel that is exposed for using civilians as human shields.

Examples:
Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N.| Reuters
Israeli soldiers who used Palestinian boy, 9, as a human shield avoid jail | World news | The Guardian
Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shields | World news | theguardian.com
Breaking the Silence › Testimony - A moving human shield

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33020:

“Amnesty International on Thursday accused Israeli forces of war crimes, saying they used children as human shields and conducted wanton attacks on civilians during their offensive in the Gaza Strip."

About Hamas' supposed use of human shields, Amnesty International found, contra Israel's allegations, that:

“It could not support Israeli claims that Hamas used human shields. It said it found no evidence Palestinian fighters directed civilians to shield military objectives from attacks, forced them to stay in buildings used by militants, or prevented them from leaving commandeered buildings”

And the UN ratified Amnesty International's findings that Hamas does not use human shields:

“We found no evidence that Hamas used civilians as hostages. I had expected to find such evidence but did not. We also found no evidence that mosques were used to store munitions. ”

Israel has made very similar accusations against its other nemesis, Hezbollah, to justify its slaughter of civilians in Lebanon, but they, too, ended up refuted by Western groups:

Human Rights Watch did not find evidence, however, that the deployment of Hezbollah forces in Lebanon routinely or widely violated the laws of war, as repeatedly alleged by Israel. We did not find, for example, that Hezbollah routinely located its rockets inside or near civilian homes. Rather, we found strong evidence that Hezbollah had stored most of its rockets in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys.

Israel's accusations against its enemies are just excuses it makes up to justify massacres of civilians. In fact, Israelis have a military doctrine, the Dahiya doctrine, precisely to justify targeting of innocents as a Nazi-style form of collective punishment. So go inform yourself better, read up on the history of the "conflict" from good sources, before damning innocents to death because of some propaganda you've been exposed to, you know-nothing.

 

[ephone]

verified???

Where do you think those rockets fired from???

Israel has the most advanced technology pinpointing where those are fired from. Otherwise, how the heck does Israel shoot them down???

Don't joke here.

Israel's human shield accusations have never been verified by independent investigators - quite the contrary, when such investigations are made, it's Israel that is exposed for using civilians as human shields.

Examples:
Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N.| Reuters
Israeli soldiers who used Palestinian boy, 9, as a human shield avoid jail | World news | The Guardian
Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shields | World news | theguardian.com
Breaking the Silence › Testimony - A moving human shield

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33020:



About Hamas' supposed use of human shields, Amnesty International found, contra Israel's allegations, that:


And the UN ratified Amnesty International's findings that Hamas does not use human shields:



Israel has made very similar accusations against its other nemesis, Hezbollah, to justify its slaughter of civilians in Lebanon, but such accusations, too, ended up refuted by Western groups:


Such accusations are just excuses Israel makes up to justify massacres of civilians. In fact, Israelis have a military doctrine, the Dahiya doctrine, precisely to justify targeting of civilians as a Nazi-style collective punishment. So go inform yourself better, read up on the history of the "conflict" from good sources, before damning innocents to death because of some propaganda you've been exposed to, you know-nothing.

 

[RFS_Br]

verified???
Where do you think those rockets fired from???
Israel has the most advanced technology pinpointing where those are fired from. Otherwise, how the heck does Israel shoot them down???
Don't joke here.

About the Iron Dome you seem to be referencing to, it not only doesn't work, being a complete dud, but it says nothing about the place the rocket is fired from. Yeah, Israel does otherwise have good military technology, so, if it is targeting civilian homes, it's because it is doing so on purpose, out of pure malice. It's not targeting the homes because rockets are launched from there - I already presented you evidence you're purposely ignoring that proves this isn't the case, that Hamas isn't known to use human shields (this being just an Israeli slander), that it is Israel that gets caught yet and again using children and innocents as shields, and that Israel has a military doctrine justifying blind acts of aggression on civilians that have been denounced by the UN and human rights groups multiple times.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

Israel admits to targeting civilians
Even as Israeli officials openly admit that they are deliberately and systematically bombing the family homes of suspected militants, the international community has raised little objection.

It is not illegal to target civilians, as long as they are within a military target, and the loss of the lifes
are acceptable, based on the significance of the military target, according to rules of proportionality.

Remains for Israel to show why the family homes have a military value.

If the militants sleep there at night, and go to battle at day,
then that is enough to classify the family home as a military target, and presence
of civilians does bring any protection.

If they sleep in barracks during periods of fight, and go on leave and stay with their families,
then it is not a military target.

Israel has tried to absolve itself of responsibility for these massacres by sometimes warning its victims over the phone to evacuate their homes and “roof knocking” — hitting the roof of a home or building with a small mortar shell prior to bombing it.

But as one raw and terrifying video captured by a Palestinian in Gaza demonstrates, Israel’s airstrike follows within seconds of the warning, giving residents little time to flee, especially children, the elderly and disabled.

Unfortunately, this video has already been published on PDF, showing first the "thumper"
and then two missiles hitting the building. According to that posting, a period of 15 minutes
delay between the "thumper" and the missiles was edited away, and the inhabitants of the
building made it out of the building before it was destroyed.

I think your recent postings, (including falsly claiming DIME is banned)
qualifies you as a Palestine Hasbara, and you are on my ignore list from now on.

 

[RFS_Br]

It is not illegal to target civilians, as long as they are within a military objective, and the loss of the lifes
are acceptable, based on the significance of the military target, according to rules of proportionality.

Which is not the case. Considering that 70-80% of the Gazan casualties produced thus far are civilian and that there have been entire massacres where all of the victims were innocents in areas witnesses state there've been no attacks whatsoever against Israel, the so-called rules of proportionality have all but been raped by the Israeli army.

If the militants sleep there at night, and go to battle at day,
then that is enough to classify the family home as a military target, and presence
of civilians does bring any protection.

No, it is not. Massacring a family of 8 to wipe out one supposed fighter (and let's not forget presence of fighters in areas hit by Israel are just supposed, not proven) goes against the proportionality rule

According to that posting

Yeah, the Israelis say something, so that must be true.

Remember when you were insisting with me that the video that caught the Nakba Day child murders by the Israeli army had been edited and it was even possible that no child had been shot that day by the IDF? Well, how's that going? Where's your mea culpa?

I think your recent postings, (including falsly claiming DIME is banned)
qualifies you as a Palestine Hasbara, and you are on my ignore list from now on.

It is banned as per a variety of sources. This one, for example, even has Israelis denying possessing DIME - if it was not a banned weapon, why'd the Israelis deny using it?

As for the ignore -- good, my threads will no longer be disrupted by your trivial contents, empty speculations, Israel-worship disguised as cold skepticism towards evidence of war crimes, and transparently contrived attempts to feign impartiality.

 

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iron dome does not work???

It shoots down those hamas garbage quite efficiently.

What a bunch of sisi's.

About the Iron Dome you seem to be referencing to, it not only doesn't work, being a complete dud, but it says nothing about the place the rocket is fired from. Yeah, Israel does otherwise have good military technology, so, if it is targeting civilian homes, it's because it is doing so on purpose, out of pure malice. It's not targeting the homes because rockets are launched from there - I already presented you evidence you're purposely ignoring that proves this isn't the case, that Hamas isn't known to use human shields (this being just an Israeli slander), that it is Israel that gets caught yet and again using children and innocents as shields, and that Israel has a military doctrine justifying blind acts of aggression on civilians that have been denounced by the UN and human rights groups multiple times.

 

[RFS_Br]

It shoots down those hamas garbage quite efficiently.

You're embarrassing but I'll help you out.

 

[ephone]

embarrassing???

The whole world is clapping for sending those hamas fxxkers to hell.

Israel has done the world such a favor to send those terrorists on fast track to see their so-called virgins.

don't send me those intifada type of garbages.

BTW, Brazil should kick out terrorist supporters like you to the cave where you originally come from.

You're embarrassing but I'll help you out.

 

[RFS_Br]

embarrassing???

So no comment on that threads? So yet again, you fail to engage with the evidence that is presented to you when it is inconvenient to your arguments.

The whole world is clapping for sending those hamas fxxkers to hell.

Oh if only! !

Israel has done the world such a favor to send those terrorists on fast track to see their so-called virgins.

Laaaame.

BTW, Brazil should kick out terrorist supporters like you to the cave where you originally come from.

I'm a born citizen, by the constitution (do they have that in China?) I can't be expelled from my country, much less over political opinions.

 

[Dubious]

The whole world is clapping for sending those hamas fxxkers to hell.

I beg to differ...BTW, which world do you live in? Because this is what the world REALLY is doing:

The news states different from what you talk about:

Tel Aviv: Jews Protest against Israeli attack on Gaza

A protest condemning the Israeli assault on the Gaza strip, held in Habima square, Tel Aviv on July 12, 2014. The protest was organized after Israel’ military strike against the Gaza strip, killing dozens.Israel stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip, pummeling scores of targets and killing more than 120 people as Israeli leaders signaled a weeks-long ground invasion could be quickly approaching.

The protestors were disturbed violently by demonstrators from the right wing that expressed support of the army actions in Gaza.

Tel Aviv: Jews Protest against Israeli attack on Gaza | Morocco World News


Jewish activists light children’s dolls on fire at Yad Vashem to protest Gaza attack

Saturday, 12th July, a group called Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian children killed by Israel in its current attack on Gaza. JAG set aflame to a pile of dolls covered in red paint at Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust memorial museum. Jews Against Genocide (JAG) is a movement of Jews from all over the world, including Israelis, who are protesting against Israel’s intent to commit genocide against the non-Jewish indigenous people of Palestine.

The Yad Vashem security guard attempted to disrupt the memorial, confiscated JAG’s fire extinguisher, and called the Israeli police to arrest the participants.

We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.


We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.

We invite compassionate people from across the globe to join the outcry by staging similar protests in front of Israeli embassies and consulates around the world on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th July, 2014.

Just as we honor the people who were murdered seven decades ago in Europe because they were Jews, we are here to honor the people who are being murdered at this very moment because they are the indigenous people of this land who are not Jews.

The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines Genocide as, “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; [...]“

The children of Gaza, who are being systematically murdered as we write this article, constitute 52% percent of the population under siege in the strip. The vast majority of these children are descendants of refugees from historical Palestine.

In the current round of atrocities committed by the Israel occupation army, so far dozens of children have been murdered in their homes, with Israel’s war-making leadership vowing “much higher costs” on the Palestinian side as the bombing and shelling continues.

The war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza today are the latest stage of an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the indigenous people of this land.

The Jewish State was founded on the Zionist principle of “maximum Jews on maximum land, and minimum Arabs on minimum land”, which was made reality through sixty-six years of continued assault against Palestinians, denying them the right to live freely and peacefully in their historical homeland.

The Israeli regime has turned the beautiful Gaza strip into a densely populated ghetto, with unsafe water, untreated sewage, and insufficient resources and electricity. This ghetto has become a concentration camp, through repeated Israeli massacres in what the Goldstone Report described as an effort to, “humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish[ing] its local economic capacity.”

We express our support and solidarity for the Palestinian civil society’s call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, until it complies with the three basic demands of:

1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall

2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and

3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

Jews Against Genocide (JAG)




Thousands in Sydney join global Gaza protests
More than 4000 Sydney protesters joined hundreds of thousands around the world on Sunday to demand an end to Israeli military strikes on Gaza.

The boisterous crowd stood shoulder-to-shoulder, waving Palestinian flags and chanting: “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian.”

Best friends Batoul Taha, 25, and Kiltom Al-Tobi, 25, held placards showing images of Palestinian children injured or killed in air strikes. They said they travelled an hour from the western suburbs to attend the rally.

“We are just over it. We are over people being killed in Palestine, especially the children,” said Taha, who lives in Merrylands.


“This is against UN laws but the UN is not doing anything about it … That’s why we are here – to make the world aware that injustice is happening and you cannot sit there and just ignore it,” said Al-Tobi, from Liverpool.

Organiser Damien Ridgewell from the Palestine Action Group told protesters their voices were part of a chorus around the world.

“From New York to South Africa to Oslo and London … we stand in solidarity against the atrocities in Gaza.”

Greens NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon said the demonstrations sent an important message to Australia’s political leadership, as well as to people in Gaza.

“These actions give such strength to the people in Gaza who are being bombed and who are suffering such hardship,” she said.

“We need Australian political leaders to stand up and add their voice to calls for a ceasefire.”

The worldwide demonstrations come as the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv is preparing to evacuate Australians from the Gaza Strip.

More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in five days of aerial bombardment.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Yair Miller said: "It is always unfortunate when activists attempt to bring foreign conflicts to the streets of Sydney."

The demonstrators marched up George Street, then into King Street, Castlereagh Street and Market Street before finishing back at Town Hall.



Read more: Thousands in Sydney join global Gaza protests


New York protesters demand end to Israeli assault on Gaza

Several thousand people demonstrated Wednesday in front of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations in New York City demanding an end to the brutal bombardment of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces.

The Palestinian protest
The protest was organized by a coalition of groups including American Muslims for Palestine and Al-Awda NY. Demonstrators displayed Palestinian flags and carried homemade signs with slogans such as Stop the War and Palestine Resists. Many youth of Palestinian and Arab descent participated as well as American students of all backgrounds. Marchers chanted, “Free, Free Palestine” and, “Intifada! Intifada!”

Lamis Deek, one of the rally’s organizers, told the media: “We are standing here to demand an end to the hate, incitements and attacks of the settlers that have been happening not just in the past two weeks but that we’ve been enduring since the Israeli occupation.”

A smaller pro-Zionist demonstration was organized across the street.

As is usual for any rally in New York City that expresses opposition to Washington’s policies, the New York Police Department penned protesters behind metal barricades and surrounded them with a disproportionately large number of officers.

Protesters marched to the headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation on Avenue of the Americas. News Corp is owner of FOX News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, among the most vile propagandists for Israeli aggression, although demonstrators were quick to point out that the rally in front of the building was meant to oppose all of the mainstream media, including the New York Times, for their failure to report the situation in Gaza and West Bank in an evenhanded manner.

The World Socialist Web Site spoke to many of the protesters, all of whom expressed anger at the Israeli assault on Gaza. Most readily agreed with the WSWS’s view that the attack had been planned in advance and that the kidnapping of three Jewish youth was used by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stoke anti-Palestinian sentiment in Israel itself.

“Innocent civilians are getting killed,” Jana Suleiman told us. “We need to broadcast this on the news. We have to help people understand what is really going on.”

Sulafa Khirfah, a high school student from Jordan vacationing in the US, and Robert Walker, a college student from New Jersey, came to the protest together with family members. Sulafa told the WSWS, “We are here because we want justice. What is happening now is unbelievable, inhumane. Would you like it if your son got burned because he was American?

“The same thing applies to Palestinians. I am from Jordan and came here on vacation but when I saw this I had to join. I am half Palestinian but live in Jordan. I know a lot of Palestinians and they and my granddad tell me a lot of stories.”

Robert added, “The way [the Israelis] treat the Palestinians, and the children in particular, is really horrible. They kidnap them, put them in jails, storm houses at night. I want to see peace.”

New York protesters demand end to Israeli assault on Gaza - World Socialist Web Site

Portland Oregon (IMEMC image)

Manchester, England protest for Gaza

Protest in Melbourne, Australia (image by Colleen Manzies)

Protesters take over the street in Los Angeles (image by Mike Prysner)

London:
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to voice their opposition to Israeli aggression against Palestinians.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Thousands of people around the world have taken to the streets to protest against Israel's military operations on Gaza, which have killed at least 108 Palestinians and wounded more than 800 others - mostly civilians - over the last week.

Protesters in the German capital of Berlin and Greek capital of Athens gathered in front of Israeli embassies to demonstrate against what has threatened to turn into a full-blown conflict between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Turkish citizens in nearly a dozen cities staged protests and funerals for those who died in Palestine, while Turkish Cypriots held a separate demonstration in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

There were also rallies in Algeria and Tunisia in reaction to the recent bout of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

Ceasefire call
In London, thousands of people including anti-Zionist Jews and Turkish citizens chanted "Free Palestine" and "Israel, stop attacks against Gaza".

Turkish lawyer Hakan Camuz told the Anadolu Agency at the protest that the group wants Israel to end hostilities, saying: "Israel's illegal actions are no longer accepted by anyone."

Hundreds of people demonstrated outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, calling on the Israeli government to stop its military campaign in Gaza.

“I’m here to oppose the attacks on Gaza, and to call for a ceasefire,” said Blake Selzer, a Washington, D.C-based humanitarian aid worker who has been to the Palestinian enclave.

He said the ongoing violence “is only going to expand the humanitarian problem”.

International pressure
The protest was co-organized by three activist groups: Code Pink, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Washington peace center.

Eyewitnesses estimated that up to 200 people were at the event.

Several non-governmental organizations in Turkey, including the Human Relief Foundation and Mazlumder, issued messages of protest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday his government would resist international pressure to end its operations in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes have pounded the Gaza Strip over the past four days to end rocket fire from the embattled coastal enclave, while the Israeli Foreign Ministry claimed on Thursday that at least 681 rockets had been fired at Israel from Gaza since 7 June.

Israeli attack on Gaza protested around the world | Palestine | Worldbulletin News

 

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The world has 7 billion people. There will always some idiots who think frozen snake can be saved with human kindness.

I beg to differ...BTW, which world do you live in? Because this is what the world REALLY is doing:
The news states different from what you talk about:

Tel Aviv: Jews Protest against Israeli attack on Gaza

A protest condemning the Israeli assault on the Gaza strip, held in Habima square, Tel Aviv on July 12, 2014. The protest was organized after Israel’ military strike against the Gaza strip, killing dozens.Israel stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip, pummeling scores of targets and killing more than 120 people as Israeli leaders signaled a weeks-long ground invasion could be quickly approaching.

The protestors were disturbed violently by demonstrators from the right wing that expressed support of the army actions in Gaza.

Tel Aviv: Jews Protest against Israeli attack on Gaza | Morocco World News

Jewish activists light children’s dolls on fire at Yad Vashem to protest Gaza attack

Saturday, 12th July, a group called Jews Against Genocide (JAG) held a memorial service for Palestinian children killed by Israel in its current attack on Gaza. JAG set aflame to a pile of dolls covered in red paint at Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust memorial museum. Jews Against Genocide (JAG) is a movement of Jews from all over the world, including Israelis, who are protesting against Israel’s intent to commit genocide against the non-Jewish indigenous people of Palestine.

The Yad Vashem security guard attempted to disrupt the memorial, confiscated JAG’s fire extinguisher, and called the Israeli police to arrest the participants.

We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.

We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.

We invite compassionate people from across the globe to join the outcry by staging similar protests in front of Israeli embassies and consulates around the world on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th July, 2014.

Just as we honor the people who were murdered seven decades ago in Europe because they were Jews, we are here to honor the people who are being murdered at this very moment because they are the indigenous people of this land who are not Jews.

The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines Genocide as, “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; [...]“

The children of Gaza, who are being systematically murdered as we write this article, constitute 52% percent of the population under siege in the strip. The vast majority of these children are descendants of refugees from historical Palestine.

In the current round of atrocities committed by the Israel occupation army, so far dozens of children have been murdered in their homes, with Israel’s war-making leadership vowing “much higher costs” on the Palestinian side as the bombing and shelling continues.

The war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza today are the latest stage of an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the indigenous people of this land.

The Jewish State was founded on the Zionist principle of “maximum Jews on maximum land, and minimum Arabs on minimum land”, which was made reality through sixty-six years of continued assault against Palestinians, denying them the right to live freely and peacefully in their historical homeland.

The Israeli regime has turned the beautiful Gaza strip into a densely populated ghetto, with unsafe water, untreated sewage, and insufficient resources and electricity. This ghetto has become a concentration camp, through repeated Israeli massacres in what the Goldstone Report described as an effort to, “humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish[ing] its local economic capacity.”

We express our support and solidarity for the Palestinian civil society’s call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, until it complies with the three basic demands of:

1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall

2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and

3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

Jews Against Genocide (JAG)


Thousands in Sydney join global Gaza protests
More than 4000 Sydney protesters joined hundreds of thousands around the world on Sunday to demand an end to Israeli military strikes on Gaza.

The boisterous crowd stood shoulder-to-shoulder, waving Palestinian flags and chanting: “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian.”

Best friends Batoul Taha, 25, and Kiltom Al-Tobi, 25, held placards showing images of Palestinian children injured or killed in air strikes. They said they travelled an hour from the western suburbs to attend the rally.

“We are just over it. We are over people being killed in Palestine, especially the children,” said Taha, who lives in Merrylands.


“This is against UN laws but the UN is not doing anything about it … That’s why we are here – to make the world aware that injustice is happening and you cannot sit there and just ignore it,” said Al-Tobi, from Liverpool.

Organiser Damien Ridgewell from the Palestine Action Group told protesters their voices were part of a chorus around the world.

“From New York to South Africa to Oslo and London … we stand in solidarity against the atrocities in Gaza.”

Greens NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon said the demonstrations sent an important message to Australia’s political leadership, as well as to people in Gaza.

“These actions give such strength to the people in Gaza who are being bombed and who are suffering such hardship,” she said.

“We need Australian political leaders to stand up and add their voice to calls for a ceasefire.”

The worldwide demonstrations come as the Australian embassy in Tel Aviv is preparing to evacuate Australians from the Gaza Strip.

More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in five days of aerial bombardment.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Yair Miller said: "It is always unfortunate when activists attempt to bring foreign conflicts to the streets of Sydney."

The demonstrators marched up George Street, then into King Street, Castlereagh Street and Market Street before finishing back at Town Hall.



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New York protesters demand end to Israeli assault on Gaza

Several thousand people demonstrated Wednesday in front of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations in New York City demanding an end to the brutal bombardment of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces.

The Palestinian protest
The protest was organized by a coalition of groups including American Muslims for Palestine and Al-Awda NY. Demonstrators displayed Palestinian flags and carried homemade signs with slogans such as Stop the War and Palestine Resists. Many youth of Palestinian and Arab descent participated as well as American students of all backgrounds. Marchers chanted, “Free, Free Palestine” and, “Intifada! Intifada!”

Lamis Deek, one of the rally’s organizers, told the media: “We are standing here to demand an end to the hate, incitements and attacks of the settlers that have been happening not just in the past two weeks but that we’ve been enduring since the Israeli occupation.”

A smaller pro-Zionist demonstration was organized across the street.

As is usual for any rally in New York City that expresses opposition to Washington’s policies, the New York Police Department penned protesters behind metal barricades and surrounded them with a disproportionately large number of officers.

Protesters marched to the headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation on Avenue of the Americas. News Corp is owner of FOX News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, among the most vile propagandists for Israeli aggression, although demonstrators were quick to point out that the rally in front of the building was meant to oppose all of the mainstream media, including the New York Times, for their failure to report the situation in Gaza and West Bank in an evenhanded manner.

The World Socialist Web Site spoke to many of the protesters, all of whom expressed anger at the Israeli assault on Gaza. Most readily agreed with the WSWS’s view that the attack had been planned in advance and that the kidnapping of three Jewish youth was used by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stoke anti-Palestinian sentiment in Israel itself.

“Innocent civilians are getting killed,” Jana Suleiman told us. “We need to broadcast this on the news. We have to help people understand what is really going on.”

Sulafa Khirfah, a high school student from Jordan vacationing in the US, and Robert Walker, a college student from New Jersey, came to the protest together with family members. Sulafa told the WSWS, “We are here because we want justice. What is happening now is unbelievable, inhumane. Would you like it if your son got burned because he was American?

“The same thing applies to Palestinians. I am from Jordan and came here on vacation but when I saw this I had to join. I am half Palestinian but live in Jordan. I know a lot of Palestinians and they and my granddad tell me a lot of stories.”

Robert added, “The way [the Israelis] treat the Palestinians, and the children in particular, is really horrible. They kidnap them, put them in jails, storm houses at night. I want to see peace.”

New York protesters demand end to Israeli assault on Gaza - World Socialist Web Site

Portland Oregon (IMEMC image)

Manchester, England protest for Gaza

Protest in Melbourne, Australia (image by Colleen Manzies)

Protesters take over the street in Los Angeles (image by Mike Prysner)

London:
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to voice their opposition to Israeli aggression against Palestinians.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Thousands of people around the world have taken to the streets to protest against Israel's military operations on Gaza, which have killed at least 108 Palestinians and wounded more than 800 others - mostly civilians - over the last week.

Protesters in the German capital of Berlin and Greek capital of Athens gathered in front of Israeli embassies to demonstrate against what has threatened to turn into a full-blown conflict between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Turkish citizens in nearly a dozen cities staged protests and funerals for those who died in Palestine, while Turkish Cypriots held a separate demonstration in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

There were also rallies in Algeria and Tunisia in reaction to the recent bout of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

Ceasefire call
In London, thousands of people including anti-Zionist Jews and Turkish citizens chanted "Free Palestine" and "Israel, stop attacks against Gaza".

Turkish lawyer Hakan Camuz told the Anadolu Agency at the protest that the group wants Israel to end hostilities, saying: "Israel's illegal actions are no longer accepted by anyone."

Hundreds of people demonstrated outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, calling on the Israeli government to stop its military campaign in Gaza.

“I’m here to oppose the attacks on Gaza, and to call for a ceasefire,” said Blake Selzer, a Washington, D.C-based humanitarian aid worker who has been to the Palestinian enclave.

He said the ongoing violence “is only going to expand the humanitarian problem”.

International pressure
The protest was co-organized by three activist groups: Code Pink, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Washington peace center.

Eyewitnesses estimated that up to 200 people were at the event.

Several non-governmental organizations in Turkey, including the Human Relief Foundation and Mazlumder, issued messages of protest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday his government would resist international pressure to end its operations in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes have pounded the Gaza Strip over the past four days to end rocket fire from the embattled coastal enclave, while the Israeli Foreign Ministry claimed on Thursday that at least 681 rockets had been fired at Israel from Gaza since 7 June.

Israeli attack on Gaza protested around the world | Palestine | Worldbulletin News

 

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Protests worldwide condemn Israeli action in Gaza
Slogans are heard in London, Paris, Tunis, and elsewhere for an end to the 'siege' and 'freedom for Palestine'

Thousands of people around the world are turning out to protest the Israeli strikes on Gaza.

Several thousands of people filled the streets outside the Israeli Embassy in London, displaying signs that read "Gaza: End the Siege" and "Freedom for Palestine" according to Ynet News.

A spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron said that he supported Israel in the face of attacks by Hamas on indiscriminate Israeli targets.

In Paris on Friday 100 people demonstrated outside the French Foreign Ministry,Haaretz reported. Stephane Frappreau, who identified himself as Jewish, said that he had turned out to "defend humanity" and "stop the massacre."

"I think that people tend to forget that Palestinians are people who are suffering, kids and women, who are dying every day," Frappreau said, according to Ynet News. "And I think that people shouldn't confuse things or come to quick conclusions, because being against Israel as we are today is not about being anti-Semitic."

French President Francois Hollande issued a statement earlier this week condemning rocket fire from Gaza but failing to mention those killed in the Gaza Strip.

In Oslo 3,000 people took to the streets to protest Israeli air strikes, Haaretz reported.

Hundreds also gathered in downtown Caracas, Venezuela to protest the Israeli operation, Venezuelanalysis reported. Many speakers called on Venezuela and MERCOSUR to cut ties with Israel. Venezuela cut diplomatic relations with Israel after the 2008-2009 war with Gaza, but maintains economic ties.

Around 2,000 people protested in Tunis on Friday against Israel's offensive in Gaza. Most of the participants were of Tunisia's main Islamist party.

The protesters shouted "The people want the liberation of Palestine" and "Forward, you fight for our honor," Al-Arabiya news reported.

Some others shouted slogans against Egypt's newly elected president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has been avowedly anti-Islamist and who some accuse of not acting proactively on the crisis in Gaza.

"The world, with all its organizations and institutions, watches this odious crime without demanding whether it is more than just a cry of terror," said Nabil Boulifi, a civil servant attending the rally.

Since the beginning of Israel's operation "Protective Edge" over 100 have been killed in Gaza and the Israeli Air Force has struck over 1,000 targets according to media sources. Over 500 rockets have been fired into Israel from the coastal territory, wounding. Israel has not yet suffered casualties.


Protests worldwide condemn Israeli action in Gaza | i24news - See beyond

The world has 7 billion people. There will always some idiots who think frozen snake can be saved with human kindness.

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You claimed something from your own brain and said the world is following it...I provide you news articles of events taking place so please either wake up or just dont quote me with you delusional lies!