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Israel Forces Strike Gaza Ending Unilateral Ceasefire
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by con10t | January 28, 2009 at 05:42 am
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A ceasefire or a smoke-out by Israel? Surround them, blockade their borders and then cry wolf when the imprisoned Palestinians 'act up' against the seige force. Gaza needs open borders to deal with their medical needs, all the burn and shrapnel victims of the Israeli use of illegal weapons over the past month. How will the civilians get medical attention for their life-altering wounds if not by punching a hole in their borders sealed by Israel? Unlsee the transport of the wounded is quick and free, more deaths of Gazans at the hands of Israel will follow, in fact, many victims' conditions have already worsened for lack of medical care by the sealing of borders and refusal to allow wounded civilians to cross borders to get medical help, some agualy due to concerns by the Israelis that their stories of war crime will get out and into the media and an attempt to make the Gazans suffer for the governing body they elected, as no civil reason for turning back the wounded is given at this point by Israel.
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Hours before George J. Mitchell arrived from Egypt, the Israeli military said its warplanes bombed smuggling tunnels on Egypt’s border with Gaza in reprisal for the death of an Israeli soldier in a roadside bomb attack on Tuesday on Israeli soil close to the Gaza-Israel border.
After 10 days of relative calm following the cease-fires that halted the Gaza war, violence flared on Tuesday after the Israeli soldier died and Israeli troops mounted incursions into Gaza that killed one Palestinian and wounded another. The violence represented the first serious confrontations between Hamas and Israel since they declared separate cease-fires on Jan. 18.
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at 06:29 on January 28th, 2009
I have a different interpretation of the facts. First, I don't think Hamas had the noble purpose of evacuating the wounded when they set off the bomb "to punch a hole in their borders" sealed by Israel. I think they did it to kill Israeli soldiers. I mean let's get real, they're punching a hole in the border with Israel so they can evacuate their wounded? Once the bomb went off did Hamas drive ambulances through?
Also, according to the NY Times medical supplies are getting through without a problem
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/world/middleeast/28egypt.html?_r=1&ref=world
The reason why the borders are sealed is because Hamas used them to send suicide bombers into Israel and to divert raw materials intended for agriculture and industry into producing weapons.
Hamas is insane. They think they can provoke Israel into a war, put civilians and children in harms way and whine about the evil Israelis killing their children, get the UN and Europe to join the whinning and somehow Israel will dissapear. Until Hamas grows-up Gazans are going to suffer.
at 09:41 on January 28th, 2009
The article you cite in the New York Times (the url does not work, but I found it anyway via Google, the article you cite is titled - Few Israelis Near Gaza Feel War Achieved Much).
The mention is about the Erez border crossing passenger terminal clinic, which you do not know obviously is closed! Not open! Closed 27 January after it's 10 day propaganda appeal to the media.
Online, reporters describe the Erez clinic as:
The IDF installed 'jungle gyms' for kids. Imagine a maimed and burned victim of white phosphorus gleefully monkeying around on a jungle gym. But great for photo opportuinites. The short-lived day clinic is not a hospital. The wounded would have to make the treacherous journey daily to and from the clinic. Israeli war crime victimst reatment there would not be possible?
. Even Israeli doctors in the region say so. YNetnews.com states:
"Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said the clinic was the wrong solution to begin with. "Israel opened the clinic for propaganda purposes. The injured must be allowed to leave Gaza and receive treatment at Israeli hospitals," the group said."
Anyway, the Erez clinic you cite is CLOSED. After a few days of media spin, the chance for some photo ops and Health Ministry officials trying to boost Israeli morale with pseudo-compassionate propaganda, as concerns over the death and destruction their government has wreaked on Gaza grows amongst decent humane Israeli citizens.
he IDF blame Hamas, as they say 'to the best of their knowledge' and closed the clinic. No one could ever have actually usd it. Impossible to get to and if managed, impossible to stay overnight. No euipment and the few patients who did arrive were cancer patients trying get back for treatment at the Palestinian cancer clinic in East Jerusalem. Were war wounded children transfered inside Israel, none were, reports of war atrocities and crimes committed by Israel's IDF would spread. The clinic is CLOSED by the IDF.
at 13:19 on January 28th, 2009
The article you cite is not the article in today's Times. This is the relevant paragraph.
"This normally quiet commercial crossing between Egypt and Israel has been turned into a parking lot of stalled, humanitarian aid, and in the city of El Arish there are even greater quantities of food, clothing and essential supplies, sitting, waiting and baking in the sun. Some supplies are loaded onto dozens of trucks parked on city streets, but much more is stored in the open areas of a local sports stadium, also waiting, also going nowhere. Only medical supplies seem to be getting through to Gaza."
For the complete article paste this into your browser
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/world/middleeast/28egypt.html?_r=1&ref=world
at 15:07 on January 28th, 2009
Yes, a terrible unexplainably inhumane blockade of goods and services to and from Gaza by Israel. You could have added to your quote that misleads readers to believe that enough medical aid (but no hospitals or staff are able to handle the devastating war crimes committed agaisnt children by Israeli warriors):
"In recent days, officials and drivers at the crossing said that the trickle of trucks passing through this month had all but stopped. None went on Thursday. Friday and Saturday are days off, so nothing passed. On Sunday, a few trucks went through, aid workers said. Monday, nothing. Tuesday, nothing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/world/middleeast/28egypt.html?_r=1&ref=world
at 06:48 on January 28th, 2009
Also your headline is incorrect. Hamas ended the cease fire when they targeted Israeli soldiers in Israel.
at 08:15 on January 28th, 2009
Read - Unilateral Ceasefire - that is Israel's term for their own ceasefire.
To try and blast a hole in a blockade of one's land, to get medical attention for children, and you split hairs. Is that not cruel? Is it not simply a cheap Bush-style 'smoke-out' waiting game trick and while waiting Israel is responsible for the deaths of children and civilians blockaded by the border guard who was killed in his 'line of duty'?
at 08:40 on January 28th, 2009
The Gazans and Palestinians in the West Bank have been playing this shortage card for decades to the west and nobody believes them anymore. They were flourishing under the Oslo accords and even had a casino. When the Palestinians decided to reignite another round of wars--then you can't feel sorry for them; to the contrary.
at 09:02 on January 28th, 2009
Playing a shortage card? You speak as if human lives are cards in some mad casino's poker deck. Your accusation of Palestinians igniting war is actually so far from the context that it makes one almost speechless.
The Israeli post-modern concentration camps for Palestinians ignite, first human suffering, trauma and terror, torturous slow loss of life, total loss of freedom and liberty, and then as prisoners in their own land, not of Hamas but of Israel, you complain that the prisoners riot against the inhumane even murderous post-moder concentration camp conditions prescribed by Israeli for the Palestinian 'pawns in a game' as you chose to see and reduce their rights and humanity.
The Israeli lock-up of Gaza is nothing more or less than a sever prison measure. Inside the prison, naturally human nature will revolt against such brutal oppressors. Your logic reveals itself as nonexistent then when you call a strike not against civilians as those by early Zionists against the British were, i.e. The King David Hotel terror attack by Isreal in its formative years, but as 'reason' for more idsproportionate and barbaric, mass child murder and massacre of Palestinians.
What is to the contrary? I suppose you support disproportionate and illegal war crime against Palestine, based your 'reason' that the prisoner's uprising, fighting back against the Israeli terror, its border forces, is enough to maim and kill even more people? what a flimsy argument. Can you not do better than that? You underestimate those who actually hope for a decent Israel, and not a nation that tries to legitimize as you do, mass murder, child murder, and high-priced terror by Israel. Does opening a casino for instance have anything to do with your 'contrariness to compassion'? Where is humanity headed if people were to begin to think more like you? Terrible.
at 13:28 on January 28th, 2009
I'm not splitting hairs or anything else. You're putting a spin on the story that's not justified by the facts.
Hamas did not blast a hole in the fence to get "medical attention". They set off an explosive to kill and maim Israeli soldiers.
Also, Gaza has a border with Egypt. Why isn't Egypt helping their so-called Palestinian brothers get medical attention so Hamas wouldn't have to blow a hole in Israeli's fence?
at 15:00 on January 28th, 2009
Soldiers are nothing other than terrorists when their task is to coral human beings, kids with serious and life-threatening injuries, at gunpoint as the Israeli border guards do without mercy. The Israeli 'border guards' as such are better termed prison guards.
And Israel always tries to deflect its humanist responsibility. Well, I guess Egypt, had they bombed 100s of Palestinian children to death with white phosphorus and high-powered 300-meter blast range bombs in a tight urban zone, not to mention cluster bombs and usign Palestinian children as human shields in the homes that the Israeli invading terrorists occupied to take up positions in Gaza, then I might consider that Egypt has a great responsbility.
However the war criminals here are Israelis, like the soldier who got blown up blocking the the flow of maimed and blinded and shrapnel-wounded kids and civilians from getting out of Gaza for emergency treatment.
at 17:55 on January 28th, 2009
Talk about your "collective punishment"...
at 05:56 on January 29th, 2009
'my' collective punishment? none i certainly hope.
Reuters.com:
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Press Release - 9 December 2008:
"And still Israel maintains its Gaza siege in its full fury, allowing only barely enough food and fuel to enter to stave off mass famine and disease. Such a policy of collective punishment, initiated by Israel to punish Gazans for political developments within the Gaza strip, constitutes a continuing flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law as laid down in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention."
http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/183ED1610B2BCB80C125751A002B06B2?opendocument