Party to Murder

Medical officials say at least 437 people have died in Gaza and 2,250 have been injured since Israel's aerial bombardment began last week.

Israeli jets have fired more than 700 missiles into Gaza since the assault began last week.
(al jazeera 3 jan)

"Israeli ground troops have started to enter the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials have confirmed, a week after the offensive against Hamas began."

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Here's another article if you are still clueless but before that, I'll like to forward the message that I got from a friend in an email. (Thanks Muhaimin)

Setelah tragedi berdarah di Gaza pada Awal Muharam 1430 yang lalu, kedatangan wakil Malaysia telah pergi ke sana dan bertanyakan bantuan apakah yang dapat disumbangkan namun tahukah jawapan yang diberikan..? Difikirkan pasti sekian-sekian bentuk bantuan yang akan diminta dan boleh disalurkan namun jawapan yang diberikan, “Pergilah kamu pulang ke tanah airmu. Didiklah anak-anakmu sebaik mungkin agar jika kami semua sudah tiada untuk mempertahankan bumi Palestin ini maka nanti adalah dikalangan kamu(saudara seislamku) bangun ke medan juang ini dan mempertahankan sehabis kudratmu,”

Back to the article, here's the link:
###Party To Murder by Chris Hedges, TruthDig.com Jan 3,2009

"Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, said Israel is engaged in a “war to the bitter end” against Hamas in Gaza. A war? Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command and control, no army, and calls it a war. It is not a war. It is murder."

"This is an increasingly precarious condition. A recent study reports that 46 percent of all Gazan children suffer from acute anemia. There are reports that the sonic booms associated with Israeli overflights have caused widespread deafness, especially among children. Gazan children need thousands of hearing aids. Malnutrition is extremely high in a number of different dimensions and affects 75 percent of Gazans. There are widespread mental disorders, especially among young people without the will to live. Over 50 percent of Gazan children under the age of 12 have been found to have no will to live."

"Before the air assaults, Gaza spent 12 hours a day without power, which can be a death sentence to the severely ill in hospitals. Most of Gaza is now without power. There are few drugs and little medicine, including no cancer or cystic fibrosis medication. Hospitals have generators but often lack fuel. Medical equipment, including one of Gaza’s three CT scanners, has been destroyed by power surges and fluctuations. Medical staff cannot control the temperature of incubators for newborns."

"It is macabre," Falk said of the blockade. "I don’t know of anything that exactly fits this situation. People have been referring to the Warsaw ghetto as the nearest analog in modern times."

"The point of the Israeli attack, ostensibly, is to break Hamas, the radical Islamic group that was elected to power in 2007. But Hamas has repeatedly proposed long-term truces with Israel and offered to negotiate a permanent truce. During the last cease-fire, established through Egyptian intermediaries in July, Hamas upheld the truce although Israel refused to ease the blockade. It was Israel that, on Nov. 4, initiated an armed attack that violated the truce and killed six Palestinians. It was only then that Hamas resumed firing rockets at Israel."

"Israel, all along, has not been prepared to enter into diplomatic process that gives the Palestinians a viable state,” Falk said. “They [the Israelis] feel time is on their side. They feel they can create enough facts on the ground so people will come to the conclusion a viable state cannot emerge."


* I might not agree with the conclusion(of the article if u read the full version), let's just keep on praying, not just for the palestinians, but for everyone to unite and be stronger to face this injustice.