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  • Targeting Gaza’s Children with Sound Bombs
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Targeting Gaza’s Children with Sound Bombs
    By Mike Whitney
    07/05/06 "Information Clearing House" - -
    "The killing, abduction, and suppression of the Palestinians by the Israeli military forces do not conform to any reason or logic; rather they flout the Jewish beliefs." Official Statement of the Iranian Jewish Community The photographs of bombed-out buildings, burned-down power plants, and blown-up bridges only tell half the story of Israel’s terror-war on the people in Gaza. Absent (…)

  • Gaza hospital fills up, mainly with civilians
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    "GAZA:
    A missile hit their uncle’s house, which was made of concrete and so, the Basal family had thought in taking refuge there, safer than their more flimsy one. Fida Basal, 20, was not there when the missile struck Sunday, the day after Israel began its ground invasion of Gaza. But her sister, Hanin, 18, was.
    Fida found Hanin at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. One of Hanin’s legs, her sister was told, had been amputated.
    "I want her leg now!" Fida screamed at her mother, blaming her (…)

  • Gaza pummelled as Sarkozy prepares for peace mission (+ video SKYNEWS)
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Philippe Naughton
    "Seven Palestinian children and six adults died today in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip from air, land and sea, as President Sarkozy of France prepared for a unilateral diplomatic mission to the region.
    Houses, mosques and tunnels were hit as the Israelis continued to fire into the densely populated Palestinian territory in the hopes of damaging the militant group Hamas.
    Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, said that "Operation Cast Lead" would continue (…)

  • March of the Dead to Greet Congress on Tuesday
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    March of the Dead to Greet Congress on Tuesday By davidswanson Created 2009-01-05 00:48
    WHAT: A long column of figures dressed all in black with white death masks and bearing the names of those killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The march will be followed by a dramatic nonviolent action intended to awaken Congress to the need to end the wars.
    WHEN: March from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Additional dramatic action 2:15 p.m.
    WHERE: The march will approach (…)

  • "Operation Cast Lead" and a Broader Israeli Military-Intel Agenda
    5 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The present operations are part of a broader agenda explored here by Michael Chossudovsky:
    http://www.uruknet.info?p=50366
    Stop the Attack on Gaza! IAC Petition:
    http://www.iacenter.org/gazapetition
    Live Gaza Coverage on Press TV:
    http://www.informationclearinghouse...

  • George Galloway | Stop Gaza Massacre protest London Saturday 3 January 2009 (video)
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Photo: Joëlle Pénochet 2007
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-26426110.html

  • Ralph NADER: Letter to President George W. Bush on Gaza
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research, January 3, 2009
    Photo: Joëlle Pénochet 2008
    Dear George W. Bush,
    Congressman Barney Frank said recently that Barack Obama’s declaration that "there is only one president at a time" over-estimated the number. He was referring to the economic crisis. But where are you on the Gaza crisis where the civilian population of Gaza, its civil servants and public facilities are being massacred and destroyed respectively by U.S built F-16s and U.S. built helicopter gunships. (…)

  • Expert: Hamas Will Defeat Israel in Gaza
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Expert: Hamas Will Defeat Israel in Gaza
    Infowars, January 3, 2008
    Khaled Hroub, author of several books on Hamas, including Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide, talked with Al Jazeera about Hamas and why he believes the IDF ground invasion — now underway — will be a failure. “Mixing an organized political movement with decentralized armed cells employing adaptive tactics in ungoverned zones, Hezbollah affirms an emerging trend. Highly disciplined, well trained, distributed cells can contest (…)

  • And so it begins ... ’Israeli helicopter, tank destroyed’
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And so it begins ... ’Israeli helicopter, tank destroyed’
    Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:30:57 GMT
    Palestinians say they have targeted an Israeli helicopter and destroyed a tank amid the ongoing Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.
    In a statement issued Sunday, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of Hamas - said it had destroyed an Israeli tank after its ground forces crossed the border with the Gaza Strip late Saturday.
    The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades also said it has (…)

  • BARACK OBAMA’s Deadly Silence By Ali Abunimah
    4 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Electronic Intifada 03 January, 2009
    "I would like to ask President-elect Obama to say something please about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced right now by the people of Gaza."
    Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney made her plea after disembarking from the badly damaged SS Dignity that had limped to the Lebanese port of Tyre while taking on water.
    The small boat, carrying McKinney, the Green Party’s recent presidential candidate, other volunteers, and (…)