“UN radio reports say one blast was a target close to the main gate of Al Shifa hospital – Gaza and Palestine’s largest medical facility. Another was a plastics factory. More bombs continue to pound the Strip.
Sirens are wailing on the streets outside. Regular power cuts that plunge the city into blackness every night and tonight is no exception. Only perhaps tonight it is the darkest night people have seen here in their lifetimes.Over 220 people have been killed and over 400 injured through attacks that shocked the strip in the space 15 minutes. Hospitals are overloaded and unable to cope. These attacks come on top of existing conditions of humanitarian crisis: a lack of medicines, bread, flour, gas, electricity, fuel and freedom of movement.”
. . . .“Shifaa’s Head of Casualty, Dr Maowiye Abu Hassanyeh explained, ‘We had over 300 injured in over 30 minutes. There were people on the floor of the operating theatre, in the reception area, in the corridors; we were sending patients to other hospitals. Not even the most advanced hospital in the world could cope with this number of casualties in such a short space of time.’
And as IOF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenaz said this morning, ‘This is only the beginning.’ “
Protests in London on Sunday & Monday
Date : 12-27-2008Sunday 28 December 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm and Monday 29 December 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Both protests opposite Israeli Embassy – Kensington High Street
“Monitor news channels and call BBC and ITV every day to ask for accurate figures of numbers killed and injured. We will not accept Israeli spokespersons – we want Palestinian commentators.”
more info call +447833381660
Remember the deadly attacks on Lebanon in 2006 that killed over 1,000. This has to not be a repeat of that because it could go on much longer with many more dead. Israel seems to think it can and should control all life and ways of life in another country, (which reminds me of another bullying country). They would not dare to do to any other country what they have done to Gaza. See also:
Gaza Emergency Protest (UK) + Background to the seige
December 27, 2008
compiled by Cem Ertür
featured writer
from Dandelion SaladGaza Emergency Protest – Sunday 28 December 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm and Monday 29 December 4.00pm 6.00pm
You may already have seen the carnage being carried out, Guernica style on Gaza, on the pretext of Palestinian rockets being fired on southern Israel.
Yet it was Israel that violated the Gaza ceasefire back in early November, killing six Palestinians and wounding four. These killings are part of Israel¹s ongoing campaign of collective punishment against the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip, which Israel has put under siege since June 2007.
This is precisely Israel’s historic tactic of provoking the Palestinians with assassinations and killings, right through declared ceasefires, and when there is a response, blaming the escalation on, as in this case, Hamas, who are acting in justified self-defence as an occupied people, under international law.The Geneva Convention bans military action that harms civilians, in this case an inevitability since the infrastructure attacked is in the heart of dense city centres, using deadlly F16s, and heavy war machinery against a defenceless population that has been crippled by a strangulating three year siege. This is basically a one-sided war.
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