(Updated: Originally published November 10, 2006)
Following up on the actions of Israel, I feel compelled to introduce the sufferings of the Palestinian people.
The story simply MUST BE HEARD!
"Israeli shelling in Gaza brings agony and rage; Hamas ends truce after killing of 18" by Anne Barnard and Sa'id Ghazali/Boston Globe November 9, 2006
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- By yesterday afternoon, when he knew that at least 16 members of his family had died in what Israeli officials suspect was an errant Israeli shelling, Ramez al-Atamna was in shock.
His eyes glazed, his voice drained of emotion, he recited the painful losses: His wife Manal. His brother Samir. Two daughters, 3 years old and 7 months. His father, his stepmother, his grandmother, a sister still in high school. His son Abdullah, 7, lay in a hospital bed beside him, an elastic bandage wrapped around the stump of his amputated left foot.
Ramez, 30, clapping his hands and wiping them against each other in a gesture of finality and resignation: "My son, he is all I have left of my family."
Nothing errant about it!
It's a planned, calculated effort, otherwise, it would not keep occurring time after time after time!
The dawn barrage in the northern Gaza Strip killed 18 people, health officials said, making it the single deadliest Israeli strike on civilians in six years of violence. It threatened to usher in a new wave of instability and bloodshed in Israel and the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of the militant group Hamas, declared the end of a truce with Israel that most Hamas militants have observed since early 2005.
Unilateral truces on one side; unilateral aggression on the other.
WHO exactly is FOR PEACE?
The carnage dealt a further blow to already-faltering talks between Hamas and Fatah to form a new coalition government.
And CUI BONO? Who benefited from all this?
Sounds like Israel did, doesn't it? Hmmmm!
Israel vowed yesterday to continue its four-month offensive in Gaza.... Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh told Israel Radio the "working assumption" was that Israeli shells caused the deaths, adding. "It's clear a serious mistake was made."
It was NO MISTAKE!
Let's finish with the horror and terror the Atamnah family had to endure:
The Atamna family went to bed Tuesday night looking forward to their first quiet sleep in a week. Instead, pandemonium broke out.
Early yesterday morning, just hours after the attack, family members gathered around a sprawling puddle of blood-tinged water, ringed with bloody flip flops, body parts, and rubble. There, in a passageway between two of the four concrete-block buildings that house the extended clan of at least 70, most of the victims lost their lives trying to escape the shelling.
Family members said the attack began when an explosion hit the roof of the tallest building, which stands about 200 yards from an orange grove.... It punched a 4-foot hole in the concrete roof.
Mohammed, 15, was killed in his bedroom as he slept. Dozens of panicked relatives rushed down to the passageway to flee, where another shell apparently landed on or near them.
All day yesterday, relatives repeatedly returned to the spot, dazed. Some tried to wash away the gory debris.
The scene is unimaginable to me!
Akram al-Atamna, a policeman, sat on the ground staring at the blood:
"What has happened? They have massacred us."
He sobbed and clung to his nephew, Ramez, who was trying to find out what had happened to his family. Later he would learn that they were dead or injured.
Another man dipped his hands in the blood and smeared it on his face and cried:
"Where is our government? Where is our president?"
Omar al-Atamna, who lost three brothers in the strike -- Mohammed, Arafat, 20, and Mehdi, 17 -- sat quietly beside the puddle, his eyes filling with tears when he was asked how he felt.
Israelis had occupied the tallest family apartment building for a day during the incursion and arrested some of his relatives, Omar Atamna said, but released them because they found no weapons or evidence against them.
"They have no excuse because they knew exactly who lived in the house."
Yup, Israel had occupied the place and knew who was there, but it was ALL A MISTAKE!!
And the damn Zionists have the unmitigated gall to say that Arabs hate Jews more than they love their children?
Do you SEE HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THEIR CHILDREN?
Crying and clinging to a nephew?
Are the Israelis so blind, and so consumed with their own victimization that they can not possibility fathom why they may be hated by Palestinians?
Or do they just willfully avert?
