United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution on Gaza: Full Text July 24, 2014
Here is the full text of the resolution:
In a resolution (A/HRC/S-21/L.1) on ensuring respect for international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, adopted by a vote of 29 States in favour, 1 against and 17 abstentions, the Council strongly condemns the failure of Israel, the occupying Power, to end its prolonged occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; and condemns in the strongest terms the widespread, systematic and gross violations of international human rights and fundamental freedoms arising from the Israeli military operations carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 13 June 2014 that may amount to international crimes, directly resulting in the killing of more than 650 Palestinians, most of them civilians and more than 170 of whom are children, the injury of more than 4,000 people and the wanton destruction of homes, vital infrastructure and public properties.
The Council condemns all violence against civilians wherever it occurs, including the killing of two Israeli civilians as a result of rocket fire; calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli military assaults throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and an end to attacks against all civilians, including Israeli civilians; demands that Israel, the occupying Power, immediately and fully end its illegal closure of the occupied Gaza Strip; calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance and services to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip; and expresses deep concern at the condition of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails and detention centres.
The Council also recommends that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depositary of the Fourth Geneva Convention, promptly reconvene the conference of High Contracting Parties to the Convention; and decides to urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014, and to report to the Council at its twenty-eighth session.
The result of the vote was as follows:
In favour (29): Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Viet Nam.
Against (1): United States of America.
Abstentions (17): Austria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Gabon, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Romania, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and United Kingdom.
More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in Israel's offensive on Gaza, according to the UN. Shown here are the name, age, and sex of 132 of those children, recorded by the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights
My Democracy Now! debate on Gaza with “liberal” Zionist J.J. Goldberg
On Democracy Now! today I debated J.J. Goldberg, editor-at-large and columnist at the newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward.
The discussion was ostensibly focused on US media coverage of Gaza, but I think Goldberg’s performance more accurately displayed the ways that “liberal” Zionists use euphemisms to obscure from view – their own and others’ – the full horror of Israel’s ongoing pogrom in Gaza and its decades of relentless violence and massacres against Palestinians.
Goldberg, while appearing critical of Israel, was actually advancing its most pernicious talking points, the goal of which is to blame Palestinian victims for their own deaths and to falsely portray Israel as the victim.
It was not easy to maintain my composure in the face of this. Just before the show, I had been looking at tweets from my friend Refaat Alareer, the editor of the book Gaza Writes Back.
Refaat is from the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, but he is currently out of Palestine, far from his family. His neighborhood has been destroyed and dozens of its people killed in an ongoing Israeli massacre.
It is a small thing, but I offer this appearance on Democracy Now! as a gift to my friend Refaat.
All the while, Hamas leadership sits in exile drinking champagne and rejecting cease-fire agreements. Life is good!
The only ceasefire agreement they rejected was a ceasefire agrement that they weren't consulted on, and which answered none of their demands. They were perfectly right to reject it.
All the while, Hamas leadership sits in exile drinking champagne and rejecting cease-fire agreements. Life is good!
The only ceasefire agreement they rejected was a ceasefire agrement that they weren't consulted on, and which answered none of their demands. They were perfectly right to reject it.
Ok...there is war with arny from one side and guerilla from the other side..ofcourse palestine has civilian deaths..all are civilians..there is no tactical army...if palestine had army would be this bombing ok?? ofcourse not..like cos someone join the army is ok to die..like he isnt a human..so its ok if he dies and he is a soldier..well its not So when someone says there is a israelian soldier dead is the same as a palestine ..death is death.. whats going on there for sure is a genocide..no question...when in a week have ao many kids dead..its a fuckin genocide.. ..now.other.question..israel has the gun power to destroy and kill everyone os palestine at gaza..why they dont do it all this years??cos they afraid what the world will say??yeah right..they dont give a shit...the big bosses want this problem ti stay as it is.. they talk peace..then someone breaks it.they kill each other and then again we stop to talk peace..bullshit...the allies selling guns..the religion gets stronger in the name of allah.. shame to the jewish merderers and shame tk the terrorist merderers and so on...and more selling guns..and more hate and more killing and the same time oil companies doing theirjob.. This tragedy there is so well organise to never ends and the victims are every god damn person was unlucky to born there... and the propaganda goes on.... fuck yeah..
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.This war is not about territory, its about fighting a ruthless Jihad ideology.
Israel withdraw more than 9 years ago from Gaza
Gaza is under terror occupation
Egypt alienates Hamas/Islamic Jihad/ISIS - closing the border pass. Allows only for injured people.
Israel is doing the same
UN: we found hidden missiles in a school in Gaza
What is a 'proportional response' the world askes from Israel? When more than 1k missile were fired to populated areas in Israel
Tens of terror tunnels were diged by Hamas that leads to the heart of Israeli populated communitys.
KNOCK KNOCK!!! Whose there? Hamas terrorist going out from pits in Israeli kindergardens
IDF is our soul, our body, our heart that protects us from the miserable terrorists who seek for killing and death of civilianze in Israel.
IM NOT HERE TO APOLOGAYS ON OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK
IN A WAR ZONE DEATH IS INEVITABLE, UNFORTUNETLY.
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHT TERROR.
TERROR WILL BE ANSWERD WITH POWER.
STANS FOR FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS.
Wow! That's a real sounbite wankfest. Did you learn that from the same place where you learned to spell 'dug', 'communities',and 'apologize'?
Byrnzie, rather than criticizing this person's English abilities (in Israel, typically Hebrew is spoken, and English abilities do vary), this seems like a good piece to dissect and respond to. After all, it's Israelis whose mentalities you'd like to see a shift in, no?
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All the while, Hamas leadership sits in exile drinking champagne and rejecting cease-fire agreements. Life is good!
The only ceasefire agreement they rejected was a ceasefire agrement that they weren't consulted on, and which answered none of their demands. They were perfectly right to reject it.
Any more lame soundbites you'd like to spout off?
When dealing with statistics lets look deeper.50% of the population of Gaza is 14yrs old or younger.That alone statistically means your going to have more children injured or killed.Very unfortunate,very sad but but they are pawns.Their blood is on Hamas hands as much as the IDF.
.This war is not about territory, its about fighting a ruthless Jihad ideology.
Israel withdraw more than 9 years ago from Gaza
Gaza is under terror occupation
Egypt alienates Hamas/Islamic Jihad/ISIS - closing the border pass. Allows only for injured people.
Israel is doing the same
UN: we found hidden missiles in a school in Gaza
What is a 'proportional response' the world askes from Israel? When more than 1k missile were fired to populated areas in Israel
Tens of terror tunnels were diged by Hamas that leads to the heart of Israeli populated communitys.
KNOCK KNOCK!!! Whose there? Hamas terrorist going out from pits in Israeli kindergardens
IDF is our soul, our body, our heart that protects us from the miserable terrorists who seek for killing and death of civilianze in Israel.
IM NOT HERE TO APOLOGAYS ON OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK
IN A WAR ZONE DEATH IS INEVITABLE, UNFORTUNETLY.
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHT TERROR.
TERROR WILL BE ANSWERD WITH POWER.
STANS FOR FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS.
Wow! That's a real sounbite wankfest. Did you learn that from the same place where you learned to spell 'dug', 'communities',and 'apologize'?
Byrnzie, rather than criticizing this person's English abilities (in Israel, typically Hebrew is spoken, and English abilities do vary), this seems like a good piece to dissect and respond to. After all, it's Israelis whose mentalities you'd like to see a shift in, no?
If you read back through this thread you'll see that I've already addressed every one of these Fox News/idf.com soundbites.
If you try hard enough, you can find news about another rejected cease-fire. You have proven your ability to use google.
Tthat's clever. How does the second ceasefire agreement, that Hamas hasn't been consulted on, differ from the first one that Hamas wasn't consulted on?
I've already explained why Hamas rejected the ceasefire. Did you miss that? Do I need to repeat myself?
Hamas have drawn up their own ceasefire agreement. It's pretty much identical to the 2012 ceasefire agreement that Israel signed up to and then began violating almost immediately. But I know you don't care about that, because it doesn't fit your self-serving narrative of trying to paint Israel in a postive light, even when it happens to be engaged in massacring unarmed men, women and children in order to maintain it's illegal occupation and land-grab.
The insanity of humankind, how can this be solved so no more revenges comes one after the other.. I saw photo of a Palestinian mother with her newborn child in her arms. She had taken shelter in a church along with many others. I wonder if this boy will experience peace or not in his life time..
The insanity of humankind, how can this be solved so no more revenges comes one after the other..
Maybe enough pressure can be brought upon the U.S government so that they quit annually vetoing the peaceful settlement that the whole World agrees upon and supports, and which Israel and the U.S stand alone in the World in rejecting?
How was Apartheid South Africa brought to an end? It began with a small group of people protesting in Trafalgar Square, and ended as a mass international movement that involved boycotts, and sanctions, e.t.c. And it was eventually defeated, despite U.S and Israel supporting that racist regime right up to the end.
When dealing with statistics lets look deeper.50% of the population of Gaza is 14yrs old or younger.That alone statistically means your going to have more children injured or killed.Very unfortunate,very sad but but they are pawns.Their blood is on Hamas hands as much as the IDF.
Where did you read that 50% of the population is 14 or younger? Care to provide some evidence of that? Or did you just make it up because it sounded good?
As for responsibility, the IDF was found guilty on numerous occasions during the last full scale massacre of Gazans of multiple war crimes, including the deliberate targeting of unarmed civilians and medical personnel. But according to you it's the fault of Hamas, right? When Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot unarmed women and children waving white flags, it's Hamas's fault? When the Israeli's shoot and kill medical personnel and ambulance crews it's Hamas's fault? When the Israeli's drop white phosphorous shells on Gaza, it's the fault of Hamas?
And al Jezerra reports ambulances can't get to a war zone because intense fighting.
http://www.aawsat.net/2014/07/article55334637 'Paramedics told Asharq Al-Awsat that they were “working in hell” because the Israeli army was “deliberately targeting ambulance crews and paramedics” who rushed to bombed areas to recover bodies and tend to the injured.
One paramedic, Ahmad Madhoun, 31, said that he and his colleagues had been targeted directly on three occasions by the Israeli military in the area east of Shejaia, where they were sent by the emergency control center to rescue the injured and take them to a hospital.
He also accused Israeli forces of preventing them from entering many areas which have come under attack.
Madhoun said that on one occasion gunfire prevented his ambulance crew from reaching seven injured people for several hours, before finally being able to get to them after coordinating with the Red Cross. They found that only two were still alive, while the others had bled to death. One of the survivors died in hospital a couple of days later.
Madhoun, who was speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat during a three-hour break, said: “The war does not exclude anyone. We work in very difficult conditions and we have not seen our families since the start of hostilities, and although [the Israeli military] knows who we are, they still target us deliberately.”
Madhoun said the destruction of the infrastructure made it difficult for ambulances to reach some areas, but that the ambulance crews’ knowledge of the area helped find alternative routes to locate the injured and get them to hospitals.
According to Palestinian Health Ministry figures, one paramedic, Fouad Jaber, was killed during the ongoing fighting, while 16 had been injured in Israeli air raids. The hostilities also killed pharmacist Anas Abu Al-Kas and two Ministry staff, Ata Habib and Mohammad Al-Areer.
The Ministry also accused Israeli forces of deliberately striking five hospitals on the Gaza Strip, and destroying 11 ambulances.
http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2014/07/thursday-updates-on-gaza-israel-tragedy.html Al Jazeera reports up to 30 killed, 100 injured, just now in UN school designated as "safe haven" and with no warning from Israelis. UN says Israel given full info on school and knew it was used as shelter and with no military activity there. AP story. Survivor: "We were sitting in the school, because we were told it is safe." Awaiting NYT defense (see below).
Richard Engel of NBC just tweeted: "Ambulances under attack again tdy. Was in one that came under fire in shejaia market." And: "UN school attacked in north gaza.. 13 at least killed. Bloody desks. Blood on ground. Terrified children."
If you try hard enough, you can find news about another rejected cease-fire. You have proven your ability to use google.
Tthat's clever. How does the second ceasefire agreement, that Hamas hasn't been consulted on, differ from the first one that Hamas wasn't consulted on?
I've already explained why Hamas rejected the ceasefire. Did you miss that? Do I need to repeat myself?
Hamas have drawn up their own ceasefire agreement. It's pretty much identical to the 2012 ceasefire agreement that Israel signed up to and then began violating almost immediately. But I know you don't care about that, because it doesn't fit your self-serving narrative of trying to paint Israel in a postive light, even when it happens to be engaged in massacring unarmed men, women and children in order to maintain it's illegal occupation and land-grab.
So you really think Hamas has not been consulted or contacted regarding a cease fire?
As far as repeating yourself, it's actually all you do so another round of education and hate can't hurt. Go for it.
Still waiting to hear about the good that Hamas and the Brotherhood bring to Gaza and the rest of the World.
Jeremy Scahill: Media Has Failed to Cover ‘Massive Massacre’ in Gaza by Matt Wilstein - July 23rd, 2014
According to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill, “We’ve hit all time lows with media coverage in this country.” The journalist appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to discuss media coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and issued some sharp criticism to U.S. press outlets that he says are producing nearly one-sided coverage.
“When you look at what’s happening right now in Gaza, this is a massive massacre and one epic series of war crime after war crime, child after child being killed,” Scahill told host Alyona Minkovski. “And most news organizations are forced to acknowledge that the Palestinians and its children and whole families are being killed. They’re forced to because cameras are there; they’re forced to because there are reporters on the ground reporting on that.”
But, he added, “if you step back and you look at the way that this is always framed over these weeks of Israel’s constant bombardment of Gaza, it’s as though Hamas and Israel are sort of two equal military powers fighting one another.” Considering Israel has its Iron Dome missile-defense system in place to protect its citizens, Scahill said this was a fundamentally incorrect assumption.
Scahill described Israel as “a nuclear-powered nation that has a history of systematically killing Palestinians, indiscriminately targeting civilians and civilian institutions.” But if you listen to American media, he said you would think that it is just a “battle between two military powers.” He added, “Israel is gratuitous in its disproportionate use of force against the Palestinians.”
The reporter singled out the “great” NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin as one of the few examples of someone who has shed light on the disproportionality. But when he did, he was quickly removed by the network from Gaza (he has since been reinstated there).
“Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli propagandists are largely given carte blanche to say what they want on American television with very little push back,” Scahill said.
Images from Gaza should trouble every Israeli Israeli hearts are brimming with concern for Israeli soldiers in Gaza; but they have no compassion for victims on the other side, not even for children who are dying in gruesome numbers. By Gideon Levy | Jul. 24, 2014
'...The website “Walla!” published talkback comments on an article about the four children killed on the Gaza beach. Shani Moyal: “I couldn’t care less that Arab children were killed, too bad it wasn’t more. Well done to the IDF.” Stav Sabah: “Really, these are great pictures. They make me so happy, I want to look at them again and again.” Sharon Avishi: “Only four? Too bad. We hoped for more.” Daniela Turgeman: “Great. We need to kill all the children.” Chaya Hatnovich: “There isn’t a more beautiful picture than those of dead Arab children.” Orna Peretz: “Why only four?” Rachel Cohen: “I’m not for children dying in Gaza. I’m for everyone burning.” Tami Mashan: “As many children as possible should die.”
From their names and accompanying pictures, all the commenters are women. They shop in the stores near your homes, they go to the same movies and vacation spots as you. They’re Israeli. No one would think of firing them from their jobs, like they are doing now to Arabs and left-wingers. No one will condemn them, no one will attack or threaten them. They’re normal, according to the Israeli norms at least, where compassion for the other side is considered treason, and beastly criticism is considered patriotism.'
So you really think Hamas has not been consulted or contacted regarding a cease fire?
It has nothing to do with what I think. It's a fact that Hamas were not in on the ceasefire discussions. Those discussions were conducted between Israel and Egypt.
I can see that you're trying really hard to be a smart ass, but you're not doing a very good job of it.
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/united-nations-human-rights-council-resolution-on-gaza-full-text-564074
United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution on Gaza: Full Text
July 24, 2014
Here is the full text of the resolution:
In a resolution (A/HRC/S-21/L.1) on ensuring respect for international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, adopted by a vote of 29 States in favour, 1 against and 17 abstentions, the Council strongly condemns the failure of Israel, the occupying Power, to end its prolonged occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; and condemns in the strongest terms the widespread, systematic and gross violations of international human rights and fundamental freedoms arising from the Israeli military operations carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 13 June 2014 that may amount to international crimes, directly resulting in the killing of more than 650 Palestinians, most of them civilians and more than 170 of whom are children, the injury of more than 4,000 people and the wanton destruction of homes, vital infrastructure and public properties.
The Council condemns all violence against civilians wherever it occurs, including the killing of two Israeli civilians as a result of rocket fire; calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli military assaults throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and an end to attacks against all civilians, including Israeli civilians; demands that Israel, the occupying Power, immediately and fully end its illegal closure of the occupied Gaza Strip; calls upon the international community to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance and services to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip; and expresses deep concern at the condition of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails and detention centres.
The Council also recommends that the Government of Switzerland, in its capacity as depositary of the Fourth Geneva Convention, promptly reconvene the conference of High Contracting Parties to the Convention; and decides to urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military operations conducted since 13 June 2014, and to report to the Council at its twenty-eighth session.
The result of the vote was as follows:
In favour (29): Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Viet Nam.
Against (1): United States of America.
Abstentions (17): Austria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Gabon, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Romania, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and United Kingdom.
More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in Israel's offensive on Gaza, according to the UN. Shown here are the name, age, and sex of 132 of those children, recorded by the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights
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Thousands Gather In London For Protest Against Israeli Military Action: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/19/gaza-london-protest-pictures_n_5601766.html
Gaza conflict sparks massive global protests, some violent: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-conflict-sparks-massive-global-protests-some-violent-1.2712343
Looting and tear gas in Paris as protestors riot over Israeli offensive in Gaza: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/20/looting-and-tear-gas-in-paris-as-protestors-riot-over-israeli-offensive-in-gaza/
Israel’s Gaza Incursion Sets Off Protests in Europe: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/world/europe/israels-gaza-incursion-sets-off-protests-in-europe.html?_r=0
And even Chicago managed to get a protest going:
My Democracy Now! debate on Gaza with “liberal” Zionist J.J. Goldberg
On Democracy Now! today I debated J.J. Goldberg, editor-at-large and columnist at the newspaper The Jewish Daily Forward.
The discussion was ostensibly focused on US media coverage of Gaza, but I think Goldberg’s performance more accurately displayed the ways that “liberal” Zionists use euphemisms to obscure from view – their own and others’ – the full horror of Israel’s ongoing pogrom in Gaza and its decades of relentless violence and massacres against Palestinians.
Goldberg, while appearing critical of Israel, was actually advancing its most pernicious talking points, the goal of which is to blame Palestinian victims for their own deaths and to falsely portray Israel as the victim.
It was not easy to maintain my composure in the face of this. Just before the show, I had been looking at tweets from my friend Refaat Alareer, the editor of the book Gaza Writes Back.
Refaat is from the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, but he is currently out of Palestine, far from his family. His neighborhood has been destroyed and dozens of its people killed in an ongoing Israeli massacre.
It is a small thing, but I offer this appearance on Democracy Now! as a gift to my friend Refaat.
Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada vs. J.J. Goldberg of the Jewish Daily Forward - July 23, 2014:
Israel withdraw more than 9 years ago from Gaza
Gaza is under terror occupation
Egypt alienates Hamas/Islamic Jihad/ISIS - closing the border pass. Allows only for injured people.
Israel is doing the same
UN: we found hidden missiles in a school in Gaza
What is a 'proportional response' the world askes from Israel?
When more than 1k missile were fired to populated areas in Israel
Tens of terror tunnels were diged by Hamas that leads to the heart of Israeli populated communitys.
KNOCK KNOCK!!! Whose there? Hamas terrorist going out from pits in Israeli kindergardens
IDF is our soul, our body, our heart that protects us from the miserable terrorists who seek for killing and death of civilianze in Israel.
IM NOT HERE TO APOLOGAYS ON OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK
IN A WAR ZONE DEATH IS INEVITABLE, UNFORTUNETLY.
WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHT TERROR.
TERROR WILL BE ANSWERD WITH POWER.
STANS FOR FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS.
It's like reading the news.
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And al Jezerra reports ambulances can't get to a war zone because intense fighting. Shocking... It's a war zone! Oh... And another baby died.
All the while, Hamas leadership sits in exile drinking champagne and rejecting cease-fire agreements. Life is good!
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You see, a war is when two armies are fighting. When one army is massacring civilians, it's not a war. Actually, about 150 children, including many babies. have been killed by the brave fighters of the IDF. Not that you give a fuck about that. The only ceasefire agreement they rejected was a ceasefire agrement that they weren't consulted on, and which answered none of their demands. They were perfectly right to reject it.
Any more lame soundbites you'd like to spout off?
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ofcourse not..like cos someone join the army is ok to die..like he isnt a human..so its ok if he dies and he is a soldier..well its not
So when someone says there is a israelian soldier dead is the same as a palestine ..death is death..
whats going on there for sure is a genocide..no question...when in a week have ao many kids dead..its a fuckin genocide..
..now.other.question..israel has the gun power to destroy and kill everyone os palestine at gaza..why they dont do it all this years??cos they afraid what the world will say??yeah right..they dont give a shit...the big bosses want this problem ti stay as it is..
they talk peace..then someone breaks it.they kill each other and then again we stop to talk peace..bullshit...the allies selling guns..the religion gets stronger in the name of allah..
shame to the jewish merderers and shame tk the terrorist merderers and so on...and more selling guns..and more hate and more killing and the same time oil companies doing theirjob..
This tragedy there is so well organise to never ends and the victims are every god damn person was unlucky to born there...
and the propaganda goes on....
fuck yeah..
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I've already explained why Hamas rejected the ceasefire. Did you miss that? Do I need to repeat myself?
Hamas have drawn up their own ceasefire agreement. It's pretty much identical to the 2012 ceasefire agreement that Israel signed up to and then began violating almost immediately.
But I know you don't care about that, because it doesn't fit your self-serving narrative of trying to paint Israel in a postive light, even when it happens to be engaged in massacring unarmed men, women and children in order to maintain it's illegal occupation and land-grab.
I saw photo of a Palestinian mother with her newborn child in her arms. She had taken shelter in a church along with many others. I wonder if this boy will experience peace or not in his life time..
How was Apartheid South Africa brought to an end? It began with a small group of people protesting in Trafalgar Square, and ended as a mass international movement that involved boycotts, and sanctions, e.t.c. And it was eventually defeated, despite U.S and Israel supporting that racist regime right up to the end.
As for responsibility, the IDF was found guilty on numerous occasions during the last full scale massacre of Gazans of multiple war crimes, including the deliberate targeting of unarmed civilians and medical personnel. But according to you it's the fault of Hamas, right? When Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot unarmed women and children waving white flags, it's Hamas's fault? When the Israeli's shoot and kill medical personnel and ambulance crews it's Hamas's fault? When the Israeli's drop white phosphorous shells on Gaza, it's the fault of Hamas?
'Paramedics told Asharq Al-Awsat that they were “working in hell” because the Israeli army was “deliberately targeting ambulance crews and paramedics” who rushed to bombed areas to recover bodies and tend to the injured.
One paramedic, Ahmad Madhoun, 31, said that he and his colleagues had been targeted directly on three occasions by the Israeli military in the area east of Shejaia, where they were sent by the emergency control center to rescue the injured and take them to a hospital.
He also accused Israeli forces of preventing them from entering many areas which have come under attack.
Madhoun said that on one occasion gunfire prevented his ambulance crew from reaching seven injured people for several hours, before finally being able to get to them after coordinating with the Red Cross. They found that only two were still alive, while the others had bled to death. One of the survivors died in hospital a couple of days later.
Madhoun, who was speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat during a three-hour break, said: “The war does not exclude anyone. We work in very difficult conditions and we have not seen our families since the start of hostilities, and although [the Israeli military] knows who we are, they still target us deliberately.”
Madhoun said the destruction of the infrastructure made it difficult for ambulances to reach some areas, but that the ambulance crews’ knowledge of the area helped find alternative routes to locate the injured and get them to hospitals.
According to Palestinian Health Ministry figures, one paramedic, Fouad Jaber, was killed during the ongoing fighting, while 16 had been injured in Israeli air raids. The hostilities also killed pharmacist Anas Abu Al-Kas and two Ministry staff, Ata Habib and Mohammad Al-Areer.
The Ministry also accused Israeli forces of deliberately striking five hospitals on the Gaza Strip, and destroying 11 ambulances.
Al Jazeera reports up to 30 killed, 100 injured, just now in UN school designated as "safe haven" and with no warning from Israelis. UN says Israel given full info on school and knew it was used as shelter and with no military activity there. AP story. Survivor: "We were sitting in the school, because we were told it is safe." Awaiting NYT defense (see below).
Richard Engel of NBC just tweeted: "Ambulances under attack again tdy. Was in one that came under fire in shejaia market." And: "UN school attacked in north gaza.. 13 at least killed. Bloody desks. Blood on ground. Terrified children."
As far as repeating yourself, it's actually all you do so another round of education and hate can't hurt. Go for it.
Still waiting to hear about the good that Hamas and the Brotherhood bring to Gaza and the rest of the World.
2013- Brooklyn2, Philly1, Philly2, NOLA
http://www.mediaite.com/online/jeremy-scahill-media-has-failed-to-cover-massive-massacre-in-gaza/
Jeremy Scahill: Media Has Failed to Cover ‘Massive Massacre’ in Gaza
by Matt Wilstein - July 23rd, 2014
According to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill, “We’ve hit all time lows with media coverage in this country.” The journalist appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to discuss media coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and issued some sharp criticism to U.S. press outlets that he says are producing nearly one-sided coverage.
“When you look at what’s happening right now in Gaza, this is a massive massacre and one epic series of war crime after war crime, child after child being killed,” Scahill told host Alyona Minkovski. “And most news organizations are forced to acknowledge that the Palestinians and its children and whole families are being killed. They’re forced to because cameras are there; they’re forced to because there are reporters on the ground reporting on that.”
But, he added, “if you step back and you look at the way that this is always framed over these weeks of Israel’s constant bombardment of Gaza, it’s as though Hamas and Israel are sort of two equal military powers fighting one another.” Considering Israel has its Iron Dome missile-defense system in place to protect its citizens, Scahill said this was a fundamentally incorrect assumption.
Scahill described Israel as “a nuclear-powered nation that has a history of systematically killing Palestinians, indiscriminately targeting civilians and civilian institutions.” But if you listen to American media, he said you would think that it is just a “battle between two military powers.” He added, “Israel is gratuitous in its disproportionate use of force against the Palestinians.”
The reporter singled out the “great” NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin as one of the few examples of someone who has shed light on the disproportionality. But when he did, he was quickly removed by the network from Gaza (he has since been reinstated there).
“Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli propagandists are largely given carte blanche to say what they want on American television with very little push back,” Scahill said.
Watch video below, via HuffPost Live: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/archive/segment/53d0258efe3444760d00015a
Images from Gaza should trouble every Israeli
Israeli hearts are brimming with concern for Israeli soldiers in Gaza; but they have no compassion for victims on the other side, not even for children who are dying in gruesome numbers.
By Gideon Levy | Jul. 24, 2014
'...The website “Walla!” published talkback comments on an article about the four children killed on the Gaza beach. Shani Moyal: “I couldn’t care less that Arab children were killed, too bad it wasn’t more. Well done to the IDF.” Stav Sabah: “Really, these are great pictures. They make me so happy, I want to look at them again and again.” Sharon Avishi: “Only four? Too bad. We hoped for more.” Daniela Turgeman: “Great. We need to kill all the children.” Chaya Hatnovich: “There isn’t a more beautiful picture than those of dead Arab children.” Orna Peretz: “Why only four?” Rachel Cohen: “I’m not for children dying in Gaza. I’m for everyone burning.” Tami Mashan: “As many children as possible should die.”
From their names and accompanying pictures, all the commenters are women. They shop in the stores near your homes, they go to the same movies and vacation spots as you. They’re Israeli. No one would think of firing them from their jobs, like they are doing now to Arabs and left-wingers. No one will condemn them, no one will attack or threaten them. They’re normal, according to the Israeli norms at least, where compassion for the other side is considered treason, and beastly criticism is considered patriotism.'
I can see that you're trying really hard to be a smart ass, but you're not doing a very good job of it.