War on Gaza

Palestin: Pemerintah Mesir didakwa pengkhianat

Imran Al-Malizi
(Harakahdaily.net)

SAANA, Yaman: Baru-baru ini sebuah pertubuhan pelajar telah menganjurkan satu majlis penerangan berkenaan isu yang sedang berlaku di Gaza. Dr Omar Abu Ubaid dari Institut Antarabangsa Al-Quds telah dijemput untuk menyampaikan penerangan tersebut.Latar belakang beliau yang berasal dari Palestin dan pernah bertugas sebagai wakil Hamas di Sudan menjadikan beliau salah seorang pemimpin komuniti Palestin yang selalu dijadikan tempat rujukan dalam isu-isu negara tersebut. Turut sama menyampaikan ucapan dalam majlis tersebut ialah Ahmed Al-Bashy yang merupakan Ketua Bahagian Kajian dan Penyelidikan, ‘Paletinian Return Community’ (Wajeb) yang berpusat di Damsyik, Syria.

 

UN struggles to house displaced after Gaza war

Gaza in Ruins: A news special – Part 1

 

Doctors struggle to treat Gaza victims

AlJazeeraEnglish

 

Israel withdraws from Gaza as evidence of war crimes emerges

The casualty toll continues to rise as bodies are dragged out of the rubble in areas that were previously not accessible. The death toll from the Israeli attack, which began December 27, is currently 1,300, including 410 children and 104 women, according to the Gazan ministry of health. Approximately 5,300 Palestinians have been injured, including 1,855 children and 795 women. The World Health Organization has issued a warning of an outbreak of disease as weeks-old bodies remain unburied and raw sewage flows in the streets due to the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Thirty-four health facilities, including eight hospitals, were damaged or destroyed by shelling; 16 health care workers were killed and another 22 injured while on duty, according to the health ministry. The crisis has been exacerbated by the lack of water and electricity.

 

Video: Gaza villages wiped off the map

 

Gaza: ‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’

By Donald Macintyre in Jabalya

 

Grieving Palestinian father says children were killed after family obeyed order from troops to leave Gaza home. He added: “We are not Hamas. My children were not Hamas. And if they were going to shoot anyone it should have been me.” He added: “I want the international community and the International Red Cross to ask Israel why it has done this to us. They talk about democracy but is it democracy to kill children? What did the kids do to them? What did my house do to them? They destroyed my life?

A Palestinian father saw two of his young daughters shot dead and another critically injured by an Israeli soldier who emerged from a stationary tank and opened fire as the family obeyed an order from the Israeli forces to leave their home.

Khaled Abed Rabbo said Amal, aged two and Suad, seven, were killed by fire from the soldier’s semi-automatic rifle. His third daughter, Samer, four, has been evacuated to intensive care in a Belgian hospital after suffering critical spinal injuries which he said were inflicted in the attack early in Israel’s ground offensive.

 

Israel Holds 250 Palestinians in Negev Desert Prison

Date : 20/1/2009 Time : 14:13
BETHLEHEM, January 20, 2009 (WAFA)- 250 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during the bloody aggression on Gaza, Head of the Palestinian Legislative Council Prisoners Committee Issa Qaraqe’, said, Tuesday. They are held in Negev desert prison cells.

Qaraqe’ added that those prisoners are isolated in cells with terrible conditions. They are called for forceful interrogation and are physically assaulted. Some of them are injured and need immediate medical care.

Gaza’s destruction revealed

AlJazeera

The cessation of fighting in Gaza has allowed the true scale of destruction there to be revealed.

Sherine Tadros reports from the north of the strip on the despair of one father who says Israeli forces shot and killed two of his daughters at close range.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army told Al Jazeera in response to the father’s allegations that Israeli soldiers “do not behave in this fashion” and the army “only returns fire to areas from which it was fired upon”.

Destroyed homes greet returning Gazans

AlJazeera.net

Jan 18, 2009

In the first few hours of the supposed ceasefire in Gaza, some Palestinians have tried to return to their homes. But many residential buildings have been destroyed in the Israeli bombardment, and what some people find is rubble and devastation.

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports.