HOW DIFFERENT ARE ISRAELIS REACTING TO ARABS THAN DID THE GERMANS TOWARDS THEMSELVES

excerpts from UK Guardian November 24, 2004 - By Chris McGreal

Thirteen-year-old Iman Al-Hams was killed when an Israeli officer emptied his weapon into her. Israelis have been responsible for killing over 600 other Palestinian children since September 2000.

An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.

A tape recording of radio exchanges between soldiers involved in the incident, played on Israeli television, contradicts the army’s account of the events and appears to show that the captain shot the girl in cold blood.

At that point, Captain R took the unusual decision to leave the post in pursuit of the girl. He shot her dead and then “confirmed the kill” by emptying his magazine into her body.

The tape recording is of a three-way conversation between the army watchtower, the army post’s operations room and the captain, who was a company commander.

Witnesses described how the captain shot Iman twice in the head, walked away, turned back and fired a stream of bullets into her body. Doctors at Rafah’s hospital said she had been shot at least 17 times.

Record of a shooting

Watchtower
‘A girl of about 10, she’s behind the embankment, scared to death’

Captain R (after killing the girl)
‘Anything moving in the zone, even a three-year-old, needs to be killed’

Nizar Aida, 16, of Ramallah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to chest.
Khaled Bazyan, 15, of Nablus, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to head.
Muhammad al-Durrah, 12,of Bureij camp, Gaza, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to abdomen & chest.

Muhammad Dawood, 15, of el-Bireh, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to head.
Sara Hassan, 18 months, of Nablus, killed in car by Israeli settler gunfire to head.
Samer Tabanja, 10, of Nablus, killed by Israeli forces helicopter gunfire to head.
Sami Taramsi, 17, of Gaza, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to head.

Majdi Misilmani, 15, of Beit Hanina, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to heart.
Ala Ahmad, 10, of Nablus, died of burst appendix after Israeli army denied access to hospital.

Samer Awaisi, 15, of Qalqilya, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to upper body.

Muhammad Abu Tahun, 17, of Tulkarm, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to chest and neck.

Wael Emad, 16, of Jabalyah camp, killed by Israeli forces rubber coated bullet to head.

Nidal Dbeiki, 17, of Gaza, killed by Israeli forces gunfire (fragmenting bullet) to abdomen.
Rami Abdel-Fattah, 15, of Jerusalem, killed by Israeli forces gunfire (fragmenting bullet) to upper body.

Muhammad Taban, 17, of Deir el-Balah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to back.

Raed Dawood, 14, of Salfit, killed by Israeli forces gunfire (fragmenting bullet) to pelvis.

uhammad Abu Ghali, 15, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to chest.

Ibrahim Qassas, 17, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to head.

Khalil Abu Saad, 15,of Shati camp, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to chest.

Khaled Abu Zahra, 17, of Nur Shams camp, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to upper body.

Mahmoud Abu Naji, 16, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces sniper fire to chest.

Yahya Abu Shamalah, 17, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces sniper fire to back and heart.

Ahmad Basal, 13, of Deir el-Balah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to heart & back.

Ibrahim Jeaidi, 15, of Qalqilya, killed by Israeli forces gunfire (fragmenting bullet) to upper body.
Maram Hassouna, 3,of el-Bireh, died of asphyxiation after inhaling Israeli forces tear gas.

Shadi Zaghoul, 14, of Husan, .hit by a car driven by Israeli settler & left to bleed to death.

Ahmad Qawasmi, 14,of Hebron, killed by Israeli forces (point blank) gunshot to head.

Infant girl Obeisi, of Nablus, died because Israeli forces denied mother access to medical care.

Husam Deesi, 15, of Qalandiya, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to various parts of the body

Ubay Darraj, 9,of el-Bireh, killed by Israeli forces or settler gunfire to chest.

Muhammad Nasser, 10, of Jerusalem, killed by Israeli settlers with stones or sharp implements.

28 March 2001 Naftali Lanzkorn, 13, of Petah Tikva, killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber

Yosef Ishran, 14, of the Tekoa settlement, beaten & stoned to death by Palestinian civilians.

Khalil Afana, 13, of Gaza, killed by shrapnel when Israeli forces blew up his home on May 30.

Ashraf Abu Khader, 10,of Jenin, killed by Israeli forces helicopter fire during targeted assassination.

Khaled Batsh, 3,of Hebron, died of fractured skull due to fall during army/settler tear gas attack.

Rami Zurob, 13, of Rafah, killed by Israeli forces helicopter gunfire to upper body.

Fares Saadi, 13, of Jenin, died under rubble of home demolished by Israeli forces.

Noor Hindi, 2, of Deir Al Balah, Gaza,killed with mother by Israeli forces exploding bullet to head.

Asmaa Ahmad, 8, of Khan Younis,killed by Israeli forces gunfire to the back while playing in her front yard.

Hamzeh Dweikat, 13, of Balata,killed by Israeli forces gunfire to the chest & neck while playing near his home.

Ayman Zurub, 15, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces gunfire while helping his family tend their crops.

Jihad Athra, 6, of Yatta, Hebron, run over by a settler's car while crossing a residential street.

Nihad Hajeen, 17, of Jabalia,killed by Israeli forces artillery while sleeping in the family vineyard.

Usama Abul Zeit, 14, of Tubas,killed by shrapnel from Israeli forces helicopter missile in an attempted assassination.

Abdel Salam Samreen, 12, of Ramallah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire while running away from a tank.

Baha Bahsh, 13, of Nablus,killed by Israeli forces sniper fire to the chest while standing on a street.

Rami Barbari, 12, of Nablus,killed by Israeli forces tank machine-gun fire to the back of the head.

Hadas Turgeman, 14, of Hermesh, Jenin district, killed by Palestinian civilian gunfire in an attack on the settlement.

Fawaregh infant boy, of Ma'sarah, died at birth after his mother was delayed for two hours by an Israeli forces patrol on her way to the Bethlehem hospital.

Hatem Ijla, 16, of Gaza City, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to the back while walking home from school.

Haneen Sita, 11, of Rafah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire as she walked near Morag settlement.

Amran Abu Hamdiyya, 17, of Hebron, Thrown out of a moving jeep after Israeli soldiers abducted & abused him.

Huda Shaluf, 12 months, of Rafah, killed by Israeli forces tank fire at her home.

Adi Dahan, 17, of Afula, killed Palestinian civilian car bomb at Megido junction in Israel

Fares Saadi, 13, of Jenin, died under rubble of home demolished by Israeli forces.

Muhammad Huwaiti, 3, of Gaza, killed inside his home by Israeli forces one-ton bomb in targeted assassination

Nafez Mash'al, 2, of Rafah, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to back while sitting with his father outside their house.

Abdul-Rahman Jadallah, 9, of Khan Younis, killed by Israeli forces gunfire to the head for taunting soldiers with stones during a funeral.

Tarek Akel, 13, of Bureij refugee camp, Gaza,killed by Israeli forces gunfire during an invasion of the camp by hundreds of tanks backed by Apache helicopters.

Muhammad Jawabra, 11, of Hebron, run over and killed by a settler's car while in a residential street.

Mahmoud Kabaha, 4, of Barta, killed by Israeli forces gunfire which also wounded his two sisters, aged 6 and 7, while in a stopped jeep with their mother and grandfather waiting to enter the village.

Muhammad Yasin, 17, of Askar refugee camp, killed by Israeli forces in an attack on a residential building with gunfire & rockets from tanks & Apache helicopters.

Shaked Avraham, 7 months, of Negohot settlement, shot to death through a closed caravan door by an Islamic Jihad member in an attack on the settlement on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.

Mahmoud Kayed, 10, of Gaza City, killed by Israeli forces gunfire while trapping birds.

Ahmad Meri, 12, of Jenin, died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces exploding bullets on Nov. 8.

Khalid Walwil, 6, of Nablus, killed by a bullet in the neck by Israeli forces -The boy died of his wounds on the way to the hospital after occupation troops blocked the way of the ambulance transporting him.

Nagy Abu Kamar, 12, of Rafah, killed by missiles from Israeli forces planes during a peaceful march.

Mubarek Saleem Al-Hashash, 9, of Rafah, killed by missiles from Israeli forces planes during a peaceful march.

Afik Zahavi, 3, of Sderot, killed by a rocket that landed beside a nursery school launched by Palestinian civilians.

Ehab Abd Al-Kareem Shatet, 9, of Jabalia, killed by Israeli forces during a random bombardment on Tal El-Zaater district.

Eman al-Hams, 13, of Rafah, killed on her way to school by 5 bullets to the head & 15 bullets throughout her body by Israeli forces. Because Israelis prevented paramedics from evacuating, Eman bled to death.

Ebtihal Methkal Abu Thaher, 10, of Jabalia Camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire.

Hani Mohammed Kamel Ghaben, 17, of Beit Lahia, killed by an IDF tank shell while farming.

Hamzah Abd-Almen'em Jaber, 9, of Hebron, Jabber Neighborhood, killed by an Israeli military Jeep that ran over him near his house in Hebron.

Salah Abdul-Fattah Abu Laish, 13, of Rafah, killed by sniper fire with two live bullets in the neck and chest.

Mohammed Hamed Jalaytah, 9, of Jericho, West Bank, killed when a hand grenade exploded as he was playing in a field near the West Bank town of Jericho.

Avichai Levy, 17, of Beit Haggai, Shot by Palestinian gunmen who opened fire from their car as it passed a hitchhiking station close to the settlement of Beit Haggai, near Hebron.

Mahmoud Mohammed Isma'il Hudaib, 16, of Tulkarem, Shot multiple times by undercover Israeli forces during a targeted assassination.

Ahmed Ismail Khatib, 12 of Jenin, Died after being shot in head & stomach by Israeli forces while carrying a toy gun in Jenin on November 3rd. Ahmed's organs, donated by his father, saved the lives of three Israeli children & a 54-year-old woman.

Ibrahim Ahmed Mohammed al-Shiekh 'Eissa, 17 of Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus District Shot by a live bullet to the neck during a 5 day Israeli incursion in the camp.

'Aamer Hassan Hassan Basiouni, 15 of 'Ein Beit al-Maa' refugee camp west of Nablus Shot in the face while on the roof of his home by Israeli forces during an incursion.

Haitham Ali Issa Ghalya, 5 months of the Gaza Strip Killed with his mother, father and 4 sisters by shells fired by an Israeli naval boat while having a family picnic at Waha beach, north of Beit Lahia.

Ahmad Eid Ibrahim Naghnagheya, 16 of Jenin refugee camp, Died after being kidnapped by Israeli forces.

Bara' Naser Habib, 3 El-Sha'af neighborhood of Gaza City Killed by shrapnel to the head and body from a rocket fired by an Israeli drone.

When Israel's Absolute Power Empowers Hizbullah Absolutely: Part Four: Israel's Disastrous Errors

As in Palestine, Israel has made many "disastrous errors" in Lebanon, according to Frank Gardner, the BBC's Security Correspondent (BBC World’s News, August 5th). Gardner was referring to Israel’s disappointment in abolishing Hizbullah's missile launchers, despite daily intensified Air and naval bombing and shelling, over the past 29 days.

Israel's day after day, "disastrous errors", in Frank Gardner's register have erroneously and immorally, reflected Israel's Air and naval Forces' lack of regret, on one hand to civilians' lives. Whilst on the other, have echoed their total failure in facing Hizbullah’s unbending fighters on the ground.

From Killing the 4 U.N. disarmed soldiers, Qana massacre No.1, Bombing a Lebanese army officer convoy thought to be Hizbullah's leader, massacring 33 Syrian-Kurds farmers in Qaa, on the Lebanese-Syrian borders, to the latest carnage at Al-Hajji neighborhood near Beirut, manifest clearly, in Gardner’s Chronicling Israel's frustration with from where Hizbullah's missiles are fired on Israel.

According to reliable reports from BBC, AP and Al-jazeera, from day 1 of Israel's bombing & shelling terror campaign, Israel’s “disastrous errors” have never stopped. In one word, these "disastrous errors" can be summed up in that, Israel had declared an open long-suffering aerial and naval war upon Lebanese civilians, their infrastructures and installations.

One can assume that, this unethical action was a sign of incapability to face Hizbullah's fighters on the ground. On the other hand, Israel had calculated, by targeting civilians and the country's civil infrastructures and installations, it would have the people and the government of Lebanon protested against Hezbollah.

The same pattern, Israel carried out in Palestine. Since the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) elected to govern, Israel had imposed collective punishment upon Palestinian civilians, civil infrastructure and civil installations. As in Palestine, the more, Israel finds it hard to destroy Hizbullah's missile batteries, the more it takes it out on civilians and the country's civil infrastructures and installations.

Until the time of writing, more than 1,100 Lebanese civilians, third of them are children had been slaughtered by Israeli aerial bombing. Nearly, 4000 were inured, including approximately, 2400 children, and women. Lebanese civilians who, Israel has made them flee their homes in the south and other parts of Lebanon, had exceeded the million, according to international relief organizations.

The question arises: What has Israel accomplished over the past 29 days? Since Hizbullah's missiles are still showering Israel in their hundreds, as the war has just begun.

Professor, Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Professor of Mass Communication, Twice Fulbright Award Winner, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, and Board Member of AUSACE ASC, IABD, NEBAA, BEA, IMDA and EAJMC American Associations.

10 years after its first Qana Massacre in 1996 at the U.N. Base in Qana Village, Israel kills more than 63 Lebanese refugees including 42 children at the same Village.
1 day before on July 29th, Israel rejected a request by the U.N. for a 3-day Cease-fire in Lebanon to deliver humanitarian supplies & allow civilians to leave the war zone.
5 days ago on July 25th, the Israeli air force deliberately bombed a U.N. base at Khiam Village in South Lebanon killing 4 United Nations observers [Nationals of Austria, Canada, China & Finland]. The U.N. failed to condemn Israel for the killings due to the U.S. pressure.
Seven days ago on July 23rd, the Israeli Army targeted 2 Lebanese Red Cross Ambulances in Qana Village.

The Innocent Lebanese Civilians were killed at Qana by MK-84 Laser Guided Bombs (LGB) with BSU-37/B (Bomb Stabilization Units). These Bombs are Precision-Guided Munitions (PGM) & were manufactured by the U.S. Company Raytheon for the U.S. Navy & Air Force.
The MK-84 LGB, which weights 2000 lbs (907 kg) & has 948 lbs (430 kg) explosive power, features accuracy, reliability & cost-effectiveness previously unobtainable in conventional weapons.

The Innocent Refugees were chased from Home to Home, destroying each Home they hid in, until they reached the edge of Qana Village where they were targeted around 1 o'clock after mid-night. The MK-84 Bombs were dropped by US-Made F16s warplanes & Laser-guided by US-Made Apache helicopters that followed the Civilians.

Experts think that there was also some sort of a Poisonous Gas involved in the Massacre because many of the bodies did not have injuries & the Victims appeared to have suffered an Instant Death.

The second Qana Massacre was designed as one of many Scenarios for an Exit Strategy to show the World that Israel was not Defeated but had to Quit the War due to a Series of "Grave Errors". Note that the Israeli Aggression on Lebanon in 1996 was halted after the first Qana Massacre.

YET ANOTHER ISRAELI MASSACRE
Israel hits again, this time ‘mistakenly’ targetting 57 innocents, 27 of those were helpless kids, all hiding in the basement of what they thought to be a safe refuge, in the Southern town of Qana. Qana, the same town where Israel ‘mistakenly’ massacred more than a hundred innocents 10 years ago, also seeking refuge in a clearly marked UN compound.

Note: This Condensed List does Not contain All the Israeli Massacres. There are Hundreds of other Massacres including those committed against the Palestinians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians.

Israeli terrorist assault on Gaza called "Summer Rain" kills trees and farms

Following the Israeli occupation forces withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in late September 2005, many Palestinians breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Israeli occupation had gone for ever. In the wake of the Israeli withdrawal, every Palestinian farmer in Gaza hurried to his land & destroyed farms to repair the damage that the Israeli occupation had caused.

However, the Israeli occupation refused to give hope a chance to stay in the hearts of oppressed farmers. They took advantage of the launching of home-made projectiles from the Gaza Strip & the capture of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit & used it as a pretext to use bulldozers to ravage the love of land which is felt deeply in the hearts of the Palestinians.

Just before the Israeli military operation called Summer Rain, international organizations & NGOs had begun a campaign to support Palestinian farmers through the provision of plants, seeds & the digging of wells for irrigation.

The first fatalities of the Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip were trees & other crops in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as water wells & pumps which the Israelis treated as military targets & attacked & destroyed.

ISRAEL WILL USE THE LEAST OF EXCUSES TO DESTROY ARAB PEOPLE & CLAIM THEIR LANDS, PARTICULARLY PALESTINE Killing a Nation to Rescue a Soldier

From where I sit, that soldier appears to have become one more pawn in Tel Aviv's attempt to destroy forever the Palestinian hope of a homeland.

I am so tired of hearing Tel Aviv complain that certain Palestinian factions do no represent Israel's right to exist. While some certainly may have this opinion, even Hamas leaders have stated that the fact is that Israel does exist. Meanwhile, Israel is once again waging a military campaign against he Palestinians that, in essence, is just one more battle in its attempt to prevent Palestine from ever existing again. Of course, Washington defends these acts by insisting that Israel has a "right to defend itself," which seems to mean that its military forces can do whatever the hell they want. This also implies that the Palestinians really don't have that same right.

If the true goal of the current Israeli military actions in Gaza is to rescue the Israeli Defense Forces recently taken prisoner, than there is no logic to the military destruction of Palestinian power plants. Not when those power plants provide forty-two percent of the electricity to the Palestinians. There is no logic in invading Gaza to retrieve one soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, especially when such an action is more likely to lead to the soldier's death. There is no logic in intimidating the president of Syria by buzzing his home with warplanes, especially if the reason for such an act is to retrieve one soldier in the IDF.

From where I sit, that soldier appears to have become one more pawn in Tel Aviv's attempt to destroy forever the Palestinian hope of a homeland. Like expansionist armies everywhere, the foot soldier is never more than a pawn in the game of the rulers. Whether that soldier is being sent to give his life in battle for the power and profit of a few or whether he is kidnapped and held for ransom, that soldier is never more than a pawn. If Tel Aviv was truly only interested in saving the life of the corporal from France, they would negotiate some kind of prisoner exchange. This is what the Palestinian forces have offered and this is all they want.

This is why there is something more at play in Gaza right now. The much ballyhooed withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza last year has proven to be a sham. Not only does Tel Aviv control the borders and skies over that region, it also has freedom of movement both there and in the West Bank. The arrests of several elected Palestinians leaders on June 28, 2006 proves even further that the independent Palestinian nation we are told exists by Tel Aviv and its mentors in Washington, DC is nothing more than a sham. No wonder the majority of Palestinian civilians support taking the IDF soldier prisoner. After all, the Israeli government not only has thousands of Palestinians in its prisons, it also continues to kill civilians at an alarming rate, especially in light of Tel Aviv's claims that it doesn't mean to kill them.

Like Washington in Iraq, there seems to be a sense in Tel Aviv that their overwhelming firepower and monetary superiority will achieve victory over the desire of the people whose lands they occupy to rid themselves of the occupation. Also like Washington, this belief in victory has led the military and political forces in Israel to deny their expressed principles and condone murder, torture and terror. In a poor imitation of their gods, these two capitals attempt to reshape these lands in their own image, no matter how many they have to kill and imprison. The citizens of both Israel and the United States, meanwhile, either support this denial of their nations' principles and even urge for more repression and war; or they vainly struggle against these acts carried out in their name, hoping that someday the great unwashed majorities in both nations will finally become appalled at bloodlust and pillage done in their name. Done so that they may live in their cities and suburbs in constant denial; secure in their belief that they will never answer for the crimes in which we are all complicit.

-Ron Jacobs is author of The Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground, which is just republished by Verso. He can be reached at: rjacobs3625@charter.net

Hamas' implicit recognition of Israel is a historic step. It should lead to a restoration of Palestine's relations with the international community; it should also result in the end of economic and political sanctions imposed because of the claim that Hamas is a terrorist organization committed to the destruction of Israel.

Unfortunately the timing of this profound change by Palestine's Hamas government could not have been worse. Yesterday, after weeks of negotiations between Premier Ismail Haniyeh and President Mahmoud Abbas, the formation of a unity administration was agreed. Led by Hamas, it will include Fateh and other opposition politicians and at its heart is a manifesto which seeks a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. By signing the document, Hamas is effectively abandoning its refusal to recognize Israel and so has opened the way for the two-state solution.

Normally such a major breakthrough would be sending international politicians scurrying back and forth as they endeavored to capitalize on it and restart the stalled peace process. As it is, last night what international talking there was focused exclusively on trying to head off massive Israeli reprisals for the capture and detention of one of its soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Many Palestinians of course view this action as a legitimate part of the armed struggle. Israel, however, has been able to finesse the incident into what it claims to be yet another example of Hamas-led terrorism. It demands further massive reprisals.

Whatever the human tragedy that may unfold from the unleashing of Israel's overwhelming firepower, is there a political tragedy in the making as well? Israeli hard-liners will claim that the emergence of the Hamas concession has only been prompted by the threat of attack and that they plan to withdraw from the agreement whether Israel compromises over the release of Palestinian women and children or goes ahead with its assault. Indeed if any Israeli attack were sufficiently brutal, Hamas might find itself politically incapable of sticking to its change of policy, however serious its motives. So much new anger and despair would be produced by fresh humiliations and bloodletting that the Palestinian voters, who elected a Hamas government on a no-recognition ticket, would demand that it keep its political promises.

While the Muslim world is criminally silent, the Zionists are reducing Palestinians to the stone age with the tacit approval of US.

As a textbook example of hi-tech precision bombardment it could hardly be improved. Smoke was still rising yesterday from the scorched wreckage of the six transformers at Gaza's only power station, each destroyed by a single missile fired by an Israeli warplane some 10 hours earlier.

Had they hit the huge cylindrical diesel tank 100 metres away they would have set the whole power station alight. But the strike was clinically effective, cutting all the electricity to 700,000 Gaza consumers, threatening water supplies and depriving its public of light, cooking, broadcast news, and - a crucial issue in scorching summer temperatures - fans.

"I'm so surprised that they did this," said Dr Derar Abu Sisi, the operations manager at the Al Nusirat power station. "We have been right through the worst of the intifada but this didn't happen." It would, Dr Abu Sisi said, take a "minimum of three to six months" to restore supplies at a cost between $5m (L2.8m) and $7m. "The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people," he added. "You might expect that economic infrastructure could be a target in the last stages of a war. But this is not like that."

The damage to Gaza's power supply was condemned as "unacceptable and barbaric collective punishment of civilians, including women, children and old people" by the office of Mahmoud Abbas, which complained it was intensifying what it says are the difficulties he already faces in trying to secure the safe release of Gilad Shalit, the 19-year-old Israeli army corporal abducted by militants - including members of Hamas's military wing - on Sunday.

The crisis escalated yesterday as Hamas called for the prisoner swap Israel has so far refused to entertain; another faction responsible for Cpl Shalit's abduction, the Popular Resistance Committees, threatened to kill Eliahu Asheri, 18, a settler it says it is holding, if Israel does not end its military campaign in Gaza, and a third, the al-Aqsa Martyrs, claimed to have seized a 62-year-old man from the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion.

In retaliation, Israeli soldiers last night arrested the Labour Minister, Mohammed Barghouthi, a member of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian security officials said.

The army fired a barrage of artillery rounds into northern Gaza throughout the night, including at the Islamic University in Gaza City, as it prepared to tell local residents to leave their homes before moving in force into Beit Hanoun to attack Qassam rocket launching units.

Roads in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis were also targeted. The Israeli army said they were to prevent the kidnapped soldier being moved and to cut off access to militants launching rockets at Israel.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, said that the army would not hesitate to carry out "extreme action" in the coming days to bring the abducted soldier back to his family.

The aerial attack on the power station was one of four conducted early yesterday. The other three were on bridges in central Gaza, which the Israel Defence Forces said were intended to hamper attempts by Cpl Shalit's captors to move him from the south to the north.

Yesterday, however, a side road alongside the most easterly of these, which fords the currently dried-up river running through the Wadi Gaza on the main north-south Salahadin road, was busy with traffic which had turned off to avoid the wrecked bridge and continue its journey unimpeded towards Gaza City from the south.

Another target was an old railway bridge 200 metres to the west, which the army says can be used by vehicles but which carried a now-broken water pipeline to two refugee camps.

Zakri al-Ouh, 62, a construction worker who lives near by and helped to build the two-lane road bridge under Egyptian supervision in 1965 and 1966, said: "When it rains then it will be impossible to use the road, but at the moment I can't see how this can help the soldier."

He added: "At first I was in favour of handing back the soldier as quickly as possible. We have to consider the power of Israel against our own weakness.

"But now they have done this I think there should be an exchange of prisoners before he is handed back." The southernmost town of Rafah - to which roads were notably less crowded than usual yesterday - still has power because it takes its electricity from Israel.

But Rafah, which had most to gain from Israel's withdrawal last August because it had been the most ravaged in all of the occupied territories during four years of the intifada, now fears a return of conflict.

Yesterday morning, with Israeli troops and tanks now occupying the disused airport two kilometres from the town centre, Maher Abu Ermana 21, was doing a brisk trade in sacks of flour, oil, sugar and beans provided by aid agencies, sold to him by impoverished refugee recipients trying to make a few extra shekels, and invariably labelled "not for resale".

Such is Gaza's dysfunctional economic cycle that Mr Abu Ermana is now selling his wares to customers stocking up in fear of war shortages. Up until two days ago, after Cpl Gilad Shalit was abducted, he said: "I was selling two sacks a day. Now I am selling 20 to 40."

"We are all worried," said Zakia Mahmoud, 40, who has 10 children. "I hope it will not return to what it was before. If it does, we will lose half of our sons."

The most audible element of the "message" Israel says it is delivering to Gaza in the hope of securing the safe release of Cpl Shalit - in the event of which it says it will pull back its forces from the Strip - are the sonic booms produced by warplanes deliberately flying faster than the speed of sound over Gaza.

Yesterday's booms - which produce the shattering sound of a heavy explosion in the immediate vicinity - started at 5am and were the first for several months, after two human rights groups filed a High Court petition saying that they constituted an illegal "collective punishment".

But the most powerful impact of Israel's - so far -"specific and limited" military campaign is likely to be power cuts. Gaza City's main Shifa hospital said its generator was working 24 hours a day but because of fuel shortages could keep going for only two weeks.

Mark Regev, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, insisted the attacks on power stations and bridges were justified by the need to bring out Cpl Shalit alive.

The Israeli human rights agency Btselem warned that the power cuts would jeopardise water supplies and health care. It stressed that Israel had the right to enact "all legal measures" to secure the release of Cpl Shalit but not those which conflict with international humanitarian law prohibitions against "objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population".

Had they hit the huge cylindrical diesel tank 100 metres away they would have set the whole power station alight. But the strike was clinically effective, cutting all the electricity to 700,000 Gaza consumers, threatening water supplies and depriving its public of light, cooking, broadcast news, and a crucial issue in scorching summer temperatures fans.

"I'm so surprised that they did this," said Dr Derar Abu Sisi, the operations manager at the Al Nusirat power station. "We have been right through the worst of the intifada but this didn't happen." It would, Dr Abu Sisi said, take a "minimum of three to six months" to restore supplies at a cost between $5m (£2.8m) and $7m. "The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people," he added. "You might expect that economic infrastructure could be a target in the last stages of a war. But this is not like that."

The damage to Gaza's power supply was condemned as "unacceptable and barbaric collective punishment of civilians, including women, children and old people" by the office of Mahmoud Abbas, which complained it was intensifying what it says are the difficulties he already faces in trying to secure the safe release of Gilad Shalit, the 19-year-old Israeli army corporal abducted by militants including members of Hamas's military wing on Sunday.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, said that the army would not hesitate to carry out "extreme action" in the coming days to bring the abducted soldier back to his family.

Another target was an old railway bridge 200 metres to the west, which the army says can be used by vehicles but which carried a now-broken water pipeline to two refugee camps.

He added: "At first I was in favour of handing back the soldier as quickly as possible. We have to consider the power of Israel against our own weakness.

"We are all worried," said Zakia Mahmoud, 40, who has 10 children. "I hope it will not return to what it was before. If it does, we will lose half of our sons."

The most audible element of the "message" Israel says it is delivering to Gaza in the hope of securing the safe release of Cpl Shalit in the event of which it says it will pull back its forces from the Strip are the sonic booms produced by warplanes deliberately flying faster than the speed of sound over Gaza.

Yesterday's booms - which produce the shattering sound of a heavy explosion in the immediate vicinity started at 5am and were the first for several months, after two human rights groups filed a High Court petition saying that they constituted an illegal "collective punishment".

But the most powerful impact of Israel's - so far - "specific and limited" military campaign is likely to be power cuts. Gaza City's main Shifa hospital said its generator was working 24 hours a day but because of fuel shortages could keep going for only two weeks.

Mark Regev, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, insisted the attacks on power stations and bridges were justified by the need to bring out Cpl Shalit alive.

On June 29, the Israeli Occupation Forces launched a massive attack on 1.25 million Palestinian inhabitants of the besieged Gaza Strip. Artillery shells and warplanes destroyed the power plant in Gaza, blocked access to fuel, and demolished central roads. Leaders of Palestine's ruling Hamas Party have been taken hostage or forced from their homes in Jerusalem. The Israeli government is compelling the population to live without electricity, water, or the gasoline needed to power
generators - in a desert climate!

The Palestinian people have been under brutal, illegal occupation for almost 40 years. During that time they have struggled against their oppression through diplomatic, military, and grassroots means. But Israel, inspired by separatist, Zionist ideology, is continuing its ethnic cleansing and the Israeli military has escalated its assault upon the Palestinian
people with renewed savagery.

Nearly three dozen Palestinian children were killed in the first half of 2006 alone. Many other people, including pregnant women, were killed or wounded in recent months. The excuse for the current horror is the capture of a single Israeli soldier by a guerilla group.

Currently, Israel holds nearly 9,000 Palestinians prisoner, all jailed, tortured, or held hostage. Since 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained, amounting to 40% of the male population of the Palestinian territories. The Israeli government is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and countless UN resolutions and other norms of international law.

These atrocities take place with the explicit support of the U.S. government, which gives Israel billions of dollars a year, and protects the country from international criticism. The instruments of war that Israel is employing are U.S.-made: helicopters to murder people in crowded streets, warplanes to bomb villages, bulldozers to demolish homes and
uproot olive trees—all are part of the aid package extended to Israel by Congress.

By murdering increasing numbers of Palestinians, assassinating their leaders, destroying their homes and agricultural lands, starving them, and forcing families to leave their homes to find refuge elsewhere, the actions of the Israeli government show that its only "solution" to the conflict is the extermination or utter submission of the Palestinian people. The only real solution is the formation of a bi-national state of Arab and Jewish people, a socialist state that would remove itself from the war-driven economies of capitalism.

According to a UN human rights report drafted in 2004:

"Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines."
"1,497 buildings have been demolished in Rafah, affecting over 15,000 people"

Israel has uprooted approximately 1.2 million Palestinian olive and fruit trees. Israeli border and checkpoint security has wreaked further havoc on the Palestinian economy as residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are subjected to lengthy and humiliating waits and searches. Transportation of goods and commuting to work are nearly impossible tasks in the Palestinian territories. 66% of Palestinians in Gaza live in poverty and unemployment exceeds 30%.
As one might expect, fresh water is a relatively scarce resource in Palestine. Not surprisingly, Israelis control most of it. In the West Bank, Palestinians are denied access to water from the Jordan River. Palestinians consume only 17% of the water from West Bank aquifers while Israelis consume 73%. Per capita, West Bank Israeli settlers enjoy four times as much water as Palestinians. Israel prohibits Palestinians from drilling new wells and limits the amount of water they can extract from existing wells. Israeli water companies often make grossly inflated profits on water they extract from Palestinian aquifers when they sell it back to Palestinian consumers. Israel is withdrawing groundwater from Gaza so rapidly that saltwater from the Mediterranean is replacing the freshwater. One would think that an adequate supply of potable water would be a basic human right, but it is not for Palestinians.
Adding insult to numerous injuries, Israel is defying a decree by the International Court of Justice that it is violating international law as it continues to build its Apartheid Wall. In yet another example of collective punishment of innocent civilians, Israel is constructing a 620 kilometer barrier through the West Bank which encroaches on Palestinian territory by as much as 10 miles in some places. One purpose of the encroachment is that it will enable Israel to annex and control vital water access points. In building the Apartheid Wall, Israel has uprooted over 100,000 Palestinian olive and citrus trees, confiscated over 4,000 acres of their land, and demolished 75 acres of their greenhouses.
Victim Turned Oppressor
It is sadly ironic that the United States, a nation whose founding fathers overcame tremendous odds to escape the shackles of an imperial power, would support Israel's cruel colonization and extermination of the Palestinians. Perhaps more ironic is the fact that Israel, a nation formed as a homeland for a group which was a principal target of Hitler's genocidal policies, would commit such horrendous humanitarian crimes against the Palestinians.

No issue so demonstrates the Un-Islamic, political, and economic impotence, fear, and intimidation of the Arab and Muslim worlds than the decades long suffering, occupation, ethnic cleansing, murder, home demolitions, continued building of illegal settlements, diversion of water for swimming pools, and the current collective punishment of Gaza deprived of water, electricity, food, and medical care than the Palestinians under Israel's boot since 1948 while the 1.4 billion Muslims are silent and fighting each other.

Muslims have abandoned the Qur'an and the Prophet's teachings in search of modernism, progressiveness, and alleged intellectual enlightenment.

Muslims have accepted the indoctrination that religion is primitive thought and a shackle to progress. So what has this "modernistic, humanistic" approach produced for the Muslim world?

Nothing but occupation, humiliation, racism, more illiteracy, unemployment, civil conflicts, death, and a backward trend in all national indicators.

Tragically, however, Muslims still maintain their subservience and corruptive emotional attachment and obedience to their "leaders" unwilling to part with them for desperate reforms.

Our leaders fear their own people and their Muslim "brothers" in other nations hence the hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons they are incapable of using while to protect their own thrones and chairs send billions of aid to American Katrina victims while sending crumbs to besieged and hungry Palestinians or to the Pakistani victims of the earthquake, or to the Muslim victims of the Tsunami.

How selfish and embarrassing that Westerners send more aid to these Muslims than Muslims themselves. While Muslims get sick and die for lack of heath care our "leaders" worthy of sacrifice, May Allah (swt) preserve them seek health care for a cough in the world's best hospitals!

How tragic that our hypocritical "intellectuals" who criticize the Muslim world have themselves adopted and imitated the modernism of the west, our occupiers, as a model for Muslim reform, a reform that seeks to separate Muslims from Islam, the faith of their unity and salvation.

While Palestinians are dying our leaders are vacationing and running for "election". While Palestinians are dying our "free" Arab media is more focused on the World Cup and Celebrity gossip than the shedding of Muslim blood. How tragic that westerners show more care, sensitivity, and activism toward the Palestinians than Muslims themselves.

How long must Muslim blood be shed while Muslims are silent? How long will our "oil" that enriches the rich, not the poor Muslim populations, be diverted to our occupiers rather than invested in Muslim homes, schools, hospitals, roads, and Islamic teachings? Why are our streets so silent?

Because Muslims are watching football and "Video Clips" imitating the moral decay in the West that Westerners themselves wish to abandon.

How long will we beg for peace and deliverance from the very people who kill and occupy us rather than show the courage and will to uphold our faith and dignity?

If our "leaders" and Ummah truly believe in a Judgement Day, they would fear facing Allah's (swt) accountability and questions on how they spent their lives and wealth.

Rest in peace, oh Muslim world, and let's pray to Allah (swt) for a future generation that will find in Islam the modernistic intellectual and spiritual answer to our plight as demoralized individuals and humiliated nations.

47 Lebanese Civilians Massacred in Israeli Terrorist Air Raids, Including a Family of 10 and Another Family of 7

As tensions spread from Palestinian territories to Lebanon, specter of inferno hangs over the region

The Israeli occupation army ramped up its terrorist land, air and sea attacks in Lebanon, killing as many as 47 people, almost all of whom were civilians.

A family of 10 and another family of seven were killed in their homes in the south Lebanon as Israeli terrorist fighter bombers carried out dozens of air strikes. Three others from Hezbollah resistance fighters were killed in clashes in the occupied Lebanese territory of Sheba'a farms. The clashes were described as the most violent since the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon on May 25, 2000, under pressure from Hezbollah fighters.

A Shi'i Muslim shaikh was also killed together with his wife and eight children when an Israeli terrorist missile struck their home in the village of Duwair, near the central town of Nabatiyeh.

RNA's correspondent reported from the Lebanese-Israeli boarder that missile-fire bangs are being heard intensively traded between the two sides.

The Israeli inhabitants have sought sanctuary in underground shelters. Dormant in their shelters, the residential bordering swath seemed completely quite of people's daily activities.

In a parody of its exaggerated retaliatory attacks, using extremely excessive force against the Palestinian territories, the Israeli terrorist military has targeted the Lebanese infrastructure, destroying bridges, a transmission unit as well as Beirut International Airport, claiming the it was used as a central hub for weapons suppliers.

The Hezbollah-linked T.V channel was hit as well in the southern suburb of Beirut; a number of citizens were lightly injured by the fragments of the blown out windows.

Six thousand Israeli reserve soldiers were posted along the Israeli-Lebanese borders.

The Israeli full scale offensive against Lebanon has been carried out in a bid of rehabilitating the Israeli military which has been fooled a couple of times in similar attacks.

Yesterday, Hezbollah carried out a cross-border attack against an Israeli military post, killing eight soldiers, injuring others and capturing two. The Lebanese attack came only 22 days after a similar attack spearhead by Hamas's military wing against Karm Abu Salem military outpost, which brought about the capture of the Israeli occupation soldier, Gilad Shalit, making the Israeli military gain the failure index big time.

The Palestinian government, represented by the Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Mahmoud Al-Zahar, described the Israeli terrorist offensive against Lebanon as "a destruction enterprise" with an international shadow of silence cast on it.

Commenting on the recent regional escalation, Mr Zahar told RNA that:" this area has been exposed to aggressions in 1948, 1956, 1967, ... (1978, 1982, the first intifada 1988-1993, the second intifada 2000-2005, the third intifada 2006-) the Israeli aggression has not changed, the problem is not in the Israeli aggression; it is in the sleeping or dead international consciences. I think we have nothing but to summon up patience".

Last night, an Israeli aircraft hit the headquarters of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, destroying a major part of it, blowing out houses' windows for a wide area around the targeted building and lightly wounding a number of people.

Armed resistance groups in Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon standing together against Israeli aggression and occupation

The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, and now its General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah, have affirmed commitment to aiding the Palestinians against Israeli attacks. Throughout the night and early Thursday morning hours, Israeli forces bombed the Beirut International Airport, killing 25 people. The Israeli government claims weapons were being smuggled in for Hezbollah.

Hezbollah continues to fight the Israeli army in southern Lebanon however limited the occupation is now compared to the recent past, but remains complete in the Lebanese Sheba Farms area where Hezbollah just captured two Israeli soldiers.

The West Bank leader of the Fateh-linked armed resistance group, Al Aqsa Brigades, says that the resistance will not stop, considering it "a message and mortal blow to Israel."
A statement released by the Brigades said, "The resistance movement will not stop as long as there is occupation, as long as there are Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli prisons, and as long as the Jewish state is in control."
Part of the message was a thank you to Hezbollah for its continued resistance and to the newly stated support of Nasrullah. The resistance groups are working together now, including Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and are calling on the Israelis to release political prisoners and end the attacks and occupation, stating there is no other option open to the oppressed than to fight back for liberation.

It is becoming apparent in the continued attacks on the Gaza Strip that Israeli forces have discovered a new war tactic: killing entire families.

In a special interview with PNN, Younis Al Khatib, Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, said, "
What is happening in Gaza is a new method of war that includes the extermination of entire families. This Israeli assassination campaign, unfortunately titled ‘Summer Rain,'
is resulting in massive economic and social hardship for the Palestinians."

The latest victims of this new war tactic were the members of the Abu Selmiya family of Gaza City. An elderly woman commented on the killing of the nine family members by stating, "
The mother died. The son died. The father died. Each neighborhood, each home, is dying."

The Red Crescent Society has declared the Israeli killing of Palestinian families a war crime and is calling for an immediate investigation into all such incidents.

The medical and ambulance service organization notes that over 60 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed since the beginning of the latest Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip.

Israel Claims Hundreds of Hits in Lebanon, Including Beirut Airport, Two Lebanese Army Air Bases

Israel has hit hundreds of targets in Lebanon as part of its effort to force the release of two soldiers captured by Hezbollah resistance fighters, a top Israeli general said Thursday.

Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut's airport and two Lebanese army air bases near the Syrian border, and imposing a naval blockade. More than 50 people have died in violence following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.

Warplanes punched holes in the runways of Beirut's international airport and two military air bases, attacks that could draw the Lebanese army into the conflict.

Israel's army chief Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz warned that "nothing is safe" in Lebanon and said Beirut itself - particularly Hezbollah offices and residences - would be a target.

Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israeli towns and said it was using a new missile that appeared to be more advanced than previous models. One Israeli was killed and 12 were injured.

The Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement (Hezbollah) also said it would rocket the key Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel hit Beirut, a strike that would be the deepest ever into Israel by the guerrillas - some 18 miles.

Two days of Israeli bombings, the heaviest air campaign against its neighbor in 24 years, had killed 47 Lebanese and wounded 103, Health Minister Mohammed Jawad Khalife said. Besides the Israeli civilian, eight Israeli soldiers had also been killed.

Both sides played a high stakes game following the capture of the two soldiers by Hezbollah: Israel sought to end Hezbollah's presence on the border, while Hezbollah insisted on trading the captured soldiers for Arab prisoners.

The violence reverberated throughout the region and pushed crude oil prices to a new intraday record of $76.30 a barrel.

Western countries, Russia and the United Nations called for restraint and demanded the return of the soldiers. The Arab League called an emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday. The Lebanese Cabinet urged the U.N. Security Council to intervene.

The European Union criticized Israel for using what it called "disproportionate" force in its attacks and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he was planning a peace mission.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that Israel's Lebanon offensive "is raising our fears of a new regional war" and urged world powers to intervene.

Middle East satellite TV stations focused on the (Israeli terrorist attacks), and one station showed a man holding a baby killed in the Israeli bombings.

The eight Israeli soldiers killed so far is the highest death toll for the Israeli occupation army in four years. Three soldiers died in the initial Hezbollah raid, and four were killed when their tank struck a land mine Wednesday.

In northern Israel, thousands of civilians spent the night in underground shelters as Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel. A 40-year-old Israeli woman was killed and five people were wounded in the rocket attacks, the Israeli army reported.

After hitting roads and bridges in the south all day Wednesday, Israel dramatically expanded its campaign Thursday with their biggest offensive in Lebanon since Israel's 1982 invasion.

Israeli warships imposed a naval blockade of Lebanese ports, and the Israeli military said it could also target the Beirut-to-Damascus highway, the main land link between Lebanon and the outside world.

Military jets attacked runways at the Rayak air base in the eastern Bekaa Valley, police said, and at the Qoleiat air base near the Syrian border in the north. Rayak, four miles west of the Syrian border, is home to the country's main military air base and is military headquarters in eastern Lebanon.

Because Lebanon's army has no operational fixed-wing aircraft and only operates helicopters - which can take off or land anywhere - the attacks appeared to be mostly symbolic.

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said his forces would not allow Hezbollah resistance fighters to occupy positions along the southern Lebanese border.

Air force Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel said the campaign was likely Israel's largest ever in Lebanon "if you measure it in number of targets hit in one night, the complexity of the strikes." The last major offensive against Lebanon was in 1996 when about 150 Lebanese civilians were killed.

Travelers to and from Beirut were stranded all over the region and beyond after the airport strike. Among them was Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, who was returning from a visit to Armenia and - like many - was forced to make his way home through Syria.

Israeli warplanes blasted craters into all three runways at the airport, located by the seaside in the Lebanese capital's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, forcing incoming flights to divert to Cyprus. The main terminal of the $500 million airport remained intact.

It was the first time since Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and occupation of Beirut that the airport was hit by Israel. The Israelis in 1968 sent commandos to Beirut airport, blowing up 13 passenger planes in retaliation for Arab militants firing on an Israeli airliner in Athens.

- An Israeli missile hit Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV studios in southern Beirut, station official Ibrahim Farhat said. One person was hurt; broadcasts continued. An Al-Manar transmission antenna hit near Baalbek stopped transmissions in that area.

- A civic center attached to a Shi'i Muslim mosque near the town of Baalbek was hit.

- A Lebanese family of 10 and another family of seven were killed in their homes in the village of Dweir, Lebanese officials said.

- Hezbollah fired rockets at the northern Israeli towns of Safed, Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, and Carmiel, saying it was using a rocket called "Thunder 1" for the first time. The missiles appeared to be more advanced than the inaccurate Katyusha - the standard Hezbollah rocket.

The Israeli army said several rockets had landed more than 12 miles south of the border, showing that Hezbollah has managed to extend its missiles' range.

Israeli Terrorist Forces Use New Unconventional Weapons Killing Body Cells, Exposing Bones, Causing Amputations

Ministry of Health report on toxic Israeli weapons confirmed by Gaza City medical sources

Director of Public Relations at Gaza City's Al Shifa Hospital, Dr. Juma Al Saqqa, confirmed the Palestinian Ministry of Health's report from earlier this week which stated that Israeli forces are using toxic weapons in the Gaza Strip.

The doctor spoke on Thursday, giving the death count at 85 Palestinians in the Strip since the latest Israeli attack began. Among the dead are 34 children under the age of 13. And as of Thursday afternoon, 300 Palestinians are injured.

Dr. Al Saqqa told Voice of Palestine Radio that the Israeli army is using new types of unconventional weapons against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the recent attacks. He said, "
They are targeting the Palestinian body with unconventional weapons and with that comes a phenomena we have not seen before in any Israeli bombardment we have lived through for many years."

He continued, "The hospital is central and sees almost all cases of injuries and deaths as a result of Israeli bomb attacks against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. These Israeli bombings are entering the body and fragmenting, causing internal combustion leading to up to fourth degree internal burns, exposing the bone, and affecting the tissue and skin."

The doctor added, "These tissues die, they do not survive, which obliges us to perform arm or leg amputations, and there are fragments which penetrate the body and do not show up on X-rays. When entering the body they spark like a combustion firearm, but not chemically. They seem radioactive."

He confirmed that there were dozens of wounded legs and arms. Many of them had been burned from the inside, and distorted to the point that they cannot return to life again.

Yesterday, Wednesday, was one of the most bloody of all in the recent attacks. Israeli forces killed 25 Palestinians. Dr. Al Sakka said, "It is escalating day after day. Yesterday alone Israeli forces killed 25 and injured dozens. Among them so many were children."

Dr. Al Sakka revealed that the Israelis completely destroyed by the lab which would help in diagnosing such cases. "
We no longer have the ability to make these examinations on phenomena that we see is not normal."

excerpts from UK Guardian November 24, 2004 - By Chris McGreal

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