Over and Over

GOVEAR ANZD OAVER

SHORT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ISRAEL AGGRESSION INTO THE GAZA STRIP DEC 08 - FEB 09

DID HAMAS REALLY USING CIVILIAN AS HUMAN SHIELDS? EVIDENCE SHOWS ISRAEL USING WHITE PHOSPHORUS PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE SUPPORTING GAZA

PUBLISHED BY NO MORE IGNORANCE © 2009 BLOODY NEW YEAR IN PALESTINE BY BEN HEINE STOP GAZA GENOCIDE BY FIREFLYWAYFEARER What Happened in Gaza 06 Inside Gaza 40 Wounded & Dead 14 Prosecute Israel 49 Truth & Lies 15 The Boycott Works 50 Ilegal Weapons 24 Video Links 56 Doctor Witnesses 26 Around The World 57 Contents Israel War Crimes 33 Behind The Scene 68 GAZA : THE RABBIT & THE TURTLE BY LATUFF2 “ Once again, the “ Perhaps one day we world is watching in will understand WHAT dismay the how wrong our HAPPENED dysfunctionality of actions in this IN GAZA the Security region have been Council.” from time immemorial.”

Miguel d'Escoto, David Grossman, UN General Assembly Chief Ha’aretz Journalist Israeli Newspaper

The official Palestinian position is that and Israel on the north and east. Accords, much of the Strip came cabinet formally declared an end to the territories are considered under limited Palestinian Authority military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 On the west, it is bounded by the occupied, and that holds the status of control. years of control. Mediterranean Sea. History occupying power. In February 2005 the Israeli Following withdrawal, Israel retains The Strip's borders were originally Gaza is a narrow strip of land in the The Israeli government disputes this, government voted to implement offshore maritime control and control defined by the armistice lines Middle East not currently recognized especially after the implementation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for of airspace over the Strip. Israel between Egypt and Israel after the internationally as a de jure part of any the disengagement plan. Some Israeli unilateral disengagement from the withdrew from the "Philadelphi 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which followed sovereign country. It takes its name right-wing Zionists and their Gaza Strip beginning on August 15, Route" that is adjacent to the Strip's the dissolution of the British mandate from Gaza, its main city. sympathizers consider the Gaza Strip 2005. border with Egypt after an agreement of Palestine. to be an occupied part of Israel. with the latter to secure its side of the Gaza is one of the most densely The plan required the dismantling of It was occupied by Egypt (except for border. populated territories on earth, with Geographically, the Strip forms the all Israeli settlements there, and the four months of Israeli occupation about 1.4 million residents in an area westernmost portion of the territories removal of all Israeli settlers and The future political status of the Gaza during the Suez Crisis) until it was of 360 km². The Strip is under the referred to by many as the Palestinian military bases from the Strip, a Strip remains undecided, and is captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day jurisdiction of the Palestinian territories in Southwest Asia, having process that was completed on claimed as part of any prospective War. In 1993, after the Palestinian- Authority. land borders with on the south-west September 12, 2005 as the Israeli Palestinian state.[] Israeli agreements known as the Oslo

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 06 with more than 16,000 living as many as 20 to a small tent “The Israeli soldiers The Day without latrines, as supplies shelled the house remain blocked at the borders. On December 27, 2008, Israel and killed my launched a devastating 22 day Single-limb fractures and the and night bombardment of the walking wounded are not mother, my father, Gaza strip. included in the above figures, according to renowned British my baby girl and 25 The assault left, amidst an surgeon Dr. Swee Ang, currently estimated 600,000 tons of other members of conducting an on-the-ground concrete rubble, some 1,740 dead medical investigation in Gaza. my family. (this figure includes more than 350 'forgotten' stillbirths and Dr. Swee and her medical Why? We are not trauma-caused abortions in Gaza colleagues estimate that of the during the 22 days of terror), a severely injured, 1,600 will suffer Hamas, we are not figure that increases as the permanent disabilities. These fighters. Why did severely injured continue to die. include amputations, spinal cord injuries, head injuries, and large they do this to us?” A majority of the victims were burns with crippling contractures. civilians, including nearly 900 (again including the stillborn) Also bombed were 68 children, approximately 5,500 government buildings and 31 severely wounded, and more than NGO complexes, buildings all of one third of the 1.5 million which were completely or population was displaced while partially destroyed. more than 14,000 homes were Property damage and loss of completely destroyed. livelihood has been estimated at Approximately 92,000 close to 2 billion dollars.[] Salah Sammouni, Palestinians are still homeless Gaza Citizen

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 07 FREEGAZA GAZAINVADERS GAME OVER BY SORCERESSMYRJOSÉ SALA BY L’ALBERO PALESTINE THE LOST LAND BY KACHAKOU FREE GAZA BY SORCERESSMYR STOP WAR BY HARLISKUDO WHY DO THEY ATTACK US BY LATUFF2 CHILDREN OF GAZA TINTIN IN GAZA BY UAEAPPLE BY CARLOS ECO Total Number Civilian Deaths Among Deaths Among Of Deaths Deaths Women Children 1285 895 111 281

Northern Gaza Strip : 461 Northern Gaza Strip : 400 Northern Gaza Strip : 54 Northern Gaza Strip : 125

Gaza City : 534 Gaza City : 314 Gaza City : 41 Gaza City : 106

Central Gaza Strip : 157 Central Gaza Strip : 81 Central Gaza Strip : 10 Central Gaza Strip : 21

Khan Yunis : 83 Khan Yunis : 61 Khan Yunis : 5 Khan Yunis : 16

Rafah : 50 Rafah : 39 Rafah : 1 Rafah : 13

“The most

Total Of moral Wounded Wounded The Wounded Women Children 4336 army in 735 1133 the world”

Northern Gaza Strip : 1914 Northern Gaza Strip : 385 Northern Gaza Strip : 591

Gaza City : 1000 Gaza City : 100 Gaza City : 200

Central Gaza Strip : 530 Central Gaza Strip : 90 Central Gaza Strip : 140

WOUNDED Khan Yunis : 395 Khan Yunis : 76 Khan Yunis : 100

Rafah : 497 Ehud Olmert Rafah : 84 Rafah : 102 AND DEAD commenting Israel military

of the Palestinian legislative  IDF destroyed 5 factories of in Gaza does not meet the World Israeli Side Council. concrete and one of juice. Health Organization standards for  13 Israelis lost their lives during drinking. Half the population of  IDF destroyed 21 private the conflict, including that of a Palestinian Side  IDF destroyed 60 police stations. Gaza city has access to water for projects, including cafeterias, Merkava Tank misfire and other  IDF destroyed buildings of 5 only several hours a week.  IDF attacked ambulances and wedding halls, tourist resorts and incidents stemming from combat. media institutions and 2 health vehicles of civil defense and relief hotels.  1 million Palestinians have no Out of those figures, 5 were killed ones. services.  IDF destroyed 30 mosques access to electricity. engaging Hamas combatants, 4  IDF have destroyed 29 were killed by friendly fire, and 1  2,400 houses were completely completely and 15 others  A total of 53 installations used educational institutions was killed when Hamas rockets hit destroyed, including 490 were partially. by the United Nations Relief and completely or partially. a military base inside Israel. destroyed by air strikes.  IDF destroyed offices of 10 Works agency were damaged or  IDF have razed thousands of destroyed during Israel's Gaza  3 Israeli civilians lost their lives  IDF destroyed 28 public civilian charitable societies. donums of agricultural land. campaign including 37 schools - as a result of the conflict. [] facilities, including buildings of a  IDF destroyed 121 industrial and six of which were being used as number of ministries, commercial workshops and  An estimated 400,000 people in emergency shelters - six health municipalities, governorates, Gaza have no access to running Statistics taken from Palestinian damaged at least 200 others. centres, and two warehouses. Centre for Human Rights & Amnesty fishing harbors and the building water; 80% of the water supplied

civilians, in purpose and here are Khaled was supposed to get Sua'ad outside with my family."Told to strip to sandpit. The soldiers dug several some. but his mother got injured. It was his underwear, Mr Dayer said his foxholes. madness and I really can't hands were tied behind his back with » An Israeli spokesman told Herald it Hamas Using Civilian as understand what happened. What white plastic cables, then he was did not comment on operational Kawther Abed Rabo and her husband did I do to get my angels killed in moved into the sandpit area. Human Shields? matters. But he stressed the Israeli and mother-in-law were in their front of my eyes? Khaled lost his military does not use anyone as house, looking for a safe room in mind and went back out asking them Mohammed Madhoun, 22, a media Its a myth Israel used to say every "human shields". which to take cover. Then a voice on a to shoot him but they didn't!” and public relations student at the Al- time they hits or kills civilians.. but Aqsa University, whose home is across loud speaker coming from a tank » the truth is that Israel itself is accused » a lane-way from Mr Dayer's home, -in this war as well as many times outside ordered them to evacuate. When Rawhiya al-Najar, aged 50, said he and his parents were ordered According to one of Al-Sammouni before- of using civilians -and mainly "They [Israeli Soldiers] asked us to line stepped out of her house waving a to do the same. family, Israeli soldiers gather Ten kids- as shields to hide behind... up in front of the doorstep.” Kawther families in the house from the same white flag, so that the rest of the These two were among about 85 men said “I was helping my mother-in-law clan. And after a time, an artillery In testimony collected from residents family could leave the house, she was who were moved into the sandpit area to walk while Khaled [her husband] shell hit the house, and twenty nine of the village of Khuza'a by the allegedly shot by Israeli soldiers and gathered at the western end. They was holding the girls' hands: Amal, 2 were killed most of them were Observer, it is claimed that Israeli nearby. said the Israeli troops then took years old; Sua'ad, 7 years old; and children, and around more than sixty soldiers entering the village, and position around perimeter of the Samar, 4 years old." they were waiting » were injured. The Red Cross vented its attempted to bulldoze houses with sandpit area and began to engage for a permission to move forward. fury at Israel after the strike, saying it civilians inside; killed civilians trying Israeli troops ordered 30 residents to with Palestinian resistance fighters. had found four starving children at to escape under the protection of She said two soldiers were staring at leave their homes and walk to a "We kept our heads down, we didn't the house clinging to the corpses of white flags; opened fire on an them eating chips and chocolate. school in the village centre. After move for two days," Mr Madhoun said. their dead mothers... mentioning that ambulance attempting to reach the "Suddenly a third one got out of the traveling 20 metres, troops fired on "There was lots of shooting over our the Israeli army did not allow the wounded; used indiscriminate force tank with an M16 and began the group, allegedly killing three. heads but I don't know where it was ambulances to approach the house to in a civilian area and fired white shooting my girls. Sua'ad and Amal coming from. We were given blankets » evacuate the wounded for several phosphorus shells. fell dead immediately. I didn't know and food." days. about Samar so I just grabbed her and "They entered my house with a tank," And already, there're tons of stories Empty cans of Israeli rations litter the about Israeli Soldiers targeting Amal and went back to the house. Mr Dayer said. "I was told to come This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 15 » And that's what already done, as Olmert's action towards all the crimes Malcolm Smart, Amnesty had done in Gaza, Was “The soldiers International's Middle East director, and commanders who were sent on says: Our sources in Gaza report that missions in Gaza must know that Israeli soldiers have entered and taken they are safe from various tribunals, up positions in a number of and that the State of Israel will assist Palestinian homes, forcing families to them on this issue and defend them stay in a ground floor room while they just as they bodily defended us use the rest of their house as a during Operation Cast Lead”! military base and sniper position. This clearly increases the risk to the What's more, Palestinian civilians Palestinian families concerned and witnessed that Hamas fighters tried means they are effectively being used their best to protect them. Itidal as human shields. Mushtaha, 58, said there was shelling all around. She, her four sons, their Donatella Rovera, Amnesty wives and 23 grandchildren had all International 's investigator in Israel huddled, terrified, on the ground floor reported "It's standard practice for with no electricity or water. The Israeli soldiers to go into a house, lock Israelis had destroyed many houses up the family in a room on the ground nearby that were identified as floor and use the rest of the house as belonging to Hamas operatives, she a military base, as a sniper's said, adding, “We do not know where position,That is the absolute textbook to hide.” Yet Ms. Mushtaha, who is case of human shields." not usually a political woman, had In several well-documented cases, nothing but praise for Hamas. “God Israeli troops forced Palestinian bless these fighters. They are civilians, at gunpoint, to go before throwing themselves to death to them into buildings from which they protect us,” she said. feared attack. The practice by Israeli Although Israeli officials said Hamas soldiers of taking over Palestinian militants put Palestinian civilians in civilians' homes and holding their danger by booby-trapping homes and inhabitants as human shields while firing on soldiers from crowded using the house as a shooting position buildings, residents living in Ezbet has been very common in the past Abed Rabbo all said that Hamas eight years both in the Gaza Strip and forces quickly abandoned the in the West Bank. [According to outlying neighborhood once the amnesty.org] Israeli forces took over. Moreover Fred Abrahams, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch “ working in the Gaza Strip said "The In little more than a evidence we've gathered in two of the day, as many people cases so far is exceedingly strong, All the research so far suggests they shot had been killed as in civilians that were leaving their homes with white flags." the worst year of the first Intifada. The "There is no doubt a culture of impunity," noted Ms Stein, the difference is that research director of B'Tselem. "Soldiers this time the people are rarely charged. There are not many military police investigations. Soldiers of Gaza have can do what they want. virtually zero The message soldiers are getting is, 'Don't violate the law, but we won't resources to cope." do anything if you do, unless it's a severe case'. The message is blurred," Samer Badawi she said. United Palestinian Appeal

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 16 Israel has repeatedly claimed that it had "no choice" but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because Hamas had broken a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and had "tried everything in order to Hamas Broke The Truce? avoid this military operation," as Foreign Minister put it. Israel's excuse for its violence is that from time to time the Palestinian resistance organization, Hamas, fires off rockets into Israel to protest the ghetto life that Israel imposes on Gazans. The rockets are ineffectual for the most part and seldom claim Israeli casualties. Moreover sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.-According to Haartz. Analyzing the truce's timeline, make it clear that its Israel, not Hamas, who violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in return, Israel was to ease its throttle-hold on Gaza. In fact, during the truce, it tightened it further. The truce, which began in June last year and was due for renewal in December, required both parties to refrain from violent action against the other. Hamas had to cease its rocket assaults and prevent the firing of rockets by other groups such as Islamic Jihad (even Israel's “ intelligence agencies acknowledged this had been implemented with Destroy 100 house surprising effectiveness), and Israel had to put a stop to its targeted in Gaza, for every assassinations and military incursions. rocket launched to This understanding was seriously violated on 4 November, when the IDF entered Gaza and killed six members of Hamas. Hamas responded Israel.” by launching Qassam rockets and Grad missiles. Even so, it offered to extend the truce, but only on condition that Israel ended its blockade. Eli Yishai, Israel refused.[] Israel Minister of Internal Affairs

5 Nov HAMAS ROCKET FIRE DISTRIBUTION 2008 Israel forces raid Hamas territory

19 June Beginning of 361 the truce

241 257 196 145 149 125 87

1 8 1 1 19 Dec End of The Truce

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Data taken from Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 17 ISRAELI PALESTINIAN SIDES BY LATUFF2 Israel-Hamas Truce Timeline used to manufacture rockets.  December 19th: The six-month  June 19th 2008: An Egyptian truce officially ends. mediated ceasefire begins  December 20th: Israeli launches between Hamas and Israel. The air strikes on the northern Gazan Palestinian movement agrees to town of Beit Lahiya, killing one stop firing rockets as Israel Palestinian and wounding two accepts to gradually ease its others. embargo on the Gaza Strip.  November 18th: Israeli tanks  October 8th: Israel prevents  December 21st: Palestinian backed by a bulldozer and a fighters fire rockets into Sderot Physicians for Human Rights military jeep roll half a kilometer (PHR) from entering the and Negev and one Israeli is into Gaza. The Israeli army claims wounded. embattled Gaza Strip. the incursion is "a routine  November 5th: Israel raids operation to uncover explosive  December 22nd: A twenty-four houses in the Hamas-controlled devices near the border fence in hour truce is declared between region and arrests seven the southern Gaza Strip." Israel and armed Palestinian Palestinians. Israel attacks areas factions at the request of Egyptian inside Gaza, killing at least six  November 20th: An Israeli tank mediators. Palestinians. Ghassan el-Taramse, fires shells, killing a Palestinian a nineteen-year-old Palestinian fighter east of Gaza City.  December 23rd: The twenty-four activist, is killed in an Israeli air hour truce expires. Clashes  November 23rd: The Israeli army between Israeli forces and raid in the northern parts of the wounds two Palestinian residents coastal sliver. Palestinians fire Palestinian resistance fighters while shelling homes in various leave three members of the several dozen rockets and mortar cities in the strip. shells at western Negev in Israel in Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades dead retaliation. No casualties or  November 28th: Israeli forces along the border fence in northern property damage is caused, but backed by tanks enter the Gaza. Six Qassam rockets are fired three women are treated for southern parts of the coastal into western Negev. The rocket shock. region and kill two Palestinians. attacks do not hit any targets in Israel.  November 8th: Israel's tanks and  November 29th: Projectiles fired bulldozers cross the southern from the Gaza Strip wound eight  December 24th: Gaza fighters border of the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers in an army base in fire two dozen mortar shells at  November 14th: Hamas fires a the town of Nahal Uz. three different targets inside Israel. An Israeli air raid kills a barrage of homemade rockets at  December 2nd: The Israeli army the city of Ashkelon. Four rockets Palestinian and wounds two launches air strikes into southern others in southern Gaza. are also fired into western Negev Gaza and kills at least two after Israeli air strikes wounded civilians and wounding four  December 27th: Israeli F16 two people in Gaza. others. bombers and apache helicopters  November 15th: Israeli air strike carry out at least 30 simultaneous kills two Palestinians in the town  December 17th: Five Qassam raids on various targets across the rockets fired from the Gaza Strip of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. Gaza strip. [] This make things clear about who violate the truce, and a well done injure two Israelis in the southern plan for this war is prepared by Ehud Barak, even before the Six-months town of Sderot. truce started. Besides, Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be  December 18th: A Palestinian justified by self-defense. An armed attack that is not justified by self- man is killed in Jabaliya as Israeli defense is a war of aggression. Under the Nuremberg Principles aircraft target metal workshops in affirmed by U.N. Resolution 95, aggression is a crime against peace. the towns of Jabaliya and Khan Prosecute Israel for War Crimes. This offensive is not primarily to Yunis in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli protect the Israeli public, ceasefires and negotiations are far more likely military claims the targets are to deliver security for Israeli citizens as shown in the chart. [] Info taken from Telegraph, PressTV & Al-Jazeera

Everyone seems to have forgotten that Hamas launched its Qassam When Ariel Sharon pulled Jewish What I effectively agreed to with Ariel Sharon gave Hamas the that Hamas declared an end to rockets because that is what settlers out of Gaza in 2005, he the Americans was that part of the chance to set out on the path to suicide bombings and rocket fire terrorists do and Hamas is a called it a painful sacrifice for settlements [i.e. the major statehood, a chance it refused to when it decided to join the generic terrorist group. In fact, peace. Another view was that he settlement blocks on the West take; instead, it transformed Gaza Palestinian political process, and Hamas is no more a 'terror had run out of political options and Bank] would not be dealt with at into a launching-pad for firing largely stuck to it for more than a organisation' (Israel's preferred the pull-out was a way to stave off all, and the rest will not be dealt missiles at Israel's civilian year. term) than the Zionist movement international pressure to talk to with until the Palestinians turn into population. The charge is a lie was during its struggle for a the Palestinians. What the Finns...The significance [of the twice over. First, for all its failings, When Hamas unexpectedly won Jewish homeland. In the late dismantling of the Gaza agreement with the US] is the Hamas brought to Gaza a level of the election, Israel and the US 1930s and 1940s, parties within settlements did not do was end the freezing of the political process. law and order unknown in recent immediately sought to de- the Zionist movement resorted to expansion of colonies on the West And when you freeze that process, years, and did so without the large legitimise the result and terrorist activities for strategic Bank. Shilo -an in the northern you prevent the establishment of a sums of money that donors embraced Mahmoud Abbas, the reasons. has grown by about 25% since Palestinian state and you prevent a showered on the Fatah-led head of Fatah, who until then had 2005. The "outposts" around it, discussion about the refugees, the Palestinian Authority. It eliminated been dismissed by Israel's leaders In other words, when Jews target which are illegal even under Israeli borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, the violent gangs and warlords as a 'plucked chicken'. They armed and kill innocent civilians to law, have been expanding so fast this whole package that is called who terrorised Gaza under Fatah's and trained his security forces to advance their national struggle, that the "Shilo block", with about the Palestinian state, with all that rule. Non-observant Muslims, overthrow Hamas; and when they are patriots. When their 10,000 residents, is now as large as it entails, has been removed from Christians and other minorities Hamas – brutally, to be sure – pre- adversaries do so, they are the main settlement that was our agenda indefinitely. And all this have more religious freedom under empted this violent attempt to terrorists. Moreover, These dismantled in Gaza. with [President Bush's] authority Hamas rule than they would have reverse the result of the first terrorists are the land owners, and and permission... and the in Saudi Arabia, for example, or This is how Sharon's senior adviser honest democratic election in the its their right according to the ratification of both houses of under many other Arab regimes. Dov Weisglass, who was also his modern Middle East, Israel and international Law to resist till they Congress. the Bush administration imposed get their state free.[] chief negotiator with the The greater lie is that Sharon's the blockade. Americans, described the Israel seeks to counter these withdrawal from Gaza was withdrawal from Gaza, in an indisputable facts by maintaining intended as a prelude to further Besides, Israel's government interview with Ha'aretz in August that in withdrawing Israeli withdrawals and a peace would like the world to believe 2004: settlements from Gaza in 2005, agreement. [] This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 20 Hamas use UNRWA school Hamas Dug Tunnel For as camps? Smuggling Weapons?

Before the school was hit by than 55 were injured. Israeli Despite repeated calls from the pushed to use alternatives to get hundred out of these thousands Israeli bombs, some 400 bombs also hit a second school international community, Gaza life back after the Israelis robbed of laborers died, and they are still Palestinians fleeing shelling of the days after, killing three civilians. remains closed to food and them of basic necessities. The dying. Jabalya refugee camp had taken medicine. For almost two years, alternatives were an Some Jabalya refugees at the And as one of these labors once shelter inside Fakhura -UNRWA 1.5 million Palestinians have amalgamation of fear, freedom, school said they saw a small said "I know it is a journey School-, hoping that the U.N. flag endured collective punishment as death, and life. They started to dig group of militants firing mortars a towards death to bring food, but would shield them from harm, a result of Israel’s tight closure of tunnels that linked Gaza with citrus grove not far from the we have to remain alive as Israel according to survivors. Earlier, the Gaza,the most densely populated Egypt in order to bring what Israel school. But Israeli military officials deprives us the basics of life".[] U.N. had passed along the area in the world. had made taboo for the insist that the mortars were fired coordinates of all its schools and Palestinians. from within the crowded Consequently, a complete buildings to the Israeli military so schoolyard and that Hamas is paralysis hit the agricultural, Now more than two thousand that its humanitarian missions using civilians as human shields. medical, economical, and all tunnels have been dug through would be spared attack. The IDF gave the names of two sectors of life. People were the borders to reach Egypt. Knowing that, Israel didn't Hamas combatants it says were trapped in a large concentration Thousands of people began to hesitate hitting the school, no killed inside the school — Imad camp called Gaza, and they are work as daily laborers in order to matter how many civilians was and Hassan Abu Askar — who still, where no one is allowed to bring basic things, for without fleeing there. Some reports say allegedly fired the mortars. But get in or to get out. Students are these tunnels people would be that Israel struck the school with the IDF did not explain how it was deprived from their education starving and would have nothing. artillery shells, while others say able to identify them among the abroad. Three hundred patients These tunnels are their source of with mortars. But anyway, Thirty many casualties. Troops did not died due to the inability to travel life. Palestinians were killed outright visit the school after the attack, for treatment, while some others On the contrary, working in them from the incoming fire, and 10 nor did the IDF have access to a died due to lack of medicine automatically makes them an others died afterward in Gaza's casualty list from Gaza's altogether. There is no gas for associate with tragedy, and it is a overburdened and badly hospitals![] heating, and power cuts are frequent visitor. It is a hazardous provisioned hospitals, and more frequent. The Gazans were operation where more than one This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 21 CAT WAS A CAT PERFECT MURDERS SUPPORTER BY ANATOLIAN BY ANITARU THE PROMISED LAND & MEDIA BY EL-LUISO deploys these burning wedges into an area normally the size of a football field, but with favorable wind conditions, the affected area can be bigger, as the shells explode in an angle of 30-45° from the ground, releasing ILLEGAL Effects in human body: WEAPONS Producing an extremely high temperature when burning, it causes serious injures to human flesh, normally burning it to the bone at the contact point. Phosphorus keeps burning inside the skin for a long period of time, extending the burn if the wedge is not extracted and the burn quickly treated by medical staff. Also, the death toll caused by weapons of this nature is higher, as most victims with 10% or more of the skin burnt die; "We noticed various things about this: the burn does not heal; the phosphorus may remain inside the body and goes on burning there, and the general condition of the patient deteriorates – normally with 10-15 percent burns you would expect a cure, now many such patients die." Dr. Abu Shabaan, head of Shifa Hospital's burns unit for the last 15 years, stated. Although Israel's government denies the use of this weapon, many experts point that evidence of its use is literally spread in the floor all over Gaza. "We had a child of three years with a head injury. After three hours we changed the dressing and saw smoke coming out of the wound. We opened the wound and brought out this wedge. We had not seen it before. Later on, some colleagues, doctors from Egypt and Norway, were able to enter Gaza and told us that this was white phosphorus" affirmed Dr. Shabaan. Amnesty International sent a four-member team of specialists to the White Phosphor (WP) strip. "Artillery is an area weapon; not good for pinpoint targeting. The fact that these munitions, which are usually used as ground burst, Chemically, white phosphorus is a non-metallic, highly flammable were fired as air bursts increases the likely size of the danger area,” said element that ignites in contact with the air and burns at temperatures Chris Cobb-Smith, weapons expert of the team. surrounding 800°C. It's normally kept inside liquid-filled cases, like As part of the investigation in Gaza, the team visited the UNRWA field water or nitrogen. office and warehouses in Gaza City, which was set under the aim of In the military field, white phosphorus is used as an incendiary Israeli artillery on January 15th, receiving several direct hits of HE (high element, which applications goes from creating smoke screens to use explosives) and white phosphorus shells. "Four days later, the fire is still as incendiary weapon. Used in this last version, the weapon itself isn't burning – the charred and smoldering remnants of millions of dollars' banned by any organization, but its use is strictly controlled by worth of food and medicine all destroyed. The ground outside the international law. Its legal purpose is of a pure military nature, warehouses is still slick with the thousands of litres of burning cooking normally meant to burn trenched troops or creating smoke screens for oil that spilled out. Several UN concealed maneuvering in open spaces. vehicles were also destroyed in the attacks," informed a UN WP as a Weapon: officer to the team.[] White phosphorus can be used in numerous kinds of weapons, like 20mm airborne cannons and Hellfire AGM laser-guided missiles used from AH-64 Apache helicopters or drones to giant bombs dropped by fighters, but the most common use is from artillery. In this case, the 155mm shells used by the Israeli army contain 116 white phosphorus wedges. When the shell explodes in the air, it This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 24 Deep Inert metal Explosive (DIME ) This weapon is a carbon-encased This weapon affects mostly the shrapnel in or near the wounds” missile that explodes shattering lower part of the body, being as described by Dr. Habas Al- into thousands of particle amputation the most serious Wahis, from Shifa Hospital. splinters on the impact. When it wound. It also causes burns This weapon also has a side effect. explodes, it expels energy- around the slumps, small Tungsten, DIME main element charged tungsten powder as punctures in the skin and internal (being the inert metal), is said to sharp blades in the impact point. bleeding, caused the last by the be a highly carcinogenic chemical, Inertia quickly stops the powder, strong expansive wave. as scientific tests on lab rats have but still the damage area is of 4 Amputations are believed to be shown that all specimens meters, and anything within that caused by the blade-like form the developed cancer within 5 range is burnt and destroyed. This particles have when the shell months. Normally, survivors of weapon was designed to reduce explodes. This cause the this weapon are expected to collateral damage keeping the extremities to be sliced “(…) as if a develop cancer in near future. strength of an HE shell direct hit. sharp saw was used to cut There are also investigations that through the bone, however there Effects in human body: try to discover links between was no evidence of ordinary metal tungsten and leukemia. [] Fletchettes Fletchette is a tiny metal dart of international laws. an Israeli raid on January 4th. The around 4cm long. They are next day, while the mourners of Effects in human body: normally packed in 120mm shells his death gathered in the used for tanks (like the Merkava), The strength with which they hit a warehouse near the family's that are designed to explode in target is enough to penetrate home, a missile hit the place and the air, projecting from 5 to 8 flesh and bones, causing bone killed 3 mourners, injuring several thousand fletchettes in a conical splintering and serious internal others. When the men pattern, covering an area of damage to organs. reassembled near the warehouse 300mts wide. after the attack, the deceased's There is clear evidence of the use father told them to go home, Its main purpose is as an anti- of this weapon against masses. fearing further attacks against the personal weapon, meant to take One of the cases is of a Bedouin agglomeration of out a vast number of soldiers with family, north of the strip. One of people. Moments one shot, covering a wide area. Its the sons, a primary school teacher later, the area got use must be avoided in urban of a UN school who also worked stroke again, this spaces, and its use against as volunteer of the emergency time with civilians is forbidden by ambulance service, got killed by fletchettes.[]

Unknown Weapons killed twelve youngsters, received Some people claim this action to surgery department at Shifa -People in Gaza described a silent several impacts of these cubes, be an alternative bulldozing to Hospital found that several bomb which is extremely -There are evidences of an some of which are still embedded create no-mans land, enclosing patients had computer chips, destructive. The bomb arrives as a explosive device that works in his thigh. Gazans to an even smaller space magnetic pieces and transistors silent projectile at most with a similarly to fletchettes, expelling inside the city. inside their wounds. These whistling sound and creates a -Another case is of an explosion little 4mm steel cubes. These are wounds, seeming to be only pin- large area where all objects and that crushed a huge residential In the site, people found several fired with enormous strength, pointed damage in the skin, living things are vaporized with area, flattening houses and high explosive (HE) lumps that penetrating steel plates and presented vast damage to internal minimal trace. they are unable to buildings in Abd Rabbo, northeast failed to detonate, lying between embedding into concrete walls. organs. For example, he stated fit this into conventional weapons of Gaza City. Witnesses said that the rubble. that "one patient had his liver but the possibility of new particle A young man, survivor of an the buildings were smashed as -During another day of hard work, burned black, as if it had been weapons being tested should be explosion of this weapon that biscuits. Dr. Sobhi Skaik, head of the grilled.” suspected.[]

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 25 “ there to confirm their testimony, you are not able to attack them The Palestinian it would all have been presented surgically." The doctor said many witnesses, as as Hamas propaganda," patients succumb to septicemia and die within 24 hours. medical workers, are Dr. Mads Gilbert, Fosse's college, very accurate in their mentioned that he has worked in Abu Shabaan, the head of the many conflict zones, said the Shifa burns unit for 15 years, said reports, but if we situation was the worst he had he and his staff had been stunned hadn't been there to seen. by the "unusual wounds" they found."It starts with small Dr Jan Brommundt, a German confirm their patches and in hours it becomes doctor working for Medecins du wide and deep and in some cases testimony, it would Monde in the south Gazan city of it reaches the point where even Khan Younis, described the all have been the general condition of the injuries he had seen as "absolutely presented as Hamas patient deteriorates rapidly and gruesome". propaganda”. unexpectedly," he said. Brommundt described He described one patient, a three- DOCTOR widespread but previously unseen Dr. Erik Fosse, year-old girl, who was sent for a abdominal injuries that appear WITNESSES Norwegian cardiologist at scan because of a head wound: minor at first but degenerate Gaza's Shifa Hospital "After about two hours she came within hours causing multi-organ back, we opened the wound, and children, too weak to stand, failure. "Initially everything seems Papers and literature on war smoke came out from the Dr Ahmad Yahya, who is a waiting by their dead mothers, in order... but they will present injury don't mention these,” he wound," he said. Surgeons used professor of neurosurgery at El the ICRC. Aid workers had been within one to five hours with an said “It does not stop burning forceps to pull out a substance Arish Hospital, Egypt, says he is denied access to the site for days, acute abdomen which looks like until it vanishes. So it eats the from the wound that was "like shocked and appalled by the it added. "This is a shocking appendicitus but it turns out on skin, the muscle even the bone. dense cotton and it started to gruesome injuries being inflicted incident," said Pierre Wettach, Red operation that dozens of You can't repair the wound and burn," he said. "The piece on the Palestinian people by Cross head for Israel and the miniature particles can be found the limb must be amputated. You continued to burn until it Israeli Defense Forces and their Palestinian territories. "The Israeli in all of their organs," he said. new weapons. cannot find anything to repair,” Dr military must have been aware of disappeared." The child, who was Ahmed reporting. the situation but did not assist "It seems to be some sort of from Atatra, in Beit Lahiya, in Dr Ahmed is cataloging the explosive or shell that disperses northern Gaza, died. [] Dr Ahmed, who is often reduced the wounded. Neither did they horrific injuries such as babies tiny particles at around 1x1 or 2x1 to tears in front of his colleagues make it possible for us or the being shot in the head, babies millimeters that penetrate all due to the ghastliness of his work, Palestinian Red Crescent to assist with broken spines due to being organs, these miniature injuries, thrown by shell blasts. People has decided to photograph each the wounded." burned to the bone by white and every horrific case which Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian phosphorus, nail bombs causing comes into the hospital so it can cardiologist who worked at Gaza's brutal injuries and a new be presented as evidence in any Shifa Hospital for 11 days, phenomena micro pellets which war crimes investigation. described the injuries as leave no entry wound but cause “I want to send it to any lawyer to "extreme" and "much more fatal internal injuries. take action against the killers who dramatic" than those inflicted by According to the professor micro are killing civilized people. They landmines as "legs are blown off pellets enter the body in large are not soldiers. They are civilians. to the groin, it's like they have numbers and destroy internal They have no arms, no anti- been cut to pieces". He described organs such as the brain and aircraft weaponry. They have only them as "new injuries" that most lungs. guns and hand-made rockets. doctors will not have come across, What can that do?” he said. although he noted similar “You can't find the entry point wounds were reported in the because it enters by very small A Red Cross medical team found 2006 Lebanon war. Fosse said "The holes in the skin,” he said. 12 bodies in a shelled house for Palestinian witnesses, as medical Al-Sammouni family, and workers, are very accurate in their “I am a professor but I have not alongside them four very young seen or read about this before. reports, but if we hadn't been This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 26 GAZA BY LATUFF2 PLAYGROUND BY RAMIREZHATE SOMETHING WRONG PSYCHOPATH ON GAZA BY BEN HEINE BY IBRAHIM OZDABAK FOR GAZA

IF HAMAS ARE TERRORIST THEN ISRAEL ARE SUPER-DUPER-UBER-MAXI- MEGA-GIGA-TERRA- ULTRA-OMNI- ULTIMA- TERRORIST

TERRORIST BY LAHANDI GAZA WAR CRIMES BY LATUFF2 TRUST US BY DAVID BALDINGER Targeting of Civilians and shelled. Israeli forces continued to targeting rather than collateral Civilian Infrastructure shoot at civilians fleeing the damage or mistake. Specifically; targeted structures. Evidences had been found that John Ging, the Director of Gaza Palestinian civilians were victims Israeli forces also destroyed Operations for UNRWA reported of excessive force and collateral numerous buildings throughout that Israeli forces fired missiles at ISRAEL damage, they also found troubling the Gaza Strip during the recent UNRWA schools in Gaza City, WAR CRIMES instances of Palestinian civilians incursion. Delegations viewed the Jabalyia and Bet Lahiya. The being targets themselves. remains of hundreds of United Nation compound in Gaza demolished homes and businesses city was also hit with white Human rights groups recorded - in addition to the remains of the phosphorous shells and missiles. numerous accounts of Israeli American School in Gaza, Ging noted that all United Nations soldiers shooting civilians, damaged medical centers, and the buildings and vehicles all fly UN including women, children, and charred innards of UNRWA flags, are marked in blue paint the elderly, in the head, chest, and warehouses. While in situations of from the top, and that during stomach. Another common armed conflict, collateral damage hostilities the UN personnel narrative described Israeli forces and mistakes can occur, the remained in constant contact with rounding civilians into a single circumstances surrounding the Israeli authorities.[] location i.e., homes, schools which cases that the delegation Israeli tanks or warplanes then investigated indicate deliberate

Blocking of medical and “Israel's widespread denial of the Palestinian Red Crescent humanitarian assistance access to medical crews in Gaza Society told us that "a lot of to civilians appears to be a breach of people could have been saved, but humanitarian law,” said Yuval hey weren't given medical care by Under customary international Shany, a legal scholar at Hebrew the Israelis, nor did the Israeli army humanitarian law, the wounded University in Jerusalem. "In allow Palestinian medical services are protected persons and must international law, there is in." When paramedics were finally receive the medical care and obligation to facilitate access to allowed to enter on January 7, attention required by their the wounded and even to treat the Israeli forces only gave them a 3- conditions, to the fullest extent wounded," Shany said. "In this hour "lull" to work and prohibited practicable and with the least area, I think there was a deviation ambulances into the area. Instead possible delay. Parties to a conflict from the international standard they forced paramedics park the are required to ensure the and this should be investigated." ambulances 2 kilometers away unhindered movement of medical and enter the area on foot. Murad Speaking to medical workers and personnel and ambulances to told delegation members how the family of victims, one of carry out their duties and of they had to pile the wounded on human rights delegations wounded persons to access donkey carts and have the medical documented serious violations of medical care. workers pull the carts in order to this provision. Among the stories help the most people possible in Iyad Nasr, a Red Cross spokesman documented include: in Gaza, said Israeli soldiers had the short time they were given. fired at ambulances that tried to Zaytoun neighborhood, which After the 3 hours were over, the reach some areas, even when came under attack and invasion by Israeli army started shooting medical officials had received ground foces on January 3, 2009. toward the ambulances. The Red approval from the Israeli military The Palestinian Red Crescent Crescent was not able to reach to enter certain neighborhoods. received 145 calls from Zaytoun that area again to evacuate the for help, but were denied entry by dead until January 17, 2009 when "Our request for Ezbt Abed Rabbo Israel. the Israeli army pulled out.[] was just pending and pending and pending and pending day after Bashar Ahmed Murad, Director of day," Nasr said. Emergency Medical Services for

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 33 Illegal use of Weapons injuries. Human rights groups found Their findings overwhelmingly evidences of the use of flachette point to the use of conventional shells. They need to do further weapons in a prohibited manner, investigations about using DIME, specifically, the use of battlefield while doctors declared it had been weaponry in densely populated widely used . civilian areas.[] They found evidence that Israel used white phosphorus in extensively throughout its three- week offensive in a manner that led to numerous deaths and Attacking medical staff & Beit Lahiya that apparently missile, surface attack” and the hospitals targeted five unarmed young men. USA is mentioned as the weapon's It was hit a few minutes later by a country of provenance. Under the Geneva Conventions, tank shell filled with flechettes. medical personnel searching, collecting, transporting or treating Two paramedics were seriously the wounded should be protected wounded in the incident. One of and respected in all circumstances. them, Arafa Hani Abd-al-Dayam, Common Article 3 of the later died. Examining the wall of Conventions says that the the shop beside where the wounded should be collected and ambulance had been, we found it cared for, including combatants pierced by hundreds of these who are hors de combat. darts. An American Delegate members, In another case, three paramedics After the four were killed in the Which came to investigate Israelis in their mid 20s – Anas Fadhel missile strike, their bodies could war crimes, saw ambulances Na'im, Yaser Kamal Shbeir, and not be removed for two days as seriously damaged and destroyed, Raf'at Abd al-'Al – were killed in the ambulances crews who tried some apparently deliberately the early afternoon of 4 January in to approach the site again came crushed by Israeli tanks. Gaza City as they walked through under fire from Israeli forces and Emergency medical rescue a small field on their way to rescue could not approach. workers, including doctors, two wounded men in a nearby With several ambulances in the paramedics and ambulance orchard. A 12-year-old boy, Omar street below, and paramedics drivers, repeatedly came under fire Ahmad al-Barade'e, who was plainly visible by their from Israeli forces while they were standing near his home indicating phosphorescent jackets, it must carrying out their duties. The to the paramedic the place where have been clear to the Israeli Palestinian Red Crescent Society the wounded were, was also killed surveillance drones hovering and the Palestinian Ministry of in the same strike. above the area and the tank crews Health informed delegates that 15 The delegate went to the scene of a few kilometres away in the Jabal Palestinian medics were killed and the incident with the two Raiss area that there were medics 21 injured in the course of Israel's ambulance drivers who had in the house, yet they fired assault. accompanied the paramedics and nevertheless.[] In one case Arafa Hani Abd-al- who had witnessed the attack. Dayam, a paramedic, was killed by There we met the child's flechettes. On 4 January 2009, an distraught mother and we found ambulance arrived about 15 the remains of the missile that minutes after a missile strike in killed the three paramedics and the child. The label reads “guided This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 34 Attacking Media Building “World Media” into “World Liars.” media outlets such as Reuters. ensuring diversity of sources and Attacking Market Two Journalists were seriously free access to information, Mr & Targeting Journalist Banning media wasn't the only wounded. Matsuura called on the Israeli One of the Indonesian journalist action the Israeli government During Gaza's offensive, Several authorities to allow local and that covered Gaza war tells that attempt to do, but also repeatedly Canadian Human Rights Activist hundred journalists were left in international media professionals during the war time, stores are targeting journalists and media Eva Bartlett was inside the clusters away from direct contact to report on events in the area. closed and it is hard to get any staffs while doing their work building as it was attacked; with any fighting or Palestinian Although, Israel has maintained food. Theres one market that during the war, as well as reported “It felt like the building suffering, but with full access to it's ban on foreign journalists people have to walk several hours targeting the well known media was about to collapse. The attack Israeli political and military entering the Gaza Strip, despite an to reach the place, and then installations inside Gaza. The was a few floors above where we commentators eager to show Israeli Supreme Court ruling patiently waiting in line for several Director-General of UNESCO, were, but it felt like the building them around southern Israel, stating that they should be hours again just to buy a bread. Koïchiro Matsuura, deplored was going to come down. Israel where Hamas rockets have been permitted. The tragedies happen. Israel jet terrorizing civilians. A slew of attacks on media installations in has denied the international fighter bombed the market. private groups financed mostly by Gaza and condemned the killing of media access to Gaza, now they Hesna Al Ghaoui, a correspondent Palestinian journalist Basel Faraj, are targeting those who are for Hungarian television, “I have In another place, Israel shell hit Americans are helping guide the the main vegetable market in the press around Israel. who worked as a cameraman for attempting to tell the world what been reporting from many wars the Algerian TV network ENTV and is happening here. Israel does not and conflicts, but I have never met city. Two were badly maimed Daniel Seaman, director of Israel's for the Palestine Broadcast want the world to see it's crimes.” such frustration”. [] children. Medics said five people Government Press Office, said, Production Company. He died on 6 Eva Bartlett - International were killed in the market “Any journalist who enters Gaza January from wounds sustained Solidarity Movement bombing, and 40 wounded. Israel becomes a fig leaf and front for during an Israeli air strike on 27 said it had no knowledge of a The Director-General recalled of the Hamas terror organization, December. market being hit. and I see no reason why we should 23 December 2006, which forbids Moreover, on Thursday, Jan. 15, attacks against journalists and The results, however, were help that.”. Meanwhile, Yediot unmistakable. With Gaza's Aharonot, the country's largest 2009. A high-story building media installations. Referring to housing international media the General Assembly resolution ambulance service stretched far selling daily newspaper, expressed beyond its normal capacity, the well the popular view of the issue. outlets in Gaza City has been 63/100 A-B of 5 December 2008, targeted by the Israeli military. which calls upon Member States first mangled bodies arrived in Over a news article describing the private cars as locals scrambled to generally negative coverage so far, Seven rounds were fired from an to reaffirm their commitment to apache helicopter into the the principles of freedom of the save the lives of the shoppers especially in the European media, caught up in the carnage.[] an intentional misspelling of a building in which international press and freedom of information Hebrew word turned the headline media, houses international and emphasizes the importance of This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 35 BOYFLAG PALESTINE PEACE BY RACUNTIKUS BY ARTSTUCK PEACE GAZA BY ERCAN AKYOL BY OSMAN TURHAN SHAMEFUL SILENT BY ARTSTYLEE FOR GAZA THEY THINK THEY WERE KILLING HAMAS BUT WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DID WERE CREATING NEW HAMAS

THEY THINK BY LAHANDI INSIDE GAZA

Palestinians inspect the ruins of a destroyed mosque in Palestinians stand near a massive crater created by a A Palestinian medical workers carries the body of a four- the Jabiliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip. bomb dropped by Israeli jets near Rafah, at the southern year-old girl who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beit edge of the Gaza Strip. Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian child collects scraps from a police compound Palestinian men ride their motorcycles past al-Quds Palestinian employees at al-Quds hospital cook for in Rafah, after it was destroyed in an Israeli air strike. hospital after it was hit by Israeli strikes. patients using a wood-fuelled stove due to a shortage in cooking gas.

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 40 During the weekend, some Israeli pick a best picnic spot on A Palestinian man walks through a United Nations school Palestinian Muslim worshipers gather for Friday prayers the Gaza border to see the Israel millitary operation raiding in Beit Lahiya that was attacked by Israel on Saturday, outside of the Al-Taqwa mosque in Gaza City, which was Gaza Strip. killing four Palestinian civilians who had taken shelter destroyed during Israel's attacks. there.

Palestinians receive food aid at a United Nations center in Palestinians return to what is left of their homes in the A Palestinian man sits beside the body of child killed by the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Israeli tank fire in Gaza City on Wednesday afternoon.

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 41 During the weekend, some Israeli pick a best picnic spot on A victim of Israel's 22-day assault on the Gaza Strip is Emergency workers attempt to salvage food aid while the Gaza border to see the millitary operation raiding Gaza seen in the morgue of a hospital in Gaza City on Saturday. putting out a fire at the headquarters of the United Strip. 1,300 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its Nations in Gaza City, which was set ablaze after coming attacks on Gaza. under intense shelling from Israeli forces on Thursday.

A Palestinian woman walks past destroyed houses in A view of Gaza's $2.5 million dollar football stadium after Children play in Barcelona Park south of Gaza City during a Jabaliya following Israeli strikes. it was targeted in an Israeli air strike. three-hour lull in Israel's assault.

This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 42 BLAME HAMAS BY LATUFF2 MODERN DAVID & GOLIATH GAZA : NOW PLAYING BY BEN HEINE BY IBRAHIM OZDABAK ZIONAZI A CHILD FOR A CHILD BY ADEMMM BY ILLIYUN G A Z A BY SMSOOOM ISRAEL’S SECURITY BY DAVID BALDINGER CAPTAIN AMERICA IN GAZA FREE GAZA BY JUANCAQUE BY DELT4 There are four main options open However, the ICJ has no About a dozen nations worldwide, to states, groups or individuals enforcement powers, as was including the United Kingdom, seeking to launch legal witnessed by its inability to act Spain and Belgium, have laws proceedings against suspects following its ruling that Israel's bestowing "universal jurisdiction" should investigators find war construction of a separation over genocide, war crimes, torture crimes have been committed barrier breached aspects of and other similar offenses. These during the 22-day assault on the international law. states try cases irrespective of the Strip, says Mark S Ellis, the nationalities of the parties or the The ICJ requested Israel rectify executive director of the location of the alleged offenses elements of the construction, International Bar Association when they are grave enough to be which Tel Aviv ignored - (IBA). considered crimes against all something any state can choose humanity. They offer another PROSECUTE to do, Ellis notes. potential venue for the 1 prosecution of suspected Israeli ISRAEL war criminals. First, individual war crime cases 3 would ordinarily be referred to the Yet when Belgium permitted The third option involves states International Criminal Court (ICC). litigation against former Israeli trying their own citizens or Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and "The ICC simply doesn't have soldiers for war crimes – a others for their roles in the 1982 jurisdiction over this conflict," requirement under the Geneva massacres of Palestinians in Sabra says Ellis, "because Israel has not Conventions. and Shatila refugee camps in signed up to the Rome Statute "That's unlikely to happen on both Beirut, the U.S. brought withering [that enshrined the ICC]." As the sides, but that is still a pressure, threatening to move ICC requires states to adopt the responsibility of the state, body, or NATO headquarters from Brussels court's jurisdiction, it is unable to entity that's responsible for, or has if the case were not shut down. It bring any actions against non- authority over, the individuals was halted, shortly thereafter, by signatories itself, unless the UN who have committed these Belgian parliamentary legislation. Security Council votes to refer crimes," says Ellis. specific cases for potential Thus, perhaps the "court of last prosecution. resort" is that of international civil society, whose tools for Gaza is not formally recognized as 4 nonviolent enforcement include a state by the UN and "the US, The fourth Option is a legal boycotts, divestment and and perhaps other [security concept referred to as "universal sanctions. That route, once so council] member states, would jurisdiction", where any state can effective in helping to end veto any resolution that would choose to launch legal apartheid in Africa, offers a ask for the ICC to investigate proceedings against any person, powerful model for those seeking Israel. Since 1970, the United anywhere in the world, who is justice in Israel/Palestine today. States has vetoed resolutions suspected of committing crimes Israel is both sensitive to Western censuring Israel 41 times." says such as genocide, torture, and opinion and dependent on trade Ellis. "The ICC option is effectively other grave breaches of and would likely respond to closed.” international law. ostracism.[] 2 The second route would be for the UN General Assembly to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also based in The Hague, on the legality of specific actions taken by states. This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 49 The problem, said Katrivas, is in more companies that have the growing boycott. part the discussion in the UK over decided to boycott relations with In 11 February, Ora Koren reported how to label goods that come Israel. A Turkish company that the Israeli business sectors THE from Jewish settlements in the demanded that Israeli companies feel the effects of the attack on occupied West Bank. British sign a document condemning the Gaza. She reported that Israeli BOYCOTT government officials met with Israeli massacre in Gaza before businessmen in Turkey are hiding WORKS food industry representatives to they can offer their services for it. their names so that the local BDS discuss the issue. Sadeh quoted Naomi Klein's organizations won't learn about recent call for boycott, the 2005 Nehemia Strassler, one of Israel's their activities, and that the Palestinian civil society call for most famous economic situation is even worse in the UK. boycott and Israeli organizations correspondents, attacked the that support the boycott and Consumer boycotts in Europe have Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade provide information for the global targeted food produce such as and Labor, Eli Yishai, for calling on BDS movement. Sadeh's article Israeli oranges, avocados and the Israeli military to "destroy one also had concerned quotes by herbs, while in Turkey the focus hundred homes in Gaza for every Israeli businessmen who has been on agribusiness products rocket that falls in Israel." Strassler demanded government such as pesticides and fertilisers.[] had nothing to say about the intervention to protect them from Palestinians living in these homes or about the loss of life, but he warned: "[the minister] doesn't even The boycott of Israeli products Jewish groups such as B'Tselem understand how the operation in and companies supporting the and Gush Shalom have launched Gaza hurts the economy. The Zionist entity is about ordinary their own boycott Israeli goods horror sights on television and the people around the world using campaigns. words of politicians in Europe and their right to choose what they Israel Manufacturers Association Turkey change the behavior of buy in order to help bring about reported that 21% of 90 local consumers, businessmen and an end to oppression in Palestine. exporters who were questioned potential investors. Many Its a peaceful means of putting had felt a drop in demand due to European consumers boycott international pressure on the boycotts, mostly from the UK and Israeli products in practice. racist state of Israel and follows in Scandinavian countries. Besides, Intellectuals call for an economic the footsteps of the successful the Israel Export Institute war against us and to enforce an boycott against South African reported that 10% of 400 polled official and full consumer boycott. racist apartheid. exporters received order On 2 February, Guy Grimland This boycott is not directed at any cancellation notices this year, warned about a growing religious or ethnic group, but because of Israel's assault on phenomenon of boycott of Israeli rather it is directed at those Gaza. high-tech companies, and several companies that are supporting "There is no doubt that a red light Israeli companies received letters the racist occupation of Palestine. has been switched on," Dan from European and U.S. The Boycott campaign is Katrivas, head of the foreign trade companies explaining that they supported by anti-Zionism Jews, department at the Israel cannot invest in Israel for moral Christian, Muslims as well as Manufacturers Association, told reasons. trade unions. Maariv newspaper. "We are Gil Erez, Israel's commercial UKs biggest trade union UNISON closely following what's attache in London, said, with its 1.4 million members, happening with exporters who "Organisations are bombarding have called for a boycott of all are running into problems with [British] retailers with letters, Israeli goods. Christian groups like boycotts." He added that in Britain asking that they remove Israeli Christian Aid have joined the there exists "a special problem merchandise from the shelves." boycott demanding an end to EU - regarding the export of Israel trade agreements. And agricultural produce from Israel". Shuki Sadeh wrote about even

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The Closed Pain Without Borders Dont Kill Gaza Children During the past 18 months, Israel tightened its A TV ad explores the consequences of constant Why the children of Gaza don't deserve to be killed? closure of Gaza, almost completely restricting the psychological damage or physical harm on children A question that had been asked to people from passage of goods and people both to and from the in particular. A child finds himself an orphan and a different countries & cultures, and that was the Strip.The effects of the closure were particularly refugee, having to cope with trauma associated answer. harsh during the military operation of Dec. 2008 - with the war. He keeps picking himself up and Jan. 2009. For three weeks, Gaza residents had walking, finding himself confronted time and time nowhere to flee to escape the bombing. again by the death of his mother. It soon becomes Done by; Gisha , An Israeli movement calling for clear that he is walking on a conveyor belt, caught freedom of movement in a cycle of pain. Watch now! Watch now! Watch now! Please allow this document to open a new browser window if you clicked the link button. And please make sure that your internet connection is online.

Children of Gaza White Phoshorus in Gaza Show No Mercy A freelance filmmaker in Gaza shot this material for Ayman al Najar, 13, tells how he lost his sister, Rights Group Complains After Troops Told That Save the Children at a UN-supported school for grandfather and cousin in a bomb attack on 14 Gaza's Civilian Population Was Not Innocent. The pupils displaced from their homes by the Israeli January in Khoza'a, southern Gaza. The video primary concern was a booklet which, among other bombings. discussed using White phosphorus by the Israeli things, contained a rabbinical edict against army against civilians. showing mercy. Watch now! Watch now! Watch now! Define The Crisis Israel & International Law Several days into Israel's military operation in Gaza, On the eleventh day of the Israeli military operation The Real News Network speaks to Phyllis Bennis in the Gaza Strip, two UN schools were bombed by about the conflict. After giving a brief background Israeli jets. The schools were housing people who on the events that led to the invasion of the Gaza had been displaced from their homes as a result of Strip, Phyllis explains the various ways in which the the conflict, and the Associate Press reports that 37 United States facilitates Israel's activities. According civilians were killed in the attacks. As the costs of to Phyllis, it is the unquestioning military and the conflict to civilian populations continues to political support from Washington that makes increase, the Real News spoke to Phyllis Bennis to Israel's actions possible. find out what international law has to say about the events. Phyllis believes that while certain key members of the UN apparatus have spoken out against international law violations, the power structure of the Security Council continues to make definitive action impossible.

Israel War Crimes Gaza Will Never Forget Two Different View What are the chances of pursuing Israel legally? Montage documenting the genocide commited by In the aftermath of the war in Gaza, and as Israel What, if any, recourse has the international Isreal in "Operation Cast Lead". prepares to vote in a general election, euronews community to punish those alleged to be met two Israeli commentators in Tel Aviv and accountable? Would senior Israeli political and Jerusalem. military leaders bear personal liability for their offenses, and could they be prosecuted by an international tribunal? Watch now! Watch now! Watch now! Watch now! Watch now! This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 56 Indonesia

AROUND THE WORLD

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IDF BY LAHANDI ISRAEL TERRORIST STATE BY BEN HEINE ANTI-SEMITISM BY LATUFF2 Japan Philippines

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This document is intellectual property of No More Ignorance team. Non-commercial distribution is allowed. All photos and artworks displayed are belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. 66 In Gaza, children, you learn that the sky kills and that houses hurt. You learn that your blanket is smoke and breakfast is dirt.

You learn that cars do somersaults clothes turn red, friends become statues, bakers don't sell bread.

You learn that the night is a gun, You learn that toys burn if they send you fire breath can stop, they couldn't guess it could be your turn. not just the soldier dies - it's you and the rest.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to go, nowhere to hide in the home you know. You learn that death isn't life, that air isn't bread, the land is for all. You have the right to be Not Dead. You have the right to be Not Dead. You have the right to be Not Dead.

IN GAZA BY MICHAEL ROSEN We would like to thanks to these great agencies & photographers BEHIND AP Photos. EPA. Save The Children. AFP Photo. Guardian News. Human Rights THE (CRIME) Watch. UNRWA. Amnesty International. IPS. SCENE

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