Israeli raids against Gaza / Peacepalestine returns

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Israeli Democracy: Israel kills a baby, 9 children out of 33 victims in 24 hours!

One Palestinian has been killed and three others injured in a raid
against a police station in the west of Gaza City. The station is located
next to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's house.

Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, head of emergency and ambulance services in the
Palestinian Health Ministry, said that ambulances transferred the dead
body and the casualties to a hospital in Gaza.

Four Palestinian children were killed in an Israeli air raid in the
Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon,
bringing the number of those killed in the Gaza Strip to 27 in the last
24 hours. Eight of the dead are children. Hasanain said the bodies of
11-year-old Deib Darduna and 14-year-old 'Umar Darduna arrived at the
Kamal Udwan hospital in Beit Hanoun torn to pieces. Meanwhile, the bodies
of 7-year-old Muhammad Hammuda and 8-year-old Ali Darduna were taken to
Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. 

A short while later, an Israeli unmanned reconnaissance plane launched a
missile at a car in Beit Hanoun injuring two people, one of them
seriously.

Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip have been continuous throughout
Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon Palestinian medics found the dead body of
12-year-old Amjad As-Sakani in eastern Gaza City. Meanwhile 25-year-old
Hamas activist Rami Khalifa died of wounds he sustained on Thursday
morning. Israeli warplanes launched a raid on Thursday afternoon on the
northern Gaza Strip killing 23-year-old Al-Qassam Brigades member
Abdullah Zuwaidi. A few minutes later, the Israeli warplanes launched
another raid near the agricultural college in Beit Hanoun in the northern
Gaza Strip. Several Palestinians were injured in the attack.

At around 9:30 on Thursday morning local time, Israeli warplanes fired
missiles at Palestinian civilians in eastern Gaza City killing senior
Hamas leader and Palestinian Legislative Council member and Hamza Khalil
Al-Hayya and 23-year-old Jawad Tafish. Several others were also injured.
Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in
the Palestinian health ministry told Ma'an that Ash-Shifa hospital in
Gaza City had received one of the dead and several people who had
sustained serious injuries.

On Wednesday evening, three Palestinian children were killed and six
others injured in an Israeli air strike on the Al Taw'am area close to
the Khazandar gas station, north of Gaza City. One of the dead was
5-month-old Muhammad Nasser Al-Borey, who was in his family home when a
missile struck the building.Mu'awiya Hassanain, said that ambulances
transported the injured and dead children, including the headless body of
a child, to the Shifa' and Kamal hospitals.

He added that five children were rushed to the intensive care unit and
the operating room, with one clinically dead.Witnesses said that those
involved were passing by a local-made missile launcher that was struck by
the Israeli forces.Earlier on Wednesday, two Palestinians were killed and
two others injured when Israeli artillery targeted an orange grove in the
Ash-Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

Hassanain said that one of the dead was identified as 27-year-old Minwir
Abu Mandeel, who worked as a guard at the grove. The second victim's
identity remains unknown as the corpse arrived at the Kamal Udwan
Hospital so badly damaged that it was not possible to identify the
victim. On Wednesday morning, five Al-Qassam Brigades activists were
killed, and several bystanders were injured, after Israeli helicopters
launched two missiles at a car in western Khan Younis in the southern
Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that the car was targeted near Al-Aqsa
University.In another Israeli raid on Wednesday morning an Islamic Jihad
activist was killed and two others injured when an Israeli unmanned drone
targeted two sites east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza
Strip. A spokesperson of the the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of
Islamic Jihad, said that the victim was Zaky Abu Zaid. The wounded were
evacuated to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital for treatment.

– Ma'an –

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Peacepalestine Returns!!

Yes, someone tried to shut us
down. Apparently, he seems to think he can tell everyone what to do and
how to think, that he is the receptacle of truth. 

Blogger examined the case and they did not see anything in my blog that
would be reason to close it down. I have the letter from Blogger on file,
and due to some reserved and specific information, I am publishing it in
an excerpted version : 

Hello Mary,
After reviewing your blog ....(omissis).....we have reinstated your blog.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this temporary suspension
has caused you and your readers. Thank you for your understanding and
continued support.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Meanwhile, I republish here the post on one of my new blogs, which I am
going to keep available. 
also see:

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2008/02/28/long-live-peacepalestine/#comment-352089

This blog takes up where peacepalestine left off (for now). And…It will
go further -

Straight to the liberation of the Palestinian people so that Justice will
be theirs, as well as the Peace they deserve after so much pain and
hardship.

It may not be the definitive blog. I will decide how to fight the
censorship forced upon me by someone who arrogantly defies the requests
of many hardworking activists, Palestinians, Humanists, people from all
around the world who care about the lives of the Palestinians.

Together with the blog, the person who has attacked it has brought down a
gigantic slice of Palestinian activism: hundreds of links, almost all the
major bloggers against Zionism and against Imperialism. He has silenced
the voices of hundreds of writers, slammed the door on information about
the Boycott of the Turin Book Fair, (the only blog in English covering
this with immediate translations of the latest information), direct links
to the Popular Committee Against the Siege in Gaza and other activist,
relief and charitable works that are there only for the benefit of
helping us wake up and listen to the cries of the Palestinians who have
been victims of one of the worst crimes imaginable, and are treated
instead as if they are the aggressors. Yes, in shutting down my blog, for
personal gain of his own image, this person has probably damaged without
remedy, his own “reputation” within campaign for Solidarity with
Palestinians. Never has a Zionist blog been even slightly scratched, no.
Apparently, they are better for the Palestinian cause than
Peacepalestine.

Peacepalestine was (and is) a labour of love of just one person. I chose
to do it myself, because my view is that nothing but the most radical
activism, without compromising on a single right that belongs to the
Palestinian people, is what it takes. I can’t ask anyone else to be
responsible for my content, and my content is not tender with Israel or
its supporters. My content is a true faith in the steadfastness and in
the rightness of the Palestinians. Just to serve them, whatever it is
they ask for to liberate themselves from their oppression.

I was able to have obtained some original documents (such as the only
version of the Avrum Burg interview in its entirety in English, and many
others besides), some important work by others, especially by Palestinian
and Arab writers who probably don’t have as much chance of getting
published as perhaps someone involved in politics or someone who
represents the “peaceloving Israeli”. All of this has been decided by the
censor that it is not good for others to see.

Mind, not a single Zionist blog or site has ever had even the slightest
problem from this individual.

Ask yourself why.

This person has silenced the voices of 250 activists who want to hear
what we say and want other people to respect our rights of free speech.
Their request was not only ignored, but it was spat upon. Perhaps others
will be subject to this same treatment. I don’t doubt it.

Yet, in these three years of blogging activity, I have learned one thing:
a lot of other people believe in Radical Solidarity. I’m not the only
one. Perhaps this blog, or another one with more features, will replace
this one, and it will be built together with others who feel like I do.
It may be a group blog. At any rate, we are not defeated, and I learned
just how greatly my blog is loved. It’s not just “my” blog, it’s a blog
of all the people who use it and love it.

A heartfelt thanks to my loving and supportive friends who are there for
me right now, despite the fact that each of them has their own burdens to
bear:

All my love and affection to the best friends anyone could ever hope to
have, people who are so beautiful and whose hearts are made of pure
gold:Gilad, Manuel, Iqbal, Steve, Annie, Laila, Haitham, Reham, Akram,
Edna, Susanne, Kristoffer, Khalid, Robin, Nadia, Sumaia, Adib, Wael,
Miguel, Sarah, Benedetta, Francis, Paul, Ariella, Mohammad, Khaled,
Javier, Daniel, Mazin, Richard, Les, Juan, Walid, Glenn, Simon for their
supportive letters and phone calls, putting things in perspective and
giving me their encouragement and wisdom.

The practical help and the knowledge and advice of so many of you has
gotten me through a few rough hours, and now we are ready to begin where
we left off. 

I love you all. 

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