Israel continues escalating its attacks against the Gaza Strip today, broadening its targets to include the strip’s only power plant, knocking out electricity for the 1.8 million Gazans for what officials say will be at least a year.
The growing onslaught also has the civilian death toll once again spiking, with at least 1,360 Gazans now confirmed killed, overwhelmingly civilians, and over 7,000 others wounded. Well over 200 of the slain are children under the age of 18.
On the Israeli side, the death toll stands at 59, with 56 of them soldiers involved in combat operations against the Gaza Strip, and three civilians. The real humanitarian toll goes well beyond the directly killed and wounded.
The UN officials in Gaza reported a “huge surge” in refugees seeking to hide in 85 UN-run shelters across the strip, saying there are now more than 200,000 civilians packed in those few nominally safe zones.
The safety of the UN-run shelters is very much in doubt, as Israel has attacked them over the course of the war already, and as they order more and more civilians from their homes, no real “safe zones” exist for them.
Whether in shelters or in their homes, the Gazans are facing growing shortages of food and water, and the destruction of the power plant means not only an end to electricity in the strip, but will bring most water pumping stations offline, leading to calls to carefully ration fresh water.
Is not the question of what Israel fascism and their American or Europeans supporters are doing, we all know that Israel is expending its territory by killing children and bombing Gaza into ruins, what we the people should as is the questions of what these UN and EU and other governments are going to do about the fascism they are supporting, a fascism regime that they have created.
Barack Hussein Obama is the war criminal as Netanyahu so is the EU governing body Herman Van Romputy and Jose Manuel Barroso, the Swedish government the German Christian democrats whom are paying Netanyahu to commit war crime by killing children's in Gaza.
Look at what was done to German civilians, including disarmed soldiers, after they had lost WW2. Just to punish them. This is the same. 99.99% of the American/Canadian population think that big bad wars and slaughters happen "somewhere else". I have news for them: no one, anywhere, is safe. I think we are next to experience wall-to-wall violence.
Yes, Absolutely everything that we've been doing & do to the rest of the world is eventually brought back here as part of the security state & militarized police.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jimmy-johnson…
The end game for Gaza is now in sight. This latest "limited incursion" will end with the Rafah crossing being opened to exiting Palestinians. Of course, they will have to promise to never come back. Now that Gaza is totally uninhabitable, the residents will have little choice in leaving.
Being the worst kind of landlord, that was the plan Israel has envisioned all along. Gee, just think of the real estate deals, the hotels by the sea, the rock concerts, the mindless absurdity of miles of store windows full of expensive stuff. Like Beirut once upon a time. And like Beirut in the end.
Does anyone know the poem – about "J.T." who "never will be ten" and how the author knows that until he is 94, he will never forget the way J.T.'s ears stuck out under his baseball cap. I should think there are some Palestinian children who have lost their playmates too. Why is it that when there is genocide (as there is here) nobody who sentimentalizes his own children is out there reminding the "leaders" (those bloody-fanged monsters) that someone somewhere loves the ones they are killing, and they are not just killing thousands of innocents, they are twisting hearts in chests that will never recover. Death comes often enough and accidents of life will happen. But these critters get wined and dined and high-fived by those we went out hopefully to elect. It's wrong. I do not love Israel and I will never visit. It's dead to me. It committed suicide.