Testimonianza di MAJED ABUSALAMA di
Gaza
27 dicembre 2008
it,s very sad situation
please stand up and move with us , the palestinian children need
your voice
more than 380 palestinian died and more than 1900 injured untill
now
send messeges to all your friends in all the world and tell them
about Gaza or send this messege to them.
Dont Stop , send It and Make all the world see what happen in
GAZA .
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Israeli Gaza Strike Kills More Than 300
GAZA Waves of Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas security facilities
in Gaza on Saturday in a crushing response to the group's rocket
fire, killing more than 200 the highest one-day toll in an
Israeli military operation against Palestinians in decades.
Israeli military officials said the airstrikes, which went on
into
the night, were the start of what could be days or even months of
an effort to force Hamas to end its rocket barrages into southern
Israel. The operation could ultimately include ground forces, a
senior Israeli security official said.
After the initial airstrikes, which Palestinian officials said
also
wounded at least 600, dozens of rockets struck southern Israel,
where an emergency was declared. Thousands of Israelis hurried
into
bomb shelters amid the hail of rockets, including some
longer-range
models that reached farther north than ever before. One man was
killed in the town of Netivot and four were wounded, one
seriously.
A military operation against Hamas, the militant group that
controls Gaza, had been forecast and demanded by Israeli
officials
for weeks, ever since a rocky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
fully collapsed a week ago, leading again to rocket attacks in
large numbers against Israel and isolated Israeli operations here.
Still, there was a shocking quality to Saturday's attacks that
began in broad daylight, as police cadets were graduating, women
were shopping at the outdoor market and children were emerging
from
school.
The center of Gaza City was a scene of chaotic horror, with
rubble
everywhere, sirens wailing, and women shrieking as dozens of
mutilated bodies were laid out on the pavement and in the lobby
of
Shifa Hospital so that family members could identify them. Most
of
those killed were Hamas police officers and security men,
including
two senior commanders, according to Palestinian officials. But
the
dead included at least a dozen civilians, including several
construction workers and at least two children in school uniforms.
The leader of Hamas in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, said in a statement
that "Palestine has never witnessed an uglier massacre." Later,
in
a televised speech, he vowed to fight Israel. "We say in all
confidence that even if we are hung on the gallows or they make
our
blood flow in the streets or they tear our bodies apart, we will
bow only before God and we will not abandon Palestine," he said.
By afternoon, shops were shuttered, funerals began and mourning
tents were visible on nearly every major street of this densely
populated city.
"We wanted to attack military targets while the terrorists were
inside the facilities and before Hamas was able to get its
rockets
out that were stored in some of the targets," said the top
Israeli
security official, briefing a group of reporters by telephone on
condition of anonymity.
"Right now, we have to hit Hamas hard to stop the launching," he
added. "I don't see any other way for Hamas to change its
behavior.
Hamas is not just a terrorist organization. It actually rules
Gaza
and is well supported by Iran with some of its leadership in
Syria."
A number of governments and international officials, including
leaders of Russia, Egypt, the European Union and the United
Nations, condemned Israel's use of force and also called on Hamas
to end the rocket fire.
The Bush administration blamed Hamas for the end to the
cease-fire
and demanded that it stop firing rockets, but called on Israel
only
to avoid hitting civilians as it attacked Hamas.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister and chairman of the
Labor
Party, said the military operation would expand and deepen as
necessary, adding, "There is a time for calm and a time for
fighting, and this is the time for fighting." He said he was
withdrawing from campaigning for Israel's February elections to
focus on the operation.
Hamas had in recent weeks let it be known that because of the
coming elections it doubted Israel would engage in a major
military
undertaking. But in some ways the elections have made it
impossible
for officials like Mr. Barak not to react, because the public has
grown anxious and angry over the rocket fire, which while causing
no recent deaths and few injuries is deeply disturbing for those
living near the Gaza border.
Israeli officials said that anyone linked to the Hamas security
structure or government was fair game since Hamas was a terrorist
group that sought Israel's destruction. But with work here
increasingly scarce because of an international embargo on Hamas,
young men are tempted by the steady work of the police force
without necessarily fully accepting the Hamas ideology. One of
the
biggest tolls on Saturday was at a police cadet graduation
ceremony
in which 15 were killed.