PCHR: 23rd Day of Continuous IOF Offensive on the Gaza Strip

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non profit)
Press Release

Ref: 18/2009
Date: 18 January 2009
Time: 12:15 GMT

IOF Partially Redeployed in the Gaza Strip
Gaza City and the Northern Gaza Strip Are Cut off from Other Areas in the Gaza Strip.
Medical Crews Pick up Decayed Corpses from Areas that Had Been Invaded by IOF; at Least 62 Corpses Have Been Found
The Total Number of Victims Mounts to 1,251 Including 904 Civilians and 168 civil police officers
This Number Includes 292 Children and 97 Women
The Number Included Also 7 Medical Personnel and 3 Journalists

In the early morning of Sunday, 18 January 2009, Israel declared a ceasefire, while decided to keep its military presence in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have redeployed outside Palestinian communities, but they have continued to control the road that extends from al-Mentar (Karni) crossing in the east to the beach in the west, south of Gaza City, cutting off Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip from other areas to the south. PCHR field workers who visited several areas throughout the Gaza Strip, especially Gaza City, the north and the Egyptian border reported as these areas looked as they were struck by a heavy earthquake. Since the morning, medical and civil defense crews have continued to pick up decayed corpses from areas that had been invaded by IOF. IOF warplanes have continued to fly over the Gaza Strip, while IOF military vehicles that had redeployed outside residential areas have continued to fire at Palestinian civilians, especially those who live in border areas. PCHR warns of the intensive IOF presence in the Gaza Strip which may expand and endanger Palestinian civilians and property.

This is a summary of the crimes committed by IOF in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.

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Now why can’t those damn Palestinians just disappear? By William Bowles

January 20, 20092 Comments

20 January 2009

“Gaza fought back, withstood, resisted …. Arabs are now speaking of victory, hailing the resistance, singing the praise of the Palestinians in Gaza…” — Ramzy Baroud

“We had to carry out this operation. I am at peace with the fact that we did it,” she said referring to a three-week long offensive against the Gaza Strip which killed at least 1,300 Palestinians (of which 1099 were civilians, the Gaza-based Palestinian center for human rights reported on Sunday). — Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Israeli Radio

Sixty years ago, in the aftermath of a European war, the Palestinians were made the sacrificial lamb, slaughtered in the abattoir of Capital by their executioners, the Zionists and their imperial paymasters.

Unfortunately for Israel, those damn Palestinians persisted in ‘hanging around’, jammed into refugee camps across the Middle East, ghettoized and relegated to third class people in the land of their birth, Palestine.

The ‘traditional’ view is that expunging an entire nation from the face of the Earth was somehow an atonement for European ‘guilt’ over the Nazi death camps. Looking back, I’m amazed that this idea ever gained any kind of credibility, but it became the rationale for sixty years of misery and death for the Palestinian people as well as a source of destabilization for the entire Middle East.

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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites

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According to a report in Haaretz, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry is setting up `an army of bloggers` who will `represent` Israel on `anti-Zionist blogs` in English, French, Spanish and German.

by Paul Joseph Watson
(Prison Planet)

Israel has announced that it is setting up a network of bloggers to combat websites deemed ‘problematic’ by the Zionist state, presumably to propagandize about the necessity of killing babies and infants in the name of self-defense.

Israel’s global reputation for being the new Nazis was already firmly established, but the ceaseless and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, labeled a war crime by international observers, has hardened opinion against the country and this has manifested itself nowhere more than the world wide web.

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Iranian Journalist Interviews musician Gilad Atzmon

January 20, 2009Leave a comment

20 January, 2009

Conversation with Gilad Atzmon, world-renowned Jazzist: Bring justice to the Israeli criminals, today!

Interview by: Kourosh Ziabari, MMN

Gilad Atzmon is unique in his stance, unprecedented in his voice and unequivocal in his statements. As an Israel-born jazz musician and anti-Zionist activist, he propagates and chants his anti-Israeli contemplations explicitly and once he finds the opportunity.

As a musician who plays soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones, clarinet, sol, zurna and flute, Atzmon has won several international awards so far, including the BBC Jazz Award 2003, and is considered as one of the most prosperous artists of his rank.

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Name and Shame British Friends of Israel

January 20, 2009Leave a comment

19 Jan 2009 06:02 AM PST

By Redress Information & Analysis,19 January 2009

Redress Information & Analysis names and shames members of Israel’s network of stooges in the British Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties; it calls on its readers to challenge these stooges and to help it expose apologists for Israeli murder by supplying it with verified information about other Friends of Israel.

In the 23 days of the Israeli war on Gaza that began on 27 December 2008, 1300 Palestinians have been killed by the Zionist war machine, including 417 children and 108 women, and a further 5320 have been injured. In the same period, 13 Israelis were killed. That is a ratio of 100:1, excluding the injured.

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Video: Inside Story – Gaza diplomacy – 18 Jan 2009 – Part 2

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On Friday, an emergency summit took place in Doha to discuss ceasefire prospects for Gaza. In protest against the war on Gaza, Qatar and Mauritania had suspended ties with Israel and urged other states to follow. A second, apparently rival, summit of European and so-called “moderate” Arab leaders also gathered in Sharm El Shaikh. A third summit is now slated for Kuwait. Mahdi Abdulhadi and Robert Fisk are interviewed on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story. Part 1

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