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July 06 Reports
Where
should I begin? I'm wondering where to begin this update... Perhaps I should
begin with the children sending their appeal to the outside world.
Or maybe the woman who can no longer afford food as the attacks
continue at the Al Maghazi refugee camp. Or maybe even this cruel
attack in the middle of Gaza which destroyed groves and orchards,
men and all their belongings, as if the Israeli bulldozers' main
enemy is every human walking on the ground.
Nine Palestinians
were killed as the Israeli Occupation Forces moved into the Al Maghazi
refugee camp, beginning the fourth week of their deadly assault.
In the West Bank, three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces
operating in the volatile West Bank town of Nablus. 100 were injured. EU foreign policy
chief Javier Solana, paid his second visit to the blood soaked Middle
East in days, and was scheduled to hold talks with Palestinian President
Mahmud Abbas in Gaza City. I wonder if he had been able to see the
Israeli tanks and bulldozers demolishing homes and killing people
in the North, or if it had been spared this terrible sight and the
Israeli Army stopped its attack by tanks and bulldozers on the north
for three hours, backing off for a few hundred meters. International
appeals for restraint have fallen on deaf ears and a UN resolution
urging Israel to stop the offensive was vetoed by the United States
at the Security Council last week. In the middle
of Gaza, clashes are going on between the Israeli tanks invading
the camp and groups of Palestinian militants. So far, only three
people of the 60 killed were militants. The rest were children,
women and old men who were sleeping in their dark houses when Israeli
tanks and bulldozers started approaching the area, accompanied by
Israeli helicopters and air force jets. In the West
Bank City of Nablus, an Al Jazeera correspondent was attacked by
soldiers who were trying to drive around her with their military
jeeps, and a crew member of Al Jazeera Satellites Channel TV was
injured. Right now, the
attack is still going with shortages of water and electricity. I
spoke to one of the people by mobile phone from Al Maghazi, who
told me: "The soldiers cut off the phone lines, electricity
and water, and put me and my family inside a small room and used
the rest of the house upstairs for snipers posts." This is
Abdel Hadi from Al Maghazi camp in a phone call before he ran out
of batteries this afternoon. 17
July 06 Israel
flattens Palestinian foreign ministry in Gaza and the war is still
going on with total silence from the world!!
ONCE AGAIN IN
GAZA: The Israeli F1-6s jets today attacked the Palestinian Foreign
Ministry in Gaza for the second time in a week, leaving the building
in ruins as it stepped up an offensive three weeks after the capture
of a soldier. Three residents were wounded when a missile was dropped
in the early hours by an F-16 jet that destroyed what was left of
the foreign ministry building, security sources said. It had already
been badly damaged in the raid last Thursday. Operation Summer
Rain, spearheaded with the twin objectives of retrieving the soldier
and stopping rocket attacks on Israel, has now left more than 100
Palestinian killed and hundreds injured. Three Palestinians from
Hamas were killed when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile and targeted
them. Another 20 people were wounded, including a woman and a baby,
by sporadic gunfire and Israeli shelling in the northern incursion.
The bodies arrived at the hospital and many body parts are missing.
Palestinian
Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, whose Gaza offices were bombed by
Israel on July 2, denounced the international community for not
stepping in to halt the Israeli onslaught amid the rising death
toll. "I am wondering whether the international community has
been so silent ever before in the face of such cruelty. I've never
heard of or read about the acceptance of such cruelty," he
said to journalists and reporters in Gaza City. Dozens of Palestinians
living on the edges of Beit Hanun fled their homes, taking shelter
in UN-run schools in the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp, among those,
the mother of 8 children Umm Bassam Alian, who was there hiding
inside the UNRWA school seeking shelter and asking where to sleep
tonight when the soldiers are turning her house into a militant
post used to sniper Palestinians living in the area. Civilian people
were among the victims here in the North. This miserable situation
continues as people are running out of food. " What
are those Israelis? They don’t feel that we have children
and we want to live in peace?" she asked while her littlie
child continued to cry asking for food which she simply cannot afford.
She tried to calm the child by trying to lull him to sleep in her
arms. "Does the world know about this?" she asked me,
then she said:" if the world knows about this, why are they
letting it happen when we are all humans and suffering?" The night is
still not over and the children had to go to sleep with no food.
Is that something that American or British child have to go through
every night? JOURNALISTS
ARE TARGETED: Two journalists
working for the Japanese News Agency were injured yesterday by Israeli
snipers while covering the news in the northern part of Gaza Strip. The director
of Kamas Adwan hospital said that "Ambulances crew have brought
them Kay Oto Saki 27 , a Japanese journalist who wasinjured in his
right leg" while his assistant, a Palestinian named Majdi Abdeen
25 was also injured in his right leg. He is still in the hospital,
while the Japanese journalist was transferred immediately into an
Israeli hospital in Israel. The Israeli
soldiers targeted one of the ambulances while it was on its way
to evacuate injured people in the north of Gaza. The Israeli
F-16s jets bombed the Palestinian Ministry of Economic causing huge
destruction in the building. Yesterday
Mohammed was struck with shrapnel as he was taking those photographs.
Thank God he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. [The webmaster]
In addition
to the Israeli bombing, there is the daily shelling by Israeli F16s,
helicopters and Israeli warplanes over at the Gaza beach where a
number of Israeli warships are patrolling and shooting at people
who are passing by the main road of Salah Al Deen in the middle
of the Gaza Strip. Israeli helicopters bombed the building of the
Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza City causing damage
to the building and everything inside it. A large number of people
were killed and injured throughout the Gaza Strip. The entire Gaza
Strip is being besieged, there are tanks and bulldozers everywhere,
and Israeli helicopters hover overhead all day. At least 5,000
Palestinians, including 578 children, are considered to be "urgent
humanitarian cases. Two
people died at the crossing on Tuesday - a 19 years old woman and
a 17 month old infant. The
young woman, named Mona Ismail, was returning from an operation
in a Cairo hospital. She died as a result of a severe deterioration
in her medical condition as she waited at Rafah. The infant, who
was stuck as well named Hamza Abu Taleb, died of heat stroke. Two
other people also died over the past few days while waiting at the
crossing. Hani Dawahidi, 70, suffered a heart attack after waiting
nine days to return to Gaza after receiving medical treatment in
Egypt. Muhammed Shuhab, 15, also died at the crossing after undergoing
heart surgery in Cairo and now I got more news from Rafah border
saying a 28 years old woman just passed away while she was waiting
at the Rafah border. RIGHT
NOW:
Israeli tanks and bulldozers are in the Middle of the Gaza Strip,
no movement is allowed. In theose first few minutes tanks and bulldozers
pushed into the middle of Gaza controlling Salah Al Deen St. which
is Gaza's main street. Five people have been killed and many others
injured. This is the first time that Israeli tanks and bulldozers
reached into the middle of Gaza, reoccupying the former Jewish settlements
and carrying military attacks since the withdrawal from the Gaza
Strip, or what is known as the "Gaza disengagement plan".
Gaza is under occupation. There is no electricity, no water and
everything is obviously under Israeli control and now it's time
for Israeli soldiers to control wether to let this ambulance go
to the hospital to rescue victims, or to keep them waiting until
they die bleeding. This has been happening all day today!
The children,
their parents and everybody were sleeping in their houses, in the
middle of the night when the Israeli F16s bombed a house in the
middle of Gaza City, in Al Shiekh Radwan village, killing 23 Palestinians
and injuring 60. The bomb felt like an earthquake. "I was asleep,
then we found ourselves suddenly in the middle of dust and the floor
fell apart and the windows blew up" said Samah, a 14 years
old girl who was bleeding at Al Shifa hospitals. Samah's tears
alone told the horror story — nine among the victims are from
one family, most are children as well as their mother and father
who is s a university professor. The attack this
time was overwhelming for the entire neighborhood. This air raid
was allegedly targetting a Hamas leader. Naturally those really
targetted are the children, women and civilians sleeping inside
their homes. These photos are proof that Palestinians are getting
killed for no reasons, except being on their own land. A leaflet handed
by Hamas militant wing vows painful responses to the Israeli assault
into Gaza as the Israeli army pushes for a new offensive in the
impoverished territory. A total of 70
Palestinians have now been killed since Israel stepped up its massive
ground assault into Gaza last Wednesday in a bid to secure the release
of the missing teenage soldier and to halt rocket fire.
So far in Gaza,
over 50 people have been killed and over 200 injured in the past
48 hours—the attack is still relentless, and we live under
miserable conditions, where there is no water here and no water
in the Gaza Strip.. Palestinian
chief negotiator Saeb Erekat called on international aid organizations
to help avert "human catastrophe" in Gaza, while Israel
has rejected a call by Palestinian Premier Ismail Haniya for a mutual
ceasefire.
Palestinian
journalists and photographers living in Gaza are also targets of
Israeli snipers. A helicopter responded to one photo that a Palestinian
photographer shot with one rocket. Mohammed Al Zanoun, a Palestinian
photographer who was covering the attack and taking photos in the
Eastern part of Gaza City was attacked in this manner. Al Zanoun
is a witness to Israeli Occupation crimes on Saturday morning, but
the Israeli occupation army prevented him from transmitting these
crimes and translating them into pictures. They shot at him and
splinters from their projectiles seriously injured him. Zanoun was
taken to the hospital for treatment with injuries to his mouth,
chest and face. Mohammed Al
Zanoun, is a 20 year old Palestinian who's a new photographer working
for Maan News Agency in the Gaza Strip. He has always insisted on
being the first to cover the news, take photos and document thye
Occupation's crimes against Palestinians. Mohammed was
injured and fell to the ground together with his camera, "Where
is the camera? There are many photos in it which bear witness to
the killing of Palestinians; there are many photos of the Palestinians
who have been killed," he kept repeating as ambulance workers
rushed to his rescue. Mohammed has
rejected his mother's pleas to stop taking photos for the time being
and to stop from going out at all. The life of a Palestinian journalist
seems to not count for human rights organizations. There have been
many cases where Israeli soldiers killed whoever carryied a camera
as if this camera was a weapon. And it is.
Twenty-eight
Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours here, the horrible
shelling is still going on, there is no food, no water, no electricity.
No water for people to drink, the attack is getting worse, civilians
are targeted everywhere by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Heavy
shelling is going on right now, My laptop battery is dying, more
news coming later. Hundreds arrived
the hospital after being injured, the hospitals have no room for
those who were killed. Bodies are thrown out in the streets. Israeli
Occupation Forces re-occupy the former Jewish settlements and so
far, a large number of tanks and bulldozers are attacking other
new areas here. All of northern Gaza is under siege, People are
appealing to all human beings around the world to stop these attacks
and to protect civilians from the Israeli US made F16 helicopters,
tanks and bulldozers. . 6
July 06
On Thursday,
Israeli Bulldozers devastated vast areas of arable lands in Beit
Lahia and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. The war is still going
on, and the Israeli Army is bombing everywhere in the Gaza Strip.
This aims only to The number of
people who were killed is increasing from one minute to the next.
Now tens of people have been injured and killed in the north of
Gaza. No water, no food, no electricity ... everything is under
siege. The woman told me: "We have not been able to go to our
farms and get vegetables to cook for the children." There was
shooting towards us as she was speaking to me. Israeli bulldozers
began devastating agricultural lands here in Al Salateen area, west
of Beit lahia and seized a house, turning it into a military post,
used by Israeli soldiers as snipers. Three bulldozers
also razed wide area of olive trees and planted lands owned by Abu
Anza and Abu Rjeila families in al Faraheen area, east Khan Younis
refugee camp. The situation is getting worse all over in the southern
and northern parts of the Gaza strip. The
children here are appealing to you and to everyone who will listen
to stop this attack. The children are born to live and not to die
by Israeli shelling which does not diffeneciate between targeting
a child, a woman or even and old man praying in a mosque. Two journalists
were injured, both working for Al Jazeera TV, and some ambulance
workers have also been targeted by the Israeli Army. In addition,
the educational buildings, of the Islamic university, where I studied
last semester was also the hardest hit by Israeli F 16s. An orphanage
has been also been bombed. It is quite horrible here, and the bombing
is still going on. Right now, a new rocket hit a building close
by.. more news coming later when my laptop batteries are charged
again. 3
July 06 Now, while I'm
writing this update, Israeli F-16s and helicopters are hovering
over and bombing the Gaza Strip. Water and fuel shortages are throughout
the Gaza Strip, and it is clearly the beginning of a new humanitarian
crises—no electricity in most of areas in Gaza, hospitals
also have medicine shortages. Thousands of
Palestinians are stuck at the Rafah border and are in horrible situations:
they are unable to return back home as a result of the closure of
the crossing by Israeli Occupation Forces. Bombing just
right now by F-16s. 30
June 06
It might be
the last time to get online, I have so many things to do. I have
been doing many interviews today and none of them I was comfortable
with while I was talking. It is hell here, we have so many problems
now in Gaza. I don’t know what to do, but I will just go ahead
and continue working on many things. I will load these photos then
I should leave now. I have no time to write that much, but I guess
photos could speak much better. |
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