by Eva Bartlett | reposted from her blog
Gaza has been locked down at least since 2007 (and incrementally for decades), bombed and starved, its infrastructure decimated time and again, not allowed to re-build, its power plant bombed, its sewage and sanitation and water lines destroyed time and again, denied replacement parts for said destruction… and now, just as the rest of the world is again occupied with holidays, the Zionists are bombing Gaza anew.Gaza has no tanks, no attack helicopters, no warplanes, no warships, no nuclear arms (nor electricity). Israel does.
*photo by Younes Arar: One of the injuries (brother of Hala 4 years who was killed) following the Israeli occupation airstrikes in Gaza today, 24 December, 2013.
Younes Arar: “Palestinian residential sites targeted by the continued Israeli occupation warplanes so far today, 24 December, 2013.” (photo Sky News)****************************************************************
note: Israeli Ceasefire Violations in Gaza and World Silence
Here we list some of Israel’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement and will continue to update as events occur. We’ll keep track even as others look away.
12/23/2013:
“Israeli forces shot and seriously injured a young Palestinian man near Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.”
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Omar Ghraieb All #Gaza is under attack! Explosions, shelling & air raids on Southern,Eastern,Western & Northern Gaza! Many injuries!
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Israel strikes Gaza after border shootings, 3 dead in violence 24/12/2013,Ma’an News
Israeli air forces bombed the Gaza Strip, killing a 3-year-old Palestinian child and injuring her mother and brother, after an Israeli and a Palestinian were shot dead at the border in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon.
Spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said that Hala Abu Sbeikha, 3, was killed and her mother and brother injured in an airstrike in al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli fire west of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
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Call to action on Canadian government approval of bombing of Gaza
“Dear Friends of peace in Palestine and Israel,
In the face of another potential slaughter of civilians in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces (IOF), it is regrettable that Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird exhibits a view that Palestinian life is not even worth a mention. His brief press release is concerned only for Israel “and its citizens.” http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-communiques/2012/11/14a.aspx?view=d
Rather than forthrightly contextualizing the current violence as precipitated by Israeli aerial bombing and slaughter last week, http://imeu.net/news/article0023227.shtml IOF violence is cast as “the struggle against terrorism, the great struggle of our generation.” Rationalization and complicity with wonton destruction and death stands in stark contrast to the view of Canadians and our tradition of peace ever since Canada was the very founder of UN peacekeeping in response to the 1956 Israeli invasion of Gaza.
In peace and solidarity,
The Rev. Robert Assaly”
Seems like Israel’s attacking Gaza has become a sort of a holiday tradition, in a morally twisted sort of way of course. Just one more indication that the end of Zionism is approaching.