MARIÂNGELA BERQUÓ enfoca a Geopolítica: Rogue IDF: O. Protective Edge

Domingo, dia 13 de julho de 2014

An IDF spokesperson stated Israeli forces had already conducted 1320 airstrikes on Gaza since the offensive started, while accusing Palestinian militants of firing a total of 800 rockets into Israel. Dozens of Palestinians had already died. There were reports of a handful of Israeli injuries, but no deaths.
Israel reportedly launches its first ground incursion into Gaza during this operation. Though not a full push into the Strip, the insertion of IDF's commandos marks an escalation from the preivous airstrikes-only phase. Thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza in the face of further attacks, foreshadowed in leaflets dropped warning civilians to evacuate: 'Those who fail to comply with the instructions will endanger their lives and the lives of their families. Beware!', read one document in the town of Beit Lahiya, where 70.000 Palestinians live.

Evacuate? How? Where to go? Ask Gazans and journalists who read the 'hasbara' leaflets.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas asks the UN to put the state of Palestine under "international protection".
In vain.

Raw footage from Gazans point of view

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Sunday, July 13.

Below, only Palestinian identified victims.
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 13 de julho.

Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015
1. Ezzeddin Bolbol, 25, Rafah

2. Rami Abu Shanab, 25, Deir al-Balah
3. Fawziyya Abdul-al, 73, Gaza City
4. Moayyad al-Araj, 3, Khan Younis
5. Husam Ibrahim Najjar, 14, Jabalia
6. Hijaziyya Hamed al-Hilo, 80, Gaza City
7. Ruwaida abu Harb Zawayda, 30, central Gaza
8. Haitham Ashraf Zarb, 21, Rafah
9. Laila Hassan al-Odaat, 41, al-Maghazi
10. Hussein Abdul-Qader Mheisin, 19, Gaza
11. Qassem Talal Hamdan, 23, Beit Hanoun
12. Maher Thabet abu Mour, 23, Khan Younis
13. Mohammad Salem Abu Breis, 65, Deir al-Balah
14. Moussa Shehda Moammer, 60, Khan Younis
15. Hanadi Hamdi Moammer, 27,
16. Saddam Mousa Moammer, 23.

Vice News: There is nowhere safe in Gaza

Reservista da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

8. "The discourse is racist."
Rank: Lieutenant. Unit: Gaza Regiment. Area: Gaza strip:
As opposed to previous operations, you could feel there was a radicalization in the way the whole thing was conducted. The discourse was extremely right-wing. The military obviously has very clear enemies – the Arabs, Hamas. There is this rigid dichotomy. There are those involved [Palestinians involved in the fighting] and those uninvolved, and that’s it. But the very fact that they’re described as ‘uninvolved’, rather than as civilians, and the desensitization to the surging number of dead on the Palestinian side – and it doesn’t matter whether they’re involved or not – the unfathomable number of dead on one of the sides, the unimaginable level of destruction, the way militant cells and people were regarded as targets and not as living beings – that’s something that troubles me.
The discourse is racist. The discourse is nationalistic. The discourse is anti-leftist. It was an atmosphere that really, really scared me. And it was really felt, while we were inside. During the operation it gets radicalized. I was at the base, and some clerk says to me, “Yeah, give it to them, kill them all.” And you say to yourself, ‘Whatever, they’re just kids, it’s just talk’ – but they’re talking that way because someone allowed them to talk that way. If that clerk was the only one saying it I’d write her off – but when everyone starts talking like that...
9. “We’re talking about human beings, it's a dialogue that takes place under fire – if there's an escalation, things intensify
Unit: Air Force. Area: Gaza strip:
What's a problematic target?
A target that doesn’t fall under the firing policy – that hitting it would entail violating the firing policy criteria.
Can you tell me about a target that at first wasn’t approved for striking, and later did get approved?
Well, after the APC in Shuja’iyya, (an incident in which seven IDF soldiers were killed when a rocket hit their armored personnel carrier) and when the brigade commander was killed (certain members of the IDF mistakenly believed, for a period during the operation, that a Golani brigade commander was killed), so things weren’t done the same as they were before. There are things in the military that are in flux – we’re talking about human beings, it’s a dialogue that takes place under fire – if there’s an escalation, things intensify.
Can you describe a concrete example?
It's something that's known in advance. The operation wasn’t ending, it entered its first week, second week, third week, and [Hamas] kept trying to enter[Israeli] towns and kill people, so in response we struck harder. Targets that we had set aside –‘golden targets’ of sorts – they started to hit them.
What are these ‘golden targets?’
Residences of [Hamas] battalion commanders and brigade commanders. There were many, many targets that [weren’t attacked] because they didn't qualify under the firing policy, and then after Shujai’yya for example, suddenly some of those targets did get approved. The sort of problematic targets that were at a certain distance from some school – suddenly stuff like that did get approved.

Gaza hoje - today Beit Hanoun