Interview with Norman Finkelstein on Amnesty’s Gaza Reports
Quarta-feira, dia 16 de julho de 2014
Quarta-feira, dia 16 de julho de 2014
Hamas offered its own ceasefire deal. Under the truce, Hamas issued 10 demands, including the release political prisoners, withdrawal of IDF troops from Gaza, the opening of a U.N: owned and operated airport and seaport in Gaza and permission for Gazans to visit Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, here it goes:
. Idf moving their tanks further into Israel from Gaza;
. Re-release of all prisoners freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit and recently arrested during Operation Brother's keeper;
. Remove blockage from all borders with the Rafah crossings on UN control;
. Establish an airport in Gaza under UN control;
. Expand fishing zone to the pre-established 13km;
. Israel borders with Gaza controlled by the UN;
. Israel cannot interven in the Palestinian unity government;
Israel must give Gaza Christian and Muslim residents permission to visit Jerusalem and pray in the holy sites.
. The offer was widely ignored by the press, and disregarded by Israel.
Later in the day, four Palestinian boys were murdered on a beach by Israeli naval forces.
. Idf moving their tanks further into Israel from Gaza;
. Re-release of all prisoners freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit and recently arrested during Operation Brother's keeper;
. Remove blockage from all borders with the Rafah crossings on UN control;
. Establish an airport in Gaza under UN control;
. Expand fishing zone to the pre-established 13km;
. Israel borders with Gaza controlled by the UN;
. Israel cannot interven in the Palestinian unity government;
Israel must give Gaza Christian and Muslim residents permission to visit Jerusalem and pray in the holy sites.
. The offer was widely ignored by the press, and disregarded by Israel.
Later in the day, four Palestinian boys were murdered on a beach by Israeli naval forces.
Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Wednesday, July 16. Below, only Palestinian identified victims.
Nome dos mortos palestinos (identificados) no dia 16 de julho.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
- Mohammad Ismael Abu Odah, 27, Rafah
- Mohammad Abdullah Zahouq, 23, Rafah
- Ahmed Adel Nawajha, 23, Rafah
- Mohammad Taisir Abu Sharab, 23, Khan Younis
- Mohammad Sabri ad-Debari, Rafah
- Ashraf Khalil Abu Shanab, 33, Rafah
- Farid Mahmoud Abu-Daqqa, 33, Khan Younis
- Khadra Al-Abed Salama Abu Daqqa, 65, Khan Younis
- Omar Ramadan Abu Daqqa, 24, Khan Younis
- Ibrahim Ramadan Abu Daqqa, 10, Khan Younis
- Ahed Atef Bakr, 10, Gaza beach related videos
- Zakariya Ahed Bakr, 10, idem
- Mohammad Ramiz Bakr, 11, idem
- Ismail Mahmoud Bakr, 9, idem
- Mohammad Kamel Abdul-Rahman, 30, Sheikh Ejleen, Gaza City
- Husam Shamlakh, 23, Sheikh Ejleen, Gaza City
- Usama Mahmoud Al-Astal, 6, Khan Younis (died of wounds sustained earlier in attack on mosque)
- Hussein Abdul-Nasser al-Astal, 23, Khan Younis
- Kawthar al-Astal, 70, Khan Younis
- Yasmin al-Astal, 4, Khan Younis
- Kamal Mohammad Abu Amer, 38, Khan Younis
- Akram Mohammad Abu Amer, 34, Khan Younis (Kamal's brother injured in same incident, then later same day died of his injuries)
- Hamza Raed Thary, 6, Jabalia (injured a few days earlier in the bombing in which many, including children, were killed while playing in the sand at the beach in Jabalia)
- Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim Khalil as-Sarhi, 37, Gaza City
Bakr, Gaza's traditional family of fishermen - ICRC video 2013
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
14. “People that look at you from the window of a house, to put it mildly, won’t look anymore”
Rank: Sergeant First Class. Unit: Armored Corps. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
What was your procedure towards people engaged in surveying you?
They're treated like terrorists. Like a person shooting at you. There were people there who were spotted holding binoculars, or standing on a roof and looking in our direction – they're terrorists for all intents and purposes, and usually they're shot at.
If you identify a person watching you from a rooftop, do you fire a shell there?
It really depends on when – at the beginning [of the operation], you didn’t wait for authorization, or you waited for authorization to make sure they were not our forces. You didn’t wait to incriminate. You identify a person, and if the tank commander considers him a suspect, you open fire. You don’t ask for authorization, no one asks for explanations. It doesn’t feel strange because that’s what we did in nearly every battle we were in, from the start up until then.
And what about people looking at you from the window of a house?
People who look at you from the window of a house that is in your designated area – they, to put it mildly, won’t look anymore.
14bis. "Shoot, shoot everywhere”
Unit: Infantry. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
Any fire by the assistance forces goes through a system of authorization. You get on the two-way radio and ask for approval. Most were approved – for us especially, since we were the first to enter [the Gaza Strip]. The commander gets on the radio, says, “There’s this building here,” the threat is assessed, it’s stated, and then comes the authorization.
If there’s a hint of concern in someone’s voice – that’s justification for anything. That’s a deciding factor in any judgment call. Approval is clearly necessary if someone comes up on the radio and you can hear shots in the background, and there’s a terrorist.
If someone is coming under fire, it’s 100% certain authorization [to open fire] will be granted. Besides that, if there’s a building that poses a threat, if you say, “I feel threatened by that tall building, I want it either smoke-screened or taken down,” then it’s deemed a target, located on the maps, they get on the radio with the brigade and report it. The feeling was that it’s all very much up to the guys on the ground – however they describe the situation to the level of oversight – the response will be in line.
If [the soldiers on the ground] say “That building needs to be taken down, it poses a severe threat to my forces,” it will be shelled. In the beginning, we weren’t granted authorization if there was any fear of [harming] civilians. In the beginning there was a lot of concern about the media and that stuff. But it’s all very subject to change because you’ve got drones, and when the artillery coordination officer raises a request [to the brigade], they sit down together and look at the visuals from the drone, and ask military intelligence, “Does anybody know anything about this?” And then say, “Yes, you can go ahead and fire.” As long as there wasn’t any concrete information that [shooting a specific target] would be harmful to us – it’s “fire away.” But the more time that passed [since the operation started], the more immediate authorizations became.
The rules of engagement for soldiers advancing on the ground were: open fire, open fire everywhere, first thing when you go in. The assumption being that the moment we went in [to the Gaza Strip], anyone who dared poke his head out was a terrorist. And it pretty much stayed that way throughout the operation. As long as you don’t violate the perimeter of another force’s zone – in other words, risk friendly fire – you are allowed to open fire.
Rank: Sergeant First Class. Unit: Armored Corps. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
What was your procedure towards people engaged in surveying you?
They're treated like terrorists. Like a person shooting at you. There were people there who were spotted holding binoculars, or standing on a roof and looking in our direction – they're terrorists for all intents and purposes, and usually they're shot at.
If you identify a person watching you from a rooftop, do you fire a shell there?
It really depends on when – at the beginning [of the operation], you didn’t wait for authorization, or you waited for authorization to make sure they were not our forces. You didn’t wait to incriminate. You identify a person, and if the tank commander considers him a suspect, you open fire. You don’t ask for authorization, no one asks for explanations. It doesn’t feel strange because that’s what we did in nearly every battle we were in, from the start up until then.
And what about people looking at you from the window of a house?
People who look at you from the window of a house that is in your designated area – they, to put it mildly, won’t look anymore.
14bis. "Shoot, shoot everywhere”
Unit: Infantry. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
Any fire by the assistance forces goes through a system of authorization. You get on the two-way radio and ask for approval. Most were approved – for us especially, since we were the first to enter [the Gaza Strip]. The commander gets on the radio, says, “There’s this building here,” the threat is assessed, it’s stated, and then comes the authorization.
If there’s a hint of concern in someone’s voice – that’s justification for anything. That’s a deciding factor in any judgment call. Approval is clearly necessary if someone comes up on the radio and you can hear shots in the background, and there’s a terrorist.
If someone is coming under fire, it’s 100% certain authorization [to open fire] will be granted. Besides that, if there’s a building that poses a threat, if you say, “I feel threatened by that tall building, I want it either smoke-screened or taken down,” then it’s deemed a target, located on the maps, they get on the radio with the brigade and report it. The feeling was that it’s all very much up to the guys on the ground – however they describe the situation to the level of oversight – the response will be in line.
If [the soldiers on the ground] say “That building needs to be taken down, it poses a severe threat to my forces,” it will be shelled. In the beginning, we weren’t granted authorization if there was any fear of [harming] civilians. In the beginning there was a lot of concern about the media and that stuff. But it’s all very subject to change because you’ve got drones, and when the artillery coordination officer raises a request [to the brigade], they sit down together and look at the visuals from the drone, and ask military intelligence, “Does anybody know anything about this?” And then say, “Yes, you can go ahead and fire.” As long as there wasn’t any concrete information that [shooting a specific target] would be harmful to us – it’s “fire away.” But the more time that passed [since the operation started], the more immediate authorizations became.
The rules of engagement for soldiers advancing on the ground were: open fire, open fire everywhere, first thing when you go in. The assumption being that the moment we went in [to the Gaza Strip], anyone who dared poke his head out was a terrorist. And it pretty much stayed that way throughout the operation. As long as you don’t violate the perimeter of another force’s zone – in other words, risk friendly fire – you are allowed to open fire.
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