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Terça-feira, dia 05 de agosto de 2014

As IDF's losses grow, Israel withdrew ground troops from Gaza, as a three-day truce went into effect, allowing indirect bias Egyptian-brokered truce talks to take place in Cairo. 
The truce allowed the Palestinians time to breath, to search th rubbles for their dead, to bury them, and mourn without bombs falling on their heads.
Shortly before the cease-fire came into effect, Obama signed The Iron Dome Bill which handed Israel US$225 million for its Iron Dome defense system.

Remembering the dead during the truce on Tuesday, August 5. 

Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 5 de agosto.

Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.

1. Nida Raed 'Oleywa, 12, Gaza (died of earlier injuries)
2. Sha'ban Suleiman ad-Dahdouh, 24, Gaza. (died on July 21, remains located under rubble)

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Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

49. “Check it out, there’s nothing at all left of Juhar al-Dik”
Rank: Staff Sergeant.  Unit: Armored Corps.  Area: Deir al-Balah area
Before we entered we saw orchards on a slope, a low fence beyond them and then Juhar al-Dik up on this little hill. You’ve got the barrier [between Israel and the Gaza Strip] and then Juhar al-Dik is on some high ground that overlooks it, and it’s very green. When we left after the operation, it was just a barren stretch of desert. Incredible. Of all the houses that were there, I think I saw maybe four or five still intact, or relatively intact. It was crazy. We spoke about it a lot amongst ourselves, the guys from the company, how crazy the amount of damage we did there was. I quote: “Listen man, it’s crazy what went on in there,” “Listen man, we really messed them up,” “Fuck, check it out, there’s nothing at all left of Juhar al-Dik, it’s nothing but desert now, that’s crazy.”
What caused all the destruction?
Most of it was D9s (armored bulldozers). They just took down all the orchards. Not a single tree left. They worked on it for three weeks. When they didn’t have a specific job like leading our way or opening up a specific route for us or some other mission, they just went and flattened things. I don’t know what their specific order was, but they were on a deliberate mission to leave the area razed, flattened.
Houses, too?
Lots of houses. The D9s destroyed lots of houses.
50. “We can be good kids, on our best behavior, but even then a D9 will show up and flatten the house”
Rank: Sergeant First Class.  Unit: Mechanized infantry.  Area: Deir al-Balah area.
In regards to looting, there was a pretty strict dialogue, in general. It was clear that that kind of thing wasn’t going to take place in our company, that it would not be tolerated. Once, we got into an argument over eating fruit [belonging to Palestinians], whether it’s ethical. This was an internal dialogue, within the company.
In the houses you were in, where would you pee?
Usually outside, because usually there was no water [in the toilets]. Whoever was first to enter sometimes had the luxury of one flush, but nothing beyond that. The whole issue of making use of the [Palestinians’] houses was marked by serious tension. On the one hand, for some people it was a difficult and unpleasant experience to enter someone’s house and realize that it’s their home. You see the kids’ room, the parents’ room, the living room, and you don’t want to take advantage of the things in there. On the other hand, you also know that using some of those things could drastically change your stay there. For example mattresses, which are found in every house. And we knew that when we leave the neighborhood, it was clear to us that that the neighborhood was going to be flattened, because of its geographic location. We knew that we were entering a house and that we could be good kids, on our best behavior, but even then a D9 (armored bulldozer) would show up and flatten the house. We figured out pretty quick that every house we leave, a D9 shows up and razes it. The neighborhood we were in, what characterized it operationally was that it commanded a view of the entire area of the [Israel-Gaza barrier] and also of some of the [Israeli] border towns. In the southern and some of the eastern parts of Juhar al-Dik, we understood pretty quickly that the houses would not be left standing. At no point until the end of the operation, until the unit commander debriefed us, did anyone explain to us the value of razing houses. During the talk the unit commander explained that it wasn’t an act of revenge. That the houses situated on a high axis on this side of the ridge dominated the entire area between [the separation fence with] Israel and the neighborhood, and that is why they couldn’t be left standing. They also overlook the Israeli towns and allow for them to be shelled with mortars. At a certain point we understood it was a pattern: you leave a house and the house is gone – after two or three houses you figure out that there’s a pattern. The D9 comes and flattens it. 
You saw this happen?
You see it. It’s close. We started in the northern part of the neighborhood and worked our way south. Every time we left a house – no more house. When we got out of there, there were only a few houses left standing.
What did the neighborhood look like when you left?
A hill of ruins, pretty much – lots of broken-up concrete, and sadly also large swaths of agricultural lands dug up by tanks. Some of the hardest sights were the chicken coops. Often there were reports that the tunnels (dug by Palestinian militants) were being dug inside greenhouses to camouflage them. The coops were inside these greenhouse type structures, which were also flattened by the D9s. You saw all kinds of chickens – sometimes inside the coop and sometime outside, and sometimes half in and half out, totally in pieces. A whole lot of farm animals were wandering around the neighborhood. Not really a neighborhood anymore. And when updated maps were issued after we left [the Gaza Strip], we saw the only two houses that remained standing when we left, marked on them. 

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