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GENOCÍDIO CONTINUA NA FAIXA DE GAZA

Genocide goes on in Gaza, on our watch

Children killed in Gaza playground

Nesta tarde, a OLP (Organização para a Libertação da Palestina) aceitou a trégua proposta pela ONU e diz que está pronta para enviar uma delegação unitária ao Cairo a fim de negociar os termos de um cessar-fogo. Israel deve reunir-se às 16:00 GMT para discutir se aceita ou não parar a carnificina.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a PLO executive committee member, said this Tuesday afternoon that a 24-hour truce offer was agreed and that a unified Plaestinian delegation could be sent to Cairo to talk about the next steps.

According to a senior Palestinian leader, Egypt has told all sides in the Gaza conflict that a 24-hour ceasefire must be in place before talks get underway in Cairo.
Meanwhile, IDF keeps killing women and children all over the Strip and displacing more than 250.000 people.

Meanwhile, the New York-based American Jewish Congress said in a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan last week that he had become the world's "most virulent anti-Israeli leader" and it demanded that he return an award it had given him partly for his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
"Prime Minister Erdogan will be glad to return the award given back in 2004," Turkey's ambassador to Washington Serdar Kilic answered in the letter addressed to AJC President Jack Rosen. 
There is widespread anger in Turkey at Israel's offensive in Gaza.

Da noite de ontem pra hoje Israel vem bombardeando a Faixa de Gaza sem parar destruindo o máximo de infra-estrutura pública - inclusive a única central-elétrica de Gaza - e semeando destruição por toda parte. Matou mais de 100 pessoas nas últimas 24 horas, inclusive voluntários de organizações humanitárias. E continua atacando em todas frentes em ataques simultâneos da aeronáutica, marinha e infantaria.
Até as 15:00 GMT, o número de mortos palestinos chegava a 1.178. Cerca de 80% de civis, e a maioria absoluta de mulheres e crianças. Há mais de 5.600 feridos.
Durante a noite os jatos F16 da IDF bombardearam a casa de Ismail Haniyeh, líder do Hamas na Faixa e ex-primeiro ministro palestino. Ismail Haniyeh declarou em seguida: "Minha casa não vale mais do que as casas de outras pessoas. Destruir pedras não vai quebrar nossa determinação".
A IDF anunciou esta manhã a perda de mais cinco soldados, mortos durante confronto com resistentes palestinos, e esta tarde mais um. O que aumenta o número de perdas israelenses a 56.

Israel's military has struck numerous 'targets' in the Gaza Strip after Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, said his country needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian territory.
By daybreak this Tuesday, a cloud of thick dust from the explosions hung over Gaza City after Israeli forces fired hundreds of flares that turned the night sky bright orange.
At least 1,178 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have died in the ongoing Israeli offensive. 80% of civilians, many women and children. More then 5.600 wounded.
Eleven people were killed in a strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City as Israeli forces hit targets across the coastal strip, including a government complex.

Israel destroyed this morning
Gaza's only power plant    

Local health officials say more than 100 people have been killed in Gaza within just 24 hours. This number includes humanitarian workers
Overnight Israeli jets F16 have also bombed the home of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader in the Strip and Palestinian former prime minister. Ismail Haniyeh issued a statement after his home was hit, saying: "My house is not more valuable than the houses of other people. Destroying stones will not break our determination."
At least 22 hospitals or medical centres have been affected by Israeli shelling, while the UN estimates that 133 schools across Gaza have been damaged.
The main cemetery in eastern Gaza has also been under heavy Israeli air strikes, making even burials dangerous." 
The Israeli army has confirmed this morning that five of its soldiers were killed overnight by Palestinian resistants, bringing the total Israeli death toll to 56.  

Mísseis israelenses visam parque infantil e hospital 

Israeli missiles land in Playground and a hospital 

“Entire families are being wiped out in seconds as a result of the targeting of homes,” said Save the Children. More: You can see the Gaza conflict from space

CNN: US planes F16 drop bombs on Gaza

British students stand with Gaza agianst Israel's assault

"The student movement has issued a powerful united statement in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Amongst the signatories are National Union of Students Officers representing millions of students across Britain and over 100 pro-Palestine student leaders and activists from colleges and universities. The statement follows a wide array of solidarity activities that have taken place in recent weeks in protest of Israel’s brutal offensive in Gaza.
All students are encouraged to add their names, you can do so by emailing aaron.kiely@nus.org.uk with your name, college/university and any position you may hold.
Please share the statement far and wide as we want our message heard – British students are with the people of Palestine.
In unity, Aaron Kiely, NUS National Executive Council. Full statement below:
STUDENTS STAND WITH GAZA AGAINST ISRAEL’S ASSAULT
We as students completely condemn Israel’s horrific military assault currently taking place on Gaza that has led to the killing of over 1,000 Palestinians. The vast majority of those killed have been civilians and over 160 Palestinian children have lost their lives so far.
We have been horrified by the collective punishment inflicted on the people of Gaza by Israel. Huge numbers have been injured and 140,000 Palestinians have been displaced. Homes and hospitals have been bombed as well as educational institutions including the United Nations Refugee Agency School – a school designated by the UN as a shelter for people displaced by Israel’s assault.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner has said Israel should be investigated for war crimes. We send our sympathy, solidarity and support to all those affected by the assault, including the families of the victims.
We condemn Israel’s on-going siege on Gaza which has denied Palestinians their basic human rights for 7 years. The siege cuts Palestinians trapped in Gaza off from the outside world and severely limits basic supplies from entering such as food, safe water and medicine – making life intolerable for the 1.7 million people living there.
The Palestinians’ right to education has been particularly hard hit by the siege. Basic educational equipment including books, paper, computers, stationary and desks are all in limited supply and Israel routinely cuts off Gaza’s electricity supply.
We join the Trades Union Congress in calling for an end to the Israeli assault on Gaza, the lifting of the siege, an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories and for the UK government to stop arming and supporting Israel.
We call upon students to support the Palestinian call for a boycott of illegal settlements, settlement goods and corporations benefiting from the illegal occupation of the West Bank.
We call on all students to join us in taking part in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s peaceful protests across Britain, demanding an immediate end to Israel’s assault and siege on Gaza."

Depoimento de um universitário gazauí 

A Gazan graduate student speaks

Depoimento do professor israelense Ilan Pappe, de Haifa.

Israeli professor Ilan Pappe speaks from Haifa

A cantora irlandesa Sinéad O'Connor declinou o convite de um show em Israel.
"Ninguém com sanidade mental, incluindo eu mesma, sentiria outra coisa além de simpatia pela sina dos palestinos."
Sinéad revelou também que os organizadores de show estão oferecendo uma fortuna aos artistas mercenários que aceitarem tocar em Israel. 
The Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor said that she decided to withdraw from her Israel show.
“Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight,” she said. “There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the fuck the Israeli authorities are doing.”
Sinéad’s interview suggests that concert promoters are offering enormous fees to musicians willing to ignore the Palestinian-led call for boycott-divestment and sancitons (BDS Movement) against Israel. 

Violência na Faixa de Gaza abala relações de Israel com os Estados Unidos

Gaza violence strains Israeli-US relationship

Reservista da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence  

"I only knew Gaza from stories.  It was the military zone for which the Givate Brigade was responsible, but we all knew the stories about how they managed to kill several militants in one ambush. Honestly, we were a bit jealous. I was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at the end of the Second Intifada into a special operations unit of the paratrooper brigade. From the start of my service I knew that Nablus and Jenin would be the areas for which we were responsible. Child’s play, seemingly, compared to the stories that came out of Gaza – but my child’s play. I’ll never forget the first time that I was shot at, the first Palestinian corpse I ever saw, and the fear and adrenaline during my first military operation.

My first mission involved the seizure of a Palestinian home. I had never before had the opportunity to be inside a Palestinian home, and my squad was surprised for a moment by the fact that within the home lived an entire family – spanning three generations. We woke everyone up, and took over the house. We put everyone in one room - women, men, children, and the elderly. One of the guys was stationed at the door to ensure that they didn’t get out. In the meantime, we took care of our business. I remember asking myself: what do they think about all of this? What would I do if soldiers broke into my home? But I immediately repressed these questions and carried on with the mission. As time passed, fear turned into boredom, adrenaline stabilized, and my doubts about the extent of the operational logic and its justification would return to gnaw at me. But the next day there were already new operations. This was our daily routine, and as a result, the next time I didn’t really think about how the family whose home we entered felt. My personal red moral line blurred very quickly. Every time I would tell myself – this is still okay. But it’s in the nature of red lines to move along an imaginary scale. I wasn’t bothered when we destroyed entire homes during search operations, and when my squad accidentally shot an innocent woman, and we quickly buried the incident and moved on. Today I know that my ability to distinguish whether a particular action crosses the line, didn’t really exist back then.
What happened to me is happening to the IDF and to Israeli society at large. During Operation Cast Lead I had been a civilian active with Breaking the Silence for over a year, but I was still shocked by the incidents I heard had occurred there. I remember a friend who had taken part in Cast Lead. He returned shaken by the fact that homes of “Hamas members” were deemed legitimate targets for bombing without any relation to the risk they posed to our soldiers in the field. That was the first time he had encountered such orders during his military service. This is what he testified:
"In the morning we identified four men, aged 25 - 40, with keffiyehs, standing outside the house talking. It was suspect. We reported it to intelligence, specifying the house they were about to enter. Intelligence passed this on to the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency) who reported that this was known as a Hamas activist’s house. This is automatically acted upon. I don’t remember what we used - whether it was a helicopter or something else, but the house was bombed while these guys were inside. A woman ran out of the house holding a child, and escaped southward. That is to say, there had been innocent people inside."
The same red line that was crossed during Operation Cast Lead has become the starting line for Operation Protective Edge. Homes of “Hamas members” were added to the IDF’s long list of potential targets in the Gaza Strip.
The politicians that send us to perform these tasks don’t even pretend to promise hope for a better future. Just further use of force and violence. Our doubts about logic and justice don’t even interest us anymore, as our red moral lines are constantly moving in the face of our reality - much like mine during my military service. 150 killed in Gaza in the first six days of the operation, the vast majority of whom were civilians, and a quarter of whom were children. Millions of Israeli and Palestinian people live in existential fear that a rocket or a missile will fall on their heads. The end of one bout of violence merely sets an alarm for the next.
The red line at which we stopped during Operation Cast Lead (2009), is the same line from which we commenced Operation Pillar of Defense (2011). The point at which we stopped during Pillar of Defense is the same place from which we’ve started Protective Edge. What will our next red line be? And when will we cross that one too? Only we can answer that question. It depends on us, and what we allow others to do in our name."
Avner Gvaryahu served in the IDF as a sergeant in special forces from November 2004-November, 2007