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Quinta-feira, dia 31 de julho de 2014

For many years, the U.S. has stored weapons in Israel. While continuing to call for a ceasefire, they transferred part of these munitions to the IDF, including rocket launchers, 40mm grenades and 120mm mortar rounds. 

While agreeing to a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire set to begin on 1 August at 8:00, the IDF anounced they would be calling up an additional 18.000 reservists, bringing the toal do 64 soldiers - both Israelis nationals and foreign Jihadists Jews.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Thursday, July 31. 
Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 31 de julho.

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

1. Suleiman Baraka, 31, Gaza
2. Aref Baraka, 58.
3. Ahmed al-Loah, 22, Gaza.
4. Baraa' Yousef, 19. Gaza.
5. Maha Abdul-Nabi Salim Abu Hilal, Rafah.
6. Majdi Mohammad Ahmad Fseifis, 34, Khan Younis.
7. Mohammad Juma’ an-Najjar, 32, Khan Younis
8. Mahar an-Najjar, 
9. Mahmoud Fouad an-Najjar.
10. Hani Abdullah Abu Mustafa, Khan Younis.
11. Hanan Yusef Abu T'aima, Khan Younis.
12. Mohammad Daher, Gaza.
13. Fadel Nader Almeghari, 27, Rafah.
14. Mahdiyya Suleiman Omar Abu Louly, 58, Khan Younis.
15. Tha'er Naji al-Amour, 22, Khan Younis.
16. Mohammed Yousef Al-Abadla, 21, Khan Younis.
17. Abdullah abu Shabab 20, Khan Younis.
18. Alaa' 'Alweh 22, Khan Younis.
19. Ahmed Salim Abdin , Khan Younis.
20. Mohamed Ahmed Hamad, Khan Younis.
21. Atiyyeh Salameh al-Hashash, 68, Rafah.
22. Hamza Fa'ek Ahmad al-Haddad, 20, eastern Gaza City
23. Ibrahim Asa'ad Ahmad al-Haddad, 21.
24. Mohammad Ammar Sharaf, 10, Gaza City.
25. Mohammed Ra'fat Na'eem, Gaza Old City.
26. Husam Ra’fat Na'eem, Gaza Old City.
27. Kamal Abdul-karim al-Louh, 32, Deir al-Bala
28. Ibrahim Abdul-karim al-Louh, 29,
29. Khaled Nasr al-Louh, 46.
30. Amaal Abdul-karim al-Masri, 48, Deir al-Bala.
31. Ilham Yahya al-Louh, 27, Deir al-Bala.
32. Samih Kamal Abu al-Kheir, 63, Khan Younis.
33. Othman Fawzi ‘Abdeen, 17, Khan Younis.
34. Siham al-Ham, Khan Younis, Nusseirat.
35. Mohammad Adel Ashour, Nusseirat.
36. Renad Ashraf Ashour, Nusseirat.
37. Abeer Nahed al-‘Ata, Nusseirat.
38. Naima Darwish Abu Shouq, Nusseirat.
39. Zaher Tawfiq Abu Maktoum, Nusseirat.
40. Ama’ Rafat al-‘Asa, Nusseirat.
41. Hasan Nassr Zaqqout, Nusseirat.
42. Labibeh Abu Shouqa, 23, Nusseirat.

Reservista da IDF denuncia para a C4 o crime de guerra

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 Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

38. “No one spoke about that at all”
Rank: Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Armored Corp:s
In the talk you had with the commander, was the word ‘war’ used?
The word ‘operation’ was used – ‘war’ was not – but I think something in the atmosphere, after that morning in Shuja’iyya for sure, projected war. In the way they told us, “There’s a house and we’ll go in first with the air force, and then with tank shelling, and then you guys go in ‘wet’ (with live fire).” In that situation it’s a bit hard to even consider it an operation. There was something that had ‘war’ written all over it – something really difficult, really serious. 
Did they discuss rules of engagement with you? What’s permitted and what’s forbidden?
During training, in that respect, [they told us] that we only enter houses ‘wet,’ with grenades, and the more of them the better – and [grenade] launchers if you can use them. You’re going to ‘open’ a house? Don’t take any chances, use your grenade launcher, utilize every effective tool you’ve got. Aim, fire and only then go in. You don’t know if there is or isn’t someone in there. Go in ‘wet’ with grenades, with live fire. These were the orders for entering houses.
How does one launch a grenade at a house?
You move back to a distance that’s effective for a grenade launcher. I don’t know – it explodes from about *** meters, more or less. You walk a distance back, and lob it through the window, into the house. These were the scenarios for which we trained. We weren’t presented with scenarios of ‘terrorist, not terrorist.’ [We were told] “This is the house, first thing – aim.” Instructors from the GOC (Ground Arms Command) would tell us, “Aim your weapon, fire the grenade, and then after that enter the house ‘wet.’” And this is after the commander says, “To ‘open’ a house, we start with two tank shells, and then if it’s necessary we call in the air force.” They tell you, “There is aerial assistance up there at all times. If you need something, speak up. Just say the word.” Eager for battle, in a crazy way. 
Did they discuss [dealing with] uninvolved civilians with you?
No one spoke about that at all. From their point of view, no one should be there at all. If there is [any Palestinian] there – they shouldn’t be. I think there was something very frightening, and also a bit paralyzing in the atmosphere. And I think that the feeling among [the soldiers] too, was that we really need to give it to them.  
39. “When the ‘target list’ is exhausted”
Do you know how high-ranking a [Hamas] militant needs to be in order for his residence be incriminated as the ‘house of an activist?’
No, and it depends on the stage of combat.
When the ‘target list’ is exhausted, is the threshold of the rank of militants whose residences get struck lowered? 
Absolutely. See, you start the fighting with a very orderly ‘target list’ that has been assembled over a long period of time, and there are also units whose objective is to mark new targets in real-time. And when we start running out [of targets], then we begin hitting targets that are higher on collateral damage levels, and pay less and less attention to that –but there are also all sorts of efforts aimed at gathering intelligence that’s specifically for establishing new targets –which means, for example, which areas are being used to launch [missiles or mortars toward Israel], statistics on where rockets are being fired from, where mortars are being fired from. [The coordinates] are calculated in a pretty precise way, and are used to try and figure out where it’s likely that there is rocket-launching infrastructure. And you say, “OK, I’ll strike that piece of land, because every morning at 7:00 AM, 10 mortar shells are fired from there.”
But there’s no information that there are people there carrying out launches – the fact that they go there doesn’t mean anything about that piece of land?
That’s correct.
And yet it would still be considered a launching site?
Possibly, yes.  

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Rogue IDF: O. Protective Edge 23° Dia

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Quarta-feira, dia 30 de julho de 2014

World outrage after a second strike on a UNRWA school kills 19 homeless Palestinians and, during a four-hour lull, another shell hits a packed market in Shejaiya killing more than 20. 
More than one hundred Palestinians died throughout the day, including one journalist.
The resistance reacted and after a day of heavy fighting, the IDF's death toll reached 56 as in the evening a booby-trapped tunnel entrance went off killing three Israeli soldiers. 
So far, three civilians had been killed in Israel.   

Over 1300 Palestinians were dead – mostly civilians, children, women and elderly. Entire families had been exterminated.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Wednesday, July 30. 
Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 30 de julho.

Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
OBS. Não consegui precisão sobre as idades das crianças assassinadas no bombardeio , mas há várias crianças nas famílias dizimadas.

1. Ahmad Mohammad Yassin al-Majayda, Khan Younis.
2. Ali Mahmoud al-Astal, 23, Khan Younis
3. Khaled Salim al-Astal, 26,
4. Mohammad Salim al-Astal,26,
5. Ramzi Ibrahim al-Astal, 21, 
6. Odah Ahmad al-Astal, 25, 
7. Ahmad Mahmoud Suleiman al-Astal, 26,
8. Ahmad Ibrahim Ali al-Astal, 
9. Khalil Ibrahim Ali al-Astal, 
10. Ezzedddin Jabr Mohammad al-Astal, 
11. Mohammad Mahmoud al-Astal.
12. Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Abadla, 21, Khan Younis.
13. Fahd Mahmoud Jaber al-Agha, 23, Khan Younis.
14. Asma’ Abu al-Kaas, 16, al-Boreij, Central Gaza.
15. Walid Shihda Marzouq Moammar, 51, Rafah.
16. Sojoud Abdul-Hakim Oleyyan, 11, Gaza.
17. Issam Jaber al-Khatib, Jabalia.
18. Sa’id Abu Jalala, Jabalia.
19. Taiseer Hammad, Jabalia.
20. Lu’ay al-Feery, Jabalia.
21. Bassem Khaled Najjar, Jabalia
22. Tha’er Khaled Najjar.
23. Osama Mohammad Sohweil, Jabalia.
24. Bilal Midhat al-‘Amoudi, Jabalia.
25. Abdullah Midhat al-‘Amoudi, Jabalia.
26. Mohammad Mousa Ghaban, Jabalia.
27. Ramadan Khader Salman, Jabalia
28. Alaa' Khader Salman.
29. Ali Ahmad Shaheen, Jabalia.
30. Rami Barakat, Jabalia.
31. Adel Mohammad Abu Qamar Jabalia.
32. Mohammad Ezzat Abu Sweireh, 34, Central District.
33. Hussein Mohammad Abu Rezeq, 36, Rafah.
34. 'Aed Zaqqout, Gaza City (coach of Palestine National Football Team)
35. Abdul-Aziz Hosni Abu Hajras, 23, Khan Younis.
36. Omar Awad al-Breem, Khan Younis,
37. Kamal Ahmad Al-Breem, 57, 
38. Jihad Salah Mohammed al-Breem, 28.
39. Mariam Ahmad Hejazi, Khan Younis
40. Salah Hejazi, 
41. Sabha Ibrahim Hejazi.
42. Ibrahim Mousa al-Ghalban, Khan Younis
43. Ismael Mahmoud al-Ghalban.
44. Ahmad Suleiman Abu Amer, Khan Younis
45. Mohammad Ahmad Abu Amer, 
46. Marwa Ahmad Abu Amer, 
47. Marah Ahmad Abu Amer, 
48. Yasser Ahmad Abu Amer,.
49. Suleiman Ahmad Abu Amer,
50. Mona Hajjaj Abu Amer.
51. Jihad Salah Mohammad Al-Breem, 25, Khan Younis.
52. Zeinab Abu Jazar, Khan Younis.
53. Maisara Mohammad at-Ta’ban, 35, Deir al-Balah.
54. Iftikhar Mohammad Shahin (Abu Zrei’ey) 50.
55. Odai Yahia Zaki Abu Jneid, 19, Beit Lahia.
56. Abdul-Jalil Mohammad Kamel Abu Shodoq, 35, Beit Lahia.
57. Jamal Shihda Abu Shodoq, 40, Beit Lahia.
58. Jamalat Mahmoud Dheir, Khan Younis
59. Salama Mahmoud Dheir, 
60. Mahmoud Salama Mahmoud Dheir, 
61. Yamen Omar Salama Mahmoud Dheir, 
62. Shorouq Mahmoud Dheir, 
63. Arwa Mahmoud Dheir.
64. Ramadan Mohammad Abu Jazar, Khan Younis.
65. Ali Ahmad Shahin, Gaza.
66. Taiseer Sababa, 22, Beit Lahia.
67. Ammar Suleiman Ali al-Masdar, 31, Gaza.
68. Hamza Yasser Mohammad Mheisin, 23, Gaza.
69. Wisam Dardouna, Beit Lahia.
70. Anwar ‘Adel Abu Nasr, 20, Khan Younis,
71. Ismael Walid Abu Nasr, 18.
72. Ahmad Khalil Abu ‘Anza, 32, Khan Younis,
73. Shadi Abdullah Abu ‘Anza, 38, .
74. Ali Mahmoud Abu ‘Anza, 27, 
75. Ahmad Abdullah Abu ‘Anza.
76. Mohammad Suleiman Baraka, Khan Younis.
77. Mustafa Ahmad Abu Jalala, Beit Lahia.
78. Husam Mohammad an-Najjar, northern Gaza
79. Sha'aban Abdul-aziz al-Jamal, northern Gaza
80. Alaa' Joudy Khader, northern Gaza
81. Mohammed Mazen Moussa Foda, Sheja’eyya
82. Ahmad Abdulkarim Hannoun , Sheja’eyya
83. Saadi Saadi Faraj , Sheja’eyya
84. Hussein Saeed Kar're'ra , Sheja’eyya
85. Hamdi Sadi Abu Zour , Sheja’eyya
86. Abdulkarim Hussein El-Selk , Sheja’eyya
87. Aahed Ziad Al Gharabli , Sheja’eyya
88. Abdulaziz Ibrahim El-Beltagy , Sheja’eyya
89. Lena Ala'a El-Selk , Sheja’eyya
90. Abdulaziz Mohammed El-Selk,
91. Abdel Halim Mohammed El-Selk,
92. Malak Jalal El-Selk,
93. Amina Mohammed El-Selk,
94. Layan Nael El-Selk.
95. Moataz Bassam Deeb , Sheja’eyya
96. Mahmoud Mohamed Ragab , Sheja’eyya
97. Moaaz Khaled Tayeh , Sheja’eyya
98. Abdullah Fayez Fayad 23, Gaza City
99. Suhaib Salleh Salama 23, Gaza City
100. Ibrahim Yusuf al-Astal 35, Gaza City
101. Aassem Ahmed Baraka 25, Khan Younis.
102. Mayar Jamal Abu musbeh, 9, Deir al-Balah
103. Mohammad Tayseer Abu Hazaa', 25, Deir al-Balah

When Media coverage becomes the story

Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

37. “Blow it up, blow it up, use it all”
Rank:  Lieutenant.   Unit: Engineering Corps.   Area: Northern Gaza strip:
To take down a house you need eight mines. Each mine contains 10 or 11 kilos of explosives. You place them on the building’s foundation columns. Say the building has six columns, it’s enough for you to place three mines. Three columns go down – the building goes down. But the thing is, you brought 40 or 50 mines with you. And you can’t go back out with them, so you have to blow them up. That’s how it works. So you put down 40 or 50 mines on the house. The houses nearby get hit by the shock, of course, and they also collapse, or it causes a fire or the whole greenhouse or workshop or whatever happens to be near the house also goes up in the air. The company commander tells you, “Blow it up, blow it up, use it all, I’ve got nothing to do with these munitions, I’m not going to return them – we aren’t going to get caught walking in the middle of Gaza carrying mines on our backs with no ability to defend ourselves if we get confronted.” This is an unusual situation that repeats itself in almost every engineering operation. You come to a house with the intention of blowing it up – it can be nothing but a 20 square meter affair, two stories. And you get there with lots and lots of explosives because they always give you extra, they always want you to blow it up and always want you to be prepared for any other missions that might pop up or something like that. So 45 mines are used, 45 mines is half a ton. Half a ton is like a bomb from a plane. We’re talking about half a ton of C4 [explosives]. The shock waves, they move along the terrain. It could be that in order to blow up the shaft of a tunnel and collapse a few dozen meters of it you would put down five mines – 50 kilos. See, the shock waves move through it and collapse the entire tunnel. And then a kilometer away, on the other side, you see the tunnel’s other shaft fly up in the air. You blow up a house here, and sometime you see the effects half a kilometer away. Or for example if a concrete column that’s one and a half meters tall and half a meter wide goes flying into another house, it destroys two rooms. It may not take the whole house down, but it destroys two rooms. The blast explodes in 360 degrees. To avoid getting hurt you need to withdraw to a distance of 300 meters and get in an armored vehicle, which means that things 300 meters away from the site of the blast are harmed, 360 degrees around. Not to mention the electrical poles that collapse, not to mention the electrical wires and all kinds of water pipes that get hit by the shock. 
One time I saw a big water pipe, which was already exposed after a D9 (armored bulldozer) ran over it – that was hit by something from either the infantry’s Tzefa or Hatfan (anti-mine tools that operate by detonating a chain of explosives dozens of meters long). The pipe burst and gallons of water came pouring out. It was a potable water reserve, drinking water. You could tell it wasn’t sewage. This type of damage isn’t taken into consideration. It’s 200 meters from the explosion, 100 meters from the explosion – and it gets hit. The explosions’ effects cause major amounts of damage, but that doesn’t interest anyone. “Use it, use it, explosives can’t be taken back.” The platoon commander says, “I don’t want to leave with explosives on me. If an RPG (anti-tank rocket) hits my tank, I’m blown away.” He says, “I’ll just use everything I was given.” He plays along. You’re ordered to “not bring it back.” You were given 40 mines? Blow them all up. Is there some lean-to, some storage shed near the building? Put two mines in it. And over there in that chicken coop, and in that shed. That’s the way it is, you’re given as many mines as possible. You also make a pile in the middle of whatever you find nearby. Fifty meters away you saw some cooking gas canisters? You take those, too, put them inside the house, pile it all up and then everything gets blown up together with the building. 

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THE WHOLE POINT OF OPE WAS TO LEAVE “FAMILIES UNDER THE RUBBLE.”
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Terça-feira, dia 29 de julho de 2014
Binyamin Netanyahu warns of  "prolonged war"

Overnight, the IDF targeted 70 locations within Gaza. Including the home of the elected Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, the Strip's media offices for Al-Aqsa TV and radio, and fuel tanks located outside the only Gazan power plant, while Binyamin Netanyahu warned of "prolonged war".

Around 200.000 of Gaza's 1.8 milhion residents were already seeking shelter in UNRWA schools. 

Chilling footage of IDF destroying a whole neighbourhood in less than one hour. Which easily explains the number of deaths and injuries among the Palestinians.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Tuesday, July 29. 
Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 29 de julho.

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

1. Naji Ahmad al-Raqqab, 19, Khan Younis.
2. Ramy Khaled al-Raqqab, 35.
3. Mahmoud Osama al-Qosas, Khan Younis.
4. Shadi Abd al-Kareem Farwana, Khan Younis.
5. Mustafa Abd al-Samiee al-Ubadala, Khan Younis.
6. Yahiya Mohammad Abdullah al-Aqqad, 49, Khan Younis.
7. Yusef Emad Qaddoura, child, Jabalia
8. Huna Emad Qaddoura, child.
9. Mohammad Musa Alwan, child, Jabalia.
10. Mariam Khalil Ruba, 70, Jabalia.
11. Hani Abu Khalifa, Jabalia.
12. Soheila al-'Ejel, 70, Gaza City.
13. Mo'nes Ahmad, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
14. Ezzat Dheir, 23, Rafah
15. Turkeyya Dheir, 80,
16. Yasmeen Dheir, 25,
17. Mary Dheir, 12, 
18. Tasneem Dheir, 8.
19. Soheil Hasan Nassar, Beit Lahia.
20. Anis Abu Shammala, Al-Boreij (Mayor).
21. Ayman Samir Qeshta, 30, Rafah.
22. Ismael Shahin, 27, Rafah.
23. Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib, Rafah,
24. Ola Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib.
25. Tahrir Nasr Jaber, 15, Northern Gaza.
26. Mohammad Ata Najjar, 2, Khan Younis
27. Rafif Ata Najjar, 3.
28. Zaher Ahmad Najjar, 6.
29. Baha' ed-Deen Khatib, Journalist, Rafah,
30. 'Ola Baha' ed-Deen Khatib.
31. Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
32. Ahmad Suleiman Ahmad Abu Amer, Khan Younis
33. Mohammed Ahmad Abu Amer,
34. Marwa Ahmad Abu Amer,.
35. Marah Ahmad Abu Amer,
36. Yasser Ahmad Abu Amer,
37. Suleiman Ahmad Abu Amer,
38. Moha Hajjaj Abu Amer.
39. Mos'ab Ahmad Sweih, 17, Gaza.
40. Nariman Khalil al-Agha, 39, Gaza.
41. Ali Mohammad Abu Ma'rouf, 23, Gaza.
42. Dr. Bashir al-Hajjar, northern Gaza
43. Samir al-Hajjar.
44. Hana’ Na’im Balata, Jabalia
45. Doa’ Na’im Balata,
46. Esra’ Na’im Balata,
47. Mariam Na’im Balata,
48. Yahia Na’im Balata, 
49. Sahar Motawe’ Balata.
50. Naim Nathmi, Jabalia.
51. Suleiman Mos'ad Barham al-Hishash, 30, Rafah.
52. Jamal Ramadan Lafi, 50, Rafah.
53. Karam Abu Zeid, 1.

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Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

35. “Deter them, scare them, wear them down psychologically”
Area: Gaza strip:
Why are militants’ houses bombed? 
A house belonging to a militant, who isn’t there at the time? Deterrence. Deter them, scare them, wear them down psychologically, et cetera.
How do you know this? 
From years of experience. It’s for claiming a toll.
Do you know what rank a militant needs to be so his house gets listed as a target? 
It depends on the stage of the fighting.
Based on what you know, when the target list gets depleted, does the rank level for whose houses will be targeted decrease? 
Absolutely.
In the debriefings, is there any reference to the number of militants’ houses and of munitions caches that were bombed? 
No, usually the way that gets summed up is, ‘such-and-such targets were hit,’ and sometimes they also say how many of those entailed ‘roof knockings’ – but those are astronomical numbers, really.
What do you mean? 
Say 100 targets were hit in the past 24 hours – that’s an unimaginably high number for a given day. And another level on which things are treated is that of readiness – when you discuss the Hamas militants’ morale and confidence, sometimes after militants’ houses are struck you say, “We know that in such-and-such [Hamas] brigade they are expressing concern over the continuation of the fighting,” it’s at that level. I mean, nobody’s saying “We’ll strike that target because it’s the house of a militant and it will lower his motivation” – but one does say the morale is low due to the fact that the strikes on the militants’ houses is having an impact and decreasing the Hamas militants’ morale.
36. "Suddenly Haniyeh's mansion goes up in the air, too”
Were there attacks on “symbols of government?”
Symbols of government, definitely. There’s always love directed at Haniyeh’s mansion, (Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip) and at some point it got fired at. Such targets, by the way, are often kept for the later stages, as a psychological kind of thing. That is, they don't do it right at the start [of the operation], during the big wave. 
Often it’s isolated into some specific incident – say, a one-sided escalation, or they hit something, or they carried out some really big terror attack –and then suddenly Haniyeh’s mansion goes up in the air, too. 

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E nossos dois menestréis comprovaram sua ingenuidade e narcizismo ao justificarem que queriam construir uma ponte entre israelenses e palestinos... Surreal. Partirão sem entender que o problema não é o diálogo e sim terminar com a ocupação e a limpeza étnica da Palestina aplicando as leis internacionais. Que talvez os dois marionetes sionistas não saibam que existem, que incriminam as práticas criminosas de Israel, que este as espezinha e que a única maneira de fazer com que este país fora-da-lei as respeite é com o BOICOTE geral do país e de seus produtos, inclusive culturais e esportivos.

VERGONHA, Gil é Caetano! Shame on you!!  

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Rogue IDF: O. Protective Edge 21°Dia

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Segunda-feira, dia 28 de julho de 2014

In the evening, the UN Security Counsil held an emergency meeting to issue a statement calling for both sides to have an immediate and indefinite humanitarian ceasefire, without mentioning Israelis or Palestinians and requested that Egypt mediate a permanent ceasefire.

Israel bombs Al-Shifa children's hospital in Gaza causing human, material and medical damage, out of anger for losing more soldiers in battle against Hamas.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Monday, July 28. 
Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 28 de julho.

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

1. Samih Jebriel Jneid, 4, Jabalia.
2. Mohammad Abu Louz, 22, Jabalia.
3. Ahmad Abdullah Hasan Abu Zeid, Rafah
4. Widad Ahmad Salama Abu Zeid, 
5. Sham'a Wael Abu Zeid, 
6. Mariam Marzouq Abu Zeid, 
7. Falasteen Mohammad Abu Zeid, 
8. Abdullah Nidal Abu Zeid (child), 
9. Bissan Eyad Abu Zeid, 
10. Abdul-Hadi Abu Zeid, 9.
11. Seham Najjar, 42, Khan Younis.
12. Abdul-Samad Mahmoud Ahmad Ramadan, 16, Central District.
13. Ayman Adnan Mousa Shaker, 25, Central District
14. Issa Kamel Abdul-Rahman Mousa, 61.
15. Salem Mousa Badawi al-Far, 59, Maghazi Camp, Central District
16. Ramzi Hussein Ahmad al-Far, 
17. Salem Mohammad al-Far,
18. Hanan Salem al-Far, 14.
19. Azza Abdul-Karim Abdul-Rahman Al-Faleet, 59, Central District.
20. Mohammad Jom’a Shaat, 30, Khan Younis.
21. Mohammad Fadel al-‘Agha, 30, Khan Younis
22. Marwa Nader al-Agha,
23. Ahmad Nader Al-Agha,.
24. Donia Nader al-Agha, 13.

Meanwhile in the West Bank...

RT shows IDF's point of view

Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

33. “We didn’t know they were inside”
Rank: Staff Sergeant.  Unit: Infantry.  Area: Northern Gaza strip:
There were 30-40 [Palestinian] guys in the first house at which we arrived. An opening was made [by our forces] in its outer wall with a breaching frame it’s this device with explosives in it – and then we entered.
Was there a public warning  for people to get out? 
We didn’t know they were inside at that moment. Before that stage there had been all these leaflets (warning people to leave), and we saw them running away when we started entering [the Gaza Strip]. It was evident that the civilians understood that we were coming. At this point there was a massive deployment of backup forces, of the various relief forces. This specific house hadn’t been hit by any tank shells when we entered it. As far as I could tell this was due to a mistake – it was supposed to have been hit. Lucky for them it hadn’t. But in general, every house you were meant to enter was supposed to have been fired at beforehand, if not with a tank shell then with a tank-mounted 0.5 [machine gun]. This one was a house with a very, very large courtyard, and that’s where they were all gathered; there were signs indicating that they had packed quickly. I think they may have been under the impression that they would be able to stay. The field interrogator grabbed one of them and took him aside with the company commander; I have no idea what happened there, I suppose he tried to get as much information out of him as was possible. Ultimately, it was made clear to them that now they need to get the hell out of the place. They did.
Where to? 
Further south, I guess. This absolutely did not concern me. At 04:00 AM, four or five women came over – they had put bags on a stick, like white flags. I don’t speak arabic, but from their gesturing I gathered that they had come back – so they claimed – to take stuff they had forgotten in the house, stuff they considered critical. Obviously that didn’t happen.
What did you do at that point? 
We fired toward their feet. 
34. “Just blasting things away”
At some point at around 1:30 AM they told us, “Movement is commencing.” We were advancing pretty quietly, hearing constant booms in the air and the sky was red. You walk either in a line or in pairs, depending on how much you can spread out, and you walk pretty slowly. The tanks are already positioned somewhere, and they are starting to pound away at anything you might need to walk across, or anything in which they think some [enemy] might be. Just blasting things away. During two weeks they shot over 1,000 shells. The commander said some people said it was maybe excessive, but…
This was the armored battalion you were with?
It was the armored battalion, which was fighting alongside our brigade task force. 
Were the rules of engagement explained to you before entering [the Gaza Strip]?
There were no rules of engagement. If you see anyone in that area, that person is a terrorist. In this context, it was simple. They told us they have intelligence that there are practically no civilians remaining in the area, and so if someone comes towards us, that person is a terrorist. 

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Domingo, dia 27 de julho de 2014
"Israel has violated the laws of war"

The four hour ceasefire extension ended at midnight. Hamas rejected another extension because Israel had used the truce to demolish 13 tunnels between Rafah and Egypt, used mainly for transporting goods to the Strip.
In the evening, Barack Obama called Netanyahu to reaffirm his support and sent to the media a call for "a disarmed and demilitarized Gaza in any ceasefire proposal", so the Palestinians of Gaza would be as powerless against the occupation as those who are imprisoned in the West Bank. Obviously, Hamas rejected the suicidal proposal.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Sunday, July 27. 
Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 27 de julho.

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

1. Ikram ash-Shinbari, 23, Gaza City, died of earlier injuries.
2. Yusef Jamil Sobhi Hammouda, 16, Gaza City, died of earlier injuries.
3. Ibrahim Khalil ad-Derawi, 27, central District.
4. Ala Nahedh Matar, 26, central District.
5. Hazem Fayez Abu Shammala, 33, central District
6. Issam Abdul-Karim Abu Sa’ada, Khan Younis.
7. Ahmad Abu Sweirej, 23, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
8. Mohammad Abu Haroun, 29, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
9. Fadi Baraka, Gaza, child, died of earlier injuries.
10. Baha’ ed-Deen Ahmad Sa’id, al-Maghazi, died of earlier injuries.
11. Yousef Abed Shehada al-Masri, 24, Shuja'eyya, Gaza.
12. Khaled Abdul-Sattar Samhoud, Khan Younis.
13. Jalila Faraj Ayyad, Gaza City.
14. Essam Ibrahim Abu Shab, 42.
15. Mohammad Siyam, 15, Rafah.
16. Hussein Hasan Abu an-Naja, 65, Khan Younis.
17. Imad Jami al-Abed al-Bardaweel, 44, Gaza.

Al Jazeera from Gaza

To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza. 

Ilan Pappe . 27 July 2014

Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

32. “We were encouraged to avoid directing high-arc trajectory fire into built-up areas
Rank:  Lieutenant.   Unit: Infantry.   Area: Northern Gaza strip:
The whole conception was that during that stage, there were no civilians inside the area in which we were fighting – there was no such thing. It doesn’t happen. The situation on the ground is very clear – the preliminary fire, which isn’t directed at houses, signals very clearly [to the Palestinian population] that we are going in; this is after the leaflets and all those things. We have our zone, which is totally open, there are no other forces there and we know where the next battalion is located. During the first stages we would still go on the two-way radio] to get authorization [to fire] from our commander – we say, “We spotted a [missile] launch, we have a coordinate, do we have authorization to fire?” After we validate that launches were made in our direction, or in the direction of Israel, from within the built-up area – then there is authorization to fire at them, and then we just open fire on our own. In the beginning, they tried to define priorities, and [we were encouraged] to avoid directing high-arc trajectory fire into built-up areas. But in practice, when we were in the field and we had a combat chopper or some other aircraft up in the air, we used it first thing [to fire at the site from which the launch was detected]. But at times when [air support] wasn’t available due to constraints – we employed [the artillery] straight away.
After you detect a launch, you go on the radio with a senior officer, get authorization to fire and then employ the artillery division. 
First an explosive shell is fired. We identify the spot where it landed – I don’t know if I could say whether it was right on target – but if we saw that it landed in the same area from which we saw the rocket being launched, then we authorize the artillery guys to fire, say, five shells.
The first shell is for calibrating [the mortar’s] range? 
It’s not calibration because we don’t exactly pinpoint the location [where the shell lands], but [if] we see it hit the spot and the deviation isn’t serious than we authorize five shells on that spot.
What’s the range of a mortar’s deviation, how precise is it? 
The standard deviation range, that isn’t due to an error in aim, is up to 400 meters. Less than 400 meters, it’s not an error in aim; it’s a possible deviation that gets fixed. In practice, [the mortars] are usually precise at a range of 50 to 100 meters.
Did you have any of those new GPS-fitted mortars?
Our crew didn’t, we heard that the battalion tried to get hold of some but didn’t manage. I know that generally those are very, very precise, with a 20-meter range of deviation.

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