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Sexta-feira, dia 01 de agosto de 2014

A planned 72 hour ceasefire collapsed within an hour. Israel accused Hamas of staging an ambush in Rafah shortly after the ceasefire started, and kidnapping Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin. Hamas rejected both claims, arguing the ambush probably happened before the ceasefire came into effect, and that the soldier was almost certainly dead.

Disregarding this claim, Israel launched a major bombardment near the southern city of Rafah and implemented a Hannibal Protocol. No warning was given to Rafah residents. For three hours, massive firepower was used in the area with 40 airstrikes and more than 1.000 artillery shells, bombs and missiles. Jets, drones, helicopters and artillery rained fire at pedestrians and vehicles, including ambulances. As a result, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded. To make matters worse for the medics to help the wounded civilians, through the day, the IDF kept up fire on the al-Najjar hospital and its vicinity causing further casualties until it was evacuated at 15:30.

Some 36 hours later, body parts from the missing soldier were found inside a tunnel, with his officers pronouncing him dead. Probably killed by this massive "friendly" fire.

Besides the many Palestinian casualties, IDF's bulldozers flattened, on that single day, more than 2.200 gazan families houses.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Friday, August 1.

Below, only Palestinian identified victims.

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 1° de agosto.

Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
OBS. Não consegui as idades de todos os meninos mortos.

Abdul-Malek Abdul-Salam al-Farra, 58, Khan Younis
Osama Abdul-Malek al-Farra, 34,
Emad Abdul-Hafeth al-Farra, 28,
Awatef Ezzeddin al-Farra, 29,
Mohammad Mahmoud al-Farra, 12,
Lojein Bassem al-Farra, 4,
Yara Abdul-Salam al-Farra, 8,
Nadine Mahmoud al-Farra.
Abdullah Awad al-Breem, Khan Younis
Mohammad Suleiman al-Breem,
Maisoun Ra’fat al-Breem.
Raed Abdul-Latif al-Qarra, Khan Younis.
Sami Suleiman al-Madani, Khan Younis
Husam Suleiman al-Madani,.
Ahmad Salim Abdin, Khan Younis.
Mohammad Ahmad Hamad, Khan Younis.
Mousa Hamad Abu ‘Amran, Khan Younis.
Hilal Eid Abu ‘Amran, Khan Younis.
Ismael Zuheir Mohammadein, 26, Khan Younis.
Maher Ja’far Hajjaj, 54, Khan Younis.
Mohammad Reziq Hassanein, 20, Shuja'eyya, Gaza.
Ahmad Mohammad Hassanein.
Basil Diab al-Basyouni.
Shadi Mohammad Jom’a Abu Daher, 29, Khan Younis.
Hasan Abdul-Majid al-Bayyoumi, Deir al-Balah.
Ibrahim Sulayman Al-Masri, 50, Rafah
Nadia Yousef Al-Masri, 45,
Ibrahim Al-Masri, 6.
Mohamed Anas Arafat, 4 months, Rafah.
Anas Ibrahim Hamad, 5, Rafah.
Sabri Shaykh Al-Eid, 35 years, Rafah.
Mohammed Khalid Al-Aloul, 30 years, Rafah.
Ibrahim Mostafa Ghaneem, Rafah.
Amna Azamaly, Rafah.
Yahya Abd Al-Karim Lafi, Rafah.
Musa Mohamed Abu Omran, Rafah.
Hilal Eid Abu Omran, Rafah.
Salama Mohamed Al-Zamaly, Rafah.
Nuha Jamal Abu Ziyada, Rafah.
Taiseer Ali Moamir' , Rafah.
Hussein Salaam Al-Jaafari, Rafah.
Yousra Mohamed Abu Hazir, Rafah.
Mousa Ibrahim Abu Hazir, Rafah.
Ataf Hamad Al-Mahmoum, Rafah.
Ahmed Wisam Al-Abeed, 4, Central Gaza.
Souad Ali Al-Bahri, 60 years, Beit Lahia.
Samal Nail Al-Barawi, 8 months, Beit Lahia.
Osama Abdul-Malik Abu Mualla, 37 years, Nuseirat
Atif Sohail Kandil, 24, Maghazi
Nihad Mohammed Yasin, 24, Gaza City
Faiz Tareq Yassin, 16, Gaza City
Hassan Ismail Yassin, 32, Gaza City.
Ambulance officer Atef Zamili, Rafah.
pathologist Joseph Jameen Sheikh Eid, Rafah.
ambulance volunteer Yousef Jaber Drabiah, Rafah
Wajih Sha'ath, Khan Younis.
Fadi Al-Qawasmi , Khan Younis.
Ali Barbakh , Khan Younis.
Aseel Sha’ban Gheith, 3, Rafah
Sufian Farouq Gheith, 35,
Farouq Gheith, 65.
Ahlam No’man Zo’rob, 18, Rafah.
Sabiha Zo’rob, 55,
Amir Ra’fat Zo’rob, 7,
Odai Ra’fat Zo’rob, 7,
Su’ad No’man Zo’rob, 34,
Shahd Ra’fat Zo’rob, 10,
Khaled Ra’fat Zo’rob, 8,
Rawan Nath’at Siyam, 12, Rafah.
Yousef Darbieh, 25, Rafah (Medic Volunteer)

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Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

40.“Firing shells in his memory”
Rank: Staff Sergeant. Unit: Armored Corps:
A week or two after we entered the Gaza Strip and we were all firing a lot when there wasn’t any need for it –just for the sake of firing – a member of our company was killed. I remember it happened on Friday afternoon and we – my force, which is a tank platoon, we were separated from the rest of the company, not connected to them physically or in terms of missions – we were with an engineering force doing something else, and the rumors started flowing our way. They started saying that some guys were injured, some guys maybe killed, seriously injured, and the game of where and who-knows-what-happened got going. The company commander came over to us and told us that one guy was killed due to such-and-such, and he said, “Guys, get ready, get in your tanks, and we’ll fire a barrage in memory of our comrade.” In the meantime the platoon stood in a sort of stationary circle, people were crying, people also broke some windows in the area with their weapons, and we got in the tanks and started them up. And the platoon commander asked the company commander, “We are preparing for engagement, OK?” ‘Engagement,’ that is, a tank firing at something. The company commander says, “Authorized, at your own time.” We went up, my tank went up to the post – a place from which I can see targets, can see buildings, can ensure that I can fire at them, and the platoon commander says, “OK guys, we’ll now fire in memory of our comrade,” and we said OK. Throughout the entire operation there was a sort of building far away near the coastline, around 4.5 kilometers from us, a building that nobody really even knew where it was located. I don’t even know what neighborhood that was. It wasn’t a threat to us, it had nothing to do with anybody, it wasn’t part of the operation, it was out by the sea, far away from anything and from any potential threat – but that building was painted orange, and that orange drove my eyes crazy the entire time. I’m the tank gunner, I control all the weapons systems, I have the sights and I’m the guy who actually fires and sees everything that happens, and the whole week or two, that orange was driving my eyes crazy. So I told my platoon commander: “I want to fire at that orange house,” and he told me: “Cool, whatever you feel like,” and we fired. We fired at a distance of 4.5 kilometers, a shell that’s supposed to be used against tanks – it’s not useful for anything else, it’s not meant to harm people, only tanks, and we were just firing at that orange house because it was orange.
Did your guys discuss it later?
The bit about shelling purposelessly? No, because when you look at the bigger picture, that’s something we were doing all the time. We were firing purposelessly all day long. Hamas was nowhere to be seen – it’s not like they stood up on some roof for you holding a sign that says, ‘We are Hamas militants.’ You have no idea what’s going on, and because you don’t, your human nature is to be scared and ‘over’ defensive, so you ‘overshoot.’ And no one discusses that because it goes without saying that everyone wants to… And the rules of engagement were pretty easy-going – I was shocked when I first heard them.
41. "The Day After"
Rank: Lieutenant. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
Part of the [military] engineering rationale, of what’s called ‘the day after’ – I don’t know if that’s a term that gets published – is that when we blow up and raze areas, we can in effect sterilize them. Throughout the period of combat, one keeps in mind that there is this thing called ‘the day after,’ which is: the day we leave [the Gaza Strip], the more [areas] left wide-open and as ‘clean’ as possible – the better. One decides on a certain line – during the days after Operation ‘Cast Lead’ it was 300 meters from the fence – and it’s leveled, flattened. Doesn’t matter if there are groves there, doesn’t matter if there are houses, doesn’t matter if there are gas stations – it’s all flattened because we are at war, so we are allowed to. You can justify anything you do during wartime.. Everything suddenly sounds reasonable even though it isn’t really reasonable. We had a few D9s (armored bulldozers) in our battalion and I can attest that the D9s alone destroyed hundreds of structures. It was in the debriefing. There were a few more structures that we blew up in the end. Obviously there were all kinds of other things, but the D9 was the main tool, it doesn’t stop working. Anything that looks suspicious, whether it’s just to clear a path, whether it’s some other thing, whatever – it takes it down. That’s the mission.

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