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Sábado, dia 02 de agosto de 2014

Around 2:30am the Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, issued a statement denying being involved in the capture of Israeli soldier Goldin and presuming that he had been killed by Israeli strikes and artillery fire along with the Palestinian resistants. Despite the results of the forensic investigation, Israel continued to crash Rafah with artillery shells, bombs and missiles at greenhouses, fields, orchads while their bulldozers went on flattening homes. At the end of the day, the outskirts of the town were turned into a wasteland.
Nevertheless, Binyamin Netanyahu's thirst for Palestinian blood wasn't quenched yet; he announced Israel's offensive would continue even after all of Hamas' tunnels were destroyed.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Saturday, August 2. Below, only Palestinian identified victims.

Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 2 de agosto.

Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
OBS. Não consegui as idades de todos os meninos mortos, por isso não discriminei nas famílias de Rafah e alhures sublinhadas abaixo.

Haitham Yasser Abdel Wahab, 16, Rafah.
Mohamed Issa Ashaar, Rafah.
Hossam Yassin Abu Naqira, 20, Rafah
Mousa Yasin Abu Naqira, his kid brother.
Ola Bassam Al-Nairab,
Arwa Mohamed al-Nairab.
Mariam Hasan Abu Jazzar, 60, Rafah.
Fida Yousef Abu Suleiman, 23, Rafah
Maha Raed Abu Suleiman,
Mohammad Rami Abu Suleiman,
Ahmad Rami Abu Suleiman,
Lama Rami Abu Suleiman,
Jana Rami Abu Suleiman.
Mohammad Fouad Al-Dedda, 28, Jabalia.
Issa Saadi Ashaar, 40, Khan Younis.
Yasser Yousef Abu Dbagh, 20, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
Amro Tareq Hasan Qandil, 17, Central Gaza
Wael Nihad Sayyed, 23, Central Gaza
Mohammad Taiseer Hasan Qandil, 20, Central Gaza.
Hamdi Mohammad Abdul-Aziz Ayyad, Gaza.
Shadi Hamdi Mohammad Ayyad.
Sadia Abu Taha, 40, Rafah.
Mohammed Abu Taha, 27,
Youssef Abu Taha,
Rezeq Abu Taha, 2 months.
Yousef Daoud Abu Madi, 65, Nusseirat.
Hassan Yousef Abu Madi,
Karim Yousef Abu Madi 24,
Amin Yousef Abu Madi, 5.
Muhammad Hassan Qeshta, Rafah.
Ahmed Shtewi Qeshta.
Yahya al-Nems, Rafah.
Hazem al-Nems,
Mohammad al-Nems,.
Osama Abu Nakirah, Rafah.
Mousa Mohammad Ahmad Abu Rajila, 25, Rafah
Mohammad Foaz Ibrahim Abu Rajilah, 26.
Salma Suleiman Mohammad Radwan, 86, Rafah.
Ibrahim Abdel-Hakim Daoud al-Zaqzouq, 22, Rafah.
Hazim Khaled Abdel-Maadi Awda', Rafah.
Hathifa Abu Teir, Gaza City
Kamal Abu Teir,
Ahmad Abu Teir.
Nabil al-Najjar, Gaza City.
Yahya Jamal Musa Shabat, 29, Gaza City.

Balanço do Telegraph

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Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence

42. “They went in just to destroy stuff. Just to purposelessly destroy stuff”
Rank: Lieutenant. Unit: Infantry. Area: Rafah area:
The forces went into the *** area, (an area at the edge of Rafah where certain IDF forces were stationed) and destroyed everything still left there. Literally not a single house was left standing. Tanks, MATADORs portable anti-tank rockets), artillery. “We are entering the area in order to destroy the entire tunneling infrastructure that still remains there.” If you think about it, that really means every house in the area.
You said that according to the intelligence the IDF had, no tunnels were left there.
Right. What they mean is, this is the area in which the brigade moves around, if it’s still standing, it needs to be taken down.
How many structures are we talking about?
Around 12. A relatively small number. Mostly one-story houses and agricultural structures. This incursion happened the night before there was a ceasefire. The entrance happened at midnight, and everyone knew that at eight the next morning it will be over, apparently. And because they knew that, there was pressure to go in and finish the job very, very quickly. And also, because of that, they went in just to destroy stuff. Just to purposelessly destroy stuff, to finish the job, until they were told to stop.
43. “The civilian was laying there, writhing in pain”
Rank: Staff Sergeant. Unit: Infantry. Area: Northern Gaza strip:
It was during our first Sabbath. Earlier that day one of the companies was hit by a few anti-tank missiles. The unit went to raid the area from which they were fired, so the guys who stayed behind automatically cared less about civilians. I remember telling myself that right now, the citizens of Gaza, I really don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t deserve anything – and if they deserve something it’s either to be badly wounded or killed. That’s what was going through my mind during those moments. There was this one time when an old [Palestinian] man approached the house and everyone remembered hearing about that booby-trapped old man (earlier in his testimony the testifier described being briefed about an elderly Palestinian man armed with grenades who tried to attack a different force). This happened right around noon, between noon and 2:00 PM. So this old man came over, and the guy manning the post – I don’t know what was going through his head – he saw this civilian, and he fired at him, and he didn’t get a good hit. The civilian was laying there, writhing in pain. We all remembered that story going around, so none of the paramedics wanted to go treat him. It was clear to everyone that one of two things was going to happen: Either we let him die slowly, or we put him out of his misery. Eventually, we put him out of his misery, and a D9 (armored bulldozer) came over and dropped a mound of rubble on him and that was the end of it. In order to avoid having to deal with the question of whether he was booby-trapped or not – because that really didn’t interest anyone at that moment – the D9 came over, dropped a pile of rubble on his body and that was it. Everyone knew that under that pile there was the guy’s corpse. What came up during the investigation when the company commander asked the soldier, was that the soldier spotted a man in his late 60s, early 70s approaching the house. They were stationed in a tall house, with a good vantage point. The soldier spotted that guy going in his direction, toward his post. So he shot in the direction of his feet at the beginning. And he said the old man kept getting closer to the house so he shot a bullet beneath his left ribs. Kidney, liver, I don’t know what’s in there. A spot you don’t want to be hit by a bullet. That old man took the bullet, lay down on the ground, then a friend of that soldier came over and also shot the man, while he was already down. For the hell of it, he shot two more bullets at his legs. Meanwhile there was a talk with the commander, and because this was happening amidst a battalion offensive, it really didn’t interest anyone. “We have casualties up front, don’t bother us, do what you need to do.”
What were the lessons derived from that incident?
The lessons were less about conduct with civilians, because you can’t define conduct with civilians on the company level. That’s the ‘problem’ with combat in a place like the Gaza Strip. Withregard to lessons learned, they were primarily related to defense: where to position defense posts, guarding protocols, is guarding done in pairs? That was the level of discussion over lessons to be learned from this incident.

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