domingo, 23 de agosto de 2015

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Sábado, dia 23 de agosto de 2014 
 
The IDF bombed the middle class apartment complex known as Al Zafer Tower 4, in Gaza, leaving dozens of injured, besides the dead.
Israeli war on Palestinian children

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Saturday, August 23. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 23 de agosto.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
  1. Hadi Hayel Abu Dahrouj, 3, Central Gaza.
  2. Abdullah Hayel Abu Dahrouj, 4,
  3. Hayat Abed-Rabbo Abu Dahrouj, 49, 
  4. Hoda Mohammad Abu Dahrouj, 27, 
  5. Hayel Shihda Abu Dahrouj, 26.
  6. Abdel-Rahman Hadayed, 25, Khan Younis, died of earlier wounds.
  7. Hussein Khaled Ahmad, 8, Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza
  8. Nisreen Ahmad, (Hussein's mother)
  9. Suheir Abu Mdein, Deir al-Balah (body pulled from rubble)
  10. Salah Isleim, died of earlier wounds.
  11. Mahmoud Osama Mahmoud Abbas Abu al-Omarain, 28, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City
  12. Mohammad Sabr al-'Ejla, 64, central Gaza
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
78 Every five hours that the tank is idle, it’s better to ‘provoke’ the place
Rank: Staff Sergeant.  Unit: Armored Corps.  Area: Khan Yunis:
When we first entered [the Gaza Strip], when we took over houses, there was this thing of ‘provoking’ the area. If you’re standing for hours and the tank is idle, you don’t start driving back and forth. There’s no comparison between a tank that’s in motion and a tank that’s idle. An idle tank is 1,000 times more vulnerable, and you can’t just drive around for seven hours if you’re stationed at a certain building. So once in a while there were steps we would take to ‘provoke’ the area. What does that mean? It means machine gun fire at ‘suspicious spots.’
What are ‘suspicious spots’? 
Bushes, suspicious buildings.
When you fire at a ‘suspicious spot’ that’s a building, do you fire toward the window or toward the corner of the structure?
The corner. You want to ‘provoke’ the area and make sure that if there’s someone in there he won’t suddenly pop his head out and screw you with some anti-tank missile.
You stay inside the vehicles but start shooting at ‘suspicious spots’? 
Every few hours, not the whole time. Every five hours that the tank is idle, it’s better to ‘provoke’ the place.
The commander would tell you to shoot ‘provocation fire’ at a preordained time, and the targets were chosen by the tank team? By the tank commander? 
Yes, in accordance with what you have around you. You locate ‘suspicious spots’ – one doesn’t need to be a genius to do that. There’s no precise definition, but you know a ‘suspicious spot’ when you see it. You analyze the area, figure out what’s what, which house is tall and has command over you, which windows are pointed right in your direction. And then wham, I fire a burst. You don’t waste shells, you don’t just shoot shells for no reason.
Up to what range can you define something as a ‘suspicious spot?’ 
Any range. In principle, any house that can see me, that’s within eyeshot of me, which could take me down – can be defined as suspicious. We would scan the entire range – any place within eyeshot.
What’s the farthest point? 
Hundreds of meters away from us. I’ll give you a stupid example, it’s even sort of funny. There was one night when someone said, “I saw [movement] over there.” The whole time, of course, we’re on the two-way radio making sure, asking questions – you don’t want to find out that one of your guys went out to take a dump and you accidently shot him. So he said, “I saw it for certain and there’s nobody of ours out there.” They said, “You have authorization to fire” so he opened fire with the [tank’s machine gun] – he was satisfied, he did his job, he did what he had to do. The next morning it turns out it was a cow. He made a fool of himself, no doubt. But he couldn’t take the risk it was a person.
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sábado, 22 de agosto de 2015

Rogue IDF: O. Protective Edge 46° Dia

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Sexta-feira, dia 22 de agosto de 2014  
Members of Hamas shot dead 18 Palestinian collaborators of Israel and warned that others would follow. Meanwhile the IDF carried out about 30 strikes.
One Israeli child is killed by a rocket fire, the first and only minor to be killed in Israel. The four-year-old's death made the headlines. Only the day before, the IDF had killed four Palestinian children about the same age.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Friday, August 22. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 22 de agosto.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
  1. Mahmoud Nasser Qashlan, 24, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
  2. Yassin Hamed Abu Hamad, 22, Nusseirat, Central Gaza.
  3. Ismael Mosallam Abu Bteihan, 75, Nusseirat – Central Gaza
  4. Ahmad Qassem Al-‘Abadla, 59, Khan Younis
  5. Mousa Ahmad Al-‘Abadla, 23, Khan Younis
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
77 The lives of our soldiers come before the lives of enemy civilians
Rank Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Mechanized infantry.   Area: Gaza strip:
[Combat engineering forces] blew up a lot of houses, even while we were there [in the Gaza Strip]. Here, too, the question arises about the operational benefit versus the cost. There are all kinds of considerations about why to blow up a house. One of them, for example, is when you want to defend some other house. If there’s a house blocking your field of vision, [and you want to] expose the area so that it’s easier to defend. 
Did you do that?
We didn’t blow up the houses but yeah, the company did it, the battalion commander and company commander decide on it. Sometimes we blew up a house when we suspected there was an explosive device in it, but I think ultimately we blew up pretty much the entire neighborhood. There are other considerations as well: “Hamas could set up a lookout post there, so let’s blow up the house” or stuff like that. I think there was operational justification for blowing up houses – but the policy was a bit trigger-happy. There was this bumper sticker during the operation that said, ‘The lives of our soldiers come before the lives of enemy civilians.’ This was sort of the policy because all these things really help protect the lives of IDF soldiers, and so the question becomes, where is the line? Or in which cases do we risk the lives of IDF soldiers because of certain values, because of ethics? That’s a big question. If I, as a commander, need to take over house number 22 and on the way there there’s this little house number 21, and the D9 (armored bulldozer) can raze it so that it poses no risk to me… This wasn’t the choice I made, but that’s the way the scales were balanced. Either I don’t take it down and it keeps posing a risk, or
63"There was no electricity or water. The electrical poles were leveled too"
Rank: Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Mechanized infantry:
I don’t know how much [what I saw] was similar to what was going on in the areas around us, but there was no electricity or water. The electrical poles were leveled too, but I think the electricity was down before that already. The D9 (armored bulldozer) passed through and the electrical poles were in its way. I don’t know if it was a clear order, or just collateral. From the first day we entered Gaza there was no electricity – or water, either. There was a house that had a bathroom that for some reason a Puma (a type of APC) or Merkava tank tore down a wall and broke its only functioning bathroom. We (the forces positioned in the house) were in there and it was dirty, the rugs, and the whole mess we made there. And in another house we broke a window when we entered and there were lots of holes from heavy machine gun fire. The refrigerator got shot. There were ‘suspicious points,’ so they fired at refrigerators.
Because they thought someone could hide inside a refrigerator? 
Or put explosives inside. Piles of blankets were fired at, too, and the closets had bullet holes in them. And broken windows, things like that, mostly. We didn’t have camouflage netting because they were on the APC that left, so we took all kinds of curtains and stuck them up and stretched them, and that was our lookout post

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sexta-feira, 21 de agosto de 2015

Rogue IDF: O. Protective Edge 45° Dia

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Quinta-feira, dia 21 de agosto de 2014  
Early in the morning Israel killed three Hamas commanders in an air strike taking the lives of several civilians and injuring many women and children in the process of that execution. Later on, a crowd in Gaza killed the three Gazans who had informed the ShinBet of the location of the resistants and Hamas arrested seven more for questioning.
The IDF called back up 10.000 reservists.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Thursday, August 21. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 21 de agosto.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
OBS. Não consegui as idades dos meninos mortos, por isso não discriminei em uma das famílias sublinhadas abaixo.
  1. Mohammad Abu Shammala, commander of Al-Qassam in southern Gaza region.
  2. Raed al-‘Attar, 39, commander of Al-Qassam in Rafah.
  3. Mohammad Barhoum, a senior officer of al-Qassam.
  4. Hasan Hussein Younis, 75, Rafah.
  5. Amal Ibrahim Younis, (his wife),
  6. Saba Rami Younis, 4, (their child)
  7. Ahmad Nasser Kallab, 17.
  8. Natheera Kallab.
  9. Aisha Atiyya.
  10. Jom’a Matar, 27.
  11. Omar Abu Naddi, 22.
  12. Abdullah Tareq ar-Reefy, (Child) Gaza.
  13. Omar Nasr ar-Reefy, (Child),
  14. Mohammad Ziad ar-Reefy, (Child),
  15. Nassr Ziad ar-Reefy, 35.
  16. Srour Mohammad Tamboura, 36. Beit Lahia.
  17. Hasan Tamboura, 13, Beit Lahia (Srour's son).
  18. Mohammad Talal Abu Nahl, Gaza.
  19. Rami Abu Nahl.
  20. Haitham Tafesh, Gaza.
  21. Abed Talal Shiokh, Gaza.
  22. Hamdan Salem Hadayed, 40, Khan Younis.
  23. Mohammad Ahmad Abbas Abu al-Omarain, 45, Gaza City.
  24. Issam Mohammad al-Hosni, 26, Gaza City.
  25. Marwan Mohammad Abu Shallouf, 29, Rafah.
  26. Abdul Rahman Saad Abu Shallouf, 31.
  27. Ibrahim Essam Hammad, 22, Rafah.
  28. Mahmoud Talaat Shreiteh, 14, central Gaza.
  29. Bashir Ahmad Shreiteh, 35.
  30. Iman al-Louah, Dir al-Balah (killed Wednesday, body found Wednesday)
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
 
76 Lots of people with white flags came over and shots were fired near them, too
Rank: Staff Sergeant.   Unit: Infantry.   Area: Northern Gaza strip:
During the first entrance [to the Gaza Strip] we were near Beit Lahia, in a place called the Bedou’iyya. We were there for a few days. When we got there, there were white flags on all the rooftops. We had been prepared for something very… For some very glorious combat, and in the end it was quiet. We set ourselves up in our spot and slowly, slowly, [the Palestinians] started returning. At one point early on an older woman came near, and one of the officers said she should be shot. They told him to fire [warning shots] in her direction, and after a few shots she backed off. Later on, lots of people with white flags came over and [warning] shots were fired near them, too.
What’s ‘near them?’
I don’t know exactly how many meters away. There wasn’t a cease-fire, because during cease-fires we would be taken out and stationed in the protective ramparts [that were set up] between the Strip and Israel.
So why were [warning] shots fired near those people?
So that they wouldn’t pose a threat to us.
What distance were they from you?
Far off – about 100 meters. [We] didn’t want to take the risk that they would even get close.
And to where were they trying to walk?
They were returning to their homes, that’s why they were holding up those flags… This was a very poor neighborhood. You could tell by looking at their animals, too – they were really bony. They were locked up, the animals, so they didn’t have any food. And there was another guy, when we entered the house he was just sitting there. [The soldiers] cuffed his arms and legs and tied a cloth around his eyes and he sat there for like a whole day.
What happened after that?
We were told that he was taken to be investigated. Him and the cellphone he had with him

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quinta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2015

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Quarta-feira, dia 20 de agosto de 2014  
Overnight, Israel bombed the house of Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas' military al-Qassam Brigades, murdering his wife, his son, his daughter and three other civilians, in their sleep. It was Israel's fifht attempt to assassinate Deif who survived with serious handicaps. In addition to the targeted killing of Deif's family, the IDF carried out 92 attacks into Gaza.

Remembering the dead during Israeli offensive on Wednesday, August 20. Below, only Palestinian identified victims. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 20 de agosto. Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center. 2015.
  1. Widad Deif, 27, Gaza City. (Mohammad Deif's wife)
  2. Ali Deif, 7 months, (his son)
  3. Sara Deif, 3, (his daughter, body found the day after
  4. Ahmad Mustafa al-Louh, 21, Gaza
  5. Nabila Eid al-Louh (Pregnant, Fetus Died).
  6. Their unborn child, Central Gaza.
  7. Farah Ra’fat al-Louh, Central Gaza.
  8. Maisara Ra’fat al-Louh
  9. Mustafa Ra’fat al-Louh
  10. Ra’fat Moustafa al-Louh, 32, 
  11. Mohammad Mustafa al-Louh, 21.
  12. Sami Hasan Ayyad, Zeitoun - Gaza City.
  13. Zaki Suleiman ar-Ra’ey, 54, Gaza City.
  14. Nour Mohammad Abu Haseera, 2, Gaza City.
  15. Sufian Abu Mheisin, 49, Northern Gaza.
  16. Mustafa Sufian Mheisin, 31, Northern Gaza.
  17. Darwish Mheisin, 52, Northern Gaza.
  18. Ahmad Rabah ad-Dalo, 20, Gaza City.
  19. Mustafa Rabah ad-Dalo, 14
  20. Wafa’ Hussein ad-Dalo, 48.
  21. Mohammad Imad al-'Abeet, 16, Central District.
  22. Saher al-'Abeet, 11, Central District.
  23. Haitham Ramadan al-‘Awour, 20, Northern Gaza.
  24. Abdullah Salah Safy, 33, Northern Gaza.
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
75. Listen, we did just destroy at least a whole neighborhood in there
RankStaff Sergeant.  Unit: Nahal Brigade.  Area: Northern Gaza strip:
What was the process for entering houses?
Any neighborhood you go to, when you arrive it has already been ‘sterilized,’ that is to say, you have lookout posts telling you it’s empty, and specific places in it have already been bombed. These tactics were effective – fact is, not once did we run into a single terrorist up close. Also, when you get close to a building you ‘soften’ it up, which usually involves tank fire, and if not tanks then portable rockets – shoulder-fired rockets and grenade launchers, things that blow up inside the houses.
Would the tanks be firing machine guns or shells? 
Shellfire. The forces usually fire at least one shell before going in [to a house]. Either that or a MATADOR or a LAW (portable anti-tank rockets), so that if there’s anyone inside, they won’t be there when we go in, one way or another. And then we go into the house, shooting as we ‘open’ it, often using lots of grenades, too. Every room you ‘open’ you do it while firing – depending on the forces in the area. You don’t want to shoot your own forces, so you don’t shoot in their direction. You go room by room, ‘clean’ it all up. If there’s a locked room you usually open it up with some sort of explosive, or a grenade. In Beit Lahia we used small explosives on every door. We used segments of a breaching frame (a frame constructed out of a chain of explosive segments, used for breaking through doors or walls). You take one segment and affix it to the door – and very little of the door is left, it gets blown in and then you ‘open’ the room. Or you can use a grenade, which is what we did in Beit Hanoun, for example. You put a grenade by the door, go way back, the grenade blows the hell out of the door, and that’s that.
How do you feel when you complete the operation?
It’s complicated. It’s not a happy feeling – but it does feel good, mostly thanks to the fact that no one in my battalion was hurt in a serious way. ‘Happy’ isn’t the word, because listen, we did just destroy at least a whole neighborhood in there. When you set up in a house, the house doesn’t stay the way it was. You open an exit in the back with a hammer, you fortify the house, you usually throw grenades at a lot of places. You erect a rubble embankment in front of the house with a D9 (an armored bulldozer) to protect against rockets, you raze the house that’s closest in order to reduce risks, and you level the area both in back and in front. 
How do you raze the adjacent house?
It’s razed by a D9. Usually when the company positions itself in several houses in the area, part or all of the houses in close proximity that pose a threat are taken down. Let’s just say wherever the battalion was positioned, nothing was left standing, at least not at full height.

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quarta-feira, 19 de agosto de 2015

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Terça-feira, dia 19 de agosto de 2014  
Three rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel around 4pm breaking the ceasefire without causing any damages. Hamas denied any involvement in the rocket fire but Netanyahu ordered the IDF to retaliate and the negotiators to return from Cairo. As the day ended, Israel had struck 30 sites in Gaza.

Remembering the dead on Tuesday, August 19. 
Nome dos mortos palestinos no dia 19 de agosto de 2014.
Source/Fonte: IMEMC-International Midlle East Media Center2015
1. Omar Mohammad Jarghoun, Khan Younis (Died of wounds suffered two weeks before)
2. Abdullah Abed-Rabbo, 20, Gaza (Died In turkish hospital of earliers wounds)

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Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
74.  Operational consequences that are more permissive for us, and more severe for them
Unit: Gaza Regiment.   Area: Gaza strip:
How is the firing policy determined?
From high up. The heads of the military, together with the intelligence cadre, they decide on what the current firing policy is. Each firing policy has a different level within which we’re allowed to operate. In an extreme case – say fire has been opened at our forces and there are casualties on our side – you’re allowed, of course, to override it – with the commander’s discretion, that is – but under regular circumstances, you don’t exceed the regulations and the orders.
How many levels [of firing policy] are there? 
Three.
Do they, beyond being determined by the uppermost ranks, reflect anything, conceptually?
They reflect not only conceptually – they also reflect practically, the level of collateral damage you’re allowed to cause. [They] reflect which means you’re permitted to use, and the distance you’re allowed to use them from ‘sensitive locations.’ They reflect a whole lot of parameters concerning opening fire.
What are the consequence of the most severe level with regard to, let’s say, the use of fighter jets?
The consequence is, you’re allowed to [fire bombs] at a shorter distance from a ‘sensitive location’ – you’re allowed to hit structures that are more than one story tall, and so forth. Operational consequences that are more permissive for us, and more severe for them (the Palestinians)

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terça-feira, 18 de agosto de 2015

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Segunda-feira, dia 18 de agosto de 2014  
As the five day ceasefire neared an end, Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel was prepared for any scenario in Gaza. Probably because he had provoked Khaled Meshaal ordering the re-arrest in the West Bank of 93 Hamas members who had been released in an exchange of prisoners.   
Nevertheless, in the evening the Palestinians confirmed they had agreed to a long term ceasefire.
No body was found during the truce, on Monday, August 18. Nenhum corpo foi encontrado sob os escombros no dia 18 de agosto de 2014.
Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,
Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence
73.  OK, mark another one here. And here
Rank: Lieutenant.   Unit: Infantry.   Area: Gaza strip:
My job is to look at the area, determine what’s a threat to [the forces] and demarcate it as a target. When and how we activate [firepower], that’s done according to the rules of engagement, according to the situation, according to the specific intelligence that exists at the time. In the end you also okay it with your commander, who’s a person with really a whole lot more experience and he’s the final authority in the unit, and he tells you, “Listen, I want [targets] here, and here, and here too.” Usually what the commander does is tack on another five or 10targets on top of the list you made, approves all the stuff you listed, and that's it. 
When the commander adds targets, that’s after he already calculated the safety ranges from civilians?
No, no. The commander worries about the safety of his troops and he doesn’t care about anything professional. When he sees something that’s a threat – no matter the reason –he tells you, “Add a target there, we'll approve it later.” The commander's logic being that we don’t want this thing threatening us. The moment the smallest thing poses a threat to me, I wipe it out. And I know that if I enter into an engagement there, the target will already be marked and I'll say over the two-way radio that I’m being threatened from over there. I mean, that’s the commander’s logic. The most serious [‘target list’ I prepared] was during the entry [to the Gaza Strip]. I marked the spots and went to the commander and he told me, “OK listen, mark another one here. And an artillery target here.” 
What was there?
Nothing. Just to broaden [the list]. I brought a transparency like that to the commander and he tells me, “Listen, I want a line of artillery targets here as well.” And you mark a line there, or you mark a specific target, and then he tells you “OK, I want as much as possible –the most.” The commander gets this transparency and he tells you, “Listen, this is the first line – I can't take any risks on the first line of houses, use artillery on those.” 
Did he have any intelligence on those houses?
No, no, he has no intelligence. The commander takes a look, goes, “I go in here with my soldiers, and I want to get everyone out after the war.” The brigade, which [works] really closely with the intelligence [corps], has to approve or not approve [the targets] for you. In the end it’s [the brigade] that’s in control –me, I don't have artillery, they’re the ones in control. There were many times that they, for instance, canceled things, canceled stuff. But because of the heavy workload and the madness and the fighting and the wounded, then [over in the brigade] they get a transparency, go ‘whatever,’ and approve it. You know, everything is written down, and it just gets fed straight into the system, “These are the targets,” coordinate one, coordinate two

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