Responsibility for the war in Gaza, and for the Palestinian fatalities there, was placed squarely on Hamas by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Letters from M
On January - 8 - 2009
In this polarized conflict, if you want to make a picture you have to make it yourself. Forget the media.
“M” is writing to Barry Werner. Click here for more.
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A mother’s cry
On January - 8 - 2009
Every day the same thoughts haunt me. Will my son, who is only a year old, be safe at the nursery school during the day? And will I, his mother, be able to protect him at home?
Dina Cohen from Sderot addressed the UN Human Rights Council. Click here for more.
(via A Deeper Look)
Letters from F
On January - 8 - 2009
Hi Barry,
What is taking place in Gaza? We hear reports of who did what to whom and how many people died each time, but no whys or causes.
Click here to read the letters between “F”, sitting in USA and Barry Werner, currently in Israel.
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Civilians under fire
On January - 7 - 2009
Despite what Hamas is trying to promote all over the world, the bombing of the UNWRA school is not an act of murder.
It’s not a secret that Hamas is using the Palestinian population as human shields.
Among the dead in the bombing you can find 2 known terrorists. What were they doing there? Shooting missles from the school area maybe?
Hamas is shooting missles from schools and other civilian properties and is putting the civilians in danger.
How else can Israel defend itself?
Further reading:
How Hamas ruined Gaza
Human Shields (video)
Exploiting civilians
From Disengagement to Operation Cast Lead (video)
Exploiting civilians
On January - 7 - 2009
Hamas is exploiting civilians as human shields. Click here to read a study and learn how Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza strip make extensive use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.
It shows how the terrorist organizations constructed a vast military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including a large arsenal of rocket and mortar shells used to target the southern Israeli population. The terrorists’ military infrastructure was hidden in and around civilian homes and dispersed to locations scattered around the Gaza Strip, home to an estimated more than 1.4 million people, one of the most densely populated areas on earth.
The calculated, cynical use of the civilian population as human shields is intended to decrease the vulnerability of Hamas and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations by affording them a kind of immunity from the IDF’s counterterrorism activities, since they are aware that Israel avoids harming the civilian population insofar as is possible. It is also intended to make it possible for Hamas and the other terrorist organizations to make political-propaganda gains in the battle for hearts and minds by representing Israel as operating against innocent civilians.
The main findings are the following:
i) Military and security personnel, facilities and installations are situated within dense population concentrations (including residential dwellings and public institutions, such as schools, mosques and hospitals).
ii) Rockets and mortar shells are fired at Israeli population centers.
iii) The terrorists fight against the IDF from within residences and public institutions, and use ambulances to evacuate terrorist operatives from the battlefield.
iv) Civilians, including women and children, are deliberately used as human shields to protect terrorist operatives whose houses the organizations fear may be attacked by the IDF.
v) The terrorists hold military training, exercises and shows of fighting.
vi) Women and children are used as human shields