Israeli Attack on Gaza: 2014 Version

[Lauren Johnson]

One really MUST watch the Al Jazeera documentary on the total destruction of the Gaza town of Khuzaa! It is totally destroyed and the Israelis were opening fire on women, children, elderly, crippled fleeing with white flags!.....it is UNBELIEVABLE and must be seen to be believed. The city is dust......and the people dead or without homes - not even a pot left intact.

Peter, mind putting up a link?

You'll find it here. www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2014/08/khuzaa-attack-aftermath-201481165544556845.html

This 45 minutes alone puts the Big Lies of the IDF and Israel to bed....precision bombing etc. only if their intent is to kill anything that moved and lots that didn't move, as well. That city is no more! It is like the center of Hiroshima.

This is the page I found before but it does not include video. I checked YouTube and the video is not allowed over hear on this side of the pond.

[Peter Lemkin]

One really MUST watch the Al Jazeera documentary on the total destruction of the Gaza town of Khuzaa! It is totally destroyed and the Israelis were opening fire on women, children, elderly, crippled fleeing with white flags!.....it is UNBELIEVABLE and must be seen to be believed. The city is dust......and the people dead or without homes - not even a pot left intact.

Peter, mind putting up a link?

You'll find it here. www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2014/08/khuzaa-attack-aftermath-201481165544556845.html

This 45 minutes alone puts the Big Lies of the IDF and Israel to bed....precision bombing etc. only if their intent is to kill anything that moved and lots that didn't move, as well. That city is no more! It is like the center of Hiroshima.

This is the page I found before but it does not include video. I checked YouTube and the video is not allowed over hear on this side of the pond.

Aha! Here it has a video one can play. Well, just put the name of the town [Knuzaa] in the Al Jazeera US search engine and I would hope it'll turn up there too.....
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Between July 21 and 25, 2014, Israel attacked the southern Gaza town of Khuzaa. Civilians were reported to have been killed and wounded, some while reportedly trying to escape.
Then after the attack, Israeli forces besieged the town for 10 days, during which it was cut off from the outside world.
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This film was shot by crews working for Al Jazeera Arabic Channel that made two visits to the town. The first was during the four-day period of the initial attacks on July 24.
According to the production team, Israeli forces had bombed and shelled Khuzaa for three days but then declared a brief, humanitarian ceasefire during which they allowed medical crews in for a couple of hours.
The crew, including Al Jazeera Correspondent Tamer Al-Meshal witnessed the destruction and loss of life first-hand. The wounded had been appealing for help for three days but none had arrived; and the dead had been left where they fell.
Many residents had managed to escape but some claimed to have been shot at and targeted by tank shelling whilst doing so. The Al Jazeera crew filmed the rage and distress of the survivors and the bereaved as they vented their anger at the attacks, the heavy death toll and the shocking, untreated injuries, many to children.
The crew filmed the removal of the dead and rudimentary treatment of the injured - and interviewed Red Crescent workers who were equally as angry and shocked. One said it was as though a tsunami had hit the small, agricultural town.
After the brief ceasefire, the tanks and artillery returned, the attacks resumed, the townspeople sought refuge and the rescue services were forced to withdraw. Khuzaa was closed to the outside world as Israeli forces took control of the town.
Returning home
The crew paid its second visit to Khuzaa 10 days later on August 2, when residents started returning to the town but nothing they had experienced in the conflict so far had prepared them for the devastation confronting them and, more disturbingly, the killing of civilians who'd remained.
Anyone who failed to escape by July 25 had met a violent end. Bodies lay by the shattered facades of bombed-out buildings, and the dead - who had lain there unattended for 10 days - were in the noxious stages of bodily decay, the stench of death filling the air.
Al Jazeera's Tamer Al-Meshal continued with his camera crew into the heart of Khuzaa and the neighbourhood inhabited by the extended Al-Nijar family. They were directed to a house where people were suggesting a group of young men had been killed. Meshal went inside, despite the smell of decay, and saw a group of men lying dead in the bathroom. The house had not been bombed and the murder appeared to Meshal as having been close-up and calculated.
Human Rights Watch is investigating reports of Israeli soldiers firing on unarmed civilians trying to flee Khuzaa in what it called an 'apparent violation of the laws of war' and describes three incidents, including one in which 120 people who'd survived an attack by shelling escaped towards neighbouring Khan Younis carrying white flags with their hands raised.
But when they came across Israeli soldiers they were allegedly attacked and one man was hit by a missile and another badly wounded. At the time, the Israeli military had not responded to this report.

[Lauren Johnson]

Grrrr! Still not available in the US. Surprised. Not.

[Peter Lemkin]

Grrrr! Still not available in the US. Surprised. Not.

I gave it to you on Youtube, above. I'm sure the USSD is pressuring Al Jazeera not to allow it shown in USA.

[Lauren Johnson]

Grrrr! Still not available in the US. Surprised. Not.

I gave it to you on Youtube, above. I'm sure the USSD is pressuring Al Jazeera not to allow it shown in USA.

Exactly!

[Magda Hassan]

Grrrr! Still not available in the US. Surprised. Not.

If you use Chrome or Fire Fox for your browser you can get add ons which allow You Tube videos to be watched anywhere.

[Magda Hassan]

Gaza and the propaganda machines

• The Guardian, Saturday 16 August 2014 04.14 AEST
  

A telling contribution to the overall picture': Adir Ali sits in her devastated flat in Beit Hanun, Gaza. Photograph: Sean Smith

As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide, we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonisation of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.
We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanisation of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached fever-pitch. Politicians and pundits in the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and rightwing Israelis are adopting neo-Nazi insignia.
Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel's abuse of our history in these pages (advertisement, 11 August; Report, 11 August) to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify the unjustifiable: Israel's wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.
We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. "Never again" must mean "Never again for anyone".
Hajo Meyer survivor of Auschwitz; The Netherlands, Henri Wajnblum survivor and son of an Auschwitz victim from Lodz, Poland; Belgium, Norbert Hirschhorn refugee of Nazi genocide and grandson of three people who died in the Shoah; London, Suzanne Weiss survived in hiding in France, whose mother died in Auschwitz; Canada, Felicia and Moshe Langer survivors from Germany, Moshe survived five concentration camps, family members were exterminated; Germany, Michael Rice child survivor, son and grandson of survivor; United States and 30 Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide and 260 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives of survivors
See full list at ijsn.net/gaza/survivors-and-descendants-letter/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/au...a-machines