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Gaza’s darkness – “Gaza has been reoccupied. The world must know this and Israelis must know it, too. It is in its worst condition, ever. Since the abduction of Gilad Shalit, and more so since the outbreak of the Lebanon war, the Israel Defense Forces has been rampaging through Gaza – there’s no other word to describe it – killing and demolishing, bombing and shelling, indiscriminately.”
Genocide in Gaza – “A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight Palestinian die daily in the Israeli attacks on the Strip. Many of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed. [...] Nothing apart from pressure in the form of sanctions, boycotts and divestment will stop the murdering of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip. There is nothing we here in Israel can do against it. Some brave pilots refused to partake in the operations, two journalists (out of the 150 in their newspaper alone…not naming any names….) do not cease to write about it. But people, this is it. In the name of the holocaust memory let us hope the world will not allow the genocide in Gaza to continue.
Palestinian children pay the price – “On a humid afternoon, an hour or two after lunch, Nadi al-Attar, 12, set off on a donkey-drawn cart with his grandmother Khariya and two of his young cousins to pick figs from a small orchard near their home in northern Gaza.”
Child deaths and injuries by age, region and circumstances
Beatings and abuse in the shadow of war
Identity and movement control in the OPT – “Israel rigorously controls the identities of the four million Palestinians living under its control in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. The occupying authorities have ingeniously engendered statelessness for an entire population.”
Freeze of family unification in the Occupied Territories - The case of Amal al-’Amleh separated from her children for four years!
Call for foreign monitors in Gaza
Protests/Resistance
A Petition for U.S. Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East
US groups protest Israel’s actions & US policy – from US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Images
From The Alternative Information Center
From the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Analysis & Opinions
Regarding the role of Israeli racism in ME conflict
Catholic Report: “Israel is suffocating Gaza to seize Jerusalem”
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In other news:
Israel boycotts ‘peace mission’ of Irish leader Gerry Adams
[From the Dark Side of the Moon is a subjective listing of news, analysis & opinion that may not have made front page in North American media. Themes and topics relate to the Middle East, in particular to Palestine.]
