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UN to probe into Gazan school massacres
Press TV
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The United Nations has called for a probe into the Israeli attacks that killed at least 45 civilians in UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip.
“These tragic incidents need to be investigated, and if international humanitarian law has been contravened, those responsible must be held accountable,” Max Gaylard, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories said Tuesday.
On the eleventh day of an Israeli offensive against the strip, the Israeli army targeted three UN-run schools.
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Palestinian medics said Tuesday that most of the victims were people who had been given shelter inside the schools, adding that several dozen individuals were also wounded in the strike.
“These deaths highlight the tragic reality of the situation in Gaza that for civilians, neither homes nor UN shelters are safe,” said Gaylard.
UN official added that there are no safe shelters for the 1.5 million civilian population of the coastal strip.
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January 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Israel should face an ‘Arms Embargo’ @ the uery least for MURDER of children…
January 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
The State of Israel has the protection of the imperialist powers that run the U.N. They are protected from international justice just as Franco was by the U.S., U.K., and the major European imperialists, even following the defeat of Mussolini and Hitler. We must call on the Israeli workers to soliderize with their class brothers and sisters in Palestine to overthrow global capitalism, which becomes evermore monstrous in its decadence. It would be hypocritical for elements of the U.S. ruling class to call on the State of Israel to desist from open genocide or embargo arms shipments to them since they murder Arabs in even greater numbers in Iraq.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
If no one has noticed yet, the UN is a front for the NWO/International Bankers cartel. Do you really think they will investigate themselves? Do you really think they give a shit about the suffering of ordinary goyim, oops, pardon me, I mean people.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
The jews from Israel that carried out this act of genocide against this school are free to enter the UK at any time they wish. They may enter any british school, and any parent or pupil that attempts to protest their presence is subject to immediate arrest. British jews may finance any act of jewish terrorism, or invite any jewish terrorist to visit the UK for fund-raising activities will the full support and protection of the three leading political parties in the UK, and the police.
British jews may call for the extermination of non-jews at any time without fear of arrest. They may travel around the world, and actively participate in Israeli sponsored terrorism without fear of arrest when they return. British jews may set up ‘charities’ to directly fund terrorist activities in Israel.
On the other hand, any british muslim that expresses any animosity to the state of Israel in public is subject to immediate arrest and imprisonment. The situation for muslims in the UK is identical to the situation jews experienced in Germany in the 1930s. The situation for any british jew that wishes to support the genocidal state of Israel is identical to nazis within Germany during the 1930s.
FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, I HONESTLY EXPECTED THE PEOPLE TO REACT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY WHEN THE SPIRIT OF ADOLF HITLER RE-EMERGED.
All members of the american government give direct allegiance to jewish terrorist organisations in Israel, and their representatives in the States. Most leading members of the british parliament are members of the terrorist organisation ‘friends of Israel’. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the jewish-Israeli holocaust in Gaza is directly sponsored by the UK and USA.
In a broader sense, if you live in the West (and not just in the UK or USA), you can now proudly proclaim “WE ARE THE NAZIS”. If you apologise in any way for Israel, or the jewish dominance of key institutions in the West that are massively disconnected from actual jewish numbers in the general population, YOU ARE AN ACTIVE NAZI.
You may try to give fool yourself by saying “this will all blow over”, just as people did when they attempted to ignore the rise of Hitler. However, Israel murdered a school full of non-jews because they knew they would get away with it. Think about that. ISRAEL MURDERED A SCHOOL FULL OF NON-JEWS BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WOULD GET AWAY WITH IT.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Now I wonder why the G_D forsaken UN wasn’t launching a probe when the missles were flying in from “palestinian” controlled land. Really sick. Gettin’ real sick of this Israel bashing. The UN, what a joke! As far as I’m concerned this can be laid right at the feet of hamas and palestine.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Good. Let those UN a-holes investigate. All Israel has to show them is the video footage of Hamas snipers shooting at IDF from the roof and windows of that UN School, before the IDF fired back. The Israelis had no idea thte building was a UN School, they were only responding on the direct attacks from Hamas. The footage has been showing on Israeli T.V. And the media in this country keep on reporting that the Israelis just targeted the building out of the blue–probably just to kill innocent civilians!!! MORE LIES ABOUT ISRAEL for you sick anti-semites.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Anonymous:
Reports have stated not only were the schools under UN (Not Hamas) control, they were clearly marked with UN flags, and the UN had contacted the Israeli government and IDF, informed them that they had set up shelters in these schools AND provided the GPS locations of these schools, so Israel could avoid civilian casualties.
Instead, it seems they took the opportunity to shoot more fish in a barrell. I sure hope this improves the IDF’s image as a fighting force after the loss of face they suffered in Lebannon!
I am glad I take screen captures of websites, as it seems CNN has changed their reporting on the incident. The same article I read earlier contains the same headline, the same picutre of IDF soldiers exiting a chopper, but now it reads that Israel killed Hamas Militants, and says nothing of the buildings being UN shelters!!!
DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE!
January 6th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Haven’t you heard, Jews are the chosen children of god. We need to support their extermination efforts in Gaza, then the West Bank, and help them rebuild their temple where the Dome of the Rock currently resides. I would add that we should hand over control of our government and financial institutions to them, but that has already happened. Go Obama, Clinton and Rahmbo! We willingly pass under the yoke and offer our servitude!
January 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Xl68kP4wo
Horrifying footage, but a must see!
Pro-Hamas Demonstration – Fort lauderdale FL
January 7th, 2009 at 12:51 am
You are totally off your rocker if you think the Israelis/Jews are NAZIs. My god. You are missing the boat completely. The rebirth of Nazism is actually with the Fundamentalist Islamic Extremists, like Hamas, Hizbullah, and the dictatorial governments and clerics of Lebanon, Syria, Iran. Just a few weeks ago Ahmadinejad was speaking at a rally in Tehran about being almost ready to bring “the final solution” to the middle east. I wonder why that doesn’t make the media here. It was all over Middle Eastern/Israeli T.V. Israeli intel estimates that Iran will have completed nukes by the end of February. We should take Ahmadinejad at his word, and we should not let him complete his mission. This is not some conspiracy. This is a real tragedy. This is where your outrage should be focused.
January 7th, 2009 at 1:56 am
ADL? On my internet? Where’s my banhammer…
January 7th, 2009 at 5:59 am
I wonder where some of you are getting your information from as the UN does not like the US or Israel. Remember President Bush went into Iraq against the UN orders. The UN is a group of Fascist who want to control the world,and they can’t as long as we Americans are the Superpower. I do not trust anything that the UN or the Palestinians say. I see all their propaganda crap flashed all over the news. This is a war on terror,and these people bought it all on themselves by continually firing missiles on Israel.
Some of you posters really need to be on meds ,as you have lost your minds thinking Israeli’s are now the Nazi’s. Thats laughable.
January 7th, 2009 at 9:12 am
whats the matter chrissyUSA(israel pr)? cat got your toungue? since you got the conservative version, its only fair you also have the liberal(real) version. here is some more info from Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, Media and Community Relations Director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The facts in this document are taken by ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS.
Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons, refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, invaded and occupied other nations’ territories, created hundreds of thousands of refugees and refuses to let them return, engages in ethnic cleansing, legalized torture and mass punishment on civilians, routinely violates nearby countries’ international borders, sends assassins into other countries, is in violation of over 70 UN Security Council resolutions, engages in spying on the US, and attacked a US naval ship in international waters?
Hint 1: it is the same country that has the largest share of our foreign aid money and the second largest US lobby.
Hint 2: it starts with an “I,” but is not Iraq, and is the same country for which Governor Jim Hunt spent precious state resources to establish close ties and “celebrate” its birthday.
The month of May this year marks the 50 year anniversary of a dual event. For the Israeli government it is the anniversary of independence and the “creation” of the great Eretz Israel (”Greater Israel”). For the 8 million Palestinians, it is the anniversary of what they call in Arabic An-Nakba (”the catastrophe”).
It is to them the defining event of their misery, dispossession, and death of dreams. This is not an abstract event of 50 years ago. This creation of a nation was intended to produce an “Eretz Israel, without Arabs,” in the words of Joseph Weitz, a previous director of the Jewish National Fund—the organization which gained ownership of most land confiscated from Palestinians. He continued that there is “no room for compromise on this point … we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe.”
Well, the problem is that this population called the Palestinians whom Golda Meir — a former Prime Minister much applauded by Western leaders — said “does not exist,” refuses to go away. While almost two thirds of the Palestinians are already in Diaspora, one third (3 million) are still in this land of their ancestors. Thus, the policies that have been so effective at getting rid of the majority are continuing to this day.
Thus, as “we” celebrate the birth of Israel, houses are being demolished, Palestinians are losing their residency rights, lands are still being confiscated, and the leverage of economic poverty and collapse is used to force as many Palestinians to emigrate as possible.
Some 418 Palestinian villages were razed by Israel during and immediately after 1948. Almost 5 million Palestinians now live in Diaspora and over half in squalid refugee camps due to the actions of Israel during the past 50 years.
Israel continues its policies of mass punishment, house demolitions, land confiscation, settlement activities and other policies against the will of the international community. These tactics contradict the Geneva convention on human rights and are attested to by Israeli peace groups.
Being realistic, the Israeli government has also decided rather recently that since there will always “natives” left that the best way is to isolate them in bantustans [what the South African apartheid regime called its divided, scattered zones in which to imprison the Africans there] which are easily controlled from outside. The Israeli government calculates that the apartheid model which failed in South Africa will work in Israel because of the differences in political power.
LAW—the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment—issued a lengthy report last month and basically summarized as follows:
“Since the signing of the Declaration of Principles in September 1993 [signed in Oslo, Sweden, thus popularly known as "the Oslo Accords"], hundreds of people have been killed and injured, over 500 families have had their homes destroyed by Israeli occupying forces, over 1,000 people have had their rights to live in Jerusalem taken away, thousands have been arrested, tortured and imprisoned, five per cent of land has been added to the 65% already confiscated to place colonies (settlements) on Palestinian land; and thousands of people have found themselves jobless, homeless, destitute and hopeless. Israel has perpetrated these acts during the period of the peace negotiations. Each act is a serious violation of the peace agreements, a violation of Israel’s international obligations under human rights law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
Israel is in violation of no less than 80 UN Security Council resolutions and countless General Assembly resolutions. This is not counting over 40 UN Security Council resolutions vetoed by the US. The US government also gives Israel the lion’s share of foreign aid, to the tune of 3.5 to 5 billion dollars per year—of your tax money.
The “peace process” is not working, at least not for the Palestinians, and the reason it is not working can be summed up in the goals that the Israeli government had set for peace process: that Palestinian refugees relinquish their right to return to their homeland, that Jerusalem be declared Israel’s capital and that it cannot be shared with the Palestinian Christian and Muslims (nor serve as their religious, social and cultural capital), that settlements in the occupied areas—and especially occupied East Jerusalem—must remain for “security” reasons, that water, “external security,” and foreign relations (including leverage on all economic import and export) must remain in the hands of the Jewish state.
The Oslo agreements were a clever way to put issues like settlements (which are basically colonizations of Palestinian lands) on the back burner in the wish by the Israeli government that maybe the Palestinian “problem” will go away and, on the Palestinian side, that maybe Israelis will have a change of heart on these issues on their own (without political or any other pressure).
Just two quotes will illustrate the origin of the problem.
(1) The removal of Arabs bodily from Palestine has always been among the plans of those following the original ‘Zionists,’ those aiming to colonize an area on which to construct their vision of a new Israel, to “spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Theodor Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry).
(2) “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. …. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab Population.” (Moshe Dayan, Address to the Technion, Haifa, as quoted in the Hebrew language Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, 4 April 1969).
Justice must prevail. We should not hide the fact that Israel is not a just society for its citizens (or what remains of them after the exodus).
For example, the Israeil scholar Israel Shahak wrote that “the legal system of the State of Israel can be described as a weird mixture of advanced democracy and retrogressive discrimination, combined with clumsy attempts to hide the discriminatory reality.
“For example, in all Israeli laws except one, the Law of Return, the word ‘Jew’ does not appear. The term employed when the law gives discriminatory privileges to Jews is that those privileges are granted to ‘persons who would have benefited from the Law of Return had they been outside the borders of Israel.’ The Law of Return specifies that its benefits can be given only to Jews. However, Israeli propagandists calculate, correctly in my view, that a great majority of the opponents of discrimination would not dare to criticize this law.” [Editors' emphasis.]
Israel wants peace (or is it a ‘piece-meal process’?) without justice for the Palestinians; a peace that keeps the officially Jewish state in control of all the land of Palestine as the eternal “Erez Israel” with Bantustan enclaves of remnants Palestinians (completely controlled in their movements and actions).
There is still an opportunity for a just peace in the Middle East, with a two equal state solution and justice to displaced Palestinians.
More relevant and informative to the reader would be books by leading Israeli authors such as Uri Avnery (e.g. Israel without Zionism), Israel Shahak, and Uri Davis. Facts are documented by human rights and peace groups in Israel such as Peace Now, Gush Shalom, B’Tselem, and the Israeli League of Human Rights. See also books by Edward Said (esp.The Question of Palestine).
A concert and pre-concert events were planned at the North Carolina Museum of Art on May 2 in celebration of Israel’s 50th anniversary. Given Israel’s history, the structure and intent of this program is unprecedented and undesirable. And using state resources (museum facilities etc.) to celebrate another country’s birthday is unprecedented.
The mainstream media chose to ignore these facts let alone investigate them.
Well Chrissy? where do you get your info from? is it from political sectors and human rights organisations? LOL, i think not.
January 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Israel has defied more UN resolutions than ANY NATION IN HISTORY!
YOU….ChrissyUSA You are either stupid or you are an AGENT because Israel is the BASTARD CHILD OF THE USA America gives Israel Billions of dollars in economic aid to Israel Annually and give Israel more weapons than any other nation on earth.
The UN is who CREATED ISRAEL with the aid of BILDERBERGER, Rothschild, Rockefeller and the other money makers at the top of the food chain, created as a false nation to perpetrate crimes in the name of GOD.
You are the one that needs to learn your facts, ISRAEL is NOT a creation by GOD but by man and very soon ISRAEL will be destroyed because of their crimes against the real, true God, Great Spirit that hates the evil being perpetrated in his name.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Hamas did this to themselves with stockpiled weapons inside the school!
www dot israelnationalnews dot com/News/News dot aspx/129286
Inquiry: Hamas was Firing Mortars from the UNRWA School
by IsraelNN Staff
(IsraelNN.com) An IDF investigation has found that Hamas fired mortars from the UNRWA school which was hit by an IDF bomb Tuesday.
UNRWA incident investigation {video}
After the terrorists fired mortar shells from the school in Jebaliya , the IDF retaliated, killing Hamas terrorists as well as civilian adults and children who were used as human shields. At least 30 were killed by the IDF bombing.
Proof has also emerged that the school was being used to store weapons. Secondary explosions were witnessed following the primary explosion from IDF fire.
UNRWA is the United Nations’ Relief Works Agency.