{"id":1373,"date":"2006-04-04T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2006-04-04T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:42:12","slug":"israel-disengaged-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Israel Disengaged from Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gaza Diary<\/strong>
\nScenes from the Palestinian uprising<\/em>
\nBy Chris Hedges
\nHarpers Magazine<\/em>, October 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

“Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered – death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo – but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.”<\/p>\n

Israeli planes fire missiles into Abbas’ Gaza compound<\/strong>
\nCompiled by Daily Star staff
\nWednesday, April 05, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

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Israeli warplanes Tuesday fired three missiles into the Gaza compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a series of raids that killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded nine others, including a baby. Abbas, who was in the West Bank at the time, condemned the strikes and called on the international community to intervene to stop what he called an escalation by Israel.<\/p>\n

The dead man, Abdullah al-Daalsa, 42, was killed in the shelling as he stood in a field in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.<\/p>\n

Another seven people, including a six-month-old baby, were wounded by shrapnel, security and medical sources said. Four of those injured were inside a house struck by a shell and two of them were in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Israeli aircraft fired two missiles into the helicopter pad of the Palestinian Authority headquarters by the seafront, gouging two craters out of the tarmac, an AFP reporter said. The PA owns two helicopters. Neither was on the helipad at the time, but one of them was in a nearby hangar. Two police officers were wounded by shrapnel, security sources said.<\/p>\n

Abbas denounced the air strike and called for international intervention to stop what he called Israel’s “destruction for the sake of destruction.”<\/p>\n

“Continued arbitrary shelling in Gaza is an unjustified escalation,” he said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Israeli missile attack in Gaza came shortly after a Chinese envoy met Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar, becoming the first foreign diplomat to do so since the Hamas government was sworn in.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Israel immediately criticized any foreign power tempted to invite the Hamas leadership for talks before the movement changes its policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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