Palestinian father carries injured child
From: Dorothy
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Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: 4 reports on Gaza
Dear Friends,
The IOF incursion into Beit Hanoun this past week, like all previous IOF incursions, like both Lebanese wars, and all the IOF raids, attacks, and wars (there have been 10 wars since 1948) these past 58 years of statehood have proved wrong Jabotinsky’s theory in the Iron Wall--—i.e., that the use of force—would bring the Palestinians to their knees, obedient and docile. Quite the contrary. The use of force has succeeded to drive Palestinians out of Palestine, has succeeded to steal their lands, has succeeded to kill many and maim more, and to imprison them (over 10,000 Palestinians now in Israeli prisons), to make their lives miserable, but has not succeeded to give an iota of security to Israelis. And this consequence is independent of whether these incursions, wars, etc, have been retaliatory or have been motivated by other causes. Violence breeds violence. Israel’s violence has and will bring some Palestinians to act in kind.
Only when Israel’s leaders realize that even the “Greater Israel” will not bring security to Israelis, only when the leaders realize that solely when Palestinians have freedom and justice, will Israelis then be able to hope to enjoy the security that most so much want. Only when the Palestinians have security, too, will Israelis also achieve it.
Below are 4 reports about the situation in Gaza. The first is from Human Rights Watch, condemning the Israeli military for investigating itself. The 2nd is from UNICEF, about the numbers of children that have been killed. The third is by two Israeli reporters commenting on the circularity of the conflict.
Last is from Laila, Yousef’s mother. In the past I have forwarded a number of her reports and messages from her blog. In the present message she reminds us that “We mustn't look the other way when blood of some becomes worth less than others.”
None of this is pleasant reading. But if we are ever to bring about change, we must first know what is happening. Please help by informing others.
May we see better days,
Dorothy
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[Yes, it is indeed necessary for the Palestinians to stop their acts of violence against Israeli citizens. But so long as Israeli state terrorism continues by the fourth most powerful military force in the world, it would be foolish to expect militant Palestinians (many, probably most, Palestinians are not militant) to stop, even though their violence against Israelis boomerangs on themselves. The statistics of 15,000 Israeli artillery shells vs 1,700 Palestinian Qasam rockets very likely will not ever remain the same. And if and when they reverse, Israelis will understand what it is like to be Palestinian today, particularly a Palestinian in in Beit Hanoun. D]
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/11/10/isrlpa14550_txt.htm
(Jerusalem, November 10, 2006) – The Israel Defense Forces’ internal inquiry into its artillery shelling of Beit Hanoun, which killed 19 Palestinian civilians and left dozens injured in northern Gaza, failed to address the key questions of whether the attack was a violation of international law and who should be held accountable for the lethal fire, Human Rights Watch said today. The Israeli government should immediately conduct a comprehensive independent investigation to establish these issues.
“The
IDF’s internal probe suggests that the Beit Hanoun tragedy can
be chalked up to an errant volley of shells,” said Sarah Leah
Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of
Human Rights Watch. “But a comprehensive investigation should
start with questioning whether Israel had any business firing
artillery shells into this civilian area to begin with.”
Human
Rights Watch said that the investigation should examine the policy
that has led Israel to fire some 15,000 artillery shells into Gaza
since September 2005, killing 49 Palestinian civilians and seriously
injuring dozens more. A comprehensive investigation should identify
issues of individual and command responsibility, including criminal
responsibility, for any violation of international humanitarian law
committed in the conduct of these artillery operations in northern
Gaza.
"Israeli forces launched the artillery attack on
Beit Hanoun at a time when their commanders knew, or should have
known, that the risk of civilian deaths far outweighed any definite
military advantage,” said Whitson. “The IDF admitted that
it relied on day-old information about Qassam rocket launches from
Beit Hanoun when its forces shelled this densely populated civilian
area.”
According to the United Nations, at 5:35 a.m. on
Wednesday, the IDF shelled northwest Beit Hanoun for 30 minutes, with
about 12 to 15 high-explosive 155 millimeter artillery shells. Most
of the victims came from the Athamna family, the majority of them
women and children.
The IDF confirmed that it had fired 12
artillery shells at the site, having missed its intended target 500
meters away. An IDF spokesperson described the reason for the attack
as “preventative” and said that the IDF was seeking to
“disrupt and thwart the launching of Qassam rockets into
Israel.” The spokesperson said that the basis for picking the
target was intelligence that Qassam rockets had been “launched
yesterday” (Tuesday) from the site.
Only military
objects can be the lawful target of attack under international
humanitarian law. International law also permits attacks on military
objects in or near civilian areas only if their destruction would
provide a definite military advantage at the time of the attack, and
even then, only if the concrete military advantage outweighs any
anticipated civilian casualties or damage. An artillery attack, with
no specific military target at the time of the attack, directed at or
near areas populated by civilians, violates international law. The
evidence suggests that Israel’s day-old information that
homemade rockets had been launched from the area, with no specific
information that rockets continued to be launched from the area, was
an insufficient basis for considering the area attacked to be a
legitimate military target. That insufficiency was compounded by the
intended target’s location near a heavily populated
neighborhood, where significant civilian casualties could be
reasonably anticipated.
The IDF announced today that it had
completed an internal probe into the incident, headed by Major
General Meir Kalifi. But Human Rights Watch said that Major General
Kalifi’s role in the chain of command for artillery firing
units, as deputy chief of the ground forces, renders him unsuitable
for heading an investigation due to his obvious conflict of interest,
since a finding of culpability could implicate his own command. In no
sense is he an independent investigator.
“Internal IDF
probes are no substitute for an impartial investigation in cases
where there is credible evidence of wrongdoing and potential criminal
liability,” said Whitson.
As Human Rights Watch
documented in a
report published in June 2005,
the IDF has systematically failed to investigate cases in which its
soldiers have used lethal force against Palestinian civilians,
fostering a climate of impunity in the army and robbing victims of an
effective remedy.
Human Rights Watch recognizes that the
stated justification for this Israeli attack is Palestinian groups’
ongoing firing of homemade rockets into populated civilian areas of
Israel, but that does not excuse Israel’s own violation of the
same international humanitarian law that makes the Palestinian
attacks unlawful. Human Rights Watch has repeatedly called on
Palestinian armed groups to cease immediately firing homemade rockets
into Israel, in contravention of international humanitarian law.
Since
September 2005 alone,
Palestinian armed groups have fired around 1,700 homemade rockets
into Israel, injuring 36 Israeli civilians. The rocket attacks have
largely been launched toward civilian areas rather than at any
apparent military target, which makes them illegal under the laws of
war, and criminal. Even in cases where there may be military targets
as well as civilians and civilian objects, these rockets are
inherently indiscriminate weapons, since that they cannot be aimed at
a specific target, and thus violate the prohibition on indiscriminate
attacks. To date, the Palestinian Authority has been unable and
unwilling to rein in the armed groups responsible for the
attacks.
Almost all of the civilian casualties due to Israeli
artillery shelling in Gaza this year have occurred since April, when
the IDF narrowed the “safety zone” for artillery
shelling, allowing targeting much closer to homes and populated
areas. The IDF exponentially increased its rate of artillery fire
from 446 rounds in March to 4,522 rounds in April.
An unnamed
senior IDF officer admitted in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz
in April that, “We have no way of ensuring that civilians will
not be hurt in the next shelling . . . but the bombardment disrupts
the activities of the Qassam launching cells.”
In Gaza,
Human Rights Watch has documented a number of recent incidents that
involved civilian casualties resulting from IDF shelling. Human
Rights Watch conducted an onsite
investigation into the shelling of a Gaza beach in June,
which killed seven members of the same family, most likely through
direct shelling by Israeli forces or possibly due to the detonation
of an unexploded Israeli shell. Human Rights Watch also investigated
the IDF shelling of the Nada apartment complex in northern Gaza in
July, which killed four civilians.
“The Israeli
government should ask itself whether the Beit Hanoun tragedy was an
accident or a predictable consequence of the IDF’s policy of
firing artillery toward densely populated residential areas,”
said Whitson.
While the IDF has stated that artillery fire is
used to combat the firing of Palestinian homemade rockets into
civilian areas in Israel, the army increasingly has acknowledged that
artillery is ineffective for this purpose. In October, the division
commander for the Gaza front, Brigadier General Moshe Tamir, was
quoted in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz as saying that
“artillery fire does not further the goal of limiting Qassam
attacks.”
According to witnesses and media reports, the
victims were sleeping when the first shell hit. The IDF hit at least
seven houses during the shelling and killed the victims either in
their homes or when they fled outside.
The victims were
identified as: Fatima Ahmad Athamna, 80; Sana`a Ahmad Athamna, 35;
Na`ima Ahmad Athamna, 55; Mas`ud Abdullah Athamna, 55; Sabah Muhammad
Athamna, 45; Samir Mas`ud Athamna, 23; Fatima Mas`ud Athamna, 16;
`Arafat Sa`ad Athamna, 16; Mahdi Sa`ad Athamna, 13; Muhammad Sa`ad
Athamna, 14; Sa`ad Majdi Athamna, 8; Mahmud Ahmad Athamna, 13; Malik
Samir Athamna, 4; Maisa Ramzi Athamna, 4; Nihad Muhammad Athamna, 33;
Muhammad Ramadan Athamna, 28; Minal Muhammad Athamna, 35; Sakir
Muhammad `Adwan, 45; and Sa`adi Abu Amsha. At least 40 others were
reported wounded.
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“Bociurkiw estimated that more than 300 children have been injured this month by Israeli attacks. For the year, he said 116 Palestinian children have been killed, compared with only 52 last year. “ [“only 52” killed ; hardly an “only.” D]
Palestinian
father carries injured child
Photo: Reuters
UN: IDF killed 116 children in 2006
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3326618,00.html
UNICEF
says 17 children killed in Gaza, and 2 in West Bank so far in
November, 40 killed in July
Associated
Press
Nineteen Palestinian children have been killed in the past 10 days, making November already the
second deadliest month of the year for young people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, UNICEF said Friday.
The UN children's Fund said 17 have been killed in Gaza and two in the West Bank so far in November. Only July - when 40 children were killed - was worse, the agency said.aza Killings
"What children and adolescents have endured the past few days will likely have a long-lasting impact," UNICEF spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said in Geneva. "They have seen family members killed and their communities destroyed.
They have been confined to their homes, in many cases without access to food, water or electricity."
Israeli artillery shells ripped through a residential neighborhood Wednesday in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 18 people , including eight children.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a "technical failure" meant the artillery hit the homes instead of an
orange grove, some 1,500 feet away, from which troops saw rockets fired seconds earlier.
Bociurkiw estimated that more than 300 children have been injured this month by Israeli attacks. For the year, he said 116 Palestinian children have been killed, compared with only 52 last year.
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“The IDF and the the Shin Bet have gone on record alert to avert the evil. This might work for a few days, and when the terror attack finally comes, Israel will find in it justification for a new major action in the Gaza Strip. From there it will be but a short way to the entrance of forces into Gaza, the next fatal mistake, the forced withdrawal under international pressure and more Qassams on Sderot, and so on and so forth.” [So vicious, this cycle.” below]
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Ha’aretz
Friday, November 10, 2006
Last update - 11:58 10/11/2006
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/786167.html
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
Al-Atamna
Foreign visitors to the Gaza Strip are well acquainted
with the band of taxi drivers who work at the entrance to the
Palestinian side of the Erez crossing point. This is a permanent
group, a kind of closed guild, which is entitled to work there
because of the fact that the Shin Bet security services do not
suspect its members of terrorist activity. Most of them speak Hebrew,
because in the past they worked in Israel or thanks to their close
work with Israeli journalists. A few of them know how to recite
Jewish prayers by heart. Most of them are inhabitants of the northern
Gaza Strip, and this week the long arm of the Israel Defense Forces
reached into their homes as well.
It started with A., the
regular driver for the Haaretz team, who lives in Beit Hanun. Several
tanks parked at the entrance to his home during the days of Operation
Autumn Clouds. Like other families in the small town, his family had
to cope with the acute shortage of water, food and electricity during
the course of the action. On the fifth day of the operation, A. was
arrested, not because he had been involved in terror attacks or the
firing of Qassam rockets, but because he is an adult male. The Israel
Defense Forces arrested for questioning all of the town's adult
males. A. was relatively lucky; he was released in less than 24
hours.
Raad al-Atamna, one of his cabbie colleagues, had a
far worse week. Raad lived with his wife and children in the home of
his extended family in the Hamad neighborhood, which is on the
western edge of Beit Hanun. Early on Wednesday morning he set out for
work. A few minutes later, when he was at the entrance to Gaza, his
mobile phone rang. His brother Wael informed him that the family home
had been bombarded and there were many people injured there; he asked
him to call for first aid.
Raad drove back to the house in a
frenzy. "You don't understand. It's impossible to forget this
sight," he says. "Children without hands, without feet,
flung in every corner, tremendous destruction. Our whole family lives
there. The stairwell was completely destroyed and in every corner
there was someone who was wounded or killed. Blood was everywhere and
amputated limbs. Even our neighbors, who came to help, were wounded
by the last shells."
According to him, the house was hit
by at least seven shells. "I don't know what to tell you. We
have five children in the family who are seriously wounded and it is
not clear to me whether they will survive the night. My children,
praise God, are alive. But I have sent them to friends, because we
don't have anywhere to sleep. In the meantime I'll sleep at the
neighbors' house."
Raad, who works regularly with
Israeli journalists, finds it hard to understand the bombardment.
"There wasn't any problem with Israel in our family. Ever. But
even if there had been anything like that, how is a 4-year-old little
boy or little girl to blame; how is a 7-year-old girl whose foot was
amputated to blame?"
The Al-Atamna family lost 17
members, who were buried yesterday afternoon. The other two people
killed belonged to a different family. Those who remained alive now
have to find a place to erect their mourning pavilion, which will
join the dozens of pavilions scattered around the town.
The
damage that the action left in Beit Hanun is considerable. From the
Nasser Mosque, where the wanted men hid, only the minaret remains
standing, after IDF bulldozers knocked down some of its external
walls. The water and telephone infrastructure has been damaged, as
have hundreds of cars and homes. To visitors from the outside, it
seems as though during the days of the operation, the IDF tried to
exact a price, along the lines of Operation Defensive Shield in the
West Bank in 2002, to make it clear to the inhabitants what the
consequences of an Israeli occupation are liable to be.
In
the meantime, it appears that the Palestinians have drawn an entirely
different conclusion. "We will avenge our children's blood even
if we die," says an inhabitant who was lightly wounded in the
bombardment. "If our children are do not take revenge, our
grandchildren will."
2. Galant
And these
are the chronicles of playing with fire in gaza. Ariel Sharon pressed
to begin artillery fire into the Gaza Strip, Shaul Mofaz agreed, and
Dan Harel (then GOC Southern Command and an artilleryman by
profession) blocked it with all his might.
After the
disengagement, Harel went to the United States to serve as military
attache in Washington. His replacement, Yoav Galant, bowed to the
will of the party. Aviv Kochavi, the commander of the division,
proposed the method and constructed the circuitous operational
rationale: The firing is in any case into "open areas." The
danger to civilian lives is not great and the shells deter the Qassam
cells from going back to their familiar launch sites, in a way that
decreases the rockets' precision.
Last summer Kochavi, too,
went to America, to study. His replacement, Moshe (Chico) Tamir, in
fact reconsidered and even very much reduced the firing, but in the
end he allowed the use of bombardments, as a last resort. On
Wednesday, on his watch, 19 civilians were killed.
Defense
Minister Amir Peretz, who could have averted this horror if he had
only been more determined in face of his generals, did not do a
thing. Now he is apologizing to the Palestinians and extending them a
hand in peace.
All the early signs were there, had anyone
bothered to look at them. Between February and May of this year,
approximately 10 Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery fire
in the northern Gaza Strip. A little girl here, two adolescents on
the way to school there, and somewhere else youngsters who were
playing soccer. When thousands of artillery shells are fired into
such a small area, the results are predictable. When reports came in
from the Palestinian side, the IDF reply was "not familiar with
it, don't know."
Every time journalists asked for
clarifications, the spokesmen replied that the circumstances were
still being examined. "The battery's radar in fact showed a
precise hit," they claimed. "The Palestinian report is not
in accord with the times of shooting that are known to us." The
frequent inconsistencies in the Palestinian testimonies enabled the
army to evade responsibility and the vagueness remained in effect.
Since it was a matter of one or two killed each time, and not a mass
killing, the firing of the artillery shells continued.
Activists
in a number of human rights organizations who read in Haaretz that
the safety range for firing in the proximity of houses had been to
reduced to 100 meters, compared to the range of one kilometer that
had prevailed in the past on the northern border, petitioned the High
Court of Justice last April. The IDF complied and increased the
range, and the deliberations on the petition in the High Court of
Justice fizzled. After that the Lebanon War broke out, and no one was
thinking about what was happening in Gaza.
The killing on
Wednesday in Beit Hanun was tantamount to an accident just waiting to
happen. The investigative team headed by Major General Meir Khalifi,
asked to submit its conclusions by Thursday evening, focused on two
possibilities: human error or a glitch in either the battery's radar
or its firing computer.
But the technical explanation is less
important. The common Israeli reaction in such cases is fear of "what
the world will say." The photos from Beit Hanun are apparently
really not the best gift the prime minister can take along to
Washington, but the U.S. Administration is in any case busy with
other things at the moment.
To calm things down in Gaza, the
United States will apparently ask Israel to do something for the sake
of the population. Implementing the Dayton plan for opening the
crossing points, despite the reservations on the part of the IDF and
the Shin Bet, will apparently be considered suitable compensation.
The bombardment of Beit Hanun came on the day after the end
of the ground operation in the town, which the IDF described as
successful. In both of them, and in a number of aerial attacks during
that same week, nearly 80 people were killed, nearly half of them
civilians. The Qassams, of course, are continuing to fall.
Major
General Galant and Brigadier General Tamir intended Autumn Clouds to
serve as a kind of war game in preparation for the large action they
want, in order to prove that the IDF can act successfully in a
crowded urban area in the Gaza Strip and warn the Palestinians that
their continued armament through the tunnels will bring the army back
in, deeply. The balance of the last week shows that it will be very
difficult to fight in the heart of a civilian population without
causing similar damage. It will also be difficult to persuade the
government, the Israeli public and certainly world public opinion
that such killing is justified in light of the threat to Sderot.
Galant - to whose credit it must be said that he appeared in
person on Wednesday before the cameras and did not hasten to pass the
blame downward, as has been common of late in the IDF - knows all
this. He is grappling with real constraints. Eventually, a fatal
Qassam will fall on Sderot. The smuggling continues. Every month, a
shipment of regulation explosives and hundreds of Kalashnikov rifles
has gone through. Experts on explosives and fighting, graduates of
Hezbollah camps, come and go via Egypt unhindered. And with the
government blaming the IDF for spoiling the broth, it is also worth
asking what the prime minister and the defense minister have done to
supervise the activity, and whether they have at all advanced the
possibility of a diplomatic horizon, which would reduce the chances
of terror igniting.
Blood does not turn to water, said Hamas
policy bureau head Khaled Mashal yesterday in Damascus. Hamas,
despite the clear danger to the life of Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh, sounded determined to avenge the blood of those who were
killed in Beit Hanun. The IDF and the the Shin Bet have gone on
record alert to avert the evil. This might work for a few days, and
when the terror attack finally comes, Israel will find in it
justification for a new major action in the Gaza Strip. From there it
will be but a short way to the entrance of forces into Gaza, the next
fatal mistake, the forced withdrawal under international pressure and
more Qassams on Sderot, and so on and so forth.
3. Mashal
On Wednesday Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) reported to the hospital in Gaza
to donate blood for the wounded. This manifestation of brotherhood
was aimed at compensating for Haniyeh's decision to suspend the talks
on a unity government. Two days earlier, Haniyeh had informed Abbas
that current Health Minister Bassem al-Naim was his candidate for the
post of prime minister in a new government. Haniyeh, who will be the
first to be deposed if a government of technocrats is formed,
proposed Naim's name knowing that Abbas would respond in the
negative, but he hoped that the negotiations on the issue would
afford him another few days in the position before he would be
required to leave.
All this was the case until the
bombardment in Beit Hanun. The Hamas has been the big winner of the
week. No one will dare demand Haniyeh's dismissal now. At most, there
will be a call for unity to deal with Israel. Even if Hamas does move
to establish a government of technocrats, it will be on its own terms
and not in submission to dictates from Abbas. The public supports the
organization.
Like Haniyeh, Khaled Mashal has understood the
profit inherent in the developments in the Gaza Strip. He called a
press conference yesterday in Damascus, immediately after the joint
appearance by Haniyeh and Abbas in Gaza. Mashal, closely shorn, set
forth his arguments. He identifies with the sorrow of the families of
those who were killed, he said, and feels the pain of the inhabitants
of Beit Hanun.
Mashal is commanding from Damascus the
continuation of the jihad, until the last drop of blood, of course.
He will not hear the Israeli artillery shells landing close to him,
or the screams of the Palestinians who are hit by IDF fire. The
leader in exile called upon the international community to establish
a war crimes court that will investigate the killing in Beit Hanun.
An interesting demand, coming from the mouth of a man who approved,
inter alia, the terror attacks at the Dolphinarium and the Park
Hotel.
Journalist
Laila M. El-Haddad
I
remained silent
We
mustn't look the other way when blood of some becomes worth less than
others
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3326369,00.html
Laila
M. El-Haddad
"Withdrawing" implies, in whatever vague and euphemistic sense, an end, or at least, a waning of hostilities. But yesterday I woke to discover that the Israeli army has perpetrated a massacre on a scale unseen in Gaza for a long time: 18 dead, including children, women, and the countless faceless others.
All members of the same family. Brushed aside as unfortunate mistakes, with a generous dollop of regret, from an otherwise morally superior, well-intentioned army.
Israeli human rights groups have said it again and again, and it bears reminding once more: There can be no good intentions deriving from an army ordered to fire heavy-grade artillery shells within 100 meters of civilian areas. None.
And I am sick to my stomach. I am sick of hearing the "we regrets" and "sorries" and the empty promises of investigations that never materialize and whose only purpose is to exonerate the accused. I am sick of the well-intentioned "moral" army of "defense" routine, the army that only attempts to attack "militants", as if to imply the entire occupation is justified if sustained by this absurdist rhetoric. I'm just sick of it all.
We want an end to the occupation. Period. To quote Peace Now, instead of apologizing, stop the war against us. So much energy and enthusiasms devoted to death and destruction and debilitation and asphyxiation and occupation - so little devoted to ending it all.
When such a massacre occurs, in addition to the anger and frustration, I cannot help but feel lonely and abandoned and afraid.
It is the feeling we all have as Palestinians, the feeling which boils inside of us, sometimes drowning us with its complexity and force and unrequitedness. To quote Mahmoud Darwish:
“We are alone. We are alone to the point
of drunkenness with our own aloneness,
with the occasional rainbow visiting.”
And don’t think for one moment that this somehow does not affect you, whoever you are, as you recoil in your comfort zone, choosing consciously to look the other way. It affects all of us - Israelis, Palestinians, humankind - when humans become less human, when their blood becomes worth less than ours. Niemöller’s poem rings truer than ever:
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out."
Let us add to the famous poem:
"Then they came for the Palestinians, but I remained silent, for I was not Palestinian".
Laila M. El-Haddad is a journalist who lived in the Gaza Strip and author of the blog Raising Yousuf