14 more children killed as Israel uses cluster and phosphorous bombs
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_367
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as well as cluster bombs (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/04/israel-cluster-bombs/) on civilians, the same bombs used during the Lebanon war that the United Nations and other government entities has deemed weapons of mass destruction.
I would put the pictures up, but they are highly graphic images of children and adults that look melted, and with flesh on their limbs burned off to the bone.
Here are some links, but beware, highly graphic:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/images2/white_phosphorusbone.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/daveclarkecb/NewPhotos/VictimOfWhitePhos.jpg
http://electronicintifada.net/artman2/uploads/1/cluster-bomb-victim-483.jpg
http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/cluster-bomb.jpg
Here is the story:
Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it pressed its offensive against the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Monday, while the U.S. joined a stream of countries pushing for a cease-fire.
At least 14 Palestinian children were killed on Monday, raising the known death toll from the 10-day onslaught to 540 — including 200 civilians, the U.N. and Palestinian officials said. Gaza's biggest hospital said it was overwhelmed.
From Gaza, Hamas continued to pummel southern Israel with more than two dozen rockets on Monday and promised to wait for Israeli soldiers "in every street and every alleyway."
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the offensive would go on until Israel achieved "peace and tranquility" for residents of southern Israel.
After a week of air strikes beginning Dec. 27, Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza late Saturday. They quickly seized a main highway in Gaza, slicing the territory in half, and on Monday, Israeli forces pounded houses — one of them belonging to a leading Hamas member who was not there at the time — a pair of mosques and smuggling tunnels.
Israel has attacked several mosques during the campaign, saying they were used to store weapons.
More at the link, and the stories on evidence of these weapons are at the links provided in the beginning of this post.
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UrbanGypsy
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datamined:
I think you can stay Datamined... Some people don't like to hear different points of view. I do...
And @ sourena,
The reason there is an Israel is because 6 MIllion Jews died in Europe once. Magnitude06 very clearly showed us how people in Palestine have suffered since 1948, but regardless of that, the Jews have suffered even more throughout the whole span of history. I personally think they deserve a homeland.
This is not to say that I support their marginalization of Palestinians. I think that Israel should have taken these people in as citizens of Israel a long time ago. But now I'm not sure its so simple anymore, unfortunately.
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UrbanGypsy
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RonenA
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datamined:
@sourena Israel belonged to the Jewish people thousands of years ago before it was stolen (y'know, by force, occupied if you want) by the various empires which rose and fell, the last of which was the Ottoman empire. The only reason the Jews didn't live on their land is because it was taken from them. But, after WWII, the UN decided to give the Jews their land back.
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RonenA
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alfitude
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datamined:
suuuuuure. Only 13% hit. Hey datamind that's not so bad after all is it? Fuck it, let's just keep blowing up more people...
sheeeeeesh...
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alfitude
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leb0wski
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datamined:
Wow, so apparently it's ok for Hamas to use hospitals, schools and holy buildings to fire rockets into Israeli territory and kill innocent people, but when Israel responds and hunts down the rocket firing cowards (not innocents) hiding behind women and children then that's the terrible act? Let's not forget all the "inconvenient" facts when you start your ranting people.
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leb0wski
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Vierotchka
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datamined:
RonenA - the Hebrews stole the land in a most murderous and violent manner from the Canaanites (the ancestors of today's Palestinians) some three and a bit thousand years ago. The Hebrews did the same thing a second time in 1948.
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Vierotchka
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Vierotchka
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leb0wski, the Hamas rockets have killed all of 12 Israelis since 2001, during which time Israel has butchered countless thousands of Palestinian babies, children, women and men.
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Vierotchka
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WhiteNoise
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Media Ban in Gaza a Recipe for Censorship, Ignorance and Fear
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2009/01/05/media-ban-in-gaza-a-recipe-for-...For those still interested by facts...
The Invasion of Gaza: "Operation Cast Lead", Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11606FREE THE SHMINISTIM – ISRAEL'S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
http://current.com/items/89673550/free_the_shministim_israel_s_young_conscientio......& STOP KILLING KIDS !
Are Cluster Bombs Falling on Gaza Today?
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2777There’s more evidence today of Israeli use of cluster bombs, originally noted by Laura Doty at Oxdown. The Times of London features a photo in it’s coverage (see Gaza Conflict slide show) with the following description: An artillery round sends out bomblets above Gaza City, which continues to be attacked by Israeli forces
http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/03/gaza-update-nowhere-to-hide/(h/t Brandon of VoteVets who points in email to this description of the weapons seen). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPICM
The use of cluster bombs - which have a large footprint when initially dropped and then remain a threat for decades - in a location like the Gaza Strip which is so packed with people is horrifying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_bomb
Children Main Victims of Cluster Bombs
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0419-05.htm“When will the American people actually vote to give to the world more than bombs and missiles, sweatshops, dubious science, frankenfood, poverty and misery?” - Cynthia McKinney
Everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. - Ellen Key
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WhiteNoise
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WhiteNoise:
Thanks WhiteNoise for your research and for posting these links. If anyone else used these weapons against a civilian population, the USA would be calling foul and would send in the troops and sorties.
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WorldPeaceTV
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WhiteNoise:
Not if there wasn't oil there.
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RonenA
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Bren589
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Its not going to get better is it Lou. I couldn't look at the pictures right now.Its so depressing.. Israel ment what they said when they made the statement that Gaza will be a cemetary. Its terrible what people in Gaza are being put through. my heart and my tears go out to all involved.
pray for peace - 3 years ago
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Bren589:
It was Hamas who said that ;-) And they were talking about a cementer full of Israelites
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ghostbar
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WorldPeaceTV
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btws, the pic is a cluster bomb used in this recent Gaza attack by Israel and here is the link top the video about 4 of the children being carried away
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11383704&ch=... - 3 years ago
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WorldPeaceTV
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Vierotchka
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WorldPeaceTV:
This is a pic of a cluster bomb - your pic is of a white phosphorus bomb. :)
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Vierotchka
