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Israel Storms SE Gaza, Razes Farms

Collective Punishment is a War Crime | 06.06.2008 13:42 | Anti-racism | World

The decimation of Gaza's failing food-production continues.

Israeli armed forces storm SE Gaza, raze farms

www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-05 16:42:17

GAZA, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army troops backed by tanks and attack helicopters stormed on Thursday morning the village of Abbas southeast of the Gaza Strip, Hamas security sources and witnesses said.

Farmers in the village said Israeli army bulldozers razed their farms cultivated with olive trees amid intensive gunfire and armed clashes with several militant groups.

(Who were attempting to stop this from happening.)

They said the bulldozers demolished a two-store house in the village east of the town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Hamas movement's armed wing al-Qassam Brigades said in several leaflets sent to reporters that its militants attacked the Israeli army force with missiles and grenades.

So far, no injuries have been reported.

The Israeli armed forces often storm areas close to the border between Gaza Strip and Israel to prevent Gaza militants from launching homemade rockets at southern Israel.

(Rockets Israel's own defence staff warned its illegal Collective Punishment of Gaza would provoke have provided a great cover for Israel's rejection of peace, increas in premeditated aggression, expansionism, and the focused destruction of Gaza's agricultural sector.)

 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/05/content_8317222.htm

Collective Punishment is a War Crime

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Any explanation?

06.06.2008 17:11

Claim that this olive grove was a random target of the Israelis? Could it possibly be that among these olive trees was the position from which the rocket launchewrs and/or mortar tubes used in the recent attacks had been placed? Maybe even still there?

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Zionist disinfo defeated

08.06.2008 18:17

It's amazing how far the Zionist propaganda machine will go to discredit our entirely peaceful and not at all violent Palestinian brothers. It's a well known fact that those rockets are fired by the Zionist State itsself in a pathetic attempt to justify it's existance as an aparthied regime and continued opression of the Palestinian people.

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