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120 people killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza City

DEVLISH MAY | 27.12.2008 11:02 | Palestine | Terror War | World

Gaza - Ma'an - Black smoke billowed over Gaza City on Saturday afternoon following an Israeli airstrike on targets throughout the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical officials believe at least 120 Palestinians were killed in the attacks, with an additional 200 wounded.

Israel's air force fired around 30 missiles at Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday at noon.


Gaza - Ma'an - Black smoke billowed over Gaza City on Saturday afternoon following an Israeli airstrike on targets throughout the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical officials believe at least 120 Palestinians were killed in the attacks, with an additional 200 wounded.

Israel's air force fired around 30 missiles at Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday at noon.

Live video broadcasts showed dozens of injured and dead Palestinians in Gaza City, many of them screaming, while Palestinian ambulances raced to the scene.

Others were running in the streets as one correspondent noted that the airstrikes amounted to the largest Israeli military operation in Gaza "for decades."

A Reuters correspondent who witnessed the attacks said Israeli fighter jets targeted the Gaza City port and de facto government-run buildings.

A spokesperson for the Israeli military had no immediate comment on the airstrikes.

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Blitz league

27.12.2008 12:06

Same old story, eh?

Just use far more superior weapons against a weak enemy. Hoping that does the trick, to solve a long-running feud! Pemier division weaponised nation blitzing a tiny non-league enclave. Bit like a tip-top UK football club thrashing a primary school football team, eh? So will it all end? Mmmm?

Frankus


Islamofascists responsable for the dead

27.12.2008 14:59

Hamas the islamofascists are the only ones to blame about this, islamofascism can lead to nothing but war.

Jim


DEMONSTRATE: this Sunday and Monday

27.12.2008 15:10

Emergency Protests

Sunday 28 December 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm and Monday 29 December 4.00pm – 6.00pm

Both prostests opposite Israeli Embassy - Kensington High Street

Nearest tube: High Street Kensington

Free Palestine
- Homepage: http://palestinecampaign.org


Same old story.

27.12.2008 15:54

Until the Palestinian people have a formally recognised state that they can defend the Israeli's will continue to brutalise them. Of course the Israeli's don't want that because their leaders want Palestine gone for good and the current tactic is simply to expand illegally into Palestinian territory until there is nothing left. After that of course the people of the world will just forget about Palestine won't they! After all, modern cultural values have come to mean that the people of the world are selfish piss-ants that only ever think of themselves and won't ever come to the aid of the oppressed and vulnerable, especially if those oppressed are Palestinian...ESPECIALLY.

If Israel won't seek a two state solution to the misery they have co-sponsored for so many years then perhaps they should be forced to with international sanctions. Its Israel thats the formally organised state...its Israel that has international standing on the international stage, so it should be Israel that is forced to explain to the world why this region has been in a constant state of war for 60 years. It should be Israel that are forced to explain why this conflict has spilled over into peace loving nations elsewhere in the world (obviously that doesn't include America) and why they have failed to ensure that the region remains stable.

After 60 years of brutal conflict its time for us all to wake up and formally bring an end to the idea that Israel needs still to be baby-sat.

If Israel has no answer then the more "experienced" nations of the world should come together and force the issue. Surely all it will take to put the wind up everybody is to have a few aircraft carriers hovering off the coast carrying out highly visible excercises, you know the sort of thing...paratroopers falling out of the sky on parachutes wearing skull-caps.

Lets face it we in Britain f****d up Iraq and Afghanistan so this would be an excellent opportunity to make the world right again...no?

P.S before any "foot-diaspora" come along I'll call myself an anti-semite...see, I know what your thinking before you even think it!!!!!

Zionista


Enough is enough

27.12.2008 16:12

Firstly Jim's comment doesn't substantiate a proper reply, he clear hasn't looked at the facts. And is also happy to ignore airplanes, releasing bombs, killing at least 120 people (including children walking from school!). Please look in to your argument with more depth Jim and maybe you won't defend mass killings so easily.

Our government (the British Government) has not condemned this, even though they released a statement on Christmas day condemning the alternative Christmas speech! They are culpable for this atrocities and have been in collusion with Israel over the siege on Gaza. Enough is enough we must bring our government to answer and we must stop their continued support of Israel.

Max


Come to the demo we need numbers,Hassle your mp's,get them to do something

27.12.2008 16:56

This is an insult by Isreal to the palestinians & the "west", thinking they can get away with it during the holiday period.
The EU or the USA should show down the Isreali's,take troops out of Arghanistan& Iraq to do this, if Hamas & Isreal continue to fight it could get alot worse, boycotting helps too& NVDA by citizens.
To really solve these situations though we need social & economic direct democracy & that involves a revolution to benefit all people.

James


Demo

27.12.2008 17:08

I'm coming to the demo, hopefully tomorrow and definitely on Monday, we need to demonstrate against Israel and we need to get together. We also MUST demonstrate to our government, No 10 and the Foreign Office. They have got to start clearly condeming Israel and stop all trading with Israel until it complies with international law, which covers war crimes such the one we are seeing now in Gaza. Our government must answer to us, we must take the protests to THEM, as well as the Israeli government. We must protest as much as possible and in as many ways as possible until are government changes it murderous policy towards Palestine and it's Israel.

Max


Hamas are to blame

29.12.2008 14:52

I think Jim summed it up nicely.

8 years of rocket attacks targetted at civilians is more than any country should have to bear, Any other country would have attacked long ago. Israel has put up with this by far too long.

Gaza is an Iranian backed hotbed where Al Quaeda is also increasing its influence. Hardly thesort of people with whom peace can be made.

Now of course, Israel wants peace and will alsways make peace with a willing partner, as was done with Egypt and Jordan. With whom should Israel now make peace? Haniyeh? Bin Laden? Nasrallah?

of course nobody on this site objected when a rocket hit a nursery in Sderot recently. An action which anybody should consider abhorrent; but when Israel targets those responsible, it is somehow unacceptable. How duplicitous!

am yishrael chai