About 40 tanks and bulldozers invaded Hay Elzaiton at 1 am Tuesday
morning with the help of the apaches in the sky. Israeli occupation
soldiers took up positions on rooftops at El-Zaiton area, shooting
at every moving object.
The operation was going normally like all the invasions which
happened in the past. The occupation army started moving after
midnight. At the beginning of the invasion many houses were
destroyed, four Palestinians were killed and about 40 others got
injured . It was a normal operation for the occupation forces until
one of their APCs was blown up by the Palestinian resistance .
After the APC was blown up, Gaza city came under the lights of the
media because of the six soldiers who were killed inside the APC.
Before that no one mentioned anything about what was going on in
Gaza except for the local media .
Why do they consider the Israeli blood as holy blood while the
Palestinians blood is cheap?
Didn't they take the direction to invade Gaza which is a Palestinian
land, and don't we all have the right to defend ourselves?
As with every invasion, the reason behind the occupation forces'
killing of the Palestinians people was the search for tunnels or
workshops where the resistance manufactures weapons, they say. But,
like every time, they found nothing. They kill us in the name of
ensuring the security of Israelis, and all the world keeps silence
when Palestinians die in such invasions, but when we try to defend
ourselves and say to the world our blood isn't cheap we become
terrorists and murderers .
Who is the murderer? The civilian who was sleeping when the tanks
stopped under his window and woke him up, or the person who drives
that tank and kills our people in the name of looking for tunnels
and weapons?
Since the beginning of this Intefada the occupation forces are
keeping tens of bodies of Palestinian martyrs and they don't allow
their families to bury them.
Why do they have the right to keep our martyrs' bodies and bury them
in secret graves?
Don't we have the right to take our martyrs' bodies back if we got
the chance?
Why now they are talking about negotiations with the Red Cross?
The Red Cross was unable to serve the people who needed help in
their houses. For three days the Palestinians haven't had power and
water and food for children. Five of the martyrs died because the
occupation tanks didn't allow the ambulances to reach them and help
them.
A family of 50 members was stuck in a three-floor building. The old
men and children and women were not able to leave the and go to a
safe area because the tank was barking under their house, children
were crying for three days because of the continuous shelling next
to their house. This is how the situation was for all the families
in Hay Elzaiton .
The invasion in Hay Elzaiton finally ended after sixteen were killed
and more than 180 others got injured. The number of martyrs is
expected to rise because of the serious casualties. Four of the
martyrs were found under their destroyed houses after the invasion
was over .
In the time that the army was talking about having a deal with the
militants to hand over the remains of six Israeli soldiers who were
killed when their armored vehicle was blown up , the occupation army
was destroying some houses in Rafah in the O block, and like the
first time the resistance succeeded to blow up another military
vehicle .
Later after that when it became clear that five soldiers were killed
in that APC, the army gave the people of Block O 2 hours to evacuate
the houses. And a few minutes after that, 2 apaches and 2 F16 planes
were flying in the sky of Rafah.
The power went off in the night and every one was expecting the
anger of the apaches. It didn't take much time for the army to take
revenge on the civilians as usual. One of the apaches fired two
missiles at a crowd of people in Yebna refugee camp, Nine people
died and another 10 got injured.
In the morning, when everyone thought that the army will stop the
operation for a while, the apaches fired two missiles and hit a
crowd of people who were going to see the area of the invasion.
That killed another three people and wounded 20.
During the three days of the invasion the apaches fired more than 15
missiles which cuse the death of 12 people, and like in Gaza 3 of
the matyers died when the bulldozers destroyed the house over their
heads . More than 70 houses have been destroyed in three days, about
500 people became homeless when the occupation destroyed their dream
to live in peace and have a house like every one in this world.
Palestinians wants peace, and they don't want any one to die, but if
there must be some people who must die, they don't want to be the
only people to die.
For more information, please call:
Adwan: +972-59-304-628
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Rafah a "humanitarian catastrophe" says UN refugee agency
Agence France Presse
14 May 2004
GAZA CITY, May 14-- The United Nations agency in charge of
Palestinian
refugees described the situation in Rafah as a "humanitarian
catastrophe" Friday, after Israel announced that hundreds more homes
would be destroyed in the southern Gaza Strip town.
Paul McCann, from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),
condemned Israel's policy of demolishing entire neighbourhoods in the
refugee camps along the border with Egypt and
warned of a deepening crisis.
"The first houses to be destroyed will be empty buildings. Then
inhabited houses will be demolished. Israel will be responsible for
finding new accommodation for the evacuated people," the Israeli
public radio said Thursday.
"It's impossible to believe that every one of these houses shelters
militants or the entrance to a tunnel," McCann said in response to
the
government's argument that the demolitions are aimed at preventing
the
use of cross-border arms-smuggling tunnels.
He also pointed out that the "empty buildings" were only abandoned
because of the constant danger of being killed or wounded and
eventually expelled by the Israeli army.
"When the house on your left has been blown up and the house on your
right has been blown up, you know you're next, so families don't
always
wait until the last moment to find other housing," he
explained.
Israeli demolitions aimed at widening the so-called "Philadelphi
route" buffer zone have already made 11,000 Palestinians homeless
since
the start of the intifada in September 2000, in policy UNRWA
chief Peter Hansen as condemned as "collective punishment".
McCann said the agency had only managed to find new housing for 1,000
people over those three and half years and complained that an
emergency
appeal for larger donations this year had not been met.
An official from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office claimed, "This
is
a legitimate defensive measure, which is aimed at ensuring better
protection for our soldiers who shouldn't remain as sitting ducks and
at preventing the smuggling of weapons, mortars, rockets and tunnels
between Egypt and the Gaza Strip."
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