Report; Zionist assassins bomb sleeping civilians. - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

moon · #1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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GAZA CITY, 16 February (IPS) - Human remains mix with debris following the latest Israeli assault Friday on Bureij camp in Gaza Strip. Early reports listed nine dead and more than 50 injured.

"This is a barbaric crime," said Dr. Hassan Khalaf, head of the local al-Shifa hospital. "They bombed residential areas where people were sleeping in their houses."

The attack apparently targeted the house of a top leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad party. The leader, Ayman al-Fayed, 42, was reported killed, along with two of his children and his wife. Other victims were from the Bureij camp.

Palestinian sources said seven houses were destroyed, and about 100 others damaged. According to hospital sources, many of the casualties were children under the age of 12, and included a baby only a few months old.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9312.shtml

Palestinians carry the body of five-year-old Ayoub al-Fayed who was killed the previous night in a missile strike on the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza, 16 February 2008.

The Zionist military annually receives millions of dollars from the pockets of US taxpayers. This is but one example of how those funds are used to finance war crimes. Under the articles of the Geneva Conventions Israel is charged with the welfare of the inhabitants of territories which it occupies. There is no excuse for this, no excuse for an official policy of assassination. These are the actions of a brute regime.

End support for it. Withhold your vote from any candidate who refuses to condemn brutal criminality served up in the name of 'security for Israel' Goodwill towards Zionism should end now.

TheLastBoyScout · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by moon

The Zionist military annually receives millions of dollars from the pockets of US taxpayers. This is but one example of how those funds are used to finance war crimes. Under the articles of the Geneva Conventions Israel is charged with the welfare of the inhabitants of territories which it occupies. There is no excuse for this, no excuse for an official policy of assassination. These are the actions of a brute regime.

End support for it. Withhold your vote from any candidate who refuses to condemn brutal criminality served up in the name of 'security for Israel' Goodwill towards Zionism should end now.

Dang.. This is bad. Just as bad as a suicide bombing incident.

Blowing someone up in their house while they sleep is pretty dispicable. Even though the IDF went after a military target, they did in a crowded residential setting at a time when people would be sleeping.

There is no doubt that both ISR and PAL are indiscriminantly attacking each other's civilian poplulations.

iamwhatiseem · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

Just another link in the insane chain of events between the two.
Neither is innocent, both are guilty.

moon · #4 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Neither is innocent, both are guilty.

Please list the crimes of the Palestinian children killed by these cowardly assassins. In fact, please list the crimes of any of the Palestinian civilians killed in this cowardly attack. I dare say, that as an American taxpayer, you are more 'guilty' than any of them.

Imperator · #5 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by moon

I dare say, that as an American taxpayer, you are more 'guilty' than any of them.

thats why this is going on....exactly why....closed and made up minds.
*yawn*...

moon · #6 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

Don't 'yawn' at me, Imperator, I find it offensive. I've made a perfectly valid point to another member and it doesn't deserve to have you sleeping all over it.

MattLarson · #7 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

The report itself does not contain the phrase "Zionist assassins bomb sleeping civilians".....

42 Regular · #8 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Top Islamic Jihad militant, seven others killed in Gaza blast

By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Associated Press

Tags: Israel, Islamic Jihad

A powerful blast went off in the central Gaza Strip home of a senior Islamic Jihad militant Friday, killing him and at least seven others and wounding 40, Palestinian sources said.

Witnesses said the three-story home of Ayman Atallah Fayed had completely collapsed, and that six nearby homes were also badly damaged.

Among the dead were Fayed's wife, three of his sons and three neighbors, said Dr. Moawiya Hassanain, a Health Ministry official. At least 40 people were wounded, 12 of them critically, including one of Fayed's daughters.
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The blast went off Friday evening in Fayed's house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The explosion badly damaged the home and a nearby metal workshop.

Islamic Jihad said Israel targeted the house in an air strike, but Hamas police said the cause of the blast was not clear and the Israel Defense Forces denied an attack had taken place.

Witnesses reported seeing fragments of what looked like Qassam rockets at the scene, suggesting the house may have been used to store arms.

Fayed was a senior member of the Islamic Jihad military wing, and the group confirmed he was among the dead, vowing to carry out reprisal attacks against Israel.

"We will respond to this Zionist massacre painfully," Abu Ahmed, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad said. "We will strike the enemy everywhere."

A senior Islamic Jihad leader, Khaled al-Batsh, also said Israel was behind the bombing of the house and linked it to the car bombing in Damascus this week that killed top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah.

"This escalation by Israel will not bring security to the settlers, it will not bring security to Zionists anywhere," Batsh told Reuters.

"We will not meet the escalation against us with roses but with more resistance and jihad," he said.

Referring to the killing of Mughniyah, for which Israel has denied responsibility, he added: "It seems that Israel has decided to escalate its aggression against the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon. We will stand fast."

Looks like a Terrorist managed to blow himself up with a stockpile of homemade rockets, too bad he took his family with him.

moon · #9 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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The report itself does not contain the phrase "Zionist assassins bomb sleeping civilians".....

It was an assassination, carried out by Zionists, and they bombed sleeping civilians. There isn't any untruth in my terminology.

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Looks like a Terrorist managed to blow himself up with a stockpile of homemade rockets, too bad he took his family with him.

Who ever heard of anybody sleeping with their family on a bed of rockets. Does the terrorist Bush keep grenades in his chamber-pot ?

Fidei Defensor · #10 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by MattLarson

The report itself does not contain the phrase "Zionist assassins bomb sleeping civilians".....

Indeed. Further, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has said:

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There is no evidence to confirm that the explosion was caused by rocket or aerial bombardment by Israeli occupation forces (IOF), as mentioned in some media outlets. It is more likely that it was an internal explosion the circumstances of which are unclear as of yet. Eyewitnesses confirmed seeing smoke and fire issue from Fayed’s house seconds before the explosion. According to similar incidents in the past, this indicates that it may have been an internal explosion.

- The cause of the explosion is not clear. It is unknown if it was triggered by a mistake if the preparation and/or storage of a large explosive device; or if IOF are involving through planting a booby-trapped explosive device inside the house.

Source: PCHR

We'd be well advised to withhold judgment blaming "the Zionists."

42 Regular · #11 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by moon

It was an assassination, carried out by Zionists, and they bombed sleeping civilians. There isn't any untruth in my terminology.

Odd that even the HAMAS POLICE don't say so.

Imperator · #12 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by moon

Don't 'yawn' at me, Imperator, I find it offensive. I've made a perfectly valid point to another member and it doesn't deserve to have you sleeping all over it.

*harumph* huh what? I have made pently of points I would like addressed by you moon and I get a one line smart ass responses back....as Jayzee says...its a hard knock life.... aint it?

TheLastBoyScout · #13 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008

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Originally Posted by Fidei Defensor

Indeed. Further, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has said:

We'd be well advised to withhold judgment blaming "the Zionists."

Oops... The AP account mentions the homemade rocket fragments.

Are you still considered a martyr if you accidently blow yourself up and take your family with you?