Dr. Dahlia Wasfi: “Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children.”
Source: ushypocrisy.com
War
Feeding The Beast
When President Eisenhower left office late in the 1950s he said, “The biggest threat to our country is the military industrial complex.” This means feeding the beast!
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Israel destroys high-rise building in Gaza [VIDEO]
In what many Palestinians are calling “Gaza’s 9/11,” Israeli warplanes today destroyed the 12-story “Zafir 4” residential tower in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood.
This video captures the moment. It appears that the building was struck by two missiles.
The tower was part of the Zafir complex and contained 44 apartments housing about 240 people. Residents had reportedly received warnings to leave the building, but medical officials said 17 people were injured, four of them children.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights states that the building was attacked by Israel “without giving any specific explanation that can be verified.”
It adds: “Al Mezan’s investigations indicate that no military activities took place in or around it. Hundreds of its residents; most of whom are families headed by employees of the Palestinian Authority, were displaced.”
At least ten Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, mostly women and children, Ma’an News Agency reported.
Human rights groups have condemned Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilian homes and infrastructure, but amid international complicity and silence, it has continued the practice unabated.
At least 2,103 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since 7 July, Ma’an said.
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Source: electronicintifada.net
Unaccompanied Child Migrants: Q&A with UNICEF Honduras
What’s it like for children in Honduras?
ESPINAL: Throughout the country we have a child mortality rate of 23 per 1,000. We have 900,000 children and adolescents who neither work nor go to school. We have 12 children who are assassinated every day
Source: www.unicefusa.org
Cornel West: “We won’t stand for annihilation” in Palestine – YouTube
Dr. Cornell West speaks at the pro-Palestinian march on Washington, where he juxtaposes issues facing Palestinians to issues facing African Americans in The United States today.
Filmed by Ford Fischer (@fordfischer on twitter)
Source: www.youtube.com
Israel-Gaza conflict: Right-wing Israeli politician calls for Gazans to be ’concentrated in camps’ – and then all resistance ‘exterminated’
A senior Israeli politician has called for the “conquest of the entire Gaza Strip” and the deportation of Palestinians to make way for Jewish settlers.
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Where have we heard this kind of thinking before?
To Fix the Child Refugee Crisis, End the War on Drugs
America’s anti-drug policies didn’t stop the production of narcotics, they just shifted it overseas.
Source: www.businessweek.com
The war on drugs is really a war on people. There can not be a war on inanimate objects.
The Toll in Gaza and Israel, Day by Day
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Source: www.nytimes.com
U.N. Says ‘Evidence’ Points to Israel in Gaza School Attack
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that “all available evidence” suggested that Israeli artillery had hit a United Nations school in Gaza full of civilians who thought they were in a safe zone.
“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children,” the secretary general told reporters…
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Source: www.nytimes.com
War in Gaza: Operation Protective Edge (2014)
Operation Protective Edge (2014) is the current military operation the Israeli government is carrying out against Gaza, the third in the last six years. It began on July 8th.
To review:
- 2008-09: Operation Cast Lead: killed 1,417 Gazans, 13 Israelis.
- 2012: Operation Pillar of Defence: killed 150 to 233 Gazans, 6 Israelis.
- 2014-: Operation Protective Edge: killed, so far, about 1,460 Gazans (mostly civilians), 63 Israelis (nearly all soldiers). Over 250,000 Gazans have fled their homes.
Meanwhile, since 2006 Gaza has been under siege by Israel. It is almost completely cut off from the outside world. That is itself an act of war, making Operation Protective Edge merely the latest stage of a long Gazan War. Some call it a genocide.
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Source: abagond.wordpress.com