HOW TO KILL A PALESTINIAN
By Dr. Elias Akleh
27 January, 2009
Countercurrents.org
Commenting on the latest Israeli one-directional onslaught
against the Palestinians of Gaza Strip, the Israeli 10th TV
channel has disclosed that the Israeli genocidal forces had
used half of its air force and had launched at least 2500 air
raids against Gaza Strip. The television military
correspondent stated that the Israeli warplanes had dropped
more than a thousand tons of explosives, including white
phosphorous and DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) bombs,
during three weeks on the virtually unarmed densely
populated 360 square Kilometers Strip. He added that the
shells fired by tanks, artillery, gunboats, and infantry were
not included in those fired by the air force.
After a whole week of continuous air bombardments Israel
sent in its elite foot soldiers; 30,000 of them, and called in
10,000 of its reservists. Armed with the latest weapons of
mass murder, covered with an umbrella of free reigning air
force, and accompanied with raining shells of heavy artillery,
they drove their tanks into the civilian towns murdering
civilians and destroying every structure in their path.
Living outside of Gaza one cannot fully understand the
barbarity of this genocide especially when the Western media
had barely covered any of its atrocity. To gain a slight idea of
its enormity one should remember that, during the 6-days
war of 1967, this same Israeli army was distributed on four
fronts; Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Lebanese, and it was
fighting regular armies. Now the whole brunt of this army is
concentrated on a small strip against an unarmed and
untrained civilian population 50% of whom are under 20.
Latest official count was 1350 murdered, 40% of them were
children, and 5300 were injured; mutilated and amputated. It
was reported that 80% of the injured were the victims of
burning phosphorous bombs. More dead are being discovered
under the rubble, and many seriously injured are expected
later on to die.
Israeli tanks left several city blocks completely destroyed
without any homes or structure standing. The tanks shelled
homes and apartment towers. Due to the small size of Gaza
Strip Palestinians had to build vertically. Many apartment
towers went up 15-20 stories high with each story containing
6-8 apartments. A total of 20,000 buildings were completely
or partially burnt and damaged.
The UN has reported that more than 50,000 Palestinians are
left homeless and are now crowded into 50 emergency
shelters. An estimated of 50,000 more are living with
relatives and in tents they erected on the ruins of their
homes.
The Israeli bombardment targeted everything in Gaza
including government buildings, police headquarters, banks
and business offices, the main university, 67 schools
sheltering civilians, shopping centers and market places,
factories, water, sewer, and electricity infrastructures, private
homes and apartment towers and charity organizations.
Farms, including their animals, were also targeted and
hundreds of acres of crops and fruit groves were incinerated.
Religious buildings, where civilians usually seek shelter, were
specifically targeted. Israeli fighter planes had completely
destroyed 41 mosques, and partially damaged 51 others. One
church was also targeted. Even cemeteries were not spared;
5 of them were bombed. People spoke of it raining body
parts; due to land constraints bodies were packed many into
single graves.
The UN headquarters in Gaza City was also hit with three, not
just one, phosphorous bombs burning tons of humanitarian
aid and food stuff. The fire kept burning for three days. A
UN-flagged humanitarian convoy was also shelled killing one
driver.
Medical centers and paramedics were not spared. The Red
Crescent Al-Quds hospital in Tal el-Hawa neighborhood was
hit by Israeli shells and caught on fire. Other two hospitals;
Al-Wafa and Al-Fata hospitals, were also shelled, leading the
World Health Organization to express its deep concern about
the serious implications of such bombardments. 16 other
smaller health clinics and 16 ambulances were also damaged.
Medics were targeted and prevented from helping the injured.
Ten of them, including two doctors, were murdered.
Media centers were particularly targeted. Local and
international news reporters were prevented from entering
Gaza. Those, who were able to enter, were directly targeted.
The Al-Shuruq office tower housing several international and
Arab media outlets was directly hit. Two cameramen working
for Abu Dhabi TV were injured, while the offices of Reuters
News Agency, Fox TV, Sky, and Al-Arabiya TV offices were
damaged. Another raid had damaged the headquarter offices
of Al-Resala newspaper.
Similar to all their previous wars the Israeli soldiers had
committed massacres against Palestinian unarmed civilians.
They have used internationally banned weapons such as
phosphorous bombs, DIME, and depleted uranium, as
reported by international physicians, eyewitnesses, and
military experts.
Israeli soldiers had mutilated the bodies of their victims to
instill terror in the hearts of people hoping they will leave
Gaza. Israeli soldiers herded many families in one building
using them as human shield, and then later on bombed the
building on top of them.
They shot civilians, mainly children, directly and at point
blank. The bodies of some children were found shot several
times; as many as 18 bullets in the body of a 12 year old girl,
and 12 bullets in the body of her 2 year old sister.
Israeli soldiers wiped off whole Palestinian families. Al-
Samuni family lost 11 members, Abu Aisha family lost 6,
Batran family lost 6, al-Rayyan family lost 15 and al-Balousha
family lost 5 sisters.
Other families, too many to mention here, were either
murdered or incinerated by the phosphorous bombs.
The Israeli army has been carrying out a deliberate
indiscriminate mass murder. During the first Intifada, 1987 –
1993, they murdered 1162 Palestinians.
During the second Intifada, 2001- 2006, they murdered 5500
Palestinians.
Now, in a short period of three weeks, they murdered 1350
Palestinians.
One cannot help but wonder how could a group of people,
who claim to be the victims of a holocaust, commit another
holocaust against another nation. What is it that feeds,
perpetuates and intensifies this Judaic genocidal spirit
although all Arabs, including Palestinians, had offered these
Zionist Jews many agreements of coexistence, peace and
security? The answer comes through their media outlets,
through the words of their scholarly educators, and through
the teachings of their Rabbis.
“All of the Palestinians must be killed;
men, women, infants, and even their beasts”
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