Tuesday, 24 June 2014

KANAK-kanak yang MENJADI MANGSA yg pertama Konflik ISRAEL-PALESTIN . . .

Reuters/Suhaib Salem

bOLLy ENn Mereka ditimpa oleh peristiwa-peristiwa di Ukraine dan Iraq, perjuangan Israel-Palestin semakin momentum. Setiap kali, ia bermula dengan kematian kanak-kanak di kedua-dua belah pihak.

Pada 12 Jun, Khamis, 3 remaja Israel hilang berhampiran Hebron (Tebing Barat). Semasa demonstrasi pada 15 Mei tentera Israel menembak, 2 remaja Palestin.

Tidak ada yang baru tentang melibatkan kanak-kanak dalam konflik ‘conflict’ ini, tetapi peningkatan jumlah kanak-kanak diculik dan dibunuh biasanya mendahului konflik berskala besar. Berikut adalah beberapa contoh baru2 ini bagaimana kematian seorang remaja yang berkhidmat sebagai pencetus.

Menaiki kereta MAUT

Penduduk Israel tinggal di bawah beberapa peraturan yang ketat. Tidak ada warga Israel boleh pergi ke wilayah Palestin, mengekori atau melawat rumah rakyat Palestin.

Awal bulan ini 3 pelajar dari seminari Yahudi di Hebron - Naftali Fraenkel (16), Eyal Yifrah (19) dan Gilad Shaar (16) - hilang dalam perjalanan pulang, setelah dipecahkan peraturan pada menaiki kereta. 

Sekurang-kurangnya, itulah bagaimana media menggambarkan ia. Polis belajar ten-tang kehilangan mereka pada petang Khamis. Media melaporkan bahawa polis diberi-tahu tentera mengenainya beberapa jam kemudian.

Children are the Frst VICTIMs Of ISRAELi-Palestine COMFLICT . . .

Overshadowed by the events in Ukraine and Iraq, the Israeli-Palestine struggle is gaining momentum. Every time, it starts with the deaths of children on both sides.

On June 12, Thursday, three Israeli teenagers disappeared near Hebron (West Bank). During a demonstration on May 15 Israeli military shot two Palestinian teenagers.

There’s nothing new about involving children in this conflict, but the increasing number of kidnapped and killed children usually precedes large-scale conflicts. Here are some recent examples of how the death of a teenager served as a trigger.

Deadly hitchhiking

The Israeli population lives under a number of strict rules. No Israeli citizen can go to the Palestinian territories, hitchhike or visit Palestinian homes.

Earlier this month three students from the Jewish seminary in Hebron – Naftali Fraenkel (16), Eyal Yifrah (19) and Gilad Shaar (16) – disappeared on their way home, having broken the rule on hitchhiking. At least, that’s how the media describes it. The police learned about their disappearance on Thursday evening. The media reports that the police notified the army about it several hours later.

Foto nota keluarga gabungan tidak bertarikh dibuat pada 18 Jun 2014 menunjukkan 3 remaja Israel dipercayai diculik oleh militan Palestin, (Dari kiri ke kanan) Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Frenkel, 16 dan Gilad Shaar, 16 (A combination of undated family handout pictures made on June 18, 2014 shows the three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by Palestinian militants, (From L to R) Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Frenkel, 16 and Gilad Shaar, 16 (AFP Photo)

Penapisan yang sebagai peraturan memang hadir berkaitan dengan mana-mana acara adalah kurang ketat masa ini. Terdapat kebocoran mengatakan bahawa si abang berjaya menghubungi polis di 10:25 dan dalam bisikan yang memberitahu mereka bahawa dia diculik, tetapi, menurut media, pengendali polis menolak panggilan sebagai satu lagi gurauan remaja.

Sebuah organisasi yang dipanggil Dawlat al-Islam telah mengambil tanggungjawab untuk penculikan, tetapi tidak ada perkembangan. Pada petang yang sama pegawai Israel Gershon Baskin berkata bahawa kepimpinan Hamas yg tahu apa2 mengenainya. Namun pada 15 Jun, ia adalah Hamas yang Netanyahu dituduh menculik 3 remaja.

"Hari ini saya boleh mengatakan apa yang saya tidak boleh berkata semalam, sebelum penangkapan ahli Hamas di Yudea dan Samaria (Tebing Barat - RT) telah berlaku. Kanak-kanak lelaki telah diculik oleh Hamas, Hamas yang sama bahawa Abu Mazen mencipta kerajaan campuran kebangsaan dengan. Ini akan mempunyai kesan yang serius, "kata Perdana Menteri, membuka sesi kerajaan pada hari Ahad.

Jurucakap Hamas Sami Abu Zuhri mendakwa bahawa organisasi mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan penculikan, memanggil tuduhan "karut" dan "pembohongan." Pihak berkuasa Palestin di Tebing Barat berkata bahawa mereka tidak dapat menjamin keselamatan penduduk Israel. Pembantu Mahmoud Abbas Muhammad al-Madani berkata Netanyahu telah mengambil kesempatan daripada keadaan ini untuk menjana ketegangan yang banyak.

Kemudian tentera memulakan pencarian dan mendapati sebuah kereta dibakar bahawa mereka dikenal pasti sebagai kereta penculik itu. Berikutan ini, 16 ahli Hamas ditahan di Hebron; sejak beberapa hari akan datang, bilangan tangkapan mencapai 80. Tentera Israel mula mengebom Semenanjung Gaza, manakala pihak berkuasa Mesir menggesa Hamas dan Jihad Islam untuk menjelaskan keadaan.

Di Hebron, remaja Palestin membaling batu pada tentera Israel oleh Gua Kaum Bapa. Kemudian, kira-kira 2,000 tentera Israel telah dihantar di sana sebagai bala bantuan.

Sisi Israel yakin bahawa penculik berhasrat utk mengangkut remaja ke Semenanjung Gaza, jadi tempat pemeriksaan dan rondaan sempadan yang berjaga-jaga yang tinggi. Ia harus diperhatikan bahawa tembok tlh dibina di sepanjang hanya beberapa baha-gian sempadan, kebanyakan ia hanya dilengkapi dengan pagar dawai, medan periuk api, menara menonton dan 24/7 sistem pemantauan.

PERMAINAN MAUT dengan BATU

15 Mei ialah Hari Nakba untuk rakyat Palestin, hari anjakan mereka kembali pada tahun 1948. Tahun ini, ia berakhir dalam pembunuhan 2 remaja, Nadeem Siyam Nawara (17) dan Muhammad Mahmoud Salameh Abu Daher (17). Kedua-duanya ditembak melalui jantung berhampiran penjara Ofer di bandar Beituniya.

The censorship that is as a rule inherently present in connection with any events was less strict this time. There was a leak saying that one of the teenagers managed to contact the police at 10:25pm and in a whisper told them that he was kidnapped, but, according to the media, the police operator dismissed the call as another teenage prank.

An organization called Dawlat al-Islam has taken responsibility for the kidnapping, but there are no developments. That same evening Israeli official Gershon Baskin said that the Hamas leadership knew nothing about it. Yet on June 15, it was Hamas that Netanyahu accused of kidnapping the three teenagers.

“Today I can say what I couldn’t say yesterday, before the arrests of Hamas members in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank – RT) took place. The boys were kidnapped by Hamas, the very same Hamas that Abu Mazen created a national coalition government with. This will have serious repercussions,” said the Prime Minister, opening a government session on Sunday.

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri claimed that the organization had nothing to do with the kidnapping, calling the accusations “nonsense” and “a bluff.” The Palestinian authorities on the West Bank said that they can’t guarantee the safety of Israeli settlers. Mahmoud Abbas’s aide Muhammad al-Madani said Netanyahu was taking advantage of the situation to generate more tension.

Then the army began a search and found a burned car that they identified as the kidnapper’s car. Following this, 16 Hamas members were arrested in Hebron; over the next few days, the number of arrests reached 80. The Israeli army started bombing the Gaza Strip, while Egyptian authorities called on Hamas and Islamic Jihad to explain the situation.

In Hebron, Palestinian teenagers threw stones at the Israeli forces by the Cave of the Patriarchs. Later, about 2,000 Israeli soldiers were sent there as reinforcements.

The Israeli side is convinced that the kidnappers intend to transport the teenagers to the Gaza Strip, so the checkpoints and border patrol are on high alert. It should be noted that walls were built along only some parts of the border, most of it is only equipped with wire fences, minefields, watch towers and 24/7 monitoring systems.

Deadly games with STONES

May 15 is the Nakba Day for the Palestinians, the day of their displacement back in 1948. This year, it ended in the murder of two teenagers, Nadeem Siyam Nawara (17) and Muhammad Mahmoud Salameh Abu Daher (17). Both were shot through the heart near the Ofer prison in the town of Beituniya.

Reuters/Amir Cohen

Pada 19 Mei, Pertahanan untuk Kanak-kanak Palestin menerbitkan video dua minit menembak dengan menggunakan rakaman kamera CCTV. Ia menunjukkan dua belia berjalan dan kemudian jatuh ke tanah.

Berdasarkan masuk dan keluar yang luka, pihak Palestin dan hak asasi manusia Israel organisasi B'tselem berhujah bahawa ia adalah api hidup dibuka dari lebih 200 meter dari sini yang mengorbankan 2 remaja dan bukannya peluru getah.

Penyokong hak asasi manusia menggariskan fakta bahawa pada masa tiada kuasa-kuasa keselamatan terancam oleh mana-mana mangsa supaya tindakan mereka tidak boleh dibenarkan sebagai tindak balas kepada provokasi.

Fahad Zaid, pemilik bangunan itu dengan kamera CCTV, berkata dia mendengar bunyi tembakan empat yang datang dari arah bertentangan di mana kanak-kanak lelaki telah melontar batu. Menurut beliau, tentera menggunakan gas pertama, belia berhenti membaling batu dan berundur ke stesen minyak berhampiran, dan selepas itu peluru sasaran mereka.

Perkhidmatan akhbar tentera mendakwa bahawa peralatan khas, tidak senjata api, telah digunakan untuk menyuraikan demonstrasi. Selain itu, pegawai-pegawai meragui kesahihan video ini, memanggil ia satu kerja editing yang berat sebelah.

Menteri Pertahanan Israel Moshe Ya'alon berkata video itu "edited". Versi rasmi acara pergi seperti ini: 150 rakyat Palestin memperingati Hari Nakba, membuang koktel Molotov, membakar tayar dan batu di tentera Israel, tetapi tidak ada senjata api yang digunakan dalam tindak balas.

Tentera Israel mengumumkan "Siasatan separa", manakala PBB menggesa Israel untuk menjalankan siasatan bebas daripada pembunuhan dan penggunaan yang tidak seimbang kekerasan.

'IaNYA tidak NAMPAKnya BAIK

Pada bulan Januari 2013, 2 wartawan Haaretz, Gideon Levy dan Alex Levac, mengkaji pembunuhan kanak-kanak semasa protes, khususnya kematian yang berusia 16 tahun dari Budrus.

On May 19, Defense for Children Palestine published a two-minute video of the shooting using CCTV camera footage. It shows two youths walking and then dropping to the ground. Based on the entry and exit wounds, the Palestinian side and Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem argued that it was live fire opened up from more than 200m away that killed the two teenagers and not rubber bullets. The human rights advocates underlined the fact that at no point were security forces endangered by any of the victims, so their actions cannot be justified as a response to provocation.

Fahad Zaid, the owner of the building with the CCTV cameras, said that he heard four gunshots coming from the opposite direction of where the boys were throwing stones. According to him, the army used gas first, the youths stopped throwing stones and retreated to a nearby petrol station, and after that the bullets hit their targets.

The military press service claimed that special equipment, not firearms, were used to disperse the demonstration. Moreover, the officials doubted the authenticity of the video, calling it a biased editing work.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said that the video was “edited”. The official version of the events goes like this: 150 Palestinians were commemorating the Nakba Day, throwing Molotov cocktails, burning tires and stones at the Israeli soldiers, but no guns were used in response.

The Israeli army announced a “partial investigation”, while the UN urged Israel to conduct an independent investigation of murder and disproportionate use of force.

‘It doesn’t look GOOD’

In January 2013, two Haaretz journalists, Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, studied murders of children during protests, in particular the death of a 16-year-old from Budrus.

Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Berikut adalah bagaimana wartawan menyifatkan kehidupan belia Palestin di Budrus: kampung Palestin bersempadan penyelesaian Israel; terdapat halangan pemisahan yang terdiri daripada dinding yang tinggi, pagar kawat berduri dan sistem keselamatan elektronik.

Kanak-kanak Palestin datang ke pagar setiap hari memanggil tentera pengecut Israel dan membaling batu pada mereka. Menembusi barisan pertahanan pertama dianggap sebagai jenama khas sejuk.

Sebagai peraturan, wartawan andaikan, tingkah laku ini tidak mempunyai kesan yang serius. Tetapi hari itu, tentera yang ditubuhkan serangan hendap, dengan satu kum-pulan yang bersembunyi di semak-semak dan 2 lagi anggota tentera di medan pertem-puran oleh dinding.

Persoalan sama ada ia mengapa untuk remaja serangan hendap tidak dalam agenda, kerana apa-apa Palestin yang melanggar sempadan dan peraturan yang ditetapkan oleh Israel secara unilateral dianggap penceroboh tanpa mengira usia mereka.

Apabila Samir Awad, 17, melintasi halangan pengasingan, mereka dipecat di udara. Belia cuba melarikan diri ke kampung, tetapi cedera di kaki semasa menyeberangi halangan dalam perjalanan pulang. Askar-askar dalam parit meraih dia, tetapi beliau berjaya membebaskan dirinya dan terus berjalan. Ia kemudiannya bahawa mereka, menembaknya, melarikan diri, di belakang dan kepala.

Penduduk Budrus memberitahu wartawan bagaimana mereka membantu seorang askar Israel yang sengaja menyimpang ke kampung kira-kira setahun lalu untuk keluar dari sana dengan selamat. "Dan itulah bagaimana mereka membalas kita kembali untuk itu," mereka membuat kesimpulan dalam satu temu mereka dengan Haaretz.

Arahan Tentera berkelayakan kejadian itu sebagai menghalang cubaan untuk menceroboh ke dlm Israel. Kemudian, sebagai siasatan kemajuan, Tentera melaporkan bahawa akaun saksi askar tidak menambah. Masih kemudian, seorang pegawai mem-beritahu wartawan bahawa "kisah ini tidak nampak  baik."

Media Israel percaya bahawa "peperangan kanak-kanak" telah berlaku selama-lama-nya, dengan remaja Palestin membaling batu, dan dgn draftees muda, hanya beberapa tahun lebih tua, memegang senjata api di tangan mereka di sisi lain, disokong oleh tentera dan kerajaan mereka.

Dan jadi itulah bagaimana ia berakhir - askar mendapatkan untuk bertindak balas terhadap provokasi ini dengan senjata.

Pada hari yang wartawan melawat Budrus mereka menonton adik Samir-an pergi ke halangan pemisahan utk mencabar askar. Sebagai tindak balas, mereka melemparkan bom gas pemedih mata.

Ini hanya satu kes yang telah menerima begitu banyak perhatian. Terdapat berpuluh-puluh protes seperti pengambilan tempat ini setiap hari, dan tindakan balas dengan kekerasan nampaknya tidak berjaya menghentikan ia. Rakyat Palestin hanya terus berkembang lebih pahit dan terdesak.

Ini berlaku di mana-mana. Pada bulan November 2013, seorang remaja Palestin menyerang tentera Israel dengan pisau di utara Israel. Askar mati akibat luka-luka; penyerang berusia 16 tahun dari Jenin (Tebing Barat) telah ditangkap.

Menurut media, dia telah bekerja di Israel secara haram. Beliau menghadapi sekurang-kurangnya satu jangka hidup pembunuhan itu, manakala saudara-saudaranya juga boleh dikehendaki merancang dan menjalankan lebih banyak pembunuhan membalas dendam.

Bagaimana utk bantu askar dapatkan atasnya

Ayat-ayat skandal oleh Israel Major Elena Zakusilo (Gluzman) membantu anda cara tentera Israel dilatih untuk mengatasi penunjuk perasaan Palestin ‘Palestinian protesters’, termasuk kanak-kanak.

The following is how the journalists described the life of the Palestinian youth in Budrus: the Palestinian village borders an Israeli settlement; there is a separation barrier consisting of a high wall, a barbed wire fence and an electronic security system. Palestinian children come to the fence every day calling Israeli soldiers cowards and throwing stones at them. Penetrating the first line of defense is considered a special brand of cool.

As a rule, the journalists suppose, this behavior does not have any serious ramifications. But that day, soldiers set up an ambush, with one group hiding in the bushes and two more soldiers in the trenches by the wall.

The question of whether it’s okay to ambush teenagers is not on the agenda, since any Palestinian who violates the borders and rules established by the Israelis unilaterally is considered a trespasser regardless of their age.

When Samir Awad, 17, crossed the separation barrier, they fired in the air. The youth tried to flee to the village, but was wounded in the leg while crossing the barrier on his way back. The soldiers in the trench grabbed him, but he managed to free himself and continued to run. It was then that they shot him, running away, in the back and head.

Residents of Budrus told the journalists how they helped an Israeli soldier who accidentally strayed into the village about a year ago to get out of there safely. “And that’s how they paid us back for it,” they concluded in their interview with Haaretz.

The Army command qualified the incident as preventing an attempt to infiltrate into Israel. Later on, as the investigation progressed, the Army reported that the soldiers’ witness accounts do not add up. Still later, an officer told the journalists that “the story doesn’t look good.”

Israeli media believe that this “children’s war” has been going on forever, with Palestinian teenagers throwing rocks, and with young draftees , only a few years older, holding firearms in their hands on the other side, supported by their army and government . And so that’s how it ends up – the soldiers get to respond to these provocations with lethal weapons.

On the day the journalists visited Budrus they watched the late Samir’s brother go to the separation barrier to challenge the soldiers. In response, they threw tear gas grenades.

This is only one case that has received so much attention. There are dozens of protests like this taking place daily, and retaliation by force does not seem to succeed in stopping it. The Palestinians only keep growing more bitter and desperate.

This happens everywhere. In November 2013, a Palestinian teenager attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife in the north of Israel. The soldier died from the wounds; the 16-year old attacker from Jenin (West Bank) was arrested. According to the media, he had been working in Israel illegally. He is facing at least one life term for the murder, whereas his brothers may well be expected to plan and carry out more revenge killings.

How to help solders get over it

Scandalous revelations by Israeli Major Elena Zakusilo (Gluzman) shed light on how Israeli soldiers are trained to counteract Palestinian protesters, including children.

AFP Photo/Saif Dahlah

Dalam penampilan beliau pada TV Ukraine menunjukkan "dikesan pembohongan" pada 4 November 2013, Elena mengaku telah ditembak pada bawah umur.

Kerja beliau dengan Tentera Israel adalah untuk melatih anjing tentera untuk serbuan terhadap rakyat Palestin. Semasa bantahan tahun 2004 yang dicetuskan oleh kematian Yasser Arafat dia terpaksa menembak penunjuk perasaan.

Elena berkaitan bagaimana pegawai rakan-rakan beliau membantu beliau melawan halangan psikologi dan ragu-ragu tentang apa yang dilakukannya.

Komander lasak beliau belum mesra, umum, memberikan nasihat beliau menerima idea bahawa perintah itu kepada serangan bermakna betul-betul mengikuti perintah itu dan api tidak berfikir tentang siapa atau apa yang sasaran itu.

Beliau menjelaskan selanjutnya bahawa semua tindak balas emosi yang lain seorang tentera diberi pertimbangan penuh dan betul berkata, "Jika anda datang ke komander anda dan berkata, sebagai contoh, bahawa anda sengaja memukul kucing semasa memandu atau melihat seseorang tercedera dan anda berasa susah hati ia, dia akan bercakap dengan anda selama berjam-jam untuk membantu anda mendapatkan ke atasnya."

Pekerjaan Elena adalah untuk melatih anjing. Beliau tlh melatih 150 daripada mereka setakat ini. "Saya mahu kembali ke Israel dan terus memusnahkan musuh," katanya.

Utama menjelaskan secara terperinci apa jenis latihan dia memberikan anjing-anjing: "Anjing dipasang dengan kolar elektronik yang mempunyai kamera terbina; operator yang menjaga anjing itu mempunyai kawalan jauh yang boleh membuat anjing itu menyerang sasaran dengan menghantar isyarat dari sejauh 10 kilometer jauhnya."

Ibu Elena, yang turut mengambil bahagian dalam program ini, berkata bahawa dia menyokong anaknya dan memahami bahawa pembunuhan adalah sebahagian daripada kerja. "Sudah tentu, ini adalah Tentera Darat," katanya.

KANAK-kanak di bawah TEMBAKAN

Selama beberapa dekad, jumlah laporan mengenai tindakan keterlaluan keganasan telah berkembang begitu banyak bahawa ia mula menimbulkan keraguan mengenai sama ada mereka mempunyai sebarang nilai.

In her appearance on the Ukrainian TV show “Lie detector” on November 4, 2013, Elena confessed to having fired at minors.

Her job with the Israeli Army is to train army dogs for raids against Palestinians. During the protests of 2004 that were triggered by Yasser Arafat’s death she had to fire at protesters.

Elena related how her fellow officers helped her fight the psychological barrier and the doubt about what she was doing.

Her rugged yet friendly commander, a general, gave her advice to accept the idea that the order to attack means exactly to follow the order and fire not thinking about who or what the target was.

She explained further that all other emotional reactions of a soldier are given full and proper consideration saying, “If you come to your commander and say, for instance, that you accidentally hit a cat while driving or saw someone get hurt and you feel bad about it, he’d talk to you for hours to help you get over it.”

Elena’s job is to train dogs. She has trained 150 of them so far. “I want to return to Israel and continue destroying the enemy,” she said.

The major explained in detail what kind of training she gives the dogs: “A dog is fitted with an electronic collar which has an inbuilt camera; the operator in charge of the dog has the remote control which can make the dog attack a target by sending the signal from as far as 10 kilometers away."

Elena’s mother, who also participated in the program, said that she supports her daughter and understands that murder is part of the job. “Of course, this is the Army,” said she.

Children under fire

For decades, the number of reports about outrageous acts of violence has grown so much that it does begin to raise doubts about whether they have any value.

Seorang budak lelaki Palestin memegang sebuah Al-Quran berhampiran Gate Singa di Old City di Jerusalem, pertempuran yang kecil berlaku di perkarangan berhampiran diketahui umat Islam sebagai Noble Sanctuary dan untuk orang-orang Yahudi sebagai Temple Mount (A Palestinian boy holds up a Koran near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

Palestin, Israel organisasi hak asasi manusia, komisen PBB melaporkan pembunuhan, penangkapan, penyeksaan dan bawah umur Palestin, tetapi apa-apa perubahan dalam bagaimana keadaan keseluruhan memperlihatkan dirinya - iaitu harapan.

Hujah Sisi Israel mendidih ke dakwaan bahawa rakyat Palestin tidak menghargai anak-anak mereka sendiri dan mendorong mereka ke garisan pertempuran itu sendiri.

Majoriti rakyat Palestin Saya telah bercakap telah ditangkap sebagai kanak-kanak untuk membuang batu-batu di tentera.

Kri Gereja St Porphyrius di Gaza, seorang Kristian Ortodoks, memberitahu saya bahawa kanak-kanak lelaki rasa ia adalah tugas mereka untuk mengambil bahagian dalam tindakan bantahan, tidak kira agama mereka, kedudukan sosial keluarga atau kekayaan mereka. Ini adalah bagaimana mereka berkembang, generasi ke generasi.

Menurut Save the Children melaporkan antara 23,600 dan 29,000 kanak-kanak Bantuan perubatan yang diperlukan untuk luka-luka dan kecederaan dari memukul dan tembakan dalam tempoh dua tahun pertama Palestin Intifada Pertama (1987-1989), satu pertiga daripada mereka di bawah umur di bawah umur 10 .

Semasa Intifada Kedua (2000-2004) Tentera Israel membunuh 500 kanak-kanak, dan meninggalkan 10,000 cedera. Intifada Kedua harfiah bermula dengan pembunuhan seorang kanak-kanak Palestin Muhammad al-Durrah. Ini telah ditangkap pada video, yang media Israel ditolak sebagai propaganda Palestin palsu.

146 kanak-kanak Palestin mati dlm perjalanan operasi anti-Palestin yang dilaksanakan dalam tempoh 2006-2007.

Pada bulan Disember 2008-Januari 2009, operasi terhadap Gaza mengorbankan 1400 rakyat Palestin, 312 daripada mereka kanak-kanak.

Kanak-kanak ini tewas kekal tdk dinamakan atau, pada yang terbaik, mendapatkan dilaporkan sebagai mangsa dalam ticker berita. Hanya melihat bagaimana ketegangan membina dan bagaimana media massa mula berputar kematian ini boleh memberi pakar-pakar petunjuk bahawa kita mungkin menghampiri fasa perang skala penuh, dengan beratus-ratus dan beratus-ratus mangsa.

Palestinians, Israeli human right organizations, UN commissions report murders, arrests, and torture of Palestinian minors, but nothing changes in how the overall situation presents itself – i.e. hopeless.

The Israeli side’s arguments boil down to the claim that the Palestinians do not value their own children and push them to the battle line themselves.

The majority of Palestinians I have talked to have been arrested as children for throwing rocks at the soldiers.

The warden of the St. Porphyrius Church in Gaza, an Orthodox Christian, told me that boys feel it is their duty to take part in the acts of protest, regardless of their religion, social standing of their family or wealth. This is how they grow, generation after generation.

According to the Save the Children reports between 23,600 and 29,000 children required medical assistance for wounds and injuries from beatings and gunfire during the first two years of the First Palestinian Intifada (1987-89), a third of them were minors under the age of 10.

During the Second Intifada (2000-2004) the Israeli Army killed 500 children, and left 10,000 injured. The Second Intifada literally began with the killing of a Palestinian child Muhammad al-Durrah. This was captured on a video, which the Israeli media dismissed as fake Palestinian propaganda.

146 Palestinian children died in the course of anti-Palestinian operations undertaken in 2006-2007.

In December 2008-January 2009, the operation against Gaza took the lives of 1400 Palestinians, 312 of them children.

These killed children either remain nameless or, at best, get reported as a casualty in a news ticker. Only seeing how the tension builds up and how the mass-media start to spin these deaths can give the experts a clue that we’re possibly nearing a full-scale war phase, with hundreds and hundreds casualties.


Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...