Window Into Palestine: Bulletin

CO-CONSPIRATORS

Israeli Minister: No Cease-Fire
As the airstrikes continued Tuesday, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit told Israel Radio, "
There is no room for a cease-fire."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/
12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?_r=1&hp

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, center, visits a construction site where a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza hit Monday, killing one Israeli and injuring seven, during his tour in the southern city of Ashkelon, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack. From AP Photo by TSAFRIR ABAYOV.

Barak

Barak: 'All-Out War'
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared "an all-out war against Hamas" on Monday as fighter jets raked the Gaza Strip with bombs for the third straight day. . . . "Anything affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900373.html

Israeli Electioneering with Bombs
[B]y launching the attack when many foreign reporters were away from the region for the holidays, the government hoped to be able to inflict the maximum damage on Gaza before the media could catch up.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10074.shtml

Sealed Off
Israel has not allowed foreign reporters into Gaza since the operation began Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900373.html

Protestors hold placards in front of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's vacation compound in Kailua, Hawaii December 30, 2008, during a protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Protestors hold placards during a demonstration against the Israeli attacks on Gaza as the motorcade of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama drives past in Kailua, Hawaii December 30, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Protest at Obama's Motorcade in Hawaii

Republicrats
Washington, as is its wont, blames the pro-Hamas Palestinians, with Obama and Bush singing from the same AIPAC hymn sheet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree
/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel1

NYT Editorial
Israel must defend itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12
/30/opinion/30tue1.html?ref=opinion

ANATOMY OF A WAR CRIME

Palestinians clean the bodies of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan and her sister Haya before their funeral in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Israel on Tuesday rejected any truce with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip before cross-border rocket fire ceased and said its air strikes, the fiercest in decades, heralded "long weeks of military action". In Beit Hanoun, the two sisters were killed in a air raid as they were taking out the trash near their home, medical workers said. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Palestinian relatives of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan mourn near her body during her funeral in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Israel on Tuesday rejected any truce with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip before cross-border rocket fire ceased and said its air strikes, the fiercest in decades, heralded "long weeks of military action". In Beit Hanoun, two sisters, one of them Lama Hamdan, were killed in an air raid as they were taking out the trash near their home, medical workers said. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Bodies of 4-year-old Lama Hamdan and her sister Haya in Beit Hanoun

Israel Attacked During Lull
Palestinians in Gaza believed Israel had called a 48-hour "lull" in retaliatory attacks with Hamas when Israeli warplanes launched a massive bombardment of militant installations in the Gaza Strip, a U.N. official said Monday.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/
article/ALeqM5jEsKgyiG7aSlVT6qkanjs67ZfeCAD95COK280\

Previous Attacks
Israel's four-day bombing campaign in Gaza is the latest in a series of military operations dating back to 2006, when Hamas won the Palestinian elections. . . . They have claimed hundreds of Palestinian lives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008
/dec/30/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

Palestinians look at destroyed houses after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 30, 2008. Israel rejected any truce with Hamas Islamists on Tuesday and said it was ready for "long weeks of action" on a fourth day of the fiercest air offensive in the Gaza Strip in decades. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Smoke rises from an Israeli missile strike on a target in Gaza City,Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack. From AP Photo by KHALIL HAMRA.

Tutu: 'Akin to War Crimes'
"In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes."
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_
id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20081228135838626C247461

Gallery Funeral in Gaza: Palestinians attend funeral of five young Balalusha sisters

Samira Balousha carries her surving child, Mohamad while crying over the body of her daughter, Jawahar, during the funeral

Five Murdered Sisters
Five Balousha girls -- Tahir, 17; Ikram, 14; Samar, 12; Dina, 8; and Jawaher, 4 -- were dead, swelling the list of Palestinian civilians killed in three days of Israeli airstrikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
http://www.latimes.com/news
/nationworld/world/la-fg-civilians30-2008dec30,0,1804115.story

Mother's Response
"Does my 12-days-old baby have a rocket with her?" Samira demanded. "Or my son, does he have a missile with him? Or did my daughters have AK-47s beside them? Why did they target them?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902490.html

Father's Response
"If the dead here were Israelis, you would see the whole world condemning and responding. But why is no one condemning this action? Aren't we human beings?" he said. "We are living in our land, we didn't take it from the Israelis. We are fighting for our rights. One day we will get them back."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
world/2008/dec/30/israel-and-the-palestinians-middle-east

Students
Eight students, ages 18 to 20, were killed while waiting for a U.N. bus to take them home, and 19 were injured.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902490.html

Emergency Services
Gaza's emergency services are crippled by the airstrikes and power outages caused in part by an Israeli blockade.
http://www.latimes.com/
news/nationworld/world/la-fg-civilians30-2008dec30,0,1804115.story

"Dignity", a boat damaged by an Israeli naval ship, arrives at the port city of Tyre in south Lebanon December 30, 2008. A small boat carrying international activists with aid for Gaza docked in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Tuesday after a clash with an Israeli naval ship forced it to divert to Lebanon. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Israeli Navy Rams Aid Ship
The crew and passengers were hoping to treat some of those injured in four days of the Israeli air strikes, with hospitals in the territory overwhelmed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
2008/dec/30/israel-gaza-aid-ship

Amnesty Denounces Strangulation
"It is utterly unacceptable for Israel to continue to purposefully deprive 1.5 million people of food and other basic necessities."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902490.html

Basic Goods
"The most basic goods are not available in the shops."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900373.html

MYTH-BUSTING: HAMAS ROCKETS

Not Even Comparable
During the last seven years, 14 Israelis have been killed by mostly homemade rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, while more than 5,000 Palestinians were killed by Israel with some of the most advanced US-supplied armaments in the world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israel-and-the-palestinians-middle-east

Right to Resist
Like any occupied people, the Palestinians have the right to resist, whether they choose to exercise it or not. But there is no right of defence for an illegal occupation - there is an obligation to withdraw comprehensively.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/dec/30/israel-and-the-palestinians-middle-east

WORLDWIDE PROTEST AND RESISTANCE

P.A. Thoroughly Discredited
"I am originally Fatah, and my voice will always be Fatah. But Hamas is resisting, and we are a nation under occupation. I support the resistance."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/30/fatah_sidelined_hamas_gains_status_as_principal_resistance/

al-Ram in the West Bank

Ramallah

A Palestinian woman holds up a banner reading "Silence = Partnership" in Arabic and English and another holds up her hand with red paint, signifying blood, as others protest against Israel's military operation in Gaza, outside the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack. From AP Photo by DAN BALILTY.

East Jerusalem

A Palestinian woman chants slogans against Israel during a protest over the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near the port city of Sidon in southern Lebanon December 30, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near the port city of Sidon in southern Lebanon

Members of "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism" participate in a demonstration protesting Israel's attacks on Gaza, outside the U.S. State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. From AP Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais.

D.C.

Dearborn, MI

Demonstrators braved a snowstorm as they protested the bombing in Gaza Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, outside the building where Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) has an office in Minneapolis. From AP Photo by Jim Mone.

Minneapolis

Copenhagen

A Palestinian woman holds her child, wearing religious head scarfs, protest during a demonstration against the Israeli attack on Gaza strip, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border. (AP photo Ola al-Rifai). From AP Photo by Ola AL-Rifai.

Damascus

Dubai

Bosnia

Cardiff, Wales

An Indian Muslim shouts slogans as another holds an effigy of U.S. President George Bush, with shoes hanging over it, during a protest against the assault on Gaza by Israel, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. From AP Photo by Aijaz Rahi.

Bangalore, India

A group of Palestinian students burn the Israeli flag during a rally to condemn Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Governments across Asia called for an immediate halt to the air strikes in Gaza that have killed nearly 300 Palestinians, with some accusing the country of crimes against humanity. From AP Photo by Pervez Masih.

Hyderabad, Pakistan

Yemen

Jakarta, Indonesia

Vienna

Tokyo

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Video of NYC Dec. 28 Protest
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/us291208.html

CO-CONSPIRATORS

Labor Party
As chairman of the Labor Party, [Ehud Barak] is running for prime minister in the February elections and polls show him to be a distant third to the Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Kadima leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/
world/middleeast/29assess.html?hp

White House
"The United States understands that Israel needs to take actions to defend itself. Hamas has once again shown its true colors as a terrorist organization that refuses to even acknowledge Israel exists."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900187.html

U.S. Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, looks at the remains of a rocket that landed in southern Israel in recent years during a visit to the house of the Amar family in Sderot, southern Israel, with Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, center, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Obama pledged Wednesday that as president he would preserve the close ties between the United States and Israel, and that the Jewish state's security would be a top priority in his administration. From AP Photo by JACK GUEZ.

Obama and Barak

Obama (By Axelrod)
"The president-elect was in Sderot last July, in southern Israel, a town that's taken the brunt of the Hamas attacks. And he said then that, when bombs are raining down on your citizens, there is an urge to respond and act and try and put an end to that. So, you know, that's what he said then, and I think that's what he believes."
http://www.cqpolitics.com
/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&docID=news-000003001059

An Israeli Apache helicopter launches a missile during an attack inside the northern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2008 as seen from the Israeli-Gaza border. Twelve Palestinians were killed today and 30 more wounded in two fresh Israeli air raids in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said. The raids were carried out in Beit Lahia and Beit Hanun in the north of the battered territory, they said. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.

Congress
Israel received approval from Congress to purchase 1,000 units in September and defense officials said on Sunday that the first shipment had arrived earlier this month.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230
456505080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Pelosi
"When Israel is attacked, the United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645321,00.html

P.A.
[I]f the operation fails or leaves Hamas in the position of scrappy survivor or even somehow perceived victor, it could then dominate Palestinian politics over the more conciliatory and pro-Western Fatah movement for years to come.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/
world/middleeast/29assess.html?hp

ANATOMY OF A WAR CRIME

Cheering Israeli Settlers
"If I had opened an ice-cream stand here I would have made a lot money."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/
0,8599,1868858,00.html?xid=rss-world

Numbers
Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed and another 1,450 wounded in three consecutive days of Israeli bombardment in the heavily-populated territory. . . . Four young girls from the same family in the northern town of Jabaliya and two young boy from Rafah were among those killed in the latest raids.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news
/middleeast/2008/12/2008122994140674153.html

Three Palestinian children from the Balosha family, of five who were all killed in the same Israeli missile strike, are seen in the morgue before their burial at Kamal Edwan hopsital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Israel's overwhelming air campaign against the Gaza Strip inched closer to the territory's Hamas rulers as the assault entered its third day Monday, as missiles struck a house next to the Hamas premier's home and destroyed symbols of the Islamic movement's power. From AP Photo by EYAD BABA.

Holocaust
I am in the middle of Gaza City, in the heart of Gaza City, and the situation is indescribable. If this is not a holocaust, I don't know what holocaust is.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008
/12/29/israeli_attacks_kill_over_310_in

Premeditated
"People were walking through the streets just like a normal day, children coming home from school. Suddenly, without any warning, the bombing started. We didn't even see the jets in the sky. That's why so many people were killed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
world/2008/dec/29/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

Deliberate
When you drop bombs on populated areas knowing there will be some "collateral" civilian damage, but accepting it as worth it, then it is deliberate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/
2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel

Knowing (via Livni)
"[U]nfortunately in a war . . . sometimes also civilians pay the price."
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2008
12/29/world/international-us-palestinians-israel.html

Purposeful
[Israel] worries that its enemies are less afraid of it than they once were, or should be. Israeli leaders are calculating that a display of power in Gaza could fix that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/world/middleeast/29assess.html?hp

Blitzkrieg
The first bombardment took three minutes and 40 seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed 50 sites in Gaza, killing more than 200 Palestinians, and wounding close to 1,000 more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/dec/29/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

A Palestinian man carries the body of his 4-year-old daughter Dena Balosha during the funeral for her and her four sisters in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Palestinian medics said five young sisters, one of them Dena Balosha, died in an air strike in Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza and three other young children were killed when a bomb struck a house aimed at the nearby abandoned home of a senior Hamas militant in Rafah. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Civilians
In the course of a few short hours American-made, Israeli-flown fighter jets had successfully blotted out the lives of more than 230 people and by the end of the weekend over 300, the rough equivalence of two fully packed IMAX theaters. At least 70 of the victims were civilians, a number of them young children.
http://counterpunch.org/loewenstein12292008.html

More Civilians
Israeli airstrikes hit the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University late Sunday night, causing minor injuries. A second missile attack struck a mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp, killing seven people.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza29-2008dec29,0,1214216.story

JABALIA, GAZA STRIP - DECEMBER 29: Samera Baalusha (34) (R) carries her surving child Mohamad (15 months) while crying over the body of her daughter Jawaher Baalusha (4) during the her funeral held with her other four sisters, 'three children and two teenagers', who were killed in an Israeli missile strike, during their funeral on December 29, 2008 in the Jebaliya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip. Jawher and four of her sisters from the Baalusha family were killed during an Israeli air raid while they were sleeping together in their bedroom. Medics stated that the raid had targeted a mosque near their home in Jabalia. Israeli Air Force warplanes continued heavy strikes in the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day with over 300 Palestinians reported to have been killed and over 2000 injured in the air raids. From Getty Images.

Children
The fatalities included 22 children younger than 16; more than 235 children were wounded.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122802111.html

Hospitals
One doctor said that given the dearth of facilities, not much could be done for the seriously wounded, and that it was "better to be brought in dead."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008
/12/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?_r=1&hp

Terror
"After each airstrike, my sons ask me: 'Why are we targeted? Will they arrest us? Will they come after us?'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122802111.html

Scale
[T]he scale of the bloodshed - rank[s] in Palestinian history alongside the 1948 Deir Yassin killings or the Sabra and Shatila massacres (by Israel's Christian Lebanese allies) in 1982.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world
/2008/dec/29/israel-attack-hamas-preparations-repercussions

MYTH-BUSTING: HAMAS ROCKETS

No Pretense
"The army doesn't even have the pretense of neutralizing Hamas' ability to launch rockets."
http://www.latimes.com/news/n
ationworld/world/la-fg-israel-analysis29-2008dec29,0,3905805.story

Makeshift
The makeshift projectiles are wildly inaccurate and rarely cause deaths or serious injuries.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/
world/la-fg-gaza29-2008dec29,0,1214216.story

Few Casualties
Over the last seven years only 17 Israeli citizens have been killed by Palestinian rocket fire.
http://counterpunch.org/frank12292008.html

Underdog's Weapon
The Palestinians would not have ever bombed cafes or used home-made missiles if they had tanks and airplanes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel

Israeli soldiers stand near armoured military vehicles at a staging area just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip for a third day on Monday and militants launched a fatal rocket attack on Israel in defiance of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

South African Leaders: No Equivalence
There can be no moral equivalence between the fourth most powerful army in the world (whose armaments include nuclear weapons) and an occupied people fighting for their survival to prevent a complete genocide against them.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/psc271208.html

MYTH-BUSTING: TRUCE

What Was It?
[W]hat is Israel's idea of a truce? It is very simple: Palestinians have the right to remain silent while Israel starves them, kills them and continues to violently colonise their land.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/dec/29/israel-gaza-attack-palestinian-reaction

Who Broke It?
[T]here was relative quiet during the six-months truce with Hamas, a quiet that was broken most often as a reaction to Israeli violence: that is, following the extra-judicial execution of a militant or the imposition of a total blockade which prevented basic goods, like food stuff and medicine, from entering the Gaza Strip.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/d
ec/29/israelandthepalestinians-middleeast

WORLDWIDE PROTEST AND RESISTANCE

Palestinian demonstrators take cover from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron against the Israeli offensive in Gaza December 29, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Hebron

Palestine '48
In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28 December 2008 a general strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against Palestinians in Gaza.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10062.shtml

Palestinian boys throw stones towards an Israeli army jeep (rear-R) during clashes with Israeli forces in the Shufat refugee camp in Jerusalem on December 29, 2008. Demonstrators across the world are protesting against Israel's deadly bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which as killed at least 345 people. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.

Jerusalem
Shopkeepers in the West Bank and in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem shut their doors in a near-total protest strike.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza29-2008dec29,0,1214216.story

A Palestinian flag flutters in the wind, as people protest in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. Tens of thousands of Lebanese Hezbollah supporters poured into the streets south of Beirut to protest Israel's air assault on targets in the Gaza Strip. From AP Photo by Mahmoud Tawil.

Lebanon

Jordan
5,000 lawyers marched toward parliament to demand the Israeli ambassador's expulsion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
world/2008/dec/29/israel-attacks-middle-reaction

Demonstrators protest against the Israeli air strikes in Gaza, in front of the journalists' syndicate in Cairo December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft destroyed a bastion of Hamas's rule over the Gaza Strip on Monday, the third day of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians in the deadliest violence in the territory in decades. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Cairo

South African Labor
"Cosatu reiterates its call for the government of South Africa to break diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel and institute sanctions against it."
http://www.news24.com/News24
/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2446282,00.html

Protestors hold up placards and a Palestinian flag during a demonstration in Berlin December 29, 2008, against Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip. Several hundred people took part in the march, police said. The placards read 'Freedom for Palestine' and 'Stop the masacre in Gaza'. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

Berlin

Paris
About 1,400 people marched in Paris, most of them in the northern Barbes neighborhood, which has a large Muslim population.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza29-2008dec29,0,1214216.story

Palestinians from Switzerland chant slogans and carry banners reading: "Freedom for Gaza. No to the siege" during a protest against Israel's air assault on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec 29, 2008. The demonstrators protest against the Israeli reaction on Gaza which has killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians. From AP Photo by MARTIAL TREZZINI.

Switzerland

British Universities
As long as the state of Israel continues to defy humanity and international law, we,
the citizens of the world, commit ourselves to boycotting Israel.
http://www.bricup.org.uk/GazaEmergency.html

Sudan

NEW YORK - DECEMBER 29: Protesters demonstrate against recent bombings by aircraft in the Gaza strip by the Israeli government December 29, 2008 in New York City. Israel continued its air campaign against the Gaza Strip for the third day today, as missiles struck targets and wreaked unprecedented destruction in Gaza, reducing buildings to rubble. Israel claims they were responding to continual missile attacks and has been amassing ground troops on the border of Gaza in preparation for a possible ground invasion. The death toll of over 300 victims, and about 1,400 wounded, continues to rise. From Getty Images by Spencer Platt.

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