Diary Of Israeli Assault On Gaza

www.youthradio.org Sameh Habeeb, a 23-year old freelancer, has been reporting from Gaza every day at his blog Gaza Today. He spoke with our Senior Producer, Lissa Soep via Skype yesturday. In the audio clip, Sameh tells about witnessing the aftermath of an attack on one of the U.N. schools, and the difficulty of remaining a detached observer when your home ahs been turned into a warzone. His blog is at http://gazatoday.blogspot.com.

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• Israel
• palestine

[mahmodakurd]

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem, in the seven years between the first of those primitive rockets being launched and the start of the current massacre, the rockets killed 13 Israelis and one foreigner. in the same period, Israel killed 4,781 Palestinians: nearly 3,000 of them were in Gaza, and one in seven of them was a child. truly a genocide

[mahmodakurd]

The Israelis have a stated policy of what they regard as acceptable civilian deaths. It was printed in the Washington Post in 2006. At that time, the agreed Israeli policy was that it was ok to attack the resistance fighters, as long as only up to 3.14 innocent civilian were killed for every resistant fighter killed. If children were killed, the number was a bit more stringent. The exact figure was not given, but it was fewer than three civilian deaths allowed.