Massacre in Gaza: At least 60 killed in Shuja’iyeh, over 60,000 in UN shelters

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/massacre-shujaiyeh-shelters.html

Israeli forces heavily shelled the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyeh last night killing 63 Palestinians, including at least 17 children, and causing thousands to seek shelter in United Nations facilities. This latest attack brings the total number of Palestinians killed since Operation Protective Edge began on July 8, 2014 to more than 350. Over 63,173 are now living in UNRWA shelters across Gaza, nearly 10,000 more than the number of Palestinians made refugees after Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09.

Medhat Abbas, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza said there are “at least 60 dead in Shuja’iyeh only, and hundreds wounded.” He added, “I don’t have the number now because there is no electricity, no nothing.” Dr. Abbas is directing services his ministry usually handles to the overloaded al-Shifa hospital. “The Israeli aggression against civilians should be stopped,” said al-Shifa’s hospital administrator Dr. Hasan Khalas who confirmed that 112 Palestinians were killed across Gaza last night. “The bloodshed and blood in Gaza’s streets,” he added was the responsibility of the international community, “Because of the international decision to put a siege on Gaza, and this is a result of that. We should not continue to live under siege and just be killed continuous.”
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There are thousands of people fleeing, and heavy shelling until a couple of hours ago,” said the Daily Beast‘s Jesse Rosenfeld who had just left the carnage the Gazan city’s most intensely fired upon region. Other journalists confirmed bodies were stacked in piles in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical facility in the besieged coastal strip, and even bodies stacked in Shuja-iyeh’s war torn streets. Palestinian photojournalist Khaled Hamad, 25, was killed while riding with Red Crescent emergency responders, and medic Fouad Jaber, 28, was killed in the line of duty.

Do the knob heads that cheer Israel on in these actions really believe that by killing Palestinian civilians...children it makes the apartheid state look like anything else than a butcher?


For all the civilians who have died in this conflict.

It's time to stop the killing.

[bemildred]

1. Israel expands Gaza offensive, death toll spirals past 410

Over 60 Palestinians were killed today in Israel's fiercest attack on Gaza in recent years, as the death toll in the conflict spiralled past 410 after the Israeli air and ground assault was expanded to pound Hamas targets. The bloodiest day in the 13 days of conflict prompted urgent efforts by the International Committee of the Red Cross to broker a temporary ceasefire to allow evacuation of the dead and wounded in a deal accepted by both Israel and Hamas. However, the humanitarian ceasefire was short-lived as the Israeli army accused Hamas militants of violating it and said it had "responded accordingly".

"Once more, Hamas breaches ceasefire, this time brokered by the ICRC for a humanitarian hiatus. IDF responding accordingly," army spokesman Peter Lerner said on his official Twitter account, 40 minutes into the truce.

Hundreds of Palestinians fled in panic into Gaza City today as Israeli troops focused their firepower on the nearby town of Shaja'ia. The shelling and bombing killed over 60 people and injured about 380 others, a Gaza hospital spokesman said. More bodies lay in the streets under gashes blasted into apartment buildings, people who had escaped the violence said, as the shelling continued. The Palestinian death crossed 410, with medics warning it could rise further due to the ongoing bombardment of areas north and east of Gaza City. The death toll on the Palestinian side included children and women, with over 2,500 injured and almost 61,000 displaced seeking refuge in 49 UN Relief and Works Agency run centres, sources in the Gaza Strip said.

Over 60 Palestinians killed today, included Osama Al-Haya, son of Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. The IDF bombed the house in which he was staying.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-israel-expands-gaza-offensive-death-toll-spirals-past-410-2003768

[bemildred]

2. Photo Gallery: Israel pounds northern Gaza

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/07/20/photo-gallery-gaza/

[bemildred]

3. Rich Lowry: Boys killed on Gaza beach should have gotten out of the way of Israeli explosion

National Journal Editor Rich Lowry asserted over the weekend that Israelis were not at fault for the deaths of four boys who were killed while playing on a Gaza beach last week because Hamas should have told them to move out of the way.

After the four children were killed by explosions last week, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) explained to reporters that the kids had likely been misidentified as a “legitimate” Hamas target, Haaretz reported.

But Lowry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the misidentification would never have happened if Hamas had not have provoked the Israelis in the first place.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/20/rich-lowry-boys-killed-on-gaza-beach-should-have-gotten-out-of-the-way-of-israeli-explosion/

[alsame]

8. Palestinians should also

stop crashing their houses into Israeli bulldozers. GOP logic.

[bemildred]

9. it is an amazingly stupid statement.

Little boys cannot outrun missiles.

[alsame]

18. When you have to

absolve Israel of all responsibility and all accountability, you will say stupid things.

[MisterP]

31. guess "tuck and roll" is the new "the Palestinians can move anywhere else in the world" nt

[bemildred]

4. Hamas Standing Strong in Face of Israeli Assault

[Mughazi Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip] -- At least 50 Palestinians were killed and 400 others wounded when Israel shelled the Shejaia neighborhood in the northeast Gaza Strip, bringing the total to more than 400 killed and 2,500 wounded since the fighting began almost two weeks ago, according to Palestinian health officials.

Hamas leader Mahmoud A-Zahar termed the incident a “massacre” and called for an international investigation. Israel accepted a request by the Red Cross for a two-hour humanitarian cease fire to allow the wounded to be evacuated to the nearby hospital. Hamas firing only an hour into the time out seemed to end the ceasefire abruptly, but Israel later said it would prolong it for several more hours.

In Jerusalem, an Israeli army spokeswoman said that soldiers discovered ten tunnel shafts in the area, and said that at least 140 rockets had been launched from there. She told The Media Line that the IDF had twice dropped leaflets on the area, once last week and a second time yesterday, urging residents to flee the area. Palestinians respond that many of them have nowhere to go, as the Israeli and Egyptian crossings are both closed. Gaza-based health officials said 35,000 Palestinians fled their homes on Sunday, joining more than 63,000 who had already sought shelter in United Nations schools in Gaza.

Egypt announced it would open the Rafah border crossing for one week in order to allow wounded Palestinians to receive medical treatment. Israel announced it will open a field hospital near the border between Israel and Gaza to treat Palestinian casualties, although it was not clear how they would access the facility.

http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=40432

[bemildred]

5. Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel will do whatever it takes to restore calm in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel will take "whatever action is necessary" to halt Hamas cross-border rocket attacks from Gaza and restore calm but insisted his forces were doing their utmost to avoid civilian casualties there.

"We try to target military targets and unfortunately there are civilian casualties which we regret and we don't seek," Netanyahu told CNN shortly after an Israeli attack on a Gaza neighborhood killed at least 62 Palestinians.

He accused Hamas of deliberately targeting Israeli civilians and of using Gaza residents as "human shields." Asked how long it would take Israel to complete an operation it says is
intended to destroy Hamas weapons tunnels, Netanyahu said it was being done "fairly quickly," but gave no time frame.

Asked whether Israel intends to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, he said: "Nobody wants to go to excessive military lengths."

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-will-do-whatever-it-takes-to-restore-calm-in-gaza-2003783

[cali]

13. the dead are "calm". Those in shock are generally "calm" too. fuck him.

[bemildred]

6. . nt

[Tetris_Iguana]

7. How about Israel finally absorbs Gaza

so that the two nation segregation conflict can be handled as a civil/domestic issue?

The Palestinian Territories currently serve the same purpose as the Chicago projects did- -which is the isolation and control of a society's undesirables.

It is only through the dismantling of these 'ghettos' that true integration can begin.

Or we could leave it intact and go through this crap every few years...

[sabbat hunter]

23. you really think that

a single state solution will solve the problems?

There is true hatred among groups like Hamas, certain groups in Israel. Trying to unify them in one country would only lead to a civil war with more death and destruction.

[Tetris_Iguana]

24. A single state solution is the only solution.

Anything else is just two houses divided against each other.

At a very minimum, the one state solution would make the conflict officially domestic issue rather than the international farce it is today.

[earthside]

52. This is the solution I have come to, also.

One state.

Perhaps some variation on a federal system so that constitutionally the civil rights of the Israeli/Jewish minority can be protected.

Under the current order, the obvious objective of the Jewish state is the elimination of the Palestinians or their relegation into permanent second class citizens.

Unfortunately, the politicians and governments in Israel over the last 6 decades have gotten themselves into such a predicament that they cannot find a peaceful solution as a separate, Jewish state. Nor will a separate Palestinian state now work, especially since Israel has reduced its potential geographic existence to almost nothing.

What we are witnessing in Gaza is Netanyahu and his faction trying to find 'co-existence' through massive destruction and killing -- it won't work -- and frankly at this point Israel is losing this latest battle.

[Calista241]

53. The idea that the Israeli's would submit themselves

To a Palestinian government is ludicrous on its face. The One State solution is not possible currently. Maybe in 200 years, but not today and not in the short term future.

[bemildred]

10. Israel continues shelling Gaza through four-hour ceasefire Sunday

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces extended twice a temporary ceasefire brokered by the Red Cross on Sunday after they broke it multiple times over the course of four hours.

The ceasefire began at 1:30 p.m. and lasted until 5:30 p.m. to allow the evacuation of Palestinians from Shujaiyya neighborhood, where at least 66 Palestinians were killed and 400 injured in an Israeli assault that Gaza medical authorities called a "massacre" earlier in the day.

Israel, however, resumed military attacks on Shujaiyya shortly after the ceasefire was implemented, saying they were provoked by Hamas violations.

Israeli forces said in a statement released just after 4 p.m. that Palestinian militants had opened fire near al-Wafa Hospital, and that Israeli forces had responded to other attacks earlier in the day.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=714783

[bemildred]

11. Israelis gather on hillsides to watch and cheer as military drops bombs on Gaza

As the sun begins to sink over the Mediterranean, groups of Israelis gather each evening on hilltops close to the Gaza border to cheer, whoop and whistle as bombs rain down on people in a warzone hell a few miles away.

Old sofas, garden chairs, battered car seats and upturned crates provide seating for the spectators. On one hilltop, a swing has been attached to the branches of a pine tree, allowing its occupant to sway gently in the breeze. Some bring bottles of beer or soft drinks and snacks.

On Saturday, a group of men huddle around a shisha pipe. Nearly all hold up smartphones to record the explosions or to pose grinning, perhaps with thumbs up, for selfies against a backdrop of black smoke.

Despite reports that millions of Israelis are living in terror of Hamas rockets, they don’t deter these hilltop war watchers whose proximity to Gaza puts them within range of the most rudimentary missiles. Some bring their children.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/20/israelis-gather-on-hillsides-to-watch-and-cheer-as-military-drops-bombs-on-gaza/

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. Some knob head in another post is suggesting that reporting on the Palestinian deaths

is supporting Hamas.

What a fu•king assh•le.

[alsame]

20. And when DU reported

deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan we were Al Qaeda supporters? It's amazing what is considered acceptable to say to other DUers when it comes to I/P.

[bemildred]

21. Name calling is all they have. nt

[bemildred]

12. State Department leader tweets, deletes message with pro-Gaza hashtag

http://www.examiner.com/article/state-department-leader-tweets-deletes-message-with-pro-gaza-hashtag

[bemildred]

14. 13 Israeli soldiers, dozens of Palestinians killed as Gaza conflict shows no signs of stopping

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Escalating their ground offensive, Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes battled Hamas militants in a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday. The fighting, including heavy Israeli tank fire, killed 13 Israeli soldiers, scores of Palestinians, forced thousands to flee their homes and left dozens of homes destroyed.

Palestinian health officials reported at least 50 dead in air and artillery strikes that echoed across the city for hours and sent panicked residents fleeing, many carrying small children and waving white flags. Gaza officials said 35,000 people fled their homes Sunday.

The nearly two-week conflict has killed more than 400 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli military says the soldiers were killing during its ground offensive against Hamas on Sunday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/thousands-flee-major-battle-gaza-article-1.1873633

[bemildred]

15. Civilians Fleeing Gaza City Neighborhood After Israeli Strike Say They Have Nowhere To Go

GAZA CITY -- Just after sunrise on Sunday, Zeinab, a young Palestinian mother, ran out of her house in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood with her husband and barefoot 5-year-old daughter. With the sound of Israeli drones overhead and air strikes and tank shelling all around, Zeinab watched as her neighbors poured into the streets and began to run. So she did the same.

“We were running, and [the Israeli Army] was attacking behind us,” she said, sitting within the safety of al-Shifa Hospital’s compound in central Gaza City, over three miles away from Shijaiyah. “There were dead people around us.” Frantic families, many shellshocked and inconsolable, stood around Zeinab, not knowing where to go or what to do next.

Thousands of Shijaiyah residents, some in bulldozers and the trunks of cars, others on foot and in wheelchairs, fled to central Gaza City Sunday as Israel escalated its ground offensive and targeted the crowded Gaza City neighborhood. Palestinian officials have reported that at least 65 people were killed in the attack. At least 420 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and seven Israelis have been killed in the two weeks of fighting.

The Israeli military says it gave adequate warning to civilians to evacuate the area, but many residents, along with Palestinians in the rest of Gaza, say they have nowhere safe left to go. People in parts of the south, middle and north of Gaza have been told to leave their homes, but cash-strapped UNRWA, the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, says it is running out of space and supplies to support Gaza's mass internally displaced population.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/20/gaza-city-strike_n_5603385.html

[bemildred]

16. Harrowing images of Gaza neighborhood hit hardest by Israel

Israeli forces bombarded a neighborhood in Gaza overnight Sunday. According to Reuters, at least 60 Palestinians were reported killed in what was the heaviest bombardment in Israel's 13-day offensive.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/20/harrowing-images-of-gaza-neighborhood-hit-hardest-by-israel/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e

[bemildred]

19. Kerry caught critiquing Israel on open mic

ight before an interview with Fox News on Sunday morning, US Secretary of State John Kerry was caught critiquing Israel’s handling of the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip on an open mic.

“It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation, it’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Kerry told an aide over the phone, seemingly criticizing the Israeli government’s pledge to limit the scope of its ground invasion, Politico reported.

Kerry used the same word, “pinpoint,” that was employed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Sunday interview with CNN.

“There are very few examples in history of countries that have been rocketed on this scale,” Netanyahu told CNN. “If you look at our response, it’s actually very measured and trying to be as pinpointed as we can.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-caught-critiquing-israel-on-open-mic/

[bemildred]

28. Kerry will head to Mideast to try for ceasefire

Washington – US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that he plans to immediately fly to the Middle East to try to negotiate a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians.

Kerry, speaking on all the major talk shows, said the US backs Egypt’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire, which Hamas rejected last week.

“Israel has every right in the world to defend itself, but we’re hopeful, very hopeful, that we can quickly try to find a way forward to put a ceasefire in place,” Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

In downtime before an interview on Fox News, Kerry was caught on microphone and camera learning from an aide of an escalation of violence in Gaza City.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/20/kerry-will-head-to-mideast-to-try-for-ceasefire/

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

22. To the DUers reading this.

How is this massacre nothing short of cold-blooded and evil?

[shira]

32. It's not a massacre, unless it's pro-Hamas outlets like Mondoweiss....

...wanting its readers to believe it's a massacre.

What would you have Israelis do under threat of rockets? Lay there and take it? Surrender to Hamas' every demand? All Zionists out of Israel?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

34. "It's not a massacre..."

You're either confused or willfully deceitful.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

39. Israel killed the civilians. It is a massacre. You can't candy coat hasbarista bullshit,

but some will always try.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

45. Spare me the high school accusations. Israel just kiled 60+ Palestinians.

It's a massacre. Live with it.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

40. Neither are Israeli massacres.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

43. "The civilian deaths in this confrontation are not an Israeli massacre."

Great despotic monsters have always blamed their victims for their own deaths.

Welcome to the club of tyrants.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

48. Wear it well with all your apologies.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

51. I'm not apologizing for any murder from Hamas or Israel

Wear your apologies well.

[azurnoir]

54. Hebron massacre 67 dead Shuja’iyeh 100 dead

but Shuja’iyeh's not a massacre

[shira]

55. How many dead terrorists in Shuja'iyeh?

How many Gazans did Hamas kill with their boobytraps, grenades, mortars, and rockets intended for IDF soldiers?

Hamas also encouraged civilians to stay in their homes despite being warned to leave.

[azurnoir]

57. so Israel bears no responsibility, right?

as for the rest the numbers civilians vs combatants is not known albeit I seem to remember someone selling us that any male 15 or older was a likely combatant

[bemildred]

25. More than 70 killed in Israeli shelling, clashes in Gaza

(Reuters) - More than 60 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers were killed as Israel shelled a Gaza neighborhood and battled militants on Sunday in the bloodiest fighting in a near two-week-old offensive.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a massacre in Shejaia in the eastern suburbs of the city of Gaza and declared three days of mourning.

Israel's army said it was targeting militants from Gaza's dominant Hamas group whom it alleged had fired rockets from Shejaia and built tunnels and command centers there. The army said it had warned locals two days earlier to leave.

It was the Israeli military's highest one-day death toll since a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/20/us-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0FP00U20140720

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

27. Total war on civilians. Fu*king disgusting.

[shira]

33. War is disgusting. Too bad friends of Mondoweiss wanted more war

It's odd you're disgusted by total war on civilians, and yet you spam the forum with an outlet sympathetic to Hamas like Mondoweiss that defended Hamas' decision to keep waging war.

Explain?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

35. That's your misguided opinion shira. Poor you.

The world is really growing tired of Israel's bullshit and massacres.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

42. You don't defend a country by killing civillians.

How many more children is Israel going to bomb into submission

So why is Israel the bad guy in your opinion?

Occupation.

Colonization. (Sorry, but if your sister lives in Gush Etzion as an illegal settler then she is part of the problem.)

Repression.

Murder.

Apartheid.


Israel thinks it is shitting ice cream while the rest of the world is growing increasingly tired of the apartheid state.

[shira]

56. Hamas wanted this. So did Mondoweiss & friends.

Israel is killing terrorists firing rockets at its population. Hamasniks who infiltrate Israel through dozens of tunnels in order to pull off barbaric acts. Terrorists embedded within their own civilian population, hoping for casualties in order to smear and demonize Israel.

Why don't you have a problem with what Hamas is doing, not only to Israelis but their own people? Hamas wants Palestinians dead and you're ignoring it. You don't seem to give a shit.

Why the denial and deflection?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

58. "Israel is killing terrorists firing rockets at its population."

So you believe all the Palestinian children that Israel has killed are terrorists?!!!

[shira]

59. Yes, they are. And Hamas is deliberately embedded within civilian populations

They are demanding that Palestinians stay within a military war-zone & risk their lives.

Where's your outrage at this?

Hamas does this to gain concessions from the world & from Israel. They know they can't win in a war vs. Israel. But Israel is demonized and then pressured to meet some or most of Hamas' demands due to Hamas profiting from the deaths of their own civilians. Hamas then gains a political victory. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain (from their perspective) by going to war.

Mondoweiss and friends are helping them.

Why?

========

And no, it's a terrible tragedy innocents are getting killed. What are you doing about it other than making Israel out to be a monster?

[gopiscrap]

26. This is so fucked up

and the US does nothing because Congress has been bought by the AIPAC lobby

[bemildred]

29. Bloody Sunday as 97 Gazans, 13 Israeli Soldiers Killed

Gaza City: At least 97 Palestinians and 13 soldiers were killed Sunday as Israel ramped up a major military offensive in the bloodiest single day in Gaza in five years.

As regional leaders met in Doha for urgent talks on a ceasefire, the Gaza Palestinian death toll soared to 435, with a spokesman for the emergency services saying more than a third of the victims were women and children.

The Israeli army said 13 soldiers had been killed in a series of attacks inside Gaza on the third day of a major ground operation.

"Over the course of the day, 13 soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip," an army statement said.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/bloody-sunday-as-97-gazans-13-israeli-soldiers-killed-561909?curl=1405877615

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

46. Bloody Sunday. Fu*king right.

Another regime mowing down civilians while the hasbaristas blame the victims.

[4now]

30. While our useless Congress cheers them on

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025265633