Actualité - Israel Taking Vengeance on Lebanese, Palestinian Civilians
Franc-Parler publie un rapport à propos d'un massacre de civils totalement abjecte à Cana, au Liban, par les forces d'occupation sionistes. Comme en 1996, l'armée israélienne s'est attaquée au peuple libanais à Cana marquant une nouvelle page génocidaire avec l'aide complice des États-Unis, du Canada et de d'autres grandes puissances. Au même moment, l'agression se poursuit contre le peuple palestinien à Gaza.
After more than two weeks of its military assault on Lebanon and more than a month on Gaza, which failed to achieve its declared goals of disarming Palestinian and Lebanese anti-occupation groups, Israel is taking vengeance on civilians with impunity and with a green light from the United States and Britain, killing more than 650 Palestinian and Lebanese children, women and elders.
Israel has bombed international observers out of the fighting areas. An Israeli air strike last week killed four United Nations peace observers, forcing the remaining observers to evacuate their posts in southern Lebanon.
The United States and United Kingdom ruled out a ceasefire, cart-blanching Israel to go ahead with its onslaughts.
US President George W. Bush said Friday he was sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East.
Rice met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late Saturday night and was expected in Beirut on Sunday.
Israel on Saturday rejected calls for a humanitarian truce in Lebanon to evacuate civilians.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, asked on Friday for a 72-hour truce in fighting to enable relief workers to evacuate elderly, young and wounded people from south Lebanon and to bring in emergency aid.
Early Sunday a new Israeli massacre against civilians was unfolding.
An Israeli air strike killed at least 55 Lebanese civilians, including 21 children, in the southern village of Qana, in the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day-old war on Lebanon.
Several houses collapsed and a three-storey building where about 100 civilians were sheltering was destroyed, witnesses and rescue workers said.
In April 1996, Israeli shelling killed more than 100 civilians sheltering at a UN peacekeepers base in the village during Israel's “Grapes of Wrath” bombing campaign.
“I can see at least 18 dead and several are still under the rubble,” a witness at the scene told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
“Most of the killed are children and women,” said the witness.
A Red cross volunteer at the scene told dpa by phone that “we fear more than 35 are dead up till now, but this is a very initial casualty toll ... I can say this is a massacre.”
“Most of the people here have fled other areas to hide from the Israeli bombardment from other areas in southern Lebanon,” he added.
“There are several wounded under the rubble and we are having still difficulty to evacuate them,” he added.
“This is the same scene I saw in 1996 ... at least 20 children are among the dead,” a witness told dpa.
Lebanese Red Cross workers covered the corpse of one dead child with a blanket.
A woman in a red-patterned dress lay crumpled and lifeless in the broken masonry. A leg poked out from the rubble nearby. A child lay dead in the street.
Death toll in Lebanon on Sunday topped 480, the vast majority of them civilians. 800,000 Lebanese have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught. 51 Israelis were killed in cross-border fighting, most of them soldiers, as 500 thousand Israelis are living in bomb shelters.
Reports estimate that more 500,000 trees were torched in Lebanon by the Israeli bombardment during the same period.
Meanwhile the Israeli Occupation forces (IOF) extra-judicially killed two Palestinian activists in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight Sunday.An IOF undercover unit surprised Hani A’waijan, 29, and A’mid al-Masri, 22, while they were playing soccer with friends and relatives.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), between July 13 and July 19 Israeli occupation forces carried out more than 27 attacks on targets in the West Bank. A Palestinian doctor was killed by the IOF troops as he attempted to come to the aid of wounded protesters.
The IOF also have destroyed more than 70 houses in the West Bank city of Nablus. They have kidnapped more than 30 people and detained more then 100 Palestinian security personnel in the city.
Separately in the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks pushed back into the north of the coastal strip before dawn Saturday and the IOF warplanes started an intensive campaign of air strikes on densely-populated areas, a day after ending a bloody, three-day sweep that killed 30 Palestinians.
Since June 28, the IOF have carried out more than 170 bombing raids against the Palestinian civilian population.
During the offensive, Israel has fired more than 1000 heavy artillery shells into the region and used more than 125 air-to-surface missiles, resulting in the death of more than 170 Palestinians. More than 600 have been wounded; at least one-quarter of them have been children.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported on July 28 that Israeli troops killed 23 Palestinians in fighting across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including at least nine activists, three children and a disabled man.
On July 20, Israeli ground forces attacked al-Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, while the Israeli Air Force carried out air strikes, killing 15 people and wounding 52 others. On July 24, Israel carried out air strikes on Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, killing five people and wounding 14 others.
A Palestinian human rights researcher, Ahmad Betawi of the International Foundation for Human Rights, reported Wednesday that IOF killed 167 Palestinians in July.
The total number of Palestinians that Israeli forces killed in 2006 is now at 357, Betwawi said.
31 children have been killed by Israeli military actions in Gaza since 26 June 2006 according to the Defence for Children International – Palestine Section (DCI/PS).
“We're the forgotten war,” said Palestinian chief negotiator and lawmaker Saeb Erakat.
(Palestine Media Center - July 31 2006)
After more than two weeks of its military assault on Lebanon and more than a month on Gaza, which failed to achieve its declared goals of disarming Palestinian and Lebanese anti-occupation groups, Israel is taking vengeance on civilians with impunity and with a green light from the United States and Britain, killing more than 650 Palestinian and Lebanese children, women and elders.
Israel has bombed international observers out of the fighting areas. An Israeli air strike last week killed four United Nations peace observers, forcing the remaining observers to evacuate their posts in southern Lebanon.
The United States and United Kingdom ruled out a ceasefire, cart-blanching Israel to go ahead with its onslaughts.
US President George W. Bush said Friday he was sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East.
Rice met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late Saturday night and was expected in Beirut on Sunday.
Israel on Saturday rejected calls for a humanitarian truce in Lebanon to evacuate civilians.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, asked on Friday for a 72-hour truce in fighting to enable relief workers to evacuate elderly, young and wounded people from south Lebanon and to bring in emergency aid.
Early Sunday a new Israeli massacre against civilians was unfolding.
An Israeli air strike killed at least 55 Lebanese civilians, including 21 children, in the southern village of Qana, in the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day-old war on Lebanon.
Several houses collapsed and a three-storey building where about 100 civilians were sheltering was destroyed, witnesses and rescue workers said.
In April 1996, Israeli shelling killed more than 100 civilians sheltering at a UN peacekeepers base in the village during Israel's “Grapes of Wrath” bombing campaign.
“I can see at least 18 dead and several are still under the rubble,” a witness at the scene told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).
“Most of the killed are children and women,” said the witness.
A Red cross volunteer at the scene told dpa by phone that “we fear more than 35 are dead up till now, but this is a very initial casualty toll ... I can say this is a massacre.”
“Most of the people here have fled other areas to hide from the Israeli bombardment from other areas in southern Lebanon,” he added.
“There are several wounded under the rubble and we are having still difficulty to evacuate them,” he added.
“This is the same scene I saw in 1996 ... at least 20 children are among the dead,” a witness told dpa.
Lebanese Red Cross workers covered the corpse of one dead child with a blanket.
A woman in a red-patterned dress lay crumpled and lifeless in the broken masonry. A leg poked out from the rubble nearby. A child lay dead in the street.
Death toll in Lebanon on Sunday topped 480, the vast majority of them civilians. 800,000 Lebanese have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught. 51 Israelis were killed in cross-border fighting, most of them soldiers, as 500 thousand Israelis are living in bomb shelters.
Reports estimate that more 500,000 trees were torched in Lebanon by the Israeli bombardment during the same period.
Meanwhile the Israeli Occupation forces (IOF) extra-judicially killed two Palestinian activists in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight Sunday.An IOF undercover unit surprised Hani A’waijan, 29, and A’mid al-Masri, 22, while they were playing soccer with friends and relatives.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), between July 13 and July 19 Israeli occupation forces carried out more than 27 attacks on targets in the West Bank. A Palestinian doctor was killed by the IOF troops as he attempted to come to the aid of wounded protesters.
The IOF also have destroyed more than 70 houses in the West Bank city of Nablus. They have kidnapped more than 30 people and detained more then 100 Palestinian security personnel in the city.
Separately in the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks pushed back into the north of the coastal strip before dawn Saturday and the IOF warplanes started an intensive campaign of air strikes on densely-populated areas, a day after ending a bloody, three-day sweep that killed 30 Palestinians.
Since June 28, the IOF have carried out more than 170 bombing raids against the Palestinian civilian population.
During the offensive, Israel has fired more than 1000 heavy artillery shells into the region and used more than 125 air-to-surface missiles, resulting in the death of more than 170 Palestinians. More than 600 have been wounded; at least one-quarter of them have been children.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported on July 28 that Israeli troops killed 23 Palestinians in fighting across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including at least nine activists, three children and a disabled man.
On July 20, Israeli ground forces attacked al-Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, while the Israeli Air Force carried out air strikes, killing 15 people and wounding 52 others. On July 24, Israel carried out air strikes on Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, killing five people and wounding 14 others.
A Palestinian human rights researcher, Ahmad Betawi of the International Foundation for Human Rights, reported Wednesday that IOF killed 167 Palestinians in July.
The total number of Palestinians that Israeli forces killed in 2006 is now at 357, Betwawi said.
31 children have been killed by Israeli military actions in Gaza since 26 June 2006 according to the Defence for Children International – Palestine Section (DCI/PS).
“We're the forgotten war,” said Palestinian chief negotiator and lawmaker Saeb Erakat.
(Palestine Media Center - July 31 2006)
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