Tag Archives: Gaza
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Hannibal ad Portas – Uri Avnery’s Column
Leave a commentSeptember 14, 2014 by IJV
When soldiers see their comrade being dragged away, they must shoot and kill – even if it is almost certain that their comrade will also be hit. The order does not say explicitly “better a dead soldier than a captured soldier” – but this is implied and widely understood that way.
If the captors and their captive disappear, the whole neighborhood has to be flattened indiscriminately, in the hope that the captors are hiding in one of the buildings.
At the height of the Gaza war, that is exactly what happened. An Israeli squad fell into a Hamas ambush. All the soldiers were killed, except one – Hadar Goldin – who was seen being dragged into a tunnel. Assuming that he was captured, the army went berserk, razing scores of buildings in Rafah to the ground without warning, shooting at everything that moved.
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel: Gaza health system in crisis
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2014 by IJV
PHR-IL calls for the State of Israel to stop the military offensive and to avoid at all costs any direct attack on or near the facilities and medical infrastructure and to avoid any attacks on medical and rescue teams and patients: “Out of concern for the lives and welfare of all residents of the area we make a heartfelt and resounding call – stop the fire and stop the incitement. Do not bring before us more victims that require treatment. Put the lives, health and rights of all human beings at the head of your concerns. Do not continue on our behalf with this operation causing further destruction and revenge. It is time to devote the resources and energies that are being directed to war and killing to finally end the occupation and to establish a different vision.
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JJ Goldberg on shocking background to Gaza onslaught
Leave a commentJuly 12, 2014 by IJV
nly on July 1, after the boys’ bodies were found, did the truth come out: The government had known almost from the beginning that the boys were dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas’ West Bank operations.
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Statement regarding the Palestinians Prisoners and Detainees on a Hunger Strike
Leave a commentMay 14, 2012 by IJV
IJV joins with others in expressing its deep concern for the fate of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners now on hunger …
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Black propaganda and violent rhetoric: Israel shoots itself in the foot over the Gaza flotilla
Leave a commentJune 28, 2011 by Antony Lerman
Some first rate bloggers and journalists are covering the Gaza flotilla and revealing the lengths to which the Israeli authorities …
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Hamas: What does support for it mean?
1June 9, 2011 by IJV
A point or two re ‘support of Hamas’. (This follows our post on the Jewish Chronicle attack on London Citizens …
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Two Important Steps: Palestinian Unity & An Open Rafah Border
Leave a commentMay 5, 2011 by IJV
This week saw two very important steps: firstly, the unity pact between Hamas and Fatah and secondly the suggestion that …
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Statement on Rocket Attacks from Gaza
Leave a commentApril 1, 2011 by happyhenry
We have been asked to set out IJV’s position on the recent spate of rocket attacks aimed at Israel from …
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End the Siege on Gaza
Leave a commentJune 5, 2010 by happyhenry
The IJV Steering Group condemns the attack on the Free Gaza flotilla and resulting loss of life, a breach of …
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