Israel's fabricated rocket crisis‏

Israel's fabricated rocket crisis

electronicintifada.net

The graphs [on the website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs] show that the total number of rocket and mortar attacks shrank from 245 in June to 26 total for July through October, a reduction of 97 percent. Even this was not enough for Israel, which violated the truce by imposing a terror-famine in Gaza for most of these months. But despite these violations, Hamas refrained from launching rockets until Israel definitively cancelled the truce on the night of 4-5 November by sending an Israeli commando squad into Gaza, where it killed six Hamas members. Hamas responded with 30 rockets. These charts proved too revealing for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On the night eve of 4 January 2008, as Israeli occupation forces launched a ground assault on Gaza, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs removed them from its website, substituting an almost illegible graph in which the labels obscure the data, while the caption does all it can to hide the de facto end of rocket and mortar fire during the calm, until 4 November. [...] Clearly, the Israelis violated the truce in order to increase the number of Qassam attacks, not to end them.

Airburst shells 'are danger to civilians' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/09/airbust-shells-gaza-

phosphorus: Israel's use of white phosphorus airburst shells over the densely populated Gaza Strip came under fresh criticism last night for endangering civilians. [...] The use of white phosphorus as a weapon - as opposed to its use as a smokescreen - is banned by the third convention on conventional weapons. [... E]xpert accounts and eyewitness descriptions of civilians suffering phosphorus burns are lending weight to suggestions that Israel is using the shells as some kind of weapon.

Running out of proxies http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/08/gaza-hizbullah-

iran-israel: If a ceasefire in Gaza leading to a settlement is not soon concluded, Israel's next confrontation could be directly with Iran

Venezuela expulsa al embajador de Israel http://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n126645.html

[Venezuela has expelled the ambassador of Israel]

Diplomatischer Streit Israel–Venezuela http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/01-08/030.php

[Diplomatic conflict between Israel and Venezuela]

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest at Israel's Gaza offensive http://www.france24.com/en/20090107-ultra-orthodox-jews-protest-

israels-gaza-offensive: (short link: http://twiturl.de/karta)

[Neturei Karta is protesting the bombing and invasion of Gaza: www.nkusa.org - Their website is blocked in China.]

Jewish women occupy Israeli consulate http://www.tadamon.ca/post/2549

Human Rights in Gaza & Israel during the hostilities http://gazaeng.blogspot.com/

Reports from Israeli human rights groups

Open Letter to Israeli Soldiers http://www.ajjp.org/campaigns/signStatement.php?cid=15

Jews call on Israeli soldiers to stop war crimes

Übersetzung: Zum Krieg Israels gegen die Palästinenser http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/01-08/023.php

Die Gruppe »Amerikanische Juden für einen gerechten Frieden« fordert die israelischen Soldaten in einem offenen Brief auf, sich nicht an Kriegsverbrechen zu beteiligen

Brei der Medien http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/01-08/026.php

Westliche Berichterstattung über Krieg in Gaza ist von einseitiger Parteinahme für Israel gekennzeichnet

Werner Pirker: Selbstverteidigung - Zivilisten als Zielobjekt http://www.jungewelt.de/2009/01-08/024.php

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