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15 nov 2019
Haaretz headline – Israeli Army Admits to Killing Eight Gaza Family Members: We Thought the House Was Empty
November 15 – 8:33 A.M Israeli army admits to killing eight Gaza family members: “We thought the house was empty.”
The Israeli military admitted it made a mistake in targeting a Gaza building Wednesday night, which killed a family of eight.
The army said it assessed that the building in the Deir al-Balah neighborhood was empty, not realizing it was populated by a family…
(The full article is behind a pay-wall)
Neighbors and acquaintances said it was a case of mistaken identity. The military said it had targeted Rasmi Abu Malhous, commander of the Islamic Jihad’s rocket squadron in the central Gaza Strip, but acquaintances of the family say the strike killed the family of a man with the same name.
Nov. 15 – 7:11 A.M. Palestinians report several people were lightly wounded, and damage caused to property in Khan Younis and Rafah, in Southern Gaza overnight
Nov. 15 – 12:53 A.M. Military says it struck Islamic Jihad positions in the Gaza Strip
Nov. 14 – 10:14 P.M. Hours after the cease-fire was declared, five rockets were launched from the coastal enclave, with two of them intercepted in southern Israel, the army said.
IDF reportedly said that they views the violation of the cease-fire as “very severe.”
Nov. 14 – 10:02 P.M. Rocket sirens sounded in Israeli communities near Gaza border and Sderot.
November 15 – 8:33 A.M Israeli army admits to killing eight Gaza family members: “We thought the house was empty.”
The Israeli military admitted it made a mistake in targeting a Gaza building Wednesday night, which killed a family of eight.
The army said it assessed that the building in the Deir al-Balah neighborhood was empty, not realizing it was populated by a family…
(The full article is behind a pay-wall)
Neighbors and acquaintances said it was a case of mistaken identity. The military said it had targeted Rasmi Abu Malhous, commander of the Islamic Jihad’s rocket squadron in the central Gaza Strip, but acquaintances of the family say the strike killed the family of a man with the same name.
Nov. 15 – 7:11 A.M. Palestinians report several people were lightly wounded, and damage caused to property in Khan Younis and Rafah, in Southern Gaza overnight
Nov. 15 – 12:53 A.M. Military says it struck Islamic Jihad positions in the Gaza Strip
Nov. 14 – 10:14 P.M. Hours after the cease-fire was declared, five rockets were launched from the coastal enclave, with two of them intercepted in southern Israel, the army said.
IDF reportedly said that they views the violation of the cease-fire as “very severe.”
Nov. 14 – 10:02 P.M. Rocket sirens sounded in Israeli communities near Gaza border and Sderot.
Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Malki, strongly criticized a statement by Nickolay Mladenov, on Israel’s latest aggression against Gaza, accusing him of covering up the Israeli occupation crimes by blaming the Palestinian people for these crimes.
In a press statement, Malki condemned the language used by Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in his statement Wednesday, in which he ignored the field execution and premeditated and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian families, some of whom were completely annihilated, he Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
“Mladenov’s statement misleads the international public opinion and the United Nations and its honorable mission to uphold and respect international law by describing the situation as an issue of escalation between a Palestinian faction, or an issue of indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars, as he put it, to ‘undermine the efforts to improve the dire socio-economic conditions’ in Gaza, ignoring the occupation and its continuous systematic and broad crimes against our people, and also ignoring the reports issued by the United Nations committees investigating the crimes that undoubtedly prove the crimes of the occupation against our people,” Malki asserted.
He called on Mladenov to abide by his mandate as a representative of the United Nations, and “stop issuing such misleading statements that are contrary to the positions, reports and resolutions of the United Nations.”
In a press statement, Malki condemned the language used by Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in his statement Wednesday, in which he ignored the field execution and premeditated and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian families, some of whom were completely annihilated, he Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
“Mladenov’s statement misleads the international public opinion and the United Nations and its honorable mission to uphold and respect international law by describing the situation as an issue of escalation between a Palestinian faction, or an issue of indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars, as he put it, to ‘undermine the efforts to improve the dire socio-economic conditions’ in Gaza, ignoring the occupation and its continuous systematic and broad crimes against our people, and also ignoring the reports issued by the United Nations committees investigating the crimes that undoubtedly prove the crimes of the occupation against our people,” Malki asserted.
He called on Mladenov to abide by his mandate as a representative of the United Nations, and “stop issuing such misleading statements that are contrary to the positions, reports and resolutions of the United Nations.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki, Wednesday, called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israel accountable for its latest attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip, The Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
Speaking at the 12th annual International Forum MEDays, running in the Moroccan town of Tangier, Malki emphasized the need for the international community to hold the Israeli forces accountable for the repercussions of the latest escalation against the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and to bring it to justice at the ICC.
The Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli army killing of eight members of the Abu Malhous family, including women and children, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip Thursday morning. An airstrike at the Abu Malhous house destroyed the house, and killed the entire family.
Malki said the conference coincides with the latest Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, which resulted so far in three days of aggression in the death of 34 people and more than 113 wounded, mostly women and children.
The Foreign Minister pointed out that the silence and inaction of the international community against the Israeli escalation in Gaza, makes it indirectly responsible for its repercussions.
He called on the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian people and to ensure their right in establishing their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Speaking at the 12th annual International Forum MEDays, running in the Moroccan town of Tangier, Malki emphasized the need for the international community to hold the Israeli forces accountable for the repercussions of the latest escalation against the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and to bring it to justice at the ICC.
The Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli army killing of eight members of the Abu Malhous family, including women and children, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip Thursday morning. An airstrike at the Abu Malhous house destroyed the house, and killed the entire family.
Malki said the conference coincides with the latest Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, which resulted so far in three days of aggression in the death of 34 people and more than 113 wounded, mostly women and children.
The Foreign Minister pointed out that the silence and inaction of the international community against the Israeli escalation in Gaza, makes it indirectly responsible for its repercussions.
He called on the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian people and to ensure their right in establishing their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
14 nov 2019
The resumption of Israel’s targeted assassination of resistance leaders in Gaza has been met with widespread acceptance and tacit agreement, especially by the international community.
During both of this year’s Israeli General Election campaigns, former IDF Chief and leader of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz advocated strongly for the practice to be implemented, creating a semblance of divergence in terms of policy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, has opted for a gradual normalisation of sporadic bombing of the Gaza Strip.
As Netanyahu openly endorsed the implementation of extrajudicial executions, Gantz voiced his approval and emphasised “a return to deterrence” as the outcome. Israel’s outrageous aggression achieved the opposite, however, as Islamic Jihad fired rockets into the Zionist state after the murder of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata and his wife. This provided Israel with the excuse — “self-defence” — to bomb Gaza yet again; the Palestinian death toll has so far reached 34, among them women and children.
Despite the lack of equivalence between rocket fire and Palestinian civilians murdered by Israel, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov chose to elaborate on the former as “unacceptable”. “There can be no justification for any attacks against civilians,” Mladenov stated yesterday. Obviously, his comment excluded Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians.
Once again, the UN has endorsed Israel’s colonial aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza. Its standard statements about the humanitarian impact of the latest Israeli bombardment will come at a later stage, when this phase is sidelined to pave the way for the UN and its interminable reports which raise awareness and persist in failing Palestinians politically.
The question is not “the continuing escalation” but the UN’s contempt for human rights when it continues to defend Israel’s violence while deploring legitimate resistance from Gaza. “The indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars against population centres is absolutely unacceptable and must stop immediately,” declared Mladenov.
His refusal to condemn Israeli air strikes against a population that does not even have freedom of movement allows the Israeli government to commit heinous crimes with impunity. Perhaps Mladenov has missed the craters where houses once stood with their occupants sleeping peacefully before Israel’s “precision strikes” ended their lives?
The UN continues to spread the message that Palestinians are simply cannon fodder for Israel’s armed forces; a necessity as far as Israel and the UN are concerned to achieve and completely normalise the settler-colonial project.
The UN’s tactic appears to be working, though. Yet again, the EU specifically condemned “the firing of rockets on civilian populations” without a single mention of Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians. This collusion is testimony to the fact that the peacebuilding narrative, already compromised through the two-state paradigm, has also been altered irrevocably.
Coined by international actors to give context to their intrusion in Palestine, peacebuilding is now an exclusive monopoly within the closed circles of Israel and the international community, in order to block any possible route that spells justice for Palestinians. The earlier aggression in May and the international response was the prelude to a collective assertion that the international community is openly endorsing, justifying and accepting the murder of Palestinian civilians.
During both of this year’s Israeli General Election campaigns, former IDF Chief and leader of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz advocated strongly for the practice to be implemented, creating a semblance of divergence in terms of policy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, has opted for a gradual normalisation of sporadic bombing of the Gaza Strip.
As Netanyahu openly endorsed the implementation of extrajudicial executions, Gantz voiced his approval and emphasised “a return to deterrence” as the outcome. Israel’s outrageous aggression achieved the opposite, however, as Islamic Jihad fired rockets into the Zionist state after the murder of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata and his wife. This provided Israel with the excuse — “self-defence” — to bomb Gaza yet again; the Palestinian death toll has so far reached 34, among them women and children.
Despite the lack of equivalence between rocket fire and Palestinian civilians murdered by Israel, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov chose to elaborate on the former as “unacceptable”. “There can be no justification for any attacks against civilians,” Mladenov stated yesterday. Obviously, his comment excluded Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians.
Once again, the UN has endorsed Israel’s colonial aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza. Its standard statements about the humanitarian impact of the latest Israeli bombardment will come at a later stage, when this phase is sidelined to pave the way for the UN and its interminable reports which raise awareness and persist in failing Palestinians politically.
The question is not “the continuing escalation” but the UN’s contempt for human rights when it continues to defend Israel’s violence while deploring legitimate resistance from Gaza. “The indiscriminate launching of rockets and mortars against population centres is absolutely unacceptable and must stop immediately,” declared Mladenov.
His refusal to condemn Israeli air strikes against a population that does not even have freedom of movement allows the Israeli government to commit heinous crimes with impunity. Perhaps Mladenov has missed the craters where houses once stood with their occupants sleeping peacefully before Israel’s “precision strikes” ended their lives?
The UN continues to spread the message that Palestinians are simply cannon fodder for Israel’s armed forces; a necessity as far as Israel and the UN are concerned to achieve and completely normalise the settler-colonial project.
The UN’s tactic appears to be working, though. Yet again, the EU specifically condemned “the firing of rockets on civilian populations” without a single mention of Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians. This collusion is testimony to the fact that the peacebuilding narrative, already compromised through the two-state paradigm, has also been altered irrevocably.
Coined by international actors to give context to their intrusion in Palestine, peacebuilding is now an exclusive monopoly within the closed circles of Israel and the international community, in order to block any possible route that spells justice for Palestinians. The earlier aggression in May and the international response was the prelude to a collective assertion that the international community is openly endorsing, justifying and accepting the murder of Palestinian civilians.
Palestinian Health Minister, Dr. Mai al-Kaila, has reported that one-third of the Palestinians, who were killed by Israeli missiles and shells in the three-day offensive on Gaza, are women and children.
In a press release, Thursday, Dr. al-Kaila stated that the Israeli army killed 34 Palestinians in its offensive, which began on Tuesday at dawn and ended with a ceasefire, on Thursday morning.
She said that the Israeli army killed eight children and three women, and added that 111 Palestinians, including 46 children and 20 women, have been injured.
%32.35 of the slain Palestinians are women and children, and %59.4 of the wounded are also women and children.
“This terrifying fact proves that Israel committed a serious crime, a premeditated murder of children and women,” she said, “This is not an accidental killing, or a mistake, but rather a deliberate, calculated policy.”
The Minister stated that the international community must end its silence and idleness, and act on providing the needed protection to the Palestinian people.
“Israel obliterated families; one clear example of that is Abu Malhous family that lost eight of its member due to the Israeli missiles,” she concluded, “Moreover, the psychological trauma, the grieve, will continue to impact the lives of hundreds of Palestinians.”
Besides destroying or damaging dozens of homes, the Israeli missiles caused damage to fifteen schools in the two days of ongoing bombardment.
Six schoolchildren were killed, and many others were injured, in addition to the dozens of children who suffered extreme anxiety attacks.
The Israeli missiles caused damage to 185 homes, and destroyed five other homes, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
In a press release, Thursday, Dr. al-Kaila stated that the Israeli army killed 34 Palestinians in its offensive, which began on Tuesday at dawn and ended with a ceasefire, on Thursday morning.
She said that the Israeli army killed eight children and three women, and added that 111 Palestinians, including 46 children and 20 women, have been injured.
%32.35 of the slain Palestinians are women and children, and %59.4 of the wounded are also women and children.
“This terrifying fact proves that Israel committed a serious crime, a premeditated murder of children and women,” she said, “This is not an accidental killing, or a mistake, but rather a deliberate, calculated policy.”
The Minister stated that the international community must end its silence and idleness, and act on providing the needed protection to the Palestinian people.
“Israel obliterated families; one clear example of that is Abu Malhous family that lost eight of its member due to the Israeli missiles,” she concluded, “Moreover, the psychological trauma, the grieve, will continue to impact the lives of hundreds of Palestinians.”
Besides destroying or damaging dozens of homes, the Israeli missiles caused damage to fifteen schools in the two days of ongoing bombardment.
Six schoolchildren were killed, and many others were injured, in addition to the dozens of children who suffered extreme anxiety attacks.
The Israeli missiles caused damage to 185 homes, and destroyed five other homes, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
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Firas Rasmi Salem Sawarka, 2
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Salem Rasmi Salem Sawarka, 3
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Moath Mohmmad Salem Sawarka, 7
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Mohannad Rasmi Salem Sawarka, 12
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Waseem Mohammad Salem Sawarka, 13
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Rasmi Salem Odah Sawarka, 45
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Mariam Salem Nasser Sawarka, 45
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Yosra Mohammad Awwad Sawarka, 39
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Iman Abu Tayyim's unborn child 6 months
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The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli missiles struck, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian home in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, killing six members of the same family, and wounding thirteen others.
The Health Ministry stated that Israeli F16 war jets fired missiles into a home in Deir al-Balah, killing six family members, and wounding at least thirteen others, most of them are women and children. The remains of two more children were found under the rubble, amidst ongoing search. They names will be pubished. video Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that the slain Sawarka (Abu Malhous) family has been officially identified as: |
- Rasmi Salem Odah Sawarka, 45.
- Mariam Salem Nasser Sawarka, 45.
- Mohannad Rasmi Salem Sawarka, 12.
- Fira sRasmi Salem Sawarka, 2.
- Salem Rasmi Salem Sawarka, 3.
- Moath Mohmmad Salem Sawarka, 7.
- Waseem Mohammad Salem Sawarka, 13.
- Yosra Mohammad Awwad Sawarka, 39.
Only one toddler survived the Israeli attack and was found shielded by her slain brother.
The slain and injured Palestinians were moved to the al-Aqsa hospital, while medics and rescue teams started a search campaign, looking for more Palestinians who might be buried under the rubble.
Updated On Nov 14, 2018: Their death brings the number of slain Palestinians, who were killed by Israeli missiles, since Monday at dawn, to 32, while more than 100 others have been injured. Among the wounded are at least 30 children and 13 women.
In related news, a six-month pregnant woman, identified as Iman Abu Tayyim, suffered a miscarriage in a severe anxiety attack after the soldiers fired missiles near her home, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. video
The escalation on the Gaza Strip started when Israel assassinated a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad, identified as Baha’ Abu al-‘Ata, when the soldiers dropped a missile on his home, killing him along with his wife, Asma’, also wounding many members of their family, in addition to a female neighbor, in the Sheja’eyya area, east of Gaza city.
Israeli missiles and shells have caused a power blackout after striking main powerlines and transformers, especially in Gaza city and the northern parts of the coastal region, including Jabalia and Beit Lahia.
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