Israelis commit war crimes at United Nations shelters

August 3 update:

A Palestinian father mourns his son who was killed Aug. 3 in the Israeli bombing of a United Nation shelter for civilians in Rafah.

Ten Palestinians were killed and dozens seriously wounded at a UN Relief and Works Agency shelter for 3,000 Palestinians in Rafah in southern Gaza, on Sunday, August 3, 2014. The coordinates of the school, like all UN facilities in Gaza, were repeatedly communicated to the Israeli military before the attack.
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U.N. says Israel violated international law, after Israelis bomb a school in Gaza

GAZA CITY, July 30, 2014 — United Nations officials accused Israel of violating international law after artillery shells slammed into a school overflowing with evacuees Wednesday, an attack that Palestinian and U.N. officials said killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens as they slept.

It was one of the worst mass-casualty incidents of the 24 days of the mass murder of Palestinians. The building was the sixth U.N. school in the Gaza Strip to be rocked by explosions during Operation Protective Edge,” which began July 6.

Israeli officials said they were trying to determine who was responsible for the bloodshed. In past incidents, the Israeli military blamed errant rocket or mortar fire by Gaza militants for explosions at U.N. schools — or said the blasts were under investigation.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operated the school-turned-shelter in the Jabalya refugee camp, said it had gathered evidence, analyzed bomb fragments and examined craters after the attack. Its initial assessment was that three Israeli artillery shells hit the school where 3,300 people had sought refuge.

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces,” said Pierre Krähenbühl, the UNRWA commissioner-general. “This is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “all available evidence points to Israeli artillery as the cause” of the pre-dawn attack. Ban said Israel had received the precise GPS coordinates of the school from the United Nations 17 times.

The Israeli military announced a brief humanitarian cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening. The pause in hostilities would not apply to areas in which the military is operating, it said.

A Hamas spokesman dismissed the lull as a “media stunt” that would not allow rescue workers to recover casualties in combat zones that Israel was excluding from the cease-fire.

Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a senior spokesman for the Israeli military, called the shelling of the U.N. school “a true tragedy,” and said the incident is under investigation. “There was mortar fire in the area, directed at our troops,” he said. “There was an exchange of fire. We have yet to determine if it was Israeli munitions that struck the compound.”

One of the survivors said she had no doubt who was at fault for the barrage. “There were five shells, one after the other. We were a clear target,” said Hannah Sweilem, 33, who was in the shelter with her husband and eight children. “If the Israelis say it was a mistake, they are lying.”

Witnesses at the Jabalya Primary School for Girls said the Israeli bombing July 30 struck a classroom where about 50 people, mostly women and children, were sleeping. The room’s roof was ripped apart. Most of the dead, however, were young men who had woken for the traditional Muslim dawn prayer, said Moen al-Masr, a doctor at the Kamal Odwan hospital. Said Allah al-Bes, 33, who was seeking refuge at the school with his wife and three sons: “We found people torn to pieces. It was like hell.” Bes and his family went to the U.N. facility after an earlier attack on a U.N.-run school in Beit Hanoun. “We have learned no place is safe in Gaza,” he said.

The Israeli terror attack on the other U.N. Relief Works Agency shelter, inside a school in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun on July 24, killed 16 Palestinian civilians. U.N. agency administrators said on July 25 that they had made urgent pleas -- sending their coordinates 12 times -- asking the Israeli military to hold their fire. Israelis liars said that only one errant mortar struck the school that day, when the courtyard was empty. Corporate US media surmised that errant Hamas rockets did the damage. But   according to the Wall Street Journal (Saturday July 26, 2014 p. A8): "Weapons experts who reviewed photographs of shrapnel recovered from the bodies of of victims said they didn't match those produced by rockets, and were consistent with mortar fire from tanks. The high number of casualties suggested a more sophisticated weapon than Hamas's unguided rockets, these experts said."

Gaza Health Ministry officials said that more than 105 people were killed in Israeli bombing, shelling and missile strikes July 30 and that more than 400 were injured as Israelis pressed ahead with their escalated campaign against the coastal enclave. Satellite images released by the United Nations show the impact of Israeli strikes on structures in Gaza. One of the most ravaged areas is the Shijaiyah neighborhood in the southeastern part of Gaza City.

Timeline of Israeli Terrorism Against the United Nations 

In 1948, United Nations diplomat Count Folke-Bernadotte of Sweden was assigned by the U.N. with the mission of bringing peace to Palestine. Sitting in the back seat of a Chrysler sedan on Sept. 17 were the UN negotiator and Colonel André Serot, a decorated French hero of two world wars. Their vehicle, the last of a three-car convoy, started its ascent up a narrow road in Jerusalem. It was at that moment, that Yehoshua Cohen, a member of a hit squad, emerged. Journalist Donald MacIntyre describes what happened next, as Cohen: "ran to the Chrysler, pushed the barrel of his German-made Schmeisser MP40 sub-machine gun through the open rear window, and pumped six bullets into the chest, throat and left arm of the aristocrat, and another eighteen bullets into the body of the French colonel sitting on his left." This assassination of the United Nations' top diplomat was perpetrated by Judaic terrorists disguised as Israeli soldiers. The assassination was carried out by the Stern Gang. The murders were ordered by the Stern Gang's triumvirate, which included future Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir. In New York on October 3, 1984, Shamir, who was at that time Israeli Foreign Minister, received a warm welcome from the U.N. and addressed the General Assembly.

In 1996, Israelis shelled a UN compound in Qana, Southern Lebanon - which it had occupied since 1982 - killing more than 100 civilians.  The UN report on the massacre concluded that it had to have been deliberate.

In 2002, during Ariel Sharon's mauling of the West Bank, Israelis repeatedly struck UN ambulances.  The commissioner-general of UNRWA stated that the Israelis deliberately targeted the ambulances.

In 2006, during the most recent Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Israeli military bombed a well-marked, well-known UN observation post, killing UN personnel. “Israel" offered a wry shrug of the shoulders: accidents happen, innocent people get killed, what a tragedy.  The UN determined that the Israeli bombing was deliberate murder of their people.

In 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, Israelis bombed several UN buildings.

The UN has never brought war crimes charges or sanctions against “Israel” for the assassination or these massacres.

Israeli UN ambassadors walk out whenever an Iranian leader is scheduled to speak at the UN, in order to demonstrate "Israeli indignation" at these supposed Iranian "moral lepers." As part of their theatre of superior Judaic ethics, the Israelis are allowed to pose at UN meetings as paragons of morality, and when they do so the western media do not contradict their play-acting by reminding the public of Israeli crimes against the UN. Instead, the media develop a case of amnesia concerning the 1948 assassinations and the more recent massacres which the Israelis have perpetrated against United Nations employees and the Arab civilians they shelter in their facilities. As former Israeli President Shimon Peres has stated, “No one will judge Israel!”

For further research: Israeli extermination in Gaza

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Massacre of Palestinians continues - they’re not Jews, so who cares?

More than 100 Palestinians were killed Wednesday July 30, 2014 in the Gaza Strip, among them victims of Israeli fire on a crowded market and a United Nations school.

The market bombing came hours after Israelis bombed a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp which was sheltering some 3,300 homeless Gazans, killing 16.

"This morning a UN school sheltering thousands of Palestinian families suffered a reprehensible attack," UN chief Ban Ki-moon said. "It is unjustifiable, and demands accountability and justice."

In a statement released earlier Wednesday, U.N.R.W.A. commissioner-general Pierre Krähenbühl said U.N. schools had been struck six times during the present conflict, and that the attack on Jabalia Elementary Girls School appears to have been executed with “Israeli artillery.”

As is the case in other attacks on U.N. sites, Krähenbühl said the Israel Defense Forces had been given the location of the shelter (in Jabalia’s case, the agency said it warned the I.D.F. 17 times).

“We have moved beyond the realm of humanitarian action alone,” Krähenbühl said. “We are in the realm of accountability. I call on the international community to take deliberate international political action to put an immediate end to the continuing carnage.”

At least nine Gaza hospitals have also been attacked by the Israelis, and an Israeli bombing of a crowded market killed an additional 15 Palestinians on July 30.

A United States defense official told CNN network news Pentagon sends ammunition to of plans to further supply Israel with ammunition, reportedly from American stockpiles within the nation. The Pentagon later said it had granted an Israeli request for ammunition, including some from a stockpile stored by the US military on the ground in Israel for emergency use by the Judaic state, which needs the ammo to massacre many hundreds more of Palestinian civilians.

The US Congress and “Right wing Radio” and TV applaud the massacre of Palestinian civilians and blame it on the victims. Palestinians are not “Jews,” so they can be mass-murdered without fear of the consequences or a holocaust museum to commemorate their deaths. Those type of elaborate memorials are reserved for The Holy People and allied master races.

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More than 1,100 Palestinian civilians slaughtered as of July 26

“Operation Protective Edge”

The ongoing holocaust against the Palestinians

Palestinians helped a survivor after Israelis bombed his home in Gaza City on Sunday, July 27.

The remans of the home of a Palestinian Christian woman, Jalila Ayyad, which was was bombed by Israeli terrorists on July 27, 2014. 

Funeral in a church in Gaza for Jalila Ayyad

Israelis have killed a Palestinian Christian in Gaza. Will Protestant Fundamentalists in the USA protest her death? 

Israelis want Christians out:

Mrs. Ayyad’s husband, George Ayyad, dismissed the idea that her death would force more of the Christian population out of Gaza: "If we leave, that's what the Israelis want.” 

News Media Bias: If Hamas had done this instead of the Israelis, Jalila Ayyad's funeral would have been broadcast on every TV news channel in the USA. 

1,139 Palestinians ("most of them civilians” — NY Times, July 27), have been killed in Gaza by Israelis as of July 26, 2014.

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Previous Israeli holocausts against Arabs:

 in Lebanon in July 2006

in Gaza, December 2008 — January 2009

Never forget these holocausts!

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Israelis and Palestinians: no equivalence of culpability

Israelis and Palestinians:  

With such a gross imbalance of power, there is no equivalence of culpability

By Dr. Gabor Maté 

Excerpted from the Toronto Star, July 22, 2014

(Gabor Maté, M.D., is a Canadian-based Judaic author)

Israeli bombing of the city of Gaza, July 22, 2014

...In Gaza today we find ways of justifying the bombing of hospitals, the annihilation of families at dinner, the killing of pre-adolescents playing soccer on a beach.

In Israel-Palestine the powerful party has succeeded in painting itself as the victim, while the ones being killed and maimed become the perpetrators. “They don’t care about life,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, abetted by Obama and Harper (Canadian Prime Minister), “we do.”

Netanyahu, you who with surgical precision slaughter innocents, the young and the old, you who have cruelly blockaded Gaza for years, starving it of necessities, you who deprive Palestinians of more and more of their land, their water, their crops, their trees — you care about life?

There is no understanding Gaza out of context — Hamas rockets or unjustifiable terrorist attacks on civilians — and that context is the longest ongoing ethnic cleansing operation in the recent and present centuries, the ongoing attempt to destroy Palestinian nationhood.

The Palestinians use tunnels? So did my heroes, the poorly armed anti-Nazi fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto. Unlike Israel, Palestinians lack Apache helicopters, guided drones, jet fighters with bombs, laser-guided artillery. Out of impotent defiance, they fire inept rockets, causing terror for innocent Israelis but rarely physical harm. With such a gross imbalance of power, there is no equivalence of culpability.

Israel wants peace? Perhaps, but as the veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has pointed out, it does not want a just peace. Occupation and creeping annexation, an inhumane blockade, the destruction of olive groves, the arbitrary imprisonment of thousands, torture, daily humiliation of civilians, house demolitions: these are not policies compatible with any desire for a just peace. In Tel Aviv Gideon Levy now moves around with a bodyguard, the price of speaking the truth...

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Israelis bomb a clinic for disabled Palestinians, killing two and burning three

Gaza, July 12: Palestinian women mourn for those killed by Israeli terror bombs

Gaza Strip, July 12 —...Israel bombed a mosque, which its aerial photos indicated was harboring a weapons cache, and a center for the disabled, killing two residents and wounding three, as well as a caretaker....The Israeli bombing of the center for the disabled, the Mabaret Palestine Society here in northern Gaza, occurred just before dawn, when a missile crashed through the roof and exploded. Because it was the weekend, only five of the 19 severely disabled residents were at the center...said Jamila Elaiwa...

She spoke at Al Shifa hospital’s burn unit, while she was visiting the wounded, including Mai Hamada, 30, and Salwa Abu al-Qomssan, 53, the caretaker, both of them with severe burns, while two more residents were in intensive care. The dead were identified as Ula Wisha, 31, and Suha Abusada, 39, whose family said she had been born severely disabled and unable to speak...

Ms. Elaiwa, 59, said that her center was well-known in the neighborhood and that it had been in the same building for almost a decade. She said she had no idea why it would be bombed. “No one lived there except us,” she said. “There was no one else in the building.”

At the site, neighbors picked through the rubble of modest medical equipment and scattered children’s books, from the small neighborhood children’s library Ms. Elaiwa ran. There was a seared copy of “Jane Eyre,” condensed, in English with Arabic translation, and an English-language copy of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.”

Neighbors like Yasir Abu Shoodq, 32, stared up at the sky through the holes the missile cut through the roof and each floor before making a crater in the ground. Children picked up the chunks of sharp steel from the crater and made off with them.

Mr. Abu Shoodq said, and Ms. Elaiwa confirmed, that there had first been a warning rocket, “a knock on the roof,” a few minutes before the missile hit. “But no one understood what it meant,” she said. “No one could imagine the center would be a target for anyone.” In any case, she said, the severity of the residents’ disabilities would have prevented them from fleeing on their own.

...The number of dead in Gaza since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge is 120, according to the Palestinian health ministry; just over half of the dead are considered to have been noncombatants by the United Nations.

Source: "As Israel Hits Mosque and Clinic, Air Campaign’s Risks Come Home"

By Steven Erlanger • NY Times, July 12, 2014

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Also see: Israelis wildly exaggerate “injuries” from Palestinian rockets

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