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Titolo: IDF, 'brava gente'...

Un deficiente che si fa chiamare mario <sic>, scriveva che elementi capaci
di fare cose tipo questo (see last pic)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~fayxx001/truth/palestine.html
sono casi sporadici all'interno di IDF.
Vediamo se e' vero:
Witnesses tell how elderly were used as human shields for tank forces
By Justin Huggler and Said Ghazali
Middle East crisis
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=283026
The sound of four explosions came down the phone line. A woman could be
heard screaming in the background: "Come and save us." This was in the
middle of an interview with a Red Crescent ambulance official. He said the
woman's house had been hit by rockets fired from an Israeli helicopter.
These were the voices that came out of Jenin refugee camp yesterday when it
came under the heaviest attack since the Israeli army began its onslaught in
the West Bank. The accounts are chilling: stories of Israeli forces using
the elderly as human shields in front of their tanks, of women and children
being rounded up, of homes being demolished, of bodies littering the
streets.
These allegations cannot be confirmed, because of the censorship imposed by
the Israeli authorities, who have refused journalists access to the camp.
They are the claims made by those inside the refugee camp, speaking by
mobile phone, and those who have recently fled.
Abu Hussein, a 55-year-old man inside the camp, said: "They used women and
old men as human shields. They were walking in front of the tanks and a
bulldozer was destroying the houses on both sides." Apparently the houses
were bulldozed to clear a path for tanks through the narrow alleys - an old
tactic of Ariel Sharon when he was commander of the army in the Gaza Strip
in the Seventies.
Mr Hussein said he was sheltering in two rooms with 40 others. "The soldiers
entered my neighbour's house," he said. "They killed him. His body is there
for more than five days. Six missiles hit a three-floor building, just 200
metres away from my house. The house was full of families. I do not know how
many people were there."
A senior source in the Israeli military was quoted in the newspaper Ha'aretz
yesterday as saying Israeli troops had killed almost 100 Palestinians in
Jenin in the past few days.
Helicopters flew over the camp all day yesterday, pounding it with
rockets.Abdullah Abu Atiya, who fled from Jenin, said: "They demolished all
the houses in Hawashin neighbourhood. There are many dead people in the
streets. There were many wounded crying in pain. Nobody can help them.
Nobody can get the dead bodies from destroyed houses."
The Israeli authorities have been refusing to allow ambulances access to the
wounded, which is a war crime under the Geneva conventions. The Red Cross
said yesterday it was working to get the Israelis to allow ambulances in.
Eventually, three ambulances were permitted. Each was only allowed to bring
out one person.
The Red Cross said five ambulances were fired on in the area around Jenin
and Nablus yesterday.
"The missiles were falling on the camp like rain," said Ghassan Rabayaa, an
ambulance driver. He could be overheard shouting into a walkie-talkie:
"Mariam Wishahi and her son are dead." Just before the line went dead he
said: "I can see many wounded in the square."
Dr Ahmed Rozeh, whose house overlooks the camp, claimed he saw between 40
and 50 women and children being rounded up by soldiers after their houses
were demolished. He said all the landlines to the camp had been destroyed.
"For six days, I cannot reach my sister who lives in the camp. There is no
water, no electricity and no food in the camp." There were even claims that
some in the camp had resorted to drinking sewage.
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Bethlehem gasps in an Israeli noose
      By Khalid Amayreh in Bethlehem
Thursday 05 February 2004, 22:33 Makka Time, 19:33 GMT
The Israeli army had wreaked havoc on the traditional birthplace of Jesus,
culminating in the Spring of 2002 with a month-long siege of the Church of
the Nativity inside which scores of Palestinian activists and several
clergymen were holed up.
Other contiguous towns and refugee camps, such as Bait Jala, Bait Sahur,
Duhaisha and Aida also had their share of pummelling, resulting in the death
and maiming of scores of civilians and resistance activists and in
widespread vandalism and destruction.
But hopes that the Israeli withdrawal from the Bethlehem district would give
exhausted and tormented inhabitants respite, economic prosperity, or some
semblance of freedom proved utterly illusive.
The "liberation of Bethlehem," using PA official language, morphed into a
suffocating, nightmarish blockade, crippling the area's economy.
Harassment and humiliation
Today, Bethlehem is surrounded by checkpoints manned by obstructive
soldiers, which Israel says are there to stop resistance fighters and
bombers from moving easily - a tactic of dubious efficiency that effectively
imprisons residents.
"As you see, we're confined to a few square kilometres. We can't leave our
town freely, and when we venture to leave, we're subjected to lots of
harassment and humiliation," said Victoria Bishara, a Bethlehem housewife.
"Honestly, I dread leaving my town because I'm worried about mistreatment by
the Jews."
Bishara sums up living conditions in Bethlehem since the Israeli
 "withdrawal" as a connected succession of woes.
"Closure breeds unemployment, unemployment breeds poverty and poverty causes
depression. We're not clinically depressed," she says, raising her voice
slightly, "but I assure you there's not much joy in this city."
"In any case, how can you feel good when you are surrounded by tanks,
roadblocks and trigger-happy soldiers training their guns on you?"
Killing tourism
Hana Nasir is Bethlehem's mayor who spends most of his time wondering how to
keep his town's vital services running. The task is never easy, he
complains.
"This sinister blockade has killed tourism to Bethlehem. In normal
circumstances, we used to receive 120,000 tourists per month. Now we get
less than 5000.
"And I'm afraid the apartheid wall will reduce this number to nil, so
imagine what effect that will have on a town whose entire economy depends on
tourism."
The unprecedented siege on Bethlehem is not only preventing foreign tourists
from getting into Bethlehem. It is also preventing the people of Bethlehem
from travelling outside their town.
"Do you know that 70% of our Christian citizens have forgotten what the
Church of the Sepulchre (in East Jerusalem) looks like and 70% of our Muslim
citizens have forgotten what the al-Aqsa Mosque looks like."
Devastated economy
While Nasir's unscientific estimates may be an exaggeration, the devastating
effects of the Israeli blockade on his city are clear.
Israel is destroying the Bethlehem district's economy, causing unemployment
to reach 60%, up from 10% in October 2000. Consequently, per capita income
has plummeted from $2500 in 2000 to less than $400 now.
According to Nasir, as many as 500 Christian families from Bethlehem and
surrounding areas have emigrated owing to economic hardships.
"There are limits to people's forbearance. When people can no longer feed
their kids and put food on the table, when their horizons are narrowed, they
go elsewhere in search of work and a better life."
Bad business
The number of tourists in Manger Square is viewed as a barometer of economic
activity in Bethlehem. The square, overlooking the Church of the Nativity,
used to bustle with tourists and pilgrims from all over the globe.
Now, the spacious square is nearly empty, with more peddlers than tourists -
a blow to tourism-dependant businesses such as souvenir shops and factories.
"I swear I haven't seen a single tourist in a week," says Yusuf Jacaman,
owner of the Holy Land Souvenir Exhibit, 100 metres from the Church of the
Nativity.
"Now, we don't aspire to make profits, we only hope to feed our families and
pay our rents and debts. Do you know, I haven't paid my rent for the last
three years?" complains Jacaman.
Asked how he and other souvenir shopkeepers were managing, Jacaman says
simply, "We wait for better days."
"We need several years of good business to be able to return to the
pre-Intifada situation."
Worst to come
Like most of the Christian and Muslim inhabitants of the area, the mayor
worries that the worst is yet to come - because of Israel's infamous
separation wall.
The gigantic concrete structure Israel is building around Palestinian
population centres in the West Bank is reducing them to quasi-detention
camps.
In Bethlehem, the wall will swallow the Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque (Rachel's
Tomb) and tens of thousands of olive trees, which provide the livelihood for
some 2500 Christian and Muslim families in the Bethlehem and Bait Jala
region.
When asked why the municipal council had not gone to court to prevent the
land seizures, Nasir said he had little faith in Israeli justice.
"It is very difficult to count on the Israeli justice system. It is a little
more than a rubber stamp in the hands of the Israeli military establishment.
"They are seizing our land and homes by deception . just as they did in
1948," said Nasir whose family lost five homes in West Jerusalem.
"They just seized them. We have the deed of covenant, they have the guns."
... la lista e' lunga...
K
-- 
IDF: By the time the (Israeli) army reduced its presence on 6 January, it
had killed four gunmen and 15 unarmed civilians including six children.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1136426,00.html

 ... la lista e' lunga...
E dove sta il "crimine" nell'ultimo articolo pieno di cavolate?
-Stefano

 Un deficiente che si fa chiamare mario <sic>,
Ti consiglio la visione di *Berlinguer ti voglio bene* cosi' scopru chi 
chiama Mario e in che situazione. Coglione.
Ale

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3467987.stm
Israel air strike kills schoolboy
The car was left a smouldering wreck
An Israeli missile strike in Gaza City has killed a schoolboy and wounded
the bodyguard of an Islamic Jihad leader and at least nine others.
The Israeli military said the air attack on one of Gaza's main streets had
targeted a "senior terrorist".
Aziz Mahmoud Shami, an aide to a senior Islamic Jihad leader, was seriously
wounded. Doctors say he has lost a leg.
The dead 14-year-old boy, Tariq Sussi, was walking home from school when he
was caught in the blast.
  I heard the three helicopters. I saw them overhead and suddenly a big
explosion happened
Witness Ahmed Nahal
The white Peugeot Aziz Mahmoud Shami was travelling in was torn apart by the
missile.
Senior Islamic Jihad figure Abdullah Shami - who is a cousin of the injured
bodyguard - is not thought to have been in the car.
Civilian toll
Islamic Jihad has spearheaded a suicide bombing campaign against Israel.
Last October, the Israeli military killed 10 people and wounded nearly 100
others in a wave of air strikes near Abdullah Shami's house in Gaza. He was
unharmed.
The army had said it was targeting Palestinian militia leaders and stores of
weapons as part of its regular counter insurgency operations.
But the fact that most of the dead were civilians prompted rare internal
criticism of the military's activity.
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