November 06 Reports

25 November 06

Award-Winning Gazan Journalist Mohammed Omer
On First U.S. Speaking Tour.
If you would like to attend Mohammed's testimony, please view the schedule
here [and as Word document here]

Mohammed has just arrived in DC last evening and is ready for his speaking tour.

13 November

During a funeral, sad moments when 18 civilans were killed at once

Palestinian children, Rima Athamneh , 1, and Ala Athamneh , 1, were killed by the Israeli tank shells in gaza togather with most of their family

Palestinian woman walking by a wall riddled with bullets and tank shells in Beit Hanoun

Mosque demolished by the Israeli bullodozers

“How long will Israel be allowed to continue to kill our women, children and old men inside their houses, villages and camps? How long should we continue to be slaughtered while the world watches?” asked Ms. Al Atamneh, one of the survivors of a family recently killed by Israeli Occupation Forces. Through a veil of tears, she then showed the damage to her house caused by Israeli tank shells. “Where is the world, God? Why are we getting killed? My little nephew, Amjad, while sleeping, was killed by the Israelis right here,” she said crying and pointing to where his bed was.

“The child was simply sleeping, possibly having a nice dream. But he never woke up. Neither were ambulance workers allowed to reach him even if there was any hope of saving him. Amjad’s arm was missing. No one could find it.”

Amjad’s younger sister was murdered by Israeli soldiers using rockets as well. Unites States made and paid tank shells splattered her little body all over the house. Her brains were all over her bed. Fingers, arms, legs and pieces of human flesh were all over the place.

"No one can believe the image—I tried to help, but I was also injured in my leg, but everyone is dead by the tank shells which hit all the child and every body, even my mother who's 70 years old woman, a woman who lived peacefully and have nothing to do with the army, she got killed, she did nothing, nothing, nothing, but she got killed by the Israeli tank shell" she added.

Even the animals, cows and goats were killed by the attack when the Israeli bulldozers demolished a small animal farm of the family. The Israeli soldiers also destroyed the van of her father which cost 11 Jordanian Deinar. She said even that would be fine as long as our children and we survive.

"I can believe it, my own mother who raise me, there was a moment where I was not able to see even look at her before she got buried" the young woman said crying. She was obviously angry. " It's not only the tanks shells, but also the drone planes which hit our house from all over see here, look here and there and see our lives—see the wholes and the damaged furniture, look at the blood in the walls, see even the Palestinian flag is a witness on the crimes"

She continued talking with a tone of anger and stress. What really angered her is the fact that the Israelis knew there were children in the house. “It was one day when the soldiers were inside our home and they imposed siege on us, they didn’t let us go out and they kept telling us to shut up or they were going to shoot us. The soldiers purposely kept scaring the children by pointing their weapons at them. The children were not even allowed to go to the bathroom while the soldiers were there.” Holding a Palestinian flag in her hands she said, “This is the reason we are being killed, we are Palestinians. The soldiers are angry because we have the flag of our country.” The Israeli soldiers told her they did not want Palestinians to live. While crying, she put the bullet-ridden Palestinian flag back on the wall saying, “But Israel who kills innocents will not kill the spirit of the Palestinians who remain alive. Shame on America which provides Israel with weapons. Shame on America for remaining silent while their Israeli allies murder innocent civilians and commit crimes against humanity. She then prepared to go to another one of many funerals in occupied Palestine.

9 November

A Palestinian woman carrying the body of her child injured by the Israeli occupation forces

A targeted car by the Israeli helicopters

Blood and human flesh is everywhere, we are getting killed

Palesinian children are looking at blood pool of their friends killed by the Isareli tank shells

Palestinian workers trying to help Palestinian man

P alestinian young men gathering around a car that was bombed by Israeli helicopters

We, Palestinians, whether Christian, Moslem or otherwise, are being killed every single day in Palestine . Our houses are being demolished, our roads being destroyed, our children being slaughtered, our lives being taken away by the Israeli helicopters, bulldozers, tank shells, and airplane rockets. Our lives are violently, yet quietly being taken away by the Israeli Occupation Forces. The murder here is loud and graphically violent, yet scarcely a whisper of these atrocities is heard through the news organizations of the West.

The situation here is completely insane. Day after day, Israelis come to our homeland and kill, kill, kill as if Gaza was a shooting gallery in a carnival. All over Gaza are leftovers of the Israeli frenzy to shoot at anything that moves. Legs and arms of innocent Palestinian children laying on streets and remaining rubble from what was once someone’s house. What was once tiny soft pliable fingers from a baby can be found hardened like rocks on Palestinian soil. One can find a piece of a head with the brains oozing out like a melon.

Our children’s blood runs through the streets of Palestine and no one cares, certainly not Israeli and Jews in America or Britain . Why do these children have to die? New born babes in Beit Hanoune were welcomed into this world by Israeli artillery fire. Israeli tanks blew up their homes while they were asleep.

Where is the American and British Press? Where is the outcry from the lands of Democracy? How many Palestinian children must be murdered, yes, murdered before someone in the West says “Enough!” What level of butchery must the Israelis rise to before the world can’t stomach the carnage anymore? Let the 13 family members hear it, even if they have to hear it in hospital refrigerators.

The blood is everywhere. In few minutes more than 21 people were killed this early morning while the children were sleeping -- 60 people were injured.

The brother of two people who were injured was heard screaming in a hospital, “Why, why, Israel is killing us, why my brother?"

6 November

Mohammed wrote to me last night saying: 'We are getting killed'. [The Webmaster]

Fear of death during funerals

H ow will you answer this child when she ask you why her brother was killed

Israeli tanks in Beit Hanoun

P alestinian boys watching the body of victim killed by the Israeli bullets in Beit Hanoun

P alestinian medical workers carrying the body of one of the victims

P alestinian women break the siege to get out their sons

Talal Naser, a Palestinian citizen who lived in Beit Hanoun village was arrested by the Israeli army, his wife, his family were killed when the Israeli occupation forces have demolished the house over their heads—as a result, two of daughters were killed and there is no information about the rest of the family—this is part of the ongoing Israeli incursion against humanity which is going on till now by many people whom were killed and injured. the attack is still going on and the numbers of people whom were killed is increasing from one minute to another—the fact that there is no food, no water, sewage system has flooded, electricity stations have been demolished and nothing remains, but a ghost village after it was one of the most beautiful agricultural places

Zaher Shabat and his brother Ayman were both arrested when the Israeli occupation forces call for all men between the age of 16-45 to get out, but they were released and asked to go home by the Israeli soldiers, in the way while they are back to their home, the Israeli soldiers patrolling in other place killed both of them by the shelling which continue for the whole night.

Beit Hanoun: From Summer Rains operation to Autumn's Clouds operation, both are the Israeli attacks targeting Gaza Strip to kill humans, demolish all standing, damage infrastructure and make life no longer meaningful. In addition, people are deprived as a result of the ongoing attack as many of the families whom are under siege have run out of food and water when the fact that the Israeli bulldozers target the water pipes that are a life giving source, cut of electricity and telephone networks in Beir Hanoun village in the northern part of Gaza .

ETHNIC CLEANSING

Umm Al Naser mosque has a different story with the siege, right after the Israeli soldier's louder speakers announced for every male Palestinian from the age of 14- 45 should gather in a stadium and then transferred into holes dug by the Israeli bulldozers for investigations and interrogations... as a result, many men who chose not to give up to the Israeli loud speakers as they decided not to be herded like cattle, fled inside the mosque instead. The Israeli bulldozers came and demolished part of the mosque while the men were under siege inside. As soon as the news started to spread about the threat of killing all the people who refused to surrender under the mosque. To the surprise of the Israeli's, hundreds of Palestinian women took to the streets and headed to break the Israeli siege of Beit Hanoun mosque and helped to get out the Palestinian men who were inside the mosque. The women did it and succeeded in leading a demonstration in front of the tanks and bulldozers which were shooting very heavily on the mosque, but women's willingness and great courage was obviously stronger than the Israeli bullets.As the Israeli tanks shells fired into the crowd, 2 women were killed and 17 women were injured as well as a local cameraman, according to medical sources at Kamal Adwan hospital. The mosque collapsed shortly after the 12-hour siege ended by the help of Palestinian women with their brave determination.

PALESTINIAN WOMEN BREAK THE SIEGE!

One of the demonstrators, Umm Eyad Al Ashkar 45 years old in an interview said :"We decided to take the streets to save the lives of our sons, even if we are women, we should have our role to the break the Zionist siege" she said as she said with a strong tone of voice as her 14 years old daughter accompanied with her to the demonstration. How many women, who live in countries in relative peace, would have the courage to stand up against tanks firing live ammunition at them?
Not many! It is a known fact that most women hidebehind their husbands for protection. Evidently, the
Palestinian women have a strong spirit and faith filled with brave determination to fight off the
ruthless, cold-blooded Israeli's who are trying to kill off all the Palestinians, from innocent children, to any one who is breathing.

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

The incursions continue with more tension, with helicopters hovering endlessly, bombings and firing of tank shells against all related to humanity without any differentiation. In a phone interview with the director of Beit Hanoun's hospital, he said: "We know about many cases of injured victims who need help, but our ambulance drivers are no longer able to do it, as
the hospital is under siege." he said.

Beit Hanoun, the area which is located in the north of Gaza Strip by the population of 30.000 inhabitants, and mostly depending on agriculture as the only source for income for it's residents. As long as the attack keeps going till this moment, the numbers of people being killed is increasing from minute to minute, and now, over 50 people were killed and more than 230 people were injured, many of them civilians whom were killed even inside their houses. How many Palestinians should get killed before international community and the world put pressure against Israel to stop its continuous aggression against Palestinians? When will the civilized world wake up and stand up to the aggressors? As the international political leaders all talk about this atrocity against the Palestinians, why is there no action being taken?

A Palestinian child has to go through all these nightmares and horrible experiences, when child ask his mother when is this war is going to end, will you have an answer to satisfy your child's innocence?