Gaza under continuous Israeli attack - No No-Fly Zone for Gaza

international | anti-war / imperialism | press release Thursday March 24, 2011 21:50 by Omar Ghraieb

Its Okay for Israel to Bomb People with Airstrikes But Not for Gaddafi

Gaza, March 24 Thursday,

In Gaza City, Israeli F16 warplanes bombed an intelligence headquarter named "the ship", using at least five missiles, also raided the al-Rayes mountain with one missile and a room that belongs to “Gaza” sporting club, also “Badr” security HQ belonging to the Qassam Brigades, Hamas militant wing, with three missiles.

According to witnesses in the northern Gaza Strip, the shelling caused enormous material damage in the homes of civilian citizens in Maqqousi residential buildings which are located near the “Badr” security HQ, which was bombed with two missiles by Israeli warplanes.

According to Adham Abu Salmeyah, Health ministry official, one citizen got injured by shrapnel in the face, he is 10 years old and his name is Raid Afifi. More injuries reported to have reached Al Shefa hospital for treatment.

The loud bombing triggered a massive panic that hit women and children.

In northern Gaza, Israeli artillery pounded the lands of the citizens with two rockets without reported injuries or damage.

The Israeli artillery also bombed earlier the vicinity of the “Karni” crossing east of Gaza City with two rockets.

The missile landed in an empty agricultural area without causing casualties among the citizens. The Israeli Air Force launched today two separate raids on northern Gaza and central Gaza City, wounding three civilians till now.

To be Continued ……

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Statement of the Afro-Asian People's Democratic Islamic Congress:
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True to its political creed, the Zionist state uses both real and fabricated incidents in order to advance its expansionist aims.
Yesterday's Jerusalem bombing, however, has shown that all their strategy of intimidation, land grabbing and continued aggression is able to achieve is further escalation and, in its tow, a deterioration of their own inner security.

Israel's vicious war against Palestine's civilian population has revived a feature of the Mid-East conflict that had been overcome almost a decade ago.

It should be clear to all of us that no one has anything to gain from a further escalation. This is not in the interest of Palestine nor is it in the interest of the Israeli civilian population. Yet, it is the direct and inevitable result of the Zionist state's policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation, illegal land annexation and sustained merciless bomb raids on a people who, logistically, are in no position to defend themselves.

We wish to make it clear that we deeply regret every loss of life, regardless on which side. Every life lost is a wound in the face of the world. It is a possibility un-lived, a hope extinguished, a unique potential wasted. We are and have always been for an end to the bloodshed, for a rapprochement of our two peoples and for a political understanding between them beyond the war propaganda of the Zionist leaders and the power greed of the two warring factions of the PA. But we also wish to make it clear that the state of Israel, by its actions, bears the full moral responsibility for the Jerusalem attack. And we wish to tell the Israeli population in all frankness that their true enemy is not us but the corrupt and ruthless apparatus of the Zionist regime.

This apparatus, who, against its often repeated propagandist mantra, has proven in numerous cases that in pursuing its power-political designs it is as indifferent to Jewish lives as it is to Palestinian ones, is covering the road to peace with mines. The only way to make this road safe is to defuse them by democratic revolutionary action of the people.

Let us understand that if both peoples realise their true interests and are standing up for them against the machinations of a self-serving and inhuman regime a comprehensive solution of the present conflict will come naturally, as a logical result.

Against Mahmoud Abbas' condemnation of the Jerusalem attack, we wish to ask where is Netanyahu's condemnation of the Gaza raids? You reap what you sow. As long as the Israeli government does not condemn the Gaza raids (which are a thousand times more lethal than anything that happened in Jerusalem), the Afro-Asian People's Democratic Islamic Congress refuses to condemn the Jerusalem attack.

Muhammad A. Al Mahdi
(APIC[APICONG]), March 24