- 2 juni 2006
Zahid Abid Mounir Mohamed 30
No name
Two gunmen killed, one injured, on borders with Egypt - 4 juni 2006
Atiya Ibrahim GhalbanLoay Mohamed Borno
No name
Israeli troops kill elderly man in invasion of Tulkarem
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Maria 5 juni 2006
Majdi Hamad
Imad Asaliya
Two Palestinians assassinated in Gaza, Qassams hit Israel
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Maria 7 juni 2006
Khader Qasem, 20
Eyad Hammad Abu Sal'a, 22
Troop kill three Palestinians security officers, injured three, east of Gaza
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Ahmad Ata Al Za'aneen, 21
Basel Ata Al Za'aneen, 26
Khaled Yousef Al Za'aneen, 24
Three killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Jamal Abu Samahdana
Jamal Army assassinates leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, three of his assistances
Palestinian medical and security sources reported on Thursday evening that Israeli army assassinated Jamal Abu Samahdana, general leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), General Supervisor of the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry, and three of his companions in an air strike that targeted a training center that belongs to the PRC in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The bodies of the four fighters were severely mutilated, medical sources in Gaza reported. At least seven residents were injured.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli air force fired at least four missiles at the training center of the PRC killing Abu Samahdana, three fighters and injuring several members of the group.
Abu Mojahed, media spokesperson of the PRC, said that his group “will retaliate to this crime” and that the response will “strong and painful”.
“It is true that this is a painful strike, but resistance does not depend on one person”, Abu Mojahed stated, “The strike that does not killed us, makes us stronger and more determined, our path is still long”.
He added that the PRC will strike back inside Israel and that there are several planned operations that will be carried out from the Gaza Strip in the near future.
According to Abu Mojahed, Abu Samahdana was passing near the training center when he was assassinated.
The Israeli army carried eight assassination attempts against Abu Samahdana. He was wanted for the Israeli security since the first Intifada that erupted in 1987.
The Israeli army confirmed the strike and said that 11:30 p.m. On Thursday, an Air Force craft attacked a training camp of the Salah Al Deen Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, in the Rafah area.
According to an Israeli military source, the camp was at the time being used to train members of the PRC for a wide-scale attack, including training to cross the electronic border fence, the placing of explosives, and an attempt to attack one of the Israeli settlements near Gaza.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Information Minister Yousef Al-Rizka told the Al-Jazeera Arab news network after the assassination that "Israel's Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, is proving that he is a criminal no less than Shaul Mofaz."
The Islamic Jihad slammed the attack and vowed retaliation. Senior Islamic Jihad leader Khaled Al Batsh said in response to the strike that “the crime will not pass without a response from the Palestinian resistance factions”.
Al Batsh added that the assassination is the “response Israel is making to those who want to hold a national referendum”.
Also, Hamas media spokesperson, Sami Abu Zuhri, said that this attack requires that the Palestinians reexamine their policies towards Israel.
Abu Zuhri added that the Palestinian people will stick to their right to defend themselves, and reserve the right to retaliate.
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Ten civilians, including children, killed in Israeli strike at Gaza Beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFnM8NKiFso
Friday evening, Israeli air force and Navy gunships fired missiles at the Gaza Beach in Al Soudaniyya area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing at least ten residents, including women and children, after shelling the beach with from ground, sea and air. At least forty residents were injured in the attack, most of the injured are children playing on the beach.
The Palestinian Television reported that eight brothers and sisters were among the casualties when the Israeli Naval force fired two shells towards the family while vacationing at the beach.
Dr. Mahmoud Al Asaly, head of Kamal Adwan hospital, reported that the number of casualties might increase since more residents are being transferred to the hospital as the rescue teams are still on the scene in an attempt to evacuate the wounded.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the incident as described it as an “Israeli bloody massacre" that targeted civilians and children vacationing on the beach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WaCJn4hdjc
"No doubt what's going on in Gaza is a bloody massacre against our people, our civilians, without
discrimination," Abbas said. "I call upon the international community, Security Council, the Quartet, to put an end to this Israeli crimes".
Palestinian legislator, Mohammad Dahlan, called on the international community to condemn Israel and realize the brutality of the Israeli army that targets innocent civilians and children.
“The international community must move in order to rescue the Palestinian people” Dahlan stated, “The world must see this Israeli terrorism and expose these bloody crimes”.
He also called on the Palestinian factions and people to unite against the Israeli aggression and massacre.
Amani Ghalya, 22, lies in the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital in Gaza
“If it was a settler who was killed, the whole world will condemn us and accuse us of committing crimes”, he added, “Israel is killing children and women, shelling homes and innocent civilians and nobody is saying or doing anything to stop these massacres”
The bloody attack against innocent civilians comes several hours after the Israeli air force assassinated three Palestinians from Al Za'aneen family, the residents are fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees.
Huda Ghalia cries beside the body of her father, who was killed in an explosion on a Gaza beach
The Palestinian Television broadcasted live scenes from the attacked beach showing children searching fro their family, and an scene of a Palestinian child girl crying beside the body of her father.
Meanwhile, after the women, men and children were killed in the attack, the Israeli army claimed that it will investigate the incident.
Israeli army head of the southern command, Major General Yoav Galant, said on Friday evening that the army is looking into the circumstances of the explosion.
“One possibility under examination is that a military shell strayed from its path, or that a work accident caused the explosion”, he claimed.
http://www.imemc.org/article/19244
10 juni 2006
Army `“apologizes`after killing 10 civilians, including two infants
- 13 juni 2006
Death in Tulkarem
Human rights workers are seeking justice for an unarmed Palestinian mother killed in error by Israeli troops.
I meet Abd al-Karim Sa'adi on arriving in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. He is a field worker with B'Tselem, a respected Israeli human rights organisation that challenges Israeli violations of Palestinians' rights.
He is working on the case of Ettaf Zalat, a 45-year-old woman killed on May 1. Neighbours called him to the scene quickly and he entered the Zalat's flat as soon as the security forces left.
"At 3.30am Israeli special forces, an elite group who do the assassinations, and the regular army surrounded the area of Sufarine," he told me.
"They took up positions in the houses of neighbours and they shouted through loudspeakers, 'You should go out and hand yourself to the army.' But it was not specific, so nobody knew who they meant."
The Zalat family - teacher Yousef, Ettaf and their three daughters - dressed hurriedly and sat in the sitting room. At 5.12am, the eldest daughter, Ahlam, a 21-year-old nurse, took two bullets; the top of Etta's head was shot off; Ansam, 18, was hit in the abdomen; and the youngest, Anghram, 13, received a slight injury to her neck.
"I found brain on the ceiling and a piece of hair sticking to the ceiling," Sa'adi said. "The father [was] still sitting. He couldn't do anything, he was so shocked."
Sa'adi showed me the shells he had picked up and the photos of bits of Ettaf's hair sticking to the ceiling and of her brains splattered on her husband's dishdash.
The soldiers were after an alleged militant named Ayyad Muin who had recently rented a first-floor apartment using a fake ID, Sa'adi told me. But the Zalats live on the second floor.
"At 6.30am the Israeli defence ministry issued a statement saying, 'We are sorry to have killed an innocent person,'" he said.
The older daughter is still seriously ill in hospital, Sa'adi said, also expressing concern for the middle one. "She is in her last year in high school. She needs her mother to support her through the exams. Maybe there will be a case from our side. I think so. My organisation has put a lot into it."
I think of how the families of the British peace activist Tom Hurndall and the photographer James Miller struggled to get proper investigations into the deaths of their loved ones, and decide not to hold my breath. - 14 juni 2006
"Shrapnel Evidence Reveals:Israel's Guilt" Human Rights Watch
Annan Doubts Results of Israeli Army's Probe into Gaza beach
Israeli Defense Minister attempts 'damage control', denying responsibility for Gaza beach attack
16 juni 2006
Who really killed Huda Ghalia's family?
Guardian investigation undermines military claim that Israeli shells could not have been responsible for death of girl's family.
Heartrending pictures of 10-year-old Huda Ghalia running wildly along a Gaza beach crying "father, father, father" and then falling weeping beside his body turned the distraught girl into an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle even before she fully grasped that much of her family was dead.
But the images of the young girl who lost her father, step-mother and five of her siblings as picnicking families fled a barrage of Israeli shells a week ago have become their own battleground.
Who and what killed the Ghalia family, and badly maimed a score of other people, has been the subject of an increasingly bitter struggle for truth all week amid accusations that a military investigation clearing the army was a cover-up, that Hamas was really responsible and even that the pictures of Huda's grief were all an act.
However, a Guardian investigation into the sequence of events raises new and so far unanswered questions about the Israeli military probe that cleared the army of responsibility. Evidence from hospital records, doctors' testimony and witness accounts challenges the military's central assertion that it had stopped shelling by the time seven members of the Ghalia family were killed.
In addition, fresh evidence from the US group Human Rights Watch, which offered the first forensic questioning of the army's account, casts doubt on another key claim - that shrapnel taken from the wounded was not from the kind of artillery used to shell Gaza.
The pictures of Huda's traumatic hunt for her father garnered instant sympathy around the world and focused unwelcome attention for Israel on its tactic of firing thousands of shells into Gaza over recent weeks, killing more than 20 civilians, to deter Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, initially apologised for the killings but the military swiftly realised it was confronting another PR disaster to rival that of the killing of Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old boy who died in his father's arms amid a barrage of gunfire six years ago and became the first iconic victim of the intifada.
Conflicting accounts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxl3vBp66kY
The army quickly convened a committee to investigate the deaths on the beach and almost as swiftly absolved itself of responsibility.
The committee acknowledged the army fired six shells on and around Beit Lahia beach from artillery inside Israel. But it said that by coincidence a separate explosion - probably a mine planted by Hamas or a buried old shell ó occurred in the same area at about the same time, killing the family.
The army admitted that one of the six shells was unaccounted for but said it was "impossible", based on location and timings, for the sixth shell to have done the killing. The investigation also concluded that shrapnel taken from some of the wounded was not from artillery used that day.
The military declared its version of events definitive and an end to the matter. Others went further and saw a Palestinian conspiracy. An American pro-Israel pressure group, Camera, which seeks to influence media coverage, went so far as to suggest that the film of Huda Ghalia's trauma was faked: "Were the bodies moved, was the girl asked to re-enact her discovery for the camera, was the video staged?"
But the army's account quickly came in for criticism, led by a former Pentagon battlefield analyst, Marc Garlasco, investigating the deaths for Human Rights Watch.
"You have the crater size, the shrapnel, the types of injuries, their location on the bodies. That all points to a shell dropping from the sky, not explosives under the sand," he said. "I've been to hospital and seen the injuries. The doctors say they are primarily to the head and torso. That is consistent with a shell exploding above the ground, not a mine under it."
Mr Garlasco produced shrapnel from the site apparently marked as a 155mm shell used by the army that day.
Timing a key issue
The key part of the military's defence hinged on timings. It says it fired the six shells toward the beach between 4.30pm and 4.48pm, and that the artillery barrage stopped nine minutes before the explosion that killed the Ghalia family.
The military concluded that the deadly explosion occurred between 4.57pm and 5.10pm based on surveillance of the beach by a drone that shows people relaxing until just before 5pm and the arrival of the first ambulance at 5.15pm.
Major General Meir Kalifi, who headed the army's investigation committee, said the nine-minute gap is too wide for Israel to have been responsible for the deaths. "I can without doubt say that no means used by the Israeli defence force during this time period caused the incident," he said.
But hospital admissions records, testimony from doctors and ambulance men and eyewitness accounts suggest that the military has got the timing of the explosion wrong, and that it occurred while the army was still shelling the beach.
Palestinian officials also question the timing of video showing people relaxing on the beach undisturbed just before 5pm if the army, by its own admission, was dropping shells close by in the previous half an hour.
Several of those who survived the explosion say it came shortly after two or three other blasts consistent with a pattern of shells falling on the beach.
Among the survivors was Hani Asania. When the shelling began, he grabbed his daughters - Nagham, 4, and Dima, 7 - and moved toward his car on the edge of the beach. The Ghalia family was gathered on the sand nearby awaiting a taxi.
"There was an explosion, maybe 500 metres away. Then there was a second, much closer, about two minutes later. People were running from the beach. I carried my girls and put them in the car but I forgot my mobile phone and I ran back to get it," said Mr Asania.
"Maybe two minutes later there was a third shell. I could feel the pressure of the blast on my face it was so strong. I saw pieces of people. I looked at my car and my girls were screaming."
This sequence is backed by others including Huda's brother, Eyham, 20.
Annan Ghalia, Huda's uncle, called an ambulance.
"We were sitting on the sand waiting for the taxis, the men on one side and the women on the other. The shell landed closer to the girls," he said. "I was screaming for people to help us. No one was coming. After about two minutes I called the ambulance on my mobile phone."
The first ambulance took children to the Kamal Odwan hospital. Its registration book records that five children wounded in the blast were admitted at 5.05pm. The book contains entries before and after the casualties from the beach, all of whom are named, and shows no sign of tampering.
The hospital's computer records a blood test taken from a victim at 5.12pm. Human Rights Watch said altering the records would require re-setting the computer's clock.
The distance from the beach to the hospital is 6km. Even at speed, the drive through Beit Lahia's crowded back streets and rough roads would not take less than five minutes and would be slower with badly wounded patients on board.
Dr Bassam al-Masri, who treated the first wounded at Kamal Odwan, said allowing for a round trip of at least 10 minutes and time to load them, the ambulance would have left the hospital no later than 4.50pm - just two minutes after the Israelis say they stopped shelling.
Factoring in additional time for emergency calls and the ambulances to be dispatched, the timings undermine the military's claim that the killer explosion occurred after the shelling stopped.
A second Beit Lahia hospital, the Alwada, also received a call for ambulances. Doctors say records were completed after treating the patients so they have no written account of timings.
But the first ambulance man to leave the hospital, and a doctor summoned to work, say they have a clear recollection of the time. The ambulance driver, Khaled Abu Sada, said he received a call from the emergency control room between 4.45 and 4.50pm.
"I went to look for a nurse to come with me but he couldn't because there had been a shooting in a family feud and he was treating people," he said. "I left the hospital at 4.50pm and was at the beach by 5pm."
The Alwada's anaesthetist, Dr Ahmed Mouhana, was woken by a call from a fellow doctor calling him to the hospital.
"I looked at the time. That's what you do when someone wakes you up. It was 4.55pm. Dr Nasser couldn't tell me what was going on so I called Abu Jihad [Mr Abu Sada] and asked him. He said he didn't know but I should get to the hospital quickly as it sounded bad," he said.
Mr Abu Sada remembers receiving the call while driving to the beach. Dr Mouhana left for the hospital immediately.
"It only takes 10 minutes from my house so I was there by 5.10pm or 5.15pm at the latest. I went to reception and they had already done triage on the children," he said.
If the hospital records and medical professionals are right, then the emergency call from the beach could not have come in much later than 4.45pm, still during the Israeli shelling.
From the number of shells counted beforehand by the survivors, Mr Garlasco, the former Pentagon analyst, believes the killer shell was one the army records as being fired at 4.34pm.
A military spokesman, Captain Jacob Dalal, said the army stood by its interpretation of timings.
Military investigators said shrapnel taken from wounded Palestinians treated in Israeli hospitals was not from 155mm shells fired that day.
"We know it's not artillery," said Capt Dalal. "We donít know what it is. It could be a shell of another sort or some other device."
The military has suggested that the explosion was rigged by Hamas against possible army landings but Palestinian officials say that would only be an effective strategy if there were a series of mines or Hamas knew exactly where the Israelis would land.
Mr Garlasco said the metal taken from the victims may be detritus thrown up by the explosion or shards from cars torn apart by shrapnel. He said shrapnel collected at the site of the explosion by Human Rights Watch and the Palestinian police was fresh and from artillery shells.
The former Pentagon analyst said that after examining a blood-encrusted piece of shrapnel given to him by the father of a 19-year-old man wounded in the beach explosion, he determined it was a piece of fuse from an artillery shell.
"The likelihood that the Ghalia family was killed by an explosive other than one of the shells fired by the Israeli army is remote," he said.
Capt Dalal defended the army's investigation.
"We're not trying to cover-up anything. We didn't do the investigation to exonerate ourselves. If it was our fire, we'll say it," he said.
Military account
4.30 to 4.48pm: Six shells fired at beach
4.57pm: Video drone records calm on beach
4.57 to 5.10pm: Explosion kills Ghalia family
5.15pm: Drone records arrival of first ambulance
Eyewitness account
4.30 to 4.40pm: Two shells hit the beach
4.40 to 4.45pm: Explosion kills Ghalia family
4.45 to 4.50pm: Ambulance man receives emergency call
4.50pm: Ambulance leaves hospital for beach
4.55pm: Palestinian doctor called to hospital
5.05pm; First casualties arrive at hospital
5.12pm: Hospital computer records blood test of beach casualty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/16/israel
20 juni 2006
Israeli TV Channel 10: Israeli shell fragments found in body of a victim Gaza beach shelling
HRW: “Israeli artillery fire was to blame” in Gaza Beach Massacre
19 juni 2012
‘New Yorker’ story recycles Israeli propaganda on death of Gazan family in 2006
Earlier today Phil posted on Shani Boianjiu's story "Means of Suppressing Demonstrations", which appears in the current New Yorker. Phil referred to it as "Israeli army literature." He didn't know how accurate he was.
Boianjiu's story begins:
Lea, the officer, had stopped feeling her own body. She lay on top of an anti-sniper barricade, holding up a page from a newspaper, blocking the stars. She had to stretch out her arms to hold the wide page above her head.
“Oh,” she said.
“The Army didn’t do it,” Tomer said. He flicked his cigarette butt down onto the asphalt of Route 799. He was talking about Huda, the little Palestinian girl on the beach. The picture in the newspaper showed her screaming on red sand, amid the body parts of the seven people who had been her family.
“I know,” she said. “This is a manipulation.”
The world said that the Israeli Army had done it with artillery fire, but the Israeli Army knew that the family had been killed by a dormant shell that Palestinian militants had left by the sea.
"The little Palestinian girl on the beach" is a real person. Huda Ghaliya was in sixth grade when her family was killed on the beach in Gaza, and her photo was broadcast around the world. The New York Times reported at the time:
Eleven-year-old Huda unwittingly became a symbol of Palestinian pain and loss during an afternoon picnic with her family on a hot day when a cameraman captured her shrieking "Father, Father, Father!" as she hovered over the bloody bodies of 13 dead or wounded members of her family, hit by what was apparently an errant Israeli artillery shell.
Similar to Muhammad Al-Dura's death in 2000, Huda's story quickly became a propaganda battle. The Israeli goverment claimed, as does Boianjiu, that Huda's family was killed by a Palestinian munition in the beach. However, Human Rights Watch had researchers on the ground and followed the incident closely.
From "Investigate Gaza Beach Killings" (6/14/06):
Human Rights Watch researchers currently in Gaza interviewed victims, witnesses, Palestinian security officers and doctors who treated the wounded after the incident. They also visited the site of the explosion, where they found a large piece of unoxidized jagged shrapnel, stamped “155mm,” which would be consistent with an artillery shell fired by the IDF’s M-109 Self-Propelled Artillery.
Human Rights Watch spoke to the Palestinian explosive ordnance disposal unit who investigated three craters on the beach, including the one where the civilians were killed. According to General Salah Abu `Azzo, head of the Palestinian unit, they also gathered and removed shrapnel fragments consistent with 155mm artillery shells.
Eyewitnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch described between five and six explosions on the beach between 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the time frame when the IDF fired artillery onto the beach and when the seven civilians were killed. Two survivors said they heard the sound of an incoming projectile and saw a blur of motion in the sky before the explosion that killed the seven civilians. Residents of northern Gaza are familiar with the sounds of regular artillery fire.
Doctors also confirmed to Human Rights Watch researchers that the injuries from the attack, which were primarily to the head and torso, are consistent with the heavy shrapnel of artillery shells used by the IDF. Doctors said the shrapnel they removed from Palestinian patients in Gaza was of a type that comes from an artillery shell.
According to readings from a Global Positioning Satellite taken by Human Rights Watch, the crater where the victims were killed was within the vicinity of the other artillery craters created by the IDF’s June 9 artillery attack and was the same shape and size. One crater was 100 meters away from the fatal crater, and the rest were 250 to 300 meters away.
Some Israeli officials have suggested the explosion may have been caused by a mine placed by Palestinian militants, rather than one of their artillery shells, despite the fact that they cannot account for the final landing place of one of their six shells.
However, according to on-site investigations by Human Rights Watch, the size of the craters and the type of injuries to the victims are not consistent with the theory that a mine caused the explosion. The craters are too large to be made by bounding mines, the only type of landmines capable of producing head and torso injuries of the type suffered by the victims on June 9. Additionally, Palestinian armed groups are not known to have, or to have used, bounding mines; the Palestinian government bomb squad said it has never uncovered a bounding mine in any explosive incident.
From "More Evidence on Beach Killings Implicates IDF" (6/15/06):
A digitally dated and time-stamped blood test report of a victim treated at a Palestinian hospital that admitted wounded from the June 9 killings on a Gaza beach suggests that the attack took place during the time period of an Israeli artillery attack, Human Rights Watch said today. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have denied responsibility for the killings, saying that although they fired six artillery shells onto the beach between 4:32 p.m. and 4:51 p.m., the fatal incident must have occurred after that.
Human Rights Watch first challenged this conclusion, concluding that the IDF most likely caused the killings, in a press release based on an investigation by its researchers in Gaza.
Human Rights Watch researchers examined the computer-generated record from the Kamal Adwan hospital, which documents the blood test of a victim from the beach incident being taken at 5:12 p.m. on June 9. Furthermore, hand-written hospital records log patients from the incident as having been admitted starting at 5:05 p.m. If the records are accurate, based on the time needed to dispatch an ambulance and drive from the hospital to the beach and back, this suggests that the fatal explosion took place at a time when the IDF said it was firing artillery rounds. Both sets of records also directly call into question the account of the IDF that ambulances did not reach the beach until 5:15 p.m. that day.
Altering the records would require re-setting the computer’s clock and re-writing pages of the hospital’s admissions log. Human Rights Watch researchers said that the pages they saw documented patients un-related to the beach incident, followed by two pages of victims from the beach. The first of those were admitted at 5:05 p.m. The researchers saw no evidence that the times might have been altered.
Israeli military officials have also suggested the explosion, which killed seven members of the Ghalya family and wounded many others, might have been caused by a mine. But Human Rights Watch researchers also examined blood-crusted shrapnel given to them by the father of a 19-year-old male who suffered abdominal wounds in the beach explosion. They determined that the shrapnel is a piece of fuse from an artillery shell.
Finally, from "Gaza Beach Investigation Ignores Evidence" (6/20/06):
The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) investigation of the Gaza beach explosion that killed eight Palestinian civilians and wounded dozens is incomplete because it excludes important evidence, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch researchers met yesterday with Israeli Major-General Meir Kalifi, who led the internal IDF investigation, to discuss its findings. After the meeting, Human Rights Watch reiterated its call for an independent investigation into the deaths.
The meeting revealed that the IDF’s conclusion that it was not responsible for the deaths on the beach was based exclusively on information gathered by the IDF and excluded all evidence gathered by other sources.
Boianjiu uses this discredited Israeli investigation to ground her story where Palestinians cynically attempt to garner sympathy through staged encounters with the Israeli military. Boianjiu's story is fiction, but the context is pure hasbara.
Ironically, Boianjiu responded to our earlier post over Twitter, chiding us that we didn't understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction:
Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss 19 Jun 12
@ShaniBoianjiu do you believe that Palestinian protesters ask the IDF to use violence against them in order to receive press coverage?
Shani Boianjiu @ShaniBoianjiu
@Mondoweiss 3 of them do in my *fiction! They also come wearing mattresses and lab goggles. Do you believe Harry Potter is really a wizard?
Boianjiu's narration of the deaths in Gaza is about as truthful as Harry Potter, but unlike that bespectacled wizard, her fictions are in the service of obfuscating a very real tragedy and an ongoing oppression.
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Haithem Ali Eisa Ghalya, 5 months
Hanadi Ali Eisa Ghalya, 18 months
Sabrin Ali Eisa Ghalya, 4,
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Ilham Ali Eisa Ghalya, 15
Alia Ali Eisa Ghalya, 17
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Maria 9 juni 2006
Ra’issa Ghalya 35
`Ali `Isa Ghalya 49
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Maria 11 juni 2006
Hossam Abdul Hakim Abu Anza
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Maria 11 juni 2006
Amar Shihab
Mohammad Baker Al Masry 22Salem Al Radee' Al Masry 30
Three more Palestinians killed in Gaza, several injured
Two Palestinians killed, seven injured in an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun
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Maria 12 juni 2006
Hamad Hamad Abu Jazar
Ten Killed and 59 Injured in several Israeli attack last week
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Maria 13 juni 2006
11 Palestinians, Including a Man, His Two Children and Two paramedics, Killed and 30 Others Wounded in an IOF Air Strike on a Civilian Car in Gaza
Palestinian medics examine a child wounded in an Israeli air strike at a car carrying militants in the northern Gaza June 13, 2006. A total of ten people, including two children and two militants, were killed in the air strike.
On Tuesday noon, 13 June 2006, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) committed a new extra-judicial execution in Gaza City, which killed 11 Palestinians, including 9 civilian bystanders. A man, his two children and two paramedics were among the victims.
The targeted person in this attack was a member of the Islamic Jihad. Investigations conducted by PCHR indicate that IOF aircrafts launched a missile at dozens of civilians, including paramedics, who gathered near a civilian car shortly after IOF aircrafts attacked it, targeting a member of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad.
Thus, the number of extra-judicial executions committed by IOF in the past 4 days has mounted to 6, which have killed 18 Palestinians and have wounded at least 40 others. This latest attack and other similar attacks have come as an implementation of a series of decisions taken by the Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz to escalate extra-judicial executions against Palestinian militants to stop launching locally made rockets at Israeli towns. Peretz has been also considering intensifying military operations in the Gaza Strip, whose victims are often unarmed civilians.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 11:45 on Tuesday, 13 June 2006, an IOF aircraft launched one missile at a civilian vehicle (Voks Wagen) that was traveling near Martyr Mohammed al-Durra Hospital in al-Tuffah neighborhood in the northeast of Gaza City. Two members of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, were traveling in the car.
The missile directly hit the car, killing the two members of the al-Quds Brigades: Hammouda al-Wadiya; and Shawqi al-Saiqali. Palestinian civilians living in the area gathered around the car and two paramedics from the nearby hospital came to provide first medical aid. Immediately, IOF aircrafts launched another missile at the car, killing 10 civilians, including a man, his two children and the two paramedics:
1. Hussam Hamad, a paramedic;
2. Adnan Daoud Taleb, 35;
3. Ashraf Farouq al-Mughrabi;
4. Hisham Ashraf al-Mughrabi, 7;
5. Maher Ashraf al-Mughrabi;
6. Ali al-Omari;
7. Ibrahim al-Da’lees;
8. Rafeeq al-Mubayed; and
9. Mousa Nasrallah.
In addition, at least 30 other civilians, including a number of children, were wounded; the wounds of 12 of them have been described by medical sources as serious.
PCHR strongly condemns this latest attack. PCHR is gravely concerned over the Israeli escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). PCHR asserts that such crimes serve to escalate tension in the region and threaten the lives of Palestinians.
PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop such crimes, and reiterates its calls for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to meet their obligations to ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the OPT.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an independent legal body based in Gaza City dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and is an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, the Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH), and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. PCHR is a recipient of the 1996 French Republic Award for Human Rights.
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Eleven Palestinians, including two children, killed in two Israeli air strikes in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the Israeli air force fired two missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in a crowded street killing eleven residents, including two school children. Army source reported that the attack targeted a vehicle carrying fighters of the Islamic Jihad. At least 32 residents were injured in the attack.
Two Islamic Jihad activists are among the dead. The extra judicial killing was carried out in the heavily populated neighborhood of Al Zeitoun in Gaza. Dozens of resident were injured in the attack, including residents who are in critical conditions.
According to an army source, the first missile “missed its target” and caused civilian casualties, while the second missile hit the targeted vehicle killing two members of the Islamic Jihad. The source claimed that the fighters were on their way to fire homemade shells at .
Eyewitnesses reported that the second missile came only few minutes after the first, after dozens of residents and medics arrived at the scene of the attack to evacuate the wounded. At least two medics were killed in the second missile strike.
Abu Ahmad, media spokesperson on the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that four of the killed residents are members of the Islamic Jihad.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights based in Gaza City (PCHR), has expressed its concern at the escalation of Israeli attacks in the occupied territories.
In a report issued on June 11, the rights organization recorded the killing of 14 Palestinians and the injury of 36 others in Israeli attacks in 24 hours.
"These attacks cause widespread fear among civilians, especially children, and cause material damage to property," the PCHR reported.
The PCHR called upon the international community to act immediately to stop these crimes, renewing the call to the High Contracting Parties of the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations to guarantee the protection of Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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