ISRAELI ARMY FIRED MISSILES AT A CIVILIAN DEMONSTRATION IN RAFAH
13 people, mostly youths are reported killed, more than 60 injured
[Rafah, Gaza Strip] Israeli army helicopter gunships and tanks opened fire on a nonviolent civilian demonstration in Rafah early this afternoon. 13 Palestinian are repored killed, including 2 children, and 60 injured.
Approximately 3.000 Palestinian civilians from Rafah, mostly youths, were peacefully demonstrating to protest the recent military operation in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that 4 missiles were fired from helicopter gunships and tanks fired shells at the crowd of unarmed civilians.
Hospitals are overflowed and cannot handle the situation, chief hospital spokesperson said.
This recent attack raised the previous death toll to 37 people in one of the bloodiest military operation since the beginning of the second Intifada.
DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARITY WITH RAFAH IN BIDDU
[Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Tomorrow, Thursday, May 20, 2004, the community of Biddu and international activists will gather at 11am at the Biddu Municipal Council to show solidarity with the residents of Rafah and to protest the construction of the wall in their farmlands.
This demonstration will take place as the Israeli army has been conducting an aggressive operation in Rafah where up to 45 Palestinians were killed over the last days. Today, the army fired missiles at a crowd of demonstrators, killing 23 people, mostly youths, as they were nonviolently protesting the military incursion. This unprecedented death toll since the beginning of the Intifada represents a serious escalation and highlights the criminalization by the Israeli military of any form of resistance to the occupation.
The communities of the villages located in the northwestern area of Jerusalem have been protesting the construction of the wall in nonviolent ways over the last three months. Five young men were shot dead by the army during these protests, four with live bullets and one with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head.
The people will take to the streets again tomorrow as another step in their struggle against the ghettoization of their community and against the unrestrained use of violence by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people.
DATE: Thursday, May 20, 2004
TIME: 11am
PLACE: Gather at Biddu Municipality Council
For more information, please contact: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT http://www.palsolidarity.org
Take Action!
PROTEST HOME DEMOLITIONS IN RAFAH
http://ga3.org/campaign/rafah_demolitions
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13 people, mostly youths are reported killed, more than 60 injured
[Rafah, Gaza Strip] Israeli army helicopter gunships and tanks opened fire on a nonviolent civilian demonstration in Rafah early this afternoon. 13 Palestinian are repored killed, including 2 children, and 60 injured.
Approximately 3.000 Palestinian civilians from Rafah, mostly youths, were peacefully demonstrating to protest the recent military operation in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that 4 missiles were fired from helicopter gunships and tanks fired shells at the crowd of unarmed civilians.
Hospitals are overflowed and cannot handle the situation, chief hospital spokesperson said.
This recent attack raised the previous death toll to 37 people in one of the bloodiest military operation since the beginning of the second Intifada.
DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARITY WITH RAFAH IN BIDDU
[Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Tomorrow, Thursday, May 20, 2004, the community of Biddu and international activists will gather at 11am at the Biddu Municipal Council to show solidarity with the residents of Rafah and to protest the construction of the wall in their farmlands.
This demonstration will take place as the Israeli army has been conducting an aggressive operation in Rafah where up to 45 Palestinians were killed over the last days. Today, the army fired missiles at a crowd of demonstrators, killing 23 people, mostly youths, as they were nonviolently protesting the military incursion. This unprecedented death toll since the beginning of the Intifada represents a serious escalation and highlights the criminalization by the Israeli military of any form of resistance to the occupation.
The communities of the villages located in the northwestern area of Jerusalem have been protesting the construction of the wall in nonviolent ways over the last three months. Five young men were shot dead by the army during these protests, four with live bullets and one with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the head.
The people will take to the streets again tomorrow as another step in their struggle against the ghettoization of their community and against the unrestrained use of violence by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people.
DATE: Thursday, May 20, 2004
TIME: 11am
PLACE: Gather at Biddu Municipality Council
For more information, please contact: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT http://www.palsolidarity.org
Take Action!
PROTEST HOME DEMOLITIONS IN RAFAH
http://ga3.org/campaign/rafah_demolitions
PHOTO from IslamOnline http://www.islamonline.net
For more photos, please see:
Israel Kills 26 Palestinians, Including 22 Protestors
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-05/19/article06.shtml
Please also see:
Israelis massacre kids
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004231101,00.html
'140,000 people, 40 beds and a war'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1219817,00.html
Medical Rights Being Violated in Gaza Strip + UPDATES !
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1684&blz=1
U.N. Envoy Calls Israeli Gaza Raids a War Crime
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5195060
Israeli War Crimes
Who to Trust: AIPAC or Amnesty International?
http://www.counterpunch.org/hanania05192004.html
Israel and the Occupied Territories: Stop destruction of homes and land by Israeli army http://web.amnesty.org/pages/isr-180504-action-eng
Security Council calls on Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10801&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
Annan strongly condemns killing of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10791&Cr=middle&Cr1=east
Children die in Gaza as Bush praises Israel
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/16403.html
US fire 'kills 40 Iraqi wedding guests'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1220440,00.html
Iraq & Gaza - The Time Is Now
By Terrell E. Arnold
http://www.rense.com/general53/gagz.htm