War crime in Gaza
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Saturday July 27, 2002 02:12
by McMean
"It was one of our greatest successes", claimed Ariel Sharon, after Tuesday's air-raid during which Hamas leader Saleh Shahade and 16 others were killed when an F-16 fighter dropped a two-ton bomb in the Mashahreh district of Gaza City.
The intended target was considered the head of Ezzedin al Kassam,
the armed wing of the Islamic movement Hamas. "The IDF regrets
the damage done to property or people but this is the result of
terrorism, as they use civilians as human shields,"was the
Israeli Army's curt response to the slaughter it had caused.
Shahade's wife, their three children and a bodyguard were killed
by the huge explosion which flattened a dozen houses. The bodies
of two infants and four children under the age of ten as well as
three adults were initially retrieved from the all familiar piles
of rubble the IDF has created throughout the Occupied
Territories.
Even the Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, was moved to issue a
statement deploring the raid, although there was no such
squeamishness from Ariel Sharon. He appeared elated at the
elimination of a man regarded by the Israelis as the first among
48 names of "most wanted terrorists". And it doesn't matter how
many civilians, in particular children, will have to be
sacrificed and murdered.
Palestinian children are killed daily as a political and military
deterrent but the news barely reaches the papers. Children of a
lesser God, second class human beings on their own land, killed
by the Israeli war machine (20% of the 1,600 Palestinians killed
in the Intifada are under the age of 16) or by the apartheid
(lack of food, water and medical supplies) imposed on them by
Sharon.
The timing of the Gaza attack was crucial and forms part of the
Israeli premier's plan for the annexation of the Territories.
Hundreds of Islamic militants have been "removed" in an open
campaign of extra-judicial executions since September 2000. With
total impunity. Shahade's killing purposely breaks three weeks of
a relative calm and shatters any prospect of progress.
Palestinian and Israeli officials had just resumed premiliminary
peace-talks and only last Sunday Ahmed Yassin, the charismatic
leader of Hamas, had suggested that in the event of an Israeli
withdrawal from the Territories, the movement may decide to
suspend the suicide-bombers' attacks in Israel. But each time
there's a new chance of a political approach, Sharon sheds
Palestinian blood to prevent it.
In a rare appearance in Gaza only a few weeks ago, Shehade had
reiterated his position: "We don't fight the Jews because they
are Jews but because they occupy our land. Not for their religion
but because they have stripped us all of every right". Regarded
as an intellectual, founder of the Izzedin al Kassam Brigades and
strong supporter of the martyrs campaign, Shehade was also the
leader of a rational current within his movement.
Although he was one of the strongest opponents of the peace and
stability approach of Yasser Arafat, he was also willing to go an
extra mile. He had also a political mindset - that's why he was
feared by his enemies. That's why so many martyrs will now try to
avenge his death.
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The Movement's Essential Principles
Palestine is part of the Arab World, and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab Nation, and their struggle is part of its struggle.
The Palestinian people have an independent identity. They are the sole authority that decides their own destiny, and they have complete sovereignty on all their lands.
The Palestinian Revolution plays a leading role in liberating Palestine.
The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and international imperialism.
Liberating Palestine is a national obligation which necessities the materialistic and human support of the Arab Nation.
UN projects, accords and reso, or those of any individual cowhich undermine the Palestinian people's right in their homeland are illegal and rejected.
The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method.
The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism.
Liberating Palestine and protecting its holy places is an Arab, religious and human obligation.
Palestinian National Liberation Movement, "FATEH", is an independent national revolutionary movement representing the revolutionary vanguard of the Palestinian people.
The crowds which participate in the revolution and liberation are the proprietors of the Palestinian land.
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Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.
Establishing an independent democratic state with complete sovereignty on all Palestinian lands, and Jerusalem is its capital city, and protecting the citizens' legal and equal rights without any racial or religious discrimination.
Setting up a progressive society that warrants people's rights and their public freedom.
Active participation in achieving the Arab Nation's goals in liberation and building an independent, progressive and united Arab society.
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Revealing the revolutionary nature of the Palestinian identity at the international level, and this does not contradict the everlasting unity between the Arab Nation and the Palestinian people.
Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any international mandate on its people.
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Your heroes are Hamas terrorists.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
The Hamas leaders have said time and again that when Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders they still would continue with their terror activities until all of Israel "be liberated".
Yea that sounds right to me, zionazis out of Palestine now !!!
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