From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 07:30:54 MDT
I wouldn't call it 'antisemitism' to object to slaughter and leaving thousands homeless, struggling to lead a life in the occupied Palestine.
Here is what Reuter reported in the last two days. Do they expect peace after these terrorist acts?
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Israel Kills 19 Palestinians in Big Gaza Raid
Reuters, May 18, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5183968§ion=news
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israel's army killed 19 Palestinians on Tuesday in the heaviest raid in the Gaza Strip for years as tanks and infantry thrust into Rafah refugee camp, a militant hotbed, despite an international outcry.
The assault drew U.N. and European Union condemnation given Israeli threats to destroy hundreds of Palestinian homes there. Thousands of Palestinian houses have been razed since they began a revolt in occupied territory in 2000, U.N. figures show.
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President Bush called the Gaza bloodshed "troubling" but, addressing Jewish-Americans in a tight election campaign, told the powerful pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC that Israel "has every right to defend itself from terror."
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The raid led to the highest single-day Palestinian death toll -- civilians as well as militants -- since May 2002 when 23 were killed in an army sweep into the nearby Khan Younis area.
The Rafah hospital morgue became so overloaded that five bodies were shifted to vegetable freezers in a nearby market.
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Israeli Forces Fire on Crowd in Gaza, Killing 8
Reuters, May 19, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5192002r@k
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces opened fire on a protest march in a besieged Gaza refugee camp on Wednesday, killing eight Palestinians and raising the death toll in Israel's heaviest raid in the Gaza Strip in years to 31.
Some witnesses reported seeing helicopter gunships launching missiles while others said tanks fired shells into a peaceful crowd of thousands, sending people fleeing in panic, some dragging bloodied comrades with them.
"I saw bodies dismembered, blood everywhere," one witness said as smoke rose from the scene.
Medics said eight people were killed and at least 50 wounded in the strike, which raised the two-day death toll to one of the highest in three and a half years of conflict. The Israeli army had no immediate comment.
The marchers had been surging toward the Tel Sultan neighborhood, the focal point of Israel's sweep into Rafah for the stated purpose of hunting militants and uncovering tunnels used to smuggle weapons across the border from Egypt.
Earlier Wednesday, Israeli forces killed four Palestinians and demanded the mass surrender of militants. The army said it hit gunmen. Palestinians said the dead, aged 14, 19, 24 and 37, were all civilians.
Bodies piled up in a flower freezer converted into a makeshift morgue after overflowing the Rafah refugee camp's main hospital where staff strained to cope with the dead along with dozens of wounded in two days of Israeli military assaults.
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