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[UPDATE: New VIDEO Today] Over 315 280 Palestinians Dead * The latest video reports from Gaza, and a somewhat confrontational interview with an Israeli ambassador

By SusanUnPC on December 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM in Current Affairs, Gaza, Israel

Another Monday morning update: The death toll now is over 315 Palestinians.

Israel pounds Gaza for a third consecutive day
29 Dec 08 (accompanying text below)

Israeli jets are again bombing targets in the Gaza Strip. The air assualt is now into a third day. Warships have also been involved in the attacks, shelling the area around Gaza’s port.

The death toll in Gaza has risen to 318. A UN agency says at least 51 of those victims were civilians.

Despite the onslaught, the Palestinian resistance continues. Rockets fired from Gaza have killed one person and injured seven in the city of Ashkelon.

Roza Ibragimova reports.

SUNDAY VIDEOS:

The AL JAZEERA TEXT:

Israeli air raids on Gaza have continued for a second day. Women and children are among the dead. The toll rose above 290 on the second day of the barrage.

The UN security council has called for an immediate end to all military activities and for all of Gaza’s crossings to be opened by Israel.

Danny Gillerman, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN, talks to Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.

The next video contains GRAPHIC material. I had to confirm I am an adult in order to view this video:

Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip continue – 28 Dec 08

For a second day, Israeli aircraft have pounded what they say are Hamas targets in Gaza. The death toll has risen to at least 280, among them women and children.

Hamas has vowed not to cave in, but Israel’s operation could soon escalate. Tanks have massed at the Gazan border, and Ehud Olmert’s office says military reservists are being mobilised.

The UN Security Council has demanded an immediate end to the violence, and Egypt is trying to broker a ceasefire. But the airs raids are continuing, as Clayton Swisher reports.

BBC World News offers numerous videos, but inexplicably makes them unavailable for embedding. However, here is one of the latest videos that you can view at BBC’s YouTube channel: “Israel bombs Gaza university.”

  • http://vbonnaire.wordpress.com vbonnaire

    This is beyond horrifying. Is this what Biden meant?
    Off BBC:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7802581.stm

    I am worried for Hillary, Larry and Susan. Really worried. About this:

    “…The Sun urges instant action from US President-Elect Barack Obama, saying no task could be more important than bringing peace to the Middle East…”

    When the Georgia thing happened McCain was on it.

  • Ron

    Susan, thanks for posting the first video with Danny Gillerman. The second one from Al Jazeera is quite deceptive. The video of the Israeli missile strike was cut short. It was a strike against an underground rocket launcher. The reason they cut it so short is because the very next frame shows a rocket coming up out of that hole. Here’s the whole clip:

    http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=58&ar=UndergroundLaunchingPad-View&ak=null

    The rocket is shown to arc up and land nearby. There were no people there so the injured people shown in the clip were from somewhere else. What they don’t say is that 90% of the casualties have been uniformed Hamas personnel.

    We should all know by now that the media, any media, especially Al Jazeera, distorts the news to suit their own ideology. Just be aware of that and don’t settle just the Arab view of an Israeli action.

    It’s sure great to see Danny Gillerman act as Israel spokesman. He’s excellent!

    For some other points of view, please take a look at these sites:

    http://www.israellycool.com/

    http://www.israpundit.com/2008/

    http://www.debka.com/index1.php

    http://www.jpost.com/

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  • Interesting

    Religious wackaloons killing each other. This is news?

  • noproblama

    Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse.

    This must be when the rest of the world goes to hell in a hand basket.

    Yikes, maybe he is the AC.

  • Ron

    This isn’t about religion.

  • bell’artista

    Yep, this is what happens when Hamas uses civilians, women and children as human shields.
    If Manhattan was shelled for years and years and years by New Jersey, would anyone wonder why Manhattan would finally start retaliating?
    This massaging of Palestinian Victimhood is beginning to become beyond irksome.

    “Instant action from Pebo?”
    Isn’t that an oxymoron?
    He’s barely voting “present”

  • bell’artista
  • http://ezinearticles.com/?Three-Basic-Parenting-Styles&id=744499 Northwest rain

    Both sides seem to use the victim card at will.

    Larry’s article seems to make a lot of sense — the Israelis have the technology to pin point exactly where the strikes are coming from.

    However, we’ve seen this rage reaction from Israel before — as if a teenage gamer is targeting the hits. This happened in Israel’s response to an outlaw faction in Lebanon — and the general population suffered. Also the UN was also deliberately targeted — or perhaps Bush was playing war games.

    Both sides have acted badly —

    Is Israel’s current action a message from Israel to Obama?

    Israel has had an ongoing bombardment of Gaza — both sides have ignored the “rules”.

    The current lop sided action of Israel seems like a spoiled child trying to get the attention of a parent.

    Right now Gaza owns the victim card. How long will they hold on to it before the Israelis retake the victim card?

    I doubt that we’ll see an end of this battle of childish brats (except that this brats murder each other) in our life times.

    In an area as small and as densely backed with humans — it is really beyond naive to blame the civilians for getting in the way.

    What a screwed up mess — with all the modern technology — humans are still primitive beasts.

  • bert

    And so it goes. It never ends in this part of the world. It is depressing.

  • stodgie

    both sides have made mistakes. however in the past israel has tried to make peace. hamas, heck no, no time no way no how! in order to make peace there have to be two sides willing to do it. hamas is no parter for israel and more’s the pity. i often criticized bush for leaning much too much toward israel but there is no way i’ll ever excuse hamas for what they have done. they have sent rockets toward israel for months. hamas indeed wants an over response from israel. that’ll get those haters and excusers for hamas going full steam. now isn’t that special! you can’t excuse israel when they make mistakes and hell no you can’t excuse hamas either.

  • lahana

    I have 3 questions.

    1. Why after 60 years are Palestinians still in refuge camps? Why haven’t their arab brothers allowed them to become citizens of their countries.

    2. Why is it only Isreal (who they want to destroy) that is expected to allow the Palestinians to come and work in their country. Why not Egypt and Jordon (both of which share borders with the West Bank and Gaza)?

    3. If the Palestinians are to have a right of return to homes they left 60 years ago, does that mean that the Jews in Isreal have the same right to reclaim their family’s property in Germany, Poland, Italy, Russia, etc.? If not, why not?

  • It’s Not Me

    Answer to question number 1…….because they are used for propaganda and no other Arab country wants them…..something about class rank.

    Answer to question number 2……because it’s Israel. Most countries hate Israel and blame Israel for all the ills of the ME. There’s a double standard. We won’t do it, but you must. Neither Egypt nor Jordan want anything to do with the Palestinians. Placing the onus on Israel keeps the hatred alive. PROPAGANDA.

    I LOVE question 3 and can’t wait to read the responses to it. :)

  • Stan

    Yeah, why oh why?
    Why don’t they do like the American Indians and just live peacefully in their reservations?
    Their land was taken, -well duh!
    Didn’t they know that land was promised to Israelis by G-O-D?
    Even though the “Israelis” were born in Germany, Russia, Poland, it’s still their land! God said so.
    It happened 60 years ago, come on guys, let it go. Just go to any other Arab country, they are all the same, right? If somebody takes my land and house in America, I will just peacefully go to Canada or Mexico, its all the same.

  • the duke of marlboro

    Reading some of the foreign papers, it would seem many think Israel acts at will, violently and aggressively, with the full blessing of the US government.

    I saw it as Israel defending herself, but over the last right eight years, since Bush took office, it seems Israel is slowly losing American, and British support — Israel reacts the same way Bush and Cheney do, the two worst, the stupidest Americans ever in the White House.

    I have no sympathy for Hamas, whatsoever, Hamas, or the Iranians, but their behavior in no way justifies this internecine warfare.

    Israel seems to react mindlessly, violently, robotically, and chaotically, with no definitive military objective in sight.

    How can it be justified?

    Because Hamas does it too?

    Oh.

  • http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/29/why-the-israeli-military-response-in-gaza-is-bullshit/ Why the Israeli Military Response in Gaza is Bullshit [Updated] : NO QUARTER

    [...] from 3:00 a.m. See also: Larry’s earlier story, “The First War of 2009,” and the latest videos I posted last [...]

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    It all certainly didn’t interrupt our PEBO’s vacation, though.

  • stodgie

    no duke, i don’t think most of us think all of the actions of israel are justified with “well hamas did it too. na na na!”

    serious question here? what has hamas done in all honesty to promote peace and looked for a solution versus using it for their own purposes?

  • It’s Not Me

    serious question here? what has hamas done in all honesty to promote peace and looked for a solution versus using it for their own purposes?

    I’ve noticed you’ve asked that same question on other threads and never get an answer. IMO, that in itself is very telling because the answer is NOTHING and the people who support Hamas and the Palestinian cause know it.

  • teddy

    it is the hamas to blame because they are covering themselves in a densely populated area in gaza, if they are brave enough they should expose themselves fight israelis toe to toe to avoid civilian casualties…you israelis you should not dropped bomb in areas where there is dominant civilians!

  • akilah

    that’s the problem with Israel. They never wanted Muslims to strengthen because they are afraid they will be defeated in the future. Israel is not actually afraid of Muslim countries but is afraid of their bad shadows which they themselves have created through their terrorism. One day the world will see Israel’s destruction because it will be Allah subhanahuwataalla who will intervene with their satanic acts and no amount of power can go against it.

  • akilah

    The Nazis should have killed all the Jews before so they cannot terrorize people now. I hope Hitler will rise again from the dead and continue killing all the Jews in gas chambers.

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