January 22/23 2009

A Family Grieves the Murder of a Man of High Status,
a victim of Conspiracy - Collaborators and Traitors

Photo Fady Adwan Al Tuffah Zaitoun
Gaza City January 15 2009
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GAZA - Israeli navy ships shelled the As-Sudanya area in the northeastern parts of Gaza City early on Thursday morning. Seven Palestinians including five fishermen are injured. The victims of this attack are all taken to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

In his speech on Thursday, Barack Obama demanded Israel to open the Gaza border crossings to relieve the Palestinian "suffering". President Obama also called upon Hamas to renounce violence - and recognize Israel. Hamas and the Palestinian resistance have the right to self defence, President Obama apparently had no knowledge about the Israelis violent attack on As-Sudanya, some hours before his speech to the nation.

In its 5th breach of the 4 days old ceasefire, the Israelis injured seven unarmed Palestinians including five fishermen, in new attack launched from Palestinian territorial waters, into the devastated Gaza, where over 1.400 people have been killed and more than 5.400 are injured in a carnage, a horrendous massacre which must bring Israel and its war criminals to trial.

This time around,the Israelis must not get away with murder. International investigations are open, a solid mass of material are currently being collected, all the evidence of the crime will be documented and it is urgently required, the entire world have condemned the Israelis atrocious crimes in Gaza.

Also on Thursday, the very first day in office, the US President, Barack Obama appointed a new envoy to the Middle East, the new diplomat is George Mitchell. As American chief negotiator during the conflict in the northern Irland, Mitchell was applauded for achieving peace there. George Mitchell known for his passion and previous success in peacemaking - will he succeed to make security and peace - a peace with justice, also for the Palestinians in Gaza?

Commenting his new assignment, Mitchell said that he does not underestimate the danger and difficulties of getting involved in the Palestinian struggle for self determination. Mitchell also said that "danger and difficulty cannot cause the United States to turn away".

Back to Gaza, an estimated 100 missing Gaza residents are suspected to be dead, maimed bleeding to death, suffering in pain for hours and days beneath the debris of collapsed home and temporary shelters. Rescue teams are still working through the debris of all the buildings bombed to ruins. The death toll from the Israeli carnage now counts 1,330, with an estimated 5,200 injured.

Two young Palestinians, Azzam Mu’awad Ash-Shafe’y 24 from Rafah and Tamer Omar Al-Louh 22, from Gaza City have died in Egyptian hospitals where they were transferred to from Gaza to receive professional treatment for serious injuries, victims of the Israelis three week long offensive across Gaza Strip.

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*Hiyam Noir is Axis of Logic's war correspondent in Gaza. She is a courageous writer, poet, editor and publisher of Palestine Free Voice. Read her bio and all her reports coming directly from Gaza in:

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