Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-09-22.
Three Teenaged Boys Killed by Missiles from Israeli Drone, Israeli Deprivation Continues
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-09-24 -- By Mohammed Omer. What makes today's life in Gaza Strip different from yesterday? Of course, nothing, but the only thing is the number of people who were killed, people who were injured, number of houses being demolished, number of children becoming orphans and number of women becoming widows. All this is Gazan daily life under the Israeli Occupation. Sometimes, I'm wondering, what's wrong with the public opinion, are they so drunk or are we the ones who are not good enough at screaming out and saying: "End this hellish occupation and help Palestine grow". No one is listening, as usual. Either the world is busy or we are not worthy. Human beings are no longer capable of feeling for each other. The reason is simply because this is Israel and taxpayers are repeating their mistakes to make their own life and their own businesses keep going. They are still paying Israel and funding the Israeli occupation against Palestinians.
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A Palestinian woman taking her baby into a bus at Rafah border, the only place to get out of the Gaza Strip. It was open only for 48 hours.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-09-22. |
The blood shedding is a continuous occurrance. In northern Gaza, three Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli strike very close to Jabaliya Refugee Camp, in the North of Gaza Strip. "Three Palestinians died after being injured by two missiles fired by an Israeli drone near the cemetery on the eastern side of the Jabaliya Refugee Camp," said the director of at Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Mahmoud Al Asaliah while he was inside his office. He identified the injured as Ala Dahruj, 14, Zaydan Abu Rashed, 15, and Mohammed Masaleh, 15.
The three teenagers were grazing goats when the missiles struck. Witnesses in the area said some sheeps were killed as well by the Israeli missiles which hit a field of grass in the north of Gaza Strip.
In Rafah, Al Shouka area was not different as a new Israeli attack continues until now. The attack resulted in the killing of a 35 year old Palestinian mother, and the wounding of three of her children. They died when an Israeli tank shell exploded Al Shouka area which is located in the Eastern part of Rafah. A 24 year old man was killed as well later on in the attack. Many people were injured in the same attack, and Israeli soldiers arrested at least two Palestinians.
This is what's going on here in Gaza. Living conditions for the 1.4 million people in the Gaza Strip have deteriorated sharply since Israel bombed its only power station and after the West ended direct aid after the new Palestinian government was formed, and that is simply because taxpayers in the US and other countries want it like this!
Rafah border will be open for 48 hours for emergency cases. There are thousands of people, among them the sick and old who are in bad need of medication. Rafah border is controlled by Israel and EU observers.
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. Visit Mohammed's Web site, or write to him to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience. We are proud to feature articles from Mohammed Omer here at BBSNews, his reporting is some of the only original, on the ground reporting available from the Israeli Occupied Territories.
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