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When Israel launched a brutal and savage war against 1.5million Palestinians in Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 it brought this:
A devastating attack on the Palestinians in Gaza killed over 1,400 of them - mostly innocent civilian of whom over 400 were once children.
The consequences of Israel’s attack on the Palestinians, which the aforementioned UN report stated constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, are devastating for the civilian infrastructure: an estimated 4,100 homes were destroyed and an additional 15,000 damaged (thousands were made double-refugees). Nine out of ten Palestinians in Gaza suffer frequent power cuts while the rest have no power at all. Water and sewage treatment plants were heavily damaged during the war (raw sewage flowed onto the streets during the war) and supplies for repair have not been allowed into the Strip due to the ongoing blockade which prohibits more than a drip-feed supply of goods from entering (80% of the Palestinians in Gaza are dependent on UN aid food).
As a result, in a heavily-dense population center of 1.5 million roughly 32,000 have no running water and an estimated 100,000 infrequently receive water about once every few days. Furthermore, “the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after Palestinians refugees across the Middle East, says that the rate of infectious diseases, including diarrhea and viral hepatitis, which result from bad water and sanitation, has risen.” [The Economist.] Among many reported findings to be discussed further in this paper, the United Nations fact-finding, post-war Mission in Gaza states that the Namar water wells, for instance, were “destroyed by multiple air strikes on the first day of the Israeli aerial attack” and that “the mission considers it unlikely that a target the size of the Namar wells could have been hit by multiple strikes in error.”
But Israel's immoral army is not content. It recently feigned "outrage" at the mere suggestion for concern for human life:
A number of top ranking members of the Israeli military are expressing “outrage” at a pledge by the Israeli Foreign Ministry to curb the number of civilians killed in the next Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Foreign Ministry report detailed a number of operational changes which will be made to limit civilian casualties, including restricting the use of white phosphorus munitions against civilian areas. The use of such munitions was among the many serious criticisms of Israel’s last Gaza invasion.
Yet members of the military say that the promise is unrealistic and is setting up false expectations, and would unfairly hamper the way the military operates. One of the officials also condemned the Foreign Ministry as having a “defeatist” attitude.
This is Zionism. This is Israel.
