From Gaza to Brazil: STOP FINANCING DRONES THAT KILL OUR CHILDREN

August 14, 2014, The Palestine Chronicle http://www.palestinechronicle.com

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-gaza-to-brazil-stop-financing-drones-that-kill-our-children/#.U_bo_MVdXT9

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By Haidar Eid, Gaza

 Tear gas in Bil’in. (Supplied)

As I write this, bombs are falling around us. Electricity is severely restricted and water is hardly available. The loud and frightening sounds of missiles, drones, constant shelling are everywhere. Awake at night, fearfully waiting for the bombing; awake during the day, assisting the injured and searching the ruins of what were once family homes.gave refuge from this harsh world). Awake during the day to search for food and medicine, to bury our dead, and to wait for the night when they will destroy it all again. The death toll has reached 1813 killed (398 children, 207 women, 74 elderly) and 9370 injured (2744 children, 1750 women, 343 elderly). 0.1 percent of the total population of Gaza has already been killed.. During the month-long Israeli assault, a child was both born and later killed.

An entire generation of children in the Gaza Strip have grown up experiencing repeated massacres and

FIVE FACTS THAT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WOULD PREFER YOU DID NOT KNOW

August 07, 2014, Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca (Canada)

By Anthony Bellchambers

1. Binyamin Netanyahu claims to speak for the majority of world Jewry although, in fact, he represents only a minority of Jewish Israelis and Americans – those who support his right-wing, Likud Party. To many others, particularly in Europe, he is considered a US-financed, Zionist rabble-rouser with an extremist political agenda that rejects any Palestinian state and requires the ‘transfer’ of all indigenous Arabs out of former Palestine.

2. Israeli policies such as the illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state); the 8 year blockade of essential supplies into Gaza; the mis-labelling of exported fruit and vegetables to Europe and the horrific killing of hundreds of defenceless women and children in Gaza