Saturday, July 19, 2014
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Road map to greater Israel through ethnic cleansing
The concept of a “Greater Israel” according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “’From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.’
Rabbi Fischmann, of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, stated to the UN Special Committee on 9th July 1947 that:
The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon’”, wrote Michel Chossudovsky. (1)
Thus “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” Herzl’s detailed thesis was written in 1904.
Quoted in the same article is Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya on The Yinon Plan (1982) “ … a continuation of Britain’s colonial design in the Middle East”:
“(The Yinon plan) is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
“Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.”
At the time Yinon wrote, the eight year, Western driven Iran-Iraq war was into its second year – with another six grinding years of loss, tragedy and heartbreak, valleys of widows, orphans, maimed, on both sides of their common border. The toll on life and health was compared to World War 1. Iraq of course, in an historic error, had virtually been fighting a proxy war for an American regime, even then obsessed with Islam, which, in Iran they had decided was the wrong sort of Islam. What the faith of a nation thousands of miles away had to do with Capitol Hill, remains a mystery.
The day after that devastating war ended, the US replaced Iraq over the then USSR as the country which was the biggest threat to America. A devastated, war torn nation of, at the time, just under seventeen million people. (2)
Then came the dispute with Kuwait over alleged oil theft and Dinar destabilizing with the then US Ambassador April Glaspie personally giving Saddam Hussein the green light to invade should he choose. The subsequent nation paralyzing UN embargo followed, then the 2003 decimation and occupation – another orchestrated downward spiral – and tragedy and now open talk of what has been planned for decades, the break up of Iraq.
Greater Israel” requires the breaking up of the existing Arab states into small states.
“Mission accomplished” for both the US with its long planned redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa – and Israel, through whose friendship with the Iraqi Kurdish autocracy, was set to become pretty well a partner in an autonomous, independent Iraqi Kurdistan. Dream come true, from “the Nile to the Euphrates”, the final fruition of near seventy years of manipulation and aggression for domination of the entire region.
The all is also the vision of the super hawk, dreamer of destruction of nations, Lt Colonel Ralph Peters since the early 1990s. Here is his 2006 version (3.) Peters is a man whose vision of eternal war is seemingly an eternal wet dream. Here, again, for anyone unaware of the Colonel, is a repeat of that dream (US Army War College Quarterly, Summer 1997):
“There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts … around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. (US armed forces will keep) the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.“We have entered an age of constant conflict.”
Peters would make some of history’s most megalomaniacal expansionists look like gift offering peaceniks. His cartographic monument to arrogance: “The New Map of the Middle East Project”, of geographical restructure in far away places of which he gave less than a damn, was published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006.\
It was surely no coincidence that on 1st May 2006 Joe Biden, long time Member of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations – now US Vice President of course – and Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the Committee, joint authored a New York Times piece (4) urging the break up of Iraq, dividing the country on ethnic lines: “ … giving each ethno-religious group – Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab …” their own ethnic and political ghettos. Ignorance on wide inter-marriage, inter-relations, until 2003, inter-communities at every level for millennia, mixed neighbourhoods, shared celebrations, religious festivals, joys and heartaches, boggle the imagination. The deluded article is entitled: “Unity through autonomy in Iraq.” Think non-sequeta, think mixed marriages, does the husband live in a “Sunni” ghetto and the wife a “Shia” one, for example?
“The Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions would each be responsible for their own domestic laws, administration and internal security.” A “five point plan” of ghettoisation, destruction, delusion and wickedness, the US-Israeli game plan for Iraq, with the UK as ever, tagging along dreaming of days of empire when, with France, Iraq and the region’s borders were imperially tinkered with just short of a hundred years ago (5.)
Aside from the shaming arrogance and illegality of the plan, ignorance is total. Clearly there is no knowledge in the great annals of the US State Department, Department of Foreign Affairs or the CIA of Iraq’s religious and ethnic minorities, also co-existing for centuries: Christians, Mandaeans, Yazidis, Turkmen, Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahai, Kakai’s, Shabaks – and indeed those who regard themselves as non-religious.
By October 2007 Joe Biden had: “attempted to create a reality when an overwhelming majority of the US Senate voted for his non-binding Resolution to divide Iraq in to three parts … (with) the Washington Post reporting that the 75-23 Senate vote was a ‘significant milestone’ ” in the severing of Iraq in to three, wrote Tom Engelhardt (6.)
Engelhardt is seemingly the only eagle eye to have picked up that: “The (tripartite) structure is spelled out in Iraq’s Constitution, but Biden would initiate local and regional diplomatic efforts to hasten its evolution.”
The Constitution, written under US imposed “Viceroy” Paul Bremer, is of course, entirely invalid, since it is illegal to re-write a Constitution under an occupation.
“Only the Kurds, eager for an independent State, welcomed the plan.”
What, ponders Engelhardt, with forensic reality, would be the reaction if Iraq, or Iran for example: “passed a non-binding Resolution to divide the United States in to semi-autonomous bio-regions?”
He concludes that: “such acts would, of course, be considered not just outrageous and insulting, but quite mad.” In Iraq however: “at best it would put an American stamp of approval on the continuing ethnic cleansing of Iraq.”
However, the US Administration’s commitment is clear, Joe Biden, a self confessed Zionist, stated at the annual J Street Conference in September 2013: “If there were not an Israel, we would have to invent one to make sure our interests were preserved.” (7) Think oil, gas, strategic aims.
Biden assured his audience that: “America’s support for Israel is unshakable, period. Period, period.” (sic) He stressed a number of times the commitment that President Obama had to Israel. His own long and deep connections, he related, stretched back to a meeting with then Prime Minister Golda Meir when he was a freshman Senator and latterly his hours spent with Prime Minister Netanyahu. The latest meeting was in January this year when he travelled to Israel to pay his respects to the late Ariel Sharon and subsequently spent two hours alone in discussion with Netanyahu.
It is surely coincidence that subsequently the rhetoric for the division of Iraq accelerated. Israel has had “military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s” viewing them as “a shared buffer between Arab adversaries.”
In June Netanyahu told Tel Aviv University’s INSS think tank: “We should … support the Kurdish aspiration for independence”, after “outlining what he described as the collapse of Iraq and other Middle East regions …”(8) Iraq’s internal affairs being none of Israel’s business obviously does not occur (apart from their outrageous historic aspirations for the region in spite of being the newly arriving regional guest.) The howls of Israeli fury when even basic human rights for Palestinians in their eroded and stolen lands are suggested for the last sixty six years, however, metaphorically deafen the world.
Of course Kurdistan has now laid claim to Kirkuk, with its vast oil deposits. The plan for the Northern Iraq-Haifa pipeline, an Israeli aspiration from the time of that country’s establishment can surely also not have been far from Netanyahu’s mind. An independent Kurdistan, which indeed it has enjoyed almost entirely within Iraq, since 1992 – and immediately betrayed the Iraqi State by inviting in Israel and the CIA – would herald the planned dismemberment of Iraq.
It is darkly ironic, that whether relating to the break up of their lands or ghettoisation of those of Iraqis and Palestinians, this mirrors the plan of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of ethnic cleansing, who, after the outbreak of Word War II “arranged for Jews to be concentrated into ghettos in major cities …” he also devised plans for Jewish “reservations.”
Additionally he was an architect of forcible expulsion, one of the charges brought against him after he was captured by Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet in Argentina in 1960. He was tried in Israel, found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962. Ironically his pre-Nazi employment had been as an oil salesman (9.)
Can Israel and the “international community” really be planning to mirror Eichmann by repatriating and ethnic cleansing? Will nations never look in to history’s mirror?
Notes
6. http://www.alternet.org/story/64433/congress_wants_to_split_iraq_in_three_pieces,_but_who_asked_them
Friday, July 18, 2014
Victims of attrocious hate crimes in Indian Muslim society is nobody's case.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE REAL VICTIMS AND SEGMENTS ARE NO BODY'S CASE!
Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi: It is 3 months and Zuleha Begum, this # Bengaliwoman from Nadia district in West Bengal, is far from normalising, she is getting madder because of false accusation of theft on her daughter who worked as a maid servant in a Muslim lady’s flat nearby. Her daughter allowed her 6 month’s wages to be accumulated with the lady. Instead of returning the trust they accused her of stealing jewellery from the house. Double whamy. It is a case of hate crime coupled with unjust enrichment from it.
When the mother and daughter protested vhemently against the accusation and asked for the wages, the mistress and his son Munis stripped Shabnam upto lingerie. When her mother raised a hue and cry the entire neighborhood joined issues with the oppressors. The duo cried bitterly on the street outside the five storey building.
The oppressor family aided and abetted by a large crowd of neighborhood people called up the police and sought to arraign them on the trump-up charges of theft and house tress-pass.
Shabnam wept bitterly, her body trembled bitterly, swore on God, on the Quran and her only six year old daughter: Fariya "ager mainey chori kya hai to meri beti ka intaqal ho jai" "If i have committed theft, may my daughter die."
The policemen who arrived at the scene was visibly moved at the plight of the duo, their countenance assumed a water down look. After questioning the employer and the victims the circumspect policemen left without booking the duo.
At the first instance it was a gold ring, then it was also a necklace and then also bangles and then also cash of Rs. 5000/- The magnitude of theft increased with the day. The circumstances surrounding the theft underwent improvements too.
So strong is the undercurrent of blind hatered that all and sundries comprising of UPites and Biharis - minus them among Delhi Muslim population what is left is less than negligible fraction - are so inclined to believe that mother and daughters are thieves against all odds in favor of the duo's innocense
I am losing count of hate crimes perpetuated by Bihar and UP origin Muslims against Bengalis among others in Delhi, some of them involving heart rending broad day light public tortures. which includes deliberate breaking of limbs or mutilation, attended by despicable abuses like, stripping, forced licking of spits, human faeces, drinking of urine, half shaving off of victims’ hairs, blackening of their faces and parading them through streets in funnily shreded clothes.
Victims in most of the cases have been falsely accused of theft or cheating to legitimise the crime.
Victims include educated gentlemen and professionals, men, women and children as small as 10 years.
The hate crimes have been overwhelmingly condoned, aided and abeted by all and sundry in the localities and actual perpetuators enjoy commited and blanket support of the two major - rather only- segments of Delhi Muslim population.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Gaza offensive: What’s different this time? - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English
Gaza offensive: What’s different this time? - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English
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International calls are growing for a ceasefire to halt Israel’s military offensive against Gaza and the barrage of rockets being fired from the coastal strip.
Families in the northern Gaza Strip heeded warnings to leave their homes on Sunday as Israel widened its onslaught against Hamas.
The Israeli air force dropped leaflets advising families to evacuate an area that's home to some 100-thousand people.
They read: "Those who fail to comply with the instructions to leave immediately will endanger their lives and the lives of their families. Beware."
Israel has broadened its narrative to liken Hamas to other hardline groups such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram and the Islamic State Group, formerly known as the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant.
Speaking after rockets reached the Israeli commercial capital Tel Aviv, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum declared it "... a historic moment for Palestinian resistance".
So are the dynamics of the conflict changing? And are the two adversaries better prepared and more determined this around?
Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault
Guests:
Ben White- author and journalist on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ibrahim Sharqieh- deputy director and a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
Efraim Inbar -director of the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
In Pictures
Wissam Nassar/Al Jazeera
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International calls are growing for a ceasefire to halt Israel’s military offensive against Gaza and the barrage of rockets being fired from the coastal strip.
Families in the northern Gaza Strip heeded warnings to leave their homes on Sunday as Israel widened its onslaught against Hamas.
The Israeli air force dropped leaflets advising families to evacuate an area that's home to some 100-thousand people.
They read: "Those who fail to comply with the instructions to leave immediately will endanger their lives and the lives of their families. Beware."
Israel has broadened its narrative to liken Hamas to other hardline groups such as Nigeria’s Boko Haram and the Islamic State Group, formerly known as the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant.
Speaking after rockets reached the Israeli commercial capital Tel Aviv, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum declared it "... a historic moment for Palestinian resistance".
So are the dynamics of the conflict changing? And are the two adversaries better prepared and more determined this around?
Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault
Guests:
Ben White- author and journalist on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ibrahim Sharqieh- deputy director and a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
Efraim Inbar -director of the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
In Pictures
Wissam Nassar/Al Jazeera
Hamas denies firing rockets from Lebanon
Hamas denies firing rockets from Lebanon
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BEIRUT: The Palestinian group Hamas had no role in a rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon and had nothing to do with a statement in the name of its armed wing that claimed responsibility for the attack late on Saturday, Hamas officials in Lebanon said.
Three rockets fired from Lebanon hit open areas near Nahariya in northern Israel on Saturday evening. Israel responded with artillery fire. There were no casualties. The attack followed a similar rocket salvo from Lebanon on Friday.
Two Hamas officials in Lebanon said the group was not behind the rockets fired from Lebanon.
Asked about a claim of responsibility issued in the name of the Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades — the Hamas armed wing — Hamas official Osama Hamdan said: “We denied it and said Hamas had nothing to do with this statement.”
The claim of responsibility had been circulated in a text message received by journalists in Gaza, the way the Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades often makes such announcements.
A Lebanese security official said investigators had yet to determine who fired the rockets. The main Palestinian factions in Lebanon had told the investigators they were not involved in the attack, the official said.
The powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah praised Hamas and Islamic Jihad and said it backed the Palestinian “resistance in its goals and steps.”
Hezbollah said the Palestinians had realized “a balance of fear” that would pave the way to a “new era” in the struggle with Israel.
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BEIRUT: The Palestinian group Hamas had no role in a rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon and had nothing to do with a statement in the name of its armed wing that claimed responsibility for the attack late on Saturday, Hamas officials in Lebanon said.
Three rockets fired from Lebanon hit open areas near Nahariya in northern Israel on Saturday evening. Israel responded with artillery fire. There were no casualties. The attack followed a similar rocket salvo from Lebanon on Friday.
Two Hamas officials in Lebanon said the group was not behind the rockets fired from Lebanon.
Asked about a claim of responsibility issued in the name of the Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades — the Hamas armed wing — Hamas official Osama Hamdan said: “We denied it and said Hamas had nothing to do with this statement.”
The claim of responsibility had been circulated in a text message received by journalists in Gaza, the way the Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades often makes such announcements.
A Lebanese security official said investigators had yet to determine who fired the rockets. The main Palestinian factions in Lebanon had told the investigators they were not involved in the attack, the official said.
The powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah praised Hamas and Islamic Jihad and said it backed the Palestinian “resistance in its goals and steps.”
Hezbollah said the Palestinians had realized “a balance of fear” that would pave the way to a “new era” in the struggle with Israel.
War with no clear objective
War with no clear objective
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Casting aside all arguments advanced by either the Palestinians or the Israelis, the fact remains that Israel’s current war in Gaza is not the first and will most likely not be the last. Both sides are hostage to events — caused by the impasse in the peace process — rather than being driven by a strategy to put an end to the conflict.
Seen in this way, the latest round of fighting is hardly surprising. The persistence of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land has been the root cause for the repetition of such military clashes. The abduction and killing of three Israelis students caused a stir in Israel. The Israeli government accused Hamas of being behind the abduction of the three Israeli teenagers and Hamas denied having any role in that. To add fire to the fuel, some extremists in Israel brutally murdered a Palestinian boy in Jerusalem thus setting off huge demonstrations in the West Bank.
Israel held Hamas accountable for the current round of fighting although Hamas had nothing to do with either the killing of the Israeli boys or the firing of rockets from Gaza by Islamic Jihad. But Israel is taking a huge risk by targeting Hamas in Gaza. A defeat for Hamas in Gaza means that Gaza may become ungovernable and this will hardly benefit Israel. Now Hamas is facing a dilemma. On one hand, Hamas could not afford to be seen as a player who enforces order in Gaza for Israel but on the other hand, Islamic Jihad’s behavior is also a challenge to Hamas authority in Gaza. The ebb and flow of confrontation between Hamas and Israel led to the same outcome: A mediated truce and weakening of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Like the previous rounds of fighting between Hamas and Israel, this current one puts a further political strain on Abbas. Not a while ago, Abbas had signed a unity agreement with Hamas and that agreement favored Fatah. It was an agreement that exhibited the weakness of Hamas in the first place. Now, with the continuation of fighting, Abbas is widely seen as someone who collaborates with the Israelis rather than defending his own people. Hence, the end of the current war may lead to a new balance of powers between Hamas and Fatah and the former may emerge stronger than before.
The bottom line is that neither Israel nor Hamas has a list of attainable objectives. For instance, Israel launched airstrikes against Hamas hoping that this will restore calm. But as we can see these days, Israel is far from achieving this goal. Indeed, many Israelis are contemplating the idea of sending troops to Gaza. If this is to take place, then Israel will risk international condemnation. Also, it is in the best interest of Israel to maintain a deterred weak yet effective Hamas than to topple Hamas. On the other hand, it seems that Hamas did not want this confrontation in the first place; other forces in Gaza have dragged it into the conflict.
In war and in peace, a player should have measureable and deliverable objectives. The sad reality is that neither side has such objective.
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Casting aside all arguments advanced by either the Palestinians or the Israelis, the fact remains that Israel’s current war in Gaza is not the first and will most likely not be the last. Both sides are hostage to events — caused by the impasse in the peace process — rather than being driven by a strategy to put an end to the conflict.
Seen in this way, the latest round of fighting is hardly surprising. The persistence of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land has been the root cause for the repetition of such military clashes. The abduction and killing of three Israelis students caused a stir in Israel. The Israeli government accused Hamas of being behind the abduction of the three Israeli teenagers and Hamas denied having any role in that. To add fire to the fuel, some extremists in Israel brutally murdered a Palestinian boy in Jerusalem thus setting off huge demonstrations in the West Bank.
Israel held Hamas accountable for the current round of fighting although Hamas had nothing to do with either the killing of the Israeli boys or the firing of rockets from Gaza by Islamic Jihad. But Israel is taking a huge risk by targeting Hamas in Gaza. A defeat for Hamas in Gaza means that Gaza may become ungovernable and this will hardly benefit Israel. Now Hamas is facing a dilemma. On one hand, Hamas could not afford to be seen as a player who enforces order in Gaza for Israel but on the other hand, Islamic Jihad’s behavior is also a challenge to Hamas authority in Gaza. The ebb and flow of confrontation between Hamas and Israel led to the same outcome: A mediated truce and weakening of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Like the previous rounds of fighting between Hamas and Israel, this current one puts a further political strain on Abbas. Not a while ago, Abbas had signed a unity agreement with Hamas and that agreement favored Fatah. It was an agreement that exhibited the weakness of Hamas in the first place. Now, with the continuation of fighting, Abbas is widely seen as someone who collaborates with the Israelis rather than defending his own people. Hence, the end of the current war may lead to a new balance of powers between Hamas and Fatah and the former may emerge stronger than before.
The bottom line is that neither Israel nor Hamas has a list of attainable objectives. For instance, Israel launched airstrikes against Hamas hoping that this will restore calm. But as we can see these days, Israel is far from achieving this goal. Indeed, many Israelis are contemplating the idea of sending troops to Gaza. If this is to take place, then Israel will risk international condemnation. Also, it is in the best interest of Israel to maintain a deterred weak yet effective Hamas than to topple Hamas. On the other hand, it seems that Hamas did not want this confrontation in the first place; other forces in Gaza have dragged it into the conflict.
In war and in peace, a player should have measureable and deliverable objectives. The sad reality is that neither side has such objective.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Palestinians fear 'no place is safe' in Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Palestinians fear 'no place is safe' in Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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Gaza City - Khader Khader had less than one minute to evacuate his home.
At 7am on Friday, the 55-year-old was sleeping under the staircase with his five children, when he heard his neighbour scream, "Dr Khader, evacuate! They are going to bomb my house!"
At that moment, Khader's seven-year-old son, Mohammed, tucked his tiny fingers into his father’s trousers and froze, unable to move. Quickly getting everyone out of bed, the family ran out of the yellow villa - which Khader spent years saving money to build and only moved into two years ago - just as the first Israeli missile, a warning shot, screeched by.
"We ran anywhere we could, away from the house so as not to get hurt or killed," Khader recalled, his voice shaking.
They crammed into the car and reached the top of the street before the second missile, fired from an Israeli F-16, hit the neighbourhood. Khader's home was not the target, but his neighbour's house was. "My children are traumatised from the bombing - what did they do to deserve this?" Khader, a respected university professor of linguistics, said.
My children are traumatised from the bombing - what did they do to deserve this? |
His children, aged between seven and 16, have yet to return to see the damage. "The trauma is so immense, that they fear coming back to their home, where we escaped by a miracle," he told Al Jazeera.
At the same time the Khader family’s home was bombed, another house in Rafah, in southern Gaza, was hit by Israeli missiles. The Ghannam family received no warning and five people were killed in their sleep, while another 16 were injured.
At least 154 Palestinians have been killed and almost 1,000 others injured as Israel's military operation continued into a sixth day on Sunday. At least 70 Palestinian homes have been completely destroyed, according to the United Nations, while another 2,500 housing units have sustained minor damage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday: "Hamas will pay a heavy price for firing at Israel's citizens."
On Twitter, the Israeli army has defended its operation, accusing Hamas of hiding rockets and other weapons in "houses, mosques, hospitals [and] schools" and of operating "deep within residential areas". The military has argued that it has made efforts to minimise civilian casualties, but said that houses can be considered lawful military targets.
But the UN has said that even if a home is being used for military purposes, "any attack must be proportionate, offer a definite military advantage in the prevailing circumstances at the time, and precautions must be taken".
Jaber Wishah, deputy director of the Palestinian Human Rights Center (PCHR) in Gaza City, said that Israel has engaged in the "punitive destruction" of Palestinian homes in Gaza. "Those houses - even if they belong to a Hamas [member] or Islamic Jihad [member] - they should be considered civilian objects. They did not participate in the military operations," he said.
Wishah told Al Jazeera that there are three scenarios that usually occur before Israel bombs a home in Gaza. The army may carry out an air strike without any prior warning, it may fire a warning shot - known as "roof-knocking", a dud missile will land on the roof of a house to alert the inhabitants that the real missile is on its way - or it may call Palestinian families to tell them to evacuate before they bomb their homes.
"Every single home in Gaza is within the target circle," Wishah said. "No place is safe in Gaza now. Each home could be a target, either directly or indirectly affected."
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