Israeli airstrikes aim at Palestinian human flesh, psychological warfare leaves no safe places

Date: 02 / 01 / 2009 Time: 15:11
Gaza – Ma’an -

The Israeli terrorist military leadership has picked civilian homes in each neighborhood of Gaza and announced to residents that the building will be shelled.

One man from the Al-Shati' (The Beach) refugee camp received a phone call from an Israeli occupation terrorist soldier urging him to leave the area because his home would shortly be shelled. He left for his brother’s home.

Three hours after the first phone call the man’s brother got a similar message; they both left for a new location.

Thousands of others left their homes after the start of the strikes and the psychological warfare, but many have now returned since all their “safe places” became targets.

In the densely packed Gaza Strip your home is either across the street from a government ministry building, in the same building as a de facto government police officer (which are targets despite being protected under international law) or beside a mosque said to be a ‘known hideout for militants.’

If the foreign press had been here, they would have seen that.

They also would have heard the screams of children who feel the earth move when shells hit the top floors of buildings nearby; who hear the blast and then the fall of thousands of pounds of concrete sliding towards the earth on the backs of the families whose apartments are obliterated.

In one large apartment building it only took three days for more than half of the residents - mostly those on the higher floors - to move out. Every morning after the start of the strikes trucks could be seen at the bottom of the building, loading blankets and mattresses so families could find another place to sleep.

Those that remain on the lower floors have divided the building into women’s and men’s quarters and are sharing the space because there is nowhere else for families to go.

It is for these reasons that Gaza City has not slept despite the near 24-hour darkness and the black cloud of smoke that enshrouds it.

This is the reality of the city that foreign journalists do not know; the city described as a human cage, a cement hole or a vat of human flesh. Israel relies on these descriptions of Gaza for its media war, its psychological manipulation of the international community and even its own citizens.

For their attack on this city Israel has chosen the operation title “Cast Lead.” It is the name by which we will denounce and expose the criminal nature of what it represents.

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