Friday, September 29, 2006

Children Killed by Israel

In case you haven't noticed, 37 children have been killed by Israeli forces since July. Of course you wouldn't know this fact since the American media will not report anything which sheds a negative light on the state of Israel. Only in alternative news sites such as this will you find such information.

Here are the names and ages of the children killed:

  • Bara Nasser Habib, 3 (hit by shrapnel to the head and body, Gaza City, 26 July)

  • Shahed Saleh Al-Sheikh Eid, 3 days old (bled to death after airstrike, Al-Shouka, 4 August)

  • Rajaa Salam Abu Shaban, 3 (died of fractured skull in air raid, Gaza City, 9 August)

  • Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by a shell, Al-Shoukha, 10 september)

  • Khaled Nidal Wahba, 15 months (died of wounds from an airstrike, 10 July)

  • Rawan Farid Hajjaj, 6 (killed with his mother and sister in an airstrike, Gaza City, 8 July)

  • Anwar Ismail Abdul Ghani Atallah, 12 (shot in the head, Erez, 5 July)

  • Shadi Yousef Omar 16 (shot in the chest by IDF, Beit Lahya, 7 July)

  • Mahfouth Farid Nuseir, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)

  • Ahmad Ghalib Abu Amsha, 16, (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)

  • Ahmad Fathi Shabat, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)

  • Walid Mahmoud El-Zeinati, 12 (died of shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 11 July)

  • Basma Salmeya, 16 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)

  • Somaya Salmeya, 17 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)

  • Aya Salmeya, 9 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)

  • Yehya Salmeya, 10 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)

  • Nasr Salmeya, 7 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)

  • Huda Salmeya, 13 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)

  • Eman Salmeya, 12 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)

  • Raji Omar Jaber Daifallah, 16 (died of shrapnel wounds from missile, Gaza City, 13 July)

  • Ali Kamel Al-Najjar, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)

  • Ahmed Ali Al-Na'ami, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)

  • Ahmed Rawhi Abu Abdu, 14 (killed by drone missile, Al Nusairat refugee camp, 19 July)

  • Mohammed 'awad Muhra, 14 (killed by Israeli bullet to the chest, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 20 July)

  • Fadwa Faisal Al-'arrouqi, 13 (died from shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 20 July)

  • Saleh Ibrahim Nasser, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)

  • Khitam Mohammed Rebhi Tayeh, 11 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)

  • Ashraf 'abdullah 'awad Abu Zaher, 14 (shot in the back, Khan Younis, 25 July)

  • Nahid Mohammed Fawzi Al-Shanbari, 16 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 31 July)

  • Aaref Ahmed Abu Qaida, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 1 August)

  • Anis Salem Abu Awad, 12 (killed by airstike, Al-Shouka, 2 August)

  • Ammar Rajaa Al-Natour, 17 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)

  • Kifah Rajaa Al-Natour, 15 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)

  • Ibrahim Suleiman Al-Rumailat, 13 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)

  • Ahmed Yousef 'abed 'aashour, 13 (killed by missile fire, Beit Hanoun, 14 August)

  • Mohammed 'abdullah Al-Ziq, 14 (killed by drone missile, Gaza City, 29 August)

  • Nidal 'abdul 'aziz Al-Dahdouh, 14 (killed by rifle fire, Gaza City, 30 August)

  • Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Rafah, 10 September)


  • Link to the article.

    While you're at it, read this article and watch the disturbing video of the violence wrought upon an innocent family on a Gaza beach. Man's inhumanity to man captured on video.

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    Wednesday, September 13, 2006

    Weapons Testing on American Citizens

    For years, Americans have been used unwittingly as guinea pigs for military and pharmaceutical experimenation. The tests were kept secret and, when revealed, efforts made to expose the tests were ridiculed or attacked.

    Well, we live in a different world now where the experimentation can be made public and defended as measures used to "protect our freedoms".

    On Tuesday, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne presented his position on why the use of high-power microwave devices on American citizens
    is okay. Here's a section from the CNN article ( http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html ):

    Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

    The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

    "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."


    So, what do you think? Do you feel comfortable knowing you are being used as a lab experiment? How about being viewed and used as an object without feeling or conscience, by some whose primary concern is the advancement and application of their power while maintaining a positive image?

    Objective news here.

    (Humming Steve Miller Band's "Living in the USA")

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