Gaza: Children Targetted

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

Found this by John Pilger, completely out of order.

"Dr. Dahlan, a psychiatrist who heads a children’s community health project, told me, ’The statistic I personally find unbearable is that 99.4 percent of the children we studied suffer trauma … 99.2 percent had their homes bombarded; 97.5 percent were exposed to tear gas; 96.6 percent witnessed shooting; a third saw family members or neighbors injured or killed.’" Dr. Dahlan’s findings are consistent with other studies which show that at least 72.8% of children in the occupied territories suffer some form of trauma from exposure to random explosions and violence. The result has been a steady up-tick in the number of children who suffer from long-term effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) a condition which can have a destructive effect on mental development and create adults that are excessively nervous, needy or depressed. As Pilger avers, "These children suffer unrelenting nightmares and ’night terrors’ and the dichotomy of having to cope with these conditions."

Israel’s sonic blasts are part of a larger psy-ops war that is aimed at directly at children; it has no other conceivable purpose. The explosions have no military value except to attack the fragile psyche of the most vulnerable and sensitive. As the survey indicates, Israel’s plan has succeeded quite admirably. In fact, Israel is so pleased with the results of its psy-ops terror-campaign that it has developed "sound bombs" which are intended to create widespread fear and trauma.

This new weapon has been successfully deployed in Gaza "inducing miscarriages and traumatizing children". Israel is aware of these effects and continues to use the weapon regardless of the human suffering it causes.

Just think of the money that could be saved if the Palestinians can just be kept in abeyance by producing a constant state of trepidation.

This appears to be the rationale of the Israeli leadership, who continue to explore the frontiers of psycho-anxiety weaponry.

What other possible reason could there be for sound bombs?

The moral implications of targeting children with mind-damaging weaponry is profound and alarming. To my thinking, it measures up quite impressively with the depraved acts of 9-11. Perhaps, it even exceeds them. After all, is there a more heinous crime than purposefully hurting children?

In recent weeks we have seen numerous incidents where children were killed or wounded by Israeli bombs or missiles. The most widely-publicized of these was the attack on the beach in Gaza where an entire family was killed instantly leaving behind a young Palestinian girl who has become a symbol of Israeli callousness and injustice.

As Pilger notes,

"For the Palestinians, a war against their children is hardly new. A 2004 field study published in the British Medical Journal reported that, in the previous 4 years, ’Two-thirds 621 children killed (by Israelis) at checkpoints…on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half the cases to the head neck and chest—the sniper’s wound." Whether the Israeli people support a policy that intentionally targets children is irrelevant. As the "sound bombs" indicate, such a policy does in fact exist. Also, as the "sniper wounds" of over 400 children suggest, the killing of children is, at the very least, tolerated as an unavoidable consequence of occupation.

This is completely unacceptable.

[terry26 6]

the entire situation in Gaza in unacceptable but all they are doing at the moment is telling them to stop which isn't really going anywhere is it

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

True. Israel chose the time between Christmas and the New Year to kill and maim, knowing full well most diplomats and leaders are on their break, thus taking longer for any cease fire to happen....

[Elliott 7]

Here's another article if anyone still thinks Israel is in the right

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/top-...ssault-on-gaza/

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

Good article Elliott. Gaza seems to be essentially a prison, where Israel put the Palestinians after throwing them off their own land.

[warnie_666 1,081]

"For the Palestinians, a war against their children is hardly new. A 2004 field study published in the British Medical Journal reported that, in the previous 4 years, ’Two-thirds 621 children killed (by Israelis) at checkpoints…on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half the cases to the head neck and chest—the sniper’s wound." Whether the Israeli people support a policy that intentionally targets children is irrelevant. As the "sound bombs" indicate, such a policy does in fact exist. Also, as the "sniper wounds" of over 400 children suggest, the killing of children is, at the very least, tolerated as an unavoidable consequence of occupation.

This is completely unacceptable."

Unacceptable is an understatement.

There is a reason why Israel is targeting the children. Its a genocide in the making out there. Completely wipe out the Palestine race, and the best way to to do it is by killing the children. And the ever interfering US chooses to stay away from it cus Jews make some of the richest and powerful men in the American Beuracracy.

I really do feel for the Palestine people. They are prisoners in their own land.

Thanks to Britain's Mandate of Palestine.

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

True. Britain gave that land to Jews and they've been stealing more and more land ever since.

Israel gets 100% support from the US with $91 billion given so far -paid by the US taxpayer +all the F16s, Apache helicoptors, Drones, Abram tanks , Nuclear weapons etc. Incredibly powerful Jewish lobby in Washington guaranteees this.

Obviously they need this money and weapons to shoot children and keep a few malnourished Palestinians from firing fireworks at a few fat Israeli luxury homes

[Para6iT 2]

Fuck off you Israel !! leave Gaza and mind your own f*****g business. The children are innocent, and they're suffered. I'm muslim so it's really terrible to see our people being killed like that. We here can't do nothing but only pray for their freedom. it's a pain you know.

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

Israeli politicians competing to look the hardest, before an election. Quick, quick ! Kill as many as possible before Barak obama gets in in case hes against it

Truly disgusting -those starving toddlers found clinging to the corpses of their dead mothers. Been there for four days.

Around 200 children dead so far, hundreds more mutilated.

Israel uses phosphorous bombs. White phosphorus sticks to human skin and will burn right through to the bone, causing death or leaving survivors maimed. Burns even more if you try and put it in water.

[warnie_666 1,081]

Can someone Bomb Israel.?

900 People Dead. Most of them Civilians. And President Bush says he Backs Israel.

Thanks to Bush, his 8 years at the helm has Changed the World for the worst.

[Fulham Broadway 16,410]

Doctor in Gaza;

'' I have never seen this number of injuries or such severe injuries among civilians, children two and three years old.

We have been receiving a very high number of patients with a strange burn, completely different to the burns we are used to managing, very deep burns with a very offensive, chemical odour coming from the wound site.

The wound keeps smoking for a long time. When we try to wash it with saline and water, some reaction happens, the skin bubbles and the patient complains of extreme pain.

In some cases there is then severe destruction of the tissue and we have had to amputate whole limbs. ''

BBC: People in houses were ordered to come out and be resettled in a school, ''Women come out first'' said the Israelis. When the women came out, the Israeli soldiers shot the first one in the head and the second in the leg''

[warnie_666 1,081]

This attack resembles the "Seige of Sarajevo" that took place in the 90's when the serbs used tanks, mortar and missles against Civilians. For the so called "Ethnic Cleansing" drive.