As the number of (mostly civilian) casualties rises in the aftermath of the Israeli aggression in the already ravaged Gaza Strip, personal stories of those affected by Israel’s brutality are emerging. On Democracy Now! this morning, Amer Shurrab tells the heart-wrenching story of how his two brothers were killed in an example of the Israeli Army’s indiscriminate killing of civilians in their ruthless invasion of Gaza. I urge you to listen to this segment if you want to gain a better perspective of what happened on the ground.
Also, as Israel denies the use of white phosphorous (a war crime if used in dense civilian populations), the U.N. has released pictures of the white phosphorous bombing of one of their Relief and Works Agency compounds, killing two Palestinian boys ages five and seven. Israel has said they will perform an internal investigation to determine if their forces used white phosphorous illegally and if war crimes were perpetrated. I’m no fortune teller, but I can, with certainty, tell you the results of these internal investigations. The Israeli Army will be exonerated, and what’s more, the real investigations of international human rights organizations will be ignored by Israel like so many U.N. resolutions.
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