Alarm spreads over use of lethal new weapons: (Erin Cunningham, The Electronic Intifada, 22 January 2009)
Eighteen-year-old Mona al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realized it was gone -- completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10236.shtml
Israel rules out opening Gaza border if Hamas gains (Thu Jan 22, 2009)
Israel has all but ruled out fully reopening border crossings with the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas rules the enclave or stands to benefit from easing of the restrictions, a top adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLM266001
Falk likens Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto (Thu, 22 Jan 2009)
There is more than enough evidence that Israel committed war crimes in its three week-long offensive into Gaza, says a UN investigator. UN special rapporteur Richard Falk called for an independent inquiry into Israel's violation of international humanitarian law.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=83359§ionid=351020202
Israel wanted a humanitarian crisis (January 22, 2009)
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverise Gaza into chaos. The scale of Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathisers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/20/gaza-israelandthepalestinians
12-13 year-olds arrested for throwing stones at the Wall (RAMALLAH, 22 January 2009 )
Seven children from Toura al-Gharbeiah village (Jenin Governorate) were arrested on Tuesday by the Israeli authorities; they are currently detained in Salim detention and interrogation centre, in the north of the West Bank. Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; another two are aged 15; and the seventh is 17.
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=1005&CategoryId=1
Blind and burnt: Mahmoud, 14, young victim of banned white phosphorus shelling (January 20, 2009)
Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip may be over but Mahmoud Mattar, 14, will not be able to sense the quiet that has descended on his home town of Jabalya. Blinded in both eyes, with third-degree burns over much of his torso, Mahmoud lies unconscious in the Sheikh Zayid Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5549100.ece?Submitted=true
Israel Has Fewer Friends Than Ever, Even In America (Jan 24, 2009)
Israel has never been more isolated. Its best friend, the United States, had vetoed 41 Security Council resolutions condemning Israel in the past three decades, but was about to vote for the Jan. 8 resolution denouncing the attack on Gaza when President Bush intervened, at the behest of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/181329
Proportionality and 'just' violence in Gaza?
The Israeli offensive into Gaza continues with devastating effects for Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Say what you will, but the military strategy that has marked Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” clearly only hurts Gaza’s civilian population.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/8357
