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Names of the Victims in Gaza – Continuously Updated | Hummus For Thought

Nour al-Najdi 2004-2014

Relatives and friends carry the body of Nour al-Najdi, 10-years-old, during her funeral in Rafah after being killed by an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2014. (Photo: AFP – Said Khatib – retrieved from Al Akhbar)

They will try their best to dehumanize the civilians slaughtered by the terrorist government of Israel, but the Internet allows us to, at least, know their names. Here are the names of the first 100 Gazans murdered by the Occupying force in the past 4 days. The list will be updated daily. I’m dedicating the blog’s Facebook page to reporting on Gaza. I apologize for the disproportionate attention given to Palestine, but international pressure is the only way to stop Israel’s government from continuing the ongoing massacre (despite Netanyahu pretending otherwise.) I’m still sharing Middle East-related links of course, not just on Palestine.

via Names of the Victims in Gaza – Continuously Updated | Hummus For Thought.

Killing of Palestinian Youth Puts an Israeli Focus on Extremism – NYTimes.com

Tamir Lion, an anthropologist who studies youth, said he was troubled by the changing attitudes among Israel’s young people. For many years, Mr. Lion interviewed soldiers about why they chose to enter combat units. “The answers,” he said on Israel Radio, “were always about the challenge, to show I could make it, the prestige involved.”

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That began to change in 2000, he said. “I started to get answers — not a lot, but some — like: ‘To kill Arabs.’ The first time I heard it, it was at the time of the large terror attacks, and since then it has not stopped.”

A generation has grown up in a period of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with suicide bombs and military incursions, rocket fire and airstrikes. Young people on both sides may think about the other more as an enemy than as a neighbor.

Mr. Lion, head of research at the Ethos Institute, said he was troubled. “Today I can say, and everyone who works with youth will say it, Jewish youth in Israel hate Arabs without connection to their parents or their own party affiliation and their own political opinions.”

via Killing of Palestinian Youth Puts an Israeli Focus on Extremism – NYTimes.com.

Steve Stockman should be charged with impersonating a human being! Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress. (H.Res. 664) – GovTrack.us

H.Res. 664: Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress.

Introduced:

Jul 10, 2014

Status:

Referred to Committee on Jul 10, 2014

Prognosis

39% chance of being agreed to

This resolution was assigned to a congressional committee on July 10, 2014, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.

Introduced

JUL 10, 2014 SPONSOR Steve Stockman

Representative for Texas’s 36th congressional district – Republican

via Providing for the arrest of Lois G. Lerner to answer the charge of contempt of Congress. (H.Res. 664) – GovTrack.us.

Israeli airstrikes kill 30 Palestinians | Maan News Agency

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip killed 30 Palestinians overnight Wednesday and Thursday, including a family of eight, bringing the total death toll to 81.

Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a car in the northern Gaza strip killing three Palestinians. A medical official confirmed that the remains of the victims were taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital.

Two of the men were identified as Mahmoud Waloud and Hazim Balousha.

Ismail Abu Jami, 19, was killed in a strike on Khan Younis and Abdullah Ramadan Abu Ghazal, five, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said.

Israeli warplanes also targeted a residential house in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, with no injuries reported.

In the southern Gaza Strip, an Israeli missile hit a residential building in Rafah. Three men were injured in a car traveling near the building.

Three men were injured, one seriously, in an airstrike targeting a motorcycle in Rafah. Another airstrike struck Gaza City, injuring two, while another airstrike targeted al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Earlier, an airstrike hit a car in al-Nafaq street in Gaza City, killing three and injuring four.

Bahaa Abu al-Leil, 35, Wisam Qandil and Amir al-Fayoumi were identified as the victims. Islamic Jihad said in a statement that the men were fighters with the al-Quds Brigades.

Early Thursday, Israeli warplanes targeted a building in Khan Younis, killing eight members of the al-Hajj family. Over 30 people were injured in the strike.

Most of the victims were children, al-Qidra said, adding that Israeli forces bombed the building without a warning or asking them to evacuate.

Tariq al-Hajj, Najla al-Hajj, Aminah al-Hajj, Saad al-Hajj, Omar al-Hajj, Aminah al-Hajj, and Basimah al-Hajj, 57, were named as the victims.

Earlier, nine Palestinians were killed and at least 10 injured when Israel targeted Waqt al-Marah coffee shop on a Khan Younis beach.

Locals said dozens of people were watching the World Cup semi-final game when Israel fired a missile at the crowd.

Muhammad Khalid Qannan, his brother Ibrahim, Hamdi Kamil Sawali, Suleiman al-Astal, Ahmad al-Astal, Mousa al-Astal and Muhammad al-Aqqad were identified as some of the victims.

Muhammad Ihsan Farawneh, 18, was found dead on Thursday under the rubble of the cafe.

Another airstrike in the al-Zawayda village in central Gaza killed four members of the Shalat family; a couple and two children.

The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a media vehicle in Gaza late Wednesday.

Late Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamdi Shihab, who worked as a driver for local news agency Media 24.

The car had ‘TV’ clearly marked in red paint on the bonnet of the vehicle.

Early on Thursday the Israeli military said that during the course of the preceding day, “at least 82 rockets hit Israel” and 21 were intercepted.

The Israeli army said it launched raids on “322 targets” overnight, taking the total number of Hamas targets hit to 750.

via Israeli airstrikes kill 30 Palestinians | Maan News Agency.

Bombs over Gaza – about Israeli politics – not security, revenge, peace, or… Liberman positions himself as Mr. Security – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

“The approach of ‘quiet will be met with quiet’ is very seriously mistaken, and I can say on my behalf and on behalf of the members of Yisrael Beitenu that we completely reject such an approach,” said Liberman in an obvious effort to paint Netanyahu as a weak leader who is afraid of a confrontation with Hamas. “It is unacceptable that after three of our children were kidnapped and murdered and after two consecutive weeks of rockets falling, Israel’s approach would be that quiet will be met with quiet. … We in Yisrael Beitenu oppose to the cease-fire. There are no arrangements to be made with Hamas.” His stern remarks were more reminiscent of an attack from the opposition than the comments of the country’s foreign minister during a military escalation. These remarks more or less coincided with comments made by Minister Yair Shamir during an interview with Al-Monitor.

via Liberman positions himself as Mr. Security – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

“Collective Punishment” for all Gazans for Belief Hamas will Suffer? Israeli official wants fuel, electricity to Gaza cut | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon urged Wednesday his government to immediately cut off fuel and power supplies to the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing Israeli military offensive.

“It is inconceivable that on the one hand we fight Hamas and on the other we provide fuel and electricity that are used to transport missiles that are fired at us,” Danon was quoted as saying by the Jerusalem Post newspaper.

“We need to use all of the levers of pressure that we have at our disposal in order to bring Hamas to sue for a ceasefire,” he added.

Gaza’s only functioning power plant only supplies 65-megawatt – about one third of its total electricity needs, while the besieged enclave buys 120 megawatts of electricity from Israel and 28 megawatts from Egypt every day, according to Gaza’s energy authority.

via Israeli official wants fuel, electricity to Gaza cut | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

Death toll grows as Israel and Hamas militants exchange fire | News | DW.DE | 09.07.2014

Power for leaders of Hamas and Israeli government tied to fighting each other to show how “strong” they are!?!

The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose above 25 early Wednesday morning, as Israeli warplanes struck “terror targets.” Local residents in the Palestinian territory awaited continued bombings and feared a possible ground invasion, after the Israeli government authorized the military to call up some 40,000 reservists for the aerial offensive.

The exact number of casualties varied across sources on Wednesday. Overnight, Israel reportedly struck the home of a Hamas commander in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun, killing both him and several members of his family, according to the news agency AFP. An airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah claimed another life early Wednesday.

The worst attack on Tuesday occurred in the town of Khan Yunis, where six people, including children, were killed. Hamas responded by vowing that “all Israelis have now become legitimate targets for the resistance.”

via Death toll grows as Israel and Hamas militants exchange fire | News | DW.DE | 09.07.2014.

Religious groups want right to hate, fear, and discriminate against gay people and friends of gay people! Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule – NYTimes.com

Some religious folks (not) believe they have a right to hate who they want to hate! What’s next a claim of a right to discriminate according to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, national origin because of your corporate, family, or individually professed “religious” belief! Turn off the lights of democracy USA – we are done!

After a setback in the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case, President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from his long-promised executive order that would bar discrimination against gay men and lesbians by companies that do government work.

The president has yet to sign the executive order, but last week a group of major faith organizations, including some of Mr. Obama’s allies, said he should consider adding an exemption for groups whose religious beliefs oppose homosexuality. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the court ruled that family-run corporations with religious objections could be exempted from providing employees with insurance coverage for contraception.

via Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule – NYTimes.com.

Blood feuds based on religious affiliation spread like grass fires! In Apparent Mass Killing, Bodies Found in Region South of Baghdad – NYTimes.com

At least 50 bodies, blindfolded, bound and shot, were found Wednesday in Babil Province, a region that lies directly south of Baghdad, according to the chairman of the provincial council.

The bodies were found at dawn but appeared to have been killed Tuesday night, said Raad al-Jubori, the council chairman, who gave a brief news conference in Hillah, the provincial capital.

The bodies were found in a farming area less than a mile from a road. Although no one has said whether the men who were killed were Sunni or Shiite, many in the area assume they were Sunnis. The region is majority Shiite with a significant Sunni population.

In another incident in Hillah on June 23, about 70 Sunni prisoners who were being transported to the south by the police were killed in apparent retaliation for the killing of 1,700 people, largely Shiites, whom the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria boasted they had killed in Tikrit. It is not clear how many people ISIS had actually killed, as only 200 bodies have been found.

In a separate incident on June 18 in Diyala Province, 44 Sunni prisoners were killed in Baquba, the provincial capital.

via In Apparent Mass Killing, Bodies Found in Region South of Baghdad – NYTimes.com.