#GazaUnderAttack: Israel Committed A Massacre Against Innocent People
In Al-Shijaeyya In Gaza Killing At Least 60 And Wounding Hundreds
By Shahd Abusalama
20 July, 2014
Palestine From My Eyes Blog
Wounded children from Al-Shijaeyya area in Gaza stretching out in Gaza Hospitals which cannot any more accommodate the increasing number of injures. All of them are critical.
Where is humanity? Where are the people of conscience around the world? Our people in Gaza are being massacred, under genocide operation. #Israel doesn’t differentiate between ages.
The Israeli occupation endorsed a two-hour ‘humanitarian’ truce starting from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, and within these two hours they committed a terribly atrocious massacre against our people in Al-Shijaeyya. The families there refused to evacuate their houses, remain dignified in their homes, and reject Israel’s attempt to make them homeless and humiliated with other 60 thousands Palestinians who filled UNRWA schools. Israel’s reaction to people’s steadfastness was randomly shelling their houses with artillery shells and F16 missiles towards the families’ houses who held in between its walls only children, women and elderlies.
People started running barefoot, traumatised while missiles and artillery shells are chasing them for long distances without finding a safe shelter. But there were none. A women with her kids stopped to rest under an olive tree. She was holding her 13-year-old child between her arms when all of a sudden she found her bleeding, killed. Traumatised mother started running again with the rest of her children trying to rescue who survived from them.
At least 60 innocent children, women and elderlies were killed in a cold blood, and Gaza hospitals received hundreds of injuries, most of them are children and women. There is a shortage in hospitals, in medical equipments. They cannot accommodate the increasing number of the injured people who are all suffering a critical injuries which threatens more lives with death. Palestinians reporters say that they witnessed huge number of wounded people laying on the floor, because there are not enough hospital beds.
Israel panned ambulances and media from reaching the place for hours. When they finally got a permission, ambulances hurried to rescue the massacred people there, but they were also attacked. At least two of the medics were killed. Other nine were wounded. In an attempt to veil these crimes Israel committed against the innocent inhabitants of Al-Shijaeyya, they prevented media from being there to document the massacre and let the world be a witness of it.
You international activist around the world, especially in #Europe and the #USA, Israel acts with impunity because of your countries’ silence and unconditional support in all sectors to Israel. Your bias media which inverts between the oppressor and the victim supports Israel to continue massacring our people! Go to streets now and call for an immediate stop to the Palestinian bloodshed! Hold Israel accountable to its uncountable and deadliest crimes against our isolated Palestinian people in beseiged Gaza. Call for boycott divestment and sanctions. Call for cutting ties with Israel. We shall not forgive nor forget. We shall keep resisting with all legitimate means that we have as occupied people until justice is done to every drop of blood Palestinians shed across the 66 years of this ongoing occupation. Resistance until freedom, justice and equality. Down with #zionism!
Shahd Abusalama is a Palestinian artist, a blogger and an English literature graduate living in Gaza City, Palestine. Her blog is http://palestinefrommyeyes.wordpress.com/ Follow her on twitter @ShahdAbusalama
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