Homes wrecked, lives destroyed: tactics that fuel the Infitada

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=522676

Israel was accused yesterday of committing a war crime by its destruction of more than 3,000 Palestinian homes in Israel and the occupied territories since the intifada began three and a half years ago.

The damning report from Amnesty International came as the Israeli army killed up to 19 Palestinians - children as well as militants - in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip where General Moshe Ya'alon, the army chief of staff, warned at the weekend that hundreds more homes could be destroyed.

In its critique of the Israeli policy of destroying buildings and "vast areas" of agricultural land, the report challenges head-on the argument that the destruction is militarily necessary. It also warns that "punitive forced evictions and house demolitions" are a "flagrant form of collective punishment" that "violate a fundamental principle of international law".

The report was published as a heavily armoured Israeli force moved into the Tel Sultan district of the Rafah camp yesterday, in one of Israel's biggest incursions into Gaza. The attack followed an assault by helicopter gunships which had earlier killed seven Palestinians - at least three of them gunmen - outside a mosque.

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"Sharon is a man of peace!"

"The settlers have every right to be there!"

"There are no Palestinians!"

"Rachel Corrie was a terrorist!"

Just preempting our DU war crimes apologists.

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why my tax dollars are being used to further piss off the rest of the world. $hrub is totally out of touch with reality.

They may, MAY nail a few terrorists today, but over the long run they create a much larger pool of angry embittered young men who, having lost everything and with nothing to lose, seek to bring meaning to their lives as suicide bombers.