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What Israel's government seems not to understand is how the entire Gaza Strip is now united in resistance to protect its dignity and right to a peaceful and prosperous life. Despite what Israeli officials say, I see little evidence that ordinary people in Gaza have changed their position on the firing of rockets. What Israel continues to miss is that when people are harshly deprived of such basic needs, rights and simple hope, they become increasingly desperate. One unfortunate symptom of that has been the launching of rockets. We wish they would stop, and they had, until Israel broke the truce with Hamas on November 4 and tightened the grip of its blockade.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/16/...

Four-year-old Samer Abed Rabbo lay half-covered by a blanket yesterday in her hospital bed as she tried to explain the bullets that crippled her and killed her two sisters. Samer was hit by a bullet in the back that damaged her spinal cord and left her arms and legs paralysed, probably permanently. Her sisters Amal, two, and Suad, eight, who was nicknamed Soso, were killed outright when their house in northern Gaza came under attack from an Israeli tank last week.
They killed us. We're dead. Me, Amal and Soso. They've gone to heaven,'' she said. ''I was at home. The Jews destroyed the house and I don't want to go back there. I love Amal and Soso.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/gaza-pal...

http://www.btselem.org/Hebrew/Testimonies/20090104_A...

A turkey shoot has been taking place in Gaza for the past three weeks. Even on home turf, booby-trapped and tunnelled, Hamas has not been able to put up the fight that Hezbollah's militants staged in Lebanon in 2006. The result is that Israel has suffered 13 fatalities and the Palestinians 1,234 and counting. Yesterday alone, 95 bodies were dug out of the rubble. The majority of the Palestinian deaths have been civilian, and hundreds of them children. Refugees fleeing one bombardment have only run into another. Nowhere in Gaza has been off limits, least of all the shelters run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which have been repeatedly hit by Israeli shells and missiles. More than 5,400 Palestinians have been injured, sometimes by weapons designed to maim and terrorise. If the Israeli prime minister considered himself absolved for the sins of the ill-prepared invasion of Lebanon, Gaza has paid a grotesque price for Olmert's salvation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/19/...

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1057326.html