Red Cross: Starving children found with the decomposed corpses of their mothers

Scott Ritsema
CIVICS NEWS.com
January 11, 2009

Starving children too weak to stand up.
Humanitarian crisis "shocking" as Israel violates international law.
No one allowed out of Gaza without a passport.
Charred bodies of people who had been run over by Israeli tanks, including a charred corpse of a baby.

[To the neo-cons, this war on civilians is a "good start." They see nothing wrong with "killing the mothers and the babies."]

Watch the video:




Glenn Greenwald points out:

According to the Report issued on Thursday (.pdf) by the U.N.'s Humanitarian Affairs Office, more than 1/3 of overall Palestinian deaths are children (34% of the almost 800 total deaths), and a similar percentage of the more than 3,000 wounded are also children (34.8%).

(CIVICS NEWS Update: 900 dead, 4000 wounded)

Even in the Wall Street Journal, the truth comes out:

Deliberate attacks on civilians that lack strict military necessity are war crimes. Israel's current violations of international law extend a long pattern of abuse of the rights of Gaza Palestinians. Eighty percent of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are Palestinian refugees who were forced from their homes or fled in fear of Jewish terrorist attacks in 1948. For 60 years, Israel has denied the internationally recognized rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes -- because they are not Jews.

Israel should be held accountable for its crimes, and the U.S. should stop abetting it with unconditional military and diplomatic support.

And in the following clip, Ron Paul explains why the American government is morally responsible for what's going on in Gaza. (For those who aren't disturbed by the moral outrages, Paul also comments on why it's not in the U.S. interest to become demonized in the world because of what Israel does.)