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Amnesty International: UN must urgently investigate war crimes in Israeli-Gaza conflict


RT
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:28 UTC
Rafah
© Reuters/Abed Sha'atSmoke and flames are seen following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip July 11, 2014.
Amnesty International (AI) has urged the UN to urgently mandate an independent international investigation into Israeli airstrikes on Gaza as well as Palestine's indiscriminate shelling of Israel, and hold accountable those responsible for war crimes.

Despite claims by Israel that its operation "Protective Edge", launched June 8, targets Hamas militants, most of more than a hundred Palestinians killed in airstrikes on Gaza are civilians, Amnesty says, adding that at least 24 children and 16 women were among the casualties.

Simultaneously, at least 20 people in Israel have been wounded by rocket attacks from Palestinian territories, according to the human rights watchdog, calling on the UN to set up a "fact-finding mission to Gaza and Israel to investigate violations of international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict."

"Swift UN action is needed as lives hang in the balance," said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International. "The international community must not repeat previous mistakes, standing by and watching the devastating consequences for civilians of both sides."

Amnesty sees arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian military groups as a means of preventing the violence escalating further.
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60 seconds to live: IDF "knocks" on Palestinian civilian homes before obliterating them 1 minute later

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:21 UTC
While the IDF is ignoring allegations that it targets civilian homes (because it is obvious that they are) IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said it uses phone calls and "drops empty shells on roofs" - what it calls "roof knocking" - to warn civilians that air strikes are imminent.

Speaking to US media recently, Learner said that "in one case, members of a family returned to a house in Gaza shortly after having been warned to evacuate it and they were caught in the air strike."

Silly Palestinians. I mean, surely 60 seconds is more than enough for anyone to gather the children, grandparents, pack all important items and leave your house and be at a safe distance before a massive bomb blows it to pieces?! Israel has to 'defend itself' in this way after all, and Palestinians should understand that and not be so stupid as to return to their houses after they receive the neighborly warning that its time to leave!

Check out the "empty shell" that the IDF dropped on this Palestinian home a few days ago to warn the civilians inside that their home would be obliterated 60 seconds later.


This is terrorism by ANY definition of the word.
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HAL9000

First warning! Russia demands Ukraine stop shelling of Russian territory


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:01 UTC
Kremlin
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Russia voices protest against Ukraine's attack on a border squad, the Foreign Ministry says. "On July 12, a Russian border squad was come under automatic small arms fire in the Rostov region's Kuibyshev district, in Russia's south. As a result of the attack a car was damaged. Eight bullet holes were found. Luckily, no Russian border guards were injured," the ministry says.

"There is evidence that the car was come under fire from the Ukrainian territory and from the position on Russia's territory that had been earlier prepared," it says. "Russia demands Ukraine stop shelling of the Russian territory and violating the Russian border," the ministry says.
"If such provocations continue, Russia reserves the right to take measures under its legislation aimed at protecting the territory and ensuring security of Russian citizens," it says, reports Itar-Tass.
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White House admits to fake vaccine campaigns to steal DNA

Christina Sarich
Natural Society
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:13 UTC
Stealing DNA
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The White House has officially admitted to an incredibly nefarious campaign - faking vaccination programs across the country while covertly stealing your DNA.

This illegal, immoral, and insane scheme was concocted to profile terrorists as part of our war against the Middle East. These terrorists would then be hunted down with DNA samples and executed.

The New York Times reported in 2011:
"In the months before Osama bin Laden was killed, the Central Intelligence Agency ran a phony vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan, as a ruse to obtain DNA evidence from members of Bin Laden's family thought to be holed up in an expansive compound there."
The CIA recruited a "senior Pakistani doctor to organize the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic."

This project reveals that the U.S. government, only under a forced admission, denied 'public health' in order to secretly and illegally assassinate one person.

Millions of people, possibly, were subject to this scheme. It was likely carried out by nurses being trained to draw a small amount of blood after administering a vaccination.
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Star of David

Psychopaths in Action: Israeli Military Bombs Home for Disabled People in Gaza


UK Guardian
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:43 UTC
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A Palestinian boy carries a damaged wheelchair amid the debris of the Gaza home where two disabled people were killed by an Israeli air strike.
Who knows who lived in the two first-floor apartments above a home for eight disabled adults in a neighbourhood of eastern Gaza.

Perhaps, as a neighbour suggests, one of them was a militant with Islamic Jihad who lived there with his family. But the neighbour says he isn't sure. What is certain is that the occupant was absent in the early hours of Saturday morning when the two Israeli drones "knocked on his roof" - firing warning shots to encourage civilians to vacate the building prior to a strike.

A few minutes later, an Israeli war plane fired a missile into the house. But it didn't detonate on the first floor. Instead, it smashed through to the ground floor where the explosion ripped through the room where five of the disabled residents were sleeping, killing two and injuring the others.

A neighbour found one of the dead, who was missing initially, after he noticed flies buzzing around the place where she was buried. "A body! A body!" the man shouted. Gingerly he lifted the piece of concrete concealing a curly head of hair, face down in the debris.
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30 civilians killed, orphanage destroyed as Kiev forces hit town near Donetsk


RT
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:06 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Andrey SteninDead body of a man in Maryinka, near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, killed in his own apartment as the town was shelled by pro-Kiev forces. July 12, 2014.

30 civilians have been killed in overnight shelling on Maryinka, a town near Donetsk, in southeastern Ukraine, by pro-Kiev military forces, according to estimates by self-defense forces.

"30 civilians died as a result of the Ukrainian army's shelling of Maryinka. Rubble cleanup is under way," says the Twitter of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

Self-defense commander, Igor Strelkov, confirmed 30 casualties among the civilian population.

"None of the buildings used by self-defense has been damaged. None of us have been killed or injured. The civilians bore the brunt of the attacks," he told journalists.

Earlier a RIA Novosti correspondent on the ground reported 4 civilian casualties in the overnight shelling of Maryinka, a town of 10,000 residents, where self-defense forces are currently stationed. The same source said the town was shelled again on Saturday.

Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Purgin, of the self proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said, that overnight "the town was shelled from two flanks: by heavy-caliber weapons from the Mariupol direction and by Grad and Uragan rocket launchers and mortars from near the village of Kurakhovo," Itar-Tass reported.

Missiles have hit apartment blocks. This footage by RT's Ruptly video agency shows damage done to one of the neighborhoods in Maryinka. It features a completely demolished section of the fifth floor of one of the houses.

"There are 2 bodies over here - and 1 more over there. In total, they say, 6 people have been killed," Maryinka resident, Igor, earlier told Ruptly video agency.

Among other town buildings hit in the attack are a cattle feed plant, a milk factory, a former tire plant and water purification station. The town has been left without water.

There's also as yet unconfirmed reports of a destroyed orphanage.
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How does U.S. president respond to global outrage against Israel's slaughter of innocents? Writes op-ed for Israeli media: 'Our commitment to Israel's security remains ironclad'

Timothy Alexander Guzman
Silent Crow News
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:45 UTC
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US president Barack H. Obama wrote an exclusive article for Haaretz which was titled 'Peace is the only path to true security for Israel and the Palestinians.' Of course, the title in itself says what many on both sides of the conflict as well as the rest of the world would want, a lasting peace between Israelis and the Palestinians. But Mr. Obama's article is of course one-sided. He starts by saying that the children of Sderot want to grow up without living in fear disregarding how Palestinian families have been living in fear of the Israeli government since 1948:
As Air Force One prepared to touch down in the Holy Land last year, I looked out my window and was once again struck by the fact that Israel's security can be measured in a matter of minutes and miles. I've seen what security means to those who live near the Blue Line, to children in Sderot who just want to grow up without fear, to families who've lost their homes and everything they have to Hezbollah's and Hamas's rockets
Since the beginning of Israel's occupation, Palestinians have endured numerous human rights violations. From constant bombing campaigns by the US tax-funded Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), humiliating security checkpoints, kidnappings, sniper attacks and the demonization by Western Media outlets, the Palestinian people have been victims of Israeli oppression. Israel has expanded Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands and has taken control of water resources.

Massacres such as in the one that occurred in the Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin in 1948 where over 100 Palestinian men, women and children were murdered by Israeli paramilitary forces formally known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish terrorist organization (Obama's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's father Benjamin, was a member) and Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) or the Stern gang. It happened during the civil war that erupted between the Israelis and the Palestinians after the British rule of Palestine had ended.
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Vader

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Hell-fire continues in Gaza as Israel justifies the unjustifiable

Irini Gregoriou
Sott.net
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:21 UTC
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© Wissam NassarThe mother of Hatem Salem, who was killed just for being a Palestinian, cries next to his body in Al-Shifa Hospital's morgue, July 9, 2014.
As attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza continue, the Palestinian people are braced for another hellish experience. Already exhausted by decades of brutal occupation and 'Operation Cast Lead' in 2009, 'Operation Pillar of Cloud' in 2012, and now 'Operation Protective Edge', 1.7 million Palestinians are trapped in the open-air prison of Gaza, from which there is no escape.

To date, over 100 Palestinians have been murdered and over 600 hundred injured in the current round of slaughter, most of them children, women and the elderly.

The cowardly Israelis are using drones to rack up yet more 'collateral damage'. To date no one has been killed by the fireworks aimed at Israeli settlements. Meanwhile, riots have erupted in the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

Egypt has opened its border with Gaza to allow in the most severely wounded. Israeli has vowed it won't stop until Hamas stops igniting fireworks. Israel has promised more to come, and will respond to Hamas firework "with all the power" at its disposal.

Here's a recent report by Harry Fear for RT:

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Rainbow

Building alliances! Putin makes unplanned stopover in Nicaragua


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:04 UTC
Putin
© RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky
Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed the schedule of his Latin American tour and arrived in Nicaragua for a brief working visit. Russia, Cuba sign package of cooperation documents in energy sector

On his way from Cuba to Argentina on Saturday, the Russian leader decided to make a stopover in Managua, where he had been officially invited earlier.

At the Managua airport, he was welcomed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

'Much is yet to be done to develop our relations, especially in the area of economy, but we have good base for that," Putin said, adding that Russia and Nicaragua had long-standing good relations. "We admire out [edit:your] personal courage and the courage of your people," he told Ortega.

The Russian leader reminded that the year 2014 is a jubilee one for Russia and Nicaragua, which established diplomatic relations 70 years ago.

The Nicaraguan leader called Putin's visit to his country a historic event. "This is the first-ever visit by the Russian president to Nicaragua, and we are very happy to welcome you here," he said.

Comment: Bypassing US control: Grand $40 billion project of Atlantic-Pacific Nicaragua Canal finally completed

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Stormtrooper

US "moderate" militant factions join ISIL in Syria


Press TV
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:21 UTC
Syrian militants
© Unknown
Several militant factions affiliated with what the West calls moderate rebel groups have pledged allegiance to ISIL Takfiri terrorists.

Reports say hundreds of foreign-backed militants including a 1000-strong brigade from the so-called Sham Army have defected to the notorious group in recent days.

The defectors travelled from their base in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib to the ISIL stronghold city of Raqqa last weekend.

In addition, several brigades affiliated with the Western-sponsored Free Syrian Army have pledged allegiance to ISIL in the east of the country.

The defections raise questions about the US military support for groups it classifies as moderate militants.

On July 8, the Saudi daily Akkaz confirmed in a report that the foreign-backed militants have received the second batch of US-made anti-tank missiles.

The Takfiri militants have reportedly received TOW anti-tank rockets in the strategic Qalamoun region.


Comment: The US is funding and arming terrorists! Can it be any clearer?


Comment: The US is the master of chaos and destruction.

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