Israel’s Army Killed 4 Children and Wrecked the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin – All in ‘Self Defence’
Al Jazeera Film on Israel’s Propaganda War
In May 2021, as the
world’s eyes were on Israel’s attack on Gaza, Israeli soldiers wrecked
the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin. They even took the time and trouble
to tear up the children’s reading books. This is the hate that Zionism
engenders.
Last week Israel’s military
went even further. They not only wrecked the interior, they damaged the
exterior walls of the Centre, punching large holes in them, demolishing the
balcony. This is understandable. To Zionism Palestinian children are what
Jewish children were to the Nazis. The embodiment of a satanic people.
On
October 4 1943, in Posen (Poznan), Himmler explained
why it was necessary to kill not just Jewish adults but their children too:
Thus I did
not feel I had the right to exterminate – let’s say then, kill them or have
them killed – the men while I allowed their avengers, in the form of their
children, to grow up and avenge them upon our sons and grandsons.
Al Tafawk Video
The Al Tafawk Centre,
which we have helped fund for the past four years, will not be allowed to die
and I am therefore asking people to contribute what they can afford to the Go
Fund Me Crowdfunder.
The British Shalom/Salaam Trust has also launched an
URGENT APPEAL on behalf of the AL
TAFAWK CHILDREN'S CENTRE
The BBC –
Allergic to the Truth
Despite killing
4 children in Jenin, making some 35
Palestinian children in the West Bank this year, the BBC
apologised because Anjana Gadgil told
the truth for once and said that ‘Israel is Happy to Kill
Palestinian Children’ when questioning former Prime Minister, Naftali
Bennett. Bennet is on record as saying
that 'I've Killed Lots Of Arabs In My Life And There's No Problem
With That'.
Palestinians in Jenin confront Palestinian Authority after deadly
Israeli raid
Bennett’s claim that the
children that Israel kills are ‘terrorists’ is a lie but in the eyes of the
Zionists, Palestinians by definition are terrorists.
Jenin – Middle East International
I have therefore
submitted a complaint to the BBC about their apology to the Zionist lobby for
Gadgil’s remarks and asked them to withdraw it and also apologise for Gadgil
having accepted that the term ‘terrorist’ applies to Palestinian children
anyway. (see below)
‘Her smile never left her
face’
By Basel
Adra July 5, 2023
In a previous military
raid in Jenin, the army killed seven Palestinians, including
15-year-old Sadeel Naghniyeh, who according to witnesses was shot in the head
while standing at the entrance to her home. Her death began reverberating after
images of her fellow classmates carrying
her body for burial went viral.
Sadeel was shot on June 19, and died of her wounds two days
later. Her father Ghassan described the scene to +972:
“The alarms
started going off in the camps, we heard screaming, and people began running to
their homes. This is a scene that repeats itself in every invasion of the camp.
Israeli snipers went up to the roofs of the houses and buildings and began
shooting. The clashes were not close to our house, we only heard them. My
daughter was speaking to her cousins through the window, and told me that she
wanted to go to her uncle’s house. I told myself that it is better that she go
and not talk through the window, since doing so is more dangerous because of
the snipers.”
The
reality of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children, which the BBC
deliberately ignores was highlighted by the new Save the Children Report which showed that:
·
During arrest, 42% of children were injured,
including gunshot wounds and broken bones, and 65% of children were arrested
during the night, mostly between midnight and dawn. Half of all arrests took
place in the children’s home.
·
The majority of children experienced appalling
levels of physical and emotional abuse, including being beaten (86%), being
threatened with harm (70%), and hit with sticks or guns (60%).
·
Some children reported violence and abuse of a
sexual nature, including being hit or touched on the genitals and 69% reported
being strip searched.
·
60% of children experienced solitary confinement
with the length of time varying from one 1 day to as long as 48 days.
·
Children were denied access to basic services, 70%
said they suffered from hunger and 68% said they didn’t receive any healthcare.
·
58% of children were denied visits or communication
with their family while detained.
·
The majority of children detained are boys – a
trend reflected by the survey, with boys representing 97% of the respondents.
The
Anti-Boycott Bill
As 1000 Israeli
soldiers were launching a blitzkrieg on Jenin Refugee Camp, together with
drones and helicopters, British MPs gave a second reading to the anti-Boycott
Bill which is designed to protect the right of Israel to commit war crimes and
to make solidarity action with the Palestinians illegal.
In
Israel’s
British apologists are enabling this violence former Guardian correspondent
David Hearst wrote that:
‘Every word that Keir Starmer or Lisa Nandy utter in
support of the 'Jewish homeland' sends a very clear message to Israel that it
can carry on doing what it wants.’
Israel has openly
fascist and neo-Nazi Ministers in power such as Police and Security Minister,
Itamar ben Gvir, who used
to hang a portrait of Baruch Goldstein on his living room
wall. Goldstein opened fire in February 1994 in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron massacring
29 Palestinian worshippers. Ben Gvir, who used to chant ‘death to the Arabs’, has recently told
his supporters to change the chant to ‘Death
to the terrorists’.
The BBC’s craven
apology speaks volumes about the organisation. But let us have a look at the
child ‘terrorists’ that Israel has murdered.
On June 2 a two-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed
al-Tamimi died after being shot in the head near Nabi Saleh by Israeli soldiers
while riding in a car with his father. The army later said that the death was ‘unintentional’
and that the soldier would be reprimanded.
Four children murdered
on Gaza beach playing hide and seek
In 2014 during
Operation Protective Edge Israel murdered
551 Palestinian children. No doubt they too were terrorists, like the 4
children playing
hide and seek on Gaza’s beach. Israel later
described their death as a ‘tragic accident’.
In 2018 during the
Great Return March from Gaza, Israeli snipers opened fire killing 50
children and some 266 unarmed demonstrators. The snipers injured 30,000 others.
The bullets they used were deliberately
designed to cause maximum damage to the human body.
Israel’s attack on
Jenin needs to be seen in the context of the remarks by Ben-Gvir, an
ex-supporter of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who called
for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands of
Palestinians.
Jenin is laying the
basis for a second Nakba. Thousands of Palestinians were forced out of their
home and forced to wander the streets of the refugee camp, without food or
water, as Israeli troops occupied their homes.
Mustafa Sheta described
how the invasion began with a devastating attack on The Freedom Theatre,
where a group of families had sought refuge. Even the most dishonest Israeli
Embassy liar would be hard pushed to explain why this symbol of Palestinian
culture was attacked, the road outside being destroyed.
The attack on Jenin
refugee camp decimated its infrastructure and obliterated the main roads in the
camp.
Hospitals
in Jenin treated dozens who were wounded during the military operation but
residents said that ambulances, in many cases, were unable to reach and
evacuate those hurt.
The Jenin
municipality said that the water supply had been cut off throughout the refugee
camp because infrastructure had suffered damage in the fighting.
The city’s
power grid also suffered significant damage due to operations by the Israel
Defense Forces’ engineering corps. Residents said that both electricity and
internet service was disrupted. Sami Bakr, who lives in the refugee camp, said:
Israeli Military Bulldozer
“I heard bulldozers, and suddenly we saw them
destroying the roads leading to the refugee camp to prevent people from leaving
or entering it,” he said. “There are still forces
there, and the residents are very afraid. The vast majority aren’t opening
their windows.”
Bakr said
that residents had been under siege since the morning, without electricity or
internet. “There are wounded people who
still haven’t been evacuated from the camp because the medical crews can’t
enter.”
Urabi Hamad,
a Jenin resident who lives near the camp, said that in his neighbourhood “we can’t leave or enter” adding:
“There are still many forces in the area. The media are also still under siege, and the medical teams can’t move. The fear is horrible. We hear shooting and explosions all the time, and we’re afraid it will escalate and expand. There’s a lot of destruction everywhere.”
Doing
Israel’s Dirty Work – The Palestinian Authority
It would also appear
that another purpose of the attack on Jenin was to do the dirty work for the Palestinian
Authority Israel’s military subcontractor. The PA hasn’t been able to operate
in Jenin refugee camp for months.
Last Sunday the Israeli
Security Cabinet decided
that they would ‘act to prevent the
collapse of the Palestinian Authority’ although this was opposed by Police
Minister Ben Gvir with Smotrich abstaining. Smotrich, who is the effective
Governor of the West Bank stated
that ‘There will be no
economic relief for the Palestinians.”
The
Jenin operation didn’t end. Phase Two has already begun.
After a PA delegation to the funeral of Jenin’s 12 martyrs
was kicked out
of the camp by mourners incensed at PA inaction, a ministerial committee was formed
by presidential order to lead the reconstruction effort. Another Fatah
delegation composed of members of its central committee returned on Saturday,
July 8, to meet with members of the Jenin Brigade. The day after that, yet
another delegation made up of PA ministers also arrived and made the rounds.
The PA presence started to be normalized. See
According to PAJU, MahmoudAbbas the
so-called Palestinian President visited
Jenin on Wednesday to a hostile reception. In advance of his coming 1,000 PA security
force members were deployed to Jenin. Rami, a Jenin resident was quoted as
saying:
“We
don’t need any help from the Palestinian Authority … you have been meeting
[with the enemy] under the table,,, The Palestinian Authority is our occupier,
not Israel.”
It also reported that ahead of Abbas’s
visit
‘PA troops
were spotted removing the flags of Gaza-based resistance groups Hamas and the
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), both of which enjoy great support across the
West Bank.’
The
same Israeli Judges Who Are the Bulwark of Israeli Jewish Democracy Enable the
Military Dictatorship in the West Bank
The military
subjugation of the Palestinians in the West Bank is backed to the hilt by
Israel’s Zionist judges. The Supreme Court has consistently supported the
demolition of the houses of families of Palestinian ‘terrorists’ whilst at the
same time refusing to countenance the destruction of the homes of Jewish terrorists.
The ‘reason’
for this racist discrimination was explained in a 2015 ruling by Noam Sohlberg in
the High Court. Sohlberg justified this openly racist discrimination by
claiming that home demolition serves as a deterrent, and that the Jewish public
was already “deterred and not incited.”
Sohlberg acknowledged the existence of Jewish terrorism, but asserted,
“The
difference exceeds the similarity in many aspects, and particularly… regarding
mass attitudes: firm, wall-to-wall condemnation in the Jewish community, which
is not the case on the opposite side.”
Largest Military Operation in Jenin
as Israel Strikes Palestine Hard | Vantage with Palki Sharma
Sohlberg is a
settler from Alon Shvut. A Sohlberg doctrine that is relevant to current events
is his support for the lenient treatment of Jewish terrorism. As Yoana
Gonen explained
From the
outset, this was a shameful justification based upon a racist gut feeling
rather than facts…. Appalling pogroms
and acts of terror committed by hundreds of bloodthirsty settlers have become
routine. Houses are torched with their occupants inside; masked Jews hurl rocks
at cars and fire guns at Palestinian localities; thuggish gangs go after Arabs
on both sides of the Green Line; and rather than “firm, wall-to-wall
condemnation,” these acts receive the helpful turning of a blind eye or
outright enthusiastic support on the right.
A few
days ago Ben-Gvir told lawbreakers at the illegal outposts, “Run to the hilltops, we have your back.”
In fact there is a ‘wall-to-wall’ refusal in the right-wing parties to avoid
issuing any condemnation, including Prime Minister Netanyahu. Meanwhile, among
the Jewish public, a sickening song of praise to the pogrom in Hawara has
become a hit and can be heard at protests in support of the judicial overhaul.
Instead
of combating the settler violence coalition members launched a grammatical
battle over the definition of “terror” and lashed out at officials who called
it that. National Missions Minister Orit Strock, whose son was convicted of
abusing a Palestinian minor, said it was a “disgrace”
to label the Jewish pogroms ‘terror’, and Finance Minister Smotrich described
it as “morally unacceptable and genuinely
dangerous.”
These events reveal the fraud in Sohlberg’s
words, which purport to be an objective legal argument, but in fact stem from Jewish
Supremacist notions that inspire Strock and Smotrich. Like these ministers, Sohelberg
considers terror to be something that only Arabs engage in and as something
that Jews are genetically incapable of.
See The Settler Judge Who Advocates Lenient Treatment for Jewish Terror
Tony Greenstein
