TIME FOR UN TO AUTHORIZE GAZA NO FLY ZONE
The world declared a halt to killing in Libya after casualties reached one thousand dead.
However, for some reason the same magnitude of deaths in the world's largest walled ghetto ringed by searchlights and armored troops enforcing minimal rations, limited electricty and water supplies and total restriction of ingress and egress while dropping bombs and firing missiles at will in Operaton Cast Lead financed by powers foreign to the region....
received largely indifferent and often deferential media treatment and ZERO UN ACTION.
The relevant statistics of events in Gaza are below:
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/ap ... ct=3887857LIST OF cASUALTIES FROM GAZA ROCKET FIRE IN THREE YEARS PRECEEDING
June 5, 2008 - Amnon Rosenberg, 51, killed by a mortar bomb which struck Moshav Yesha [1]
May 12, 2008 - Shuli Katz, 70, killed by a Qassam rocket which struck Moshav Yesha [2]
May 9, 2008 - Jimmy Kedoshim from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, aged 48, killed by a mortar shell fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip [3]
Feb 27, 2008 – Roni Yihye, 47, a mature student, killed on Sapir College campus while sitting in his car [4]
May 27, 2007 - Oshri Oz, 36, from Hod Hasharon. Killed in Sderot when a rocket hit his vehicle as he was driving in the city, where he worked as computer technician.
May 21, 2007 - Shirel Friedman, 32, from Sderot, killed when standing near a car that was struck by a rocket
Nov. 21, 2006 - Yaakov Yaakobov, 43, from Sderot. Severely injured while at work in a Sderot poultry processing plant and died from his wounds one day later.
Nov. 11, 2006 - Faina Slutzker, 57, killed when a rocket hits the street where she is walking near the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz.
Sources:
1] Amnon Rosenberg, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, June 5, 2008,
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Ob ... enberg.htm [2] “Shuli Katz,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 12, 2008,
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Ob ... y-2008.htm[3] “Jimmy Kedoshim,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2008,
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Ob ... y-2008.htm[4] Roni Yihye, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Feb 27, 2008,
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Ob ... +Yihye.htm “Rocket threat from the Gaza Strip, 2000-2007” - Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Dec. 2007 -
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_ ... reat_e.htm http://www.btselem.org/Download/2009090 ... es_Eng.pdfPalestinian fatalities (all figures relate to the Gaza Strip during the period 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009)
Israeli security forces killed 1,387 Palestinians during the operation. The breakdown is as follows:
Did not take part in the hostilities 773
Of them, women (over 18) 107
Of them, minor boys & girls (under 18) 320
Took part in the hostilities 330
conclusion:
less than 3 civilian deaths per year from Gaza based rocket attacks led to more than 1200 civilian deaths in one month
RESOLVED
Equal treatment under law and universal morality requires a UN authorized no fly zone over Gaza to be enacted forthwith.