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28 April 2008 While the Abu Mu’attaq family in the northern town of Beit Hanoun was having breakfast, Israeli tanks shelled their house. The mother, Khadra Abu Mu’attaq, and her children, 8 year -old Ahmed, three-year-old Hana, four-year-old Salih, six-year-old Rudayna, in addition to 17-year-old Ayyoub Atalla, who was on his way to school, died on the spot. This latest war crime comes at a time while the Gaza Strip has been witnessing the worst of its time since it was occupied in 1967. The heinous siege imposed on it has so far led to the killing of 140 terminally ill patients that were denied permits by the Israeli Occupation Forces to be treated in West Bank hospitals. The severe shortages in fuel, electricity, medicine, water, food, amongst other things, have transformed the Strip into a waste land. Without the international conspiracy of silence and Arab and Islamic indifference to the suffering of the people of Gaza, Israel would not have been able to carry out its slow genocide. Silence is complicity. An immediate step to break this medieval siege is, therefore, needed before the implementation of the Israeli plan to totally annihilate the Palestinians of Gaza. Conscientious and freedom loving people have more responsibilities in making their voice against the Israeli war crimes heard before it is too late. The One Democratic State Group-Gaza Contact: +972 599 441766 One Democratic State Group |