In memory of all those innocent who died in the Gaza war
2008-2009 Gaza Stripe
Gaza, Palestine
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My Dearest Sleeping AngleI am so sorry for That you died.
Israeli F-16 strike fighters launched a series of air strikes against targets in Gaza. Struck were civilian bases, a mosque, various government buildings, a science building in the Islamic University, and a U.N.-operated elementary school in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Most strikes against Hamas have resulted in civilian casualties. Israel claimed that the attack was a response to Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel, which mostly fell in open field areas with no casualties. Palestinian medical staff said at least 1300 Palestinians were killed, and at least 5600 wounded, made up mostly by women and childern, in the 22 days of Israeli strikes on Gaza. Israeli warplans struck everything and anything, Houses, schools, mosques, even UN Run-Schools as in below photo were bombed.

Israel controlled the Gaza Strip since June 1967, after the six day war. During the period of Israeli control, Israel created a settlement blocs, in the southwest corner of the Strip near Rafah and the Egyptian border. In total Israel created 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip, comprising 20% of the total territory. In February 2005, the Israeli government voted to implement a uniteral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Israel still controls every person, every good, literally every drop of water to enter or leave the Gaza Strip. Its troops may not be there … but it still restricts the ability for the Palestinian authority to exercise control.
The United Nations Office for the coordination Affairs maintains an office on “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” which concerns itself with the Gaza Strip. A July 2004 opinion of the International Court of Justice treated Gaza as part of the occupied territories. In his statement on the 2008-2009 Israel war on Gaza Richard Falk, United Nations Specail Rapporteur on "the situation of Human rights in the Palestinian territories" wrote that International Humanitarian Law applied to Israel “in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war. In a 2009 interview on Democracy Christopher Gunness, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) contends that Israel is an occupying power
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2008-2009 Gaza Stripe
Gaza, Palestine
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