Amnesty International USA:At 11.30am on 27 December 2008, without warning, Israeli forces began a devastating bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip codenamed Operation “Cast Lead”. Its stated aim was to end rocket attacks into Israel by armed groups affiliated with Hamas and other Palestinian factions. By 18 January 2009, when unilateral ceasefires were announced by both Israel and Hamas, some 1,400 Palestinians had been killed, including some 300 children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians, and large areas of Gaza had been razed to the ground, leaving many thousands homeless and the already dire economy in ruins. ISRAEL/GAZA: OPERATION CAST LEAD: 22 DAYS OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/015/2009
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:24:00 +0000
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