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<h1 class="article-title">UN Observer: Israel Slaughters Entire
Families</h1>
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src="cid:part1.08090909.02060806@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Thursday July 24, 2014 07:48</span><span
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src="cid:part2.09040805.03040809@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> by Chris Carlson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68595">http://www.imemc.org/article/68595</a><br>
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<p class="article-subtitle">OFID Approves $500,000 for Gaza</p>
<blockquote class="article-intro">“With no regard to human life,
Israel, the occupying Power, continues to slaughter entire
families,” Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nation,
Ambassador Riyad Mansour, said during an open debate at the United
Nations Security Council. Additionally, the OPEC Fund for
International Development (OFID) has approved a $500,000 grant of
humanitarian relief for Gaza's victims.</blockquote>
<p class="article">According to WAFA Palestinian News & Info
Agency, Mansour said that “despite all regional and international
efforts, hundreds more Palestinian civilians have been killed,
thousands have been injured and tens of thousands have been
displaced by the Israeli military aggression in Gaza.”<br>
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“Israeli bombardment – including missile airstrikes, bombs and
artillery shelling by air, land and sea at densely-populated areas
– has also resulted in the destruction of more than 1,000 homes
and damage to more than 18,000 other homes,” he added,
underscoring:<br>
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<i>“Fear and panic have gripped the population, leading to the
displacement of more than 100,000 people, who are now sheltering
in UNRWA schools, already double the number of Palestinians who
sought refuge in the Agency’s schools in the <a
sl-processed="1"
href="http://stopisraeliapartheid.blogspot.com/2013/01/welcome-to-zion.html"
target="_blank">Israeli war on Gaza of 2008-2009</a>.”</i><br>
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“With no regard to human life, Israel, the occupying Power,
continues to slaughter entire families. A family of 26 people in
Khan Younis, Al-Jami’ family; a family of 8 people in northern
Gaza; Abu Jarad family; a family of 10 people in Shujaiya, Ayyad
family; a family of 7 people in Shujaiya, Al-Hallaq family; a
family of 6 people in Shujaiya, Al-Sakafi family; a family of 5
people also in Shujaiya, Sleem family; a family of 4 people in
Shujaiya , Al-Hayyeh family; a family of 4 people in northern
Gaza, Al-Zuweidi family, were among the many victims of Israel’s
heinous attacks in just the past three days, with children and
women constituting the majority of the dead.<br>
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“When hospital floors are drowning in the blood of innocents,
corridors are filled with the deafening screams of pain of the
wounded and cries of the grief and anguish for loved ones killed,
and doctors, with barely any supplies and deprived of sleep and
sustenance struggle courageously …. The international community
has failed to enforce the rule of law, and failed its promise to
humanity.<br>
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“On behalf of the Palestinian people, we ask: What is the
international community doing to stop this bloodletting, to stop
Israel’s atrocities? What is the Security Council doing to uphold
its commitment to protect civilians in armed conflict and uphold
the law and the Charter?” Manour asks.<br>
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“Israel’s impunity must be halted and the pretexts for its crimes
rejected,” he assserted:<br>
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“We reiterate that it is no coincidence that this latest
aggression was launched amid increased international pressure on
Israel in the peace process; international acceptance of the
Palestinian unity government; intensifying world condemnation of
the settlements, settler terror, provocations in East Jerusalem,
the Gaza blockade, the crisis of the Palestinian prisoners and
detainees, and Israel’s destruction of the two-state solution, and
the growing global calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions
against Israel.”<br>
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On a note of hope, in related international news, the OPEC Fund
for International Development (OFID) approved, Wednesday, a
$500,000 grant in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.<br>
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In a press release issued online, OFID stated that the grant will
be channelled through the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and operations will be
implemented by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). It is
estimated that around 35,000 people will directly benefit from
OFID’s grant.<br>
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There are currently over 100,000 people, including entire
families, seeking shelter at <a sl-processed="1"
href="http://imemc.org/article/68583" target="_blank">UNRWA
schools</a> in the region. <br>
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As of January 2014, there were approximately 5.4 million
Palestinians registered as refugees in various regions across the
globe, <a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/68172"
target="_blank">according to UNRWA</a>. <br>
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Palestinians make up the largest refugee group in the entire
world. </p>
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