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<h1 class="entry-title">Despite Ceasefire, Netanyahu
‘Preparing to Continue’ Israeli Escalation</h1>
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<span class="entry-meta-date updated"><a
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Despite the ceasefire, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Monday, that
Israel is preparing for another round of confrontations in
the besieged Gaza Strip.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Hebrew-language news outlets
reported that several hours after the Egypt-mediated <span
class="s2">ceasefire </span>agreement was declared,
Netanyahu said in a statement:</span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“In the past two days, we have
hit Hamas and Islamic Jihad with great force.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">As ceasefire goes into effect,
Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over | The Times of Israel
<a href="https://t.co/ldd4PM5nVp">https://t.co/ldd4PM5nVp</a>
<a href="https://t.co/hJevp5XOcr">pic.twitter.com/hJevp5XOcr</a></p>
<p>— Middle East Peace Plan (@MiddleEastPlan) <a
href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEastPlan/status/1125371046142644226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
6, 2019</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Netanyahu pointed out, </span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“We struck more than 350
targets, hit terrorist operatives and their leader, and
destroyed terrorist infrastructure.”</span></p>
</blockquote>
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data-dnt="true">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over;
Hamas officials give ceasefire ultimatum <a
href="https://t.co/p7T8wGOcdY">https://t.co/p7T8wGOcdY</a>
<a href="https://t.co/8iOWEqiiQC">pic.twitter.com/8iOWEqiiQC</a></p>
<p>— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a
href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1125362078393491457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
6, 2019</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“Still,” he added, “The campaign
is not over, it requires patience and deliberation. We are
preparing to continue.”</span></p>
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<h1 class="reader-title">Israel escalates deadly attacks in Gaza</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara
Nassar</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
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content="2019-05-05T18:28:33+00:00">5 May 2019</span></span>
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<p><em>This article has been updated since initial
publication.</em></p>
<p>Israel’s bombardment of the occupied Gaza Strip
entered its third day on Sunday.</p>
<p>By late evening on Sunday, Israeli strikes had killed
19 Palestinians that day, bringing the toll to at
least 27 Palestinians slain since Israel escalated <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-killings-spike-ahead-eurovision">its
lethal attacks</a> on the territory on Friday.</p>
<p>Health officials in Gaza continued to announce new
deaths on an almost hourly basis, <a
href="https://twitter.com/press221/status/1125062309955739648">including</a>
late Sunday night Amani al-Madhoun, a 33-year-old
woman who was pregnant.</p>
<p>She is the second pregnant woman to die in the
context of the current escalation, although human
rights organizations continued to investigate the
cause of an explosion that killed a pregnant mother
and a young child on Saturday.</p>
<p>Also Sunday evening, the health ministry in Gaza <a
href="https://twitter.com/press221/status/1125098071782764544">announced</a>
that three people had been killed in an Israeli
airstrike in the north, <a
href="https://twitter.com/press221/status/1125086229798764545">including</a>
a baby, though few details were immediately available.</p>
<p>In Israel, four people have been killed as
Palestinian resistance factions returned fire with
barrages of rockets reaching dozens of kilometers into
Israel.</p>
<p>Israeli warplanes and artillery have struck more than
100 sites across the besieged territory, totally
destroying seven large residential and commercial
buildings, at least 14 homes, as well as offices, <a
href="https://mezan.org/post/28612/">according</a>
to the Gaza-based human rights group Al Mezan.</p>
<p>Dozens more homes in areas surrounding targeted
buildings sustained damage.</p>
<p>“The raids have caused fear and panic among
civilians,” especially children, who are half of
Gaza’s two million population.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">During the Ongoing Israeli
Offensive on <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>
Strip: Israel Targets Press Offices and Cultural
Institutions<a href="https://t.co/x32KrST5Bx">https://t.co/x32KrST5Bx</a>
<a href="https://t.co/GXyTbg9jW5">pic.twitter.com/GXyTbg9jW5</a></p>
— PCHR (@pchrgaza) <a
href="https://twitter.com/pchrgaza/status/1125075910888165376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>In one such attack late Saturday night, an Israeli
airstrike completely destroyed a building in Jabaliya
in northern Gaza, belonging to Ahmad Abu Zaida. The
three-story building had been the home to 16 people
including eight children.</p>
<p>Heavy attacks were continuing into Sunday night,
according to Palestinians in Gaza.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Explosions are literally
non stop. Every second. A huge rocking
explosion. Ears hurt. Colon is acting up.
Sisters are panicking. Dad is angrily looking at
me since I insisted on letting me get ice cream.
What's happening. <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>
<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaUnderAttack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaUnderAttack</a></p>
— Omar Ghraieb🇵🇸 (@Omar_Gaza) <a
href="https://twitter.com/Omar_Gaza/status/1125060347617062913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>This video shows the total destruction of a building
in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday
evening:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">لحظة تدمير طيران الاحتلال
لعمارة أبو قمر في حي الصبرة بمدينة <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>
قبل قليل. <a href="https://t.co/s25EuBRYOv">pic.twitter.com/s25EuBRYOv</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1125063717861904386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar"><a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#شاهد</a>..
طائرات الاحتلال عمارة "أبو قمر" في غزة مساء
اليوم. <a href="https://t.co/YVU2JSZhaZ">pic.twitter.com/YVU2JSZhaZ</a></p>
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) <a
href="https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1125075959143641090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
</div>
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<p>Since Saturday, Israel has completely closed access
to Gaza’s territorial waters and closed all goods
crossings, except for allowing the entrance of fuel
for the territory’s only power plant.</p>
<p>“The crossings cannot be used as an instrument of war
to pressure the civilian population in the Strip,” the
Israeli human rights group <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gisha">Gisha</a>
<a href="https://gisha.org/updates/9975">stated</a> on
Saturday. “Even in the current security climate, at a
very minimum, humanitarian access must be allowed.”</p>
<h2>Extrajudicial killing</h2>
<p>On Sunday, Israel further escalated the confrontation
by carrying out an extrajudicial killing in Gaza –
reportedly the first of its kind in <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/430-gaza-rockets-fired-at-israel-one-israeli-dead-six-palestinians-said-killed-1.7199036">four
years</a> – when it fired a missile at the civilian
car of Hamed Ahmad Abed al-Khoudari, whom it <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-says-latest-gaza-strike-killed-hamas-chief-iran-liaison/">claims</a>
was responsible for transferring money to Gaza from
Iran.</p>
<p>Palestinian media posted video of the car moments
after the Israeli missile attack:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">اللحظات الاولى بعد استشهاد
حامد الخضري باستهداف سيارته بحي الدرج بغزة، قبل
قليل.<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة_تحت_القصف</a>
<a href="https://t.co/8HpmflRg7Q">pic.twitter.com/8HpmflRg7Q</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1125013743274995713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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</div>
<p>Media circulated this photo of al-Khoudari following
his death:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">صورة الشهيد حامد الخضري
"34" عاما والذي ارتقى قبل قليل جراء قصف الاحتلال
لسيارة كان يستقلها بمنطقة السدرة. <a
href="https://t.co/uy4tW9y7Ny">pic.twitter.com/uy4tW9y7Ny</a></p>
— وكالة الرأي (@alrayps) <a
href="https://twitter.com/alrayps/status/1125009485997723648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>Israel’s resort to this tactic may be a sign that it
feels that its strategy has so far failed to dictate
an end to the confrontation on its own terms –
effectively that Palestinians return to a status quo
of granting Israel peace and quiet while Gaza remains
under an unrelenting blockade that is causing the
humanitarian situation in the territory to spiral
downwards.</p>
<p>“Efforts by the United Nations and Egypt to broker a
ceasefire between Israel and terror groups in the
Strip yielded no concrete results as of Sunday
afternoon, as neither side appeared interested in
returning to the conditions laid out before the
outbreak of violence,” <em>The Times of Israel</em> <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-more-israelis-killed-by-gaza-fire-idf-assassinates-hamas-moneyman/">reported</a>,
using derogatory terminology Israel uses to describe
Palestinian political and military resistance
organizations.</p>
<p>The publication added that on Sunday “the Israeli
security cabinet held a meeting about the fighting in
Gaza and later instructed the military to intensify
its attacks in the Strip.”</p>
<p>The current escalation has been <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gaza-killings-spike-ahead-eurovision">blamed</a>
by analysts and diplomats on Israel’s refusal to
implement understandings to ease the siege on Gaza,
reached in order to end the last major confrontation
prior to Israel’s 9 April election.</p>
<h2>More violence</h2>
<p>Israeli leaders have been demanding more violence
against Palestinians in Gaza.</p>
<p>“We must increase our reaction in Gaza until there is
quiet, and to return to targeted assassinations,”
Israeli public security minister <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gilad-erdan">Gilad
Erdan</a> <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/430-gaza-rockets-fired-at-israel-one-israeli-dead-six-palestinians-said-killed-1.7199036">said</a>.</p>
<p>But any return to “quiet,” even if a ceasefire is
reached, will be short-lived without a fundamental
change in Israel’s policy.</p>
<p>“There is no military solution that can usher in
long-term quiet,” Gisha <a
href="https://gisha.org/updates/9975">stated</a>.</p>
<p>“Regional stability will only be made possible once
Israel makes substantial, forthright steps to protect
the human rights of Gaza’s two million residents and
allow the Strip’s shattered economy to recover and
develop.”</p>
<p>“Ceasefire agreements and ‘gestures’ by Israel to
‘ease’ the closure on Gaza cannot substitute long-term
solutions, including an end to the occupation,” the
Israeli human rights group added.</p>
<p>There is also likely to be little change while the
so-called international community continues to favor
Israel.</p>
<p>On Sunday, United Nations envoy <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/nickolay-mladenov">Nickolay
Mladenov</a>, who has been attempting to broker a
ceasefire, issued a one-sided condemnation of
Palestinian rocket fire into Israel, but no
condemnation of Israel’s attacks on Palestinian
civilian sites and its collective punishment of the
entire population in Gaza:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I condemn the continuing
launching of rockets from <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>.
Enough <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinian</a>
and <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israeli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israeli</a>
lives have been lost, people injured, houses
damaged and destroyed! It is time to de-escalate
and return to the understandings of the past few
months before it is too late. <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UN</a></p>
— Nickolay E. MLADENOV (@nmladenov) <a
href="https://twitter.com/nmladenov/status/1125031226350428164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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</div>
<p>European Union foreign policy chief <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/federica-mogherini">Federica
Mogherini</a> similarly <a
href="https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/61848/statement-high-representativevice-president-federica-mogherini-continuing-gaza-escalation_en">expressed</a>
condemnation exclusively of Palestinians, and
addressed “condolences” only for Israeli victims of
violence.</p>
<h2>Rockets reach further</h2>
<p>Israel says that <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/430-gaza-rockets-fired-at-israel-one-israeli-dead-six-palestinians-said-killed-1.7199036">more
than 600 rockets</a> have been fired from Gaza,
claiming four lives.</p>
<p>On Sunday, rockets fired by Palestinian resistance
factions <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26F74xmj3uA">reached</a>
as far as Bir al-Saba, called Beersheva by Israelis,
some 40 kilometers from Gaza.</p>
<p>Moshe Agadi, 58, <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-man-killed-after-gaza-rocket-strike-in-ashkelon-1.7198901">died</a>
of shrapnel injuries he sustained from a rocket that
hit a family home in Ashkelon overnight Saturday. He
was pronounced dead at Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon
on Sunday.</p>
<p>Zaed al-Hamamda, 50, was killed when a rocket hit a
factory in Ashkelon on Sunday afternoon.</p>
<p>He was a resident of a Bedouin community, <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-man-killed-after-gaza-rocket-strike-in-ashkelon-1.7198901">according</a>
to the newspaper <em>Haaretz</em>.</p>
<p>Another person who was not immediately named was
killed in that same attack.</p>
<p>A fourth Israeli in the port city of Ashdod was
pronounced dead Sunday afternoon after sustaining
shrapnel wounds.</p>
<p>On Saturday, the joint operations room of Palestinian
resistance organizations had <a
href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1124825097422999557">warned</a>
that armed groups would extend the range of their
targeting if Israel continued its attacks on
Palestinian residential buildings.</p>
<p>Islamic Jihad, one of the main resistance factions, <a
href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-jihad-threatens-attack-on-dimona-nuclear-facility-ben-gurion-airport/">warned</a>
that it could target Israel’s nuclear facility at
Dimona and disrupt the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/eurovision">Eurovision
Song Contest</a> that is being hosted in Tel Aviv
from 14 to 18 May.</p>
<p>The group’s military wing <a
href="http://saraya.ps/post/56375/">claimed</a> on
Saturday that it had fired a new type of rocket with a
more powerful warhead “in response to [Israel’s]
targeting of civilians, children and residential
buildings.”</p>
<p>Erdan, the Israeli minister, <a
href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262705">said</a>
in response that Eurovision “should not be a
consideration of the intensity of the blow” Israel
would deal against Palestinians in Gaza.</p>
<p>Israeli schools were canceled across the south on
Sunday.</p>
<p>Gaza’s education ministry <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1124583321026138112">announced</a>
that schools are free to decide whether or not to
close.</p>
<p>Gaza has no bomb shelters.</p>
<h2>Palestinian fighters killed</h2>
<p>Two separate Israeli missile strikes killed four
fighters from Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of
Islamic Jihad on Sunday.</p>
<p>Al Mezan named Mahmoud Subhi Khamis Bawadi, 25, and
Fawzi Abd al-Halim Fawzi Bawadi, 24, as the two
fighters killed in an Israeli missile strike on
farmland near al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.</p>
<p>Pictures of the two circulated on social media
following their death:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">🔴<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#صورة</a>||👇👇<br>
الشهيدان المجاهدان من سرايا القدس: فوزي بوادي
ومحمود عيسى. <a href="https://t.co/03Y2o079wm">pic.twitter.com/03Y2o079wm</a></p>
— Ahmed Abu Aziz (@Ahmed_AbuAziz) <a
href="https://twitter.com/Ahmed_AbuAziz/status/1124862814609379330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<p>Another Israeli missile strike on a resistance
facility in al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City
killed two fighters from the same military wing.</p>
<p>Al Mezan named them as Bilal Muhammad Abd al-Banna,
29, from the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City,
and Abdullah Nofal Muhammad Abu al-Ata, 21, from
al-Shujaiyeh.</p>
<p>Pictures of them circulated in local media:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيد عبدالله أبو العطا
والذي ارتقى بقصف للاحتلال شرق حي الشجاعية بغزة،
قبل قليل. <a href="https://t.co/MnWr60iIlN">pic.twitter.com/MnWr60iIlN</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1124994312020926464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيد بلال محمد البنا
والذي ارتقى بقصف للاحتلال شرق <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#غزة</a>.
<a href="https://t.co/Dh7cOL8MYq">pic.twitter.com/Dh7cOL8MYq</a></p>
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1124997952777400320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Dispute over lethal strike</h2>
<p>Saba Mahmoud Abu Arar, a child of one and a half
years, and her pregnant mother, Filastin Saleh Ahmad
Abu Shihma, 35, died after an airstrike reportedly hit
their family’s home east of Gaza City on Saturday.</p>
<p>Another child in the home was moderately injured,
according to the Gaza health ministry.</p>
<p>Early Sunday, the Israeli army stated that
“Palestinian weapons caused the tragic death of a
mother in Gaza and her baby,” adding that its
“assessment indicates that the incident had nothing to
do with [Israel Defense Forces] strikes.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Yesterday, Palestinian
weapons caused the tragic death of a mother in
Gaza and her baby. Hamas blamed Israel.
Journalists amplified the lie. Our assessment
indicates that the incident had nothing to do
with IDF strikes.</p>
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a
href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1125001868667760641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May
5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<p>The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights <a
href="https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=12442">said</a> the
origin of the airstrike remains “undetermined” and its
field workers are “still investigating the
circumstances of the explosion.”</p>
<p>Al Mezan also did not attribute a cause for the
explosion that killed the mother and child.</p>
<h2>“Peaceful holiday destination”</h2>
<p>The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah appeared on Al
Jazeera English on Saturday to discuss Israel’s attack
on Gaza.</p>
<p>“The Israeli government thinks it’s a fantastic idea
to keep more than two million people, half of them
children, living in a caged ghetto cut off from the
outside world,” Abunimah said.</p>
<p>“The siege is violence, it’s constant violence, it
kills people, it kills their lives. And this is what
people in Gaza are trying to end.”</p>
<p>“As long as Israel thinks this is a really great way
to treat two million people in the Gaza Strip, this
will keep happening, because people in Gaza have to
get the message out that they are human,” Abunimah
added.</p>
<p>“Israel cannot continue to terrorize and besiege and
kill them in this way and have a lovely Eurovision
Song Contest where it falsely presents itself to the
world as this lovely peaceful holiday destination
which is just being terrorized by these awful people
in the Gaza Strip.”</p>
<p><em>Ali Abunimah contributed reporting and analysis.</em></p>
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