How Israel kills Palestinians with Remote Control Guns - shooting fish in a Barrel IDF style

The Israel Defense Forces have developed very accurate remote controlled automatic guns. Those on their Unmanned Stealth Boast can fire accurately regardless of the boat speed, pitch , yaw, roll and wave surface. see also here and here and here

The land based Seer System resembles a shoot 'em up video game.

This is no game and several of these systems have recently been installed and are in use , live, along the Israel-Gaza border. The video of the female operator is chilling - her unhurried , yet lethal operation, poise and perfect make up - ensures and maintains the disatnce from the blood and guts of actually blasting people to bits.

A report from the Association of International Aid Agencies (AIDA), " the situation in Gaza has deteriorated in a significant manner"

The virtual battle space is controlled (in a no doubt well fortofied zone) from at least a kilometre away.

A report from the Association of International Aid Agencies (AIDA), " the situation in Gaza has deteriorated in a significant manner"

Three days ago, Israeli air strikes killed two boys, both civilans , aged 17 and 15 and 2 others were wounded after an Israeli air force attack near Rafah, in southern Gaza.

"The Gaza power plant has been forced to shut down due to lack of fuel, and Gazans are now totally dependent on electricity generated from Israel, and to a lesser extent, from Egypt. There is also a chronic shortage of domestic cooking gas. Regarding essential food items, IOF have not permitted any consignments of flour to enter the Gaza Strip for one week, and current stocks are sufficient for just less than three days. Five of the six flourmills in the Gaza Strip have been forced to close. " Life under occupation

Additionally around 77 million liters of sewage water leak daily into the Mediterranean contaminating it and damaging fish resources.

West Bank Palestinians subject to constant attacks this week.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reports : -

The IDF conducted 45 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and two into the Gaza Strip. During these incursions, Israeli forces abducted 28 Palestinian civilians, including a child. The number of Palestinian civilians abducted by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the beginning of 2008 stands at 2,261.

On Monday, December 1, Israeli forces extra-judicially killed a Palestinian from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus. He was shot dead by an Israeli undercover unit, after he climbed into a vehicle belonging to the Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS), in order to be transported from his house to the PSS' headquarters. He was in the process of being granted amnesty by the Israeli forces. He was hit by several bullets, and Israeli forces later took him to Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus. Later, Israeli forces contacted the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to send an ambulance to transport his body.

His name was Mohammad Abu Thraa and was among those who received a formal pardon from Israel in return for spending time in a Palestinian Authority Al-Juneid prison. Nevertheless, Israeli forces were sent to his home , who killed him "since he resisted arrest".

Israeli forces have escalated arbitrary measures against Palestinian civilians in East Jerusalem to force them to leave the city. During the reporting period, Israeli forces demolished three houses in East Jerusalem.

Israeli forces also transformed four houses in Hebron into military sites during the reporting period.

Israeli settlers continuedattacks against Palestinian civilians and property they desecrated a mosque in Tormos'iya village north of Ramallah and uprooted 50 olive trees in Ras Karkar village near Ramallah - and presumably stole them.

If this interst you go to Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Gaza: Silence is not an option - Richard Falk UN Rappoteur on Palestinian territories