Haneyya gov't forms committee to file war crime charges against Israel

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya formed an official committee to document the Israeli atrocities committed in the Gaza Strip in order to prosecute Israel's leaders as war criminals in regional and international courts.

Minister of justice Mohamed Al-Ghoul called on all international and local institutions working in the field of law or human rights to coordinate with this official committee, stressing the need to pool and intensify all efforts to confront the Israeli occupation and its Nazi leaders in order to achieve the desired objectives.

In another context, minister of social affairs Ahmed Kurd announced on Saturday the formation of the higher national committee for relief in order to coordinate and supervise urgent relief operations for the citizens affected by the Israeli war on Gaza.

Kurd told a news conference that the committee is formed of the ministry of social affairs in addition to Palestinian factions and institutions of civil society, noting that this committee is the only one operating in Gaza.

The minister explained that the committee would be the only authority which is referred to in relief efforts in order to provide transparency and ensure the distribution of relief assistance to all segments of the society.

He stressed that the ministry had contacts with all Palestinian factions in Gaza including Fatah, where a representative of Fatah participated in the preparatory meeting of the committee.

Kurd said that the committee would distribute more than 35 million euros to those affected by the aggression on Gaza.

The minister pointed out that the committee is not for the reconstruction of destroyed areas, but it was formed to provide instant relief to all citizens who were wounded or whose houses were destroyed partially or completely, adding that the reconstruction efforts need enormous amounts of money and coordination with donor countries.

In an exclusive statement to the PIC, Dr. Mohamed Askool, the minister of education stated that the opening of the second school semester and the return of students to classrooms on Saturday represent a message to the Israeli occupation that Palestinian students decided to continue their lives in defiance of the size of pain and destruction it caused in Gaza.

Dr. Askool said that 250,000 students from all levels returned to 380 schools in Gaza, adding that the destruction that affected some schools was addressed through transferring students to other schools.

About 200,000 students studying in UNRWA schools also returned on the same day to classrooms.

Source : http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

Perang Nafas Panjang

oleh Yasen Izzuddin

Israel masih terus melakukan eskalasi serangan ke Jalur Gaza sesuai rencana yang mereka buat sejak enam bulan lalu. Serangan ini dilakukan setelah mereka yakin blokade terhadap Jalur Gaza tidak membuahkan hasil yang mereka inginkan. Karenanya harus ada alternatif. Seruan terhadap ribuan pasukan cadangan dan mobilisasi opini publik agar bersiap melakukan perang panjang mengisyaratkan bahwa perang kali bukan sekedar bertujuan menghentikan roket perlawanan Palestina.

Apa lantas tujuan Israel kali ini? Apa tahapannya? Apa alternatif bagi perlawanan Palestina? Bagaimana kita membantu dan menduukung perlawan Palestina dalam perangnya melawan Israel?

Niat dan tujuan Israel
Tujuan Israel dalam perang kali ini bukan sekedar menghentikan roket perlawanan. Sebab itu bisa dilakukan dengan memperpanjang gencatan senjata dan membebaskan blokae. Israel selalu melihat bahaya perlawanan Palestina yang terus mempersenjatai diri. Karenanya sejak awal Israel berusaha memaksakan syarat “hentikan penylundupan senjata” dalam kesepakatan gencatan senjata. Setelah mereka gagal di sini, mereka mulai menyerang Jalur Gaza seperti sekarang ini.

Serangan Israel ke markas kepolisian di Jalur Gaza tidak mempengaruhi kekuatan perlawanan. Sebab memang sulit menyerang dengan target markas perlawanan di Jalur Gaza. Karenanya, Israel ingin mengkloning eksperiman “teror dan hantam secara psikologi” seperti yang dilakukan Amerika ketika menyerang Irak. Israel berharap Hamas dan perlawanan akan hancur tanpa melalui perang hakiki seperti yang terjadi dalam perang menghadapi Saddam Husain. Ini bisa kita lihat bagaimana media Israel memprovokasi warga sipil Palestina agar menyalahkan dan menyerang Hamas. Bahkan Israel ingin menciptakan konflik internal setelah perang kali ini. Sehingga kemampuan Hamas terkuras habis.

Perang kali ini juga mengharuskan kita menengok proyek Israel – Amerika setelah lima tahun terakhir mereka menyerang Irak, Libanon, Afaganistan dan Somalia. Proyek menghancurkan “negara perlawanan” di Gaza menurut mereka amat darura dilakukan. Sebab gerakan Hamas memiliki popularitas paling tinggi. Eksistensi Hamas di Gaza sangat mengancam proyek Israel Amerika. Apalagi menurut mereka Hamas dari sisi senjata masih lemah dan tidak memiliki dukung Arab yang kuat. Ditambah letak geografis Jalur Gaza.

Berdasarkan realitas di atas, kita harus menunggu kondisi terburuk dari Israel. Mereka menyerang markas-markas polisi dan dianggap serbagai operasi yang berhasil dan cerdas. Namun ini menunjukkan mereka terjepit dalam dilematis karena mereka tidak berhasil menghcurkan proyek perlawanan. Hingga sekarang Israel belum menggunakan seluruh kekuatannya. Dalam peperangan ini Israel masih mengerahkan 60 pesawat tempurnya di hari pertama yang merupakan 10 persen dari kekuatan udara Israel.

Adapun model perang Israel kali ini adalah sebagai berikut:
Israel siap perang panjang selama beberapa pekan meski mereka rugi nyawa dalam batas relatif. Namun kemungkinan ketegaran mereka sangat rendah menghadapi kerugian itu.

Israel hanya mengandalkan serangan udara hingga sekarang.
Tidak ada dimulai perang darat kecuali jika semua target serangan udara tercapai. Serangan darat akan dilakukan dalam dua bentuk:

Serangan luas di seluruh wilayah Jalur Gaza dan ini akan memakan korban nyawa yang banyak. Perang seperti ini akan segera berakhir jika spirit perlawanan menurun.

Serangan bertahap dimana Israel akan menguasai wilayah perbatasan. Kemudian jika ada perlawanan di depan mereka yang lemah maka Israel akan maju ke wilayah lain. Dan demikian seterusnya. Model serangan ini akan mengurangi kerugian pasukan Israel. Namun kelemahannya gaya perang ini akan lama yang tidak sepadan dengan kemampuan pasukan Israel.

Israel berusaha fokus dalam serangannya menghancurkan pos-pos pemerintah dan infrastruktur yang terkait dengan Hamas. Ini untuk mencari lagalitas internasional dan meyakinkan kelompok moderat Arab bahwa adalah kepentingan bersama dalam perang kali ini.

Alternatif bagi perlawanan
Tidak ada banyak pilihan bagi perlawanan kecuali melewati perang dengan seminim mungkin menekan kerugian dan menggagalkan target-target Israel. Pada saat yang sama mereka harus menciptakan capai-capaian berikut:

Tetap tegar dan memperpanjang peperangan. Semakin lama perang, militer Israel semakin terbebani dan semakin kuat tekanan internasional terhadap mereka. Karena roket perlawanan adalah ujung tombak perlawanan, roket ini harus menembus dan mengenai sasarannya. Yang penting keberlanjutan serangan roket ini.

Ujian ril perlawanan adalah mulai perang darat. Di sini perlawanan akan melakukan tiga tugas: pertama, menghalangi pasukan Israel dalam jangka yang lebih panjang. Kedua, memasang banyak ranjau. Terakhir, memukul serangan Israel melalui roket dan serangan lainnya.
Keberlanjutan serangan ke titik dalam Israel dan menciptakan kerugian nyawa di kalangan mereka. Meski sehari roket perlawanan bisa membunuh satu orang Israel selama 10 hari itu lebih baik daripada dalam sekali serangan. Dari sisi psikologi ini lebih berpengaruh di pihak Israel.

Perlawanan harus bisa menjatuhkan sebuah pesawat Israel dan menghancurkan tank atau menawan pasukan Israel. Ini dilakukan untuk menciptakan dilamatis Israel dan mencari dukungan dari Arab oleh Palestina yang terdlalimi.

Bagaimana membantu
Aksi kecaman terhadap Israel harus terus dilakukan oleh publik dan massa di negara-negara Arab dan Islam. Demikian juga aksi dukungan terhadap perlawanan harus dilakukan tanpa henti. Sehingga semua warga Palestina akan keluar membawa dan melempar batu dan pecahan botol dan kaca ke arah Israel. Terutama di Tepi Barat. Hal ini juga akan menimbulkan prakarsa pribadi dari warga Palestina untuk melakukan serangan ke Israel seperti bom syahid dan serangan merebut mobil.

Publik Arab juga harus menekan Israel. Jika mereka diam sama saja mereka setuju dengan kejahata Israel.

Kesimpulan
Berbagai indikasi menunjukkan, kejahatan dan brutalisme Israel di Jalur Gaza akan berlangsung lama. Sehingga perlawanan Palestina harus siap dengan segala kemungkinan dan mereka harus mampu bertahan di tengah pertempuran dan menyerang Israel secara fisik dan non fisik. Semua kita harus mendukung perlawanan itu. Yang menang dalam perang ini adalah yang memiliki nafas panjang dan memiliki kemampuan mengadapi musuh secara berkesinambungan. (bn-bsyr)
Source : http://www.infopalestina.com

Hamas gaining sympathy as onslaught continues

By Khalid Amayreh

With the massive Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip continuing unabated, and with Israeli political and military leaders threatening to “decimate” Hamas, Palestinian intellectuals as well as ordinary people expect Hamas’s popularity to rise dramatically when the present Israeli campaign is over.

Israel claims that its war on Gaza is with Hamas, not with the Palestinian people. However, There is hardly a Palestinian who would give the Israeli claim the benefit of the doubt.
And those who do, such as the followers of the so-called “American-Israeli Trend” within the Fatah movement, are quite reluctant to speak up publicly, fearing a severe reaction from the Palestinian public and being accused of treason and collaboration with Israel.

Israel also hopes that the vast havoc and destruction and death wreaked on Gaza so far would prompt the masses to blame Hamas.

However, apart from some Fatah figures who have vested interests in portraying Hamas in bad light, most Palestinians are blaming Israel and the “treacherous Arab regimes” for the Gaza nightmare.

On Wednesday, the American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was forced to acknowledge that the “Israeli aggression” was targeting not a specific Palestinian faction, but the entire Palestinian people.

“This criminal aggression is targeting all Palestinians without discrimination,” said Abbas in pre-recorded speech broadcast by the Fatah-controlled Palestine TV.

The Palestinian leader also hinted that he might terminate futile peace talks with Israel if the Jewish state continued to use the talks as a rubric for murdering and tormenting the Palestinian people.

It is not certain if Abbas’s relatively tough tone is genuine or disingenuous. Skeptics, and they are many, think that Abbas is only trying to mollify the decidedly anti-Israeli Palestinian public.
In recent days, Hamas accused a number of PA figures, including two top aides to Chairman Abbas, al Tayeb Abdul Rahim and Nimr Hamad, of colluding with Israel against Hamas.

Hamas’s officials in Gaza accused Abdul Rahim of directing a cell of Fatah informers in Gaza to collect information on Hamas’s targets and relay it to Israel via Ramallah.Such charges, coupled with the widespread views in the Arab world that the PA along with Egypt were conniving and conspiring with Israel to bring down the Hamas government have forced the Ramallah regime into a defensive posture.

“We have been struggling for forty years, and no one has the right to doubt our credentials,” Abbas angrily told reporters earlier.

However, such defensive reflexes by PA leaders are failing to convince the skeptical Palestinian public opinion of their innocence.

“There are widespread feelings among Palestinians that the PA is quite satisfied with what is happening in Gaza . And undoubtedly this is going to seriously undermine the image of Palestinian leadership,” opined Abdul Sattar Qassem, Professor of political Science at the Najah National University in Nablus .
Qassem predicted that the current Israeli campaign would actually lead to the boosting of Hamas’s popularity.

“ Israel , and probably some other Arab regimes, think that the intensive bombing and pornographic murder in Gaza would force the Palestinian main street to abandon or rise up against Hamas. This was undoubtedly the goal behind the harsh blockade of Gaza . But of course no serious uprising against Hamas took place.

“From my observations of the general mood in Gaza and Palestine in general, I don’t think that even those who hate Hamas would rise up against it, mainly because of the broad-based support it enjoys. Yes, many people may be quite satisfied seeing Israel bomb Hamas targets, but their ability to mobilize the Palestinian street against the movement is very limited.

“Moreover, the anti-Hamas elements know that they won’t be able to successfully confront Hamas’s supporters in the streets.”

Qassem said he believed that the PA would be the biggest loser in the current showdown between Israel and Hamas.

“If Israel succeeded in dismantling the government of Gaza , and then handed over the coastal enclave to the PA, then most Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims would view the PA as a quisling entity very much like defunct Israeli puppet South Lebanese army.”

Another Palestinian intellectual, Abdul Bari Atwan, predicts that public support for Hamas will increase as a result of the present Israeli campaign in the Gaza Strip.

“The Palestinian people is not stupid, it knows very well who the real patriots are and who the real traitors are. Abbas is not a real President of the Palestinian people. He is answerable to Israel and the United States , not to the Palestinian people,” said the Editor-in-Chief of the London based Arabic daily, al Quds al Arabi.

The mood of ordinary Palestinians who are unaffiliated with any political faction doesn’t differ much.

“I think Israel wouldn’t have started this genocide without at least a wink from Abbas,” said Hasan Amer, a cabbie from the Bethlehem region.

“Things are clear and one doesn’t have to be versed in politics to see the facts.”

Source : http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

Reflections on the Israeli holocaust in Gaza

By Khalid Amayreh

The virtual holocaust Israel is now waging against the Gaza Strip is taking its toll on innocent civilians. The shocking scenes speak for themselves. The gruesomeness transcends reality; it exceeds by far the most eloquent of words.

Gaza-2008-9 is very much like Dresden-1945. And as Dresden was annihilated by the RAF toward the end of the Second World War, the 1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza are being decapitated and thoroughly terrorized by the Israeli army, the Wehrmacht of our time.
But there is obviously a fundamental and conspicuous difference between Gaza and Dresden. Dresden was targeted by the allies as an act of sheer vengeance and revenge for what the Nazi war machine had done, including German attacks on London and other British cities.

But Gaza committed no crime against Israel. To be sure, the opposite is quite true. Have we forgotten that the bulk of the Gaza victims, who are being annihilated with the Zionist war machine, happen to be refugees and their children and grandchildren uprooted from their towns and villages across the borders inside Israel?

In 1948, Israel uprooted them in wave after wave of genocidal ethnic cleansing, and ever since has been trying to liquidate them by bombing their homes, killing their children, bulldozing their farms and lately by trying to starve them to death.

And now, the six-decade reign of terror and death is being culminated with an aerial holocaust, all for the purpose of displaying “Jewish power” and “heroism.”!!! Well, what heroism is there in having the state-of-the-art of the American machine of death rain missiles and bombs, including Bunker Busters, on unprotected apartment buildings, mosques, streets, pharmacies, college dormitories? This is not heroism; it is a sheer act of cowardice.

The Nazis ganged up on defenseless people more than six decades ago, but they at least didn’t claim to be carrying out heroic acts as self-absorbed and gleeful Israeli leaders are doing now.
In truth, Gaza is being crucified because it refuses to succumb to the cruelty and supremacy of the “holy tribe,” because it refuses to die quietly and continues to cling to life and look forth for a better tomorrow, because Gaza is saying “give me freedom or give me death.”

The Nazis of our time want Gaza to die quietly, or at least as quietly as possible. Israeli behavior leaves no doubt as to the diabolical designs of the Judeo-Nazi entity.

But the Israeli military and political establishments don’t want to appear before the world as they really are, as Nazis par excellence who think, behave and act like the Nazis. This is why they are trying to cover up their crimes with a frantic campaign of fabricated lies.
But Nazis are Nazis even if they have Jewish names and pretend to be the victims. In the final analysis it doesn’t matter if Nazis call themselves “chosenites” or “master race” or “ubermenschen,” or even “victims.”

Sowing hatred
Israel is not only wreaking death, terror and havoc on defenseless Gazans. It is also sowing hatred, a lot of hatred, in the hearts and minds of millions of people who are watching Israel decapitate Gaza.

This is undoubtedly going to be one of the lasting aftereffects of this madness.
The gruesome and phantasmagoric images which hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims and others around the world are watching on their TV screens around the clock are a sure prescription for decades of hatred and sullen enmity toward Jews throughout the Muslim world.

Arab and Muslim children won’t have to read about Israeli Nazism in their textbooks. They are watching it live on their TV screens.

Let it be clear to all and sundry. Israel is telling an entire generation of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims that they either surrender to the Jewish Third Reich or become “terrorists.”
They will become “terrorists” and be it as it may.

Surely, the pornographic slaughter will eventually boomerang on Israel and regretfully on Jews. Unfortunately, many innocent Jews will pay the price just as mostly innocent Palestinians are paying the price, with their lives and the lives of their children and beloved ones, for the brutal ugliness of the Zionist mindset. In the final analysis, anti-Semitism is manufactured in Israel, not in Damascus or Cairo or even Gaza.

Hamas
Israel says its aim is to destroy Hamas. Well, there is no doubt that Israel possesses the military ability to destroy the Hamas government. Israel, after all, is a military superpower which also happens to be more or less in control of the politics and policies of the United States and to a lesser extent the governments of Europe.

However, destroying Hamas’s government is one thing, and destroying Hamas the movement, is quite another.

Hamas has hundreds of thousands of supporters in occupied Palestine as well as tens of millions of sympathizers across the Arab and Muslim world. These will not disappear even if the Gaza government does.

The ongoing huge demonstrations in solidarity with Hamas, now flooding the Arab world, shows that Hamas is more, much more, than a local nationalist-Islamic movement that can be eradicated by Israeli firepower.

Yes, Hamas has obviously been hit hard. But the movement is by no means about to die or even get weaker. In fact, there are many indications that Hamas will get stronger, at least in terms of popularity and stature.

The American puppet regimes in the Arab world may not like Hamas. Some of them may even be gloating over the Gaza calamity.

However, Hamas is definitely winning the hearts and minds of the Arab masses from Casablanca to Bahrain. This may not yield tangible benefits immediately, but the long-term gains are absolutely certain, and this is exactly what Hamas is seeking.

Well, let us suppose for the sake of argument that Israel succeeds in “terminating” the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip as Israeli leaders have been saying. Would this end the Islamic resistance to the Israeli occupation? Would this allow Israel to liquidate the Palestinian cause by imposing a “peace settlement” on the weak Palestinian Authority?

Nay, this won’t happen at all, because Hamas, whether we like or not, represents and encapsulates the spiritual essence of the Palestinian people and their yearning for freedom and justice.

More to the point, the contemplated elimination of the Hamas government by Israel would eventually be proven to be one of the stupidest Israeli misdeeds ever.

First of all, it would free the resistance group from the burden of government and allow it anew to carry out more ferocious attacks against Israel without having to worry about the bombing by Israel of buildings and security headquarters and hospitals.

In fact, Hamas had never wanted to be in government let alone form one. Hamas all along had wanted to be in a position to influence any Palestinian government, but not to be in the driver’s seat itself.

However, the outcome of the 2006 elections imposed the burden of government on Hamas especially after Fatah refused to join Hamas in forming a government of national unity.
So, in a certain sense, the disappearance of the Hamas government in Gaza would be a bless in disguise for Hamas.

Remember these words very well. Because the conflict with Israel is not going to end in ten years or twenty or even fifty years.

Source : http://www.palestine-info.co.uk

Korban Gaza: Mereka Membombardir Kami Saat Sedang Bersujud

“Saat kami sedang bersujud menghadap Allah, tiba-tiba kami mendengar raungan pesawat tempur Zionis Israel yang datang dari jauh. Tidak lama kemudian pesawat-pesawat pembunuhan itu memuntahkan bom-bom ke arah kami. Semua itu terjadi dalam hitungan menit hingga masjid yang kami ada di dalamnya dihancurkan dari atas kepala-kepala kami.”

Inilah kalimat yang menuturkan kepedihan. Yang menggambarkan aksi bombardemen pesawat tempur Israel ke rumah-rumah Allah di Jalur Gaza. Kalimat itu dituturkan Ramadhan Khaled al Afsy, salah seorang dari 13 korban luka yang sampai di rumah sakit Nasher di Kairo, Mesir, dari total 36 korban luka Jalur Gaza yang berhasil dibawa ke wilayah Mesir.

Khaled (27), menuturkan sisi lain “genosida Gaza yang kedua”. Dia mengatakan, “Saya adalah satu di antara warga kamp pengungsi Nusairat di Jalur Gaza. Bersamaan dengan dimulainya gempuran Israel ke seluruh wilayah Jalur Gaza Sabtu (27/12) siang lalu, saya bersama sekelompok orang berangkat menunaikan shalat dzuhur di masjid al Zahra, sebuah masjid kecil di kamp pengungsi Nusairat.”

Dia menambahkan, “Baru saja kami memulai pada rekaat pertama hingga missil-missil pesawat pembunuhan Israel menghantam kami saat kami sedang bersujud. Saya saat itu hanya bica memohon kepada Allah agar melindungi kami semua dari segala keburukan dan mengembalikan tipu daya mereka ke leher-leher mereka.”

Dia merasa bersyukur atas apa yang menimpanya, lebih baik dari apa yang menimpa yang lainnya. Khaled menuturkan, “Tiba-tiba saja masjid sudah dihancurkan total dari atas kepala-kepala kami. Bukan hanya masjid satu-satunya. Namun sejumlah rumah warga di sekitar masjid juga dihancurkan. Nasibku agak lebih baik. Karena saya berada di dekat pintu masjid yang dipenuhi dengan jamaah shalat. Saya berhasil dikeluarkan dengan segera dari bawah reruntuhan puing-puing masjid dan dibawa ke rumah sakit. Kami, 40 jamaah shalat tertimpa masjid dari atas kepala-kepala kami akibat bombardemen Israel. Saya tidak tahu sampai sekarang, apa yang terjadi pada mereka (jamaah yang lain).”

Khaled, meskipun mengalami patah tulang di kedua pundahknya dan sejumlah tulang rusuk serta terkena serpihan rudal di pinggang kanannya, sehingga membuatnya sangat sulit berbicara, namun dia terus melanjutkan penuturannya. “Sesampainya saya di rumah sakit as Shifa di kotaGaza, saya tahu bahwa Zionis Israel menjadikan masjid-masjid sebagai sasaran bombardemennya. Saya tahu pesawat-pesawat tempur Israel menghancurkan sejumlah masjid lainnya. Di antaranya adalah masjid as Shifa di barat Gaza, masjid al Qassam di Khan Yunis, masjid Imad Aqil di utara Jalur Gaza, masjid Abu Bakar ash Shidiq di kamp pengungsi Jabaliya dan masjid al Istiqamah di kota Rafah,” tuturnya.

Khaled, yang kini dirawat di lantai empat bagian gawat darurat di rumah sakit Nasher, Mesir, dengan bercucuran air mata melanjutkan penuturannya. “Saya memiliki 9 anak. Saya tidak tahu nasib sebagian dari mereka sekarang. Meskipun salah seorang anak saya sudah menghubungi saya dan menenangkan saya soal mereka, namun saya belum mendengar suara mereka. Saya cemas mereka tertimpa bahaya,” ungkapnya sedih.

Mengenai perjalanannya hingga sampai ke Mesir dia mengatakan, “Saya tinggal di rumah sakit as Shifa di Jalur Gaza selama dua hari. Selama itu kondisi saya terus memburuk. Senin malam saya sampai di Kairo setelah diangkut mobil ambulan dari kotaGaza ke perbatasan Mesir. Kemudian mobil ambulan di perbatasan Mesir membawa saya ke rumah sakit Arisy. Dari sana saya dibawa ke Kairo karena saya sangat membutuhkan tindakan operasi cukup rumit.”

Para Dokter Menangis
Dengan suara bercampur cucuran air mata, Khaled menyerukan semua pihak segera membawa para korban luka agresi biadab Israel di Jalur Gaza ke Mesir untuk mendapatkan pengobatan. “Para dokter di rumah sakit-rumah sakit di Jalur Gaza menangir karena kengerian yang mereka saksikan dan sedikitnya kemampuan yang mereka miliki. Saya sampaikan kepada semua, rumah sakit-rumah sakit di Jalur Gaza sama sekali tidak memiliki apa-apa untuk mengobati korban. Semua penuh dengan korban luka.”

Di kamar sebelah Khaled, berbaring rekannya bernama Syukri Muhammad Riyad, yang menuturkan kondisi kerja pegawai medis di Jalur Gaza. “Saya bekerja di departemen kesehatan pemerintah Gaza di kota Rafah. Saat saya melakukan tugas mengevakuasi korban luka, kepala saya kejatuhan bagian tembok yang roboh dan membuat jaringan mata saya terputus.”

Dengan sangat sedih Riyad menegaskan, “Korban luka di rumah sakit-rumah sakit Jalur Gaza tidak mendapatkan apa-apa bahkan sekadar tempat untuk meringankan rasa sakit mereka. Kami semua berharap derita sakit itu bisa berkurang dengan pengiriman korban luka ke rumah sakit-rumah sakit Mesir dan sampainya bantuan Arab ke Jalur Gaza.” Hingga Selasa (30/12), jumlah korban luka yang sampai di Mesir baru 36 orang, sebagian besar mereka dalam kondisi kritis, untuk mendapatkan pengobatan yang semestinya.

Korban Terus Bertambah
Sejak sabtu (27/12) siang jet-jet tempur Zionis Israel membombardir seluruh wilayah Jalur Gaza. Rumah-rumah warga, masjid dan fasilitas umum menjadi target bombardemen Israel. Hingga hari keenam, Kamis 01/01/09), jumlah korban gugur mencapai lebih 420-an syuhada dan lebih 2100-an terluka, 300-an di antaranya dalam kondisi kritis.

Menteri Kesehatan Palestina Dr. Baseem Naeem sebelumnya telah menegaskan bahwa korban pembantaian terbuka yang dilakukan Zionis Israel di Jalur Gaza sejak hari Sabtu (27/12), terus bertambah banyak. Terlebih ada ratusan korban luka yang dalam kondisi kritis dan puluhan lainnya masih di bawah puing-puing reruntuhan.

Naeen menegaskan persediaan obat-obatan dan kebutuhan medis lainnya sangat kurang untuk menghadapi kondisi darurat ini. Dia mengungakapkan ada 105 jenis obat-obatan utama yang stoknya nol, 225 kebutuhan medis lainnya stoknya juga nol. Sementara itu 93 bahan khusus laboratoriam stoknya juga nol.

Naeem mengatakan 50% mobil ambulan tidak bisa beroperasi karena tidak ada gas dan bahan bakar akibat blockade. Saat ini juga sangat dibutuhkan pembangkit listrik. Naeem menegaskan semua itu sudah terjadi sejak sebelum pembantaian yang dimulai Israel Sabtu lalu dan akibat blockade Israel. Dia mengatakan, “Agresi terjadi di tengah-tengah sikap diam Arab yang membunuh dan persekongkolan dunia.”

Dia menyatakan pasukan penjajah Zionis Israel tidak hanya menggempur isntitusi-institusi dan gedung-gedung namun mulai mengempur fasilitas-fasilits sipil dan rumah-rumah warga. Ada puluhan peringatan untuk mengosongkan rumah dan ancaman kepada para penghuninya akan dihancurkan di atas kepala mereka. Dia meminta pengiriman tim medis Arab dan rumah sakit-rumah sakit lapangan untuk membantu pengobatan korban luka di saat-saat korban tiba. Dia mengimbau Negara-negara Arab untuk mengirim obat-obatan dan kebutuhan medis secepatnya dan mengganti kekurangan mobil ambulan dengan mengirim mobil ambulan yang siap beroperasi.

Pihak Mesir sendiri tetap menolak membuka pintu gerbang Rafah untuk pengiriman obat-obatan, peralatan medis serta tim medisnya ke Jalur Gaza. Mesir hanya mengizinkan pengiriman korban ke gerbang Rafah untuk kemudian diangkut ke Mesir atau Negara Arab lainnya.

Mengenai pengiriman korban luka melalui gerbag Rafah ke Mesir, Naeem mengatakan, “Ada kesulitan membawa korban ke luar Jalur Gaza. Padahal ada banyak korban luka yang sangat serius. Apapun upaya membawa korban dengan tidak aman justru membuat hidup mereka terancam bahaya. Kami masih ingat meninggalnya 6 korban luka di Arisy terakhir.”
Dia mengatakan, “Kami siap membawa korban luka kapan kondisi mereka stabil.” Dia menegaskan bahwa pemerintah Haniyah sudah meminta mobil ambulan Mesir masuk ke Gaza untuk mengevakuasi korban namun mereka menolak dengan alasan politik. Naeem mengatakan, “Siapa yang ingin membantu rakyat Palestina dalam ujian ini maka harus memudahkan sampainya tim dokter dan rumah sakit lapangan masuk secepatnya pada saat-saat sulit di Jalur Gaza.”

Menurutnya, sudah ada ratusan dokter Arab yang menunjukkan kesiapan mereka untuk masuk ke Jalur Gaza. Sebagian mereka sudah bermalam di sisi perbatasan Mesir dari gerbang Rafah berharap bisa masuk. Namun otoritas Mesir menahan mereka.
Dia menambahkan, bahkan tim medis dari departemen kesehatan Palestina sudah berada di sisi Jalur Gaza dari gerbang Rfah sejak pagi untuk menerima bantuan medis Arab, namun otoritas Mesir tidak mengizinkan mereka masuk hingga saat ini.

Naeen mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Negara-negara yang sudah membantu seperti Qatar, Arab Saudi dan Libia. Namun pihaknya kembali meminta Mesir mempermudah masuknya bantuan ini dan membuka gerbang untuk masuk tim tim medis ke Jalur Gaza. (seto)

Source : http://www.infopalestina.com

World Rallies for Gaza Peace

Millions of people around the world took to the streets on Friday, January 2, in a day of anger over the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. "Israel is committing an act of terrorism. It's the duty of all the free people in the world to stand against it and stop this evil," Australian Muslim imam Abu Mohammed said.

Bearing pro-Palestinian flags and banners, thousands of Australian Muslims took to the streets early Friday to denounce the Israeli attacks in Gaza.

The protestors flocked to Parry Park in the city's Islamic heartland to demonstrate and pray for the Palestinian victims of the week-long Israeli blitz.

A makeshift coffin draped in the Palestinian flag was carried before the crowd, followed by a procession of eight imams.

In London, protestors gathered to demonstrate against the Gaza attacks.
Click to Watch "I would like to make an appeal to president elect Obama to speak up," human rights activist Bianca Jagger said.

"People throughout the world were hopeful when he was elected and we must appeal to him to ask for the immediate cessation of the bombardment of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip."
Obama has kept a low profile on the Gaza conflict, stressing that there is only one president at a time ahead of his inauguration on January 20.

At least 428 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,200 wounded in a week-long Israeli offensive in the overcrowded strip."I want to feel proud of Israel, I want to be proud of my people but I am ashamed," said actor Alexei Sayle.

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Pro-Palestinians rallies also swept the streets from the Middle East to Asia.
Tens of thousands marched in the West Bank, where Israel slapped a full closure, against the Israeli attacks in Gaza.

In Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem), protesters hurled rocks at Israeli troops which barred a lot of Palestinians from praying at Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine.
Pro-Gaza rallies were also staged throughout Jordan, with campaigns demanding Jordanians to donate blood, medicine and food to the besieged Gazans.

In Lebanon, protesters staged mock funeral parlors and carried empty coffins in a sign of solidarity with Gazans. Some protesters have kept their sit-in in the front of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut.

Thousands of Egyptians took to the street in several cities after the Friday prayers, calling for an action over the Israeli attacks.

In Cairo, riot police cordoned key mosques.
"Except Cairo, Egyptians across the country protested against the Israeli onslaught in Gaza," Mohamed Ezzat, Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood, told the Doha-based Al-Jazeera.

In the Gulf state of Qatar, thousands of Qatari nationals and foreigners staged blood and aid campaigns for the Gazans.More than 1,000 Afghans also marched through the centre of Herat City, in the western province of Herat, against the Israeli attacks.

"We are here to demonstrate against Israelis who make Palestinians suffer," said Mohammad Shafi, a 19-year-old Afghan student."Down with Israel," were among the slogans the protestors chanted as they marched through the streets.
"We are gathered here to share our voice with the depressed and defenseless people of Palestine in order to be able to do a small thing for the Muslim people of Palestine," said scholar Farooq Hossaini.

In Turkey, thousands of people demonstrated against the deadly Israeli offensive outside the historic Beyazit Mosque in the ancient heart of Istanbul. "Israeli murderers, get out of Palestine", "Muslims, don't sleep, defend Palestine" were among the slogans chanted by the protestors.

Thousands of people also marched in Pakistan, Indonesia and Kashmir against the deadly Israeli attacks. "Look how they are killing Muslims and no one seems to be bothered," said Kashmiri protestor Akbar Ali.

Source: IslamOnline

Tahun Baru Diatas Tangis Palestina

oleh Haryandi

Baru kali ini diri merasakan tahun baru di Swedia. Pukul 22.00 kami beranjak menuju pusat kota di Goteborg, kota terbesar kedua setelah ibukota Swedia, Stockholm. Dinginnya malam, dengan suhu -2 C tak urung mengerdilkan nyali warga untuk menghabiskan malam tahun baru dengan berpesta dan berkumpul.

Sempat hati tak ingin ikut menikmati malam pergantian tahun ini, tapi momen ini menjadi hikmah tersendiri untuk mengukur nikmat Allah kepada hambaNya. Malam itu dipenuhi pesta dan hura-hura. Diskotik, pub, club, dan sarana hiburan lainnya ramai pengunjung bahkan hingga antrian panjang memenuhi lorong-lorong di pusat keramaian. Di jalan-jalan ratusan pemuda pemudi bermabuk ria. Miras yang dibeli sejak sore, dihabiskan untuk malam tahun baru, padahal dari sisi harganya sangat mahal karena kebijakan pajak tinggi untuk miras dari pemerintah Swedia.

Berbagai hiburan ditawarkan, pesta khusus pun direncanakan. Detik-detik pergantian tahun selalu diiringi letusan dan kemilau kembang api. Dari segenap penjuru kota Gotenborg penuh dihiasi cahaya warna warni tanda tahun sudah berganti. Entah, berapa uang yang keluar pada malam ini. Andai 1 set kembang api dengan harga 100 SEK (1 SEK sekitar Rp.1400) untuk ukuran standar, berapa yang terbuang pada malam itu. Ditambah berkaleng-kaleng minuman keras dihamburkan, hanya untuk pesta pergantian tahun 2008 menuju 2009.

Pikiranku melayang, membayangkan kondisi di salah satu negeri yang saat itu mengalami hal yang sebaliknya. Negeri para nabi digempur dari darat, laut, dan udara. Dentuman keras bukan suara kembang api, tapi bom asli. Kilauan cahaya bukan warna-warni kembang api, tapi kilauan bom dari pesawat tempur dan tank tempur. Disaat manusia berpesta pora, mereka di blokade dari berbagai sisi bahkan negara tetangga bersekongkol menutup perbatasan sebagai jalur bantuan. Disaat uang dan makanan dihambur-hamburkan pada malam ini, mereka tak berdaya hingga rumah sakit kehabisan stok obat, anak-anak dan keluarga kelaparan.

Sungguh tak adil. Orang yang menyerang dianggap pahlawan, orang yang bertahan dianggap teroris. Persekongkolan busuk yang nyata didepan mata. Sekitar 400 syahid dipanggil Allah, beberapa keluarga musnah tanpa generasi, bangunan porak poranda, bahkan rumah Allah pun diluluh lantakkan dengan berbagai dalih. Tangisan duka menyelimuti ibu-ibu yang kehilangan anaknya, tangisan luka menghiasi tiap jengkal tanah Gaza. Kekecaman ini kian menunjukkan arogansi umat yang terlaknat, umat yang selalu membuat ulah disaat Allah mengirimkan nabi dan rasul pilihan.

Darah dan air mata dari pelosok Gaza. Tangis dan luka itu takkan menyurutkan perjuangan merebut hak rakyat Palestina. Sekecil apapun bantuan kita, baik doa dan finansial. Semoga Allah memberi balasan yang setimpal dan memberikan kekuatan kepada saudara-saudara kita di Palestina. Untuk saudaraku di Gaza, Allahlah tujuan akhir kita.

Source : www.eramuslim.com