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Un jour, une vie : quand une infirmière a été tuée à Gaza, était-ce un accident ?
David M. Halbfinger, The New York Times
Traduction de l’anglais par Yves Jardin, membre du GT prisonniers de l’AFPS
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Le 1er juin, un soldat israélien a tiré sur une foule, tuant une infirmière bénévole du nom de Razan al-Najjar. Les responsables israéliens disent que les soldats ne tirent à balles réelles qu’en dernier recours. Cette enquête du New York Times prouve le contraire. Le NYT a analysé plus de 1.000 photos et vidéos, bloqué l’instant fatal sur un modèle en 3 dimensions de la manifestation et interviewé plus de 30 témoins et officiers des F.D.I. pour révéler comment Razan a été tuée.

Publié le 30 décembre 2018

Khuzaa, Bande de Gaza — Une jeune infirmière, portant un foulard, va au-devant du danger, avec sa blouse blanche comme seule protection. A travers un brouillard de gaz lacrymogène et de fumée noire, elle s’efforce d’arriver jusqu’à un homme affalé sur le sol le long de la frontière de Gaza. Des soldats israéliens, leur arme braquée, regardent avec méfiance depuis l’autre côté.

Quelques minute plus tard, un tir de fusil déchire le vacarme, et la tragédie israélo-palestinienne s’enrichit de son tout dernier personnage tragique.

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Israeli forces fire at Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza
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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian farmers tending to their fields in the outskirts of the village of Khuzaa east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, locals said.

Witnesses told Ma’an that the Israeli soldiers fired from machine guns prompting the farmers to leave their fields. No injuries were reported.

Gaza, Gulag on the Mediterranean - The New York Times
By MOHAMMED OMERAUG. 24, 2015
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/opinion/gaza-one-year-on-still-in-ruins.html?_r=1
Sébastien Thibault

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GAZA CITY — At this time last year, as the missiles and bombs rained down in Israel’s lopsided seven-week war against Gaza, I wrote about our struggle to survive during the holy month of Ramadan. This year, another Ramadan has passed, Eid al-Fitr is over and the reality on the ground has changed very little.

The same dreadful conditions are creating desperation among Gaza’s inhabitants, whose lives are terrorized by war and stunted by the long blockade of this spit of land, 25 miles long and six miles wide. The only difference now is the absence of the smell of gunfire and explosives, and of the smoke trails from missiles fired by Israeli F-16s crashing down among civilian homes.

I recently visited some of the most heavily damaged areas of Gaza, starting with eastern Rafah, where massive destruction is still visible and bullet holes spatter the walls of houses. Up the road, in the half-ruined village of Khuzaa, the legacy of physical and emotional trauma has yet to be addressed.

International donors at a conference in Cairo last October pledged $5.4 billion to rebuild Gaza. Instead of permanent new homes, however, people in Khuzaa have received only prefabricated temporary shelters. When it rains, sewage leaks into rooms.

Farid al-Najjar, 56, whose orange-colored taxi was destroyed in the conflict, regards the Cairo conference as a joke. Reconstruction grants have not touched his life.

Traveling north to Shejaiya, the only sign of change is that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — in a project funded by Sweden — has started removing the rubble. A year later, not one of the damaged or destroyed homes has been completely rebuilt.

Hassan Farraj, 61, stands in what is left of his house — the walls that remain are peppered with holes from automatic rifle fire and tank shells. The bare ground around the home resembles the shaven head of a vulnerable child, with no sign of anything growing back.

Everyone expects Israel to be back for another “trim,” or to “mow the grass,” or whatever deadly euphemism is in vogue the next time Israel deems it time to show us who really controls Gaza.

Amid Gaza ceasefire calm, 135 dead bodies found | Maan News Agency
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(...) Ambulances, rescue teams, and families fanned out across the coastal enclave to search for the injured and for loved ones, particularly in the eastern outskirts that have been subject to intense Israeli fire in recent days.

Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said at 7:00 p.m. that 135 dead bodies had been pulled out of the rubble so far.

Only two of the bodies have been identified thus far, he said, naming them as Abdul-Rahman Audah al-Tilbani and Arafat Abu Aweily . The two came as six bodies were found early Saturday, one in the central Gaza Strip and one in the Shujaiyya neighborhood of Gaza City.

Al-Qidra told Ma’an that Israeli forces had refused to allow ambulances and rescue teams access to the village of Khuzaa and other border areas in order to look for survivors and dead bodies.

The Lebanese al-Mayadeen satellite TV reported that at least ten dead bodies were pulled from debris in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

The channel quoted sources in the International Red Cross Committee as saying that rescue teams and ambulances were unable to access Khuzaa and that coordination with the Israeli forces was underway.

An Israeli army spokeswoman told Ma’an that Palestinians in the Khan Younis area had been told to leave their homes days ago and told not to return during the ceasefire, and that therefore rescue teams were “not allowed to search” in parts of the southern Gaza Strip.

Khuzaa has been subject to heavy Israeli shelling in recent days, with dozens killed and many more thought to be buried under the rubble since teams have been unable to access the bodies.

Israel using flechette shells in Gaza | World | The Guardian

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The Israeli military is using flechette shells, which spray out thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military operation in Gaza.

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Six flechette shells were fired towards the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, on 17 July, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. Nahla Khalil Najjar, 37, suffered injuries to her chest, it said. PCHR provided a picture of flechettes taken by a fieldworker last week.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) did not deny using the shells in the conflict. “As a rule, the IDF only employs weapons that have been determined lawful under international law, and in a manner which fully conforms with the laws of armed conflict,” a spokesperson said in response to a request for specific comment on the deployment of flechettes.

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Israeli tanks, bulldozers enter #Gaza Strip, are met with mortar fire
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Israeli army vehicles penetrated into the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, witnesses said, with Palestinian militants firing mortar shells in response without causing any casualties. “Six military bulldozers accompanied by several tanks incurred about 200 meters from the border into farmland, as helicopters and spy planes circled above near the village of Khuzaa,” east of the town of Khan Yunis, the witnesses told AFP. "Resistance fighters fired several mortar rounds at the Israeli (...)

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