Stench of Death Hangs Over Gaza (LINK to PICS)

Source: The Palestine Chronicle

With thick clouds of smoke billowing into the sky and dead bodies littering into the streets, a stench of death rose from the ruins of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, December 27.

"Where are my sons?" screamed Um Ibrahim as she ran hysterically looking for her little kids.

She lives near a security compound Israeli planes pounded to the ground on Saturday.

"I don't know what happened to them," cried the bereaved mother.

Her neighbor Um Abed fell unconscious when she saw her son among the dead in the attacks.

At least 206 Palestinians were killed in massive Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

"The number of victims has reached 195 martyrs with more than 300 wounded, 120 of whom are critically hurt," said Moawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services.

"The toll has gone up because of new Israeli raids and the discovery of several martyrs under the rubble."

TV footage showed bodies of people scattered on the ground after Israeli attacks destroyed several security compounds.

Some rescue workers beat their heads and shouted "God is greatest" as one badly wounded man lying nearby quietly recited verses from the Qur'an.

The Israeli army confirmed the attacks, saying it was just the beginning of a bigger onslaught in the seaside strip.

"The operation will go on and be intensified as long as necessary," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told reporters.

"The battle will be long and difficult, but the time has come to act and to fight."

Israeli leaders have vowed to launched a massive offensive to end Hamas rule in Gaza, sealed off by Israel since last June.

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Is that link not acceptable?

Supporter and the poster is then tombstoned.

of diplomacy this might not have happened.

This is going to be very bad...

Israel has been occupying territory that isn't theirs for 40 years.

There is nothing in the Torah or the New Testament or the Qu'aran that permits me to forgive this kind of cruelty.

It is an act of barbarism. When religion ceases to be a civilizing force, then there is no longer a reason for religion.