Israeli Demolitions Deemed Excessive

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43167-2004Oct18.html

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"Israeli troops have destroyed hundreds of houses and left thousands of Palestinians homeless in the southern Gaza Strip in operations that far exceeded military security requirements during the past four years, the New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Monday.

Human Rights Watch officials alleged that Israel's excessive use of force against innocent Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza has contributed to outrage across the Muslim world toward Israel and its closest ally, the United States.


"The pattern of destruction strongly suggests that Israeli forces demolished homes wholesale, regardless of whether they posed a specific threat, in violation of international law," Human Rights Watch said in its 133-page report, adding that in most of the cases "the destruction was carried out in the absence of military necessity."

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"According to the United Nations, the Israeli military has destroyed at least 1,686 Palestinian houses in the congested, concrete-block warrens of the Rafah refugee camp and adjacent city of Rafah, which stretch 2 1/2 miles along the Gaza border with Egypt. Nearly 17,000 people -- about 10 percent of the population of the Rafah communities -- have been left homeless during the last four years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees reports."

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1. Or, as Ma'ariv put on the front page: "A Town for a Town"

Which the Washington Post refused to report at the time, as usual.

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2. well duh

"Israeli troops have destroyed hundreds of houses and left thousands of Palestinians homeless in the southern Gaza Strip in operations that far exceeded military security requirements "

far exceeded military security requirements