With unreserved support from the Bush administration, Israel went to all extremes to inflict its updated version of the Holocaust on the Palestinians in Gaza. In more than 2,000 air strikes, the Israeli air force rained 1,000 tons of bombs and unknown thermal explosives, probably still in the testing stage, on Gaza's people and infrastructure. Its artillery, tanks and seaborne missiles pounded the Strip from all sides as its ground forces fought pitched battles with Palestinian resistance fighters. When Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral ceasefire, half of Gaza City lay in ruins, reminiscent of Berlin in the final days of World War II. More than 1,200 people were killed and 5,300 injured, not taking into account those who may still be buried under the rubble. As the dust settled it turned out that the supposedly humane children and grandchildren of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust spared nothing: civilians were ordered by leaflets to abandon their homes and then were bombed in the shelters they took to, in UNRWA schools and other hiding places; schools, hospitals, medical centres, administrative government buildings, graveyards, fire engines, ambulances, men and mosques were uniformly bombed, killed or destroyed.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/931/op2.htm
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