OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES CONDEMN “GENOCIDE” IN GAZA, R.I. VOICES MILD REACTION
by Syarif Hidayat
While Iran, Egypt, Turkey and several other Arab and Muslim countries condemned the Israeli barbaric operation, Indonesia, a Muslim majority country, merely voices moderate reaction to the on-going Zionists “Genocide” against Palestinians including old men, women, children and babies in Gaza through their so-called “Operation Pillar of Cloud.”
“Operation Pillar of Cloud” alias “Operation Cloud
Column” (Hebrew: עמוד ענן, Amúd Anán) is one of the Zionist Terrorists “Genocides” that
were and are being committed against Palestinian people including old men,
women, children and babies. This “Operation Genocide” proves that ZIONISM
is not categorically different from NAZISM.
"ZIONISM
is racist. Being a fundamentalist political movement, ZIONISM is not
categorically different from NAZISM. Only when we understand ZIONISM in its
racist context will we begin to comprehend the depth of its atrocities." - An Anti-Zionist Israeli activist Gilad
Atzmon.
According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “War is an organized, armed, and, often, a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of political violence. The set of techniques used by a group to carry out war is known as warfare. An absence of war (and other violence) is usually called peace.”
But in
Gaza, we are seeing only the Zionist forces committing extreme aggression and
genocide against poorly defended Palestinian. We
don’t see and haven’t seen a war in Gaza! What we are seeing and have been
seeing is that the Zionist Forces are committing almost daily barbaric killings
of Palestinians, using all kind of sophisticated bombs, fighter bombers, tanks,
nuclear missiles and modern weaponry.
The Zionists war planes can fly anywhere in the Gaza airspace freely hunting for Palestinian resistant fighters without being afraid of being hit by anti-aircraft guns because Palestinians have no radars and nor air defense system. They also don’t have tanks, armored vehicles and the other modern weaponry to counter the Israeli military might.
The European Union, United
States, United Kingdom and other
Western countries expressed support for Israel's right to defend its citizens. Russia, China and France expressed neutral positions. The United Nations Security
Council held an emergency session on the situation but did not reach
a decision.
Indonesian President urges Israel to stop attacking Palestine
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urges Israel to stop attacking Gaza Strip in Palestine, hoping to avert the invasion like in 2008. Indonesia indeed sent official statement for Israel two days ago."Israel is still attacking Gaza and it causes deep concern," he said on Saturday before departing for Cambodia. Many civilians and innocent people are dead during the attack. SBY also expects UN Security Council will take a right step to stop the violent act.
"I hope the UN Security Council can prevent the escalation. And also, it is clear that Indonesia support the freedom for Palestine with two state solution," SBY said firmly. By establishing two peaceful co-existence states, Israel and Palestine, he believes that perpetual peace will be achieved.
"I hope that UN and countries in the region can encourage Israel to stop military act. Then, both parties must prevent other conflicts," he said.
Indonesia FM urges all parties for restrain
Short of condemning the Zionists genocide in Gaza, Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa has merely urged all parties to exercise restrain to ease the atmosphere in the region.
Short of condemning the Zionists genocide in Gaza, Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa has merely urged all parties to exercise restrain to ease the atmosphere in the region.
"The Indonesian government has been with concern closely
following the situation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians following a series of
Israeli military action. Indonesia urges all parties to refrain from further
actions, and do not aggravate the situation that may cause further casualties
among innocent civilians," Natalegawa said, according to a press release
issued by the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Thursday.
UN Charter
Referring to the UN Security Council emergency session held on November 14, 2012, the Foreign Minister called for the UN Security Council, in accordance with the mandate under the UN Charter, to take immediate concrete steps to defuse the situation in the region.
"Indonesia urges UN Security Council to take immediate action and to the effort to restore a conducive situation in the region" said Minister Natalegawa.
Indonesia also once again calls for all parties back to the negotiating table and seek a final solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict according the relevant UN resolutions.
"Indonesia believes, the independence of a sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, in accordance with the principle of "two states solution," is the final solution to resolve the conflict" Minister Natalegawa said.
Even though, the Indonesian leaders voiced gentle reactions on the on-going barbaric Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) attacks against Palestinians in Gaza, the first paragraph of the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia states firmly: “Whereas independence is a genuine right of all nations and any form of alien occupation should thus be erased from the earth as not in conformity with humanity and justice.”
Operation Pillar of Cloud
During the operation,
the IOF has targeted more than 800 sites, including dozens of rocket launching
pads, weapons depots, and facilities of the Hamas
authority in Gaza. At least 48 Palestinians, 22 of them militants and 26 of
them civilians (including 10 children), have been murdered by the strikes. Additionally, one man was
publicly executed by Hamas for alleged collaboration with Israel. The Hamas
Health Ministry estimates that more than 450 people have been wounded.
During the operation, Hamas and
the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
further intensified their rocket attacks on
Israeli cities and towns, in an offensive code named Operation Sajil Stones (Arabic:
حجارة سجيل, Hijarat
Sajil) by Hamas and Operation Blue
Sky (Arabic: السماء الزرقاء, As-samaa' Az-zarqa'
) by the PIJ. The resistant
groups fired over 740 Iranian Fajr-5, Russian Grad
rockets, Qassams and mortars into Beersheba,
Ashdod,
Ashkelon
and other population centers.
Three Israeli
civilians were killed in a direct hit on a home in Kiryat
Malachi, and rockets hit Tel
Aviv for the first time since the 1991 Gulf
War. By 15 November, 70 Israelis had been injured in rocket attacks.
Israel's Iron
Dome missile defense system intercepted at least 243 rockets.
There have been
ongoing negotiations between Hamas and Israel toward a ceasefire brokered by
Egypt.
The Murderous operation:
14 November
The operation began
about 16h (Israel time) with an airstrike targeting Ahmed
Jabari, chief of Hamas's military wing. Osama Hamdan, a Hamas
representative in Lebanon, said the airstrike also killed Jabari's son. The IOF released a video of this
airstrike. On the same day, an Israeli round hit the home of Jihad Mishrawi, a BBC
Arabic video editor residing in Gaza. The airstrike murdered his 11-month old son
Omar, and his sister in law. Mishrawi told the BBC Middle East bureau chief
that there had been no fighting in his residential neighbourhood at the time of
the attack.
The IOF also struck against 20 Hamas targets
in the Gaza Strip, including underground rocket launchers and an ammunition
warehouse stocking Iranian-made, long-range Fajr-5
missiles. The IOF said
that many of the targeted weapon stashes were in residential areas and
evidenced "the pattern of Hamas to use the population in Gaza as human
shields."
Israel claims to have
destroyed most of this long-range capability. An IOF spokesman said that the goal of the
operation is to "bring back quiet to southern Israel, and... to strike at
terror organizations." At the same time, Israeli spokespersons said that
it would try "to avoid civilian casualties."
Gazan militants
continued to fire rockets towards the Israeli cities of Beersheba,
Ashdod,
Ofakim
and the Shaar Hanegev and Eshkol Regional Council. The Iron
Dome missile defense system made 130 interceptions. About 55 rockets were launched on the evening
of 14 November, including a Grad rocket fired in the
direction of the Negev Nuclear Research
Center near Dimona.
On the night of 14
November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced
that the Israeli cabinet had authorized
a partial call-up of reservists in case they were needed for a large
ground-based operation.
15 November
On 15 November,
Thirteen Israelis were treated for injuries suffered during the morning. Three
Israelis, a man and two women, were killed when a rocket struck a four-storey
building in Kiryat Malachi. Magen
David Adom paramedics treated five wounded people at the scene,
including a 11-month-old child who was critically injured. A further five missiles
were fired at the town as emergency services attempted to rescue those trapped
inside the debris. A residence in Ashdod and a school in Ofakim were struck by
rockets.
Israel put all
communities with less than 15sec of warning from mortar/rocket attack in
lockdown and closed all schools in less than 60sec warning radius. The Israeli
air force distributed leaflets over Gaza telling residents to keep a distance
from away from Hamas facilities and their forces.
Also at least two Fajr
rockets landed in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. No injuries were
reported. This was the first time that Gush
Dan has been targeted by missiles since the Persian
Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein launched a
number of Scud
missiles at Israel. On the night of 15 November, the Israeli Air Force launched
a series of 70 bombing runs to destroy what it said were underground
medium-range rocket launchers. In total, 15 Palestinians were killed, including
five militants and two children during the airstrikes.
16 November
A rocket struck a home
in Ashdod wounding five Israeli civilians. The prime minister of Egypt, Hisham
Qandil, paid a visit to the Gaza Strip on 16 November. His official
purpose of the visit was to "show solidarity with the Palestinian
people." He arranged for a 3-hour ceasefire to accommodate his visit.
About 50 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip during this window hitting
sites in southern Israel. Hamas argued that the IDF bombed a Hamas commander's
house in Gaza during the ceasefire, something the IDF strongly denied, and
accused Hamas of violating the cease fire.
Through the evening of
16 November, around 500 rockets were fired from Gaza. Iron
Dome intercepted 184 of these. Israel at this point had bombed about
500 targets in Gaza. Palestinan militants fired a rocket aimed at Jerusalem
setting off air raid sirens in the city.[109]
Hamas claimed that its militants have downed an Israeli F-16
fighter.
Also that evening,
the Israeli cabinet approved expanding the cap on reservist call-ups from
30,000 to 75,000. Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman said that the government was not considering an overthrow
of the Hamas-led government in Gaza.
17 November
The IDF broadened its
targets in the offensive from military targets to include civilian political
infrastructure,[112]
with an Israeli air strike destroying the office building of the Hamas Prime
Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. 30
people were rescued from the rubble of the building. Tunisian
foreign minister Rafik Abdessalem visited Gaza, and
called on the world to stop Israel's "blatant aggression", saying it
was "no longer acceptable or legal by any standards".
The World Health Organization
reported that "Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties from
Israel's bombings and face critical shortages of drugs and medical
supplies." According to the Health Ministry officials in Gaza "382
people have been injured - 245 adults and 137 children." Israel's Defense
Ministry announced it will open the Kerem
Shalom border crossing to allow civilian supplies to reach Gaza.
According to Magen David Adom, Palestinian
rocket attacks injured sixteen Israelis and twenty Israelis have been treated
for shock.
According to CNN, the
Israeli government is moving tanks and soldiers in preparation for what could
be a ground invasion of Gaza. In the West Bank, several demonstrations in
support of Gaza led to dozens of protesters injured and several arrested by
Israeli forces.
18 November
Israel continued to
bombard the Gaza Strip, and, for the first time, Israeli ships fired shells
too. A media tower was hit, injuring 6 Palestinian journalists. The tower
contained the offices of Al-Quds TV, Sky
News, Press TV, ARD, Kuwait
TV, RAI
and ITN,
and had previously also been used by BBC. Another air strike killed two infants from the
same family, according to local medics. A rocket was launched from Gaza towards
Tel-Aviv, which was intercepted by Tel Aviv's iron dome, according to the spokesperson
for IOF.
Casualties
According to
Palestinian officials, 48 Palestinians have been killed to date, 22 of them militants and 25 civilians, among
them a pregnant woman and 10 children. The most notable Palestinian casualty
has been Ahmed Jabari, a commander in
Hamas.
According to Israeli authorities,
three Israeli civilians, two men and one pregnant woman, have also been killed.
List of Hamas freedom fighters and Islamic mujahideen murdered by Zionists:
1. Ahmed Jabari, 52,
operational commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas: air strike on 14 November.
2. Muhammad al-Hams, 28, bodyguard of Jabari: aforementioned air strike.
3. Rami Hamad, member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades: air strike east of Jabaliya, 15 November.
4. Khaled Abu
Nasr, member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: aforementioned air strike.
5. Issam Abu al-Maaz, 20, member of the Izz
ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
6. Hisham
Muhammad al-Ghalban, 25, member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: air
strike east of Khan Younis, 15 November.
7. Wael Haidar
al-Ghalban, 28, member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: aforementioned air
strike.
8. Habes Masmah,
30, Hamas security commander: aforementioned air strike.
9. Ismail Qandil,
24, member of the Izz-ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: air strike near Khan Younis, 16 November.
10. Ahmad Abu
Jalal, 43, leader in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades: air strike in al-Maghazi, 16 November.
11. Mohammed
Kalab, senior Hamas military operative: 17 November.
12. Tamer Hamri, 25,
commander in the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: air strike in
Deir al-Balah, 17 November.
The on-going armed conflict in Gaza is between the Zionist occupation forces and Palestinian resistant fighters who fight for their freedom and defend their land against the Zionist aggressors.
Indonesia is against any form of occupation as the first paragraph of the preamble of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia states firmly: “Whereas independence is a genuine right of all nations and any form of alien occupation should thus be erased from the earth as not in conformity with humanity and justice.” (HSH/R-006)
Sources:
1. International News Agencies
2. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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