Holocaust of Gaza Is a designation of the Israeli operation was expanded in the Gaza Strip over five days on the pretext of eliminating elements of Hamas launched rockets at Israeli territory.The first caller of this descruption is the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak what the Israeli forces in Gaza as a holocaust of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip following the killing of two Israeli soldiers by members of Hamas during batteling whith Israeli forces; label endorsing a large number of writers and thinkers The political figures and religious Arabs and Muslims, where they deem appropriate name for the operation, which claimed the lives of 116 people including 26 children, as well as other civilians killed or wounded. On the same day it announced the end of military operations in Gaza; Israeli sources announced that it was a first stage, and that there may be other operations in the near term.
objectives of the process
At a time when Israel states that this process designed campaigners Hamas and stop the firing of rockets on Israeli territory; Some analysts see that there are targets for such covert operations in addition to uproot Hamas presence, seeks Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to cover up the report of separating and disposing of repercussions, and also aims to improve its position in front of Israeli public opinion after losing in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006, having emerged star Ehud Barak once again with the approach of the Israeli election date . From another standpoint Some analysts see a bloody operations to discourage Palestinian resistance do what they deemed the legitimate right to defend its territory , also considered abort the Islamic experience in the Gaza Strip.
World reactions
Reactions varied global process, condemned by Arab governments and peoples, considering it a massacre of Palestinians and demanded their cessation, and exited demonstrations in several Arab cities deplorable of operations and demand an end to attacks on civilians in Gaza. At the level of governments, reactions came as follows:
* Palestinian National Authority: The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen What happened in Gaza is more of the Holocaust, and international terrorism.
* United States: In sharp contrast; the American position supportive of Israel, which carried the American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice Hamas responsibility for what happens to civilians in Gaza, and considered what Israel was doing in self-defence.
* France: The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner Alastfras that would not bring any result.
* Germany: German government committed itself to silence the newspaper described Ensign shame country, and analysts attributed this silence toward Israel's brutal actions against the Palestinians to feelings of guilt Germans against the Jews, or what they called node German.
* Egypt: Egyptian authorities re-opening of its borders with the Gaza Strip to receive about two hundred wounded Palestinians, and this is the first time the Egyptian authorities allow opening of the border between them and the Gaza Strip since Palestinian gunmen detonated border wall between them.
* Israel: rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stop Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip; said: "Israel has no intention to stop fighting against the terrorist organizations (in Gaza) even for a single moment," he said: "If there is one imagine Increasing the (missiles) we will reduce our military, so he commits a grave error. "
At the level of international organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations:
*The UN Security Council: condemned UN Security Council escalating violence in Gaza, and called on the Secretary-General United Nations Ban Ki-moon - during an emergency meeting of the Security Council -- , Israel and the Palestinians to stop the clashes between the two sides.
*The League of Arab States: The Israeli attack, which he described Board Arab League commit war crimes and genocide.
* Hamas: HOLDING head of the Hamas Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab rulers responsible for what he described the Holocaust against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
