Here are the victims of today, where are the Arabs if they are not the same Arabs who were yesterday

The website Palestine from my eyes displays the name of the victims of Israeli Armed Forces that are attacking Gaza since November 15^th.

At the beginning of the post, the site claims that Palestinian people are NOT just numbers, and invites us to keep following the names and ages of murdered people who fell victim during the past days of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday. The number rises, up to now, to 69 and still rising.

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to “defend themselves”, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing . According to Chomsky “you can't defend yourself when you are military occupying someone else's land. That is not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense”.

The names of people killed by the Israeli armed forces, according to Palestine from my eyes web site, are:

1- Ahmad Al-Ja’bary, 52 years old.

2-Mohammed Al-hams, 28 years old.

3- Rinan Arafat, 7 years old.

4- Omar Al-Mashharawi, 11 moonths old.

5-Essam Abu-Alma’za, 20 years old.

6-Mohammed Al-qaseer, 20 years old.

7- Heba Al-Mashharawi, six-month pregnant, 19 years old.

8- Mahmoud Abu Sawawin, 65 years old.

9- Habis Hassan Mismih, 29 years old.

10- Wael Haidar Al-Ghalban, 31 years old.

11- Hehsam Mohammed Al-Ghalban, 31 years old.

12- Rani Hammad, 29 years old.

13- Khaled Abi Nasser, 27 year old.

14- Marwan Abu Al-Qumsan, 52 years old.

15- Walid Al-Abalda, 2 years old.

16- Hanin Tafesh, 10 months old.

17- Oday Jammal Nasser, 16 years old.

18- Fares Al-Basyouni, 11 years old.

19- Mohammed Sa’d Allah, 4 years old.

20- Ayman Abu Warda, 22 years old.

21- Tahrir Suliman, 20 years old.

22- Ismael Qandil, 24 years old.

23- younis Kamal Tafesh, 55 years old.

24- Mohammed Talal Suliman, 28 years old.

25- Amjad Mohammed Abu-Jalal, 32 years old.

26- Ziyad Farhan Abu-Jalal, 23 years old.

27- Ayman Mohammed Abu Jalal, 44 years old.

28- Hassan Salem Al-Heemla’, 27 years old.

29- Khaled Khalil Al-Shaer, 24 years old.

30- Ayman Rafeeq sleem, 26 years old.

31- Ahmad Abu Musamih, 32 years old.

At 8:20 am, as a result to an Israeli inhumane attack on Deel Al-Balah, central Gaza, three people were killed. The list of murdered victims goes longer>>>

32- Osama Abdejjawad

33- Ashraf Darwish

34- Ali Al-Mana’ma

At 8:45 am_ 9:00 am, warplanes attacked several places including Rafah, Khan-Younis, and Tal Al-Sultan, southern Gaza, leaving three killed>>

35`- Mukhlis Edwan

36- Mohammed Al-Loulhy, 24 years old.

37- Ahmad Al-Atrush

In a series of attacks on several places on central Gaza at noon, two more people fell victim:

38- Abderrahman Al-Masri

39- Awad Al-Nahhal

40- Ali Hassan Iseed, 25 years old, killed in an attack on his motorbike in Deer Al-Balah, central Gaza, at 8:10 pm, November 17th.

IOF attack another motorbike in Deer Al-Balah at 8:20 pm, leaving two more killed:

41- Mohammed Sabry Al’weedat, 25 years old.

42- Osama Yousif Al-Qadi, 26 years old.

In an attack on central Gaza, to the west of Al-Masdar area, at 9:10 pm, two more people people killed:

43- Ahmad Ben Saeed, 42 years old.

44- Hani Bre’m, 31 years old.

At 9:40 pm, Israel attacked Qdeih family’s house in west Khan-Younis, Southern Gaza and a woman got killed.

45- Samaher Qdeih, 28 years old.

46- Tamer Al-Hamry,  26 years old, died after being seriously injured in an attack on Deer Al-Balah.

On November 18, the fifth day of the Israeli ongoing aggression on Gaza:

Israeli warplanes shelled the house of Abu-Alfoul family in northern Gaza, killing two children and injuring at 13 at least, mostly children and women.

47- Gumana Salamah Abu Sufyan, 1 year old.

48- Tamer Salamah  Abu Sufyan, 3 years old.

An Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a house that belongs to the family of Abu Nuqira in Rafah killing one person:

49- Muhamed Abu Nuqira

An Israeli war plane fired a missile at a house in an agricultural land east of Bureij camp, in the Central Gaza Strip, killing one child and injuring 2 other children:

50- Eyad Abu Khusa, 18 months old.

Two people were killed, one of them a child, when an Israeli missile hit a beachfront refugee camp in Gaza City:

51- Tasneem Zuheir Al-Nahhal, 13 years old.

52- Ahmad Essam Al-Nahhal, 25 years old.

Medics also reported finding the body of woman under the rubble of a house in eastern Gaza City who had been killed in a strike earlier in the morning.

53- Nawal Abdelaal, 52 years old.

At 3:10 pm, November 18, Israel rocked a house belongs to Al-Dalou family in Sheikh-Redwan area, west Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including 4 women and 4 children.

54- Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, the father.

55- Ranin Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 5 years old.

56- Jamal Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 7 year old.

57- Yousef Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 10 years old.

58- Ibrahim Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 1 year old.

59- Jamal Al-Dalou, the grandfather.

60-  Sulafa Al Dalou, 46 years old

61- Samah Al-Dalou, 25 years old

62- Tahani Al-Dalou, 50 years old

63- Ameina Matar Al-Mzanner, 83 years old.

64- Abdallah Mohammed Al-Mzanner, 23 years old.

Soon after Al-Dalou massacre, 2 more were killed, including a child, in an attack on a car for water supply in northern Gaza.

65- Suheil Hamada

66-Mo’men HamadaIn an airstrike that targeted Nussairat camp after that another one was murdered and 10 at least got injured

67- Atiyya Mubarak.68- Samy Al-Ghfeir, 22 years old, killed in an attack on Shijaiyya area, west Gaza.

69- Mohammed Bakr Al-Of, 24 years old, killed in an attack on Al-Yarmouk st. in Gaza city.

At 8:00 pm, November 18, the ministry of health in Gaza has reported that Israel has risen the death toll in Gaza to 69, including 20 children, 8 women, and 9 elderly people. Moreover, Over 660 person got injured since Wednesday, including 224 children, 113 women, and 50 elderly people.

Keep following this post. I’m going to keep updating it on everything that is happening as much as I can and as long as I’m breathing!

The attack of the Israeli armed forces against Gaza repeats itself, as did it in 2008, after the Barack Obama´s presidential victory. The objective is to restore its deterrence capability against regional neighbors as well to discredit the political bonanza of Hamas after the formal talks with al-Fatah, the political visit of Emir of Qatar, the maintenance of the alliance with Iran, and the possibility to go with Mahmoud Abbas for the recognition of a Palestinian State in the United Nations next November 29th.

However, as exactly happens in 2008, Israel is getting closer to international disrepute and away from the U.S support in the regional agenda, at least, during the next years of Obama ´s administration.

While Israel imprisons Palestinians, humiliates entire families, economically sabotages entire towns, steal their land and denied access to basic goods, Palestinian people suffer the harassment of Israeli military, who, despite the slaughter of children and women, threatens to widen its military operation to a ground operation in the next hours.

While the regional context has now changed a lot and puts in power some political groups very close to the Palestinian cause, such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia, the response to the Israeli military offensive remains in the same; this is, silence, immobility, reaction instead of action, and brings a certain kind of complicity very similar to that experienced in 2008.

For this, the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi declared that: “Egypt today is different from yesterday, and Arabs today are different from yesterday.” If this is true, we have to ask him again and again the very same question of the last 60 years: ¿where are the Arabs? Where are the Arabs if they are not the same Arabs who were yesterday?