If I had a Hammer

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If I had a Hammer

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THE NAMES OF THE DEAD:
GAZA 27 DECEMBER 2008 – 18 JANUARY 2009
Mustafa Khader Saber Abu Ghanima, Reziq Jamal Reziq al-Haddad, Ali Mohammed Jamil Abu Riala, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Badawi, Mahmoud
Khalil Hassan Abu Harbeed, Fadia Jaber Jabr Hweij, Mohammed Jaber Jabr Hweij, Nu’aman Fadel Salman Hejji, Riyad Omar Murjan Radi, Mumtaz
Mohammed Ramiz al-Banna, Ahmed Hamdi Youssef al-Dreimly, Fares Isma’il Helmi al-‘Ashy, Naser Mahmoud Mas’oud Hammouda, Munir Amin
Mass’oud Hammouda, Ahmed Adnan Hamdi Hammouda, Ibrahim Mahmoud Abdul Hafiz al-Farra, Mohammed Abdul Karim Ramadan al-‘Aklouk, ‘Ali
Marwan ‘Ali Abu Rabi’a, Ra’ed Nazmi Mohammed Dughmosh, Munir Mansour Ahmed Esbeita, Deya’a Talal Kamel al-Habil, Mayssara Hamed Mohammed
Bulbul, Nazik Hassan Yasin Abu Raia, Khamis Mustafa Mahmoud Abu Ramadan, Mahmoud Mtaw’e Mahmoud al-Khaldi, Mohammed Khamis, Shadi
Jawad Khalil Qweider, Jihad Ziyad Badawi al-Gharabli, Mohammed Khamis Mohammed Baker, Ahmed Mohammed Nafez Abu Hadayed, Rafiq Musa
Abu ‘Ujeirim, Haneen Wa’el Dhaban, Adham Hamdy Al-‘Udeini, Wafa’a Marwan ‘Ali al-Dsouqi, ‘Allam Nehru Jawdat al-Rayyes, Hisham Mohammed
Shehada Seyam, Ehab Abdullah Mohammed Hamdan, Na’im Reziq Hassan Jendeya, Iyad Ziyad Fares Jaber, Diab Rebhi Diab al-Arafat, Mohammed
Tawfiqm Mohammed al-Nemra, Ziyad ‘Adel Mustafa al-Najjar, Sa’ad Mohammed ‘Antar Esleem, Mohammed Ziyad Sadiq al-Nabih, Hatem Khader
Mohammed ‘Aiyad, Nizar Ibrahim Mohammed al-Deiry, Mohammed Baker Mohammed al-Nims, Mohammed Nabil Mohammed Barghouth, Mahmoud
Mohammed Hilmy al-‘Amarin, Muhannad Hussein Moussa Abu Draz, ‘Umar Baker Musa Shamaly, Abdul Kader Mohammed Abdul Kader Diab, Hamed
Fou’ad Shehda Abu Yasin, Baha’a Zuheir ‘Adel al-Khaldi, Mahmoud Juma’a Mohammed al-Labban, Yahya Ibrahim Abdul Jawad Diab, Yasmin Wa’el
Dhaban, Abdul Hamid Jamal Khaled al-Sawi, Akram Mohammed Ahmed Abu Zriba, Ramadan Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Kheir, Adib Hassan Abdul ‘Aziz Abu
Harb, Ahmed Hani Ahmed Qannou’a, Salim Khalil al-Banna, Tha’er Mohammed Hassan Madhi, Mohammed Sa’adi Mohammed al-Qatati, ‘Aisha
Suleiman Hammad Rafi’, Hussam Sa’id Mohammed Seyam, Mohammed Ahmed Mahmoud al-Adgham, Fayez Mohammed Abed Eqteifan, Hammam
Mohammed Moussa Mohammed al-Najjar, Wisam Abdul Majid Ibrahim al- Quqa, Farouq Fou’ad Mohammed Esleem, ‘Imad Abdul Mu’in Abdullah alBarbari, Salah Mohammed Saleh al-Kheiry, Ahmed Mohammed Shreiteh al-Kurd, Sabri Jebril Sabri al-Rafati, Amjad Maher Ahmed Mushtaha, Mohammed
Amin Mass’oud Hammouda, Belal Mohammed Hussein ‘Umar, Bassam Issa Qasem al-‘Akkawi, Yahya Ibrahim Farouq al-Hayek, Mohammed Talal
Kamel al-Habil, Abdul Rahman Nizar Zuhdi Shahato, Suhaib Fawzi Salman Abdul, Yousif Rafiq Mohammed al-Deiri, Maher Isma’il Diab ‘Azzam, Rami
Jihad Mohammed al-Salut, Mohammed Abdul Kader Mubarak Saleh, Mohammed Abdul Wahhab Abdul Rahman ‘Aziz, Yehia ‘Awni ‘Awad Muheisen,
Hisham Nehru Jawdat al-Rayyes, Jamil Nasri Mohammed Abdul- ‘Al Ansar, ‘AliYahia Mohammed Banat, Mansour Yaser Mohammed al-Turk, Hussam
Mohammed Hammad al-Majayda, Fayez Fayeq Ahmed Abu al-Qumsan, Walid Jabr Mohammed Abu Hein Saraya, Naser Abdullah Sha’aban al-Gharra,
Mohammed ‘Adnan Salim ‘Attallah, Tala’at Mukhlis Khalaf Basal, Sha’alan, Abdul Latif Khalil Abdul Salam, Majed Tawfiq Mohammed Mteir, ‘Ammar
Khamis ‘Umar al-Lad’a, Wa’el Mohammed Marzouq al-Sha’er, Mohammed Zuheir al-‘Aydi Abu Sha’aban, Ibrahim Yousif Ahmed Nofal, Jaber Jabr
Ibrahim Hweij, Rami ‘Amer Deeb Abdul Halim, Wa’el Samir ‘Ali al-Hawajri, Hisham Salim Abu ‘Ajwa, Ala’a Fadel Mohmmed ‘Afana, Ra’afat Ahmed ‘Oda
‘Eqeilan, Tawfiq Jabr Mohammed Yousif, Ahmed Abdul Majid Hussein Abu ‘Oda, Hassan Isma’il Hassan Abu Shanab, Abdul Rahman Ahmed, Ra’afat
Nabil Sha’aban Shameya, Amjad Kamel Abu Jazar, Mansour Abdullah Sha’aban Al-Gharra, Ra’ed Mohammed Mohammed Al-Najjar, Nahiz Salim
‘Awwad Abu Namous, Basil Jihad Mohammed Dababish, ‘Asim Ahmed Hassan al-Sha’er, Sami Tayseer al-Sayed al-Halabi, Mohammed Jamil ‘Ateya
Abu Hajjaj, Mohammed Khaled Asa’ad Shuheibar, Mohammed Jamil ‘Ateya Abu Juha, Abdul Salam Isma’il Mohammed Al-Reba’I, Abdullah Munther
Jawdat al-Rayyes, Mohammed Mansour Abdul Karim Nayfa, Na’im ‘Ashour Ahmed Al Ghifary, Mohammed Hafiz Mohammed al-Kharoubi, Mohammed
Salah Hassan al-Sawaf, Mustafa Mohammed Mustafa al-Sabbagh, Sharaf Mohammed Abu Shammala, Ahmed Mohammed Jamil Ba’alousha, Yousif
Fawzi Salman Abdul ‘Al, Mohammed Subhi Isma’il Aal-Maqadma, Baha’a Nahid Fawzi Sukeik, Suheil Mohammed Naser Tanbura, Abdul Samia’
Mohammed Abdullah Eal-Nashar, Fayez Riyad Fayez al-Madhoun, Isma’il Ibrahim al-Ja’abari, Hisham Mohammed Ali Abu Sharar, Ahmed Abdul Kader
Ibrahim al-Haddad, Tamer Mohammed ‘Asafa, Rabi’ Mahmoud al-Muzayan, Mohammed Salem Mohammed Abu ‘Abda, Isma’il Mohammed Suleiman
al-‘Awawda, Samir ‘Ubeid ‘Ali al-‘Awawda, ‘Uday Abdul Hakim Rajab Mansi, kamilia Ra’afat al-Bardini, Ibrahim Abdul Salam Mohammed Abu al-Rous,
Wisam Ibrahim ‘Ayyash, ‘Awwad Nafez ‘Awwad al-Qatshan, Mohammed Yahya Mhanna, Suheib Mohammed ‘Asafa, Hakim Rajab Mansi, Hassan Sa’adi
Hamdan Abu ‘Arbas, ‘Umar Sa’id ‘Umar al-Lahham, Ahmed Salah Ahmed al-Lahham, Shadi Mohammed Fayez ‘Ateya, Yaser Mohammed Deeb alLahham, Wasim Ibrahim Hassan ‘Azara, Anas Sbeih Abdullah Abu Nar, Hussam Abdullah Ibrahim al-Sane’, ‘Imad Abdul Hamid Mohammed Abu al-Haj,
Mohammed Mesbah Hussein Hamad, Mohammed Isma’il Abed al-Ghamri, Zaki Ibrahim Mohammed Dweik, Ramzi Rajab Khader Tanjara, Khaled Abdul
Fattah Ali Abu Hasna, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Jbeil Zu’rub, Samer Heidar Hussein al-Qreinawi, Ahmed Mohammed Salama al-Qreinawi, Tamer Heidar
Hussein al-Qreinawi, Majdi Nader Juma’a Jabr, Ahmed Abdul Ghani Khalil Kullab, ‘Issam Nabil Mohammed al-Gherbawi, Usama Hassan Mohammed
Abu al-Rish, Ala’a Nasri Mohammed al-Ra’I, Mohammed Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Abu ‘Amer, Abdullah Salim Aal-Lahham, Abdul Rahman Nazmi Abdul
Rahman Hamdan, Mahmoud Hisham ‘Azmi Abu Dalal, ‘Azmi Hisham ‘Azmi Abu Dalal, Khaled Yousif Jabr Shahin, Abed Mohammed Salem al-Shaf’I,
Haitham Fadel Muhareb Hamdan, Shadi Abdul Majid Abdul Jalil al-Sabakhi, Usama Abdul Fattah Khamis Fadel, Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim al-Jamal,
Yousif Mohammed Mahmoud Diab, Abdul Hakim Ahmed Abdul Fattah Abu Sharaf, Ala’a Addin Ibrahim Abdul Rahim al-Qatarawi, Abdul Karim Sa’id
Abdul Karim Wahba, Mohammed AbdulFattah Ahmed al-Qatarawi, Tawfiq Ali Hassan alfallit, Mustafa Yousif Mustafa al-Khatib, ‘Umar Ahmed Hassan
Abu Sa’id, Mohammed Khalil Jarid Zu’rub, ‘Adnan Ahmed al-Bheisi, Ahmed Jamal Ahmed Aal-Nuri, Mohammed Hisham Salem Zahra, Abdullah
Mohammed Ibrahim al-Ghaffari, Ahmed Reyad Mohammed al-Sinwar, Thiab Abed Issa Hamid, Nemer Ahmed Abdullah Amum, Abdul Karim Isma’il ‘Ali
Abu Jarbou’a, Rami Suleiman Ahmed Abu al-Sheikh, Na’im, Aal-Sayed Abed Rabbu Mbit, Mohammed ‘Awad Yousif ‘Awad, Mohammed Ahmed Abdul
Rahman Tabasha, Ghassan Mahmoud Isma’il Abu ‘Awwad, Ashraf Hamada Mustafa Abu Qwiek, Ma’moun Mohammed Ahmed Aal-Sayed, Mazen
Mahmoud Abdul Aziz ‘Aleyan, Hassan Atallah Mohammed Abdullah, ‘Asem Mohammed Sa’id Abu Kmeil, Tala’at Mahmoud Salman, Reziq Mahmoud
Salman, Annan Saber Ayoub Ghalya, Ali Hassan Ahmed al-Mabhouh, Yousif Tayseer Harb Sha’aban, Isma’il Jihad Isma’il Ghneim, Ni’ma Ali Ahmed alMghari, ‘Imran Isma’il Darwish al-Run, Baha’a Samir ‘Oda Abu Zuhri, Ahmed Samih Shehada al-Halabi, Mohammed Mahmoud Hammad al-Najra,
Salem Ahmed Salem Abu Shamla, Hashim Faris Hashim ‘Uweida, Wa’el Abdul Karim Shehda al-Raqab, Ahmed Maher Ahmed Abu Mussa, Mahmoud
Majid al-‘Abed Abu Tyour, Ayman Hamed Ahmed Abu Ammuna, Mohammed Na’im Shakshak, ‘Ammar ‘Oda Faraj Shamali, Ibrahim Shafiq Shabat,
Ibrahim Shafiq Ali Abdul Hadi, Ayman Hussein Ahmed Ahmed, Mahmoud Ahmed al-Najjar, Ahmed Naser Ahmed Tbeil, Ali Abdul Rahim Mohammed
‘Awad, ‘Umar Salman Salim Darawsha, 246 Hussein Ahmed Hussein Daoud, Sarah Eid Ali al-Hawwajri, Mahmoud Jamil Fakhrial-Khaldi, Mysara
Mohammed Mohammed ‘Udwan, Mahmoud Fou’ad Ahmed Abu Matar, Mohammed Aal-Desouqi Kamel Hammad Asaleya, Yousif Ibrahim Mohammed
Thary Khalil, Mahmoud Abed Aal-Kurd, Hassan Salem Hammed al-Rahhal, Zeyad Daoud ‘Oda Abu ‘Eyada, Heidar Mahmoud Mohammed Hassouna,
Ayman Fou’ad Eid al-Nahha, Hamdan Khamis Rabi’ Abu Nqeira, Anas Fawzi Nafez Hamad, Ahmed Abdullah Salem Al-Khatib, Hamada Ahmed Msallam
Abu Daqqa, Mohammed Fou’ad Abu Sabra, Qareeb ‘Umar ‘Abid, Shehada Abdul Rahman Hussein Kuffa, Hatem Adnan Abu Sha’ira, Nizar ‘Ateya
Hassan Abu Salem, Abdullah Talal Ibrahim Aal-Sane’ , Arafat Faraj Allah Sleiman Faraj Allah, Isma’il Ahmed Mohammed Salem, Yousif Ibrahim
Mohammed Thabet, Mohammed Yunis Abu Libda, Khaled Radwan Ali Inshasi, Suleiman Subhi Mohammed al-Ghariz, Hamdan Qasim Abdullah Safi,
Khaled Sami Tarraf al-Astal, Shaker Fayez Salim al-Zeini, Nabil Ahmed Mahmoud al-Beiram, Ibrahim Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, (Mohammed Nour)
Mohammed Reziq al-Fayoumi, Ahmed Rasmi Mohammed Abu Jazar, Mohammed Abdul Shafouq Mohammed al-Abadla, Mo’in Mahmoud Abdul
Rahman Aal-Qen, Salman Fahmi Hassan al-Astal, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Teir, Nazir Khalil Hussain Aal-louka, Haitham Yaser Ahmed al-Sha’er,
Yaser Ahmed Mohammed al-Sha’er, Ihab Jaser Ahmed al-Sha’er, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Jbeil Zu’rub, Yousif Murshid Ahmed al-Najjar, Mazen Ahmed
Mohammed Matar, Salem Zeyad Mohammed al-Hallaq (Malalha), Mohammed Hussein Abdul Ra’ouf al-Mabhouh, Ihab Abdullah Mohammed Hamdan,
Ali Abdul Ra’ouf Hassan Rihan, Mohammed Na’im Mohammed Muharram, Mohammed Subhi Abdul Rahman Dahlan, Ahmed Abdul Latif Hussein Sa’ad
Eddin, Ismail Ahmed Hassan Abu Hani, Hamid Ahmed Mohammed al-‘A’araj, Abdul Hai Shafiq al-Dahshan, Mohammed Fahmi Abdul Fattah Fahmi
Tafesh, Taysir Abdullah Mohammed Weshah, Yahia Mohammed Shehda Sheikha, Basem ‘Umar ‘Awad Jundeya, Tareq Salah Diab Rahmi, Samer Ahmed
Deeb Ahmed, Belal Ghazi al-Raqab, Amin Fou’ad Mohammed al-Zerbatli, Izz Addin Rafiq ‘Eleyan ‘Atallah, Islam Mohammed Abdul Rahim al-Sahhar,
Anwar Rafiq ‘Eleyan ‘Atallah, Hisham Salama Salem Kawari’, Abdullah Isma’il Abdullah al-Zein, Khalil Ramadan Salim al-Muranakh, Yousif Mohammed
al-Jallad, Haitham Samir Tabasi, Ayman Sa’ad Allah Faraj al-‘Ejla, Tamer Hassan Ali al-Akhras, Mohammed Khalil Hassan Al Mukayad, Hassan Maher
Hassan ‘Orouq, Huda Hani Husni Zuhd, Mohammed Farid Abdul Fattah Abdul Nabi, Mohammed Suheil Mohammed Hassan, Iyad Sha’aban Ibrahim
al-Maqousi, Munther Mohammed Ahmed Maniya, Hamdi Issa Diab Hajjaj, Ashraf Zuheir Mahmoud al-Sharbasi, Wa’el Yahya Mohammed Abu Ni’ma,
Hisham Ibrahim Salman al-Msaddar, Yaser Mohammed Hijazi al-Zarqa, Khaled Saleem Zu’rub, Abdul Azim ‘Adel al-Jadba, Mohammed Ali Salim Abu
Khubeiza, Ibrahim Abu Daqqa, Ramiz Talal Ahmed Hamdan, Ebtehal Abdullah Tawfiq Keshko, Ahmed Jamil Mahmoud al-Talouli, Ahmed Fou’ad
Mahmoud al-‘Askari, Mohammed Akram Ibrahim Abu Daqqa, Refa’t Salim ‘Ashur Sa’ada, Mohammed Ahmed Helmi Jarada, Ahmed Abdul Latif Hussein
Sa’ad Eddin, Abdullah Isma’il Jneid, Maysa’a Mounir Yahia Keshko, Mustafa Kamal Ibrahim al-Hattab, Younis Jamil Farhood Abu Khubeiza, Mohammed
Nafez Sha’aban Mheisen, Farid Mohammed al-Waleedi, Tamer Saleh Abdullah al-Gherbawi, ‘Usama Mahmoud Salim Dardas, Nabil Mahmoud
Mohammed Abu, Ahmed Asa’ad Abdul Karim Fayyad, Fayez Husni ‘Atta Ja’arour, Khalil Tayseer Khalil ‘Uweida, Tahreer Anwar Khalil Ba’alousha, Samar
Anwar Khalil Ba’alousha, Dina Anwar Khalil Ba’alousha, Akram Anwar Khalil Ba’alousha, Jawaher Anwar Khalil Ba’alousha, Khaled Khaled Ahmed alHuwari, Zeyad al-‘Abed Ahmed Abu Teir, Ma’ather Mohammed Zneid, ‘Atwa ‘Awad ‘Oda Abu Mdeif, Ashraf Sayed Khamis al, Ahmed Yousif Ibrahim
Khella, Mohammed Basil Mahmoud Madi, Mohammed Mohy Addin Ahmed al-Madhoun, Mohammed Jalal Shehda Abu Teir, Yaser al-‘Abed Ahmed Abu
Teir, Mu’ath Yaser al-‘Abed Abu Teir, Mohammed Abdul ‘Aziz Khalil al-Farra, Mohammed Zeyad Mahmoud al-‘Absi, Rami Sa’adi Deeb Ghabayen, ‘Imad
Ahmed Abdullah Sammour, Faten Abdul ‘Aziz Zneid, Sidqi Zeyad Mahmoud al-‘Absi, Mahmoud Nabil Deeb Ghabayen, Suheil Nawwaf al-Ta’aban, Shadi
Yousif Ramadan Ghabin, Wisam Akram Rabi’ Eid, Deya’a ‘Aref Farhood Abu Khubeiza, ‘Imad Jamal Shehda Abu Khater, Khalil Ibrahim Jaber Abu Nadi,
Ahmed Zeyad Mahmoud al-‘Absi, Ayman Yousif Khalil al-Majayda, Mohammed Yousif Abdullah Hassanein, Tawfiq Reyad ‘Uthman Qannan, Walid
Mohammed Suleiman Jabr, Isma’il ‘Uleiwa al-‘Abed al-Qirem, Lama Talal Shehda Hamdan, Yahya Mohammed Suleiman Abu Nemer, Mohammed ‘Ateya
Hassan Kharoof, Mohammed Majed Ibrahim Ka’abar, Haya Talal Shehda Hamdan, Amin Salem Darwish Al ‘Udeini, Hussein Na’im Hussein ‘Abbas,
Mohammed Sa’id Mohammed Abu Hassira, Fatma Abu Jubah Faraj ‘Alloush, Ihab ‘Umar Khalil al-Madhoun, Isma’il Talal Shehda Hamdan, Amin Saleh
Ahmed Shabet, Sha’aban ‘Adel Hamed Hanif, Tareq Yaser Mohammed ‘Afana, Ali Zuheir Mahmoud al-Houbi, Iman Hassan Mahmoud Abu ‘Arida,
Mohammed Isma’il ‘Abed Abu Daqqa, Mahmoud Majed Mahmoud Abu Nahla, Nafez Kamal Abdul Jawad Abu Sabet, Mohammed Hussam Radwan
‘Eleyan, Nizar Abdul Kader Mohammed Rayan, ‘Aisha Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Zeinab Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Ghassan Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan,
Jamil Ali Mohammed al-Dardasawi, Nawal Isma’il Rayan, ‘Usama Ibn Zeid Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Bashir Isma’il Sha’aban ‘Ubeid, ‘Oyoun Jihad
Yousif al-Nasla, Rim Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Shehda Hamdan Hussein Abu Tilekh, Halima Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Hussein Sa’id Abdullah al-Neder,
Al-mo’iz Lideen Allah Jihad al-Nasla, Mahmoud Mustafa Darwish ‘Ashour, Maryam Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Abdul Kader Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan,
Aya Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Sherine Sa’id Rayan, Iman Khalil Rayan, Fatma Salah Isma’il Salah, Abdul Rahman Nizar Abdul Qader Rayan, Mohammed
Maher Abu Sweireh, Asa’ad Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan, Heyam Abdul Rahman Rayan, Ahmed Diab Nemer Ja’arour, Reda Khalil Hassan Ali, Wa’el Yousif
Matar Abu Jarad, Krestin Wadi’ Estandi al-Turk, Belal Suheil Deeb Ghabayen, Na’el Hassan Matar Ramadan (Shoha), Hamada Ibrahim Ali Msabeh,
Mohammed Iyad Abed Rabbu al-Astal, Tahani Kamal Abu ‘Ayesh, Sami Ibrahim Ibrahim Lubbad, Halima Mohammed Mohammed Seyam, Nafez
Mohammed Issa al-Mtawaq, Abed Rabbu Iyad Abed Rabbu al-Astal, Fadi Naser Mussa Shabat, ‘Oda Hammad ‘Oda Abual-Fita, Abdul Sattar Walid
Abdul Rahim al-Astal, Majed Khalil Mohammed al-Bardawil, Ahmed Isma’il Mousa al-Silawi, Rajeh Nahed Rajeh Zyada, Hani Mohammed Moussa alSilawi, Hamza ‘Awni Mohammed al-, ‘Umar Abdul Hafez Mousa al-Silawi, Ra’ed Abdul Rahman Mohammed al-Msamha, Ahmed Asa’ad Tbeil, Akram
Faris Jaber al-Ghoul, Sa’id Salah Sa’id Battah, Sharif Abdul Mu’ti Suleiman al-Rmeilat, Salem Mohammed Selmi Abu Qleiq, Sujood Hamdi Juma’a alDardasawi, Sabrin Mohammed ‘Azara Abu Samaha, Mohammed Mousa Isma’il al-Silawi, Mahmoud ‘Adnan Mahmoud Abu Ma’arouf, Shadi ‘Ayesh
Hussein al-Shorbaji, ‘Awatef Salman Salama Abu Khusa, Belal Abdul Karim Ali al-Haj Ali, Mo’men Mousa Mohammed alkhuzundar, ‘Ata Samir ‘Ata Bhar,
Salah Na’im Ahmed Shaldan, Hisham Hamdan al-‘Abed al-Fayoumi, Yousif ‘Uthman Mustafa Abu Hassanein, Mohammed Nahed Ali Abed Rabbu,
Muhannad Ibrahim ‘Ata al-Tannani, Mamdouh ‘Umar Mousa al-Jammal, Mahmoud Salah Ahmed al-Ghoul, Eyad Ahmed Mohammed Abu Khousa,
Baha’a Bassam Hassan, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Qteifan al-Msamha, Ibrahim Mousa Issa al-Silawi, Hassan Nasim ‘Amer Hijo, ‘Ateya Helmi
Mahmoud al-Samouni, Shatha al-‘Abed Abed Rabbu al-Habbash, Suheir Zeyad Ramadan al-Nemer, Mohammed Suleiman Khalil al-Jammasi, ‘Awni
Sa’adi Salman al-Deeb, Ruba Mohammed Fadel Abu Ras, Khalil Mohammed Ibrahim Meqdad, Ahmed Khalil Saleh Abu Daf, Ibrahim Zeyad Ramadan
al-Nemar, Mustafa Zuhdi Mustafa Erhayem, Jihad Samir Fayez Erhayem, Abdul Hamid Juma’a, Mohammed Fou’ad Mahmoud al-Helu, Bassam
Mohammed Farouq Suleiman Abu ‘Ajwah, Mohammed Khamis Suleiman ‘Awad, ‘Umar Sa’ad Allah bdul Jawad al-Jaro, Farah ‘Ammar Fou’ad al-Helu,
Abdul Sayed Yousif Khamis ‘Umar, Qusai Reyad Mohammed al-Batrikhy, Ahmed Yousif Ibrahim al-Batsh, Hamdi Mahmoud Mohammed al-Samouni,
Asma’a Ibrahim Hussein ‘Afana, Fou’ad Mahmoud Hassan al-Helu, Isra’a Qusai Mohammed al-Habbash, Yaser Kamal Shbeir, Abdul Aziz Mohammed,
Mahmoud Khaled ‘Eleyan al-Mashharawi, Abdul Karim Zeyad Ramadan Aal-Nemer, Mohammed Bassam Mohammed ‘Anan, Jihan Sami Sa’adi al-Helu,
Mohammed Faraj Isma’il Hassouna, Ahmmed Khader Diab Subeih, Anas Fadel Na’im, Ra’afat Sami Ibrahim (Muharram), Maryam Mutaw’I Nasrallah
Mtawe’in, ‘Umar Mahmoud al-Barade’I, Mohammed Hekmat Abu Halima, Mohammed Khader Yousif Hammouda, Abdullah Heidar Khalil Abu ‘Oda,
Ala’a Addin Yahya Mohammed Zaqout, Mohammed Hassan al-Baba, Yousif ‘Abed Hassan, Belal Abed Rabbu Mohammed Shehab, Hassan ‘Isam
Hassan al-Jammasi, Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed al-Da’our, Mohammed Khamis Hussein al-Kilani, Abdul Rahim Helmi al-‘Abed al-Ashqar, Belal
Mohammed Ghaben, ‘Ayed ‘Imad Jamal Khira, Na’im Hussein Mustafa ‘Abbas, Yahya Salman Abu Halima, Eyad Nabil Abdul Rahman Saleh, Samir
‘Iyada Yousif al-Shrafi, Rayya Salama Salman Abu Hajjaj, Mohammed ‘Isam Mohammed Naser, Mo’in ‘Ata Mohammed Hussein, Ibrahim Kamal Subhi,
Louay Yahya Salman Abu Halima, Majda Abdul Karim Abu Hajjaj, Salman Fayyad Abu Meddein, Ghassan Ali Ali Abu al-‘Amarin, Jamila Abdul Aziz Salem
al-Da’our, Jihad Kamal Hassan Ahmed, ‘Ayed Abdul Hadi Abdul Khaleq Abu Nada, Mohammed Abdul Razzaq Ali al-Hila, ‘Arafa Hani ‘Arafat Abdul
Dayem, Adham Na’im Mohammed Abdul Malik, Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud al-Adham, Tha’er Shaker Sha’aban Qarmout, Wadi’ Amin ‘Umar, Beit
Mohammed Muti’a Mohammed al-Shrafi, Zeyad Mohammed Selmi Abu Sneima, Mousa Yousif Hassan Barbakh, Al-Sayed Hammouda Shehada Abu
Sultan, Hammouda Shehada Khader Abu Sultan, Salman Hammad Mraziq Abu Khammash, ‘Usama Mesleh Suleiman, Isma’il Mousa Isma’il al-Soussi,
Adnan Mohammed Abdul Latif al-Shalfouh, Hamza Zuheir Reziq Tantish, Mahmoud Zaher Reziq Tantish, Mohammed Akram Mohammed Abu Harbid,
Ahmed Hussein Abed Rabbu al-Mabhouh, Mahmoud Sami Yahya ‘Asaleya, Mohammed Mu’in ‘Ateya Abu al-Jedian, Mahdi Abed Hassan, Mohammed
Bashir Mohammed Khader, Tamer Daoud Mohammed Baker, Abed Hassan Mohammed Barbakh, Ayman Mohammed Mohammed ‘Afana, Nouh
Hammouda Shehada Abu Sultan, Ahmed Sami Ahmed Abu Meddein, Mohammed Ahmed Sa’id al-Hashim, ‘Ateya Rushdi Khalil Aal-Khuli, Baha’a
Mou’ayad Kamal Abu Wadi, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed al-Bal’awi, Mohammed Abed Hassan Barbakh, Isma’il Abdullah Suleiman Abu Sneima, Shawqi
Abdul Jawad al-‘Attar, Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Sha’ar, Ahmed Mohammed Msallam Salama Abu Hatab, Muti’ Abdul Rahman Ibrahim al-Samouni,
Walid Rashad Helmi al-Samouni, Nidal Ahmed Mahmoud al-Samouni, Abdul Naser Jamal Asa’ad Shuheibar, Ashraf Abdul Hakim Salem al-Issi, Rawhi
Jamal Ramadan al-Sultan, Nahil Khaled Abu ‘Eisha, Usama Jihad Ali Abu Jbara, Rabab Izzat Ali al-Samouni, Ghaida’a ‘Amer Abu ‘Eisha, Nassar Ibrahim
Helmi al-Samouni, Hussein Mahmoud, Abdul Malek al-Sultan, Rahma Mohammed Mahmoud al-Samouni, Samir ‘Umar Saleh Sa’adeya, ‘Azza Salah
Talal al-Samouni, Ibrahim Rawhi Mohammed ‘Aqel, Ahmed Fathi Mustafa al-Nazli, Isma’il Ibrahim Helmi al-Samouni, Naji Nedal Abdul Salam alHamalawi, Jihad Ali Ahmed Abu Jbara, Mohammed Abdul Hamid ASa’ad Abu Kmeil, Abed Samir Ali al-Sultan, Basel Jihad Ali Abu Jbara, Mohammed
Shehada Ali Ahmed “’Abed”, Mohammed Samir Hijji, Hamdi Maher Hamdi al-Samouni, Huda Na’el Fares al-Samouni, Mo’men Mahmoud Talal ‘Ilaw,
Issa Ahmed al-‘At’out, Lubna Fou’ad Tawfiq Aal-Maleh, Zakaria Abdul Naser Ibrahim al-kayali, Mahrous Amin Mohammed Shuheibar, Fayez Yousif
Rezeq Hassan, Mohammed Helmi Talal al-Samouni, Khadra al-‘Abed Khalil al-Maleh, Hanadi Basem Kamel Khalifa, ‘ Amer Rezeq Saber Abu ‘Eisha,
Ramadan Ali Mohammed Filfil, Salah Hassan Salama Rafi’a, Tawfiq Rashad Helmi al-Samouni, Asa’ad Sa’adi Ahmed Hammouda, Mohammed ‘Amer
Abu ‘Eisha, Mohammed Amin Mustfa Hijji, Shahd Mohammed Amin Hijji, Ayat Yousif Mohammed al-Dufda’a, Nadia Misbah Salem Sa’ad, Leila Nabih
Mahmoud al-Samouni, Fatheia Ayman Salim al-Dabbari, Mohammed Rashad Khalil al-Khouli, Lutfi ‘Awni Abdul Fattah Jaddou’a, Hashim ‘Awni Abdul
Fattah Jaddou’a, Mohammed Mohammed Nabih al-Ghazali, Rezqa Mohammed Mahmoud al-Samouni, Rashad Helmi Mahmoud al-Samouni,
Mohammed Ibrahim Helmi al-Samouni, Maha Mohammed Ibrahim al-Samouni, Ahmed Sedqi Hamdan Kuheil, Isma’il Heidar ‘Eleiwa, Ghazi ‘Awni Abdul
Fattah Jaddoua’, Rezqa Wa’el Faris al-, Faris Wa’el Faris al-Samouni, Hanan Khamis Sa’adi al-Samouni, Ishaq Ibrahim Helmi al-Samouni, Amal Zaki
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I did it for my brother, who had to fight a war that wasn’t his.
I did it for my sister who has been raped again and again.
I did it for the millions who have been dispossessed, the refugees deprived of their homes,
I did it for the widows and the orphans.
I did it for the tortured in their lonely cells.
I did it for the politicians who have not listened
to the voice of the people.
I did it for some kind of justice.
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On 21 April 2009 Foreign Office minister David
Miliband admitted in parliament that UK military components had been used by the Israeli
Air Force in its attacks on Gaza. ‘British made
components for F16s have been exported to the
United States where Israel was the ultimate enduser,’ he said. The next day another FCO minister
Bill Rammell, Deputy Head of the Counter Proliferation Department stated before the Committees On Arms Export Control. ‘We believe that
there is IDF equipment that was used in Operation Cast Lead, and it almost certainly contained
British-supplied components’. In respect of F16s,
helicopters and armoured personnel carriers,
either on an incorporated or an unincorporated
basis, there have been no approvals since Lebanon 2006.’ Under a five year Standard Individual
Export Licence (SIEL), if the ERU-151 licence
was approved in 2002, then EDO MBM could
still have been exporting it directly to Israel up to
2007. If approved around the time of the Lebanon war of 2006, then EDO MBM could still have
been making and exporting it to Israel indirectly,
via the USA, France or another country, right
up to the time of the decommissioning action. It
is very probable that such contracts include the
regular provision of spares and replacement parts
for the equipment that EDO MBM have owned
the sole patent to since 1998.
As of August 2009 the UK government refuses
to confirm or deny if they hold any information
relating to EDO MBM/ITT’s exports to Israel. The
Government claim international relations with
allied governments could be damaged by any
such disclosure, and any disclosure of exports to
sensitive destinations could lead to the company
being targeted by ‘pressure groups’ in further
acts of direct action. The question arises. If there
is nothing to hide, why do the UK government
refuse to provide information. All this contingent
evidence leads us to just one highly probable
conclusion. EDO MBM are arming Israel.
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Activism as spiritual practice – very brief notes from a beginner
T
he Buddhist precept (training guideline) of
non-harm, known as ahimsa within the Ghandian way of life, is seen as enough for a spiritual life by many. Gandhi promoted the principle
of ahimsa very successfully by applying it to all
spheres of life, particularly to politics. His non-violent resistance movement satyagraha had an immense impact on India, impressed public opinion
in Western countries and influenced the leaders of
civil rights movements such "Ài>Ê->Lii
as MartinSaibene
Luther King.
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identifying themselves and explaining their reasons for such extreme action.
- Subverting punishment – Being willing to accept the consequences of their actions. Trustworthy support is indispensable to actions with
serious consequences.
Militarism
The brutality, bloodshed, hatred and killing caused
by warfare between nations is a symptom of a
sickness within the hearts of those involved.
Ghandi thought ahimsa precludes not only the
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act of inflicting a physical injury,
but also mental
Maybe we can’t do much about others hearts
states like evil thoughts andÜ>Ã½ÌÊÃ°
hatred, unkind bebut there are practical aspects of the arms trade
havior such as harsh words, dishonesty and lying, which can be given attention.
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all of which he saw as manifestations
of violence
• Arms manufacture consumes vast financial and
incompatible with ahimsa. >`Ê>}>°
material resources which could be used elseHowever the precept of non-harm can be interwhere in society.
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preted in an individualistic way so one can just
• Large military corporations use blatantly corrupt
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look after the ethics of ones own personal life.
practices to acquire business. BAE are good at this!
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This can lead to a tendency for Buddhists to lead • Arms are sold to governments who are known to
a conservative and quietist path.
abuse human rights.
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• Armed conflict becomes the only method of conI travelled to India a couple of years ago and
flict resolution.
was impressed by the very dynamic
style of BudÊ``ÊÌÊvÀÊÌiÊÌÀÌÕÀi`ÊÊÌiÀÊiÞÊViÃ°
• Arms manufacturers have a vested interest in
dhism of the Dalits, the oppressed, who followed
wars and have links within governments which proDr Ambedkar, an ex-untouchable
himself, the first
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mote ‘Hawkish attitudes in the corridors of power’.
Law Minister of India. There are
some Buddhist
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academics who say Buddha’s teachings have been • Wars cause much of the migration and refugee
problems worldwide.
misunderstood, a fundamental
aspect
the DharÊ``ÊÌÊÊÌiÊ>iÊvÊÕÃÌVi°
I did
it forof
some
kind of justice.
• We are all brutalised by the glorification of wars,
ma (teachings) is to bring about social change.
violence and guns.
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So what is nonviolent direct
action (NVDA)?
• Militarism opposes equality between the sexes
Nonviolence by itself is passive, but alongside di- because it relies on the degradation of women.
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rect action it becomes active, preventing violence. Rape is used as a weapon and a military tactic.
In our modern society there are many examples
This in turn leads to the dilemma that NVDA can
be done with a hurtful and hateful intention. When of the state wanting to control space and in reality
not being able to do this. This leads to the state
this happens then the cycle of violence can be
lashing out due to its loss of influence. War atperpetuated. I personally don’t have a problem
tempts to destroy open and shared space.
with damaging property which is designed to kill
people. Our action at EDO was taken at night so
In Colombia social activists describe a term
nobody would feel threatened or be harmed accalled ‘social weaving’ which is the act of creating
cidently by our actions.
invisible threads between people as part of the
repair of social networks and a counter to the fear
I am inspired by the Ploughshares movement
which is faith based and takes its inspiration from of state repression.
Social action against war is effective. In Greece,
the Old Testament prophesy to ‘beat swords into
ploughshares’. The ploughshares follow several
Spain and Italy it has been possible to ward off
principles in their actions which are key to both
the militaristic aspirations of the state.
the effectiveness of the action and the strength of Social space is vital for dialogue which makes
their faith based aspect, notably:
conflict resolution possible.
- Speaking truth to power – being accountable, Bob is one of the EDO Decommisioners
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action is our only route forward – even if it
means putting our own freedoms on the line.
Palestine has been the root cause of conflict
between the East and the West for some time
in many people’s mind. Al Qa’ida branched
from anger and resentment to the ongoing
occupation, without these apartheid conditions
towards Arabs in their homelands maybe the
war would have never come home to the West.
Palestine was part of the British empire until
1948, the Palestinians understandably refused
a UN plan to partition their homeland into a
Jewish and a Palestinian state, but in 1948
the establishment of the state of Israel was
declared. By 1949, the Nakba (“catastrophe”)
had resulted in the ethnic cleansing of two thirds
of the Palestinian population and Israel occupied
78 per cent of Palestine.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip have been
under an illegal Israeli military occupation since
1967. Today over 6 million Palestinians live as
refugees, hundreds of thousands of whom still
live in overcrowded refugee camps in the West
Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian people live in
constant fear. Countless lives have been lost
to economic sanctions against Hamas, which
deny basic health care and human rights. “Each
day is a struggle as they try to survive against
an ever present aggressive military force” said a
humanitarian worker on her arrival home in the
U.K from Palestine.
The first foreign sale of the Paveway three series
GBU-27 -with components made by EDO MBM,
as advertised on their own website- was Israel’s
acquisition of 500 Paveway bombs equipped
with BLU-109 penetrating warheads, authorized
in 2004. Delivery of such precision guided
weaponry was accelerated from the U.S at the
request of Israel in 2006.
Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza
Massacre, began on December the 27th 2008.
The Israeli Defence Force deliberately targeted
individuals in their homes, schools, hospitals
as well as U.N compounds. The BBC reported
that more than 400,000 people in Gaza were left
without running water. The BBC further reported
that 4000 homes had been ruined, leaving tens
of thousands of people homeless. More than
1400 Palestinians were killed during the Israeli
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offensive between December 2008 and January
2009. More than 300 of those were children,
which shows how indiscriminately they were
bombing the strip, a clear breach of international
law.
Following the Nuremberg Trials which followed
the Second World War, the Chief Prosecutor
Robert K. Jackson declared: “The very essence
of the Nuremberg Charter is that individuals
have intentional duties which transcend the
national obligations of obedience imposed by
the individual state.” At the Tokyo War Crimes
trial, it was further declared “Anyone with
knowledge of illegal activity and an opportunity
to do something about it is a potential criminal
under international law unless the person takes
affirmative measures to prevent commission of
the crimes.”
So in the early hours of Saturday 17th January
I entered the EDO MBM factory and smashed
it to pieces to the best of my ability. I believed
our actions were lawful and justified in a world
where the profits of corporations seems to be
put before the lives of Palestinian children. I
only wish I had acted earlier and caused more
damage. Under European law, EDO MBM and
the UK government could be charged with
assisting in the perpetuation of war crimes in the
occupied territories.
I chose not to hit and run, as others have done
in the past. I wanted to take full responsibility for
my actions, as I believe them to be lawful. So I
stayed and prayed in my own little atheist way
hoping a jury would be able to understand that
I was only working towards peace and justice.
When an air force or an army attack a nation
indiscriminately and kill innocent men, women
and –especially- children, it is our duty to stand
in the way, in whichever way possible.
Tom is one of the EDO decommissioners
run the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip.
When ambulances could finally enter some
areas, they were stoned by desperate and
abandoned relatives. It is a war crime, under the
Geneva Conventions, to prevent the passage
of or target emergency staff who are trying to
collect the injured.
The Walking Living
We made out at the break of dawn, red lights
rotating into action, speeding towards Towam,
close to Atatrah. Drizzle mixed with a haze of
white phosphoric smoke, like a thin grey gauze
over our eyes. Above us, surprisingly, and
awesomely, soared a rainbow, high, wide and
perfect, arching over the grey broken streets of
Jabaliya and the freshly bombed Taha mosque
with its’ insides spilled over the road, the
knocked down houses like knocked out teeth,
downed power lines, blown out and blackened
apartment blocks, grey all around us, but if we
looked up, a beautiful technicolour arch.
The first body was that of a young man, face
down and crumpled outside the doors of the
Noor Al Hooda mosque, his navy jumper singed
from shrapnel injuries.
Behind us was a wasteland. Where houses
had been, just days earlier, there were jagged
edges of crushed walls, mangled with clothes,
glass, books, furniture; houses turned into a
lumpy sea of lost belongings, bombed and
bulldozed into the ground. Amidst all this, was
the crumpled body of Miriam Abdul Rahman
Shaker Abu Daher, aged 87. It was her arm that
we saw first, sticking out of a dusty blanket,
trapped under rubble. We managed to hoist
her onto a stretcher, paramedics took her away
and I was left standing next to a man. ‘That
was my mother’ he said to me. He explained
what happened: ‘We left three days ago (15th
January) with our children and we came back
for her, but we couldn’t get to her, we called the
Red Cross, they couldn’t help. They bulldozed
everything here, maybe more than 20 houses.
We thought we could return, we didn’t think
they would do all this We couldn’t come back
for three days so we don’t know how she died,
maybe she died of the cold? After a few hours
we had come back and planes were shooting at
us, we were just meters away from our house,
but the shooting
was too much. We thought if the soldiers came
they wouldn’t harm her because she’s so old, we
thought maybe they would give her food or look
after her. We didn’t expect them to bulldoze the
whole area’, explained Awad Abdullah Mustapha
Abu Daher, 45 years old. We took four dead into
our ambulance. The Red Crescent would take
another 32 before the day was over.
A column of people was walking slowly, some
with donkey carts, some rumbling over the clod
ground on motorbikes. All making their way
home, for the first time, to Atatrah. Atatrah, with
its new blasted out school, holes big enough
to drive through, a crippled mosque, and burnt
houses smoked above us, sloped up on a hill,
with rolling strawberry fields and palm trees and
the beach behind it, such a beautiful place to
live, lush and alive and green. Now, according
to locals, its almost unidentifiable, residents are
disorientated by the missing houses, confused
between the lost streets and new ‘streets’
– tracts bulldozed between houses, gaping
holes in half buildings and land churned into
sand. I followed the column. Walking behind it
was reminiscent of so many funeral processions
that have trod the streets of Gaza and Palestine
as a whole. A slow column, a long walk, an
intergenerational walk, a thousand backs in
front of us, for the dead, for the living, for the
jailed, a return after eviction, a return after
each invasion, The Walk, after being released
from every imprisonment in every temporary
prison by Israeli soldiers, the Beit Lahiya High
School, a neighbour’s home, The Walk back all
the time and through time, to overcome grief,
dispossession, humiliation, a collective walk. I
wanted to accompany that walk.
Climbing up the main road, pulverized and
impassable by car, a group of 10 men come
walking towards us carrying their heavy dead
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The crowd of perhaps one hundred, strives to
pack into the ambulance along with their loved
ones, crying, keening, clamoring at the white
plastic bags. A boy of maybe 8, with a face
etched older with trauma, shouts in a voice of a
man, ‘Hasby Allah wa Naeme al Wakee!’’ – ‘God
will judge them!’ But who will judge the Israeli
occupation forces and their leaders, political
and military, who have perpetrated war crime
after war crime here in Gaza? It has to be us. We
need to take up our consciences and humanity
and translate judgment into action.
wrapped in blankets, struggling to find their
footing on their descent. We spend the rest
of the day searching for the dead, along with
everybody else, another collective walk, a
collective search, ‘Where are the martyrs?
Are there martyrs here?’ and to everyone, the
Arabic Islamic expressions of condolences and
goodwill, ‘Thanks be to God for your peace’,
‘God will give’, ‘God protect you’. We are
following the scent of rotting corpses, the scent
sometimes of already decayed flesh, or decaying
animals – a donkey, a goat, dogs, a horse. One
man we bring from Toam, Moayan Abu Hussain,
37, is brought to us by donkey cart, his badly
decomposed and bloated body wrapped in two
blankets. He fills the white zip up heavy plastic
body bag.
The following day, again, in the morning, bodies
are being brought out of the ground, from
crushed homes, and from tunnels. At the top
of Ezbet Abed-Rubbu, early in the morning,
we ride to retrieve three bodies, three men,
fighters, from the Sobuh family. Locals say they
were trapped in their tunnel when collaborators
told the Israeli army they were there and the
tunnel was collapsed from both ends, starving
them of oxygen and entombing them in a slow
death. What does resistance mean when sea,
air and land are controlled by the occupier?
Going underground is literal. The walk now is
becoming a crawl. F16s soar low above our
heads, and continue to in the intervening days,
a reminder of who dominates here. As local men
dig up their dead, the stench overwhelming,
spitting out death as they work, digging, the men
finally surface, to be wrapped immediately in
blankets, in front of an audience, the perpetual
witnesses here to every crime, every death,
every aftermath.
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Yesterday was a fast-forward blur of destruction,
mass pain, broken bodies, lifeless beings,
terror on the streets, in homes, in mosques, in
ambulances, in hospitals. Yesterday, people
were being physically dismembered and today
remain so, many still recovering on intensive
care units in France, Egypt, Israel. The same
states that stayed silent and complicit in this
massacre, now take the broken into their bellies
and return them patched up, back into a killing
zone, a prison where the guards can shoot back
in, plough back in and break them all over again
at any given moment.
Torture and Relief
Under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein in
Iraq, people were tortured underneath hospitals,
burnt, fractured, torn up, and then taken
upstairs to be repaired, in the full knowledge,
that one they were whole again, skin growing
back together again, the same awaited them,
they would be taken back down, to be tortured
again, the healing a mocking, a thwarted,
negated process in itself because of the looming
knowledge that it was only to be followed by a
repetition of the breaking. This type of collective
torture is being practiced here and the complicit
WHY I SMASHED EDO
AND WHY I WAITED TO BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE FOR MY ACTION
Thomas Woodhead
O
N the 15th of February 2003, before the
invasion of Iraq, I marched with over a
million people in London. I remember
thinking to myself rather naively that we’ve won;
Britain could never go to war with Iraq after the
biggest demonstration in Britain’s history. But we
only struggled with “half a heart, half a life and
half a will”, as Daniel Beriganed observed, “The
waging of war of course continues, because the
waging of peace by our cowardice is partial”.
Some politicians made us believe that Iraqis
wanted us to come and free them but on the
day a million marched in London so did another
million in Baghdad - we were clearly being lied
to. The war happened and life went on as usual
– for me anyway – but it was torn apart for many
others. History will look back very badly on the
British and American governments for going to
war illegally in Iraq ‘in our name’.
Under the UN Charter, there are only two
circumstances in which the use of force is
permissible: in collective or individual selfdefense against an actual or imminent armed
attack and when the Security Council has
directed or authorized use of force to maintain or
restore international peace and security. Neither
of these circumstances existed at the start of
2003 and in their absence the British and U.S.
use of force against Iraq was unlawful. The war
seriously undermined the UN’s status as an
international peace keeping body. Which brings
me to the conclusion that EDO MBM were
complicit to war crimes in at least Iraq.
The death toll of people murdered since the
invasion in 2003 is around 1,000,000 which
equals around nine Hiroshimas and all for
what exactly? Everyone knows that Britain
and America are the ones with weapons of
mass destruction. In fact America, with British
backing, used chemical weapons heavily in
Fallujah. Fallujah, contrary to the popular belief,
was actually a stronghold of opposition to
Saddam Hussein until the Americans invaded.
Brighton’s weapons manufacturers EDO
MBM work jointly with Raytheon Systems on
the Paveway Laser Guided Bomb which was
responsible for much of the shock and awe
bombardment in Iraq. The so called coalition
also put to use one of the scariest inventions
of modern warfare: the drones, known as
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In these operations
military planes drop bombs whilst the operator
sits miles away with a remote control. EDO
makes both the ‘Sabre’ and BRU-71/A MQ9 Reaper light weight bomb racks for these
aircraft. EDO MBM were also the key sponsor
of 4th annual Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
Conference that was held in London during
October 2004.
The GBU-27 is part of the Paveway series of
bombs, used in the first Gulf War. It was the
weapon used on February 13, 1991, which hit
the Amiriyah bunker which resulted in the deaths
of more than 400 Iraqi civilians, predominantly
women and children. Fragments of a bomb were
also found in a Baghdad market place during the
second Gulf War. The markings on the bombs
gave a Raytheon serial number and were highly
likely to have contained components made in
the EDO factory on Home Farm Road, Brighton.
Maybe if we’d had the chance to have a vote
more than every four years we could have
stopped Britain’s involvement in the Iraq
catastrophe, but we don’t have such a level of
democracy in this country. If even a tenth of
those who marched in London had acted like
the brave Fairford five and disabled the fighter
jets on British soil it would have become very
difficult for our government to have waged such
a murderous crusade. If we are really serious
about making peace then non-violent direct
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Direct action, strike action, popular occupations,
tactics used by Palestinians in the first intifada,
and smashed by Israeli counter-tactics of siege,
intensified occupation and massive military
onslaught, all legitimized by our international
governments. The counter-onslaught shows no
signs of abatement.
We need to redraw our own battle lines and go
further, to do the ‘enough’ we want to do and be
the ‘enough’ we want to be. Our consciences
and history demands this. It’s not enough and
it will be too late for a new history, authored
by others, to judge us, we have to make our
own. It is not God that will judge us, it will be
our brothers and sisters here in Palestine and
in our international community, the widows, the
orphans, the childless parents, the living left
behind after the dead.
We can’t afford yesterday to repeat itself. We
cannot wait until tomorrow happens to us.
Between yesterday and tomorrow is today and
we need to build our intifada today. Our
intifada of solidarity needs to grow beyond
demonstrations, and to put Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions (BDS) politics into practice
through direct action. The BDS campaign was
initiated and called for by over 135 Palestinian
grassroots organizations in 2005, a call that
needs to be amplified and spread internationally,
targeting the corporations and institutions
enabling Israel to keep violating international
law and destroying peoples lives. Through direct
action, popular disarmament of Israel, and a
real grassroots democracy movement, we can
collectively come into our ‘enough’. We can
affect that which hasn’t happened yet, we can
change what happens tomorrow. This is our
intifada, this is our today.
Ewa Jasiewicz is a journalist, community and
union organizer, and solidarity worker. During
the Israeli assault on Gaza she was the Gaza
Project Co-coordinator for the Free Gaza
Movement (www.FreeGaza.org).
are those who allow it to happen, and that do
not create the conditions to stop this cycle of
devastation. People keep being recycled through
this trauma, generation after generation, through
fresh weapons, new chemicals, new prisons
and new ways of the international community
maintaining silence, complicity and support for
Israeli occupation.
Families are familiar now with the trawling
delegations and caseworkers, notebooks in
hand, I include myself in this walk, the walk
of the hundreds of journalists, human rights
workers, Red Crescent, Red Cross, United
Nations workers, asking the same questions,
noting the same details, preparing families for
temporary shelters, giving out plastic sheeting
for broken windows and replacement doors,
blankets, emergency food packages, tents,
cooking stoves, everyone expects them and
expects us; the same donor agencies and
charities, rolling up their sleaves to issue fresh
appeals and re-build the same community
centers, police stations, hospitals, that were
rebuilt after the last annihilation; a rewound
and fast-forwarded cycle of destruction and
reconstruction, yesterday and tomorrow being
blurred together into a circle of a collectively
expected return to ruins and a slow rebuilding,
again and again. It is no wonder that ‘human
rights’ workers and the notes and testimonies
frantically taken down with shock and
condolence, time after time, year after year are
met with replies of ‘Its all empty, write it down
but what will it change? It’s all empty’. There is
no post-traumatic stress disorder here because
there is no real ‘post’ to the traumatic stress.
Traumatic events keep on happening again and
again, relief un-processed, grief unprocessed, as
people watch and wait and brace themselves for
the next attack.
Pieces
People are left with snippets, fragments, of their
loved ones, literally and in memory. Nuggets
of film shot on mobile phones pass through
multiple hands, of the last of their loved ones,
wrapped in white sheets, with hands and tears
pouring over them, screaming and screaming,
to be shown and shared with fresh tears in real
time, again. Like the five from the Abu Sultan,
Abbas and Soosa families, demolished
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by a tank shell shot into their home as they
were drinking morning tea on their doorstep
in Shaimaa, Beit Lahiya. Paramedics could
not reach them for half an hour as they lay
bleeding in pieces outside their home. Asma
Abu Sultan, 22, watched her father, brother and
uncle bleed to death, ‘It was 10.30am and we
were drinking tea together in our home when we
heard this gigantic bang, I saw my uncle at the
door, injured, we went inside, I saw they had no
chests, no hand, one was still breathing, I said
‘get up my brother’ I was telling him please, get
up, please don’t die, he started to bear witness
to God, then he said your father has died. He
was draining of life, the blood draining from his
face, but he was still alive, and then we couldn’t
get an ambulance because they kept getting
bombed, we kept asking everyone to help us,
after half an hour he died from shrapnel wounds
to the heart’.
One afternoon, in the yesterdays of this war, we
were called out to respond to a car bombing
in Gaza City. We arrived on the scene, in bright
light, to Palestine square, close to the Ahly al
Arabi Hospital. Two injured had already been
taken away. The car was a mangled sliced heap.
Somehow there was no burning. We picked up
a large, headless, man, still bleeding. Nobody
wanted to touch him, they were terrified of him.
Before we left the scene, someone put a small
plastic ID card in my hand, Arabic script and his
head, his face, bearded, in his late 30s, taken
alive, he looked strong. I couldn’t let go of it,
as the ambulance bounced along the broken
streets, he behind us, handless, legs torn open,
on a rickety stretcher, I held it in both hands,
and couldn’t let go of it, keeping it in my hand
wrapped round one end of the stretcher, pressed
together, trying to keep it together somehow,
close to his body.
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