There’s got to be a place hotter than Hell  for these Israeli terrorists and cold blooded “accident” prone murderers. What makes these abominations, these terrible travesties and grotesque injustices possible, is the support and succor the terrorist Israeli government and all its paid goons and religious zealots receive from the U.S. government, in the name of its mainly clueless taxpayers. In like way, the Israeli terrorists and murderers get all the moral and financial support  from that faction of the U.S. population that calls itself Israel supporting “Christians.”

These so-called  “Christians” look the other way as some of the worst injustices are committed against another population. In order to justify their misanthropy of the long established and true Semites, they  dehumanize this wretched (Palestinian) population, reducing them beneath the status of beast.  Only in a very cynical and sinister world, so filled with injustice and pain, can such a people be regarded as Christian. Sort of like Obama is treated as some sort of messiah or savior of mankind, ya know? If you are one of those phoney “Christians,” receiving my heartfelt condemnation and antipathy, do not bother sending me out of context verses from the Bible justifying your Hellishly disgusting excuses for the mayhem against, and the long running spilt blood of, the long displaced from their land Palestinians, many of whom  are Christians themselves–and all who continue to be blockaded from even life giving necessities as you and the world looks the other way. There is a special place in Hell for those who pretend to be Christians but are NOT. See the Gospel of Jeremiah and just about the whole book. AC

Thursday (June 4, 2009) was as normal and quiet an afternoon as you get in Johr al-Deek village in the central Gaza Strip. “Prepare yourself for I will be taking you to the dentist in half an hour,” Salim Abu Ayish recalled telling his 17-year-old daughter Hiyam.

Moments later everything changed. “At 5:30 PM an Israeli shell landed on my brother’s house,” the father told visitors who had come to offer condolences for his daughter at the family’s home on Friday. The shell injured a nephew and Salim Abu Ayish rushed to render aid.

“I asked Hiyam to bring me the car key from my bedroom,” Salim Abu Ayish said. As she went, he recalled, “suddenly another shell struck my room, killing Hiyam instantly, as shrapnel rippled through her body. I was injured with some of the shrapnel in my back and my neck.”

Two Israeli army shells landed in the family houses of the Abu Ayish clan in the Johr al-Deek village, just north of the al-Bureij refugee camp and about 1.5 kilometers from the border with Israel. The shelling caused critical injury to Husam Abu Ayish, Hiyam’s 21-year-old cousin and minor wounds to Hiyam’s father and sister, Nawal. For hours after the attack, the Israeli army denied any involvement and claimed the attack was the result of mortar shells fired by Palestinians. But late on Thursday, the Israeli army changed its story, admitting that Palestinian civilians were hit “accidentally” by Israeli army fire directed at Palestinian gunmen in the area, according to Israeli media.

Taking a deep breath, and trying to be strong despite his agony, Abu Ayish remembered his daughter: “She used to be humorous, active, well-mannered and smiling. I never turned down her requests. On Thursday, the day her soul went to heaven, she asked me to bring some watermelon, but her destiny was faster than me. Two months ago, she asked me to bring her a necklace, and I did buy her one,” he recalled.

“Hiyam was more than a sister,” recalled Emad, 24, Hiyam’s brother. “She was different from my other five sisters. Just about an hour before she was martyred, she wondered when I would get married.” Emad remembers her saying, “we want to celebrate your wedding, my brother.” Instead of such happy memories, Emad now has only pictures of his sister’s wounded face, taken with his mobile phone.

“Every time she visited our home, my children would get so cheerful as they enjoyed the laughter and fun she would bring to our house,” recalled Saleh Abu Hajjaj, Hiyam’s brother-in-law.

“She was one of my best students,” said Jamal al-Nabahin, a teacher at Qaysaria Secondary School for Girls where Hiyam had recently completed her 11th year certificate. “She was active and sometimes very funny. Her death is a great loss, and may she rest in peace.”

Mahmoud al-Aydi, the father of Raghda, one of Hiyam’s friends and schoolmates, recalled that the two girls had been chatting on the phone shortly before the shells struck. On hearing what had happened Raghda had “fainted for three hours,” according to Raghda’s father, “she could not believe Hiyam was killed.”

Um Jihad, Hiyam’s mother only uttered a few words, “May God hold accountable those who killed my beloved daughter.”

In December 2008 and January 2009, Israel carried out a massive bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. The 22 days of Israeli attacks claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, the vast majority of whom were unarmed civilians. Before and after the attack, Israel has maintained a strict blockade on the coastal territory grossly hampering the daily lives of its 1.5 million residents.

“We have nowhere to go to,” said Hiyam’s father, “Even if we wanted to move, the siege has prevented us from building as there are no building materials available. The situation is extremely difficult, and yet the world keeps silent about our continuing agony.”

Rami Almeghari is a journalist and university lecturer based in the Gaza Strip.

Source: ElectronicInfintada.net

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