jabaliya

The measures will prevent Palestinians with either a Jeruslaem or Palestinian ID from travelling into Jerusalem. in other words, we are all in prison. meanwhile 50 sites have been bombed across gaza this morning. another mosque was bombed this morning in jabaliya refugee camp. and so we wait, still, for the ground invasion. what i want to know is this: what does it mean to "soften the terrain"? why are journalists all using this phrase to discuss what the israeli terrorists are waiting for to begin terrorizing from land, sea, and sky?

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

FAO says the area inside the buffer zone along the northern and eastern borders with Israel contains nearly a third of Gaza's arable land, but it has been inaccessible to farmers, residents and UN agencies since 27 December 2008 (when Israel launched a 23-day assault on Gaza in retaliation for continued Hamas rocket-fire from Gaza into Israel). and then, of course, there are just the targeted murders that palestinians suffer from on a daily basis such as today in jabaliya:

Rantings of an Arab Chick 2009