A Song for Gaza

Silent Night, Holy Night, but not for Palestine

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Once again, the Zionist Occupation of Palestine has demonstrated its total contempt of international law, humanitarian considerations and has bombed yet ANOTHER United Nations facility, murdering scores of civilians.

The Al Fakhoura School in Jabaliya Refugee Camp was targeted by Zionist missiles yesterday.

The school is operated by UNRWA, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA has been using its schools to house some of the 15,000 Gazans who have fled their homes due to Israel's ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, which began on Saturday.

UNRWA declared that it had GIVEN the GPS coordinates of all UN installations throughout the Gaza Strip to the Zionist military authorities. The school was clearly marked as a UN facility.

Earlier on Tuesday, the United Nations confirmed that three refugees had been killed at 11.30 p.m. on Monday night when Israeli forces fired directly on a UNRWA school in Gaza City.

According to the UN, Another UNRWA school also came under fire in the city of Rafah. An UNRWA health clinic in Al-Bureij Refugee Camp was also damaged when a Zionist missile hit an adjacent building, injuring ten medics and patients.

'There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorised and traumatised,' said John Ging, the top UN official in Gaza. He also said that people in Gaza are 'entitled' to action by the international community to stop the Zionist invasion.

These blatant genocidal attacks come as no surprise to those who are familiar with Zionist philosophy and the strategies of the Occupation for more than half a century.

A WHOLLY JEWISH STATE IS PREDICATED UPON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL NON-JEWISH PERSONS IN PALESTINE.

The Zionist Entity is determined to create a wholly Jewish State. That was the mandate of Zionist 'pioneers' in the late 19th Century and it remains the same now in the first decade of the 21st century.

The massacres at refugee camps in Lebanon through the decades, from Sabra and Shatila to Qana demonstrated quite clearly that the Zionists do not believe in the value of Palestinian lives or the lives of any one who has an iota of humanitarian interest in the welfare of the Palestinian people.

It is Christmas Eve tonight in Palestine for all Orthodox Christians. For all other Christians, it is Twelfth Night, the night on which the Three Kings came to Bethlehem to bear witness to the birth of the Child and pay homage to him.

In Palestine tonight, where once a holy star shone over the Christ Child, the menace of the dark star of the Zionists threatens the lives of any one and anything that continues to stand in its path.

And the leaders of the world, who should pay homage to JUSTICE if not to any sacred traditions, allow themselves to be blinded to the truth by Zionist propaganda once more. Rather than putting an end to the Zionist programme of genocide, they tacitly support it.