Isn't it time the world called a spade a spade and admitted that Israel is a rogue state.
Media reports of events in a roughly chronological descending order:
- The assault began at 4.30am in international waters, about 60 miles from the coast of Gaza where the convoy was heading to deliver its cargo of aid.
- UN officials said that the monitors made ten phone calls to the Israeli army between 1.20pm on Tuesday — when an Israeli aircraft dropped a bomb 300 metres from the patrol base — and about 7.20pm, when the building was destroyed. The details came to light as Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, condemned what he called an "apparently deliberate targeting" of the well- documented UN position that had stood in Khiam, southern Lebanon, for 50 years. All the dead were part of the Observer Group — Lebanon, which works with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil).
- An Italian press photographer, Raffaele Ciriello, was shot and killed yesterday in Ramallah while taking pictures of Israel Defense Forces tanks positioned outside the Kedura refugee camp in the south-east of the city....An Italian colleague, Amedeo Ricucci, who was near Ciriello at the time of the shooting, said the latter had been hit by several bullets to his abdomen from an Israeli tank.
- In July 2002, Israeli forces dropped a one-tonne bomb on a building in order to kill a leading Hamas member, Sheikh Salah Shahada, killing 15 people in surrounding buildings, including nine children.
- Recently officials have indicated that the Israeli army is being given a freer hand to carry out targeted killings of Palestinian activists. The policy has come in for criticism domestically and internationally. Human rights organisation Amnesty International has called the assassinations extra judicial killings. The policy has even been challenged in the Israeli high court.
- In 2000, on the second day of the second intifada (Palestinian uprising), when Muhammad al-Dura, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, was caught in Israeli fire and killed as he cowered in terror against a wall.
- In 1973, Israeli jets killed 108 people when they shot down a Libyan passenger airliner that became lost in a sandstorm and strayed over the Sinai Peninsula, which was occupied by Israel at the time.
- During the Six Day war in 1967, the Israeli air force and navy attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship, in international waters, killing 34 crew, wounding 171 and doing severe damage to the vessel.
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