The aftermath of one of the attacks on the Dalloul factory (Photo: Motasem Dalloul)
Four times. That’s how many occasions Abu Haroun Dalloul has witnessed his dairy factory in the Gaza Strip pulverized by Israeli bombs. The latest attack came last night as part of a wave of Israeli air raids on Gaza over the weekend that injured 13 Palestinians and killed two.
Ma’an News Agency tells the story of Dalloul:
Factory owner Abu Haroun Dalloul told Ma'an the bombing was the fourth time his factory has been targeted in recent years. The facility was previously destroyed in Israel's war on Gaza in January 2009.
He called on Arab and Islamic nations, as well as the European Union, to form a committee to prove his factory does not store weapons.
The business sustained an estimated loss of $300,000 after Sunday's strike, Dalloul said, noting he had just purchased a new processor at a cost of $80,000.
"We call on the whole world to protect us. My factory makes food and yogurt. Why is it being bombed like this?" he said.
"If it stored or manufactured weapons, it would not have been placed in a residential neighborhood, where most of the houses nearby belong to my relatives," he continued.
One neighbor, Um Basem al-Shanshiri, said Sunday's bombing caused panic and terror amongst the sleeping children in the area.
The continued attacks on the dairy factory bring to mind Israel’s destruction of a flour mill and chicken farm in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. The United Nations Goldstone report found that “as a result of its actions to destroy food and water supplies and infrastructure, Israel” violated a number of human rights treaties.
The bombings that eventually damaged the Dalloul factory started on Friday, after an Israeli soldier was killed by a Palestinian fighter on the Gaza-Israel border. Gaza remains under Israeli occupation and a blockade that has crippled the Strip’s economy.
The Dalloul factory was not the only business that suffered damage from the latest Israeli attacks. According to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, an organization based in Gaza, “a poultry and cattle farm, a water well, a carpentry shop, and a storeroom were also damaged.” Seven children have also been injured as a result of the latest raids.
The Israeli Air Force has nothing to say about the dairy factory they destroyed. The Israel Defense Forces website reports that they “targeted a weapon manufacturing facility and a terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified.”
Is not it clear that israel is doing its best to devastate Palestine and whatever means of persistence they have? This is the fifth! Meaning Palestinians also have a fascinating insistence on living… whatever israel kills, we soon rise from the ashes. when israel’s insistence on killing is met by Palestinians’ insistence on living, I’d say israel is doomed.
check
link to abujomaa.wordpress.com
link to youtube.com
” israel’s insistence on killing is met by Palestinians’ insistence on living”
That statement is so true and should be on the lips of every person of good will from now until the Palestinians are free.
/I’d say israel is doomed./
Don’t hold your breath Refaat on that one.
>> Refaat: … I’d say israel is doomed.
>> OlegR: Don’t hold your breath Refaat on that one.
I think he’s right, Refaat. Evil is very resilient.
Evil hhh is that the discourse you use nowadays.
Light vs the Dark
I remember Bush getting ridiculed for that kind of crap comparisons.
>> Evil hhh [sic] is that the discourse you use nowadays.
I’m agreeing with you. Refaat shouldn’t hold his breath. Israel will be around for some time to come.
Jeez, there’s just no pleasing hateful and immoral Zio-supremacists…
I’m sure you were singing that same tune back in 1990-1991 back in your Rodina, comrade.
Well it’s doomed as an enlightened, modern, democratic country with equal rights, justice for all under the law, and a vibrant culture. Instead it is the flag bearer for apartheid, segregation, cruelty, racism, backward-looking fundamentalist, warmongering, hating, inward, corrupt and a mendacious culture.
Some would say that means it is doomed as a project, whatever a nutjob little proto-fascist state it becomes.
Only such a state deliberately wipes out the farms, schools, power stations and the houses of a people it is tryng to destroy.
@ OlegR,
What would your babushka say when you talk like this?
There’s calcium in dairy produce. Calcium can be used to make quicklime.
Quicklime was used in the dim and distant past by HenryIII of England to defeat a French fleet:
link to en.wikipedia.org
Thus this dairy is a terribly dangerous place indeed!
Just think what a swarthy, unshaven, wild-eyed, Jew-hating, fanatical Arab terrorist could do with a pot of Yoghurt!
there’s simply too much nutrition in dairy products for israel not to control the rationing of it. they can’t ration it if gazans have their own dairy farms. a no brainer.
this is more than a blockade.
a month ago Israel destroyed dairy farm in Beni Na’im west bank:
link to mondoweiss.net
BS Annie.
@ OlegR,
Your proof, evidence and provided links are truly stellar and render Annie’s indictment… uh …. er …. cough … cringe … uh …, you know?!
/there’s simply too much nutrition in dairy products for israel not to control the rationing of it. ./
There is a need to prove that this is BS ?
i would like Annie first to prove that it isn’t and that Israel actually is interested in limiting the dairy consumption of Palestinians for it’s own sinister purposes.(Which are what?)
An inadvertent destruction of a dairy farm (we all assume that this particular guy is all legit and he never never lies and that the IDF really is interested in bombing his particular enterprise for the 4′s time right?)
is not a proof on it’s own.
What exactly are you disputing OlegR?
This is why people like OlegR should get the heave-ho. He makes a big pretense of being open-minded, thrusting and parrying with one specious argument or another, but when called to account for his opinions in a credible way he just clams up and pops up somewhere else as if nothing has happened.
I wonder how many Palestinian kids are going to have their health compromised by the latest action by the israeli terrorist. But, who cares, right zios? They’re not “white” people so who cares…
I’m anti israel and I’m anti dairy milk, so this is a bit of a tricky one for me.
‘Tis true but seriously – I recommend for the Palestinians to do what is necessary to acquire anti-missile weaponry – that’ll make the attackers think twice before capriciously murdering and wantonly destroying civilian structures. And I also recommend they explore making home-made rice or almond milk as alternative to cow milk – its very easy to make and super nutritious, it’s a cheap home-produce that leaves only a tiny carbon footprint – and best of all, ladies and gentlemen: no methane.
I am sure there is a story in the Torah that is a mirror of this where a Persian despot destroys some Jewish structure three or 4 times and every time the Jews build it up again . Or maybe it’s something the Baal shem Tov wrote about the Cossacks.
Gee. I wonder who started the latest exchange of fire. I seem to remember an IDF
soldier getting killed after an attempted infiltration.
No tears for the soldier or his family. Just pity for Mr. Dalloul and his cows.
@ proudzionist666,
Q: attempted infiltration.
R: link to current.com
No pity for the guards in the concentration camp proudzionist777, no.
As for who started it, Israel’s military occupation is achieved by violence, therefore Israel started it. It’s irrelevant if the militant fired the first bullet – he is acting in self defence.
Palestinians have the right to defend themselves militarily from Israel’s aggressions.
link to gazadispatches.blogspot.co.il
/Mr. Dalloul insists that he has no allegiance to Fatah or Hamas, does not provide support to any armed groups and has never been arrested or charged with any crime. “My view about this conflict is that the Israelis must leave Palestine but I haven’t decided what means should be used to make them leave—peaceful ways or military resistance or going to the international community,” he said./
An innocent farmer , riight…
An innocent farmer , riight…
What part of “does not provide support to any armed groups and has never been arrested or charged with any crime” didn’t you understand?
That doesn’t bother me actually it’s the “Israeli must leave Palestine”
bit that i find interesting.
actually it’s the “Israeli must leave Palestine” bit that i find interesting.
An opinion – and not a particularly unreasonable one for a Gazan. It says nothing of the man’s innocence or guilt.
It also needs to be clarified if he means occupied Palestine or mandate Palestine.
If Israelis would stop bombing Gaza every other day and end the illegal siege I’m sure that would win some hearts and minds among Palestinians…
Really Oleg, you expect love from the same people you are murdering, starving and generally making their lives as unpleasant as possible?
Go see a shrink.
Well i haven’t said he was guilty of anything i have doubts about his innocence but this is all irrelevant since i can neither prove or disprove
it, all boils down to who you believe more or trust less if you wish.
4 times we bombed his dairy farm, that’s gotta be some kind of record
in either bad luck a really bad location or something else…
Annie above is suggesting that this is a deliberate attempt to control
the daily dairy intake of the Palestinians .
/It also needs to be clarified if he means occupied Palestine or mandate Palestine./
We will then need to find out which parts of Palestine he considers occupied
and lot of other good questions to which i doubt i or you will get answers.
Well i haven’t said he was guilty of anything i have doubts about his innocence but this is all irrelevant since i can neither prove or disprove
it, all boils down to who you believe more or trust less if you wish.
Oleg,
Your comment (“An innocent farmer , riight…”) referred to the man’s own statement, not to your own a priori beliefs regarding Israel’s righteous bombing policies. So either you believe him that he has never engaged in any kind of activity that would have warranted the bombing of his farm, or you don’t. His druthers about Israelis and Palestine have absolutely nothing to do with it.
/So either you believe him that he has never engaged in any kind of activity that would have warranted the bombing of his farm, or you don’t./
Riight, i forget it’s all black and white in Shmuel’s world.
Not knowing either way is not something that you would consider an option.
Riight, i forget it’s all black and white in Shmuel’s world.
Not knowing either way is not something that you would consider an option.
Man, you really need to do something about that projection problem. You chose to base an unwarranted conclusion on half the man’s statement (regarding what he thinks), while discounting the other half (regarding what he does). So do you believe him or don’t you? Obviously you believe what you want, based on other criteria, and the man’s words are irrelevant to you. So why did you quote him? Enough time wasted.
>> Not knowing either way is not something that you would consider an option.
Says the hypocrite who questioned the likelihood of Mr. Dalloul’s innocence (“An innocent farmer , riight…”), but not the likelihood of his guilt.
Oleg you don’t find it “interesting” – let’s face it, you’re shit scared of it.
So like don’t you need help packing your dastardly colonial luggage? Need help buying a ticket back to your Russian homeland? Who do you think should pay for your ticket, me: a US tax-payer, or a Palestinian milkman? Perhaps Germany could foot the bill eh?
so pondering three possible ways to end israel’s aggressions and racism makes the poor guy a terrorist? I would totally understand it if the guy uses ‘any means necessary” (to quote malcolm x) to make the criminals who pulled the trigger pay!
>> so pondering three possible ways to end israel’s aggressions and racism makes the poor guy a terrorist?
As far as supremacists – Zio or otherwise – are concerned, equality, morality and justice are akin to terrorism.
The supremacist mind is an ugly place.
/so pondering three possible ways to end israel’s aggressions and racism makes the poor guy a terrorist?/
Did i ever say he was a terrorist ? No i didn’t .
but it is nice talking to yourself Refaat …
It seems not inappropriate for the ex-officio head of the US Congress to vet a candidate for Vice-President of the US. Our Senators and Representatives have no such objection.