Day 21 

10,000 troops backed by tanks and armoured bulldozers continued the Israeli invasion, entering deep into the Lebanon. The Israeli army entered the Bekaa valley into the town of Babeck, 60 miles north of the border. This is the deepest Israeli operation into Lebanon since 1994. Once again as in Qana, the Israeli army dismissed International Law and raided a hospital claiming it to be a Hizbullah base, abducting 5 Lebanese civilians. Eye witnesses claimed these were not Hizbullah fighters and had come from neighbouring villages. The raid began at 10 o’clock last night as Israeli commandos flown in by helicopter began firing into the hospital. Reports showed that 19 civilians were killed during the numerous raids in the town following air strikes coupled with army raids which unrelentingly went from village to village to search for the resistance fighters but more successfully terrorised the civilian populations.  In response to the increasing Israeli aggression 231 rockets fired into Israel, the most number in any single day of this conflict.

As war continued in Lebanon the United Nations pleaded that the international community should not forget its duty to the people of Gaza. The UN describes what is happening in Palestine as "an emergency situation...which could easily develop into a humanitarian crisis'' (Islamic relief 27 July 2006). Israel is bombarding the Gaza strip daily in order to quell the resistance to Israel’s entrapment of the Palestinian people there. According to the BBC more than 140 people have been brutally murdered in Gaza since the latest Israeli offensive which has seen the bombing of a power station as part of Israel’s policy of collective punishment of the Palestinian people following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Hamas. Food shortages are becoming chronic as aid agencies are unable to sufficiently provide essential supplies to the area as crossings into Gaza remain shut. 

Will you help not help your brothers and sisters from this Zionist occupation as the murdering Israeli army continue to massacre our children? Does it really matter how many died in the Qana massacre as the controversy brews in the western media? Is Muslim blood so cheap that if it is not a significant enough slaughter the international community remains silent? Your intervention is required as of NOW. If you have yet to action MPACUK's easy to follow 7 point action plan, do so now as it's never too late to defend the Ummah. MPACUK call upon each and every individual to rise against the Israeli aggression and massacres and defend those who cannot defend themselves as the Quran says “Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day ask thee for no exemption from fighting with their goods and persons. And Allah knoweth well those who do their duty.” [Al-Quran, 9:44]

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