BPNIC Briefing, June 2007

After living under forced Israeli poverty for 12 years, two teenage Palestinian boys having the same age died of wounds they received from bullets that struck them in their bodies as they were scavenging metal to sell for food for their families in Gaza, the Palestine News Agency reported. The world’s fourth largest military power, which is controlled by the Israeli government and which have killed more then 2,000 children in the past six years alone, has launched most of the operations in the Palestinian territories in the past two weeks in Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians and terrorizing the city of Gaza.

Israeli leader, Ehud Olmert has vowed that his government will continue targeting “suspicious terrorists” Palestinians wherever they are. Israel, a country with no written constitution and whose previous leadership said that "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people," is facing a possible direct British and South African boycott until it recognizes the Palestinian’s right to exist in a state of their own, renounces its annexation of land, illegal settlements, collective punishment and restriction of movement.