Israeli Soldiers Slaughter Helpless Animals in the Gaza Zoo

Nobody seems to care about the 1,400 Christian and Muslim men, women and children killed by Israel during its recent invasion of Gaza—but will they care about the innocent caged animals slaughtered by Israeli soldiers at the little zoo in Gaza?

It’s a fact: Israeli soldiers rampaged through the little zoo and shot as many innocent caged animals at point blank range as they could.

Although it should have been a worldwide scandal—on the front page of every daily paper and on every nightly broadcast on television and radio—it was not. While some defenders of Israel have attempted to suggest that the zoo and its animals were unintended “collateral damage” of war-time, caught inmilitary crossfire, the evidence demonstrates otherwise.

The soldiers of “America’s dearest ally” went into the zoo itself and shot the poor monkeys in their cages. Amother monkey tried to hide with her baby in a clay pot, but the Israelis shot the pot to pieces and killed them.

Although the soldiers of “the apple of God’s eye” fired on the two lions, those wily four-legged cats managed to escape from their lair and hid in one of the zoo offices.

And while the Israelis did not shoot the foxes, those little fellows turned on each other for food when the zookeepers were not able (due to the military action in Gaza) to get to them in time to feed them. The hysterical foxes mauled each other to death in a frenzied act of cannibalism.

A pregnant camel died after a missile cut it down, tearing a foot-long hole in the side of the fabled “horse of the desert.” A pathetic picture of the camel, which clearly took some time to die—very much in agony—was released to the world, but few people saw the ugly image.

While Israel has asserted that its military is the “most moral” armed force of any nation on the planet, the real nature of Israel was bared to the world although not to the extent that it should be—when the truth about the Israeli army’s shocking attack on the Gaza Zoo came to the fore.

The horrible story was told in the January 25 issue of Gulf News, published in Abu Dhabi, and has been repeated on websites on the Internet, but a check of the vaunted “news” source of Google, the Internet giant (owned by two billionaires who are supporters of Israel) indicates that the story has never appeared in any newspaper or magazine catalogued by Google. But the “moral” Israelis weren’t content with butchering the animals. They even defaced the walls of the main building and ripped out one of the toilets.

When the zookeeper was asked why the Israelis targeted the zoo, he said, “I don’t know. You have to go and ask the Israelis. This is a place where people come to enjoy themselves. It’s not a place of politics.”

Responding to claims by Israel that Palestinians were firing rockets from civilian areas, the zookeeper said: “There was not a single person in this zoo. Just the animals.

We all fled before they came. What purpose does it serve to walk around shooting animals and destroying the place?”

During the past four years, the zoo was themost popular place in Gaza for the Christian and Muslim children of Gaza. There was nowhere else for people to go. The Israelis destroyed the zoo and God’s four-legged creatures therein. See opposite side for shocking information revealing how America’s socalled “ally” Israel has committed terrorist acts against American military
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