TEL AVIV, January 13, 2006 (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) killed almost 4000 Palestinians, half of them children, more than twenty thousand were wounded, since 2000.

The Electronic Intifada Website reported, according to B'Tselem, that the IOF killed one hundred and forty one children in the last year. Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where the it demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families.

"The settlements, the army bases, the roads and the wall will allow Israel to annex almost half of the West Bank by 2010. Within these territories there will be a considerable number of Palestinians, against whom the Israeli authorities will continue to implement slow and creeping transfer policies," according to the website.

From 'First Rain' to 'Autumn Clouds' one can see, according to the website, escalation is in every parameter. The first is the disappearance of the distinction between civilian and non-civilian targets: the senseless killing has turned the population at large to the main target for the army's operation. The second one is the escalation in the means: employment of every possible killing machines the Israeli army possesses. Thirdly, the escalation is conspicuous in the number of casualties: with each operation, and each future operation, a much larger number of people are likely to be killed and wounded. Finally, and most importantly, the operations become a strategy.

"It is still possible to puncture them and make it at least more difficult for the Israelis to implement their future strategy of eliminating the Palestinian people either by cleansing them in the West Bank or genociding them in the Gaza Strip."

There is still no other way of stopping Israel than besides boycott, divestment and sanctions. We should all support it clearly, openly, unconditionally, regardless of what the gurus of our world tell us about the efficiency or raison deter of such actions, it said.

M.H.(14:10 P)(12:10 GMT)