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One mother, like others, fears Israeli drones may strike anytime without warning, like Cast Lead's devastating onslaught. "In Gaza slang," drones are called "zanana," three kinds a Hamas official told her. "One watches over us and photographs every move, every person; the second fires missiles at us....And the third kind? Its whole purpose is to annoy us, to drive us crazy."
Their use is central to Israeli intimidation and "process of turning Gaza into a vast panopticon, a detention camp under constant supervision and increasing invisible control."
For days leading up to Cast Lead, Gazans noticed regular humming. "They grew more anxious - and rightly so." Now every sound scares them, "reawaken(ing) fears of another attack," and small ones happen regularly. Gazans never know when Israel will next strike full force, perhaps with intent to entirely destroy Gaza and kill thousands of its residents. Some feel it's just a matter of time. Israeli leaders commit unspeakable crimes, then lie calling them self-defense, including when young children are shot.
In a recent weekly Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) report, incidents, included:
-- Israeli air strikes wounding three Gazan civilians;
-- soldiers firing at Palestinian workers, farmers, and fisherman in Gaza border areas;
-- four Palestinian fishermen arrested, their boat confiscated;
-- residences bombed and damaged;
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