PNN – The “Free Fire Zones” strategy was used by the US Army in the Vietnam War, during which crimes were committed that were unprecedented before the current Gaza war. “Forbes” magazine writes in a report about the horrible crimes committed by America in this war: From 1961 to 1971, American fighters dropped more than 20 million gallons of various pesticides to destroy forests and uncover enemy hideouts over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
41 days have passed since the war in Gaza. Health officials of Gaza say that the number of martyrs has reached 12 thousand. The number of child martyrs has also been announced to be close to 5 thousand. According to reports, the bombing and siege of Gaza hospitals continues and so far, several premature babies have died in “Al-Shafa” hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, which is now under siege by the Zionist regime, due to a power cut. Emphasizing that the hospitals in this region are out of service, the Gaza Ministry of Health has announced that there are 100 martyrs’ bodies in the Shefa Hospital, and due to the lack of electricity and lack of transport, the smell of corpses has permeated all its departments. “Mohammed Abu Salima”, the director of Al-Shafa Hospital, told Al-Jazeera that the medical devices in Al-Shafa are completely out of order and patients under special care are dying one after another. According to the director of the hospital, Israeli soldiers shoot anyone who is inside or outside the hospital.
During the last 41 days, the Zionist regime has not committed any crime. Mass killing of women and children, bombing of residential areas, bombing of hospitals, clinics, schools, mosques and churches, killing of journalists, killing of UN civilian personnel, forcing people to move, cutting off water and electricity, preventing the transfer of the martyrs and wounded outside, torture killing of prisoners and… is only part of these crimes and will probably be added to this list in the coming days. This amount of crime and ferocity, which is unprecedented even in wild animals in the lawless forest, has greatly affected the global public opinion. During this period, millions of conscientious people have taken to the streets in 5 continents of the world and demanded a ceasefire and an end to the war. Many human rights organizations have asked US President Joe Biden to “intervene” in this war and ask the Zionist regime to stop its attacks in this area.
With the spread of protests in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world against the brutality of the Israeli regime in Gaza and increasing concerns in the Biden administration that these supports may make the Democrats lose in the 2024 presidential election, the media of this country have claimed that Biden’s tone is Netanyahu has become more aggressive.
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But these rhetorics are apparently only used by the media, and in practice, not only the number of attacks on civilians has not decreased, but the number of attacks and killings has also increased.
This week, the “Intercept” website criticized the US military’s disregard for international laws and human rights, as well as the irresponsible drone attacks of the US, in a report reviewing the performance of the US military in the last 100 years of wars and wrote: “During the last century, America has ignored the lives of civilians and presented ordinary people as the enemy. “The Pentagon has been demagoguing continuously since the 1920s to hide the true losses of the American war strategy.” “The Intercept” provided a statistical example of civilian casualties in Japan and wrote: “In Japan, the United States attacked 67 cities, burned 180 square miles, killed more than 600,000 civilians, and left 8.5 million people homeless. The US Secretary of Defense at the time, Henry Stimson, referring to this human catastrophe and widespread destruction, warned that the United States would surpass Hitler in committing crimes. Nevertheless, Stimson signed off on an atomic attack on the city of Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people, mostly civilians, in that city and another 70,000 civilians in Nagasaki. Also, “Curtis Lee May”, the commander of the American Air Force in the Korean War, had clearly stated that the United States had killed more than one million Korean civilians and forced several million more people from their homes.
Referring to the Zionist regime’s example of the crimes of the American army, “Intercept” wrote in its report: “In recent weeks, Israeli officials have repeatedly justified attacks on Gaza by citing the methods used by the United States and its allies against Germany and other Axis powers during World War II. Israel also adopted the American method of “free fire zones”, which Washington used to open up large parts of South Vietnam and killed many civilians in the Gaza war.
The “Free Fire Zones” strategy was used by the US Army in the Vietnam War, and crimes occurred that were unprecedented before the current Gaza War. “Forbes” magazine writes in a report about the horrible crimes committed by America in this war: From 1961 to 1971, American fighters dropped more than 20 million gallons of various pesticides to destroy forests and uncover enemy hideouts over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Agent Orange, which contains the toxic chemical dioxin, was the most commonly used poison. More than 4 million Vietnamese citizens were exposed to Agent Orange and tens of thousands of Vietnamese children were born with birth defects. More than half a century later, many lives are still being lost in the region due to horrific health problems and genetic mutations caused by chemicals. These toxins also destroyed 5 million hectares of forest and 500,000 hectares of agricultural land in Vietnam. In this war, more than 2 million Vietnamese civilians and more than 1.8 million Vietnamese soldiers lost their lives. “More than 6.1 million tons of bombs were dropped.” The New York Times also wrote in a horrible report about the crimes of the American army in Vietnam: In 1967, the American forces carried out an operation to clash with the enemy and drive the peasants out of the villages to strategic villages. Villages were bombed, burned and destroyed. In many cases, men, women and children were shot dead and the ground forces mutilated a number of corpses and cut off the ears to make necklaces! “They threw hand grenades into the shelters, often killing families.”
Seymour Hersh, a well-known American journalist based in Washington, also wrote in the words of a Zionist source at the very beginning of the current war in Gaza and with the massive bombing of the Gaza Strip: “Israel seeks to implement the Hamlet Strategic Plan (NLF) for Palestinian refugees. This program was implemented for the first time during the Vietnam War with the cooperation of the government of South Vietnam and the United States, and its license was issued by the administration of the then President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. According to this program, Vietnamese civilians living in the disputed areas were forcibly moved to houses built in areas under the control of South Vietnam. “After this transfer, abandoned lands in North Vietnam were declared open fire zones, and anyone who remained could be targeted by American forces.”