FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH


I WROTE ON 28TH DECEMBER:
IN THE LAND OF CHRIST THE BROTHER KILLS HIS BROTHER "BUT WHEN YOU SEE JERUSALEM BEING
SURROUNDED BY ARMIES, YOU WILL KNOW THAT ITS DESOLATION IS NEAR? (LUKE 21-20).
THE PEACE OF GOD IS FAR AND YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN HIS LOVE FOR YOU.
BE CAREFUL!
HIS JUSTICE IS NEAR.
THE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN.
PEACE!


FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE EARTH

GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
STIGMATIST
SANT?ELPIDIO A MARE (ITALY)
28TH DECEMBER 2008

DEATH IN PALESTINE

In the Gaza strip Sunday was day two of the conflict whose balance is already dramatic: according to hospitals, there are 270 victims and 620 injured, among which many women and children, while Hamas declares 400 deaths and 1000 injured. At dawn new massive raid of the Israeli aviation struck as a series of rockets, shot from Gaza, fell in different centres in South Israel, like Ashkelon, Sderot, Gan Yavne and Ashdod. There is no news about victims or damages. TANKS AND SOLDIERS AT THE BORDER ? During the government council, Israel opted for employing thousands of reserve units. The Hebrew state has threatened, after two days of air?strikes, to employ an attack on land in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the radical movement Hamas. According to military sources, referred by the newspaper Haaretz, hundreds of Israeli infantry units with armoured vehicles have reached Israel?s south border to prepare for a possible invasion on land. A military operation on land against Hamas is possible, declared the Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak. The Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, joining the government council affirmed that the duration of the operation ?cannot be foreseen?.
THE LAST RAIDS
the Israeli aviation has operated new air-strikes against the southern zone of the Gaza Strip. This was reported by eyewitnesses according to which during the raid a road tank was hit near the Rafah pass, at the border with Egypt. The truck was set afire, provoking blazes in the nearby houses. The Hamas Radio has mentioned numerous deaths and injured. An Israeli military authority has simply declared that ?the attacks against the Hamas bases carry on?. The same source has ratified that the Israeli aviation has operated ?several strikes during the night, in particular against a mosque in the Rimal zone, in the city of Gaza, where terrorists were supposedly hiding?. ONU APPEAL: STOP THE MILITARY ACTIVITIES -The UN Security Council appealed for an immediate end to all the military operations on the Gaza Strip. This declaration was made by the current president of the Security Council, the Croatian Ambassador Neven Jurica. The request is not binding. The main scopes for the request are the humanitarian and economical aspects, aiming to ensure the inhabitants of the Strip food, medicines and fuel. ABBAS in CAIRO ? the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has reached Cairo early on Sunday, to refer to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, about the situation after the heaviest air-strike of all times on Palestine, called ?Molten Lead?. Both Abu Mazen and Mubarak disapproved the attack, defining it vile and a ?real massacre?. There shall be soon an extraordinary summit among the Arab foreign ministers to discuss, among other things, about the cease-fire expired on 19th December, as well as the Abu Mazen Office expiring on 9th January. EGYPTIAN MINISTER: ?HAMAS HOLDS INJURED PEOPLE? ? ?we have opened the Rafah pass and await the Gaza injured ones to cross it, but this is not allowed to them?, said the Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, in a conference with the Palestinian president Abu Mazen. When a journalist asked who is not allowing the injured people transfer to Egypt, Abul Gheit gave a precise hint that it is Hamas? fault, since they hold the control of the Strip since July 2007.

28th December 2008 From Corriere della Sera.