Photo by Muslim Aid Australia on Flickr By Michel Moushabeck / Truthout Instead of the sounds of fireworks to ring in the new year, the people of Gaza, struck by fear, were kept awake by the rumbles of explosions and bombs being dropped on them from the sky — a reminder to Palestinians of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s words the day before that there is no end in sight to the bombardment, which he said will continue “for many more months” to come. Palestinians have known all along