Israel claims that it doesn't target civilians - only Hamas terrorists / people.
It's a lie of course! -
Lie #1:
This heart-rending piece from The Guardian [reproduced by the SMH] shows all too clearly the result of Israel's actions:
"Sixteen year old Iman Balousha didn't hear the explosion that destroyed the bedroom she shared with her six sisters. "I was asleep," she said. "I just woke when the bricks fell on me. I saw all my sisters around me and I couldn't move … I started to scream and told my sisters we would die. We all screamed: 'Baba, Mama. Come to help us.' "
The Baloushas, a family of 11, lived in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza near the camp's Imad Aqil mosque. The blast that destroyed the mosque on Sunday also brought down the family's house.
The seven eldest girls, asleep together on mattresses in one bedroom, bore the brunt of the explosion. Five were killed where they lay: Tahrir, 17, Ikram 14, Samar, 13, Dina, eight, and Jawaher, four.
Buried in the rubble, Iman recognised her uncle's voice among the rescuers and shouted for help. "He found me and started to remove the bricks and the rubble from me. They started to pull me by my hands - the bricks were still lying on my legs."
Her mother, Samira, 36, saw the pile of bricks in the girls' bedroom and was stricken with grief, convinced they were all dead. She, too, was asleep when the bomb struck. "I opened my eyes and saw bricks all over my body," she said. "My face was covered with the concrete blocks."
She sat on a sofa surrounded by other women at a neighbour's house further along the street and struggled to speak. Her husband, Anwar, 40, sat in another house where a mourning tent had been set up. He was pale and still suffering from serious injuries to his head, his shoulder and his hands. He spoke bitterly of his daughters' deaths. "We are civilians. I don't belong to any faction; I don't support Fatah or Hamas. I'm just a Palestinian."
Lie #2:
"There's no such thing as a 'humanitarian cease-fire'," an Olmert aide said Tuesday. "Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We're constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there's no need for a humanitarian cease-fire."
As reported by Haaretz.
It's a lie of course! -
Lie #1:
This heart-rending piece from The Guardian [reproduced by the SMH] shows all too clearly the result of Israel's actions:
"Sixteen year old Iman Balousha didn't hear the explosion that destroyed the bedroom she shared with her six sisters. "I was asleep," she said. "I just woke when the bricks fell on me. I saw all my sisters around me and I couldn't move … I started to scream and told my sisters we would die. We all screamed: 'Baba, Mama. Come to help us.' "
The Baloushas, a family of 11, lived in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza near the camp's Imad Aqil mosque. The blast that destroyed the mosque on Sunday also brought down the family's house.
The seven eldest girls, asleep together on mattresses in one bedroom, bore the brunt of the explosion. Five were killed where they lay: Tahrir, 17, Ikram 14, Samar, 13, Dina, eight, and Jawaher, four.
Buried in the rubble, Iman recognised her uncle's voice among the rescuers and shouted for help. "He found me and started to remove the bricks and the rubble from me. They started to pull me by my hands - the bricks were still lying on my legs."
Her mother, Samira, 36, saw the pile of bricks in the girls' bedroom and was stricken with grief, convinced they were all dead. She, too, was asleep when the bomb struck. "I opened my eyes and saw bricks all over my body," she said. "My face was covered with the concrete blocks."
She sat on a sofa surrounded by other women at a neighbour's house further along the street and struggled to speak. Her husband, Anwar, 40, sat in another house where a mourning tent had been set up. He was pale and still suffering from serious injuries to his head, his shoulder and his hands. He spoke bitterly of his daughters' deaths. "We are civilians. I don't belong to any faction; I don't support Fatah or Hamas. I'm just a Palestinian."
Lie #2:
"There's no such thing as a 'humanitarian cease-fire'," an Olmert aide said Tuesday. "Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We're constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there's no need for a humanitarian cease-fire."
As reported by Haaretz.
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