Gomstre 2 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I know right? I feel so bad for them They're basically a Hamas supporter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Palestinian Family Finds Missing Son in YouTube Video of His Shooting Salem Khaleel Shamaly, 23, in the green T-Shirt, searched for missing family members in Gaza City on Sunday before he was shot. After two days of searching for a son they lost contact with during a rushed evacuation from their home in Gaza City, one Palestinian family was surprised to hear the young man’s voice, calling out for a missing cousin, in video posted on YouTube on Monday by human rights activists. A sister and a cousin of the missing 23-year-old, Salem Khaleel Shamaly, were horrified to see video of him lying on the ground in the ruined neighborhood they had fled, Shejaiya, wounded by an unseen sniper, according to activists from the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement who witnessed the incident and released the footage. As the man tried to get to his feet, two more shots rang out, and he stopped moving. Joe Catron, a human rights activist who witnessed the shooting and documented the incident in photographs posted on Flickr, said in a telephone interview from Gaza that, although it seemed certain the young man would die without emergency medical treatment, the rest of the small party with which he was traveling had no choice but to retreat when shelling resumed in the area after the filming had stopped. The two people closest to the gunshot victim were convinced that he was dead by the time they left, Mr. Catron said. Mr. Shamaly’s cousin, Mohammed Alqattawi, said in a telephone interview from Gaza on Tuesday that his family had tried to get rescue workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to retrieve the body, only to be told that the situation in Shejaiya remained too dangerous. At least 60 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed there during a fierce battle between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas militants. The video was recorded by a local activist, Mohammed Abedullah, at about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, during a two-hour ceasefire brokered by the Red Cross, when a group of volunteers and Palestinian rescue workers searched for survivors in Shejaiya. It had been under intense Israeli shelling since early that morning. Mr. Abedullah’s video was edited by the International Solidarity Movement Palestine’s West Bank media office, which posted the video on YouTube with a headline assigning blame for the shooting to an unseen Israeli sniper. The activists provided 15 minutes 45 seconds of raw footage to The New York Times for review, and although it bears no apparent signs of manipulation, it also offers no clear evidence of the gunman. The Israel Defense Forces did not respond to a request for comment, but the military has defended the incursion into Shejaiya on the grounds that Hamas has “fortified†the area with a labyrinth of tunnels in civilian neighborhoods. The video, showing the shooting of an apparently unarmed man, was described as a war crime by Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian-American founder of the Electronic Intifada. Human Rights Watch, which has accused both Israel and Hamas of violation of the laws of war, said last week that at least four recent attacks by the Israeli military that killed civilians in Gaza were apparently unlawful. Mr. Alqattawi said that his cousin worked as a grocer with his father in Gaza City’s old market and had “absolutely nothing†to do with any militant brigade or the Hamas-led government of the territory. Citing the images of Mr. Shamaly in the video, Mr. Alqattawi said that his cousin “clearly had nothing in his hand†except the cheap Nokia mobile phone he was using to track down his family. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/world/middleeast/palestinian-family-finds-missing-son-in-youtube-video-of-his-shooting.html?_r=0&referrer= :cry: FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolev 867 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 More air-time? That's not surprising at all: How many Palestinians were killed? like 400? and how many Israelis? like 20? Sorry, but while you should be condemning the crimes Israel has/is commiting, you're trying in vain to find lame excuses. Then don't say western media is pro-Israel while it's clearly not. Mistakes are not war crimes. Intentionally targeting civilian population is a war crime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 These pro Israelis shouldn't teach us about Western media when they don't even live in the West. Israel is not West. And they either have the sh!ttiest military equipment possible or targetting civilians is deliberate. It's obvious to many that it's the latter. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Not the 'as far as we're aware, no journalist has been hurt' argument which can SO easily be used against Israel Here he's talking about recent shelling of Al Aqsa hospital, which some smartass claimed it never happened. http://youtube.com/watch?v=pgdiLBNrh14 FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 inb4 MEMRI are a part of Israeli propagnada!!1 Lmao Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, founded this unbiased media institute in middle east which spreads only the truth, love and joy and no any stereotypes. It is the best and most reliable source one can use. /end of sarcasm FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=538751776250754&id=100003478080305&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php&_rdr @Elizrael VIDEO: Racists in Or Yehuda (near Tel Aviv) torch Palestinian flags and chant "death to Arabs" tonight http://on.fb.me/1rpcMGn FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Israel has discovered that it's no longer so easy to get away with murder in the age of social media All you now need is a mobile phone and a Twitter account to hold power to account, and help change history Tuesday 22 July 2014 It used to be said that a lie goes twice around the world before the truth has put its shoes on. Not any more. I arrived in Israel on Christmas Eve 2008, the date chosen by Israel to launch Operation Cast Lead, an attack to end all attacks on Gaza. The tanks rolled in, killing over 1,300 people, many of them women and children, and reducing their homes, schools and hospitals to rubble. But all I heard from the media was that some Israelis were very, very scared because a few primitive rockets were being sent from Gaza into southern Israel. Reporters were not allowed into Gaza and Israeli soldiers were banned from taking on mobile phones for security reasons. So the 2008/9 massacre, which included use of the banned White Phosphorus, went un-witnessed and almost unreported. It also failed dismally in achieving its objective, as Hamas survived and the local population’s hatred of their arrogant oppressors burned as bright as the fires which consumed their homes. But for the “international community†it was “out of sight, out of mindâ€. Business as usual. What a difference a few years of developing technology can make. The Gaza atrocities are now being reported on a constant basis by eyewitnesses, be they professional correspondents representing major media organisations, or amateur locals under fire. Because all you need is a mobile phone and a Twitter account. It is those devices which brought us heart-rending images – some too horrific to be shown on television – of children with their limbs or half a head blown off. Children covered in shrapnel wounds screaming for dead parents; surviving parents carrying tiny bodies. Sights which caused the battle-hardened BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet to sob during a live broadcast. They are all on Twitter now, should you care to look. This is the shape of wars to come. Anything less than total nuclear annihilation will, from now on, be recorded for posterity by the victims, as well as the victors, in their own versions. Imagine if this was the case in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, not to mention earlier massacres. Historians will finally have both sides’ stories to work from, and the evidence with which to back up their words. But far more importantly, aggressors will have to live with the consequences of their acts, unable to hide behind hollow rhetoric. Because the Israelis had and have nothing with which to balance those images of bloodied, mangled little corpses in Gaza. Yes, as of today they continue to bludgeon Gaza in defiance of the UN Security Council and polite requests from John Kerry to stop. But they never cared about that. On the other hand, mass protests marches from California to Chile are taking their toll. The Israeli army is getting more resistance online than on the ground. It’s not used to it and cannot cope. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israel-has-discovered-that-its-no-longer-so-easy-to-get-away-with-murder-in-the-age-of-social-media-9621379.html FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkwolf 590 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Then don't say western media is pro-Israel while it's clearly not. Mistakes are not war crimes. Intentionally targeting civilian population is a war crime. 600 dead, 100,000 displaced in two weeks....that's not what oen can call a "mistake". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 GAZA (Reuters) - About 1,000 Palestinian Muslims fleeing Israeli shells devastating their Gaza neighborhood have found shelter in a building they otherwise would rarely if ever enter, the city's 12th-century Greek Orthodox Church. Despite its thick walls dating back to the Crusades, the Church of Saint Porphyrius was still not a very safe haven. Shortly after they arrived, Israeli aircraft bombed a nearby field, spraying shrapnel on the church and damaging graves. But children from the Shejaia district, where some 72 Palestinians - many of them women and children - were killed during fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants on Sunday, were busy playing football in the yard on Tuesday. Their mothers watched on mattresses and plastic chairs provided by the church, along with food, blankets and toys. "We have opened the church in order to help people. This is the duty of the church and we are doing all we can to help them," Archbishop Alexios told Reuters as the sounds of small children echoed outside his office at the church. "At the beginning there were 600 people and today they became a thousand - mostly children and women. Some of those children are a week old," said the head of Gaza's Greek Orthodox minority, the largest of the Christian communities here. Only about 1,400 Christians - Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants - live among the 1.8 million Muslims, meaning they make up 0.08 percent of the population in the crowded Gaza Strip dominated by Hamas, an Islamist group. Their life as a religious minority has not always been easy When the then Pope Benedict quoted a medieval scholar describing Islam as violent and irrational in 2006, unknown militants attacked five churches in Palestinian areas, including Saint Porphyrius - even though it is Orthodox, not Catholic. NOWHERE ELSE TO GO Palestinian officials, including from Hamas, denounced that violence and it was not repeated. It all seemed far away now as Gazans reached out to help neighbors who have lost their homes in the two-week Israeli offensive. "The mosque nearby and the neighbors of the church are all helping. We are still in need of mattresses, blankets, food and most important is petrol, as we suffer blackouts. If there is no electricity we cannot have water also," said the archbishop. Since the start of the offensive, more than 100,000 Palestinians – about 6 per cent of Gaza's entire population - have sought shelter with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), crowding into 70 schools, the organization said. Refugees streaming from Shejaia in the eastern part of Gaza City to the church in the southwestern area of al-Zaytun said they did not know where else they could go now. "We have escaped from our houses and came here and they bombed the church. Where should we go? Let them tell us where we should go," insisted Jawaher Sukkar, who fled with her children. Accusing Israel of targeting civilians, she said: "The shells chased us as we ran ... can you imagine, a boy falling the ground and his mother cannot stop to pick him up?" One possible reason for the shelling close to the church is that Israel's military believes militants have used cemeteries to launch rockets fired at its cities and to hide weaponry. Despite the overcrowding and danger, Alexios said there has been some joy in the church in the midst of tragedy. "Yesterday, a woman gave birth to a baby, a new life. Man should be hopeful.. There is death but also there is life too," he said with a smile. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FR1O520140722?irpc=932 FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta 5,019 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I know right? I feel so bad for them What's so funny? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poker 3,770 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 These pro Israelis shouldn't teach us about Western media when they don't even live in the West. Israel is not West. And they either have the sh!ttiest military equipment possible or targetting civilians is deliberate. It's obvious to many that it's the latter. IKR. They are killing civilians for ****s sake. How can they be so blind and call it self-defense omg 600 civilians killed is not a mistake. Israel is obviously killing everybody. This is so sad and frustrating. Kindness rules all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poker 3,770 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 :( Kindness rules all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azor Ahai 18,861 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 This is never going to stop is it :( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkwolf 590 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Really Disgusting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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