lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 An Israeli airstrike targeted a building near a home in Gaza City during the earliest hours of Sunday morning, killing a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter after their home collapsed, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza said. Ashraf al-Qidra said the woman, identified as Nour Rasmi Hassan was five months pregnant during the time of her death, her daughter Rahaf Yahya Hassan was also killed, and three other family members were injured when their house was damaged from the airstrike near the al-Maslakh mosque in southern Gaza City. Hours before the airstrike,sirens sounded across southern Israel, as a single rocket was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome in an area south of Ashkelon. No Injuries were reported.According to a statement from the Israeli army, Israeli forces responded to Gaza's rocket with an airstrikes on "two Hamas weapon manufacturing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip. "The statement made no mention of any deaths or damages to civilian homes. Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner said that Israeli forces hold Hamas responsible for any "act of aggression" from the Gaza Strip. "This weekend we have seen clear incitement encouraging the breach of Israel's sovereignty, violent confrontation against Israelis and threatening the residence of southern Israel," he said. Lerner stressed that Israeli forces would "continue to act, preempt and defeat those that plot to harm the civilians of Israel." The exchange followed new violence in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian boys, aged 13 and 15, at a rally east of Khan Younis on Saturday.Eleven Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Friday. As tensions have spiraled in recent weeks, several rockets have been fired from the blockaded coastal territory into southern Israel, with Israel's army launching retaliatory air strikes in nearly every case. Although much of the rocket fire has been claimed by small militant groups operating in Gaza, the Israeli army has consistently held the territory's de facto leaders Hamas responsible. Hamas has not claimed responsibility for any rocket attacks since last year's devastating war, and the movement has been attempting to clamp down on many of the smaller armed groups. Earlier Saturday, however, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned Israel that following a string of "war crimes" the Palestinian "people will defend themselves by any means possible." http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768160 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/cloneofisraeli-forces-shoot-dead-palestinian-boy-151011011300054.html http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.679795 other related news interesting article "Israel still holds all the cards" http://972mag.com/israel-still-holds-all-the-cards/112510/ FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James March 13 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 i barely follow this stuff anymore because it makes me all so depressed. may the mother and children rest in peace :( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerous Man 9,245 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 That's really sad and tragic. And this happens from time to time there ever since war broke out in some middle-eastern countries. "A little less conversation and a little more touch my body." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brizoda 4,177 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 this is a recurrent thing in Israel and ocuppied palestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 Where is the humanity? :'(Don't watch if you don't want to cry https://twitter.com/WaelAboOmer/status/653146203232690176 FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 Interesting how only 3 people bothered to comment.No one cares about Palestinian victims it seems. The headlines are ridiculous too... "violence leaves 2 dead..." FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiphEret 1,320 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I wonder if one day they will admit what they are actually doing: a genocide? Sur le sable sur la neige, Sur les images dorées,Sur le front de mes amis, J’écris ton nom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 the same what I posted up^^, with translation https://twitter.com/DrBaselAbuwarda/status/653318153045323776he's asking her to wake up :(This is so heartbreaking. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 I wonder if one day they will admit what they are actually doing: a genocide? I don't think that will ever happen. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chic 20,830 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Interesting how only 3 people bothered to comment.No one cares about Palestinian victims it seems. The headlines are ridiculous too... "violence leaves 2 dead..." I think it's because there are so many casualties and it's been reported on for so long. You run the risk of desensitizing people through the overexposure of a cause. It's tragic and yet exasperated.There is no known fix to this, they have fought for many years and will fight for many more. There is nothing any one individual can do besides show compassion, and when the compassion for the victims of this war have been exhausted, it's no surprise the replies are less in number. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 I think it's because there are so many casualties and it's been reported on for so long. You run the risk of desensitizing people through the overexposure of a cause. It's tragic and yet exasperated.There is no known fix to this, they have fought for many years and will fight for many more. There is nothing any one individual can do besides show compassion, and when the compassion for the victims of this war have been exhausted, it's no surprise the replies are less in number.There are 2 sides here and one tragic event on other side had at least 3 pages and a lot more people expressing their shock, condemnation and compassion.I'm just noticing the difference...I think it's the same in real world too. We should never "get used to" this type of news. I think that's just horrible. FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chic 20,830 Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 There are 2 sides here and one tragic event on other side had at least 3 pages and a lot more people expressing their shock, condemnation and compassion.I'm just noticing the difference...I think it's the same in real world too. We should never "get used to" this type of news. I think that's just horrible. I don't think desensitization can be controlled unless one actively avoids this sort of news while undergoing some sort of psychological detox from the intense violence and murder of today, which is all that much harder to do when it's publicized so often. It's quite tragic either way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uo111 5,282 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Palestinians are firing rockets from next door to civilians homes? What a tragic situation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmm 979 Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Interesting how only 3 people bothered to comment. No one cares about Palestinian victims it seems. The headlines are ridiculous too... "violence leaves 2 dead..." I don't think it's a case of people not caring about Palestinian victims (or Israeli victims for that matter) - most people on this forum just don't care about world events and pretty much all of us know that our opinions will go absolutely nowhere to changing anything in the region. There's very little we can say apart from our expressions of sympathy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego 44,165 Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 Ha’aretz and New York Times whitewash deadly airstrike on sleeping Gaza family Early Sunday morning, an Israeli missile struck meters away from the Hassan family home south of Gaza City, destroying the shoddy structure and crushing the sleeping family inside. Nour Hassan 27-years-old and five-months-pregnant with her third child and two-year-old Rahaf were killed. Two teenage boys rushed to the scene and found a boy from the family crying next to a road dozens of meters away. He had been blown away in the blast, but miraculously only lightly wounded. The father, Yahya Hassan, was pulled from the wreckage, seriously injured but alive. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that an “Israeli strike causes nearby house to collapse”, portraying a vague image that the shockwave was so powerful that a house in the vicinity simply fell apart, as if the missile struck dozens or hundreds of meters away. Here was the Haaretz headline: The New York Times headline called the bombing of the family “retaliatory,” implying that they were at least partially to blame for being bombed. The headline also qualified the deaths as “Palestinians say,” as if the New York Times was unable to verify the deaths: Isabel Kershner goes on to whitewash the attack, reiterating its supposedly “retaliatory” nature and that it was “against Hamas,” parroting the Israeli military’s claim. Instead of simply admitting that the bombing killed the sleeping family, Kershner says the missile strikes “led to the deaths of a pregnant Palestinian woman and a toddler” – as if the bombing started a series of events that ended with their deaths, thereby removing responsibility from the culprit. I visited the site of the bombing several hours after it occurred. As is visible in my photographs, the missile struck just a couple of meters from the Hassan family home. If the Israeli warplanes meant to target something nearby, the Hassan family was sentenced to death as collateral damage. Given the shack’s short distance from the location of the strike, it is, at best, misleading to assert that the missile strike was “nearby”. While it is unclear if the sleeping Hassan family was the intended target, it is abundantly clear that the house was directly targeted. The Israeli military claimed that they were targeting a “Hamas weapons manufacturing facility,” but I found no evidence of a tunnel or any military equipment, let alone a “weapons manufacturing facility.” Of course, the military presented no evidence of the charge and Israeli media outlets accepted the official line. Even more absurd is that Israel wiped out a family in Gaza under the banner of attacking Hamas as Hamas itself continues to repress rocket fire from other armed groups. It is possible that Yahya Hassan was involved in armed resistance, but family members and neighbors have denied that charge, describing him as a simple farmer. Even if Hassan was a fighter, slaughtering his family from a warplane while they slept would likely constitute a war crime. Besides, there are tens of thousands of young men who train as fighters and live with their families. To bomb every single fighter, or the enormous network of tunnels throughout the besieged enclave, would require carpet bombing the entire Gaza Strip. [Young men sift through the remains of the house where an Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant woman and her daughter. (Photo: Dan Cohen)] About Dan Cohen Dan Cohen is an independent journalist based in Palestine. He tweets at @dancohen3000. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/whitewash-airstrike-sleeping#sthash.LGXKwvJ7.dpuf FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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